An excellent and much-needed conversation.

https://fountain.fm/show/n47quu602F1XE9xejWvh

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Here are the very draft interpreter and BIPs for Script Restoration. I'm seeking comments (looking at nostr:nprofile1qqsdnpcgf3yrjz3fpawj5drq8tny74gn0kd54l7wmrqw4cpsav3z5fgpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqz9rhwden5te0wfjkccte9ejxzmt4wvhxjmcprpmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuumwdae8gtnnda3kjctvl3x2lg and nostr:nprofile1qqs2nep2pjnwfvfqszytdzj06eq8fqd3yps0j9dqlm95ezr524lrwjgpr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ez6ur4vgh8wetvd3hhyer9wghxuet5qyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnwdaehgu3wvfskueqpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfdunyshzy here!) on all aspects, including format and what opcodes make sense to combine into a single proposal.

There are definitely some tweaks we could make to costing (it bugs me that the formula for OP_MUL is not symmetric, for example!), but that part is pretty solid.

Once we have a single proposal that we think is well-specified, reasonable and useful, it'll be time to get coauthors (I have a day job, and it's not this!) and formally propose it for broader scrutiny.

https://github.com/rustyrussell/bips/pull/1/

And interpreter (not other parts, so not actually usable except bench and test!):

https://github.com/rustyrussell/bitcoin/pull/1


Hello (Glee Cast Version) [feat. Jonathan Groff] - Glee Cast


Am I the only one feeling a bit depressed by the resurgence in shitcoins?


hanging around normies
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💜  https://m.primal.net/LtnN.jpg


Great, non-technical overview of the Ark protocol by  nostr:npub1jusfy5rfwzrj42zkrcja09c675dk979tzhfdlzk9fp7hjg424yusjrhr2e: https://youtu.be/HKaj41uFMr4?si=Oe4tDeGXhkm-IEyk


the separation of money & state is what we want

when do we want it? YESTERDAY


For those looking for the best independent reporting and commentary on the US security state and Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza, I highly recommend The Grayzone: https://www.youtube.com/live/PgDHJyaSCjY?si=faZcB8M5lyAxicM6

They come from a really principled anti-war progressive viewpoint. And even though I am in the free market anarchist camp (the the extent there's enough ancaps to comprise a camp), I have deep admiration for their intellectual honesty and rigor.


This painting by  nostr:npub17nd4yu9anyd3004pumgrtazaacujjxwzj36thtqsxskjy0r5urgqf6950x has quickly become one my prized possessions 💜

It isn't just the beauty of the art, and incredible expressivity in the brushstrokes, but the fact that I purchased it on Nostr, with bitcoin.

Every time walk through my entryway and see it, it makes me smile. I think of how this nascent, censorship-resistant communications protocol connected me in New Zealand with an incredible artist in Italy. And using unstoppable money I was able to instantly transfer value across the globe. No middle-men. No "platforms" taking a cut and manipulating me with their ads and perverse incentives. Just two people, trading value for value. The best money in the world, for some the best art.

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


We do freeschooling / unschooling / selflearning.  Foundation phase I teach them the fondamental basics, reading, writing and math. Give them lots of play time and pencils and paper.  But we keep it short and fun. And have access to books all the time. If they can read, they can teach themselves. In my opinion, children learn far better in a playful environment. If you keep it short, they have time to process what they learned and not get overwhelmed.

As they get older I observe what interests them and help open the possibilities to get better at them. If they have particular interest, find an online course, YouTube videos or books about it. We don't  do grading, we don't do curriculums and we don't have set "time" for school. Life is school.

Each child is different and so is the way they learn and take information in.

I feel the traditional way of education is dead and we live in a time where education and information is free.

I am not from the US though.


Please do


Don’t be discouraged 💜 This guy clearly doesn’t understand the value of art. Fiat mindset.


Sounds epic! Throughly regretting missing it


"There are people who hold bonds. We call them poor."

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


TOMORROW. SET YOUR BLOCKCLOCKS. nostr:note1fqndgqakax0awfvfasdhdquv9xnteyy59dapynnvmwp9jddcsqzq0jalr2


I think the vitriol is a result of people correctly identifying, if not always fully articulating, that Saylor frequently talks out of both sides of his mouth.

In a few short years has he gone from saying "tax that!" to essentially condemning self-custody, cryptoanarchy, and anyone with an adversarial mindset vis a vis the state.

There is more than a whiff Elon Musk-esque carnival barker-y in Saylor. He reeks of inauthenticity and a lack of any deeply held values. He seems willing to change his views on a dime, with no acknowledgement, based on what he sees as being in his economic interest at that moment.

This isn't a case of Bitcoin's overactive social immune system. The pushback against Saylor is warranted and healthy, in my view. He wields a lot of influence, and has the potential to do a great deal of harm even as he helps pump the price. I would argue his position as an ossificationist has already done significant damage. And his opposition to self-custody and bitcoin's more revolutionary potential could do even more (btw, notice that his opposition to further protocol changes and self-custody are entirely consistent).

Just my 2sats. I'd be curious to hear if anyone disagrees.

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Bringing this back to the top again because I don’t think Saylor yet understands that “those crypto anarchists” are the ones that save Bitcoin……and by doing so, free the world from an extractive rent seeking system. nostr:note1t6urrtgqmg4xv6r95cgxex7c4jqpvjzdkcax5ds6m7kgc974ak5qq8llcd


I like paranoid crypto anarchists. Good folks doing good work. Big fan.


Saylor's going to gaslight folks into believing that self custody is bad and we shouldn't continue improving the protocol because he wants you to buy $MSTR and regulated ETF products.
 https://video.nostr.build/f65d7319f8e8197664aa647c7a86f6f3b3e1ab0754459b85727025ac53ae5a53.mp4

As I've been warning
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The idolization of Michael Saylor by bitcoiners is one of the grossest cases of hero worship I've ever seen in Bitcoin.

His latest statements on self custody & "crypto anarchists"  are atrocious.


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I question how much this says about society. Mental hospitals were in many ways even worse than prisons, administering all sorts of torturous, pseudoscientific psychiatric practices that had long-term consequences for many.

A search for "insulin shock therapy" provides a glimpse into this very dark world.


Great conversation! Mandrik has a fascinating story.

https://fountain.fm/episode/AuG7zMijkD6NmihgPFLa

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This is the least important election of our lifetime


I'm looking to purchase a 4K TV that doesn't spy on me. Does anyone have suggestions?

Doing some perusing, it doesn't look like these are even made. It's like trying to find a car that isn't just a computer on wheels.


Amen

https://fountain.fm/episode/ghR1ZM4Nh4NC25houGdP

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To all those building, supporting, using, teaching, and advocating for freedom tech. It is unlikely you ever realize the true impact you make in the world through your actions.

You are bending reality to an almost unimaginable future with 8 billion people in service of 8 billion people

Names may fade but your impact never will.

Deep love and respect.

#weareallsatoshi


In what culture do they call a sunshower "the devil is beating his wife"?


When Fedimint?


When it comes to increased totalitarianism, this is definitely one of those “suddenly” moments.

https://fountain.fm/episode/qltr6tLa6LUs458CTFnx

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That is a cute pup! 💜


Really thoughtful conversation. Definitely needs a round 2

https://fountain.fm/episode/P92gDZBewucEgls1K7a4

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💚Say hello to Privacy Index: a guide of guides for all things digital privacy.💚

I started working on Privacy Index in the beginning of the year because I was frustrated by the one-fits-all solutions I was being sold by other privacy projects.

Privacy Index is the opposite: it's a resource for resources, so you can choose what tips, tools and tricks best fit your needs.

I would love for this project to grow and encompass all content others have found helpful on their own privacy journey – be it stories that inspired you, books that you read, tools that you use, or guides you found helpful – some of my favorite additions are highlighted below.

Privacy Index is by no means complete. But it's free and open source, so anyone can contribute on github. And the more people contribute, the better it will get 💚

s/o to @HRF
 for funding this work 🤝

http://privacyindex.net
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BOLT 12 is merged into the spec

To applause at the Lightning Spec Summit dinner! ❤


Geyser Fund has shut down the crowdfunding project Bitcoin for Palestine, citing regulatory uncertainty.

Let this be your reminder that you cannot code faster than the state can invoke arbitrary penalties. Permissionless money is under massive threat by the global AML regime. It's time to wake up.

Full story:
https://www.therage.co/geyser-bitcoin-for-palestine/


The book or the mini-series?

The mini-series with Pierce Brosnan is superb! It’s this perfect time-capsule of Hong Kong at its peak in 1988.


GM good sir


Did Coracle go down?


I notice that Israel doesn’t make the list, but Palestine does.

So we can use Geyser to donate to those perpetrating a genocide, just not to those being slaughtered?


didn't expect you to be making jokes about Israel committing an act of mass terrrorism.


As good as this conversation was, the aesthetics of this studio is truly sublime 💜


A Madex Manifesto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo7eeL1E_VQ


The four types of Bitcoiners https://image.nostr.build/eb4b8925aa094ce662a4df083b58877c37dbba69d85bc9b2d044841d63f9f893.jpg


This propaganda seems to be true!
Best explanation??

https://m.primal.net/KoqE.png nostr:note1um7dkakl5khz7gk3xcerlwv8q365zntemlpecylp94tzcqg0a47qeslsjc
It would be like a Stacker suddenly saying
"No wait, I believe in Fiat again!"


It's very true. Things being a bit inconvenient and unintuitive is a feature 💜


I'm kinda loving how the friction of getting on Nostr keeps out lazy people.
My feed here is full of posts from people who actually read, study, learn & think!  Very Refreshing!!!


I’m into…
#carnivorediet
#medicine
#nutrition
#bitcoin
#homesteading (sheep)
#geopolitics
#history
#anthropology
How about you?


The more they (Govt) censor speech, savings and transacting, the better the tools will become.

Bitcoins biggest threat is oxymoronic; Responsible government living within its means.

GN.

#bitcoin
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"Don't speak negatively about yourself, even as a joke. Your body doesn't know the difference. Words are energy and they cast spells, that's why it's called spelling. Change the way you speak about yourself, and you can change your life."

