To clarify tho...gold has a lot of radioisotopes with varying decays, but most gold is the stable non-decaying isotope.  All of the gold in the Pyramids of egypt from millenia ago...still exists today somewhere.

This raises a physical question of whether any stable isotope of any element can actually stay stable forever vs. every isotope actually having a finite (if unfathomably long) halflife.  It's a variant of the Halting Problem in computation theory.  It's a hard problem, one that provably can't be solved using computation as we know it.

If stable isotopes do eventually decay...#bitcoin will just be that much more impressive


Folks may not immediately grasp what it means to move solutions from client-asks-server hypertext to client-asks-many-relays notes.


I hear thunder
But there's no rain
This kind of thunder
Breaks walls and windowpanes

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

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Can confirm.  In fact, coffee isn't strictly required to achieve this effect.


My core of optimism always shines brighter than my shell of cynicism might suggest...is a thing that takes time for some folks to understand about me

Zoom out 😉


:kek:


Couch behind the TV set is kinda funny 😉


Only if I don't have my whiteboard handy


It extracts a lot more data than which images you click.  How you click them, how long you take, how you move the mouse, the path you drag the puzzle piece, not just the final place, etc

I agree, traffic lights, bicycles & bridges are obvious training, but those widgets capture a lot of other human input data too


Green tomatoes is an awful tomato


Ending a sentence with:   I'll tell you "what?"


Boltzmann Brain:  "What's the difference?"


Skipping something is passive and frees time; chasing something is active and consumes time.  They aren't the same.  So when you skip the latte or the cocktail or the pack of cigs, why not spend that free time focusing on your big financial goals?  Kill 2 stones with 1 bird.


If the world will be moving on without me, I'd like to say goodbye to my family at sea

If it's everyone's last day everywhere, I'd be content going out alone, maybe with some opium or a psychedelic

If money/technology/resources aren't a concern...launch me into the sun.  One last ultimate ride!


None of that science would exist if god picked a different number than 3.141592653...and neither would you or anything else you think of as reality.


I never believed there wasn't a god, and as long as "we" means trees, rocks, helium, humans (without any special status among the rest), and everything else in gods domain, then we probably agree on everything.


I don't like the hubris that Christianity demands of it's followers.  To borrow some capitalization:  WE aren't that special in this world


Maybe.

We think DM has mass and we think that mass exerts a gravitational force.  But we don't understamd gravity yet.  All we really know is that DM exerts *some kind of force*


Why quit entirely?  I detox from caffeine when that becomes a habit, but still drink coffee nearly every day.  Sometimes when I'm out, I'll get a fullcaf as a special treat 😎


They looked at eggs near a pollution factory 🤦♂


A filmmaker making a film about jesus, except he is jesus, and realizes that god is the filmmaker, ad infinitum.


I installed it on a VM and pooled a few external disks together some years ago.  Haven't had a single issue beyond learning how to configure things in the UI.


I posted last week about how fast the number of users on Nostr was growing and had a bunch of clarifications to the number I pulled from Primal, essential saying the number was too high.

Been thinking about this problem/opportunity all week.

1) I understand that it is really hard to get accurate numbers in a protocol like this - similar to how lightning growth is difficult to accurately gauge. (But are we making the problem worse by fighting over the number - that we can’t know?)

2) We all know and take for granted that the other bird app wildly overstates their users because it leads to more users. We know this from the court docs on a) Elon transaction, b) Elon constant drumbeat on “how fast it’s growing” c) our own user experience - ie - engagement per # connections (followers) is much higher here d) All of the bots and scams needed the reply to posts on x.
And here’s the thing - it is going to get far worse on X. I still pop in on X to see what’s going on (even though I rarely post) and besides all of the bots and noise, now most of what you see is AI driven clickbait to “win” more followers, drowning out some of the great voices I used to find there. Searching for real content is becoming increasingly difficult.
3) I suspect many of the early users here are early adopters in other areas of their lives. They could see the risks of the other centralized services and/or they wanted to be on the leading edge of something far better.
That being said, a core driver for the majority is that they feel comfort in “what everyone else is doing” meaning that a) if they think Nostr is stagnant (because people here are more honest/critical with real #’s) while b) X is growing (because of “marketing” - I wanted to use a different name for it but stopped short) then c) they will stay for longer on X, because they won’t investigate what you already know…….this is a far better experience, that is getting better every day. (While the competitor(s) are getting worse)

Users and Developers are much more likely to move their valuable time and content here if they think there is a growing community of engagement (there is) versus a stagnant one.

What restaurant are you attracted to? the one with a line of people or the empty one?
Our natural biases are hard to break and for all of Elon’s faults, he sure knows how to use these triggers to drive people to do what he wants them to do.


I physically stopped a child from running into traffic once.  Sue me.


This is pretty much verbatim what the jurors were told

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Present. 👍


a Relay Test Suite is in the works...

I've already got ideas for 94 tests and as I write these tests they expand out into even more tests.

I hoping that exposing relay behavior will drive relay software towards consistently supporting the same way of doing certain things, and that this will help nostr compatibility.

Tests include things like:
* Can the public write events?
* Can an authenticated person write somebody else's events?
* Does the relay respond to minimally constrained filters?
* Does limit 0 give an EOSE?
* When you write an event and get OK-true, can you read it directly back?
* Does limit behave properly when a filter has multiple pubkeys and multiple kinds?
* Does it require AUTH to read DMs and giftwraps?
* When submitting a replaceable event, are the prior events replaced?
* When submitting a replaceable event with newer ones already present, is it rejected or ignored?
* Does deletion of a replaceable event preserve the events that are newer than the deletion event?
* Does it prompt for auth initially?
* How large of an event can it handle?
* Does it verify signatures?
* How does it react to invalid UTF8?
* Does it handle all JSON escape codes? What about surrogate pairs?
* Does it preserve field order in events?
* Does it preserve fields in events not defined by the nostr spec?
* How many subscriptions does it allow simultaneously?
* Do events with negative created_at values work?  What about exponential notation? What about numbers that won't fit in a u64?

... that kind of thing.

If you want to help contribute, even if you just have an idea of what to test, come on over to https://github.com/mikedilger/relay-tester and give feedback, open an issue, or better yet submit a PR.

What about the other things I'm working on?

* Gossip is on pause while we wait for the UI developer to handle some personal affairs, then we will have annotations and NIP-17 DMs.
* Chorus is stable and upgraded to use Pocket
* Pocket has been completed and is stable too, but I haven't tried to make it useful outside of the scope of a relay yet.


I just wish kid island clients could get this treatment, instead of the guy lying about fake dollars on some paper 🤷♂


Summarizing my thoughts on ecash

For some reason this ecash trend seems to be gaining steam instead of going away, so I'll try my best to detail my thoughts on ecash into one post.

1. The incentives are broken

Ecash finds itself between a rock and a hard place. For users to trust the mint, they need to know that the people behind the mint are trustworthy. If the people running the mint reveal their identities (or even just nyms), they're a trivial target for regulators and law enforcement as it's clear a mint is an MSB.

If the people behind a mint don't reveal their identities or nyms, users of that mint are subject to trivial rug pulls with no recourse. Which do you prefer as a user? Mint operator rug pulls or government rug pulls?

If a mint had been targeted like Samourai Wallet was, instead of just a potential privacy loss, all users would have lost all of their Bitcoin.

2. Ecash is not "self-custodial"

For some reason this concept of ecash being "self-custodial" is a thing, merely because the tokens themselves are self-custodied (and require proper backups of seed phrases etc.) While the lines get a bit weird, it's important to separate two things:

1. The asset people want is Bitcoin, not ecash tokens.
2. The asset people give up custody on is Bitcoin.

The ecash tokens themselves are completely worthless IOUs without the Bitcoin behind them, so even if I can take custody of my ecash tokens, I have 100% given up custody of my sats to a third-party.

Because of this, talking about ecash as self-custodial is disingenuous -- no one wants empty IOUs, they want Bitcoin. When they use ecash they do not have custody of their Bitcoin.

3. Ecash still requires all of the hurdles of Bitcoin self-custody

The hardest hurdle for many people to adopting Bitcoin is the simple first step -- writing down 12 words and making sure not to lose them. With ecash you still have this single greatest barrier of entry as you must backup a seed phrase or secret in order to restore your ecash tokens.

4. There is no incentive for custodians to implement ecash

While a custodian could switch to ecash out of the goodness of their heart, the incentives are broken for custodians. Not only does ecash harm the UX their users are used to (not having to store a secret seed phrase), it also introduces additional infrastructure complexity. Instead of just running a database, now they have to run additional mint software to provide their users with tokens, and handle support cases where users lose their tokens.

In theory a custodian could just also store the seed phrase for their users, but then have we actually improved on custodians at all? They even have custody of the ecash tokens in that case.

