Nothing is certain, but they would likely do everything possible to save the person’s life.  They would be protected by laws such as the “Good Samaritan Law.”


Printing money creates wealth like jacking off creates babies.


Peter asked Dylan:  “What’s your thought on ordinals?”

In summary, Dylan’s opinion on ordinals is likely heavily influenced by Bitcoin Magazine because he is part of that team.

He likely receives some payments or money from BM.

Know who has bought your influencer.

They are like politicians, but a lot cheaper.


Just happened, orange pill story.

Was trying to pay a local fixer, she must be in her mid 20's speaks English. Never really heard much about it. Didn't want it.

She insisted on WesternUnion/Visa solution, after fiddling for 20min we manage to send. She checks her  visa and is surprised by the fee. I give the I told you so spile, now she is open to bitcoin. I download the BitcoinJungle app on her phone, send her 5 bucks instantly. And show her the map of all the places she can spend it or sell it for dollars. Mind blown, she says next time bitcoin.


Bitcoin is nothing without the code you are running on your node.

If you don’t run a node, you are better off trusting central bankers.


What is bitcoin?

It’s the software you are running on your node.

If you are not running a node, you have no voice.


We won’t be free until you quit worrying about the price and start worrying about protecting #bitcoin.

At minimum, run a node.


Love seeing the run your own node guilt. Though I’m guilty of not running a Lightning node, there is no excuse to not be running a base layer node. #Bitcoin


Welcome.


Why?


Run a node.  Bitcoin doesn’t survive if you don’t contribute.

We need way more node runners.

These numbers are shameful and this is what losing feels like.

Quit worrying about the price and help somehow.


Is the consensus is everybody is selling GBTC?

Barry won’t stop until he has crashed the entire market


nostr:npub1dergggklka99wwrs92yz8wdjs952h2ux2ha2ed598ngwu9w7a6fsh9xzpc wrote an article on this awhile back


It has officially been one year, and everyone here freely using this open protocol most definitely gives a shit about it.

Cheers to everyone using #nostr today, and the many more who will soon realize its power 🤙 https://i.nostr.build/Zzak.jpg


Seems like we built an imaginary market on top of the real market and now the Bitcoin market is being dominated by the fake market and the fake market is manipulated by the state and we can’t have nice things because our collective IQ is in the pits and we are all addicted to drugs and alcohol and screens


The state sponsored attack on bitcoin is named “Barry.”

*opinion* and stated with the intention of being *comedy* 😉


Deer sausage with venison nachos on the menu for the Bucs win today https://i.nostr.build/GDWA.jpg


A beautiful picture.


We are glad you are here.  🙏


She is a keeper!


Getting ready for the Bucs game!!!! https://i.nostr.build/z6kZ.jpg https://i.nostr.build/AV96.jpg


I am hoping the degenerate gamblers keep the price of bitcoin down for another 10 days or so.


No


“I’m incredibly law following.” - Elon Musk


Love hearing stories like this…

Going to go hug my kids.


Flying on a 737 Max doesn't seem like a great idea.


Say it loud.  The globe trotting child molester and blackmailer used fiat banks!!!!

Fiat funds the evil in this world. nostr:note1zndkpj2mxgx87649vka34fut4y3qffjcv6udfecwayyvrs097k2qz78q09


PSA: Jeffrey Epstein didn’t use #Bitcoin.
He used #JPMorganChase.


Who needs an “attack on bitcoin” when the world is filled with low IQ scammers?


If I sent you 1 bitcoin and you sent me a check for 40k…would that have an effect on the market?


I’m in my 30s and don’t understand how a market is “made.”


The worst kind of maxi is a fake one.


He went from “all in” during the run up and “I need to diversify” in the bear.


Is bitcoinTina still around?


Is Greg Foss still around?


Anybody good with SEO?  I need to work on getting my business site to the top of the google rankings for searches such as:

“Urology near me”


We will moon soon. Brother, where is your faith?


No.  If an ETF can destroy bitcoin, let’s get it over with…


LFG! https://i.nostr.build/EVEM.jpg


I completed a half marathon today.  🤙


It’s Fight Week!…and yes that’s a #Bitcoin URL on my fight night clothes 😍 #btc https://image.nostr.build/52a1438f2ab8070429dabeba347a24d2c6c26712582fcd163c4586c4ca523bb1.jpg


If anybody wants a 9.8 graded bitcoin magazine, issue 1, I will sell it for 0.25 bitcoin.


USD fiat backed businesses will begin to crash over the next few years.

They will be forced into bitcoin or disappear.

If your bitcoins are owned by a business that holds its treasury or most of its assets in USD, you will also get REKT.

If you run a business and your treasury is not held in bitcoin, you will be REKT.

The more fiat on the balance sheet, the more shocking the crash will be.

Everything backed by fiat will die on our lifetime.

They will reemerge, of course.  And likely, the top shareholders and executives will do okay because they will be on the inside.

The pleb class will be REKT, but there is hope.

Buy a cold card and take custody of your Bitcoin.

This isn’t me shilling my bags, I genuinely believe this is going to happen.  In fact, I could make a strong case that it already is happening.


#art #artsr

Barrier grid animation 😎
https://video.nostr.build/10197bebe950166788c38a4279b77fb3454a607d39b0e9ccf9ed884c541f2874.mp4#m=video%2Fmp4&dim=720x1280&blurhash=%5DRIg_pxxkrXStR%23kIVR*XRX5%7DODiM_R%25R%25WHxut6kVbbM%7BxZofozkWxvxas%2CWBWVS6xus%3BayWB%24wM%7BjsagjubcbaRjV%40af&x=c0b8795307b12d94b56f177d9562fda1a44cfcec7ca1cdd99cafcb39b1a88374


I cut my hair because “you don’t look like a doctor.”

It won’t happen again.  I have always embraced being under estimated.


Can you post the link?


Did Nazis exist before bitcoin?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2024/01/12/nazis-white-supremacists-cryptocurrency-fundraising/72166804007/


How did Barry pay back 1 billion dollars when all his bases belong to us!


It’s 8:46 AM and 76 F.


a toast to aaron swartz 🥂


They didn’t want to approve the ETF, bitcoin forced their hand.

The orange enema.


Wouldn’t they have to sell to close the discount?

And then the outflows from paper hands who hate them for rekting the entire market.


I enjoyed reading this


My wife wants to know why you are selling your bitcoin.


“We” don’t have a problem.  They do.


GOOD MORNING NOSTR, STAY HUMBLE AND STACK SATS 🫡

WE LIKE THE COIN.
WE RUN THE NODES.
WE HOLD THE KEYS.
WE ZAP THE SATS.


This dude should work for Gensler 😂 https://i.nostr.build/BVrY.jpg


Don’t be the fool who sold their bitcoin to the institutions in 2024.


Regulators didn’t protect investors from Bernie Madoff.

Regulators didn’t protect investors from the 2008 crisis.

Regulators didn’t protect investors from SBF.

Regulators couldn’t even protect their own accounts from being “compromised.”

Regulators protect Wall Street and the political kleptocratic elite.


Little harsh man.


And the drunk has more followers than all of us combined.


Who will replace the 💩💩💩 we left behind during the last bear market?  Don’t let me forget anyone:

Kyle
Su
SBF
Alex Mashinsky
Do Kwon
Zac Prince (Did he pay you nostr:npub1rtlqca8r6auyaw5n5h3l5422dm4sry5dzfee4696fqe8s6qgudks7djtfs )

Voyager Capital

Genesis

Near Misses:

Richard Heart

Murad? Again? - Not 💩, just REKT trader

Raoul Pal

Barry Silbert and Michael Sonnenshein


I was hoping Richard Heart would end up disappearing (not dead), but he’s back and ready to use the next bitcoin pump to scam the NPCs of the world.


The corporate press had the Epstein-Maxwell story and didn’t put it out.

Survivors can now tell their own stories on a censorship resistant protocol either with their names or anonymously.

They don’t need the press.

They can’t be censored by the powerful.

This gives me hope.


The fiancialization of #Bitcoin by Wall Street has always been inevitable.

I'm not even very bright, but I've been talking about this happening for many years.

So this week will simply mark another milestone in the growth and development of the #Bitcoin monetary and financial network.

What's more interesting (to me) is what will happen over the ensuing years and decades.

As a completely separate monetary and financial network from the US dollar-led fiat/credit based network, I think that #Bitcoin will eventually grow too unwieldy and powerful to be contained by Wall Street, as well as by most corporations and fiat-based governments.

Eventually, possibly as soon as the 2030s, #Bitcoin will actually overpower fiat/credit-based entities, break free from their attempts at control and coercion, sever all remaining ties, and separate government from the production and control of money.

Truly, it will be a brave new world.

And, dare I say, it will be a much better world for the vast majority of humanity.

It's not a speculation, an investment, or a portfolio hedge...

#Bitcoin is better money for a better world.


My little #hold -ers #Bitcoin for the kids https://image.nostr.build/ceb0118f75453f0685ca7b3d106ea6d1eef3e30e2c929af0ac05ffa2f2ff02ef.jpg


Today’s loss is a reminder to the people of Jacksonville that they don’t matter.

DUUUUUUUVVVVVVVVWWWWWHHHHHOOOOOO?

#few


For years I have been hearing “the institutions are coming.”

From all the news circulating, it seems like they are likely to make a major appearance this coming week.

If so, I wouldn’t be surprised by a 5-10k daily candle.

*This note has nothing to do with my personal feelings about the bitcoin ETF.


Followed.


You are going to do great 🫂


Kind reminder: if you are still thinking in terms of red/blue partisan politics, you are an NPC.

There is no red.
There is no blue.
There is the State.
And there is you. https://i.nostr.build/8Prg.jpg


Good morning! All we need is #Love and #bitcoin nostr:npub1dld9hn3gsgtkh7atl26s8gd49qfjjkpdw8ztap9mk4n7vhq60y0satfd8s https://image.nostr.build/9f46bbd89e556e6bfb05e610518cc5a4b9c4a0202a790f5a74d40edd0dbd867b.jpg


Bitcoin is like the pyramids


I’m out of the loop. Can you explain this to me?


Pomp sold his soul for


Thx brother.  Was it okay?


Thx Tanel


We live. Would you mind sharing


If you guys wouldn’t mind joining in..-and sharing

https://nostrnests.com/14ytu6


https://nostrnests.com/14ytu6

I don’t like public speaking. This is going to be terrible


Very much true for dentistry and vets. Private equity money is pouring in. The money is enticing, but we were shocked by the terms you need to agree to in the sale. Profit optimization and optimal health care for patients don’t mix.


Spam Alert: How do I start a nest?  Expecting a turnout of around 3


How do I start a nest? nostr:npub1t3ggcd843pnwcu6p4tcsesd02t5jx2aelpvusypu5hk0925nhauqjjl5g4


This isn’t 4chan?


This is wild. Sad. And terrible. Reimbursements for us keep getting slashed year after year. We train for years and years to be able to stick sharp instruments into peoples eyes under a microscope, assume all the risk and liability and stress, and get paid a few bucks after overhead. Almost not worth it.


Will do my best for 7:30, share this, may need help


Have no clue how to do it


nostr:npub1xy54p83r6wnpyhs52xjeztd7qyyeu9ghymz8v66yu8kt3jzx75rqhf3urc any interest?  Im going to express some concerns


I need to vent.  I may do a nostr nest on the state of US health


nest*


If I were to do a talk on this, would anybody listen?  Maybe a meat this evening?


