I wrote this letter so I have a link to send when friends & family reach out to me, as they inevitably do during ATH periods. I hope it's useful for some of you too. https://dergigi.com/2020/04/27/dear-family-dear-friends/


The moments before I went into the ring for my first Muay Thai fight were surreal. 👀🥊

It was a mixture between respect and acceptance. Days before the fight I worked hard on facing my fears about life. Let me tell you that I was shitting my pants seeing my face on all of these posters and not knowing who my opponent would be. I felt prepared but also scared as fuck. During this time i questioned a lot of life decisions - my priorities and what i want from life. Since this makes you think.. what if it’s over?

I went very close in accepting any possibility in the ring. From injuring myself to getting seriously hurt or even death. I would’ve never thought that this would happen but it happened very closely to the fight. Because of the acceptance of death I went into the ring pretty relaxed. I talked to my opponent before the fight and was in my own zone...

But then the fight started and he hit me in the face - I woke up and the adrenaline kicked through every single vein of my body. I NEEDED THAT WAKE UP CALL INTO MY FACE
From there it was go time - no playing anymore.
https://m.primal.net/LhjN.mov


Call your parents. Tell them that you love them. Do it now.


Sir, that is a tortoise 🐢


"The thing I have noticed is when the anecdotes and the data disagree, the anecdotes are usually right. There's something wrong with the way you are measuring it."

 -  Jeff Bezos

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/12/59percent-of-americans-think-the-us-is-in-a-recession-report-finds.html
https://m.primal.net/Jysg.png


The internet is getting worse by the day. For your safety.

Thankful Nostr exists.

https://m.primal.net/KAIv.png
https://m.primal.net/KAJG.png


Was a pleasure guys. Pura vida ✨


Sending love from Lugano 💜  nostr:npub1y67n93njx27lzmg9ua37ce7csvq4awvl6ynfqffzfssvdn7mq9vqlhq62h nostr:npub1zu5tdnq7w63fgmsfz85te7e6zeg7y2lt8q8r9jp5zcg68jfy73jqraqtgz nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx https://image.nostr.build/c8f6b583c8a8b54e0830463620f3f9ce6e348541a41c494dd17c1965ffe70196.jpg


New major release! Phoenix Android/iOS/Server now supports BOLT12:

- reusable, non-expiring payment requests
- contact list (Android for now, iOS soon)
- attach messages to payments

You can now receive payments to a static bolt-12 offer via Phoenix and keep a list of offers in your contact list! https://image.nostr.build/4e472eb1a795bcf9c5e0cf588c90864ce74cb952e900b209465751e4ca1882e8.jpg

See also bolt12.org


5 reasons miners benefit from Stratum v2:

1. Authentication and encryption. Don't let your hash rate be stolen. Even if you aren't concerned about this, your auditors and investors likely will be.

2. Less bandwidth-intensive protocol (binary vs. JSON); reduce stale shares and works better in poor internet situations

3. Ensure your pool isn't inserting transactions and not sharing out-of-band fee payments. It is becoming more topical with the increase in usage of transaction accelerators and non-standard transaction inclusion. Eliminate the requirement to have to monitor your pool.

4. Ensure you're selecting the transactions that provide the maximum fees. Don't leave it to others who may censor certain high fee transactions. Eliminate the requirement to have to monitor your pool.

5. Take charge of the bitcoin software you run and consensus rules. Don't leave it to others to determine whether or not to signal for support of a particular change or to take the risk of falling out of consensus. Eliminate the requirement to have to monitor your pool.


GN https://image.nostr.build/dab12a389e16149ac4b12ab2b95fb5ffd5d46ae420ea9218fd38f70bb4bcf7fa.jpg


If you’re feeling sad, depressed, anxious etc… you probably just need to do an hour of cardio.


Bitcoin is, quite literally, the biggest threat to the existence of central planners because it enables individuals to opt-out of a system dependent on  trusting central planners.

The fact that they're deriding bitcoin is a good sign.

They're scared.

https://www.tftc.io/harari-bitcoin/


Braiins just had a huge streak of bad luck with ZERO blocks found in 551 attempts! 🎲🚫 What are the odds?

https://orange.surf/dude-wheres-my-block/


Great write up!


Oh, how low reddit has fallen. https://image.nostr.build/622df7890f8ef479e121d4a67102ac6ccfa014e3ec31564a59f077f203d71691.jpg


EVERYBODY WANTS TO PRINT THEIR OWN MONEY

EVERYBODY WANTS TO CAPTURE THEIR USERS


the U.S. government is a rogue criminal State in full violation of its own laws and oaths.

https://youtu.be/Nd6qN167wKo


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

# Halving Fee Chaos

The Bitcoin halving is an anticipated event, one of those Bitcoin holidays that happen every once in a while. Along with Soft Fork Activation and various financial instrument introduction days, it's one of those not-quite-predictable days that occur every few years which give Bitcoiners reason to pay attention and mainstream media to speculate.

This year's halving was much anticipated, as halvings usually are, but we had a bit of an incident that requires some further explanation. The block subsidy decreased from 6.25 BTC to 3.125 BTC on block 840,000 as expected, but what wasn't expected was the 37.626 BTC in fees that came along with it. To give some context, that's easily the highest ratio of fees to block subsidy that Bitcoin has *ever* had. [One transaction](https://mempool.space/tx/152b928e97bb9e874da1bd4abdf766ae0cdc7a2f260dad5542967cb414c58489) paid nearly 8 BTC in fees by itself.

## More Fees

It wasn't just block 840,000 that had high fees, over the next 5 blocks, we had fees of 4.486, 6.99, 16.068, 24.008 and 29.821 BTC respectively. The fees are the highest it's ever been. This situation in Bitcoin is unprecedented.

Up to this point in Bitcoin's history a block whose fees were higher than block subsidy were pretty rare. There were a few in the 50 and 25 BTC eras, but these were mistakes by the user (usually forgetting to put in a change address) and almost all of the fee came from a single error transaction. In the 12.5 BTC subsidy era, there were a few transactions toward the end of 2017 when the cumulative fees exceeded the 12.5 subsidy. In the just-ended 6.25 BTC subsidy era, there were many blocks during the ordinals craze which exceeded the 6.25 BTC subsidy.

Still, these were relatively rare, and most blocks even in the most recently completed era mostly didn't exceeded 1.5 BTC. Yet in this new era of 3.125 BTC subsidy, every single block as of this writing (block 840018) has had fees exceed the subsidy, some by many multiples. So what happened? Why was the halving block getting so much in fees?

## Runes

The reason has to do with a new protocol called Runes. It's yet another colored coins protocol on top of Bitcoin that Casey Rodarmor designed back in [September of 2023](https://rodarmor.com/blog/runes/). The main idea is to allow coin issuance on Bitcoin that uses the UTXO set natively.

Now to back up a bit, colored coins have been around for a long time. The main idea is that you can "color" certain Bitcoin transaction outputs as meaning something in addition to the Bitcoin amount in the output. It could be another "asset" and issued as a token. The first implementation of such a protocol happened 11 *years* ago in 2013 and there have been many attempts since, including MasterCoin (renamed Omni), CounterParty, and more recently, RGB, Taro Assets and BRC-20.

