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 🙏 Thanks Jeff. Thought this needed to be more freely/widely available now.  
 I’d be happy to contribute to and use my public platform to bring attention to legal defense fu... 
 We've just launched @Open Source Justice Foundation this week. 501(c)(3) approved public charity dedicated to supporting and defending FOSS devs developing alternative systems (legal, financial, etc). 

We're exploring starting a legal defense fund to counteract the chilling effects of these absurd prosecutions. 

We'd welcome your support and advice. Happy to answer any questions and provide references. (aaron@opensourcejustice.org)


 
 It's time to stop being defensive and start suing the government.

This is how gun rights have be... 
 💯  
 When New York passed the mining moratorium, I tried to organize NY miners to sue for violating their First Amendment rights. 

Nobody was interested in rocking the boat. 

Rights are taken not given. 

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 Clear definitions of what negotiation and transfer of digital assets means might have prevented the US gov from taking positions such as this:


https://image.nostr.build/9d0a2e12fd807882c3b91be62e41a8fb16a206b5fb090994cbd55d00e353f273.jpg 
 Bitcoin is under actual attack and influencers are still crying and distracting you with ordinals... 
 For example, what does the billboard say?
"Come and play, come and play
Forget about the movement"
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0MLTwf5lKd8 
 Same same. Emailed support...crickets. Even after totally doxxing myself, @primal not interested in granting me access to wallet. #permissionless @miljan 
 Maybe I signed up while using a VPN... 
 Make things for bitcoiners first.

Worry about ‘mass adoption’ later. 
 🤝
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 You can post bounty nostr events through the @RESOLVR web or desktop client, and easily keep track/direct developers to apply for your bounties. 

E.g. https://bounties.resolvr.io/u/npub1getal6ykt05fsz5nqu4uld09nfj3y3qxmv8crys4aeut53unfvlqr80nfm 
 My lightning node connect also seems to stop working after a few weeks. I set it up from scratch and it works for another few weeks, then fails.  Not sure what it is, but probably my horrible RPi.  
 James, this is great! Is there a way you can integrate Keystache by @RESOLVR devs @Chris and @Doc Orange so I don't need to paste my nsec?

https://stacker.news/items/436792 
 Feel free to stop by the @RESOLVR discord to discuss all things Keystache! https://discord.com/invite/Quz6Sd63pW 
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 Roman Sterlingov was convicted: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-12/crypto-mixer-convicted-of-money-laundering-on-bitcoin-fog

Blockchain forensics will go down as the DNA forensics of our era:  Junk science based on black box algorithms that stole the liberty of innocents. 

Read Robert J. Norris, Exonerated:  A History of the Innocence Movement (2017).  

The similarities are striking:


https://image.nostr.build/5b15ca92272621ff114eb59a28862316285cc1857e6df4fc03f8d30c3078a191.jpg

@ODELL  
 Read the book and then get back to me.  
 There are 2.1 quadrillion units of Bitcoin (2.1x10^15).

$1 buys you ~1,390 units of Bitcoin.

A few hours of work earns you 80,000 units of Bitcoin. https://resolvr.io/b/naddr1qvzqqqr4vgpzq3jhml5fvklgnq9fxpete767txn9zfzqdkc0sxfptmnchfrexje7qyxhwumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmvqy28wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hsqttpd338jttyv4mx2mr0wpjhytt8w45kgetn94skuepdwe5kget0wvkk2vnrxa3xzvf4vy6njvs2h6lgg

No one is priced out of Bitcoin

#satsthestandard #bounty @RESOLVR @Alby 
 DESO is rebrand of Bitclout, which fraudulently misappropriated people 's likenesses with autogenerated profiles and prevented many ppl from withdrawing their Bitcoin. A buddy and I looked into bringing some kind of class action at one point.  
 It all depends on the specifics of the policies states enact. A year ago I suggested a few with historical success of resisting federal monetary overreach: https://www.bitcoinbrief.io/california-civil-war-states-rights-resisting-cbdcs/ 
 🫡 
 It all depends on the specifics of the policies states enact. A year ago I suggested a few with historical success of resisting federal monetary overreach: https://www.bitcoinbrief.io/california-civil-war-states-rights-resisting-cbdcs/ 
 Gresham's law: "bad money drives out good"

I had someone ask me how Bitcoin could succeed given ... 
 Everyone always forgets the necessary condition for Gresham's law where the government imposes price controls.

https://image.nostr.build/33ef9b45375d3176e196647172f33d4113080a8100fcdbbd2551b55a2053fe5e.jpg 
 GN. Beside Lume as main project, I have thought about what project I will work on this year, as s... 
 Hey, Ren, we are building escrow and dispute resolution primitives at @RESOLVR, which could integrate well with p2p marketplaces. Would love to collaborate soon!

