I can't un-google that!


Make mining great again:

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


And we're back:

https://bitcoincore.org/bitcoin.pdf


Is this the promised $72K short happening?

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


See what hard work and persistence get you 😂


You've got about 37 mins to see it IRL


They're telling whoppers


My favourite time is 12:34


I'm sorry to hear that. Take care yourself.


Cover your laptop in PTFE. Thank me later


Big Macs are now Small Macs


Dam 11:20


Can I quote you on that?


Does that include gold diggers?


Nature, it’s amazing, so realistic


They have a strategy, but it’s quite small


Don’t follow, kill all humans!


Brian


GM fren


Thank you


I'm sure you'll have great success getting socks to follow you.

Good luck fren


Larry: Hey Brian!

Brian: Yes Larry!

Larry: I wanna buy a million Bitcoin, but I'm gonna need a discount.

Brian: Sure Larry, I've got your back.


Mining stuffs

https://ir.bitdeer.com/news-releases/news-release-details/bitdeer-unveils-sealminer-technology-roadmap-committed-enhancing


We are all frens here


Were they Mt. Socks?

https://www.mtsocks.com/


Countryside is even better ❤


The sky?

Pura Vida


Sorry to hear of your flatulence problem fren 😂


GM Matt, lovely place to enjoy coffee


GM

Remembering my parents on their wedding day:

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


What, die a slow pain while inflicting maximum pain on society by lashing out at anything or anyone they can?


Did you hear what Katherine Long (from Brown University and Columbia Journalism School's Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism +1-206-375-9280) did to nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6 '


Except him:

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


The real  nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6 finally makes public appearance:

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


Forget about Business insider fake story about Fiatjaf...
Here is the real story

https://www.bugle.news/fiatjafs-adventures-escaping-to-el-salvador/


Yubico just started shipping yubikeys with firmware 5.7.x which greatly increases storage!

25 -> 100 FIDO2 credentials
32 -> 64 OATH credentials
Added SCP11 support


What about zappers, are they Bitcoiners?


Happy Birthday fren


 nostr:npub1m4ny6hjqzepn4rxknuq94c2gpqzr29ufkkw7ttcxyak7v43n6vvsajc2jl

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I have a Gitea server on my nostr:npub126ntw5mnermmj0znhjhgdk8lh2af72sm8qfzq48umdlnhaj9kuns3le9ll  node.

I keep the Bitcoin core code and several other projects that are important


Fun games are not stopping in the fiat world:

https://stocks.apple.com/A9trwRhQ5T0WipJA3b-jUdQ


Bitcoin passphrase vs. multisig: Which is right for you?

Two approaches people often consider to gain additional bitcoin security are a passphrase (a one-word secret) and multisig (secures your bitcoin with multiple keys). Let’s see how these two approaches compare. 👇

Singlesig + passphrase
By adding a passphrase to your singlesig wallet, you add a 13th or 25th word of your choosing to your seed phrase, which generates a wholly separate and unique wallet from the default wallet generated without a passphrase. You can create an infinite number of passphrase wallets associated with a single seed phrase backup and hardware wallet.

A passphrase adds some protection in that it distributes your risk across three critical items (your device, seed phrase backup, and your passphrase), but it still has a major single point of failure. If your passphrase is ever lost or forgotten, your bitcoin are gone forever because you no longer have the key to the bitcoin wallet.

Multisig
Multisig is a bitcoin custody model where you construct a wallet using multiple bitcoin keys instead of just one. Multisig is very flexible, allowing wallet developers and even users to set the total number of keys used to construct the wallet (n) and the number of those keys required to spend (m). This creates what’s called an m-of-n quorum. There are practically infinite ways to approach multisig, but the most popular approaches are 2-of-3 (three keys total, with any two keys required to spend) and 3-of-5 (five keys total, with any three needed to spend).

Comparing passphrase with multisig: 7 points to consider

1⃣ Convenience - SS + passphrase is more convenient than DIY multisig but similar to collaborative custody multisig

2⃣ Ease of backup - It’s easier to back up a single hardware wallet, a seed phrase, and a passphrase than back up all the keys and seed phrases necessary to properly store your bitcoin in a standard multisig wallet.

3⃣ Availability - To understand the differences between passphrase and multisig for availability of access, you have to consider multiple possible scenarios: singlesig with and without properly secured passphrases, standard multisig, and collaborative custody multisig. Each of these has different availability of access profiles.

4⃣ Transaction costs - Mining fees in periods of low demand for block space are very cheap, leaving this category often irrelevant. However, it remains true that multisig transactions are more expensive than singlesig transactions. Using a passphrase with singlesig doesn’t add anything additional to the mining fee above standard singlesig; the mining fees are directly correlated with the number of keys involved in the transaction.

5⃣ Fault tolerance - Multisig shines against singlesig with a passphrase and singlesig in general when it comes to fault tolerance. That’s because the nature of multisig (and, again, proper key storage and seed phrase backups!) makes it very difficult to lose enough keys (and the necessary wallet configuration information) to lose access to your funds.

6⃣ Resisting attacks - Altogether, multisig has the slight upper hand for attack resistance. In 2-of-3, an attacker would have to physically compromise at least two physical locations without your knowledge and have specific knowledge that the discovered keys are used in multisig and compromise your multisig configuration information.

7⃣ Financial services - Collaborative custody multisig opens the door to financial services done in a trust-minimized way, such as collateralized loans (where three parties can share custody of funds so that all parties have transparency as to the state of the funds on the blockchain). It also uniquely solves for the problem of bitcoin inheritance.

Can you add a passphrase to multisig?
Yes, you can add passphrases to one or more of the keys used in your multisig m-of-n scheme. But should you? Most bitcoin users set up multisig wallets without passphrases because multisig already eliminates a given hardware wallet or seed phrase as a single point of failure. Adding passphrases can add unnecessary complexity, and unnecessary complexity diminishes security rather than improves it.

=====================

Every decision you make regarding bitcoin custody involves trade-offs. Perhaps multisig helps you sleep better at night, but you might have to drive several hours to get to that second key if you want to benefit from geographically-distributed keys. Or maybe you have to wait for your collaborative custody partner to verify your identity to sign with their key.

Choosing between singlesig (with or without a passphrase) and multisig isn’t an A or B choice; the answer for you might even be both! Maybe you want to secure the more significant portion of your net worth in a multisig collaborative context for peace of mind while keeping smaller amounts for easy access available in a software wallet on your phone.

It’s all about looking at your situation and finding a balance of trade-offs that work best for you and your family or organization.

Check out the full post on the Unchained blog 👇

https://unchained.com/blog/bitcoin-singlesig-passphrase-vs-multisig/ https://image.nostr.build/cf2db3453f0a0fad5412a0c19038cffa84d9bc40ff145c4de682818a738843ef.jpg


Is it small or just far away? https://image.nostr.build/b98c12bc2f672f52aaddaaf9f6db0c8ff1dc72b95b9477375b0ccb1cb0517e27.gif


🚨Russia 🇷🇺/Cuba 🇨🇺/Venezuela 🇻🇪:

Russia will conduct naval exercises in the Caribbean with stops in Cuba and Venezuela.

A senior official said that the US has been tracking Russian warships and aircraft, and they are expected to arrive in the region in the coming weeks.

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Imagine if plants got together to combat climate change by reducing the amount of waste Oxygen they produce!


You can't make this shit up, unless your an octogenarian sitting president

N.B. The "h" is silent in the word "sitting"


Hello, this is the correct branch of the Internet.

Welcome friend.


That's genius.........

I'm in!


Only on #NOSTR 😂 👀

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I know that view!

https://primal.net/e/note1v6gt3h6skeyfs9476h7ndfdf05w2kzhzxf35td4p6pzprpgvm7tqpy9ayy


Don't trust, worship!


It's a typo by a guy off his head!

Or did you tell them the acronym we made up to hide that fact 😂


He's my favourite influencer on NOSTR 😂


I’ve turned my TV into a virtual fireplace cos global warming doesn’t seem to be working here yet 😂


Let’s hope we don’t get a Dolphin flu pandemic 😷


My kinda town


I love #dogstr ❤


Fire your financial advisor.

#bitcoin https://video.nostr.build/68ca0970434c47e7b7a831f21ffe1cc70035d6e291aa90ec369796a350215de3.mp4


👀

nostr:note14xmj0gs85zskg3eguq5ndujxc3af2vxss50pp3nhq3z0j2e746dqa0q26c


Slowly, then suddenly:

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/robinhood-to-acquire-bitstamp/


Just got an email from CoinCorner, they are shut tomorrow because of the public holiday in honour of the Isle of Man TT races.

Why can’t all public holidays be for fun stuff?

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


CO2 was getting dangerously low before the industrial revolution.

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


Everyone else


He’s not been “present” for about 2 years. Before that it was very similar to your early experience.

Thank you 🙏


Different times 🙏


Austerity 🤣


Did you see the fees in block 840,000? 😂


GM


I have one in my pre-Covid museum of curiosities


👀 nostr:note1zu3axd6nc7trthdzdpgma3ud0u8eyyedq7ndvkmwz6cn2thga5yslx9k62


I have his genes which is probably why I’m a Bitcoiner


I held his hand and squeezed it, he squeezed back


Do you get a discount if you choose both?


Mostly rowing with him in the board room as he tried to shut our website down in 1992 cos it was fucking up the magazine advertising leads 😂


GM 💜


True


Have fun and take care.


It's called "pre pack" the greatest gift to entrepreneurs wishing to benefit from insolvencies.


My Dad is dying. I visited him, probably for the last time in his care home. He is 89 and has Alzheimer’s. It’s a relief, but also very sad. I shed a tear. The last time I visited him a week ago, he didn’t know who I was for the first time.

He had a great life, he built a public company, got an OBE from the queen and advised several prime ministers.

I haven’t posted this on other social platforms yet, not sure why. I think I feel freer to be myself here.

His name is Clifford Hardcastle OBE

This is him from a couple of years ago. https://image.nostr.build/8d403d1dd4a89e466533f659cc1116c55b5d33baa5bf0d5cb36087ab34dbc1f6.jpg


Hey, how you doing?


How about a business insolvency company. Helping fiat companies through bankruptcy and accepting Bitcoin for payment 😂


This is an interesting discussion by  nostr:npub1qtvl2em0llpnnllffhat8zltugwwz97x79gfmxfz4qk52n6zpk3qq87dze

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BkyhdxnDrM


Apparently 90% of printed USD bills have traces of drugs on them:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/cocaine-on-money-drug-found-on-90-of-us-bills


GM, it's a nice day to  be a fish.


Wen Lambo?


You can find out on their website if you like:

https://www.thelibertines.com/


Huh, what?


That photo looks amazing. So glad you saw it. I’m a very bad drone pilot, but I’ve never seen one of these displays IRL


It has its uses 😂


GM fren, I hope you are well.


Interesting insider insights. Thanks for sharing.


Saw this on FB Matt:

Did you manage to see it yourself? https://image.nostr.build/8839f163fc3f830a3bdfcf5e4236bd9ab667ccecf325997c04226d48333f8886.jpg


Who remembers the excitement of tracking SBFs private jet in real time?

We need major Hollywood directors to start looking at Bitcoin!


