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 I dOn'T cAre ABouT pRivAcY. IT dOEsN'T maTtER. i'M nOT dOiNg AnyThiNg wRonG. 

Your phone is spyi... 
 Ghost is offering some of the best privacy advice on Nostr in recent memory. Read it.

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 sometimes a peanut butter and jelly just hits 
 Truer words have ne'er been nosted. 
 lot of get-rich-quick #Bitcoin cypherpunk larps on X

a reluctance to even try nostr betrays thei... 
 What's X?
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 I fucking love RoboSats 🥷⚡🥷

🤖👾🛰️⚡❤️❤️❤️ 
 Very surprised and grateful for the people and help I am finding here. I must say that I still th... 
 Good to have you here, brother 🤘 
 Amethyst putting a scrolling video feed as the primary Global experience is very clever. Attract the instagram/tiktok style scrollers. 

It also works very smoothly. Couple it with a marketplace for algorithms and you have your feature replacement (improvement!).

Nice work 🔥

#plebchain #grownostr 
 Everyone's trying to build a decentralized Twitter replacement, but what the world needs is a Met... 
 I see what you did there 
 And fans zap your TIPNZ's because they kick ass 
 tippy lmk if my two zaps landed (21 and 500) because if not then my M+ NWC is broken ⚡ 
 #plebchain to the rescue? nostr:note16clr6fadhkjeyqgwk7cx8048ymnqnl8wxx6kprsgguwt8hl0nxysxj3zej 
 Lol thanks 
 Ok and also i need help from RoboSats but i cant tag a user on amethyst using grapheneOS. Maybe if i just paste the npub...

How do i get ahold of a coordinator when my lightning invoice has been "paying" for 3 hours?

@0a830eae

#asknostr
#privacy
#KYCistheillicitactivity 
 Thought it got closed but thanks i'll check. Can you have telegram without a phone number though? 

They werent responsivd via SimpleX either  
 So with RoboSats, it tries to pay 3 times and then requests a new invoice. But my payment has been on the first attempt all day, and my LN node is def online 
 Thiught so 
 All good now, in case you were wondering about me 😏 lol

But yeah i dont have any bitcoin.  Wish i did.

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 Damn i almost forgot i had nostr, til i saw that sorry excuse for a news article in business insider.

So i logged on today to support this protocol that is full of compassionate, thoughtful, and ingelligent people who care about human flourishing.

Ya, there are a few trolls and bigots. Have you ever met the internet? Fuck those guys for sure, but most of nostr is great.

Doxxing a dev is uncool as fuck. Unimpressed. 
 “WHOEVER FIGHTS MONSTERS SHOULD SEE TO IT THAT IN THE PROCESS HE DOES NOT BECOME A MONSTER. AND... 
 Preach it brother 
 Is this one of those LoRa mesh radios? If not, what isnit/what can it be used for?

You got my gear geek gears turning 🤘 
 Thats awesome. Did you build or can it be ordered? 

I don't know much about these radio projects, but interested to learn more.

So pardon the silly question, but what do/can you do with it? 
 Thanks mate 🤙 
 TIL the power of MUTE on an uncensorable network 😬 
 Hey Nostr rockstars 🤘

It's been a few days since i logged on, but been following recent developments via the likes of Citadel Dispatch and RHR on zap.stream so i guess that counts.

The Samourai Wallet news hit me hard. I largely steered clear of the drama over the years, and i can't speak to whether they broke any laws.

But they built a tool that hundreds - if not thousands - of human rights activists and freedom fighters used to protect their families' privacy and safety. If law enforcement does deanonymize these users' transactions (and I fear that they will), it is incumbent upon them to carefully guard (ie encrypt or destroy) that data. I'm not optimistic.

 We must defend our own privacy if we are tk havy any...Let us proceed together apace. Onward.


#privacy
#samourai
(Can i use #plebchain here?) 
 Run a node. 
Build a house.
Do a surgery. 
Tune a piano.  
 It's the simple things

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 Never tried but i'd believe it 😂 
 i _really_ didn't want to run my own node but since the government really doesn't want me to do i... 
 Had this conversation with a friend yesterday - this was his view in a nutshell. Rock on 🤘 
 How do you write a note in Gossip?

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 Running... Gossip. 
 What client do you normally use? 
 What a name! There are so many clients it seems, can be hard to keep track lol 
 What exactly is #plebchain ? 
 Lol

After exploring this hashtag for a sold 30 mins last week, i kind of figured that out.

