brazil has a terrible hard time developing itself for a reason. look at who is in charge of everything, including bitcoin


if you need to sabotage your colleagues in order to win that means your deliveries are shit


congrats baby angels, you deserve it


returning from sao paulo (4h drive) is always a heat shock

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never again closing this tab that femilonge opened on my laptop during satsconf

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nothing beats coming back home. bullish about developing bitcoin in my city

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribeir%C3%A3o_Preto
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the biggest way to kill a big dream is to introduce it to a small mind


finding my developer community well-trained to include women is the cutest non-measurable thing in the world


simulation checkpoint
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if only we knew what we were starting


halfin stage
https://m.primal.net/LyDs.mov


too special
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banks are the real L1s and borrowing against your bitcoin is the only way to live off of it without selling it
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epic
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🦄
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seeing brazilians exposed to great literature fills my heart with joy
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dei for dei is ugly and sad and woke


gm chief


talk about wokism: it is not just because they have pussies that they care about the women of the community. you're rewarding actors who have been despising scalar school from day one


gn to those being punished for bursting the bubble of female inclusion in bitcoin development


making bitcoin family-friendly in brazil is my greatest victory from this past year


i am rich


shitpost confidently and everything will fall into place


serious trip buying merch with my node
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learning from the cypherpunks
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True. I don't vote in Brazil because I am scared of what they can do against citizens with the voting machine data.


We're being noticed by the press!

https://br.beincrypto.com/mulheres-acesso-curso-gartuito-bitcoin-brasil/


Women know better than any of you how to be embargoed and find a way out. In terms of freedom builders, we're the experts, babe.


This is a beautiful gospel song to guide us. Have faith, everyone.

https://open.spotify.com/track/0O358QfVCqB6oN2HP7abkg


Yall go from "Bitcoin is inevitable, let's make it right this time!" to "We need the workforce of misogynists and pedophile devs else we won't be able to make it." from one day to the next, bro. Should we have hope or rope? What do you want from us? 😭


Living in the future is such a thrill!


Now that we have a major influx of soon-to-be thousands of devs into Bitcoin FOSS through the Brazilian pipeline, can we also focus on programs for the inclusion of women devs in this pipeline? Do you still have an insatiable appetite for red pills, or are we allowed to lose some haters?


Obviously opsec and pretending to be a woman learning Bitcoin development, children.


Imagine a wealthy person ACTUALLY lurking and being part of the broader Bitcoin developer community—not only listening to stories about it. This person would spend a month suing the leaders of the organized hate groups against women and Bitcoin would be fixed virtually overnight.  😳


He talks about his rockets like I talk about my projects to end misogyny and achieve gender parity in Bitcoin development.

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


Hi! it says the site cannot be reached. :/


DHH has a great post today, one section really caught my attention and is something I've been thinking a lot about recently.

"And that's what gets me. Everyone find it easy to nod in agreement with Jobs' ode to To The Crazy Ones¹. Everyone wants to believe that they'd support "the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers". That they too would cheer for those who are "not fond of rules. And... have no respect for the status quo".

But they won't and they don't. Most people are either aggressively or passively conformist². They squirm when The Crazy Ones actually attempt to change the world. They don't see genius as often as they see transgressors. A failure to comply and comport. And they don't like it."

So GM Nostr. 🌞 Be crazy and non-conformist today.

1. https://basicappleguy.com/basicappleblog/heres-to-the-crazy-ones
2. https://paulgraham.com/conformism.html


Imagine a world without PGP. Clearnet plaintext exchanges.


Ridley's Evolution


They'll fiercely fight against the freedom fighters, too.


Thanks for offering that. There are actual organized hate groups against women in Bitcoin, bringing awareness to the underlying issues explaining the statistics is a great start: biohazel.github.io


I am trying to form an alliance with the Human Rights Foundation for a FreeFOSS Gender Equality program—it would be great to have as many well-wishers involved if the project goes from paper to practice.


Almost done.

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


It would be a sad conclusion if the Bitcoin FOSS development world turns out to be much more broken and toxic than traditional fiat corporate structures. I hope the FreeFOSS Gender Equality initiative becomes a reality so that we can bring the war on women in Bitcoin development to a complete halt.


Are there any laws specifically against technical tyranny?


He's not wrong tho, but yes this is wrong and terrifying. The far-right is a meme imported from 4chan. Now it is what it is.


“Though we do not wholly believe it yet, the interior life is a real life, and the intangible dreams of people have a tangible effect on the world”

As I reflect on spending three days with some of the world’s most innovative, persistent, and creative Bitcoiners, this quote from James Baldwin really resonates

Through a mix of code and action people are quite literally (to borrow a term from nostr:npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe) **bending** the world in a new direction

There is a lot of darkness, but let’s not loose track of the light. It’s there, and it’s real

Onwards! 🫡


As I live and breath. I have the police reports and all the evidence to back it up.


There is information here: biohazel.github.io . I suggest you read the substack article linked inside of the text, which is a thorough explanation of the social phenomena.


I see this hide-and-seek game accomplishing very little and failing to serve everyone while assuming that we are shady criminals just for writing code, which weakens our chances of actually winning through logic. It is a vain, lost battle that puts everyone in a fight-or-flight situation while pushing potentially great professionals away.

The lawless atmosphere normalizes the exploitation of women under the guise of protecting the grand house of cards. Real criminals receive the protection they need, while the majority of innocents are criminalized along the way. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the recipe for the failure of what could be a complete rebuild for humanity.

