Yeah it totally looked like clouds to me at first, too. So mystical; glad you’re getting the opportunity to watch 🫂


If you’re in the United States and still awake, you may be able to see glimpses of the Northern Lights tonight… like, go outside right now.

It will depend on cloud cover and light pollution, and they may look somewhat muted to the naked eye, compared to the brilliant photos taken in the far north, with expensive equipment and extended exposure times.

But it’s happening tonight 😯🤩 I still plan to go to Norway or something someday, but I’ve felt deeply connected to the Northern Lights for my entire life and have always ached to see them. This was my first time 😌✨

Started my day with a homemade double rainbow, and finished it up with Dust. As faint as it was, this experience was also as powerful and profound as I expected it to be.

#nature #photography #artstr #NostrAfterDark #NorthernLights #grownostr https://image.nostr.build/047f939aed35fd86fd8b46cb66a878d24ee07640ce61e21058dd88dbe814a481.jpg https://image.nostr.build/b67bbf0119f345227bbd85413aa12e71a493faaeeacb0f95025da1d97f1cdb0b.jpg


Cool, makes sense! Wonder if they make “stands” to keep them steady 🤔


A very dear family friend works for a private equity firm, and she told me yesterday that they’re looking at investing with their first “blockchain” (😬) startup.

The startup is (apparently) still a nascent idea, so it’s not too late. The founder is (allegedly) an intelligent, good-hearted dude, who wants to democratize VC investment using blockchain tokens. Neither seems to really get the difference between Bitcoin and crypto yet…

Needless to say, I hope to steer them in the right direction. I’m trying to strike a balance between being clearly anti-shitcoin while also delivering an accessible message that alienate myself as an advisor in future. (For example, idgaf about inscriptions, but if it keeps this guy from building a crypto business and instead focusing/learning Bitcoin, then it’s a start).

If anyone has feedback on what I’m going to tell her, I’d appreciate it 🙏🫂🫡

—

Hey [redacted], loved connecting with you yesterday. It’s been too long. One thing I meant to mention, since you said you were speaking with [redacted] about his upcoming crypto project/ideas:

So I’m not sure how much he’s done already, but it sounds like he’s still in a planning stage. I wanted to suggest he may want to look into building his token technology *on* Bitcoin, rather than creating a new blockchain from scratch (or using another crypto platform). There are many reasons, but primarily:

Bitcoin’s existing global adoption and network effects mean a much easier go-to-market for a new business built on the tech; it has already demonstrated for 15 years that it’s resilient, has a valid use case, consistent demand, and cyclical (but always higher) all-time-highs, with a total addressable market of 8 billion people. It commands a respect that’s hard to beat, with a global community of cheerleaders for anyone who contributes to its development and expansion.

Bitcoin’s legit decentralization - thousands of noderunners throughout the world - leads to impressive security and censorship resistance (whereas most blockchains that are ultimately run by a company have a central point of failure, while spending a lot of ad $$ on keywords like “decentralized” and “web3”). An enormous number of world-class developers have reviewed Bitcoin’s code - more than any other crypto project, and more than most FOSS projects in general!

Recent developments (something called Inscriptions) have made it much easier to build programmatic contracts and tokens on top of the Bitcoin blockchain, thereby making obsolete many of the other chains like ethereum (many of which were built to do things that Bitcoin “couldn’t”, but they had to sacrifice the security, decentralization, and hard-money-qualities that make Bitcoin valuable in the first place).

There’s also a proposed change called “covenants” which will give additional flexibility to developers building tokens, tech, and other assets on Bitcoin. Once this change goes through, it’s expected that a lot of the money and human capital from other crypto will migrate to Bitcoin (again because of its network effects, proven reliability, etc). Bitcoin is already beginning to eat traditional asset classes, especially with the advent of ETFs, and it will likely absorb more of crypto’s capital, as well.

Anyway, these are “my two cents”, but whatever the direction, I’m curious and excited to see what he ends up building!
—


Fam planted a beautiful little redbud (Cercis canadensis) https://image.nostr.build/0ee9511ecabd63e2df363c9c434c4df3c9e121cd15f3e3e376def97cf6c22e7a.jpg


Beep beep boop beep 🤖✨🛸

R2-D2 model droid spotted in Greater Boston 👀 https://image.nostr.build/991ef52f8edba94931afb7e12817c5ca2a09738b5548204ed67ba9147e2dc779.jpg


nostr:npub1gunkavtrl32txueexz44el2l49rg0gv48pc6suadf7hwj852tuuqj3nudq hey Grafton, just went to check out nostr:npub1mftv2j67vayavkks8rqev3u8jjhefe86tf80msstfxvpunk9vmps6prkl3 (cool idea).

Got stuck, though: the mandatory “Terms of Use” text is not clickable (nor is the icon of the document), yet one must toggle to agree before proceeding. Can you make sure those terms can be read?

iOS 17.2.1, TestFlight 1.16.0 (184) 🫡 https://image.nostr.build/7fe0e3df7bf0ac69f05d787a49837b971b5dc071b78672ade2e33c3123272b25.jpg


I don’t have any passion for my fiat job. This creates issues when ppl ask me what I do for work - bc talking about my fiat job is v boring.

Lately I’ve started saying I work on bitcoin - specifically Lightning Network. Nobody ever knows what lightning ⚡is so I just matter of factly say bitcoin is the greatest store of value in history but it isn’t Money - yet. Lightning is a way to bring the currency functions of Money to Bitcoin. (I often see  their wheels spinning like it’s the first time they’ve thought about Money)

Am I actually working on Lightning? Well it’s hard to say something I don’t make any money on is “work”, but I am putting tons of work into it so who knows. It certainly feels more than a hobby.


That’s a great point. Do you think running a Bitcoin core node (and not much else) will make the old MacBook heat up if closed? Or do people just leave their laptop nodes open (or in the A-frame angle) most of the time?


💯💯💯

Gotta crash for the night homies, wifey is giving me that look ✌

GN love you all 🫂


🤣 yes


Couldn’t have said it better myself


I’ve been looking for another way to say “the monkeys are running the circus” all evening, but I think this sums it up PERFECTLY 👌 nostr:note1zs9jt5npy6p249kwtda0j0k9xz7gefee7e2r4gw25m9dn07wey4svaeeen


Oh party my b


Panties^


LOL autocorrect from “does hell have doors” but I kinda like that better


Doe she’ll have doors?


Lol I’m just hoping Marcia talks to me some day


Hahahaha *insert-always-has-been.meme*


He lives next door


Bahahaha doxxed so hard 🤣


I see what you did there


Marie’s phone:

3,3,3,3,5,5,5,4-wait-shit-I-mean-5,5,5,5,2-maybe-he’ll-believe-I’m-Jay,2-nope-straight-to-voicemail,5,5,5-dammit-5!!!!

🤣🤣 you know I joke but damn I couldn’t resist 😂 love u


You’re awesome 😁😁


Kiddo is growing so fast 🥹


Found!!

nostr:note1qx2zynta9gaep8ejtdrf9ltj8pjcy52pqtp3m0mkqst0r4esdy8qt9vway


Found it!


Damus relay?  nostr.build?  Never heard of 'em.  Must be those dirty city-dweller back-alley relays.

I stick to relays that directly represent the people I follow like relay.uxto.one, pyramid.fiatjaf.com, chorus.mikedilger.com, and hodlbod.nostr1.com, you know, well-respected high-quality decent reliable trad relays, straight from the source, pure, clean, artesian springs, not some middle-man, used up, hand me down events transmitted through piles of snakes.


Oooh I’ll check


Awesome, thanks dude. Will definitely try this out


Appreciate you, my friend 🫂🤝💜


Holy moly someone please tell me this is a deepfake 😳

(Spoiler: it isn’t. Also, is Finding the Money on Nostr yet??)

https://twitter.com/FindingMoneyDoc/status/1786050601236779078


Ahahaha thank you sir 😂

I just realized one of my coworkers uses two monitors and a shut MacBook standing on its side. So it’s gotta be a thing.


Hilarious. And great idea, using an application to keep “doing” something. And this even works when you shut the laptop?


Oh hello


Wasn’t me, but it sure is sweet 🤙

I’m still holding out hope that you’re going to make an artsy, sorta-abstract page using Will’s code for the initial Lightning zap spec, nostr:npub1rukp00fmetcjl8r70rl8nrhw5kwpkghpacpkd9x4ms5gdh06xhtsjxz4f0  😁


Is there a way to configure display & sleep settings on an older MacBook (like 2012-13ish) such that you can close the computer, leaving it plugged in, and it will keep running?

Even better if you could set the lock screen, close the computer, and have it not go to sleep.

I have a wanna-be-Bitcoin-node in a closet, but I’d rather not have another laptop sitting open on a counter all the time. City apartments aren’t known for their abundant surface area or storage 😉

#asknostr
#bitcoin
#node


Such a good feeling 🤜💥🤛


For anybody who is literally ASLEEP every time they log onto their Nostr client, you should toss nostr:npub1f6ugxyxkknket3kkdgu4k0fu74vmshawermkj8d06sz6jts9t4kslazcka a follow if you haven’t already.

Ava is an outstanding source of user-friendly privacy tips, tricks, service provider recommendations, and best practices. In a few short months, I’ve learned more from you as I have from any other source.

Thanks for helping us all stay secure 🤘🥷🫂🤙 nostr:note1yewsnvjca0kahnpln88zfrj0vyxyst8hxazay2ggall0quvcx3eqxt3d2s


Wouldn’t a larger VPN provider have more users, thus more obfuscation (a “larger crowd”) for the traffic coming from any one of the provider’s servers’ IP address?

If I’m the only person using the VPN provider, then all traffic from their server is the same individual (effectively as a pseudonymous user, until you log into your Facebook account 😉).

More users of the VPN would mean a larger pool of data that a malicious actor or advertiser (same difference) would be unable to distinguish the individual users’ traffic. Device fingerprinting and logins aside, of course.

Do I have this concept right?


Thanks man! Yeah, I think it usually blooms in late March in DC. A bit later - through April - in NYC.


Hot damn! I manage to get my primary inboxes under 50 by the end of most weeks, but zero!? That is seriously impressive, homie 🔥


What’s Bitcoin well?


Social media incentives are broken.

Money comes from ads come from clicks come from content that makes users upset so they click it so they see more of it so the platform sells more ads so they make more cash.

Nostr fixes this; Bitcoin fixes this.

Far right or far left, the “extremes” are always the smallest and loudest groups, yet they are given the most attention. This leads to a social narrative that the “other” side is insane, everybody is polarized, and the world is going to hell in a hand-basket, when the reality is that most people are fairly normal and chill, good people who want the world to be a better place. Left or right, most people see the same problems and genuinely want it to be better, even if they disagree on the solutions.


Morning Mallory!


Gm Sarge!


NYC and Washington DC have beautiful cherry blossoms, too (although nothing like in Japan, of course).

I believe the ones in DC were actually a gift from Japan to the US.

Here are couple shots from a few years ago 🤙 https://image.nostr.build/660d0051bda52d80c089e52815e6432d57bf6ee745bfe0ae9646a22fbfa21d4b.jpg https://image.nostr.build/cb436779aba37173771d5ba1bb86ea0fe20eee395dbfe3ef7d20fb17e4a7ddb8.jpg https://image.nostr.build/cee8d2ffa5dc41bb285ceb81819bc0e2d980b4e1cb2c0460e7cf0d91dec706a1.jpg https://image.nostr.build/e9d31b183db8a5ad9f8a26ee724384dd3349586b3aa52ca94ecc5458dcc81366.jpg


#asknostr nostr:note16pfq9dmk574kttvs79wpl6ajnc0unpqy32g2y98ts6dplpuqamesyhgcnu


Oh and GOOD MORNING NOSTR

Let’s all PV the fuck out of today & have an amazing chill Thursday 🤙


Hey nostr:npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq955 team, are we sure the “mute for X time” function is working?

