Beer day 2034


True romance. Somebody mentioned it in nostr some time ago and it didn't disappoint.


Boltz is well connected but there is always the possibility that the receiving node has not enough inbound liquidity. Have you tried other payments?


HeliBoard is a privacy-conscious and customizable open-source keyboard, based on AOSP / OpenBoard. Does not use internet permission, and thus is 100% offline.

https://github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard


Would this be the software I am missing to selfhost unifiedpush notifications for Amethyst?


Yes, bitcoin would be definitely worse without RBF.


So nostr:nprofile1qqsqfjg4mth7uwp307nng3z2em3ep2pxnljczzezg8j7dhf58ha7ejgpz4mhxue69uhkummnw3ex2mrfw3jhxtn0wfnszynhwden5te0wahhgtn4w3ux7tn0dejszxthwden5te0wdjkuerfwshxummnvekxzun99e3k7mgrcp7e2 's all caps crusade is over?


Wow, you got 100% spam replies to this comment. All impersonators.


Which CD brands or manufacturers have aged better? If I recall correctly Taiyo Yudens were supposed to be first class and Ritek the worst. Curious whether that was true or not in a 20year span.


New Robosats' Android app pre-release https://github.com/RoboSats/robosats/releases/tag/android-237e80b

This one requires heavy testing, since it contains a lot of refactoring in the client side (affecting also web, Desktop and others).

It also includes the possibility of disable the permanent notification. All the feedback and help is appreciated 😃

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


I wish, but I think in todays context of targeted attacks, I would avoid too niche products and focus on more main stream hardware and buy it used or any other anonymous way.


Este es el fichaje estrella. Roy lleva tirando del carro de lightning desde el principio, un visionario con las manos en la masa, un grande!


anybody checked the code? for someone with no programming backgroud, this could very well be a nuclear .exe hosted on megaupload.


nostr:npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq955 (and any other clients),

When npubs I follow change their profile pics (and other data), it confuses me since I no longer recognize them at a glance.

Please allow me to decline automatic pic updates for npubs I follow. Just cache the old value, and maybe show me a little icon indicating that a newer pic is available.

(Not pointing fingers, but nostr:npub1m4ny6hjqzepn4rxknuq94c2gpqzr29ufkkw7ttcxyak7v43n6vvsajc2jl is a problem.) https://image.nostr.build/75e7227f05b4623a4254eece5ea366c3708b3a0de1c5f59d3878755241c730c7.jpg


I was there. It was a natural movement, most of the content in reddit started to come from Twitter, so it made sense to go directly to the source.


Gift im Angebot


Wow that's some fast software you made there


The screen is not 1.5x or 2x speed right?


Is that demo in real time?


I enjoyed this one very much.

H/t #hackaday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYUE696k6GY&t=1346


Vista ayer. Buenisima, gracias por la recomendación!
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20 btc


Searching for lightning paywall gives a lot of options but I haven't tried any of them and many are abandoned. https://github.com/ElementsProject/ifpaytt seems simple enough to start with.


Omg i have living on the edge without noticing


Omg i have leaving on the edge without noticing


xz backdoor was discovered just some weeks before that interview.


They are still online


What's the most disappointing part?


I love this account
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You know these websites that you like to visit from time to time? A RSS reader lets you bookmark them and shows you their latest content in the form of headlines.

I like https://miniflux.app/


Is it possible to limit on client side? Not downloading more than 300kb and if not enough show as avatar for the person "image too big, tap to download anyway".


That's exactly what will happen. On paper, nobody will earn more then 400k in France.


Looks amazing. I will try to copy it one of these days


I did not manage to read this article then, now happy to see that it has been translated properly: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/legal/how-financial-surveillance-threatens-our-democracies-part-1

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I dont know what you mean by snappy workflow, but for my use case, it is definitely the fastest and most reliable of all those.


These guys are funny. From their FAQ

Q: Is KYC necessary?
A: KYC can prevent crime, So KYC is necessary.


Deleting person list


Very sad to hear of the passing of Ed Stone, who has died at the age of 88.

Best known perhaps as the project scientist for the Voyager missions to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, & Neptune from 1972 to 2022, Ed played a key role in the history of space science, including 10 years leading NASA JPL.

I met him at a space particle & fundamental physics conference at CERN in 2012, where I took these pictures. Originals: https://flic.kr/s/aHsjCM5rJJ

Ad astra, Ed ✨

#SpaceScience #SpaceExploration #Astrodon
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This looks promising 🙂

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


Matches my expectations. Source of this table?