Are we going to jail because of Bitcoin? Then let’s all go to jail—men, women, children. They can't get away with it for long. But if we continue to play by their rules, as we have been, we are assuming their superiority and weakening the Bitcoin narrative by 100%.

Stop hiding, bring the women in, and be decent. It can be done. No more funny business. We are not doing anything wrong.


By behaving as they want us to, we are accepting defeat and making them even stronger.


When I'm done saving Satoshi can I move to America?


Nasa Space Apps hackathon starts tomorrow, and I just want to say once more: GOD BLESS AMERICA. Not once has an American tried to enslave or take advantage of me. You rock. I love you. 🇺🇸 💙


Stop shaming people's curiosity about Satoshi's identity. What should cause outrage is the need to hide to safely publish code. Stop normalizing the training of developers to hate women, hide to code, and behave like criminals for working in Bitcoin. Be like Zimmerman—win in court and move on with your chin up!


Places where it is dangerous advocating for feminism and women's rights: Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Sudan, Pakistan, the Bitcoin Developer Community.


House of plants. Rock bands.

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Funny how very little is actually calculated in calculus. Studying maths is the final nail in the coffin to make you understand that absolutely everything is made up.


My job is of an immense scope. I have to build a loving caring environment in one side, and disrupt a shitty stale hateful structure in the other so we have a minimal chance to extend a loving caring ecosystem forward. The broken side doesn't speak nonviolent communication.


And no, I won't join the movement, agree with your anti-feminist ideologies, tell everyone we don't have a misogyny problem, and suppress all other women just because you've offered me trips to Bitcoin conferences in Europe and the USA—and threatened to cut contact with me and block my access to opportunities in Bitcoin development otherwise. No, thanks, and goodbye. I'm glad you blocked me.


This is absolutely disheartening, and I have every right to feel upset at you for delusionally licking each other's butts while the world right next to you—a world YOU have the power and influence to change overnight—just burns.

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


When you realize that showing the evidence has no effect, and marches are the very last resort within your power to change the world.
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I'm a nice person—don't shoot the messenger. Pretend I'm a bot that came from the future to save you.


My experience with Nostr is similar to my experience with Bitcoin in Brazil: an inner circle using the excuse of bootstrapping and scaling a technology essential for humanity, while in reality, they just run in circles kissing each other’s butts.


I just found out that Elias Antonio Lopes, a slave trader, was one of the wealthiest people in Brazil, even wealthier than the imperial family. He donated the Quinta da Boa Vista estate to the Portuguese royal family when they fled the Napoleonic Wars to Brazil. When money speaks, no one checks the grammar—especially when it comes to trading human labor.


And if what I said offended you that means it suits you. Never too late to work toward undoing the damage, and I am happy to help. I am a specialist in the Brazilian population.


Context: biohazel.github.io


They need good developers for THEIR Bitcoin and these dudes don't care if the devs they're hiring are literally raping Brazilian women who try to approach their technical environments. This has never been about bringing more Bitcoin adoption and social development to Brazil.


Haha I've been watching the mempool for the last 4 years and I am just like wut.


Can someone explain what type of sorcery this is? 222222222

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My new survival strategy is to be myself really hard and let cancel culture flow freely so I can make sure of who's actually there for me.


I've said something similar to nostr:npub1trr5r2nrpsk6xkjk5a7p6pfcryyt6yzsflwjmz6r7uj7lfkjxxtq78hdpu  during his AMA. Check this out: https://stacker.news/items/683717?commentId=684076 —TLDR women have passed the blind bullishness and we are just aware that Bitcoin is inevitable and some serious enslavement of our kind is coming if we don't watch out and grab ours.


I miss my Silicon Valley nanny days. 🤍


Overcoming misogyny in Bitcoin development and seeing my technical Bitcoin school come to fruition, bringing more women developers into the space of freedom technologies, is something I am deeply excited about. I know you don’t experience misogyny in Bitcoin, but here among the plebs, the dangers women face are factual, and overcoming them fills me with pride and excitement! This is the project: scalarschool.org


People complaining about Nostr clients have social media privilege. As a Brazilian, I am just glad it exists.


Also a lot more responsibility and drive to build. I work 24/7, leave my family in second plan, and still feel it is not enough to save Satoshi.


this rings true, once you've been in the "desert of the real" that's FOSS bitcoin development for a while, where you're helping build something that's neutral and widely useful, it's hard to go back to this kind of sheltered job where you're just supposed to work to the advantage of one company, the stakes seem so insignificant in comparison


Amen, sister.


gm women developers
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No one is talking about Google Takeout enough.

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Pacifica—CA. That place has an aura all its own.

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


Nostr just works.


"We can't entrust our primary communications network to a handful of corruptible humans. And now we don't have to."

I had the pleasure to work with Reason on this Nostr explainer video this summer

Happy to see it in the wild!

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


Which consumerism? Millenials are broke. They can barely afford a cat.


gm

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


The ups and downs of Bitcoin make me feel much more connected to the global economy than the fictitious fiat value in my bank account.


Embrace the sketchiness.


It was a blockchain course, and they skimmed through Bitcoin, but the photo of a clandestine mining farm in the former Soviet Union spoke to me: these people are not playing casually here. There is something special about this technology.


Brazil's Minister of Human Rights is out, accused of sexual harassment. While the accused claims innocence, this scandal highlights the pervasive culture of misogyny and rape culture in Brazilian politics and decision-making.