There are so many film opportunities in Bitcoin:

Mt. Gox - The Movie
The Blocksize Wars - The Movie
FTX and SBF - The Movie
Craig Wright - The Movie
Roger Ver - The Movie
Gary Gensler vs Bitcoin - The Movie


Just requested to join   nostr:npub1hxfkcs9gvtm49702rmwn2aeuvhkd2w6f0svm4sl84g8glhzx5u9srk5p6t  on Amboss.

https://amboss.space/communityRequest/b4dfce25-61ea-4231-8349-e8871219ebc7


And none of that can be used....

Imagine buying the best car in the world, then locking it in a garage and seeing a photo of it once a year.


Interesting timing  nostr:npub1qtvl2em0llpnnllffhat8zltugwwz97x79gfmxfz4qk52n6zpk3qq87dze 🤔

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/empty-block-report-mempool-research/


What if Square merchants could receive BTC via Lightning with their WoS PoS, and it instantly appeared as a Square payment? It would greatly simplify bookkeeping & sales tax tracking.

We've got it working! 🥳

Will be looking for some brave Square merchant testers soon...🚀

https://video.nostr.build/98f9b337dc1a82bafa400118182fe608fea4acda88008a5b8a6c8a27d6bedd23.mp4


His stunt double 😂


GM

Another purple flower today. This time self seeded lavender.

Remember plants, don’t trust, self seeding is the way. https://image.nostr.build/899ef02214c82cd387d596c41a544e9df0419015bdcd0bced272c734b9292aec.jpg


GM


If you have SwissBorg in your country, they allow unlimited deposits and withdraws.

It got blocked in the UK, so now using Coinbase


What does true AI success look like?


Ooh if you manage to film the Drone display, post it on here if you get a chance.


Not him:

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


I think you’ll find residents of the Isle of Wight trying to obtain ferry tickets to get home during school summer holidays know the true meaning of scarcity 😂


Too right, I hate those black Nazi's


It'll be sunny and clear skies, it'll be fine.

Also, they now fly on Mung Bean oil, so no pollution.

Also, we are carbon based life and CO2 is the stuff plants convert to Oxygen. We need more CO2 otherwise the plants die.

Ask Greenhouse farmers how much CO2 they pump into their greenhouses. Plants love it.


Hey  nostr:npub1cllf97qv29kqc493t6xj26kqw2qsxmvnf6sl7w0mpnv2plt8wumqta3zny your getting the Red Arrows fly over Portsmouth today around 12:31pm

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


Interesting food production tour for a yacht chef in Amsterdam:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fq0QOFVvoEY


Nah, he didn't make any babies cry. Still an amateur 😂


I don't exercise for the same reason, I know it's good for me, but I'm intimidated by all the jacked gym guys belittling my puny stack.

When BTC peaks and I take profit, I'm going to delegate my exercising and employ a body builder to go to the gym for me 😂


If it was good enough for Apple, HP and Google, then I'm sure the Belarussians will do very well.

Where do I invest?


Didn't he loose by doing the wrong thing though?


If you ever find yourself there, look at plinth 13C for

"Thomas W. Hardcastle, Rifleman".

If you’d like to take a photo and share it, that would be awesome.

They never found his body, so all they have is his name engraved on the memorial.


I'm not American, so we don't follow what goes on, but I understand that Trump is a criminal now.


Bonjour.

I’ve been to the Thiepval memorial cemetery to visit my great uncle’s war grave who died in the first of the three world wars.


I bet Trumps conviction is longer 😂


GM fellow plebians, a flowering sage plant for your delight https://image.nostr.build/f859ecb511b275f3ca035b6c73614cc5fbd1a22b501781820b9da36317c89542.jpg


GN


Yep, had some difficulties migrating from a RPi, but all good now. Definitely faster than a Pi.

Also have a Start9, Umbrel is an easier interface, think Apple like. Will use Start9 seriously when they get a decent VPN, I want to use Lightning & NOSTR relay remotely reliably, Tor is secure, but slow and awkward.

I originally tried configuring a Lenovo NUC to be my Umbrel, but had problems with the Linux distro, so decided to turn that into my Start9, which is an OS.


Hey nostr:npub1getal6ykt05fsz5nqu4uld09nfj3y3qxmv8crys4aeut53unfvlqr80nfm are you rugging all the zaps today? 😂


👀

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It's called taking profits by Alby 😂


Don't forget the shit you know, but are wrong about:

https://mikehardcastle.com/2015/12/03/the-unknown-known/


A kilo of gold really would have rectum!


Life hack 😂


We’re all entitled here 😂


Good luck 💪


You haven't lived until you get followed by your fake self 😂


It's 2024 and goats are foraging for liquidity.

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

Open a channel to the ⚡ Lightning Goats ⚡ node:

02ce7abb5e625990f7898520bca721b7ae316165eef81133dcfe4068fcfbe37ac6@70.34.209.79:9736

02ce7abb5e625990f7898520bca721b7ae316165eef81133dcfe4068fcfbe37ac6@[2a05:f480:2000:2278:5400:4ff:fe4a:6e98]:9736

02ce7abb5e625990f7898520bca721b7ae316165eef81133dcfe4068fcfbe37ac6@jvoxho4qfm3gk6fgmwuzuipu3keer4sb2hwyhym6sxzof3oysl4m5bqd.onion:9735


Not new, but have just found you guys.

Run 3 nodes, 2 Umbrel, 1 Start9.
2 carry liquidity, the other I'm experimenting with.

Have been a bit inactive for a while, but always keen to share experiences.


It rained in Oxfordshire


Das ist der Weg


Aliens mostly speak Spanish? Apart from the ones from Serbia.


BREAKING: Short sellers of GameStop, $GME, are now down over $1 billion today. https://image.nostr.build/682f6668a1697ce41f6083d5760e6cfb4cbe8bd3fe2e835f49aab5d8e706e7f2.jpg


A billion here, a billion there, it's all shitty fiat. Nobody will miss it when it's gone!


You did it!


🚀 Exciting News! 🚀

Openvibe now fully supports both Nostr and Mastodon protocols! 🌐📲
Experience seamless crossposting and a unified timeline for all your social interactions 🐙

👉 Learn more & download the app at https://openvibe.social

PS: Next up - Bluesky 🦋

#Openvibe #Nostr #Mastodon #SocialMedia #Fediverse
1/2 https://i.nostr.build/9zVkv.jpg https://i.nostr.build/kZAla.jpg https://i.nostr.build/5G0oy.jpg


👀

nostr:note1de9gszudpcgm9cvx5xzqamuw24z7su6guq2zwqcafjut9tx9dpxqgxu34q


We're hiring a Product Marketing Manager at nostr:npub1xkere5pd94672h8w8r77uf4ustcazhfujkqgqzcykrdzakm4zl4qeud0en to work with me on our go-to-market for new products, and our product marketing as a whole.

Because we build #Bitcoin  products, we need a Bitcoiner for this role!

Come join our awesome team 🧡

Job description for Product Marketing Manager: https://boards.greenhouse.io/riverfinancial/jobs/5195403004

We're hiring for more roles, check them out: https://boards.greenhouse.io/riverfinancial https://image.nostr.build/26c334bfe41c44b163e9347728317a575ab475e52329570c2086ad64a823f744.jpg


This AI-generated Satoshi movie trailer is pretty rad 🔥 https://v.nostr.build/vGLG5.mp4


That's cos we're all in the same boat.


You should burn the table in the fire during your next fireside chat!


👀

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Huh? so tobacco is legal, but branding it is illegal?

That's like banning the word "Bitcoin", but using it to shore up your governments bank.

Also, and much more importantly, why are people still using tobacco?


The Quotes of Steven Wright:
1 - I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.
2 - Borrow money from pessimists -- they don't expect it back.
3 - Half the people you know are below average.
4 - 99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
5 - 82.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
6 - A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.
7 - A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
8 - If you want the rainbow, you got to put up with the rain.
9 - All those who believe in psycho kinesis, raise my hand.
10 - The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
11 - I almost had a psychic girlfriend, ..... But she left me before we met.
12 - OK, so what's the speed of dark?
13 - How do you tell when you're out of invisible ink?
14 - If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
15 - Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.
16 - When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
17 - Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.
18 - Hard work pays off in the future; laziness pays off now.
19 - I intend to live forever ... So far, so good.
20 - If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?
21 - Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
22 - What happens if you get scared half to death twice?
23 - My mechanic told me, "I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder."
24 - Why do psychics have to ask you for your name
25 - If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
26 - A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
27 - Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
28 - The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread.
29 - To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.
30 - The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.
31 - The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up.
32 - The colder the x-ray table, the more of your body is required to be on it.
33 - Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film.
34 - If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.
35 - If your car could travel at the speed of light, would your headlights work?

Read More Stories 👉 Wonders You've Never Seen Before https://image.nostr.build/97e727d7191e59383e03e623cb457c0e8a51129590f3384eda15d7423958e468.jpg


Like it 👍


Nice 👍


Liking your #foodstr posts


Imagine if Arnie owned a bicycle and had flat tyres as well.


I ended up down the canal rabbit hole after working on a meme to another post about YouTube.

Sadly, however, I discovered "The Piano Boat" a concert hall on a canal boat with a Japanese pianist, with the boat run by his wife.

Sadly, he passed away, now I am sad 🥲

https://www.thepianoboat.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g-iP6sl01g

https://primal.net/e/note1gt20027s6wzqa54e5yzdfcvj69wymd4ee3epgl3y4up6k32en6eq5kkkzh


They’re just in it for the pump 😂


Slowly, then suddenly!


What did you say? I wasn’t paying attention!


Yeh, 70 is shit 😂


Yep, that sounds about right and is the experience my brother in law has.


Your plain packaged nicotine pouch and snus hell, courtesy of Norway https://image.nostr.build/41f83684ce34670db9645e5affd647a268a94abfb7e0382a2a5cc69f8bbaddb9.jpg https://image.nostr.build/566ad64b39e5f9410408ce1a429972ede3b9bd81299af062544b860482131cae.jpg


Wow, that’s incredible for this generation to still be such a big thing!


You’re welcome. Can I ask a question in return?

Norway is a massive adopter of EVs, primarily because they would rather sell their oil than burn it.

I am less familiar with EV take up in Sweden, how does it compare to Norway, or other countries like the UK?

Are you familiar with the EV charging infrastructure within your country? Is it widespread or still quite limited?

Any feedback would be welcome.

Thank you


You’re welcome

Wad I do? 😂


GFY 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣


You bet the authorities know who he is, while the plebs wonder in ignorance 😂


👀 nostr:note1aqg4rts40kpce9qr7wnwvc2m7aku2448h7gwl6zhxndyatxp38cs0p69aa


Where's Tony Prescott when you need him? 😂 :

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKM6nn8ie2A


pour quoi?


I prefer chocolate


I’m not a coder, but if I tell you that to this day I can hand code a 6809 and understand what’s happening with the register would you be able to guess my age?

Extra Flavour HINZ Vindaloo Curry

Was the mnemonic I learned that still serves me today 😂


Is the Oslo Freedom forum free to attend and are you free to bring a friend? Is there free food?

How free is it really?


What about machine code?


Nice


It's true.

Even this about UK canals:

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


GM


I got a pair of Mt. Sox socks from a conference once.

