Why not start a cashu mint?


I highly recommend it even if you're not rich.


If you’re a Bitcoiner who’s getting rich and you’re wondering what to spend your money on might I suggest a family?

Take it from me, I’ve experienced all the fancy shit and everything else is completely meaningless.


I recreated my account nostr:note1thptwrvql2frd4vj52320t0ny0ar7qpfks28xl2cv3e2wvrrcn5qf6p8xf


With RFK Jr. taking over as the head of the HHS the big pharma AND big media companies already on the ropes should be scared.

Big pharma spent $18 BILLION in advertising last year. The second-largest ad spender by industry.

If RFK makes advertising big pharma products illegal, as it already is in 98% of the world, it could be the death blow to mainstream corporate media.

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


If your Bitcoin price target isn't $♾, you don't understand Bitcoin.


I have set myself the task of making known, as far as my limited powers will allow, the truth that the Catholic faith professes, and of setting aside the errors that are opposed to it (ScG 1.2).


Everyone feels like they don't have enough Bitcoin


To be fair, the US has been shitcoining since at least 1971 😅


Some people don’t know how to win.


Natural law is nothing other than the participation of the eternal law in the rational creature (ST 1-2.91.2).


There is much consternation about the US government adopting Bitcoin, but it’s misguided.

We *have* separated money and state and restored the natural order. The state is adopting Bitcoin because it has no other choice.


💯 an underappreciated aspect of the two-party system

Unfortunately, sometimes the two choices are a part of the same uniparty, but that's a different issue.


A project built purposely to serve others will attract unselfish people who have a different level of care and respect.

Many projects focus on the individual, which will bring division and conflict of the egos to the project. When the project focuses on the good of the other, it brings in a transcendent third to strive towards together. ❤


The fight has just begun, but thank God we have the opportunity to fight.
https://m.primal.net/LuWu.mov


In retrospect, the best thing to happen was that Trump lost in 2020. Now we will have 4 years of the ride or dies around him instead of a bunch of quislings.


Thank God https://image.nostr.build/49769edcedd40efca5464637f5b71c8aac05061b0147c5962b75bd46a2b08a94.jpg


If politicians are irrelevant, why did you have to leave?


So, were the politicians in office irrelevant to the people of Springfield, OH, or countless other places across the country whose quality of life has suffered? Or did they just not make the right choices?


The only people more cringe than politicians are people who think they are above politics.

They pay half their income to pedophiles and think all they have to do is buy some Bitcoin, and all will be right with the world.

Much respect for the people who can see the fallen world for what it is but still try to make the best of it.


I decided to reactivate my account over on that other site: https://x.com/davidcaseria/status/1853439670887047171


There is nothing that the divine intellect does not actually know, and nothing that the human intellect does not know potentially (On Truth q. 1, a. 2 ad 4).


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Are any clients working on implementing NIP-61 yet? nostr:note14hm6fnwxrvh7gmnharpzxpcf837atrjcwru05lf7qczq9e08fg8qs2ppc7


Happy All Saints’ Day
https://m.primal.net/LpOa.jpg


I’m curious if someone has a technical answer to my questions, but of course, they are rhetorical in that I've asked them myself and don't have good answers; however, I try to stay humble and recognize I will never have all the answers, so I’m genuinely interested in if anyone else has good answers.

Using open-source software doesn't mean much unless you can verify that what you're running is the software. In this case, I don't think validating that voting machines are actually running open-source software is feasible. Therefore, voters must trust election officials; thus, whether the voting machine uses open-source software doesn't matter for election integrity because the result is the same: trust in election officials.

This is emblematic of Bitcoin's anomalous nature, which most still don't fully grasp: it’s a technical breakthrough solution that fixes a social problem. However, most technical solutions don't fix social problems; they fix technical problems, which means we need social solutions to social problems like election integrity.


Would every voter have access to the voting machine to do that? And how do you ensure the checksum function is implemented correctly and doesn't contain a backdoor on the machine?


GM☀

Try to pick one thing you somewhat enjoy that serves others.

And humbly and relentlessly make it better - step by step, day by day.


Good news. We’re working on a blind auth scheme. More details will be released soon. 🙂


How does a voter know the checksum is not spoofed?


nostr:npub1d7exvqfvxqyrq0j54e23gz6xj4lfj7qfssqamg60fkfp5f6mlzaskklrf3 can you use a bitmask to save any space here?


Is this a v5 token?


It’s open; anyone can sign up! The app also lets you create a new nostr profile if you want to test it with something not connected to your main nsec.


Maybe I'll make it my Halloween costume


I appreciate your humility.


Neither do I, which is why I'm skeptical of “open-source” apps and view them as a form of security theater: something that appears more secure but isn't.

The worst thing that can happen is that, in the name of open source, an app developer accidentally publishes secrets, which allows an attacker to publish a malicious version of the app that leaks every user key.

If I publish the source of my app, I will take care to ensure that the source code can't be built and released maliciously.


I'm working on it! https://sovereign.app/

We need auth in the cashu protocol, which we are working on now, to ensure only the people you want to use your mint can use it.


Sure, but how do you know the APK is the repository's source code? I can sign a malicious APK, and the signature will still be valid.


So if the election officials had access to the source code but it wasn't generally open source, would that be the same thing?


I agree that the red alert looks scary. I wasn’t aware this was what the app looked like while I was still figuring out my open-source strategy. I think I will delist it for now. Thanks for bringing this to my attention.

Unfortunately, just because a developer publishes source code for the app doesn't mean that's the source code you downloaded in the app. This is a complex problem that I’m not sure is solvable.


If the source code were available, how would you verify that what you downloaded is the same app? Genuine question.


Genuinely curious question: How do you validate that the machine runs the open-source software?


Presenting Athenut – privacy-preserving web search powered by Kagi and Cashu

Always wanted to use Kagi but thought it's a joke that a privacy search engine requires you to create an account and pay with a credit card? Athenut wraps around the Kagi API and lets you pay for searches with Bitcoin. Every individual search is paid for with ecash which means that you have no account and your payments can't be correlated to your searches.

In the background, Athenut has an entire Cashu wallet built in that is almost completely hidden from the user. All the user does is to pay a Lightning invoice and see how many searches they have left. It's made for grug brains who want to be free. You pay, you search, that's it.

This is simply amazing, I've been dreaming about this for so long. It's only the beginning. We're going to make Error 402 great again!

👉 https://athenut.com 👈

https://image.nostr.build/0df1516949ecd9f7ed3100f8882be86bb72aa500eb6b3d621069c185a17d49b5.jpg


Is there a difference between recognizing some legitimate state authority and wanting more law over you?


Nutzaps are a really good use of ecash. I like it.


There are no coincidences.

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I'm not sure when I'll be able to support signing apps, but soon, I’ll support linking your npub with a generated app-specific nsec.


Real zappers zap in powers of 2


Yup, the any-amount ecash will be based on KVAC also used in WabiSabi and Signal! The mint only needs a single private key, and the entire wallet can be stored in just a single nut. All that while also vastly improving privacy (blinded amounts, like confidential transactions).

It's going to be so fucking beautiful 🥹


Thanks!


Heard it from someone else 😅


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In DC, if you're not at the table, you're on the menu. nostr:note1wjn7t6rdwudjy9wu6xm9tna0ynmvgq03u2d3m229dx2valem8g9sylrvpy


Then, I think everything a DLC supports would be considered a prediction market because you're creating a contract for future outcomes.


Contracts for difference


Many Bitcoiners would benefit from listening to this section of Ben Shapiro's Sunday Special about the tension of virtue and freedom: https://youtu.be/JW-jmlLc3A8?t=21m3s


What we'll be focussing on for Cashu in the coming months:

- bolt12
- websockets
- blind auth
- fees
- keyset rotations
- on chain
- payment requests
- wallet sync
- any-amount ecash
- cdk mobile app
- mintd
- external mint signer
- HTLC swaps

Most of these are already started projects and many are almost there but need more adoption. Lots to work on!


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The only option is to ridicule them.
https://m.primal.net/LjOe.jpg


INTJ


Apologies for the issue! DM me with details, and I’ll try to help you recover the sats.


Cashu has a new homepage 🔥

https://cashu.space/


Does your Bitcoin wallet greet you like a true Bitcoiner?
https://m.primal.net/LioJ.jpg


I can't see Kamala going on Rogan. Her campaign would collapse if she had to talk unscripted for 3 hours.


The first Cashu NIPs have made it into the Nostr specifications!

Congrats to the devs 👏

* NIP-60 describes portable Cashu wallets that live inside nostr relays
* NIP-61 describes nutzaps, a new, instant way to zap users and events by posting ecash locked to their public key

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Just pushed the latest version 👍


What would you say to a proud American who just came back from a European trip and is disenchanted with the American lifestyle of driving everywhere and eating poison and wants to go back to safe, walkable town centers with restaurants that serve edible food that won't make you a recurring customer for Big Pharma?

Asking for a friend. 😅


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Looking forward to when we have nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft ‘s NIP-61 “NUTZAP” widely supported. The zap UX will improve 10x.


Ecash on Bitcoin enables digital payments that preserve your privacy, just like physical cash.

No speculation, no token, no VC. Just free and open-source software. Cashu is a protocol that aims to bring instant, cheap, and censorship-resistant payments to everyone.

Join us 😎🥜
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I'll add it to my list to explore. My initial impression is it may be a little tricky to integrate since my app is cross-platform using Flutter, and the nostr integration uses rust’s nostr-sdk. I'll have to figure out how to split the logic to support Amber.


#askNostr
#sovereignWallet

Have you tried Sovereign Wallet?

Latest version added BIP353 DNS addresses,  just changed my LN⚡ wallet to receive zaps and I have started to test it. 🚀

Will write a full review and publish once I finish to test the CLANS, recruiting family and friends now!