5. Custody is a line that cannot be crossed

The core of what makes Bitcoin unique is that we can actually take custody of it ourselves, gaining immense freedom and self-sovereignty through a bit of personal responsibility. Even though I am a massive proponent of building better privacy tools, sacrificing custody to get better privacy is a non-option for me.

Surely we can do better and build privacy tools on top of Bitcoin (or directly into Bitcoin's consensus layer) that allow us to have both privacy and self-sovereignty via self-custody.

I will not give up custody of my Bitcoin, no matter what, and you shouldn't either. "Better custodians" are just custodians with extra steps, and still strip us of self-sovereignty and thus freedom.

6. Time is a more scarce resource than even Bitcoin

Even though I have been very outspoken on what I view as a pointless venture, I am not here to stop anyone from building what they enjoy in the space. Devs working on ecash are free to do so as of course I have no control over them, though I fear that time spent on improving custodians is time that we will not get back. It's clear that the US gov and many in the EU are seeking to ramp up their attacks on Bitcoin privacy and self-custody, and our time to build tools to route around them is growing shorter and shorter.

P.S. - None of what I write is a direct attack on any ecash dev, and I have immense respect and personal relationships with most of the people working on this stuff. Respect for an individual doesn't have to mean I agree with them on every avenue they pursue.

 https://i.nostr.build/oM0YW.jpg


Growth (at progress' expense) destroys societies 🤷♂


Use email aliases like SimpleLogin (can self-host)

Use password managers like Bitwarden (can self host)

Use various prepaid cards for payment

...even then though, event safety demands some level of identity mapping at some point.  That's what the hackers were after, and that's what they got.  You're safe if you never go to big name events.

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Going with the State default contract is never gonna be a good choice.  Create your own.


Few.


Be sure to check the Qubes compatibility list.  I had it on a lenovo yoga, and it worked, but definitely had quirks.


Well done, sir


So say we all

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The criminality of stealing or destroying property 👍
The of simply having posession of some property 👎


Sorry to hear that.


My obligatory disclaimer for orange pills:

"Remember, we're doing things on the cutting edge, so it's more than likely we'll eventually end up bleeding."


Wish I could go back and tell my grandparents this 😏


Likely it'll be your smallest paycheck ever too (assuming you count your wages... humbly 😉)


Arya Stark


:leotoast:


Should be, but this cycle seems more muted, quiet IMO

Might just be me and my irl circumstamces 🤷♂


Agreed for the first three...but as a bitcoiner I think "be a massive centralization" sounds ridiculous 🙄

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Bank with 0% fractional reserve requirement just sent me an email about "how to avoid scams"


"all YOU have to do is..." 🤣


Sounds like Bitwarden but only for MFA codes


Very underrated project, nix-bitcoin 👍

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It only "ends" with that if that becomes a central standard, which I do not believe will happen anytime soon on this protocol.


Who is Steve?


I don't wanna hit ddg or foxnews but now I know she's on trial for murder, day 2 👍


Who's that?  Headline it for us?


When you're pointing a gun at your own dick, because you've already shot your feet into bloody stumps, doing nothing is prudent.


Definitely not seeing a target demo pattern here...... 🙄😔

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Newer Captchas like the buses bikes & traffic lights ones don't care if you get the puzzle right or wrong; they watch your inputs on the whole page & decide if you *seem* more human than a bot would as you try to solve the images

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There's a joke here somewhere about the new gay black doctor fighting trans villians...

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Public Private Partnership


I think you mean "number spendable from my utxos go up" unless you like collecting dust!


Fun Fact:  "Cache" can be said to mean "storage of valuable things"

It's ironic then how cash behaves in practice 😉


Good knife!


Fuck that.  We've moved on.  Buy now, pay never!


My bum is on the swedish.  Sweeeedish.

 https://image.nostr.build/813f694e30706d895872afa77a4e96c5b31b1476d367ccea57bbff8cb9139ef9.jpg


Time must be wild for you


Acute observation about imbalanced priorities in this industry

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Harvesting & processing the flour???


Energy is everything, might as well flaunt it if you have it 😎

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When in the history of the universe did energy ever become irrelevant?

It's everything there is.  Quite literally.

Come back to reality.


How does it find peers?  Same way core would?


You were looking for a form in the readme to enter your email and have it delivered to you?  🤣🤣🤣


17 tweets, over 7 months, from hundreds of congressional accounts?

Not exactly sus.  Mildly remarkable maybe.


Don't stop smiling though 😁


Agreed


What I think "woke" means...

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A content score doesn't "boil down" by itself to a user score.  Users or clients who want a simpler WoT can boil it down and lose some precision in their modeling, but settling for less granularity across the board seems retarded in the literal sense


Every user exists on a spectrum of engagement & activity.  So any WoT will need user input, and I think profile level labels might be too broad, but really, most users won't engage at all.

Unless... "trust engagement" is made a first class citizen of consuming a post.  Posts are immutable, but people change all the time, so the trust should be tagged to posts to be most effective.

Naively, a swipe left/right feed could maybe generate some good insights, as users are forced to make a binary choice at every post 🤷♂


Applying a single trust score to all content from a person is like trying to apply a single interest rate for every loan in a country.


Borders without boarders is ... vacancy? 🤷♂


The mistake is thinking the real power-planners end in US Government & politics.

These people don't really care about American values, or that america is the superpower. They have their own agendas, and enough power to navigate the events of the decades as they pass.  But, most importantly, they have levels of patience even the most low time preference bitcoiner can only hope to achieve and preserve.  They have a centuries long headstart.

The american left is definitely off their meds in a bad way, but they're not the characters that worry me


Unless it's a deliberate journey 😉


Some people still think "less energy per human per second" is progressive, it really is mind boggling.


:jacknod:


All of this should be done from the start in a remote location at least 75km from anything or anyone else


In that order. Very important. 🤝


You own what they produce, not the people themselves

Common misconception about the nature of slavery


Did you need to authorize Astra to access your transaction data from your bank?


It may be partly an indictment on how incredibly shitty the State-default prenuptial contract is.

"2 kinds of clients:  those who want bespoke prenups, and those who want a divorce"

(Heard from a close lawyer friend on multiple occasions)


A/B deploy sir 👍


Ditto.  Unclear why the rest have blurry logos 🤷♂


Ornithopters are sick tho!


Oh it'll put plenty of people out of a job at today's level...businesses will trade off quality for cost (they already are, they have to in this economic environment)

Also...good luck dealing with roko's basilisk 😉


Family member of mine owned a recording studio and, among other things, recorded a couple jingles for local ads.

You'te right tho, local car dealers for example have a knack for banging out solid ear worms for radio ads 🤣


How old?  Broad strokes...


A grass fed human?  What the fuck?? 🤣


Everything happened "while everyone was retarded."  It's one thing bitcoin doesn't fix.


I have a sick feeling (no pun intended) that for a <35 year old today, "health expenses" will be very different, and largely not something that'll be easy to control by oneself.


Who wants paid freelance work?

Reply with some info about what you're good at, and examples of your work.

Can be anything, doesn't have to be writing code.


Care to share?  I skipped the tutorials and went straight into Proxmox, fixing all the suboptimal choices I'd made along the way 😉


OTOH, societies that valued alcohol were far more productive and progressive than societies that prohibited it


Accidental refreshes don't throw you into a whole new timeline anymore, it's so refreshing!


When faced with overwhelming munitions, physical opsec is your only help.


Reason #93625 why you should never passively give attention to adverts or promos of any kind.

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Arr 😏


Image processing and analysis is decades old, and has been far more accurate than humans at radiology

But hey if america needs to pay huge sums for soneone to say "I concur" so patients feel good, so be it.

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My old advice:  cut carbs, ditch beer, use clear liquors, get to a healthy weight and eat cleanly

My new, real advice:  stay away from alcohol entirely for most or all weeks of the year

Liver disease is no joke; they don't make dialysis machines for livers...


Something something forest, something something trees 😎


What about it grabs you?  Just curious


250k to present results as their own opinion as a patient platitude is a lot IMO.

It isn't like software development and generative AI, where humans can effectively operate at higher levels than existing software; radiology at least IME has been inverted this way for years.


Who needs radiologists when software does 99% of the work of parsing & analyzing medical images?  I mean someone has to snap the pic and then sign the report I guess, but for 250k/yr?


Convey obliteration unto them please thanks!


Jellyfin is great.  I wish emby was open source because it's client apps are way more functional.  My only gripe with jellyfin.


Setup a tailscale node at their location & reverse proxy whatever services you need locally to your mom's LAN 😉


"Prices are likely to decrease over time?" 🤔

Fuck these fuckers.

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SimpleX is the response to the tradeoffs of the other 2


Again, I think Mises was very limited in only considering the narrow domain of human/animal actions in this universe (but going deeper wouldn't have served a purpose for his larger work).

I'm not convinved that strictly man is capable of control and strictly animals are not; that dichotomy can't be true, exceptions on both sides.