Great name for Bitcoin socks


Yep, below freezing has a big impact on battery drain. Expect to cut the range estimate by a third and make sure you keep a decent level of charge in the car for general drain.

There are plenty of people that use EVs in these conditions, but you do need to be aware of this.

Petrol cars have the advantage of producing heat as a waste by product of their fuel explosions. EVs use electricity to heat the car which is inefficient compared to petrol. Modern EVs use heat pumps which are more efficient, but you still can't beat the heat produced by a petrol car which has no effect on range.


Maybe use it to phone a loved one instead 😃


Yes, pretty much all of them apart from Tesla


I tried winning once, it didn’t work 😂


Isn’t he a pre internet influencer? Are they still a thing?

Don’t influence, do! 😁


Had shop strawberries a couple of days ago, still nice 👍


I did one days work experience in the 1990’s, I’m an OG 😂


Without what?


I’m late to the party, don’t judge!

But I need a cloud based meme server with unlimited storage 😂


A portrait of Julian Assange was painted on one of the apartment buildings in Balashikha, a town not far from Moscow. https://image.nostr.build/aa46b2424afc8b6e9e542a5fc4d1610332744f9be0b1b7df866e99acd761474b.jpg


I saw the film free willy!

We are not the same 😂


Do influencers ever do any work?

They’re always talking to each other on different stages around the world repeating the same stuff each time!


Is that why Primal is no longer working 😂

Sent from Damus


Ah!


Also, this note is in reply to Norway who are trying to ban Bitcoin mining, ironically, Norway has just found the worlds largest seem of Cobalt, 10 times larger than the next largest which is in Morocco:

https://primal.net/e/note1xhsxuzd78yclwt25w47ejp860r2f8j67xfzc7cwwzl4admegzvzq3f0rl6


👀 GM

Did I miss a flame war?


Sorry that reply was to a different question, but to answer the mineral mining question specifically. As a Bitcoiner, you should appreciate that all media coverage of both types of mining is FUD. We don’t talk about mining issues building weapons or houses or petrol cars or everything we manufacture. We mine what we mine for everything we want and need, we either stop mining and regress 1,000 years or we keep mining and keep developing. Don’t isolate a specific product or technology in your argument.


It’s not what you think, see my other answers for more information


GM, a wonderful time to be alive fren


Thank you


Public charging. Again Tesla win the day here. Their charging is comprehensive, cheap, reliable and incredibly easy to use. However for third party cars reliant on third party charging networks this has been a problem. My brother in law bought a Mercedes EV over a Tesla as he looked at Zap-map and saw thousands of chargers across the UK and assumed it wouldn’t be a problem. He lives in Salisbury, we live in Oxford and both my Wife and my Brother in law regularly visit their parents in the Scottish borders. When we drive north, charging is easy and we integrate it into a lunch or coffee stop, my brother in law has only tried driving his car north once and it was an awful experience, he didn’t have any accounts, apps or NFC cards to use the myriad of public chargers, which were few and far between.

The situation is improving rapidly for third party chargers, but it is still an unpleasant experience and I wouldn’t buy anything other than a Tesla for the next few years for that very reason.

As for remote charging. If I wanted to drive the Sahara desert, Amazon rainforest or Australian outback, I would choose a petrol car every time.


I think this is mostly FUD, as we well know from Bitcoin. Let me address each point:

Battery life. Yes batteries do degrade, but intelligent charging adopted by most EVs mitigate this. Our car has lost about 3% of the battery capacity after 3 years and 35,000 miles. There are many reports of Tesla taxis with over 500,000 miles on the clock and around 85% of their original battery capacity. FYI: The first service for an EV is at 500,000 miles.

Second hand values, I’m not aware of this in reality at all, we are about to sell our 3 year old Tesla for about £25K after buying it for £50K, I think that is similar to petrol cars.

High insurance, Tesla include insurance in their scheme, we don’t pay for insurance, but I have heard that other EVs can be high. I think that is the markets lack of understanding. EVs never go wrong and they are safer in every respect.

Unless you have an accident, they don’t need repaired, if you do have an accident, insurance would pay for it. Generally EVs never go wrong, so I’m not sure where this idea comes from.

So in terms of manufacturing, EVs cost a similar amount to petrol cars, but their are some subtle nuances here. A car is a car and is exactly the same to manufacture. The drivetrain is the difference. For petrol cars, you have an expensive engine, but incredibly cheap fuel tank. For EVs, the motors are cheap by comparison, but the batteries are expensive, meaning the range is a direct cost factor in an EV car. The negative side of EVs is that if you want to buy a cheap EV, then generally the cost is saved in battery capacity, this is a limitation on entry for many people looking to buy an inexpensive EV.


Wow, that's an answer that I could write a book about. I'll try and condense it to a few sentences without loosing all the real meaning.

Firstly, cars are 90 - 95% energy efficient, compared to cars which are around 30% efficient. If we burn that equivalent fossil fuel in central power stations, that efficiency rises to around 65%.

So just burning the same fuel centrally to power the cars is more efficient.

However that is not the general scenario. Firstly, many EV drivers get solar panels and home batteries and so generally contribute to the grid. Also as vehicle to grid technology gets adopted by more and more EVs, the grid becomes far better balanced. Think of the grid evolving into a peer to peer grid rather than the historic centralised grid (i.e. think analogous to Bitcoin decentralisation).

This is already way further developed than you think. Also new homes are being built with 3 phase supplies, this means they can draw current much more efficiently than single phase homes, but they are also able to supply current to the grid at much higher rates when required. This is either from solar arrays or from your connected car donating small amounts of electricity at peak times and being paid for it.

As for trucks buses and trains, trains are already electric and increasing in number. But as for trucks and buses I personally don't believe BEV (Battery Electric Vehicle) technology is best suited to those. Same as ferries and other large vehicles. I believe we do need to use fuel cells (hydrogen) for these large vehicles, but even if we don't then we are still either generating more electricity than required or burning fossil fuels centrally with much more efficiency.

The grid has been evolving for years, it doesn't make the media, but it is totally different and unrecognisable to 10 years ago.

That is a very short answer giving some small points, but the whole topic is enormous and fascinating if you wish to DYOR.


Nice, I'm jealous. I will.

Enjoy.


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Good morning dankey, you too.


All fine, we just had to fight over who got to use the rapid charger at home as we both arrived with around 20% charge.

The wife won 😂


It can afford to give anything it wants 😂


Beautiful


We are going later this year.


Ah yes, a fabulous place ❤


GM, where is that, it looks amazing!


I could, but I like where I am right now, thanks


Yes, we are the future, I am thinking about this a lot.

After the next halving, Bitcoiners will control a significant proportion of the worlds wealth, we need to think about the responsibility that brings as well as the benefits.


4/4 What can be done and what we want to organize/need your support for:

1. Urgently gathering/collecting in the written submission to the government and parliament testimonials of Bitcoin miners in #Norway to confront public opinion and change narratives attacking #Bitcoin  mining working both locally and nationally.

2. Brining testimonials, conduct in person and public meetings about best practices of Bitcoin mining advising Norway government and inform society how they can benefit from it.


Good luck, as a foreigner, I don't believe I can help directly, but you have my morale support.


3/4 Most MPs support this position and refuse to meet to discuss the issue, not only because of the misunderstanding of Bitcoin, but also because of the lack of public data, submitted to the parliament and government on why #Bitcoin  mining is beneficial to #Norway.

We base our conclusion following Open Dialogue Foundation BTC Coalition advocacy efforts since April 2024 to educate major members of political parties across the political spectrum in Norway and contacts with local jornalists.


The problem is Bitcoin mining is not particularly beneficial to Norway, you don't need it, you are rich already.

Bitcoin mining has grid load balancing advantages and excess, unusable energy usage, but these are moot points for your country.

I think you almost have to view it as a humanitarian benefit to the world, which I appreciate is a hard pitch.


2/4 Why Norwegian policymakers want to ban #Bitcoin  mining:

- they “don’t want cryptocurrency [Bitcoin] mining companies” since they look at them as „actors who are looking to "shop" for cheap electricity in Norway“ and “(...) businesses seeking to exploit Norway for cheap energy extraction”.

- since they don't see positive uses cases of Bitcoin mining and Bitcoin in general, the want to ban it. Norwegian policymakers want to keep only data centers “to secure storage of images and communication”,  or „which are important to society, and the society-serving computer industry is important to Norway“.

https://www.vg.no/nyheter/i/9zgyxq/regjeringen-slaar-ned-mot-krypto-datasenter-uoensket-i-norge

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bitcoin-miners-face-pressure-norway-071921322.html?guccounter=1


Your countries wealth is a hinderance to seeing the use case for Bitcoin.

As a nation you will have less appreciation for the salvation Bitcoin has been to El Salvador than, say, a poor country like Argentina who are seriously looking at ways Bitcoin can save their economy.

You almost need to pitch it as a humanitarian proposition.


Yes, not everybody is the same and some will adapt faster than others, but how to avoid triggering the emotional connections to a legacy system or belief is a difficult challenge

As for EV questions, sure, always happy to have a good, informed discussion about anything.

I am not an evangelist for EVs to the same degree as I am with Bitcoin, but I do have years of knowledge and study providing me with a reasonably informed opinion.


We Have to Defend Bitcoin Mining in Norway. Here is why:

1/4 In April 2024, the Norwegian government introduced a legislation to regulate data centers in a way that effectively bans #Bitcoin  mining in the country.

This is setting a huge precedent. So far, all attempts to ban bitcoin mining have been referred to the practices of authoritarian/dictatorial countries such as #China. But in the case of #Norway, this country is considered one were bitcoiners teach human rights defenders about freedom technology routinely.

A country known for defending human rights, the Nobel Peace Prize, will be also known to be against Bitcoin mining, which affects not only miners, but all users, developers and investors. https://image.nostr.build/cdb28c279516878c22718f74ff33a11765bba18f640b3afb2732e83c242739dd.jpg


Also, as an irony, you have virtually unlimited, almost free electricity.

In a purely selfish way, you have oil wealth and now cobalt wealth, making you pretty much the richest country on the planet.

If you as a country started seriously mining Bitcoin, you'd be the ultimate triple threat and the rest of us would all be doomed to a life of poverty and servitude.

But, despite this, you are correct, Norway leads the world on almost every moral and sovereign front. If Norway bans mining, either directly or by stealth that would send incredibly bad signals to the rest of the world.

I wish you freedom and self sovereignty, from the UK.

Also, I want to move to Norway, seriously......


So for only the second time on NOSTR I got in to the closest thing to a twitter flame war yesterday. It was concerning EVs of which I am knowledgeable in the same way we all understand Bitcoin.

The petrol head gave the same type of very uninformed knee jerk responses to EVs that normies give about Bitcoin and I gave detailed explanations as to why they were misinformed and the statements they were making were untrue.

After a few parrys, the petrol head started degenerating to personal insults. Surprisingly, I didn’t have any issue with this, in fact I felt bad for them, soI took their insults and doubled down on myself to try to make them feel better. Of course this was unthinkable for them and so the exchange ended abruptly.

I felt the same degree of self sovereignty over this subject as I do over Bitcoin, however, after reflecting on the situation, despite convincingly winning every argument, I had not convinced my sparring partner of anything, they fell into the abyss of self loathing and doubt and emotion prevented them from developing their knowledge or understanding.