Bruce Lee


💜 Gold on the Ocean


Israel lost it's mind.
To openly call for violating human rights and still get the support of international community and billions of dollars in weapons to carry on the genocidal campaign?! How fucked is this?!
Can #bitcoin fix this?
Serious question.
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Is anyone else finding their zaps only intermittently work on Primal?

On Coracale and Iris they send every time, but on Primal I get maybe a 30% success rate.


Being smart is easy. Being kind and patient is hard.


https://m.primal.net/JxJD.jpg #indoctrination #JohnTaylorGatto #homeschool #parenting


The Sell-side Risk Ratio is one of my all time favourite #Bitcoin metrics.

It is a tool that helps track trend exhaustion, market instability, and equilibrium.

The Sell-side Risk Ratio Masterclass is now live for _checkonchain subscribers.

https://open.substack.com/pub/checkonchain/p/masterclass-sell-side-risk-ratio


Gabor and Daniel Maté have also been doing great work advocating for Palestinian rights


It's interesting how two people can look at the same data point and take away diametrically opposed signals.

To me, the fact the market has absorbed so much sell-side pressure over the past six months, and the most we got a 32% drawdown (and even that lasted for 48hrs), is bullish.

TX believes that this cycle is going to be more muted than in the past. And that the fact that bitcoin could not even break $70k last cycle, even with all the covid stimulus, it would be unrealistic to expect bitcoin to perform anywhere near as well in tighter monetary conditions.

My view is that the covid stimulus actually hurt bitcoin's performance last cycle. It turned the entire market into a casino. Pokemon cards, NFTs, rare watches, memecoins...every piece of shit asset mooned. It encouraged gambling, which actually drove liquidity out of bitcoin and into things way farther down the risk curve.

What we are seeing this cycle is bitcoin decoupling as the market sobers up and has to actually work out what has fundamental value: What is real and what is fake.

Long the real (bitcoin, gold, energy). Fade the fake (shitcoins, unprofitable tech).

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Can’t wait! 🔥


SOMETHING IS BREWING! Changes are happening at Bitcoin Audible and a new series is coming.

I’ve assembled a team, and we will be covering the news and events every month in #Bitcoin and this is one you don’t want to miss! 🔥🔥

First one is scheduled for this Friday, subscribe so you don’t miss it.

Fountain:
https://fountain.fm/show/RtZlWdbEbpyEyjBNbeQ7

Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/16c6WR2znCZM1wveeeJoSz?si=hTjviW_iRGCYkvx0dQTVcQ

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AI+Nostr+eCash+Lightning
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Szasz also points out how pseudo-scientific the concept of mental illness is. It misattributes the cause of feelings and behavior to mere brain chemical balances and hand-wavy genetics without being able to objectively demonstrate any of this.

Instead, the true cause of what are often called mental illnesses is the trauma individuals experience (generally at young age). And the lessons that get internalized from these traumas.


"what is a Nostr conference without a million talks by  nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft?"

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Congratulations! 💜


BANGER
https://m.primal.net/HcuW.mp4


Thanks 🙏  Copied a bunch and it's already noticeably improved things


 nostr:npub1s5yq6wadwrxde4lhfs56gn64hwzuhnfa6r9mj476r5s4hkunzgzqrs6q7z practicing pole dancing in preparation for the next bear market

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Can anyone recommend the best relays to join, outside of what Primal automatically connects you to?

I previously went and subscribed to a bunch of paid relays, yet it somehow made my Nostr experience worse 🤷♂


tis the season

https://youtu.be/9X4Z1lLUMfw?si=BAv7wMkmrcde6W5H


Imagine watching a global circular bitcoin economy grow up around you and refusing to participate in. That’s what bitcoiners who choose to ignore Nostr are doing.


I struggle to put myself in the mindset of the architect who designed this. Unless it was originally built as some rendition dark site for MI6, or the place for Jimmy Savile to take his victims, its malevolence makes no sense.


I would watch AND zap 💜


I've been in UK for medical care at this place.

I struggle to believe anyone has ever recovered from anything in this building.

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Hello Tony


One year ago, I was a frequent consumer of American right-wing alternative media, like Dave Rubin, Jordan Peterson, Steven Crowder, Tucker Carlson.  I mostly agreed with most of the issues they were talking about.  I was concerned about woke cancel culture and the loss of free speech. I also listened to Alan Dershowitz (life-long democrat), Redacted News, Kim Iversen, Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibbi, Viva Frei and some other non-right-wing sources.

After Al-Aqsa flood on Oct 7 where Hamas successfully executed a well planned military operation in Israel, where I saw a deeply long-term and continually oppressed people finally get a modicum of revenge on the people oppressing them and also strategically capture some hostages (Israel had about 3000 Palestinian hostages at the time, so tit-for-tat) --- because I knew the context well before the event happened ---  they (the American right) instead saw horrible terrorist sub-human violent people out-of-the-blue raping, incinerating and cutting heads off of babies (which I couldn't believe, so I watched many hours of videos to see what actually happened, and that was propaganda - the vast majority killed were military).

Anyhow, I couldn't stomach listening to Dave Rubin, Jordan Peterson (who tweeted "Glass Gaza"), Steven Crowder or Alan Dershowitz after that (and many others) despite believing that we should try to listen to all sides, I just couldn't stomach it.  And I'm consuming less social media video content overall which is a good thing.  I still listen to Tucker Carlson who I haven't heard push the Zionist stuff.

But I guess I'm moving towards the left on more than just the Israel issue (or maybe I'm standing still and they are moving).  What I thought I knew about immigration and culture clash I don't think I believe anymore. And this video shifted my thinking more substantially than most videos do.  Many of you may disagree with this, but it will get you thinking nonetheless:  https://rumble.com/v5bbf0t-uk-headed-for-civil-war-whos-behind-it-all-redacted-w-natali-and-clayton-mo.html
Historically I've felt like I was on Tommy Robinson's side, because I was on the side of free speech.  But the situation is more complicated than just one political issue.


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Affordable, but excellent


Pocket sprung, relatively firm, a slatted bed frame that allows air flow through the mattress.

Latex and memory foam are torture devices, especially if you are a hot sleeper.


I think because Saif has heard Konstantin in other venues and has seen how dishonest of a broker he is. His actions bely his protestations that he is not pro-genocide.

The debate he moderated with Brianna Joy Gray and Eli Lake was especially revealing: https://youtu.be/_M15lTZ41dM?si=prBKnHdbDrfOAbwK

Saif is in a difficult position of calling bullshit on someone who feigns objective impartiality but who is really a propagandist with an agenda.


As big a fan as I am of  nostr:npub1trr5r2nrpsk6xkjk5a7p6pfcryyt6yzsflwjmz6r7uj7lfkjxxtq78hdpu , I’ve been incredibly disappointed by HRF’s silence now ten months into an ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Worse than silence, really. Of all the people they could have featured at the Oslo Freedom Forum, they chose Ahmed Alkhatib. I encourage you to watch it as, to anyone who knows anything about this conflict and its history, it is truly an atrocious speech: https://youtu.be/dxEZtVSO7_4?si=Q7EC1DnFNKU6Cqb3.

Ahmed reminds me of the character of Saeed, from Emile Habibi’s satirical fiction, ‘The Secret Life of Saeed: The Pessoptimist’. The character is a quizzling and a collaborationist with the occupying forces, and if you watch Ahmed’s talk you see a similar psychology.

Notice how long Ahmed spends denouncing Hamas—the venom and vitriol in his tone. Notice the kind words for the collaborationist Palestinian Authority, which functions as little more than an arm of the Israeli government oppressing the people of the West Bank as they are continually dispossessed, brutalised and murdered. Notice his use of the passive voice when describing the mass murder committed by Israeli forces that switches to an active, adjective-laden screed when describing Hamas’ October 7th attacks. Notice how he calls for a “bilateral ceasefire”, instead of an immediate end to Israel’s decades-long military occupation.

Watching his talk you would think that Hamas is really the problem and that history really did begin on October 7th. And if we can just get rid of Hamas, and maybe that nasty right-wing Netanyahu government, then there will be peace.

Aside from being delusional, the truth is there can’t be peace between lions and men. When one party is intent on being a lion— on occupying, dispossessing, oppressing, kidnapping and torturing (what Ahmed antiseptically refers to as “the arbitrary detention of Palestinians”)and murdering, there can be no meaningful peace. The peace Ahmed speaks of is the same as the peace Israelis speak of: Palestinians in Gaza quietly lying down an dying in the concentration camp, whilst Palestinians in the West Bank continue to allow Israeli settlers to steal their land.

The solution is for Israel to immediately end their brutal and illegal occupation of the Palestinian people. That is the only solution. Not “education” or “empowering civil society” in Gaza.

There is no “both sides” to this. Israel is the occupying force and the Palestinians are the indigenous people resisting occupation. And the have every right to do so. Over the decades, the Palestinians have tried both political means of resisting occupation (Oslo, Camp David, the much-ballyhooed “peace process”). As Edward Said aptly noted, the whole peace process was just Israeli domination disguised as compromise. To quote the American-Israeli scholar, Barry Rubin, it was “all process and no peace”—a sham from the outset to continue denying Palestinians their rights.

The Palestinians in Gaza also tried peaceful protest, most recently in The Great March of Return of 2018-2019. Ahmed does not mention this, of course. Nor does he mention what the Israelis did: lining up their best snipers along the fence-line and intentionally targeting the knee-caps of young Palestinians to cripple them for life. They had a competition to see how many they could cripple.

Over 200 Palestinians were killed, and over 36,000 injured (including almost 9,000 children). 156 limb amputations had to be performed, 27 were left paralysed, 1200 suffered severe limb injuries requiring long-term surgical reconstruction.

You do not hear about this, though, because Palestinians have been so dehumanised and erased from Western media coverage. And Ahmed only furthers this whitewashing and dehumanisation.

Palestinians have a right to resistance. And if peaceful means only get them massacred, it is absurd for anyone to act outraged and clutch their pearls when they turn to violence.

Anyway, if Alex or anyone from HRF cares to comment, I’d be interested in why they have been assiduously covering every bomb Putin drops but ignoring the crime of the century being perpetrated in Gaza.

And I’d be curious if any of my fellow Nostriches have noticed the same thing I have.


When you consider that Konstantin is advocating for the continued genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, I can understand Saif struggling to keep his cool.