The PROS:
1. #LN⚡ BIP353 DNS address
2. #cashu support
3. CLANS, a very innovative approach, empowering users, using a simple interface to create mints, a federate mint which will include only those you trust, your friends and beloved ones, 🔥
4. Very easy to use interface, made with mass adoption in mind (can be improved), and... wait for it... good looking 😎

The CONs:
From my testing so far:
1. Slow load
2. Missing to send using a LN⚡address, only invoice and QR code, adding the amount is tricky, only in BTC, needs work.
3. Missing AMBER integration for signing with your Nostr nsec
4. no sats denomination option, only BTC

Take a look at the wallet UI and settings section, simple, smart:

https://image.nostr.build/f054afb86b92c55e5a884e0a65cc2f5646998d5bac9fe41d7720abd80a15b171.jpg

https://image.nostr.build/aa128e7000984d5204a3739718cc2a284d6460a35feb0210a42164af6c7d6440.jpg

https://image.nostr.build/39533294da8d8ae28c4c36285458fc6e82bb22de720d146841f2e1d8838ec4bd.jpg


BOLT12 soon (tm) 😄


Looking into it


Reject the term "stablecoin".

They're down 30% since 2020, how is that stable?

The problem with fiatcoins is the central bank must be trusted not to debase the currency, but the history of fiat currencies is full of breaches of that trust.


Disordered self-love is the cause of every sin (ST 1-2.77.4).


“I’m not political”

“Voting is a scam”

Allow me to be blunt here.

This most recent ECB paper made clear something many of us have known for awhile.

When the price of Bitcoin goes up regular people are going to want to kill you. The state is also going to want to kill you. They will be deeply aligned on the solution to their problem being, murdering you.

Don’t say it won’t happen. It has happened in every society on earth. It will happen.

You’re not political? Grow up Peter Pan, count chocula it’s not Halloween. Be serious. This is big boy shit.

The state is a weapon.

People are going to want to wield it against you.

What’re you gonna do about that?

“I’m not political”

Yeah well I am.

I have to be.

I want the world to reflect my values and respect my right to life liberty and property.

We have to protect ourselves from what’s coming.

And believe me when I say… it is definitely coming.


Beautiful. Thanks for sharing.


https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hucklefather/episodes/A-THANKLESS-MISSION---Homily-for-the-29th-Sunday-e2ptkfm #homily #sermon #catholic #mission #missionary


Unbothered. Moisturized. Happy. In my lane. Focused. Flourishing. https://image.nostr.build/2963a2aa751d718ed6514c9902ce8c9379bd7c80b638cda2cafae30171dac6a5.jpg


Any institutions that have access to children (churches, public schools, Boy Scouts, etc) will draw predators. Like any human organization, the Church is full of sinners, and likely, all will not be saved, but if you take salvation and God’s revelation seriously, the Church still is what it says it is despite these scandalizers.


GB-month is typically what AWS uses https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/pricing/


Hashpools: A New Kind of Mining Pool Powered by Ecash
https://nostr.download/421f73642534f0029322054342e41159716bba87a38cf94cfe2125f58581db01


THERE IS A WHOLE GENERATION THAT THINKS ENGAGEMENT IS MORE VALUABLE THAN A STRONG FAMILY.

FOCUS ON FAMILY. WORK HARD. SAVE IN BITCOIN.


Private relays make it possible to de-couple the data layer from the interface for private apps

Example: if you use bitwarden, you are stuck with the bitwarden API, but maybe you like the lastpass interface better

But if your passwords are stored on your private relay, you can swap between any interface you like without having to do imports/exports and installing new things

Basically static, app specific APIs can become obsolete with a good set of NIPs


Private relays can replace all sorts of self hosted apps and make it way easier to be sovereign

Instead of like 10 docker containers you just need one private relay


I agree it's not something most Bitcoiners want to discuss because it leads to questioning the “don't trust, verify” ethos. But I think taking that mantra too literally has always been problematic because most people will never verify all of the hardware, firmware, cryptography, and source code they use for Bitcoin.

But Bitcoin has always allowed something still very powerful, if not as catchy as a slogan: “Choose who you trust.”

That's what we're doing with cashu.


I've built a thing: The Cashu mint Round Robin auditor

An app that perpetually monitors a list of mints by randomly sending Lightning payments between them. Forever. The sats go in a circle until all is lost to fees or rugs. If a mint fails to pay an invoice, it is marked with a scary red label.

You can donate Ecash from any mint to add it to the list of audited mints!

https://audit.8333.space
 https://image.nostr.build/1681a4dce2de71daa02c14046412f05ecdabff3fbe4df2f46aa389a3424fb975.jpg


Some people need to internalize because you can do something doesn't mean you should


“Go and fear nothing. I will help you.” - Our Lady of Champion, October 9, 1859 https://image.nostr.build/691e2a12a841800a37c6cdff32db822ebaf87eb81619f436f1856d0b898e9170.jpg


All layer-2 protocols (including Ark and LN with channel factories) require unilateral exit to remain 'trustless.' However, as more people use them, there are fewer opportunities to perform that exit among untrusting parties, thus bringing us back to the same problem: trust is introduced.

For example, if we use channel factories to scale so that individuals use an on-chain transaction once every 6 months on average, we can get many more people on-chain. But that means, on average, each person can't make another transaction for the next 6 months, including exiting the channel factory if a peer goes offline or maliciously force-closes, which most will find unacceptable to hold their money. So, the implication is that each person needs to trust the rest of the peers, which we can facilitate better outside of layer-2 protocols.


No one is more awake than a toddler told to go to sleep.


Millennials and beyond prefer to control our own retirement accounts, transact 24/7, not be stolen from via endless taxation and inflation, use a house to live in rather than as an investment vehicle, and save in Bitcoin rather than melting fiat currency units.

If this describes your way of living, you are ahead of the game. nostr:note1hzsau8c9khhfc7n80vr49vhnscnpu23mapzxt30gjh5p0n9f5evq68gelm


Welcome to Democracy


📢 sovereign.app and Chamberlain mint release with a nice blog post by nostr:nprofile1qqsxkxud4s60l3sagexlamcquj5y5czwzuh0vwglkc5jj0t0zenpfrqprdmhxue69uhkx6rjd9ehgurfd3kzumn0wd68yvfwvdhk6qgdwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkcqg5waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t0pz6090.

Let's see some Nostr clans!

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Not everyone can self-custody. When you run the numbers, only a few people will be able to hold the keys to their own Bitcoin.
https://sovereign.app/blog/only-1-million-people-will-hold-bitcoin


Maybe next time we can have a better understanding. You're not far off, but I wish you would engage more with what I'm actually saying instead of a caricature you have in your mind; the greatest skeptics help form the best arguments.

I wish you well as well.


I did tell you. Again, this isn't a “god of the gaps” argument. You clearly didn't listen to or read any of the content I provided. There can be good theistic and atheistic dialogue, but you're not representing your side well. Now, respond to my arguments, or you will lose my attention.


Denis Phillips was saying the path should be clearer tomorrow


“The fundamental building block of society is not the individual but the family.” https://youtu.be/nwIRsAjlX78


Same. Stay safe brother


So you don't know why we exist, but you know it's not God?

What you're saying isn't entirely wrong, but you're asserting God doesn't exist without arguments.

I’ve tried to show you that our existence is contingent and infinite contingency is a contradiction; therefore, there must be something that is existence itself. In a goodwill, rational discussion, go after the arguments.

You don't have to assent to belief in God, but at least make good arguments against it.


I'll look through it again this week!


nostr:npub1mhcr4j594hsrnen594d7700n2t03n8gdx83zhxzculk6sh9nhwlq7uc226 do you need any help with payment requests? I think your PR is a good start.


NWC for cashu would be 🔥


Yes, exactly: the train's motion is caused by the locomotive. We are the train, and God is the locomotive. There needs to be a locomotive to move the train. The train cars by themselves can't move. Yet it is an error to look at the moving train cars linked together and ask what car is causing the locomotive to move.

Similarly, we don't cause our existence. We are contingent on our parents, on the oxygen we breathe, and on the food we eat. All those things are contingent on other things. There can't be infinite contingent things because nothing would have sufficient reason to exist; therefore, nothing would exist. But we do exist, so there must be something that exists necessarily, which does not depend on anything else for its existence. That's God.

By definition, God is not contingent on people creating gods. God would still exist if there were no people because he is sheer existence itself.

I tried to adapt St. Thomas Aquinas’s third-way argument to our context. Still, these classical arguments probably have better standalone explanations elsewhere than I can summarize here if you want to understand the rationale for believing in God.


Without binary protocol option there is no speed. JSON is low entry barrier but it's atrocious.

Relays should serve JSON AND CBOR, simple client flag can achieve this.

We can't be serious about speed without it.

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I'm not sure if you're trying to make an argument or if you're still confused by what I'm saying.

“What made god” is nonsensical. It’s like asking which car on the train pulls the locomotive. It misunderstands the subject.

I'm not making a gap in knowledge argument. I’m making a philosophical argument based on contingency.

If you're interested in better understanding the arguments, this is a good video: https://youtu.be/t2VbTvZfKXw


I am partially agreeing with you, but you omitted or seem confused about the nature of God (”the Maker”).

> People have created gods everywhere there have been people.
Yes, some people create gods, that is, idols: pagan gods and goddesses, money, power, pleasure, fame, the self, the state, etc.

> The makers are people that have created thousands of gods.
The makers can't be the people because they were made. Who is the ultimate maker of the makers? That is what is meant by God: the uncreated creator or unmoved mover.


Some people create gods, but God is uncreated


“When the freedom to be creative becomes the freedom to create oneself, then necessarily the Maker himself is denied and ultimately man too is stripped of his dignity as a creature of God, as the image of God at the core of his being. The defence of the family is about man himself. And it becomes clear that when God is denied, human dignity also disappears. Whoever defends God is defending man.”

https://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/speeches/2012/december/documents/hf_ben-xvi_spe_20121221_auguri-curia.html


TIME IS OUR MOST SCARCE ASSET BUT WE CONSTANTLY WASTE IT.


Relays should provide both JSON and Binary options.

JSON only is extremely wasteful for bandwidth constraint clients.

You won't change my mind.


On left is cdk wallet creating a bolt12 mint quote from a cdk mint running with core lighting as the funding source. On the right that bolt12 offer is paid by a cashu melt quote from a cdk mint running with phoenixd as the funding source.

https://m.primal.net/LLrE.webm


Would the discovery process be the apocalypse (i.e., revelation or unveiling)?