Nunca se me hubiera ocurrido pensar así de la monarquía y la república.


Why start from scratch? You could add ecash to #XMPP


🍻🤙☕Sergio☕🤙🍻


Long shot, but if anyone has more information about William Hill AKA TDevD / @SamouraiDev (in particular, name/contact info of his lawyer if he has one), please let me know?

aaton@bitcoinmagazine.com
AaronvanW.71 on Signal


The 2024 #Bitcoin halving giveaway

Giveaway budget: 10,000 sats

Comment and repost/renote/boost this note to get zapped ⚡500⚡sats

Visit our web app LNServer.com and get your node a nice fat incoming #lightning channel.
https://i.nostr.build/WG4la.jpg
https://i.nostr.build/oBL5.jpg


Funny I also started not long ago, not DVDs tho, mainly 4K of my favorite movies ever. Most annoying thing for me is the level of pristineness these blurays require. I have had scenes skip with a single speck of dust. DVDs are orders of magnitude more robust.


New nostr client just dropped: https://github.com/dluvian/voyage/releases/tag/v0.1.0

- Outbox model
- Reddit-like UI (root post feed, topics, up/downvotes, thread tree)
- Login only via external signer (Amber)
- Text only. No pictures and no videos

It behaves like Nozzle but without these annoying loading times. Next few releases will just add the functionality that Nozzle already implemented, after that the real fun will begin.


Quick searched a #DVM for this. Haven't tried it myself:

https://vendata.io/dvms/npub1mr56qs0nqvvcs7g5mvk8rl6jkql0mr6m2yjrgvlg6rus5skd6g8qc67d9w


Amethyst since 0.86.0

"Filters out too many reposts of the same note when on the main feed"


Where can I watch the documentary?


I remember when everybody was tanel, how does it feel now from the non-target perspective?


I think the main reason is to be compliant with the suits, ease of use is just a side effect


https://image.nostr.build/8f297d2509c1ab8c685afd4c3efcbca15d67191de2bbf63cef49486bfbcac6f5.jpg

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-09/thailand-plans-special-parliament-session-to-quicken-2025-budget?srnd=homepage-europe

#cbdc #siamstr


Para los nostriches que vivan en la ciudad de Chihuahua o en sus alrededores, el ganadero, Alejandro Carrillo, está vendiendo su carne molida de vaca y cordero de libre pastoreo a $200/kg. Es de excelente calidad y buena inversión para su salud, aparte de que estarían apoyando a la ganadería regenerativa dentro del estado. Son mínimo 10kg de compra.

Comparto un mensaje del Sr. Carrillo:

"La carne de res y de cordero que ofrecemos nunca ha estado expuesta a antibióticos, hormonas, desparasitantes (ivermectina) y ningún tipo de vacuna.  Nos basamos en una selección del ganado por adaptación tratando de imitar a la naturaleza."

Comparto ubicación de la carnicería:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/ruab5pmpMUXu7r3Z9?g_st=iw

#chihuahua #mexico #hispano #dietacarnivora #ganaderiaregenerativa


You need the GooglePlay version.


Totally fell for it. Very sharp


This is big, their contributions to the freebsd network stack will be missed for sure.


Brutal rebuttal


Thank you for your service 🫡
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Never heard the monetary side of the story before.

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Hey nostr:nprofile1qynhwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnwdaehgunpd9h8xmr90yhxxmmjv93kcefww3hk7mrn9uq3camnwvaz7tmgdajxccn0vshxxmmjv93kcefww3hk7mrn9uq3jamnwvaz7tmgdajxccn0vshxummnw3erztnrdakj7qpqjlrs53pkdfjnts29kveljul2sm0actt6n8dxrrzqcersttvcuv3q7uvhnw  can you check if zap split for you on #coracle is working properly? I activated it with 10% but it always fails to show an invoice for npub13my…qv3qk.


For mobile use Firefox #Android + Alby is the real MVP


It always is, until it is not.


https://walletscrutiny.com/android/com.samourai.wallet/

Samourai Wallet did not share source code for their latest version on Google Play.


Payment processing on lightning is cheaper and faster than VISA.

💳 = ~3.00% fee
⚡ = ~0.67% fee

Using the LINER Cost index, you can calculate the cost of network infra (liquidity) for receiving payments.

0.08% LINER / 12 months = 0.67%

If you send payments, you save more!
https://ambosstech.medium.com/the-liner-index-how-amboss-is-shaping-a-more-inclusive-future-for-finance-777e887e6781


The website can be installed as PWA (install/add to homescreen).