Plus, what about our Sun?  Dead lifeless object only there for humans to act against?  Pretty arrogant thinking coming from humans IMO 🤷♂


Based


Replace "human" with "living being"  because humans really aren't that special 😉


Music goes far deeper than most humans give it credit for.  The conception of String Theory in physics exemplifies that we can see music anywhere at any scale


I have a friend who had secret clearance and every time I speak my mind, he smirks and stays silent.  I avoid playing poker with him 😉


"I can't believe my parents thought a nym would make this all private 😔"


THIS IS GENTLEMEN!!!1!


I'm impressed with that stacking though


For accessibility awareness day, I tested several apps and it's not good.
Amethyst Android - Grade B+
eNuts iOS - Grade D
Mutiny iOS - Grade D
Snort Android & Web - Grade E
Damus iOS - Grade E
Primal iOS & Web - Grade F
You're pretty much left out in the cold as a blind user.

I know some of these are super new, done by small teams, open-source contributions, etc. But there just seems to be a general disinterest in properly marking up UI elements. This stuff is easy to fix, just needs a few motivated hands.

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


A periodic poll & dismissable alert from the clients would help a lot.  Mine broke twice and both times I had to be told via a post or DM.  No clue how long it was down.


Nextcloud has Cookbook for recipes, it's nothing fancy, but works well for us.  We'll have to give this one a shot too 👍


Fiat money is fake. Pass it on.
https://m.primal.net/IHUT.mov


When the suits roll in, you know the innovation is over (at least that which benefits the user).

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They are literally loans for interest.  They can, do, and will refuse to pay the loan back if they want to. No reprucussions.


Modoboa on a vps if you want a fairly turnkey setup

https://github.com/modoboa/modoboa-installer


The point is that even though privacy is now criminalized, it doesn't mean it's also now unethical


Is there a rationale for not havimg multiple NIP05 references per profile?  #AskNostr


The last 3 work to fix the problems with the folks who setup and fund the first one


Patch your git software devs, five CVEs patched in the latest update including two RCE exploits

https://github.blog/2024-05-14-securing-git-addressing-5-new-vulnerabilities/


Easy.  Childbirth.


If not now, then when?


Mother of your kids might be able to think of something better... just sayin' 😉


Thats awesome!  I didn't realize they offered a web app.

No send or receive though 🤷♂


But 2 plus 2 does equal 5... for very large values of 2 😉


Never met him myself


Money Transmitting

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Everyone has hips thighs and an ass, but only some have spectacular melons too 😎


It’s the end of an era. After 130 years of faithful service, the so-called “prototype kilogram” upon which nations base their weight measurements was just replaced by a new standard based on fundamental laws of physics. The new definition of the kilogram, which was adopted at an international conference held last November in Versailles, France, went into effect in 2019. Instead of being based upon a shiny hunk of metal stored in a vault in Sevres, France, on the outskirts of Paris, the kilogram is now based on the "Planck constant", a tiny, unvarying number that plays a key role in quantum physics.
Kg has changed too. but to more accuracy LoL


If the government owes you tax money every year, they're grateful for your loan firstly, and secondly, you're paying your taxes wrong 😉


In this universe, Information Asymmetry is as invaluable as Energy Asymmetry


How can we see this?


Some of us are just plain 'ol masochists!

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Can any lawyers or ppl with informed legal opinion weigh in on this?
https://m.primal.net/IGim.png


How many were convicted to be sentenced to prison?


Another... throw a bunch of almonds in a food processor with some raw honey.

No BS Almond Butter


I ticked all of those boxes but honestly 3 & 4 were not applicable 😉


I liked this show a lot.  Wouldn't call it a vreat show, but it's various good elements clicked with me critically.

like a lot of reboots these days though, I have low expectations it won't be cash grabby 🤞


Don't get me started on why we invented the word cash, when  the word cache had already meant something for centuries (you'll never guess what!), and dollar was already a perfectly suitable word for our currency!


Whiplash energy gives whiplash moods. Shocker.


The lack of opioids besides heroin is remarkable though... 🤔


Bitcoiners are #progressive.  Person wants something, builds or buys it with their time, and creates profits for themself or ideally others too.

I don't know what the fuck MMT is, which cedes all of that to continually promoting, with vigor, trusted points of failure in all aspects of society 🤷♂

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It's important to keep in mind that, as far as we can tell, except at universally large scales, these things tend to end with a massive centralized point around which nothing in space or time can escape.....

We are very early.  We can still channel the energy to escape.  Few want to.

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That film was a masterpiece! https://image.nostr.build/b5c9a475af23bf8f105104090f7bda5bb76188c956d68bf6675eb002752c13c6.jpg


#Bitcoin showed me that dogmas are insidious, and many times, despite seeming foreign, the "opposite" of a thing is better than the status quo or even the actual removal of that thing.

The "thing" here for me was fiat money, but it applies to Guys health example just the same!

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Fiat lux

But then it was all fakery & bullshit downhill from there 😔


:kek:


:dogeangry:


Ahh, that.  Gotcha.


I use nostr with #GrapheneOS.  What are "notifications" you speak of?


Step 1:  save some capital
Step 2:  hire someone to help you manage your time
...
Step n:  both profit!


i would like to read/listen to people steel-manning their oppositions arguments. what are the best examples of this?


Both programming and music give me more a sense of discovery than creation

Kind of like the underlying execution is already there

But, it is an undeniably universal feeling


+1 for Unexpected


Steak, probably

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Poems are a recent construct 🤷♂


Always been rare.  For most of history, unbiased love was the exception; the rule was more along the lines of transactional arrangements.


#NixOS comes close IMO if strict rigorous isolation isn't a primary concern, vs just sandboxing identities/exit connections.

But #QubesOS is excellent at making sure you know exactly what you're doing before you're even able to actually shoot yourself in the foot


PSA for Fedimint plebs:

Free Madeira federation is shutting down in 30 days. Withdraw sats!


They're not after you & your friend.  They're after the folks who paved the parking lot where you & your friend were able to physically drive & meet for the exchange.


Depends how heavy the clutch is, but for most cars, it's way smoother shifting 👍


Imagine explaining a blue sky to your tribe who only knows shades of red & brown 😉

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This literally makes no sense🤦♂

The word "organic" has been so bastardized, that now anyone who invokes it is likely misusing it, and sounding foolish.  This is NOT THE SOLUTION to misinformation!

For those who actually want to effectively communicate, make good arguments, mean what they say, etc...

https://www.etymonline.com/word/organic

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Amount I've lost...

 https://image.nostr.build/60c80cad1998d0eb60b12916a7012841ca42ff5d003065a31f3f4baf1219ff31.jpg

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How it's going:
 https://image.nostr.build/8d5acf7b4469ba4fd47759ce3da694522e4749dc3cc85f09b61452cd54bf8859.jpg

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Coincidentally, Portman would go on to fight her diamond-form self in the movie Annihilation 😉
 https://image.nostr.build/8d5acf7b4469ba4fd47759ce3da694522e4749dc3cc85f09b61452cd54bf8859.jpg


They're always too small, I can never figure out how to get my balls to fit in those things


Never tick "Remember my choice" in nostr-land: always confirm every action. 👍

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It's a great song, but also has an apt title, given vedder is one of the few core grunge vocalists to, umm, survive until now. 🥲


I'm fuzzy on the details, but I think the holographic principle sounds like a physical cosmological description of this idea.

The total information contained in the 3D volume of a black hole is, remarkably, entirely encoded on the 2D event horizon of the black hole 🤔


Not quite the same, as the graphene words secure the monolith, not the individual components, that, with nostr, may be stored on various relays worldwide


Well basically, there's this war...


People will hate Twitter for SUSPENDED accounts

People will hate authors for DELETED accounts

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...no.

If there's a nipple on my beyboard, I disable that.


They conceded encryption to the public in exchange for the right to rebuild the inverted telco infrastructure that powered the internet.

They got the better deal there.

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"Don't hunt the whaaaalllleeee...kick it! Kick it!

(too bad this excellent song is promoting fucking greenepeace)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNfYtjQZcv0


Please tell me the quote marks are legitimate!


Just, Idunno...unplug the sink?


Plausible deniability only goes so far on a public ledger!

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Don't post if you use Unexpected keyboard & aren't wearing corrective lenses 🤣

#nostrtips

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"You gotta pay the troll toll, to get into this boys houl"

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Nah the comcretecompany that built the sidewalk slab is the transmitter.  Just because you and the original owner used the sidewalk, amd the sidewalk company knew that people would lose money on the sidewalk, no matyer that the sidewalk folks never meet the pedestrians

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On some keyboards, you can swipe the backspace key too to delete a swipable selection block of text 👍


Didn't read the article but it'd be remarkable if the 2 shooters ended up missing each other 🤣

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Lol I was like 21 when I fell in love with glass storage & cookware!  23 for cast iron/enamel dutch ovens.  24 for stainless steel 🤣


I've been introducing myself & giving holiday gifts to my mail carrier(s) since I moved into my own home.