I’ve tried it on a user and a thread today, muting for 24 hours and for 1 month, restarted the client, and the notes still appear. When I instead chose “mute indefinitely” it worked fine, but I was just looking for a break from these notes, not a block of the account.

Would examples help or is this enough info?

Cc nostr:npub1zafcms4xya5ap9zr7xxr0jlrtrattwlesytn2s42030lzu0dwlzqpd26k5 nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s (not sure who on the team owns the mute feature these days)


Wow!! Followed!


Goodnight 🫂


Thank you, that’s incredibly helpful! Always curious to know more about these different decisions and their tradeoffs (especially when recommending one device over another to someone). Thanks again!


Also, I’m trying to zap you but don’t see the ⚡ on your note or profile. Are you set up with a Lightning address (and my client is misbehaving) or do you just not have zaps set up?


Thanks, very helpful! Could you explain (or point me toward documentation for) the argument against a need for the chip?


Well that really sucks


I love my MK4. Might spring for the Q one day… I’m also excited to see what CoinKite ends up building for a mesh/nostr-something signer I’ve heard discussed on Bitcoin.review


Thank you - some great points here. Appreciate it ⚡🤙


Lol


Not a single sat


Ah, I forgot I’d heard something about this. Was it a customer info leak, like with Ledger?


Appreciate the feedback!

The one I was thinking of recommending to my friend was the mid tier “trezor safe” with the secure element and lower price point. Love my ColdCard. Haven’t used the Passport; it looks real nice. Pricey though…


Thoughts on Cake Labs’ privacy policy as linked in the Apple App Store? I’m always a little skeptical of Apple applications & iOS apps’ privacy assurances, but also recognize this is pretty much par for the course when using Apple products…

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cake-tech/cake_wallet/main/PRIVACY.md


Good morning Nostr ☀⚡🔥🤙

Coming in hot today a bunch of questions for this brilliant community. Coffee has hit ⚡☕⚡

1) does anyone have a #Trezor discount code? Like the way people with podcasts always offer referral codes for HWWs and services?

2) could someone explain how Trezors work without a secure element chip (and why it’s “okay”)?

3) is there a Bitcoin-only trezor? Thought so, but not seeing one…

4) has Trezor removed coinjoins or set any limitations recently, due to the Samourai shutdown and Wasabi leaving USA?

5) is the touchscreen version (Model T) really worth an extra $100, if the ColdCard MK4 is actually cheaper?

PS: I don’t have any Bitcoin.

#asknostr
#plebchain
#bitcoin


Struggling to spell words without falling asleep in between, so I think it’s absolutely time to say GN 😴

Sweet dreams in  nostrland 💜


Dongles FTE 🤙🤙🤙


Probably, but regulation is inefficient and opens up other issues. More control is rarely better, but there’s a balance to find.

Better to have simple and widely available tools and other means by which an individual can monitor and mitigate privacy encroachmenf


It’s truly absurd that we all drive around in vehicles that track and log everywhere we go, and any cellphone contents we grant access to. And I wouldn’t be at all surprised if the cars are sending some of that data back to the automaker in real-time, to be packaged and sold to data companies and resold to advertisers. It’s a bit nauseating.

This is an excellent discussion and the guest’s company helps people limit and erase some of those privacy violations:

https://fountain.fm/episode/xqnGIyMzKRU8SJCLnYNV

#privacy
#grownostr
#cars


New cars are a privacy nightmare: nostr:note1y2a7wnxq4srnrftkx4smt7e4a9kmfkmyqfmgs232ygkw9nraezss2h2sd0

They’re not only monitoring everything the driver does and reporting it to credit agencies without their knowledge, they’re also surveillance machines which send data of everything around them to data brokers. American politicans are banning TikTok in the name of privacy but not passing any privacy laws or caring that new vehicles are recording and selling all activity that takes in public and is visible from the street.

https://archive.is/0wqhh


It sounds like she has imbued you with the very qualities of hers that you cherish and respect and love about her. Cancer absolutely does suck. Sending a prayer her way - and to you as well 🤍


Also followed #plebchain 🤜🤛


Oh that’s a good point. I sometimes forget you needn’t connect the app to the Tor browser with the proxy-port thing like on sparrow, etc

Thanks for the suggestions!


And thanks for engaging! I appreciate the opportunity to think more deeply about this, question our assumptions and premises, try to be as intellectually honest as I can when evaluating the concepts here.

Re: Agora Desk, if understand the press release, it’s namely due to better options being out there to acquire Monero..?

As for businesses that accept Monero, I would imagine there’s probably at least one rather large, international industry (for starters) that perhaps used Bitcoin in the past and prefers Monero ne… but it’s not one that I feel particularly comfortable discussing on a public, permanent protocol 😂

But more importantly, the “only XYZ uses this tool” argument is the same logical fallacy that gave rise to the Bitcoin meme of “only small countries own it”. It’s just so damn early and, perhaps more importantly, I don’t think Monero would require widespread adoption to be useful to those who want it. Again, why I don’t *think* it qualifies as a shitcoin. It doesn’t matter much, whether it’s widely adopted or accepted, as long as people and businesses who wish to use it for private/secret transactions are able to do so. Like one could almost think of it as an “invisibility cloak” over your fiat cash, to spend money with excellent privacy, and not ever need it to be more than that, for it to “succeed” at what I understand its purpose to be.

Not an investment, not a store of value, not a token to sell to the next idiot in order to stack more fiat. Just a bunch of code that helps people make purchases in private.

Again, I say this not as a holder or proponent of Monero, but as someone with a genuine interest in digital privacy, and a personal interest in the wellbeing of my friend who sparked these questions in the first place 🫡


Definitely doing a seed restoration. Perhaps in a different wallet for extra emphasis


Thanks! Haven’t used it much but will definitely give it a look 🤙


A bit more advanced than I’d tend toward for a not-super-technical new user, who has ever heard of Tor and basically just learned what a private key is, lol

Are you recommending multi-sig to compensate for the risks of an online wallet? That’d be an interesting “hedging” approach. I guess it protects against hot-wallet attacks that compromise the keys, but doesn’t help against instances where the receiving address gets spoofed/replaced


Thanks!

Definitely going to do a “now wipe the wallet, okay, now you can restore it on practically any wallet software with those words”.

And defiitely planning to mention KYC’s issues, and having two “side by side” stacks as an option


Thanks homie! I was also thinking maybe a TapSigner for an inexpensive offline option, but I don’t like the idea of starting “screenless” for a newbie who should learn best practices


And that’s exactly what has me hesitating about the desktop software wallet approach 😂

But tbh I find the Bitbox and coldcard are both way more user friendly than the Jade, and I still don’t fully understand the idea of the server in place of a secure element.

But those are like 2-4x more expensive. Harder to justify (in a newbie’s mind) when securing $1K compared to seeing a huge NGU pump and thinking “ok wow Bitcoin does THAT so I gotta get the best hww I can”

Don’t get me wrong, I think the jade is dope, but not confident in recommending it to a brand new hodler


You missed us missing you. Welcome back 💜


Thanks my man! Appreciate you 🤙


What do you mean by “where it’s going”? Are you referring to price, adoption, development?

Again, my experience here is minimal, but one thing I’ve noticed that’s very different about Monero is that I rarely hear proponents suggesting that you should “invest” in XMR, or that the price matters, or any of the other scammy marketing stuff that shitcoins are known for.

Instead, it seems like the only reason Monero users care about adding more users is that it adds to the anonymity set (just like with Tor users, or coinjoin participants) to enhance the privacy in transactions.

It also seems like Monero peeps don’t really care if the fiat price goes up — in that yes, asset appreciation is always preferred, but the point of the currency is a cash-like spending function, rather than an “investment” or a savings account.

Now, it’s not Bitcoin. That’s for sure. It’s not the “best store of value the world has ever seen”, and it’s probably not going up forever Laura 😉

But when I think about what defines a shitcoin, I think of:

1) a centralized issuer, usually holding their pre-mined coins to dump on new buyers

2) lots of marketing about why it’s a “good investment” or solves some techy/obscure problem that doesn’t really exist

3) Hype about what the token “will do” on a roadmap full of empty promises

And when I think honestly about it, I don’t think Monero checks the shitcoin boxes. If I needed to purchase something online or through a digital medium, and wanted easy, near-perfect privacy (or secrecy), Monero seems like a really good way to achieve that purpose.

It’s not how I would store my wealth. And it’s not something I would recommend to people, because I don’t know nearly enough about it. I only recommend Bitcoin because I have spent hundreds, if not thousands, of hours studying and using it. So I feel confident in recommending it.

But if it’s simple question of, “Is Monero a shitcoin?”, defined by the numbered list above (or as a silly crypto/blockchain token created for the primary purpose of extracting wealth from retail investors under false premises of a made-up use case)… I’d argue it’s probably not.

My two sats 🫡


Trying haha


Love it. I definitely had a handful of different moments that felt like a fully mind-bending revelation about what this thing is.


Setting up a newbie #Bitcoin holder with self custody in the next few days. Less than 2M sats, around $1K value.

Thinking maybe we start with Sparrow for desktop, or maybe BlueWallet on mobile, instead of spending $60-$200 for a hardware wallet plus a steel plate, right from the outset. Would feel a bit like overkill.

He’ll get to learn about private keys and UTXOs this way, and I can also plant the seed (no pun intended) of caution around hot wallets, and explain why internet connectivity presents a small — but real — risk.

And when he stacks harder and/or NGU, we can do a new lesson on HWWs, privacy, offline storage/backups, and perhaps KYC.

Any advice/feedback for this approach? Other recommended software wallets? He bought his corn on CashApp, which I’m pretty certain supports a withdrawal to on-chain addresses (?) and not just Lightning…

I’m still new to user-onboarding with Bitcoin (ie a sit-down meeting, as opposed to setting my bartender with Wallet of Satoshi during a lull in business). So I’m all ears for advice 🫡

#plebchain
#onboarding
#asknostr


Followed, frens 🤝


Yeah it’s tough. With only a single client asking, it’s hard for someone who doesn’t know or care about Bitcoin to justify devoting developer resources to it


Hey, thank you! Appreciate the positive feedback. Didn’t realize you two were on Nostr, but I’ve enjoyed your show ✌


Very true. This is my first time really looking at opportunities to integrate it within the company. I’m thinking of creating a dummy client account and setting something up for myself, to see if it works as a proof of concept. With my copious free time, of course lol 🙄


I definitely feel some conflict between wanting to bring my skills and experience directly into a Bitcoin job, versus contributing my bitcoiner-ness to a fiat company.

It’s a great role, with a team that I like and respect. Plenty of growth opportunities, and it pays the bills. And I know that every company needs more bitcoiners. At the same time, part of me wants to be more directly involved in Bitcoin. Doing so from within this company would be the ideal circumstance. But for the most part, they’re just not ready 😕 nostr:note13gmhjh7v4umf9nlvmkrytmwk7nf5h4fe0fpppylfwer7z9yrtupsmu8zy4


Hey #plebchain

I know many of y’all have experienced the range of pushback when seeking to introduce Bitcoin to your fiat job in one context or another. I’d love to hear your stories.

Today, I had somewhat mixed (mostly meh) results when I kicked off the “how can we incorporate Bitcoin optionality into checkout” conversation with the dev team today.

I was met with a combination of creative workarounds and dismissive chuckles… a reminder of how early we really still are.

Looks like an OOBP workaround will be the move for now. A bit disappointed, but not surprised, considering it’s only 0.05% of the client base asking for it.

On the plus side, it was an opportunity to educate one of our investors about transaction fees and L2 endeavors. He asked good questions with curious skepticism, rather than derision. And hey I got to talk about Bitcoin. So that’s a start.


Busy start today, missed the GM crowd but how about good afternoon ☀

‘Bout to smash a double steak quesadilla before getting back to work 🤤


🥱🥱🥱🛌😴💤

GN 🫂💜✌


Which nostr client do you use?

I find Alby as a stand-alone LN wallet works near-flawlessly, but when trying to auto-zap from a nostr client using NWC, the outgoing payments almost never show up in Alby at all  🤷♂


🤙⚡ Anything?