Me había perdido toda esta historia. Qué triste todo shur.


Looking forward to watch it when I dont need to go through registration and stripe.


Last time I checked you still needed c-lightning-REST to run RTL, it was not clnrest ready.


Rehab is more probable imo.


These 2:

https://satsconverter.io/

https://mempool.space/tools/calculator


Gm, this is just the market doing its thing. Proof of Stake coins would have a problem with that, we don't.


Welcome nostr:npub13plcyutpxw80f5lgxjpynpny4469fjhehknapqxrkv5zrufeguyqgjnh0q! Always a pleasure to say hi to new builders.


This one in particular:

Unfortunately, humanity's future is in the hands of ______.


nostr:npub15csuyx7mf635ylvemvwu0y6hfyf37u5vhk8ekzhgglqchrpldmxse5zany They likely will have handed out Google Firebase Push tokens for years which can be linked to a Google Account (and thus to location data etc). That's arguably more critical data than usernames...


This. I received it in the email leaked on the ledger hack.
It is a very sad marketing strategy after so many millions invested on the platform.


First time ever Moscow time matches Moscow time.

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Can't zap this. Is nostr:npub1getal6ykt05fsz5nqu4uld09nfj3y3qxmv8crys4aeut53unfvlqr80nfm down?

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nos.lol

DAU 6969
WAU 20770
MAU 58065

Active user means active public key. The user posted something to the relay, be it a like or even an app data update like 'last read msg'. If he/she just reads, it is not counted. Stats are after spam filter (should contain almost no spammers).


I just want to bump this again because it’s the 3rd or 4th time I’ve suggested this/asked if this is a planned Primal feature. I’ve never gotten any type of response.

I believe NIP-42 is implemented on almost every “major” nostr app at this point except Primal. DMs for paying nostr.wine users aren’t available on Primal as a result. Filter.nostr.wine will soon require AUTH and we will have to encourage our users to use something other than Primal.


https://letter.open-web-advocacy.org/

>We write to express our concern at Apple’s decision to remove Web Apps (PWAs)...

This is truly pathetic. Just stop using it. Throw away your iPhone or whatever else overpriced dysfunctional device you have

No, instead they will go to great lengths to "fix" Apple


Multiple apps and multiple devices connected to the same node with the Breez SDK ⚡
@WitDeJesse breaks it down again👇
https://m.primal.net/HeTH.mp4

Watch the full workshop here: 👇
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-Smuelw5zw&t=2702s


As an avid reader, it's a big honor to be invited to the Bitcoin Optech Newsletter Recap Spaces tomorrow at 15:00 UTC – don't miss it!

https://twitter.com/bitcoinoptech/status/1760274336462614704
https://void.cat/d/GFTsNTiQyJoGThyTzQb66n.webp


Where can I buy it in Bangkok?


Qué bien luce el viejo Clint en el caribe 🤠


nostr:npub1kmwdmhuxvafg05dyap3qmy42jpwztrv9p0uvey3a8803ahlwtmnsnhxqk9 my route to your node is slow and expensive so I wanted to open a direct channel and I get
"Chan Size Of 0.05000000 Btc Is Below Min Chan Size Of 10 Btc"
10 BTC?! How do you expect plebs to connect to you?


If they are doing this for soccer piracy, imagine what they will do in the real "then they fight you" phase against #bitcoin or #nostr.

"In essence, these require ISPs, DNS resolvers, and other intermediaries to block pirate IP-addresses within 30 minutes of being alerted."

https://torrentfreak.com/airvpn-stops-serving-italians-due-to-piracy-shield-blocking-requirements-240206/


"this is extremely dangerous to our democracy"

Does the German government has a similar line?


Took me 20 years to realise that he is a Keynesian.

https://cdn.satellite.earth/880816a5cbb0e583645bb438edf926461f400dedca03e3694e850ce50032b429.mp4


I didn't know them either. https://walletscrutiny.com/ is the best source to quickly check what they are up to.


Coin control lets you choose the inputs of your transaction. Electrum and Bluewallet have it. For wallets without it, the wallet could also CPFP sweeping all funds.
Is RBF not an option for your case?


Wallet B needs coin selection and being able to spend unconfirmed transactions. Use Wallet B to spend the transaction coming from Wallet A.


/lottery 100


First 0.07 btc privately traded through Temple Of Sats!

Please let me know if you need any kind of support during your trade, here in NOSTR, in Telegram or in SimpleX!

