wow. gobsmacking.


Lots coming up this week:

Wednesday 8pm - VictorianBTC (vBTC) members' roundtable - discuss latest news, club issues and share learnings: https://www.meetup.com/victorianbtc/events/304178598/

Thursday 6pm - BitDevs - Discuss the technical news and issues in bitcoin and lightning - https://www.meetup.com/melbourne-bitcoin-only/events/303531922/

Friday 6pm - Kman's bitcoin birthday bash at the Fox! https://www.meetup.com/melbourne-bitcoin-only/events/304242833/

Next week:

Wednesday 6th 8pm - The club hosts an Ask Me Anything (AMA) with Roland from Alby Hub, makers of the widely used Alby extension and now self-sovereign lightning node connector. Roland is the lead developer. He will open with a little demo and then be open for questions, both technical and non-technical - https://www.meetup.com/victorianbtc/events/304103070/


I finally got around to messing around with nostr:npub1getal6ykt05fsz5nqu4uld09nfj3y3qxmv8crys4aeut53unfvlqr80nfm Hub last night and all I have to say is wow! Alby is really onto something here.

Alby Hub bridges the gap between the headache and the risk calculation of managing channels and onboard sats on self hosted LN node hardware, and the freedom of having multiple lightning channels that just. work. Especially in the event that you are managing larger amounts of liquidity, have a catastrophic failure or theft of your hardware.

As long as you’re logging out your hub after each use, have a strong password, and back up your keys on steel, you can really start to use self managed lightning without losing sleep or having a backup server on hand.

While it is good to know how to run a lightning node and manage channels on your own hardware, the hosted solution is really something you can use to onboard friends and family with their own wallets, without having the whole thing at risk sitting on a single server.

Between the huge number of ways you can connect to your hub with other apps and websites, and the beautifully simple functionality of the Alby Go mobile app, this service is going to drive lightning and Bitcoin adoption forward in a big way.

I am interested to see how it holds up to some battle testing and the ever changing regulatory environment. But Alby Hub is well worth getting versed in. Good job Alby team. This is exciting!


🚨 Fellowship Opportunity at Harvard for Reinventing Social Media! 🚨

The Applied Social Media Lab (ASML) at the Berkman Klein Center is offering a fellowship that could be a great fit for folks in the Nostr community. This is an amazing opportunity for anyone looking to reinvent social media with public interest projects and gain support to make real change. Whether you're deep into Nostr or working on other decentralized social platforms, this fellowship offers a space to advance projects on civil discourse, platform transparency, online safety, and interoperability.

With flexible timelines (6 weeks or 4 months) and stipends, this could give you the structure, connections, and backing to really push forward innovative ideas. Imagine what it could mean to have someone from Nostr shaping the future of social media with Harvard's support!

If you're interested in rethinking social platforms with a focus on the public good, check it out! Let's get some Nostr energy into this and show what decentralized tech can do!

https://asml.cyber.harvard.edu/asml-fellowship-program/


IVPN is now on Nostr.

Following a conversation at Baltic Honeybadger with  nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424 regarding the pros and cons of 'company operated accounts on Nostr' + hearing talks on the future of free speech online, we are convinced that this is the right place (or rather, protocol) to be for us.

We've maintained a reserved, low-key presence on other social channels for many years. We as a team and as individuals prefer not to shout louder in a cacophony. While some companies thrive on oversharing for engagement and treating social communities as marketing funnels, such tactics don't align with our straightforward, no-bullshit approach.

For Nostr we are trying something different, without any compromise on these values. Expect more posts with direct opinions, in-depth analysis, privacy/VPN consultation and anything else that contributes to the community.

To anyone we've met at Bitcoin and other conferences over the years - hello! Nice to see you here. We are ready to continue the hundreds of conversations we had around trust, transparency, sovereignty, open-source ideals, LN merchant adoption, circular economy for Bitcoin and new radical ideas.

Reach out in public or private if you have any questions, ideas or suggestions. Let's do this!