I've walked through the valleys of the wilderness in time. Only to find out. That you have love in places I can't describe. I need you
It's the sunrise! ☀


Por que mais desenvolvedoras brasileiras devem construir no Bitcoin?

A presença de mulheres no desenvolvimento de tecnologias como o Bitcoin é essencial para criar uma rede mais resiliente e inclusiva. Equipes diversas são mais inovadoras e eficazes. O Bitcoin precisa dessas perspectivas para crescer de forma justa e representativa.

A Scalar School oferece mentorias, workshops práticos, cursos, e uma comunidade de suporte para promover o protagonismo feminino no setor. Convidamos você a se juntar ao nosso grupo exclusivo de WhatsApp para mulheres desenvolvedoras.

Patrocinadas pela  nostr:npub17xvf49kht23cddxgw92rvfktkd3vqvjgkgsdexh9847wl0927tqsrhc9as, estamos fortalecendo a presença de mulheres no desenvolvimento Bitcoin. Venha descobrir como o Bitcoin está transformando o mundo e participe desta revolução!

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Why should more Brazilian women developers build on Bitcoin?

Women's involvement in developing technologies like Bitcoin is crucial for building a more resilient and inclusive network. Diverse teams are more innovative and effective. Bitcoin needs these perspectives to grow fairly and representatively.

Scalar School offers mentorship, practical workshops, courses, and a supportive community focused on empowering female leadership in the sector. Join our exclusive WhatsApp group for women developers.

Sponsored by the  nostr:npub17xvf49kht23cddxgw92rvfktkd3vqvjgkgsdexh9847wl0927tqsrhc9as, we are strengthening the presence of women developers in Bitcoin. Come discover how Bitcoin is transforming the world, and join this revolution!

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My X account: deactivated. Alexandre prohibits its use: now I'm back with a vpn in full force.


I want to know who has my private keys and what are you doing with it.


This is badass. Thanks for sharing. I hope to create a lifelong impact for society and for women in Bitcoin FOSS development with the work of scalarschool.org


I am very interested in how we can use ML as a service so that users can tweak their own Nostr clients with full granularity—not the deceptive black box of illusory control we have today with filtered words and ‘hide these’ options. If I were wealthy, I would invest in Nostr apps focused on algorithmic sovereignty.


Twitter is pivotal for scientists. When I was in grad school, it was part of the official research pipeline. I think it is dangerous for a Bitcoin professional to simply not have access to it. I am using a vpn to at least stay connected, although my account is noticeably shadowbanned. What I want from a social network is clear, explicit control over my hyperparameters, down to the core. What I want from Nostr is a client that will create a research and development timeline focused only on optech-style conversations, where I can absolutely filter misogyny/bigotry/trolling against women and keep the high-signal technical topics. I also hope to have at least the minimal power to design my own algorithms transparently, without shady mechanisms of algorithmic manipulation on the client side that promise functionality but don’t deliver.


Haha.


Fixing the problems of the world with my projects.

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


Quite solid! Good job.


Let's talk about abouts: https://scalarschool.medium.com/the-onion-model-for-bitcoin-open-source-development-7d7dc07ce479 And I would love to have the point of view of who is hiring, who is looking for jobs, who is indexing the grant opportunities, etc. I obviously don't have all the answers, and I tried to be neutral and resist the test of time even if it is less effective and less to the point. But if I see. Someone. In a Q&A to an SME in Bitcoin development. Asking. Why is Bitcoin not sticky enough. I'll act out.


And this,  nostr:npub1trr5r2nrpsk6xkjk5a7p6pfcryyt6yzsflwjmz6r7uj7lfkjxxtq78hdpu, is a point of failure for freedom—the Brazilian Bitcoin technocrats. Be careful not to heroize them too much. Never underestimate Brazil's power to lead any social technology, whether it’s linguistic-meatspace technology or a fully-fledged, apparent virtual way out. We need more American transparency, meritocracy (accountability), and honesty in business. Only Americans understand the hard game of seeking freedom despite the enslaving factors. Brazilians may seem silly, but locally, they often fetishize enslaving one another. That is why I could not maintain any safe or profitable relationship with Brazilians when I was American—even less so as a former American, fully Americanized but having to thrive in Brazil! They would shoot me and hide the body if they had a reliable chance. Women are still even closer to biological extinction. You'll have a great time. You'll be idolized. You'll think you've found paradise. And that is great, and that is what we want. Just be vigilant of the bits and bytes. I honestly don't know how I will make it big as they are all (marketing experts) clustered together. The best I can do is be resistant, provide the material I produce free of patents and copyrights, work tightly with academic institutions as a researcher, and dream of just looking around countries that genuinely care about women when I am sorted with the level of attention I'll have to provide to my parents. I wish my business environment would improve in the next 3, 4, 5,  6 years. With the amount of foreign investment injected in certain directions, it just won't. My job is to not let it spoil too much.


Also, I would love to be guided toward very didactic documentation on which type of control a keyholder (client) has. Everything feels sketchy, shady, and weird, like those Bitcoinheiros communities in Brazil that make fun of women and don't let us ever know the truth.


Client manipulation on Nostr is infantile. It pushes us to follow the same (great) voices repeatedly, but that is a major point of failure and a loss of privacy and peace for the posters. Privacy also includes the right not to be importuned. Or do these people gain greatly from it financially? I don't think so at all. I thoroughly believe in the best intentions of everyone here.


