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Saylor thinks you are a paranoid crypto anarchist if you hold your own keys and don't trust the government. 😏

 https://x.com/AdamSimecka/status/1848131598044074289 
 Saylor likes the attention so if he doesn't get asked to speak at conferences, he'll capitulate 
 What’d I miss? Why everyone’s pantries in a bunch over Saylor? 
 Saylor thinks you are a paranoid crypto anarchist if you hold your own keys and don't trust the government.  
 Re Peter Todd HBO documentary


Satoshi was a hacker in the original true sense. He built something amazing that no one else had done before, and he did it for the sheer pleasure of hacking it. Others came along and cleaned up the code while not changing the original architecture. 
 We need a better word for those in the usa. Usicans sounds weird 
 There are 37 other countries that have Americans  
 There are 37 other countries that have Americans  
 Microstrategy buys #bitcoin for those who can't .. 

Every time it issues new debt or equity , it... 
 They're helping make it scarce too!  
 https://x.com/Narodism/status/1844017533336142025

Satoshi Nakamoto wrote code that was not usual. He had many quirks. We can find him by comparing his code with others, but no one did that yet.

When I first saw their code, I thought "Satoshi is not a programmer" because of how weird it was. He didn't follow normal code practices that were modern at that time.

He made big use of locks when it was out of fashion. He used Hungarian notation which was no longer used. He made spaghetti function recursion and never used objects to encapsulate processes. He also targeted Windows.

All of this indicate an older person, possibly not a software dev but from a close domain like engineering or physics. His whitepaper hinted at a background with a practical focus but not a mathematician.

The code was highly idiosyncratic and personal including the style itself. Analysis of the code will tell us everything.

You can even compare the code from 2008 with the code in 2010, and the way Satoshi writes code doesn't change. You can actually see the change from proof of concept to hacked up Satoshi node.

Whenever anyone says X is Satoshi, my first response is always "show me the code". This should be our default position.

But no Bitcoin coder (including myself) cares enough to do this. We're all so busy with real work. And I guess we also respect Satoshi-kun's wishes. Even writing this post showing how we can find him feels almost like a betrayal.

To be fair to Peter Todd, he handled it well and didn't try to claim undue credit.

https://image.nostr.build/8e844896e3f6a38740001b9a12475276e96172045819d79871c50e25bc2c88e7.jpg

 
 IP address from satoshi IRC bot. California Ip address https://wp.me/p7aIQK-7F 
 I was the first person to quote the Truman show on NOSTR with gm ga ge gn !


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 I want to create a chat model from a collection of PDFs on health, carnivore, etc.... 

I tried using unleashed.chat but the answers were generic and not from the PDFs. Recommendations? I have one Nvidia 1070gtx GPU.

Is nvidia chatrtx decent?

#ai 
 Why must I put assets at risk in a speculative market to save for retirement? nostr:note1ulkulmhm... 
 Because it's patriotic hah 
 My full quote to Politico regarding Satoshi and the HBO doc…
“For years, there's been endless... 
 Robert Hettinga likely knows...


https://mailing-list-archive.cryptoanarchy.wiki/authors/robert_hettinga_rah_at_shipwright_com_/

Or Robert Tappan Morris, who created the first self-updating p2p internet worm. 
 Robert Hettinga likely knows...


https://mailing-list-archive.cryptoanarchy.wiki/authors/robert_hettinga_rah_at_shipwright_com_/

Or Robert Tappan Morris, who created the first self-updating p2p internet worm. 
 Gm

Only about 1 million people will hold 1 btc or more.

(There isn't enough btc to go around 😉) 
 Steve Jobs said in 2008 that the iPhone of the future will record everything you say and be able to recall it. 

