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 Wow, paid $40 on fees for transaction today 🚀🤩 
bitcoin IS digital gold (with commodity use cases we may not agree with), secured deep in a Swiss bunker with guards. Onchain being expensive to move should be expected. Just because we had a time with low demand, shouldn't skewer expectations.
The sooner Onchain low fee enviroment ends, the better. People need incentives to work on actual scaling solutions, LN, Liquid, swaps will work great for now.
Futures bright 🔥 
 Why is this elitist?
Why do you think bitcoin Onchain transactions should be cheap? Onchain deliberately has very limited trans per sec.  
 I don't see the logic of me rejoicing high fees so people work on scaling being elitist 🤷🏼
You want a bitcoin the whole world can access, but you don't want high onchain fees?  
 I'm not saying it's a rich man's game.  
 LNbits/Makerbits will be managing the hackspace at Bitcoin Atlantis, forging the tools of liberation in Madeiras mighty volcano. 
Will be unconf style, workshops and hacking aplenty, Join us!
🌋🔥🔧🚀
https://t.me/+PSLRjhj1FFs2ZjM8 
 New LNbits release 🎉
0.11.3 Leo, Includes:
* AI helper for translations 😍 by Pavol
* Optional fiat balance for wallets by Tal 
* Bunch of optimisations
Welcome new contributors! HaosGames StackingSaunter 🙌
https://github.com/lnbits/lnbits/releases/tag/0.11.3 
 A very short/easy bitcoinSwitch tutorial using the new web installer by DNI.
Turn anything on with bitcoin
🚀🚀🚀
(now as easy as building lego!)

https://video.nostr.build/33d6f978a9d544c9fdfece8c2c05d85d71eff7080511fb1d719701b3db40c5a1.mp4 
 Just listening to Peter McCormack's latest pod... people argue over whether nostr rhymes with pro... 
 
Nos-da was the pronunciation decided on the first video every made about Nostr. If you pronounce it any other way you will have your account on nostr suspended. 

Nos-da is also Welsh for goodnight 😴

nostr:nevent1qqstg3yjcq62snppsrpzz949h2533dpjfg30stgq0m4vz002stww5hcpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejsygrgzy027kxldu92g8lr6hhllaked24etaerzy8psqxfg29gtevymupsgqqqqqqs8thmvd 
 nostr:nevent1qqsg8t5zv4nw3ewa7cap2efm43qrq7wrnnfuq4rfeg087d66ffhsykcpz3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezummcw3ezuer9wcpzps0uwaclt7jp3lf6cjfzrgv0rx6zejm6vc763uzvh0mvpryq6g93qvzqqqqqqyusu2ca 
 People will learn; their walled gardens are just pretty prisons. 
 Hey, I'm new to #nostr and looking to connect with people who are into #OpenSource,  #decentraliz... 
 Making a tutorial video today/tomorrow. Was just slammed on other stuff 
 Because he is a normal human being, not some whacko paranoid bitcoiner like us 😂 
 OH man. That is soooo awesome. I had a super profitable  business shut down by eBay when they cha... 
 
Having a centralised service in a business stack is a sword of Damocles. 
With nostr, those random centralised rule changes that destroy good ideas/projects/businesses, no longer exists.
nostr:nevent1qqsgg9puq7j9267wan892vmv2lw3h0r6nk8cudyetznc2006wcq46kqpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfdupzqjj720lnk7x4hkug5k6755tgrk67eu6657kkls4lrgsa3ewfvwgmqvzqqqqqqyky42z2 
 New LNbits release 0.11.2 Leo 🔥
* Improved fee support (charge per transaction for users for using your install)
* Alby as a funding source
* Bunch of optimisations/improvements 😍
5 new contributors🚀🚀🚀
Welcome uxuycom kallerosenbaum skrafft sebastix psychoet 🥳
https://github.com/lnbits/lnbits/releases/tag/0.11.2 
 You talking about njump?
Hardly spyware, and only if you use /<event> param 
 This issue you have is with the njump project,. Any tracking they use is restricted to `/<event>` on nostr dot com. 
Lame move hijacking this thread to push a bunch of FUD.  
 I don’t understand the obsession with getting my grandma on nostr. 