Many insurers pay less than the cost of the equipment I have to use.


Glad I’m not your slave.

There are very few people in the world who can do the things I do.

Keep your 20 dollars. I’m staying home.


I am burning 50k per month and treating 30 patients per day. Doing around 15 surgeries per week.

I am paying to go to work.

If I’m not taking a check by June, I’m going to close down and do something else.

I am killing myself with work and spending my savings to do so.


For those of you with health insurance, How does it feel to employ the Mafia?


“Microstructure”

“AI”

“Rotate jnto cash before a down turn”

“20 years experience doing this”. —> Bitcoin has not been around for 20 years, and it is a different beast.

“Very sophisticated.” nostr:note1x0cnuh8xn0r3ghj2ug4z8svgqwt822r5f9yk99e9u7w3ra39s6rsrtkg4q


Yes brother, absolutely. I hope the best for them, but to say I have concerns is an understatement.  Doesn’t help that every “influencer” is being paid by Swan.


I already have the PDF, just need it to be resized.  I know this is probably a simple task, but I don't want to pay adobe 19.99 per month and don't trust the "free" programs because they require phone number, email, full name, etc.  I'm sure its not difficult, but would prefer to get help.


Every program wants Name, Email, and Full Access to my google drive.  Would rather pay sats to somebody who already has the ability to do this.


Would anybody be willing convert a file to PDF with the following size constraints for me?

Size 4.9x5 (±5%)
File Type: PDF.
File size =< 45 MB.


“Everything is good for bitcoin” *

With the exception of a Jim Cramer endorsement nostr:note1e74kvkrvgg8x5cppxw9szu5lzemsg50p75ankza4957stjvlwehsjh4lky


I agree with nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx stack the rumor, stack the news.


Yesterday we were worried about Y2K.

Today, we all realize a quarter century has passed.


Let’s go… https://i.nostr.build/0dzY.jpg


And same to you Captain! 🫂


Why I care so much about bitcoin: https://i.nostr.build/DMWA.jpg


This was the video YouTube has placed as an advertisement before nostr:npub1s33sw6y2p8kpz2t8avz5feu2n6yvfr6swykrnm2frletd7spnt5qew252p latest video. https://i.nostr.build/7WdD.jpg


To them, the political elites, it’s about seizing and maintaining power.

For the rest of us, it’s potentially life or death.

The people of the world want the wars to fking end!

https://www.newsweek.com/biden-warns-us-military-may-get-pulled-direct-conflict-russia-1856613


When you sell, remember, “It was your destiny to HFSP.”


I enjoyed the interview. nostr:note1cqyserpmpnx94884eaz02esk0q023ltcwpg20zpgzy5nnhul83ts63dfkr


The socialists are coming for Milei.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/socialist-protests-erupt-argentina-milei-implements-austerity-cuts


We are dumping because the bitcoiners on Twitter have weak hands.


JAMIE DIMON TESTIFIED IN CONGRESS THAT THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD SHUTDOWN BITCOIN WHILE PARTNERING WITH BLACKROCK FOR THEIR BITCOIN ETF.

CLASSIC SUIT MOVE.

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


5,000 sats to somebody who can make a strong case for the payroll tax.

I take a risk and start a business.

I create well paying jobs for the community.

We provide a service to the community.

And then I have to pay a tax every time I pay the employee?


Networks can fall apart quickly…

https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Russia-Iran-Officially-Ditch-US-Dollar-for-Trade.html


Thx. Not good news.


What’s the news?


I told him I will get back to him tomorrow because I’m tired AF. nostr:note1ncggnpeqw9vwp8e7r72pxe2vfdz5f2yhapx2027t7y6y6aghergslguh3k


My 8 yo just asked me if fire is a solid, liquid, or gas. https://i.nostr.build/6llP.jpg


Isn’t this the exploit that REKT somebody like 1-2 weeks ago?


I made a career of this. 🫂


When you start selling your #bitcoin because banks validated your “thesis” and you are feeling like a king or queen, just know:

Although these criminal organizations will be buying your bitcoin, so will I.

I will soon prove, I didn’t come for “when moon?”

I came for a revolution and I have no plans to leave or sell a single satoshi.

Sell me your coins now!!!


You are helping with this. 🫂

Thanks for being here.


BREAKING: Grayscale Chairman Barry Silbert has resigned, as SEC approval of Bitcoin ETFs expected by January 10 https://image.nostr.build/c9dda382dc280121ab57a56abe05185dcc6734e3e32fac735d57ca23fd7e9bb7.jpg


I missed most of this Roya.  Whatever is going on with your health, we are pulling for you. 🫂


“Web 3” was always a VC funded grift.


Bitcoin and NOSTR are crucial.

Our freedom depends upon the success or failure of open protocols.

In a world where tech giants align with government, seeking to suppress and seize our liberties, the money and communication tools must be free and censorship resistant.


Jesus flipped the money changer tables, and it sealed his fate

Satoshi created #Bitcoin, turned the tables and left

The banker class, choose a couple of surrogates to punish, Julian Assage and Ross Ulbricht


Glad you are here.  Enjoyed your podcast with Peter.


Does Tay know about #bitcoin ?

https://youtu.be/QB8fjehyxfo?si=4aT2tSY4f4a-dZ2D


My name is Apollo.

nostr:npub1hu3hdctm5nkzd8gslnyedfr5ddz3z547jqcl5j88g4fame2jd08qh6h8nh and nostr:npub1cj8znuztfqkvq89pl8hceph0svvvqk0qay6nydgk9uyq7fhpfsgsqwrz4u are my parents.

I will inherit this vintage 2023 npub when I am old enough to subvert the State.
https://m.primal.net/HVLJ.jpg


Same to you and your family 🫂


Merry Christmas 🎄. Thank you so much for being “my people.”


Milei has been in for 2 weeks and they are already blaming the economic disaster on him.

https://dnyuz.com/2023/12/23/under-argentinas-new-president-fuel-is-up-60-and-diaper-prices-have-doubled/


My Mexican wife in a flour tortilla blanket. https://i.nostr.build/jVQ9.jpg


TBH, usually both, but for the business account would mainly be desktop.


What is the easiest way to manage two nostr accounts simultaneously? I use alby for this account, but want to start an account for my business.

My patient's are older, so 1 week ago I committed the sin of creating a business account on FB.  The page was suspended with no reason.  The only posts were pictures of the office, a welcome message, and christmas photos of our team.

I am going to migrate the account to NOSTR and "be the change," even if my reach is smaller.

Any help is appreciated. TY.


PEOPLE THINK AN IRRELEVANT OLD WOMAN CAN BAN BITCOIN BUT THEY CANNOT EVEN STOP BODEGAS FROM SELLING WEED.


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

The green transactions read "displaced by spam in core template."  Really clean UI and roll out by the ocean team.


https://ocean.xyz/docs/templateselection

This is good for bitcoin.


I’m just going to leave this right here.

https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_7d5354a5a79795b02dd541df2814a0274ebeeaca1d61d228cbd7ac8f271bd166.jpeg


How can I get a copy?


Most people still don’t agree.


She is really good, but when I log in, I choose add my name, instead of nsec.  Doesn’t offer extension login. When I put in my name it says “amazing continue,” but I never get an account


Yes. nostr:note1mwa057sjkk27rna69njhmvdhv6605mqc3hxfvn7rfz23nrph3v2qw5z738


The volume on liquid, albeit still extremely low, is picking up a lot.

This is good IMO.


Ive been reading about the fall of Rome. Not from the dry academic perspective of power, but from the perspective of what it was like on the ground for the people living there.
I dont have alot of conclusions yet, except that it wasn't a singular event, and everything didn't just collapse. It went on for centuries after that, with different regional powers morphing and shifting. In fact, for some, the fall of Rome passed as a distant reality. And the "fall" was less of a fall, and more of a gradual reduction in power and influence, until they were no longer able to keep all Roman territories under strict control. At which point they fragmented off, out of Roman control. In some cases this was bad, in other cases, it really wasn't that bad at all. The sacking of Rome by the Visigoths was really more of an embarrassing outward symbol of what had already occurred.
It feels like now, the post WW2 Liberal economic order has already fallen. And what we are seeing now, are the shifting and morphing, as well as those who have prospered being in control of this order, do everything within their crumbling power, to make things stay the same. But they cant, because they have already changed.


Outstanding work. Truly. nostr:note1qtvvv8ph3v4p9gsmcltll39defjd4fjqfefn3t6txg82fhcmj9jsv9asmr


I am somewhere between,

A) I hope all the ETFs get rejected and we get more time to onboard new users, particularly those who “need” bitcoin the most.

and

B) We have had more than a decade to front run the status quo.

Nearly every human on the planet has heard of #bitcoin.

If they haven’t on boarded themselves and their families, they never will.

They are destined to be followers and need bitcoin to be “validated” by a BlackRock or Nation State.

Bitcoin truly is a “bottom-up” movement, but it will never result in “equality.”  The world is a very unequal place. The inequality, our differences, is part of what makes us all beautiful.


#dogstr #christmas pup #goodboy https://image.nostr.build/81e281d57923785c5c0b99b7a173178da52bfc2d7767c391189c1455fd8618b3.jpg


Today I'm launching Flare, a video sharing site built on Nostr! 🎉

Like YouTube, Flare lets you upload, view, comment, and like videos from your favorite creators. BUT unlike YouTube, we can't strike, shadow-ban, or demonetize you just because we disagree 🤗

Since Flare is built on Nostr, you are free to serve your content from anywhere and consume content from any kind 34235 client you'd like.

Check it out at https://www.flare.pub/ 🔥
https://v.nostr.build/VygA.mp4


Thx for being here.


MICHAEL SAYLOR: A spot Bitcoin ETF is the biggest development on Wall Street in 30 years. https://image.nostr.build/7af75343c93e29ab77ae31739d5883c36af78f7ce4740e1773a1a8e81fab13ce.jpg


Hello, this is me, engaging. I am no longer on Twitter and sincerely do appreciate you posting to nostr. Please keep it up.


Good morning man. Thank You. 🙏


Thank You 🫂


More precious and valuable than all the bitcoin in the world: https://i.nostr.build/mk9x.jpg


We should pick an on chain hill to die on this evening.


Which one we going to die on this evening?


Facts:

1) Brock Purdy was the last pick of the NFL draft and was never really supposed to make an NFL roster.

He is on pace to become the MVP this year and his team is a favorite to win the Superbowl.

2) Tom Brady, the greatest ever, was for the most part a college back up.  He was the 199th pick of his draft class, never expected to play.  He won 7 Super Bowls over three decades.

3) Trevor Lawrence was supposed to be “the great one,” the most talented QB in a generation.  He was drafted first and his young career has been underwhelming to date.

There are many lessons here, but clearly there must be something in humans that is hard to measure: “heart” “passion” “grit” “football IQ” “vibes” “energy” and so on.

But this desire to win, accepting nothing short of victory is part of it.

When I was younger, I believe, to a smaller degree, I had this “it factor.”

I played baseball formally and many other sports around the neighborhood.

It’s hard to explain and such a long story, but I ALWAYS knew my team would win.  I felt the victory and could see it before the game was even played. I could visualize the way we were going to win.  No matter the score, I still felt it.  I never doubted we win.  Down by 5 in the final inning, I saw nothing but victory.  I didn’t have to try to do this, it just happened.

If we lost, it was perplexing.  Of course I would try to understand what happened, but I always would think: “If we could play them one more time, we will destroy them.”

And then, I could see it, exactly how we would win the game.

