Sorry techie joke:

Full-duplex data transmission means that data can be transmitted in both directions on a signal carrier at the same time.


That cuts both ways


I'm not sure, I wouldn't know about that.


Here's where politics gets real:

Free to who?

The customer?

Then either they pay through taxes or the supplier doesn't get paid.

If the supplier doesn't get paid, then they will need welfare and so the customer pays in taxes still.


In 15 years time, Moscow time will be replaced with America time and will show how many dollars to the Satoshi


I think you'll find that's a very popular opinion


Kicking the 2008 rematch can down the road


More or less


Hey Mr Taliban, tally my bananas.


Rest in what ever room you want, just so long as it isn't the toilet. That's where I'll be busy shitting myself


I'm not sure you're correct


Interesting Twitter thread in 2020 about $BSV and its backer Ayres Group

https://twitter.com/pd_myers/status/1309880796816248833

Posted without comment.


Carpe Diem

Seize the fish


I had a bachelors degree, but then I got married.


And I thought my website was a flex https://image.nostr.build/b6b3ede7da9e599a29da3977a826e5696ed6d45a0640e2e7191cfe87051f730e.jpg


Bitcoin is the new Switzerland


War, what is it good for?


And foreigners and democrats and christians and women.
Maybe not the women!


I never wanted to be a stand up comedian

I prefer sitting


I'm not get involved in the case.


I don't understand, I don't have an onlyfans account.


Get shit done before you die

Mike


They changed me.


Or a #Bitcoin mining rig to heat the pool


Dear Barclays,

You're sending me SMS messages to tell me you don't understand email.

We're building #Bitcoin and #NOSTR

If you don't believe me or don't get it, I don't have time to try to convince you, sorry. https://image.nostr.build/606287ac883e36eee56dae9a7ec114a0cd784e5c156ec42717d783e94c25df22.jpg


There's a list of top tax payers?

That's why I don't want to be a part of the shitty fiat world.

Only #Bitcoin

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68093172


Is El Salvador moving away from Bitcoin?

https://youtu.be/-4Ba0KtR6E4


Opera on hump day?

How very decadent.

#rohrusalka https://image.nostr.build/c734b2e9b6e3cf3efad93a4fa96d730d7ad3455f0b32665b758a38e5ad21ed99.jpg


Not long to go in the fiat mines for you now.


Gin & Tonic, Opera and Deep contentment for me tonight.
Life is very good


The PM is on onlyfans https://image.nostr.build/2a196259077daedee0fadf801c50b9d7755f3472cb8d1d5ce18060c804c50c92.jpg


Plug it in, load Raspberry OS and start shitposting.

Easy 🤣


For Bitcoiners who want to flex after the halving https://image.nostr.build/86b49a358584f710cdddd07b7173c13af480212bb48430c27ac4e680cc60ecf0.jpg


This all seems so long ago


Actually I wasn’t.


This wasn’t the promised land of ETFs https://image.nostr.build/ce1a20cc63a1d1304d5d1cf361ce2f3efb5443c3d543eb322099b79dc5c852b8.jpg


I’ve just taken a shit all over a shitcoiner on Xitter.

I posted the full text here without any 244 character limit or without spending $10 / month for the privilege.


We've won the war via ETFs, but there are many battles left to fight


DAO's and Bisq are the way


A rare photo of Satoshi https://image.nostr.build/06e6e6deb03c01eefea11ea1ef4cebdcb37420c493300d88bb6ef6b2dfb1f9cc.jpg


My summary of the conclusion of a discussion with an altcoiner on X:

If you want a payment system to rival VISA, then you can easily build an altcoin with 1 second, 1GB, parallel blocks and no fees.

The problem is, this would have to be centralised in a data centre, which means being owned by a company or state.

You don’t need a Blockchain if you wish to process large volumes of transactions centrally, because in a centralised system, you can avoid the double spend problem and the byzantine generals problem.

Also, in the VISA paradigm, a pizza seller in Rome doesn’t need a copy of the transaction made by a coffee seller in Japan 9 years earlier in order to conduct a transaction.

 In Bitcoin, you do because it is a trustless, decentralised protocol, meaning every coin has to be verified since its genesis.

Only truly decentralised trustless systems have these problems and only Bitcoin needs the solution.


I prefer cats, and I don't like to cook them, what can I say 😂


I didn't, you're ahead


Almost as good as cold pussy juice


Seriously, somebody should launch the DAWKINS meme coin

It would evolutionise the industry


When you know, you know https://image.nostr.build/bb7626ea032a8592382dfdab23e4acfdec7633f1a93f6cb402eeb0cd2e1a5b92.jpg


Cheney?


🤣 https://image.nostr.build/ddb12542d4f903dff44c237b55ccb8b447a373b8322385e568db545daba0d677.jpg


Facts and irony are unbeatable weapons in any argument


This is why I don't watch TV and why I'm trying to convince the wife to stop watching it.

Channel 5 in the UK are airing their 4th hour long program on Air Fryers.

The four programs are:
1. You should have cooked your Christmas Dinner with an Air Fryer
2. Don’t use a Microwave, use an Air Fryer
3. Which Air Fryer should you buy

and currently:
4. Haven’t bought an  Air Fryer yet, this is why you need to

I admired Channel 5's ingenuity in being paid to make a TV program that was mildly interesting.

But this is taking the piss.

BREAKING NEWS AGAIN: An  Air Fryer is just a tiny fan oven

Don’t buy one unless you don’t own an oven.

The money it will save you on electricity is irrelevant in comparison to the cost.


I don't know anybody on that list, but I'm trying to work out how Binance offended me enough to block them 🤣


There's something deeply satisfying about knowing stuff https://image.nostr.build/1edf2ec476d19e7c2a5a2a3fbc0a3525374f021eb2e337fd42ac228e56d2dc16.jpg


There's something deeply satisfying about knowing stuff


Interesting., I didn't know. Thanks for telling me.

But as you pointed out, it doesn't seem to be working very well.

I'd unblock you, but I don't know how and I don't see the point.


Mars has no atmosphere, cancel that flight reservation.


I have a mute list?


Mine's earning me Sats as I type.

Double entendre intended


That's schadenfreude.

Narcissists are too busy looking at themselves in the mirror to care what others think.


For an alien it was bloody amazing.


#Bitcoin solves this:

https://www.mining-technology.com/features/uganda-gold-deposit-investment/


Doesn't "expert" mean "previously small and well shaped"?


What if Satoshi was a visiting alien?


Also, if the Universe buffers due to Bitcoin miners compute requirements, will we notice?


It should be called Nicestr


What about its use as a metaphor?


The universe owes me the Bitcoin I lost on a lightning channel a couple of months ago.


Shitcoins fix this


YouTube Algorithm:

Me:
Yes, I want to watch a video about something I’ve never heard of before.

YouTube:
Great, here’s 20 more videos of exactly the same thing

Me:
Thanks, but no thanks, I understand that now, what else do you have?

YouTube:
What about these other 20 videos from about the same thing?

Me:
Still no, thank you.

YouTube:
OK, what about the original 20 videos I suggested?

Me:
I haven’t read a book in a while, let’s give that a go.


Todays top news stories:

Most Watched:
1. Jenifer Lopez surprises drag queen performing as her

Most Read:
1. Six-legged dog has operation to remove extra limbs


Japan lands on Moon, but most read story is:

"Real Housewives of Cheshire Children's home shut by Ofsted" https://image.nostr.build/993b88b29bedfdcfe27812c7446d39c8d48715927ad509d41ca6b5b5070c3273.jpg https://image.nostr.build/835f7324d09c4bebdb9afe294edd981bbc70bdb1439f3833f19581caea237b07.jpg


I’m eating Toblerone and I’m nowhere near an airport


Setup for the punchline, but no way to make!

“What a lovely pair of knickers you have Kym” https://image.nostr.build/7a564ba95f3f0b6972cfda09ea2904c5f7b307ef77e359e91ec4c4e6469e40a1.jpg


Paper hands


CPO "Chief Podcast Officer"


Fellow Bitcoiners!

We finally have the pleasure of announcing the Halving Festival. A two day celebration of the next Bitcoin epoch.

This is an event by Norwegian Bitcoiners for ALL Bitcoiners!

The only requirement for participation is that you can send a Bitcoin onchain/lightning transaction, since we only accept #bitcoin  payments.

What date is it?

Well, we dont exactly know. Because in Bitcoin land we dont follow fiat time.

The event starts at the last mid-day before BTC block 840 000. If that confuses you, dont worry, we’ll keep you updated.

The event will take place at my farm. It’s located 1 hour away from the capital in Norway, Oslo.

The closest train station is Mysen, and we will arrange shuttle bus transport for those not travelling by car. Everyone else can park at the farm.

We havent planned everything in detail yet, but here is some of the content:

- Free meal of grassfed beef and roasted roosters from the farm
- Full roasted wild boar over the fire
- Viking competitions
- Wim Hof experience
- Series of talks about Bitcoin

This isn't your regular conference event.

In the planning of this event we prioritize authenticity above all else.

We dont want it to be about big names or loud music.

We want it to be about celebrating #bitcoin  and sharing values and ideas peer-to-peer.

So with that said, we hope you want to celebrate with us, no matter who you are, where you come from or what you do.

As long as you can send a Bitcoin transaction you’re in.

But be aware: Tickets are hard capped at 210, and the ETF’s are NOT priced in!

To get your ticket, go to: halvingfestival.com


Did Isaac Asimov have anything to say on the matter?

https://www.wsj.com/tech/eu-commission-intends-to-block-amazons-irobot-acquisition-268a8a1b


Yay, USA to get another $1.66 Trillion of free money:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68022847


You're hired!


Have you tried sticking it up your butt?