Products need to start wit... 
 Check dms 🙏 
 Turn your bitcoin PoS into an ATM 😍
Made a tutorial showing this and MORE in the new LNbits TPoS updates, lead by Tal 🙌
✅ Create circular economies
✅ Incentivise merchants
✅ Mock legislation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zh34t9kjtxM
 
 Today, I had a conversation with a friend's acquaintance who expressed a desire to "do something ... 
 It's not lack of understanding what's needed for nostr dot com, it's time/resources. We'll get to it. Dedicating more resources to an overhaul and making the site more useful is why I put it under the official management of LNbits Inc. Once LNbits Inc's seed raise is complete, its a priority. 
 Nostr Market: The problem of censorship-resistant, decentralised markets has been solved.
Just published a short tutorial of our LNbits Nostr Market clients 🚀🎉
https://youtu.be/t9Z2tEsrNIU?si=x6VEHiDndPtiEOtK 
 You talking about njump?
Hardly spyware, and only if you use /<event> param 
 He's talking about njump located on only `/<event>` I think, which has some tracking (not by us, but the njump project). If he hates njump so much he should fork, and create a version without tracking we can use🙏 
 It's just a censorship p2p marketplace client. YOU decide on the merchants you expose yourself to. We will maintain a list of merchants for convenience but only for vanilla clearnet stuff.  
 Lest we forget 🌹 
 Your Nostr experience is pegged to the client you use. 
For me Amethyst feels like the best parts of Reddit and Jack's-twitter combined. Not just a clone, a unique new platform that's a real pleasure to use. Regardless of censorship-resistant, blah, blah, it's just a glorious user experience 💜 
 😂 
 Lightspark is a soulless, captured, knock-off LNbits 😂 
 Every time we teach someone how to use cryptographic keys, we are teaching them the tools of liberation. 🗝️🔥
Nostr is the perfect excuse. 
 Tivoli is sick.
Walt Disney went there as he wanted Disneyland to have same vibe (failed horribly obv).
❤️ Copenhagen. What other city has an amusement park (Tivoli), and anarchist Freetown (Christiania), within it 😍 
 nostr:npub1c878wu04lfqcl5avfy3p5x83ndpvedaxv0dg7pxthakq3jqdyzcs2n8avm Does #lnbits support Nostr ... 
 No, but it will soon 👍 
 Getting electronics ready for nostrasia Tokyo workshops 🚀
Building zap-lamps, NSD (Nostr-signing-device), and LNPoS (offline bitcoin points of sale). 
Free to attend 😘⚡

https://image.nostr.build/5e95d7ac42cbf2740e5c153493c2b5785590ec53ba4fcca314c70f25c94f50fd.jpg

https://image.nostr.build/d3255b00d6c4a92c0fda6fe8a300766e0508b915812a50fcaf903ac4daa72e40.jpg 
 Who should I bring on TGFN to talk about making a parallel no kyc internet? Preferably with actio... 
 Yeah that's all stuff we have talked about, using Nostr for mesh. Happy to come on show 
 Local, I imagined controllers connected over wifi or ble. Espmdf does this and it's sick. Controllers can be both clients and relays, and map the network using gossip.  
 Had a crazy realisation. Ebay only has 50m users, and amazon 300m, because its restricted by bank accounts. Really it should have 3bn users like facebook. 
Nos_tr-market is the most powerful "bankless" digital market, so can only win.
6bn people have smartphones, 6bn!

https://image.nostr.build/1cc51e80c98c588bb2bca06bd6d96d16d30d396b1950fa9baa53e243fb446329.jpg 
 Run the client yourself locally, wherever https://github.com/lnbits/nostr-market-app 
 Also please tell me you don't take my self-proclaimed title seriously 😂
If so, it was a bad attempt at irony on my part 
 No, the client is just empty template that fills. My marketplace client will be full of vanilla stuff, on someone elses browser something else, all depends on the merchants keys they pull in 
 Sex work is a killer use case for bitcoin and nostr that we don't actively develop enough free and open-source software/hardware for.
If anyone is interested in joining our "bitcoin for sex workers" research/development group connecting devs/contributors/users, please DM me. 


https://image.nostr.build/439fb5952747bcc172153da4c04610d060c1e4797fd3daa2bee91d0a2e249923.jpg 
 Huge props to all contributors in the TheBitcoinConf unconf-ghetto free and open-source workshop area 🚀
Building LNPoS, $10 Hww, bitcoinswitch, beertaps, BTCclock, Sticker Vending machines.
Few tables, power and BOOM! self-sovereign hardware 🚀🚀🚀


https://video.nostr.build/046ca0861ea3b6a748c742f23551f35c35640ab7206dc1ce4848e93110d091cb.mp4 
 How does IoT STOP being an Orwellian nightmare?
Use nostr! 🚀🤯

https://github.com/arcbtc/nips/blob/107/107.md 
 See, you get it! If nostr were made for just iot it would be justified. We are working on demo 👍  
 Bah, what do you mean?  
 When you go to cbase in Berlin and people are paying for drinks with their bitcoin nfc rings on an LNbits android PoS 🍻
This has made my month 🤯

https://video.nostr.build/6746b5d689a9e5e9138076ab9f45d8545432c1bed95ad34fe6e25f73edbcb48c.mp4 
 That exists for visa tap/pay 
 The new n o s t r marketplace by Motorina0 and Talvasconcelos is glorious 