Hopefully the graphene OS team will create some  sovereign AI 
 ‼️ 🇬🇧 ANNOUNCEMENT 🇬🇧 ‼️
All nostr:nprofile1qqs0nt9skq6vfsgh06v979rrnuchau87mmnk2lqxpv2xaeusqfp30mqpzamhxue69uhky6t5vdhkjmn9wgh8xmmrd9skctcpzemhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejz7qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctc9ad278 Guides will also be available on the new github website https://darth-coin.github.io
Here will be organized in a better way by category and languages (see the top menu buttons)
A - General - with introductory articles and guides about Bitcoin
B - Beginner - with simple guides for new users, how to start, general terms and steps to follow
C - Wallets - with specific guides about wallets, security, privacy
D - Nodes - with specific guides, more advanced for running LN nodes and other solutions for nodes
E - Merchants - advanced solution guides for those merchants that want to use Bitcoin in their business

Slowly all guides from DarthCoin Substack will be migrated on this new repository page, for an easy find for the guide you need. Substack became quite hard to use and look for a specific guide, so I hope this new page will help you find what you need.

The guides also will be translated in other languages. Right now there are links to all languages, but redirect to old substack links.
All guides in the Substack will remain the same, in their place, will not be deleted, but some of them maybe will not be updated anymore.

May The Bitcoin Be With You! 
 Time to stop using Telegram… :-/ nostr:note1mlgu66cyfznnh80r6j8xqdphnkvghmn3uqjnc36rapyv08033ru... 
 Lol they've always been doing this 
 Your Swan app just got better with a new and improved account.

Higher purchase limits

Early access to upcoming features

No impact to your legacy account

No additional cost


YEAH BUT YOU GUYS LOST 40MILLION$ IN CUSTOMER BTC

 
 Turn off your TV. 

Harris will help Bitcoin thru inflation, Trump will grow the overall economy. Either way, BTC always wins. 
 Sparrow 2.0.0 released with:

SLIP39 shares recovery
Trezor Safe 5 support
Ledger Stax and Flex support
Update to Java and JavaFX 22

https://github.com/sparrowwallet/sparrow/releases/tag/2.0.0 
 Maybe the town can setup miners in everyone's houses and heat them? Distribute the noise?

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/bitcoin-mining-shutdown-cause-20-surge-in-electricity-bills 
 Intellectual Property isn't real and is actually a violent infringement of property rights 
 Can't drink in public but eating cats & dogs are ok 
 Traditionally turmeric milk is drunk at night for it's anti-inflammatory effects. 
 I really want you to win. 

Sincerely. 

I mean that. 

Just know that. 
 I tried zapping but primal is primal  
 I’m glad right wingers exist. As long as they are around I’ll never be the dumbest person alive. 
 Look in the mirror. Its all lies on all sides 
 Liberalism is not a preexisting condition under the ACA 
 Trump never mentioned Bitcoin…. 


Who was the clown that made him a headliner at a conference? 
 David F Bailey 
 Remember when people thought Froogle (now google shopping) would become an affiliate marketing thing? 

An AI killer app is a skillful combination of shopping.google.com + not having to search through dozens of specs and datasheets - just find me unbiased lists of products I am looking for! 
 It's easy to forget that the machine has been fighting BTC since the beginning.

nostr:nevent1qqs... 
 Wow he was early to bitcoin hatin' 
 Stacker News is THE place to be!

I’ll keep writing every day, never seen such a place where sm... 
 Great time to increase the active user base of Nostr from 20k to 60k+

Ola Brazil.
 
 Gm.

It seems that it will be very hard for Brazil to identify and enforce the fines on VPN usage... 
 Agreed. Nostr will be the account of record, and other apps will be feeds off of it. 
 Ancient communist trick 
 Do y'all think the Fed was politicized by raising rates too late? 
 Bitcoin is the new caste system that anyone can join. 
 Someone should create a universal command line frontend. I love the cli tools but I don't live there. 
 I never used a fitbit or similar because I think they are privacy nightmares. I'm also not a big ... 
 Does your back hurt? Then you need to walk more 
 #DACH Nostr meetup from October 25-27 in Hessen, Germany.

We've gone ahead and reserved a big pl... 
 Glad you were convinced of the importance of meetups 👍 
 I always assumed telegram was a public thing. I'm surprised no one made an OTR client from the telegram source. 

#pavel #durov 
 Moneyball is a great movie in a way that imho only men understand 🤔 
 The virus from touching the ark by that foreign tribe, it became the plague. Notice how they had boils on their skin, just like in the Bible. The plague became HIV. HIV became covid.  
 the ark of the covenant 
 What background music is this? I love it 
 I’ve been through a few companies that did layoffs. My first, I was a part of it. I had heard a... 
 Like office space