NIP-60 wallets 🥜
https://lnw.cash/
https://nuts.cash/
https://sovereign.app/
https://nutsack.me/
https://highlighter.com/


Before we make NIP-60 the standard, I would love to work with nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft to simplify the current spec in a couple of ways


Saw this too https://youtu.be/si9kPy7IffU


Only a few people will use self-custody lightning. Even fewer understand this.


I believe Ross' chance at freedom is greater than 0% if Trump wins.

If Trump loses, Ross' chance remains 0% with Kamala.

Good enough for me to vote. It's a rigged, bs system, but it's the absolute least I can do.

PS: you're calling his mother an idiot. She knows it's not a guarantee, but she believes Trump will free her son.


It’s still a draft: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1369


Cashu mint melting to Bolt12 offer

https://m.primal.net/LJjU.webm


“I’m not voting because It doesn’t matter bro”

It matters to Ross. https://image.nostr.build/6b9e0eaec35c7b778e6dfdeb54d20f628e1443b218c202d35a38151e22321a86.jpg


Saying you have enough kids is like saying you have enough health. It’s a blessing that can never be depleted.


Population collapse is very real. Have a bunch of babies 👶🏼 👶🏼 👶🏼 👶🏼 in addition to saving human civilization it’s simply the best.


nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft ‘s NIP-61 will be a significant UX improvement to zapping


A point missed in the e-cash vs. custodial lightning debate is that a business running a custodial lightning service depends on the state for its existence. States “incorporate” businesses; they form them under their rule.

An individual exists before the state. An individual is part of a family, community, and body politic, which make up the state.

Individuals have a reputation to uphold. Companies live and die by the dictates of the state. Which one would you rather hold your money?


who wants Testflight (iOS only) access to a NIP-60 wallet app I'm building?

10 largest zaps get you access to the testflight and to a NIP-29 community (also available through the app)

🙏  Repost for visibility, I need to pay rent 😂


It’s a miracle it works


Restaurants typically undercook. If they get the temperature wrong undercooking, they don't have to throw it away


Glimpse into the future


Cashu NFC card merchant small demo:
1) Type in the requested amount.
2) Tap card to pay.

https://m.primal.net/LEkK.mp4


The immigration issue (and other prominent social issues) force people to confront the end state of liberalism: a mass of isolated individuals controlled by a technocratic tyranny.

The last 500 years of liberalism are crescendoing to this point. The liberal ideology has become so pervasive most self-identified conservatives today are historical liberals. Even Bitcoiners will struggle to confront the entire liberal worldview we’ve been told our whole lives is a lie.


The propaganda machine is powerful to keep a large part of the population unaware of what is happening. Most are too bought in to come to terms with the lies they believe in, but hopefully there's enough that can escape from their hypnosis to withstand the coming tyranny.


City


Just saw Liverpool in your bio. Reconsidering our follow-ship... 😉


No, it stays in secure storage on the device.


The TestFlight beta group should be open: https://testflight.apple.com/join/wx6QNEmr


If you have a Mint running right now, the most straightforward thing you can do is send them the Mint URL. They will be able to join using that. The app should be pretty intuitive from there, but I'm open to feedback.


I'll add it to my list to investigate, but the app requires a lot of key operations since all the events are encrypted from derived keys (via ECDH). The app is already a little slower than I would like to make NWS requests, so I would guess remote signing would make the performance unacceptable.


The benefit of using your existing nsec is the app can import your contact list and, if you run a mint, allow your followers to join it.

If you'd like to test out the app, you can create another nsec first, then decide to transfer over your sats later if you want to move to your existing identity.

The cashu proofs are encrypted with your nsec. The app further protects your privacy and security by deriving a dedicated wallet nsec from your personal nsec so it’s deterministically generated for ease of backup but not associated with your identity npub. Additionally, you can use a password in the derivation scheme to add another layer of security or plausible deniability.


I plan on looking into this weekend. 👍


I wasn’t aware. I'll take a look at it. Thanks for sharing!


Thank you!


Hey Rod, I'm considering it, but currently, it is not. I'm unsure about the benefit of open-sourcing an app that is intended to be downloaded via the app stores since it's trivial to have a private fork from where the releases are built.

I have an open-source tool in the works that can validate the encrypted proofs stored on Nostr relays, and I plan to implement finer-grain relay controls for additional security. Additionally, if you have a de-Googled phone, I started publishing an APK, which you can download: https://sovereign-app-apk.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/app-release.apk

Let me know if that addresses any of your concerns about open-source.


In the meantime, I uploaded an APK to S3 for you: https://sovereign-app-apk.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/app-release.apk


I will look into it


Correct!


Are you on iOS or Android? I just saw that iOS had limited availability, but that's now fixed.


Very grateful to nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg nostr:npub1qjgcmlpkeyl8mdkvp4s0xls4ytcux6my606tgfx9xttut907h0zs76lgjw and nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft for all the work they've done to get us here! Excited to build more! 🚀


This wallet is going the next step. Based on the Rust Cash Dev Kit, CDK. Connects to mints without DNS via nostr using Nostr Web Services, NWS. Comes with a mint with an integrated LDK Lightning node.

Very impressive work 🫡

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💪
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We had a Cashu dev call yesterday and four (!!) new wallets based on NIP-60 were presented. NIP-60 is a standard for storing ecash on no:str relays, encrypted with your keys.

You open a wallet for the first time, login with your nsec, and boom, your balance appears.

Don't like this wallet? Switch to another one, enter your nsec, and your ecash appears there too.

This is pretty insane. If you're building a wallet, you're immediately plugged in into a social net. Now you can also carry your money around from app to app, or website to website.

If you're a Cashu dev, you should join our monthly open dev calls. Hit me up!


💪

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Cashu 🤝 Nostr

Onboard friends and family to your mint in less than 60 seconds through the power of Nostr. It's the easiest way to use Bitcoin. https://sovereign.app https://video.nostr.build/17841c8cc3597467e869ba40aa48eeb73607e606e5dfc14455296e8f875357aa.mp4


The profit motive may not be the cleanest but it's one of the most honest. At least you know where it stands.


The quality and advancements Nostr and Nostr devs is remarkable.

A lot of stuff is just not user viable yet.

And if they do their job right, users will never see it.

It will be just fucking magic.


nostr is hope

but hope demands courage

and there's a lot of weak men out there

in any case, you get freedom at the price you deserve


Cashu https://cashu.space/


Yes. It's why I started to pray the Rosary every morning.


Sign more Bitcoin transactions. Sign less bombs.


I'm super thankful to nostr:nprofile1qqs8suecw4luyht9ekff89x4uacneapk8r5dyk0gmn6uwwurf6u9ruspzpmhxue69uhkumewwd68ytnrwghszxthwden5te0wfjkccte9eekummjwsh8xmmrd9skctcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhs2juazd for trusting me and giving me the support I needed to push Nutmix forward.

I'm incredibly excited our future!

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I am continually reminded how wicked and weak most of the boomer generation is. The worst part of their legacy by far is the millennials they raised.


The mind is a part of our rational soul, which is eternal, so we have hope. 🙂


Interesting. But isn't this also applicable to all technologies, not just AI?


Spent time with a bunch of good Bitcoiner friends. Most of them don't use nostr. All of them urged to explain why they don't without being asked to do so. An indication of a bad conscience, I guess that's good for nostr but it doesn't really matter. Anyway, what's their reason? They haven't seen nostr used for much more than "just social media".

Obviously, they're retarded and wrong and I love them. But that doesn't matter either. They don't know that the most exciting use cases of nostr are beyond a Twitter clone and it seems that that's what would make them reconsider it, but I don't believe them really. I think they don't care and made up a bunch of nonsense excuses because they feel the social pressure from their Bitcoiner peers.


I think a lot of this comes down to the fact that bootstrapping network effects is hard.

When someone says Nostr is too small, or they view it only as social media, part of what they are implicitly saying is that its network effect is not sufficiently scaled to be of interest to them, which in a busy person's life is reasonably valid.

So then it depends on the builders to make a product so interesting to them that it breaks through and solves one of their problems in a way they can't ignore.

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The way to increase lightning adoption is to improve the UX for normies, not crying about it on Twitter.


I'm sorry, but that's a stretch. Not defending the Church was 100% in the right in this situation, but that's a bit of an exaggeration.

https://youtu.be/U152bD5W7AU


So, you want the state to have access to everyone's private keys?  /sarcasm


Not to mention, Anarcho-capitalism is an oxymoron.


Good rule of thumb: If you cannot name any historic examples of your preferred system of government succeeding in the past, it’s unlikely to succeed in the present.

This is true of both Communism and Anarchism, but is not true of a Minarchism or Monarchism. https://image.nostr.build/557c0637becc4996be7c918a09fa10b784ec54701605a999124c63d745637e99.jpg


“How the universe works is, in my mind, one of the biggest questions that humans can ask.” - nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg

https://btcpp.substack.com/p/bitcoin-news-edition-theoretical


It's not as bad as when I worked at Coinbase in 2017. Brian Kelly tried to sell Bitcoin live on CNBC and got an error. He then switched to buying without issue. I watched it happen live as I was helping keep the exchange running. nostr:note1qlwr9379g8dc345p5sw438fn4xg4dmczklpkd3sqst5thrq6us9q85jjte


Maybe everyone should use the first few characters of their npub as their username 👀


I think, therefore, I am.


Love walking around my neighborhood and seeing dads being dads, outside playing with their kids.

Gives me hope for the future.


Freedom of speech starts at each dinner table..


Finding my way back to my faith through my kids has been one of the best gifts God has given me


This project was a life-changer for me.

Can't overstate my gratitude.

Thanks, nostr:nprofile1qqs9pk20ctv9srrg9vr354p03v0rrgsqkpggh2u45va77zz4mu5p6ccpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuvrcvd5xzapwvdhk6qgdwaehxw309aukzcn49ekk2qghwaehxw309aex2mrp0yh8x6tpd4ehgu3wvdhk60v82wz !

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Happy birthday Cashu 🥜🥜🎂


Did God organize a religion?


Reality is a wave of potential until a conscious mind wills it. nostr:note1fce4zkrvnzejap88f4l55vwzxqx5z8pv2ms5kuex2z0ym8mu2c3q5cd8jg


What’s remarkable about the double slit experiment is how it reveals that modern man assumes he is a separate observer of the universe.