As Rodarmor states in his blog, his motivation for making another protocol is to bring some of the asset issuing from other chains to Bitcoin. To make the launch of this protocol more interesting, Rodarmor decided to start the issuance on block 840,000, leading to the chaos we saw.

## Simplification vs Game Theory

Casey Rodarmor is also the creator of ordinals, and he took one of the concepts, which was to name assets using the capital latin alphabet on Runes. This is a normal fine choice, but what happens when there's a conflict? If two assets have the same name, how do we distinguish between them?

To simplify things, the protocol just looks up what assets exist already and if the name conflicts with something that exists, then the new asset isn't issued. This indeed simplifies the client and gives a global unique name to each asset. Unfortunately, it also makes for some terrible incentives.

## Sniping Asset Issuance

The first incentive problem is that if the transaction issuing the asset is sent out to the Bitcoin mempool, then as that transaction is gossiped to nodes around the network, other observers can snipe the name by getting the transaction in earlier.

Now "earlier" in Bitcoin is a strict concept. Blocks are ordered and transactions within a block are ordered. Whichever comes first gets the symbol and the asset issuance. But if you want to squat on a good symbol name, you can just look for mempool transactions that are attempting to create a new asset and create your own with a bigger fee. That's the essence of sniping.

What's really terrible about a situation like this is that *both* transactions will likely go into the block, but only the first will successfully issue the asset. The second will not issue the asset but *still pay the fee*.

Miners generally order transactions by fee rate, so a higher fee likely means that they'll get to issue the asset. I say likely, because there's a second incentive problem here I'll discuss later. But game-theoretically, both participants are incentivized to increase fees continually to one-up each other. The dynamic is similar to the [One Dollar Auction](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_auction), where participants end up making rational choices, but end up with an irrational result (like paying $1.50 for $1). Every loser pays lots in fees for nothing.

## Second order Game Theory

Now given this first-order incentive playing out, it's not a surprise that a lot of issuers purposefully put in a very high fee initially to discourage anyone from trying to snipe the symbol. After all, if your sniping attempt fails, then you lose out on the fees you tried to snipe with. There's also a significant uptick in the usage of RBF for this reason, so that you have the option to one-up the sniper and the sniper to do the same to the issuer.

Note that RBF isn't useful here to *get out* of paying the fee, as a replacement transaction has to pay more than the previous transaction in fees. Either way, the miner ends up with the fees.

Now back to the miner's role. The miner can, if it so desires, give preference to the *lower* fee transaction by including it earlier in the block. Indeed, the incentive is to give miners off-band fees if possible to order transactions in such a way as to win by not revealing how much you've paid. Miners in this protocol have a lot of leverage.

## Conclusion

Runes have resulted in some really high fees, though it's hard to know if the design was intentional or unintentional. What we do know is that Runes have been hyped up for the last few months and have been anticipated for a while, and certainly being one of the first assets issued under the protocol has some marketing value for the eventual goal of getting them listed on an exchange.

Sadly, in addition to the normal scamming of altcoins being completely centralized, there is a deeper cost in terms of block space congestion, where fees of 1000 sats/vbyte are currently not enough to get into certain blocks. The Runes asset issuance has overridden almost every other use case at the moment.

That said, the current rate of Runes issuance is completely unsustainable. Just in the first 18 blocks, there's been over $20M in fees spent, most of that in Runes issuance. At this rate, Runes issuers would be spending $150M a day or $1B a week. I honestly can't see them doing this for much longer than a month or two. In the meantime, it must be great to be a miner finding these blocks.


The higher those fees go the sooner the numpties blow their stack


The halving has halved. https://image.nostr.build/60835272074b4d92c0106dd32347fee959981838537ba8cccdaac08ad216312d.png


nostr:npub17u5dneh8qjp43ecfxr6u5e9sjamsmxyuekrg2nlxrrk6nj9rsyrqywt4tp let's see


How many blocks into the halving til block fees falls below block subsidy?


Halving block rakes in a cool 38 coins in fees ~$2.4M 💦💦 https://image.nostr.build/713065731372360b6e0627d8c0c2d0d37faeea54f581b4fcc2a482f30106c457.jpg


 https://image.nostr.build/a20501c7e27e6997374fa9c214ee5365cc71feec1b2a1fc464ea57f03cdfd2a9.jpg

history in the making #Bitcoin #epoch4


woah $60k tx fees spotted in the pool https://image.nostr.build/aef7bcc6ec52ff8f3ee18b15a76cc1c88abe3c32449ea003abc1e381bf09bfae.jpg

retardinals in a bidding war!


JUAN MOAR BLOCK


2 MOAR BLOCKS TO GO


Reorgs I presume


Nice dash!


The fourth coming of the chosen block 🙌


Happy Halving Team


Happy halving all!


Tuscany Lightning Summit 2024 - Day 1 Livestream

Tuscany Lightning Summit is a Lightning Network-focused event organized by Fulgur Ventures.

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/tuscany-lightning-summit-2024/


Take control. Learn #Bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/9122842d5b207ee7600e00408dc453b2bd7eb87d9c829da53dd846d3ce9bf34f.jpg
https://bitcoin-resources.com/


Only the majority?


Having 12 words in your head is not a crime.
https://image.nostr.build/64b99e6a0e5fd48b1e3f037a542d0369f488c832459312e106130754ae3b4bad.jpg


Dear EU Legislators,

I wrote this in 2021 for a reason.

Love,
A concerned citizen.
https://dergigi.com/2021/08/02/implications-of-outlawing-bitcoin/


Why nostr:
- You own your identity
- Your speech stands on its own
- You can run your own everything
- You own and control your social graph
- You are free to say and do anything, but you are not free from consequences (non-repudiation of cryptographic signatures)
- You can proof realness via proof-of-work, either directly or indirectly
- Proof-of-work is what allows you to successfully combat bots, spam, and trolls, as it brings real cost to destructive actions
- Ownership and realness allows you to build and curate webs of trust, which allows for canonicality without central authority


BRILLIANTLY PUT.

"WHAT'S THE MESSAGE OF WORKING IN A CUBE IN A ROOM WITH A SYNTHETIC DROP CEILING AND DRY WALL ON THE WALLS IN FLUORESCENT LIGHTING AHEAD OF YOU AND NO PRIVACY AT ALL? WHAT'S THE MESSAGE?"

https://cdn.satellite.earth/81b8b068d36b1e68b928e6ac5ff0df65dd994a92c7830e39530951acf123d568.mp4


"There is no evidence anywhere that Mr. Sterlingov operated Bitcoin Fog...

The government didn’t find any references to Bitcoin Fog on Sterlingov’s electronic devices or notebooks...

The defense also questioned the reliability of Wall Street-backed firm Chainalysis...

The government said that the company is reliable, and the judge agreed"

Fuck this corrupt state.

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Harrowing


Boeing whistleblower 'found dead'.

2 achievements, silence the guy and send a message to anyone else thinking of speaking up.

We live in a corporate dystopia.

https://video.nostr.build/7113d0e4dd4bd5d53d043c6ba3fbadede140b237eb5659fd31fcca8166cdf5ad.mp4


Gonna be morning in Moscow soon!