No matter how bad things got, I always knew me and the mates would absolutely win regardless of the cost, our record, or how big the other team was.

I never felt scared, and I never stepped on a sports field wondering who would win.  I had already played the game and we had already won.

I could go on, but in short, I’m no Tom Brady or Brock Purdy, but I know there is something in an athlete that is hard to measure, and I had a bit of it, I guess.

Sending without proofing.


Take a break from subverting the state to enjoy time with loved ones

https://image.nostr.build/a8749b2a45ce9dda60b9be5e4e9cdc4bc48574014350c7851fe808cbee923de8.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=1024x1024&blurhash=U6Fh9RE24T%3D%7B%7DU-VngIA02%24gXA9vMykDEOEO&x=ddaacff8a96e7f297b4af15710cd479c6ef068312a4f5f5c38c4f768783b7efd


Elizabeth Warren is an evil human being.  I am glad she is an enemy of bitcoin.

If she wasn’t, it would mean we are doing something wrong.


They loved the memes.

I had a good time 🥶 https://i.nostr.build/zaV8.jpg


Behold the generation
From hyperbitcoinization;
Born from zoomers
Here are the Bitty Boomers. https://image.nostr.build/befff11111af94cfb262d8a52130f63e52182a97fe36e3056337aad356c57cc4.jpg


I should have put the rest in bitcoin and prepared to leave the country instead of starting a business.


I know bitcoin will be okay, but I do hate to see the chain and network being used for inscriptions.

I would understand if they were documents of extreme importance, such as religious texts, the US constitution, or  legal certificates.

But having the goal of making the world a better place, but instead being in this position is disappointing to say the least.


Add a few good relays.


Most Americans do NOT want a rematch between Trump and Biden.

Trump is leading the other Republican candidates by a massive margin.

Mainstream media rarely mentions RFK despite his decent poll numbers.

The media is the propaganda arm of the two political parties.  For Trump, Fox News and all the alt right media are to blame.  For Biden, all the rest are to blame: CNN, MSNBS.

I’m worried for our country.


Hello Edvins


What do you disagree with?

Bad actors will bribe miners.

If attacked by miners, in a worst case scenario, we could change the POW algorithm.


When you thought you were building a global monetary system that would remove power from the state and put money in the hands of the people.

But instead you get ETFs, KYC, jpegs, shitcoins and custodians while governments and institutions are the biggest holders

https://image.nostr.build/9863950b2fef9ab9d9baf0bcaeb8cbaf38698bd2eb53816a3440e73d7ea25be4.jpg


ive only ever run two marathons but one of my absolute favorite mental tricks that still brings me great joy is to acknowledge that the distance youve already covered is the farthest youve ever been* and that every additional step is into new territory

i guess i really love trail blazing that much haha 😂


The world leaders need to convene immediately.

The people of planet earth DO NOT want more war.

No more war!!!


It's weird to see some folks acting like LLMs are the path to actual artificial intelligence.

Call me when an LLM can make deductions and have original thoughts without being fed the entirety of the Internet first. That's not how actually intelligent humans work. Of course compressing the entirety of human knowledge into a fuzzy completion machine will make it sound intelligent. You're basically making a lossy encoded compressed version of things actually intelligent people have said, with a modicum of ability to generalize by simple association and statistics.

The Turing test breaks down when you throw enough Big Data at it. Congratulations, you've beat the test. You haven't created real intelligence though, you used big data to build a parrot with a huge vocabulary.


The blocksize limit is the single most important thing that’s protecting #Bitcoin for all of this bloat.

The crypto bros who think this is evidence that bitcoin should’ve raised blocksize “to scale,” genuinely never even understood the scaling problem, nor why or how bitcoin actually achieved what it does.


STARVE THE BEAST.

FORCE THE SCAMMERS TO MOVE TO NOSTR. BRING ALL THE GOOD DISCUSSION HERE.

THEY CANT DELETE. THEY CANT BLOCK. FORCE THEIR FUCKING HAND.

NOSTR ONLY 🫡


I watched the Paul vs Peter debate on Stephan’s recent podcast.

I have no idea if drive-chains, 50 years from now, would be good or bad for bitcoin.

The burden is on Paul to convincingly articulate why drive chains are good or necessary for #bitcoin.

I’m not the most technical, but, at least at this point, I’m not convinced we need drive chains.


I’m not following?  What happened?


I’m not telling people how to transact.  Just letting people know ordinals are a scam in terms of influencers pumping the price to convince the next greater fool to buy.


Good morning.  I hope you find a greater fool to sell before they all go to zero.


Thank you brother.  Truly, the memes always bring me joy.


I owe you more brother, will top up soon.

Thank you everybody. Truly made me laugh out loud.


LMFAO. Two winners, 😂


Would love to see some more of you guys and girls work.  Channels still pumped.


Thank you 👑


Dear Meme Lords:

I need to keep this short, but we are having our office Christmas Party this evening, and physicians have a bad habit of drinking too much and embarrassing themselves in front of their team.

I would like a funny meme to send to my staff expressing the dilemma between having a good time and being able to relax as the “boss,” but the necessity of not going too far and compromising my ability to lead.

Does this make sense?

Maybe the guy looking in the mirror with a funny quote?  I’m not sure.

Anyways, I will send 50k sats to the meme I send to my team, and 5k to two other funny ones.

Mainly want them to all laugh at it, that’s all.

Sincerely,

Bryan


You can pay the bills without running a scam.


Mr. Padre Tony Gwynn played 20 years of professional MLB.  Known for one of the best hitters in the history of baseball many consider this 15x All Star the greatest San Diego Padres player of all time.

Next year will start the 19th year of my professional fighting career.  Much like Tony Gwynn I'm known for my hitting. I have 16 World Championship Victories.  Some have even called me the greatest Bellator MMA fighter of All Time. https://image.nostr.build/f6e18bf3eebf13477d1bfff60801de7727f8f570a07aabd9bedffbe23dcdc662.jpg https://image.nostr.build/6849c2879ce4b7cf80ccc272297afb3230f57ab06d0ee93fd13e5b3c8e3d8f12.jpg


This is the CEO of bitcoin magazine: https://i.nostr.build/Wn7R.jpg


Bitcoiners today… https://image.nostr.build/800d3095a6b9eec81d18e82525b67bdb25b863f1ddf222a0794bad3e7a20166c.jpg


I know you  are a “public” bitcoin figure, but could you offer your general thoughts on Jade and Cold Card?


Good Morning.  nostr:npub1qtvl2em0llpnnllffhat8zltugwwz97x79gfmxfz4qk52n6zpk3qq87dze is good for bitcoin and in 6 months you will all (most) agree with me.

🫂


If the US Congress bans me, I will need to get good at being a criminal or otherwise leave the country.

I mean this sincerely, I will NEVER give up the bitcoin.  I would go to prison first.


You helped me get through that flight.  I hope we can meet again one day.  It was such a pleasure.  🫂


What do you use or recommend?


Bare Multisig Outputs
-----------------------

Blocks are getting filled with bare multisig outputs and it's an obvious troll from people that hate Bitcoin. Let me explain.

Multisig currently can be done in many ways, but before p2sh (BIP0013), the only way to do multisig was through putting the many pubkeys on-chain. As ECDSA doesn't really let you aggregate keys, outputs had to specify something like "3-of-5 of these pubkeys." The normal UTXOs have the following number of bytes:

p2pkh:25
p2sh:23
p2wpkh:22
p2wsh:34
p2tr:34

By contrast the n in the k-of-n bare multisig determines the number of bytes and it's 5 + 34 * n (my math might be off, but around there). So for 3-of-5, it's upwards of 170 bytes. But that's using compressed keys. For uncompressed keys, you it's 5 + 66 * n or 335 bytes+, and worse, you can put in illegitimate uncompressed keys (keys that are provably have no private key) to add data to the chain

Why does this matter? Because these bytes stay in the UTXO set, which is what Bitcoin software optimizes for because that's how you validate that a transaction is a not double spend and satisfies the conditions of the smart contract that locked it.

What's worse, if the pubkeys are unspendable (uncompressed keys that are not real points on the secp256k1 curve), then they'll *never* be pruned. So the UTXO set grows larger and requires more resources for your typical node runner.

Interestingly, this was how the whitepaper was embedded into the Bitcoin blockchain by putting pieces of the whitepaper pdf in 64 byte chunks through uncompressed pubkeys. Luke's Eligius pool was one of the first to ban such transactions because they were clearly bloating not just the blockchain, but the UTXO set.

That's what these trolls are doing. They're adding to the UTXO set that's not easily prunable, though now, I'm guessing some people will add pruning for UTXOs with multisig outputs that don't have any legitimate keys.


*keep it air gapped

🫂


I have not studied the issue, been too busy, but I think there have been a few broadcasts on it.

I totally agree, stay calm, keep it air.

In time, set up a cold card or jade, air gapped.


In 2023 we learned ledger can extract your key from the device and has now been compromised.


I don’t see how much I have sent, most of the 2 million received were sent out.  For instance, nostr:npub1m5mr8y7wgvcufav43hgda376xsm0t5qrerur30m23ek6w8gmn88q9hympt sent me 1 million and we made a joint contribution to the seed signer project.


stats*


How do you find such sats


Don’t confuse me for somebody who gives a fuck about a “whirlpool ATH.”


Samourai have always been bad players.  They won’t be around much longer.


You won’t be disappointed


IF THEY TRY TO BAN SELF CUSTODY RHR GONNA BE LIT THAT WEEK


Not a dunk, just me pleading to not consider ledger cold storage.

seedsigner, coldcard, 12 words on steel ... many other options

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


In the dashboard, just like you link a bank account, you should be able to link an address, set a w/d threshold, and seamlessly accept bitcoin?


Will it ever be possible to accept bitcoin using the square terminal?

nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m


Bitcoin Magazine is like every other media company. When they're not selling their soul to the highest bidder's agenda they're engagement farming the latest trending topic.


Thanks SMS, i stand corrected. I honestly thought gold was around 1800-1900 10 years ago.  I was wrong. 🙏


There is part of me that feels bad for the gold bugs.

Gold is back below 2,000 USD per ounce.

Despite all the money printing, gold has done nothing in a decade.

And now, there is a better choice with #bitcoin


Bitcoin Magazine has been pumping the ordinals scam from the beginning.  Too bad.


#bitcoin 😃 not your keys, not your coins!

https://image.nostr.build/aeaedb310e0e531b17e151f26d5c9d642450ee1a6c5213c4d9322929c2d1e03c.jpg


nostrleaks needs to happen


I’d rather use hyper-inflated fiat currencies than xrp.


No.


Growing up https://image.nostr.build/1bd78eae34cd430000d89222bfa1ca2c352882c90d85cdd4e6cbfe6101072c52.jpg


I fear VC money is at risk of compromising bitcoin.  Money killed the Swan story and many investors in the “ecosystem” of bitcoin are more worried about their investment than they are bitcoin. nostr:note1za4twg3993f8t5hjqvqfq9h65ckk7pjnvjhvaldm3nhaelvjfg5sd5xq4y


More pools isn't enough. Each and every miner needs to be deciding for himself.

Until OCEAN, miners had no choices. Now they have one more. Soon, we'll release the flood gates so they have infinite possibilities


I have been mining for nearly 2 years.

You are thinking about the reward for the next block, I’m thinking about the value of bitcoin in 20-50 years.

I am incentivized to protect Bitcoin.

If we don’t fix the mining centralization issue, Bitcoin will trend to zero.  I’m mining with ocean (and an investor in ocean) because I care deeply about ensuring bitcoin is here for my kids.