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


You can't be more retarded than EU.

https://twitter.com/DSBatten/status/1752487657320726890?t=qtRyb5fkOaXFooLhxXvfxw&s=19

https://image.nostr.build/637e217ba060bd31e745ba2028a54e41e0054541382b46238123c1c31185ad3f.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=1024x1024&blurhash=UaPsq*tjxbnhTfi_n%24ox%253bIWCRlLNa%23nha%7E&x=623669f445d45a960fcfd8db5310215ff2d5ab4e4bd8c568c908f0959668bec8

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Do you run this coordinator? Satstralia? #robosats


The world needs more electricians, plumbers, sheet metal workers, carpenters, trim carpenters, pipe fitters, and other builders in general!

Who am I missing?

📢 Give a shout out to your trade or craft!

Let’s get some interesting ones 👇 !

#asknostr #grownostr #plebchain #careers


TIL tilde (~) as "home" in unix and web directories:

On Unix-like operating systems (including AIX, BSD, Linux and macOS), tilde normally indicates the current user's home directory. [...] This convention derives from the Lear-Siegler ADM-3A terminal in common use during the 1970s, which happened to have the tilde symbol and the word "Home" (for moving the cursor to the upper left) on the same key.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilde#Directories_and_URLs

pic: the ADM-3A
picture of a ADM-3A terminal, w…

https://vnil.de/media/59a93a51-4e4e-49d8-b5d6-f8eddf9c2039/image.png


i wish there was a “follow thread” option when you want to follow a conversation but dont have anything to say. following this thread 🤓


Making a big change to your node?

📢
You can use an Announcement within Amboss to tell all your channel peers about downtime, maintenance, or even share some routing alpha!

https://amboss.space/account/announcement


Note to self. In #grapheneos just add new SIM using the last code in the purchase confirmation page of #silent.link


How to scan QR from the purchase page when using the same device? Do I need an app to scan screenshots? Which one?


Yes please


I have lived this. It was nice until the node fully synced with the timechain.


New version of Clams Remote is now available!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Py9fvdlz9E


Someone without any understanding of the word CHANGE trying to make a prediction. Cute.


And plays well with Amethyst. Nice


⚠ IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

We are temporarily suspending services for :
New trade openings
Onboarding new users

We identified a few bugs and are currently working on it to resolve them

We're working on a pretty big release that will fix and changes a lot of things

Stay tuned!


The flawed narrative of Yuval Harari, Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum

Before Christmas, Tucker Carlson and Dan Bongino discussed why Professor Yuval Harari and the World Economic Forum (WEF) pose a threat to our lives.

It feels like this topic soon will be on most people, so I decided to write a note on this.

Klaus Schwab, who is the founder of WEF, relies heavily on Harari’s teaching when he formulates his policy recommendations to leaders around the world.

Harari knows a lot of historical facts, is good at storytelling and masters the art of rhetoric.

Commentators and academics therefore find it difficult to show exactly where Harari goes wrong in his analysis.

What I want to bring to everyone’s’ attention, is that Harari and Schwab base their policy recommendation on a narrative about the history of our civilization that simply isn’t correct.

It’s probably the repetition of this narrative that makes Schwab’s communication so effective when he talks to intellectuals, policymakers, journalists and leaders of giant corporations who firmly believe in “leadership” and the idea of technocratic global governance.

However, when we point out the flaws in Harari’s analysis of humankind and our history, it becomes a lot easier to shoot down his and Schwab’s ideas.

Therefore, I hope you will join me in this thread, as it in about ten minutes enables you to understand where Harari went so terribly wrong.

Harari’s background and some of his ideas

Wikipedia gives us the following introduction to him:

«Yuval Noah Harari (Hebrew: יובל נח הררי [juˈval ˈnoaχ haˈʁaʁi]; born 1976) is an Israeli author, public intellectual, historian and professor in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of the popular science bestsellers Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2014), Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow (2016), and 21 Lessons for the 21st Century (2018). His writings examine free will, consciousness, intelligence, happiness, and suffering. »

Harari, who also describes himself as an atheist and a vegan, promotes such ideas as:

- people don’t have free will, and human rights are a fiction,

- we are witnessing a natural development of a technocratic two-tier society where a «useless class» of consumers is guided or ruled by an elite class of «human gods. »

In short, Harari suggests that what we use to refer to as the foundation of liberal society is pure imagination, while the development of an apartheid-like dystopia is completely natural.

Harari’s understanding of the history of civilization

Harari’s analysis of the history is greatly affected by his lack of understanding of the service that money renders to humankind and how different monetary systems dictate the development of very different forms of society.