Beyond your utility to the state as tax cattle.


The government doesn't give a flying f*ck about you
 - nostr:npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev

#BitcoinTwitter
https://bitcointwitter.web.app/images/v3/505.png


Free Sterlingov.

Free Ulbricht.

Freedom.

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Finally back to normal, if there even is such a thing. The last couple of weeks were a whirlwind, as is to be expected if a lot of bitcoiners are at the same place at the same time.

Bitcoin Atlantis was a fantastic event, as many others have mentioned before me. It was so good to see everyone. New friends, old friends, brothers and sisters, even classmates and family. Yes, family.

To me, the gathering that happened on this strange island in the middle of the Atlantic felt more like an extended family gathering than a conference, which is what made it so beautiful. Exhausting? Yes. Strange? Definitely. But also full of love, tears of joy, and a deep sense of "togetherness" that only families can provide. Strange uncles and all.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: cherish these times. We're still in the early days, and as bitcoin marches on and grows, and as bitcoinization proceeds, what is strange and extraordinary now will soon be normal and ordinary.

The internet is magic, as are mobile phones. Yet we don't have any "internet people" anymore, not in the "bitcoiner" sense, to bridge the analogy. In certain places and for certain people bitcoin is already normalized, and what used to be mind-blowing just 12 months ago simply isn't anymore. We get used to things too quickly, even magic. We adjust, we get bored, and we fail to appreciate how far we have come.

I'm writing this as a sip my morning coffee, a coffee that I will pay in sats outright, with zaps I've received on nostr. Isn't that magical? Yet it's very normal to me. I have to pinch myself every day to make sure it is real.

It's hard to comprehend how much sweat, blood, tears, and pain were necessary to make all of this work. Bitcoin. Lightning. Nostr. The myriad of tools, libraries, capital, and infrastructure required so that you can zap me and I can pay for this coffee. Instantly. Global. Without anyone's permission. We say that Bitcoin is magic internet money for a reason, so please take a step back and appreciate the magic. Appreciate how far we've come.

It's easy to get lost in the thick of it all when you're close to the grindstone. I know there's people out there that question themselves, wondering why they keep working on all this stuff, asking themselves if they make a difference. I know because I'm one of these people sometimes. I know because some of my friends are struggling, and have been struggling for a while. I see you, and if I could I'd give you a hug twice a day.

But most days we're not in the same place at the same time, so let me say the following instead: You matter. Your contributions matter. You just being around matters.

That's why physical events are so important. It's borderline impossible to feel stuff through a computer screen. But once you meet people in person—your people, the people that, for one reason or another, are perfectly aligned with you—you can FEEL it. You can really feel it. You can feel that it matters, that the tide is shifting, that the freedom tech we are working on changes the very real lives of very real people.

It was wonderful to meet all of you. Peace & Love, and please take care of each other. 🙏🧡


Today is a bad day for Bitcoin

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Welcome to the statist legal system!


And worth living for!


*them


Would it then so much 🔥🔥


What a joke.

Mobile native is dead.


Apple’s going to allow sideloading of apps on to iOS but with lots of limitations.

The app developer has to be in the EU, the user has to be in the EU, they’ve got to have been an apple app developer for over 2 years, and to have over a million installs of your app. Plus a ton of other requirements…. This is the definition of malicious compliance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malicious_compliance

https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/12/24098334/apple-ios-web-distribution-eu-app-store-changes


Sentence decreed yet?


Roman Sterlingov Found Guilty on Four Counts, Court Finds Chainalysis 'Reliable'

"Jurors found Sterlingov guilty on all of the four counts, which included conspiring to money launder, money laundering, and two charges tied to failing to register a money transmitting service," reported Bloomberg. The defense is going to appeal the verdict.

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/roman-sterlingov-found-guilty-on-four-counts/


Gabor Mate, mD via The Myth of Normal - Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture

I fucking love this guy
https://m.primal.net/HjhZ.jpg


Does this mean your wife's boyfriend is now your node?


buy all your yearly subscriptions today


Open Source is the secret of my success. Every great opportunity I've ever had was the result of Open Source. I skipped all the job interviews. I contributed patches and they hired me on the spot. I built open source and they found me. Without it, I would be just a regular man with precious ideas. Ideas aren't precious, no matter how good they are. Even the best creations aren't precious on their own. You could die an unknown Shakespeare. OPPORTUNITIES are precious. Open Source maximizes opportunities. People are resistant to it because they're afraid. Their heads are full of doubts, of tropes like "how will artists make money?" For that reason, brave people are able to benefit from Open Source while fearful people don't. If you want to be a successful software person and you're not already a millionaire, I would highly recommend building Open Source software.


Do users need to know what a relay is?


https://image.nostr.build/ce91d869a1c9be8e1f38f4fee5636c1d1d050243de48082d943d1e50eaf06292.jpg
#meme #memestr


The CIA plan to kill Julian Assange in London

https://v.nostr.build/E3Wo.mp4


bubble


free range maxi checking in
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Cut hair? For real?


custody is simple


Most #nostr clients still suck in terms of discoverability. But they don't have to.

They don't have to because we have all the right building blocks already, we just lack courage to steal. Yes, STEAL. I'd encourage everyone to steal—not copy—what other clients did well. In the spirit of "good artists copy, great artists steal."

Let's take a web-based reddit client for example, one that still works (sometimes) despite all the horrible API changes: https://www.popular.pics/

If you visit that site in your browser, you'll be greeted with something like this:
https://image.nostr.build/768d8abba5847b4a619bf66ade8d62f5a98db8adc95b833218d3904d69eab4ef.png

It's a viewer that supports multiple subreddits by default. You open it, and it just works. It has sensible defaults. (Important!) It defaults to multiple subreddits from the get-go. Subreddits that are visual, i.e. subreddits that have users posting visually pleasing images.

You can change these defaults easily, and the URL will update accordingly. This one is for subreddits concerning #nostr #bitcoin and #memes for example: https://www.popular.pics/reddit/subreddits/posts?r=nostr,bitcoin,memes - easy to share & easy to see what's going on. Steal this. Please.

Of course, if this is a nostr client (and if you're logged in) this should default to your personal web. The people and hashtags you follow; the communities and relays you are part of, etc. Bonus points if you implement an "expand" button which will expand your personal web by one degree, i.e. shows "friend of a friend" kind of stuff. Not only people you follow, but people followed by people you follow. Another click and it's two degrees. You get the idea.

Back to the interface, and the problem at hand: discoverability. As you can see, every image card quite prominently shows the subreddit it was posted the as well as the user who posted it.

https://image.nostr.build/b4b39eb8db7a48565ffaced92a83628c702e77b72ef495b5d58e1ae68fab60f4.png

Apart from the beautiful masonry layout (did I already mention that you should steal this too?), that's the one thing I like most about this image interface: it's so fucking easy to discover stuff. You click on a subreddit, and boom, you see all images from this subreddit.

https://image.nostr.build/a459579a73aa7173b8dc2f15d3cdef71d27663eab06ce5c92af36a07430da53d.png

You click on a username, and boom, you see all images from this user.

https://image.nostr.build/5d6aa1655d4a089b07915381d6f906648aba91f99ca694d6efede1b652b795ed.png

You will discover new subreddits via the "user" view (most users post to multiple subreddits) and you will discover new users via the "subreddit" view (most subreddits have posts from multiple users). You can spend DAYS just clicking through stuff, and we could do the same on nostr with #hashtags (or NIP-72 communities) and usernames (yay, we have those).