It has nothing to do with bitcoin incentives.  More to do with the massive campaign that was launched against ocean by Samourai (a known bad player).

Ocean has published its node settings.

Show me the settings for the big 4.


OVER A HUNDRED TRILLION US DOLLARS WORTH OF BITCOIN HAVE BEEN TRANSACTED WITHOUT SUCCESSFUL CENSORSHIP.

AMID ONE OF THE GREATEST FINANCIAL CENSORSHIP REGIMES IN HUMAN HISTORY.

JUST THINK ABOUT THAT FOR A SECOND. LET IT SINK IN. APPRECIATE IT. DEFEND IT.


We must fight for bitcoin.  Every. Single. Day.


Nice to see nostr:npub1qtvl2em0llpnnllffhat8zltugwwz97x79gfmxfz4qk52n6zpk3qq87dze published their node setup
Credit where credit is due


they are distracting you from this https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/12/section-702-needs-reform-and-oversight-not-expansion-congress-should-oppose-hpsci


Bad take of the year award…


If the US moves to ban bitcoin or pass harsh laws targeting bitcoiners, I will leave with my entire family.


IF BITCOIN DENIERS WANT TO TROLL US THEY WILL HAVE TO ADOPT NOSTR TO DO IT.


People talking about how millennials are so unlucky financially because of crashes and house prices inflation etc

Meanwhile we have the opportunity to own and understand the best performing asset in human history, earning returns in 4 years what took boomers 40 years to earn.

We can spin up businesses with a few AI prompts

We actually have access to information that isn't propaganda

We have it made, we are the luckiest generation

Miss me with that victim shit


Losing 4 BTC :(

All people who like to tinker with lightning need to read this front to back

https://stacker.news/items/347361


You have no idea what you are talking about.


The shop is nice, but no pay in bitcoin option.


Where is the best place to buy high quality bitcoin swag? Shirts, hats.


#Argentina, a country where a goalkeeper from Chacarita Juniors is now president... We are quite particular people 😅⚽🇾🇪🇦🇷 #Milei

https://i.nostr.build/jo2l.jpg


Bitkey https://image.nostr.build/f3035415cc9d2acdde72665914a34e0513c74f73152f3da03ce053fa78ff81f7.jpg


Not my area of expertise, but looks REKT to me 😂


Miners being able to exclude transactions is part of the free market of ideas.

The market and game theory aren’t fixing the fact that 4 miners control > 75% of the hash rate.

We should fix this before we get attacked, not after.


GM plebs!

https://image.nostr.build/b603a45d46e74be8f2880a316eb30f15913c35c365dfb82cd0c26f0a03aadf77.jpg


Adam Back doesn’t get to dictate my node’s settings.

Run a node, open the config file, change the setting.


My little nephew got his first deer this evening.

Pictured with has father, mother, and his great grandfather.

A great group of humans and bitcoiners. https://i.nostr.build/z7Pz.jpg https://i.nostr.build/AOvq.jpg https://i.nostr.build/n07E.jpg https://i.nostr.build/0OKn.jpg


Good looking out. 🫂


So glad to have you here! nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m seems like a great night for a hug!


This is my first post to the nostr world. I'm super excited to bring my boating safety tips to this new and exciting platform. 👋
https://void.cat/d/Szjxpsi4mqCco6s9WcjKvL.webp


Find the accounts you enjoy and connect to similar relays.

Some relays require permission and others require a fee.  So if you try to connect to these you may get an error, but it’s no big deal.

Don’t be afraid to experiment with connecting to various relays.


✅ It's official now. After more than 15 years on #Twitter, I'm finally leaving...

Thank you nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m for championing this protocol and supporting the devs. At first, I didn't quite understand #Nostr, but now that I do, I realize the watershed change that it will cause in the years ahead.

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


Easy. 🌊🌊🌊 https://i.nostr.build/YMPq.jpg


Ordinals and inscriptions aren’t using bitcoin the money. They are merely using #Bitcoin  *nodes* to store their garbage, and the bitcoin *name* to sell it to people.

It makes perfect, and necessary,
 logic to build, optimize, and restrict the #Bitcoin  system to only allow and facilitate the bitcoin *money.*

This isn’t a contradiction, it isn’t censorship, it’s necessary to defining what the protocol even does.

Any other arguments you want to have about the difficulty, feasibility, or foolishness of making or trying to reverse changes or certain data that is already included are valid. But the above point is true no matter what side you take.


You'll be less confused & upset once you internalize the fact that nostr:npub1lh273a4wpkup00stw8dzqjvvrqrfdrv2v3v4t8pynuezlfe5vjnsnaa9nk is Bitcoin's Tenth Man.


Mr 40/40 https://i.nostr.build/ZgZD.jpg https://i.nostr.build/dlYk.jpg


I agree with this.


Guys, I’m truly stepping away from this debate.

Matt has been a tremendous help to me over the years and I have said some things I wish I could take back.

Matt has been fighting for bitcoin for years and despite my prior notes, I’m going to assume his intentions are, as they always have been, to protect Bitcoin.


I’m going to stop man.  You have helped me so much over the years.  I don’t like being on opposite sides of the issue.  I’m sorry.


Matt bringing F2 pool into the drama while F2 pool, along with Foundry, Via, and Ant Pool control greater than > 75% of the hash is low AF.

Of course F2 pool is biased.  They want to maintain the status quo.

The big 4 are a threat to bitcoin and Matt seems to be on team centralization and is blinded by the investment his company has made in Samourai.

*disclosure - I made a Bitcoin investment in ocean.


Matt, you know the default setting can be changed in the configuration file.

Are you suggesting you and Samourai should be able to dictate how node runners set up their node’s configuration file?

Don’t you want a diversity of nodes with individual node runners voting with their hardware and the settings they opt into or out of?

Just like the size of the mempool you choose to hodl is configurable l, so is this.

Samourai has shown their true colors time and time again.

Too bad.


You think it's hard to convince friends & family to use Bitcoin now, wait until they are recieving UBI in a CBDC which gets cut off if they buy Bitcoin. They will probably get some sort of bonus for reporting your "nefarious financial activity" to the govt. UBI is the final boss, the stage of total govt control, & cheering for it is total insanity.

Some of you have not read enough history. What I just described would be extremely mild in terms of the behaviors that can be achieved via govt & financial manipulation. Just a year or two ago people wanted the unvaxxed to be refused medical care & prevented from leaving their homes for groceries, they weren't even being paid to have that opinion. Attach free CBDC money vs having to sell your stuff to survive to the situation.


Both Bloomberg and PlanB have price targets around $500k so for sure the top this cycle will be below that


What are the basics?

Not being an ass, I just never really understood it.


It’s a config setting, just like you can dictate the size of your node’s mempool.

You can change it.

Are you suggesting that Samourai, or yourself, has the authority to tell me or anybody else how we should set up our node’s configuration?

It’s the default, it takes a button click for the user to change it.

Run a node, change the default, quit complaining, and start mining.


Tonight, my wife nostr:npub17meshv2lg6rfyuwzgh349yslllq7aathd55xu0jgjns2ayz6rt2seplm8u said something profound that I had to share:

“For all the lack of trust you have in the government and corporations, you bitcoiners really have a lot of faith in each other.”

🫂💜🥹


Sparrow wallet is a work of exceptionally functional art.
God damn it’s perfect 🫡🧡🌽


On Ocean Mining Pool, Inscriptions and Luke
———————————————

There's been a pretty big flare up in the Bitcoin community about Ocean Mining's two recent blocks. Namely, that they didn't include certain transactions designed to use the block space for something other than its monetary transactional uses. Indeed, many influencers, especially those that are pro-BRC20 and Ordinals, are condemning this course of action as censorship.

In a sense, this is exactly what all pools do. They create a block template for everyone else to mine. In that sense, each miner to a pool is really renting the pool hash rate and the pool does the work of using that hash rate to create blocks, whatever they may be. But it's a bit disingenuous to complain specifically about Ocean, since lots of pools have made blocks that didn't create the optimal profit-driven block.

Not every pool makes the maximal amount of fees for a block, whether because they have bad software, certain policies or just because the block was found before a block template could be constructed. The optimum is an ideal and though the modern economic assumption of idealized homo economicus would create these blocks each time, we don't have a steady-state mining economy so not everyone mines the theoretic optimum.

In a sense, the analysis of pools and the block templates these critics make is flawed because they assume some optimized economy. Given ideal conditions, of course, there is an optimal set of transactions you accept to increase fees. Over a long enough time period, those should result in more profit which get spread over the participants which should make the pool more popular, making those that don't perform the optimum lose profit and eventually bankrupt. But that's a very narrow analysis based purely on monetary incentives.

We don't live in under ideal conditions and situations change all the time. Basic things, like getting a block template ready quickly after a block is found is an optimization that's difficult and still not completely solved. But there's also the opinions of the miners themselves. Are they all strictly profit driven?

Think about normal businesses. Why do they offer fair trade coffee? From a purely monetary perspective, fair trade coffee doesn't make any sense. They're more expensive for the same good. From a profit-maximizing analysis that MBAs are so fond of, the non-fair trade coffee would put the fair trade coffee out of business. But yet, in the real world, they do not because people care more than just the good itself, but what it took to make the good. In other words, the homo economicus analysis of economic situations rarely is the optimum for the real world. There are other considerations other than profit that go into any business.

And that's really at the heart of what's being argued here. Luke believes that inscriptions are a waste of block space, a public nuisance and that even if his pool participants have to take a loss, that it's worthwhile because of the public good that it does. In other words, he sees these inscriptions as *immoral* and that the price he's willing to pay is fees that he would otherwise have gotten.

People are acting like this is some sort of affront to market forces or game theory and that the only consideration he should have is like that of homo economicus, whether he makes more profit or less. But this is a very fiat/Keynesian way of looking at the whole picture. People are more than just profit-maximalization machines and mining pool participants are no different.

Indeed, that's the impression I got from the Ocean Mining Pool summit I went to a few weeks ago. They are that response to the many mining pools that are doing unethical things like not paying out their participants for fees that come in off band.

The calculation that Luke has made is that being moral, that is not polluting blocks, is worth the 1% loss in fees. Given what I know about Luke, even a 90% loss in fees is unlikely to sway him. Morals have a place in any ecosystem because they, too, have value. A mining pool that doesn't burdens nodes with extra data that they have to persist has positive communal value. A mining pool that does the opposite has detrimental communal value. And from Luke's perspective, not burdening nodes is important enough that he chooses not to include them in his block templates.

This moral reasoning is not something that is welcomed by a lot of people and it's hard to miss that many of the critics are creating ordinals, BRC-20 and so on. They want to run this centralized scheme over Bitcoin and make money. In other words, they have a strong economic interest in getting their transactions included and shout censorship whenever they're not.

But we must be careful, because this is not the same as, say, the OFAC prohibition list. And this is where things become a little harder to explain because most people have no sense of the difference between centralized rules being enforced under threat of violence and bottom-up moral behavior slowly adopted. But what Luke is doing is very much bottom up. He's specifically doing something out of moral conviction. Whether you agree with him or not, you can understand why he's doing it, particularly  the moral reasoning. This is different than a centralized mandate with threats of violence against those that don't comply.

I believe that what Luke is doing is a good thing. He's showing his convictions and reasoning about why inscriptions are bad through these templates. The participants are free to move if they disagree. I suspect, though, that there are many that agree with him and they'll vote with their hash rate.