She was mean to you. Rest assured we don't care about these things in Brazil. And I also ran over a guy "in the wrong side" (both biking) at night on the road in the snow  in Binghamton when I was in grad school, I didn't judge him at all. We were both glad to not have hurt ourselves too much.


Speech censorship is terrible, and it will worsen over time. But what is happening in Brazil is nuanced. We have a thousand other ways to connect with the outside world, and one of them does not pass through the algorithmic king who manipulates humanity's willpower and attention at his whim—nurturing hate groups and driving humanity to a complete divide. Let that sink in.


Link corrected. https://www.spoutdoor.com.br/tipos-midia-externa


Here: https://www.spoutdoor.com.br/tipos-midia-externa. I can manage some in Ribeirão Preto, along Anhanguera toward São Paulo, and in high-traffic areas within the city. I am gathering some estimates.


Thanks,  nostr:npub13v9zh6hka0heyh5w0ru0ptdyrauf3wx6w25fwxufnz9l0ptax60sg63rka!


It’s like they were sending you a message that you're on the right path. When something like that happens to me in nature, it feels like life is giving me checkpoints.


One of us!


I am so happy to start seeing the positive impact of my work in my local community. Brazil must become a global model for the inclusion of women in Bitcoin, women developers in Bitcoin FOSS development, and women beginner developers in the broader Bitcoin technical communities where learning occurs. I will accept nothing less.


It’s ironic to experience the cruelest forms of oppression while pursuing Bitcoin development and education. Sometimes I wonder if it’s just an extinction burst—a desperate surge of resistance from a system on the brink of collapse—or if there’s a deeper message. Either way, it only strengthens my resolve to keep building, so future generations of women don’t have to endure what I do, and Bitcoin can fulfill its whole potential.


The X platform has always been a hub for academics and scientists to keep each other informed—ever since I was in college and grad school, and later with Bitcoin. Entire careers are at stake for too many of us. Worse yet, I doubt that this measure will help extinguish the gangs and organized hate groups we have in Brazil. It might even make them stronger.


Free women don't ask permission. Free men are supportive of that.


We need to move beyond the clubhouse—the exclusion of women in Bitcoin and freedom tech ecosystem development—and start implementing powered-by-Bitcoin transformative initiatives for young children and women. Bitcoin development needs to be sorted out already. Society needs fixing, and we don't have time to babysit these infantile, dangerous ideas that could render the entire system unusable.


Just like in early childhood development, the technical and social mistakes we make now will carry on forever.


Twisting open-source software, Creative Commons works, public domain resources, or other forms of free knowledge into proprietary products or patents—especially when these could help advance human freedom more rapidly—only to enforce restrictive licenses and live off lawsuits, undermines the integrity of open collaboration.

Such practices exploit the freedom meant for everyone to profit off a few, betraying the principles that open-source is built upon. I firmly stand against this. #FreeFOSS


Toddlers and nature. Life can't get better than this. May the next generations of Bitcoin FOSS developers truly care about the wellbeing, autonomy, and freedom of women and children in the new society we are trying to build.


And if we have social media tools at hand, it is our duty and obligation to yap society into freedom by persistently speaking the truth.


The Brazilian red pills have taken over Nostr and are gaining support from the global Bitcoin developer community. It seems as though there's a shared agreement on a disturbing plan to enslave women to satisfy their orange-pilled fantasies. Their confidence in their bigotry at home is alarming. Bitcoin's potential as a funding tool for just about any endeavor is endless, which makes this situation all the more concerning.


Ruby being ruby.


It is time for humanity to accept that, censorship-resistant or not, social media sucks.


Brazil was on its way to opening markets. But if the pro-freedom far-right crowd had at least behaved decently (no genocide, no misogyny, etc.), maybe we wouldn’t have lost the elections to a complete shutdown. The same goes for Bitcoin adoption and development. We could be much more advanced if the gatekeepers and earlier comers had even a minimal sense of humanity. Also, please do not assume you understand Brazilian politics if you are not Brazilian.


As the number of women holding private keys grows, so does the level of freedom for the entire humankind.


If they notice you're a woman, they won't zap you as hard or they won't zap you at all. End female slavery.


Humanity will only unlock its next level of prosperity when it stops enslaving the other half (women).

If Bitcoin is to fulfill its promises, it is time to address the black market of misogynist products and propaganda that is currently powering the modern wave of Bitcoin's spread and development, both directly and indirectly.

This prophecy is brought to you by a visionary biologist. Not once have my predictions been wrong. Enjoy your newfound vision.


Life is simple.


Check if there is a typo in twitter.com.


Precisely. It is their right to not want the presence of women in their Bitcoin technical environments and communities, even if it sometimes brings consequences to meatspace, violating the principles of non-aggression and respect for women's private property. There are places where people with my profile can find peace—just not in certain communities that are, unfortunately, very important for Bitcoin development, which by design deprives us of free access to information. I just wanted to stay longer and become a frequent user of the platform, but it won't be possible. The toll of discrimination hinders my intellectual output, which is the most valuable asset I have to give back to Bitcoin. Thank you for exercising your free speech. I respect and appreciate it. It was nice to lurk and learn while it lasted. I like that this is permaware. For good or bad, the truth is permanent. If I ever need to return and leave an important message, I can, and that matters most. Kind regards from Brazil. Enjoy your freedom.


