To be honest, I think the bitcoin ETF is the most boring thing about bitcoin right now. Whenever I get asked about it I'm like, "meh".

Yes, the ETF should be good for price and liquidity, since it gives large pools of walled-garden capital more access to bitcoin exposure.

But in my view, the most important thing about bitcoin right now is all of the little hubs popping up around the world. Bitcoin Beach, Bitcoin Lake, Bitcoin Jungle, Bitcoin Ekasi, Africa Bitcoin Conference, Indonesia Bitcoin Conference, etc. As well wallets and other technologies that help them localize their custody of bitcoin rather than keep it all stashed in the giant Binance honeypot or wherever, and any solutions that help link to them all together for payments or that help them trade peer to peer or onboard from fiat to bitcoin in distributed ways.

The rise and connectivity of those hubs is impressive and is worth supporting.


Yes.


for the record, a “federation backed ledger” is a setup where a small group (3-7 for fedimints iiuc, 15+ for liquid) hold a multisig address

bitcoin is deposited into that address, in return you get a “permission less” account object (ecash/a liquid utxo) that corresponds to the deposit you made

the multisig group runs a redemption gateway that you can claim L1 utxos in exchange for the account object you hold; generally third parties also run swap services where you can exchange your account object for an LN payment (made to a node you or someone else runs)


Interesting observation about social media in a book I'm reading. It was a dead end with for-profit platforms, but Nostr could be different?

How can we introduce expensive signals? Maybe allow people to put up a bond in sats for x years that gets burned if it turns out they spread incorrect information? Since nobody is in charge, users could appoint a number of npubs that can make the slash happen? https://image.nostr.build/740a849a2fd784c3234970bd8fede877e1e34c7e618da978b210f4292589b6ea.jpg https://image.nostr.build/ff96688e57630b11f14fb57bb0cade4b5657c49083a3a9a721176dc91b426c99.jpg https://image.nostr.build/b88cf540dde303205c4ae10e78a6cb945cd898a4c6c2317f5cb13c5c54295b0b.jpg https://image.nostr.build/ff00401c267ec1dcdd9cbb0861e3354d19f81377965dd5b7934ec3f18b95d4b6.jpg https://image.nostr.build/033555efa291d2617b22476b6fdedb286be9958e3e4e38137aecbcb9569cfc79.jpg


I have a bounty for whoever writes a standalone drop-in script that checks if the user browser has a window.nostr in it and, if not, then creates one that instead of talking to a NIP-07 extension, causes a window popup to appear and implements this flow.

This is for web clients that already implement NIP-07 support to be able to easily support this flow without having to change their code (and they don't care very much about customizing the popup).

https://github.com/kind-0/nsecbunkerd/blob/master/OAUTH-LIKE-FLOW.md
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Yo, Lume v3 will embrace "OAuth-like"  flow for onboarding new user to Nostr.

It also support all nsecbunker instances that support this flow, user can choose the service their want.

Thank nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft for made it 100x easier.

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


Same energy. https://i.nostr.build/zQwM.jpg https://i.nostr.build/A0dR.jpg


"On the threshold of the Third Millennium, my hope for all of you who are artists is that you will have an especially intense experience of creative inspiration. May the beauty which you pass on to generations still to come be such that it will stir them to wonder! Faced with the sacredness of life and of the human person, and before the marvels of the universe, wonder is the only appropriate attitude."

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“We do not come into this world. We come out of it, as leaves from a tree.”

— Alan Watts https://image.nostr.build/ad8cd4ae27fcb7288a732b6848fa6a4fd580370da9158867aef454b3279cb736.jpg


NOBODY IS READY FOR WHAT'S COMING

https://voteforbetter.money/
https://bitcoin.rocks/
https://m.primal.net/HWhs.jpg


Reports on how Jack's money is being spent by fiatjaf

This is a long form article, you can read it in https://habla.news/fiatjaf/fd6dc37c

Report of how the money Jack donated to the cause in December 2022 is being spent.

# Bounties given

## December 2023
  - hzrd: 5,000,000 - Nostrudel
  - awayuki: 5,000,000 - NOSTOPUS illustrations
  - bera: 5,000,000 - getwired.app
  - Chris: 5,000,000 - resolvr.io
  - NoGood: 10,000,000 - nostrexplained.com stories

## October 2023
  - SnowCait: 5,000,000 - https://nostter.vercel.app/ and other tools
  - Shaun: 10,000,000 - https://yakihonne.com/, events and work on Nostr awareness
  - Derek Ross: 10,000,000 - spreading the word around the world
  - fmar: 5,000,000 - https://github.com/frnandu/yana
  - The Nostr Report: 2,500,000 - curating stuff
  - james magoo: 2,500,000 - the Obsidian plugin: https://github.com/jamesmagoo/nostr-writer

## August 2023
  - Paul Miller: 5,000,000 - JS libraries and cryptography-related work
  - **BOUNTY** tijl: 5,000,000 - https://github.com/github-tijlxyz/wikinostr
  - gzuus: 5,000,000 - https://nostree.me/

## July 2023
  - syusui-s: 5,000,000 - rabbit, a tweetdeck-like Nostr client: https://syusui-s.github.io/rabbit/
  - kojira: 5,000,000 - Nostr fanzine, Nostr discussion groups in Japan, hardware experiments
  - darashi: 5,000,000 - https://github.com/darashi/nos.today, https://github.com/darashi/searchnos, https://github.com/darashi/murasaki
  - jeff g: 5,000,000 - https://nostr.how and https://listr.lol, plus other contributions
  - cloud fodder: 5,000,000 - https://nostr1.com (open-source)
  - utxo.one: 5,000,000 - https://relaying.io (open-source)
  - Max DeMarco: 10,269,507 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA-jiiepOrE
  - **BOUNTY** optout21: 1,000,000 - https://github.com/optout21/nip41-proto0 (proposed nip41 CLI)
  - **BOUNTY** Leo: 1,000,000 - https://github.com/leo-lox/camelus (an old relay thing I forgot exactly)

## June 2023
  - **BOUNTY**: Sepher: 2,000,000 - a webapp for making lists of anything: https://pinstr.app/
  - **BOUNTY**: Kieran: 10,000,000 - implement gossip algorithm on Snort, implement all the other nice things: manual relay selection, following hints etc.
  - Mattn: 5,000,000 - a myriad of projects and contributions to Nostr projects: https://github.com/search?q=owner%3Amattn+nostr&type=code
  - **BOUNTY**: lynn: 2,000,000 - a simple and clean git nostr CLI written in Go, compatible with William's original git-nostr-tools; and implement threaded comments on https://github.com/fiatjaf/nocomment.
  - Jack Chakany: 5,000,000 - https://github.com/jacany/nblog
  - **BOUNTY**: Dan: 2,000,000 - https://metadata.nostr.com/

## April 2023
  - **BOUNTY**: Blake Jakopovic: 590,000 - event deleter tool, NIP dependency organization
  - **BOUNTY**: koalasat: 1,000,000 - display relays
  - **BOUNTY**: Mike Dilger: 4,000,000 - display relays, follow event hints (Gossip)
  - **BOUNTY**: kaiwolfram: 5,000,000 - display relays, follow event hints, choose relays to publish (Nozzle)
  - Daniele Tonon: 3,000,000 - Gossip
  - bu5hm4nn: 3,000,000 - Gossip
  - **BOUNTY**: hodlbod: 4,000,000 - display relays, follow event hints

## March 2023
  - Doug Hoyte: 5,000,000 sats - https://github.com/hoytech/strfry
  - Alex Gleason: 5,000,000 sats - https://gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/mostr
  - verbiricha: 5,000,000 sats - https://badges.page/, https://habla.news/
  - talvasconcelos: 5,000,000 sats - https://migrate.nostr.com, https://read.nostr.com, https://write.nostr.com/
  - **BOUNTY**: Gossip model: 5,000,000 - https://camelus.app/
  - **BOUNTY**: Gossip model: 5,000,000 - https://github.com/kaiwolfram/Nozzle
  - **BOUNTY**: Bounty Manager: 5,000,000 - https://nostrbounties.com/
## February 2023
 - styppo: 5,000,000 sats - https://hamstr.to/
 - sandwich: 5,000,000 sats - https://nostr.watch/
 - **BOUNTY**: Relay-centric client designs: 5,000,000 sats https://bountsr.org/design/2023/01/26/relay-based-design.html
  - **BOUNTY**: Gossip model on https://coracle.social/: 5,000,000 sats
  - Nostrovia Podcast: 3,000,000 sats - https://nostrovia.org/
  - **BOUNTY**: Nostr-Desk / Monstr: 5,000,000 sats - https://github.com/alemmens/monstr
  - Mike Dilger: 5,000,000 sats - https://github.com/mikedilger/gossip

## January 2023
  - ismyhc: 5,000,000 sats - https://github.com/Galaxoid-Labs/Seer
  - Martti Malmi: 5,000,000 sats - https://iris.to/
  - Carlos Autonomous: 5,000,000 sats - https://github.com/BrightonBTC/bija
  - Koala Sat: 5,000,000 - https://github.com/KoalaSat/nostros
  - Vitor Pamplona: 5,000,000 - https://github.com/vitorpamplona/amethyst
  - Cameri: 5,000,000 - https://github.com/Cameri/nostream

##  December 2022
  - William Casarin: 7 BTC - splitting the fund
  - pseudozach: 5,000,000 sats - https://nostr.directory/
  - Sondre Bjellas: 5,000,000 sats - https://notes.blockcore.net/
  - Null Dev: 5,000,000 sats - https://github.com/KotlinGeekDev/Nosky
  - Blake Jakopovic: 5,000,000 sats - https://github.com/blakejakopovic/nostcat, https://github.com/blakejakopovic/nostreq and https://github.com/blakejakopovic/NostrEventPlayground


Check out Futurama 1637 Art Building on Calle 8 in Miami. Some of the local artists there take #bitcoin! https://i.nostr.build/oRZL.jpg https://i.nostr.build/zQDM.jpg


Bitcoin Accelerationism.

Bicoin Accelerationism embodies all that Effective Accelerationism (e/acc) represents, yet it posits that Bitcoin is crucial in ushering in this future. Let’s explore:

First, let’s break down what e/acc stands for, and why bitcoin is inevitably intertwined in this technological movement.

Effective Accelerationism posits that the universe inherently aims to optimize itself, constantly expanding and evolving. This expansion is seen as an unstoppable force, with the future always building upon and surpassing the present, and the main driver of this is ‘techno-capital’. Said more simply, ‘techno-capital’ is the force which will change/fix the world.

Now, let’s turn to bitcoin:

Similar to AI, bitcoin mining faces never ending scrutiny regarding its “energy use”. In reality, mining serves as a pivotal tool for energy grid load-balancing and waste energy mitigation. It's one of the only consumers of energy that can power off on a moments notice entirely subject to market demand.

By empowering location agnostic energy monetization while enforcing ever increasing efficiency through the difficulty adjustment, bitcoin mining doesn't waste energy, but rather consumes energy waste. With the brutal reality of continuously rising network hash rate subsequently increasing mining difficulty,  inefficient operators are driven out via market forces, while the increased difficulty simultaneously reinforces the asset’s supply inelasticity and programmatically increasing marginal cost of production.

The significance? There is now a global opportunity cost for energy waste that exists anywhere found by satellite signal, thereby directly incentivizing and quantifying the chase of Moore's Law AND the ascent of the Kardashev scale.

Bitcoin adheres to e/acc principles, and metaphorically aligns with the natural order and thermodynamic laws, by adeptly transforming forms of energy into an immutable ledger of subjective value.