Is it used for getting your content in front of like-minded users, or just more for meeting other bitcoiners?  
 Excllent. Pleasure to meet you too!

What kind of architecture do you do, if you don't mind my asking? It was one of my "possible paths" when i was younger, but i ended up taking a different road. It's always struck me as a really cool line of work! 
 Ooh I can believe that... I've just always loved tbat overlap of imagination and design 🧐🎨 
 That's beautiful. I so appreciaye the creativity of this  
 I'm trying to get more comfortable using hashtags here. They have often seemed a bit superficial to me, at least wth previous social media systems... But, as a way to find and organize content, I see the utility of it.

So here goes:

What are some hashtags thst you recmmend a new user to follow?

#asknostr 
 Woah 🤓 what a great resource! Thank you, Dan! 
 Thank you, and you too! 
 I’m curious how all this ETF inflow / outflow goes with 1/2 of the Bitcoin production. 
 A billion dollars isn’t cool anymore, you know what’s cool? 

12 words. 
 If your premise is true, then your note is cool. 
 I never fully realize how much I've learned about a thing until someone asks me a question. It's ... 
 Facts 
 How was everybody's weekend?

The halving (my first!) was a bigger deal than I thought it would be. I expected a "NYE ball drop" type of event, with the accompanying anticlimactic end.

Instead, it felt very significant. Bearing witness to an event so fundamental to what Bitcoin is, and why it works, was a profound experience -- and even more so while sharing it with a few other people who also recognize and appreciate the halving's importance.

Oh, and my "computers" don't seem to be making as money as they did last week 🤔

 
 A Cashu gateway is a Cashu user who uses their own Lightning node to offer anonymous services for... 
 That's me tonight 😅 
 It's 3:34PM. That means it's time to wipe Amethyst cache and reload the app! 
 New amethyst user here - why is that? 
 You both have a sense of humor 😂 is it like a data download issue? 
 What are the vibes like on Nostr, say, on Monday or a weekday vs the weekend? Does it change? Is it busier during certain periods? 

I imagine if it's a global network then it's never really asleep... what have been peoples' experience thus far? 
 I cant stand engagement-farming, and even the phrase "follower" kinda rubs me the wring way... but how does a new user build up their network and start new conversations?


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 Rumors circulating that Bitmain's latest fiware upgrade prevents the install of custom 3rd party ... 
 Read this as "Batman"... twice... 
 The best way to use Mutiny right now is with our recent Fedimint integration. On top of high fees... 
 Thanks for the warning. I recently swapped my federsted eCash into my lightning channel. Is there any way to swap back? It's only a few thousand sats 
 Thank you nostr, for a great first day on nostr.

I get it 🔥 
 ❤️🤙 
 Aw thanks 
 It's a cool world 
 Hahaha yeah I'm about 36 hours in if my math is right 
 ❤️ 
 Thanks! That's a great way to think about it 😂 
 Woah! The moment I signed up for Mutiny Plus and set a lightning address, it was automatically populated within my Amethyst settings!? That's straight-up amazing!!! 

Moment of truth... am I zap-able?  
 Thanks for this heads up! 
 Can anyone animate tiny little laser eyes onto my PFP? Will pay a lightning QR invoice (or zap invoice if I can get that figured out) if someone can make them look sick 
 This is amazing!! May I request two tweaks? I'm partial to the more sepia/antique color scheme of the original image, and while I'm a full-time believer  in "don't trust verify," I kind of prefer it as just the graphic (unless the text is your watermark which is totally fair). Thanks for doing this, M!! 
 Yessss! One last ask and then it's perfect. Could they be "laser beam" style shooting forward (kind of like your pfp)? Zapping anyway for the work so far ❤️ 
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 America promises to sell weapons to the oil-producing nations of the middle east, in exchange for these nations to refuse any curremcy except dollars for theif oil, forcing the rest of the world to demand dollars with which to buy energy.  

At least, that's the gist as I understand it :/ 
 When politicians create fiat money, at will, out of thin air, it means the citizens of that country effectively lose their freedom to object to war. If a government must sell war bonds and/or rsise taxes to fund a war, the citizenry will only support it (and buy the bonds, and comply with the tax hikes) if that war poses an existential threat to those people, themselves.

With fiat, governments are incentivized to print money and funnel it into "causes" (whether these causes are righteous or not is beside the point), in order to fund the corporations, lobbyists, super PACs, war industry, etc, who will keep those politicians in power.

The incentives are simply broken.

















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