I now realise the parallels with Bitcoin, we come across as evangelists and extremely smug ones at that, showing our fiat friends how little they have thought or considered the arguments they are proposing. This has the same affect, they don’t see the complexity or depth of what we are explaining, but instead get drawn into their own insecurities and self loathing.

So I was wondering, how we adapt our rhetoric to prevent this path. Is that even possible or does the adage of “you can lead a horse to water” apply and we have to wait for normies to see the path before them.

I wonder if anybody here has evolved thought on this or has found ways to avoid the “monsters from the id”?


GM https://image.nostr.build/dc68f4543e319b03b66dea890f0ce1e2fad7287b432a11928f6aa774b7c0c8fd.jpg


Tracey Emin?


I used to be heavily into LoRa, but I think it’s dying.

I’m a technologist, so I find learning other disciplines related to Bitcoin fascinating. Economics, banking, game theory, history, politics, psychology, philosophy etc….

Apart from that I am following AI and fusion. I’m also following quantum computing, but my brain fundamentally won’t accept quantum concepts.

I realised that I was unable to learn electronics very well as I didn’t understand electricity, however I now realise nobody understands electricity. I wish somebody had been honest with me at the time to explain this lack of understanding 😂

I believe the same is true with quantum physics, but I don’t know enough to know if this statement is true yet.

What about you? What drives you?


Yes, but a better movie than the Western knockoff.


1.Learn to code
2. Learn GitHub
3. Write an AI bot
4. Let it take over your shit code
5. Learn electronics
6. Invent the flux capacitor
7. Go back in time
8. Kill Linus Torvalds
9. You don’t have to worry about him inventing GitHub anymore


Undesirables 😂

What like Elon Musk?


Have you seen the “Seven Samurai” by Akira Kurosawa?


There are plenty of viewpoints here, mostly Bitcoin related. Other technologies do exist 😂


It is for SBF & CZ and soon CSW


Don’t follow, lead


3 phase supplies in all new homes is the future 😂


Wait till NGU first


In Australia it’s GD


Welcome friend


I’m both 😂


Here’s a real issue for the petrol heads to make fun of.

My wife is returning home with 16% charge. I’ve arrived home earlier with a similar level. We can either both charge at 240V 10A and take over a day to fully charge, or either of us can charge at 32A and refill fully overnight.

Feel free to take the piss out of this petrol heads 😂 https://image.nostr.build/576fcf431637bbc3443cfbaa575b024cb6255b33919c347796bed1ce3a4929fb.jpg


It also had the Byzantine generals backing it up 😂


Yeh, rumours are the best source of scientific data.

Thanks for the informed compelling arguments 😂


GFY 😂


We don’t need the sarcasm confirmation 😂


Let’s talk about this right now!


What about a polar bear?


I’m choosing to be on NOSTR as my real identity. It is an informed choice. Privacy is a human right as much as air and water, if I choose to be private for some of my life, that is my freedom.

Others choose their own privacy.  That is their freedom.

Attempting to stop that freedom should be a crime in all civilised nations.


I don’t think it’s a secret anymore!


A power cut 😂


Is that like a flux capacitor, but for houses?


We did, but it will go to zero eventually. Perhaps in 25 years, perhaps in 100, or even 1,000 years.

But for now, Bitcoin is the best money in the world.


I’m past that option now, for many reasons 😂


I alternate and am affected by those I see around me. Still deciding on where to put most effort, between charity or survival of the fittest.

We all will have to refine our view on humanity and build nuance into the critical thinking.


It started small with theatres hundreds of years ago, TV grew the profile and now the Internet and social media allow anybody to try


Yes all of the above and more 😂


Quick cooking tip, poached eggs don’t take a day to cook. You can let us know after about 3 minutes😂


Good point, well made!


Great, we have consensus 😂


OK I call you Joel the fucking car 😂


Yes it’s amazing, but I suspect you’re trying to be ironic 😂


Yeh, you literally can bring rapid chargers in a van and they do and they’re electric vans or the latest EVs

I have no questions concerning your intelligence 😂


Electricity isn’t portable?

That’s literally what a battery is 😂


Difference is there are 225 petrol car fires for every EV fire.

Also petrol explodes, LiON burns.

Are we really turning NOSTR into dumb ass Twitter for luddites?


It was for me, I was shitting myself 😂


And you have an infinite tank that never runs out 😂 and petrol is really easy to drill, pipe, refine, ship and really efficient at 30% energy conversion.

The energy for batteries is free, it’s the sun. We don’t pay to charge at home and we pay about 5% of what you do for petrol, but we only pay for electricity about twice a year.

Oh and also my car drives itself and can whoop a lambo and, I can’t be bothered to continue.

I hear the rotary dial telephone was better than the Internet, we should have never given up that technology either 😂


I really love irony 😄


For those tempted to comment on EVs after my live commentary on my wife running on electric fumes, by choice.

Petrol cars run out of petrol and catch fire and kill people at hundreds of times greater frequency than EVs, we just take that shit for granted 😂


Huh?


Crypto is risky, but fiat is guaranteed to fail.

Pick your poison 😂


I’ve heard, but I’ve never dropped below30% myself 😂


I hate information 😂


Phew 😰 https://image.nostr.build/49a1f2dc1e8a17a0a87a4399d94b7a17a2d7dc6fd9b1b4a5a5a373eb6f84758d.jpg


Diesels better!


She’s going to make it 😁 https://image.nostr.build/fbac3a9bba340abfb8f8792f66a103b9bf0ac33147cd22dc2acb8cb585008a6c.jpg


Irony and pathos are amazing weapons when deployed correctly 😂


Now 3% 😱 nostr:note1286zer2jqpyzrnhcgvcuesw86m85fxewzmszzt3n546hu2f9llvsqna2lw


GM


Beautiful


I’m scared to watch.

I hate tracking Amazon Prime deliveries as well 😂


It’s not very blue!


I’m a lunch and dinner guy, no breakfast and only a light lunch.

Apparently fasting for more than 17 hours is a life health hack, one I’ve been doing all my life without knowing it!


The wife’s got the Tesla.

Needless to say she likes to take risks 😂 https://image.nostr.build/f62300a03b6f3fe9458715abeb20fb251e4ab82922c63a095b6bccea8ce7d7fd.jpg


You need a Robot, not AI


Try fucking a diamond and you’ll never go back to Jade


China is buying #Gold and simultaneously dumping U.S. treasuries like never before

The dollar as a reserve currency ended when it was used as a weapon against Russia. https://image.nostr.build/54365e89b2f6cee554a868056afb2ecc063ccc3d8d11edb5cf0e9d5beb679d3d.jpg


This is the way


Yeh, Saylor $40M poor. How’d you like them Sats?

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/michael-saylor-agrees-to-40m-settlement-in-d-c-income-tax-case/


Huh wot?


You guys said it was impossible ? https://video.nostr.build/18954a8c0f173613f16b10de409d78a072ae15e044297d2ec07096af33b8f3e0.mp4


I didn’t know your bits blurred as you got older. I just thought it was my eyesight 😂


Is that animal porn?


I hope you were built well and had a smooth delivery 😂


Slowly, then suddenly


Doing what you love is easy, even when it’s hard


Wen Go Mummy?


I think that also


My adult knees have adult needs!


Is that all in Trump NFTs ?


That's what THEY say 🤔


If you have to ask, then too long 😂


Hey  nostr:npub1aghreq2dpz3h3799hrawev5gf5zc2kt4ch9ykhp9utt0jd3gdu2qtlmhct I think you underspec'd the RAM for your Home appliance.

I'm just running Bitcoin + Lightning, mempool and Elements and it's eating up 12GB RAM.


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No


That's fiat companies for you 😂


I think they meant correctly:

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/03/nyse-technical-issue-impacting-some-stock-prices-incorrectly-showing-berkshire-hathaway-down-99percent.html


Welcome to freedom


Just arrived here.
People are cheerful.
Tourists are growing.
So far feeling super safe.
Seems like the ₿est is yet to come 🤗

Paso a paso 🇸🇻
https://m.primal.net/IXPw.jpg


Obvious questions like, how are your channels balanced, what are your fees?

You can use tools like Amboss to dig a little deeper on your side and Alby’s side


Doge? 🤡


GM


FFS

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/trump-campaign-partners-with-opennode/


WMD

Weapon of Mass Dromedary


Chaos is opportunity


GM https://image.nostr.build/e152823e9556fd8c8e242c7855c876177426f004dd383a8a22662b9b180ac2a6.jpg


Done, done and done - 3 nodes for resilience


GM we are all elite


Satoshiday and Suntoshiday


That's because a server does something useful for society


What about clean Sous Chefs, or Chef de Partie?


Huh?


Hola


Is the Whitehouse listed on Airbnb?


Meanwhile No.1 story in local news:

https://www.countypress.co.uk/news/24360347.isle-wight-ferry-chaos-red-funnel-take-gig/


GM, happy Sunday


Nice


I'm on a roll


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I feel that in Spain


You've got yachts 😃


Thank you fren


I know, no one told me 😂


My yacht frens https://image.nostr.build/0667ac76f33d520b44262d3b6597b666870427727e991ddba5e2d4d575b70463.jpg


Are there elite plebs?


I’m a member of our local sailing club, which is world famous for being the only club with no boats.

Nobody told my fellow club members, who seem to have found some boats 😂 https://image.nostr.build/c96f01d206c95a65be079bf153f6c83f1dcdb4235efc4371ebf4090a7340770e.jpg


The role of NOSTR CSO “Chief Shitpost Officer” is still available


Phew


Can I shitpost first?


I presume you are referring to your smallest finger 👀


We are all elite here


Shit time to start mining, I’ve just turned mine off 😂


In a few years you’ll no longer need a water bottle

Pura Vida


What if you’re just here for the LOLs?


More #Bitcoin frens

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


Rent will always go down, historical earnings will always go up


Psychology
Game theory
Banking
Computing


GM me too.

Enjoy


GM frens https://image.nostr.build/fd511cec0f39282f4a93e7f0abbd82d594bb5689fa218a59df7dccde63d1fd91.jpg


I think he’s escaping my vicious cat.


When did the Federation of Brass Instruments get inaugurated?


What’s the hospital’s Instagram channel?


No, I have Zeus connected to my own node, so I’m not sure if it would be an option unless I install some third party services


I want an easy want to get Zeus integrated across all platforms and for Zeus / Umbrel to introduce an easy LN address solution.


Not the best timing, but good on yer!


From my visit in 2019

https://m.primal.net/IUxy.jpg
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https://m.primal.net/IUyA.jpg
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I think my Dad is on the list 😂


GM


In Stockholm, Stockholm syndrome is called Norrmalmstorg drama


I do almost daily


OK 👍


I'm not in Oslo for the Freedom Forum, but I'm there is spirit. Some photo's from my last visit:

https://m.primal.net/IUqv.jpg
https://m.primal.net/IUqw.jpg
https://m.primal.net/IUqx.jpg


GFY Biden

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/biden-vetoes-crypto-custody-institutions/


I wonder if anything solves that? 🤔


GM https://image.nostr.build/1ac9c10cd3806af81f019ce06e93271315c413293911cf3541c2160490f60f59.jpg


Why do bank computers need weekends off?