Its 21,000,000 capped supply mirrors the finite energy in closed systems, a nod to the conservation law. Bitcoin mining, which channels raw energy into computation, goes to securing and extending property rights to $800b of pseudonymous global wealth. The process of elegantly converting energy in any form into an immutable ledger of absolute monetary scarcity brings about order from entropy.

Do not shy away from energy production nor energy consumption. Bitcoin's Proof of Work is not a weakness, but an absolute source of strength. Lean in.

As a store of value, bitcoin epitomizes a free market for capital, underpinned by the energy securing it, SHA-256 cryptography, and a global consensus of distributed nodes, each user acting in their own self-interest. The key principle is that value is not derived by decree, but rather subjectively by self preserving individuals through economic incentives.

As a unit of account, bitcoin is the ruler against which the vast technological gains of past and future decades will be quantified and measured against most accurately, given its attributes and free market emergence.

In contrast, political currency, issued by increasingly corrupted institutions, will continue to devalue against everything we hold dear; fundamentally incompatible with a future where AI brings about abundance through the reduction in the cost of everyday services.

This contrast between two opposing forces has never been more evident, with tech advances accelerating by day while the issuance of additional political currency aims to offset said deflationary gains to keep an evermore fragile and faltering system of debt and IOUs from collapsing under its own weight.

As censorship-resistant money, bitcoin is pivotal for a future where censorship and surveillance by the state and/or techno-monopolies are more powerful and potentially oppressive than ever.

As a bearer asset, bitcoin stands out as one of the few possessions that can be truly owned in a digital native world riddled with third party custodians and counterparties. Possession can be custodied literally in one's mind, not as the liability of a captured and corrupted institution operating under the long-reach of the state.

Lastly, it is an inevitable reality that all monetary mediums compete in perpetuity, and the Darwinian process of a free market monetary medium monetizing from scratch, not by decree but by free market forces, has only occurred successfully a rare few times in human history, and never with the speed or global scale currently underway.

Bitcoin Accelerationism is an acknowledgment of this all; the growing surveillance apparatus of the state, the attempt to restrict and reduce global energy production/consumption, and the precarious position of the global political currency experiment that threatens to undermine the past and present gains brought about by technological innovation. In e/acc terms, bitcoin is THE capital in ‘techno-capital’.

In a world where the very medium in which we store our time, labor, and value is led by individuals more interested in looting the coffers than in the long-term health or vitality of our society, it’s time to lean in.

Bitcoin Accelerationism is about embracing this reality. No force on earth can stop an idea whose time has come.

We will not apologize, reconsider, slow down, or reverse course. Instead,

ACCELERATE.


NIP-99! 👀🚀 nostr:note1fcp7xgp5234860jrz0kl6rutw7tte70mpjpdzrsh50psfxwxdetq4zxyy7


Must read article, by award winning journalist, Ian Birrell covering the story of how Bitcoin is a powerful force for development in Africa.

https://unherd.com/2024/01/the-african-village-mining-bitcoin/


paywall-free link below

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https://archive.is/tP5a3


To threaten people with a felony charge for not playing the role of tax collector on behalf of the IRS is one of the most despicable and insulting things that has come out of the US government in recent years.

https://tftc.io/irs-bitcoin-transaction-reporting/


One way of getting an exit is to sell a company to the community instead of a bigger company or the stock market.

Check out exit to community as a model: nostr:note1sjnx9qr75dxn3avfpnts2w409t4n47lskmczvmdpmcx6ud4xgxvqh9xsra


user deletion request


Yup, had to watch it in two sittings. 🤣


New Scorsese film with DiCaprio that came out earlier this year. It’s somehow longer than Oppenheimer. 😂


Reason 10,001 for why we can’t trust big corporations to run our social media. They’re running key loggers on the in app browsers they launch when you click on links from Meta and TikTok apps.

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THERE ARE GOOD PEOPLE AT SWAN.

MANY ARE FRIENDS.

UNFORTUNATELY THEY SEEM TO BE BLINDLY TRUSTING THEIR EMPLOYER.


Killers of the Flower Moon! 👀


Probably why they’re scooping up bitcoin influencers left and right.


MY CONCERN IS THAT IT SEEMS SOMETHING INCREDIBLY SKETCHY IS GOING ON AND FEW WILL SAY SHIT PUBLICLY BECAUSE THEY ARE AFRAID OF  REPERCUSSIONS FROM CORY.

HE OWNS THE MAJORITY OF BITCOIN INFLUENCERS.


I grew up in a low-income family where we could barely afford basic necessities, until the 2014-2016 crisis in Venezuela hit and I had to drop out of university to work construction so we could have enough food to pass the month. Luckily, we never went hungry because everyone in my house worked.

One day, I got tired of working construction and saw an opportunity to sell bread outside my house because bread was scarce due to the crisis. The bread business was successful, and the flexible hours allowed me to have free time to research different ways to "make money online." I discovered a few forums that paid a little bit of sats for creating posts, and that's how I slowly started to get into the world of bitcoin. I began creating my first content to upload online and be rewarded for it. Unbeknownst to me, I had started to monetize my hobby of photography, which eventually became my way of surviving the crisis and even helping my poorest family members, who needed it most.

In the midst of all this crisis, many Venezuelans began to leave the country in search of a better future. Even all the people I grew up with in my home left, and today, I am the only one left in Venezuela from my family nucleus. My mom, dad, aunts, siblings, and cousins are all outside of Venezuela. I am the only one who stayed, and it is because of the power of bitcoin that I am still able to pay for my life in Venezuela. In some way, I am "living the dream" because I am living off of what I love to do, and that is thanks to bitcoin tecnology and all of you too.

https://image.nostr.build/3461abe74af3068118b857d95d6a41bba17d518a960cea18b68b7b281ccb521e.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=1000x1500&blurhash=%5E38W%2C2016A%7EBMw%25N0Koz%24eE2bFjZ02%3FH%3D%40RP%3FHE1oG%252IptQ9v%24zpKi%5Do%23a%7DROxv%5E%25E2I%3B-ow%5BEQrVajoHE2o%23-PI%3Bt8t7oI%25MIoEQslrrozIUai&x=01f3434e851782148387e0572c64009120157d2584dc186e54b052334eea1139

#bitcoin #birthday #venezuela #photostr #life #story #itchangedmylife


Just started Deep Work by Cal Newport.


List it on nostr:npub15dc33fyg3cpd9r58vlqge2hh8dy6hkkrjxkhluv2xpyfreqkmsesesyv6e or Amethyst! 👀


Tomorrow, January 4th, the verdict in Julian Assange's extradition trial will be delivered, and honestly, I can't bring myself to think that today we are celebrating the birth of the key to humanity's freedom and tomorrow, a man who did nothing wrong and has been deprived of his freedom may be stripped away of all his human rights.

I've been thinking a lot about this, especially after chatting with @Stella and John Shipton last year. They really opened my eyes to how messed up this whole situation is. If you're curious, check out our full talk here: https://youtu.be/ugeDIda5Zac

I hope tomorrow's verdict brings Julian closer to being freed and back with his family. But this isn't the end of the road for Assange. His final appeal in London's High Court is set for February. This could be his last chance to avoid extradition to the United States, where he faces serious charges. This moment is key, not just for Assange but for journalism and civil liberties worldwide.

If you're in the US, this is your call to action. Hit up your congressperson. Tell them to push Biden to drop all charges against Assange. Your voice can make a difference.

With this, I want to say that even though I'm totally blown away and super thankful for Bitcoin turning 15 today, it's tough to really get into the party mood. Knowing there are so many freedom fighters out there getting their wings clipped, it hits hard... We could be next...

Today isn't just about partying and celebrating for me. Today, I'm all about standing up to the establishment, reminding them they can't shut us down. We've got to keep fighting every single day, but especially on days like today, especially every January 3rd.


From the perspective of writing and running a client, most of the relays are bitchy and it drives me nuts trying to manage and work with all these different bitchy relays with different rules and behaviors.

From the perspective of running a relay, a lot of clients are aggressive as fuck and it drives me nuts trying to keep my tiny relay from running out of resources without denying service to the nice people.

Nostr is a battlefield. And we're using hastily written software barely glued together from bits of string and chewing gum.


Happy Birthday #bitcoin

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THE nostr:npub15dc33fyg3cpd9r58vlqge2hh8dy6hkkrjxkhluv2xpyfreqkmsesesyv6e EPISODE IS NOW LIVE!
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LISTEN ON nostr:npub1yfg0d955c2jrj2080ew7pa4xrtj7x7s7umt28wh0zurwmxgpyj9shwv6vg or nostr:npub1v5ufyh4lkeslgxxcclg8f0hzazhaw7rsrhvfquxzm2fk64c72hps45n0v5 🎧

https://www.wavlake.com/show/frog-talk


Incredible movie.


I WAS A SIMPLE FIAT SAVER BEFORE THE GAMESTOP ROBINHOOD FIASCO.

THIS WAS THE EVENT THAT RADICALIZED ME 100% INTO BITCOIN AND BITCOIN ONLY LIFESTYLE.

FREE MARKETS HAVE NO ON/OFF SWITCH.

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WHEN AVERAGE PEOPLE WENT TO WAR WITH SUITS OVER GAMESTOP THE SUITS FUCKED THEM.

THEY LEGIT TURNED OFF THE BUY BUTTON ON ROBINHOOD.

BITCOIN IS THE ONLY FREE MARKET. EVERYTHING ELSE IS RIGGED.


Hapyy 🎊 new year 🎊

2023-Used #btc in 20 countries

🇿🇦-South Africa
🇮🇳-India
🇧🇷-Brazil
🇨🇷-Costa Rica
🇲🇽-Mexico
🇺🇸-USA
🇨🇺-Cuba
🇯🇲-Jamaica
🇩🇴-Dominican Republic
🇵🇷-Puerto Rico
🇹🇹-Trinidad&Tobago
🇸🇷-Suriname
🇵🇦-Panama
🇳🇮-Nicaragua
🇭🇳-Honduras
🇸🇻-El Salvador
🇬🇹-Guatemala
🇵🇪-Peru
🇮🇩-Indonesia
🇯🇵-Japan
🇨🇼-Curacao

USA&Puerto Rico counted as 1 country
Failed in Haiti🇭🇹

Bitcoin doesn't see your class, colour, creed, caste, country. We are equal.
Imagine If I can do this with #bitcoin,what can you do ?

Thank you family.

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 - We tied,thanks for the gift😘

Happy 🎊 new year 🎊


Happy New Year’s everyone! 🚀🎉


Not sure if it’s available at all locations, and it might not be openly advertised, but you should be able to via Flexa.


TIL Home Depot accepts Bitcoin as payment in-store.


Ending the year setting up my dad with nostr:npub1xnf02f60r9v0e5kty33a404dm79zr7z2eepyrk5gsq3m7pwvsz2sazlpr5 to test out payments with lightning! ⚡ nostr:note10zmua94y6mgm7wrn6m8dnpdq8lw4reyeyf4pkkv5zfyr2v80n0ksfdccgd


Banks don’t like taking risks on small businesses, especially volatile tech startups. That’s one of the reasons VC became such a big industry.


They send confirmation once the item is shipped and it can take a while since they’re produced in batches from what I understand.


NY Times is asking that *ALL* LLMs trained on Times data be destroyed

Comments ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38816944 )

https://twitter.com/Dan_Jeffries1/status/1741053245756211560


If you can’t join them, beat them!

https://www.tradingview.com/news/bitcoin_com:31295daf8094b:0-bitcoin-reigns-supreme-in-nft-market-with-record-breaking-853-million-in-december-sales/


You lovely folks have zapped over 5 BTC via over 2,000,000 zaps this year!