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

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

tinyurl.com/nostrmarket


https://image.nostr.build/65cbf96b8373a8a9d0358acea3dae511ef93599ac4b87cd045bbe4a71cc5288b.jpg 
 Eventually, it solves that problem  
 Man, so used to splitting up "nostr" on twitter posts so it doesn't shadow ban, I did it on nostr!  
 Yep. Great idea 
 Today I learned from nostr:npub1c878wu04lfqcl5avfy3p5x83ndpvedaxv0dg7pxthakq3jqdyzcs2n8avm that b... 
 At least that won't happen to nostr.com 🔥 
 That's how we got to the topic, I was explaining where some of toxicity came from.  
 As immunity to forces that tried to coopt the protocol  
 Translation : No one is stupid enough to pay $5M for a domain name 😆 
 It's who buys it, rather than people wiling to buy 
 Yeah, pretty much 
 Wrote an article about not selling nostr.com to shitcoiners, and our plans for the site🔥

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/nostr-com-not-selling-it-to-shitcoiners 
 Only a paradigm which gives users full control of what they are exposed to, will work for new UK social media bill, which is exactly what nostr does. Funny how the pursuit of censorship resistance creates the safest enviromemt for users. 
https://image.nostr.build/07921800bf5034aa2b86bba41de6c753d2889ec2ae38085aec7a770ee3a57c4c.jpg 
 Man I HATE telegram topics in groups. Just because the functionality exists doesn't mean you need to use it. 
Tg is much better as a flowing conversation/stream of consciousness. 

https://image.nostr.build/8977bc987958cb1a59e84c2986f5428ff54880fdff3021d08d2e5ab6b9c9b0f1.jpg 
 New Nostr Theme Song?

nostr:nevent1qqsxvzr8207tsqpqhf8a87sg3z82y85xt726r97m6w9px3gnmy6ps0qpz3mhx... 
 That was already chosen, did you not get the memo? 
https://youtu.be/SkkIwO_X4i4 
 I own a musket for home defense, since that's what the founding fathers intended.

Four ruffians ... 
 Wherever you draw that line, proliferation of gun ownership makes the line more extreme. Here in UK a cricket bat will do, as the ruffians won't have guns. If they did have guns I'd want a machine gun, if they had machine guns I'd want (whatever comes next, chlorine gas?), etc, etc, etc 
 OMFG I'm such a doofus I didn't realise Amythyst has a "new requests" button in DMs! Really sorry to anyone who reached out, and I didn't answer back, making my way through now.. 

https://image.nostr.build/f32cde355c956d0a18cb558e535354d1eb1f5947fe0e68e02c4dad81c9e9cc58.jpg 
 I better get our Marketplace going.. 🤑

nostr:nevent1qqsrvd8rd022e3dv7w40kufmkz5h6d2h945w77062... 
 Yes you do! More merchants joining in. Vlad started this for nip15  https://t.me/+OhfuguRtXQkwZGY8 
 Should Bitcoin maxis go on crypto podcasts and preach Bitcoin only to the shitcoiners? 🤔 
 Yep, agreed 
 I even wrote a couple of those nips you're using 
 I even wrote a couple of those nips you're using 
 Imo, people are too concerned about mining centralization. The physical ownership and operation o... 
 Opposite. Not enough people care about decentralising mining. The very fact taproot could get in off a few closed door agreements with miners IS an issue. 
 New LNbits release (0.10.10 Yvette++) 🚀
* Bunch of quality/performance improvements
* Optional fiat conversion in wallets by jackstar12
* CLN rest funding source added by Callebtc
Welcome contributors K0gen michael1011at enaples stackregister 🤗🔥
https://github.com/lnbits/lnbits/releases/tag/0.10.10 
 
How on earth did I not see this 4 days ago?

So it explains why #nostriches have been acting a b... 
 Nothing wrong in a dude selling a domain. Could be for the best. Ie we all wish Rogar Ver sold bitcoin dot com to someone better in 2013,. I'm Roger Ver (potentially)  
 That feeling when you realize a number crunching script you launched several days ago had the wro... 
 Low time preference debugging, like rendering av in the 2000s. Change a thing, wait 3 days, change another thing, wait 3 days... 
 Nostr dot com for sale! $5m, offer ends 20th Sept, at which point it will come under the umbrella/management of LNbits Inc for 3 years.
(If sold, I commit to 10% going to fiatjaf, and 10% towards LNbits development). DM or email ben at lnbits dot com if interested.

Rationale: I would of course prefer to keep it, but current needs must. I bought the domain in 2020 for $5k, and it's value is at least x1000. If its not sold, @lnbits will use for services, such as relays and sell NIP05 handles.

The sale must be to the right person/project/company who will use it for something great. 
 If I am in fact a dick then surely the domain would be better managed by someone else? Roger Ver didn't sell his domain and he is a monster dick. Would it of been a dick move if he had sold to something better? 
It's about seeing if a person/company/project exists out there who are appropriate to pass onto. Likelihood is that there is not, so LNbits will officially manage after 20th, so I'm less of an attack vector. Either way, whatever comes next for the domain is better.