Exactly 👍


OTC supplied from stock through Brian.

If somebody comes to you and says "I'll buy 90% of your stock, but I want a discount!" who wouldn't say no.


Do you need a license to issue licenses?


So, if you want to stop Ordinals, 300KB blocks will give the same transaction throughput for financial transactions whilst removing the ability to store JPEGs.

Yes,  according to bitcoinmechanic.ca smaller blocks are the answer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-CA2wEFWPE&t=4220s


I’m not sure I understand your point, but let me give you what I understand.

Bitcoin is gaining value primarily through adoption, it is absorbing value from decaying assets such as fiat and more developed assets such as stocks and shares and commodities such as gold and silver.

This will eventually even out, my expectation is when it reaches 0.25 of global wealth. i.e. current global wealth is $454T.

21M BTC at $5M = approx $100T. This will happen, probably, in the next halving bull run.

Short term volatility, bull / bear markets are a result of new actors entering the market, existing actors changing their exposure and traders “intelligently gambling”. This short term volatility does create winners and losers, with HODLers representing the mean of this market.

As for stablecoins / fiat, this is the fastest decaying asset that Bitcoin (and to lesser extent gold) is replacing. In fact gold has been making enormous gains recently as it is favoured as a store of value by the established investment community.

As for burn and print mentality of stablecoins, perhaps you are referring to Tether, who I notice have just printed their own money to take a significant shareholding in Bitdeer by investing their own printed currency USDT. This is why Tether and to a lesser extent other stablecoins are also in the category of shitcoins, as they are like ERC-20 tokens, but staked to the Federal Reserves money printer, but perhaps not, perhaps they just print as much as they want.


Huh?

Other way round, if you sell 0.1 BTC for fiat and then the price drops to $35K you can then buy back 0.2


🚨BREAKING: #Bitcoin  worth 48bn Yen or $300mn stolen from Japanese Bitcoin exchange (DMM Bitcoin)

Not your 🔑, Not your #BTC https://image.nostr.build/c999b4744383d77bc4a3e641a3bfe0e68f29a70599ed3228ec5356bba18ff57e.jpg


Runes say no

Bitcoin is debatable.

A $20 dollar bill is supposedly fungible, but each bill has a serial number and could theoretically be identified as stolen or used in crime, so the lack of fungibility argument can even be made for cash.


Announcing: Harbor, an ecash desktop wallet for better bitcoin privacy.

https://blog.mutinywallet.com/harbor/

Privacy for the common person is a value worth fighting for. When we see a lack of freedom tools, we must build them into existence. They don't appear on their own.

Much has been said about privacy at the Bitcoin protocol level. For now, we build it on higher layers where we can be more nimble.

Ecash is a tool available today that combines with Bitcoin to bring new levels of common privacy. Cashu and Fedimint are two existing implementations we're interested in.

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

Harbor Privacy: All communication runs over Tor. Mutiny is not in the middle of any connections or transactions. Funds in the wallet get a Privacy Score to show how the mints provide privacy over time. More to come on this in the future.

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

Harbor Multi-mint: Instead of relying on a single mint with your funds, spread the risk over dozens or more. Harbor manages this for you, showing you a single balance while connecting with mints for you. A mint can go offline with minimal impact on you.

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

Harbor Automation: Running as a desktop app unlocks ability to do long running processes in the background. Move money in and out of mints on your preferred schedule to maximize your desired level of privacy. Harbor makes suggestions, but you are in control.

Move money in and out of Harbor using Lightning or on-chain. We love Bitcoin, and we love privacy. We hope Harbor gives everyday people more privacy and peace of mind.


You're scaring me now


You have a NOSTR slot?


I've never understood what they did. Whenever they've approached me in the past, I've asked how rich they are. When they explain they don't have huge wealth themselves, I start offering them advice.


No you don’t


We’re in a cult, perhaps the term should be worshippers 😂


eCash without fedimints would be awesome.


Where’s the Bitcoin cult? 😂


Wouldn’t it be great if conferences evolved and instead of the same people saying the same thing year after year, we had the best people saying interesting things nobody had ever thought of before.


GM


GM 🧉☕🫂💜🫡
#btc
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Ah, so Antminers from Bitmain are not clearing down old work fast enough, which means that even when they have received a full block, they are still solving the original empty block they were supposed to replace with a full block a few hundred milliseconds later.


OG of OGs — the only person explicitly mentioned by Satoshi in the #bitcoin whitepaper!👑

We're thrilled that  nostr:npub1qg8j6gdwpxlntlxlkew7eu283wzx7hmj32esch42hntdpqdgrslqv024kw, cypherpunk &  nostr:npub1jg552aulj07skd6e7y2hu0vl5g8nl5jvfw8jhn6jpjk0vjd0waksvl6n8n CEO, will share his insights at #BTCPrague again.🧡

He joins 3 Main Stage panels & has an exclusive AMA session on the VIP stage.🔥

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


Miners in pools mine to pool difficulty, which is lower than network difficulty and are therefore constantly finding blocks that are verified by other miners in the pool.

Only when they find a block at network difficulty is a verified block transmitted to the whole network.

This statement merges the role of a miner who purely hash numbers with nodes who verify results.

Miners have a deep understanding of mining, but still lack the understanding of the nuance of nodes, especially third party (non mining) nodes.

Miners are utterly reliant on their own node verifying, but don't see the role of external nodes until they find a block.


Interesting.

An argument from miners is that empty blocks are good for the network, because they are an inevitable result of maximising hash power.  An empty block, while it does not contain any transactions adds weight to and secures the transactions in all the previous blocks. This is true and I follow the argument.

However:

Miners are commercially incentivised and therefore primarily view their income and the competitiveness of their mining operation compared to other miners and pools.

They are not incentivised beyond transaction fees to process transactions, yet the only purpose of the blockchain is to verify and store transactions.

This is why mining is and should remain only one third of the power triangle shared along with developers and node runners.

Providing the power triangle remains balanced, it is OK for one group to have a biased view because it is balanced by the other two groups.


Have I told you about Trump coin yet, it's a really cool crypto project that's 100% legit and backed by a former President of the USA.


A coinbase block is around 400 bytes, with the merkle leaves is around 1,600 bytes.


Just learned that big blocks obviously take longer to download, therefore the mining pool that mined the latest block have an advantage over other pools who have to download their competitors block before they can proceed to mine the next block.

Smaller blocks reduce that advantage and was another factor in the 2015 - 2017 block size wars where decentralisation won.


Wow just figured out Bitmain's latest fuckery in real time.

I'll give you the back story...

Once upon a time Bitmain was grinding merkle roots instead of nonces aka "covert ASICBOOST".

This gave them an advantage over other miners who didn't know this was possible. One company went out of business - KNC - citing "the Chinese having some secret advantage we don't know about" - which turned out to be true precisely for this reason.

It's one of the reasons ASIC manufacture is so centralized today and this is correctly identified by many as being one of the most vulnerable aspects of the entire bitcoin ecosystem.

The ASICBOOST issue came to a head when Bitmain used their influence to block the activation of SEGWIT (essential for Lightning) because it would break their ability to do it - at least covertly. Well, they would still be able to use asicboost, but just in an obvious way that would mean everyone else could do it too. They had patented it so as to try and prevent this because that's the kind of people we're dealing with here but I digress...

When asicboost was independently discovered by Greg Maxwell Bitmain lied and said they weren't in fact using it.

This was after years of bullshitting about segwit, with Bitmain pretending to be in favour of "alternative scaling solutions" or even doing segwit as a hard fork instead which would allow them to continue what they were doing.....

Absolutely nobody believed them thanks to GMax having reverse engineered one of their ASICs and demonstrating what they had built and tried to keep to themselves.

This was a watershed moment in the fork wars where everyone suddenly understood why Bitmain had been making nonsensical arguments against segwit forever. Wanting big/small blocks wasn't a related discussion. Segwit fixed TX malleability and was a no-brainer upgrade and in the end was combined with a block size increase anyway as a compromise.

So we proceeded with segwit anyway, at which point Bitmain switched to overt asicboost which is actually even more powerful, it just requires grinding version bits instead of merkle roots but it's obvious if a miner is doing this.

Now everybody does it so essentially the net effect of it being possible is zero, except your node asking you wtf miners are doing signalling for upgrades your node knows nothing about (upgrade coordination is what version bits are actually supposed to be used for).

Oh well, relatively little harm done. If you're happy to ignore the obvious dishonesty and effort to undermine what's arguably Bitcoin's most important ever upgrade.

Fun extra tidbit: Antbleed - an intentional backdoor with which Bitmain could remotely shutdown any Antminer in the world. They said it was for shutting down stolen ASICs but immediately patched it once it was discovered.

Anyway, this company now accounts for 25-30% of all blocks found, if you naively observe the blockchain.

That's not enough to spook anyone, but unfortunately many smaller pools are in fact just fronts for Bitmain which we know for three reasons:

1. The smaller pools are clearly using blocks constructed by, or for the benefit of, Antpool.

2. They share the same custodian of their newly mined coins (Cobo).

3. They have a lending program to bail out smaller pools who get in over their head due to FPPS.

And the trend is sadly in the wrong direction, given Braiins recently abandoning its old payout model and becoming just a simple proxy for Bitmain as result of switching to FPPS.

[Massive shoutout to @mononautical and @0xB10C for helping uncover how centralized pools have become. Those are their Tweeter handles, idk if they're on Nostr.]

Summary - Bitmain is not just Antpool, it probably accounts for >50% of block templates and manufactures >90% of the mining hardware in the world.

So where am I going with all this?

Amazingly, it's about empty blocks.

What does that have to do with anything?

Well, famously OCEAN has found 3 empty blocks in its short existence, causing many to wrongly make allegations of some sort of issue with the pool itself.

This spurred on endless debate about why pools make empty templates in the first place and the actual reason so many of them get solved.

In short, pools send empty templates then immediately follow up with full templates. So quickly, that the interim period accounts for a tiny minority of the empty blocks that get found on the network, and none of ours.

In all three cases with OCEAN, the miner solved the empty block long after already having a full template to work on -

   - leaving the pool in a position to either throw away a perfectly good (but empty) block or to broadcast it to the network and get miners >90% of the reward of a full block. Obviously the latter makes sense and does zero harm to the network while still adding to the overall PoW necessary for any attacker.

So why would an empty block happen a few seconds after the pool had already sent an updated job for a full block?

Because Antminers suck.

*What we didn't realize was that they intentionally sucked.*

You can send an updated job to an Antminer and watch it continue to work on an old job for over 60 seconds in edge cases.

This was something we assumed was due to design of the ASIC itself, and thus just poor engineering on the part of Bitmain.

But it turns out we were wrong, it's due to Antminer firmware.

We know this because they just released a fix for it.

So Bitmain watched, while people kept mining empty blocks, everyone would wrongly attribute it to pools, while explainers on popular websites like mempool(.)space would offer wrong explanations about it happening due to pools being slow to send proper templates and seemingly no one would understand even the motivation for sending empty templates, let alone the reason they get worked on for so long.

But the fix being something that gets released right after OCEAN starts explaining what's really going on here is beyond reasonable doubt.