People tagging me in giant posts are causing Yana to lag so hard it's unusable.

Solution: a NIP for assassinating people who tag me in giant posts.


https://cdn.satellite.earth/6011daa16075490abe99b641d87513c6509eace0b86ac7dd6e91a7d1c68763d9.jpg
At least for some percent of people glancing at this nostr:npub1e4qg56wvd3ehegd8dm7rlgj8cm998myq0ah8e9t5zeqkg7t7s93q750p76's diagram would give them a little more insight on how Nostr works. Where should we place it to make that happen?


Just to test waters, is there an interest for a long form write up on how to setup your own lightning network node without usage of Star9, Umbrel or any of the opinionated all-in-one setups? I can probably try to write one up during my spare time and for Eclair. If not, that’s great too, less work for me 🐶🐾🫡🫂


Definitely! Start9 and Umbrel are great, but they feel a bit limited when it comes to configurability.


Insomnia leads to orange-pilling. 🍊 💊🫡


Super helpful! Was wondering what your setup consisted of.


> Profit is freedom, profitable ppl don't need to ask for permission.

👏👏👏👏


As 2023 ends, I'm noting down my thoughts for the next 20 years about #Bitcoin 's evolution 📝👇

What is money?

Money functions as a store of value, a medium of exchange, and a unit of account. Bitcoin, serving as money, will eventually fulfill all these roles.

Currently, Bitcoin is in its store of value phase, protecting value from dilution. This phase might end in the next 8 years or after two halving cycles, with the Bitcoin ETF as a key indicator of this shift. At the end of this phase, Bitcoin could be trading at or above 1 million dollars.

Following this, we'll likely witness significant adoption and innovation in Bitcoin's layers and applications, focusing on its use as a medium of exchange. This phase will see a surge in companies developing on Bitcoin layers. Post this phase, Bitcoin might trade around 10 million dollars, with nearly everyone on the planet owning a wallet or using Bitcoin apps.

As for its role as a unit of account, I don’t see it happening in the next 20 years. I believe this will occur automatically after the store of value and medium of exchange functionalities have reached their maximum. My timeline for this to occur is before 2140, at which point Bitcoin will become the default money for everyone. https://image.nostr.build/fcfe0c4d6c3bc5d7e23598725c8e26ac99023ac24af29aa82db3734d3c271909.jpg


A few months ago I gave talk in which I talked about what life is like under Monetary Authoritarianism

I mentioned how I used to pay salaries for my company's employees in 2011:

Flying to US, buying iPhones, glueing them to my body, selling them for pesos.
Rinse and repeat every month.

Well, Milei just made it legal to pay salaries in anything, including bitcoin.

Yeah, of course, you could already use bitcoin for this because bitcoin DGAF, but the fact you can do this legally is useful for those that find themselves still tied to that system.

Politicians can go fuck themselves, but it's worthwhile noticing when some freedom-restrictions are removed.

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G’day ☀

Effectively all nostr devs do not have sufficient positive cash flow to pay their bills.

Some nostr devs receive generous grant money from e.g. Jack, HRF etc.

Very, very few receive VC money.

If you receive value from #FOSS and if you can afford it, support the projects you use. Subscription, one time donation, purchases, fiat, sats..

If you are already doing this - thank you 💜. Most devs shy away from asking for financial support.


Re: NOSTR FUNDING..

In my humble opinion, people should seek profit.

We do have a lot of funding available from OpenSats (new grants approved every week), HRF, Angels and VCs. But they won't make you "rich". PHILANTHROPY and/or VC, are great means to get boosted but are not sustainable long term. (aside from protocol and research work, which is basically academic work and take the academic philanthropy route)

Profit is freedom, profitable ppl don't need to ask for permission.

SUSTAINABLE and ETHICAL revenue positive businesses last generations. And very satisfying if you don't mind me saying.

Timing is EVERYTHING! We are ultra-early in nostr, almost too early. Almost everything you see around you won’t be here in the same shape/form in a year or two. Find ways to cockroach the early days, survive another day. Build expertise, build value, build IP, build relationships. All this fun and pain of the early days can have very good returns for those who survive.

I'm here (and many others), If you need help, advice or just a capitalist to scream at.

😘


Wassup everybody, I’m an artist/producer from Cuba, living in Miami, Florida and my friend nostr:npub1jk9h2jsa8hjmtm9qlcca942473gnyhuynz5rmgve0dlu6hpeazxqc3lqz7 just put me on to this decentralized social media in the hopes of reaching other artists and music lovers that think alike and value freedom.

Once he told me about nostr:npub1yfg0d955c2jrj2080ew7pa4xrtj7x7s7umt28wh0zurwmxgpyj9shwv6vg I instantly wanted to publish my music there and thats just what I did.

My new EP “CASAO CON EL CHEQUE” is out now.
This whole tape is in spanish, pa mis #latinos en el mundo entero !
Even for those who don’t understand it I hope ya’ll enjoy it ! 🚀

https://www.wavlake.com/album/d248710d-79a1-4003-bc92-a83c35437c27
https://m.primal.net/HVqH.jpg


Even 1,000 sats/vB is a steal for the thermodynamic certainty we achieve with Bitcoin.


Here's an example of why monetary verification is important (and can be expensive).

The gold price is currently $2075/oz.

If you buy a sovereign 1-oz gold coin, or a globally-recognizable privately-issued 1-oz gold bar, you'll generally pay something like a 3-5% markup to spot. This is basically the verification and distribution premium. Even if you buy a bunch of 1-oz items, you generally won't get the spread down too much. If there's a shortage, the premiums over spot go way up.

If you buy smaller sizes, that premium will be a bigger percentage. For example if you buy 1-gram gold coins, you'll be paying a >50% markup to the spot price, which is silly.

If you buy bigger sizes, like 1-kilo bars (which cost more than a typical car), you could get it down to a 1-2% premium to spot.

The bigger size you go, the less verification you have that the core of the item is indeed gold rather than tungsten. You have to trust the brand and supply chain, basically. The smaller size you go, the less possible and economic it is to insert tungsten into the item. And so on some level, it makes sense that the verification premium is bigger for smaller items- you're more assured that it is indeed gold to its core. The surface area to mass ratio is harder to forge, basically. Somewhere around 1-oz is probably the sweet spot.

Now, if you're buying gold in most U.S. states, including on a lot of popular online stores, you'll also pay sales tax, and you'll often have to pay the difference in terms of your payment method. So if your credit card costs the merchant 3%, then that would eat up the merchant's margin since it is razor thin, and so instead the customer often has to pay it. They could instead do a wire transfer for a sizable purchase to save some money, but many banks charge like $30 for a 1-day wire transfer.

And if you're buying online, there's a shipping fee. That's usually pretty low but then goes up a bit if you add insurance because you don't want to risk your expensive coins or bars getting lost in the delivery chain or stolen from your doorstep. From the time of order to the time of delivery, it'll generally take several days. This includes time for the merchant to process the payment (gold merchants are usually a bit more careful about chargebacks and other reversed payments than the average merchant) and ship you the items.

All together, including the verification premium, taxes, payment fees, and shipping, one generally pays 8-15% over the spot price to get 1-oz gold coins or bars. That means gold has to go up a pretty significant amount just to break even. And then you have collectible capital gains taxes on that price gain (which in the US is higher than the actual capital gains tax rate). If you take time (and time is money) to shop around and find ways to legally avoid sales tax and so forth, and figure out the cheapest/slowest payment methods, then you can push the premium down as close as possible to the verification premium and shipping costs.

And if you want to securely ship large amounts of gold long distances, especially internationally? Like imagine HNW investors, businesses, banks, or sovereign entities? You're going to pay a sizable amount. One does not simply ship millions of dollars worth of gold without robust security.

If you want someone to custody your gold, you're going to pay a fee. If you are fine with unallocated/mixed gold with multiple layers of counterparty risk, you could buy among the cheapest ETFs with annual fees below 0.2%. If you want to hold your gold in an allocated way by Brinks or something with fewer layers of counterparty risk, it'll generally cost over 0.5% per year. This goes toward the vault costs, salaries for people with guns, real estate costs, etc.

Basically, there's a pretty big inefficiency in the form of 1) routine verification, 2) secure transfer of ownership, and 3) secure custody, that all comes out in the form of high costs and slow speeds.

Bitcoin has fees, but they are very low in comparison. Nodes can verify bitcoin basically for free. Miners timestamp transactions to transfer ownership for a fee, and you can currently send ten million dollars worth of bitcoin globally for like $10 and have it confirmed within the hour. And you can custody bitcoin yourself, and bring it around with you globally, through ports of entry, across borders, in ways you can't realistically do with gold above a certain value threshold.

When thinking about periods of above-average bitcoin fees, it's useful to keep some of the alternatives in mind. Verifying and transferring ownership of other store-of-value assets like gold and real estate is slower and a lot more expensive, requires a lot more abstraction and permission, and comes with much less portability.


I spent generational wealth on some Cuban cigars for a best friend’s Stag Do (bachelor party) 🦌  🇨🇺

But crucially, it was research for a documentary 🔍 🎥

Here is the link to the full video in case you missed it.

https://youtu.be/UPp0Xbk4bFo?si=O-0soh-JXKU8uJzJ

https://video.nostr.build/4fb2a2e11aae8e287ce0e90c7ffed71c8814c707113a696497da685cf267db07.mp4


Managers are literal slave drivers.
- They do NOT care about your career path.
- They do not help you to grow.
- They do not want you to have a healthy work/life balance.
- They want you to row the boat and crack the whip if you don’t.
They are NOT leaders..

Ever notice how so many managers are assholes and bad with people?


I would say the biggest strategy is not to expect any nostr app or project to pay a salary, through grants, donations, monetization, etc. There is just not enough traffic yet...
Focus on covering your app’s costs, expect this to be a side-hobby for a while, and consider yourself lucky if you get any grant money or donations, and with anything extra, just save it in your node / use it to grow and strengthen your app and nostr, cover low months, etc.


For the graveyards of cars, I just read some recent articles on it, seems there are a many. My guess is this is a printing fiat problem over the last few years combined with slowing electric car sales, overzealous expectations,  and other macroeconomic factors not necessarily directly related to the value of an electric car. I had no problem selling our two different second had electric cars in 2018 and 2022, different markets.

Regarding fires, it is as rare or less than gas car fires. I think that is a non-issue especially compared to the history of gas cars burning people to death.

Electric motors are more efficient, electricity is more efficient and flexible (or you would be running you iPhone with gas), we’ve been using batteries for decades, personal use is way more efficient in my families experience, but obviously using gas to power a generator for electricity or not properly recycling batteries is not.. So depends I guess.
Even IF today electric cars are less efficient (I don’t believe this is true) but if it was, in 5-15 years of technical advancement they WILL be light years more efficient. We would be paying for the R&D now to massively benefit the world later. Pretty sure horses were more efficient than the first gas cars.

Again, imagine powering 100% of your house electricity and automobile fuel with solar from your rooftop, for 20+ years. I’m doing that today (and mining Bitcoin with any left over). Talk about sovereign, I haven’t seen a gas station or electric bill in years.


DEEP FUCKING VALUE! 🚀🦍💎🙌


Protocols take time to adopt, but they don't die easily & Nostr doesn't rely on any company or person. That's the beautiful of nostr.

This year, we built a lot of cool stuff. Now, we have to polish them, make them more useful and user-friendly.

Even if only one app succeeds, the entire Nostr will succeed. keep building & improving.