Received! Thanks , Ainsley 🤙

I seem to be breaking all my wallets this evening but let me know if you receive any sats from me! Haha


Testing from Alby this time… anything?


Grazie. This is why I’m bummed that Phoenix dipped outta USA. Even though it was an extra tap to approve each zap, the flow was so smooth and never errored out. Whereas NWC is so slow and always a guess if it’ll go through lol


🫂🫂🫂

Reconnected Alby NWC for the moment, lmk if you receive on more attempt? Lol


Good thinking. I don’t even know my mutiny nsec haha. It was a very small balance so imma wait it out. Thanks my friend!


Wishing I was, lol


Damn I’ll keep trying stuff


Dang, then it’s definitely not working because those were a while ago. Good news is I only had a couple thousand sats there. Thanks for the feedback my friend!


Nuts. Gonna have to dig out the seed from wherever I stashed it, I guess. Lol


I haven’t yet. Need to go find where I wrote it down lol

Is there a way to download a previous iOS app version from the Apple App Store?


I kind of like the UX - in part just because it’s so different from all the others - but I’ve found it can be buggy, slow, sticky at times. Which is tough when it’s Lightning micropayments 🙃

Sucks about the funds but fees are way lower now (like 15-20 s/vB) than they were in recent months, so may be worth trying to move those sats if you still have the keys


Nope


Lmk if it comes through!


What are you seeing?


Oh hai! Lmk if it comes through once the NWC timer goes away

Did you get any zaps on replies w/ our earlier convo? I sent a couple


Hey V!

Just zapped - it has the NWC timer icon so can you lmk in a few mins if it came through?


Just zapped - it has the NWC timer icon so can you lmk in a few mins if it came through?


Something weird idk!

nostr:note1ktpnx0hh7m2gu0lcq46put2r6cnqd933z5awsamyxektr6u3awgq0ldqlv


Can a couple people reply here so I can see if my zaps are zapping?

Since my mutiny wallet app won’t open I can’t tell if my balance is changing. And I have too many dishes to wash from dinner to mess around with my Damus wallet settings at the moment 😛

So yea gimme a 🤙 down there please

(That’s what she said? Idk lol it’s late)


Thanks! I’ll send this her way as well.


Also I have never even heard of these tokens 🤣🤣🤣


No need to worry here, my friend 🤝

I do maintain a healthy curiosity about Monero, if for no other reason than that the people who I see support it are about as Bitcoin-y as it gets, with a strong penchant for privacy, libertarianism, “the works”.

My day to day life doesn’t really require a perfectly anonymous digital cash, and I’m technically competent enough to use Bitcoin in a sufficiently private way. So it’s more of an intellectual curiosity and feeling like I don’t know enough about it to hodl a strong opinion.

But I can imagine a world where Monero is something that retains its use case. Especially considering absence of all the numb-nuts “wen moon” wiz-idiots that you see with all the crypto tokeny crap lol

At the same time, it’s not something I feel drive to put energy into, because Bitcoin is the thing that fixes the world, if we all do this right.


That’s what I’m thinking. She was asking about HWWs so I think that’s the comfortable/familiar move. Unless you can use something like Cake or m()com on desktop with a ledger attached, and not ever have to open the ledger live app again? I recall doing this with Electrum wallet when I first got a ledger for my Bitcoin (and then realized ledger live is ass)


Appreciate you 🤜💥🤛

I think the graphene setup is going to be too technical for this one, lol


Good sir, you must know that’s the last thing I’d do. Note my OP, I convinced my friend to sell all her “crypto” for Bitcoin and buy a cold card. She downright refused to sell the Monero (and fwiw I’m not all that convinced that Monero is a shitcoin... from my limited knowledge, it strikes me as a bit closer to cash in terms of default privacy, at least under certain threat models.  A strong contrast to some silly/scammy token that ignorant people buy into, to increase their fiat net worth. But that’s a different discussion, lol)

In any case, and regardless of the above, since she was choosing to hold some, I really really don’t want her using Ledger Live for it. My understanding is that Ledger tracks every action, click, balance, etc., that one does in their app. So for someone I care about, who is using Monero for its privacy benefits, I worry about her compromising her security.

I save in Bitcoin. I encourage my friends to do the same, and to sell everything else, any time they ask. And plenty of times when they don’t 😉

But I worry that *not* talking about general best practices when relevant - usually due to social fear around discussing “he-who-must-not-be-named” (ie anything that  isn’t Bitcoin) — will put people we care about in situations they can avoid.

Ya get what I mean?

Also, love you too homie 🫂


Thank you, Ava! As always, your insight is indispensable 🙏

The pixel/graphene move is an interesting one but may be pricey in ratio to her funds, but out of curiosity, would it basically just operate as a hot wallet using an app like Cake or Stacks?

And definitely agree, I respect her decision to keep ahold of that xmr, unlike literally every other token I saw in her Ledger live app 😂🫠 proud of her for making the move!


Proud to say I finally convinced a friend of mine to move her sats to a ColdCard, from a Ledger. Also got her to trade out of ethereum and a couple other shitcoins, into Bitcoin.

However, she won’t sell her Monero, but I’ve tried to explain why Ledger Live is a privacy nightmare. No idea how other cryptos work in terms of watching wallets, the way one can use Electrum or Sparrow for Bitcoin on a Ledger...

Is she out of luck? Does Monero have any dedicated hardware? I’m a big fan of the Bitcoin-only Bitbox and their desktop app does allow a Tor proxy. Is their generic HWW a decent improvement? Or is there a #privacy pro out there with other suggestions?

#xmr #monero #asknostr


Will do.

Perhaps unrelated but is your LSP node down?

I can’t connect to it to swap from Federation or generate a new Lightning invoice right now, using a different Mutiny wallet on a PWA.


Hey nostr:npub1mutnyacc9uc4t5mmxvpprwsauj5p2qxq95v4a9j0jxl8wnkfvuyque23vg

Getting this screen in the iOS mobile app for the past 24 hours. App worked fine last week, and I haven’t changed anything I’m aware of. How best to proceed?

Cc nostr:npub1t0nyg64g5vwprva52wlcmt7fkdr07v5dr7s35raq9g0xgc0k4xcsedjgqv  nostr:npub1u8lnhlw5usp3t9vmpz60ejpyt649z33hu82wc2hpv6m5xdqmuxhs46turz https://image.nostr.build/21eac088790436bbd7ff372d7181e13bd7ab2fb69667e26080a1455f35f3b6ea.jpg


LFG 🍻 nostr:note1mg8g4yqml982g2dl8cyve9g4nmlq5m9c6x08xus3gkrlflkfxv5q0cq57k


Over the past three years we have heavily used instagram for social media marketing. We never paid a single penny to promote or boost a post. Over the years the performance of our content just stagnated. We also felt a bit held hostage to it as if we have to have a presence there or we “don’t exist.”

As a local business that prefers not to sell online, those classic social platforms don’t serve us very well. It doesn’t matter if some lady in another part of the world likes my post, she can’t come spend money in my shop.

On average we would get about a thousand views on a story and maybe a couple thousand views on a reel. But when we have staff ask our daily shoppers how they heard about us or what brought them in 80% is word of mouth.

Most customers don’t even see the content. So while initially it helped get the word out and create a brand image at this time it all feels like a waste of time and money. We paid a full time content creator to basically upload content that very few people see. Not any longer.

Google sadly seems like the biggest impact and we will continue to add updates every few weeks to our maps profiles but as far as social media goes… from now on we are going to double down on nostr.

Since nearly no one sees us on instagram we might as well have no one see us on nostr and at least be able to be proud of what we support and what we don’t.

Marketing local businesses is a challenge but word of mouth, excellent service and beautiful shops seems to continue to outperform any digital efforts.

We love our community, have created a brand that is near and dear to our customers and it is time to refocus our efforts in real life.


Primal Privacy PSA

Be aware new users in the #introductions and seasoned nostriches on the #plebchain alike nostr:note1mzzgzwhuxw0pyjlskfxs4c3heazedwjrs9pu7jh467ymekjzz7ms7yusxk


Chaumian ecash is awesome.

That’s it. That’s the note.


This meme is delicious.


Another total fucking banger on another fucking Bitcoin podcast 🔥

Nice rip, nostr:npub1klkk3vrzme455yh9rl2jshq7rc8dpegj3ndf82c3ks2sk40dxt7qulx3vt & nostr:npub1cj8znuztfqkvq89pl8hceph0svvvqk0qay6nydgk9uyq7fhpfsgsqwrz4u

https://fountain.fm/episode/GZ1sR5PKLEYphktZ20rp


Lol, which one was he this time?


We're about to cross another major Zap milestone according to stats.nostr.band. First it was 1M Zaps, then 2M Zaps. Now, we're about 2 weeks away from hitting 3M Zaps.
https://m.primal.net/IDsK.png

It took Nostr about 4 months from Zap launch to hit 1M Zaps in June 2023. Then, it took another 5 months to hit 2M Zaps in November 2023. Now, we're about to hit 3M Zaps 6 months later.

Yes, Zaps are slowing down... 😟 However, we also don't have weekly Zapathons on the same frequency as we used to. These events lost steam and are no longer as impactful as they used to be.

We have about 91K Zaps to go. Zap hard.


Gm!


Gm my dude!


Good morning Monday plebs 🤘


G’night, n’buddy 🫂


Ruh roh

*double checks all custodial wallets have under 5K*

We good.

Unless you’re suggesting, issues with companies behind some of the self-custodies wallets..? 🤔😳

Ps: it’s a great meme


🤣

Did a Lightning wallet rug? I’ve been mostly offline all weekend and a bit of the loop


Nice shot!


Just makes it easier to recognize who the true nostriches are.

Truth will out 💜🤝🫂


Thanks for the rec! Followed ya, Matthew 🤝


GM Nostr ☕

Ive no idea who created this, but it needs sharing far and wide.

Please do so and have a great day 🧡⚡

https://freesamourai.com/


I’m not going anywhere. Especially nowhere near Twitter. nostr:note16sfxznv4vv8t8sjjctcn24q3kv72r8a67f0x4gq3el3ngf06e50sfm028t


GN nostriches https://image.nostr.build/96355aafeedf9f99229f1b66795783919fdfafe03c1c7c37810d05f9d8278dc4.jpg


Wisdom 🤝


It’s an absolutely beautiful recording


I’ll ask our friend who’s cooking up this goodness to send it to me and share it when she does!


You too brother 🤙


Beautiful creatures!


GM

A little bit (two huge platters) of stuffed French toast and thick-cut bacon to close out the weekend?

Don’t mind if I do

#coffeechain
#foodstr https://image.nostr.build/458e7125ac7d26e9954b9f0baddceb8d80e41f00a03f1ddd87f102ff24ef8d77.jpg


Love this. Very sweet 🫂


There ARE a few bitcoiners at this party.

Thank goodness.


Gotta love when one of your crew is a legit DJ

Ridiculous bass for the past 48 hours, another 24 hours to go 🤘 https://image.nostr.build/927f97fb4132f143e408780fbb45409a69dbcbc5d2ba3a1bd9dc5b51edb1ff36.jpg


I’ll need to loop in one of our devs, but api + webhook sounds like enough, based on other internal conversations around 3rd party integrations. Now to find a coworker who is Bitcoin-friendly or curious enough to do me a solid 😂


I slept twelve. Does that mean $3 billion? nostr:note1627566wdjkqp0xuc8uwaljf9msw3g76fwq34zdz0z37xrkxwx7tqafc5ml


GM

May the 4th be with you 🫡

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/a8/90/2e/a8902e6b860c7911706f85578797fdd0.gif


Lots! Ty 🫂


My arms are the most sore they have been in roughly five years 🤣😅

#proofofwork nostr:note1n2rdyqzstutpcc2rhd8gg3aje680g0rkf5peefdw9a83rsmqw0nscs2f79


Morning buddy ✌


Thanks Sarge!