Even more, you could go from user to NIP-05 provider, which basically gives a list of users under a single domain. Or you could show what kind of actual lists (NIP-51 lists) the user is part of, so you again have a list of users which you could use as a base for your exploration, populating the grid view which is the base of this image client. And again, because this is nostr, we get a "ghost" mode FOR FREE. You can use someone else's npub and look at things through their eyes. Some clients implement this quite well already. Most people have no idea that this is possible (because we suck at discoverability, including discoverability of features).

Pinstr is ALMOST there, but it takes like ~5 clicks to get to a hashtag (and it doesn't always work for me). Slidestr has potential and is also ALMOST there, but again, it takes like ~3 clicks to get to a profile and open it in Slidestr and you have to know exactly what you're doing, which isn't exactly discoverability-friendly. Same for hashtags, which are even more hidden, as as you have to open an almost invisible menu at the bottom of the image view.

Don't get me wrong, I love what we have. But we shouldn't be afraid to steal what other clients did well in the past, especially stuff that has been around for a long time. To me, the popular pics client is near perfect. No pop-ups. No modals. No unnecessary clicks. Everything makes sense and is in the right place. It doesn't waste space and is beautiful to boot.

I think we're very close to greatness on many fronts, and I hope that—with some technical improvements that are around the corner, as well with some help from #nostrdesign—we can finally kick some ass in the discoverability department too.


but why so many buttons?


and neither will that other state far away beyond the sea,

a handy tool it could be,

but no friend to thee.


Just a friendly reminder that the state is not your friend. It never has been. It never will be.


who's purging who

let's name some names

this is censorship resistant media


He looks a little young to naturally die of a stroke...


Sounds like a story that wants to be told, if you're familiar with what happened. Unless I've missed it (likely).


Curious, if you don't mind me asking, was this something you also thought a lot about pre-mini-hooman?

Can't help but feel a bit myself given the direction things are currently heading, but can't imagine not having kids.


Now do CHF


Extortion is very much the norm!


Where did you hear all this? Or is it public info?


This man died trying to be of service to Bitcoiners & Nostr users and the general public at the hands of the state.

Remember him. Distrust them all. nostr:note1rqumy40ky67hfenx9p43832ck77ca0zd7qlt3trl66csdf97g4usjsd2ms


Very sad, RIP Alejandro.


ZEUS turns 5 today.

We'd just like to take a moment to say thank you to all the users, contributors, partners, investors, and supporters that allow us to work on making a great payments experience on top of Bitcoin.

Without you, none of this would be possible.

Thank you. Much more to come. https://video.nostr.build/ddf32d2afcfab7ae06fa44e0780c39e2794993bef8db7bb0522364c450fe8a12.mp4


genius


one word: cordyceps?


Where are all the "AI boils the ocean" midwits?

nostr:nevent1qqsx4z6l68u0vkxytrt7swmhs56ynuahxhxxpdmz095rf6un622jqngpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqzyzqhzjxrdyq42sqmf9zcppclkpty5ha2lw29fqf7722lyurteye4jqcyqqqqqqgqv8vkj


But where are your laser eyes, Lyn?🧐


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

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We're to thrilled embark on the nostr:nprofile1qyghwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnhd9hx2tcppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qydhwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytn0wfskuem9wp5kcmpwv3jhvtcqyz75k94upp6lskjqagf5kqcdw8z6w9ddpn4975fa208zm45e63xes356vg7   adventure with nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7qgswaehxw309ajjumn0wvhxcmmv9uq3wamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwdehhxarj9e3xzmny9uqzqk3au28l6zwh2pk07z3xwtdak8urvvrmelczzlxpgn6gux0w50llj608kz ! 🏝🔒

Dive deep into the world of Bitcoin and Lightning, where treasures await those with the skill to claim the sats.

Join the excitement live on @zap.stream for an experience you don't want to miss!

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LinkedIn is basically a reversed Tinder

Hot girls write to nerd guys and they don't reply


Mullvad changed...

For those of you who don’t know, we’re waging a war against involuntary Big Tech.  Thanks to you sharing our article criticizing Mullvad’s use of Gmail, they just started self-hosting emails:
https://mullvad.net/en/blog/we-now-self-host-our-support-email

Huge win for freedom, because it shows that it’s possible to get someone to give a shit.  But unfortunately, there’s still a lot of work to be done.  The overwhelming majority of privacy/political freedom/crypto sites all use it and do not give one diddly squat.

However, despite the odds against us, I believe change is possible.  And here is the plan.  We need another 2 or 3 wins to give this idea some momentum.  Then I will do serious outreach, and convince “privacy” sites to reduce big tech hopefully without it coming to public shame.  And I start with THE most egregious abuse case AnonShop.  Anonshop.app offers supposedly “anonymous” Amazon packages for Monero, to hide your info...

But where does Anonshop.app host this?  On Amazon’s AWS!  They charge 20% above cost, to have packages forwarded to people’s homes, to hide their address from Amazon, only to have them submit their address in a text box literally on Amazon’s servers?!  You’re going to say “oh but there’s a PGP key”.  Yeah a public key that this CIA contractor can swap!  You don’t think they see what you’re doing as money laundering?

If you’re a Bitcoin Maxi, I call upon you to talk shit.  The crusade I fight has the potential to spread across all privacy sites.  Purse.io WAS the Bitcoin version of AnonShop, but they got bought out and ended.  Let’s get these types of shops back up with public support, but open in the right way.

If you’re a Monero head, now is your chance to get better service.  If AnonShop will change to a privacy-respecting host, one that keeps the crypto economy circular… Then I pledge to give them free advertising on my nostr and session feeds.  Give them the Session name “AnonShop” to use.  Write an article about their service, and most importantly recommend them when people ask.

But my words will fall on deaf ears without you.  For if I am ignored, it’s your freedom that’s ignored.
But if you embrace this and share it, we can someday make invasive spyware an option and not a requirement.  And most importantly, a circular economy.  A world where you don’t even need sites like AnonShop or Purse, because the vendors accept it direct.  Mullvad just showed us change is possible, and two is trend.

I’m an optimist.  Are you?


me in 2 years time, still not owning a vision pro https://i.nostr.build/aXEr.gif


🎯 #change #bitcoin #nostr 💯
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 ̶n̶o̶s̶t̶r̶ ̶h̶a̶s̶ ̶a̶ ̶d̶i̶s̶c̶o̶v̶e̶r̶a̶b̶i̶l̶i̶t̶y̶ ̶p̶r̶o̶b̶l̶e̶m̶

nostr is the discoverability layer


Longer than 7 years!