The Nostr experiment will teach us that:

1. Entrepreneurship is HARD. Beware survivorship bias.
2. VC money doesn't guarantee success. It just means you have more to burn through.
3. You have to cultivate a brand to rally support
4. You HAVE to charge. Free only amounts to more free. Paying = signal. That's not to say that you can't have some free, but someone has to pay and signal for desired features.
5. You HAVE to do marketing. Build it and they will come is a fallacy. Only works on rare occasions when you build something truly spectacular. Ideal marketing split is AT MINIMUM 50/50 build/hustle to get the word out.
6. People lie. They say one thing but do another. Back to payment = signal.
7. What developer values ≠ what users value
8. Building something truly unique can work against you because new concepts are harder to explain. Familiar = less selling required.

Did I miss anything?


This will likely be the last year of damus. Will try my best to make this thing sustainable, but nostr clients don’t make money and I once funding runs dry its over as I can only burn saving for so long. Glad I was able to help play a small part in this regardless of what happens. Going to give it my all next year to try to keep the dream alive. Thanks for coming along for the ride ✌


Many point to Uber and AirBnB as Herculean efforts by startups to play in legally gray areas to brute force the mainstreaming of products by making incumbent regulations look silly. Bitcoin is going to make Uber and AirBnB look like child’s play.


Based.


let the universe know what you want but be open to how it gets you there


The 2nd 24hr frog talk recorded episodes are coming 👀 https://video.nostr.build/a6808b598cf98e683e21c0bf63d2109ff1fdf4638eb454f03745421a1bdee278.mp4


No nostr:npub15dc33fyg3cpd9r58vlqge2hh8dy6hkkrjxkhluv2xpyfreqkmsesesyv6e. 😅

https://shopstr.store


No days off in the Emerald City! 💪😤


ETF CANNOT BE PRICED IN BECAUSE MOST SUITS ARE TOO SCARED TO HOLD PRIVATE KEYS.


The decentralized protocol forgot to decentralize media distribution.


💭 https://video.nostr.build/1d4ace2375748ece83b76c6564464ea85e0f28126bdc661623b6172518354422.mp4


Just finished Mandibles and in the middle of reading Seeing Like a State.


The comments on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38718544 are proof that we can't make "just apps" and have people use them without knowing that Nostr is a thing. Users must know.

And in fact I think it is much easier to teach people about Nostr than about why your damn app doesn't have email+password login and where is it storing things and how does moderation work without telling them about Nostr.

And when they finally understand the basics of Nostr they will suddenly understand everything about not only your app, but about all other Nostr clients.


“After all, ever think about what the federal government does? Takes your money and gives it to somebody old. That’s about it.”

- Jarred in The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047 by Lionel Shriver


“The reason to go out into society is to find the very few people that you actually want to spend time with.”

- Naval


Someone tried to gotcha me with "how do we use bitcoin without electricity or internet" and I sent them nostr:npub1dergggklka99wwrs92yz8wdjs952h2ux2ha2ed598ngwu9w7a6fsh9xzpc 's article here where it talks about doing SHA256 by hand https://dergigi.com/2021/08/02/implications-of-outlawing-bitcoin/

Is it really so weird to think we could do bitcoin by hand on paper? Everything used to be that way. Just because math is involved for bitcoin doesn't make it less useful on paper. It actually makes it more useful because the math can be verified. I don't think it is likely that we ever need to do bitcoin by hand but it isn't unreasonable to think we could.

Imagine the difficulty adjustment after the power goes out tho 🤣


mood.

merry christmas nostr 🫂
https://m.primal.net/HVMr.jpg


Satoshi’s gift is a private property system that not only overcomes the human condition, but leverages it.

Bitcoin is defended by greed to enforce fairness.

There are no admins, no managers, no kings or presidents. Don't create them.

Be humbled by it, appreciate it as it is ❤


ت


Already did at 100 sat/vB. 😅


THIS IS NUTS:

T-Mobile changed their TOS to institute FINES for customers sending "non-compliant traffic". This includes S.H.A.F.T (Sex, Hate, Alcohol, Firearms, and Tobacco) related content. 🤦♂https://m.primal.net/HVIc.jpg


It happens to the best of us.


miami’s midnight sky a few days ago https://image.nostr.build/7d1f9a1a4177ddb22309b585cf028ac22f755f550812157735b2a4ce002397e3.jpg


On friday, the Central Bank of Nigeria released a circular reversing its bitcoin ban 🔥

Given the scant information available online on the circular and questions I've been getting from folks, I decided to distill the 11-page document into a piece, which I've just published.

The piece walks through the details of the CBN's circular, important changes, and its effects going into 2024.

Hopefully this provides more clarity on this important development.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/abubakarnurkhalil/2023/12/24/nigerian-central-bank-issues-circular-reversing-2021-bitcoin-ban/?sh=69910ce57350


Orange-pilled my dad and got him set up with a Coldcard; a Christmas miracle! 🍊💊🎄🫡


Cycle comparison: pre-Halving rallies. #Bitcoin 🧵

https://image.nostr.build/e8cb97884c9c369ef76717c1a352b63977991c840b2cc93055903ec129df4145.jpg


It will hyperboost B-commerce.
- More purchases in Bitcoin will come through nostr than through all other channels or direct combined.


Exactly 1 year ago today, after some fine tuning and beta testing, I released nostr.build to the world.
I never imagined it would get this far, especially in such a short period of time. I can't even imagine what another year will bring! Keep building and LFG

nostr:note1gw3pnxp6k65y6q5vmw98weqrfy4f5pnahvmt52scuuy87687v0pqnxnuyt


Safe sex is great sex, better wear a latex. Cause you don't want that late text, that “I think I’m late” text from the Fed.

Wear protection. Buy Bitcoin.

Strike merch Q1 24
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You don't own your data if you don't have a local backup of your events.

nostr:nevent1qqsgn3z5l83erujztqt6nqe4y77r3crc72sg55uu4qrl2urxu6cgfqspr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ez6ur4vgh8wetvd3hhyer9wghxuet5qgsx8lnrrrw9skpulctgzruxm5y7rzlaw64tcf9qpqww9pt0xvzsfmgrqsqqqqqpc9zr3r


Godzilla Minus One.


There is no second best.

https://open.spotify.com/track/69kOkLUCkxIZYexIgSG8rq?si=tzVSReizSeClSfB0r3ZioQ


Wtf is Vechain. 😂


Here is the blog entry that prompted me to look in Eclair’s direction 🐶🐾🫡
Very well thought out write up and architecture

https://acinq.co/blog/securing-a-100M-lightning-node


I come to you on a more serious note but not the type of serious that constitutes a nostr:npub1w64uxt9xmuhdfq6mmeypveme46svvfphx4r69yndmjsgask6knwqjx0ymf post.

Unfortunately, I was the victim of auto theft this week. I’m thankful to live in a place that is pretty good with public transit, but this is a big loss for me.

This is unfortunately a pretty life changing loss in my book both monetarily and just for general every day operations. A major set back.

The suspect broke my window along with what looked to be about 3 or 4 others based on the glass on the ground, and made away with my car somehow.

Unfortunately I’m not in the ideal financial situation to deal with a stolen vehicle. So I am going to put the pedal to the metal on monetizing Between Two ASICs now. So if you would like to help with that, whether it be resources, connections, etc., I’d be happy to link up.

As Nostr DMs are still kinda funky, you can message me on Simplex or Telegram which I will include links to below.

Thank you in advance.

https://t.me/tatumturnup

https://simplex.chat/contact#/?v=1-2&smp=smp%3A%2F%2F1OwYGt-yqOfe2IyVHhxz3ohqo3aCCMjtB-8wn4X_aoY%3D%40smp11.simplex.im%2Fr8wzP44HWLLPwdlKxe_EFCJNJgXKy-fA%23%2F%3Fv%3D1-2%26dh%3DMCowBQYDK2VuAyEAUs-jDnzIrA6JoR6OfAPvMdDNpFk24CwPt1n3ok0AL0s%253D%26srv%3D6ioorbm6i3yxmuoezrhjk6f6qgkc4syabh7m3so74xunb5nzr4pwgfqd.onion


🚨 BREAKING: #BitcoinAsia launches in Hong Kong

Ape in and get your ticket before prices increase 👇

https://b.tc/conference/asia

https://image.nostr.build/f871778c0a90919d6248a6061caa6fc313ce7dd8baae57e1376beb919ad9a6fd.png


Join us at Bitcoin and Beer Gathering https://meetu.ps/e/MLfLN/Ts1QD/i


Live view of people demanding the immediate reinstatement of price controls because they always work and that's why Argentina doesn't have any economic problems

https://i.nostr.build/2Vm8.jpg


"Derogacion de la ley" = "Repealing of law..."

Mostly repealing price control laws.

LFG, milei

https://i.nostr.build/Qyw8.png


It's happening!
https://i.nostrimg.com/010488824e0dac0f7fdf9a028b6a4c4f9b37bd6d32690ef71c6eaf9994cf4362/file.png


Will be out of the shop for a few weeks.

Next year we launch this thing for real.
https://image.nostr.build/676cf6e21e09413e223069ab5c33d38db13940e0b9168db26c05456e0875ca06.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=1024x1024&blurhash=U6ExkX%7DXMJvz%5DPNfM%7B-nM%7CSdTKJ7%5Ek%24lD%25M_&x=8426e109d3b381b5e3c674d88404266110cbddcc30ab8f8688349ece679f4f06
https://image.nostr.build/67ebbcbbb6ac61f862f3e5721ee1cf8066be72b15d18c2db9edbd44657dcd50d.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=1024x476&blurhash=ZGKd%7DAR_%3Fb02nsMlo%7D%25ytg%3FtjDMds%3DV%7BkXbXf%23xu%3FKM%2CD*-.x-osfORQRR4nNG-%3BWUROnOo3jcM%7B&x=813256ade65354c35ded32547348f99ddef7c03b1c2a422d6901e32b9f47a5f1


Google Searches can, and will, be held against you

Comments ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38737629 )

https://twitter.com/alanfeuer/status/1737845283126730858


Introducing the Ghost Address! 👻⚡

A Ghost Address is a Lightning Address for every lightning node, eliminating the reliance on custodial intermediaries to obtain a Lightning Address.  Ghost Addresses enable easy lightning payments directly to self-custody!
https://amboss.tech/_next/image?url=%2Fassets%2Fblog%2Fghost-addresses%2Fhero.webp&w=1920&q=75

What's a Ghost Address? 👻

It's the fusion of Phantom Payments first described by nostr:npub1spralxq6jlw5rdy0249vqr5sh43rfrlx2wzv3rhjjqedw559w9psrs8s72 with the simplicity of Lightning Addresses from nostr:npub1rvg76s0gz535txd9ypg2dfqv0x7a80ar6e096j3v343xdxyrt4ksmkxrck . It's all about making lightning transactions as easy as email. 📧⚡

Getting started is easy. Update to the latest Ghost-enabled Thunderhub.io , claim your Ghost Address, and step into the new era of self-custodied lightning zaps!
https://image.nostr.build/05bd50be440908dede1aa9527d95135bd31a016a5307d99a87462bde45fd7254.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=662x259&blurhash=Z04B%7CSo%24_3%3FbIT%25gITM%7BIA%7Eq-%3B%25M%3FbWBt7ofIUWAD%23%7Eqxu%25g-%3BRjxuM%7BWWRN-%3A_3Rj%3FbazIUxuIU&x=d23ba8a784c77403aae841466756a6d86031ef08960d5260825c42f54060a467

Dive deeper into Ghost Addresses, how they work, and their impact on the Lightning Network in our latest blog post: https://amboss.tech/blog/ghost-addresses .