Always get a thank you in return, either in person, or a TY card posted to my front door

Amazon misdelivers packages to me every so often, but the local mail service somehow has a perfect track record 🤔 😉

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Not saying they did it, but this scene being setup seemed to me to have a little too much picture perfect timing.  Like, how often does POTUS actually do these pedestrian photo ops?


If lamb gave me the satiety of beef, I'd eat it way more often.  I think most cuts taste better than beef.

of course, if I was already eating lamb all the time, it's hard to say whether I'd think the opposite 😉


Finding a block solo mining 😎

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Depends on acidity, heat source characteristics, and timing


This will happen roughly every week for the next 8 weeks 😎

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Cash & Cache mean opposite things, we already had the word Dollar, so where did Cash come from? 🤔


Contract is a better word.  If you have 1m sats, you create a channel with that amount, which is basocally a contract between you and your peer that says "I have 1m and you have 0."

A LN transaction is a balance-update to the shared contract, using cryptography to ensure both sides agree atomically on what the lateat balances are


Bills like this are publicly available on .gov websites, I trust Google more than X in this case, but I trust the actual congressional sources most


This one is solid.  Nix can seem daunting but my very first foray into it was setting up nix-bitcoin, and that wasn't too hard to do.


Mind & Body, but Soul is important too


Deja vu or time travel 😎


By definition, you can't possibly know that


Tomatoes


They can outmunition us though 🤷♂


The swarm mind reacting to this weeks state attack


Lots of visionary ideas about #Bitcoin decades from now, but we have to make it past tonight.

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"Banking hours" logic


"The whole planet's on a cob!"

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Don't be lazy.


This.

Also:  read Flatland

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I’m “not” paranoid about public zaps but 🚩 https://image.nostr.build/d24926bdf4637a9fa3ce48387dca07f826d2667240f502653365805e4fec53cc.jpg


The #bitcoin space needs a better balance between building a distributed network vs a decentralized network.

It's adversaries aren't just sitting on their hands, and decentralization alone won't be enough.


The Existence of Reality


Some buy into the narrative but still don't buy it 😔


I'm a man & find it attractive whem women do it so... 🤷♂


Begging the Question is another one politicians seem particularly fond of:

"How can America afford 2 proxy wars with record deficits?"

"Because we're America."


Bring back psychological castration!

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Coinjoin is polluted. This consolidation does not help


"monopoly credits"  fixed.


Those sneakers are sickkk 🤣

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Lucky...


I discovered Amber by accidentally logging out of amethyst once, and needing to sign back in 🤣

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"Gunpowder is too loud" 😭


The proceeds proceeded eventually to whirlpool


Logistically?


If your dog bites the thief and the state euthanizes your dog, it means the state values thieves' health more than your dogs life. 🎯


relay.tools is a relay platform for frens by frens.  Discover more today 💎🦜

https://i.nostr.build/dwGVv.jpg


More coordinators with the same users means smaller pools.  That's why Sparrow used samourai's whirlpool pools.  Smaller pools aren't ideal, they get fewer mixes and have lower anonymity.


The wallet server has all the xpubs for non dojo users & the xpubs with a bunch of 1m, 5m, etc sat UTXOs in their histories are the postmix accounts.  *If* the feds have the wallet server, they can find the postmix account, find the corresponding other three accounts, and cluster every users transactions & mixes together, so unless a user never touched KYC, their name would likely be tied to their cluster.

Don't forget, the guy who wrote those posts...is now in prison.  Whether prison for this is right or wrong (it's the latter), the samourai guys clearly didn't have it all figured out.


It's dead unless/until a new coordinator comes online.


If the app shows you the balance, it sent the xpub.  Each of the 4 whirlpool accounts were sent.  Only question is whether the agencies got that data, or eg. it was/will be wiped 🤷♂

I'd err on the side of the xpub data being compromised


Doesn't say "ad" or "sponsored" anywhere 😡


Are we gonna hide our island like they hide all theirs? 🤔


"Dead mans switch" goes off when they *don't* click it 😉


It's an underappreciated irony that, without that movement, the music industry during those years would have been retarded (in the literal sense) to a large extent, if not financially, then at least essentially.

A typical person doesn't have time to discover the potentially hundreds of bands they like.  FM is too low bandwidth, and discs aren't exactly scalable either.  The industry wasn't champing at the bit to go innovate ways to serve that eager audience, so...tl;dr it was their loss 🤷♂😉

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Nostr git isn't quite ready for primetime yet, but #gitea is a quick way to spin up your own git server and periodically fetch from other repos.

I routinely do this; I'm sad I missed the samourai one.

https://docs.gitea.com/category/installation


Of the $2b they cited, they only categorized $100m as criminal (but simultaneously tried to imply that all of it was laundered).  It would be a tiny little consolation if this documentation being available is the agencies being "helpful" 🙂


Yep.  If they have the xpubs, then the history of those wallets is unmixed, and every mix round those wallets participated in has its anonymity set reduced, because the known xpub adresses are effectively doxxed.  There could be mix rounds with only one dojo input; elimination process, that round is now moot.  Enough such rounds, and the whole pool is effectively deanonymized, with maybe small pockets of anonymity left over


Ummm...are you lost? 🙂


The DOJ release implies that whirlpool processed $1.9b of noncriminal activity (if we ignore the "privacy is money laundering" fallacy) 🤔

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Practically, the relevant code is all ported and working in sparrow 🤷♂


We don't know this; we know the coordinator dns is seized.

But yes, assume near complete deanonymization of all the pools, in case they do have the coordinator backend


You *should* recover your wallet...

... fixed it


...times forty


Common pool, common coordinator, which was run by samourai.  Check sparrow logs when you open a whirlpool wallet, you'll see the errors connecting.  But, that could just be a siezed dns, we won't know until more information is available


Hard to tell from the release.  $2b in total inflow; $100m in known criminal proceeds.  Those numbers needn't necessarily come from having access to the backend.  Could just be a domain seizure + chainal.

If it's captured though, the pools are likely highly deanonymized now.


If you weren't using dojo, assuming they seized the coordinator backend, you're now completely deanonymized.  The whole pool would also now be partially deanonymized.


I guess I'm assuming that the feds also seized the coordinator data, and maybe even the keys to the proceeds.  But reading through the release, that may not be the case.  They may be inferring proceeds based on the people behing the websites & twitter accounts, and the total whirlpool capacity.. 🤷♂

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If you aren't running your own dojo, you're fully deanonymized, and if another coordinator pops up, your mixes would be pointless.  Move to a new seed.  (If you are using dojo, nothing is necessary to do now)


Technically, now they were


I'm sad because I did none of those bad activities, but now I'm losing a fungibility tool.

Wen HydraMixer? 😢

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It's a great idea, but was a terrible film.  Its only redeeming quality was the concept


Fiat ruins everything.  Imagine if this concierge paid more attention to the hotel or its guests...better hotel!  But with shit like this... 🤷♂

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In which market?


Made one of these with a base of tortilla chips for a normie crowd a few weeks ago.  Got all the reactions I was looking for 😎😉


A decades-overdue code refactor 😉🤣


Living in the moment is great...for some of your moments.


Quantum theories seem more suitable for information/logic than particle physics to me anyway.  The fact that physicists try to bridge them feels forced.


Today is a stepwise day.  Strike + Block

(Always be mindful of KYC)

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Hope it's a big fucking button to opt in!  Any sellers wanna share?

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They invented the internet so they could communicate military secrets more than to talk about techy stuff, but I see your point 😉


We cracked it!  We've finally figures out how to make markets only go up (whatever that's supposed to accomplish... 🤔)

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Primary residences are a consumption good, like groceries or energy


Cumulative amount of positive neurotransmitters produced in myself and others via my saving bitcoin over time.

Hard to measure precisely, but like a black hole, the effects are easily recognizable.


Github?


Yes but X requires way too much effort to find a consistent reality.  Humans are social creatures; we work better when we share a common truth aligned with our natural environment.

X is like trying to read a book, without eyeglasses, in the foggiest blizzard imaginable.  And the book ia 3 km away 😉


SMTPv6

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Sometimes the earth sneezes 😏

 https://image.nostr.build/830a223f83f7781c9a4df8131bf28e2576d16d950add10e2262e347c5a8f3d78.jpg


Your first sentence is true for me too

But putting X and Reality in the same sentence is fucking hilarious


If it's in a pediatric cancer ward or someplace like that, then fuck yeah it is!


Coffee fixes it for me (at least ever since I stopped drinking it daily)


Looks suspiciously like a chain through time to me though 😉


I forget the numbers, but does the math in their exposition check out?


You cannot save dollars in a bank

You agree to a contract in which you lend dollars to a bank to be paid back in the future with interest...not save

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I've always wondered why this hasn't been explored further.  Surely the sensors are cheap, and the rest seems like a pure software problem 🤷♂


She has such a good track record getting her proposed bills passed! 🤣


Sapiens may have won, but neanderthals still live on


Next step, ditch plex


You can find the original from that one 😉


Did you know michael bolton is a major cinephile?