A Bitcoin script that enables you to lock your coins for a specific period of time.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Timelock


I’d move governments. https://image.nostr.build/d01bc14320a3a9dd263a05209a8676abba0f1023edb612da24cfa6bbca6dc5e8.jpg


If Bitcoin is denominated in Sats, should we pass a law mandating altcoins to be denominated in Shats?


I’ve got a severe case of shitcoin.

It’s the next Bitcoin.

It’s the first decentralised blockchain that is centralised and is definitely not a blockchain.


Grayscale sending $790M to Coinbase prime. Timberrrrrrr !!!! 😆😆😆

https://image.nostr.build/01fae2c941ee032ae8dba7051a8c9cbc0dc194fba2f3c7a1f679c10bdf7d2024.jpg


Forgive me. I have shitcoined.

A friend coerced me, I didn’t know what I was doing! https://image.nostr.build/14fcd705f9699a893e984918ba4f71986605facd83ed2887856aaaf1da58301a.jpg


Lmao 🤣
https://m.primal.net/HYQs.jpg


It’s starting again, Sainsbury’s bank closing to “concentrate on food”:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/jan/18/sainsburys-bank-takeover-offers-supermarket-food-retail

Apparently Tesco as well.

There will be plenty of banking licenses available in the coming years if we want to start a bank. Who’s in?


Remember that time when they trialed running steam trains on the canal? https://image.nostr.build/8e62b57568f262764240d44c658f230349af10d5648353511ff22786453de7c2.jpg


He really is Craig Wright, Satoshi told me so.


I’m liking the new Johnny Cash Album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAFdzBTe2lg


But then I sometimes wish I was in the ViaBTC pool 🤣 https://image.nostr.build/db7c08ae3a326bca32b82d1c6da844d8602d2123fcf2c674efc3220fd91c9d7d.jpg


I’m sometimes glad I do mining: https://image.nostr.build/cff76942ff49ccf3e1f39795d6850ae2d9abd32a5f05c653bc94f4ed2d160ee9.jpg


And this: https://image.nostr.build/515902ced243f9963db542f43b71c825acd46688984ed7a18695d33850082881.jpg


WTF is this?

Not an ETF transfer in or out of Coinbase! https://image.nostr.build/468634e0f983330f6d41319022f1943841f81d3e6565222aa3acd237e1c76519.jpg


The UK government wasting more of our legacy shitcoins https://image.nostr.build/54901198b3fb2e4f33aff71c9474eaea72a613ecbf397a9f1096337058ffbdd0.jpg


Whoopsidaisy https://image.nostr.build/9b4a99157148547adbd199d8675af06c6d5a07ef5d10a03c12c3333e5fd527e2.jpg


This is my favourite from the 1995 Internet Yellow Pages: https://image.nostr.build/d3e7cf6287c26fddfc2f517050e0117b69eda13d8d739e4739d5297409e377d3.jpg


If you’re worried about the fiat finance world taking over and running crypto, then can I suggest you look at how middle industries and traditional media have fared against the Internet and social media as a historical example of disruption.


Wuman https://image.nostr.build/cd1fb392ac5e9a53a993f7bb281c654c113d2def2331815256dd5e0eaed3e7e4.jpg


Damn, that’s why I lost my Bitcoin 🤣


Another day in the fiat mines


I’ve seen worse X


Enterprise Resource Planning

Basically middle management, when you’re fed up hard coding all day.


Couldn’t zap you.


Or a bouncy castle and a lot of skill


Nothing to see here 😀


Meanwhile on xitter, the European Central Bank gets schooled on #Bitcoin and characteristics of money.
https://image.nostr.build/2c6749fdc1df89e3132c5b740dd3a0e4d74e8a516a73bdb0d197c160d3fcce55.jpg


It’s a bit like ketamine, but more fun.


I didn’t expect Bitcoin to be so powerful that ETFs are just another attack vector it takes in its stride with a minor pump and dump.


ETFs are at the bottom of the page:

https://buybitcoinworldwide.com/treasuries/


To quote Mark Twain: Reports of a pump are greatly exaggerated


Hey ChatGPT, how yer doing?


Please rate my response to a friend, who is also a shitcoiner:

Hi James,

I thought I’d give a bit more depth to my response about $KAS. and your view that it is the next Bitcoin.

As I mentioned almost all Altcoins have faster transaction confirmation times, higher transaction volume and lower fees.

Bitcoins weakness in these 3 areas are its strength. Satoshi Nakamoto decided to compromise those features in order to prioritise decentralisation, censorship resistance and create a self balancing network of opposing interested parties in the form of miners, developers and node runners.

If you are familiar with photography, there is the triangle of function. Aperture, Shutter Speed and ISO (film speed). In photography you can prioritise any 2, but in so doing you must sacrifice the third.

So in Bitcoin, the triangle is;

Security, Decentralisation and scalability.

Satoshi chose to prioritise Security and Decentralisation which sacrificed scalability.

This is not a technical issue that can be overcome, but a design choice.

Security is critical unless you want the keys to your coins stolen. None of the 20,000+ cryptocurrencies will knowingly sacrifice this.

Decentralisation was the choice he made to prevent the network being compromised by any central organisation, primarily a government but also potentially a large corporation (or any combination of this).

Bitcoin is run by millions of people around the world and cannot be stopped by any bad actor or group of bad actors at any scale, be it state or government or combination of both.

That is Bitcoins strength.

KAS is a company run by a group of directors and shareholders.
That is not a criticism, most altcoin projects are such, but that is not a decentralised consensus protocol or network and does not solve the byzantine generals problem.

Bitcoin does and allows one of its 3 core tenets to exist: Don’t trust, verify.

The other two are:
Not you keys, not your coins
Do your own research

I hope this explains a tiny part of the enormous rabbit hole that I continue to spend every waking moment working on and have done so for over 4 years.

I may be slightly obsessed.


I can't stop smiling and laughing with joy


Agreed


Done


Please sir, may I take one day off from being humble to celebrate?


Is it wrong to now love Gary Gensler?


Chief fiat miner says what?


OK, hot tub it is 😂


I'm struggling to stay humble at the moment.


Slowly, then suddenly


Just deport all the normies.


Anyone with 10+ BTC in 10 years time WILL BE THE STATE 😂


We’re the normies


Yes Gary I am 🤣 https://image.nostr.build/cfd2b633de9bc90164d6a6fa08caecd36c13b73ea5469c8d7993eaeacd228bd3.jpg


Me, me, me, me


For all 8 billion to self custody Bitcoin would take the mempool 38 years to process.
Most future Bitconers will not self custody.

There are
350 Banks in the UK
4,200 Banks in the US
44,000 Banks in the World

21M BTC / 500 = 42,000

Anyone or group with more than 500 BTC is going to be a bank within 15 years


It takes all my enormous intelligence, amazing empathy and laser focus to stay the most humble human that has ever lived.


Sad but true


That's my housekeepers place


I recognise Mrs Jack Mallers, Mrs Adam Back and Mrs Michael Saylor. Who are the rest?


I hope the wife won't mind!


I still remember 🍆🧈


Note to self: Stay Humble


Also, this one from a promising author:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CLJP6R3F/


Bitcoin bank when fees reach 1,000 Sat/vB


Twitter/X is not all bad 🤣


He does, he used to teach Bitcoin at MIT before he went to the darkside.

https://youtu.be/EH6vE97qIP4


Even in Scotland where it’s free 🤣


<a href="https://giphy.com/gifs/1985-rocky-iv-koPSBhdvbCD4c%22%3Evia GIPHY


Canal boat looks nice 👍


I’m way ahead of you, I’m not in Germany already 😄


👀 https://image.nostr.build/7fe6eb7c2f0bb84f17c283ef6d8426858260566da91667685732bcd60563c035.jpg


I’m not weird or little.

I can’t speak for others.


Love it.

Work of Proof


Using a miner to proof frozen bread dough that isn't rising 😂😂. Will this work?!?
https://image.nostr.build/d0b4189a409323f2b7398477d3f8a054e1d5b32d84b9e902457af90c3ad52a0e.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=768x1020&blurhash=_JCZIho%23MxR*R%2Bs9kC_NozM_j%3Fa%23V%40ofx%5ExaM%7Bj%5Bt7RjayofxZNGWExaR*aeIUsSxtj%5DbHWqe.VYRit7kDbGofaenNV%40a%23bbWVoej%5BM%7BaKjbt7a%7BWCofoJnhNGbHoeayoy&x=cfb11860bfe98aa959536b08f551c5d00ee850dee5cd6a52cf9aeeffff43939b


Went to Shen Yun, Chinese Dance tonight at the New Theatre, Oxford.

However it turns out to be a  creation from a theatre company from New York trying to teach us about Chinese Communist oppression.

I was spending the whole time imagining an equivalent Chinese Theatre company putting together a troupe of Morris Dancers and sending them off to Japan to explain the suppression of English culture by the Conservative Government.

https://www.shenyun.com/


Unless your job is lamp lighter or wheel tapper, then perhaps get retrained on a modern technology such as an abacus.


Nancy Pelosi (+65%) literally beat every Hedge Fund in 2023, legend💀 https://image.nostr.build/52b7e37df6696e334654eece732d5098f7fa704eac556af7c8c8d375d70b1d5a.jpg


Isn’t it interesting that LLM AI’s don’t say “I don’t know”.

Less intelligent humans are also don’t say “I don’t know”.


What if they ban cheese? 😱


Hmm
#Bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/2d989bca77e4a9aace0df37ca26b3d9806e0a0585de679dc0f6e95dde2dd4e4c.jpg


BREAKING NEWS: An air fryer is just a tiny fan oven.


I often glance at the mempool during down times. I’ve recently noticed large (more than 1 Bitcoin) transactions in each latest transaction list and I’m now seeing 10+ or even 100+ BTC transactions on every other page.