For homo economicus, something like fair trade coffee does not make sense. Yet people gladly pay a little more for it because they believe that it ultimately helps those people produce and live a better life. I believe what Luke and Ocean are doing is similar. They're offering less-bloated blocks even at the cost of some fees.


discussing optimal op_return byte sizes with nostr:npub1lh273a4wpkup00stw8dzqjvvrqrfdrv2v3v4t8pynuezlfe5vjnsnaa9nk https://i.nostr.build/0Oe2.jpg


If your coinjoin implementation relies on parameters that aren't part of consensus rules...

Maybe your implementation is shit and needs to be updated


We are happy to have sponsored Unconfiscatable 2023. Amazing job Tone Vays and Mel for putting on yet another high quality #Bitcoin conference and thank you for giving us the opportunity to talk about OCEAN.

In case you missed it, our very own Bitcoin Mechanic discusses what OCEAN is all about with Jimmy Song and Nico

https://www.youtube.com/live/7kS2T1mPtQU?si=1gaYlWaaH00_mf8A


OCEAN. It’s been up and running for just over a week.  Our miners are elated that we’re finding blocks ahead of schedule and they’re getting paid above market returns.  We are on a path to decentralization.  This is a big step forward in how mining pools operate in #Bitcoin.

Our transparency model is working and provoking important discussions. For the first time in years, Bitcoin miners can see in real-time the underlying candidate block that they are committing their hashrate to BEFORE they do the work.

Our non-custodial model is distinguishing us from incumbent pools, and government regulators are now further away from our miners’ coins than they are with custodial pools.  Over time, our TIDES payout system will ensure that dozens more miners receive bitcoins directly from the Bitcoin network instead of just a few centralized pool operators.

Decentralization does not happen overnight, but we are taking important steps in the right direction, ultimately putting miners back in control of the intelligent parts of mining via decentralized block template construction.  We are working hard to make this a reality, and we owe our supporters and miners a sincere word of thanks for joining us early on in this journey.

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The OP_RETURN discussion is not new and dates back to 2014 when Bitcoin Core 0.9.0 was released with the OP_RETURN policy included which was intended to discourage more egregious forms of spam. At that time, 40 bytes was the default max datacarriersize limit across all node implementations; this was and still is sufficiently large for tying data to a transaction (32 bytes for a hash and 8 bytes for a unique identifier). Core subsequently increasing the default to 80 bytes was an entirely voluntary decision and in no way contradicts the design objective that OP_RETURN creates a provably-prunable output to minimise damage caused by data storage schemes, which have always been discouraged as abusive. There are also other good technical reasons which I have chosen to retain the lower default in Bitcoin Knots, and no justification for increasing it.

It is not my intention, nor that of my team at
nostr:npub1qtvl2em0llpnnllffhat8zltugwwz97x79gfmxfz4qk52n6zpk3qq87dze, to filter coinjoins. These present an innovative tool for increasing Bitcoin’s privacy and, when constructed properly, coinjoins can easily stay within the OP_RETURN limit (indeed, there is no reason for them to have *any* OP_RETURN data at all). I have some ideas on how to alleviate the recent issue where some coinjoin transactions were flagged as spam from Knots v25, and I am willing, with the full resources of my team, to work collaboratively on a solution in good faith.

Bitcoin does and always has allowed nodes to set filters based on multiple sets of criteria and Knots v25’s defaults are IMO what is best for Bitcoin at this time. Others may disagree and that is ok. They are free to (and should) run their own nodes - it is good for Bitcoin to have more people running nodes, including miners, and there should be a natural diversity in node policies. As was stated before, OCEAN is on a path to decentralization and very soon we are going to be in a position where hashers will be able to fully participate as miners and perform the intelligent parts of mining such as deciding which version of node software to run and what filters or other policies to apply to block template construction.


FUCK EASY

I'm fed up with easy.
You don't want easy.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and one of said intentions is making things too easy.

Easy is staying on the couch.
Easy is not putting on your running shoes.
Easy is watching the porn, eating the junk food, binging the fucking stupid series.

Easy is not sticking out.
Easy is shutting up when you should be speaking out.
Easy is compliance.
Easy is saying the same thing, thinking the same thing, and liking the same thing as everyone else.

Easy is kicking the can down the road.
Easy is short-term gain for long-term losses.
Easy is starting up the money printer.
Easy is "papering over" failures.

Easy is "This is too hard. This is not for me. Someone else should take care of it."
Easy is not educating yourself.
Easy is not taking responsibility.
Easy is trusting a third party.
Easy is not holding your own keys.

Easy is comfortable.
Easy is not having to think.
Easy is not having to understand.
Easy is the coddling of the mind.

Doing things right is hard. Understanding things right is hard too. As is changing the status quo. But there's no improvement without change, no change without pain.

Fuck easy.


Samourai encouraged people to believe they were being hostilely targeted by Luke with no evidence. Knots forked away from Bitcoin when the OP_RETURN max was 40 and hasnt changed it since. Knots has always been filtering Samourai whirlpool transactions from its mempool, for a benign technical reason, for years.

Samourai used this as an opportunity to do what they always do on social media: malign people and seek attention.

https://image.nostr.build/d60472e66a028b0f349c315071af7fe14022326c1983ca20505dd5cc77c477f0.jpg


An open thank you to all bitcoiners.

I had to stop listening to a podcast from Hidden Forces today.  It finally recognized it for what it was - the same doom and gloom it always has been…  "The West is failing, government is failing, society is failing etc”.  No answers, just more identification of the failure.  Definitely not any solutions there.

I switched over to my list of bitcoin podcasts.  More nostr:npub1hrnt73hppyc5v9h7ynnv0cn90yd97t6we9dw32s46ug845jsm33sktjsct , nostr:npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe  , nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a and nostr:npub1s5yq6wadwrxde4lhfs56gn64hwzuhnfa6r9mj476r5s4hkunzgzqrs6q7z Pysh... and even nostr:npub14mcddvsjsflnhgw7vxykz0ndfqj0rq04v7cjq5nnc95ftld0pv3shcfrlx - yes even Pedro.  Why?  Because there is a hope in bitcoin.  Maybe that is partly because we seem to have turned the corner on the bear market but mostly because bitcoiners are optimistic, building and moving forward.

Devs are creating new apps and fixing and improving old ones.  Bitcoin philosphers are, well philosophizing (looking at your nostr:npub1mz704n7dsaw3jcj3kr5le45n97tqughyt5lxe3yv3xy3025hv3dsp5tl8g  , nostr:npub1jdwujjpaxmeyg44fz5xa87yhtrnvg8lzqnv9hprk5sdkx6h58gjqwtujzl  and Parker Lewis to name a few).  Meetups are getting bigger and more people are taking their first steps into the bitcoin network. Meanwhile the Plebs are out educating and orange pilling every day.

Bitcoiners are hopeful and optimistic.  We know there are problems - we’ve identified a host of them and we are working to fix what we can.    Sure we might be bickering over what hardware wallet is truly FOSS, bitching about ordinals and debating mining protocols.  But we are building and moving forward anyway.

Jeff Booth is right - there is no point in living in the old world.  You simply feed it by engaging with it.  Even listening to the old world is tiresome.  I’ve moved into the new world, a world with Bitcoin and I don’t ever want to go back.

Burn the boats.


Cold Card or Jade?  I haven’t used seed signer but a lot of knowledgeable bitcoiners like it.

I would like to try the new bit key.


*This was meant to be humorous, fail.


I would rather use KYC Bitcoin than do business with Samourai.


Liar


Pro tip: When Samourai is mewling about one thing or another, it's largely to stir up drama and draw attention

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We all make mistakes, particularly when trying to protect something as important as bitcoin.  I have been a fan of Matt for a long time. https://i.nostr.build/r4Kd.jpg


I didn’t mean to suggest you had said such a thing, but a few others have.

All the best. 🫂


True use case for it is criminals, drug traffickers, anti-money laundering and tax avoidance. Break it down.

https://video.nostr.build/fab89f588fc617fbb7e0ee36901491edc9c281530602e85f6fcbb905b275bda6.mp4

Turn it up!

😂


Kind words.


Perhaps, but to suggest he is attacking bitcoin is clearly untrue.  His work, and the work of many others, over the years is, in part, why we are all here using bitcoin.

Just block out the noise, check out the pool, or just watch the project evolve into something beautiful over the next 12 months.


Then why isn’t it moving? 4 pools control nearly everything.


Samourai have always been bad players in my opinion.  I haven’t forgot the wasabi vs Samourai drama.  Samourai showed their true colors during that time. https://i.nostr.build/VLxJ.jpg


It was a lie then too. Just because lies are old doesn't make them true


Love to see it.

https://image.nostr.build/8184712b5255f67d1e95884cfc2a595fd57365641126867be478b558a3e881ef.jpg


we are live 🪨 https://bitkey.world/en-US


The point I’m making is miners CAN stop you.  They are just choosing not to.

Like is clearly showing what miners are capable of.

Perhaps that is his point?


I agree, the freedom to exclude is as important as the freedom to include. 🫂


I love you guys, nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx thanks for all you have done and continue to do for bitcoin.  nostr:npub1lh273a4wpkup00stw8dzqjvvrqrfdrv2v3v4t8pynuezlfe5vjnsnaa9nk thank you for everything you have done and continue to do for bitcoin.

This war isn’t for me.  I’m going to try and step away for a bit.

I care deeply about bitcoin as I know both of you do.

Let us make sure it is here for our children.


Fair criticism.


Just making the disclosure Matt.  Thanks for doing the same.

I appreciate all you have done for bitcoin, we are fighting the same war.

Best of luck.


9 years ago, no context.

Do you have a financial relationship with Samourai?  The freaks want to know.


The question needs to be asked, why is Matt working so hard against Luke.  He didn’t go full soldier mode until the issue with Samourai.


One man’s spam is another man’s treasure?

🫂


“Spam email” follows the rules of the following protocols:

SMTP, POP, or IMAP

You accept it as a valid “receive” email because it follows the protocol rules, but it’s still “spam.”


9 years ago, no context.


This is from 9 years ago with no context at all.  nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx do you have a financial relationship with Samourai?

I have disclosed my position with ocean. nostr:note1l2g2rf7fv5kzmcyaj7z5q7uf2hzhe6nkcngcw3jvlkwyla2p48mqs0379u


Matt, do you have a financial relationship with Samourai?


Followed.


Don't forget BlackRock can decide on behalf of all their spot ETF investors which fork of #bitcoin is the "real" bitcoin.


I suspect most of the hash pointed at the top 4 pools is not pleb hash, but “industry” hash.  I don’t have the time or energy to try and prove that, but it is my feeling.

And I agree, “game theory” should dictate lens move their hash, but they ARE NOT DOING SO!

If this was pleb miner hash, they should move some hash to Braiins or Ocean or any other small pool to help a bit.

The fact they have not, raises questions, no?


It’s an over simplification, but essentially 4 nodes or companies or pools, whichever you prefer, dictate which transactions will be included in the next block.

IMO, this is a problem that we should try to solve before we test our “censorship resistance.”


There are a few issues with assuming “profit maximization” will drive block construction:

1) This has been proven to not be the case on many occasions in the past, see Luxor (4 MB block) or miners hashing at a loss for ideological reasons.

2) The reward is paid in bitcoin.  Thinking on a longer time horizon than the very next block reward, if the network continues to centralize (4 nodes are responsible for over 75% of all blocks), the value of bitcoin will trend to zero as the network loses its censorship resistance.  In this case, to maximize profit in the long term, we need censorship resistance - which will ensure “there is no top” to the bitcoin price.

