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 Thank you for your service sir 🫡, getting all those lovely atms to the people! ✊
You are an onboarding mastermind! 
One day soon, when the whole world uses bitcoin and ditches the fiat crap, after every atm transaction users will be played:
 https://video.nostr.build/cf6449447338c0d8c61ca8d0738a676516e54877d19b0913725c7c91a40a13d1.mp4 
 Thank you for your service sir 🫡, getting all those lovely atms to the people! ✊
You are an onboarding mastermind! 
One day soon, when the whole world uses bitcoin and ditches the fiat crap, after every atm transaction users will be played:
 https://video.nostr.build/cf6449447338c0d8c61ca8d0738a676516e54877d19b0913725c7c91a40a13d1.mp4

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 One million mints cleared by bitcoin fixes-ish everything. 
 1m trusted third parties, is not a "complete L2 solution* 
 So everytime I redeem it's an onchain transaction, and multisig is needed for issuing/sending ecash directly? Federations are very hard things to keep honest, which is why blockstream has spent millions keeping theirs honest.
Ecash works on bitcoin because it's on LN, but then funds are on a murky node the mint can swipe.  
 Nos-da
As was decided upon in the first ever central committee meeting 
 Love frisby. Read his books, they're also great audio books. "Bitcoin: future of money" is the book saifedean plagiarised heavily (the good bits).
Also "History of tax" is 👌 
 Updated TPoS LNbits extension video. 
As well as a powerful bitcoin Point of Sale, you can now also use to sell bitcoin  back to customers, add items, tips, even *gulp* taxes 🚀
Thank you Talvasconcelos and all the contributors 🙌
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dg1BAzwSQw 
 We will be running a little fundraise at BTCPrague for underfunded projects in bitcoin/nostr that need a bump and some exposure ❤️. 
Attendees will be able to donate to areas and/or specific projects. Will be finalising the list tomorrow. Please suggest projects below 👇 
 👌 Thank you!!!  
 Satsdice LNbits extension, a bitcoin    casino in a QR code!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f7RBIpTFlw 
 The vulnerability was patched and a new release created many months ago. 
That's how software works, particularly money software. 
 It was patched in January, when the bug was disclosed.  
 Events LNbits extension, create/sell event tickets for bitcoin  (includes ticket scanner!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGTkJ9e5TNk 
 What is CivKit? 
 Stop it you 😂 
 People wouldn't need to buy cases if the outer components of each phone were easily and cheaply r... 
 Yeah it's madness, all the slick design that goes into a phone then we slap fuggly rubber cases on them. Cant think of any other product that has that UX journey  
 $10 Nostr Zap Lamp, lights up when you get zapped! ⚡😍
So cheap and easy to build you really have no excuse. Even better, run a workshop at your local bitcoin/nostr meetup 🎉🔥
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6MoN8_TTII 
 You can also be lazy and buy one from our shop https://shop.lnbits.com/product/nostr-zap-lamp 
 That feels like a good problem to have 
 Can someone pirate and put here? 🏴‍☠️ 
 Hahaha. Panels 👉👈 
 localtunnel.me is very cool! 
 Yes, but now https://serveo.net is back, that's my go to 
 Holy shit, worked for me earlier today. I know the dude, he in fact built a binary so we can have a one click tunnel out from lnbits. Another thread on a back burner, very important tho.  
 Hackers spam. Micropayments fix this 
 Letting the wine breath rather than chugging it from the bottle 
 I'm sure some POW out there has secured a seed in their rear.
A toast to that trailblazer 🍻 
 Fam, is there some fancy charts somewhere of historical/live nostr metrics, preferably foss 🤞? 
 Wow, perfect!  
 Barefoot driving is the best way to drive   (normal cars) 
 Yep! Once you start you can't go back.  
 Had a few too many beers, and went full McAfee in a speaker application.
 https://image.nostr.build/7668f012d2a0b1873e487bd30b062bf1a5fb052a7c0317cc1fea8183ea511fe6.jpg 
 I'm Neuro Divergent.

I don't understand most of what you people say.

This place is not for me.

 
 We are all neurodivergent here! These are your people  
 🫡
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 Thank you for your service. 
 follow the money. 
 Yerp 
 Let the relay whack-a-mole begin, until they are exhausted and can whack no more.
The fight against free press and online freedom ramping up.
 https://image.nostr.build/50ea3661613d5e896af86f23648a96d909aceff6570b2a30bda4a30ef5632825.jpg
 
https://torrentfreak.com/u-s-know-your-customer-proposal-will-put-an-end-to-anonymous-cloud-users-240425/ 
 Just use the LNbits relay extension. It's a few clicks, has ui and is packed full of features.  
 Hey nostriches, I need your help with some advice. 