He writes in Sapiens that:

«Money is the most universal and most efficient system of mutual trust ever devised. »

This and other statements he has made about money tell us that he has understood that money is a cornerstone of our civilization, something which definitely is true.

From there on, it unfortunately goes all south for him.

Harari’s problem is that he doesn’t seem to understand that we get a very different society when people have monetary freedom (the right to use which money they like best, also referred to as «currency competition») compared to when a group of people has a monopoly in money production.

In the former, everyone must work to get money.

In the latter, a small elite can extract wealth from everyone else because they can produce money instead of working for it.

Harari, for his part, doesn’t make any such distinction at all.

Monetary freedom in a historical context

Monetary freedom has most likely been the dominant system throughout the more than 5000 years that we have had civilizations.

It’s the monopoly in money production that is the anomaly.

We don’t have sources that inform us about any such monetary policy before the Greek city state of Athens in the 5th century BC used inflation to finance its war against the Spartans.

The policy spread with the expansion of the Roman empire, which started debasing its coins towards the end of the 1st century AD.

We had monetary freedom in Norway until 1050 AD.

The Dutch reintroduced it in the Netherlands after the rebellion in 1566 and they had it for about 150 years.

The Irish held on to monetary freedom until they lost against the English in the 17th century AD.

The Americans established de facto monetary freedom in the US after the revolution in 1783, and it lasted until 1857.
And, finally, Argentina followed the same path as the US from the revolution in 1816 and until 1880.

It’s this system, that the new president of Argentina, Javier Milei, now wants to reestablish.

Institutions in a society with monetary freedom

Societies with monetary freedom typically have no or very weak central governments.
Instead, families, relatives and clans have strong bonds.

Furthermore, private property is almost sacred, and one rarely sees large scale wars in this type of societies.

The reason is that without a monopoly in money creation it becomes difficult to set up an apparatus that can extract wealth from the people to finance this type of aggression.

However, the decentralized structure and a strong will to defend against intruders mean that they can be very capable of defending their freedom, as was the case in the region of Norway, where I live, until 1050 AD.

You can say that a society that has monetary freedom and little or no state primarily is rigged for defense and production, while a society with a monopoly in monetary production is rigged for expansionary war and destruction.

Why compound interest is of paramount importance

In order to understand why civilizations develop so differently with different monetary systems, one needs to understand the effect of compound interest.

A typical rate of monetary inflation (expansion of the money supply) in societies with monopolies in money production, has been 7-8% per year.

In a society where money makes up half of all economic transactions, an annual expansion of 7% means that the ones who control the monopoly can extract and take control of 7% of the society’s production each year.

Due to the effect of positive compound interest, constantly increasing the money supply by 7% each year can theoretically result in an accumulated wealth extraction that has doubled in as little as 10 years, tripled within 16 years and quadrupled in 20 years.

The rest of the society experiences the exact opposite, as people see that their money loses value at a negative compounding rate of 7% each year.

Therefore, those who are far away from the money spigot may have to double their productivity in 10 years, triple it in 16 years and quadruple it in 20 years if they want to preserve their share of wealth, their standard of living and keep their means of production, compared to a situation with no manipulation of the money supply.

This is of course nigh on impossible.

Therefore, establishing a monopoly in money production can easily transform a society from being fundamentally decentralized into becoming a two tier system in less than a generation.

It typically ends up with a small wealthy class of creditors with a lot of political power on one hand, and a large poor and indebted class of people with no or little political power on the other hand.

It all sounds so familiar, doesn’t it?

The combined effect of the compound positive interest rates for the «elite» and the compound negative interest rates for the rest explains how enormous effect a monopoly in money production has on society.

The gargantuan redistribution of wealth that takes place in such a society should be compared with what happens in a society without this system, where the distribution of wealth (and power) will be much more evenly spread.

This also helps explaining why families and kinship can remain a lot stronger in societies with monetary freedom.

Once a group of powerful men begins to fuel its influence with a monopoly in money production, the emerging state apparatus basically outcompetes the family and the clan as social institutions.

Why countries with monetary freedom become powerful magnets

When you set up a system with monetary freedom in one country, it quickly attracts talent and capital from countries with monopolies in money production.
It’s almost as if monetary freedom is a nuclear-powered magnet.

The explanation for this effect is that it’s much more profitable to work and invest in a country with money that doesn’t steal from you.

Therefore, people “vote” with their feet and their savings.

Harari doesn’t seem to be sufficiently aware of these mechanisms.

For instance, in Sapiens, he explains the Golden Age of the Netherlands with a boom in bank credit.