Lastly, Merry Christmas from the Amboss team! Now we can be sure that you'll be getting into the Christmas Spirit! 👻🎄


If you pay for Replit Core, GPT-4 comes built in. Amjad also asked about replacing cycles with #bitcoin and lightning on X yesterday, and it had overwhelming support. Development, deployment, and AI on a #bitcoin standard could be coming soon! 👀


I don't think UASF can be categorically labeled an attack. Otherwise it would mean that miners largely control bitcoin- they alone get to determine whether or not a soft fork is done, despite only being a subset of stakeholders in the Bitcoin ecosystem. The possibility for a UASF spreads out that control and puts a check on miner incentives.


Winstar though. 🤑


Argentina’s new foreign minister. https://image.nostr.build/a03d8038638cda5deacaec86a5bf2eca32b9df5c5a2f5d1e91ad89a5fadd5d34.jpg https://image.nostr.build/9f2db4fbccfc0a9c65a8728172bdd9eeeb558ea529da3baf76d1770b1912fdd2.jpg


Hiding behind a socially acceptable mask attracts the wrong people into your life.

Advertise your weirdness and always tell the truth to attract those who are right for you and dissuade all who are not.


GOOD MORNING, NOSTR ONLY 🫡

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

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


The nostr:npub18d4r6wanxkyrdfjdrjqzj2ukua5cas669ew2g5w7lf4a8te7awzqey6lt3 new goggles feature can be used to highlight which transactions queued for confirmation in a future block are coinjoins! :eyes:

https://image.nostr.build/27d0a7493e0021b5910b305a4fbbb6022a573c38af428518803e451b90cec781.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=1109x629&blurhash=iBAk%3A%2B%7C%7EOAKIAtxGs.ApSw2-2os%3A%3DLw%7Dj%3Fsowz%24PwJ%2C%3Bs%3BOFoeWUR%2BoLS2%3Bk%2C%40baJRbYoLR%2BWUS22CBQs%2C%2CE%24PbIo2wdsC&x=9e378ed7ae147a8e0a29559352b10cb39cc197350d223fb1007b4eb51b01af83


How to 'stick' to Nostr?

Well, once you realized what the other place are doing to your brain, it's pretty hard to go back and not notice.


This video *wasn't* published FROM Flare.

And that's why nostr wins.

https://www.flare.pub/w/naddr1qqt45cts94kk2ttzv938jttyv4kk7tfjd45hxa33qyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnwdaehgu3wvfskueqzyrafsj7hmweg9ur7zmn6apajdg48hxuskujx53rhrux0ttjcqx84yqcyqqqgtwc2yjmqy


Ive been reading about the fall of Rome. Not from the dry academic perspective of power, but from the perspective of what it was like on the ground for the people living there.
I dont have alot of conclusions yet, except that it wasn't a singular event, and everything didn't just collapse. It went on for centuries after that, with different regional powers morphing and shifting. In fact, for some, the fall of Rome passed as a distant reality. And the "fall" was less of a fall, and more of a gradual reduction in power and influence, until they were no longer able to keep all Roman territories under strict control. At which point they fragmented off, out of Roman control. In some cases this was bad, in other cases, it really wasn't that bad at all. The sacking of Rome by the Visigoths was really more of an embarrassing outward symbol of what had already occurred.
It feels like now, the post WW2 Liberal economic order has already fallen. And what we are seeing now, are the shifting and morphing, as well as those who have prospered being in control of this order, do everything within their crumbling power, to make things stay the same. But they cant, because they have already changed.


👀⚡

https://x.com/amasad/status/1738003006048923697?s=46


Gotta get them some space heater cases now. 👀


They’re the same. 201 is the model of bitaxe and 1366 is in reference to the S19XP ASIC that the bitaxe is based on.


💯, nostr:npub13ummhxeqgv3vd27lrmawld6jaazlm5kle5gyptpe43easlf5zxqse984yk is selling some S9s on nostr:npub15dc33fyg3cpd9r58vlqge2hh8dy6hkkrjxkhluv2xpyfreqkmsesesyv6e for half that price.


nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m recommended the same site so now the price is irrelevant. 😅


It’s harder than it seems, but a cool project nonetheless!


It’s not sold out on https://bitcoinmerch.com/.


JUST IN‼ Argentina to allow contracts to be agree in Bitcoin.

President Javier Milei says "Bitcoin can eliminate the central bank"

Legal tender next? 👀 https://image.nostr.build/fdd46bdbd98fc4e76bba7a55850dcaef7787869d49af72adb08a97a529a06157.jpg


Stablecoins, assets that are centralized already really should be Chaumian e-cash. Why bother with a cumbersome database like a blockchain when the trust model is fundamentally the same?


Peter Thiel VC type shit to be exact. 😂


Over the course of 2023:

Reachable Bitcoin nodes are up 16% to 16,837

Reachable Ethereum nodes are down 25% to 7,483

Reachable Bitcoin Cash nodes are down 28% to 645

Reachable Zcash nodes are down 48% to 4,175


The best part?

All fully runnable from Umbrel. You can become your auncle Jim for your friends and family and smoothly onboard them to nostr+bitcoin in one go.

Your Umbrel becomes their nostr key custodian and bitcoin wallet until they are ready to take custody.

Yes, also all deployable within a Fedimint and transparently interoperable with any nostr client. nostr:note1y02g8c9q5x9mh4c3wkcz8epyrczh76jtjetk9lcjqzd0tgj42qasamlsx6


WE'RE GONNA REPLACE SPOTIFY
WE'RE GONNA REPLACE YOUTUBE
WE'RE GONNA REPLACE UBER
WE'RE GONNA REPLACE PINTEREST
WE'RE GONNA REPLACE INSTAGRAM
WE'RE GONNA REPLACE TWITTER
WE'RE GONNA REPLACE TIK TOK
WE'RE GONNA REPLACE THREADS
WE'RE GONNA REPLACE BLUESKY
WE'RE GONNA REPLACE TELEGRAM
WE'RE GONNA REPLACE DISCORD
WE'RE GONNA REPLACE TWITCH
WE'RE GONNA REPLACE AMAZON
WE'RE GONNA REPLACE FACEBOOK
WE'RE GONNA REPLACE GOOGLE
WE'RE GONNA CHART NEW TERRITORY AND DO THINGS THAT NOBODY HAS EVER DONE
AND WE'RE GONNA DO IT ALL ON #NOSTR

https://image.nostr.build/ee09f560e3cf79345c1778949bfaefcabd8d6abd1ae24bcc9d54402afd33c299.jpg


… and why can’t you do it in 6 months?


Holy shit, it's working!
Live new notes in there now too.

Keep in mind... Lost of bug and snags. If you can't find it use the npub instead. Also API access on the way so you can augment your clients' search or DVM functionality.

- https://m.primal.net/HUmc.png
- https://m.primal.net/HUmd.png
- https://m.primal.net/HUmG.png

Give it a try https://unleashed.chat its becoming fun.


How does one get in contact to potentially pitch?


Apple Develops Breakthrough Method for Running LLMs on iPhones

https://images.macrumors.com/article-new/2022/01/siri-symbol-iphone.jpg

Apple GPT in your pocket? It could be a reality sooner than you think. Apple AI researchers say they have made a key breakthrough in deploying large language models (LLMs) on iPhones and other Apple devices with limited memory by inventing an innovative flash memory utilization technique.

LLMs and Memory Constraints

LLM-based chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude are incredibly data and memory-intensive, typically requiring vast amounts of memory to function, which is a challenge for devices like iPhones that have limited memory capacity. To tackle this issue, Apple researchers have developed a novel technique that uses flash memory – the same memory where your apps and photos live – to store the AI model's data.

Storing AI on Flash Memory

In a new research paper titled "LLM in a flash: Efficient Large Language Model Inference with Limited Memory," the authors note that flash storage is more abundant in mobile devices than the RAM traditionally used for running LLMs. Their method cleverly bypasses the limitation using two key techniques that minimize data transfer and maximize flash memory throughput:

Windowing: Think of this as a recycling method. Instead of loading new data every time, the AI model reuses some of the data it already processed. This reduces the need for constant memory fetching, making the process faster and smoother.

Row-Column Bundling: This technique is like reading a book in larger chunks instead of one word at a time. By grouping data more efficiently, it can be read faster from the flash memory, speeding up the AI's ability to understand and generate language.

The combination of these methods allows AI models to run up to twice the size of the iPhone's available memory, according to the paper. This translates to a 4-5 times increase in speed on standard processors (CPUs) and an impressive 20-25 times faster on graphics processors (GPUs). "This breakthrough is particularly crucial for deploying advanced LLMs in resource-limited environments, thereby expanding their applicability and accessibility," write the authors.

Faster AI on iPhone

The breakthrough in AI efficiency opens new possibilities for future iPhones, such as more advanced Siri capabilities, real-time language translation, and sophisticated AI-driven features in photography and augmented reality. The technology also sets the stage for iPhones to run complex AI assistants and chatbots on-device, something Apple is already said to be working on.

held an AI summit and briefed employees on its large language model work. According to Bloomberg, Apple is aiming for a smarter version of Siri that's deeply integrated with AI. Apple is planning to update the way that Siri interacts with the Messages app, allowing users to field complex questions and auto-complete sentences more effectively. Beyond that, Apple is rumored to be planning to add AI to as many Apple apps as possible.

Apple GPT

Apple is reportedly developing its own generative AI model called "Ajax". Designed to rival the likes of OpenAI's GPT-3 and GPT-4, Ajax operates on 200 billion parameters, suggesting a high level of complexity and capability in language understanding and generation. Internally known as "Apple GPT," Ajax aims to unify machine learning development across Apple, suggesting a broader strategy to integrate AI more deeply into Apple's ecosystem.

As of the latest reports, Ajax is considered more capable than the earlier generation ChatGPT 3.5. However, it's also suggested that OpenAI's newer models may have advanced beyond Ajax's capabilities as of September 2023.

The Information and analyst Jeff Pu claim that Apple will have some kind of generative AI feature available on the iPhone and iPad around late 2024, which is when iOS 18 will be coming out. Pu said in October that Apple is building a few hundred AI servers in 2023, with more to come in 2024. Apple will reportedly offer a combination of cloud-based AI and AI with on-device processing.
Tag: Apple GPT
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https://www.macrumors.com/2023/12/21/apple-ai-researchers-run-llms-iphones/


I need Elements Core as a nostr:npub126ntw5mnermmj0znhjhgdk8lh2af72sm8qfzq48umdlnhaj9kuns3le9ll service.


#nostr devs rebuilding services what the fiat corps took from us ! We are going to win !


Zeus makes it a cleaner experience imo.


Today I'm launching Flare, a video sharing site built on Nostr! 🎉

Like YouTube, Flare lets you upload, view, comment, and like videos from your favorite creators. BUT unlike YouTube, we can't strike, shadow-ban, or demonetize you just because we disagree 🤗

Since Flare is built on Nostr, you are free to serve your content from anywhere and consume content from any kind 34235 client you'd like.

Check it out at https://www.flare.pub/ 🔥
https://v.nostr.build/VygA.mp4


Yes that would be a #bitcoin wallet on my Fight Night clothes!

Promote adoption #BTC https://image.nostr.build/7864706c70fc34440b66d398154265ea230b0b313eaf7b0d26a141fc6f7a3e15.jpg


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

🐝💧 ALBY EXTENSION NOW SUPPORTS LIQUID 💧🐝

On-chain fees high? Maybe that's why we see a recent surge of interest in #Lightning and #Liquid!

Alby comes with a quick answer - enabling interoperability with
The Liquid Network , bitcoin's federated sidechain🚀

https://blog.getalby.com/liquid/

Generate a Master Key in the Alby extension and use it not only with Nostr and Login with Lightning, but now also for on-chain #bitcoin and the #LiquidNetwork.