GM, pura vida, Happy Friday 🌄☕🤘

White water rafting today LFG 🌊🛶🌊


That’s wild. Is moonshine distilled in a unique type of still?


Next on the nostr markets — moonshine sold for Bitcoin???

That would be epic on so many levels. nostr:note1g94s3pm3n65z47mamlst0csm9aystsn97w892tz0anzjy9q8heqqlelqye


1. I love this review

2. That’s awesome that you make your own. Agree it’s just delicious

3. If you do the whole bottling/labeling thing, you should definitely put your note above on the back label or something 🥂


When in Rome…. Or the South 😂

#moonshine
#grownostr https://image.nostr.build/8ad009cc7edd969bddbcdefd447e957d56bdb85c64e73fc22e757f87a1aacb16.jpg


Thanks, I was actually just looking at ordering a copy.


Is there a book or collection of articles that really get into the grit of the insights that nostr:npub1sn0wdenkukak0d9dfczzeacvhkrgz92ak56egt7vdgzn8pv2wfqqhrjdv9 revealed to the world?

Unsurprisingly, it’s not that easy to find more than a pretty generic summary on Google…

#asknostr
#privacy


Long drive, now at a weekend-long celebration with friends 🤙

Got a house that sleeps 24 people, outdoor activities lined up, and two car trunks’ worth of 🍷🍺🥃

Should be good 😁


You got it, Doc 🫡


Morning Maria!


GM Johnny!


Very much! Certainly helped me wake up


Morning Jim!


GM
Workout
But so tired


GN 🫂


That smart feeling you get when you accidentally like and repost your own note 🫠


#AskNostr A while back I came across an idea of swapping BTC priv keys P2P instead of swapping coins from 1 address to another. All done with good and private cryptography.

Basically a zero fee way to transact. The sats don't move.

But it also addressed how to alter the mechanism of holding a known priv key to make it only usable by yourself/the new key holder now.

I thought this was called #Ark or arch, but it seems like Ark is soemthing different.

What did I read? Am I dreaming this?

😵💫🤔


I feel like I missed a few things here; been very focused on some end-of-month projects at work, with less time for nosting.

Deep dip: fed rates and institutional paper hands, ok got it, made my day.

Decentralized ID stuff - where is this coming from? What actually is the dID news, and why didn’t they try nostr?

What else happened?

#plebchain #asknostr

🫂


What’s blockcore? Who is they?


I heard mention of this recently too. Might have been nostr:npub1trr5r2nrpsk6xkjk5a7p6pfcryyt6yzsflwjmz6r7uj7lfkjxxtq78hdpu on one of the Cheat Code event recordings? My memory was just conceptual though, rather than any actual technical implementation. Would be interesting if something actually is in the works.


I was hungry so I ate it 🥺 I’m so sorry


Very rare, especially lately. This one worked out beautifully 🥹


Damn, yeah that’s a significant volume. Definitely makes sense re: big dip day. I’ve been so busy with the fiat mines this week, I feel like I haven’t been quite as aware of the (constant) activity in Bitcoin and nostr lol. But gotta love when it lands right around pay day 😁


Ahh and it looks like markets in general were down for similar reason. I barely even check anymore lol


Thanks 🫡


Nice analogy 🍷


Is this why the dip/did something spook them?


This may work! Gonna dig deeper on this and BTC pay server and see what we can do…


Nope but would agree


A never ending rabbit hole of stuff to learn


Thank you! I’ll check it out (and might hit you up on SimpleX as well if I don’t make it further).

🫂


Beautiful shots


Lunch of champions 💪 https://image.nostr.build/b1be3b30bf2c75c3357cdaf98088ad540d6d5747a127e9fc7ba7401ce9893539.jpg


I would unfortunately doxx a few people if I posted it here, which is spectacularly inconvenient lol


It may be too complex. I think the website structure only allows customization via JavaScript and/or CSS. But I’m not a dev so I have no idea whether that’s “enough” to connect it. Researching 🫡


Looking into this one 🤝


Thanks Paulo! That’s something I didn’t know before — is a legacy address “one per public key”? I’d assume that (if so) it’s why the newer formats allow rotating addresses


Yup 100%


Ooh could be. If they only sell one item (or all SKUs are priced at 18000 sats). I didn’t check the dates of each UTXO arriving at its prior address, but I wonder if it’s one per day 🤔


Thought of that, but the site’s not on woo commerce (and switching isn’t an option). Can you use woocommerce plugins for other website providers? Thank for the rec in any case!


What’s the simplest “plugin” for a website that would incorporate Bitcoin/Lightning to the checkout flow?

#asknostr


Lol not quite but that’s fun


Hahaha not quite


And just for fun: 420 sats to the first comment who explains the final three emojis below ⚡

Happy Wednesday #plebchain nostr:note15u4u9csr4a07h2ddxllrjsafqysvlqw6z5mtgntgts2f5rhd3paqknelfy


GM ⚡

Stack all the way up 📈

Stack all the way down 📉

Count the sats, not the cost 💸

One bitcoin equals one bitcoin 🤝

But also…

Buy the fucking dip 🔥💃🏻🌶


🤔

This recent transaction strikes me as curious. Someone is consolidating about 1,000 inputs, little UTXOs of exactly 18K sats apiece, into a single output of 17 million sats. Naturally it’s a large transaction in terms of data, so at a fee rate of 16 sats/vB, it cost them over 1M sats to get the transaction into a block.

They’re spending a million sats ($650) to consolidate a thousand UTXOs into a single UTXO of 17 million sats ($10,200).

Does this look like someone paying the price of a daily DCA to self-custody? Painfully pricey, if so.

Also, the destination address is a format I don’t recognize: “15mcK…7TQU” whereas I’m used to seeing the “bc1q…” addresses. Is this multi-sig? Taproot? Some older address format from before my time?

It kind of blows my mind that we as a society actually have this pristine public ledger, which not only defines a continuous of truth and reality, but also provides unlimited learning material: kindling for the flames of curiosity.

I wonder if someone might be able to offer some insight into what’s going on with this peculiar transaction… does it look like a DCA consolidation?

http://mempoolhqx4isw62xs7abwphsq7ldayuidyx2v2oethdhhj6mlo2r6ad.onion/tx/f75539149b63e1a22af4703287c2f05c2087c8e557ac9c0ec00aae1205e903aa

#mempool
#bitcoin
#utxo
#asknostr https://image.nostr.build/8996b2c9ea3bd3e502df4d76e92368713ed81aa3cf02d4aed5d256a4713d6274.jpg


Great advicd


Pretty sure the “apple” slices in this pie were made of potatoes, if I’m not mistaken nostr:note1zcrhyy6p8k06fkxy6wm0mupjyvcy7ww78hm3hqkz7mplndqa6l9qrvm8wl


Very busy day! It feels so damn good to lay in bed and chill on nostr rn 🤙


Wait what 😳

I’m just imagining little lobster-shrimp with tiny pincers and it doesn’t sound like a nice time


Ty!


There’s our grumpy orange buddy


Even worse if you have to pee and failed to operate with caution.

Yes,as a matter of fact I do have a sad/funny summer-camp story 🌶😞


Ha! Here it is. But why was it not in search results at all? I had to go to spirals website first to find the hyperlinked text to get to the YT video

https://spiral.xyz/blog/who-is-bitcoin/

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DvHUOr8ruMw&feature=youtu.be


nostr:npub1aeh2zw4elewy5682lxc6xnlqzjnxksq303gwu2npfaxd49vmde6qcq4nwx you were there - what happens when you try googling it?

Orange Bitcoin spiral video
Orange grumpy Bitcoin costume
Spiral block Bitcoin misunderstood

Nothing coming up wtf?

Best I got was the WBD episode he was in.


Odd. I found it via Google search for someone just two days ago. Today, all the same keywords can’t find the video 🤨


That’s a fair point. I started thinking of it since we’re on office WiFi… but I can tether her to my phone hotspot (which happens to be VPN’d)


Literally sent her this a half hour ago 😎 thank you for your service ser


Weird. Could also be relays but that doesn’t seem to make sense. Any paid delays you’re on that may have expired?


Oh and I don’t really know much about tailscale, sorry!


My understanding, if you’re running a personal/private nostr relay, is that you gain redundancy, sovereignty, and censorship resistance. If deplatformed (for example, if your npub’s notes are removed from popular relays) you can just rebroadcast whichever notes/events you initially wrote to your relay. So it’s a backup in that sense.

In theory, maybe you could post only to your relay and then use blastr to push a note to additional relays. (That’s where it presses the limits of my technical knowledge). If do-able, that “hop” may give you some bonus privacy from other relays, although using an always-on VPN wherever you have nostr clients should be sufficient.


Wow, impressed with where Umbrel are at, running a node just became a stress after I moved last year, with one on a repeatedly failing NUC and another on a RasPi rarely syncing. Now there's all these fancy looking apps and simple UX.

So, #AskNostr - is #tailscale a good bet for having a Nostr relay? Not entirely sure what having a relay really means. I've been self hosting on ActivityPub for a while now but I'm not massively up on how these things work.

Is the only need for a relay to back up my posts? I don't think they need backing up to be honest. Is there a privacy or another bonus from having a relay?


Despite the chaos of the last few days and the uncertainty that lies ahead, we have to move forward and keep building.

We’re in the middle of testing out our new LSP service with multiple wallet provider. We hope that it will be used by many, many users.

We can’t wait for you all to get your hands on it.


This is pretty rad


Bahaha exactly 😂 no dollars left!


You’re a gem, my friend!

And minds think alike — I’ve used precisely that sparrow config in the past, with the addition of a Tor port/proxy (not sure on terminology) but basically running Tor browser in the background and connecting it to sparrow before importing an xpub or broadcasting anything.

The Bitaroo node is another good one, if I recall. Their loading text explicitly states they keep no logs etc. (Of course, it’s a trust game, but at least they’re saying something, ya know?) 🫡

Anyway, I think I may just tell her to set up a proper VPN before we even do any Bitcoin-y stuff. Thank you 💜


That’s pretty much the plan! I’ll see if I can’t get her to set up the vpn ahead of time. She’s tech savvy at least as an end user, so shouldn’t be an issue!


That’s fair. Thanks!


At first I took this to mean “the last twelve addresses” of a given UTXO and figured they’re all basically fucked 🤣


This is fucking cool

(No pun intended)


Thanks P 🫂💜🫡


That’s weird! I know sometimes when muting a conversation it can mess up other notes from the users involved. Nice to see ya Marie 🫂


Said GN. Didn’t sleep. Good evening 😂🤙✌


Over the next few weeks, my “Bitcoin beginner” friend/colleague will move a decent amount of coin from an exchange to self-custody. I’m thinking we’ll start with Sparrow Wallet, to learn about key restoration and UTXOs (or is BlueWallet better for this?) and then to a HWW from there.

My question: should I make sure she installs a VPN on the computer first? Personally, I never do a Bitcoin transaction without a VPN enabled, but I don’t want to overwhelm a newbie with a digital privacy sermon, at the same time as our welcome-to-Bitcoin session.

nostr:npub1ltt9gry09lf2z6396rvzmk2a8wkh3yx5xhgkjzzg5znh62yr53rs0hk97y, how do you approach this question with your clients? nostr:npub1f6ugxyxkknket3kkdgu4k0fu74vmshawermkj8d06sz6jts9t4kslazcka what about you?

Thanks frens 🙏🫂🫡


Great day - goodnight 🫂💜🥱😴💤


Thanks for giving it a listen! And I agree. It’ll be fascinating to watch everything play out


Both tabs are direct messages. DMs come from people you’re already following, whereas requests come from npubs you haven’t followed. I think.


I should be precise though. Not “maintaining a structure of marginalization”, but “maintaining a structure that supports marginalization”.

Less accusatory and more accurate 🤝


Eh. I think it sidesteps the actual questions at hand, while maintaining a structure of marginalization against a minority.

I sincerely appreciate the civil discourse here. Not a lot of places on the internet where  this👆exists.