The reality, however, is that it was monetary freedom, sound money and full reserve banking that served as the foundation for the fantastic growth that the Dutch experienced in the 16th and 17th Century.

Because the other countries had kings and emperors who extracted wealth from their citizens via aggressive monetary policies, the very opposite system in the Netherlands caused it to attract capital and talent from the other countries at an extreme pace.

Harari also fails to recognize that it was the exact same mechanisms that played out after the American and Argentinian revolutions.

European rulers stuck with their monopolies in money production and continued to pillage their underlings.

As a result, Europe literally became drained of talent and capital that fled to America.

Conclusion

Harari’s Sapiens is supposed to be an exposition of the history of humankind.
However, due to the defects that I have shed light on above, the book cannot at all serve this purpose.

Perhaps Harari doesn’t understand it himself, but his narrative of humankind and the history of civilization draws squarely on the type of society we get when a ruling class is allowed to have a monopoly in money creation.

But as you now realize, this version of civilization is neither natural, nor has it been the dominant way of how we organize our activities.

On the contrary, the normal and above all more human situation has been a civilization with monetary freedom, a significantly smaller state apparatus and a decentralized society where strong institutions such as family, kinship and respect of private property keep it all together.

People should therefore be very skeptical to Harari’s and Schwab’s visions for humankind and how we should organize us in the future.

If you want to join forces in the battle of ideas, I would appreciate it if you followed me here on Nostr and shared this post.


Create more. Consume less.

https://manuelmoreale.com/@/page/CNGrtkaiFN9Kh0Pp


In which platform?


Just a reminder that doing. DDoS of the scale it happens costs millions.

And then magically, if you share your ssl keys with CloudFlare they give you millions in bandwidth for FREE to stop the DDoS

Must be love.


I have seen this a couple of times connecting to my node, but it was a lapse. Restarting and reconnecting showed the right status.


CoinSwaps? With Belcher MIA it would be great to have some talent moving it forward.


happy birthday legend


Significant GPS outage over Poland, Denmark, Sweden. Source unknown. https://gpsjam.org/?lat=53.67154&lon=17.62490&z=4.8&date=2023-12-26

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/651/580/866/274/509/original/b6ed5c249b2256ca.png


is it because of some celebration or is it looking like this the whole year?


this is a metric in 1ML? my node has availability 6576 and it has been up non-stop 1.5 years wtf


I registered my dog for tax and asked how long has dog tax been a thing in Germany. "Some time in the 1850's the money was used to fund the military"


#XMPP is how I communicate with my closest ones and Conversations is the best client for #Android. The onboarding of the ones without Fdroid would have been a bit easier this week. Thank you Daniel!

nostr:nevent1qqsdu6h6k6zlsyhdklgm8993d4p6559e2q0a2xpu8jz7hs4zgaajzjqpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0wd68ytnsw43qygpq2q5g8t8z2en05n0p9lm0cqdj56n9fky79q6za4frc0fx939zlspsgqqqqqqs44k8mt


just installed nostr:nprofile1qqsyv47lazt9h6ycp2fsw270khje5egjgsrdkrupjg27u796g7f5k0spz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhszxthwden5te0wfjkccte9eekummjwsh8xmmrd9skctcpzamhxue69uhkzarvv9ejumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgtcyflj58  extension on #Firefox #Android and this is wonderful. Connected to my #CLN node I can browse nostr and one-tap zap with #Coracle. It feels amazing.


For our first post on #nostr, we want to give people an idea of the culture at Bitrefill!

We believe in making work adventurous. Each year, our global team unites in a new part of the world to work and create unforgettable experiences.

#grownostr #plebchain #remotework
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0rnq-ru_KWw


The account thing is also my only concern. Everything else is just great. I have been using for a week+ and now going back to DDG feels like a downgrade.


Conversations is amazing. Love to see it improving even more.


nostr:npub1ngumlqmus6xkrmvvee4yc7swh9h4uk7vpq4ddt7a2jtvkc22y0asrse3pv checked this bot for the 1st time today and saw some force closes between some of your nodes recently. Curious to know what happened.

nostr:nevent1qqsxv7wtc3gqls0e0rpcmta9xyj9l2l4ntqpwex40tzyulehk48vy6gppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qgsrn293w36murd5fccnl87sxtlauxpu327kfx8yjv4gwves6tx5s6qrqsqqqqqpxrmtcs


Wanted to zap but found no route. First time in a very long time. How do you have your zaps set up?


I only see how sturdy that keyboard is.