It is nice that you are having a positive experience and clearly feel safe. The Brazilian organized hate group against women and against feminism in Bitcoin development started to chase and harass women here as well. Freedom was great while it lasted.


Now that I entered your key that I saw. You are a member of the organized hate group against women and against feminism in Bitcoin. I knew you were coming to ruin Nostr as well. Freedom was nice while it lasted.


Now that I entered your key that I saw. You are a member of the Brazilian organized hate group against women and against feminism in Bitcoin. I knew you were coming to ruin Nostr as well. Freedom was nice while it lasted.


The state of Brazil.


Learn more at https://biohazel.github.io/


this rings true, once you've been in the "desert of the real" that's FOSS bitcoin development for a while, where you're helping build something that's neutral and widely useful, it's hard to go back to this kind of sheltered job where you're just supposed to work to the advantage of one company, the stakes seem so insignificant in comparison


Messengers almost always get shot


We'll no longer be able to listen to the  nostr:npub1hkuk45c6c6h3y0rks0z4wa0wyyud5ru0qy0rn9x4dgnjwrnfy46s5a432p—Bitcoin Optech Newsletter Recap live as it happens. This is the most significant loss for Brazilians.


Brazil has a lot of internal work to do. What we are going through now is a consequence of decisions and cultural buildup over the last 10 years. Bitcoin and freedom tech should have a much larger reach at this point, but the early communities of builders screwed everything up with their first-mover, inner-circle, and male supremacy fetishes. We need to flash mob to bring women into open-source development. This is a cyberwar. Their dreams of gaining from early-acquired Bitcoin are futile compared to the size of the challenge we have ahead of us. Women-led projects in Bitcoin development, like Scalar School — nostr:npub1v799vkkxjasjtjcrr4wh2ral5vcklqhg0tyyvc6gvfe5qfrd57mqutqrup — are more important than ever. We need more of these efforts and greater moral support from the broader community to help us address our social problems in this field.


Oi Jack nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m! Tudo bem? We have red pills and dictators, and women are not welcome in the trenches of Bitcoin FOSS development locally. Wanna trade? You stay here fixing this mess and I'll go build our freedom on behalf of us. https://biohazel.github.io


Boa noite, conterrâneo. Fez bem de ter saído daqui. Vão querer aterrorizar nosso uso do protocolo quando descobrirem.


Voice User Interface. Not a silver bullet for accessibility, but having this option can greatly improve the user experience. Even rule-based chatbots are worth testing out.


Filtering. I would prefer to focus exclusively on technical and development content. No politics, no cynic jokes, no mayhem, no grandstanding. I don't want to question for a moment whether I'm on X or Nostr. Sadly, so far, the content on both feels the same.


I promise you don't.


Social media censorship in Brazil is growing to unbelievable levels. We are no longer the last paradise on Earth. Freedom technologies are more important than ever.

Cheap dopamine. Sickening jokes. Organized hate groups. Inner-circle fetishes. Cynic memes. Be it on Nostr or outside of it, humanity is learning a hard lesson. Those who use the bureaucratic tools of the great system to make a statement and harm others will learn the lesson twice. I don't make the rules.


I’ve encountered firmware/driver integration issues with various distros, except for Ubuntu. Given my focus on efficiency and minimizing downtime, Ubuntu remains my go-to choice, at least on my X1 ThinkPad. Time spent on troubleshooting is time lost from more critical development tasks. When you’ve mastered your craft, any distro should suffice, but you choose the tools that let you stay at the top of your game. Trying to look smart might cost you money.


2024 is the most challenging year of my professional life. I am a passionate advocate and promoter of the Bitcoin FOSS development world. However, we are witnessing a bad-faith co-option of the open-source ethos. For those who are investing, there is a belief that we have to listen to the community, or to the voices of the majority, no matter what.

In the trenches of the Global South and in some international spaces for beginners, however, such communities, often led by men with an agenda to exclude women in various ways, are exploiting this mindset to synchronize ostracism motions against perfectly capable individuals, especially if they are women. The idea is to keep their groups tight and unscalable, guaranteeing a first-mover advantage for as long as possible.

In Brazil, we have a large, organized hate group that has, over the years, recruited developers interested in Bitcoin technology. They've reached a level of organization that is beyond what the average bystander or a foreign individual or institution might suspect.

Their impact is not mild. Although they are able to deliver in technical circles, they do so at the expense of exploiting an entire local population. Most beginners who try to approach them perceive Bitcoin as a hostile field, which is why we are taking so long to gain the traction we should be gaining in Brazil.

On the other hand, they are lovely and perfect when they have a higher interest, such as in the elite development circles. The exploitation is of those below them and is beyond suspect. As a result, the community is growing in a single direction, benefiting the protection and rise of people who align with the group's ideologies and supremacist agendas.

It is easy to verify for yourselves. There is only one group monopolizing Bitcoin development in Brazil. If you search, you'll find them. They have a few women who agree with their agenda and work along with them, bringing out the illusion of inclusion to the rest of the world.

I've been working tirelessly to document and prove what is happening, making a case that it is bad for Bitcoin and could ultimately lead to its ruin. I am risking my life and legal health, grabbing the bull by the horns, all on behalf of women and people who actually need Bitcoin throughout the world.