He is therefore shocked when he sees evidence that he is the universe. https://image.nostr.build/8fc5360206a8e25914bbfe51aa7d6f267a8fe2d2f3c60333678e54dd18587d63.jpg


Modern philosophers have lost the belief that anything worth doing is worth doing boldly.

The general idea that everyone is basically good, life is nothing more than a series of sensations, and that we should try to limit pain the best we can is a philosophy for weak men.

Radical conversion is the way.


It took me longer than it should have nostr:note17us6l7j93mmc4lqp5cqcpy7zz2pkgj7emna8xz6xtdamvz0ga7jsv445dv


Nor acknowledge how young they were. Imagine a bunch of 30 and 40-year-olds creating a new system of government now.


You don't hate the media enough.


Which regime are we in? https://pollerama.fun/respond/4413151163c6a44b09b06112d82858d1400f8bbc2a51f5ff5a044db4fa18de28 https://image.nostr.build/02a2b0b64ddf2347f0be449faa79a0098ea2ddd8c5d4ac9dee747e11b2e3dd89.jpg


With the community leaders running a cashu mint


In many ways, it’s predictable: https://youtu.be/ot8Eul-nDU4


"The reason that secular progressivism has such an egregiously low view of human rights is because they don’t believe in God, and God is the only possible foundation for any kind of human dignity at all. You cannot dispense with the God who created humans without simultaneously losing what it means to be a human. And when you have lost that, you no longer have any right to speak about human rights at all."

https://dougwils.com/books-and-culture/s7-engaging-the-culture/whats-wrong-with-human-rights-2.html


The ancients knew this https://image.nostr.build/bfcdcf0ed8c03c204ac13691728866d74ca550379520390a5f533ae3a7304eef.jpg


Have a blessed Sunday. https://image.nostr.build/527077e394eb87bffc16117a100bef7a398efb7f2b53ac09080bb7728276fbee.jpg


Agree. The breakthrough is as an identity provider with a social network protocol that allows apps to be built on top of it. Social media is just one of those apps.


If you're willing to, I’m interested to hear more about being harmed by Catholic guilt as a child. I'm also happy to have a private conversation. Please reach out, brother; the Church wants you back. 🙂

Also, I'm not sure if this will help build a personal relationship with Jesus, but you may find it interesting: nostr:note1cmz59htvnzhd4zrh2f8qq9g8h74qd9ggc5gf4dzuv09znhwtc64qkuu8us


Not every day, but often!

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What’s something you think about every day that you think most people don’t think about at all?

I can’t stop wondering what GK Chesterton would have thought of bitcoin.


On the contrary, I'm open to arguments against my views, but I prefer to contemplate good ones.

Aside from the fact that there are candidates for the Holy Grail—not that one is bound to believe there is—the premise that because we don't have it, we don't know what happened at the Last Supper is not a serious argument.

The author seems to be baiting a weak religious argument to talk about their theory on drugs. That's not that interesting.


If the Eucharist is a bridge too far, try praying the rosary daily.

I'm unsure of your theology, but even the most ardent Protestant can pray the rosary by saying only the first half of the Hail Mary.


I read the description, and it made no sense, so that doesn't portend an enticing read


That author sounds like he has no idea what he's talking about.


The Eucharist.

I have a lot of love for non-Catholic Christians, but being a Christian or going to church without the Eucharist is like watching a movie and skipping the climax. You're missing the whole point.


Web of Trust Relay:

This relay looks at who you follow, and who they follow, and saves every note in this trust network automatically.

I added it as my only relay in amethyst and spam is now completely gone.

Anyone in my web of trust can use my relay:

wss://wot.utxo.one

But the much better solution for nostr is to run your own WoT relay

https://github.com/bitvora/wot-relay

ps I'm faster than nostr:nprofile1qqsrhuxx8l9ex335q7he0f09aej04zpazpl0ne2cgukyawd24mayt8gprfmhxue69uhhq7tjv9kkjepwve5kzar2v9nzucm0d5hszxmhwden5te0wfjkccte9emk2um5v4exucn5vvhxxmmd9us2xuyp


> Everytime an approval is required, Amber brings up a popup on the phone.

That seems like a relatively high level of friction, and friction is a big killer of adoption.


These are all really good points and may have changed my mind on the subject. That said, remote signing will only be used by a tiny minority of people.


Why not?


Man in sinning draws away from the order of reason and so abandons human greatness—insofar as man is naturally free and a being who exists for himself—and he falls in with the subjected condition of irrational animals (ST 2-2.54.2).


Bot problem is easily solved with web of trust , much better than playing whack a mole with muted words


This is interesting. Have you thought about a legal system (or an arbitration system) based on Nostr?


It just uses HTTP. There is a .nostr domain resolver though.


HODLing and using Bitcoin can be a strange path to follow. At first, you want to try and 'save people'.

Then after a while, you realise you can't save them because lots of people don't want to be saved.

Help the people who are willing to listen, and be patient about it.


Surround yourself with art and beauty. It will better free your creative mind and give you more gratitude for the life around us.


Biggest white pill ever.

The boomers in power will die soon of natural causes.

And be replaced by their cowardly spineless effeminate sons.

People with no competence. Who haven’t earned anything. Inheritors who believe in cargo cult engineering.

They have no ability to build or maintain the empires they’ve been given.

They will be trivially easy to defeat or resist.

George soros is a fearsome adversary.

Alex soros looks like he could be blown over by a strong gust of wind.

Change is coming. https://image.nostr.build/456d098638abc86cf4cec062d5c4fd115c8cdb769b73e14bd2212cb036651c00.jpg


Is anyone working on Nostr polls?


This book has a lot of good essays about the paradox: https://bookstore.wordonfire.org/products/vibrant-paradoxes


Christ was master of the paradox:

Last is first.
Giving is receiving.
Dying is living.
Losing is finding.
Least is greatest.
Poor is rich.
Weakness is strength.
Serving is ruling.


Right, but “you” don't need a million sats


“IF BITCOIN IS SUCCESSFUL APPLE WILL BAN THE APPS. WE SHOULD JUST USE APPLE PAY.”

“IF NOSTR IS SUCCESSFUL APPLE WILL BAN THE APPS. WE SHOULD JUST USE X.”

BOTH TAKES SHOW A LACK OF UNDERSTANDING OF OPEN PROTOCOLS AND OPEN SOURCE CLIENTS.

DO BETTER. BE BETTER. FREE MEN DO NOT ASK PERMISSION.


Multiple things are true.

America rules 🇺🇸

Anti-Americans are scum

The American government is not America and it’s your duty and obligation as an American to shittalk it relentlessly.


Not with e-cash 🙂


He who enters religion does not make profession to be perfect, but to endeavor to attain perfection.


What is needed is central bankers with power to push back. Not Bitcoin.

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7 8 9


Live profitably. Consume less than you produce. Don't chase the whims of fiat. Upgrade the world.

#Bitcoin empowers us to build a better tomorrow. True wealth lies in responsibility, discipline, and long-lasting value.

I own my business, my land, and my #bitcoin. That's it.
https://m.primal.net/KeUc.mov


Being a kind and patient father has been the thing that has made me more kind and patient in the rest of my life.


Come for the notes, stay for the identity


Money is never lost, only transfered.
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https://github.com/cashubtc/nuts/pull/155/commits

Feel free to chime in on this.
This is to let cashu mints publish on nostr what they are doing. It would bring a lot of significant perks amongst which:
* ecash receipt confirmation (without privacy leak)
* wallet restoration (same privacy benefit)
* a standard way of complying with PoL requirements.

This is the associated NIP: https://github.com/lollerfirst/nips/blob/cashu-data/XX.md

I tried to keep the NIP as simple as possible: it's basically only reserving 3 event kinds for cashu use.

Lmkwyt.


I noticed that most of the time it's those who don't work on anything that keep telling other people what they should be working on instead.


Why free speech is essential to protect: nostr:note1vjvd5epu70pflc89f5ed6lan5tmgmhgugvk3vjyk7tuu89ndrnzq8mv7qy


You only do that in the shower? 😅


🔥 Release: Cashu Dev Kit (CDK) 0.3.0

https://github.com/cashubtc/cdk/releases/tag/v0.3.0


When man turned his back on God, he fell under the influence of his sensual impulses: in fact this happens to each one individually, the more he deviates from the path of reason, so that, after a fashion, he is likened to the beasts that are led by the impulse of sensuality.


Wen Premier League?


Be careful with #2. A husband is called to die for his wife if necessary (Ephesians 5:25), so his self-preservation can't be above his family. For this reason, I have my priorities arranged as God, then family, and lastly, self. However, to live out the servant leadership we are called to for others, you first have to rightly order yourself; in that sense, the self is higher.


Interesting takes by levels.io on lex fridman in the context of being a diginal nomad:

“Freedom doesn’t make you happy, constraints do” -levels

“I am free thats why i am lost” - kafka

Freedom is pretty great, but constraints (family, kids, relationships) keep us locked in and focused. Thats how i interpreted it at least.


Trying to figure out why nostr:npub1mgncdnqnq7fwchru90ym793ne5wjmmysyrwnnxpjesywgpejkv5sdxmeyt can't follow me


Life priorities:
1. Faith
2. Family
3. Health
4. Work
5. Hobby


Fun fact: stablecoins don’t exist. There are only NGU coins (Bitcoin) and NGD coins (everything else).


Maybe that factors into people's decisions, but the data suggest it's mainly a personal opinion rather than economic: https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2024/07/25/the-experiences-of-u-s-adults-who-dont-have-children/.

Given that most people's opinions are shaped by their culture, we should do as much as we can to promote a culture of strong families. But it's also fair to say the government is a terrible allocator of resources.


💯 completely agree


I'm not sure if I follow the logic. So if couple A starts a family and receives a tax credit, the state gets less money, which causes it to raise taxes on everyone. Now, couple B is taxed more with no kids, so they don't start a family? But you're saying they would’ve otherwise if there were no subsidies because taxes would be lower? But hypothetically, if they did start a family and receive the subsidy, wouldn't they be in the same position as if there were no subsidy with lower taxes?

It seems to me if everyone has a family, the outcome will be the same, so I don't see the disincentive. Obviously, there can be a big difference between people who choose to have a family and those who don't, but isn't that the point?