For other web client devs out there. you can "deploy" your app to nsite using https://www.npmjs.com/package/nsite-cli

Its like s3 sync but instead of uploading a single server it uploads the files to all your blossom servers and creates kind:34128 events to map the filenames to blob hashes

Then a nsite "host" ( like nsite-ts https://github.com/hzrd149/nsite-ts ) can look for these events and host your files as a static website

This is still a work in progress so SSL and https are not working yet 😞

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Boxers are really preaching the word.


crispy@foutain.fm


Hello Nostr. We're giving you two ways you can stack extra sats on Fountain this week:

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100k Sats Giveaway
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Thanks for the free shirt, nostr:nprofile1qqsgp8t5rksvsl80nl8te36rwtrgt9nkyyt3ej7rmzcterv0fftarycppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp06d6vjg
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Nice meeting you, mate


Enjoyed meeting new like-minded folks at the WA Bush Bash in Busselton. Cute little town too. With a loooooooong pier.

Catch ya round

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Bush bash live on nostr:

https://cornychat.com/bidcapable317

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They already have a melbourne office too


Encourage. But i'm biased 😂

Like the pub in melbourne that i pay some  months for a beer, i feel good spending sats on a company that will most likely hodl.


GitHub comments seem to love Australia. Lots of consensus for Australia it seems.


LET'S DO THIS #NOSTR and #AUSTRICHES !!!

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Hey everyone! 👋 Here's a sneak peek of Sovran, the Cashu wallet I'm developing, powered by Nostr. Once it's ready, it will be available for both iOS and Android.

I've put a lot of thought into the UI/UX while developing Sovran. My goal is to create the most visually appealing and user-friendly wallet in the Bitcoin ecosystem.

A big shoutout to all the developers in the Cashu & Nostr communities—Sovran wouldn't be possible without your incredible work!

If this sounds interesting to you, I’d love for you to follow this account and consider reposting to help spread the word. 🙌

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The unfortunate story about how my talk was censored at Baltic HoneyBadger 2024.

# This Bitcoin Talk is Dangerous!: How My Talk Got Censored at BHB 2024

Due to some unfortunate circumstances, I was not able to attend the Baltic HoneyBadger 2024 conference where I was invited to give a talk and participate on a bitcoin mining panel. This, sadly, wasn't the worst part of it!  What was worse was that I was censored at BHB. Yes, really. Please keep in mind, that everything I am describing here is my personal opinion of the events as they unfolded and to the best of my knowledge.

The title of my talk was, "Jeff Booth is a Communist". Because, well, he is in the very best way possible. I explain this in my actual talk. Regardless of what you think about communism, banning a word does not make it go away. To the credit of the conference organizers, they did not censor my talk's title. Based on my conversations with them, it appears that The Human Rights Foundation's Compliance Team did.

Yes, ***compliance team***. You read correctly. Don't believe me? I have receipts. Please keep in mind, when I was invited to speak at the conference, I was not told that I was going to be on an HRF sponsored stage with speech restrictions prior to agreeing to speak there. Nor that the travel stipend was likely from an HRF grant. I would never have agreed to such terms if I had known.

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I have to say, I was furious that my title was censored. Censorship is the last thing I would expect at a bitcoin conference. I decided it was best for me to give my talk anyway. Sadly, a day later I learned that my passport had arrived but was missing in the package delivery facility. Long story here that isn't worth going into, needless to say, I worked very hard to get it back to no avail.

Now that I was stuck in the US and unable to travel, I tried getting a virtual talk to the conference organizers. I was told this was acceptable and that they would find room for it on the agenda and put it on a different stage that HRF was not sponsoring.  So, I worked very hard on Saturday to finish my talk and record it. I got a file to the conference A/V person. Sadly, despite being told they would place my talk on the agenda and play it as part of the conference, for whatever reason unknown to me, it was not and I received no explanation for this.

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Ben Arc, after learning of what was happening, said he would play it during his LNBits workshop. So thankfully, my talk still played in front of an audience of BHB conference attendees. If you're bothered that I've gone public rather than use background channels, please understand that based on what I was told, it is my belief that HRF's team made a unilateral decision and made no effort to contact me in private to discuss the content of my talk. Since the courtesy was not offered to me, I do not feel the need to offer this to HRF or BHB.