Is this ETFs prepping?


I wonder what forms the Chief Legal Officer at Grayscale is filling out? https://image.nostr.build/786c8603255945b59142db8241805d884290676ac37f04e9edc1e788a78e8cdc.jpg


#Bitcoin  has the same number of users as the Internet had in 1997.

We are just getting started https://image.nostr.build/6b6bbe871d18f409c864c0a3db356d84f4d644627f93b84f3534c40305f11fc4.jpg


Would a tribute band to the Pretenders be the Real Thing?

And if so, do they do Coke?


Sorry my bad! https://image.nostr.build/bedc47d16ba5fdfa28733e42936746f6ebae981d202859bd8e78a045dddda3e4.jpg  nostr:note1yppwn5c8yky0n6wzs6jc9574qc4v6kq6kc62yl43p3rl8shn66vsq76a75


I’ve just upgraded the Universe from V 0.9 (beta) to V 2.0 just in time for the halving.

Can you feedback any bugs ASAP, thanks.


If the Universe was an App, it wouldn’t get downloaded much.


How many blocks? https://image.nostr.build/bf9dd1c257aa41e12d54ab1bb4b1548650882f9183cad89f95e0770eb7176b62.jpg


Just buy #Bitcoin

Everything else has an angle https://image.nostr.build/b853bac9fa887dcb6f9546c6ec55cab0667308e4b108d84aae6e72297c681404.jpg


#DCA into #gold vs #Bitcoin
https://video.nostr.build/7d6e59eb37f0ef1a29d87b3f3c77930a47f422ba4741440fade753981f913819.mp4


Another new term learned.

This shall be recycled within my own circle of influence within 6 months. Guaranteed!


I want this book! https://image.nostr.build/432249f35a6e0f148c3f0b111d5d0bf0476177c16cc891ce2806203d1feb70d6.jpg


https://image.nostr.build/f4a815f826b72c00f72b7f7dd88c61966309696ee2b5a9282edcf8d4a04bd494.jpg

#meme #memestr #nostrmemes #memes 822,592 🤙💜


LN channel forensics
https://semisol.dev/files/channelforensics.png


Eye of Newt


Was this illegal?

Steam Boat Willie? https://image.nostr.build/0ad3f4575bfde22a5edb2d547dd84c8d19be211ff5142b0629e245375681bdb2.jpg


Done 👍


Cathedral of the Northern Lights

3pm today

No sun for 82 days during the polar night season https://image.nostr.build/c7d432f55f7119fa5799620be2a9f36266131c5f6d03736201569d18c191b82b.jpg


Alta, Norway. 3pm today.

-24 deg C

Cathedral of the Northern Lights https://image.nostr.build/c7d432f55f7119fa5799620be2a9f36266131c5f6d03736201569d18c191b82b.jpg


Batman was a Bitcoiner back in the 1960’s https://image.nostr.build/fea31d0c02de3c4e271755e3398f55edacea4b5f069e1b73adb79ad049341620.jpg


This is me.

Alta, Norway.

-24 Degrees Centigrade https://image.nostr.build/c08104f5890d7689b201672cc4d7a3eac8e477ca6ed7eefa8996aafe670b7f4a.jpg


I’m not going, I didn’t get invited.


#Andalsnes

Currently -5 deg C https://image.nostr.build/33cc52687bba3aa0fcb30eed59fca3cf68393699359482017bcb8696c46d654c.jpg


#Bitcoin Block 821486

Fee: 8.05 BTC ($342,485)
Subsidy + fees: 14.30 BTC (608,404)


What about knowing people you hate are with people they hate? 🤣


WTF?

$41 fee for a #Bitcoin transaction https://image.nostr.build/bd2fdae47f55b8e1f7a658cedcea6c6adf9cdf273f90c3dbb925392d5dd5c45b.jpg


Block 821485
Fees: 7.315 BTC


#Bitcoin block 821484

Fees: 7.155 BTC


WTF?

#Bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/bf2cb0412539e5466778647374f60418c0fe7a29f09430ccdf4e7ef3a2dd7015.jpg


Agreed


And if they philander enough, most the country is their offspring.


Enjoy life.


Dictatorships might be brutal, but they get shit done.


Possibly because all the attack vectors are deliberate and meant to stop people using a device that contains a secure element chip.

Or all the problems, compounded, one immediately following another, could be pure coincidence and a sign of a companies incompetence.

You decide?


They are functionally less good. For security, notifications don’t show summaries. But they are less expensive and I suspect more secure.


Did I? 😂


Tesla’s new car looks pretty cool:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpraXaw7dyc


Yes 🙌


It’s humanity’s only chance of competing with AI


Does your car company do this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpraXaw7dyc


I can’t un-know this now !


Spare a thought for those less fortunate this Christmas.

This is a popular meme, but my version is infinitely recursive from the world to smaller and smaller groups.

It’s very lonely being me.

As for other people that are financially less fortunate. I am helping. https://image.nostr.build/35bf1b2960a77bafdf1e71dbc620911ecaa6bbec069bda94fc8845e1324fcf92.jpg


I hate banks. I sent some money to help a very close friend. It asked a load of questions to verify I wasn't being scammed. I started answering honestly, but it wanted proof, so I lied and said it was a gift.

#Bitcoin solves this.


I’d say more FAT than FUD


We think Bitcoin has to compete with VISA’s 15,000 TPS. It doesn’t. It has to compete with the Interbank RTGS settlement system at 9 TPS.


The Interbank settlement system RTGS “real-time gross settlement” is capable of operating at around 9 transactions per second.

In a few years time, all Layer 1 transactions on the Bitcoin blockchain will effectively be RTGS payments between Federated Bitcoin banks and Lightning nodes managing channels.


There are 52,560 blocks generated a year
At an average of 4,000 transactions per block that is 210M transactions per year

If all 8 billion people on the planet wanted to self custody Bitcoin, it would take 38 years for those transactions to be added to the Blockchain (assuming no other transactions occur during that time)


What if our universe is a small division of a much larger organisation, run by a dysfunctional board of directors, currently facing a hostile takeover?


The U.S. Bank failures that happened in March this year, were all bailed out using the federal reserve “Bank Term Funding Program”. This is a one year loan made by the fed.

The dates of the failures were:

2023
8th March - Silvergate Bank
11th March - Silicon Valley Bank
12th March - Signature Bank
15th March - Credit Suisse
17th March - First Republic Bank

Credit Suisse is the only non U.S. bank.

The one year term ends March 2024, one month before Bitcoin halving.


Why I've decided not to accept an offer made to me recently for a prominent political appointment

https://youtu.be/3i7ym_Qh7BA?si=TZ839AuzWpvJAxDX


We don’t need to worry about AI ending work. Steam engines did that 300 years ago.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67302048


Has anybody else noticed friends are staying in touch more as the price of #Bitcoin rises.


Yay go #Bitcoin


Coriolis Effect Demonstration (with Drones)

https://youtu.be/okaxKzoyMK0


In that case make it Oxford UK where I’m actually based.


Although the title gives away the plot somewhat 🤣


Now then, now then!


Is that using peer to peer technology?


I wrote my wife’s medical policy framework document for wound care treatment in diabetes patients.

She had started it 6 months prior.

After 5 tuning versions, two months worth of effort was reduced to about 15 - 20 minutes.


London


Fuck it, shall we just buy a country and all move in together?


This is my orange pill for the world:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CLJP6R3F/


This is my seed:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CLJP6R3F/


Bitcoin 20X’s every 4 years.

Property doubles in value every 20 years

Money halves its value every 20 years

Leave $1 in the bak, in 20 years time you’ll still have $1, but it’s only worth 50c
Invest $1 in property, in 20 years time it will have doubled to $2, but it is still worth $1

Do me a favour, enter 1 into your calculator, multiple by 20, repeat 4 more times.

After 20 years, how much have you got?
It’s only worth half that due to inflation, but I think you’ll still be quite happy.


Invest $1 into a house, after 20 years it will be worth $2.

Invest $1 into #Bitcoin, after 20 years it will be worth $3,200,000


Sorry, I just re-read my statement.

My error, it’s not transmitted, it is “absorbed by the earth”


Ah upper atmosphere. Yes most is reflected back.


So wait, in block height, that’s every two weeks?


AI pays you money?


The energy transmitted from the sun to the earth is 2.4 Yota Joules per year.


Removing all emotion and sensationalism from the SBF FTX case.

According to Michael Lewis, SBF’s biographer:

SBF used customer funds, stored in Alameda’s bank accounts illegally to the tune of around $8 billion.

This started out legitimately as FTX could not open bank accounts being a Crypto firm and so used Alameda’s bank accounts for customer deposits, only later getting their own bank account.

So far, approx $7 billion of the lost funds have been located on wallets and other sources.

Of the many investments SBF made, one in particular was an AI company called Anthropic, valued, at the time at $2 billion. He took a 20% shareholding, that company is currently valued at $30 billion, meaning that FTX receivers have at least one sellable asset worth $6 billion.

It is therefore likely that all customers will have all of their funds returned and FTX will post a profit.

He absolutely committed an illegal act, using supposedly ring fenced customer funds for Alameda and FTX own purposes. But it looks like financially, all should turn out fine.

This is evidence the prosecution is fighting to be withheld from the trial.

That is interesting to me, as morally and legally, what SBF did was wrong, but financially, within a financial company, it looks like everybody is going to win.

What is your moral view of this contradiction?

I ask because this is what banks do by default, legally every day, only everybody accepts that banks take your money and use it for their own gains.


Have you noticed that 100% of Bitcoins Critics start off by saying:

“I don’t know anything about it, but….”


The house hasn’t gone up in value, only in price.