I'm not arguing from a position that the government can create an effective tax policy. However, I think people generally underestimate how dire the birth rate situation is. Even if we had the perfect policy to turn it around, I'm not sure if we have enough time, so anything is better than nothing, it seems—just my 2 sats.


Between this and what we are doing with the pear stack, we are going to solve all of the connection, latency, encryption, and authentication problems for all of our tools and I'm fucking HERE FOR IT!! 🔥🔥

This is SO awesome to see. I dont think people realize how huge this will be for UX and app design.

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How do tax incentives discourage having children?


Daily Mysteries with Mark Wahlberg is the Rosary 🙂

Hallow lets you set a daily routine, so I currently have the Rosary set for 1 p.m., but sometimes that’s inconvenient, so I miss it. I'm still experimenting with my daily routine. https://image.nostr.build/237963516242d54f116ef6e941075292d28ab627e862fd02cd7b2e1cc845b306.jpg


Pray the Rosary. I had never really understood it before, but when my wife started listening to it on Hallow, the meditative aspect finally clicked.

Daily Mysteries with Mark Wahlberg at 1.25x speed is well worth the <15 minutes a day.


Please contribute back to Cashu and the libraries you're using.

If you find something you don't like, fix it and open a PR. We welcome every little contribution.


What is the most important in a payment / POS system?


Ecash mints are the new free banking


Is it possible to have zaps go towards dev funding?


Generally no. As a father, I have dominion over my family. Still, if my kids were to do something illegal in public or to someone from a different family, the local authorities would have dominion over justice.

However, for justice (and many other things like education/moral formation) within my family, I can exclude a father from another family from intervening in our affairs or, more importantly, excluding the state from teaching things I disapprove of. So, in that sense, I have a monopoly in my position of authority in the family.

This nuance is articulated as subsidiarity in the Catholic tradition: the principle that decisions should be made at the most local level possible, with higher authorities intervening only when necessary. The concept goes back to at least the 13th century with St. Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologica, but Pope Pius XI used it specifically in his papal encyclical Quadragesimo Anno, which is an important document in the history of Catholic Social Teaching.


The just use of corrosion in authority is if it is used to will the good of the other for his own sake: what Christians call love or charity. That is to say, the “common good.”


Awesome work! Excited to use this!


I'm excited to announce the first release of NWS, a resilient connectivity solution that leverages NOSTR as a transport for TCP. NWS enables seamless communication between devices without public IP addresses. Below are the key features introduced in this release:

- **Exit Node Internet Relay:** Exit nodes can relay public internet traffic, allowing entry nodes to access the internet using the exit node's outgoing IP address.

- **.nostr Domain Support:** NWS now supports `.nostr` domains, which are valid RFC 1035 domains. This feature ensures compatibility with most existing clients.

- **Reverse TCP Connect Mode:** We've added a reverse TCP connect mode where the exit node initiates a TCP connection to the public entry node upon receiving a request. This mode utilizes NOSTR for service discovery while forwarding data packets through the reverse connection, enhancing connectivity and reducing load on public NOSTR relays.

This is just the beginning. With many more features and enhancements on our roadmap, we are excited about the future of NWS and its potential. Stay tuned for more updates as we continue to develop NWS.
https://github.com/asmogo/nws/releases


https://biblehub.com/2_samuel/23-3.htm#lexicon

To understand the true meaning of scripture, it's best to go to the source and study the etymology of the words.

In this case, it seems to mean to have dominion over justice, which traditionally means giving each his due.


I won't elaborate for him but I will add that God created a cosmos in which there is hierarchical forms of rule and authority. Christ is king of all existence. He then deligates authority to lesser powers—to his heavenly host (like angels) as well as mankind.

Man as God's image bearer is to take dominion of the earth—to cultivate, subdue, and rule (as God's governors).

God also subdivided his deligated authority to man into four primary forms of government—the church, the magistrate (state), the family, and the individual. Each government has its own specific roles and boundaries—clergy do not declare war, the magistrate does not administer the sacraments, for example.

When man sinned and fell, and all creation was subject to sin, man's governing roles and duties did not change but are now plagued with corruption. Even in a sinful world God did not do away with government. Rather, we are told that God gave the magistrate the sword to reward the just and to punish the unjust.

In 2 Samuel God says "When one rules justly over man, ruling in the fear of God, he dawns on them like the morning light, like the sun shining forth on a cloudless morning, like rain that makes grass sprout from the earth"

In proverbs 29:2, it says "When the rightelus increase, the people flourish, but when the wicked rule, the people groan."

Ultimately we are all under the authority and rule of Christ, whether we accept that reality or not, but not accepting it as a peoples results in evil rulers.

We individually, as households, even as towns and communities and states, can and should resist evil rulers. Part of that resistance is writing code and using open protocols (nostr) and better money (bitcoin). But the heart of that resistance needs to be repentance and a return to rightly ordered rule under the ultimate lordship of Christ.


Normalize public gratefulness and honor again.

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A good analogy is getting a loan. When a lender makes a loan with the faith that the borrower will pay him back, it is not that he is blindly handing money out because we can't objectively agree that the money will be paid back. Instead, the lender's limited reason points to trust that the borrower will repay the money. Faith in the action is not below reason by being contrary to it, but it is above reason: the lender can't know the future, but he commits to an action based on his reason from the past.


The most popular religion explicitly teaches the opposite: “But I say to you, Do not resist one who is evil. But if any one strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.” (Matthew 5:39)

I'm glad you agree religious people aren't the only ones that can be disagreeable. It's undeniable the atheistic communist governments have resorted to extreme violence against their political opponents.

I could respond to much of what you said about religion, faith, and reason; however, many well-established sources exist for good arguments. Pope St. John Paul II’s encyclical Fides et Ratio (Faith and Reason) is a good starting point.

I want to focus on “independently verifiable objective truth” because you made an excellent point, except, in its essence, religion is a description of truth.

Now, I think understanding truth requires deeper thought. Take the question: does the universe have a beginning? Some people take both sides of that question, neither of which is independently verifiable because (a) we can't go back in time to see if the universe began, and (b) if it's infinite even if we could go back in time, we would never know if there is no beginning or we just haven't gone back far enough. So what do we do? Say, because it's not independently verifiable, we can't know anything about the creation of the universe from our reason. Some modern skeptics take that position, saying we can only trust our senses to derive objective truth. But why should we trust only our senses and not our reason? We know our senses are deceived all the time. So how do we find the truth?

(Aside: I'll make one point about faith and reason. Properly understood faith is not infrarational like you and many others suggest. Instead, authentic faith is suprarational. Faith never contradicts natural reason; it points our reason towards things beyond our limited understanding of reality.)

Your commitment to truth is admirable, and even though you may disagree, it is actually at the heart of Christianity: “What is truth?” (John 18:38). I hope that in your pursuit of truth, you take the time to read the preceding passage in the Gospel of John and contemplate what it means to seek the truth.


"He, who works with his hands is a labourer.
He, who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman.
He, who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist." 🫂🎨

- Francesco d'Assisi


I don't know why you think I'm not serious. My first question is a philosophical question. I'm curious if you actually believe the goal you state. If you want to achieve the greatest good for the greatest number, we should definitely give 9 million people great lives instead of 10 million mediocre ones.

For the second question, I'm curious about what this video is leaving out: https://youtu.be/1FE0HgS01do


High T fixes communism.


When trying to maximize the greatest good for the greatest number, how can you justify leaving 10 million people with mediocre lives when you can give 9 million great lives?

Can you share some of the religious genocides? I'd like to learn about them.


Agree with nostr:nprofile1qqs8d3c64cayj8canmky0jap0c3fekjpzwsthdhx4cthd4my8c5u47spzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0wd68ytnsw43z7qg5waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t0qy3hwumn8ghj7urjdau8jtt90pcx2unfd4jkuapwdah8yetwv3jhytnrdaks0duay6 that most people don't care about censorship resistance but they do care about the magic connecting string that they can enter in any other app and suddenly all their data shows up.

People value freedom of movement in nostr and they instantly feel it when they try.


From the things which are known through natural reason, we are more easily led to those things which are above reason which are treated in theology (ST 1.1.5ad2).


Prioritizing the greatest good for the greatest number of people is the path to genocide.

Is it better to kill 1 million people to help 9 million have great lives or let 10 million have mediocre lives?

Believing in God and that humans are made in his image requires respecting the individual's dignity. Yet, our purpose is toward communion with God and each other. Both extremes of individualism and collectivism fail to see this distinction.


But we aren't lone individuals. We were made unique in God's image: unified in our ends but granted freedom to pursue them.

Identifying with a subordinate racial or cultural group introduces competition, but there is no competition in the group of the children of God.

We are born into a family with unbreakable bonds; God willing, we die surrounded by the new family we create. These bonds allow us to become who we are meant to be.


Simple formulas for a good life.

Wealth: Majority of assets in bitcoin.

Health: Whole food/real food, lifting, cardio, few drugs/alcohol. Few pharmaceutical interventions.

Happiness: Family, community, meaning, trusted relationships. Freedom of time, movement, association.

All of these things are extremely simple, but none of them are easy.


One idea is to have a tag reference the root public key. The client verifies the event is authentically published by querying for the attested public keys from the event published by the root key


Evangelizing is planting seeds, not bearing the fruit.


speed is the most important feature.

being able to send a note/post via text, have it fully render, and instantly load when someone clicks on it, is one of the biggest things that will help build network effect.

communities, such as ditto, and giving people the option to make them private and encrypted, is a net new feature not found on any other platform that will draw people to the nostr social app protocol, and be the best onboarding and discovery tool out there. people care a lot more about privacy than censorship-resistance.

getting as much content and information on here, welcoming of the bots and agentic AI, will allow this protocol to be the only one that can definitively state: "see everything." especially since no individual/corporation/government can delete your content or account.

this is what i would prioritize. the past two years of nostr has been about exploring the breadth of the protocol. great! it's now time to go deep and focus on quality and differentiated experiences. not copies of copies.


It's easy to be cynical (I am as well), but reversing decades of decline will take more than one term and probably multiple presidents.


Beauty is also part of the three transcendentals: the true, the good, and the beautiful. Marxists want nothing to do with any power outside of this world that can limit their agenda.