I am disappointed that the organization that I held in such high esteem and believed was aligned with my commitment to free speech, appears to not share my values. I can't emphasize enough the disappointment, pain, and sadness I feel over what has happened. I never expected this from an organization that promotes human rights. Free speech is a human right.

I want to thank my friends who supported me throughout this. Especially Ben Arc, who offered me time during his workshop to play my talk. Thank you for supporting me. I cannot say this enough.

The video and talk are posted as part of this article. I will also post them in a separate, standalone nostr article. Thank you for reading this. Please watch the recording of my talk and share it with others.

## Baltic HoneyBadger 2024: Jeff Booth is a Communist

Click the image to watch the talk on YouTube.
[![IMAGE ALT TEXT HERE](https://img.youtube.com/vi/9gGw464vVTY/0.jpg)](https://youtu.be/9gGw464vVTY)

TRANSCRIPT:

My original intent with this talk was to be a little provocative, but mostly to have a little bit of fun with some ideas I’ve been playing with this summer. Sadly, I’m no longer in a lighthearted mood as this has been a trying week. I was looking forward to speaking in person at Honey Badger, but the universe had different plans. Considering that the universe has chosen to set me on a slightly different path, I think it is most appropriate that my talk adapts to this new path.

In 2008, Bifo Berardi, an Italian philosopher of the autonomist movement, was part of a discussion at the Tate Modern art gallery in London that reflected on the relationship between art, labor, and politics. We know about this discussion because David Graeber, the late anarchist and anthropologist, wrote a review.

What Graeber noted was a complete lack of reflection on modern art beyond the 1960s or 1970s. There was an attempt to understand the challenges of the 21st century within the context of the 20th century. But what really stood out was Berardi’s depressing comments about the future. First, you have to understand something about Bifo if you’ve never seen him speak. He’s the most jovial, bouncy-energy, and uplifting, white haired Italian philosopher you could ever witness.

Bifo said–according to Graeber’s recollection, “The twentieth century was the “century of the future.”

But that’s over. In the current moment, which is no longer one of conjunction but of connection, there is no longer a future. Cyber-space is infinite, but cyber-time is most definitively not. The precarity of labor means life is pathologized; and where once Lenin could teeter back and forth from depressive breakdowns to decisive historical action, no such action is now possible, suicide is the only form of effective political action; art and life have fused and it’s a disaster; any new wave of radical subjectification is inconceivable now. If there was hope, it is only for some great catastrophe, after which possibly, maybe, everything might change.”

Depressing right? Bifo was arguing that the future is dead. The 20th century was the century of the future and the 21st century is the century of precarity with no future in sight.To quote Graeber’s review of the talk, “We have come to a point where it is impossible to even imagine projecting ourselves forwards in time in any meaningful way, where the only radical gesture left to us is therefore self-mutilation or suicide.”

(Graeber/Fisher slide)I can’t help but imagine that 2008 was a pivotal moment for thinkers like Graeber and another favorite of mine, Mark Fisher. Mark Fisher was a social critic and best known for his book, “Capitalist Realism”. Seeing the Great Financial Crisis play out as critics of the existing system, in light of the historical failures of the 1960s and 1970s to create revolution to avoid the future that we find ourselves in at that moment, and for some the greatest intellectual thinkers of the 20th century to simply say there was no hope, had to weigh heavy on them.

Which is why I think they rejected the idea that there was no way out. All around in their environment, they saw a future lost, even Fisher acknowledged that the future was cancelled through his analysis of how music and culture as a whole changes after the 1970s. Graeber condenses it into one word: Dreamworld. Meaning that we could only make sense of this lost future through a kind of fantasy, through sci-fi, or literally dreams. Yet, rather than give into the desire to be defeated, they tried to find a way out.

(All possibilities slide) Something that I really like about Graeber, which really isn’t his idea alone, Marcel Mauss made this observation as well. Which is that all possibilities occur simultaneously in our current world. I like this because it reveals the possibility of contradictions that can be exploited for the creation of new opportunities for revolution. It also suggests that the future is not dead, but already here, or at least, the path toward a future that takes us out of this state of precarity is already here.