Compressed nitrogen and a mask are enough.  This is just rubbing it in.

If you can still smile, don't kill yourself.


Block by block, #Bitcoin comprehends us before we comprehend it

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Cash, whether its P2P or not, should be a store of value first (for context, see  https://www.etymonline.com/word/cache ), and sending a billion usd for a thousand usd is not that bad.

If the SoV gets in the way of MoE, the MoE will use a different layer.  Lightning works well enough now, but we will need to do better.


Free market innovation... let it sink in & embrace it.

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I'll uhh might have a use for it, but I gotta know what the first few bytes of the wallet.dat file are first... 😉🤣


Metaphysically, can anything that's "current" really be called original, if it necessarily follows from the moment(s) before?

I think of creativity more like turning chaos into order.  There's a physical cost to it, entropy, the 2nd law of thermodynamics, but human's are remarkably good at it over time, even if some of us only do it subconsciously 😉🤝


Sing? Write? Draw? Invent? Cook? Code?

Nothing?


The mouse is overrated.  It would have been a great idea if humans had 3 hands, but alas... 🙄


Fear, imbecilic-takes, and doubt


"I'll see your step, and I'll raise with...this"

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3.125 is the subsidy, not the reward


Ahhh, TIL what GoC abbreviates!  🤝


"a couple years old..." 🤭


Just popped onto X to check a feed that's stuck back there, website crashed.

What a waste of 30 seconds that was 😔


everyone who owns a business though...


In my head yall are having a blast 🥳


Yeah I definitely notice things seemed sparse recently. Servers go down all the time but "client going down" is a much less common phrase 🤣


What did I miss?


Remote procedure calls


Boost it

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Why?  It can't display a price below "1000" sats/dollar?  😉😅


Heavy cream - buttermilk = butter

In case you're on a budget 😉


Wheat & chaff

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Those ladies make me feel like Genghis Fucking Khan

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I assume the original photo was formed in 2020 😷


OTOH, a lot of folks had a great payday this week 😉


The 4th branch of government predictably was what killed it


What else is in it?  Tripe is underrated 😎


Relay operator using #cloudflare proxy, please do this to let people connect to your relay over #Tor.

Go to your site settings
Click in "security" -> "WAF" -> "Create Rule"

Fill the fields like this:

Field: Country
Operator: equals
Value: Tor

Action: Skip

Scroll a little and click in "more components to skip" and select "Security level".


Not when they've already been convicted, sentenced, and imprisoned 😔


"Prisoner's Rent"

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Wait, what?  That doesn't sound right... 🤔


At least you don't need to trust your customers.  If you're inclined to, just take the money & provide the service.


You are misunderatanding.

The expected behavior for LN users is to use LN; the proposed case is for hybrid customers choosing to pay onchain, replenishing their LN wallet with the change, and adding inbound liquidity to the merchant


Self hostable too 😉


Sideways vag


I mean, guy's probably ded so..


I think "I tell you "what?" is one of the funniest phrases!


More than the sticker price?  Why?

The merchant pays to open a channel if they want; same as the merchant paying a CC fee (or, ya know, embedding it in the sticker price?)


https://rss.feedspot.com/netflix_rss_feeds/

I haven't tried these, I opportunistically peruse the netflix site for ideas...I mean, to watch new stuff...but these feeds might be a help.

I'm totally fine with bitcoiners who like cinema (an arguably "lazy" activity); they're usually the best critics!


Same way the dollar dropped to 0.00001 BTC 😉


The same trust required as a customer expecting change back in any transaction, right?

Customer pays a set of (onchain) inputs
Customer receives product/service
Customer gets change outputs back (offchain)


Reminder:  the halving will likely happen "after hours" (whatever the fuck that's supposed to mean on the global internet)


"Money is taboo" as a phrase didn't enter the lexicon by accident.

Cache and cash don't mean opposite things by accident.

Banks don't call the loans you give them for interest "savings accounts" by accident.

Those words & phrases were used deliberately to bring us all here:  modern-day slavery.

#ListenClosely #PayAttention #OptOut #CallBullshit

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You'd think the phrase "regularly scheduled programming" would have tipped the masses off, but alas, the programming was effective.

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You walk from the airport doors to an assigned seat and then sit there for hours.  They're recording & training and probably have been since 9/11, not sitting on that footage, waiting for your consent.

The whole "you can refuse the headshot" thing is a weak platitude.


The professionals have been wotking the social, economic, cyber, information, and language warfare for a long time now.  I don't think civilization has the maturity yet to avoid kinetic warfare.


Fake monopoly credits kill culture.

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We can only hope the Samourai crew don't ruin the fun over here 🤣


Gm ☕☀ Take the risk of being wrong.


You can run any command in any container from the host; you can definitely pipe bitcoin-cli output to lncli.  If you need to actually change the images (nit just the compose files), then it's a bit much.

For cross service scripting, nix is top tier IMO, but you're right, without any experience with the nix language, it's a little bit of a learning curve.


Cache (basis of cash) literally means "a place to store valuable things" though...🤔


It's optional because they're patient for the tech to catch up (it will), not because they're respecting your rights.


A few facts about Primal:

- We have 4 devs: 1 iOS, 1 android, 1 web, 1 backend
- We open source everything we build under the MIT license
- We’ve raised a small seed round from mission-aligned investors
- We optimize our UX for onboarding new users to nostr and bitcoin
- We’ve always been friendly and supportive of other nostr projects
- We will continue building and shipping; that’s a promise

Our goal is to build a profitable business that serves nostr users and no-one else. We expect that to be a long process, spanning many years. We are here and ready to grind.

Anyhow, GM. ☀


I think that's a naive take


OTOH it's completely moot; those aren't the only cameras installed at an airport 🙄


*without a few, not except a few


Ehh, the docker compose solution wasn't that bad vs. mynode IMO.  There wasn't much I couldn't do with it, escept a few really small docker-compose tweaks 🤷♂

That said, if those aren't advanced enough...nix-bitcoin blows them all out of the water 😎


Yeah I was being literally pedantic.

When I think of people making money, I imagine miners in hard hats.


Earning it is fine too if the concept of "making money" seems unfair.  It's really only as unfair as the money itself, but the 20th century left a bad taste in all of our mouths


It doesn't though.  The state can always outmunition a private militia in the US at this point.

In the end, infotmation asymmetry is how to win.


Sous vide is the secret actually 😏

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It's literally retarded.  In the literal sense of the word.

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No such thing as exactly the same moment unless it's at exactly the same place too 😎

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Reminder:  the halving will likely happen "after hours" (whatever the fuck that's supposed to mean on the global internet)


The phrase "savings account" is illogical.  In every other scenario, we call it what it is:  a loan with interest 😔


Medium Rare ideally 😉


"Money is taboo" as a phrase didn't enter the lexicon by accident.

Cache and cash don't mean opposite things by accident.

Banks don't call the loans you give them for interest "savings accounts" by accident.

Those words & phrases were used deliberately to bring us all here:  modern-day slavery.

#ListenClosely #PayAttention #OptOut #CallBullshit

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Counterargument:  nothing in the universe ever sleeps 😉


How to mitigate the strfry crash exploit

Is your strfry relay crashing with the error "invalid size of ipBytes"? This is how you can fix it.

This is a long form article, you can read it in https://habla.news/a/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzq5455pmtewaacws6a73hxkqkea6fjwcm3keq9vqu3q7930nl4k9aqqg8xarjvee8jttrwfshx6pdve5hs5m6jh2

## Why this is happening

This happens due to an invalid real IP header.

You are most likely using `X-Forwarded-For` as the real IP header. Strfry expects the real IP header to contain just an IP, but [the `X-Forwarded-For` header is *a list of IPs*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Forwarded-For), with every proxy adding the IP of where it got the request from.

If a client specifies an X-Forwarded-For header, like `X-Forwarded-For: 1.1.1.1`, your proxy will add the remote IP, like this: `X-Forwarded-For: 1.1.1.1, 127.0.0.1`
When you use `$proxy_add_x_forwarded_for` in Nginx, this is what it is doing: *appending* the remote IP to the header.

Strfry tries parsing `1.1.1.1, 127.0.0.1` as an IP address, fails, and throws an exception.

## How to fix it

If you are using Caddy, just switch to `X-Real-IP`.

If you are using Nginx, you can add a real IP header like so, and switch to using it:
`proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;`

You can also disable the real IP header, but this will cause problems if you use a write filter script or look at the logs.


"Medium of Exchange & Unit of Account don't matter" is twice as off base as "Store of Value doesn't matter" from the 20th century

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I just published a new book, this one is specifically on Lightning network. From basic use-cases to explanation of how it works, and a few things that I see coming in the future (or hope for).