When I enter FOSS servers, I can identify: bad actor, bad actor, bad actor. All from my real-life experiences participating in their communities. They have a loathsome agenda against women and anyone who doesn't join their bullying practices—their echo chambers of anti-woke and anti-feminist rhetoric. It is a very toxic culture. Given their level of organization, they operate in their best behavior in public servers. But I am aware of the covert power they wield to undermine communities in the long run.

As the first and only person with the courage to fight against this, I feel helpless and forsaken. I believe that the sponsors of Bitcoin FOSS development need code. They need Bitcoin developed, period. They need headcounts of users no matter the underlying strategies. They don't seem to have the bandwidth to fully support me and join me in this fight because that would mean finding themselves in a difficult position with some of the best developers we have.

This is a sad and cognitively dissonant fate for Bitcoin at the moment. Sometimes I lie in the depths of despair, thinking that I won't be able to fix it in time. Sometimes I find myself subpoenaed to testify in court over Bitcoin's social and technical failures. Yet my urge to save Satoshi is larger than myself, and that inspires me to keep doing the hardest jobs.


The data is still vulnerable to a "rubber hose attack" where the owner is coerced into revealing the hidden keys. Protection against rubber hose attacks might require some form of Shamir secret sharing which splits the keys between diverse phgsical sites.

 — Nick Szabo, unedited.

Rubber hose attack is the original name for the wrench attack I was taught on the internet.

Source: Nick Szabo's Smart Contracts: Building Blocks for Digital Markets

https://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/rob/Courses/InformationInSpeech/CDROM/Literature/LOTwinterschool2006/szabo.best.vwh.net/smart_contracts_2.html


I wonder if, after serving in the trenches of the Bitcoin development industry—where there is a war against women, adversarial thinking is a must, and you have to fight hard to get anything of substance done—we become unsuitable for traditional corporate jobs, where you have to be quiet and obey authority, and even arguments to clients are vetted by your PMs.

Bitcoin development is the Hotel California of professional fields. You can check in anytime you like, but you can never leave. Once you’re in, the commitment to its principles and the fight for change is something you carry with you indefinitely. It’s not just a job but a cause you can’t easily walk away from.

The relentless drive to question, challenge, and push for something better is what sets this field apart—and what makes it essential to keep advocating for inclusion, equity, and human rights within it.

This rabbit hole has no exit. And if you are an oppressed minority, it is like a war we have no option but to show up for. I wonder if there are other organizations genuinely concerned about what is being done to women in the dev communities that onboard beginners.


This week's Financial Freedom Report #37 features the following in global news:

- Venezuela | Approves Repressive NGO Law
- Russia | Sentences Woman to 12 Years in Prison for Donating to Ukraine Charity
- Bangladesh | Political Turmoil Threatens Citizens' Financial Freedom

In Bitcoin news:
- Boardwalk | Introduces Lightning eCash Tips
- BlueWallet | Implements BIP-47 Payment Codes
- Bankify | Turns Any Cashu Mint into a Lighting Wallet

Plus, a recommended piece on how Bitcoin is quietly disrupting today's outdated and entrenched power structures.

Read more here:

https://hrf.org/hrfs-weekly-financial-freedom-report-37


We have to preserve the privacy of financial transactions—wait who's minting runes?


Happy you're coming to Brazil!


The third place, a term for social environments outside of home and work, is very important. I’m happy to have returned to a traditional college with in-person classes. Real-life interaction matters.


I want to share a situation and gauge the community’s thoughts on it.

In Brazil, there is an organized hate group within Bitcoin development circles—the developers who are into Bitcoin and cluster together in technical communities—targeting women. These group members are influenced by popular figures who propagate anti-women’s rights and anti-feminist ideologies.

I’ve launched a Bitdevs in my city, the first in the country initiated by a woman. To make this happen, I had to compromise with developers who are members and promoters of this group to bootstrap the event.

When they discovered I had received a grant from the Human Rights Foundation to create a healthier environment for women developers, they couldn’t restrain themselves and began sabotaging my efforts intensely. We established a code of conduct to protect women, but it was completely disregarded. Their hateful agenda is not mild, and I have gathered a long collection of evidence in case we end up in court someday to seek justice.

Now, I am considering closing the Bitdevs to make it women-only. How do you feel about this? It’s either that or risking the event being overrun with gender-based hate and trolling.

I’m thinking of giving it one more try, keeping it open to all, but if the 4chan crowd strikes again with another hate prank, I may have to close it to women-only. Otherwise, we’ll end up with no Bitdevs that is healthy and respectful of our presence. We want to code and learn Bitcoin development, not deal with the constant disrespect because of our gender.

Imagine the uproar from the anti-woke crowd when they find out there’s a Bitdevs exclusive for women. Many people in Bitcoin communities seem to struggle to find legitimate reasons to feel outraged, and I suspect they might come after me with full force—fulfilling the very agenda we are trying to combat.

My sister Lorraine would likely advise me to close the event to women already, not to give it another try. But I keep holding onto the hope that the world around me will change, especially because I envision a Bitcoin development space that is fair and free from artificial barriers and covert wars disguised as cooperation.

Is anyone else facing similar issues in other parts of the world?


Thanks!


When I began exploring Bitcoin development, I was caught up for too long in the full-node scene. Here is my experience installing Bitcoin Core from the source repository.

https://youtu.be/2D-PjasEbeE?feature=shared


I've switched vibes here, too. The landscape is fully qualified, now let's get to work.


*this


It is a mess. Everyone will flock to Nostr after his mayhem. I've learned to appreciate and feel very grateful for this technology and its developers.