*investor in ocean
*my bias is bitcoin


Blocks will be full.

Inscriptions are spam and an attack on bitcoin, but there is some good to come from these shitcoin degens. https://i.nostr.build/dem3.jpg


Its been done before, but here is a list of material and sites that helped me along the way:

https://www.welikethecoin.com


All I can say is, truly, you have no idea what you are talking about.


They have a history of berating and threatening others.  Refer back to their drama with wasabi.


Good night.


Yes, this is correct, but the block of transactions that every node verifies was proposed and added to the chain by a miner running a mining node.

And currently, over 75% of the blocks being added to the chain (proposed) are constructed by 4 nodes (pools, companies).

The miner will choose ~ 2500 out of the current > 200,000 transactions in the mempool to construct a valid block.  The other 198,000 remain in the mempool.

There is the thought that miners will simply construct a block which generates the highest fees, but this has already been proven wrong.


Worrying about censorship for a pool that controls < 1% of the network and neglecting to mention bitcoin has lost its censorship resistance with 4 pools dictating the constructing of > 75% of all blocks is problematic at best.

Whether it’s ocean or another team, this needs to be fixed.


Ordinals are exploiting a bug in the core code and it should be fixed.

https://damus.io/note1jpadnsrt289tm34dzeg5ua3zlhysqenk9tujgcdg2wtyzt367stquvfjug


Every time a block is added 2,500 transactions out of 204,000 (current) are added to the chain.

Currently, 4 nodes will decide the construction of 75% of all blocks.  This is the definition of a network that CAN BE CENSORED.

The censorship resistance of bitcoin is a LIE.

We must fix this.


If excluding high value inscriptions is what it takes to save bitcoin from becoming a censorable network , so be it.

He has already said the 2024 plan is to allow individual miners to construct the blocks.

If you have a better idea on how to fix this clear and present issue, please implement it, but bashing this project isn’t the solution.


WRONG. 4 MINING NODES DICTATE THE BLOCK CONSTRUCTION FOR OVER 75% OF ALL BLOCKS ADDED TO THE CHAIN.

INSCRIPTIONS ARE AN ATTACK ON BITCOIN AND I AM HAPPY LUKE IS BLOCKING THEM.

FREEDOM TO EXCLUDE IS AS IMPORTANT AS FREEDOM TO INCLUDE.

THIS IS CONSISTENT WITH THE ETHOS OF BITCOIN.

THERE ARE OVER 200k TRANSACTIONS WAITING TO BE ADDED TO THE CHAIN, MINERS HAVE ALWAYS DICTATED WHAT GETS ADDED.  ASSUMING “MY GAME THEORY” WILL ALWAYS DICTATE THE TRANSACTIONS WITH THE HIGHEST FEE WILL GET ADDED IS LOW IQ THINKING AND HAS ALREADY BEEN PROVEN WRONG MANY TIMES, SEE LUXOR, FOR EXAMPLE.

CORE SHOULD HAVE FIXED THIS ISSUE LOMG AGO.  DO BETTER MATT, MINERS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN ABLE TO DO THIS AND HAVE DONE SO.

LUKE ISN’T ATTACKING BITCOIN. YOU MUST KNOW THAT.

*Investor nostr:note1nlcg578zulv94m86424z79jy280tu8kfynx34wug9x3kwd2dw2msh0jqds


WRONG. 4 MINING NODES DICTATE THE BLOCK CONSTRUCTION FOR OVER 75% OF ALL BLOCKS ADDED TO THE CHAIN.

INSCRIPTIONS ARE AN ATTACK ON BITCOIN AND I AM HAPPY LUKE IS BLOCKING THEM.

FREEDOM TO EXCLUDE IS AS IMPORTANT AS FREEDOM TO INCLUDE.

THIS IS CONSISTENT WITH THE ETHOS OF BITCOIN.

THERE ARE OVER 200k TRANSACTIONS WAITING TO BE ADDED TO THE CHAIN, MINERS HAVE ALWAYS DICTATED WHAT GETS ADDED.  ASSUMING “MY GAME THEORY” WILL ALWAYS DICTATE THE TRANSACTIONS WITH THE HIGHEST FEE WILL GET ADDED IS LOW IQ THINKING AND HAS ALREADY BEEN PROVEN WRONG MANY TIMES, SEE LUXOR, FOR EXAMPLE.

CORE SHOULD HAVE FIXED THIS ISSUE LOMG AGO.  DO BETTER MATT, MINERS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN ABLE TO DO THIS AND HAVE DONE SO.

LUKE ISN’T ATTACKING BITCOIN. YOU MUST KNOW THAT.

*Investor


FAMILY, BITCOIN, NOSTR, AND FREEDOM.

WE ARE THE FEW. WE ARE THE RESISTANCE. TIME TO STAND THE FUCK UP.


I’m Bryan and I am on NOSTR. Welcome.


Glad to hear Swan is working on an in house custody solution.  🙏


We have lost our country. Apathy will ultimate lead to lawlessness and revolution.  Soon, the people who can will start to leave.  Maybe, somehow the country, its ideals, its ethos can be saved - but it seems unlikely.


There is a US republican presidential debate tonight and nobody cares.

Americans know we have lost our way.


Did Swan ever figure out the custody issue?

I never really followed up on Prime Trust.

If I recall, they had lost several bitcoin years prior to insolvency and were trying to trade their way out of a hole?  They never told customers about this?

The CEO who was in charge during all of this is now in charge of the new custody company for Swan?

I did not verify any of the above and it is only my recollection.  I could be mistaken.  This story was killed pretty quickly.

What’s the update?


He just said his second super power is being able to cut a piece of wood in half without measuring…I think that is absolutely hilarious 🤣


Going to try and fly in my dreams tonight.

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nostr:npub14mcddvsjsflnhgw7vxykz0ndfqj0rq04v7cjq5nnc95ftld0pv3shcfrlx


Fight for bitcoin.


we’re so back https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bitcoin-is-up--and-the-zealots-are-back-110015156.html


Somebody needs to let her know it’s bitcoin, not crypto.


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https://image.nostr.build/9827d1391690fe38c06fba0b103df03edeed6ef4154447d073c91fda44fbe1da.jpg


This is part of the problem.  If you don’t run a mining node, it IS for others to decide.  Transactions don’t just appear in a block, a miner, not a hasher, decides which transactions they use to construct their block.  There are currently over 200,000 transactions in the mempool.com mempool and FOUR nodes (over simplification, I suppose, but essentially accurate) WILL decide which ~2500 of those + 200,000 to add.

Assuming they will always simply add the highest tx with the highest fee is an assumption that has already been proving wrong by Luxor.


My bias is bitcoin.


I have already made it clear that I made an investment with Ocean.  I’m not going to include it on every note.

I made the investment because I care deeply about bitcoin, and among other reasons, having four pools/nodes/entities/businesses dictating which transactions are added to the chain is a problem.

You know of my bias because, unlike many others, many of whom are attacking ocean, do not disclose.

Ocean is an honest attempt to solve a clear  and present problem facing bitcoin.


Similar to other mining pools having the freedom to include spam in the blockchain, ocean has the freedom to exclude it.

Freedom of choice is consistent with the ethos of Bitcoin.

What am I missing?


I am happy to be mining with a pool that is fighting for the future of Bitcoin.


DM


What is the concern?


The fact that Elon Musk's title is "Technoking" and Jack Dorsey's title is "Block Head", speaks volumes.

One is about ego, and one is not. But more importantly we can see the difference in their actions more than titles from there.

Elon wants to build Twitter or the shitty name "X" into the next WeChat, with himself as the leader. He has literally said this. I used to be able to report bots on Twitter easily for many years, but now I have to show a drivers' ID to report someone that copies my persona even as a 600k following paid blue check, and so I don't bother anymore, and therefore bots proliferate. And if you don't pay for reach, you get devalued. Only in the past few months have I had to show my ID to report my countless bot copiers if I want to report them on Twitter/X. And so their rate of removal has decreased. If my Nym differs a bit from my name, well LET'S FILE SOME TPS REPORTS!!!! (which wasn't previously the case). And so as bots proliferate, and as Musk fails to contain bots as he promised he would and bragged about with memes, he will instead reference his own self-created bot problem as a reason to require even more ID requirements and try to build his US version of the Chinese Communist Party WeChat app. This is exactly what governments do. In my professional opinion, after careful consideration, Elon Musk can ::check notes::  politely go fuck himself, and those who worship him should reconsider what exactly they show blind obedience toward.

Meanwhile, nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m helps improve the Bitcoin network and the Nostr network and has put capital into them in various ways, and Bitcoin and Nostr have no leader. The fact that Bitcoin and Nostr have no leader, is specifically why Jack puts time and capital into them. He funds many different companies, and for bitcoin, Cash App has been among the networks to incorporate Lightning early. Yes, Cash App deals with domestic compliance issues. But they are trying, and they are early. Their network can connect to many others, like an email provider using SMTP to connect to many others. They're open, they're trying. And now they are making Bitkey, which helps with self custody. They're certainly not a directional enemy of freedom in the way that Twitter/X has been.

Companies that incorporate open networks with various levels of compliance trump companies that purposely don't adopt open networks and instead push new ID requirements, in my book.

+10 Jack
-10 Elon
Any day of the week.


We are happy to announce testing of Bitcoin Knots v25.1 has completed successfully, and is now deployed to production. Among other improvements, this upgrade fixes this long-standing vulnerability exploited by modern spammers. As a result, our blocks will now include many more real transactions and help to bring an end to the DoS attack being performed on the #Bitcoin network.

So, in addition to our already-established benefits (transparency, non-custodial, and permissionless), we now also offer honest miners the first easy option to contribute toward blocks full of real transactions, effectively a several times larger block size in terms of transaction confirmations, without actually making the blocks any larger.

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Actually, no need.  I know you have no evidence and are just on team “say something negative about Luke.”


Can you elaborate?


Damn GQ model bro.  Just hoping my wife doesn’t see these pics


Labor?


One of the problems with the price going up is PlanB will come back.


Bitcoin is priceless, like freedom.


I have gotten the flu shot every year of my life, but after the debacle with the COVID-19 vaccine, I’m nervous about doing so.

I probably will get it, but I feel uneasy about it this time.


Of course https://image.nostr.build/db5d02e368815c3d811eacef5549509c3533f326f8d895de58bcbd27065ba27a.jpg


Lee Sedol, the reigning Go world champion, played Alpha Go in March of 2016 during the DeepMind Challenge.

This triggered a major shift in thinking around Ai, as Alpha Go defeated Lee Sedol to became the greatest Go player on earth.

However...

Alpha Go lost 1 out of the 5 games.

This video shows the moment that Lee Sedol made a move against the machine that turned the tide. Following the move, the computer took a dive in RAM usage and started making weird, random moves, suggesting that it had simply played out every possible option, and realized that there was no way out.

My favorite comment underneath it (that should be used ina. movie one day):

---- "If humanity ever has to rise up against ai overlords in the future, the resistance force should be named "Move 78""

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzZWPcgcRD0


Mandrik with receipts 🙏


Can somebody send the video of the gorilla playing drums?


Nice work Susie.  🙏


An outstanding choice…


I’m of the strong opinion that not owning #bitcoin is the greatest opportunity cost in the history of money and finance.


I had never heard it before and thought it was hilarious 😂


But since you brought it up, I doubt I will ever post another photo.