Love it or hate it, there will be graffiti on the cathedral. Because the timechain is us, and ultimately that combo represents who we are. https://image.nostr.build/e6ae09a5dafe78652969c594298f77c278d68480f7adc72f5506a5cef65a9371.jpg


For context re: Craig Wright and Calvin Ayre and why there should be no mercy.

My life changed completely on March 29th, 2019. Almost five years ago now.

I had made several tweets, warning people about Craig Wright, and making my opinion about him clear. A matter of very public interest.

I was sent a legal letter on twitter DM, where it was made clear that I either had to apologize and acknowledge Craig as Satoshi, or they would file a libel case against me in UK.

When I didn't comply, Craig and Calvin put a public $5000 bounty on my identity and then firmly doxxed me after finding out who I was.

They proceeded to put private intelligence surveillance on me, that have tried to gain access to my social circle, both online and physically. Presence in 100s of groups. Monitoring my house. Producing regular, detailed reports on all my activity. Travelled where I travelled and so on. And god knows what else. This is still going on today.

I have been continuosly smeared and lied about on social media and in Coingeek, the publication owned by Calvin.

Threatened directly/personally with bankruptcy and worse by Calvin and his followers on twitter, with my real name, on countless occasions.

Anonymous phone calls with indirect threats.

My dad was fighting against cancer when this all started. I was dealing with constant legal pressure and threats throughout his fight. When he finally died late 2020, the legal pressure was at a peak and my funding situation was uncertain.

I've had to give up tons of private communication in discovery, to prove I had not been behind "an organized and vicious campaign against Craig."

I've had to turn down professional opportunities, since a good percentage of my bandwidth has been continuously occupied with defending myself legally. The amount of legal letters, hearings, appeals, judgments etc are beyond belief.

I've lived since 2019, with the constant knowledge that my house and belongings are on the line, and Craig's stated goal of bankrupting his enemies would be reality if I lost.

All the while I've tried to, and largely managed, to shield my child and family as well as possible, but I know all of this has put stress on them as well.

No mercy for these people.
Only Welcome to Law.


Always has been.


being an extroverted introvert is the worst


Good morning NOSTR 🌞 time to try out these new Tiktok trends 😅
. https://v.nostr.build/O2XP.mp4


Open source everything


Back to good old fashioned bullets it is then


Farmers protesting all over Europe...
Netherlands, Scotland, France, Poland, Lithuania, Belgium, Greece, Italy, Germany. Soon to be joined by England, Wales, and Ireland.

Please tell your neighbors and your friends...They will not see this on the mainstream news.
#NoFarmersNoFood

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


Question: “Why do you think ordinals don’t have staying power?”

Ben: “To me, the exciting thing is not that people are trading JPEGs. It’s that block space has scarcity.” https://image.nostr.build/ca925959dc8a20e4cfb56801938687c5b47fa3d25ff3729b19b4a3838b0770db.jpg


aka real estate = shitcoin


Illiquid Ponzi market https://image.nostr.build/ed4d3f02864f90324a322b224c93418f690993469de329b0fa59616e48b117e5.jpg  nostr:note1m6jayf3vfvcmqmxa4s7u87s2r0dmwxl64h9mq85kc57gnszqdd9q26wrzh


Nice! Been advocating for a steroid Olympics for decades. Let the drug enhanced games begin!


what's an illegal? sounds ghey


This week I've been thinking a lot about the 1990s version of Mortal Kombat that I played on Sega back in the early 1990s as like an eight year old.

Specifically the "Finish Him" aspect. I frankly never really liked that part; I was always a fan of mercy instead. I wanted to win but be kind after winning. I trained in martial arts a lot, so that was ingrained in me. Be kind to your opponents.

But admittedly, sometimes someone is *so fucking bad* that they need to be finished. Like totally and utterly rekt, so that they can't hurt other people anymore. Mercy needs to step aside for righteous devastation in that rare case.

Anyway, this thought has absolutely nothing to do with COPA and Craig Wright. Nothing at all. 😈

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


original sin


You shall not steal. #Bitcoin

https://image.nostr.build/ab90aaf634e214ba43f12df04ca00c58e63497536d13193c1caaf991c11eba02.jpg

https://dergigi.com/2022/09/10/cryptography-is-not-enough/


TFW A BLUE CHECK POSTING ON WECHAT OF THE WEST GETS WORSE ENGAGEMENT THAN MOST OF MY NOSTR POSTS

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Wars happen no matter how "acceptable" they may be.


Do all of these look accurate? Particularly curious about Blue Sky since I don't know it that well.
https://void.cat/d/WcGgEAxrvLgtAj5EmPJGmC.webp


Can't believe that it's been a year since i published "The Silent #Bitcoin Revolution of Africa"

Crazy what has happened since...

Thanks to everyone of you for being part of this journey 🫂
Lets get real this year 🔥

Watch the full doc here: https://youtu.be/d5AvBsxRMYk


hate is a strong word

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#Bitcoin doesn't consume enough electricity.
#Bitcoin doesn't produce enough carbon emissions.


Don’t worry, I’ll make sure you get plenty of #bitcoin content this month 🧡😂🤙 https://image.nostr.build/381893cef0bd5b3fa0e615f7fd99951823bcfeeebe9b670d4fca589fb2c543f0.jpg


Coming up next - special announcement from nostr:npub1lh273a4wpkup00stw8dzqjvvrqrfdrv2v3v4t8pynuezlfe5vjnsnaa9nk. Tune in to watch live!

ocean.xyz/event


another great read by nostr:nprofile1qqsvjdqxakpvyvgpnncajecq3p8aahcl04dr973k3vgtycxvdyv0fggpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqz9mhwden5te0dehhxarj9enx6apwwa5h5tnzd9aqz8thwden5te0dehhxarj94c82c3wwajkcmr0wfjx2u3wdejhgnqmldn   https://medium.com/breez-technology/if-its-not-foss-it-s-not-bitcoin-9a6bc53182e5


lack of agreement among Bitcoiners on pretty much everything is a feature not a bug

 - nostr:npub1ah64ga3s2mk4lnvynna6hajpysy6c8kdsdh5vhe5falpdhalyqssc2fjft

#BitcoinTwitter
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Based and backed 💪


After analyzing it for a thousand hours over more than a decade, I still can’t find a better nutrient-to-cost ratio than grass-fed ground beef.

I also think non-grass beef is fine vs normal beef, but then I have certain environmental permaculture soil maxi ethical views. So I mean, ultimately my opinion is to eat beef, and preferably from cows that are as close to nature as possible (ie they eat tall deep-rooted grass and have space and thus don’t usually need antibacterial medicine because they are healthy).

I don’t like to conflict with real scientists, but more than a decade ago I began researching nutrition and experimenting on myself. Many bitcoiners find nutrition, but I found nutrition and then found bitcoin, which is the less profitable direction.

I am not a doctor or a nutritionist. Most doctors and nutritionists are shitty at nutrition, but nonetheless I am not one of them.

I am, however, an athlete and engineer. I began to notice my performance issues with industrial carbs and seed oils, and began removing them. Huge health boost, and I felt so much better. This was after reading many studies.