Especially not when the conversation gets started by a note like mine 😉


We share a distaste for the speech police, and most controversial sociocultural discussions seem to lead to the opposing sides cutting corners (philosophically, morally, or legally) in the interest of meeting their own needs.

It’s nuanced, and complicated, and fraught. Anti-trans rhetoric (the really nasty bigoted stuff) is directly correlated with instances of anti-trans violence. But where do you draw the line? These are lines that I’m vary wary of any government getting to draw. Because that kind of power is an inevitable slippery slope.

The intention of my original post was to (vehemently) disagree with the caricature of bitcoiners being closed to the idea that our society and the humans who comprise it are actually far more complicated than it appears.

How many other times has science revealed insights about humanity and the universe that was not visible to the naked eye?

In this way, I think the anti-trans view is incorrect (and will be proven such in time), and the marginalization of individuals in our society which results from such a viewpoint is more damaging than simply keeping an open mind and listening to people around us.


I agree. (Technically, by believing in freedom, I believe the state can’t dictate what people believe. But I believe individual citizens can and should speak for their beliefs and push against those which we believe are anti-freedom).

In any case, I’m just pointing to a belief that I believe is wrong, and will age badly as neuroscience continues to evolve.


The state needs to stay the fuck out of peoples’ personal lives. Period.

Arresting someone for an ignorant or bigoted viewpoint is absolutely wrong.

The state exists to protect an individual’s safety, and their freedom to flourish and maximize their own potential, right up to the line where that activity encroaches on another citizen’s *safety*. No further.

Thing is, trans people have been overwhelmingly the victims of certain types of crime. Doesn’t mean we need the speech police. But when a subgroup of a society is in measurably greater danger than the rest, it warrants some protection.

Again, individual circumstances are unique. I’m not prescribing a particular path.

I’m just trying to say, be open, and listen, and when someone tells you who they are… believe them.


Hey Julian.

I want to emphasize that I’m not attacking you, or trying to say “you’re bad for your views”. That would be presumptuous, and it would defeat the purpose of my initial post.

I entirely agree that the law should not punish someone for their view. Hope nothing I wrote suggested otherwise.

Also, I’m not making a “prescriptive” for how our society’s doctors, parents, teachers, or therapists should approach transgender individuals. Any one-size-fits-all approach would be the wrong one.

But the blanket statement that “there are only two genders” strikes me as closed-minded, un-empathetic, and generally contrary to “don’t trust verify” as a principle.

The neuroscience is starting to catch up, and my (limited) understanding is that it’s more natural than the traditional “fear of the unknown” point of view would have us believe.

Our society has historically been terrible at supporting minority groups, and it usually comes from a place of ignorance, not hatred. But ignorance and fear can lead down some very ugly paths.


Howdy. You sound pretty unhappy.

I’m a happily married, straight, white, healthy man. I have a beautiful, brilliant wife, and I’m very content in my body and life.

But some people aren’t. And while I haven’t lived their experiences, I have empathy for their suffering. My first instinct is to listen.

I don’t know you, but I hope that some part of you second-guessed what you wrote. Either way, thanks for the easy mute suggestion. I hope you’re able to find peace in yourself.


Appreciate your reply. I don’t profess to know the individual situations (and have never experienced for myself) what it’s like to be trans.

As with anything like this, of course there are deep nuances, unique circumstances, and the “right” thing can be different for different people.

It’s also true that with any polarizing issue, you end up with an extremely vocal minority who can end up pushing things too far. (Especially when that voice is born out of the frustration and grief of being oppressed, marginalized, scorned, abused, and disproportionately murdered).

But the casual, glib statement that “there are only two genders” is more insidious than an opinion. (First, it’s by definition an un-informed opinion — how could anyone who isn’t trans actually deeply understand it? Second, it’s the framework on top of which society as a whole decides how people should be treated, and trans people are disproportionately treated horribly).

I don’t buy the comprehensive conspiracy theory view here at all. But sure, politicians use sensitive, inflammatory issues to stoke division all the time. It’s sure as hell working in this context. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t also an underlying issue.

Many societies, throughout the history of humanity have, recognized a third or unspecified “gender” that doesn’t match the “gear”. Frequently these individuals have been honored, rather than oppressed.

I’m not taking a prescriptive stance about the individual situations here (who should do what with their body and when). That’s up to the individual.

But I’m confident that when a minority group says “this is what life is like for us, and it’s hard” that the right thing to do is to listen first, and listen long.

Instead, most people react because it challenges their worldview. That type of fear can be deadly.


I’ll leave that to you to decide.

My intent here is not to provoke a discussion on gender theory, but to reject a caricature of bitcoiners that includes a bigoted matrix mindset.


Note nostr:npub1aftmyhm62lrp6lwsha3yzyjy5kqdvuy7g23qg28a8q0cnmudv0ds0sdcke & nostr:npub1h882a66p0zj5n69s2u8nfzev4f97lzfnlcej84z78p6uqxge5tpqlupz20

Adding you here in a reply rather than the original note, because my goal is not to call you out personally.

Isa, I typically love your content, and I doubt you wrote the script for this video.

But still, not great, and I’m not trying to see bitcoiners represented by a closed-minded meme (at best) that leads to oppressive anti-freedom policies (or worse).


Hold the fuck up.

Steak? ✅
Anti-war? ✅
Anti-fiat? ✅
Conservative gender theory? What ❌

Since when is transphobia considered a cool part of bitcoiner culture?

Some of these “libertarians” are LARP-y as it gets. Freedom for me but not for thee. Fuck that noise.

Anti-trans rhetoric in the 21st century is gonna age about as well as racism in the 1800s and homophobia in the 1900s.

Bigotry doesn’t require malice to survive. It only requires ignorance.

If you’re a bitcoiner, you care about being on the right side of history. Get your shit figured out.

#freedom
#bitcoin
#libertarianism nostr:note15gjepn3cv4xhfzyem50xpau9dsxyr7m9ypjxvtuyu8czam87x5aqfcsahn


Grand morning, pura vida 🌇☕🤙

#nature
#coffeechain https://image.nostr.build/9d1b2526f63fa7e78de1ad6bf75678c8b385bbd43f994c2c41286fd982854d5b.jpg https://image.nostr.build/7c91775bdca3a2f8f062a04ccacb0a414bc938a3bb9c2717e38b40019ce46097.jpg https://image.nostr.build/ecde6083dc89abf9241ac9051545a2ce66292e38bfdd0e2981f74ec095fa7693.jpg


Your friends in NYC had the same idea!

nostr:note1v77chxq5lwfuw6us827328q80azcftg2vsn2nvxgdjghy3uf7fksjufszc


Woke back up 🤷♂🥱🫠


You too my dude 🫂


GN 🫂

Big week ahead 🫡


Give this a listen

https://fountain.fm/episode/nQuyIpcRoji2IGO05Nx9


Hey nostr:npub1dergggklka99wwrs92yz8wdjs952h2ux2ha2ed598ngwu9w7a6fsh9xzpc

They say imitation is the most sincere form of flattery, but I think this copycat just wants your money…

LOL imagine the real Gigi promoting “sophisticated algorithm tools” for the “ascending triangle” 🤣🤣🤣🖕

Here’s an algorithm for success:
JUST STACK MORE SATS. nostr:note15vz5lq870d95x7rh72mpd2atfr4dwa4pvpvr8j26nu9vkyfl566s3z2tux


Sweet.


Night buddy 🫂


Is splicing possible while using multiple LSPs? As in, using multiple LSPs for redundancy & decentralization, and when a user splices in, you could pull from any source?


I’m well familiarized with these principles, but I don’t know the answer to these questions in the case of Proton.

Do you just mean this is what I should be asking when evaluating the product?


🚨 Important: LightningTipBot on Telegram is shutting down. Remove your balances as soon as you can.

You can also use the /donate command to send the developer any leftover sats as a thank you for providing this free service that got many of us off the ground for zaps on Nostr.

💜⚡🫡 nostr:note1aextfaefx5w3dwrtdhar8ca964kpy4cksdj0w3esfuwnkzlfqrjqg7x63q


I feel like this is the one I hear most recommended


Thanks 🫡


Glad to hear that. Might take it for a spin and set one up on an old phone just for fun 🤝


Love it brotha 🤝🤙⚡🫡


Enjoy!


Not sure. Looks like you can build it from source on their GitHub but I don’t see signatures. But not my area of expertise so I could easily be missing if


Ooh that is a sticking point. Most things I need a password are online of course, but don’t love the dependency.

Do you happen to know if KeePass and/or BitWarsen work offline?


Nice - Zeus is great. Did you find the UX pretty straightforward?

I’ve hit the occasional snag where a tip from Evan sets me in the right direction (toggling neutrino settings etc) but the kind of thing a newbie (myself included) wouldn’t know to do


Thoughts on ProtonPass as a password manager?

Good enough if you already are using the proton suite?

Any significant downsides besides not self-hosted?

#asknostr
#infosec


User discovery on Nostr is hard. Please shill me 2-3 npubs to follow. These should be profiles you'd recommend to new Nostriches. These should be profiles with "smaller" followings, not larger profiles that most already know and interact with. Don't just tag them. Leave a couple words or a sentence describing why you followed them or recommend them. Thanks! #NotAHellthread


I loved it. Netflix. Never seen anything quite like it


I’m loving the dynamic between Japanese, English, and Portuguese

Learning some stuff about feudal Japan I didn’t know.

Blue Eye Samurai was another brilliant show from roughly this time period (or a bit later if I recall)


It keeps getting better


Like her a lot so far


Huh, never thought of it that way before lol


Now more than ever, you need to self-custody your Bitcoin.

If you have questions, I'm committing some of my free time to take calls and answer questions. Some times it's good to just talk.

Just go to www.bitcoinforfamilies.com


Anybody watched Shogun?

Off to a great start… https://image.nostr.build/aef01e6a55411b0a5bcf0babde8932ac6e66beb662d6c3aa49842cf40ddfa0af.jpg


🔥 COME AND TAKE IT 🔥
https://video.nostr.build/31af31056a44fbef55b5c1d7cfacece2edb45affe7f18afb13483b4d31327c1c.mp4


Yankees suck ✌


🚨withdraw your sats from ln.tips bot NOW🚨

you can use @BitTipBot as custodial alternative in telegram if you want to stay there


Appreciate the heads up 🤝


What happened with it? Isn’t that nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg ‘s creation?


Why 😥


This oldie was ready for a refresh 😂

#memestr
#grownostr https://image.nostr.build/e4a2bf13dc940a9de378649a8f05c0e3ae77d8175bb6482ef64c7ab20240d352.jpg  nostr:note17mx9zrjuw43gl88haq7qmjkncae9l8d2fhqgfezhhzf0upe7llysdzeswh


As a node? Or..?


Are you referring to the spare ledger in the drawer? Or like a computer that could be used to run a node but isn’t?


One day, it would be nice to see a well-capitalized challenge to the Bank Secrecy Act on 4th amendment grounds.

The Founding Fathers would be rolling in their graves if they saw that people need a license to transmit money, or that the government thinks it has the right to surveil and censor everyone’s money and transactions.

The default is privacy. To infringe on someone’s privacy should require probable cause and come with checks and balances. Ubiquitous surveillance shouldn’t be the default, since it enables tyranny. https://image.nostr.build/59d050b8cf8f75a3d469e83812a0be6681bcad506e63bc0bf4417cfece14d0b8.jpg


Summer project for me 🫡

That’s looking real nice


PV


Well that’s fun. It wasn’t your comments I was referring to. But thanks for jumping in with an easy mute recommendation.


🫂 nostr:note16rsp76smglh3c2wd2mc44e0rx0mfxln8y8syrdq55mxp6vc7z56qjn0wfh


Damn dude 😕

Toss a 👨💻 🍍 out or something when you’re back in town

🫂


GM

Wisdom is knowing that you don’t know

-Socrates (basically) https://image.nostr.build/63df960277f34b1aab83c5f736dcad90c02f183e9a2903fda4a679aaecbf5e6a.jpg


Do it


You said it yourself - as much as any of us strive toward sovereignty (a valiant and valuable effort), the very technology we depend upon to exercise freedom with Bitcoin or freedom of speech, is the product of the very system we’re trying to fix.