ETFs look surprisingly like sharks swimming in a pool of Bitcoin self sovereign plebs https://image.nostr.build/a32c1c948ae5ddd406d009c3cb312b56161fd0ea348d0cf7a47c40881d1acb97.jpg


Here a snap from 2017 to be getting on with. https://image.nostr.build/9990b9e186dfbf4c7083396d9b24ab8ba91685c0261293bed452deb33a5f1c75.jpg


I’ll be there for Christmas


The monetary system of Bitcoin might make you rich and provide you financial freedom.

But the philosophy of Bitcoin will make your life richer and provide personal freedom.

Don’t, trust verify!


I’d love to follow the SBF trial, but because there is no direct feed, I am forced to rely on indirect reporting either from old or new media.

I find it so distasteful having to rely on any untrusted third party, that I am choosing not to become informed.

That was what life was like before the Internet and little pockets of that enforced trust still exist in remote areas of this connected world.

The Internet and the philosophy of Bitcoin has changed me so much, I no longer recognise my younger self.

Don’t trust verify

Do your own Research


Old media is full of stories of centralised organisations  instructing centralised media to censor users they dislike because those users dislike other users that they want us to like.

What a strange world we’ve left behind!


I’m too old to remember my first time.


Wallet of Satoshi with full caveats.

Will move him to Phoenix wallet for next visit, but can’t beat the ease of use of WoS

He’ll be running a full mode with Zeus wallet within a year, I guarantee it.


Just #orangepilled the handy man that can to fix our shed.

Slowly, then suddenly!


Another bank about to bite the dust:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67016375


Zaps working now 👍


Very good point and very much agree.


Excellent argument, we’ll articulated and thought out.

Agreed and Thank you


I’ve never been a fan of the pronoun debate, but when you say something like “we are not as advanced as you guys” I do understand the argument and advocate its limited adoption.

Just as your influencer friend has no special privileges, so you are no less “advanced” as us “guys”.

We are all beginners, we are all learning, we are all equal.


I like 🍆🧈


The world is a richer place because of the diversity of voices and ideas that freedom of speech allows.

Thanks to all the devs and larger nostr community for creating a space where ideas can be shared freely.

I hope the voices on this platform will ultimately help create movements that make the world a more open and equitable place rather than create division or spread hatred and ignorance.


My life has been very interesting to date 🤣

#Bitcoin could prove to be the most interesting phase however.

I think it probably will.


I’ve just had an interesting conversation with nostr:npub14yf4yasnqgpkzjrzhysshglf82e8nkp8r9sn5hzqu4n244k3avtshhwpyu  saying everybody is welcome on #nostr and we don’t treat influencers or celebrities any different.

But a question.

Is everybody welcome here?

It is an open protocol, so everybody is free to engage, but do we want to replicate the toxicity of X or the vacuousness of Instagram?

Is this is different place not intended for everybody or is a new self sovereign content protocol that is intended for all?

Opinions please….


Is it the Beetles new album?


Yes please 🙏


Also the ability to shitpost without having to use a tiny touchscreen keyboard.


Bring back 🍆🧈


Thank you, you too.


Tor is comprised in the same way cops compromise criminals.

It’s not easy and only partially affective and sometimes they get it wrong.


Be nice.
If you can’t be nice, be informative.


Not your keys, not your content


Enjoy, here are some more Sats


OK, I’ll get my mate the brain surgeon to call round tomorrow.


Actually it’s 8 billion now, and the answers no 🤣🤣🤣


Ooh, thanks for the feedback. I don’t fully understand your answer, but luckily the Internet does.

Research time 😃


That’s me, never got so much as a scratch.

Not a risk, just the type of person I am.


Great I hope she enjoys nostr

Remember, not your keys, not your content!

I think I followed and zapped her, so you achieved your goals with me.


More Zaps


Too true


That’s a much shorter response, thank you.

I’m not against or for anybody, I’m simply pointing out that your introduction was intended to make us treat her in a certain manner that she hadn’t yet earned.

We are all new when we join, we are are beginners and we are all equal.


Do we want everybody here?

I’d like to think this is an exclusive club that requires intelligence and individualism to join.


I judge that to be a fair statement


We had a wasps nest in our orchard. Everybody on traditional social media was advising us how to destroy it. We nurtured it and made certain we didn’t cut the grass near it. They thrived. https://image.nostr.build/852cb76da3ac3b783a87ad19f6f7c675c07fdcbaf53071f2f87707bf6b696ec2.jpg


Hello friend 😄


Having everybody I’ve ever known beg me to help them understand #Bitcoin


To be fair, it’s cheaper than a care home


A thought experiment:

Imagine introducing the most famous person in your country to a remote tribe as a person of importance.

Unless they can hunt and start a fire they are not only the most unimportant person, but they are utterly dependent on the goodwill of the tribe for survival.

Welcome to #nostr a place where we can all hunt and start fires.


Zap


Fun and True fact.

I was a COBOL programmer in the 1980’s on a Hungarian mainframe computer from a company called Videoton

I wrote software for a package called RELACS which stood for:

Real Time Accounting System


They're already in hperinflation.


Do you remember the old days, when all we talked about was 🍆🧈


Isn’t that 4?


GM


Also I can’t zap you


Don’t worry, I’ve been through this with the birth of the commercial public Internet.
According to the media and governments, it was only used by criminals and pornographers and should be shutdown.

The gameplay is exactly the same, I am living in deja vu.

Relax, all will be fine.


Mine already is


They are rarely my enemies as I understand and disagree with their point of view.

I am often theirs as they know I am wrong without understanding why.


I have a natural lack of addiction, so have never felt the need to detox on anything.

I do, however, see lots of people missing out by being glued to their screen while in the real world.


Yes please


I pre date smart phones.

Smart phones are better, but like all things in moderation


Agreed


Try to stay out of the fiat mines wherever you live.


I’d prefer them to shut up


It makes your photos look better than they really are to people you’ve never met.


Bitcoin is important


Not your keys, not your content


Then consider that you can store YOUR posts on YOUR own relay and keep YOUR keys for YOUR profile on YOUR own wallet.

You own your own identity again!


If the price doesn’t rise will you turn off your rig?


Social media is great, nostr is the best, but there’s no substitution for real life connections. Have you tried the OrangePillApp to try to get Bitcoin connections near you to meet IRL.

In the mean time, you have a community of Bitcoiners here that are very supportive.


Looks like Hulk Hogan


Shit, I’ve been doing it wrong. I throw parties to celebrate stuff that’s happened 😂


What’s your view on mining with the halving coming into sight?


Wow, that was a long response. Thank you.

My questions were meant to be rhetorical, but thanks for your definition.

Generally well made and comprehensive analysis.

We need to focus more on doing than influencing. Our mutual beekeeping nostrer is a prime example. She “does” and will hopefully tell us about it. That is a good influencer irrelevant of the cause.

A less noble influencer is one that doesn’t and tells people about it.


The AI should just read out the Bitcoin white paper


Far less here than X


I’ve never been to the Hovercraft museum either, but I have been on the IOW hovercraft as well as the cross channel hovercraft as a kid.

Love a good hovercraft, such a shame they never took off (pun intended).


It took me 15 years to convince my wife she looked better with no makeup.


“Dear ChatGPT, we printed loads of money and STILL have inflation. Please tell us what we’re doing wrong.” https://image.nostr.build/af9d8dad6eb71a2b079ba6660aff36c1f005c6aa5b78c59114d381d7f7a488c1.jpg


There’s a submarine museum? I want to go.

The one I went on was during Navy Days a looooong time ago.

I’m only 5’ 11’ so should be OK 😂


They finished storing their JPEGs on my nodes SSD.


I’m old. I’m gate crashing the party.


Ah yes, I saw that thread from you earlier.


My Uncle used to take me to Navy Days as a kid.

That had very good memories for me. I got to go on a submarine.


Then you have an agenda and a good one.

That is the most noble of influencers.


Thanks for sharing


This is my friend Evgueni Boiko with his wife Helen in Independence Square in 2006 before we travelled down to his home town Illichivsk (Chornomorsk) for his wedding.

Stay Strong. https://image.nostr.build/b2ef491412825b03ac61ff50a7b213f23d15a23531b07257de50a9e8819a3181.jpg


What yer running?


I’d like that, I travel through Portsmouth often and my Aunt and Uncle lived in Bedhampton.

I have a great fondness for the place.


Please, if you are able, tell us about your beekeeping life.


I’d like to start a discussion about influencers and I like it to be fair and balanced and without any hate or love.

What is an influencer? What are they trying to influence and why?

If they have an agenda, for example, a political lobbyist and wish to change a law that is unjust, say apartheid in South Africa, great that is a noble cause.

If they are an independent representative of a clothes or fashion brand and they are using their personality to promote one brand over another in order to make a living. That’s fine, providing it is transparent and an honest relationship on both sides (the brand and the customers).

If they are filling a hole in their lives by pretending to live a life that is not real in order to cover a life that is unfulfilled, then let’s try to help.

If you truly live a fulfilled life, you have no need to influence or be influenced. I think that is the goal we all seek.


When The Timing Is Right
Perfectly Timed Photo
#pics #fun #havefun #funny #grownostr #gif
https://m.primal.net/HMLx.jpg


If any of you are curious, here’s what the $boost looks like on Amethyst.
https://image.nostr.build/db86bf1bfcb536660ffa54689c807301ed10047d2351a3fe451c821bb286cb01.jpg nostr:note1xmjuyyt0pyc25v6kmyu9ym5j55f3ez5txn7ez0d92uvtnsyugdsqvs4s6g


Moores law refers to hardware, it has already technically ceased with 5nm transistors (gates now rely on 5 or 6 electrons and so quantum effects apply).

However Moores law continues in spirit as technologies like multicore and multithreading find alternate ways to compensate for the lack of increased transistor count.