I just gave a friend an update on what Nostr is and showed a bunch of apps in the ecosystem. Showing how fast it is and how all of these apps use the same identity and data but are different in their focus. He has been around the space of social media protocols for years but he was blown away.

We’ve really got something amazing. We need to do a better job of show and telling the story. It’s not about just zaps or censorship resistance or the way we’re doing web of trust moderation. We’ve built something which works really well. It fulfills the dream of the early days of the internet, web, and Web 2.0. An open interoperable internet, by and for the users.

As an aside, yes bitcoin is part of it, but it’s so politicalized that some people dismiss nostr as that bitcoin social media protocol. We see people join nostr and through it discover bitcoin, that’s the path to wide adoption.


Weird juxtaposition


Oh you're a bitcoiner? So you listen to 4 podcasts a day and think you will overthrow the entire financial system with your raspberry pi?
https://i.nostr.build/7M23AM0vtN4DMZUZ.jpg


In a hotel restaurant enjoying my morning sencha, I can’t help but overhear the only other person there ask the Hungarian waiter if he had heard that Ukraine had managed to take the fight into Russia (presumably referring to their recent assault on Kursk)?

She sounded so excited, and clearly believed this was some sign that Ukraine was turning the tide of the war (which is exactly the PR effect Ukraine hoped to achieve). I found myself looking at her, just thinking how we are living in totally different universes. How, in the year 2024, could she still uncritically believe anything the news feeds her?

Then I went back to enjoying my tea and the beauty of the courtyard garden.

GM


Big government causes:

Big gaslighting
Big loss of freedoms
Big inflation
Big quality of life deterioration
Big migrations
Big wars

You get Big anger
About to get much worst.


I could totally see you creating an amazing painting of this scene! It would very much suit your style 💜


It’s such a pretty surveillance state
https://m.primal.net/JvEt.jpg


Looking forward to it! 🔥


In London atm and it really is beginning to feel like the dystopian London from V for Vendetta.

It's a jarring juxtaposition: all these beautiful buildings and gardens within the context of dystopian surveillance state that, if I understand Starmer correctly, is now using live AI facial recognition combined with more CCTV cameras per square km than anywhere else on earth.

I was listening to a bit of a Keir Starmer speech and it sounded almost exactly like high chancellor, Adam Sutler when he is ramping up surveillance and control to monitor dissident thought and capture V.

It’s as though these politicians have never seen a movie, or read a dystopian sci fi novel. They certainly have no sense of irony.


Hope all the zaps are revitalizing 💜


https://i.nostr.build/5GLMB.jpg
#meme #memes #nostrmemes


Go out of your way to give people positive feedback.

When someone makes you laugh or learn, tell them.

It's easy to assume they know, but they really might not.

One of my problems with my real-world friends and semi-online friends is that I'm viewed as cold and distant. Kind of on the spectrum, one might say.

I incorrectly assume that since I like their stuff, they must know I like their stuff, which isn't always the case. Instead they're more like, "wtf is Lyn thinking?" In other words, I'm semi-retarded at personal interactions. I'd like more people to know how much I like what they do.

Online or offline, whenever it's comfortable, tell people they're doing good work. Say hi. Tell them thanks. Give gratitude.

Nostr does this better than Twitter, from my experience. Keep it up, lads and lasses.

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Since the finance sector of the economy (investing, lending, payment processing, etc) just enables other things we more directly care about, the more efficient it is the smaller share of economic activity it should be.

Ideally the financial sector should be a half or a quarter of its current share of GDP. It should slip into the background.

The financialization of everything is largely attributable to bad money and bad structural incentives.


Why hello you pretty, pretty Orwellian surveillance society
https://m.primal.net/JoXa.jpg


The inner-most circle of hell is reserved for such inconsiderateness


I’m not sure if Bitcoin has conditioned me to love volatility, or this was always part of my investing psychology


There is a soulful, haunting quality to Lizzy Paplinger's voice that lingers with me after I've listened.

MSMR was one of the innumerable indie pop bands that came out around the '08-14 period. And while most of them sound interchangeable (Marina, Charli XCX, Tove Lo...) and have these darker themes and moodiness, MSMR stands out as having a bit more substance.

It's a bummer they never broke out.

https://youtu.be/lazZJdkQ05g?si=ZUB3hnGPpIwgY8tX

https://youtu.be/7N82nu2oIzI?si=CDpX41g7_VsJtgEh

https://youtu.be/cfF-qQT__s4?si=e9zwdFke6em3nhBn


Maybe you know already it, but in my website you can purchase original oil paintings with #bitcoin! 🤩

"Buy real #art, with real money!" 🎨🚀

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Looking at the history of US foreign policy, you have to wonder if they ever had the plot to begin with.


I can't help thinking about all the money that was raised to bribe politicians, and what incredible tech could be built out if it had gone towards open source developers instead.


GM ... have a great Sunday and "Let It Be"  🫂 💜
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PSA https://video.nostr.build/e4f6325bb892ec6d38f505f7227a06b83aef07a7b39604a438cf044ea4675bd3.mp4


Good afternoon.

The Bitcoin conference currently has a lot of political theater, and the Trump headliner is front and center much to everyone’s joy or frustration depending on where you stand on that, but I’ll take a moment to highlight something that’ll get lost in the shuffle.

Today on the main stage, Jason Maier (author A Progressive’s Case for Bitcoin) interviewed progressive congressman Rho Khanna. They talked about a lot of stuff but the TLDR headline takeaway statement from Khanna was “Bitcoin is about freedom. Bitcoin is about human rights.”

And around the same time, a bunch of Democrat Congress people sent a letter to the DNC chair saying the party needs to embrace this industry better, and basically that the Warren wing of the party isn’t the way to go here anymore. Whether it’s polling data, sheer numbers about how many Americans own this stuff, or more knowledge conversations about bitcoin’s energy impact and other things, being anti-bitcoin is a losing strategy.

Yes, a lot of this will be forgotten after the election, both from Republicans and Democrats. Politicians gonna politic. And there will be shitcoinery. Politicians are currently in their pandering phase. But when I began writing about this industry nearly seven years ago, I would not have expected to see this much explicit support by 2024.

The builders, the educators, the advocates- all of your work does matter. At least when it comes to protecting Americans and others against some of the most potentially hostile government positions, the narrative war is working. We need more work on the right to privacy, and that imo is the harder battle, but given how successful things have been on other fronts, I think that front is workable too.

Immutable money. Unstoppable voice. Endless memes.


What an ridiculous statement. The final paragrah is pure cuckery.


As big a fan as I am of  nostr:npub1trr5r2nrpsk6xkjk5a7p6pfcryyt6yzsflwjmz6r7uj7lfkjxxtq78hdpu , I’ve been incredibly disappointed by HRF’s silence now ten months into an ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Worse than silence, really. Of all the people they could have featured at the Oslo Freedom Forum, they chose Ahmed Alkhatib. I encourage you to watch it as, to anyone who knows anything about this conflict and its history, it is truly an atrocious speech: https://youtu.be/dxEZtVSO7_4?si=Q7EC1DnFNKU6Cqb3.

Ahmed reminds me of the character of Saeed, from Emile Habibi’s satirical fiction, ‘The Secret Life of Saeed: The Pessoptimist’. The character is a quizzling and a collaborationist with the occupying forces, and if you watch Ahmed’s talk you see a similar psychology.

Notice how long Ahmed spends denouncing Hamas—the venom and vitriol in his tone. Notice the kind words for the collaborationist Palestinian Authority, which functions as little more than an arm of the Israeli government oppressing the people of the West Bank as they are continually dispossessed, brutalised and murdered. Notice his use of the passive voice when describing the mass murder committed by Israeli forces that switches to an active, adjective-laden screed when describing Hamas’ October 7th attacks. Notice how he calls for a “bilateral ceasefire”, instead of an immediate end to Israel’s decades-long military occupation.

Watching his talk you would think that Hamas is really the problem and that history really did begin on October 7th. And if we can just get rid of Hamas, and maybe that nasty right-wing Netanyahu government, then there will be peace.

Aside from being delusional, the truth is there can’t be peace between lions and men. When one party is intent on being a lion— on occupying, dispossessing, oppressing, kidnapping and torturing (what Ahmed antiseptically refers to as “the arbitrary detention of Palestinians”)and murdering, there can be no meaningful peace. The peace Ahmed speaks of is the same as the peace Israelis speak of: Palestinians in Gaza quietly lying down an dying in the concentration camp, whilst Palestinians in the West Bank continue to allow Israeli settlers to steal their land.

The solution is for Israel to immediately end their brutal and illegal occupation of the Palestinian people. That is the only solution. Not “education” or “empowering civil society” in Gaza.

There is no “both sides” to this. Israel is the occupying force and the Palestinians are the indigenous people resisting occupation. And the have every right to do so. Over the decades, the Palestinians have tried both political means of resisting occupation (Oslo, Camp David, the much-ballyhooed “peace process”). As Edward Said aptly noted, the whole peace process was just Israeli domination disguised as compromise. To quote the American-Israeli scholar, Barry Rubin, it was “all process and no peace”—a sham from the outset to continue denying Palestinians their rights.

The Palestinians in Gaza also tried peaceful protest, most recently in The Great March of Return of 2018-2019. Ahmed does not mention this, of course. Nor does he mention what the Israelis did: lining up their best snipers along the fence-line and intentionally targeting the knee-caps of young Palestinians to cripple them for life. They had a competition to see how many they could cripple.

Over 200 Palestinians were killed, and over 36,000 injured (including almost 9,000 children). 156 limb amputations had to be performed, 27 were left paralysed, 1200 suffered severe limb injuries requiring long-term surgical reconstruction.

You do not hear about this, though, because Palestinians have been so dehumanised and erased from Western media coverage. And Ahmed only furthers this whitewashing and dehumanisation.

Palestinians have a right to resistance. And if peaceful means only get them massacred, it is absurd for anyone to act outraged and clutch their pearls when they turn to violence.

Anyway, if Alex or anyone from HRF cares to comment, I’d be interested in why they have been assiduously covering every bomb Putin drops but ignoring the crime of the century being perpetrated in Gaza.

And I’d be curious if any of my fellow Nostriches have noticed the same thing I have.