We need bitcoiners as mineral miners, hardware builders, supply chain operators, etc.


It’s both, but I think the general consensus here is that in a world of mostly good people, with the power of full freedom of speech, many of us feel the responsibility to use that freedom to call out assholes when they’re being malignantly antisocial.

Part of how organic free society forms is that when someone behaves in a way that is unacceptable to the other individuals, the one who acted out is shamed or ostracized, and learns that the rest of the society will not voluntarily associate with him if he doesn’t modify his behavior.


Love this. Feels amazing!


Thanks, I found the threads… What a major disappointment.

Some cave-dwelling losers really have too much impact on society in relation to their value to society 😒


YES


Fuck, who did nostr lose this time 😞


That’s amazing! They’re pretty gentle unless you piss them off lol, I think they’re great


Thanks Ewelina!! Good morning 😁


Yeah, in hindsight it’s pretty wild. It was optional in my school but pretty much everyone did it


Good morning Nostr 🌇

Made a friend on this morning’s walk

#nature
#coffeechain https://image.nostr.build/ae815375f449b0c5040dda33b118116268f9e04eec9acf28571364906006b1c3.jpg


Aw 🫂 GN friend 💜


Bedtime gn ily


The only bottoms I seem to time well are miner fee rates…

See a reduced fee rate, send a transaction, fee rate spikes, and UTXO languishes in the mempool, awaiting the mercy of RBF

🤦♂


Yeah, that makes perfect sense. I guess as a business plan it would be a big risk (and why so many miners get f’d). For an individual, if you can justify the cost as an experiment and possibly end up ahead, maybe worth the investment. Or maybe better to stack sats with that fiat. TBD lol


Love that. I sent a tiny contribution (but if you wait long enough, it may just buy an ASIC 😂)


My understanding is that machines last typically longer than that (3-5 years before they’re inefficient), but I see your point. The sats earned would need to remain consistent for my math above to work. Got it 🫡


Of course. Changes in difficulty, block reward, fees, etc.

I’m just running through the thought experiment. Seems like an opportunity to stack sats below market price… if (and only if) the input costs are right.


Cool - is this for your own study, or for teaching a course/others?


So essentially you need to make back your investment in hardware (plus cover ongoing expenses) before the machines become inefficient. Or end up mining at a potential loss (ie paying a premium for non-kyc sats).

The other calculation I guess is (for example) $4000 on a machine in today’s Bitcoin price, plus $200/month over the next four years. If that was spent directly on Bitcoin over that same timeframe, would you end up with more sats at the end of it all, by buying Bitcoin instead of spending the fiat on mining…


Okay, something just clicked for me.

Mining. Upfront capital for machines. Assume a fixed power cost, and a relatively fixed sats flow.

When the price of Bitcoin goes way up, then mining is basically buying KYC-free sats BELOW market rate.

Like, well-below market, if power costs (and debt payments) are right.

That’s hugely appealing ⛏⚡🤯


You’re not alone here. Many I speak to have a similar experience


Yo nostr:npub1cn4t4cd78nm900qc2hhqte5aa8c9njm6qkfzw95tszufwcwtcnsq7g3vle

It’s tremendous to see Strike expanding globally - you’re fucking doing it.

But I can’t say I have *ever* seen Strike marketing “in the wild”.

I know you’re (commendably) heads-down focused on building, and your budget is probably 95% dev and compliance.

But it would make this pleb happy to see Strike on the next billboard or stadium, instead of some shitcoin casino. Just my two sats 🫡


Morning Derek!


Art weird is welcome 🤜💥🤛

#artstr


Good morning, happy Friday, PV 🤙

They’re power washing a building this morning and it put a rainbow on the street. Pretty.

Also, here’s a nice cloud. Looks like a painting but it’s real ☁ https://image.nostr.build/b0ab3f7131ef19b6024842e699970eb6a895445cdb06b54e0d9a16d0d8cf480c.jpg https://image.nostr.build/e53fab876b1a974563bca3663e8cf950db18754e520b4e389904d5594fd64643.jpg


GN 😴🫂


Okay, thanks! I’ll definitely check this out


Those are very pretty


The difference between Bitcoin and shitcoins is akin to the difference between gold that was dug out of a cave, compared the little pieces of paper that children draw on with crayons to create play money.

In this analogy, NFTs are baseball cards (at best), beanie babies (more likely), or that plastic baggie full of oregano that you bought from your friend’s older sibling.


Yeah it’s counting (some of) your reactions to the replies on the note

Yo nostr:npub1zafcms4xya5ap9zr7xxr0jlrtrattwlesytn2s42030lzu0dwlzqpd26k5 here’s another instance


Time to push some new Bitcoin adoption, if all goes well 🙏👀

I need a plug-and-play checkout  add-on, for a retail eCommerce website to accept Bitcoin/lightning payments.

Ideally it’s as simple as copy-paste this CSS or JS (if that’s technically possible to accomplish something this complex).

It would need to complete the transaction and “inform” the website’s back-end that payment was captured but not by a credit card.

Is nostr:npub155m2k8ml8sqn8w4dhh689vdv0t2twa8dgvkpnzfggxf4wfughjsq2cdcvg the right tool? What about what you’ve been working on, nostr:npub1utx00neqgqln72j22kej3ux7803c2k986henvvha4thuwfkper4s7r50e8 ? Or nostr:npub1a8jzweysxa9qmtmht874736aalm0lwdsl306nrys9d05ktlrhw3qcr5pj4 ? Does nostr:npub1ex7mdykw786qxvmtuls208uyxmn0hse95rfwsarvfde5yg6wy7jq6qvyt9 now offer a solution?

If I can make it work one time, scaling it would be the EASY part.

#asknostr


I love em all because together we create stuff


Told someone that I have all the location shit turned off on my phone. He goes “oh, you’re paranoid!”

I just smiled and nodded, and continued my conversation with the group. Before I walked away, the guy hands me his card.

“InfoSec and CyberSec” as a side gig 😂🤝🫡


Missed you for the celebration my friend 🫂 you’re most welcome 🤙


Find the Guru in Peter Schiff: chuckling and winking at you, in on the Cosmic Joke ❤

Thanks for this chat lol nostr:npub1ahxjq4v0zlvexf7cg8j9stumqp3nrtzqzzqxa7szpmcdgqrcumdq0h5ech

https://fountain.fm/episode/xKyBimKChxxxLcr8cXFs


🎯

Let it begin here 🤝


FFS. Grateful for things like nostr:npub1xnf02f60r9v0e5kty33a404dm79zr7z2eepyrk5gsq3m7pwvsz2sazlpr5 and nostr:npub1mutnyacc9uc4t5mmxvpprwsauj5p2qxq95v4a9j0jxl8wnkfvuyque23vg , building where they CAN’T invade your privacy 🫡


Extreme exchange surveillance, coming soon to a jurisdiction near you! nostr:note1584hq8ls70rw7w2t3af02n2lwh7cwfhphxrx0fy5dglcxeyajmwqsxuz9d


Nail on the head ser


💯 keep doing so. It warrants repeating 🫡

The violations will continue until the bureaucracy shrinks.


Agree. The exact same tools used against Canadian truckers that progressives cheered for will be used against the left at BLM and women’s rights protests. It’s not about who’s in charge now - it’s about the power that anyone in charge *should never* have.


So WoS and Alby?


This aged quickly and unfortunately well 😕 nostr:note1tugk5n494saylf0xjeznq0c24lyrj8g7uajwm8qc53mava7rsg7s653lnh


Tigs! It’s you! I can see you again. Lol


Outstanding 🔥🫂🤝🫡


Criminals don’t like competition.

Pass it on. nostr:note1ye54gcayyys40x738fqvw5dmygw2n9r6533y0nmjauarrt439zxq875ajl


They each hold KYC-free sats, with (I believe, at least in USA) a cost basis of the value at the time they received the UTXO.

Depending on the value, this might qualify - for the giver - as taxable gifts (I think the threshold is high, like $15000, but that could be cumulative idk)

It may also qualify as income for the receiver but I don’t know for sure. And our tax law is way behind the reality of 2020s in any case.


Gm brother


Good morning Nostr

I think we all need a little extra Pura Vida today 🫂🤙


GN. Hard day in Bitcoin world.

The longer you stick around here, it seems, the more you realize that you’re not just seeking freedom - you’re fighting for it. For everyone.

Onward ❤


It’s very likely delays due to network fees — these guys aren’t likely to rug. But good feedback for the wallet team that any lack of transparency around addresses, txids, etc., can be scary for users


Channel your anger and frustration into writing more unstoppable freedom code.

GN


#bitcoin
Copied form sethforprivacy:

Everything actionable you need to know about what this indictment means for you as a @SamouraiWallet (SW) or Whirlpool user 👇

As a Samourai Wallet user (no Dojo)

Unfortunately, the architecture of SW meant that your xpub (a master public key, allowing anyone holding it to derive all your past/present/future Bitcoin addresses) was at some point in time held by Samourai, and could now possible in the hands of the DOJ.

Though it's a worst-case scenario, you should assume that your xpub was compromised, and thus all previous mixes you have done have been unwound and are now traceable. You should also assume that the gov can now derive all past/present/future addresses of yours and track movement of funds if so desired.

In addition, Samourai's coordinator and backend sync server was seized, and so SW will no longer sync, show received funds, or allow sending funds out. As such, you have to migrate funds to another wallet like @SparrowWallet following the docs here:

docs.samourai.io/wallet/restore…

In addition, I would recommend migrating funds to a new seed phrase to prevent anyone holding the xpub from seeing all future received/spent funds.

You should also disable automatic updates in the Play Store (if used) to ensure no malicious updates are pushed.

As a Samourai Wallet user (using your own Dojo)

Thankfully, you avoided having your xpub potentially compromised. The worst case scenario for you is that your previous mixes may not have the full anon set you expected if non-Dojo users xpubs were compromised.

You will still be able to sync/send/receive from your Samourai Wallet app, but should also migrate funds eventually as no further updates will come out for Samourai Wallet. If you want to migrate, use the docs below:

docs.samourai.io/wallet/restore…

You should, however, disable automatic updates in the Play Store (if used) to ensure no malicious updates are pushed.

As a Sparrow Wallet user

Thankfully, you avoided having your xpub potentially compromised as well. The worst case scenario for you is that your previous mixes may not have the full anon set you expected if non-Dojo/Sparrow users xpubs were compromised.

There is no real need to rotate to a new wallet etc, and Sparrow is still an excellent option. Unfortunately you will no longer be able to mix in Sparrow as the Samourai coordinator was seized.


Right here ser. Pure signal


Nostr nostr:note1h0j6ldtntw828g6df0easxtqurkd0tuakat4sq8xptkht2ygq6ms8rq0hn


That is why public discussion is so important, as well as important education of policymakers, public opinion of G7 countries about the abuses of AML/CFT laws and real money laundering.

Real criminals, and even more so oligarchs, use completely different schemes to launder dirty money. For example, the daughter of dictator Nursultan #Nazarbayev, Dariga #Nazarbayeva - #UK law enforcement tried to prosecute her for money laundering. But Kazakhstani authorities used lobbyists, expensive Western law firms, and the Kazakhstani state apparatus to succeed in laundering her dirty money.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/apr/08/uk-agency-loses-case-against-ex-kazakh-president-family-aliyev-nazarbayev

This is a scheme for the real work of the oligarchs, people who have stolen billions from the budget of a country where their family members have been in power for decades, politically persecuting any dissent, torturing and killing.

They do not need mixers, they have perfectly mastered money laundering schemes through investments in expensive real estate and consultations with former higher officials, top law firms.

Besides, Western intelligence services are diligently training dictatorial regimes how to recognise both traditional bankin and crypto-assets transactions, so the oligarchs have this knowledge from the intelligence services under their control in non-democratic countries. They will not use such tools.