After 2 years doing my best to counter bitco... 
 NEVER sell your stack. 
 You'll only ever regret. The type of stack you can live off for a short period now, will be life changing money in 5 years. Burning the stack to altruisticly self-fund developing things is a very slippery slope, you won't get it back and no one will thank you. I speak from experience. 
 Non-compete clauses in employment contracts are a terrible way to shift power away from workers a... 
 Bitcoiners need to be more aware of the battleground we are on. 
We are challenging the worlds power structures.
This epoch is when the fight begins.
There are MANY internal forces here to stagger the growth of #bitcoin,  no matter how much 'they' sound and look like us. It used to be the random people asking probing questions at a conference, now it's some of the people on the stage. Why would we expect less ftom this dissident technology.  
 So the first port of call with Nostr was to replace the telegram group we used to discuss nostr, does a nostr telegram exist yet? Catch me up  
 I'm with you. People keep sending me rune crap expecting I know wtf it is 🤷🏼 
 The fee argument is really a misunderstanding of bitcoin, bitcoin winning means fees are/will be ... 
 People are so tard on this. They've all been spoiled by low Onchain fees. This is why I love ordinals, ANYTHING to get Onchain fees so people actually tackle scaling. Humans don't tackle problems unless they are critical. When Onchain fees are in £1000s then we are winning.  
 That was my long running pointless protest against zaps.
(even though we're building a bunch of things that use zaps, so it's time to climb down from this lonely hill no one cares about)  
 Our anthem. Thank you Christian ♥️
Every nostr meetup must play this at least 3 times. 

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 most important: ecash has a mint

mint is custody
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 And transcend to a Rube Goldberg Node operator🥇🥇🥇 
 So I hear I am an ecash hater?
To be clear, I love ecash, it has great applications, such as paid API calls like in Wasabi. The worlds soft currencies will be ecash, built on Bitcoin stack.
There is however an issue when 90% bitcoiners think ecash is noncustodial, pegged, see it as a "scaling" solution.
* There are no proof of reserve proposals that make sense, mints can always brr.
* Ecash is not a scaling solution, it's a custodial solution.
* You are giving someone your bitcoin, and they are giving you a thing they claim is bitcoin.
* Mint operators should be aware of the legal risks. 
 Yep, although unless I'm sure a load of resources are being used to keep the federation honest, like with Liquid, I trust federations less than single ttps, look at all the federations that get sybiled.  
 That was the original plan 😔 
 Game theory doesn't work for me either, the murky mints rug pull incentive is too large, like using a darknet market knowing they'll exit scam at some point. Mints you could trust will be hit hard by regulators, prob on issuing money, which is a biggie.  
 When key delegation goes wrong

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 Hahababa  
 OMFG CheatCode the hackspace is amazing, thank you Peter McCormack/Danny Knowles!
Next door to main venue, we will start running sessions from 5:30pm 🔥
MASSIVE shoutout to Yvette for the incredible resources she organised for us all 🙌 🤯🙏
 https://image.nostr.build/25b83d15e01ad9c01504f5fe8407fd890eb5974669d30825ad2b342c836c5f07.jpg
 https://image.nostr.build/a6f34621b750beb0e3ce8b20442b8e344ce39bff5b6693e57c05ff2c8d89f5f2.jpg 
 We will start with nostr meetup/panel/demo/workshops 530-630pm, then bitcoin workshops and talks until 9pm
Pop on over 😘 
 Going to CheatCode Conf in Bedford?
Come to our Nostr meetup (530pm-7pm in the hackspace room), for panels, 
talks and workshops! 
See you there 💜💜💜
(hugely cool thing to be unveiled) https://image.nostr.build/618803b4c6815821d54bc17711bb44160a72cf780721931fabb4746037164468.jpg 
 Cool. Now contribute to the foss projects/devs that gives bitcoin value 👍
It'll increase your portfolios value, so really a no brainer 
 Gm Nostr! #nostrhelp for a friend of mine in the Netherlands 🇳🇱 

He is paid in crypto (mos... 
 Did he mix his coins or something? 
EU doesnt really care as long as he can prove source.  
 Can he ask his employer to pay him in fiat? That's the easiest option.  
 The most confusing thing for new bitcoiners to wrap their heads around is that nostr:npub1h8nk234... 
 Isn't he?!  
 Not sure where you are going wrong, I span up multiple instances yesterday. Are you resetting from lnbits dot com? That'll wipe the settings, something up with your funding source 
 Can you recommend a good non-Bitcoin podcast? 
 Yeah, that was great (although skip the docker episode)  
 #Bitcoin is a threat to totalitarianism and communism, so be wary of politicians that say Bitcoi... 
 Bitcoin is direct democracy, the purest form of democracy. 
 Did you ever stop and *really* think about what it means to "do a Satoshi Nakamoto"?

Context for... 
 Almost all bitcoiners larp anonymity. What Satoshi did was amazing, there no comparison, all the communication and so few breadcrumbs, even the red herrings he planted, it's a work of art.  
 His name for a start