I'm there in spirit

Free Palestine 🇵🇸

https://www.youtube.com/live/lUOMXV8-fgM?si=-e5Y-ntB_Y_ajixq


This post belongs here

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I'm convinced the venn diagram of people who say "bitcoins" and people who say "maths" is just a circle.


EVERY INDIVIDUAL, COMPANY, AND ENTITY SHOULD BE FOCUSED ON ACCUMULATING AS MUCH BITCOIN AS POSSIBLE, AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE, WITHOUT GETTING REKT BY SHORT TERM VOLATILITY IN THE PROCESS.

1) CONVERT ALL LIQUID ASSETS TO BITCOIN.

2) REDUCE EXPENSES AND INCREASE CASH FLOW. (MAXIMIZE SATS FLOW)

SOUNDS EASY BUT IT IS NOT. SIMPLE YET HARD.

STAY HUMBLE AND STACK SATS. RELENTLESSLY. 🫡


GE
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Tons of progress made today.

Good things coming.

I keep saying it; freedom tech will have an unmatchable UX the captured web can only dream of.


Beautiful! Thanks for taking us with you 🧡


I only hope this election is the last ride of the boomers.


"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard"

- HL Mencken

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Julian Assange live press conference about to begin
https://www.youtube.com/live/XATYVc6upMY?si=5lP7-auOedBX2Frl


free assange!


Already drinking Champagne as a 15yr old. Australia in a nutshell 😉


Happy to announce that I, along with nostr:nprofile1qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq3zamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wwa5kuef0qythwumn8ghj7anfw3hhytnwdaehgu339e3k7mf0qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7qpqgcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewq0yufff  and nostr:nprofile1qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq32amnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwv3sk6atn9e5k7tcqyp7tz0x7qecwty8s9jlfag8u78s9ak79ej9yp9e3lf2rv3qps8836wkpz4u , have been jointly awarded a 1 BTC bounty from the HRF for our work on NIP 17 DMs.

From hrfbounties.org:

> Update: 1 BTC of this bounty has been claimed by Martti Malmi for his work incorporating this functionality into Iris. The remaining 1 BTC has been awarded to Vitor Pamplona, hodlbod, and Paul Miller for their work on NIP-17. Paul Miller redirected his bounty to opensats in order to have his open-source libraries audited.

I'm still figuring out what I want to do with this money — it's too little to allow me to really hire someone for Coracle, but enough to maybe get some work done. So if you have a strong background in nostr and/or web development and would like to do some contracting, please get in touch.

For now, I've gone ahead and donated 5MM sats each to coincenter.org and p2prights.org to help them fight the criminalization of financial privacy in the courts. Appealing to the state is not really a solution to its overreach, but I think it's still an important place to advocate in a visible way for our rights.


WTF is this Bitcoin thing they're all on about?

If this is you and you're curious and want to know where to start, then checkout a few of these:

https://learnmeabitcoin.com/
https://lookingglasseducation.com/

https://vijayboyapati.medium.com/the-bullish-case-for-bitcoin-6ecc8bdecc1
https://21lessons.com/

.. and ask for help on here .. bitcoiners are the most generous people I know when people are starting to learn about Bitcoin .. we were all there .. and we are all still there!

<3


Every pleb running a lightning node is one force close away from giving up on the whole endeavor


wtf is an outpoint?


We need BOLT12 invoicing and BOLT13 (hedgehog) and the Lightning experience will change dramatically for the better. nostr:note1ajcsqau4eutl8w23z54dcujvs5y8ps5d3yt27snf7cmueeugwg5qn0mk9l


After 20 years of forever wars, growing social decline and exacerbating economic demise, it seems that we are still immune to learning that politicians lie.

Most politicians run from responsibility like a fat kid from a diet plan, and electing an overweight billionaire won’t lessen the White House’s appetite for cake.

Voting for Trump may temporarily muffle the echo haunting that empty space between your ears as you convince yourself to at least have done _something_ to fulfill your imaginary patriotic duties, but it can’t change the moral corruption inherent to US politics – and it sure won’t change anything for Bitcoin.

When your morals can be bought, you are not a patriot – you are a sell out.

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/orange-man-good-selling-out-on-the-campaign-trail-

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Great blog post by  nostr:npub1ey6qdmvzcgcsr883m9nspzz0mm037l26xtardzcskfsvc6gc7jssm9szvp articulating the vision of bitcoin as the interoperability layer connecting all the various subnetworks (Ark, liquid, cashu/fedimints, coinpools...) that will eventually be what allows bitcoin to scale.

https://medium.com/breez-technology/lightning-is-the-common-language-of-the-bitcoin-economy-eb8515341c11


Yes. https://i.nostr.build/2RJD7.jpg


"I'd like a cappucino: 2 shots regular coffee, 1 shot decaf, in the largest mug you've got"

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


https://creatr.nostr.wine/creator/content/3802d380-81ba-48fe-ae7e-62c51d2712f7.jpg
...imagine walking into a room and immediately being captivated by the beauty and depth of a painting that seems almost alive on the wall.

The rich, vibrant hues, the details lovingly and precisely crafted, each brushstroke telling a unique and unrepeatable story.

This isn't just a painting; it's a piece of emotion, a window into a world of dreams and sensations that will transform your space and enrich your daily life.

Every time you gaze at this painting, you will feel a deep connection, as if the artwork itself is speaking to you, evoking memories, feelings, and desires.

Your guests won't be able to help but admire it, feel inspired, and ask about its story.

This is the power of #art: transforming the ordinary into extraordinary, the everyday into the magical.

Purchasing one of my paintings means bringing home not just a work of art, but a piece of me, my heart, and my passion. 🫂

It is an investment that will not only enhance your environment but will offer you moments of beauty and inspiration every day.

With one of my paintings, you are choosing to give yourself a gift, one that will continue to give for years to come. 🎨

https://isolabell.art/#shop


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💥 OpenCash launch
💥 Bonus: Hacking the SWIFT system
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It's so true. I just think of how all the police in the US are now a full paramilitary force, with military-grade weapons and vehicles. All the technology developed for invading foreign countries got passed down to local police to terrorize Americans and accost students protesting a genocide.


Nathalie is one of the highest character and brilliant people in Bitcoin (is she on Nostr btw?). This is a must-listen episode of WBD, with quite a bit of history I was unaware of of.

The line "technologies (of oppression) that are employed in colonized countries always come back to the mainland" is going to stick with me.

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


I can feel the beginnings of a second Nostr adoption wave forming. There is a new energy 💜


India’s number of content takedown demands on Twitter/X has soared in recent years, and they are being complied with more than they used to.

Opposition parties often get their bank accounts frozen too.

Nostr and Bitcoin, especially as a combo, can help route around that sort of social and monetary censorship. https://image.nostr.build/b6178a6035ff3e37c9e16672e8c7d0db4d2733a6aa6cccda5f684d603751e4ff.jpg


People don't necessarily crave attention. We are starved for *real* connection, not attention.


I tend to think we should be careful about letting an analogy substitute for a first-principles, technically grounded analysis of Bitcoin's protocol trade-offs and risks...

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I think that aerodynamics and lift would be the internet itself, along with the various technologies that bitcoin is dependent on. That would be bitcoin’s environment, so to speak.

And you could say that when altcoins do things like massively raise the block size, they crash and burn because their hubris leads them to ignore these “physical” constraints of the environment.

Mapping the analogy:

* Aerodynamics and lift = The underlying networking, computing and cryptographic primitives that Bitcoin relies on (internet, CPUs, bandwidth, storage, etc.)
* The 737 airframe = The core Bitcoin protocol itself
* The engines = Scaling solutions like Lightning, Liquid, etc. that need to be integrated carefully

However, this highlights the issue with arguing by analogy. You really have to make sure your analogy is apt, otherwise it creates more confusion than clarity.

...And, for someone like Saylor, with the gift of gab, analogies can be effectively used for sophistry.


The irony of making this analogy is that it actually illustrates the danger of NOT making protocol changes.

What happened with the 737Max is that Boeing wanted to put larger, more powerful, more fuel efficient engines on their 737. The only problem was that the physical structure of the plane (the base layer protocol, in this case) couldn’t handle larger engines.

The 737 has a relatively low ground clearance compared to competitors like the Airbus A320. Mounting the larger engines in the same position as previous 737s would cause them to hit the ground during takeoff and landing.

Instead of changing the protocol - the base, physical structure of the 737 itself - to safely allow for the new engines, what they did was a hack to try to bolt these new engines (think L2s) to work with the old 737 structure (protocol).

Boeing moved the engines forward and higher up on the wing. However, this gave the 737MAX a tendency to pitch up more during high angles of attack, increasing stall risk.

To correct for this they created flight control software to automatically push the plane’s nose down in certain situations to prevent stalls. This software relied on data from a single angle-of-attack sensor. There was no redundancy built in.

It was this faulty sensor that caused planes to go into a nosedive that the pilots (unfamiliar with how to override this overly complex software) couldn’t pull out of.

In its current state, with no added covenants or expressivity at the base layer, virtually all Bitcoin users will be forced to use bitcoin through some custodial arrangement (even if it is a collaborative custody model like Liquid or Fedimint).

You can think of these custodians as the sensor in the 737Max , where if they become faulty you lose everything.

And you can think of conservative, well-vetted covenants upgrade as redesigning and lengthening the landing gear (and making minor alterations to the wing and fuselage) to safely accommodate new engines.

Anyway, all of this to say that sometimes changing Bitcoin’s protocol is safer than not doing so.

I believe this is one of those times.

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Thanks! 💜


Hola!


My favorite feature of the old twitter was lists - being able to curate my own subject-specific feeds.

I'd love to see this on Nostr. Especially with all the human rights activists joining, it would be great to be able to just create a list with all of their content.


I listened to the What Bitcoin Did Saylor podcast, and I really want to respond, though that may be unwise. But I want thoughtful, fearless content in my feed, so I should start making some, right?

Firstly, while analogies can provide useful guide rails for understanding, listening to people *arguing* using analogies makes you stupider. Debate the thing itself, not the words about the thing: it hurts my head to even think about doing this, so I won't.

Let's set my priors first: I assume we're talking about technically solid, well-vetted, backward compatible protocol changes: this is the minimum bar.

I don't wholesale agree with Saylor's "don't threaten anyone's investment" hard limit. This has happened multiple times in the past, from the dust limit breaking SatoshiDice, enabling Lightning threatening miner fees (real or not), and segwit breaking stealth ASICBoost. These interests can, and will, stand up for themselves and will compete against other benefits of changes.