Mixers and #bitcoin self-hosted wallets, on the other hand, are used by activists who are financially excluded by authoritarian regimes and do not have the privilege to use banking services in general due to political repression.

Moreover, the knowledge of US intelligence agencies is used to financially exclude regime critics and their family members both domestically and transnationally. This is exactly what Turkey, Kazakhstan and other regimes do all the time, sharing knowledge gained from Western partners with Russia, Iran, China to repress dissenters abroad. In less than 5 minutes Kazakhstan blocks fundraising via bank account or #Stripe for families of political prisoners, so bitcoin p2p transactions and mixers are currently the only instrument to protect human rights in such authoritarian countries. Regimes can trace such transactions, but they can't stop them and so far it has helped save lives.

Therefore, we will continue to defend mixers and self-hosted wallets, and draw the attention of the U.S. and other G7 countries to how in reality the banking systems of third countries like Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkey are used to circumvent Russian sanctions to the extent of hundreds of billions of U.S. dollars and remain unpunished due to abuse of power domestically and abuse AML/CFT laws transnationally.


That’s what I thought… it’s also why I’m confused about the charges, unless the founders actually laundered their own money.

On one hand, the code-is-speech argument and self-custodial decisions are in their favor, even with some acknowledgment that some people may use the tools for illegal means.

But if they took fees and knew about specific instances of criminal activity or sanctioned addresses, that might be a different story


The Rich men North of Richmond are at it again.


No clue what the current status of funds is. It’s such a tricky (and unjust) situation. Like Lyn said, simply participating in a privacy tool puts a target on normal peoples’ backs.


Maybe KYC only Bitcoin is what they're really pushing towards. You don't believe it when it's random incidents, however many random incidents start to paint a different picture.


For every sat or dollar that was allegedly laundered through Samourai, there are likely 50-100 sats/dollars that were simply being made private by a gentle pleb.

Now every one of those global citizens risks having their privacy violated, stored, tracked, hacked, or published.

What about the opposition party in Russia? What about women organizing protests in Iran? What about all the freedom fighters all over the world who deserve better? nostr:note1mc36qeww634g6gqt937l50mhals4nszda3uaq07mg34a22cxym5qcealw0


Those of you who operate a cashu mint or even a fedimint federation, are you prepared to be arrested?

You should do everything from absolute anonymity.


The end goal is tyrannical financial surveillance. Freedom won't be given.

https://image.nostr.build/059c946ed67a5b2bb6b8c154abffcfda89fe421e9cdd2ea199009bde09182933.jpg


Does this mean the fed used a Samourai wallet (ie self custody on Samourai code)? Or that they sent funds to a wallet owned by Samourai? The former is nbd, the latter could be a real problem if laws were broken with those funds


Criminals don't like competition

nostr:nevent1qqsva4c4hheamyzq380jywpknkx8xwkpmktywkju7p4amq8ggxszzdczyz5qg4tn94dl57f0y7gpr2xgwxznrq5hrx2822uu7ytfvy0ljxjhsqcyqqqqqps487xw0


Smh


Scary times


Criminals don’t like competition.

Pass it on. nostr:note1mc8hmpg856vdg3vppduukd85wlkcdnfhlkp9rw3cs9lfq77c503s8rla5r


Criminals don’t like competition.

Pass it on. nostr:note1ye54gcayyys40x738fqvw5dmygw2n9r6533y0nmjauarrt439zxq875ajl


Criminals don’t like competition. nostr:note1u0j558xazfgad9r0cs69njt2sdgty3rkq5wwstzyruye6f590l2smcauk3


Just because you don't need privacy today, doesn't mean you won't in the future

You may want to protest like 🇨🇦 truckers. You may want to obfuscate what cause you donate to. You may want to run against an authoritarian incumbent

You may need a plan B, let's hope it's there & that enough fight for it


Privacy is a human right.


Holy fuck 😧


Guitar and piano are the two things I studied growing up. Still jam a little but way rusty too lol

Looking forward to more clips!


Valid but it’s a small gc lol


That’s adorable - keep it 🤝

I’ve gotten great value from your work so far. Pumped to see the next one 🔥


Any frequent Wayfair shoppers out there? Was gifted a gift card and would rather have sats…

#asknostr


Did ya hear?

Sats are on sale ⚡ nostr:note1qqp5fu84tcgph893vtevy9sqgr3ch4grn668sxg9n653suny37xs0herl5


Mornin friend


Scammer/impersonation


Hey nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a you have a doppelscammer 🫡

Y’all, mute & report the below. And perhaps repost this for visibility/to protect the less verify-y minded plebs.

#grownostr
#shrinkscammers

(Does reporting actually do anything..? Maybe relays with quality spam filters like Nostr.wine pay attention? nostr:npub18kzz4lkdtc5n729kvfunxuz287uvu9f64ywhjz43ra482t2y5sks0mx5sz ?) nostr:note19cp4gfn8la4m0gyvrh535cr9lg3sevqv7568x46uk6ff4k48e60snrfzxa


😂 Satsie where did the name Pond Nugget come from?? Love it.

Also looking forward to learning about Stratum as a technically-aware but not-programming pleb 👀


That’s hot


Share far and wide. Tell everyone. Make this bitcoiner musician known. Make Wavlake & nostr known.

Go 🏃♂🏃♂

Also, sounds GREAT man. Keep jamming 🎸

Ibanez? nostr:note1xj330s5vf3m5g449elj9u2qf8ze8y2rlzhnqyaex7hmx4lc7ytqq0xl3al


Gm Siddh!


😂😂 I guess that’s exactly how a wolf would think of it 🤣

Good wolf

🫳🫳
  🐺

(This is a head-scratch btw)


GM Maria 👋


Morning Johnny!


Hey Dan!


Morning!


That is its spiritual name, after all.


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

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


Yo nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s  now it sounds like you know this and i know this, but please for the love of god DO call your new multi-platform client nostr:npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq955

Reasons:

1) it’s a badass name and one of the only non-“str” names that still works beautifully with the word Nostr

2) Damus was banned in China, “nostrclient77” was not. We know and love Damus

3) you’d shot yourself in the foot a bit as far as the amount of time spent explaining that it’s “same same but different”. Literally the start of every What Bitcoin Did starts with nostr:npub14mcddvsjsflnhgw7vxykz0ndfqj0rq04v7cjq5nnc95ftld0pv3shcfrlx needing to explain that “IREN” is the same as “Iris energy” and like I get it but don’t do that to yourself man

4) you’d need a new logo and I fucking love my Damus tank top

In the interest of a balanced approach to this argument, here are some reasons you *should* pick a new name:

1) you decide one day to stop loving Damus and want to break up with it

2) that’s not a good enough reason

We love you keep going 💪🚀


GM Bella ☕


Good morning #coffeechain

PV let’s go 🧘♂⚡💪 https://image.nostr.build/320639b74bd02b3d07d163496789e2abecb2ccb45a406d23e32c7093a70b10e0.jpg


That’s a great point. I haven’t used them much for that. Mostly things like “make this email to my worst client sound more polite” 😂


Amazing, well thank you! I’ll give it a shot.

I guess Apple Pay is still kyc-lite Joe that I think about it - I believe it masks your identity from the merchant and their POS data vacuum but Apple still collects it all.

Still, better in a way - but still not good… gotta find physical GCs I guess if really committing


It really is 🤜🤛


It is nice, I agree. It’s a tradeoff though (like all things) — slightly less sovereignty, slightly smoother UX…

It’s been truly eye-opening to watch all these developers building on nostr. Different clients, with some of the same and other different NIPs, all working to be relatively interoperable, in a meaningfully decentralized landscape.

It’s cool as fuck and I never expected to witness something like this being built 🥹


Good take ser


See!!! Lol


Ok thanks Ryan and same - this is the account I can’t see a photo or display name for:

nostr:npub1q7why7lw8kq9ufr43ps75ngz3vhx5duqt7xmgklcq3dljqqfjegq2km2vr


Oh yeah sorry here’s what I see https://image.nostr.build/3298eb53bf40c3060c9f934b9f3a6b1e61715c8c96b71f710734b987716e90bb.jpg


Using nostr:npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq955

This nostrich’s display name and pfp aren’t visible to me so I forget which fren you are!

I tried clearing cache and my relays seem fine… anyone else having this issue?

Whoever you is, hello 🫂✌ nostr:note1dualq4y9y6y5sc8ej5xcktha77dpup7y9w4nhu9t3ksfrqw9fmusdyrk4f


Say the word if you have questions! Some wallets are more straightforward to connect than others


Ohhh no it’s me as the customer who’s looking for a solution to use at my coffeeshot (lol ie for businesses who have said “thanks but no thanks” when I ask about bitcoin)

But this is seriously cool and I’ll add it to my list of recommendations. Thanks man 🙏


Btw I’d love to zap ya if you have a Lightning address 🙏


Sick this is 🎯🎯🎯


Wow, thank you! That’s honestly all I need 🙏⚡⚡⚡


Is that likely to happen?


Hot tip: don’t rely on GPT/chat bots for dosing recommendations of medication

Don’t worry — I didn’t — but when asking it some questions it gave very confident (and fatally high) calculations.

Not sure who needs to hear this but yeah. PSA.

Be safe out there.


I love all of this lol

Just need a solution for my no-coiner coffee shop


I thought it said *cant* - really? Will check again!


Thanks for the movie rec, nostr:npub1az9xj85cmxv8e9j9y80lvqp97crsqdu2fpu3srwthd99qfu9qsgstam8y8! (We’re going with option 6). https://image.nostr.build/70dd0ca80604b1179c3685cef4fe071e41657dd596c5af404c5c2b2ef0304902.jpg


“Living on Bitcoin” question:

Most businesses near me, including some I frequent, don’t accept Bitcoin (although not for lack of trying).

Is there a non-custodial/KYC-free app where you can load a fiat payment method by paying a Lightning invoice?

It looks like BitRefill sells digital visa debit cards, but those can’t be used in-person or added to Apple Pay.

Does anywhere sell physical gift cards for sats? The more I learn about financial surveillance, the more I realize that every purchase, every coffee you buy, is tracked to fine-tune your advertising profile (and that’s the best-case scenario).

I guess using cash or buying a prepaid card with any method would achieve the desired privacy here...

But is there a way to do this on Bitcoin?

#asknostr
#privacy


Yo! I’m just seeing this now (thanks nostr:npub1zuuajd7u3sx8xu92yav9jwxpr839cs0kc3q6t56vd5u9q033xmhsk6c2uc)

Putting it on my calendar. Is there a meetup link (like other pubkey events) that you want us using, or can I just show up?


I’m regularly blown away by the stuff these guys are doing. Stoked to see this endeavor come to fruition 🔥 nostr:note16fdc20775akrjjqtu8ppg2v4lr3w8tq0yg64n437tcwqe7u0g6qqel54n8


I’ve almost entirely stopped even trying to use it any more


Love your work friend 🤝 I just recommended you to a couple of art collect-y friends earlier (I’d be more art-collecty if my current budget were less sat-stacky lol) 💜


Collections would be called


Welcome to America Bevo!!


Facts


I agree - it’s very exciting what Calle & Obi are doing. Even how Mutiny is starting new users on Fedimint and then you can open a channel after a threshold. Creative

100% the fee FUD is unnecessary. The current pricing is temporary and unsustainable and it’ll be much more reasonable again soon. And it’s much better to have this incentive now to refine our tools and processes before Bitcoin is (hopefully) so widely adopted that it becomes consistently prohibitively expensive for most people to make on chain transactions using today’s tech


Totally. It also gets a bit beyond my technical know-how periodically, which I love and it sends me down some new curiosity rabbit hole


“I wish that these fees were the result of robust monetary utility and demand, rather than a tiny group of gamblers who are making this network much harder for so many people to use in daily life.”