It’s a shame I can’t be proud of doing a good job and posting an educational photo without somebody bringing up HIPAA.


There is no patient identifiers in this photo.


My nephew just asked his dad to tell me a joke.

What is worse than ants in your pants?


One of the best features of NOSTR is not having to deal with Udi and Eric.


Ability to w/d in a timely manner

Good 2FA

Integrity of the owners, investors

Lightning Integration


Bitcoin Only.


Good advice.  Will do. 🙏


This guy will be able to continue to hodl his testicle.  Not the call I wanted to get at 3:30 AM, but I am starting to enjoy the job again. https://i.nostr.build/kvBV.jpg


A friend just sent me this 😂😂

https://twitter.com/naiivememe/status/1730895686038925749/mediaviewer


Every time a bitcoiner sends a payment my attic floods….and I only have 2 miners.


I’m literally dancing 😂


We....found another block.


No idea.


I wish Andreas was more active.  His educational videos are really what helped me along.


Me.


I don’t have a big following, but this seems like a good place to make it known I support Luke and the entire team behind the Ocean mining pool project.

I have been concerned about mining centralization for several years and I sincerely believe this project is needed.

Regardless if my “investment” ever “pays off”, I would do it 100 times over.  In fact, I don’t care if I get an ROI.  If Ocean helps solve some of the issues facing Bitcoin mining, we all win.

I want to ensure Bitcoin is here for my kids and it is my humble opinion that Ocean mining pool is working to that end.

For what it’s worth, I feel indebted to Luke (and many other developers) who have worked years to ensure Bitcoin remains a resilient, powerful network.

That is my only disclosure and I will be cheering for the project in the months and years to come.

Doc, I entirely agree with this note.  Integrity is important.  🫂


💜🧡⚡stack #sats and #studybitcoin #bitcoin ⚡💜🧡 https://image.nostr.build/d520058cf3825ad675378383b850d98ff2732080e4e23282a4fd6d449b0cf0db.jpg


Bitcoin = 200 ounces of gold by conference day. nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx


Good night…

https://youtu.be/_Nvh_xScNPY?si=RLaQi3QzSfpiwbA1


A coffee cup and a wine glass. 🙌


The surgery center Christmas Party had 6 doctors come up to the front for a “contest,” I went reluctantly.

They gave us all a rubiks cube and whoever solved it by the end of the night wins a prize….

As soon as I saw the cube, I knew my hard work had paid off and they were all fked….

*buttons undone for obvious reasons…. https://i.nostr.build/6Jez.jpg


I love nostr.build


Congrats to Ocean for finding their first block.

This was first brought to my attention by nostr:npub1fgnuaulzmkpnpe8jy843hf7lhwefh5xyejl5s4307ajw25tgrlssxnyj2h

As I was looking for the block, it’s obvious and extremely concerning, the problem of mining centralization is a real and present danger.

Ocean, in my estimation, seems to be an honest attempt to improve on this.

There are planned “improvements” to the pool and it’s only been 3 days since launch.

I’m hopeful and optimistic. https://i.nostr.build/XXGe.png


The President of Colombia is now a #Bitcoin HODLer for sure. 100,000 sats to be exact. ☕🇨🇴 https://image.nostr.build/de26cab603f2492b0d68221b2fe0b4d7fae7df6a0891249664dcebda75dcb34b.jpg


Check out what I’ve been hacking on this week in nostrdb + damus!

https://cdn.jb55.com/s/nostrdb-search.mp4


When I hear “blow up” I think bankruptcy.  It seems you mean do well?


I shouldn’t have been so harsh. I wish you all the best, sincerely. 🙏


I know who Roger was


Congrats Luke.


Ok. I put together a site some time ago with some great resources to help family and friends. Perhaps you may find some of the resources helpful, best to you!

https://www.welikethecoin.com/


Congrats brother.  If there is anything Incan do to help, I would be more than happy to help. 🙏


😂🤣
https://video.nostr.build/c60f3f40356005d6483da0cee99351b3cd5fe668330b40cb285b3e305c6ff0cd.mp4
#Bitcoin #Nostr #Plebs


When you were a fiat statist cuck, Luke was building Bitcoin.  What have you done for Bitcoin?


As announced at the #FutureOfBitcoinMining conference, I have relaunched my Eligius mining pool to help bring more decentralization to #Bitcoin mining.
I am calling it OCEAN nostr:npub1qtvl2em0llpnnllffhat8zltugwwz97x79gfmxfz4qk52n6zpk3qq87dze
 https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/jack-dorsey-leads-seed-round-in-support-of-oceans-mission-to-decentralize-bitcoin-mining-globally---announces-launch-at-future-of-bitcoin-mining-conference-301999073.html?tc=eml_cleartime


When we were both fiat slaves, Luke was helping to build bitcoin.

He was one of the biggest proponents of keeping blocks small during the block size wars.

On most issues related to bitcoin, he seems to be on the correct side of the issue.


Seem to be actively working towards allowing individuals miners to construct the block template.

You can see the proposed block which is nice.


Glad to see Ocean.xyz's hash rate continue to sharply rise. More decentralized mining pools are good for Bitcoin.

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


Followed


Love the memes. 😂

Keep them coming.


I sincerely appreciate your comics.  Thank you for defending bitcoin with humor.


LMFAO 😂😂😂

I have spent the last 30 minutes trying to figure out the new nostr:npub1clfjjuhrnr2dyrxknvdgg5v4dnq55t5svkk34r76rpwzqf5cjdas7rk28k comic and all these “pool” jokes.  Thanks to Matt for posting this article.  Although I don’t plan to ever read it, at least I get it now. nostr:note17nrls933fvstcxpr0dhfks4uhgslppzvfwvz3mrtwwwtn6pwc5fq7h0ej6


If #bitcoin isn’t around for our great grand children, regardless of price or ETFs, or any of the other fleeting highs….we will have failed.

The option to opt into bitcoin is essential.


Some people have problems understanding Nostr, so I have written a small, beginner-friendly guide.

https://mslmdvlpmnt.com/a-beginners-guide-to-nostr/

Of course it's not for you all here. You're already here, so you won't find anything new in this how-to. But pass it on to absolute beginners.


Decentralized mining pool. No kyc, no registration. Rewards go straight to your bitcoin address. Realtime actual hashrate scoring, no moving average over N period. Block template previews. Stratum v2. Lightning coming next year.


https://image.nostr.build/323d972da932e540b5ddebcae56b19bee87933671797a365efbfd6659528bc61.jpg

#meme #memestr #nostrmemes #memes 818,968 🤙💜


An honest attempt to improve mining decentralization is good for bitcoin.


This is good for bitcoin.


Great day for #bitcoin nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m
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“As we stand today, Bitcoin is not a censorship resistant network, rather it just happens to be a network that is not currently being censored. As with other forms of centralization (hardware, firmware, ...), the role of mining pools must change for Bitcoin to exist as a truly decentralized currency.”

https://ocean.xyz/about https://image.nostr.build/b56b135b6bf84a6249de07b2743bc92f8b30b923c4d7685626e0e6fde9188a17.jpg


Moving to Ocean.xzy pool 🌊 thanks nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m nostr:note1h8g3ju8ayywev8jr6z9pa08tjl89envgcempgwmgeu9dsn8ey9eswlj3sf


we keep shipping at Strike

yesterday we turned on fiat card on-ramps for Mexico, Brazil, India, Vietnam, and Guatemala

today we released sending to Lightning Addresses. you can send fiat or bitcoin to a Lightning Address with Strike. here is a demo where I send nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx $10 from my bank account to his Lightning Address. we aren’t far away from cross-currency payments over the internet looking like sending an email over the internet

Strike Africa, Strike EU, Strike LatAm coming up next. looking to ship Africa before Christmas

stay humble, stack shipping 🚢🛳⛴ https://v.nostr.build/8KPa.mp4


LFG! https://i.nostr.build/mx7R.jpg


#bitcoin got a needed improvement today.  Congrats to the entire nostr:npub1qtvl2em0llpnnllffhat8zltugwwz97x79gfmxfz4qk52n6zpk3qq87dze team and all the people who worked to make today a success.


Congrats to Luke and the entire ocean team!


This is so awesome https://ocean.xyz/blocktemplate


Congrats to the nostr:npub1qtvl2em0llpnnllffhat8zltugwwz97x79gfmxfz4qk52n6zpk3qq87dze team! https://ocean.xyz/


Just pay and get it over with!


Very nice.


No Bears Allowed. #Bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/aa68b980ecba1a4508bc07f5d8e12ada65949f2121d1e41f73e9910ad081ee1d.jpg


Community notes says they were 17 and 18.  I have no idea about this case. Bad all around, yes.  God bless the people of Israel and Palestine.


I’m ashamed to admit that I have only used NOSTR for the “social network” function.

I tried highlighter, but didn’t understand what problem it solved or what it’s use case was.  The fault is mine I suspect.

I also tried a music app, I forget which one, but I didn’t quite understand what I was supposed to be doing.

Sincerely, if I were to try one “other stuff” tomorrow, what should it be?


On the WBD podcast, RFK stated he will pardon Assange and Snowden on day 1 of his presidency.  He also stated he will look very carefully at Ross’ case.

Great question by nostr:npub14mcddvsjsflnhgw7vxykz0ndfqj0rq04v7cjq5nnc95ftld0pv3shcfrlx


Multiple presidential candidates appearing on #bitcoin podcasts….

We have a voice.


A part of disorder is occasional order.  There should be a way to check seed entropy on key managers.


If there is anything you need help with, let me know. Even if you need a zoom meeting. More than happy to help with anything.


Gold is above 2,000 USD.  Enjoy it, because when the market opens, BOOM!!!

😂😂🥶🥶🥶😭😭😭


Some people complain that NOSTR social has too many bitcoiners and needs to diversify.

I ABSOLUTELY disagree with the first part of this.

There are FAR too FEW bitcoiners here.  I am missing alot of news by no longer being on Twitter and my primary use case for Twitter was to stay on top of breaking bitcoin news and have great conversation with other bitcoiners.

This place is quiet compared to bitcoin Twitter and in the early part of my journey I would never have made it without BT.

Where TF are all the bitcoiners?

The 2nd part, of course we need to bring in others.

I needed to research something yesterday and there was far too little dialogue about the bitcoin issue here, or if there was, I couldn’t find it.

Sorry this is poorly worded, I’m in a rush.


But to bump the fee, wouldn’t the hackers need access to the first key, and then would also need the 2nd key to sweep it?


*What happened here?


A friend of mine sent this but I can only read the initial tweet, happened here?   I remember reading about the large fee.

https://x.com/83_5BTC/status/1728873072349069352?s=20


“A human shitcoin”

Yes.


Look at the calls in this game today.  It has been horrendous.  The officiating is making the game unwatchable.


Does anybody know who the refs have picked to win the Jags vs Texans game?


Watching 2 old men March up and down the field with a 10 yard chain is archaic AF.

Use tech to call the games.  Bad calls are ruining the NFL.


Which medication is it?


https://image.nostr.build/99e02cb44319a555f091d3b44a4c455128316f9bfff524df8ac28ccdaddffdf6.jpg

#meme #memestr #nostrmemes #memes 818,585 🤙💜


Where do you get your drugs?


Just a football fan in general.

With respect to this game:

I grew up in Florida, but went to USF (bulls).  Grew up an hour from Gainesville, but in tonight’s game, I am hoping FSU wins because they are from Fl and have a chance at the playoffs.

UF has had a forgettable season.