To be explicit: I consider any protocol change which makes block space usage more efficient to be a win!

Obviously Saylor is invested in Bitcoin the asset, and can afford to do all his business onchain in any conceivable scenario. His projection of a Bitcoin world in which there are 100,000 companies and governments who use Bitcoin as the base layer is interesting:
1. This does not need "smart contracts", just signatures. By this model, Bitcoin Script was a mistake.
2. It can work if Bitcoin does not scale and is incredibly expensive to spend and hold. By this model, the consumer hardware wallet industry is a dead-end and needs to pivot to something else (nostr keys, ecash?)
3. You could do this with gold, today? Bitcoin here is simply an incremental, not fundamental, improvement. I think this is suggestive, though: that such a network would not be long-term stable, and very much subject to capture.
4. In this view, Saylor is simply a gold bug with first mover advantage, shilling his bags. That's fine, but it's important to understand people's motivations.
5. This vision does not excite me. I wouldn't have left Linux development to work on making B2B commerce more efficient. I wouldn't get up at 5:30am for spec calls, and I sure as hell wouldn't be working this cheap.

I believe we can make people's UTXOs more powerful, and thus feel a moral responsibility to do so. This gives them more control over their own money, and allows more people to share that control. I assume that more people will do good things than stupid things, because assuming the other way implies that someone should be able to stop them, and that's usually worse.

I believe the result will be a more stable, thus useful, Bitcoin network. I am aware that this will certainly benefit people with very different motivations than me (Saylor).

Thanks for reading, and sorry for the length!


Blockstream zapping me 🙃


Welcome! 🧡


Sitting next to ODELL. I’m new to Nostr and fighting for freedom.


 nostr:npub1r8l06leee9kjlam0slmky7h8j9zme9ca32erypgqtyu6t2gnhshs3jx5dk we need some more proof-of-voice!

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I like to think @`Blockstream` has just put some seven year old in charge of zapping.

"See all those lighting bolts? Click them all as many times as you can!"
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Welcome!! 💟


GE
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You don't see Lightning Labs on Nostr, zapping plebs


nostr:npub1jg552aulj07skd6e7y2hu0vl5g8nl5jvfw8jhn6jpjk0vjd0waksvl6n8n is doing some superb, zap-based marketing 🧡


https://void.cat/nostr/dd7e7231357fed2cf4b372c84855b0ec40bde828a90f8d63e6b404dbf6fc3a35.jpg
- Bruntz Contemporary #Art


Rarely does Spotify actually recommend a band that I end up liking. MS MR is the rare exception. Almost every song is incredible, and the darkness of the lyrics fits our present moment well.

https://open.spotify.com/track/35aNHKBZWXXbL9KQK7O5Nk?si=86184492d2144fec


I will never understand this level of degeneracy.

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"PEOPLE WILL COME TO LOVE THEIR OPPRESSION, TO ADORE THE TECHNOLOGIES THAT UNDO THEIR CAPACITIES TO THINK."

- ALDOUS HUXLEY

GOOD MORNING.


“I love when the people share  passions  about bitcoin ,so I thought l'd share more of my mine,Thank you for  like my Art .

"Ars longa, Vita brevis "
By Hippocrates
ชีวิตสั้น ศิลปะยืนยาว

Happy Art day  Today
สุขสันต์วันสงกราน ค่า ทุกคน 🎉 #siamstr
#artday #art
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new badge just dropped

who wants it ? come get em

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after that never again

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1) what

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If this was the old Kai Tak airport it would far less weird 😉


Allen is dead on here. Anyone who listened to Saylor’s WBD interview, it’s abundantly clear his true position is “ossify now”. He speaks out of both sides of his mouth, and tries to cloak his perspective in ever more inane metaphors, but he is clearly hostile to ever changing bitcoin.

And coming from a man who has ostensibly been running a software company for decades, it reveals a staggering ignorance about how software actually works.

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whether you believe the “spook” memes or not, Saylor is so clearly using his influence to pull up the ladder behind him it baffles me he still has any simps left.

and fml it’s clear he doesn’t even understand wtf what he’s talking about whenever he tries to put forward the most palatable version of this take he can come up with.

stripped of “spacetime laser energy” trimmings, his actual take is: “ossify now, scale with custodians, number go up if you’re already in.”

that’s not an entirely unreasonable position, but it needs to be identified more clearly, weighed up mindfully of his technical illiteracy around consensus and forks, and argued against more forcefully in light of these realisations.


# A Declaration of Separation

## To The Governments & People of Earth:

We claim the right to exist, and we will defend it. We do not seek to overthrow anything. We do not seek to control anything. We/merely wish to be left alone.

All we ever wanted was to live in peace with our friends and neighbors. For a long, long time we bore insults to our liberty; we took blows, we did what we could to avoid injury and we worked through the system to get the offenses to stop. That has now changed.

We no longer see any benefit in working through the world?s systems. At some point, working within a system becomes cowardly and immoral; for us, that point has arrived.

Regardless of the parties in power, their governments have continued to restrict, restrain and punish us. We hereby reject them all. We hereby withdraw from them all. We hold the ruling states of this world and all that appertains to them to be self-serving and opposed to humanity. We now withdraw our obedience and reclaim the right to strike back when struck. We will not initiate force, but we do reserve the right to answer it. We did not choose this ? it was forced upon us.

## To The Governments of Earth:

You are building cages for all that is human. In the name of protection, you have intruded into all areas of human life, far exceeding the reach of any Caesar. You claim ultimate control of our property and our decisions, of our travels and even our identities. You claim ownership of humanity far beyond the dreams of any Emperor of any previous era.

Understand clearly: We reject your authority and we reject your legitimacy. We do not believe that you have any right to do the things you do. You have massive power, but no right to impose it upon us and no legitimacy. We have forsaken you. We are no longer your citizens or your subjects. Your systems are inherently anti-human, even if all their operators are not. We are not merely angry young people. We are fathers and mothers; aunts, uncles and grandparents; we are business owners and trusted employees; we are mechanics and engineers and farmers. We are nurses and accountants and students and executives.

We are on every continent.

This is not a burst of outrage; this is a sober declaration that we no longer accept unearned suffering as our role in life.

For long decades we sat quietly, hoping that things would turn around. We took no actions; we suffered along with everyone else. But after having our limits pushed back again and again, we have given up on your systems. If our fellow inhabitants of this planet wish to accept your rule, they are free to do so.

We will not try to stop them. We, however, will no longer accept your constraints upon us.

From now on, when you hurt us, we will bite back. If you leave us alone we will leave you alone and you can continue to rule your subjects. We are happy to live quietly. But if you come after us, there will be consequences. You caused this because of your fetish for control and power. The chief men and women among you are pathologically driven to control everyone and everything that moves upon this planet. You have made yourselves the judge of every human activity. No god-king of the ancient world ever had the power that your systems do.

You have created a world where only the neutered are safe and where only outlaws are free.

## To The People of Earth:

We seek nothing from you. We do not want to rule you and we do not want to control you.

All we wish is to live on earth in peace. As always, we will be helpful neighbors and generous acquaintances. We will remain honest business partners and trustworthy employees. We will continue to be loving parents and respectful children.

We will not, however, be sacrificial animals. We reject the idea that others have a right to our lives and our property. We will not demand anything from you, and we will no longer acquiesce to any demands upon us. We have left that game. We reject all obligations to any person or organization beyond honesty, fair dealing and a respect for human life.

We will shortly explain what we believe, but we are not demanding that you agree with us. All we ask is that you do not try to stop us. Continue to play the game if you wish; we will not try to disrupt it. We have merely walked away from it.

We wish you peace.

## To Those Who Will Condemn Us:

We will ignore you.

We welcome and seek the verdict of a just God, before whom we are willing to expose our innermost thoughts. Are you similarly willing? We would stand openly before all mankind if it were not suicidal. Perhaps some day we will have to accept slaughter for our crime of independence, but not yet.

Your criticism and your malice are much deeper than mere disagreements of strategy or philosophy. You do not oppose our philosophy, you oppose our existence. Our presence in the world means that your precious ideals are false. Some of you would rather kill us than face the loss of your ideologies, just as those like you have either hated or killed every sufficiently independent human.

You present yourselves to the world as compassionate, tolerant and enlightened, but we know that your smooth words are costumes. Oh yes, we know you, servant of the state; don't forget, we were raised with you. We played with you in the schoolyard, we sat next to you in the classroom. Some of us studied at the same elite universities. We watched as you had your first tastes of power. We were the boys and girls standing next to you. Some of us were your first victims. We are not fooled by your carefully crafted public image.

## What We Believe

1: Many humans resent the responsibilities that are implied by consciousness. We accept those responsibilities and we embrace consciousness. Rather than letting things happen to us (avoiding consciousness), we accept consciousness and choose to act in our own interest. We do not seek the refuge of blaming others, neither do we take refuge in crowds. We are willing to act on our personal judgment, and we are willing to accept the consequences thereof.

2: We believe in negative rights for all: That all humans should be free to do whatever they wish, as long as they do not intrude upon others; that no man has a right to the life, liberty or property of another; that we oppose aggression, fraud and coercion.

3: We do not believe that our way of life, or any other, will make life perfect or trouble-free. We expect crime and disagreements and ugliness, and we are prepared to deal with them. We do not seek a strongman to step in and solve problems for us. We agree to see to them ourselves.

4: We believe in free and unhindered commerce. So long as exchanges are voluntary and honest, no other party has a right to intervene before, during or after.

5: We believe that all individuals should keep their agreements.

6: We believe that honestly obtained property is fully legitimate and absolute.

7: We believe that some humans are evil and that they must be faced and dealt with. We accept the fact that this is a difficult area of life.

8: We believe that humans can self-organize effectively. We expect them to cooperate. We reject impositions of hierarchy and organization.

9: We believe that all humans are to be held as equals in all matters regarding justice.

10: We believe that the more a man or woman cares about right and wrong, the more of a threat he or she is perceived to be by governments.

11: We believe that there are only two true classes of human beings: Those who wish to exercise power upon others either directly or through intermediaries and those who have no such desires.