(Chancellor slide) The reality is that Bitcoin arises from this reality that all possibilities occur simultaneously. All of us are survivors of the crisis that happened in 2008. We’re acutely aware of this event in part because Bitcoin was born during this time. The genesis block is a historical documentation of the most critical aspect. Chancellor on the brink of second bailout. The banks were bailed out, the cycle of capital destruction–or creative destruction–was stifled. Since the recession of the 1970s, cue the website, “WTF Happened in 1971?”, we’ve been stuck. Everyone knows this. Everyone feels this. It’s something like when you walk into a casino, and the stench of cigarette smokes permeates and clings to every fiber it touches. You can’t get it out no matter how much Fabreeze you use.

(Kliman/Marx/Schumpeter slide) If you were to ask Andrew Kliman, a Marxist economist, it’s because the government and Federal Reserve feared the fallout of the business cycle. Maybe you didn’t know this, but Karl Marx, the original Marxist economist, documented this cycle, which he called capital destruction. You might be more familiar with the term creative destruction, defined by the Austrian economist, Joseph Schumpeter. Either way, the natural order of capitalism has been subverted because capitalism is built on a contradiction, which is that it’s very innovative process leads to its own self-destruction. This is actually necessary, so that new capital can be created and capitalism can be reborn.

What happened then was that American government and central bank refused to let this happen. Of course, with the destruction of capital comes a certain amount of economic crisis that affects the value of stocks and employment. If your businesses are leveraged, it might lead to deflation. But if you keep delaying the natural process of capitalism, what you do is set a course for something that could be potentially much worse than a brief crisis that resolves mostly on its own, maybe with some help to keep workers afloat while new capital is created within newer, more efficient industries. A crisis so much worse, that it could destroy not just the economic system, but our ecological system, too. Leaving in its wake a dystopian, technofeudalistic slave world where you indeed own nothing and are happy insofar as you are told you are to believe you are happy while you wear industrial scale face masks because the world is so damaged that it isn’t safe to breathe the air without them.

(Solarpunk slide) This is where we are, headed toward a crisis far worse than capitalism could have ever designed. We’re on course for something much worse than the worst aspects of capitalism. But luckily, the future is already here. It already exists. What we have is the Internet. We have distributed networks. We have peer to peer. We have free and open source software. We have crowdfunding. We have the ability to build mesh networks in a way that we could not do 10 years ago. We have high-speed Internet access that can allow us to locally host most of our content and share it with anyone around the world. We have cryptography. Even though we’re entering a stage that is nothing like the capitalism that Marx or Schumpeter once described, nor the kind of capitalism that workers organized against, which the cultural revolutionaries of the 1960s and 1970s could not fathom, we still have evidence that we can get through the end of capitalism with the tools that capitalism has provided us.

Bitcoin is a distributed, peer-to-peer monetary system. It takes the cypherpunk beyond the virtual world of the Internet and into the real world. It breaks down the barriers because it is tied to the physical world, not just through its energy use, but through its purchase power. It allows us to transfer and influence the social layer because it is a network that anyone can participate in. Like the Internet and as a result of it, Bitcoin challenges system capture. While mega corporations have managed to capture aspects of the Internet through mega platforms like Facebook, Amazon, and others, we can still build our own platforms and protocols that belong to us and which no one can control. Obviously, Nostr is a prime example.

Bitcoin is in a struggle against system capture, this is especially true at the center of the financial system, Wall Street. So many have cheered the development of Bitcoin ETFs, and the arrival of institutional investors. But I caution against this cheering, because this is only system capture, not revolution. If Wall Street succeeds, Bitcoin will be objectified and commodified in the true sense of the word. It will be packaged and sold back to you in a form that will at the surface feel familiar but will ultimately be a hollow reflection of what it once was.

Yet, because Bitcoin is peer-to-peer, it can at least exist in simultaneous contradiction. Even if Wall St tries to capture Bitcoin, we can still use Bitcoin as it was originally intended. The question is, will the original intent of a peer-to-peer electronic cash system be that which scales with mass adoption, or will it be the reified package that Wall Street sells you? Remember, we can still use torrents to download movies, music, and books for free because it's peer-to-peer, but most people pay for a Netflix subscription these days.