Low expectations, high aspirations


What are your thoughts on a chain of trust structure for nsecs? A user would have a root nsec stored on a hardware device. When a Nostr app wants to authenticate a user, it can request a signed event from the root nsec to attest for the newly generated client-specific nsec. The root nsec stays secure and can revoke the client nsec later, and the client doesn't need to deal with any remote signing.


Sins of omission are as deadly as sins of commission.

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Lightning Network forced-closes = not fun


Riches are not the end of domestic economy but the instruments thereof (Commentary on Ethics 1).


"Brides of the State" are the dominant Democrat voting bloc.

"[F]ertility rates in the US, which had long hovered around replacement level (2.1 lifetime births per woman), have plummeted since 2008, to a new European-style low of 1.61. However, this sudden demographic sea-change does not appear to be the result of Americans not wanting to have children. Last year, the share of Americans who said that having three or more kids is the ideal hit its highest point since 1971, at 45%. In the simplest sense, young American women want what their mothers had — but have no idea how to get it."

From UnHerd: https://unherd.com/2024/08/the-march-of-kamalas-brides/


The internet is a land of extremes.

There is always a market for extreme pessimism.

There is always a market for extreme optimism.

Neither of which is very useful or valid.

There has never been an attention marketplace for the actual cheat code to a prosperous life: rational optimism.

Until NOSTR.


Pray the Rosary on Hallow.

https://hallow.com/


Have a lot of babies 👶🏼 👶🏼 👶🏼 👶🏼 it’s the best


What is epoch?


The tax code never taxes the rich; it taxes before you can become rich.


Assuming it's base64 encoded, what is the data structure and internal encoding?


SATS FLOW IS THE REAL YIELD. FEW UNDERSTAND THIS.


And maybe couples track the woman's cycle to know when it's optimal to try to conceive


Another way I've heard it described is that once you view harm as more than physical (e.g., discrimination), there is nothing stopping liberalism from becoming what it is today.

This is also a good explainer: https://youtu.be/ot8Eul-nDU4


Good point. It probably makes more sense to keep this focused on your original idea


It's also a common misquotation of the Bible. The actual quote is, “For the love of money is the root of all evils.” (1 Timothy 6:10).

*Love* of money is the key phrase.


Pope St. John Paul II had a name for this almost 30 years ago: “culture of death.”

https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_jp-ii_enc_25031995_evangelium-vitae.html


Life in America:

You're born. They start poisoning you, robbing you, and lying to you, and then you die. And a small group of people get filthy rich in the process.

It's a Death Economy.

We must end the Death Economy and build a Life Economy.


I'm a little confused about the intended use case for kind 30078 events. Is it meant for end-user applications? If so, would it be better to have a dedicated event kind for this instead?

What do you think about events for each operation: mint, melt, and swap? It would publicly announce the mint's liabilities and determine when a proof was claimed. I'm unsure if that's ideal or if it's expanding the scope too much. I'm also unsure how best to handle proof of assets and liabilities for a mint, but it may be best to figure out a comprehensive solution.

nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg do you have any thoughts?


A WebSocket stream would quickly get out of hand on the server for a large mint. The Nostr integration is interesting as it effectively outsources the horizontal scaling of the WebSocket stream idea to relays. I can help if you want to collaborate.


I think Catholics are right about natalism. We're also right about the possible richness of life without children.


Months later, deleting twitter feels like ending a relationship with someone who’d once been an uplifting influence, but became a self-destructive, emotional vampire. You knew it wasn’t healthy, but you kept making excuses.

Until, finally, you’d had enough. You cut them out, and you don’t look back.


You're conflating childless people in general with those in authority, as my original post states, and taking issue with a qualifying statement, not the original argument.


No


1. A person without children has no personal authority (like a parent has over a child) yet tries to wield it publicly.
2. Raising children changes your perspective on reality, both of yourself and your relationships with others.
3. You experience how growth happens and how to plan and prepare for the future.

This is not to say childless people can't contribute positively, but someone raising children has objectively experienced more about life in this world and opportunities to practice virtue.


From personal experience, kids have a funny way of forcing you to get your act together to take care of yourself.


If we can survive the wave of childless millennials who will soon rise to power, the world will be in good shape.


I'd like to hear one politician (or political commentator) offer one suggestion for what to do. But no one has one, so catastrophic collapse seems like the only outcome.


The complicated aspect about the Social Security system in the United States is that it was falsely marketed.

It's called an "entitlement" because people pay into it and are supposed to get it back like a pension, regardless of whether they are rich or poor when they retire. And so the Baby Boomer generation views any cuts to their social security as a rugpull, basically. It's not insurance or charity; it's an entitlement.

However, although it was marketed as like an entitlement/pension, that's not how the math worked out in practice. And it's because population growth is slowing. It was based on ponzi math, assuming that every generation will be bigger than the one that came before it. But the Baby Boomer generation was huge.

In addition, when Social Security was created, the retirement age was set near the average life expectancy. Many people would not live long enough to collect it, and most would collect it for a handful of years. Only a small minority of outliers would work for like 40 years and then live off social security for like 20+ years. But then over the decades, life expectancy increased by like 15 years, so the default assumption is indeed that someone can work for 40 years and then have 20+ years of retirement, even though the amount they pay into it doesn't really mathematically cover that. It's not designed for that en masse.

And so Baby Boomers had like a 3.5 worker-to-retiree ratio to support in their peak earnings years, while Millennials will have more like a 2.5 worker-to-retiree ratio or less to deal with. Which means they get a worse deal. Many Millennials don't even think they'll get it at all, despite paying into it.

That breaks up the social contract and sets up inter-generational political conflict. "Fourth Turning" stuff.

It's a big reason why "defined benefit" plans are inherently unstable; they rely on being able to predict the future.

And it's also a big reason why, when speaking about deficits, nothing stops this train.


If you have a Home Depot visit to project a ratio less than or equal to 1, that is center right of the bell curve (coming from a person with a ratio >= 1)


Said another way, a man without kids has no authority in his personal life (as a married man does over his wife and kids). Yet, he exercises authority over others with whom he has no relationship other than a contract or, in the government's case, not even.

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Some of my opinions have changed radically after having kids.

If someone doesn't have kids, they haven't had that experience.

nostr:note1d7654wt3lw2s93x9dl3u5lsjqvxs5lc23ky66qzc0e32qwzr5s0s7lp5zp


And anyone exercising authority over people (either in companies or governments) who don't have children should be viewed with a healthy degree of skepticism.


Make babies, without babies everything you are doing is kind of pointless.


I reject the idea that people shouldn't care what others think about them. We are made to be social creatures. Without honor and shame society wouldn't function.

Ironically, those who say you shouldn't care about people's opinion of you often resort to name-calling, demonstrating that social esteem is inescapable.

And this is a good thing. Communication is given to us so that we can have an effect on the world around us. The serenity prayer does not mean we ought to give up and isolate ourselves, quite the opposite.

The solution to being hurt isn't to withdraw into stoicism, but to realize that God has offered a seat of honor at his table to you, an undeserving sinner.

"For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I would not be a bondservant of Christ."

This is the only escape from the tyrrany of others' opinion - not to give up caring, but to know whose opinion actually matters.


If you're unsure or struggling with Christianity, study Mary. She could've said no to God’s will but didn't. A mere creature unconcerned with her own ego-drama, embraced her role in the theo-drama and participated in the devil's defeat. She was rewarded for eternity.

Happy Solemnity of the Assumption of our Blessed Mother.


Happy Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Get in the ocean if you’re near one.
https://m.primal.net/KApn.jpg


Please shill me all projects that you know of that combine Nostr and Cashu.

No matter how big or small. Making a list for my talk at Nostriga. 🙏


We need more designers to work on FOSS projects if we want more ppl to use FOSS projects.

We need to fund designers to work on FOSS projects the same way we fund Devs to work on FOSS projects, if we want designers to work on FOSS projects.


Have you looked into NIP-60 yet? Your idea sounds more general purpose, but we are working on a cashu-specific one: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1369


No one will have all the answers for how to live together while we're still in this world. The best we can do is understand that social hierarchies are natural and order society toward the common good.


The follow-up book, Regime Change, offers some alternatives: https://www.amazon.com/Regime-Change-Toward-Postliberal-Future/dp/0593086902

Maybe our liberal culture will accept some form of pluralism. Still, I think it will be hard for people in a liberal framework to accept less liberalism, so I don't know how realistic an alternative this is.

A post-liberal alternative is, in many ways, a pre-liberal political system dating back to ideas from Plato’s Republic. Liberals trying to equalize the few and many is, at best, a fiction and, at worst, a nefarious, systematic way for the few to exploit the many by shunning responsibility in the name of liberty. Post-liberalism tries to reassert that difference constructively: the “aristo” use their place of privilege to serve the common good for the many.

You're right. Much work must be done to make post-liberal thought practical, but I think it starts from a stronger philosophical foundation than liberalism.


Yes, but I'm not convinced that liberalism can be saved. Liberalism's chief virtue is tolerance, which aims to ‘liberate’ people from any sources of intolerance (i.e., authority outside the state, cultural norms, family structures, religion, etc.). Pluralistic liberalism is a contradiction because liberalism demands totality.

We see society at the logical conclusion of liberalism, which is inherently unstable because of the egalitarian veil it tries to put over the differences between the few and the many. I think the post-liberals make better analyses of current affairs and arguments for where we should go via classical mixed constitutions between the few and the many.


Good sales people are underrated.

They match up products with PAYING customers and bring money from all over to the devs, rather than expecting devs to apply for money.


3 years ago, Bitcoin's market cap was ~$750B.
Same for all the crypto stuff w/o stablecoins.

Today, Bitcoin's market cap is up 53% ($1.15T)

And the other stuff? 0.58% (not adjusted for inflation)

It’s a good stat to mention to people who “diversify”.


Not only do they try to control what can and cannot be said, but they also change definitions of words to fit their agenda.


What are some ideas on how to deterministically generate the secret key?


The actual number is 100%. L1 can only handle 0.5% of credit card transactions.


Bitcoiners are going to have a hard time, get scammed, repeatedly deceived and go into depression until they are ready to admit that 99% of retail payments will not go through self-custodial UTXOs.