I then did personal blood tests. I logged my food, pricked my finger and tested my glucose each day, pricked my finger and tested my ketones each day, for science, etc. I felt good and performed well under ketosis, subject to certain athletic details depending on the sport.

Ultimately I practiced seasonal ketosis. Seasons of normal health-conscious food. Seasons where I go more hardcore on ketosis for health.

My main view is that low carb eating is good, grass-fed ground beef is particularly good and cheap, etc. Eat while foods and minimize toxins. I am happy to debate nutritionists or whoever on this, it isn’t my expertise, but imo a pre-qualifier to such a debate is that they need to have visible abs. I have no tolerance toward the opinion of a flabby university nutritionist.

Anyway, good evening.


Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic! - H G Wells


This is the way!


What's the hardware? Dell I see, but which model?


at what point does an idea become a religion?


the gospel of the free capitalist


free private cities >>>>> captive public states


flappy nostrich


Everything is smart. Nothing is wise.

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Open Sesame https://image.nostr.build/b327f9b4154e61cc440065e156b7a647b06605f5f07926dc35b5c5690768408f.png


cool pinky ring


Good morn or evening, nostr! here’s a song for you wavlake ⚡🎶https://wavlake.com/track/c0335109-65da-4f7e-a02e-55e8ed1ef19f https://image.nostr.build/22982999702bb4ffee0a10349a69786c78339b1445ecc5dcd00779be1672aa27.jpg


Forty of these and counting.

Thank you to everyone who has helped me produce the Bitcoin And . . . Podcast for the last 5 years.

Humbled, grateful and LFG!

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, YA FILTHY PROTOCOL!
🎂💜🤙🫂 #hbdnostr


It's so easy to criticize.

Creating something new is hard. Building equals sweating, so if you see someone sweating, err on the side of building them up rather than kicking them down. Encouragement is a superpower. Encourage honestly and emphatically, and you might end up with the world you want to see.


On Nov 14 the Human Rights Foundation will launch its CBDC Tracker at the National Press Club in Washington, DC

The Tracker will go online for the first time, providing the public with a resource to examine the progress and risks of CBDC implementation worldwide

Like paper dollars or euros, CBDCs are liabilities of central banks

Unlike paper dollars or euros, CBDCs do not offer the privacy protections, neutrality, or finality of cash

Virtually all money today is already digital, but it is typically issued and controlled by private banks and fintech companies, even in dictatorships like China

When consumers use a credit card, spending is at the discretion of the corporation that issued the card

When consumers deposit money into their bank accounts, their funds are liabilities of the bank

CBDCs are an effort to:

1) Replace paper cash with government-issued, government controlled digital credits

2) Reduce the power of private banks

3) Expand state control over the economy

Paper cash doesn’t require identification, can be used by anyone with no discrimination, and cannot be easily tracked

As such, cash is a daily tool of human rights activists, dissidents, and civil society, especially under authoritarian regimes

CBDCs stand to potentially phase out this tool for human rights defenders, making them entirely reliant on currency that is surveilled and easily frozen and censored

Unlike cash, CBDCs can require ID, have expiration dates, be remotely
frozen, and abide by blacklists

HRF believes CBDCs pose a significant threat to human rights work worldwide, especially for people living under tyranny

More than 100 countries are researching CBDCs, while more than 20 have pilots, and a handful of governments have already launched some kind of retail product

Russia, India, the EU, the US, Brazil, and other major governments
have all signaled intent to pursue CBDC projects

HRF considers it important to track these activities and document what risk they pose to human rights

We are pleased to be working with the Bitcoin Policy Institute to launch the CBDC Tracker at the National Press Club in Washington at 10:00am ET on November 14th

We are excited to share the work of the project authors: Nick Anthony, Janine Roem, and Matthew Mezinskis

If you would like to learn more about the project or RSVP to the launch event, please contact nostr:npub1cf3zeytdnwgwzz5pk2ax0vvmmlzad03xcft4d50ejrfhsh8pxcdsefx7gk

We look forward to sharing the resource with all of you on Nov 14

https://cbdchumanrights.org/ https://image.nostr.build/5dcb01114749a54fb356f344bd20d936351cd18d12b3e7ab15c1a0fdcfd9a605.jpg


And #Bitcoin?


stack sats not surveillance sponsorships


$3 instead of ~$20 per month


Same, though very reluctantly.

Hate funding Google more than I need to, so setup my YT premium subscription via VPN set to Sri Lanka 🇱🇰🏴☠


No wonder


"There is a large group of people that get rich from your anger. Starve them."


Not to mention a much smaller (yet far more sinister) group of people that siphon power from your anger. Starve them too.


A gentleman, a scholar but above all someone who has devoted his life to the pursuit of truth and freedom.

Thank you nostr:npub1sn0wdenkukak0d9dfczzeacvhkrgz92ak56egt7vdgzn8pv2wfqqhrjdv9. We stand with you.

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🫂

https://bafybeic5uv5jznpjcrcyr5lvzahdgt776apwzfycw6qgca4reaom2o52dy.ipfs.w3s.link/ipfs/bafybeic5uv5jznpjcrcyr5lvzahdgt776apwzfycw6qgca4reaom2o52dy/snowden-jack-nostrasia2023.mp4


the more I think about this magnificent contraption, the moar I am intrigued


the disabled must be soo jacked in Japan!


the NOSTR CEO commissioned me directly to make this ad. could we make sure the normies see it so I don't get fired? thx ❤

https://v.nostr.build/QV2Y.mp4


When your money is running a little wild…

Use #bitcoin

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I am working on Nostr because my friends have been censored, canceled, deplatformed and executed for sharing.


What's the "AC Infinity"? Just a fan?


Running the 220 outlet hopefully tonight up into the attic. Plan is to have this baby heating the house through the central ducting before tomorrow night. https://i.nostr.build/o5qL.jpg


Only left-progressives?


Cypherpunks write code. We know that someone has to write software to defend privacy, and since we can't get privacy unless we all do, we're going to write it.

A Cypherpunk's Manifesto | Satoshi Nakamoto Institute

"Cypherpunks write code."

This is a highlight created on https://highlighter.com

Cypherpunks write code.


“When I say payments, I actually mean someone’s entire financial life”

-- Elon Musk

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


color me surprised


GM Nostr 🧡🔥

Reminder 👇

https://image.nostr.build/995a5f944706d490703979e3a119698446170dc805ae0b5eedcb6d72389af569.jpg


MOAR GUILLOTINES


Touchbar Mac and keyboard works? Miracle I tell ya!


Believe it or not, some regulators believe they're helping.

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https://image.nostr.build/c4f7cbd66d8ca2cab3c08538e9624b15a69581c07c7a4244e196ae3d7c13df0c.jpg


pew pew pew


yeah sex is great but have you ever tried fucking authorities
 - nostr:npub17u5dneh8qjp43ecfxr6u5e9sjamsmxyuekrg2nlxrrk6nj9rsyrqywt4tp

#BitcoinTwitter
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Registered from birth!


Free Julian Assange https://image.nostr.build/354fb152b4f919973ac5dcb9fd4ddc4a2a333d630d7a8233ca5f16ea503c97ba.jpg


Ladies and Gentleman - the UK Land Clownchain.