If Bitcoin is the bridge from the virtual world of simultaneous possibilities that are possible thanks to the revolutionary power of the Internet–which challenges the very fundamental notions of capitalism which are property rights and scarcity–then perhaps we can escape the destructive path that the Federal Reserve put us on.

To do this, we have to focus our efforts on building tools that make it easy to use Bitcoin. If we can empower people to break out of the economic system, then we can empower them to make a new choice. We don’t have to be debt slaves. When we interact with Bitcoin, not just as a store of value but as a medium of exchange, then I think we start to realize the power that it gives us. It gives us a taste of true freedom that exists right now as a possibility alongside the possibility of totalitarianism. Bitcoin must be easier to use. We have scaling issues to deal with still. We need developers to work together, not against each other, toward the goal of bringing Bitcoin to the masses. Along with that, we have to pass along the values that we’ve learned from the Internet. A free and open society is the only way forward. Working in collaboration with each other, with the freedom to participate in certain projects or not, is a powerful lesson in community building. We have to harness the ability of crowdfunding as a way of building communities that transcend our local ones. Cypherpunks write code, but if you can’t write code, then build peer-to-peer communities that are both physical and virtual. We must take the next step forward before it is too late. We must bring the cypherpunk into the physical world.

(Booth slide) Anyway, this talk  was originally inspired by my favorite communist, Jeff Booth. It was originally titled, “Jeff Booth is a communist” but the Human Rights Foundation decided to act unilaterally–kind of like one of those state-communist parties that dictate from the top what kind of speech is acceptable–to censor my title. But let me tell you something, if you believe that we need to accept a new system is coming, and that abundance will result from technological deflation while we will make less money but also work less (if at all) for more, then you’re by definition a post-scarcity, post-work, anti-capitalist. Or, better said, you’re into fully automated luxury communism. This isn’t Maduro’s communism. This isn’t Mao’s communism. This is what happens only when capitalism finally out innovates itself to the point that it drives profits toward zero. When abundance is accepted, artificial scarcity–one of the necessary conditions for capitalism to exist–will be destroyed. When workers are no longer part of the production system, then the concept of value, whether from the point of view of the labor theory of value or of subjective value theory, will dramatically change into something that would be unrecognizable and probably incompatible with capitalism. With abundance, private property would also be challenged–another fundamental property of capitalism. Remember how stupid we all thought NFTs were because anyone could hit control+C and download an identical copy of their monkey jpg? That’s exactly what abundance does to artificial scarcity. It makes a mockery of it. It makes a mockery of capitalism.

Embrace your communist side. As Graeber pointed out, we’re already communists. The future is already here.

“We are at a crossroads. What worked before will not work in the future. Technology is moving too fast—and it will only move faster from here. Even if we wanted to, we can’t put the genie back into the bottle. We need to build a new framework for our local and global economies, and soon, or the same technology that has the power to bring abundance to us and our world will instead destroy it.”
  --Jeff Booth, *The Price of Tomorrow*


by jyn_urso

This Bitcoin Talk is Dangerous!

The unfortunate story about how jyn_urso's talk was censored at Baltic HoneyBadger 2024.

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Can't wait to go hiking and do bitcoin next weekend.

Still open if you want to attend.
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GM Nostr!
I hear and see many individuals who find their way to Bitcoin start to reconsider their Health status.
Many start to introduce "Weight Lifting" as their Resistance Training.
I believe Variable Resistance Training utilising X3 is a New Protocol.
Possible because of Innovation as Bitcoin is possible.
Working in Harmony with your Body's mechanics.
Lightest when you are weakest and Heaviest when you are Strongest.
Get Stronger by Changing the Shape of Your Body.
Increasing Muscle Mass and Reducing Fat Mass.
Leave Your Ego Behind.
It's not about How Much Weight you Lift.
How Strong are You compared to Yesterday?
#Austriches #VictorianBTC #Carnivore #X3 #VariableResistance
https://v.nostr.build/Q70V7.mp4


advice, tech. not sure if tech is that much of a barrier tho really. advice.


is this today?