Although doing the work for free is part of the open-source ethos, there is no such thing as unpaid work.

Even when I volunteered 24/7 in Bitcoin FOSS to finish a vital book translation, I had to earn and save the money I was spending in my previous job.

The expectation of volunteer work implies that you can't be a pleb if you want to contribute meaningfully, as even small contributions require time, dedication, and countless hours of study. This, I believe, might exclude very young students and underrepresented groups right from the start.

My motivation for volunteering in Bitcoin open source was that I was the only person in the room with a command of Brazilian Portuguese, a deep curiosity about the topic, and an intuitive understanding of its significance for human rights. The weight of social responsibility was too heavy to ignore.

I wouldn't have been able to sleep at night, knowing that the book might still be untranslated if it weren't for me taking on and completing the task in 21 days with minimal breaks.

I think, and this is just speculation, we need to be careful not to purity-test the lurkers too harshly and risk losing them—and here I am considering the open developer communities that don't practice discrimination, of course. There should be a clearer path to how they can start earning Bitcoin in open source and understand how much they can earn. People should minimally aspire to a career in FOSS and view it as a viable, meritocratic option worth pursuing.

From my experiences, if anything is hindering Bitcoin development—aside from the small-minded bigotry among the plebs before they even join the projects—it’s *the mystery*.  Many Bitcoin experts profit from this mystery, especially those who wrap it in some ideology and nurture parasocial relationships with their audiences to drive adoption. It's profitable outside of FOSS and a harsh reality within it.

I also heard stories about how taxing working in FOSS can be and how some of our current contributors are burnt out and on the edge of a mental breakdown. Even if they are well-paid, they are clearly overworked or a proxy for something unhealthy in FOSS.

Semantically speaking, if FOSS is to be this pure, magical, self-assembled entity composed of mysterious individuals united by their sheer passion for Bitcoin development, then from my perspective, I can say FOSS, or what it could be, is deteriorating, becoming insalubrious and unsafe over time.  If ignored, this culture will continue to seep through and naturally undermine Bitcoin FOSS as a whole.

If you believe this doesn’t impact the quality of code and product output, then you’re undervaluing the human factor in producing science and technology. We must not repeat this oversight in the new social systems we’re trying to build to escape today's traps that were built disregarding human needs in the first place.

If my view is obstructed and my opinions are wrong, that is just another piece of evidence that the problem is not me, but how the information is being presented to actors who are doing my type of work.

And I’d rather not start on how a man in my position would likely have better access to quality information, community support, and opportunities to thrive. Let’s assume we’ve reached a near 50/50 meritocratic system already.

Sometimes, it feels like we’ve taken the 'anarchic cypherpunks write code' ethos a bit too far and even out of context. In our attempt to preserve the original character of open-source software development, we might be harming it instead.


The classic Bitcoin Development Philosophy, now in Brazilian Portuguese.

https://github.com/Scalar-School/btcphilosophy/blob/main/filosofiadevbitcoin.pdf


Watching a Bitcoin Core Code Review live with achow101 and 9 other people. Moments like this make it feel as if there's a bug in this simulation. Why are we so niche? Where is everyone?—7 people online as I finish writing this.

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Here's my full main-stage keynote from Nashville

It was spread across two days, so that's why I change halfway through 😂

51 minutes but I worked hard to carefully consider each minute

The talk is packed with lessons and examples that I have learned and seen across my entire career of people using Bitcoin to change the world in the most unlikely of places

I walk through how Bitcoin is a revolution for commerce, freedom, and electric power, citing dozens of examples in each case

This one is for every single person who has ever said Bitcoin is useless, just as much is as it's for every person who is curious about Bitcoin and wants to know more

Most people know that Bitcoin is a great savings technology, which is of course its primary use case, but I don't dwell on that

Here we get into everything else it does

No price talk, all utility

Hope this helps

So grateful for the  nostr:npub1t8a7uumfmam38kal4xaakzyjccht4y5jxfs4cmlj0p768pxtwu8skh56yu team for giving me this opportunity

Onwards!

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


Once, as a beginner dev and bitcoiner, I broke my Umbrel node by messing with the command line. I was sure that my channel funds were lost.

Then I recalled I had nostr:npub1xnf02f60r9v0e5kty33a404dm79zr7z2eepyrk5gsq3m7pwvsz2sazlpr5 on my phone, and I was able to close my channels through the mobile app and recover my funds. I will never forget all that you do for us. Zeus is freedom, self-sovereignty, and safety all at once.
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This wouldn't have been possible without the past 14+ yrs of bitcoin writings. Gmax, Pieter, Dave Harding, BlueMatt, Lopp, and naturally, Satoshi are all quoted.

This is a living document and projects like this belong to all of us. Consider contributing at: https://github.com/bitcoin-dev-philosophy/btcphilosophy


Scalar School is a unique project with its own merits in the Bitcoin ecosystem. It is catering to Brazil. Although we adopt new tech well—we used to be Orkut's slaughterhouse and data provider guinea pigs, now Meta's, and so forth and so on—we develop slowly.

We are insulated by the Brazilian Portuguese language and the odd fact that we don't need English to make it inland—different from the reality of a European, for example. We are isolated, and we carry a very unique modus operandi.

Scalar School is entirely conceived by a woman who navigates the dream of becoming a Bitcoin Core/FOSS developer herself and has found several unfair, gender-based obstacles along the way.