12: Large organizations and centralization are inherently anti-human. They must rely upon rules rather than principles, treating humans within the organization as obedient tools.

## Our Plans:

(We are building our own society. We will supplement traditional tools with networking, cryptography, sound money, digital currency and anonymous messaging. Our society will not be centrally controlled. It will rely solely
on voluntary arrangements.

We welcome others to join us. We are looking for people who are independent creators of value, people who act more than talk, and people who do the right thing because it is the right thing.

We will develop our own methods of dealing with injustice, built on the principles of negative rights, restitution, integrity and equal justice. We do not forbid anyone from having one foot in each realm - ours and the old realm - although we demand that they do no damage to our realm. We are fully opposed to any use of our realm to facilitate crime in the old realm, such as the hiding of criminal proceeds.

We expect to be loudly condemned, libeled and slandered by the authorities of the old regime. We expect them to defend their power and their image of legitimacy with all means available to them. We expect that many gullible and servile people will believe these lies, at least at first. We will consider traps laid for us to be criminal offenses. Any who wish to join us are encouraged to distribute this declaration, to act in furtherance of our new society, to voluntarily excel in virtues and to communicate and cooperate with other members of the new society.

Free, unashamed men cannot be ruled.

# We are The Free and The Unashamed.


Kia ora! Welcome to Nostr 🧡


Statists be like
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Coracle is the best desktop Nostr client. It's not even close.


Are you still just three dudes doing all this?


TO ME!! 🥳

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GM. https://m.primal.net/ITWT.jpg


Hyperbitcoinization will usher in a second golden age of art patronage.

Creatr is already helping to make that a reality (and they are a Bolt12 away from being an extraordinary experience).

https://creatr.nostr.wine


How on earth has he been running a software company for decades whilst seemingly knowing nothing about software??


I recently learned that legislation has been drafted on Capitol Hill to classify *not re-using Bitcoin addresses* as "mixing"

There are also efforts to force "unhosted wallet providers" to collect user info for taxes

As well as to give power to Treasury to sanction any address (even Americans)

And a whole lot more bad stuff

IMO Coin Center does vital work to fight this and to protect privacy tech

They are a compact team and do a lot with the resources they have

They sue the OFAC and Treasury

They consider the Bank Secrecy Act unconstitutional and act accordingly

I just spent some time with their leadership team, asking questions, and came away impressed, I would strongly suggest a donation today

coincenter.org


Tbf Paris Hilton doesn’t have to worry about the regime kidnapping her for being a “money transmitter”


GM
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Me too 🙃

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nostr:npub1spyzucqh3skwn9k6d4n4wl6k52evglxtrjzvs8et09sxxl9hrduq945j7y has been writing a great daily journal chronicling his trip in El Salvador: https://stacker.news/items/552530


Made a video - first since September!

https://youtu.be/h-CA2wEFWPE?si=qOwXYNWcOLZI_x8a


Revisiting the Hong Kong of my childhood through cinema.

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The larger threat to Bitcoin is not core devs adopting a central planner mentality and trying to force through an aggressive protocol change.

It's a lack of experienced developers familiar with the codebase, who are capable (and willing) to do deep code review on even the smallest updates.

The inflation bug of 2018, for instance, was not the result of some radical soft fork. It was the result of a minor optimization to bitcoin core that got merged with barely anyone looking at it.

Central planners are easy for even most non-technical bitcoiner to spot. What few seem to grasp is that by creating a culture that is hostile to developers - that treats every core dev as though they are an attack on bitcoin - you end up with insufficiently reviewed and maintained, yet vitally important software. The worst of all worlds.

What we should do is welcome developers with open arms, assume good intentions, and trust ourselves to be able to spot anyone developing a Mike Hearn complex.


This is inane.

It isn't unlimited or ungoverned funding, and it isn't risking destabilizing the network. Rather, it is the lack of open source developer funding is what risks destabilizing the network (lack of eyeballs doing deep code review).

If any of the founders that control premined shitcoins started donating to bitcoin developers, I'd be happy about it. They have no means of changing or destabilizing the network. I choose what software I run and the consensus rules I subscribe to.

Saylor does a masterful job of talking out of both sides of his mouth throughout this interview.

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It's all probably one big psyop, but that's life. Try to keep your sanity out there.


I like the orange coin. I don't trust the orange man.


Christchurch


There’s nowhere better than New Zealand in fall 🍁

GE.
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Normalize the term 'tax cattle'


🍀💜 Pura Vida #Nostriches 🫂
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Onboarding & Teaching. How does Nostr, Lightning and Btc work 🫡⚡


God that's a terrible rhyme


Never forget the 23rd of May. The day the big blockers tried to steal it all away.

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GE Orange. Pura Vida and happy NY Disagreement Day 🧡


GN https://image.nostr.build/05d117f12694cf0849a5aa7e7c1136f3627abb8750330aabce7a0a7516b8f317.jpg


GE. Happy Bitcoin Pizza Day

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I guess he’s better than the guy pooping his pants in office right now, but still… https://image.nostr.build/1e26dc60b9836e752872e07532b0f10b8cc9fd2764f9263c48da03657b56ae99.jpg


Me, opening lightning channels with friends so they can receive payments

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The legal defense fund for Samourai Wallet is now open and accepting donations: https://p2prights.org/

This particular fight is important because the precedent set in this matter will either reinforce the principles that non-custodial wallets are not money transmitters or it will put targets on the backs of all wallet developers.

If you really came here for the freedom tech then get in this fight and show your support. There will not be a second chance to repair the damage done  if the DOJ is not stopped here and now.


Thanks!

I don't mind some electronics for the enterainment system, or power windows, say. I just don't want a computer managing my car's engine and internal operation. And I sure as heck don't want a car that is recording me, constantly phoning home, and can be remotely disabled.


If I want to buy a car that isn't just a surveillance device on wheels, what are my options?

And how far back do I need to look? Should I be browsing the market for Rav4s from the 90s and then retrofit it with apple car play and better speakers?


Meant to tag nostr:nprofile1qyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnwdaehgu3wvfskueqpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejsz9thwden5te0v4jx2m3wdehhxarj9ekxzmnyqqsgqjpwvqtcct8fjmdx6e6h0at29vky0n93epxgru4hjcrr0jm3k7qw970h6 , and thankfully Coracle makes it a lot easier than Primal. Still getting a hang of Nostr.


I recently visited Hong Kong for the first time in years. Even on my last visit in late-2019, when protesters were still out in full force, it was clear the city was dying - gradually being deformed from a bastion of freedom into ‘just another city in China’.

I grew up in HK in the 90s before my mother moved us to New Zealand. I would return every year to my visit my father, and spent my gap year and college summers there as well. The city had an incredible energy, and the sense of freedom was unlike anywhere else.

It’s sad that those who didn’t know it during that time have no point of reference, and can’t see what was lost. They just see what it is today: Shenzhen + the ability to use google without a VPN. For those that do know the Hong Kong of old, visiting today feels like watching one of those horror films where the murderer wears the face of their victim. Things superficially look the same, but soul is gone.

I had hoped to revisit some of my old haunts, including doing the Victoria Harbour Ferry Zig-Zag that leo@lightning.engineering charted out in a blog post: https://blog.liongrass.hk/2020/05/04/victoria-harbour-ferry-zigzag/#more-916. I found I had very little motivation, though. The weather and pollution were also abysmal, which mirrored my spirits and seemed appropriately funereal.


🐶🐾🤯👀👀👀

https://youtu.be/VrFs2_uhz-o


GM
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When I talk about digital privacy, there is always some smug genius who shrugs and tells me, "Who cares? We all know we don't have any privacy anyway." Nothing could be more wrong. Convincing you that the fight is already over to the way people in power get you to stop resisting.


GE
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“Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.” - HL Mencken


So onchain BOLT12, basically?


Does anyone else feel gripped by panic when restoring a hardware wallet, wondering if this is finally the one that got tampered with by the NSA whilst in transit?


Over the past 10 years, the kwacha has lost 80.5% of its purchasing power against the dollar.

Bitcoin is hope for Zambian people, and Bitcoin education is the means to make that possible.
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All caps AND a larger mempool...🤨  Are you okay? Have you been kidnapped?


Don't bend the knee, Clark!


GM

If anyone should be mad at Roger Ver it's me. I have more reason to dislike him than most. I was friends with the guy from 2011 until the bcash split. He oranged pilled me, paid 14btc for baklava, helped so many liberty-minded individuals in NH, and hired me as the first employee at Blockchain(dot)info.

I didn't read about his downfall in Bitcoin in some book or tweet. I had a front row seat.

I don't have the luxury of hating a guy I never met and don't know anything about, unlike most who dislike him.

Have compassion for your enemies. You can disagree with them while simultaneously feeling sorrow for their situation.

I encourage you to give this a try. For your own sake, if nothing else.


Feels like the start of a dark dystopian novel. The lizard people against the people.


This entire thread between Shinobi and Lyn is very worth reading. And, it's one of the exceedingly occasions where I find myself disagreeing with Lyn somewhat.

As much as I am in the "slow and steady" camp when it comes to making changes to Bitcoin, I am also in the "go big or go home" camp. My sense is that Shinobi is as well.

When you look at the ripple effects of the Samourai arrests alone (Wasabi shutting down globally, Phoenix shuttering in the US, Mash shutting down, Madeira Fedimint closing...), the idea of bitcoin scaling solely through custodial lightning banks seems far more tenuous than it did just a month ago. And to pursue this vision is to put a lot of stock in Bitcoiners being able to win at the ballot box and in the govt courts.

It also relies heavily on a jurisdictional arbitrage thesis, which has yet to play out. We would need countries being openly willing to defy the US to protect Bitcoiners. And, in doing so, risk getting sanctioned, kicked off SWIFT, having their treasury reserves frozen, and possibly even having their ruler assassinated and regime- changed.

IDK. That just seems increasingly dubious.

Bitcoin is our one shot at separating money and state. It is this ridiculously brazen, Promethean endeavor to steal fire from those who imagine themselves to be gods. And yet, somewhat paradoxically, it seems to me that we risk the Bitcoin story winding more like that of Icarus - flying perpetually close to the sun and having our wings blowtorched by the State - if we aren't more bold in making changes to bitcoin that allow for greater self-sovereignty.

https://x.com/coryklippsten/status/1789700710319476912


Tragic, and par for the course for the insane zionist state


In real terms, many still are 🙃


Beautiful lime wash on those bricks! ♥


Is there a leaderboard of most prolific zappers anywhere?