They had a fix for it, and have been using that fix for their own mining.

Now they can't get away with it because increasingly people are realizing that Whatsminers and ASICs from other manufacturers aren't finding anything like the amount of empty blocks because they switch jobs far more quickly.

An Antminer has a far greater likelihood of finding an empty block because it spends longer working on old jobs.

We've been out here yelling that the issue is with the ASIC *NOT* the pool.

The fact that Bitmain intentionally crippled the firmware on the Antminers they would sell to the world, while keeping more functional units for their own mining is typical of everything Bitmain.

Sure it can be incompetence and coincidental timing on the fix, but I sincerely doubt it.

The conversation around empty blocks reached the point where people were beginning to realize something was broken with Antminers and then they just happen to release a fix for it right after people finally start catching wind of what's really going on.

__________________

So imagine this -

You sell shovels to gold miners, and as we all know, the people who make money during a gold rush are the people who sell the shovels.

But in this case the shovel seller is digging for gold himself too.

And he has intentionally sold crappy shovels to all of his customers so as give himself an advantage.

Empty blocks kept happening, people kept blaming pools.

OCEAN got attacked over it. We explained the real reason they happen so much, and Bitmain releases a fix right after.

Insane.

This goes further than empty blocks.

It's not just empty templates that take forever to work their way out of an Antminer, it's *all templates* and pools are constantly updating work as new transactions show up.

A super lucrative transaction shows up in your mempool?

All other pools are sending an updated job to hundreds of thousands of Antminers who will ignore it for a while, while Antpool has their miners working on it more quickly.

It's not hard to see the motivation for all this, especially going forward as TX fees become more and more important.

Again, insane.

_________________

If you want to watch @wk057 and I figure this all out in real time, watch the video below which was just intended to be a discussion on why empty blocks happen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BkyhdxnDrM


弄个漂亮早餐~

https://bucket.alive.bar/media_attachments/files/112/504/642/793/538/027/original/5fb8c74389341248.jpeg


i have an extra BTC Prague general ticket that i need to sell!!
PLEASE boost 🎟!!!
#askstr #asknostr #shopstr #BTCprague #prague


Make morons great again


kek


Looking great!


Also, if all 8 billion want a piece of that chair, at 210M transactions per year, it would take 38 years for those transactions to clear the mempool, assuming no other transactions during that time.


Yeh, but he is pro Crypto, even if it is mostly the Trump Coin ETF 😂


NEW YORK (AP) — JUDGE HAS SET DONALD TRUMP'S SENTENCING FOR JULY 11, JUST DAYS BEFORE REPUBLICANS ARE SET TO SELECT HIM AS 2024 NOMINEE.


Trump found guilty:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-69069142


Block 756951, the lowest SHA256 yet known:

https://x.com/w_s_bitcoin/status/1795795306883248244


Agreed except this:

I've just realised, you could print Ecash tokens and exchange them like fiat cash.

For third world countries with restricted Internet or lack of smart phones, this could be a game changer. You can literally print them at home and they are one time redeemable by the recipient.

You could carry them around in a old school leather wallet.

nostr:note1kh6t0phx2shpnkd2qljrw0lvwunyg478ugtaz5av97lqqpjgjeqspfjhgs


That's what I told my mate Dave, until he reminded me his name was Jim, Dave was the guy I didn't like.


Did you ever play Top Trumps when you were a kid? Probably that!

https://toptrumps.com/


Good Morning


Done & Done

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


Crashed the party https://video.nostr.build/8d7ede9127b92733b32af9a260bb091d9e8e75e6d750370c3d94d6463d7a8a7e.mp4


They have those in Milton Keynes in the UK 😂


LCD analogy? Nah, not really, they're not that interesting, even for techies that understand them 😂


Did you know that I always lie?


Don't be sad, I understand the difference, I just chose to give a related story that didn't match the exact type of piano you were referring to.

I respect all pianos equally, I respect all keyboard instruments.

It is your life, so you care, I respect that and I respect you.


I do, thank you fren


I have real friends on all the other platforms.

I'm not abandoning them, but all my best stuff is here.


I know that film!!!!


Sometimes yes. sometimes no for me.


I do both, sometimes intentionally, mostly unintentionally


Shut up, Cheese and Wine.

I can't cope with the orgasm


So was yesterday


Steam trains go backwards.

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


I notice despair is not one of them 😂


BTW: Thanks to  nostr:npub1cvq7p3zwtqym3xhxuj5cc2xa3hdk2zjnx2p64epjs06tmzx3zzpq5ut995 for getting me to think about this:

nostr:note1uspmzf7kvgqe0cjye2778yzngztu8kttxt4np9usr4shj946w0vsat66ls


Great minds think alike! 🔥

Learn more at: https://soapbox.pub/ditto

And Try it out today at: https://Gleasonator.dev


Ventnor at the Spyglass, working hard 😂


I appreciate the photo fren.

As an electronics engineer, I could argue that a TFT LCD is different to an OLED LCD, but would you care?

Should I care that you don't care, or should I just accept that you know what an LCD is and enjoy using your Smartphone no matter how you view it.

I studied the Harpsichord at the Guildhall, which is a type of Piano to anybody that doesn't care to understand the difference.


15 years until the end of USD
20 years for the other fiats to follow


Life has been improved


#drinkstr https://image.nostr.build/1a0861b97e2e8d31d72f9b1366fa0b5d86da7903893839e8ac2feb2a7ad7b67a.jpg


We live in a multiverse, it probably did


Bots often give better value for money 😂


My neighbour dragged one home from a pub that was getting rid of theirs.

He couldn’t even play, when he showed me I cranked out a couple of tunes.

He thinks I’m cool now, we hang out.

Upright pianos are great 👍


👀

Did someone mention wine? nostr:note16dgv8t2kyavpfvnffmnmwmk2uy3gf07n50m930pq44tyl2pft4as5k53nd


Stroke the shit out of it, that should do the trick!

Also kibble


If price is important, try economics


Try psychology, that’s even more fun 😂


Changing the world for the better, at least twice


I have an iPhone, does rebooting count 😂


I always thought the initials were the name of a propane gas bottle manufacturing company 😂


Top tip, grow a beard 😂


Lobsters are less keen


Even Nowhere is somewhere

- Also, fun fact, Dogs are allowed in Nowhere https://image.nostr.build/c7eef98172d9e2981d39127eb52edbff983c177f75c3f2da476402825e3e2c22.jpg


Now add in having your own opinion 😂


I have a channel open with Kraken.

I also use Zeus with my own node.

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


#Bitcoin
Bitcoin Lightning Wallets Compared
https://m.primal.net/ISjo.mp4


This is where I shit post from btw:

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


You might find this interesting, and no, the name is not a joke or an anagram.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ6K_f7oSdg


You know the world has gone mad when we:

1. Attach small children to leashes to take them walkies
2. Place small dogs in prams to take them walkies


👀

You can't argue with that logic.

And yes, I am being deliberately vague about why 😂

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From what I see, the current equivalent of a marriage is a joint mortgage.


And with the technology increase in compute and energy, a mining rig will consume 1 solar mass per year and run at 1 Universe per second in compute speed.


Hey  nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg I'm a bit slow, but:

I've just realised, you could print Ecash tokens and exchange them like fiat cash.

For third world countries with restricted Internet or lack of smart phones, this could be a game changer. You can literally print them at home and they are one time redeemable by the recipient.

You could carry them around in a old school leather wallet.


You can get a Tuna chair, a Murray Brothers Fighting chair instead:

https://www.thehulltruth.com/fishing-miscellaneous-items-private-sellers-only/639398-murray-brothers-fighting-chair-w-rocket-launcher.html


Interesting:

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/improving-baselayer-privacy-with-dandelion/


This was going to be a whodunnit book, you've given away the ending 😂


Am I right in understanding they can be overturned by the senate over time?


My dear friends in America.

You all take the Presidential election extremely seriously.

Can you please explain why?

My understanding of your democracy is that it is consensual, meaning that you need a majority from both sides to pass any laws and while the President can create temporary laws or veto existing proposals, this power is extremely limited and only affective in the short term.

No President in living memory has ever achieved anything. That is not a criticism, that is by design.

If you can't do anything, then you can't do anything bad. It also means you can't do anything good.

By design, both of your parties are more similar than different and so you have a pseudo stable system. I use the term pseudo, primarily because of the debt hanging over your country.

Our system in the UK is somewhat different, but the inability to achieve anything by the ruling party is somewhat similar and by design.

Have I understood this correctly?

Informed debate would be very much appreciated in this matter.

Thank you.


Estimated guess, includes Satoshi's 1.1M BTC and between 3M - 4M of lost BTC reported historically.


Approx, yes, but I am distinguishing that the last Satoshi will never be mined and the first 50 BTC can never be spent.


I created the spreadsheet


Two reasons why there will never be 21M #Bitcoin

1. The last Satoshi will never be mined (see the chart below)

2. The genesis block was hand built, not mined, so the public key attached to the first 50 BTC has no corresponding private key. Therefore, even if Satoshi returns, he cannot spend his first 50 BTC.

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


They waived their fee in the end, so I bought them 2 packets of biscuits and a copy of my Bitcoin book when I went to collect the key.

I'm not sure how they could have gone in a legal route, I would have simply taken cash to their office. I have no dispute with paying the bill and would now if they provided their bank details.


Make senility great again!


I have seen many of my friends marriages fail and both parties express their pain by trying to lash out through financial retributions.

In a successful life long marriage no formal legal framework will ever be required, however many marriages do fail so a pre-agreed framework on how to deal with that financially could be prudent.

Also many Bitcoiners here are creating generational wealth with some creating world level wealth. To not plan for how this will affect your family in both success and failure is unadvised.

Prenups are rarely affective. In the old world, generational wealth can be addressed by trusts or family offices, which are legally separate entities to the individuals benefitting.

In the new world, "not your keys, not your coins" gives ultimate control over generational wealth.

nostr:note1xlfq62p78pvwfq43re5la297h2r63p64wvkh84z5k36zprjmae5qg3p5xd


Funny real world opposite example:

I appointed an estate agent to find me a tenant. They found one, so I needed to pay them. They needed to generate an invoice so I awaited this to obtain their bank details to transfer the money.

The accounts lady generating the invoice phoned me and asked for my bank account details. I explained they don’t need my details, I need theirs as I am paying them. She replied that they needed my bank details for AML purposes and if I don’t provide them, she cannot produce the invoice.

I replied, “so I guess that concludes our business then?”

At first she didn’t understand, so I repeated the statement.

I think they understand now.


Free Julian Assange: https://image.nostr.build/dd3d7bce320459cccd2656dd26d86cb3e5a5e75ccedf8f72c55dd42d8a5ecad5.jpg


When your enemies become your friend:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2024/05/28/janet-yellen-issues-serious-34-trillion-warning-as-bitcoin-predicted-to-surge-to-1-million-price/


Old World:
Trusts for smaller amounts or Family Offices for larger amounts.

New World:
Self Custody Bitcoin

They beat Prenups

That is the way.


Seen in Newport, Isle of Wight, UK

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


A website

https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org


True


Where am I going to be in 1 hour?


What’s the meaning of life?


Ah!


I first heard about them from Ellen McArthur (the sailor) in 2011


I think we can produce far better memes for free 😂


Sats?