You don't and can't get around L1 economics.


What's a scaling solution that requires OP_CAT?


“What else does this craving, and this helplessness, proclaim but that there was once in man a true happiness, of which all that now remains is the empty print and trace? This he tries in vain to fill with everything around him, seeking in things that are not there the help he cannot find in those that are, though none can help, since this infinite abyss can be filled only with an infinite and immutable object; in other words by God himself.”
- Blaise Pascal, Pensées VII(425)


Everyone is made with a God-shaped heart. If you don't let God fill it, the government will.


Flutter. If you need anything Flutter/Dart doesn't support well natively, you can drop in some rust code: https://github.com/fzyzcjy/flutter_rust_bridge

I'm using CDK in my Flutter app.


There will always be a difference between what *can* be done and what *should* be done.

Saying something should be done (i.e., “do what is best for Bitcoin”) implies an objective purpose for Bitcoin. Saying something can be done acknowledges agency in how the protocol is used.

It is clear from the original creator and reason that Bitcoin is meant to be decentralized sound money. It also has a known limitation (the block size) that means most of the population will never be able to interact directly with it. If what someone is doing isn't for the purpose of allowing the most people to hold sound money (so it remains decentralized), then it shouldn't be done even if the protocol allows it to be done.


Maybe the reason for the money is so they don't change anything…


The American mind can’t comprehend this


I'm sorry to be pedantic; to clarify, I think you mean that there is no *objective* point to anything, but there is a *subjective* point; therefore, there is a point to our existence (which refutes Nihilism).

Aside: This is why definitions are important. It's easier to say there is no point to anything when what is meant is everyone determines the point individually because the latter sounds self-ish (which it is, but that doesn't mean it's wrong!).

Existentialism argues that one's existence precedes essence, making the individual the author of meaning. To refute existentialism, one has to make the case that essence precedes existence (i.e., humans are made in the image and likeness of God).

One argument is, can we say something is objectively wrong, and therefore, its existence is contrary to an essence that preceded it? An example would be someone like Hitler or an action like rape. Some existentialists will bite the bullet and say we can't objectively say those things are bad. Others will rely on some collective utility to say those things are bad (which, in my opinion, at a minimum, undermines the theory if not outright refutes it).

The theist would then say that since we can say things are objectively good or bad, this leads to nostr:npub1rtlqca8r6auyaw5n5h3l5422dm4sry5dzfee4696fqe8s6qgudks7djtfs ‘s statement, “You're meant for greater things.” The debate then continues about what is good and bad and what those greater things are.

I'm not trying to bait you into a debate you don't want to have. I'm just trying to briefly outline the classical arguments to show why I think the OP is right.


I think it's pretty binary: there is either something or nothing. 😄

To be fair, the path from rejecting Nihilism to accepting God is missing a step (i.e., existentialism). But I think it’s pretty easy to show that Nihilism doesn’t hold up under scrutiny. At the very least, if it’s true, there is no point in doing anything, so it’s impossible to have an optimistic or productive worldview.


Re-read that sentence. If there were hope, then there wouldn't be nothing; there would be something. Nothing can only be the absence of things.

If there is nothing, what are you hoping for?


Resist nihilism.

Your life has meaning.

Your actions are powerful.

You’re meant for greater things.

God has a plan for you.


https://www.etymonline.com/word/nihilism

Try studying a word's etymology to understand it better. Modern definitions (e.g., Wikipedia, dictionaries) sometimes skew word meanings to better fit prevailing (secular) ideologies.

In this case, I think nostr:npub1nf9vm6uhs4j7yaysmjn9eqlf7et5t6hvrkdqgpd995vcc9yfjyas0pxa3x  is right. “Nihil” means “nothing at all.” I think it’s correct to say Nihilism necessarily contains despair because there is no hope for any meaning.


The contemplation of truth begins in this life, but reaches its climax in the future; whereas the active and civic life does not go beyond the limits of this life (ScG 3.63).


If you are interested in political philosophy, Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future by Patrick Deneen https://www.amazon.com/Regime-Change-Toward-Postliberal-Future/dp/0593086902


The goal of parenting isn't to raise children; it's to raise adults.


What genre/topics?


I think Cashu android/iOS  wallets would benefit tremendously -in terms of UX- from integrating NFC payments.

Normal people don't want to copy and paste a string of text. The best they can do is scan a QR code on the device of the merchant, but that's not how it works with ecash because the merchant needs to scan the customer device in order to get the money.

Right now you can either pay through nostr or you have to explicitly input the amount on your device and show the QR to the merchant.
Other than being inconvenient for the majority of people, you also have the potential for errors if they input the wrong amount etc...

With NFC, a merchant could simply create a request for payment, the customer wallet would simply ask for user confirmation and then communicate the ecash to the merchant's wallet. Less room for errors, easier payment.


Many smart people get stuck in level 1 and by that they limit their own potential. They turn into the angry guy who's always right but nobody ever listens to them. They lose sight of level 2, thinking that the only important skill is to be smarter than others. Other smart people soon learn to ignore them, because at that level, everybody around you is smart, but some of them are assholes.

It's completely up to you what you become. It's your responsibility, nobody else's.


Gm, everybody who's barely smart enough can be edgy. That's like level 1 of being smart. Edgy people are rarely as impressive as they think.

The hard part is being kind, collaborative, and to use your smartness to support people and to be a an actually nice person. That's what's impressive.


Human law has the nature of law in so far as it partakes of right reason.


We're gearing up for our first release! This week, NWS received some exciting updates:

- Public Internet Traffic Relay: Now, exit nodes can choose to relay internet traffic. This means entry nodes can access the internet using the public exit nodes.

- .nostr Domains Support: We've added support for `.nostr` domains! These are valid RFC1035 domains, so they should work smoothly with most existing clients.

curl -v -x socks5h://45.153.242.184:8882 https://etpn6ehf5tp6ar31f4n3gcpj6cn76s31cdig.fqf7cuaje6c9vgralfq4fipbg27f7d9ih6mp0utfqiprqc3ce3ug.nostr/v1/info --insecure

- Reverse TCP Connect Mode: We've added a new reverse TCP connect mode. Now, when a request comes in, the exit node can establish a reverse TCP connection to the public entry node, and this connection will be used for data forwarding instead of Nostr. Nostr will still manage service discovery. This feature should improve the connectivity and reduce the load on public Nostr relays.
https://github.com/asmogo/nws


The birth of your first child is a “Zero to One” moment.


What if you already know the user running the mint, who has an honest reputation to uphold, and you used a simple app to manage your keys, including encrypted backups? 👀


Why ecash is so much better than your normal custodian:

- it can be audited as easily as any custodian
- users have way better privacy
- users can make payments peer to peer
- it supports smart contracts
- it works half-offline (sender or receiver)
- it's more efficient to run
- individual users can't be singled out: either censor and rug everyone or no one

Why it's worse:
- if the user vanishes, there is no way to recover their funds
- users need seed phrases and recovery of lost funds is more cumbersome than a simple username + password login

(Both cons are basically a consequence of privacy)


If you want to know why Kamala was chosen, this diagram, which I saw on Robert Malone’s Substack, explain it all.

It’s not *all a conspiracy, but yes, there are also conspiracies.

It’s not *all an agenda, but yes, there are also agendas.

It’s not *all stupidity, but yes, there is a hell of a lot of stupidity.

Layer in the fact that society is one big complex system, and you begin to see all kinds of madness emerge.

That’s why it’s so important to keep a tether to that which works / does not pass (tradition) and to have strong, unwavering principles.

The more things become malleable, relative and meaningless (all leftist concepts) the more prone evil is to rear its ugly head up.

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


A lot of Bitcoiner’s are addicted to their status as loser underdogs.

We’re winning.

Get used to it.

You’re about to be the new wealthy elite.

Prepare accordingly.


This is probably the talk I'm most looking forward to giving this year.

My submission for Nostriga 🫡🥜

https://github.com/nostrworld/nostriga/issues/57


Bitcoin doesn’t need politicians, but it doesn’t hurt when they know what they’re doing. The Bitcoin Strategic Reserve Bill is NOT a messaging bill. It is meant to pass. The bill immediately strengthens the United States, and puts us on the path to strengthening the dollar (once it’s backed by bitcoin). Cynthia has been at this since she won her election in 2020, and I truly believe this is just the beginning. Full text of the bill to be posted Tuesday.
https://m.primal.net/JgXu.jpg


I don't think any US politician will be truly orange-pilled until we're on the brink of defaulting on our debt. Until then we just need someone to not get in the way.

I'm hopeful that JD Vance, a Bitcoin holder, will prevent Trump from doing anything stupid.


Political leaders don't need to be knowledgeable about everything. They must capably protect the homeland, allow citizens the freedom to pursue good, and not impose evil.

It’s obvious what the choice is in the US this year.


Amazing!


The main goal of NWS is to make services resilient and accessible for everyone.

Nostr is a fantastic tool to help us achieve this. There are situations where we need to rely entirely on Nostr for TCP transport, such as when the entry node isn't publicly available as a service. However, for our primary use case—having a publicly accessible entry node—we don't need to use Nostr for transport.

That's why I've just added a new connect reverse mode that uses Nostr for "service discovery". Once the service is discovered on the relay, a direct TCP connection is established between the entry and exit nodes.

By using direct connections, we can ensure more reliable service availability and faster connectivity.
https://github.com/asmogo/nws


“This deeply secularist, post-modern society knows who its enemy is, they’re naming it, and we should believe them. They’re telling us who they are. We should believe them. But furthermore, we Christians, we Catholics should not be sheepish. We should resist. We should make our voices heard.”

https://x.com/BishopBarron/status/1816989733504860577


I just realized the “nuts and bolts” pun 😂


Tyranny will occur not less but more often under the rule of many than under the rule of one (De Regno, ch. 6).


https://www.thenakamotoproject.org/report

I appreciate the effort put into this report; it has excellent information. However, a statement that stuck out to me that we should do our best to avoid is: "Bitcoin ownership is apolitical."

Bitcoin ownership is political. Owning Bitcoin is a statement about who controls the money in a polity. It's possible the authors meant Bitcoin is not partisan, which their data supports, but that is a very different meaning than "political."