💡Who knows how many features it can enable in the future!?

Alby is also a proud member of The Liquid Federation! 🙌

🔑 But… while you can effectively have Liquid and onchain keys safe in the extension…. currently there’s no way to manage your Liquid assets directly in it. 🙉

To solve this problem, we are pairing sats with
@Blockstream
 to fund and announce a…

💰💰 2,100,000 SATS BOUNTY! 💰💰💰

We will pay you to build a Liquid web wallet that could be used with Alby Extension!
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Are you a developer and a bounty hunter? Contribute and earn #bitcoin!

https://github.com/getAlby/lightning-browser-extension/wiki/Bounties?ref=blog.getalby.com


You’re not looking hard enough.


It might make them aware of the request, but a relay doesn’t have to support it.


Summarizing 2023: A subset of events for the year.

-China's economic re-opening stagnated. Had the first negative foreign direct investment flow in over two decades. And yet simultaneously, China surpasses Japan as world's biggest auto exporter. Huge gap between domestic consumption and export prowess.

-There was a US banking crisis involving a duration mismatch rather than a credit event. Resulted in some of the largest bank failures in American history, and the collapse of the 167-year old global systematically important bank, Credit Suisse. Liquidity was provided to the market and stocks went up toward all-time highs.

-The United States ran enormous deficits, resulting in one of the biggest divides between monetary policy and fiscal policy on record. Amid the deficits, consensus outlooks for a recession go largely contradicted, as some industries boom while others stagnate.

-Russia's invasion of Ukraine drags on. Russia's Prigozhin launches a rebellion, captures Rostov-on-Don and pushes hard toward Moscow, but then calls it off and agrees to leave. Prigozhin dies in a plane crash two months later, attributed to a bomb on board.

-A coup in Niger effectively pushes out France's presence from the country, and more broadly sheds light on France's ongoing presence in many African nations including with the CFA Franc.

-Israel suffers its worst terrorist attack in decades by Hamas, and responds with orders of magnitude more force on Gaza including major civilian casualties, and this war remains ongoing. Global public attention shifts from Ukraine/Russia to Gaza/Israel, and widely polarizes people across the world.

-The first recorded instance of space combat occurred as Israel intercepted a missile from Yemen in low Earth orbit. Yes, Earth's first known instance of non-test space combat was initiated not from within the United States, Russia, or China, but from Houthi rebels in Yemen.

-The first self-identified anarcho-capitalist candidate becomes head of state for a country, and for a G20 country no less. Calls for ending Argentina's central bank, after decades of uncontrolled fiscal monetization, inflation, and economic stagnation. If Argentina dollarizes, it would be the biggest country so far to do so.

-The Suez Canal is effectively closed over dangers posed to ships from Yemen. This impacts global shipping costs and energy, but likely hurts Egypt the most.

-Multiple other conflicts persist, including Myanmar's bloody civil war. Despite enormous casualties, these types of conflicts go largely ignored by the world because they don't materially affect the macroeconomy or bring major powers into potential conflict.

-The US federal government brings attention to UFOs/UAPs with multiple hearings, commissions, etc. But nobody really gives a shit. The public is like, "With all this going on, can we save the aliens topic until next year? Thanks."


NIP44, the new audited encryption procedure by nostr:npub10jcnehsxwrjepupvh602pl83up0dh3wv3fqfwv062smygqvpeuwsk03kag to fully replace NIP-04 has been merged!

The NIP04 is now officially dead.

GM.

https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/44.md


Deletions are handled more like requests rather than hard deletes. There’s no way to guarantee that the deletion request goes through for a particular relay, so depending on your relay list it can still show up in other clients.


Game theory:

- All ETF’s will be approved
- Government closes in cooperation with financial institutions the gates to Bitcoin exchanges
- no more buying and self custody possible
- if you want corn you can go buy our ETF product
- institutions will earn insane amounts of money out of it
- the floating self custody supply gets even smaller
- more people start realizing they want self custody
- P2P transaction will skyrocket
- physical Bitcoin will go up 1000x in price


Proudly presenting: The Cashu Protocol v1 specs!

One year after the inception of Cashu, we finally introduce the first version of the protocol.

This is a major evolution! We dubbed it "The Great Cleanup" and it's already being implemented in different Cashu projects.

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

You can find the pull request in the Cashu NUTs repository.

Cashu NUTs (Notation, Usage, and Terminology) describe the protocol specifications of Cashu wallets and mints. This makes sure that Cashu Ecash systems are interoperable.

https://github.com/cashubtc/nuts/pull/55

Among countless other improvements, we introduce a new concept: Quotes!

Quotes allow mint operations with different payment methods (Lightning, on-chain, ...) and Ecash units (sats, msats, usd, ...).

This brings incredible flexibility for building Ecash systems.

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

We also transition from base64 keyset IDs to hexadecimal IDs with a version flag. This allows much easier upgrades of the keyset ID in the future.

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

Read more about Cashu and check out Cashu projects like Wallets and mints at https://cashu.space

If you are a developer, make sure to check out the many Cashu libraries on our documentation page at https://docs.cashu.space

Onward!


😂 ¡Qué pedo, wey!


Mexican Spanish >>


Currently there’s no agreed upon spec for quantity, but it wouldn’t be difficult to add (most simply: [“quantity”, “<number”]). Same with automatic deletion, and it could be done either after a certain time frame or immediately upon receipt of payment.


Learning Portuguese atm and planning to learn French after. Spanish and English are already crossed off, so soon I’ll be able to talk to the entirety of the Western Hemisphere. 🌎


https://github.com/nbd-wtf/nostr-tools/releases/tag/v2.0.0 was released with many changes that will break your app. Congratulations. I am too tired to test this now, so please test it for me and report bugs.


nip19.decode() on an nsec returns a Uint8Array instead of a hex string. I submitted a pr for this, but it’s a quick fix regardless.

https://github.com/nbd-wtf/nostr-tools/pull/328


Accidentally deployed an updated package that broke nostr:npub15dc33fyg3cpd9r58vlqge2hh8dy6hkkrjxkhluv2xpyfreqkmsesesyv6e for a bit, but now we’re back! 😅

https://shopstr.store


Is this how it looks only when filtering for an npub or throughout the site? And what phone model are you using? One of the contributors uses Chrome on Android and it looks good for him.


My fresh BREAD has finally been delivered. nostr:npub1cashappn03s3cl2ljsdntv0v28e2um5lgx4vjctqjt23pcwzjhsqmtdg5l https://image.nostr.build/a8eb25e9464fd680fc142741e15621dc4d0ae5c3ea3278fa87ded8b2ff6abe51.jpg


What browser is this on?


It's quite refreshing to see that fucktard on X calling us all treasonous. It's basically one step removed from calling for our execution.

If you're not an enemy of the State, you're not Bitcoining hard enough.


Just a random thought. It would have been nice if mining fees guaranteed a throughput of the transaction when it is submitted. Let’s say you can check the schedule, see if one or the other fee level gave you specific timeline, and proceeded with confidence that it will be confirmed based on initial submission. As an example, let’s say I want for my TX to be confirmed in one week, check the fees, get 20 sats/Vb, and submit with 0 worries and clear expectations. Now it’s just a gamble, regardless of when you do it and how much you are willing to pay. Just my 2 sats worth of option 🐶🐾🫡


🎉 HRF is excited to announce its Q4 round of Bitcoin Development Fund grants 🎁

💰 $500,000 to 18 projects across areas such as global education, Bitcoin Core, mining decentralization, and support for devs in Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East.

One grantee is Mostro, a peer-to-peer Bitcoin exchange created by Venezuelan developer Francisco Calderon. It is designed to facilitate censorship-resistant financial transactions under authoritarian regimes.

📚 MyFirstBitcoin, a non-profit in Central America, is another recipient. They offer an open-source Bitcoin education program. With HRF’s support, they’ll be able to increase their international expansion, bringing crucial knowledge to more closed societies.

Arabic Hodl is making Bitcoin education more accessible to the more than 400 million Arabic-speaking people worldwide. Hodl’s project includes creating how-to guides, privacy tutorials, educational podcasts, and foundational Bitcoin literature in Arabic.

🌐🔍 Netblocks receives support for their vital work in monitoring global internet restrictions. Continuous internet monitoring is crucial for activists and journalists to maintain their freedom of expression, access to information, and safety. Strong internet is also important for financial freedom.

HRF is funding developer Lorban for his work on StratumV2. Stratum V2 enables mining pool users to select transactions for proposed blocks, instead of relying on templates from pools, increasing Bitcoin’s censorship resistance. ⛏

John Carlson's efforts to improve the Bitcoin Core App project is also receiving support. Through this work, he hopes to lower technical barriers and make Bitcoin transactions more accessible to a wider audience, starting with users on Android devices.

Area Bitcoin, founded by Carol Souza and Kaka Furlan, is expanding its Brazilian educational content across Latin America. The HRF funding will enable translations of their resources into Spanish and English. 📚🌎

🇳🇮In Nicaragua, Berta Valle is focusing on Bitcoin education for human rights defenders in Latin America. Her project will empower dissidents and civil society leaders with Bitcoin to help them become financially resilient against oppressive regimes.

Bitshala in India is creating a hub of Bitcoin knowledge and community. With HRF's support, they'll provide tutorials, technical training, and resources for budding Bitcoin developers in the country. 🇮🇳🌱💡

HRF is supporting hack.bs in Italy. With the grant, hack.bs is establishing a cypherpunk hackerspace that will bring together locals and global experts in the areas of financial freedom and the defense of privacy. 🇮🇹🛡

Bitcoin Deepa is nurturing the Bitcoin community in Sri Lanka. HRF funding will enhance their educational efforts and promote Bitcoin adoption among local merchants. 🇱🇰💼

🌍Exonumia translates Bitcoin educational content into African languages like Shona, Malagasy, Amharic, Kiswahili, and Lingala. Funding will support their efforts to expand to more languages, raise awareness of Bitcoin, and grow financial-freedom oriented communities.

HRF is supporting L0la L33tz’s efforts to create a Bitcoin privacy guide for beginners, with a special focus on activists, dissidents, and NGOs in hostile environments. We look forward to publishing and sharing this document in 2024. 🌐🛡

HRF is awarding a grant to Groundswell in the UK. Groundswell supports Bitcoin education for refugees and diaspora communities, particularly from the Middle East. The project will host workshops, practical training, and help refugees (plus their families) receive their first Bitcoin. 🇬🇧🌍

⛏HRF is supporting Kulpreet Singh's work on Braidpool, a proposed peer-to-peer mining pool. By allowing miners to build their blocks and reducing pool operators’ grip on payouts, Braidpool is designed to enhance Bitcoin’s censorship resistance and decentralized nature.

HRF is proud to support SeedSigner developer Keith Mukai. Funds will facilitate MicroPython research and development to enable operations on affordable microcontrollers. This will eliminate Raspberry Pi dependencies, making SeedSigner more robust and accessible. 🔐

Bitcoin++, a developer-focused conference series around the world. Funding will cover educational efforts, general conference expenses, as well as travel expenses for developers from authoritarian countries.

Bitcoin Atlantis, a conference in Madeira. HRF funding will help human rights defenders, civil society leaders, and educators working in dictatorships to attend the event to share their experiences with thousands of Bitcoin builders, creators, and educators. 🇵🇹🌊

With these grants, HRF continues to push the boundaries of financial freedom, privacy, and human rights through Bitcoin. Stay tuned for more updates on these exciting initiatives. We’re looking forward to greater innovation in 2024! 🚀🔐
🌐

Hopeful applicants can find the BDF application here: https://hrf.org/devfund


List them on nostr:npub15dc33fyg3cpd9r58vlqge2hh8dy6hkkrjxkhluv2xpyfreqkmsesesyv6e or Amethyst!