Both taxes and money-printing redistribute capital, but the difference is that money-printing does it less transparently.

With money-printing, the effect works behind the scenes in ways that are harder to quantify. That's why when a government can't find a solution between hard spending choices, they print money. It's the easier method.

People know their personal tax rate, they will riot if their taxes are too high, and they know exactly who is responsible for tax levels.

But inflation is a more complex beast. It comes with a lag, for starters, since it takes time for printed money to work its way through the system. And when it comes, propaganda built on grains of truth is effective at making it unclear to people who is responsible. "It's the greedy corporations that are responsible for raising prices, not the fact that we increased the money supply 40% over the past two years!"

And so money-printing effects people not directly based on their income, their need, or other things, but based on their level of awareness of what's happening. It rewards people who are aware of it, and are borrowing the devalued currency, owning scarcer assets, and denominating contracts in harder currency. It harms people who are not aware of it, who are earning wages in and keeping their savings in cash or bonds. Many of them are led to believe that CPI is the target to beat, which is a false low target. The real target is the money supply growth rate.

And capital gains taxes, if the cost basis is unadjusted for the rate of money supply growth, further recoup some of that value from the various harder assets that aware people try to protect themselves with.

A lot of MMT advocates act as though they found some grand formula. But really what they have re-identified is nothing new: it's that the less transparent that government spending is, the bigger it can be before people will complain. People will complain about taxes right away, but currency debasement is the sneakier method for which the consequences come with a lag. So it sidesteps hard decisions this year, and leads to bigger issues a year or two from now, when someone else can be blamed and the whole ordeal can be obfuscated.

And it's not new, despite how some MMT advocates would spin it. Currency debasement has been occurring since the adoption of coinage. And even MMT-scale currency debasement has been occurring since World War I. It is turned to so frequently because its lack of transparency allows it to occur at times and magnitudes when more transparent taxes would not.

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the US is officially a police state. congrats to the law and order camp.


Has anyone made a t-shirt with the rolling stones forty licks album art, only with an orange pill on the tip of the tongue? I want to buy one, and it seems too obvious not to have been created already.https://m.primal.net/IBmD.jpg


It's time for Lightning⚡ and it's time for BOLT12🔩
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As of today, OCEAN miners can attach a BOLT12 offer to their #Bitcoin address and get paid out over Lightning!

BOLT12 offers allow us to request multiple invoices for any amount while only requiring the miner to set things up once.

Miners simply sign a message containing the offer using the private key associated with their Bitcoin address.

Using BOLT12 also allows us to prove to the world that a payment was made, the size of the payment, the node to which it was paid, and that it was paid by us.

This means we can continue to offer fully transparent and verifiable pooled mining while no longer being restricted by the base layer!

Using the Bitcoin stack to its fullest is how we eliminate the need for trust and bring sovereignty to mining.

https://ocean.xyz/docs/lightning

https://newsdirect.com/news/ocean-innovates-bitcoin-miners-offered-first-ever-lightning-payouts-using-bolt12-946331135


Has there never been a well funded legal challenge to the Bank Secrecy Act??


Just so you know what they are going to try and go with: https://image.nostr.build/6356e6cc01fc771d84a6464affd68d6e0602cfc690cc781a796a08920be610f2.jpg


Here I am, trying to get a transaction to confirm, and these degens are filling up the blocks. https://m.primal.net/IAOe.png


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Just drained my Phoenix wallet and they broadcast my tx at 12 sat/vb. Seemingly no way to fee bump.


There is actually something new in this statement from the FBI:

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/markets/fbi-warns-americans-against-using-non-kyc-crypto-money-transmitting-services

If you actually read the second and third paragraphs, they are quite explicitly telling you that the primary risk is that *they themselves* are going to steal your money.

So by 'something new' I mean that this is the first time you are explicitly being threatened with confiscation. It would not be surprising if this is the start of a trend, but, who knows.


Many bitcoiners think establishment powers are now in the "and then they join you" phase of the struggle.

I don't. I think they're more entering the earlier "and then they fight you" phase.

Or more specifically, they are happy to join in on the price exposure side (i.e. ETFs), but they are fighting against privacy (especially) and self-custody (to some extent). The struggle for financial privacy, custody, and overall self-autonomy is just heating up.

The gradual shift of critics from "bitcoin is a useless speculative asset with no intrinsic value" to "bitcoin is so powerful that direct usage of it must be curtailed" can be dangerous.

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The entire developed world tax apparatus that was built in the 20th century and extends into the 21st century depends on ubiquitous financial surveillance.

They are not going to give that up without a fight. I have been saying at a number of conferences and podcasts that privacy is the main battleground for the next decade.

Back in the 19th century and before, money was mostly private. There were plenty of dictators but there was no major method of surveilling all transactions. Therefore things like broad income taxes were untenable to enforce.

But in the 20th century as money increasingly moved around at the speed of light, people needed bank accounts to keep up. It wasn’t all forced on them; they chose it. And those bank accounts were centralized, surveillable, and ruggable.

This allowed authorities to switch to income taxes, which require ubiquitous financial surveillance to work. And ultimately it allowed them to switch to fiat currency altogether.

Now in the 21st century, Bitcoin and its various layers allow people to hold and move around money globally without permissioned banks. They can do so peer to peer, or they can do so with custodians and open layers, etc. Unlike the base layer of fiat, the base layer of bitcoin is permissionless.

But this represents a threat to the entire current system of taxation and financial control. If bitcoin and particularly various private methods on top of it were to be adopted at massive scale, the entire tax structure and other things would need to reshape themselves around that reality. And so they won’t make it easy; they will try to criminalize financial privacy as much as possible while the network is still pretty small.

The only solutions are to 1) make privacy tech so ubiquitous that it can’t be isolated and can spread organically in a distributed way and 2) to apply legal pressure when possible so that governments sort of have to operate within the bounds of their own law, like the 1st and 4th amendments.


HRF’s Bitcoin Development Fund has made several grants to JoinMarket projects and contributors

Now would be a *great* time to apply for funding to do this kind of work!

Feel free to DM me if you need the link to apply


Legend

Be like Hal https://image.nostr.build/969ff6cb1b846e2e15c90797f152efa280a468ada4ee795544e6af78b2aa5214.jpg


Sparrow v1.8.6 released with:

Wallet search improvements
All open wallets summary
Mix from Postmix
Import Samourai backup file

And more: https://github.com/sparrowwallet/sparrow/releases/tag/1.8.6

https://sparrowwallet.com/download/


huge

(small)

https://www.mining.build/latest-updates-3nm-system/


Cashu USD ecash. Be your own Tether.

All you'll need to run this permissionlessly is a Bitcoin Lightning node. Decentralize fucking everything, anon.

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


Bitcoinize POS https://image.nostr.build/ecd22faba022398307aabf5bfa411a1ad21ef6356706c8b25250c1948d2456ff.jpg


Whenever anyone refers to great swaths of humanity as evil it is always projection.


He's completely deranged


HFSP...?
I'm joking. I'd just ressaure him that if he can't fee bump, that his tx will either confirm within the next week or so, or become spendable again in his wallet. His coins aren't lost in the ether, and the beauty of a bitcoin tx is that either the coins are with you or with the recipient. They can't get lost like a wire transfer.


People looked so good a century ago.

I wonder what happened to our food.
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@isolabell.art does amazing work! ♥


Unfortunately I suspect Israel will strike back. They bombed Iran's consulate intentionally to expand the war and draw America in directly. This all seems highly calculated on their part.


Truly a pivotal moment in a young man’s life


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PUMP IT!!!

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Whenever I hear someone say "Israel is at war with Hamas"...
https://youtu.be/rRy5znLg1f8?si=cF14fCmTXeNRQToc


Either direct donations to devs who do work your value (but that requires following bitcoin development fairly closely and knowing who is doing what) or donating to dev funds like Open Sats and trusting they will allocate prudently.

Ultimately, I would love to see a significant portion of bitcoiners tithe some portion of their annual income to open source dev funds. This is a religion, after all.


OPENSATS HAS OVER 100 GRANTS OUTSTANDING. THIS NUMBER WILL CONTINUE TO GROW. OUR TREASURY IS STACKED WITH COIN. THE GRANTS WILL CONTINUE TO FLOW.


Live sessions with Kody Low on how you can set up a federation using Clovyr kickstarts April 9th! Come join us!

Click here to register. 👇
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdhEzb2hkYLrji90A9cudxdGmsOxvh_EzIayuWqOJUIsNnrgA/viewform nostr:note15u5z3zfvef2yrtx0a5ve2678geygg2jvfgpjzr2yzdr09gxstq5s877jsw


Can clovyr help manage a federation that’s already been created? We’ve already created ours but managing gateways and upgrading to 0.3 has been a pain


Oh, fuck off. https://image.nostr.build/9bcd01df78d4e6c8d6d4b9a50b93511b65501c548615feddc642645eefc8bf10.jpg


One goal is definitely to get to a Bush Bash ;)


GE https://image.nostr.build/9e740623ad877e4fb2e0ddc9a61b48cf6c154afb6fa9a6b89ffcc82f1b1fb8a9.jpg


“I don't see the window of opportunity of modifying where culture goes as being too long. I honestly think we have a few years… I think these technologies, this culture–because at the end of the day, this is culture–if they are going to find a footing, it has to happen relatively soon, not in 20 years… We need to basically unlock the productive capacity. That's also why I don't shill #Bitcoin and #Nostr to anybody that listens. I think we need to focus on the people that have the most impact. The people that matter the most, which is the productive people.” — nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft on nostr:npub10qrssqjsydd38j8mv7h27dq0ynpns3djgu88mhr7cr2qcqrgyezspkxqj8

Links to watch/listen everywhere: https://bitcoinpodcast.net/words/f/pablof7z-bitcoinnostr-talk-on-the-bitcoin-podcast
#Titcoin #BitcoinTalk #NostrTalk #GrowNostr https://v.nostr.build/KGOql.mp4


Read that again... https://image.nostr.build/6b7807783617b7c6645ccdeb5f56f5ae7dd69973dec7a471bc07916697ebd82b.jpg


If you have to hide behind pseudo-intellectual jargon to make your point, you probably don’t have a very strong argument.