I fear framing Bitcoin as apolitical is naively walking into a bear trap. There are undoubtedly political opponents to Bitcoin owners, and we should take note of that.

Instead of viewing Bitcoin as "apolitical" to explain the non-partisan support, I hypothesize that Bitcoin ownership ranges across party lines because our "conservative" and "liberal" political parties are just different flavors of liberalism. People are growing dissatisfied with the current political order because they are dissatisfied with what liberalism has produced: rampant inequality, an authoritative ruling class, and increasing social isolation. I would guess people who are harmed by the current liberal order support Bitcoin in way more proportion than those who benefit from it, which doesn't break down cleanly between party lines.

Furthermore, I suggest that Bitcoin is not only a political tool; it has the potential to re-orient our political parties into liberals, those satisfied with the status quo, and "post-liberals," those trying to effect change. Expect Bitcoin to become even more prominent in the political discourse.


God is not only true, but truth itself, so there can be no falsity in him (ScG 2.61).


After several weeks of persistent effort, I'm excited to share Nostr Web Services (NWS).

NWS makes your web service reachable without having a publicly accessible IP address or DNS. All you need is an npub and a set of Nostr relays. A wide range of existing services could be run on NWS without requiring any significant changes. NWS achieves this by establishing a TCP connection between client and server which can be used by these applications.

Please keep in mind, that the software is in a very early state and not even released yet.

https://github.com/asmogo/nws


A father is the principle of generation, of education, of learning, and of whatever pertains to the perfection of human life (ST 2-2.102.1).


Thought: You cannot separate money and power.
Once you establish your currency, you will be the ruler for as long as your currency circulates.
#btc


BUILD STRONG FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES.

HELP YOUR NEIGHBOR.

LEAD BY EXAMPLE. 🫡


The ancients knew more than we do today. Most moderns view freedom as “the ability to do whatever I want whenever I want.” Yet through his dialogues in The Republic, Plato describes the Tyrant, the person with the power to do whatever he wants, as a slave, unable to escape his base desires.

As a Christian, I don't wholly agree with the Stoics, but there is a lot of overlap. Stoicism was the predominant philosophy during the Roman Empire's conversion, and I appreciate the philosophical foundation they built for virtue ethics.


“When powerful people use their power for self-interest, as a master over slaves, this has the social consequence of transforming the people, over time, into people who are servile.”

Good read: https://newpolity.com/blog/capitalism-produces-socialism


It's also the same root as polite. It's ironic we tend to think of talking politics as impolite.

The root word is polis, from the Greek to mean "city". True politics is the art of living in community. It's a matter of the organizing of society. In politics, our focus ought be on continually improving and optimizing our shared lives. The problems arise when we cease to see the forest for the density of the trees, or vice-versa, we find we cannot see trees for the breadth of the forest.

The pendulum swings between seeing us fundamentally as individuals or as groups, and just like a person is neither a body nor a spirit but rather their union, so too are we neither isolated and atomized nor an amalgamated homogenous mass, but rather individuals in community.

We mirror (or are the image of, if you will) the Triune Godhead in this respect. Distinct and United, both. Although the bodies remain distinct, in marriage the two are one flesh. In Christ, we are one Body. Unity is the highest social virtue, second only to charity.

#makePoliticsPoliteAgain


Well said!


Political: “of or pertaining to a polity, civil affairs, or government.”

Humans are political animals. What we support is a political statement. Bitcoin is a political tool.


Huge milestone: First demo of Nostr Web Services (NWS) bringing TCP to Nostr. With NWS, you can host any existing web application on Nostr without having to use DNS or even announce your public IP to the world, simply by sharing your service's npub (or nprofile).

Try it out the demo yourself. Here is a Cashu test mint running with NWS. Let's use curl to retrieve the mint's information. The request travels from your computer to the public NWS entry relay, then through nostr to the service's NWS exit relay. At the other end is a Cashu mint with HTTPS encryption.

```
curl -s -x socks5h://relay.8333.space:8882 https://nprofile1qqs8a8nk09fhrxylcd42haz8ev4cprhnk5egntvs0whafvaaxpk8plgpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuwpnxvejuumsv93k2g6k9kr/v1/info --insecure | jq
```

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

I can't stress this enough: THE MINT RUNS BEHIND HTTPS!

The NWS entry relay can't read your traffic. It's encrypted. We can host public entry relays that can be used by anyone.

This means we can plug the entire internet to it 🌐.

Let's plug it into Cashu for now. Nutshell wallet supports socks5 proxies (that's how it uses Tor). By setting the public entry relay as the proxy, the wallet can now connect to a mint's npub/nprofile and communicate with it via NWS.

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

This is going to be so freaking cool. And it's going to be a lot more useful than just for Cashu. There are still bugs and issues that need to be ironed out but the code is coming out soon. Watch this space.


Truth does not depend on what one thinks but on the existence of things (On Truth 1.2ad3).


Your response is indistinguishable from a bot, but in case you aren't one:

1. You obviously didn't watch the video.
2. Science can't answer philosophical questions like “Why is there something rather than nothing?”
3. The bedrock of science is an orderly, intelligible universe, which an atheistic materialist worldview cannot provide.
4. You must reconcile how believers, e.g., Georges Lemaître, have influenced modern science.


If people didn’t believe in the spiritual battle before it’s almost undeniable now.


“He summoned the Twelve and began to send them out two by two and gave them authority over unclean spirits. They drove out many demons, and they anointed with oil many who were sick and cured them.” (Mark 6:7, 13)

There are still demons in the world, and the Church has been commissioned to the front lines of the spiritual battlefield.


What risk does e-cash have that custodial LSPs don't?

E-cash mints are custodial LSPs with more privacy.


Something I’m rather firm on is that if you have the ability to make children and you do not. You are in 99.99% if circumstances making a gigantic mistake.

Children make life worth living.

Children provide instant meaning to life.

They inspire planning and care about the future.

They increase joy.

They make life novel and exciting again.

They’re innovative, surprising and imaginative.

They reflexively shape us as we attempt to shape them into better versions of themselves/ourselves.

If you have children and they have children you will be increasingly surrounded by life as you grow old.

If you do not, you will be surrounded by death as everyone you know slowly dies.

You will never regret having kids.

You will certainly regret not having them.

If you have kids you are honoring the sacrifice and suffering your ancestors had to endure by passing the torch forward.

If you do not you are dishonoring them by wasting your life on the meaningless pursuit of your own pleasure.

These are very strongly held immutable beliefs for me.


What I like best about Natural Law is that it doesn't require me to agree with anything, for it to be true. It is simply true -- and self-evidently true -- independent of my opinion about it or what I would prefer to be true.

It forces me to grow up and deal with it. That is why people who argue against it tend to sound childish. We are all looking at what is obviously true, and they are reduced to whining about it and name-calling people for not denying what we can all see with our own lying eyes.

Natural Law is logic for adults.


It’s always been a spiritual battle…


Is he not the τέκτων?

In today's Gospel reading, we learn about Jesus’s profession before his ministry. The evangelists tell us little about Jesus’s life between the age of 12, when he was lost in the temple, and 30, when he started his ministry, except that he was a “carpenter.”

However, I think there is more to this word than the traditional translation portrays.

The etymology of tektōn (Latinized) derives from the root techn-, meaning art or skill. It's where we get the modern English words architect or technology. It's believed that Jesus worked as a builder in Sepphoris, a new town within walking distance of his hometown of Nazareth. His work could have inspired the basis of his parables: observing the strained relations between a landowner and the tenants (Mark 12:1-12), customers running out of money (Luke 14:28-30), building a foundation for a house (Matthew 7:24-27), hiring assistants who complained about pay (Matthew 20:1-16).

However, I want to propose a deeper meaning to explore. As Pope Francis explained in a homily on work, “[God] created the world, He created man, and He gave man and woman a mission: to manage, to work with, and bring forward creation. […] work is none other than the continuation of God’s work: human work is man’s vocation received from God at the end of the creation of the universe.” Jesus came to align his creation back to the Father’s plan. He did this not only through his preaching but also through his daily work.

Undoubtedly, the Gospel captures the essential aspects of Jesus’s teachings necessary for salvation. But it’s worth meditating on Jesus’s three decades of life outside his public ministry, where, as an adult, he worked to continue the creation of the world aligned with his Father’s will. He planned, created, and built seemingly in mundane ways but always oriented back to the divine. In a secular society obsessed with building technology, it's easy to fall into the trap that everything we do in the material world is contrary to God’s plan, but it's not. Instead, we should work as tektōn, building new things while applying our modern scientific knowledge to continue divine creation, for this is the true purpose of work and technology.

It is also worth noting, as providence would have it, the adjacent Greek root of Jesus’s earthly vocation was given to Our Lady, the Θεοτόκος, Mother of God, to remind us of her Son in our daily lives.


“Fourth of July” is the “Happy Holidays” of Independence Day 🇺🇸 🗽


Trump shouldn't go after Joe for his corruption; he should promise to prosecute Jill for elder abuse.


"This project aims to substantially increase the number of Uncle Jims running mints who can manage day-to-day Bitcoin transactions for friends and family."

🏴☠


🎉 A new mint implementation appears 🎉

Chamberlain – A Cashu Mint with Integrated LDK Lightning Node (Rust, based on CDK)
https://github.com/sovereign-app/chamberlain


I'm working on making Lightning usable for groups of friends and family. I hope Catholics rally around adopting Bitcoin to help their communities. It is undoubtedly the world's best money and I think it can help ordinary Catholics live a more moral life compared to the alternatives.

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I published a project I am working on to help "Uncle Jims" manage Lightning payments for friends and family.

Huge shoutout to  nostr:npub1qjgcmlpkeyl8mdkvp4s0xls4ytcux6my606tgfx9xttut907h0zs76lgjw for his contributions to the rust cashu libraries.

Let a million mints bloom  nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg!

https://github.com/sovereign-app/chamberlain


What tax regime would be detrimental to Bitcoin and not any other asset? I can't think of one. Bitcoin in self-custody (or family-custody) significantly raises the effort necessary for the government to seize your property way beyond anything else you can hold to store value


If Bitcoin becomes the standard, what do governments use to buy it? The point is we've stopped accepting their currency.

Also, most Bitcoin has already been mined, and governments don't hold much of it.