There is no second best lock screen. https://image.nostr.build/2796937a688202b3fd17610dc217ac81d086b696ea8aa2f753321235a8093623.jpg


200 GRANTS BY CONFERENCE DAY


Where we are going, we won't need any exchanges.

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Lost my stack in the mempool. 😵💫


Applied about a month ago for the nostr:npub15dc33fyg3cpd9r58vlqge2hh8dy6hkkrjxkhluv2xpyfreqkmsesesyv6e team; hoping for the best! 🤞


“Everything not forbidden is compulsory.”

- Gell-Mann


Today, I met a wealthy boomer woman during a tea ceremony. Intrigued by #Bitcoin , she shared her experience with me. Although she had traded MSTR and GBTC for exposure, she hadn't delved into the spot market. I ask her why. Her reason was straightforward:

The lack of time to set up an account and learn how to manage keys.

This is why a #Bitcoin  ETF is transformative. It could forever change the landscape, making Bitcoin accessible to those who, like her, are searching for simplicity in getting exposure to Bitcoin.

FYI The tea ceremony 🍵 https://image.nostr.build/7f4ec5d74123f69234278e665b790a1a92aeeb1310ba78a82ea7c7399774662f.jpg


2024 = #Bitcoin + #Nostr + nostr:npub15dc33fyg3cpd9r58vlqge2hh8dy6hkkrjxkhluv2xpyfreqkmsesesyv6e
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“If people were selling drugs instead of JPEGs, the maxis would probably be fine with that.”
— nostr:npub1zach44xjpc4yyhx6pgse2cj2pf98838kja03dv2e8ly8lfr094vqvm5dy5 on Ordinals

#Frogtalk #Frogathon

(Don’t shoot the messenger!)


Thanks for having nostr:npub14u43en9xrzh92lmy8yk6fq3mme7vyul7x66n2zl6y35c3nt3y0lqhs3g74 and I on! 🤙 nostr:note16z6usnzjsgdqn3juyjn2987gnpkglqwruda6g00v8qcqshfcx96szhjc94


STARVE THE BEAST.

FORCE THE SCAMMERS TO MOVE TO NOSTR. BRING ALL THE GOOD DISCUSSION HERE.

THEY CANT DELETE. THEY CANT BLOCK. FORCE THEIR FUCKING HAND.

NOSTR ONLY 🫡


Both.


oh no jack dorsey just followed me on twitter. maybe I can nostrpill him.


It was good; didn’t think the end was as bad as reviews were saying.


Bitcoin layer one was never optimized for tiny amounts of bitcoin. It’s like driving an 18-wheeler to work everyday. It’s like if every email ever sent by everyone had to be stored on everyone’s computer forever.

I invest in things for the developing world, and they are all part of the layered solution.


Verifying my Nostr Nests identity: BkScvrxILxuOk_ggw1Z2h_GmH1Cv6vC40LBr1BkwSLY
https://nostrnests.com


There are 60 million millionaires in the world, and every single one of them has a store of value problem. And so does everyone else in the world.

The cost to ship a sizable amount of gold internationally costs hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars. Even if you just buy hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of gold domestically and bring it home, you're paying a spot markup of thousands of dollars. The cost to close a luxury mansion real estate deal (which many wealthy people just own and leave empty as a store of value) can be hundreds of thousands of dollars or more, and then depending on their jurisdiction they pay hundreds of thousands of dollars per year in property taxes on it. An international wire transfer often costs like $30 and takes days and is entirely permissioned/centralized/credit-based. Credit card fees are like 3%. The global banking industry generates hundreds of billions of dollars in fees per year even though it's all centralized.

Bitcoin is a decentralized global liquid store of value and settlement network. You can send money to any internet-connected person in the world generally in an hour or less depending on desired block confirmations. You can indefinitely self-custodially store value in a unit that is scarcer than gold and scarcer than real estate and that unlike both gold and real estate is globally portable. It currently costs like $35 to do this and everyone is losing their minds at how expensive that seems. But $35 is an *outstanding* price for this service, and in ten years I have no idea what the price will be but there are many scenarios where it could be way higher.

Right now, bitcoin fees are higher than normal because people are trading frogs on the timechain and so forth. But regardless, people need to be ready for the prospect of sustained high fees if bitcoin adoption continues to grow structurally with limited block space. This means users, developers, businesses, etc. To put it into this bigger context, fees are still insanely cheap compared to other alternatives listed above that give similar store of value and global payment properties at scale.

I'm a bit surprised fees haven't *already* been $35 on a regular basis by now. So to flip it around; fees aren't expensive because there are frogs on the timechain; fees are still cheap because relatively few people are using bitcoin to send and store money compared to the total addressable market that could be doing so.

Does this price out small users? Unfortunately, yes. That's where layers come in, and the options vary depending on if someone is a power user or not. Hal Finney wrote about that in 2010; it's not a new narrative.

A couple Lightning channels can open a lot of payment liquidity for you. Sidechains like Liquid didn't get much attention when fees were low but now people are giving them a second look. Chaumian mints allow communities around the world to set up their own community banks/custodians with built-in privacy.  Places like Cash App allow people to buy bitcoin with decent custodial assurances run by serious people (eg it's not some crazy-haired idiot in the Bahamas). These are all tools that people can use to have bitcoin price exposure, pay in bitcoin, etc. And a unique aspect of bitcoin is the ability to split control. Multi-institution multi-sigs, or federated sidechains: the fact that ownership can be broken into several different entities is not something available to gold or similar assets, and yet a lot of people take it for granted on bitcoin. These are all tools that businesses can offer and people can use for smaller amounts, and then pull into on-chain self-custody if they have a sizable balance for longer-term storage.

In the future, some soft forks or non-form upgrades might allow other types of models. I think the ecosystem is still in its infancy. But in the meantime, it helps to have perspective on what bitcoin offers compared to alternatives, and to be realistic about the long-run inevitability of substantial base-layer fees if any meaningful adoption becomes sustained, and thus the importance of preparing for them.

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


The most important question of our time.


I could be upset about it or I can be thankful for having played a part of the very beginning of something that had such an impact. Plus we make too much of a hero’s journey idolizing ‘founders’ or ‘creators’ when it’s really the work of everyone who came after and did the hard work of scaling and creating a sustainable business. Twitter was built by thousands of amazing dedicated people and millions of users together.


🐸 The 24hr Frog Talk 🐸

We’re proud to present the speaker for the fifth hour of the frog-a-thon! 🎉

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https://nostrnests.com/frogtalk

#FrogTalk #Frogathon https://i.nostr.build/layw.png


https://stacker.news/items/354028

'even if .... pennies of value'.

Is there any solution outside of a Tor onion service?


Maybe we should approach the Substack people somehow and convince them to integrate with Nostr.
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The contact key verification makes it worth.


📝 nostr:note1epvffra45q5w6j4sehwjnvamq478mc4qpp4acj0egsxldvemtlrq6u6eja


I don’t know why more devs don’t use Tailwind 🤷♂. It looks decent from the start so you don’t have to worry about the basics.


If you haven't watched Cypherpunks Write Code. Highly recommend it.

I have uploaded it to nostr:npub1nxy4qpqnld6kmpphjykvx2lqwvxmuxluddwjamm4nc29ds3elyzsm5avr7, thank me later

https://v.nostr.build/nA6q.mp4


Rayquaza.


Big news for all #ZapStream creators AND viewers!

Clips are here! Have fun capturing hot topics, funny stuff, gaming moments and more! Just smash the button, select the segment to clip and hit publish .

https://image.nostr.build/794e65f79639a4237326785abc04a4e7ba2805ca5055b76871feba264143370f.jpg https://image.nostr.build/1876a33da729ee1120c9adf187e5addfda525eb68310ba7fb4addf94642e545e.jpg
#streaming #nostr #clips #contentcreators


Fellas, I think threads.net might be blocking some servers already.

It does not work on any Pleroma servers yet. But I believe that is an unintentional compatibility issue. However some servers seem to be outright blocked.

Let me explain. Threads requires signed fetches. What that means is that every GET request to a threads.net resource needs to be cryptographically signed. Threads will then look up the signer and verify its signature.

The flow looks something like this:

gleasonator.com -> GET threads.net/zuck (signed by /actor)
threads.net -> GET gleasonator.com/actor

The request to Threads contains a signature, with information about how to verify it. Threads will then verify it by fetching info from the origin server before returning the data.

You can see Threads fetching your own server by looking at the "facebookexternalua" user agent. Try this command on your server:

grep facebookexternalua /var/log/nginx/access.log

If you see logs there, that means Threads is attempting to verify your signatures and allow you to access their data.

On Gleasonator, I am seeing logs there. It is trying to let me establish a connection, even though it fails due to a bug in Pleroma or Threads. This means Gleasonator is not blocked.

However, on Spinster, and the Mostr Bridge, I have no requests from Threads at all, despite sending signed fetches. graf reports that Poast also isn't receiving any requests.

I do not believe they are operating on a whitelist. If so, it wouldn't make sense for Gleasonator and many other widely-blocked servers like gameliberty.club to be able to fetch from Threads.

So then I thought it may just be a caching issue, or a fluke on their end. But when I make a request from Gleasonator, I get the pingback from Threads within seconds. On Spinster and Mostr, there is no attempt being made at all.

So I am starting to think they may be blocking at the server-level already. And they are blocking Poast, Spinster, and the Mostr Bridge.


“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville


Introducing River Link: text Bitcoin to anyone, anywhere,
ANY WALLET!

With River Link, your contact list becomes a Bitcoin address
book 🤯

📱 Send through text, email, social media DMs
🤝 Friends can claim Bitcoin to any wallet or River account
🔗 River Link supports on-chain and Lightning payments

Strengthening Bitcoin as a peer-to-peer network 🧡

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


This was my change in a Cafe in Harare today. As inflation is going wild - exchange rate was 1 USD : 200 Zimbabwe Dollar one year ago and is 1 : 8,000 today! - everyone who can get a hold of USD is using it. Only problem: there are no coins, which means if something costs 2,50 USD you need to pay 3. Only option is to ask if they can give you something else as change. This biscuit was my 50 Cents change. And you should never take a torn banknote as someone else won’t accept it. https://image.nostr.build/835ab333bf12ae50c24f2ca6053439799a1aaaa1b985e46626713fbd09b547b1.jpg


Insane.

Ref https://x.com/matthewlilley/status/1735285684070461534
https://m.primal.net/HTpg.jpg


GM nostr, I'm a bit quiet lately due to life events but I'm relentlessly building when time permits. As bullish as ever on this protocol and the people building & poasting. Let's tear down the walled gardens.

https://tidal.com/track/3543993


JUST IN: #Bitcoin  Inscriptions minted for less than $10 sell for $450,000 in 1st Sotheby's auction 💥 https://image.nostr.build/8de1c7e09ded557ad5b6cae77af0e624149f67252e314dc25ddfde16e4d10e80.jpg


#proofofsteak https://image.nostr.build/0de74640e81b5c8251094dba4f21f47f15c88ac9777f95b9cc646f2fa4e087d2.jpg


Moravia, Geneva, or Vienna.


Guess where the next nostr conference will be 👀 https://image.nostr.build/898bcc2a3f0282d6ec5fb41b58297c6ab0af7d1168a52d446dd7b51787a8943d.jpg


MANDIBLES THEN BITCOIN STANDARD

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


How is a user’s relay list stored? We’ll try and get broadcasting to individual relay lists out sometime today.