- Me, a minute ago


Yes and no -

Fees as a miner? Yay
Fees as a user? Sucks

Making clear the need for stronger L2 solutions? Yay
Needing something we don’t have yet? Sucks

Happening now, while we have some time to tinker and not have a global system be dependent on a half-cooked goose? Yay
Happening now, while I have some newly acquired 🌽 that I need to put in the freezer? Sucks

I agree it has many positive externalities, and will ultimately drive more innovation and improvements, but also it’s annoying, and I guess I wish that these fees were the result of robust monetary utility and demand, rather than a tiny group of gamblers who are making this network much harder for so many people to use in daily life.


Night sarge!


It’s a great show 🫡


nostr:npub1n3sjlzmhpu8rl56umtptc4lua6zkretq2p82yhytnmlcuq639vlqd0te5l, you pointed out that the energy FUD is not likely to be a long term issue for Bitcoin regulation (thanks to the hard work of many badass bitcoiners, including yourself), but that the KYC/AML “clean coins” surveillance state is a much more compelling move for regulators to take, with little opposition.

If this does make it harder for KYC and non-KYC coins to function in a shared economy, doesn’t this likely mean that the US “Bitcoin economy” is forced to fall behind? If the country’s citizens can only legally use (or hodl) a small portion of available coins, there’s less available wealth to save. I’m thinking over a 20-50 year period.

It also deters investment from the wealthiest-to-be class (bitcoiners of today, fast forward a few decades).

I guess it’s too early to tell, but you’ve got me thinking. What does bitcoining look like in a state with strict regulation around nodes, mining, and KYC?

Proper Bitcoining will perhaps “look like” civil disobedience...


Followed your other npub 🫡


This is great dude 🤙


Good morning, Pura vida 🤙

Love these buds in the sunlight ☀ https://image.nostr.build/a31f14f671eb6c491a5d637c3b449adba7ac814bdfac7997515b945956107c43.jpg


Hahaha the preview hadn’t rendered when I first replied. Called it 😂😂


If this is a rick roll…….


Why is nobody talking about this!??

🧵👇

Good night 💜


And receipts prove that you nostr:npub1j94h4j39papmn7zzltxvsvwmf524pzrr92xz0sx3greqgve3hftsenjuvp have been a principled pleb since early days, proud to call you a nostrich 🫂💜🤝🫡


Lol I know, but “it’s me” is exactly what a proper narcissist would say 🤣


Beautiful 🥹


My bad. You were referring to me, I assume.

😁😉


Worked, but took a good 10+ seconds to load (ie from tapping ⚡ with zap script enabled, to when it jumped over to Phoenix for invoice approval)


It looks like it!


No joke, the moon is shining this brightly in through the window 🤩🌕

#nature
#grownostr https://image.nostr.build/0b4e6f96c8ca8eb4364d668b7d18274c7581b59f17e5929048c1ca871b845a51.jpg


Here’s another example with a note I posted today. NoteID and a screenshot:

nostr:note1n3ckwejc8xnqql0c2nsqge4280jrjvcx8capvvh7jwvf5wj6s5qqwnvlx5 https://image.nostr.build/bcb1508a6eb6de840cb079274589c722af9316123bfdc135fe570eb971d2ff8a.jpg


Love it


Zapped 🤙


Right back at you buddy 🫂


Sick. I’ll put it on the list to explore!


Hey nostr:npub12hcytyr8fumy3axde8wgeced523gyp6v6zczqktwuqeaztfc2xzsz3rdp4

I shared your zap.stream radio with a friend of mine this weekend; she just messaged me that it’s offline. You may know already but wanted to give you the heads up, if not. We’re tryna jam!! Lol 🫂


Thank you!

So about that profile picture privacy… think you could add the option to upload a pfp via image hosting link (kinda like Damus in the early days)? Because I’d rather not upload a full metadata iPhone pic if I can help it 😉🥸


Same dude. Great answer 🤝


Very satisfying 🤙


Hope so - feel better!


Yay!


Keep it up 🤙


Love that! Enjoy your Monday, Dawn!


Haha I was wondering who would say that 😆


Cheers to that, brother 🥂


(Zapped your profile instead of reply because the ⚡ didn’t show up on your note for some reason 🤷♂)


Cool so what exactly does this do? Is  this how you access the Nostrudel client? Or is there something else to the link?


That’s an amazing feeling! Way to go 🤙


I miss those New England spring snows!


Great answer 🤜💥🤛


You look like you 🫵 could use a ⚡

First ten, tell me something you’re happy about today.

I’ll hit ya when I get to the office 👇


Mornin’ 👋


Gm Maria ☺


Morning!


PV Siddh!


Gm bro 🫡


I would hope so. That would be a real pain in the ass 😂


Does Senator Warren pay her “fair share” to compensate America for the numerous negative externalities of her terms in office?


GM, Pura Vida & Happy Monday ☀

The start of another week. Let’s keep working toward the bright and free future we know is possible 🌇 https://image.nostr.build/88cb6e004f78bbb9df531cfb11aca782cd3851ad6db91c89849a4a2cadc8fe7b.jpg


Lol whaaat 😂 was the other guy on the episode named Mike!? Hahaha


G’night buddy


Night Paulo 🫂


Makes sense! This one (with the tuft on her head) spent a lot of time under water, and this was a large pond/reservoir


Good night, good people 🤙


Thought I replied to your note but it was here instead:

nostr:note1amgr545urzx7ddcfvs3pwzvtj09h9hwnpyav0jln3trkd6xas9gsuwmlyt


D’accord! I’ll keep an eye out for your message :)


🔥🔥🔥

And I actually did screen record and then forgot to upload, sorry. Here:

I simply “liked” a couple of the replies, replied to them too. When I checked the “likes” on my original note later, it showed that I had done this https://video.nostr.build/556b281acbb78be429468c6c4f47982c4aeeea616b70da4970625ab603417e34.mp4


Got a little nostr:npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq955 bug report.

I reacted (🤙) to some replies underneath my note, but did not 🤙 my note itself. However, when I tap to view the reactions to my original note, it’s apparently counting four of my 🤙’s from the replies.

TestFlight 1.9(1) cc nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s nostr:npub1zafcms4xya5ap9zr7xxr0jlrtrattwlesytn2s42030lzu0dwlzqpd26k5


Beautiful. GM Gigi


*thrive


I never stopped one tap zapping… and I never stopped using Damus 😁


A script to enable Zaps in Damus despite Apple‘s ban 🤯 nostr:note1qudv7z5nh4e0d9mxad0ptzrahqtj60spaym0krxaqy7vgcmv43ws43g7hh


Sent a request - send over your questions (and ideally a “step by step” of what you did to get started), and I’ll do my best to help ☺


Morning 🍌🫂


Good morning Kat 🫂


Gm Mark!


Love that idea 🔥

I haven’t looked at the GitHub to see if these three issues/requests have been addressed, although I’d assume I’m not the first to ask:

- ability to format and send long form notes

- draft folder for unsent notes

- ability to select multiple photos for upload from iOS (at once, rather than uploading one by one)

The last one is probably my primary pain point at the moment; the other two are nice-to-haves


Hey nostr:npub1zafcms4xya5ap9zr7xxr0jlrtrattwlesytn2s42030lzu0dwlzqpd26k5 would you all prefer feature requests submitted via GitHub issues, versus notes and mentions on Nostr?


Morning P 🫂


Good morning Jay!


Hey Maria 👋


And don’t send the actual keys haha, I’ll just try to help you find out how to get access 🤙


I wouldn’t put any of it in nostr DMs, those aren’t real private. If you want to DM me a SimpleX or Signal invite that’s cool though 🤗


Amazing!! that’s why I was confused - didn’t realize it had already existed for the card. Sweet.

Thank you so much brother 🫂⚡⚡


GM #coffeechain

Starting the day with a strong cappucino. Lots of work to do (and try to fit some chilling in, too) 💪

Here are some beautiful Egyptian hieroglyphs I saw recently 📜 https://image.nostr.build/ff09087c4187e2ff907088b578eaafa1c4453c0d014e88b38ba62bfa43c6c5d2.jpg


Well, it’s been a busy, fulfilling, and very enjoyable Saturday.

Goodnight all 🌌🌔🫂 https://image.nostr.build/fc80b9599c81776d4d12378d9856400c3b1e7f549a9ab629513bc4c48db4d7e9.jpg


Was I correct that it’s a female?


How much wood would a wood duck chuck if a.. wait… nvm


Thank you 🤜🤛 that’s the one!


It looked a lot like a mandarin duck to me - nostr:npub13h3hhzv20uqjsyrmj95mstdvsqae3th5a2vr7ctjal2rvpw34xvsdwa57n confirmed it’s a drake wood duck. Same genus!


Also would love to zap you!! Do you have a Lightning address you can hook up to your npub?


Ooh!! This is absolutely right (Google confirms) lol

Thank you! It was quite a surprise - the plume/flare/feathers on the back of his head were stunning


Or maybe from the ProofOfInk website it looks like the cover was done by @bitcoinliferaft - perhaps I was confused. In any case… lmk 🙏


Hey LoKo dude! My copy arrived a couple weeks back. Love it.

I’m especially fond of the cover and was wondering if Stackchain Mag (or nostr:npub1yjryjq2kdganuc69zme9agk0q4rjcnlxel3fwp3xm9z68phsxngsqd33a9 ) would be able/willing to provide the image (samurai/moon/tree/miners) without the text? I’d love to print & frame it and would be happy to pay sats for this.

Could you point me in the right direction?


I’d zap that.


💯💯 same here! I’ve been a daily user since I created this npub, and have grown to absolutely cherish the people here. Love you friend, glad you’re here 💜🫂🤙


😂 that’s half the battle


You might be right! I looked up photos and they’re pretty close. And there was also this fluffy one nearby which (apparently) is a female merganser so would make sense if they were a couple. Thanks friend!! https://image.nostr.build/2ef8209995b9c48509a3e246385392635eed6cfe965d3c63b7151d9f47a7bc42.jpg


Hi nostr 🤙

I saw a very strange duck today; does anybody know what this is?

#asknostr
#birdstr
#nature
#grownostr https://image.nostr.build/5c76cd0701b7457c6974fac8eb9ba7fda4bc05f94ebb821e7ce9c6809459e745.jpg


Truth & Freedom Starter Pack

Stack sats
Zap the devs
Say no to CBDCs
Remain humble

Current time: 840090


Always happy to help troubleshoot a wallet issue if possible!

Won’t be in Riga this time around. Maybe next year!


Great additions 🤝🫡


Has Luxor really only mined one block of the last hundred? Is that normal..?

https://mempool.space/mining/pool/luxor


Dope print! I’m also having some serious OpenDime envy right now 😂


Hotwire and Expedia both can have solid last-minute deals (or terrible, depending lol)

Hotwire for same-day hotel reservations are usually great, because they’re just trying to fill rooms that haven’t been booked.

Not as sure about flights 🤔


Damus + Phoenix typically


Good morning Kat ✌


GM Luke!


Morning!!


Morning Paulo!


Good morning Nostriches 🌇 happy Saturday, happy weekend, & happy 420 to those who celebrate 🥬


It’s all about choice IMO. All else held equal, I will choose the client that collects as little data as possible and respects its users’ privacy (and in return I’ll provide the devs as much feedback as I can).

I’m curious though, how much anonymity is gained by masking the IP when other device-fingerprinting functionality exists? (This is a bit beyond my technical understanding so if it simply “doesn’t work that way” then that’s cool too 😉)


Thank you!

1 - would you consider adding the option to upload a pfp from a hosting link (such as nostr.build) for better user privacy? Seems I can’t upload a screenshot of a photo from the computer so it’s quite a bit of metadata with any in-app photo upload otherwise

2 - awesome! How does that work?

3 - 🤔Wasn’t Mike the name of the orange pill app representative on tonight’s Why Are We Bullish episode? I was mostly listening to audio but thought that was his name lol


Man, and that whole time he could have been doing something valuable for society and stacking sats asa result 😵💫


Goodnight Derek 🫂 glad you’re here. PV & happy halving 🤙


You have probably found the crowd with the highest ratio of halving-celebration participants of any corner of the internet.

Happy Halving 🥂