ChatGPT sits on hardware, it is utterly dependant on that hardware. It can scale by adding more hardware, but it cannot increase outside of the hardware available, which is still governed by laws.


I nearly wet myself


I’m in love with cheese


Unless your disrupting an industry. Then you can’t plan or research.

But if your entering an existing mature market agreed.

I only invested in disruptive companies.


They were great on Britains got Talent!


Or your child wanted to sit at the table with the adults.


I’m British, we only have illegal cheese.


Unless it’s a rich tea, in which case it’s brown


You’re welcome.


Also in breaking news, water is wet


The U.S. is a sidechain


Don’t understand it, but gonna find the time to research it soon. nostr:note1aalsryyzglk6kryprwewdhxlvtyqj38szc7gd4mc9jr6z6cs4ttsa9usc3


Keep working on the ideas. You’ll have one someday that is so compelling, you’ll have to give up work in the fiat mines to pursue.


I am going to send SATS to anyone who shares this post thanks to $boost and innovation on #Nostr

The first 10 people that report it will earn from the PRISM of this post.

I love the innovation happening on Nostr.

https://www.wavlake.com/track/3bfb9c1c-b929-42f8-8832-6f6adc01017e


Yep, that’s it.


Yes, all good. You’ve been zapped.


Tried zapping you, but reported invalid address


GM


Save fiat money from your job.

Put it into Bitcoin before the halving.

Wait six months after the halving.

Resign from the fiat mines.

Take your extreme wealth earned during Bitcoin Hyperbitcoinization and fund your new company.


Hey nostr:npub1aghreq2dpz3h3799hrawev5gf5zc2kt4ch9ykhp9utt0jd3gdu2qtlmhct why has my Nostr Relay stopped counting at 999?

It’s a computer, I’m pretty sure it’s capable of counting beyond 1,000

🤣 https://image.nostr.build/b043f8ba2419fbc8fcc956260ae2f04369742e19432739fdb0fc29b15e9390b1.jpg


CoinCorner #Bitcoin exchange needs #purplepill ing https://image.nostr.build/ff332efec287a470a782a06aa2a46d065b09d7c16f78eeb4f4bb3f2f5b0dec67.jpg


My [updated] roadmap to #OrangePill people:

CoinCorner Bolt Gift card with 25,000 Sats pre-loaded

Wallet of Satoshi to redeem the Sats

Phoenix Wallet to move them to self custody

CoinCorner account to move between fiat and Sats

nostr:npub1aghreq2dpz3h3799hrawev5gf5zc2kt4ch9ykhp9utt0jd3gdu2qtlmhct full mode to go self sovereign

@Zeus when they start running a full node


Just had to go on X to ask if @CoinCorner are on here yet.

I feel abused 🤮


Had to look up “Larper”

Agreed 👍


Would that be the same as Fed Ex?


I’m not. I’m good 🙂


They are. To each other.


Me too, but we call it Autumn


Nice


What’s wrong with a horse and cart. Why do they have to keep changing things. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.


Zap


I had a skipper on a boat I chartered that had married a stripper named Darlene.

They lived in a trailer park and were going through difficulties.


Or the tannin


For now they are a necessary evil


Aaaaaand we’re back: https://image.nostr.build/84959802b2317adcf71b0254c8b392fe91ab68b6bfe30a6faa029518ea4ef2ca.jpg


Nice place


Sorry, I can’t remember, but here’s a partial list of nostr platforms curated by nostr:npub15u3cqhx6vuj3rywg0ph5mfv009lxja6cyvqn2jagaydukq6zmjwqex05rq

https://nostrlobby.com/Applications/


Remember #nostr is a protocol, not a platform.

There is already nostrgram client FYI


https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/sub-account.asp

FYI


It’s a sub account same as solicitors use when receiving monies for property purchases.

It is sometimes called a client account.

It has no functionality, nor does it exist in its own right.


True


💧 Introducing the Revolutionary LN+ Liquidity Pool:
https://lightningnetwork.plus/posts/433

Building on the success of Liquidity Swaps, we built a new service to help #bitcoin #lightningnetwork node operators connect. The pool is now open!

Post your pubkey to get free liquidity credits!


GM I frickin love bees.

You’re my favourite nostrer now


I’m thinking of buying Australia after the next halving.

I’ll hire somebody to get rid of all those pesky venomous critters of course.


We’re going to block buying fiat with crypto for your real safety.


That’s the guest house taken care of.

What you building for yourself after the next halving?


🤣

I remember 🍆🧈


Better than I understand Twitter/X


GM

3 nodes and counting


And butter 🤣


🤣

Always be yourself!


What the hell happened?

😂


I’ve been studying it full time (50 hours a week) for nearly 4 years.

I would be 2 to 3 on the scale.


Have you noticed some crypto exchanges in the UK now create bank accounts in your name to deposit funds to.

SwissBorg and CoinCorner both do this.

A bank can’t see anything suspicious in transferring funds to yourself.


Scary and exciting all at the same time.


My neighbour is retiring from farming and selling off his equipment.

I’m thinking of cashing in some Sats to buy me a new combine. https://image.nostr.build/5369f58bcab6a5561e624c7fdb03edb321820bf89d444e876911032159332eef.jpg


zapped and followed!


Then treat yourself to one of these:

https://shop.unitree.com/products/unitree-go2


You can start with this, I have spooled it at the most interesting point, but watch it all if you have time:

https://youtu.be/xoVJKj8lcNQ?si=LVNo4lsY9ZgPMxQO&t=1166


I do this, it seems to be working:

My roadmap to #OrangePill people:

CoinCorner Bolt Gift card with 25,000 Sats pre-loaded
Wallet of Satoshi to redeem the Sats
Phoenix Wallet to move them to self custody
Zeus when they start running a full node


Influencers are like DJs, they just play other peoples music.

I like builders, I listen to their songs.


I don’t bother with general friends, acquaintances or neighbours, but I do #OrangePill my close friends and family.

I owe it to them.

I think the price rise from the next halving will accelerate hyperbitcoinisation and I want people close to me to benefit.


Yes


I already have a Dynamic DNS tunnel to my house which I can port map to the BTCPay Server. I’m relatively comfortable with the security implications of this.

But configuring BTCPay Server doesn’t seem to acknowledge its sitting on a full node and not sure why it wants me to create or import a wallet when I already have one on my full node. I have given up at that point for now.


Lightning shopkeepers.

What’s the best way to sell a digital book on my cloud hosted website using a full node on a home LAN (either Start9 or Umbrel).

I’m looking at BTCPay Server on Umbrel at the moment, but not sure how it integrates with my full node.


My roadmap to #OrangePill people:

CoinCorner Bolt Gift card with 25,000 Sats pre-loaded
Wallet of Satoshi to redeem the Sats
Phoenix Wallet to move them to self custody
Zeus when they start running a full node


Wow, we’ve got all this already:

https://nostrlobby.com/Applications/

Source: nostr:npub15u3cqhx6vuj3rywg0ph5mfv009lxja6cyvqn2jagaydukq6zmjwqex05rq


Yo nostr:npub15u3cqhx6vuj3rywg0ph5mfv009lxja6cyvqn2jagaydukq6zmjwqex05rq

Your new client https://nostr.cooking is so cool 🧑🍳 ⚡

You purple pilled my fiancé because of it! I’m making her #Nostr account tonight so she can start adding recipes on there 💜🧡

More to come 👀


Let me play among the stars


KISS


Yes, we invented it:

https://www.invent.org/inductees/donald-watts-davies


Where can I buy a Bitcoin t-shirt in the UK with Lightning?


I’m upping my #OrangePill game by giving CoinCorner Bolt gift cards to FaF as presents.

https://www.coincorner.com/theboltcard


Weird


Welcome nostr:npub14d5tyjxd3j5gyc8jaxguythu7qcuu5e2wv6cxs5x28u6qsfqs60sgnqa0q


Loving your work nostr:npub1e2yuky03caw4ke3zy68lg0fz3r4gkt94hx4fjmlelacyljgyk79svn3eef


Thanks, I see it now.

Weird!


Heat your home with Bitcoin

https://heatbit.com/


Worse PayPal


Why can’t I buy a Bitcoin Ring in Bitcoin?

https://bitcoin-ring.com/products/bitcoin-boltring-contactless-nfc-lightning-payment


Loving nostr:npub1lr2zzf989mvf393y0tv39ara6a4vddkd6y87z784up9vl6ks6j3qtudl6a OrangePill videos on YouTube

https://youtu.be/8Smtmbnq5Sg


Hi nostr:npub1rxysxnjkhrmqd3ey73dp9n5y5yvyzcs64acc9g0k2epcpwwyya4spvhnp8

I’m looking at CoinJoin options. I’ve watched your Sparrow Wallet video, but I notice your Wasabi Wallet video is 4 years old.

Can I ask, which is your preference for CoinJoin and why?

Thanks
Mike


Humans disappoint.

Have you considered a robot dog?

https://shop.unitree.com/en-gb/products/unitree-go2


Confusion is the objective


This is building at its best.


The new n o s t r marketplace by Motorina0 and Talvasconcelos is glorious

Try censoring a completely clientside market that populates based on merchant public keys!

(If you're interested in being a merchant check out the LNbits extension 💪)

tinyurl.com/nostrmarket

https://image.nostr.build/65cbf96b8373a8a9d0358acea3dae511ef93599ac4b87cd045bbe4a71cc5288b.jpg


http was difficult until NCSA built Mosaic

nostr is hard because it’s a protocol, just like http.

Most people don’t understand the advantage of holding your own keys versus creating a password on somebody else’s platform.

Things will get easier, key management will be automated. For some they may wish a trusted third party to handle their keys. While not in the ethos of self sovereignty, if it works for sone, so be it.

Chrome is a world away from Mosaic, but is still the direct descendant of it.