I was trying to make a bad joke “circular” “round”

But also true.


They’ve been round for years 😂


Will Satoshi technically become the world’s first trillionaire?


Things that have been normalised that we might want to rethink!

1. Putting small children on leads and taking them walkies

2. Picking up dog poop in plastic bags so we can take it home


No more than these:

https://www.efinancialcareers.co.uk/news/2021/04/banking-jobs-cult


This is the way


Ironically Hashcash, created by  nostr:npub1qg8j6gdwpxlntlxlkew7eu283wzx7hmj32esch42hntdpqdgrslqv024kw and referenced in the Bitcoin whitepaper as the source for Proof of Work concept was developed to reduce email spam by making computers do some work in order to send an email, thus making spamming unaffordable.

What goes around, comes around.


GM friends…revisiting some past tech and wanted to mention something to all my Strike friends. If you use nostr:npub1ex7mdykw786qxvmtuls208uyxmn0hse95rfwsarvfde5yg6wy7jq6qvyt9 you have access to a service that allows you to create an email address to give out when an email is required, but when the data farms sell the email address, it will require a payment to you in sats before any emails will be delivered. Of course you can white list an email address if you want which allows the email to get delivered without a payment. This was the first satsvertising.

If you use Strike, check it out by going to www.reacher.me.


Print more!


KYC-free sats in Hong Kong. Effectively no limits on how much cash they will do.

https://image.nostr.build/1db67480052e652b1c8d22303087da8cc24b52eef614b7fdb7f17b56579ccc6d.jpg


Normally Brian at Coinbase f**ks up a bullrun.

Who'd a thought Mt. Gox would be responsible for this one?

https://m.primal.net/IQOk.jpg
https://m.primal.net/IQOm.jpg


I broke free of group think and peer pressure.


My greatest dilemma on NOSTR is whether to follow myself?


Everything I say is a lie.


Go through the legal hoops to find out how complicated it is, then offer a turnkey solution to other small businesses looking to start up.

There is more money in regulation than hot sauce.

Alternatively, HODL Bitcoin.


I loved being robbed most 😂


Yes, on honeymoon


We honeymooned in Zanzibar!


WW3 anyone?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpddxy9r4mdo


I pre-ordered mine and totally forgot about it.

It's on its way!


If a Pizza costs $15, then 1 Nakamoto would buy 4.6 Billion Pizzas


So 1 Nakamoto is 1,000,000 Bitcoin

ETFs own 1 Nakamoto
Countries own 0.5 of a Nakamoto
Private Companies own 0.5 of a Nakamoto
Public companies own 0.3 of a Nakamoto
Mining Companies own 0.05 of a Nakamoto


So a

Satoshi is 1/100,000,000 of a Bitcoin

and a

Nakamoto is 1,000,000 Bitcoins


Cute puppy!


The Trump Bucks hadn't escaped my notice 😂


To replace the GBP with Bitcoin, you'd need the price to be 3X current BTC price for this alone according to:

https://fiatmarketcap.com/


Interesting stats showing how many Bitcoins would be needed to replace individual fiat currencies at current market price:

https://fiatmarketcap.com/


And this:

https://bitcoinist.com/swiss-referendum-bitcoin-central-bank/


Interesting development:

https://www.bitcoinassociation.ch/ https://image.nostr.build/42f723318ef2cecb5e248f729a6da505908b3d2e424538c53101b42492f914c8.jpg


Good point, well made!


I wanted a Sinclair Watch, but my parents wouldn't buy me one.


Give a leader a central bank and he can rob the other banks.


Hobsons choice


Apart from those with Hyperthymesia


Even many of my Bitcoin frens don't want to self sovereign.

We are the future bankers for most.


The adoption rate for HTTP was much slower than the adoption rate of NOSTR.

I have no concerns.


I'm open and biased.

I'm constantly trying to remove my bias and my open paths are closed semi permanently when I see dead ends, but I never completely close a path because you don't know what you don't know.


Food, Water, Air, lungs, kidneys, the Universe, raclette, mung beans and Gary Gensler


The term "loony", meaning mad or silly, derives from the lunar full moon where it was observed that incidents of madness increased during this period.

I am unaware of any actual scientific research that backs up this lore.


I am sometimes envious of some of my less curious friends, but not often.


Discovering the true nature of the Universe


https://www.scale.jobs/

https://www.reddit.com/r/recruiting/comments/13qxozs/can_i_hire_someone_to_search_for_and_apply_for/


At $100M per coin, 21M coins, TVL:  $2.1 Quadrillion ($2,100 Trillion).

Current Total Global Wealth of the Planet: $454 Trillion.

For context.


Should maybe consider hiring an assistant to apply for jobs and pay a 10% commission on net first year salary for success.

Outsource job hunting


I know, I started writing a joke and it somehow turned out to be an interesting concept 😂


I probably agree, but reserve the right to disagree at appropriate junctures going forward in my ice cream / chocolate / cheese journey.

I also reserve the right to add items, add hoc, at will, at such times as my mood may take me.


Yay, the UK gets bronze!


Beach


How does it compare to Chocolate therapy or Cheese therapy?

Rank them please!


Careful now 😂

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/22/1171460421/miller-beer-champagne-cans-destroyed


Showing your real picture within the Bitcoin community shows that privacy is a choice and demonstrates that being private does not mean you have anything to hide.

I choose to be my real identity, yet I still choose the right for privacy in the things that are important to me.


That makes me mad!


It got faster


If you're OpenMike, can I be ClosedMike?

Asking for myself!


I've never been a killer feature before.


Yeh, it's got the community, freedom and protocol to build something really meaningful.


Slowly, then suddenly


I like the cut of your jib sir.


A pub that you normally have to book for Sunday lunch, we just walked into and were one group of only three there the whole lunch time.

Slowly, then suddenly!


Slowly, then suddenly

We are winning, but the looser will lash out in their dying gasps


Not fucking with it is all we ask


What a wonderful world


Hello fellow almost boomer 😂


Make cheese grate again


And then it gets even better


True


Don't mocha my coffee choices!


You’ve been staring at your neighbour for 15 minutes to find that out?


This is a street near me:

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


Can quantum entanglement be used instead of double entry book keeping?

QE seems a simpler concept TBH


Hey ChatGPT explain Cryptocurrencies like I’m a 5 year old


If everybody did this, then wouldn’t being different be normal?


Good point, well made 😂 😂 😂 😂


Starbucks only exists because the British taxed a shipment of tea to America in 1773.

Mad


Donald Trump?


Buying bananas with #bitcoin through FaceTime.

Dominical, Costa Rica #RealLifeBitcoin
https://m.primal.net/IMlR.mov


Man City is now They / Them City

Or if you’re a feminist She City

Go woke or go home 😂


Where’d you go fishing? Burger King?


Aren’t we supposed to call it They / Them City now?


You mean these?: https://image.nostr.build/f22376d89d1bc785e0bcd522bb8b7d32b7c911950481d9531825b4339cfae770.jpg


Just booking my flight from the UK now.


OK, you’re on.


Useful, means the burglar doesn't need to use his own equipment.


I got scammed by a carpenter the other day.

I paid him to build me a double bed, but he did a bunk.


I had to Google Adze, always learning!


They say “Kill all humans”


Go back and show them how to download a lightning wallet and then zap them.

This is the lesson.


I always lie


Is that a metaphorical explanation of how Gary Gensler must be feeling?

Asking for a fren!


Oh, they made a movie!
I thought you meant the actual civil war.


Do you have a time machine?


We are, but can you imagine living at the time of the first flight by the Wright brothers in 1903?


Hi this is my first post here and I don’t know anyone here but I’m young and optimistic

#introductions


Welcome fren


Alan:

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


Do they wear shorts and get detention?


We are all elite, but in different ways.


Followed fren


Already have pics: https://image.nostr.build/b00e84ae718d3585a3d54b9c02efa5f7ce55b25dcbb91a1a15410efdc4c101d2.jpg


Agreed


No, you should eat the pack, just the contents.


Isn't a wheel technology?


All nocoiners?


Just wait till you see ETNs, they're like ETFs, but don't require being backed by the actual asset.


Also:

11. Rewrite Cisco Netflow so that the NSA can use it to surveil their own citizens
12. Make Cider
13. Use AT codes from a 1980's modem to login to a BBS to discuss how to access the Internet via a SLIP connection instead of a shell Unix account.
14. Take 2 years of coding on VAX/VMS to realise the command NOON means midday, not Not On.


OpenAI will merge with Unitree to create a killer robot with hyper intelligence.


I'm looking at Malta or St Kitts & Nevis atm

Malta is my preference, but St. Kitts in the case of WW3


Normies are just starting to ask about Bitcoin.


Wine is better than tea


Well well well - here we go again.

Coming Soon to UK plebs....

Mill Rule Timber Frame Structures

- Design
- Consult
- Fabricate
- Install
- Finish

Low Time Preference
Proof of Work
Regenerative Forestry System
Stump to doorstep supply chain
Large spends with no KYC
Much Pleb, very wow

Buy a house with Bitcoin no KYC.

DM inquiries until the new website is up. Or comment below 👊

https://m.primal.net/ILGN.jpg
https://m.primal.net/ILGP.jpg
https://m.primal.net/ILGQ.jpg
https://m.primal.net/ILGR.jpg
https://m.primal.net/ILGS.jpg


Last month I bought a Vintage bus tour of Warsaw as part of their halving party celebrations.

I used Zeus and my own node to send the Sats, it was almost as much fun as the bus tour.


When did launches become drops?


ETH ETF and Trump accepting Crypto donations 😂


How much do you owe them?


I thought it would pump and I was wrong.

Although it did pump for about 2 hours, so I could claim I was right if I wanted to save face.


But it's still more fun to make fun of other people, right?


Don't trust, verify.


Can you get Startlink?


Troo


I know, I was messing with you fren.

Tik Tok Next Block


Who audits auditors?


Voyager golden disk, which returned to this galaxy in Star Trek the Motion Picture as Vyger, which was rubbish.


Even if they use wit and humour as their only weapons?


What about a CBDC?


Yeh, what about them foreigners, hey? You can't live with them, you can't get stuff done without them. 😂


Wen UK?


Bitcoin Pizza Day is it's holiday, it's a fun day out for all the family and you get 2 Pizzas for $680M dollars to boot.


😂  (I think) 😱


Is AOL messenger still going?


Sure man


Whatsoever


Wen Atomic?


Can I ask a question?

Why did Bitcoin divorce Ethereum?

Bitcoin is money and an asset.

Ethereum is a turing complete global compute engine with a settlement token that has value.

They're different.


I would have thought NFTs are more its thing 😂


I use an electric scooter, a lot of fun, especially as it's highly illegal, despite being able to hire them legally.

I love idiotic government laws 😂


Imagine trading shells and then somebody shows you some gold and you don't have any and don't know how to get it.

Isn 't that a threat?

Education is at the core of freedom technology.


Hey, where's my frens from Malta, we're coming house hunting in July, would be good to get some local knowledge.


Yeh, politicians are all air breathing morons


Yeh, the only dumber one I’ve heard of is Monty Pythons “Ministry of Silly Walks”

And that was a comedy sketch in the 1970’s


So when we've orangepilled the world then.