#shitcoinconference

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What's to stop the worst people in the world accumulating the most remaining bitcoin?

been thinking about this lately.


wish i could share your optimism


100% I just listened to clips of the Trump speech it was hilarious this guy knows zero of what he is talking about and the fact that their is a crowd of so called "Bitcoiners" cheering mindlessly was even more cringe!

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looking forward to it!!

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Symposium: Are we on the edge of a social media paradigm shift? How would this look?  Individuals understand their own experiences with the existing platforms.  Nostr introduced and spoken about by Kieran and Chris creating curiosity for Panel and Audience.  Hoping this generates more questions during the next few days at ICOT.
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There's always something special that happens face to face IRL.
Interested in discovering the faces behind the thoughts?
Not sure?
Join Chris for an informal information session on the upcoming Victorian Bitcoin Winter Retreat at the Grampians in August.
Join the INFORMATION session Tuesday 16th...
https://www.meetup.com/en-AU/victorian-bitcoin-technology-club/events/301970782/
#Austriches #VictorianBTC #ProofofWork


#VictorianBTC


Victorian Bitcoin Technology Club will be at the International Conference on Thinking held at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre from Sunday 7th till Thursday 11th July.   Drop by and say hello.  A great  opportunity to grow connections near and far.


time for both! campfires are better in the cold


Yo, you comin' the the winter retreat?

https://vbtc.org.au/winter-retreat

#VictorianBTC

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Statism is the most dangerous religion.


Happy halvin' heffas!


Looking forward to celebrating halving on Saturday. Catching up with friends and making some new ones 😊


Was a pleasure, thanks for having me on. Sorry it took so longto tee up


Love this


Seems reasonable to me. I imagine lots would be willing to pay.


gm


Such an awesome day at #school - 90 kids in my class! We did a 12 word seed phrase hunt in #Minecraft #Melbourne built to scale - and the kids could choose between #steam VR games OR a donation to kids with cancer foundation.. and they chose to donate! 🧡 127,823 sats!

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The way demand is out pacing supply, #Bitcoin is on track to squeeze the participants out of the market.

by 2028, only 1 in every 850 people in the world will be able to hold 1 Bitcoin.

ETFs, Company adoption, countries like El Salvador will continue to buy.

This is a visual representation of what 1 in 850 people looks like.

If you onw 1 Bitcoin, you are not in the top 1 % of holders, you'll evetually be in the top 0.117% of holders.


Finally got around to speaking with this legend  nostr:npub14xl4vuxwtkd0lwy3zu5s5afxuvhneakevj5g9q5fyrkj4nfk87nq939vxl

Tune in on nostr:npub1v5ufyh4lkeslgxxcclg8f0hzazhaw7rsrhvfquxzm2fk64c72hps45n0v5  to accumulate free SATs by listening to our discussion https://fountain.fm/episode/ujWK3A8YVumfkl8bJvO8

During this conversation, we discussed,
- His Background
- Journey becoming a developer
- Importance of meet-ups
- What is VBTC
- Goals and vision for VBTC

Mentioned
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@2BitIdiots
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@JP_Technology
@btcdentistaus
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@streetcyber_art
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Listen to it on your favourite podcasting app - https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dabblingpath/episodes/147-Crispy---VBTC-e2hf57i


🪵 It's coming.

😎 You know what I'm talking about.

🎉 Celebrate in good company. In Mornington 🏖, Victoria.

vbtc.org.au/halving-event/

 #bitcoin    #BitcoinMining #BitcoinHalving #Melbourne


Can't bloody wait!


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Bitcoin Halving Party
Celebrate the end of bitcoin's current subsidy cycle and the launch of vBTC

Email for tickets
Celebrate Bitcoin Halving & Launch of Victorian Bitcoin Technology Club!
Date: Saturday, April 20th

Time: 5pm - 10pm

Where: Two Left Sisters, 98 Watt Rd, Mornington, Victoria

Join us for a fun-filled evening celebrating the Bitcoin halving and the launch of the Victorian Bitcoin Technology Club!

The Bitcoin halving is a significant event, where the rewards for mining new Bitcoins are cut in half. This party is a chance to come together with fellow Bitcoin enthusiasts, celebrate this milestone, and learn more about Bitcoin technology.