- 1-2 Year transaction times
- 1000-5000 GBP transaction fees
- Centralized & subjective mempool
- Receipt to show you have a transaction waiting to be confirmed on-chain, that proves ownership for any owner's liability - but never for rights of ownership.

Burn. It. Down.

#BePositive
#clownstr
#lolstr

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The family rolled over to an Asian grocery mart in Post Falls, ID today to see if it was worth it.

It was.

I had a discussion with the Thai woman that owned the place (she had to be pushing 70 or so) and she said she opened the store after she arrived in America decades ago because she was getting sick eating the food in American grocery stores. She mentioned Uncle Ben's rice, our produce and the meat specifically.

She then told my wife to just drop a dried shiitake mushroom cap (of which she had bags of) into hot water and let steep and drink that instead of taking mushroom supplements in pill form for immunity boosting. "And it tastes better, too".

Embrace the old ways because they know what they're talking about.


Very well said, sir.


#Nostr #plebchain #zapathon

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And equally terrifying!


What is Real and what is Unreal Engine?

https://video.nostr.build/1719015a66ee0f4d3cb735fcd9cfb0d01de54208059fe9ff13d94b42c7557896.mp4


Very slick 🔥🔥🔥 great job nostr:npub1xnf02f60r9v0e5kty33a404dm79zr7z2eepyrk5gsq3m7pwvsz2sazlpr5


Is the LDK powered Zeus app rolled out on Android Play Store/F-Droid? Haven't spotted how to use it on V0.7.7 (afaik latest)


Yeah very nicely done with the hodl invoices!


Seems to work with Phoenix!

https://image.nostr.build/f36c53bd3b737c678c497fa2d7b62dcd20c9598d4dab69f1440b202f9c738b43.jpg


About damn time!


So grateful for this man. https://youtu.be/H-fQ7i8q5C8


Same for browser for me. Will check back in a month.


I built a thing! Introducing "Plasma - Core Lightning Wallet" for iOS only. Public testflight is live, please give it a go and provide feedback. It works with Core Lightning v23.08.1 and LNSocket (by nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s) exclusivley:

https://testflight.apple.com/join/t8Vqqq7i


And even fewer politicians, and even fewer regulators.


We need more engineers and fewer lawyers.


Would be pretty cool seeing chatbot clone stoic greats shitpost with eachother!


ChatGPT killer use case right there!


Make it a one way street nostr:nevent1qqsdev6v6r97krfn5ycvy6syn4fmxgkpshdhl0r20g4gdvfa89jcdpqpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqzyruwd3jrgtc7q5jgqccwylsszmwwxh7r5c2wvpp5lm625fgrx2x2jqcyqqqqqqgjagnnl


Privacy is not secrecy.

https://cdn.nostr.build/i/be9f4dcbaaec1c1257099eea44742bfb9da520663d26eb49e6350709e231f58b.jpg


🕊🇵🇸 🇮🇱 🕊
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Team America - World Police gonna get real busy!


Also reddit. Is there a nostr reddit clone already?


Welcome to Freedom.Tech, a global hub championing Bitcoin builders, open-source developers, educators, and privacy tech pioneers.

Join the freedom tech movement today and learn how we can use technology in the fight for human flourishing and freedom.

We've been working hard behind the scenes over the past few months to launch a new content hub that lets you find content on the bleeding edge of technology, learn how you can take actionable steps in the fight for freedom, and amplify your own voice by writing unique content.

What is the "Freedom Tech" Movement?

From the earliest days of the Internet, an ongoing struggle has existed between those who would use the immense potential of this new technology to control or suppress human freedom, and those who would use it to empower the individual and promote human flourishing. This struggle has taken many forms over the decades, starting with the cryptoanarchists in the 1980’s and the cypherpunks of the 1990’s, both of which shared a common goal of enabling individual freedom through the use of cutting-edge technology.

Just as us humans strive for freedom, information in the digital age “longs to be free.” The “freedom tech” movement is a burgeoning grassroots movement that aims to encourage the optimistic, untethered development and use of technologies by people from all backgrounds, languages, and cultures across the globe. Freedom tech allows us to slow a rise in authoritarianism, fight back against encroaching surveillance capitalism, and empower journalists, dissidents, and activists everywhere.

We believe that the freedom tech movement closely aligns with that of the open source movement, and we hold the ideals of free and open-source software closely. While the freedom tech movement has no central authority or leader to dictate its aims, we have laid out the aspects of technology we consider vital to the movement below. Freedom tech should be:

✅Free and open source

✅Without usage restrictions

✅Privacy-preserving

✅Resistant to censorship

Quite simply, "freedom tech" is technology that empowers you.

Learn more

With this launch we've included a few original blog posts, and are working hard to get some of the best writers in the space involved and amplifying their content on Freedom.Tech. If you want to keep up with what we're doing, simply sign-up with email on Freedom.Tech, subscribe via RSS, and follow us here on Nostr:

https://freedom.tech https://image.nostr.build/489e57d5146f41f2492a3331b5a81e276c77ff3eed992763457cd57e5252ae8c.jpg


Remember kids: Not your keys, not your coins.

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I think the Israelis and the Palestinians should become frens

Unexpected and unexplainable kindness, a weapon that has no defense


The people should unite together and revolt against the warmongering parasitic class.


two weeks TM


threat of revolution keeps tyrants at bay


war must always be an option (monopolism of violence = enslaved individuals), but yes end compulsory debt/extortion funded foreverwars


h/t nostr:npub1k6rrkx80gkhxe9ycd5rpcjsaynf7034wvauffn928tqg5z0p2ekqhjx6lp https://image.nostr.build/f4b5260779eb407dcf5805f8fa56f205ff4ac9261c7ee35877eb1c577968bd8a.jpg


sats the standard


(after picking their side of choice of course)


The irony of being permabanned from Twatter for "incitement of violence" (during the great k3tan capital punishment purge) the same week the world cheers on the murder/retaliation of Israeli/Palestinian civilians.

https://image.nostr.build/c278136ad823b9c0f652992f8d808cd4d27a91764fd8e90b78fcc3868ef863f2.jpg


*not just transport


Also applies to general power demands in house, just transport.


Combine with hydro potential batteries and you have a pretty potent off-grid setup. Arrays are dirt cheap and very reliable these days.

I personally wouldn't get an electric car since I don't have my own infra and I don't want to be reliant on terrible public charging infra (among other reasons).

But it's not as clearcut as you suggest. For different people in different circumstances, EV may make more sense than ICE.

E.g. country with no oil production/processing and unreliable import, within/near tropics.


meh, tradeoffs

you wouldn't run your car on fuel oil

short chain hydrocarbons and ICEs built for those have their uses


What's that website with loads of old objects like tamagotchis?

 "you could have had 100000 #Bitcoin but instead you bought a tamagotchi"


correct answer


TFSI aren't too shabby either.


Not necessarily. You can't refine your own oil but you can catch your own photons.


Your sample size is 1 of each...

I have a petrol with 250k+ miles and zero issues.


What's your solution?