The Orange Flash of Freedom: Understanding and using the Bitcoin Lightning network

Bitcoin has created digital gold - empowering many people to freely transact using a non-inflationary, non-manipulable hard form of money. The Lightning network builds upon this innovation, offering a fast, scalable payment network, that can be used to instantly send and receive money over the internet. It is a basic protocol of the internet, similar to e-mail for communication, or web for accessing information or apps. Lightning network can be as complex as you need it to be. Installing and using a current generation bitcoin wallet that supports lightning can be learned in under three minutes. This book gives you an overview of various wallets, the inner working of lightning, bitcoin fees, and proposals to make Lightning scale and be an interoperable payment protocol, even beyond Bitcoin blockchain.

Whether you are a beginner or an advanced user, you'll discover that installing and using a modern Bitcoin wallet with Lightning support can be mastered in just a few minutes.

My web:
https://hackyourself.io/product/the-orange-flash-of-freedom-understanding-and-using-the-bitcoin-lightning-network/

Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D13HQ6L4/

(Amazon is better for paperbacks outside of EU, possibly even within EU. But you can pay with Lightning on my web)

https://image.nostr.build/f63ccef25fcd9b9a181ad465ae40d282eeadd8a4f5c752434423cb0539f73e69.jpg


Often the messenger gets shot for simply having a big stack or having gotten in early, even if they give your proposed advice verbatim.


Idk if people are ready for this, but I believe the world is. First tests of USD Ecash. Backed by BTC.

Everyone can run a mint. Everyone can make a wallet. USD can be spent everywhere BTC is accepted. Open protocols all the way down. No gatekeepers. This is only possible because of the permissionless nature of Bitcoin.

You'll zap USD on Nostr and you'll be happy. It's going to be so insane.
 https://video.nostr.build/2bd2bd63fbd4c77d64d5f8a2a1cab6ccbea48c541c96be2f28fa5e57276be872.mp4


Nice, but don't say you make money unless you're a miner.  You most likely earned (or were given) your money instead 😉


I use english to speak, write, dream, think, remember, instruct technology...


I had a random deposit in my tradfi once.  Waited about a week, then withdrew cash.  Couple hours later, bank calls & asks me to return it: I did.

Should have told them it was a promotion of theirs or something to throw them off guard and give them the runaround in hindsight


This paper talks about what happens when top relays fail at the same time among other things that are very interesting regarding Nostr.

Exploring the Nostr Ecosystem: A Study of Decentralization and Resilience. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.05709v1.pdf

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

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

TLDR: Top 30 relays may go away and still 95% of the posts are still there. It says Nostr is better than Fediverse in terms of decentralization.

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I often get the impression the thumbs up emoji got so overused, it must be coming with sarcasm 😏


Oracle free tier is pretty generous


It really sucks getting turned down for a job because I have "too much experience". 😮💨

I'm trying to move forward in my career. If you need an expert web developer who thinks outside the box and can make amazing things happen, hit me up and I'll send over my CV/résumé.

Friends boost friends 🫂🔄


Fear is the mind killer


Looks like someone managed to get a backdoor into ssh in Fedora and Debian testing. Patch systems ASAP.
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4


I did this.  Funds were safu but I did have to reenable some things.


Correct.  Android doesn't route through a VPN connection


If you are building a product, don't forget to put the link to the source code somewhere easily accessible, such as in the footer for websites, or in an "about" section for software and apps. This is a key act to spread open source and the beneficial virus of Nostr.

I see a lot of great projects missing this opportunity!


Good prose is effective at any scale

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Many people in small communities around the US that do farmers markets are bitcoiners and don't know it.  I only sold maple syrup for cash for obvious reasons, as many farmers markets do. I had no ambition to compete with the 2 families of large maple producers in my area that helped me get started with advice, and lending me old equipment. I wanted to sell outside our area online. But no cash option. As I researched bitcoin became the answer, I can share my farmers market good around the US. And  I believe in bitcoin more than cash now.  I am just a hobbyist but made 100 gallons of syrup from 5000 gallons of sap. I can't wait to see the nostr farmers market in a few years.


Lightning Crashes… Primal? https://i.nostr.build/vGG9P.jpg  nostr:note19lzhwvkt293hzynpah5rpvrsfxlq2wm8vzt6q87wqzgzdhpenpaq7d4evv


I'm skeptical...


5 should be the Fifth Element, but otherwise 👍


Let that sink in….

#bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/546ddf1f9a296d65139a90d983709b3374775f1303ab1a9bdcebc77e5129c002.jpg


Stratum V2 Reference Implementation (SRI) v1.0.0 Released

"We are thrilled to announce the launch of SRI 1.0.0 ! This marks an important milestone in our mission to decentralize and enhance bitcoin mining and stands ready for immediate testing and integration."

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/sri-v1-0-0/


Also, multiple reactions ftw!


🤣

 https://image.nostr.build/cc29744f6b1aef6534fbb4f1bde77c274336afbebe03822edb82ce174f2c86fa.jpg


#Amethyst ftw


Caching 101

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https://archive.ph/xvZsw https://image.nostr.build/b76495a73a3d95a73527c22290bfa679c49f948869b9726ffa470e44d22cb10b.jpg


Imagine... a morning alarm clock at full volume that can't ever be snoozed or disabled.  You want to get out of bed, but you were raised, taught, and continue to have reinforced the idea that getting out of bed is bad... (a whole other metaphor 😉)

At what point is the compulsion to destroy the frustratingly annoying and distracting alarm clock too much to resist?

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Works for me... 🤔

#Amethyst on #Android #Pixel7a


Not sure how this is possible, but I’ll take it. https://image.nostr.build/02535f2df5f01ce4a9b67b537a7dc66805579a77cca7e0310e344687ca4d53ff.jpg


Bitrefill.com does this on my android from within their website; does that selector not exist in iOS?!?

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Follow your interesting #hashtags diligently to help build your #nostr experience!

#NoAlgorithm


I had a lot of gripes about the UI on my Pixel 5a...until I got a Pixel 7a.  Nostr clients can be very taxing; nature of the beast.  The more offloading you do (privacy leaks), the better the UX can be.

On the 7a, it's still not perfect, but it works much more smoothly.


You'll find your friends here, it's not like the old app where they'll all be put right in front of you to follow, but you'll get the hang of networking on nostr soon enough!


On android, there's a keyboard called Unexpected Keyboard that doesn't autocorrect or autopunctuate...and I love it!

#Typing #Skill


The bill is short, but the implications and scope are very broad

Freedoms rarely get restored once taken away without some struggle

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/118/hr7521/text


Thinking about a migration is pointless when the bill is one judge away from effectively classifying github as an app store


Keep in mind, this is the 4th attempt at a cinematic adaptation to this one book, and the other three were, uhh, rough, one was made but never released 🤣

It's definitely a great movie, "best scifi movie of the decade" may pan out to be true, for a whole variety of possible reasons


As a mildly autist scifi bitcoiner who's read the books multiple times, and this first one in particular more than the rest.... ^ this tracks


Gotta understand words first, most folks can't even do that


Be honest... at ~25 sast/vbyte you didn't really *need* the lightning money 😏


Fair.  I curate my attention for discussion to mainly include those who can logically parse words with me in a dialogue.  It's a prerequisite for debate.

Words can be weaponized though; another reason to use as few as possible, as correctly as possible.


Gluten Free ground beef never fails to disappoint.  Fuck meatloaf 😏

Just make sure the cows eat grass 😉


Weeks should be days in this bar chart of ETF inflows, but any real #bitcoiner is likely to miss it, because sane people don't think there are only 42 days in 2 months 😎

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Okay, yeah... "trading" days makes sense.  So used to 24/7 markets, I totally forgot to account for that! 🤣


Why is the chart 40+ weeks long?


Unless you live a fully self sufficient life, you are effectively a slave without self custody of your life savings.  This is true for any asset you use as savings.


When I say something like "a country is retarded"... I'm talking about a country's current state of subdued or hindered societal progress.  It makes sense in my mind, and it makes sense linguistically; is there a better phrase that communicates the same meaning in as few words? 🤷♂


I'd rather run backups of a matrix server, with all of their faults, than rely on Discord.

Pay some sats to join the rooms maybe?

Move to 0xchat instead?

I understand the audience, but... bad look


It's not moving the instance thats a challenge; all of the data is tightly coupled to a given homeserver domain, which AFAIK can't be migrated to a new domain without hacking things 😔


Specter has an embedded node, wouldn't say it's dummy proof, but better than core.


"Familiar" 😅

Also..."entrance next doo"? 🤣

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Yeah if onchain isn't an option and we wanna go straight to lightning, we'll have to deal with tradeoffs (or just do the work to run a real node)

Bisq or HodlHodl can help with the fiat bridge in EU for onchain.  In the US, Bisq offers the usual interbank services, but also offers US money orders, basically cash in the mail 😉

It's definitely not easy, but it does work.


Lotta folks saying meat, but eggs work just as well too and are a lot more convenient sometimes 👍

The key is:  little to no carbs, so no insulin release, so no fat storage, but instead with a caloric deficit you get fat burning.