Added clip feature to nostr:npub1eaz6dwsnvwkha5sn5puwwyxjgy26uusundrm684lg3vw4ma5c2jsqarcgz !
https://void.cat/d/LfQxWWWJCutnxuY46MhUzy.webp
Are there any features you think zap.stream should have, but doesn't?


na. can’t vote your way out of a systemic incentive problem.


When nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m was CEO of Twitter and Trump was president there were many calls to ban Trump from Twitter. There were many people demanding Trump be removed because either he violated the TOS or because they saw Trump’s tweets as dangerous.

While catching up over kombucha at the Square office, Jack mentioned some of these conversations and how there were compelling arguments on both sides. He asked lots of people what they thought twitter should do. So he asked me about Trump and other accounts, like Richard Spencer’s and the alt-right.

I’m very anti-Trump but I said I thought Jack shouldn’t ban him, because he’d face a shareholder revolt. Everyone said that it was Jack deciding things at Twitter and Mark Zuckerberg for the meta empire, but that wasn’t really true. The real power is in the money and that’s shareholders and advertisers.

I can only imagine what a hard and stressful job it would be to decide what can and cannot be said in the public sphere, as twitter effectively was at its height. It was an impossible job, one which shouldn’t exist. Jack did incredibly good at managing to find balance, and everyone hated his decisions because there was no right answer.

The reason for Bluesky, and now Nostr is to make it so no company or person has that kind of control. That the public sphere that is social media shouldn’t owned or controlled by any corporation or government. When something of value is held together without being ultimately owned by a person, organization, or government, the it is held in common.

What we’re building together on Nostr is a commons. By making it a commons that’s held up by our software and contrbution as users, we escape the trap that caught twitter.

A commons where we come together to make and sustain space.

A commons where we can do business freely without someone who can arbitrarily shut us down.

A commons where groups of users can decide the rules for themselves, and everyone doesn’t need to follow some universal set of opaque rules.


After using #Nostr for several weeks, one thing that has taken me by surprise is how there are very liberal and very conservative people on here, and yet they both share a sense of community and don't spend all day posting content against each other. Despite differences in political persuasion, they find common ground on here.

Now that I've seen this, I better understand how dangerous centralized control of social media is -- where algorithms continuously drive inflammatory content to users to keep them addicted to the platform. I find it ironic that a censorship-resistant platform is largely devoid of much of the inflammatory content that's present on censorable social media. One may have thought the opposite would be the case.


I own the domain and I want to do something great with it. https://nostrleaks.org


Helping to correct what I was a part of and learned. It’s not about Twitter. It’s about the corporate incentives.

A company can’t own the protocol, platform, and interface all in one. The protocol layer must be free.


I still can't get over the fact that since I have been on Nostr my paintings have crossed the ocean and many have gone to the US and Canada.

This is all thanks to bitcoin and the appreciation of my art lovers.

Thank you all so much from the bottom of my heart, when I think of all this, I repeat, I still can't believe it. 🙏🫂🧡💜🎨

#art #grownostr


💯, the sauce is 👌.


The one in Vegas is great! https://image.nostr.build/19145abf743ea6c1a82711633b16514c8992300133d900797eb642fffa715463.jpg


#Amethyst v0.82.1: Marketplace, NIP-96 Image Servers, NIP-54 inline metadata

Adds support for selling and listing in Amethyst as well as NIP-96 Image Servers and NIP-54 inline metadata. Provides large improvemetns to Cashu's token redemption and fixes several bugs.

https://image.nostr.build/40ae418ccc5336e17b5949bacc11c31835603437816f8bf867c171f07d34dd54.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=720x1612&blurhash=%5BLFFgJMyj%5Bt74TMyoft70LxufiV%5B_Nt7f6WB4TogoMj%5Bxut7ofWAS%7EofbFjtD%25xtWBWBs%2BM%7BjbbH&x=c3a3f49c017f58749226f8ae6021c11a745d2354f52a229cb99eef4a9d20ec39

- Adds selling: ShopStr's classified creation
- Migrates old image server uploads to NIP-96
- Adds support for NIP-54 inline metadata
- Adds a Marketplace tab to Discovery
- New Cashu Redeeming card UI.
- Shows the blurhash with a Download icon instead of the URL when the user chooses to not automatically load images/videos
- Improves the video switching flicker from blurhash to video
- Optimizes the rendering of the drawer
- Updates EOSE status in the same thread of the new event to reduce the amount of coroutine launches.
- Uses just one HTTPClient for the entire app
- Adds a User Agent to all HTTP requests.
- Improves Cashu Redeeming UI feedback
- Adds support for the FileServers kind
- Adds relay information for Replaceable events
- Unifies upload options into NIP-94 images
- Improves the rendering of inline metadata
- Uses nostr.wine instead of filter.nostr.wine as a search relay
- Fixes bottom bar appearing in chats when the keyboard is open
- Fixes uploading crash due to malformed video formats
- Fixes crash when image is an SVG and tries to compress
- Fixes deletion of replaceable events
- Fixes hash calculation from the entire payload to only the bytes in the file
- Fixes bug when updating relay list that used keep the previous list
- Presents better error messages when the image upload fails
- Adds a button to Cashu preview to redeem on external wallet by nostr:npub1nxa4tywfz9nqp7z9zp7nr7d4nchhclsf58lcqt5y782rmf2hefjquaa6q8
- Fixes zap splits when using amber with intents by nostr:npub1w4uswmv6lu9yel005l3qgheysmr7tk9uvwluddznju3nuxalevvs2d0jr5
- Updates translations for cs/de/sv/pt by nostr:npub1e2yuky03caw4ke3zy68lg0fz3r4gkt94hx4fjmlelacyljgyk79svn3eef
- Updates Hungarian translations by nostr:npub1ww8kjxz2akn82qptdpl7glywnchhkx3x04hez3d3rye397turrhssenvtp
- Updates Finnish translations by @petrikaj
- Updates Dutch translations by nostr:npub1w4la29u3zv09r6crx5u8yxax0ffxgekzdm2egzjkjckef7xc83fs0ftxcd
- Updates French translations by nostr:npub106efcyntxc5qwl3w8krrhyt626m59ya2nk9f40px5s968u5xdwhsjsr8fz
- Updates dependencies

Download:
- [Play Edition](https://github.com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/releases/download/v0.82.1/amethyst-googleplay-universal-v0.82.1.apk )
- [FOSS Edition - No translations](https://github.com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/releases/download/v0.82.1/amethyst-fdroid-universal-v0.82.1.apk )


Braiins Pool is now FPPS (guaranteed regular payouts).

I had only mined in their previous PPLNS* system.

Braiins could go days without finding a block, so FPPS feels like an improved experience.

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

Statistically it shouldn't(?) make a difference which payout system you're in (assuming no pool shenanigans), but the guaranteed ongoing payout is psychologically more comforting.

I didn't realize that hashing credit would accrue every 5 min(?) or so. That's nice. If you popped in and hashed for 20 minutes and then shut down, you'd still get paid out for that span of work (unlike PPLNS where you could easily yield nothing, depending on luck).

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*(PPLNS: paid only when they find a block, highly variable, and your hash participation credit dwindles quickly if you stop hashing--i.e. you get nothing if you mined for a while but dropped out before the pool found the next block)


Under Section 504 of the House intelligence committee’s bill, any entity that has access to *equipment* on which communications may be transmitted or stored, such as an ordinary router, is fair game.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1734249938333167889.html


I tried to build an lnbank-like plugin for CLN and eventually decided it was a terrible idea because multi-user lightning custody is an accounting and security nightmare. You have to be very careful not to introduce double-spend attacks and race conditions when it comes to withdrawals. People building and recommending these solutions are playing with fire. Looks like it eventually happened 😔 nostr:note19dlr0zva39fulekf9veudpqqz29x4f88qlgp5r3hhugfrufgu7dqz4f3rp


1000mg per half liter.


☀🌙 nostr:note1yfsdjtn83swfak70kzp3rzuqpxkyfmmrm9k55kc54eelrzq9863qrra4g9


KIDS SEE GHOSTS.


Starting to play with decentralized trust ranking in Spring v0.12.

You can estimate, adjust and publish trust scores for other users - these are estimated from your recent interactions.

https://void.cat/d/T5HriPK2C8QSd7cGsoJVL6.webp

nostr:npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 has been advocating the TrustNet as a web of trust implementation, useful for spam filtering etc.

The algorithm has two steps - first, each user publishes 'trust assignments' - that's trust scores your can now publish with Spring. These are published as 10629 replaceable events with a list of 'p' tags and a score, typical size will probably be ~100 pubkeys. We provide an estimate based on past interactions, but it can't be precise - you may and should adjust it to match your actual relationships.

The second step is that apps can download trust assignments of users close to your network (contacts, people you like/zap a lot etc) and run a calculation akin to PageRank, but it's not global - it's local to your network. The result will be several thousand pubkeys with non-zero trust ranks - a much wider network of users who could be trusted.

This way the trust ranking is a) based on everyone's actual relationships, because you can adjust the trust scores you're publishing, and b) efficient and can be used by any app - it just needs to download several hundred trust score lists and run the trustnet algo periodically and store results in local cache.

Spring only does step one at the moment. When enough people publish their trust assignments we will add the second step and let you calculate your own trust ranks. Spring will show the trust ranks under profiles, and will use it for spam filtering later. Other apps will probably find other uses for it.

More on TrustNet here: https://cblgh.org/trustnet/


The addresses listed on https://breadzine.com/stockists.html don’t match up with the actual locations, at least in Seattle. Might be why they still haven’t gotten their fresh BREAD. nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m nostr:npub1cashappn03s3cl2ljsdntv0v28e2um5lgx4vjctqjt23pcwzjhsqmtdg5l


Specter is great


FUCK EASY

I'm fed up with easy.
You don't want easy.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and one of said intentions is making things too easy.

Easy is staying on the couch.
Easy is not putting on your running shoes.
Easy is watching the porn, eating the junk food, binging the fucking stupid series.

Easy is not sticking out.
Easy is shutting up when you should be speaking out.
Easy is compliance.
Easy is saying the same thing, thinking the same thing, and liking the same thing as everyone else.

Easy is kicking the can down the road.
Easy is short-term gain for long-term losses.
Easy is starting up the money printer.
Easy is "papering over" failures.

Easy is "This is too hard. This is not for me. Someone else should take care of it."
Easy is not educating yourself.
Easy is not taking responsibility.
Easy is trusting a third party.
Easy is not holding your own keys.

Easy is comfortable.
Easy is not having to think.
Easy is not having to understand.
Easy is the coddling of the mind.

Doing things right is hard. Understanding things right is hard too. As is changing the status quo. But there's no improvement without change, no change without pain.

Fuck easy.


Got worse with the new mobile update.


New Year’s at the Needle! 🎆


I suspect that the free relays will be run by client developers who want to make sure their app works out of the box. And because they’re running a client they can more easily do spam control on it and justify the cost.


anyone can be a vendor :)


They’ll be available for physical pickup in some cities.

https://breadzine.com/stockists.html


I believe the biggest problem with #Bitcoin adoption right now is it is a financial tool, most people don’t buy stocks, much less understand a digital financial asset.. So they believe the media..
I don’t think the general public will believe in #Bitcoin until it truly goes mainstream.. Amazon, Walmart, Toyota, online would have to start accepting. Most banks would offer a type of Bitcoin account, etc.. Until then it’s too complicated for the average Joe..


Apparently somewhere in Europe is the current consensus; would be great if it happens the week after Bitcoin Atlantis like it did this year after the Indonesia Bitcoin Conference. Malta, Switzerland, Slovenia, Romania, or Gibraltar are my top choices in the region.