What to expect:

Food and drink: Catered food is included in the ticket and alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks are available for purchase with bitcoin or fiat.
Informative Speeches: Hear from founding club members about the future of Bitcoin and its impact on finance and technology.
Engaging Activities: Participate in fun and interactive activities related to Bitcoin.
Club Launch: Be part of the Victorian Bitcoin Technology Club launch and network with other like-minded individuals.
This is a great opportunity to:

Learn more about Bitcoin and the technology that makes it unique
Network with other Bitcoin enthusiasts in Victoria
Celebrate the Bitcoin halving
Have some fun!
Tickets
Price: 70,000 satoshis There is capacity for 60 people at the venue and we need to have a good idea of numbers for catering. To book tickets with either bitcoin or fiat cash (we're still working on the banks), please email us. Please email if you have any questions as well.

Stay Tuned!

We will be announcing more as we get closer.

Don't miss out on this exciting event!


We compared the #Australian exchanges on commission + spread to find the tightest margin for the most amount of SATS per fiat buck!

We also compared with popular #Australian exchanges like #coinspot & #swyftx who have HUGE volumes and should be the cheapest, but of course they data will surprise you.

There are 2 #bitcoinonly exchanges who are providing Australians the most competitive fees with top support.

https://proofofwork.com.au/which-australian-bitcoin-exchange-is-best/

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The bears. https://image.nostr.build/1fe3fe2dfd009496c3de51b06c48a6ca3c99ca032f69713f0631d8004bc6d998.jpg


another metadata test:

https://voltage.cloud/blog/voltage-announcements/voltage-bitcoin-development-platform-redesign-teams-and-enterprise-pricing/


testing metadata

https://vbtc.org.au/blog/store-of-value/jack-on-time-chain


Finally opened the treasure package. It made it to Oz. Thanks @streetcyber

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I wrote a short rant called "fuck easy" a couple of days ago. I've been listening to podcasts and after the 5th person complaining that nostr is too hard (is it, really?) I was fed up and typed this out on my phone. I hope that we can return to a point, culturally, where "hard" is okay, just like the first level of the original Super Mario was hard.

Coddling everyone's mind has led us to the upside-down clown world we're currently living in, and coddling everyone's body has led to less-than-optimal health, to put it mildly. In the Bitcoin world, coddling users and making things "easy" has led to Coinbase-by-default and other stupid bullshit, and I truly am fed up with all of that.

There is a better way, but the "better" isn't necessarily "easy."


Could nostr authentication potentially be compatible with OAuth?


Love to see it


Love it!


Yep can help


Are there any safe conventions for signing into a nostr client on a mobile browser yet?


Haha good question! It's in the link at bottom of pic but 10am


If you're planning to be in #Melbourne in December, come along to Bitcoin Family Day! 🧡

#austriches
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Indonesia Bitcoin Conference was awesome. I’d highly recommend you consider going next year

Bali is definitely far but definitely worth it

The conference was well produced in a terrific setting with excellent networking space, opportunities to meet local vendors, and fun side events to do with the speakers and guests

I met tons of Bitcoiners from Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, India, Australia, Philippines, and beyond

It’s high time that SE Asia have a Bitcoin conference of this quality

Stay a couple extra days and hike a volcano, snorkel or dive in the incredible coral reefs, chill on the beach, explore temples and waterfalls, and sample some of the outstanding global fusion cuisine

Can’t say enough about the quality of food, if you are willing to do some reach and poke around. Some of the best meals I have had

In short: I will be back! https://image.nostr.build/7f5e0c2306e0c5dc660681e28570d15eecce9b5e1ae341cb43a229b776ac0f4b.jpg


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Let's fucken go


I'm actively looking for full-time work in #bitcoin   .

Stack includes #nodejs #typescript #reactjs #postgres; front, back, some DevOps exp too. TZ UTC +11

DM if you think I can help 🧡


Yep already use. Check out Obsydian, fucken awesome


Pretty sure this was Albo's plan anyway


If you have a spare sat or two, send give nostr:npub1m3c7q4ap67uq8l0fccvn99ufhr5fzlmacx5qcmrg7zwd4vcf4rmq6jdjh0 a zap

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Works!