Closed source + money stuff = Govt/IC scrutiny & unilateral involvement, often done silently

It's a recipe for disaster; it's why we use nostr 😎

If relai provides value, then use it, but don't lose sight of the forward risk you're assuming from those very powerful adversaries going forward 👍


I'd love to know more!  Links or resources?  Explanation?


Wanted to thank all the OGs who renewed their accounts, your support means a lot to the nostr.build and its future. If you decide not to renew, that’s alright, we are still committed to run it until even if it costs me my own lunch. Stay assured that even if your account expires, we will keep your media online for an additional year as we promised. THANK YOU! 🐶🐾🫡🫡🫡


🚨ATTENTION🚨:
We have a Bitcoin Veteran who runs a Citadel in Walker County, GA with a PTSD mission

He just received notice that a rock quarry is about to be approved less than a mile from their location. This means BIG EXPLOSIONS… while guys are trying to heal from… BIG EXPLOSIONS

CALL TO ACTION: Looking for an attorney who can file an injunction as this property is not zoned for mining and they failed to notify the public prior

Please DM with any information
https://m.primal.net/Hjyc.jpg


"You can lead a horse to water, but at some point, you'll just need to put it out of its misery"


"self inflicted wound" as in "we're gonna suicide you now, but you brought this on yourself" 😔

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I also think theres an underappreciated amount of nonverbal communication that happens amongst a developmet team, that AI can't really incorporate (yet?).  Tbere's a gap between the rigor of coding & the ambiguity of english which doesn't exist as much with chatbots

The larger the team, the harder it gets to fill that gap IME.  AI makes me persinally more efficient when coding, kind of, but that's it so far.  I may just not be using it to it's potential


Malthusianism

It is clear that the extractive elites have decided that we are heading towards a degrowth world with less energy available for all and all that goes with it.

Their fundamental pillar for the control of resources is the total control of the population, digitizing all their information through digital cards, where medical, financial, carbon footprint, and any type of information with which a social profile can be made.

This social profile will be directly associated with social credit, in turn associated with CBDC, which will be very easy to shape the behavior of people, through the restriction of credit or even confiscation of money or expiration of it.

We are at a moment in history equal to or worse than Hitler's Nazism or Stalin's Communism. The elite have decided that resources are limited and that they will control access to resources as if they were gods.

From an evolutionary point of view it makes no sense to restrict the use of energy, the level of a civilization is measured by the total amount of energy that a civilization can take advantage of its environment, read about the Kardashov Scale. It is a mistake of colossal proportions that will lead us to mutual annihilation if we do not stop them.

Luckily we have #Bitcoin, there is no time to lose.


After months of work, I've discovered a way to build Chaumian Ecash mints on Lightning that don't hold the users' funds.

It's not clear to me yet whether this can actually be made useful or it's only theoretically possible but the sheer possibility makes me incredibly excited.


Rapeseed... I think it's the most masculine of seed oils 😉


Why?  Honest question.


Wake up babe, a new scam just dropped!
#siamstr
#nostr https://image.nostr.build/3e66a85f7b94c74f8d7a1e0c978eedaa895a44e035967f675627374396ef28ab.jpg


It's an "app store" where you "search" for repos of open source projects you want, and it monitors, grabs, and installs the apk's they bundle into releases for those repo.

Tradeoff:  there's no vetting of bad software, it's all on you

Benefit:  there's no censorship; it's all on you


Sorry...4, not 2.  Dyslexic typo!


If you're a good grandfather who's friends with another good grandfather, you'll understand how trivial this puzzle really is 😉

2


Weeks is a short timeframe to move fiat, and an excellent opportunitiy to study and reinforce your choice in the meantime.

This phenomenon is like mass literacy; it'll take decades & folks over 50 in 2024 will typically never truly grok what's happening today.

The kids who are 10 years old today...they're going to be the ushers of "mass adoption"

Whether someone figured this out in the runup to $12 or the runup to 1k or the runup to 20k or the runup to 69k or today...or 4 more cycles from now... something tells me in ~2045, most economic actors will be acutely aware of bitcoin.

But, 20 more years is a long time to propagandize a generation against it, and the psychological manipulators capable of that are literal professionals with access to many dimensions of social warfare, and with a far lower time preference than most bitcoiners 🤷♂😔


Nah you're right.  Better to stare at it, wait for that autorefresh you're waiting for, and then dance like a lunatic when it pops up

At least, thats how we do it 😅


She'll have a Cats in the Cradle moment with her kids in the future

...assuming we're still allowed to drive cars by that time


Uptime Kuma is great 😉


Think as if you already own the bitcoin when you do the work.  You're not buying bitcoin; you're selling dollars 😉


What color?

(sorry I couldn'r think of a good question here; I cook shirtless all the time 🤣)


Cool #etymology

Men in many cultures "bow" in various ways to show respect, which comes from "bend" and "bind" as in a bow & string and...well, nothing to do with courtesy or politeness really 🤷♂

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I hear soaking corks works too


The problem is people who do know bitcoin think they know patience...

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Folks today don't grasp that when bitcoin was $6, there were no hardware wallets, no seed words, only a wallet.dat file that needed to be backed up *after every transaction*

I lost a lot of bitcoin because backup & recovery was so raw before BIP32.  Whoever moved their 2010 mined coins yesterday has earned a lot of resoect in my mind 😉


10x every 5 years may feel too good to be true, but it also feels the same no matter what price or which year you enter the workforce

Keep in mind that "x% inflation" felt normal for decades. Same exponential trend; same psychological & social dynamics.

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Everyone I have ever properly taught to hodl #bitcoin has made a handsome gain.  Some unfortunately gave very early & hefty donations to all the remainig holders. Live & learn!

h/t bip32!


It took me like 8 years to get over the bitcoin price mindset, and even today, I wouldn't exactly say I've conquered it! 🤣


Don't give up on #nostr

It's different, sure.  Might seem foreign and confusing, but the emerging ecosystem is VAST, and things come together a lot more naturally than you'd expect!

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- SATA III 6 Gb/s, 2.5"/7mm, Up to 535 MB/s
- Seattle, WA for pickup


Give it time; the price alerts phase will pass 😏


## Introducing LowEnt
https://lowent.xyz

Lowent is a new chat client that uses the concept of low entropy keys to create anonymous chat rooms. It generates a key pair using the SHA256 hash of a word or string, allowing users to create rooms with any combination of words or characters. Each room has its own key pair, so all messages in a room are public on Nostr through the public key of the room. This can be useful for creating public streams of notes, like live events or news.

In these rooms, all users are anonymous, as they use the room's key to send messages. Lowent stores the ID of messages you've sent locally to show them to you in a meaningful way. However, if multiple people are writing in the chat, all messages will appear to come from the same source, except for the ones you send. To solve this and add authorship to messages, users can log in with their Nostr identity, allowing them to write messages in any room with their public key as the author.

To make this cryptographically sound, users must sign the message they want to write in the room with their Nostr identity, creating a valid ID and signature for the event. The event is then published from the room's key, including the user's public key, ID, and signature, allowing others to verify that the user's public key has issued a valid signature for the event published by the room's public key.

Lowent also features cipher rooms, which encrypt all messages using the room's public key. Only participants who know the string used to generate the room can decrypt the messages.

Lowent is a work in progress and an experimental idea that needs more research and feedback from developers and users. However, it's a fun project that has the potential to improve privacy, as all users in a room use the same key to communicate, making it impossible to guess who they are or how many users are participating in a conversation. Apart from these there are many other features that are under development.

#sovEnt #atlantis


...at least, in a theoretically optimal situation 😏

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This is what an economy that isn't run by a central cartel looks like.  Lots of options; lots of competition but more importantly, lots of collaboration!

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I totally get it.  It's fine to think this way towards peers & elders after 15 years, but personally, I'm still generous with my time towards younger folks 😎

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I think there are many trivial, factual, and completely uncontroversial articles on wikipedia.  This is a tough one to answer 🤔


Kwisatz Haderach talk right there 😉


Tick tock, next country!

...or something like that 🤣

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In the absence of your face in a photo, men will... 😏


nostr-wallet-connect alongside your own node works well on amethyst


We take our shoes off when we go OUTSIDE; when we're inside, floors are dirty & disconnected from the earth, so we cover up...

Or something like that 🤷♂😉

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They never talk about greedy homeowners taking max profits and raising prices in those neighborhoods 🤣

Ignore people who ignore logic!

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Absorbaloff


How's that pastry shop doing today?  I'm curious 😏


Live & Learn.

...or not!

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That family has much lower time preference than most #bitcoiners combined.  Just sayin'


Lady cop runs away...


I just got a new sandbox phone and put #GrapheneOS on it.  I'm really digging it, but one thing I'm making sure to do is only install open source apps.  I specifically do not want xitter on this phone!

Much better android experience IMO, but then again, I am a tinkerer... 😏

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I'm on #Amethyst, amd I see the image fine too, fwiw


"It is difficult to say..."