#bitcoin fixes this 🫶🫶

https://image.nostr.build/3a16f3a90559b062e1c4a9f287f6d36abc587c696204abcf1fa32ed304d394c2.jpg


Maths is the language.

Physics is the script.


plenty time left to find out, then fuck around a bit, then find out some more ad terminum


"probably freedom is the core point of it all" https://youtu.be/J_GqzGQOQhs?si=0L4yQYesJ5hTiNTY


Nature calls.

https://image.nostr.build/05df97217eda48b215888e91fddd05d016bbde7312bf4ed205f4c5ca8c65816b.jpg


Completely crazy that an unelected supranational entity can force countries to devalue their currency like this. We’re talking about the sudden loss of wage purchasing power for tens of millions of people. But you better do it, or else! https://image.nostr.build/c4d8cdd3315429db48d505933ab7a32f9213415ea24fa9682f100ac6ebdb1e0b.jpg


Clients will need to do that, the average user shouldn't need to know the details.


Sounds familiar! #bitcoin vs fiat


#bitcoin
equipping sovereign individuals

@xsats
@skunkmode


nostr will win because you can shitpost without limits


#Bitcoin wasn't built in a day.


If leaving a car to sit sub 0C for more than a few days its almost always a good idea to plug the battery into a decent maintenance charger.


Politicians are corruptible, and so will inevitably be corrupted.


Wifi, no esims. I don't walk around with government sponsored triangulation spyware.


For no reason at all, sharing one of the best presentations I've watched.

Beautiful, entertaining, thought-provoking and interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7ynm0Zkwfk nostr:npub1dergggklka99wwrs92yz8wdjs952h2ux2ha2ed598ngwu9w7a6fsh9xzpc


I don’t mean to brag, but I knew Craig wasn’t Satoshi long before this retarded loser Christen came out and said so.

Also, remember everyone in this drama is a known con artist. They may be mad at each other, it may be more scheming, but I’m no longer watching.


Gm ☕☀ Keep it simple 🤙 https://image.nostr.build/49b65bc7a99e04b97b9c41fe3b3cf02726e2876ef4a40c0b83adf1533bd39e6f.jpg


If you have a recent macbook M1 or M2 with enough RAM make sure to try out GPT4ALL.

It's easily good enough to be useful especially if you don't have access to OpenAI's API. It's free and it's private. No data leaves your computer. This is how we should be using AI.

https://gpt4all.io/


Not to mention a cheaper fee market.


Feeling cute. Might open some lightning channels at 1sat/vbyte.


Two years ago German police murdered JStark and dumped his body in front of his parent's house.

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


GN

https://video.nostr.build/2cf470d0b0276b0bea92be7f5648f8de1b24a38119912d2606695c02aa76c476.mp4


Phoenix has become the go-to wallet for me and many others. The new splicing feature makes things a lot easier to manage, but i am a little concerned that 'only one channel ever' may result in a much bigger privacy risk.

Lightning as-is does have better sender privacy than receiver privacy, but, in this one channel model, if a snooper finds it once, they'll unambiguously (pre-taproot) be able to keep track of it through splices.

The more basic point is not dependent on splicing: Phoenix being your only channel counterparty is another big privacy tradeoff.


Bitcoiners will never forget Ross Ulbricht. He will forever be a #Bitcoin political prisoner.

#FreeRoss https://image.nostr.build/ab171abbee949ccf13aa457e0a506ed6afb9c628a022d2331ab2d68003254bdc.jpg


Good morning Nostr ☀

What's your favourite Android Nostr client today?


1sat/byte minimalists outraged!


Simply stop using Twitter/X

Not sure why this is so hard for some people


RaspiBlitz v1.10.0: Stability Fixes & Software Updates

"Many stability fixes & updates: Bitcoin 25.0.0, LND 0.16.4, Core Lightning 23.08.1, LNbits 0.10.9, JAM (JoinMarket WebUI) .. and an experimental FinTS/HBCI home banking interface."

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/raspiblitz-v1-10-0/


I am become guillotine, destroyooor of twatter accounts


👋 we are all guillotine


THE THOUGHTCRIME EXPANDS

nostr:nevent1qqswk2duq40dm5sqfygqdxhw8jwp2q4u29x45p4ragfvsym48pl6qfspp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqzyrr0ceaxyygddlxwcd38dmrgchjvvansg08227xgtcxl2tqq5fcpcqcyqqqqqqgsp56tv


Shop for deals like this for your node.

https://image.nostr.build/aed3f6a270010800f082410eb9c275c23f714e7c0824360478baba41c7358e46.jpg


DON'T

BE

ONE

OF

THEM

https://video.nostr.build/9d0ee88195cf1f3c51e1c28c8952af07bfd5581c90a2095937cc1d0620bd0242.mp4


based but too many streets and not enough mountains


Performance & user experience is 1000x more important than the latest cool new feature that makes your app slower and more confusing. Offload complexity into micro apps. Keep it simple!


Oh wait, you're still at the table


Banhammer just landed everywhere at once?

https://image.nostr.build/55e95f4368f291cb110aa28743456e3d1638e454d973a6e7c8f61647459fd22d.jpg


goodbye twatter

https://image.nostr.build/55e95f4368f291cb110aa28743456e3d1638e454d973a6e7c8f61647459fd22d.jpg


"For your safety"


One source of truth.

Zero transparency.

No provenance..

What could possibly go wrong?


Introducing EXIT

You broke up with your ex; it wasn’t treating you well, maybe it was shadow banning you or your friends; it was manipulating you into becoming your worst possible self.

But over the years you accrued a bunch of quality shitposts, and perhaps some nuggets of wisdom.

Introducing: https://exit.pub:

The last bridge you’ll need to port over your data into the new world of decentralized freedom-tech.

1. Download your twitter archive
2. If Elon agrees, you’ll get a zip file; uncompress it and just use exit.pub to import your data into nostr

✅ original dates are used; whatever you posted in 2009 will show up as posted in nostr in 2009
✅ granular control of which tweets to import (threads, non-replies, replies)
✅ V4V, you choose how much your shitposts are worth
✅ it *should* preserve embedded images
✅ granular control of which relays you want to publish to

Try it out:

https://exit.pub


GM 🧡⚡

Bitcoin on an exchange is worthless.
Custodial rug pulls are countless.
So don't make yourself sleepless.
Bitcoin ownership is trustless.

Self custody or bust.


I'd say we all post it on twitter/X and see what happens.

https://image.nostr.build/e6ad49badb1d70cd370c39a9f26adc05e09be47a09f48f40cec3e35912610ac1.jpg

https://twitter.com/dergigi/status/1706045297250460105


Following trial and reinstatement of the death penalty of course.


Execute the Prime Ministers of New Zealand.

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Bring back the guillotine.


Bothered. Dehydrated. Out of my lane. Corroding. https://image.nostr.build/2afd0e0fc5f02ee564cb78f1112d835ea3620d35dce10200667495138a6136b3.jpg


Our phones spy on us
Our cars spy on us
Our software spies on us
Our stores spy on us
Our social media spies on us
Our credit cards spy on us
Our banks spy on us
Our internet providers spy on us
3 letter agencies spy on us

We could do with less spying.


#meme #memes #memestr
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