Build using the right tools. Greenlight solves your concern: infrastructure in the cloud, keys on your device. I think Breez SDK combines that with an LSP. A wonderful all-in-one lightning solution.


It is CNN, don't trust, verify


Their propaganda is the worst, it does not get better when transmitted through open protocols


👋𝗚𝗠, 𝗜'𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗠 𝗼𝗳 𝟭𝟬𝟭𝟬𝟭

YOLO :
I've just opened a #selfcustodial LONG x5 on #Bitcoin using our app 🚀 (took me 2mins)

For every 5 likes, I will make my position BIGGER

MAKE ME WIN. You decide my fate.
https://m.primal.net/HTcX.png


The option to choose the revolting thunder when sending a transaction instead of whatever those falling things are.


En Amethyst:
https://image.nostr.build/6e4367a71abe4ac9ab700be5b4914e8aa1e6a3517d63ca4c1ad39df3e188f281.jpg


B) y más concretamentee"COINS".

Me parece lo más simple y definitorio de Bitcoin. Si eso falla o sobrepasa 21m, algo muy gordo ha petado.


This and MakeMKV is why I still buy physical media. It does not have to be all of it, just the good ones.


Noice

"Firefox is rolling-out Cookie Banner Blocker by default in private windows for users in Germany during the coming weeks. Firefox will now auto-refuse cookies and dismiss annoying cookie banners for supported sites."


nostr:npub1getal6ykt05fsz5nqu4uld09nfj3y3qxmv8crys4aeut53unfvlqr80nfm guys are you working on this?

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2023/11/28/open-extensions-on-firefox-for-android-debut-december-14-but-you-can-get-a-sneak-peek-today/


cashu.me also worked, cool thing. nostr:npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z Amethyst needs some nut love


#ownCloud vulnerability with maximum 10 severity score comes under “mass” exploitation ⚠

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/11/owncloud-vulnerability-with-a-maximum-10-severity-rating-comes-under-mass-exploitation/


Use something like heya.fund to unlock this and other features?

nostr:nevent1qqsqmusq79xa9ryxy3vl54n2em0szn7qt5at0ajxnx369vfaxx2n88gppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qgs8lft0t45k92c78n2zfe6ccvqzhpn977cd3h8wnl579zxhw5dvr9qrqsqqqqqpmwlede


Im still using your lnurl-commando :) I will check one its forks this weekend to see if I can get zaps working.


I stopped using NoScript a few years ago because of convenience, the tradeoff time vs security was not worth it anymore.

Last week I installed it again. I had forgotten how fast as responsive the web can be. Today, the simple flow of clicking a link, read content is faster and less annoying blocking JS by default.

#firefox  #noscript  #android


Cheapest way to get in the front page for a week.


Learned a little more how the legacy credit card system works and got a good bit of motivation to hasten my family's move to a full Bitcoin standard.

We go to the local farmers market every week and we had noticed that sometimes if we went to a shop after our farmers market run, our credit card would decline despite having plenty of available balance. This continued happening and got so bad that our card had become unusable. I eventually got fed up enough that I called the bank to find out what is going on.

Turns out that when we make many payments in quick succession to many different vendors, it triggers the banks fraud detection. So each week we would go to the market and our card would get suspended. Someone from the bank would then need to manually review our txs, see that it is the same farmers market pattern and then restore our card. Apparently due to black friday sales, they have been swamped with fraud detections, so they have been slower at restoring cards, making our card unusable. The bank said that essentially this process is going to happen every time we go to the farmers market. I am honestly shocked at how rudimentary their fraud detection algorithms must be. Surely not too hard to see that the pattern of txs matches the same pattern at the same time, every week.

I had no idea how much manual work was going in to keeping our card working. Obviously Bitcoin fixes this and really reiterates how much of a step improvement Bitcoin is compared to the legacy system.

The only reason we use a credit card over a debit card is that in the case of it getting compromised, then the bank is on the hook for stolen funds, which i my experience makes them much more responsive.

We are going to stop being lazy and just get out cash each week from now on. Much better privacy and better for the merchants. Long term I really want to start getting paid in Bitcoin and then hopefully find some good tools for interacting with the legacy system. Really need to orange pill my local farmers, but that is proving difficult after already trying multiple times.


When are the finals?


AI translation is unreal. nostr:nprofile1qqs9kc3wknsvyxxlrz7t4agxe5k52waevzzax4023l7l8lkluvajz5gppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7qgdwaehxw309a38yc3wd9hj72yq2qu  and this speech as well.


I can imagine what kind of stonks you own


Ok, then no, this kind of video will never put me to sleep 😂

For me what works is reading almost any book in bed. It will kill me in a couple of pages max.