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selling my 6 month old xbox series x in used but like new condition with 2 controllers + one official microsoft rechargeable battery (one controller has never been used), original box included 👀

will send calculated shipment invoice to your dms.

#cybersecgirl

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For all you @syncthing fans out there, be aware that if you're not self-hosting your own Discovery Server, you're not preserving your privacy.

Celebrity privacy LARPS unsurprisingly DGAF on their YouTube guides, so here's how to do it in a couple of minutes.

https://video.nostr.build/409394f737f9395efa2292d9c455880e3a534851ffd8133836e08b331f4ecb3d.mp4


Look at all those hydrocarbons, I mean, fOsIlL fUeLs!!

It's an #energy #language #psyop

Be careful out there; Words are weapons.

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What's actually really interesting to me here is, unlike price charts that all start at various points in time depending on who produced it, this chart is generated from on-chain data, starting from the genesis block.

It's totally unambiguous, without exception; every single person running a node will produce this exact chart, verbatim.

If this isn't a good enough source of truth to run with as we progress into the future, I have no idea what else is better 🤷♂

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Which mint would they be using? 😉


Sovereign individuals free themselves, and work, so they don't have to enslave people 😎

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Yep, agree.  Didn't say it was difficult; just that it was risky.  And by risky i mean I nicked my finger, once, ever. 🤣

But yeah, the whole "down, up, sideways" way was new to me when I started using one.


I've been working on setting up a colocated proxmox cluster because running a ton of things on various pi's is a royal pain over time (also I sleep a lot better at night with this setup!).

My node (almost 5 years old) is the last thing to migrate from a Pi, but I've held off because it still works fine...better, faster, and more reliable than LSP wallets for sure.  1GB is very likely going to run out this year though if I had to bet on it.

Get an old laptop. Corporate ones are cheap amd it doesn't need to be a recent model by a longshot.  My company used to let me keep their hardware whenever they upgraded them for me every couple years, I would just ask, and they'd yank the drive for data security and let me take the rest, so I had a few laying around collecting dust 😎


"Safety razor" although replacing blades can be a bit risky 😏


Whipped tallow


I used Gox, but through some subconscious happy accident, I never kept coins on there for more than 10 minutes.  The remarkable thing is that, this was 3 or 4 years before I recognized that self-custody was *it*... at the time, I just wanted to play SatoshiDice 🤦♂

Live & Learn 😎


Sad part is, this is why for decades now, most app's dont store passwords in plaintext.

Most... but the rest are the ones this meme is referencing 😑

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Graph sync & payments.  Direct connections to a remote node don't need a graph sync, and I guess there's a lot less overhead when it's a single node vs. an LSP.

So it's understandable, just remarking on it.

Pixel 7a btw


Unlike Bitcoin or Lightning, which are easier to trace forensically than physical cash, ecash is blinded so it's closer to, if not the same problem as physical coins and bills.


Having privacy at L1 increases the attack vector and the likelihood of censorship. Ecash removes that regulatory burden and preserves privacy, similar to physical cash.


The hosted node is a bit too slow vs a remote node, but all told, Zeus is a great wallet.  Keep it up 🤌


Oh boy, well we need to go back to 560 BC to really get into... 😉

Nah I'll just paint an example scenario:

You start with a node, channel it up, fund it, use and maintain it like normal.

Then, say you have a couple really good friends, and you often each share or distribute common costs among yourselves. You're close, and all like bitcoin. Node management is kind of a pain, so they never went there, but you have a node already, you're used to maintaining it, might even enjoy it.

So you offer to be a mini mint and spin one up pointed to your lightning node.  At this point, there aren't any tokens yet.  Then, you set them up with a simple ecash wallet app like #enuts pointed to your mint.  You go on and use your wallet pointed to your mint to request some tokens. The mint will generate an LN invoice from your node, and when it's paid (however is irrelevant), the mint produces tokens in your wallet.

At that point, they're just like coins and bills in a traditional wallet.  You can split and disperse them among your friends in exchange for covering restaurant bills, travel expenses, anything.  Or they can request new tokens the same way you did, with an invoice & a request for fresh tokens.  Once you send tokens to someone else and they redeem them, yours are destroyed, theirs are created, and you're effectively blind to what happens to their tokens going forward.

The sats that get paid into your node to request new tokens produce the tokens 1 to 1; the sats that get paid back out when someone wants to redeem the ecash back into sats for themselves destroy the tokens 1 to 1.

Tradeoff to it all:  the mint MUST be trusted and honest. In my example, it's a small group of close knit friends, who have a common rapport with the owner of the mint.  You can easily swap the tokens to a new mint, but not after a mint goes down for whatever reason.  Even then, it could become whack a mole.  That limits the scope of this pretty heavily, but for now, I think it's a great step. It makes onboarding a breeze, helps people start thinking in sats, and if everyone knows where the mint owner lives...I mean... 🤷♂😉

Anhway, we'll see where we go from here!


Small beans.  I have ice water running though my veins 24/7...never been a problem


You create an invoice to get sats; you pay an invoice to get ecash.  It doesn't go the other way around.


What about straight women who use dildos? 🤔

Doesn't matter:  a woman who chooses a steak over imaginary pleasure is a keeper.   Every time.  😏


We use it to settle debts between ourselves among my siblings, and a couple trusted friends.  I run a mint (separate liquidity from my main personal LN node), I'm not a scammer, and the folks who I've onboarded & use it all know where I live 😉

From my perspective, it's just a deferred settlement pattern, and up to them when they choose to redeem or leave my mint.  Privacy doesnt really matter for us, it's the speed and simplicity we like.

Some of us still use lightning by itself most of the time, but that's not as easy to onboard without using impersonal 3rd parties, or getting your hands dirty


Impersonator


If that flake is public. I'd absolutely love a link!  Dabbling with nixifying the dizzifying plethora of open source services, but bleesing edge bitcoin stuff is hard to keep up with for a nixos noob (without going imperative)


If you self-host a bunch of services and deal with downtime issues (happens to the best of us), give Uptime Kuma a shot!  it's definitely not enterprise level, but most self hosters don't need extra fancy analytics etc. Works especially well if you can use it a locked down VPS instance with good uptime by itself. Early alerts can save a lot of wasted time later.  It can setup notifications to email, matrix, discord, telegram...dozens of communication channels, including #nostr!

Keep tinkering, everyone!

#SelfHosing #UptimeKuma #HomeLab

https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma


BREAKING: EIA to Temporarily Suspend Bitcoin Miner Survey After Lawsuit

"The U.S. Department of Energy has agreed to temporarily suspend its mandatory survey of cryptocurrency miner energy use following a lawsuit by prominent miner Riot Blockchain and an industry group, according to a notice filed on Friday with the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas Waco Division."

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/eia-to-temporarily-suspend-bitcoin-miner-survey-after-lawsuit/


Sober sounding Rick just lacks that unique quality, especially when the character is actually drunk in the story

But I still dig the plots, there were a few gems still in S07

I'm getting a hankering for that delicious spaghetti right now! 😉


80% of folks are content with a single number to represent price inflation; the other 20% understand the complexity of thousands of markets with their own unique nuances.


A "gentle man" might not be what you need for what's coming 🤷♂


Backups!

I use Proxmox and a cluster of 3 old laptops; I dodged many hours of recovery, and I sleep very well at night 😉

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It's ridiculous because many folks spend 40 years only buying & never selling until they retire.  Same dynamic with bitcoin, except stock shares are theoretically infinite while bitcoin is concretely scarce


"A common set of facts" = "don't think for yourselves sheeple"

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This would be cooler if a deeper discount was given for customers who provide their npub at checkout and follow you on nostr.  There'd need to be some other interaction to prove they own the nsec, but aside from that, would be a cool way to promote the protocol.


As the fees go up, ppl realize that bitcoin base layer is only for wire-transfer-like economical transactions. Plebs will be priced out.

The bitcoin hardware wallet business is still going to grow for a few years, then only going to shrink

It will be a nice high security niche

Security is the # 1 feature, not losing your coins is the most important thing, grandma UX focus is high time preference distraction, global south base layer will be silly.

There is also a huge opportunity for bitcoin backed eCash affordable hardware as these are bearer tokens.

Stop designing for today.


Reviews for screenings of part 2 seem to think it's BETTER than part 1, which is hard for me to imagine, given the state of cinema in 2024 😏


Boltzmann Brain 😎


Interesting, but I assume this only works with modern, english versions of those ancient texts

Seems like seeing the number 23 everywhere 🤷♂


If you give your life savings to banks, you must acknowledge that you're funding terrorism, money laundering, human trafficking, and offensive warfare, for your entire life.

We have a new option now, use it!  #Bitcoin

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Featuring Mario Draghi 😉

https://youtu.be/CzvQxQYKO88?si=bso9cGdFI7vkDcR7


1921? 😆


Most folks don't choose their own exit nodes...


Ehh, fuck plastic 😉