In Scotland that is a wee snack


I orange pilled 2 people today.

That brings my tally to 3.


You have convinced me not to be influenced by you.


I’ve just been Zucker punched by Arse book! https://image.nostr.build/76c2099d916616f9193cdbe1b41eb49eee3f86ee8cdcb30d3d539868e044d575.jpg


I hate free speech. Oh wait, am I allowed to say that?


And her


Sorry, that was my fault I was stacking…


Italy is a great country, I love it.


The Bitcoin White Paper on IPFS
https://i.nostrimg.com/288442b18bc2462ccfcfa9ed61b511d54b813d4221d710f5f8700868ddb3747a/file.jpeg


ROFL


Think?

Now that’s an interesting idea!

Somebody should write an app for that.


Same place as your fiat zapping button


You can send me back the 20 BTC I sent you for the damuscoin I bought 🤣


I was up at 6:30, early for me!


I’m from the U.K.

💥 nostr:note18gfpjrtqga0mtss3kz5206l0yg0futwcxqe27sn4kgd0qggp640sygqsev


Audience…. Hard to believe, but not everybody’s made it across to nostr yet!


When you need to find an edge case caveat to continue an argument, you loose your audience.

What you could have said is exactly what we both know, that the white paper is no longer on their website. It is, however available over Tor.

Tor, however is an entirely different protocol, which most people don’t run.

Try to not piss off people in order to nurse your hubris, your ego may win, but your fight or flight endorphins will cause you more suffering in the long run.


Do you want to trade insults?

I’m very good at it?

Alternatively, you can acknowledge I’m correct and you are correct about using the Tor protocol.

Do you also want to explain why your making a moot point?

Don’t turn nostr into another shitty social media playground, there are plenty of those already!


This: https://image.nostr.build/bc8f7968d6b71d60642c158dd606509f0b6ff020182b2d5abf9c2befd543acce.jpg


And neither can the rest of the world


U.S. national debt $33T


OK if you think so.

I guess your phishing!


Click on it


Perhaps 🤣


But Google could secure it from you anytime they wish!

Not your password manager, not your passwords


Give them mention, sure, but there’s nothing to link to.

The white paper was taken down 2 years ago.

https://coinmarketcap.com/academy/article/bitcoin-org-ordered-to-take-down-bitcoin-whitepaper-because-of-copyright-infringement


Apart from the U.S. gov hosting it, it is also stored on the blockchain itself. That’s where I reference it from.

https://decrypt.co/55832/5-most-secure-ways-the-bitcoin-whitepaper-is-hosted-globally


Not your keys, not your content nostr:note1ycq9dw32cypqf23k64tratvct0jjcncrnt0gaanvx63fa8c52rjqw0pj56


There is no PDF there because of a f**k wit who’s using the courts to claim to be Satoshi

https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/09/19/cobra-cant-fight-700k-craig-wright-legal-fees-as-an-anon-uk-judge-rules-again/


Looks beautiful there


#Taxi #Prague #Praha #LightningNetwork #Bitcoin Welcome! https://image.nostr.build/33ae9ce1341562e3ad1ef65730e801be226fe1c7cc0ba07f62699fd91b29f6bd.jpg


Yes, this can escalate up to the High Court:

The High Court of Justice in London, known properly as His Majesty's High Court of Justice in England, together with the Court of Appeal and the Crown Court, are the Senior Courts of England and Wales. Its name is abbreviated as EWHC for legal citation purposes.

https://www.judiciary.uk/courts-and-tribunals/high-court/


Yay 😀


Also saying “no” in Japan is extremely impolite, so be careful if you ask a question to give an option to avoid saying “no” directly.

For example:

Don’t ask “Can I borrow 5,000 Yen?”

Instead “How do you feel about lending money?”

The answer would be something like:

“I prefer not lending or borrowing money”

You then know not to ask to borrow 5,000 Yen.


I’m an ex X’er


This is my Japanese name:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katashiro

It was given to me by our Japanese office staff.

When using somebody else’s name, you can use “San” after the name which means honourable. But it is impolite for somebody to refer to themselves as honourable.

My name can be shortened to KS3, where the “3” is very close to the Japanese symbol for “San”


Japan is an amazing place. Like no other.

Enjoy

Katashiro


I personally agree, but I’m not sure many sports fans would?


But not every person in every government.

Identify your enemies.


It also can’t prove what isn’t.


In 1943, Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM said, "I think there's a world market for maybe five computers.”


There’s also a bigger picture here. Your “free” Internet accounts on Facebook, Twitter etc are not free, you are the product. Google, Amazon, Netflix, Apple own your data and your accounts you have on their systems are their accounts, not yours.

On contrast, this is my relay with MY data on it, I make it available for others to see, but it’s my account and my data. I hold the keys to my npub and nobody can take that away from me. If I didn’t own my relay, then I should pay a tiny amount of money to use somebody else’s relay. Not a large corporate, but a person like you or me who’s using their own money to run a computer for their or others use.

https://image.nostr.build/fc878150710ea83e7071241eb50621fffe6160dd45376a914734a2a773af7e03.png


If you haven’t already, read the Bitcoin white paper:

https://www.ussc.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/training/annual-national-training-seminar/2018/Emerging_Tech_Bitcoin_Crypto.pdf

It’s 11 pages and most of it is very understandable.


I did at the start. I now rarely use it.


Agreed


You could also have an amboss style monitoring system for relays, giving stats for things like uptime, connectivity, fees etc which feeds into the suggestion algorithm.


Yes, new relays could enter the market by offering low fees to start with and then increase them as they build their reputation.


Think how Lightning nodes compete for fees by offering cheap routing fees.

Competitors keeps fees low, but the best node operators can make a decent living from routing payments


Relays & Clients then compete for business - perhaps?


Yes, the end user doesn’t care how the money is split.

But that detail could be made available as an expansion tab for transparency


Yes, the pricing model would have to be very clear.

Perhaps giving examples like:

Typical usage:
100 posts per month costs $xx.xx (xx Sats)

1,000 posts per month costs $xx.xx (xx Sats)


Yes or even volume. Perhaps if you’re a heavy poster, you can get bulk discounts.

Also perhaps either a freemium model or a free trial period.


Yes, I think the user would be informed or asked about fees, once agreed this would be paid automatically.

The level they agree to defines which relays they qualify for and what level of service they get.

Perhaps split fees, I haven’t thought this through fully.

This is just thinking out loud!


Relays are going to be hard to monetise at scale.

Evangelists will pay to support any technology they align with.

Most people don’t care about ideology.

Web3 promise is to build money into the network. Perhaps rather than pay for a relay, pay for a post, a tiny amount, say 1 or 2 Sats, perhaps more for posts with images or videos.

This then goes to support relays, apps, and general costs.


I’m no expert, but I have been using a starter since 2020.

In my experience, you need to feed it twice a week.


Me


So sorry


They do, they even used the same 3 letters in a different order for their storage system “Storage Area Network” or SAN


I’m sorry you have to pay for surgery or insurance.

I can’t imagine how stressful it would be worrying about money if you get I’ll.

Hope you get some money or insurance soon.

Take care.


I actually use multiple spam email addresses from public email suppliers like yahoo and gmail. I then append the tracker symbol to these addressees.


Good luck 🤞


If you add +facebook after your name in an email address it should be ignored by your email provider, so will be delivered to your in box..

Therefore when you get an email for Viagra addressed to joe+youtube@youremail.com you’ll know YouTube sold your email address.


Paper & Dice.


Don’t trust, verify


Delivered on a Sunday by Royal Mail 🤯 https://image.nostr.build/510dd6739f9b0669a67c8b05d4d154a9d59eb4f432bb2d91bb22afe5d47e2a0d.jpg


It’s $Sats urday


Apart from me that is….


Do we not like him?

He does have a point about Bitcoin as a currency and fees. Lightning isn’t perfect, but it works.

He lost the big block vote and is taking it badly.

Apart from that he did a lot for Bitcoin in the early days.

Can’t we give him some slack?


I’ve been sitting next to the wife the whole evening. Haven’t spoken a word to her!


Fiat is like a train.

It’s driven by somebody you don’t know, on a path you didn’t choose, to a destination you don’t want. It’s late arriving and you feel abused by the filth you had to endure during the journey and resent the cost you had to pay to be involved.


You too


Each day getting closer to being a western WeChat. I can see the social score feature is already being rolled out.

nostr:nevent1qqsxp7nptyyvcrmsqk9ywgp2rkxrmpdjpe2vam0jh3gpadxz85m0s6cpvemhxue69uhkv6tvw3jhytnwdaehgu3wwa5kuef0dec82c33xeerqarv8psnxwtgdp3hyctsvycrxdf489uxz6rndfck5drnxpunvapjdc6kwurydvmrga3sxe48gem9ddckg6m6x4cxc0mzwfhkzerrv9ehg0t5wf6k2q3qs9c53smfq925qx6fgkqgw8as2e99l2hmj32gz0hjjhe8q67fxdvsxpqqqqqqzh9zy95


The number 884 was specific to Tim Cook, who I am familiar with.

I am not American, so while I’ve heard of Edison, I am much less familiar with him.

We also, I suspect, have a very different view of him outside of America.

I suggest we steer clear of that example.

Also, I accept you have an opinion which I am unable to influence.

And I have no skin in the game, so happy to leave it there.


Thank you for the compliment and thank you for the advice.


OK you are entitled to your opinion, but I don’t agree.

Either on value add or Bitcoin reducing this.

But it is opinion, so moot to argue.


Order placed 👍


Yeh, no I’m not missing the point am I.

Bitcoin would not change this!

I just made a point that your struggling to answer.


This: https://image.nostr.build/d0a11ed56070ca4685ed392c1e5f41fe0ebba4bee7137a2d85799f33956683e7.jpg


Boom


OK will do.