The ability to explain simply and clearly is a sign that you actually understand what you’re talking about.

Big words often mask small ideas.

This is especially true when it comes to the topics of money and economics.


GE. People who drag lightning have never spliced funds into channel.

I swear, splicing is like some kind of black magic. I must have listened to a dozen pods on it, and yet it still feels like something out of Harry Potter... "Accio channel resize!"


One of the best bitcoin pods I've listened to in a while. The most surprising aspect was nostr:nprofile1qyxhwumn8ghj7cnjvghxjme0qyvhwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnndehhyapwwdhkx6tpdshsz9nhwden5te0v4jx2m3wdehhxarj9ekxzmny9uqzpqnwn7y4hqdtgxj9ygngkfy7drgze2qkpr002c4yj08wxhlut36ezg577x 's benevolent view of shitcoiners.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3q62w0pxRkI0e2EX6wOPBi?si=fc280a89c26f4f5a


GM. Autumn is the best season in New Zealand. It's not even close.

https://image.nostr.build/78e920cfada02f7bb9a9fc1828d5edbf0cf397a8694d71007d11393dc6ab27a4.jpg


https://creatr.nostr.wine/creator/content/4e97e9e2-90da-4a9b-a843-31dea6ac0df1.jpg
WINDMILLS
Oil on board, 50x40cm - Completed 30 March 2024

Harmony between the quiet reflections in the water, the cloudy sky tinged with golden hues, and the mills standing majestically, create an atmosphere of serenity and contemplation.

Below is video content (for #Creatr subscribers only):
https://creatr.nostr.wine/creator/content/75e4cfeb-e5d0-464d-b258-7425e5e76c88.mp4
"WINDMILSS" proof-of-work

Thanks to all my subscribers:
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An example of how deranged and cult like the statists in New Zealand can be. Skip to 7:50:

https://vstream.au.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=0f8571ba-7932-44f2-b21a-aef40161e0c0


Sometimes I wonder if artists are so attuned to what is going on in the culture and can intuit things even if they can't intellectually explain their intuitions.

You can feel in the rock of that era that they knew what was coming - a descent into despair, emptiness, nihilism. They may not have known the money was at the root of it, but they could still sound the alarm that something is profoundly wrong...and it's corroding our psychology.


Garbage, Placebo, Muse, The Pixies... The late 90s/early 2000s were the peak of alt rock


GE #tunestr
https://open.spotify.com/track/3hZLWpBObLhpUJpPQ3Ls3z?si=2e82c3993ed64d1f


I question the entropy you could generate with those


https://youtu.be/0dn4Udid1bo?si=rMI-lmH14XEZOP1Z nostr:note10j8qzumc4n8nflyjdqzjjygek5a8z86rqvd5pgc6kntj4u2exw9sxelydp


Freedom go up


I feel similarly, which is why I live on the outskirts of one of New Zealand’s secondary cities.

Christchurch is not a hub for anything, but there is enough of the conveniences of a big city along with the excitement, social and cultural aspects, without ever really feeling claustrophobic. Even though it has population of 350,000, the feel is much more like a large town than a city. And there is this sense of interpersonal harmony as a result.

I went to college in the US and would spend summer holidays in NYC. The thing that stood out to me the most was the palpable tension in the air. You could feel the distrust and hostility people had for one another, and saw it displayed in a myriad of ways (constant honking, cutting people off in traffic, yelling obscenities, not making eye contact, not moving to the side to pass one another on the sidewalk, throwing trash on the street…). The level of inconsiderateness was staggering, as was the seeming lack of personal responsibility.

Just being in NYC for several weeks, I could feel it beginning to impact my psychology. Perhaps there is something about living like caged rodents in such a densely populated area that warps us and makes us more callous as humans…


Nostr: Where the posts don't matter and the money is all made up

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Just zapped you some monopoly money ;)


The Daniels .. on #Bitcoin

It's open
It's unconfiscatable
It's a store of value
It's a medium of exchange
It's a unit of account
It's censorship resistant money
It's peer-to-peer electronic cash
It's property rights for every human
It's the best savings technology ever

It is ..
https://m.primal.net/HmNU.jpg


GM


RFK turned out to be pro-genocide and pro-shitcoin


Well this is disappointing. Anyone know what the deal is here?

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Welcome to the revolution, npub1tccnjexzau3x5ea8c69v047nqfy3xm4w4yl9j788sts0usl87nhsvce6fh! Love your work


Do you have a list of recommended mints? It would be super neat to just open up a Cashu app, like eNuts, and be able to select from a list of mints... Kinda like you select from a list of Nostr relays


When you actually own bitcoin there are no 'trading hours'. You can spend it whenever you want, on whatever you want.


tfw you are the only non-coinbase tx in a liquid block

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Everyone outside of Australia and NZ have no clue what a flex this is


I’m not asking for donations. I’m asking for help monetizing what I’ve done for virtually free for a year. You don’t know my finances.

I’ve filed a claim with my insurance. This is just a big blip in my budget. I’m just trying to get help to put in the work. Not get hand me outs.

Go actually fuck yourself.

24 hour stream next week. 12/31-1/1.


Love how nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m doesn't mess around with his zaps 💪

Dude is the Oprah of Nostr

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Heeeeey 💜 Just wanted to drop in and say how much I appreciate you #nostriches. There’s been a lot going on since I uploaded a few songs to nostr:npub1yfg0d955c2jrj2080ew7pa4xrtj7x7s7umt28wh0zurwmxgpyj9shwv6vg at the end of August ☀ Nearly 4M - make that Million 🙌  HellYa! - SATs received from all corners of the globe 🧡 Over 5 years on Spotify I’ve only made $700 total and at todays 40k 🚀 BTC price it’s about $1700 🤯

I feel damn lucky to be a part of helping to shake up the very broken music business.

I don’t always know where the SATs come from so thank you to all the #anonymous supporters out there. It truly is an honor to be a small part of showing the world how #lightningpayments & #bitcoin can change lives and disrupt industry.

So much more to come! 🫶🏻Ainsley

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We’re at the “loot the treasury” stage of empire collapse and people are looking for regulatory clarity from the people doing the looting. More effort should be spent exposing these people as criminals instead of trying to appease them.

The US federal government is an illegitimate authority stealing from the people on an astonishing scale.

The “regulatory clarity” you seek will make it so they can loot your bitcoin.


That’s the question nobody is asking. nostr:note13t33gdr6f2gvdvf90edggqeqlvvarwq2zjtyvexznpcy5h77sels0vp0t9


Congrats to the nostr:npub1qtvl2em0llpnnllffhat8zltugwwz97x79gfmxfz4qk52n6zpk3qq87dze team! https://ocean.xyz/


This is incredibly touching - a poignant reminder of the preciousness of life and our mortality. Thanks for sharing, Jack ❤


Did you apply to nostr:npub10pensatlcfwktnvjjw2dtem38n6rvw8g6fv73h84cuacxn4c28eqyfn34f?


Mutiny Wallet iOS Now Available on Testflight for Mutiny+ Subscribers

"After sufficient testing and feedback, we will make this available for all."

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/mutiny-ios-testflight-launched/


This is legitimately excellent


Throughout human history, we only went towards ever harder moneys. Until the 20th century.

Throughout human history, we only went towards ever more dense forms of energy. Until the 20th century.

I understand the reason why softer money beat out harder money (gold) in the 20th century (speed of transactions in the age of telecommunication outpacing speed of settlement to such an extent that the hard-to-transport and verify hard money no longer had much ability to serve as a check on the paper claims created against it).

I have no clue why so much of humanity just suddenly decided to go "fuck abundant, cheap, reliable energy, let's do windmills and shut down our nuclear plants".

Also: Are these things related?


Craig Wright hired a private intelligence firm to spy on hodlonaut, in an attempt to spin an appeal case narrative that he was part of a large, organized cabal devoted to destroying Wright's reputation. Because that's a perfectly normal thing to do.

https://twitter.com/hodlonaut/status/1726286758713737538

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Defined is tricky, since those all came later in life. These all had a major impact at various points, though:

Books: His Dark Materials trilogy, The Fountainhead, Man's Search for Meaning, The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem, Non-violent Communication: A Language of Life
TV Shows: Firefly, Dragonball Z, The first season of Heroes...not much else comes to mind
Movies: V for Vendetta, The Matrix, Ferriss Bueller, Enemy of the State, Spy Game, Fight Club, A Knight's Tale, Minority Report, Charlie's Angels (the Cameron Diaz one)


This really feels like a top-of-the-bull-market type of ad. Karmically, we may need another year of bear just to cleanse this from our system.


"Okay gang, we need to create an ad that appeals to our customer base of status-obsessed degen jpeg and meme coin gamblers..."

"Say no more"

https://video.nostr.build/5d042be0a6f0744ecc77265e89ba498370e1d9e95b3c42eac137db461592fb14.mp4


Great news!


We have recently disabled the ability to zap nostr:npub1xnf02f60r9v0e5kty33a404dm79zr7z2eepyrk5gsq3m7pwvsz2sazlpr5 wallet users from Mutiny. You may still pay their invoices or LN addresses normally but a big problem we were seeing was force closed channels due to stuck payments to Zeus due to their work arounds with locked payments. Which harm both the user experience and other lightning nodes on the network.

Since nostr users are mostly unaware if they're zapping Zeus users or not, we are taking this step proactively to protect users from having a 10 sat zap costing them serious on chain channel closing (and reopening) fees.

The approach we are working on for solving lightning addresses on mobile wallets is a fedimint hybrid approach where the sats end up at a federation if you are offline but get swept to your self custodial channel when you come online. Payments will settle instantly with the federation and it won't lock up unnecessary HTLCs on the network.

Ideally we get the ability to do offline receives normally on LN but that future is looking really grim with LND's continued priorities on shitcoins instead of features, and offline receives depends on a network wide upgrade.

We petition Zeus to move to a more responsible node implementation like LDK unless their plan is to add shitcoins or break LN further.


Welcome Sean!


Welcome Efrat!


𝕼𝖚𝖎𝖊𝖙 𝖂𝖆𝖗𝖗𝖎𝖔𝖗


Loving your food diary recently!


serious question: do you ever sleep?