Got an example? I am not sure I get what a random iceberg is.


Not fake but 1y old

https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/blog/date/2022/html/ecb.blog221130%7E5301eecd19.en.html


Sound on 🔊
Ain't no fear.
https://video.nostr.build/169e9ad9b24d79f09e8aaa8490f23e6ffba3cf14d952b0d01f8dfa4d3d009e02.mp4
#memes #funny #videos


I prefer to look at this in absolutes. 2% of 300M people is 6M, 30 citadels with 200k ppl each is quite all right.


Best you can do is to just post to relays that honor event deletion (NIP-09).

https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/09.md


2.1k L-sats received 🤙 Thanks!


When I started running my CLN node I took these kind of failures as a sign that my connectivity with the network had to improve ie. I needed new channels. Today I dont remeber the last time a payment failed. If you don't want to do this, open a channel with an LSP.


Bromite está muerto. Fue bonito mientras duró.


ProTip: to find cheap hosting providers look into your firewall logs and sort all IPs in descending order of rejected probe attempts. Then do a whois $IP to find the provider. That's it. Enjoy your 3€ VPS with 4 xenon cores, 8gb RAM and 50gb ssd.


TLDR: Binance


You all could escape ipv6 for a long time but now it is over, switch or default


So they know the word but they were using vaccine the whole time instead. I knew it


nostr.band is also an option


Best I can do is 1dice1e6pdhLzzWQq7yMidf6j8eAg7pkY


For the #StarWars people.

This is real SW official merch produced before Lucas changed the name of the film.

“Revenge” was not the way of a Jedi, he said.

$boost https://image.nostr.build/5176eee9ea34fc2fbe0573e38ece821ebb85f734da4f26fbcd2be35bf9dee1c9.jpg


Thanks, that worked. Not very intuitive tho


Change Discord server for a nostr community. RIAA and co. would address their letter to:
-relay operators?
-hosting company?
-community moderator?

How would nostr escape censorship in this case? #asknostr

https://torrentfreak.com/popular-ai-hub-discord-taken-down-following-copyright-complaints-231005/


1oo1 did not work as expected


I am trying to zap this from habla.news and I get 4 invoices. Shouldn't it be that I scan one invoice and then it gets automagically split among the receivers?


Eruption of Sakurajima, one of Japan's most active volcanoes

https://video.nostr.build/22f53525ca24532f4767eac48029995a5e6b5550939ed03d2a90c5110f3eb3ad.mp4


Been paying Mullvad with Carl's lightning service for years, I hope that he keeps running it even now that he is launching his own VPN.

For the moment I love that I could subscribe for updates with my npub.


This is pretty cool. @SteveSimple has found a way to derive the price of Bitcoin just by looking at onchain heuristics.

You can view the price at utxo.live/oracle or run it on your own node's UTXO set using https://utxo.live/oracle/UTXOracle.py

https://image.nostr.build/410a447805b96ef4db93a2dbee217ba85291430a3d05fc930aac7cfe06006aef.jpg


Hello everyone!

There are some #news from [LNBiG](https://lnbig.com/):

The number of nodes of the #LNBiG network will soon be reduced from 25 nodes to 7 ones. For more than a month, the opening of channels has been working only from/to 7 nodes. The list of active nodes is visible in the ["Our nodes"](https://lnbig.com/#/our-nodes) section. #LightningNetwork


Yes, check out the website's Terms of Use


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopewell_Fund

Every day you learn something new. Wtf


Yes he is! nostr:npub1yxprsscnjw2e6myxz73mmzvnqw5kvzd5ffjya9ecjypc5l0gvgksh8qud4


The winter ahead of you is going to be long and dark. I hope that you are the kind of person that get things done because there are no distractions instead of getting depressed because the sun is missing for weeks.


Why Iceland?


Is this the same as CLN's commando?


They use commando?? I have to try it then


21 sats from my CLN node. Took 30 secs.


#Nostros just updated to 0.3.2.0 and it has been a huge improvement for me: found my profile, found my relays and contacts and connected to their relays if needed. No crashes, no manual setup.. Love it!

#[0] how am I supposed to zap the best Nostros release to date?


Great write-up about ordinals


This is the client I was missing in Android. Thanks for the heads up!


I don’t think that you need more than vim/neovim. Keep it simple.


Carl Dong, bitcoin developer and contributor to optech.


What is SC?


Final destination is Azores? Keep an eye on the sea and jump when you see the islands. Reckless shortcut.