Was I delusional from the very start? It doesn't matter. No one should go through the double standards that exist in the larger Bitcoin technical communities where the dreams start being nurtured and our future talents start being bred.

This is a project with a vision. I am the user, the product, and the ethnographic researcher. I am walking the walk, fixing the hurdles, and opening space for the women coming behind me, even though I am not there yet.

I am not using shortcuts for advantage. I like to carefully design solutions to difficult problems and work really hard to implement them, and I like freedom, and I like to be treated fairly and not receive differential and worse opportunities because I am a woman at the base. I have a strong sense of justice, an insatiable will to learn and teach, and a resilience that is larger than my sense of self.

I am not trying to build a meritless, bound-to-fail path for women. I never even agreed to make it 100% for women in the first place. I try, but I can't. I might do it, but it keeps not happening, especially when a man asks me, "Is that only for women?".

I can't pay them with the same currency of isolation, and I might contradict myself in my goals to increase the number of women in Bitcoin as fast as possible. And here comes another point: it is easy to sell promises and loose dreams to get people to flock to you. It is easy to make people users of Bitcoin by wrapping the code in ideology in such a way that it is difficult to unwrap. It is easy to cater to a community that has been there for over a decade by just agreeing with everything they do, no matter how unethical and wrong.

And if that is the KPI you're looking for, you won't find it. And people will judge, and will say it is a waste, and will claim it is a net negative for Bitcoin itself, and will ignore our efforts. But achieving the ambitious goal of Scalar School is hard. We have to fix history. We have to repair the lack of women confidently diving into bits and bytes and scrambled code and math and finding the meaning in it, and creating solutions, and solving problems, and opening meaningful PRs, and making a life out of open source by their own merits.

The open-source world is wild. And it won't divide the ocean in two just for women to pass. We'll have to figure out how to make it together. My role is to not let them fail at the base. My role is to lead by example. To be a mirror they can look at and ask questions, and get answers, without the overhead of discrimination. My role is to use my privilege to advocate for them.

My role is to make it myself, and by making it, to hand them the map. To show them the way. Most importantly, to be there for them. That is representation. That is how you inspire minorities to see themselves winning and go for it despite the adversities, the scrutiny, and the harassment of a local community that is offended by seeing a woman carving her path without giving them the possibility to make her stop. My role is to be the resistance, and by showing an alternative path, to put terrible ideas in check despite the retaliation by those profiting from them.

As a woman in Bitcoin development, I've had my time and my capacity wasted by teachers who abused their position with sheer negligence and deceit. By colleagues who couldn't respect the competition. By friends who extended a hand and guided me through traps only to ensure I would fail.

And this is the generational heritage that I am fixing and rebuilding. It is deeper than heated events full of sellers and enthusiasts. Scalar School is a quiet revolution. I am grateful to the  nostr:npub17xvf49kht23cddxgw92rvfktkd3vqvjgkgsdexh9847wl0927tqsrhc9as for sharing this dream with the Brazilian women developers in Bitcoin, and its impact won't be limited to Brazil. I hope to make my sponsors  nostr:npub1szpa7cypmyd59083qs3pte9lez22lzfu6pl2guhgqx7q09x68y6qquh3td and  nostr:npub1trr5r2nrpsk6xkjk5a7p6pfcryyt6yzsflwjmz6r7uj7lfkjxxtq78hdpu speak proudly about Scalar School. You're the only people to whom I'll ever owe an explanation. Thank you. See you on the other side.


This is the future.

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Join Stallings and  nostr:npub1v799vkkxjasjtjcrr4wh2ral5vcklqhg0tyyvc6gvfe5qfrd57mqutqrup as we dive into the essential mathematical and cryptographic principles that underpin Bitcoin.

Before we explore the depths of Bitcoin technology, we’ll cover some foundational topics.

Prime Numbers (Chapter 8.1)
Fermat and Euler's Theorems (Chapter 8.2)
Primality Testing (Chapter 8.3)
Modular Arithmetic and Discrete Logarithms (Chapter 8.5)
Finite Fields in the Form GF(p) (Chapters 5.1 and 10.3)
Abelian Groups and Elliptic Curves (Chapter 10.3)
Elliptic Curve Arithmetic (Chapter 10.3)
Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECDSA) (Chapter 10.4)
Random Number Generators and Pseudorandom Functions (PRFs):
Principles of Pseudorandom Number Generation (Chapter 7.1)
True Random Number Generators (Chapter 7.6)
SHA-256 (Secure Hash Algorithm) (Chapter 11.5)
Applications of Cryptographic Hash Functions (Chapter 11.1)
Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (Chapter 13.5)
Properties and Requirements of Digital Signatures (Chapter 13.1)
Hash-based MACs: HMAC (Chapter 12.5)
Public Key Distribution (Chapter 14.3)

At Scalar School, we are committed to never skipping any foundational steps and are not afraid to start small. This careful approach is designed to ensure that when we begin delivering code and content, it is of the highest quality.

The open-source landscape is competitive, and we aim to prepare our students to confidently stand among the best.

We are dedicated to building a robust foundation and increasing the representation of women in Bitcoin development and education, empowering a new generation of developers to innovate and excel in this dynamic field.

Success won’t happen overnight—we are here to walk the good walk and actively engage with and learn from the feedback of the global Bitcoin FOSS development community.

Is there anything else you’d like to see covered, or do you feel something important is missing? Let us know in the comments.

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