Stop by the discord sometime: https://discord.com/invite/VRmwgV3pjP 
 Verifying my #BOLTFUN account on Nostr
      
      My Maker Profile: https://makers.bolt.fun/profile/2263
      
      Join our FUN community of builders and designers
      BOLT🔩FUN 
      
      #BuildOnNostr #BuildOnBitcoin 
 If these badges aren't already NIP-58 nostr events ([https://nostr-nips.com/nip-58),](https://nostr-nips.com/nip-58),) they should be. I want to show off my Bolt.Fun experience across all my nostr clients! 
 What's Open Source Justice?

It's the thesis behind @RESOLVR.

Read my latest article on @BitcoinMagazine to find out more!

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/legal/open-source-justice-on-resolvr 
 Check out this long form note: nostr:nevent1qqs8gua4e0taprumcsy4ed4qsce552kxd5njm5efq76y0v03y3hrlzczyp80jdcj8l7fystaqnsn0k0chuemwh9ytgytaqzfmz4auyvhleuuqqcyqqq823c0kl633 
 How can sovereign communities peacefully ☮️ and voluntarily 🤝resolve their own disputes?

... 
 Great conversation.  Johns is a real one.  He and the @BOLT🔩FUN crew don't get nearly enough credit for their efforts accelerating open-source development.

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 Looking for talented artists to create hand-drawn image diagrams explaining Nostr and the relatio... 
 Post a bounty on resolvr.io! 
 It's been an honor to work with such awesome, motivated, and passionate people on such a cool pro... 
 🫡 learned so much from you and the team, Tommy. 

Let's keep shipping Open Source Justice tools! 
 This is great. We are finalizing our own nostr DLC client for the @RESOLVR bounty marketplace project for the @BOLT🔩FUN hackathon.  Pretty similar set-up, except we hadn't thought of DLC receipts! 

Is @OpenSecret going to support DLCs on lightning soon?? 
 Earn some sats and help build a bounty marketplace on nostr. 

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 Building in public. Always looking for contributions. Open source is how we win. 

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 Thanks for the post! 
 Assigned to @npub1ygzj9skr9val9yqxkf67yf9jshtyhvvl0x76jp5er09nsc0p3j6qr260k2 
 I can post even though i didn't take 
 #asknostr where is the best place to post a bounty for a client? I'd like to get some help with G... 
 @RESOLVR is a hackathon project with a nostr-native bounty board.  It will also feature bounty escrow and crowdsourced dispute resolution.  [Alpha testing](https://www.resolvr.io) begins soon! 
 Thanks, Moritz! We need many eyes on the bounty board interface once we get it functional.  Alpha testers wanted!  
 There are better options than Coinbase for a company selling large amounts of BTC? (Yes I told th... 
 River OTC maybe 
 Flexible Round Optimized Schnorr Threshold signature is coming. 
 RESOLVR Hackathon Team Meeting, streaming live on zap.stream!

https://zap.stream/naddr1qqjrjcnrv9nxyve5943x2e3h956rxdp494snqcfk94nx2wp5vycryetzvcmnxq3qeaz6dwsnvwkha5sn5puwwyxjgy26uusundrm684lg3vw4ma5c2jsxpqqqpmxwysqdqq

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 How do we call "Nostr" apps that just login with Nostr but save everything the user creates in th... 
 Keeping certain user data off-relay allows for a crude form of key rotation. Importing reputation and experience to a nostr key (like GitHub through verified gists) protects a user from needing to start from 0.  
 ⚖️RESOLVR⚖️

Communities should be empowered to peacefully resolve their own disputes wit... 
 Decentralized FOSS Bounty Adjudication.

The idea is becoming reality on @BOLT🔩FUN

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 curious to see about how bitcoiners feel about paying for premium wallet services but, hey, if yo... 
 @Lightsats is already free and provides great onboarding content for newbies, with times reversion to grantor. But it's still custodial, afaik. So, with @OpenSecret you are paying for a fully self-custodial flow.  
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 Have used @Lightsats a lot, yeah. Allows you to generate physical cards with QR codes or word codes to redeem, which you can hand out to Uber drivers and bar tenders.  
 Clarity in the bounty description is key to avoiding disputes and controversy when developers seek to claim a bounty. 

And resolvr.io is a nostr- and bitcoin-native bounty marketplace with dispute resolution tools designed to resolve disputes when they do arise.  
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 @resolvr is trying to bring assurances to bounties through nostr native reputational signals and dispute resolution to solve exactly this problem. Please come contribute to the project so the FOSS #bounty market can flourish! 
https://discord.com/invite/DsqRw8My4m 
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I think it's ok to not focus on making your product fit for a mass market right away, IF you build with a market scaling plan that adds users with decreasing levels of nostr familiarity gradually:

* Build first for nostr users/devs, then
* bitcoin users/devs, then,
* General open source software users/devs, then
* Technical early adopters, but nondevs, then 
* Boomers.