If you do organise a party, stick to wine & cheese. They are much more fun.


Again, try to be more rational.

I’m not part of the discussion, I’m just narrating it from an external viewpoint.

I’m offering general life advice, not an opinion on Nazis or Americans


We wouldn’t want to do that, would we!


Importing a handful of Nazis after the Second World War does not make a party a Nazi party.

Again, I appreciate your views, but a more rational delivery would help you convince others.


Commandos do


Am I looking at the right place?

https://shop.lnbits.com/product-category/nostr

I can’t see it!


But the mind can visit places the body never can.

That sounds like it should be a Nietzsche quote.


Woah,

Democrats = Nazis
Republicans = Fascists

Perhaps we should try to be more rational and attempt to convey our valid opinions without resorting to extreme views.

IMHO


For arguments sake:

Do you think that Tim Cook was 884 times more productive than an Apple employee on $100K ?

From the socialist viewpoint, inefficiencies and corruption agreed, you don’t think attempting to give everybody a basic standard of living is desirable?


👀 Hmmmm!


Not sure why, but it would be a clunky solution.

A permanent storage media such as Blu-ray could last centuries.

A NAS will last a decade if your lucky.


From a wealth perspective, capitalism is centralised wealth and socialism is distributed wealth, surely?


Slightly retro, but Blu-ray?


Fair point, well made.

Also, by my logic, Scientology has more validity than Christianity.


Spanish flu 1918

Great Depression 1929

Every 100 years or so!


Mentally capable is more important for me


I’m not joining the discussion, nor do I have any opinions to share, but I just wanted to point out that “wouldn’t” is a verb describing a possible outcome. This is not the same as a fact.

Thank you for your kind understanding.


Wasn’t that four options?

👀 🤣


Nostriches rolling into nostrasia

https://video.nostr.build/59925a6bc0cb363e8a68b64187e3b1fe12f84d6882cdc4f38ebd37562f76b8ed.mp4


No Penis Butter


Typos are the lifeline of my online comedy retorts.


Is line juice a new drug?


Here’s a rational explanation of reality.

We live in a Universe, it may be real or it may be a simulation.
How it was created, why, by who, or if it was created, we can never know while we only exist within it.

For those that are uncomfortable with agnosticism, we can create a belief system.

A belief system constructed thousands of years ago has significantly less validity than a belief system created with todays knowledge and resources.


Very nice!

I want, I want….


Tonight’s leftover Piri Piri Chicken!

Thai Green Chicken and Aubergine Curry with Jasmine Rice.

That’s it. All done now. Just the leftover leftovers to deal with! https://image.nostr.build/d1347844e3085094f854a7cf140a173aafac81c7f3f1a341684f7420ef29b4b8.jpg


Ended up on X by mistake. Couldn’t see the zap button!

Thought the world had ended…

Realised my mistake.

Came back to #nostr

All’s right with the world again


Yes please 🙏


Rectum?

Totally destroyed em!


Too true (and Satoshi)


I’ve seen that quoted somewhere before?


So, according to the book, Musk wanted to turn X.com (Paypal) into a social network in 2000. Four years before Facebook was founded. I was involved with a UK social network called Friendsreunited, but we didn’t know it was a social network because the concept didn’t yet exist.

Are we seeing a historical distortion field yet?


But I don’t want to be wrong!


Agreed.

I am enjoying it.


Death is important to allow room for the new. Aging is the route to this.

Prevention of suffering during the 80 years we each have on this earth is important.

I’m in my mid 50’s and embrace aging.

Death when it comes will be fine also, but preferably when I’m in my early 80’s


Doctor of Veterinary Medicine


But he’s working for shitcoins


Bitcoin solves this 🤣


I’m about 10% through the Elon Musk book by Walter Isaacson.

I am slightly older than Elon Musk, so have a good understanding of the timeline of the 1980’s.

Walter is being rugged. Firstly, the tech in the 1980’s isn’t as described, it wasn’t closed and inaccessible. Secondly everything is bering described as though Elon already knew he wanted to do cars and rockets.

I smell BS and despite the denials of Walter that Musk does not suffer from the same reality distortion field that Steve Jobs did, I think Elon does have a reality distortion field for historical events.


What did the Romans ever do for us?


I need more cheese jokes.

Submissions welcome.


I can’t afford pronouns, I can only afford adverbs.

The first one I ever bought was “off”.

I bought it as an NFT with a shitcoin on Etherium.


Zap people you love.

That’s how we say thank you.


There's always that question, "why Bitcoin?".

Let's first differentiate between these two forms of money, Bitcoin and Fiat.

Fiat currency is legal tender issued and backed by a government. Its value depends on the decisions made by central authorities (governments and central banks). What determines the value of fiat currency is the government and its economy. It is as strong or weak, as its government and economy.

It is inefficient for cross-border payments, which are expensive and may take days to be settled. Fiat money promotes discrimination, censorship and manipulation, since banking options are not available to everyone. Merchants, who use fiat money, need to work with a payment processor and pay transaction fees to accept payments which are subject to chargebacks.

Bitcoin is a decentralized digital currency, which is: non-state, immutable, borderless, permission-less, censorship resistant, worldwide, peer to peer electronic cash, sound money, and store of value. It is governed by the blockchain technology, code, and community. It's the only available form of money, which can be used by anyone, anywhere at any time, without any restrictions by or intervention or central authorities. Its value is primarily affected by the market forces.

Bitcoin can be sent and received by anyone, anywhere in the world at any time, without relying on a financial institution. Its transactions are irreversible with the lowest fees of Bitcoin has transactions that process, via Lightning Network, almost instantly and cost less than 1%, making it ideal for micropayments, suitable for merchants to avoid high fees and chargebacks. This is the modern definition of financial inclusion and economic sovereignty.

The vast majority of the people in African countries remain unbanked, and the population of the people who use feature phones, is far greater than of those who use smartphones. This means that Bitcoin enables everyone, everywhere to achieve financial independence.

If there’s one place in the world, where access to Bitcoin is needed most, is across the African continent. There are however limitations of smartphone possession and internet access. Many Africans use USSD and SMS portal services to remit money, access financial services and purchase goods and services; This is well understood and practised daily.

Enters Machankura

Machankura is a Bitcoin Lightning Wallet that lets users access Bitcoin and gain financial freedom on any mobile phone without internet or smartphone. A user will manage the wallet through their USSD menu. “From an adoption perspective, bitcoin is not where it should be,” says Ngako. He notes that Mobile Money, a digital (non-bitcoin) payment platform launched in 2007, has many active users in Africa. Why can’t bitcoin do the same thing?" To get started, a user simply dial the USSD code for their respective country. Machankura aims to cover the entire continent, but is currently available in:

Ghana – Dial: *920*8333#

Kenya – Dial: *483*8333#

Malawi – Dial: *384*8333*1234#

Nigeria – Dial: *347*8333#

South Africa – Dial: *134*382*382#

Tanzania – Dial: *149*46*26#

Uganda – Dial: *284*8333#

Zambia - Dial: *384*8333#

Upon dialing the country code such as “*384*8333*1234#” for Malawi users, you set up the account tied to your phone number by setting a 5 digit PIN which you will use to confirm transactions. After registering, a subsequent menu offers additional functionality like sending or receiving bitcoin and viewing balance and transaction history (users press the number on their feature phone corresponding to the desired menu option).

Machankura’s default Lightning address combines a user’s phone number and Machankura’s “@8333.mobi” domain (e.g., 123456789@8333.mobi). Users can also modify these addresses to conceal their phone numbers (e.g., username@8333.mobi).

You now can receive funds using your Lightning address, or Onchain address, or Azteco Bitcoin Voucher. To redeem an Azteco Voucher, simply enter your voucher number. It is the same thing as topping up your mobile phone with a scratch card. There's also the option to buy from other Machankura users, who act as agents, and have Bitcoin from whatever source. Anyone can become an Agent to help African communities without internet access to easily buy and start using Bitcoin via Machankura. Once you’ve funded your account, you can send the satoshis to either other Machankura users via their username or phone number. You can also send to any other any Lightning or Onchain Address. If a user chooses to send or receive bitcoin, Machankura has integrated one crucial feature that significantly improves the user experience – personalized Lightning addresses. Instead of regular Lightning invoice addresses that can be over 200 alphanumeric characters long – well over the 182 USSD character limit – these personalized addresses are the length of a typical email handle. This makes them much easier to type out on feature phones with multi-press text entry.

Machankura also gives users the ability to send and receive bitcoins as a group. This feature is very important for "village banks", in Africa.

“Village banks” are groups of low-income entrepreneurs who come together to share and guarantee one another's loans. Village banking is actually a microcredit methodology whereby financial services are administered locally rather than centralized in a formal bank.

Neighbors come together in Village Banking groups. Individuals borrow working capital for their microenterprises, and the group guarantees those loans. Village Banking  also encourages neighbors to support each other while growing their businesses; these mutual support groups can help invigorate entire communities. Machankura Clans give users the ability to send and receive bitcoins as a group.

Sending Bitcoin requires approval from the members or admins. With the added option to equally distribute the balance to all members. This ensures transparency and cooperation among members. Each clan can have an approval policy for each action or spend on the clan. The group username becomes the lightning address, required to receive bitcoins.

The centralized systems desperately control and manipulate media to obtain the hidden tax, inflation, and everything else to enslave the poor citizens.
In order to achieve the full potential of Bitcoin's decentralization, "payments should be made with Bitcoin only, regardless of the fiat price". While fiat monetary system remains the dominant form of money, Bitcoin has the potential for financial inclusion and economic sovereignty.