That was an awful way to lose a football game


Anybody watching FSU vs UF see that bullshit unnecessary roughness call?


If ... In order to help authorities catch criminals ... We must give up our fundamental right to privacy in all of our affairs, including financial - Then we have given up more than Criminals could ever take from us.


#memestr #zapathon #zap #memes #bitcoin #btc https://image.nostr.build/2b2a2c6e5a4ddf66eb95b23f73c8d91555e18fbdd2690551acc8727789ed94a0.jpg


Ordinals be like

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


They told him to kneel down and ask for forgiveness to have a little place among them.

He didn't... and now he has a place everywhere.

#Maradona #Argentina #Plebchain 🇦🇷⚽
https://i.nostr.build/krD3.jpg


Done with our first sale ever! We sold 15 accounts (711k sats), this is about a typical month’s revenue,  in one day, which is great! It put us in the green for the month.
Fishcake was hoping for 50 sales, I didn’t think we would sale more than 5, we were both way off 😃

It also helped us find a bug where recent new account holders were not getting their profile pic, nym and wallet (kind 1 data) imported. Should work better now, way better experience for the user! nostr:note12qspdp8wsc9dzqdetwugkw9h8yjx2d53xfen9kuklcgcdyfzyv8qr3f2lc


I too can help you setup a BTCPay server if my friend utxo is too busy.
nostr:nevent1qqs046axswwjqjucgw06uwasgwhz6whjryqp8hhqtz567tyts6yulaspz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7q3qutx00neqgqln72j22kej3ux7803c2k986henvvha4thuwfkper4sxpqqqqqqz2m83dk


The way to win is with strong opsec, open source code and self hosting. I made many mistakes.

But I will correct them.


It appears that enforcement actions are ramping up. If you believe your lightning business might have exposure, please reach out to us!

We're early in our product development, but we saw this coming and are ready to help.


* This was written by a patient of mine with the initials SJ.  He wrote it today and sent it to me.  I thought it may be helpful to some, so I shared it here.  For those who have recently lost a loved one, 🫂🫂🫂


Fuck the State. nostr:note1lt46dquayp9essul4camqsaw95a0yxgqz00wqk9f4ukghp5felmq5q5alu


I don’t know what we miss when
someone dies and leaves us. It’s
not easy to identify all the feelings
that flow through us. Loss, grief,
loneliness, sadness, despair, and
the emptiness of not being able
to hold the person we lost. Life
at its very best is fragile. This
fragility is multiplied when we
see and sense our own demise.
Here is where the joy of missing
someone we love comes into
play. We remember the bright
and lovely moments we shared.
The laughter, friendship, and love
of being together. The smile we
still see, the voice we still hear,
and the hugs we still feel are
remnants of what remains.
These single moments are what
revive us. To push us to live
again in the shadow of the one
who’s gone but still here…
SJ - 11-25-23


My business website, atlas-urology.com, keeps being rejected by google when I try to add it to my business profile.

Any thoughts as to why this is or how to fix it?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.


Never forget, during this moment in time, while some of our best developers are building products to help keep us free,

Udi and Eric are focused on putting wizards on the blockchain.

They aren’t trying to improve bitcoin or battle test the network….to them, it was always about acquiring more fiat.  They got in early, made plenty of money, and now spend their time trying to make a joke of bitcoiners.

They will be humbled.


Kudos to nostr:npub1hcwcj72tlyk7thtyc8nq763vwrq5p2avnyeyrrlwxrzuvdl7j3usj4h9rq for not bowing to KYC requirements.

Custodial wallets that don’t comply to regulations won’t survive in the long run.

Self-custody is the way to go.


I will forever be grateful for the service wallet of satoshi provided to US bitcoiners.

We are being attacked by our “public servants.” nostr:note1cu575mfy2xdakh9aklhghhn8vmluwkh79anrh09vmexgw5m3tyrq2edm2z


We need more hash rate in central and South America.


Big tech have been able to monopolize the entire internet.  Or at least the products built on top of it.

3 choices for a cell phone
2 app stores
2 operating systems


The Leftist Good Samaritan #Nostr https://image.nostr.build/7734076f29734f398a9a6289c4e3489410355ead6baa5fb761dfa9cf7bbd73e0.jpg


The board of openAI has been “reshuffled” and, as it turns out, could not fire Sam Altman.

2 members of the board are part of the “effective altruism” movement.

Jeff was right in his interview with Preston.

Big tech will try to build a regulatory moat around AI.

They will take all the profits, all the data. The world will be left with fk me.


I have contributed to this project before and have done so again.  I am grateful for everything you both are doing for NOSTR.build - thank you for helping to build something useful on top of freedom tech.

NOSTR social protocol is better because of NOSTR.build.  Sincerely, thank you both.


Does anybody have a solution to the spam call problem?

I get a minimum of 10 spam calls per day and an equal number of texts.

I tried robokiller and the no call list and the issue remains unsolved.

I am on call most days and the point of contact for my patients so must have my phone on at all times.

Any help or advice is greatly appreciated.


Join us! nostr:note1sg0hywqunsdsc2mqa8dvdrfz7nz58ytdxxyce5ufadea7f9fkukqgwjd6d


Some. Not all.

atlas-urology.com


Braiins pool creating withdrawal transaction for 25 sats per byte - NGMI.


Go buy a lotto ticket.


He is now officially Orange pilled. 🤙

#Tucker Carlson has been orange pilled as he articulates #Bitcoin.

https://video.nostr.build/438034439739c0aea5a858e99a6adb14a8e585120ec6e815e0ce2a107488639f.mp4


No, I’m joking 😂


🚨🚨🚨 Breaking News: Javier Milei has fired himself and will not be taking office in December.

He was quoted as saying “I disgust me.  I became government scum.” 🚨🚨🚨


Classic case of “fuck around and find out?”


Looking forward to presenting at the #FutureOfBitcoinMining conference next week.
Even if you won't make it, I recommend joining via the livestream. 😉

nostr:nevent1qqsgy8mj8qwfcxcv9dswnkkx3530f32rj9knrzvv6wy7ku7lyj5mwtqpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfdupzqqke74nkll7r88l7jn06kw97hcsuuytudu2snkvj92pdg485yrdzqvzqqqqqqyjvxusa


On November 28th, #Bitcoin mining will change forever.

Join nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m Dorsey, nostr:npub1lh273a4wpkup00stw8dzqjvvrqrfdrv2v3v4t8pynuezlfe5vjnsnaa9nk , Giacomo Zucco, Bob Burnett, and other prominent Bitcoiners live to discuss the Future of Bitcoin Mining.

https://ocean.xyz/event?nostr


I’m terms of SEO, what is the best way to bring my page to the top of the rankings?


Microsoft and google controlling all the AI, no big deal.

Why would a dev work for these people?


Sam did something bad.   We will never know what it was.


I have been building atlas urology.  Not so much time to keep up, but I know we are winning.


Any new news?

The last negative news I heard was: The seed can be extracted by ledger.


Great photos!


Obviously, there is more to than OpenAI- Sam Altman-Microsoft saga than we are aware of.


My wife wants to know if Javier Milei was in anchorman?


Good Morning. ☕☕☕ https://i.nostr.build/d9EP.jpg


I’m sorry for your loss 🫂


Did he ever return?


Per popular demand. X’posting here.

Lately, there's been more debate around the value of the #Bitcoin  Lightning Network. Based on the work we've been doing @Lightspark for the past 18 months, I will share my honest view.

First things first — Bitcoin is the only viable neutral settlement asset and network that can usher in a new era of global real-time payments. Everything else is either too centralized, not secure enough, doesn't have the required regulatory clarity, or doesn't have the required depth of liquidity against the (fiat) currencies that people and businesses want to use for everyday transactions.

Once you believe the above, you must make Bitcoin move faster and cheaper than on L1 to make it competitive and valuable. But, you need to achieve this while retaining Bitcoin's trust and security principles. In other words, no new consensus paradigm. You also need to introduce privacy, while not sacrificing compliance.

Once you add up all the above, the only way forward — at least for now — is to use the Lightning Network.

Now let's talk about the challenges. Lightning used to be complex, failure rates for higher value transactions were relatively high, managing liquidity, rebalancing channels, and keeping a node up and running, were all things that got in the way of adoption. To the greatest extent, this is now a thing of the past. We — and others in the industry — have addressed these shortcomings and complications with good software and services. On Lightspark's stack, you can get up and running in no time, without ever having to learn about channels, liquidity, routing, or any of these different concepts.

To be clear, the above works exceptionally well for enterprises, and custodians. It allows them to settle BTC in near-real time, at a very low cost, in a private, compliant, and reliable way.

Add to that the newly launched and open-sourced UMA (Universal Money Address) standard, which extends LNURL to add compliance and FX capabilities, and any consumer or business can send and receive any currency of their choosing in real-time with a human-readable address between participating institutions without ever knowing Bitcoin or Lightning was involved. Just as someone sending an email doesn't think about SMTP and TCP/IP. It just works.

So we're done? Is it all great? No. It's not. We collectively have much more work to do. I agree with @Leishman, Lightning with the above advancements works well in custodial/institutional settings. This is why at Lightspark, we started our development journey by focusing on enterprise solutions at first. This is where most of the volume is, and where we felt we could have the most impact in the short and medium term.

Let's now turn to the work ahead:

- Non-custodial Lightning: as much as custodial LN is now fully ready for primetime, self-custody on Lightning presents two distinct challenges: (1) offline receive; and (2) channel open fees for smaller transactions. About (1) — if you're running a node on your device unless your app is foregrounded (iOS), or if you have bad connectivity, you won't be able to receive an incoming transaction. And (2) — opening channels with higher L1 fees is currently cost-prohibitive. Some solutions are being worked on to address these, from @lightning labs to @spiralbtc, and of course @lightspark. But to be blunt, if you want full support for non-custodial Lightning with offline receive and want to make it economically viable, you have to accept some form of compromise on the trustlessness level of the solution. With some solutions, you have to trust an LSP, with others, it's a bit better with more distributed trust across different entities/service providers. This will be for consumers to choose between usability, cost, and full trustlessness. There's a lot more work and research that is taking place to improve these solutions and find non-linear breakthroughs, but for now, tradeoffs are required.

- Pushing identity / addressing to be fully self-sovereign: LNURL, and by extension, UMA, is fantastic when it comes to user experience, but users rely on their custodians to provide the addressing service as it relies on DNS. Again, it's probably fine for most people, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't push harder to enable people to own their identity and money address and make that portable. Some exciting work we're tracking is what @TBD54566975 has been building with DIDs. We're also wondering — and to some, it'll be blasphemous! — whether there are interesting bridges to make with ENS in the future.

- Issuing other assets on Lightning: bringing stablecoins and other assets onto the network to make it more efficient for a subset of transactions will be critical. @lightning has been working on Taproot Assets and making good progress, @bitfinex is working on RGB, and we're working to help make this a reality across the board.

Lightning is seeing more talent flock to it rather than leave it. It's ready for primetime and mass market for exchanges, custodial wallets, banks, and institutions. It needs more work for non-custodial wallets and applications, and to bring stablecoins to the network. But let's take a deep breath. We're about to see #Bitcoin  become the standard protocol for money on the internet with mass adoption on the horizon. It'll require tradeoffs and collective efforts, but I'm more bullish than ever on our odds of success.


vibe shift https://image.nostr.build/f2f0eeddec5b97d8d82c2d4fee2cfdef6fcae8b8454f171243650e5a72131053.jpg


BRB, booking a flight to Buenos Aires