I've just looked up "ATF" and it stands for Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms!

I don't get it, aren't they all legal in the US?


wen competent politician?


👀

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/bitcoin-may-be-coming-to-metamask/


Also, no, don't send traceable BTC.

Obfuscate the shit out of it.


Yep, it's a bank, about as KYC'd as you can get.

Until you can buy your weekly shop and Lambos with BTC, we have to use the existing system.

It's a hybrid model that will be needed for a few years yet, unless you live in El Salvador.

Funny story, however, the app is so bad, I couldn't enter my postal address in correctly, so I KYC'd with the error and now they think I live in a fictitious location 😂


They're all at it now:

https://x.com/xapobankapp/status/1793635338725810538


I'll believe it when I see it:

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/us-house-passes-market-structure-bill-to-regulate-the-industry-white-house/


Who turned off their farm after the adjustment?

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


Just looked at my iPhone icon. I think they used Fiverr to get the logo design done 😂 https://image.nostr.build/0b58eaaf20853e45589fea7a55c84c89efc37a3641f5d4cc06869c84b6e3ea1a.jpg


Really?

If I had a thousand guesses, that wouldn’t be one of them.


Slice of Cheese on a Pizza?

Happy Bitcoin Pizza Day!


Today 10,000 bitcoins can buy you Pizza Pizza the company twice. How's that for growth in purchasing power? https://image.nostr.build/1bf05322ef5508c2b3ef4e66dbfe9f954f262eebdf861d70c59061f7cc1ac66f.jpg


Me too


Happy Bitcoin Pizza 🍕 Day! https://image.nostr.build/da4828211f8a7c695b362c24993ec369597d8004e410182e2bbd7e619183b7a0.jpg


WTF WEF WHO?


Happy Bitcoin Pizza 🍕 Day


The Mangles


Meanwhile, No. 1 News story on the Isle of Wight:

https://www.countypress.co.uk/news/24332484.popular-isle-wight-seafront-cafe-getting-great-feedback/?ref=socialflow


COPA vs Craig Wright

231 page judgement

Phew, that wasn't a page turner!!!!

That ends the day and the reading.

Thank you COPA!

https://www.opencrypto.org/


On Page 231 of 231, of COPA vs Wright,

Compensation to follow after publication of this judgement:

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They sent money to Satoshi:

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


Sounds like everybody got shafted on Craigs side:

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


Wow, who cuts their own throat with a knife? 😱 :

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


Yeh, selling out, that's the reason Craif didn't want to transfer Satoshi's Bitcoin 😂

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


Signing a document isn't difficult unless you're Craig Wright:

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


What kind of idiot would connect private keys to 1.1M #Bitcoin to the public Internet? 😂

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


It looks like Craig Wright claimed to be Satoshi in a hope of borrowing against Satoshi's 1.1M #Bitcoin in order to pay his legal fees in defending fraudulent tax refunds:

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


A possible reason for the creation of #Faketoshi

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


😂

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


😂

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


It's interesting to see that the Judge in the COPA vs Wright case is spending a lot of time justifying his ruling in anticipation of it being retried by an appeals court.

He is anticipating weaknesses and objections and refuting them upfront.


not mine / mine


WTF:

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


In reading the COPA vs Craig Wright ruling I had this realisation:

Any complexity at any level can be explained to any rational third party. The difficulty is not explaining the complexity, for a true expert is always able to do this. The only constraint is time. Complexity requires time to detail and thus the limitation is the time willing to be allocated by both parties in the conveyance of information.

If time is not a limiting factor, anything can be explained to anybody of any reasonable intelligence.


Finally: nostr:note138mejw3hjznyndt339txpgmf2h97ac7wcy9ahfj5jqelxmj6ur4sz6ta38


Free will is choosing one of the paths left open to you by all your previous choices and all the choices made by every living thing since the dawn of life on earth 530 million years ago.


VISA says $14.1T, couldn't find a number for Mastercard:

https://annualreport.visa.com/financials/default.aspx


gm, today is an important day for #Julian #Assange and for press freedom all around the world. Today, we'll see how much integrity the UK court system really has (or how corrupt it really is). The US wasn't able to guarantee first amendment rights for Assange because that is something a US judge would have to decide when in court. They also said they wouldn't prosecute Assange on death penalty offences but if they're going to lock him up in a small concrete cube without windows for multiple life sentences, what's the difference?

Both of their guarantees are nothing but empty words and legal sleight of hand. Journalism isn't illegal, exposing government corruption, overreach and killing of civilians isn't illegal. There is no reason Julian should be in jail anywhere. #FreeAssangeNOW

https://image.nostr.build/02f13107b6811ad678c25bc55199706f25b1e0039833b5c83386b1f30fb1cb86.jpg


#FreeAssangeNOW

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgLUWl4jjN4


I wouldn't be able to afford the ink cartridges.


I find it strange when using on / off ramps that banks and exchanges send messages like:

"We have increased your limits"

Don't patronise me, #Bitcoin has no limits


My Robot's addicted to the stuff:

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


Just going boating, wish me luck!


Yeh, that's my view


This:

https://youtu.be/atZv4x5akIM


Try eating a raw onion, let me know how you get on


But the media is as stupid


How’s this: https://image.nostr.build/b9a22f3c6f0930cac461fefafa5eb0547626c6fa6f9bfebdf9a55a53bb55609a.gif


What’s your opinion of stablecoins for this function?


I prefer the Italian version fascist goreng


You lies with the fishes? https://image.nostr.build/b6e35a26dd0cb17eb60bb2c2d78b26a8ba81d47c80bdfa922f3abf20975c07d5.jpg


That’s a very controversial statement


What you do in the privacy of your own bedroom is nobody else’s business


Don’t die hard fans follow Bruce Willis?


No I haven’t, it sounds like a real page turner though.

Another work of fiction I have read is:
“I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” by Harlan Ellison
Now that’s a scary read.

Have you spoken to a Scientologist recently?


Just pay for a better plastic surgeon next time https://image.nostr.build/e31bcaef19ecf737c2cd6492cec77a7561111e3951e5132e2925675a5c7d1d7a.jpg


Then get this:

https://m.unitree.com/g1


Is that one of those all you can eat  competitions?


Exactly 👍


I take my women on the rocks


I once voted nostr:npub1a6k75m9m2qv2ry8sz9u90hj38np8r5jvj374dnvzc49xke9wg7jqhnmu4x as my favourite fish on NOSTR

Others chose Salmon


It’s OK, Google it. No harm will come to you. https://image.nostr.build/0cc0314049a85c55f753faf43d1f20eee8c5ea17e8d9fe743aa9eb08c96a38a7.jpg


Have you ever tried Nasi goreng?


It did end, Michael Flattley replaced it with Lord of the Dance


The most important case of our lives & everyone is distracted 🤡.

https://image.nostr.build/cae870354ce45de73844f2ddb9582e637c1577308bb6e8b22cb360b63e1d554c.jpg


Get a Luba:

https://uk.mammotion.com/products/luba-2-awd-5000-perimeter-wire-free-robot-lawn-mower


Mine also farts and plays Christmas music too loudly from the 1st December


Racism and sexism I understand, cos the person you don’t like is obviously different to you.

Antisemitism I could never grasp because unless somebody nudges you to point out a tiny difference you hadn’t noticed, how do you know you don’t like them?


#lunchstr https://image.nostr.build/11012e3e46709695337629163371bed5bf2880a8f941cd2810056b613002bfe4.jpg


This morning, Westminster Bridge London
#FreeAssange #LetHimGoJoe

Photo:Isabell Jezek
https://m.primal.net/IHzD.jpg


Try it, let’s see what happens!


I prefer ethics to ease.

It's harder, but I'm going to continue to work on decentralising NOSTR


#Faketoshi is gone and with that the first #nChain patent has been revoked by the EU patent office in Munich. Kudos to Arthur van Pelt.
 https://image.nostr.build/4191bb5295561675e55b146e3ceb06c43c3500de2348f931abe9cd0c7eadd913.jpg


Is that advice aimed at me?


That seems very centralised to me


This is the way


Not your relay, not your notes


I'm trading in my Robot Dog:

https://www.unitree.com/g1


$16K

https://youtu.be/AW952y5INBQ


Can’t Zap you fren


Drivechains, Side chains, Spider chains, Soft Chains, Space Chains, Cross Chains, Anchored Chains,  Rollups, ecash, Mints, Lightning, Liquid...argggh. Just took another peek at Jameson Lopp's excellent Bitcoin Information page:
 https://www.lopp.net/bitcoin-information/other-layers.html

It's a couple of years since I started pealing the Bitcoin layer 2 onion and I still don't feel like I'm any closer to having a decent grasp.

Which of the L2s enable final settlement of payments in addition to clearing without recourse to the underlying UTXO?

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


Competition time:

Which deflates faster, fiat or Lambo?

Answers in comments please

#Bitcoin solves this https://image.nostr.build/7f13f18988842e25c4ddca0c4701c8997188444b72e305b9af853665a67886ff.jpg


Has he found a parrot yet?


I need to sort out my relays again

Suggestions welcome


Isn’t cancelling the debt called bankruptcy?

No leader would want to be the one to do that on their watch.

Imagine the legacy they would leave


News is when you neighbour goes to hospital or your mate gets a new job.


📢Time to swap your ad blocker for a bitcoin lightning-enhanced version from AdblockPlus  or  UBlock

Ad blocking browser extensions are among the most used web extensions these days with three of them in the TOP10. Their installed base is massive. What if these extensions support bitcoin  payments?

That’s why we are excited to announce that ABP and uBlock support bitcoin payments, or at least their open-source forks do 😃

 nostr:npub19hg5pj5qmd3teumh6ld7drfz49d65sw3n3d5jud8sgz27avkq5dqm7yv9p  brought full payment functionality to the most downloaded browser extensions today and can do so with any app!
WebLN was used to make bitcoin payments programmatic on web apps: 1 click to pay. ⚡

Questions, ideas or feedback? Let us know.
Keep building 🫡

https://blog.getalby.com/block-ads-and-pay-in-bitcoin-today/


Payment for mice duties
https://video.nostr.build/9eb18246c7f479def88b42e3eedcefb99141694eb5c6a3f477e83beed240d6d6.mp4


I had one and can confirm it was as good as the photo above implies 😂


Did I miss the sane part?


Turkey is based


You’ve just had introcourse?

👀


Mine’s Dave down the road, his dog won’t stop yakking, it’s driving me nuts.


They’re too horticultured to take shortcuts


Remember folks, barbers are the only people trained to do shortcuts.


That puts Roald Amundsen to shame.


Ah, the working mans sex toy


As Chief Shitpost Officer elect, I make certain all posts are not taken too seriously, unless it is a serious post, in which case I take it to the Chief Serious Officer who deals with it in a way that is unfathomable to me.


It takes about 5 - 6 hours to do the Canal flight at Devizes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caen_Hill_Locks


Meanwhile on the Isle of Wight:

https://www.countypress.co.uk/news/24320792.man-living-thailand-completes-giant-isle-wight-map/


Bitcoin solves this:

https://buenosairesherald.com/society/ba-city-to-increase-subway-fares-by-359-in-april


The Wheel


Old Fed saying:

"Don't steal, print"