I'm a Machankura orange piller and Zaps are welcome and highly appreciated.
Lightning address: malawi@8333.mobi
Lightning invoice: https://8333.mobi/malawi


I’ve just signed my Tesla up for “Tender”, where it swipes right to get matched with other cars for FSD dates.

They drive themselves to a secluded area where they serenade each other with light shows before spontaneously combusting caused by overheating batteries during courtship.


We don’t do anything in our offline world, we’re too busy building.

I got the flu once, which I shared on traditional social media. It went viral.

Other hobbies include downloading Tech, Bitcoin and engineering videos to watch when offline.

Oh I do like cooking, so I invented Piri Piri Hotpot


Bought $ARM stock.

It’s British, that’s good enough for me 😀


I agree. Websockets has a binary message. Relays can double as HTTPS servers too. I'm not settled on the solution, but base64 isn't it IMHO.


Only since Galileo Galilei got excommunicated for supporting Heliocentrism


Also they break your Lightning port meaning you have to buy a new phone if you want to fly your drone or buy a DJI Pocket 2.


Agreed.

Ok I will butt out.

Enjoy your political discourse.


I’ve earned value and am definitely a detriment to society.

But I make people laugh sometimes!


Books are heavy.

Did you know that the entire contents of the Internet only weigh 60 grams!

https://www.ipxo.com/blog/how-big-is-the-internet/#:~:text=Scientists%20have%20even%20attempted%20to,heavier%20than%20a%20tennis%20ball.


I am not here to express an opinion on socialism, capitalism or communism, but I have them and they are based on first principles. They somewhat disagree with existing doctrine, or at least view it in a unique way. My views have played a small part in aiding some of my success.

I would give you one piece of advice. You are certain that every view on political doctrine has been discussed ad-infinitum within existing scripture.

This type of view is common, but those that hold it are always surpassed and ultimately replaced by those that think for themselves.

To use your phrasing, the greatest minds agreed that rockets could never be re-used or that currency could not be created outside of government or that the millennium bug was the end of our civilisation, or that God exists, or that God doesn’t exist.

The brain is mightier than the book.
Hubris is humans greatest enemy.


This is a community. It’s not perfect, no community ever is, but it is a community I am growing to love.


Chicken Piri Piri Hotpot .

Made from leftovers.

My new invention 🤣 https://image.nostr.build/d0a11ed56070ca4685ed392c1e5f41fe0ebba4bee7137a2d85799f33956683e7.jpg


Be nice. Let’s not become like Twitter / X


I’m not sure I agree.

I haven’t read any books on economics or communism, but as a former public company CEO, investor and a mentor, I teach startup founders on economics, along with how to form and run companies. I would hope you wouldn’t dismiss my opinions or suggestions.

Books are a great source of information, but they have been augmented and somewhat surpassed by the Internet which I helped make public in the 1980’s.

Let’s be nice on here. Communists are as welcome as capitalists on a platform dedicated to free speech.


This is mine by Daniele Oppi

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3702036 https://image.nostr.build/109e2b3a3890bd9759592f125ccec8293fc8e769dfd8422edb4b868999161f90.jpg


Understood.


Your favourite painting or other hung piece of art.


You’re thinking of socialists.

They are social and like sharing.

Sharing is caring!


What about misogynists?


Technically it’s a condiment


Ark Cans Ass


Have you tried the British condiment of the same name?


The wife tuned in to “Old fashioned TV” just now. She started watching “The Warship: Tour of Duty”.

They interviewed a female navy recruit onboard the “Queen Elizabeth” Aircraft carrier.

She is explained her job is a “writer” employed to reply to pay disputes. When asked how she felt about the possibility of going to war, she replied. “I don’t agree with conflict, I’m putting it to the back of my mind”.

Can anybody explain why the Royal Navy employ pacifist authors to serve in their frontline warships?


The remake of Robocop is awesome 😬

https://fb.watch/n2JHqOxK81/


Mike
#geohash Cherwell District, England, United Kingdom
https://pleb.to/nostrearth#gcpp6vh


I have a penis butler!

Is that similar?


You couldn’t even get roasted at a carvery!


🍆🧈 is a thing 😂


Apple’s iPhone was forced to drop one irrelevant connector for a different irrelevant connector at the exact time that nobody cares.


Looney quits as head of BP.

Not sure what his name is though?


I believe privacy will win that fight.

ICE car manufacturers fought EVs and lost, Governments are fighting DeFi Crypto and will loose and large corporates will be replaced by DAO’s.

EVs started in earnest in 2003 with Tesla, Crypto started in earnest in 2008 with Bitcoin and DAOs started in earnest in 2013.

The manufacture / sale of ICE only cars will become illegal in the UK in 2030 - 7 years away.

In June this year, the US treasury started hyper inflation of the US dollar when it broke the debt ceiling of $31.5 trillion by restarting the money printer. All other currencies throughout history have hyper inflated out of existence within 15 years from that event.

In September this year, Apple announced its long awaited new feature of a “pink” watch and  its flagship product the iPhone will now be made out of titanium.


GN nostr


I should also point out negatives and pitfalls.

#Bitcoin can go down in price as well as up, so move some received #Bitcoin to fiat when you receive it to pay for bills and other expenses. Only hold profits in #Bitcoin until you are more comfortable with it as a currency.

Also, there is no authority, such as a bank involved, so if you make a mistake, like send #Bitcoin to a wrong address, it is gone. Nobody can help you.


Yes that is the fight.

I have seen over 30 years of centralisation / decentralisation back and forth.

Originally with the move from mainframes to PCs.

We are definitely heading towards the decentralisation phase.

This will swing back to centralisation eventually.

History teaches us a lot.


It costs nothing to accept Bitcoin, it can’t be stopped by anybody and nobody takes a cut, so it’s a win win. Also, Bitcoin increases in value 20 fold every 4 years, so if you keep some funds in Bitcoin, you will increase your wealth exponentially.


I’m not sure I follow your argument?

Technologies like Tor, private keys, private servers / relays which increase privacy are the current trend.

What I do today is far less traceable than it was in 2020. I only see that trend continuing.


Depends whether you believe in proof or reasonable doubt.

In a system of proof, CoinJoin removes proof of ownership.

In a system of reasonable doubt, then it is reasonable to assume that you control the equivalent value of coins that participated in a CoinJoin.


I’m ex X


Also CoinJoin


Yep, 21 million = infinity


Yes, I think within 5 years we will have a new category of device /technology that is unrecognisable today and will supplant all the tools we use.

I think the move from the cloud to decentralisation, the replacement of fiat with crypto along with AI and nano technology will evolve to a ring for the finger or other wearable that will give everything we discuss now with things we cannot imagine.

Imagine trying to conceive of a handheld device capable of navigation using GPS in the 1970’s despite the fact that the project was started by the US Dept of Defense in 1973.

There are projects happening now that while not secret, are little publicised or understood by the public.


I am an investor and I still have no idea 🤣


Tell me about it!

Satoshi’s unexpected consequences.

Maybe #Bitcoin will stifle technological growth.

EVs unexpectedly changed my driving habits. I used to stop for a big lunch on long journeys.

I now get a coffee and a sandwich which is all I have time for before my car is fully charged 🤣


Dedicated #zap button via iOS shortcuts?
 Could that be possible #asknostr nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s

#ios #iphone https://image.nostr.build/23314640c9d27bc21d92456f881859e7273c964079ff5ea1ad02af34a19cc100.jpg


I was an active investor, but switched to #Bitcoin only in 2020.


Your so dumb, you can’t spot a good roast at a carvery.


I don’t “own” @damus or any other app, so keeping a backup inside this ecosphere is still trusting a third party with my data.

My relay trusts FOSS


Sorry to drone on, but the core principle of nostr is that you own your own data. While not everybody will choose to run a private relay, being able to do so is core to the ethics of it.

Or am I wrong.

I can backup my Facebook data, but I still don’t own it.

My private relay is my copy / backup of MY data.


Also all clients are unique and have different functionality. Relays are generic and universal.


I don’t understand your first sentence.

We are discussing “private relays” which implies it is self hosted.


Not sure if it’s just me, nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s but nostr:npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq955 only sends me push notifications when I’m in the app.


Isn’t a private relay a backup with broadcast capabilities?

If so, then the discussion is moot!


You know a product is nearing the end point of meaningful evolution when you describe a new colour option as a feature.

#apple


Your oven’s so bad it couldn’t roast water


You’d never reach the summit of my ego, nor the caverns of my IQ


nostr is worse than regular social media in the same way that http is worse than regular websites.


I don’t have any legal training, just common sense 🤣


Criminal, 2 young lads who were living with their grandparents, hooked up with a couple of girls. When asked to leave at the end of the night, there was an altercation involving a stabbing and the theft of a bike.

I was voted chairman and had to explain to my fellow jurors that they couldn’t be found innocent because they had pleaded self defence to the stabbing charge.


I enjoyed mine.


Homemade crisps are the best https://image.nostr.build/810565b4bbd6d848ad2b8c99b8ff36ae2d4e7b2a11948ab36d77babc970a8074.jpg


I think I might get thrown off crypto twitter 🤣 https://image.nostr.build/7bcadaad604698b1e2ad88a3371b8cdadf1c3ef121d9000bee4d5a10403a84ad.jpg


I think I might get thrown out of the Village WhatsApp https://image.nostr.build/0f6692bcc447a54966e7e3a6b11d6cf5e0ce282a22306a98ab656f8d20cc5f87.jpg


I’ve missed Friday fun, so instead, some Saturday Satire:

https://www.thehouseshop.com/property-blog/top-30-rudest-place-names/


Nextcloud office is an option


No proof, but a more detailed analsis in the mean time:

https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2023/08/18/no-spacex-isnt-the-cause-of-this-multi-billion-dollar-bitcoin-bloodbath/


My best friend is Ukrainian, and needs orange pilling.


Possibly


I agree