Why America Can’t Regulate Bitcoin

Hearings on Bitcoin (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CCqCsmCDdw) and its derivatives are being held in the USA on a regular basis, and invariably the expert witnesses fail to properly describe the actual processes going on. If they used the correct language and excluded all analogies, the only possible conclusion would be that America cannot regulate Bitcoin under its current legal system. The Constitution guarantees the inalienable rights of American citizens, and therefore Bitcoin is a protected by virtue of it being a form of publishing text. The only way Bitcoin can be made regulable is if the Constitution is changed; and that does not mean adding a new Amendment, it means removing the First Amendment entirely.

Inevitably the anti-Bitcoin protagonists will face a robust and ultimately successful legal challenge that will remove the possibility of any sort of “BitLicense” or interference from the CTFC, FinCEN or any other agency. It will also remove any possibility of interference at the State level. The consequence of adhering to the basic law of the United States will cause America to become the centre of all Bitcoin business for the entire world, and will cause trillions of dollars worth of eCommerce to flow through the USA.

Let me explain why this is the case.

Some say that Bitcoin is money. Others say that it is not money. It doesn’t matter. What does matter are three things; that Bitcoin is, that the Bitcoin network does what it is meant to do completely reliably, and what the true nature of the Bitcoin network and the messages in it are.

Bitcoin is a database, maintained by a network of peers that monitors and regulates which entries are allocated to what Bitcoin addresses. This is done entirely by transmitting messages that are text, between the computers in the network (known as “nodes”), where cryptographic procedures are executed on these messages in text to verify their authenticity and the identity of the sender and recipient of the message and their position in the public ledger. The messages sent between nodes in the Bitcoin network are human readable, and printable. There is no point in any Bitcoin transaction that Bitcoin ceases to be text. It is all text, all the time.

Bitcoin can be printed out onto sheets of paper. This output can take different forms, like machine readable QR Codes, or it can be printed out in the letters A to Z, a to z and 0 to 9. This means they can be read by a human being, just like “Huckleberry Finn”.

At the time of the creation of the United States of America, the Founding Fathers of that new country in their deep wisdom and distaste for tyranny, haunted by the memory of the absence of a free press in the countries from which they escaped, wrote into the basic law of that then young federation of free states, an explicit and unambiguous freedom, the “Freedom of the Press”. This amendment was first because of its central importance to a free society. The First Amendment guarantees that all Americans have the power to exercise their right to publish and distribute anything they like, without restriction or prior restraint.

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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
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This single line, forever precludes any law that restricts Bitcoin in any way.

In 1995, the US Government had on the statute books, laws that restrict the export of encryption software products from America without a license. These goods are classified as “munitions”. The first versions of the breakthrough Public Key Encryption software “Pretty Good Privacy” or “PGP”, written by Philip Zimmerman had already escaped the USA via Bulletin Board Systems from the moment it was first distributed, but all copies of PGP outside of the United States were “illegal”. In order to fix the problem of all copies of PGP outside of America being encumbered by this perception, an ingenious plan was put into motion, using the first Amendment as the means of making it happen legally.

The source code for PGP was printed out. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy#Criminal_investigation)

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The original print out of the PGP source code.
It’s as simple as that. Once the source code for PGP was printed in book form, it instantly and more importantly, unambiguously, fell under the protection of the First Amendment. As a binary, the US government ridiculously tries to assert that immaterial software is a device, and not text (software or “binaries” is text that can be run on devices). Clearly the idea that software is a device is patently absurd, but rather than waste money arguing this point in court, printing out PGP removed all doubt that a First Amendment act was taking place.

The printed source code was shipped to another country, perfectly legally and beyond challenge, and then transferred to a machine by OCR (Optical Character Recognition (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_character_recognition), a software tool that can turn a printed page into a text file, removing the need for a person to manually type out a printed page), resulting in a PGP executable that was legally exported from the United States.

The direct analogy to Bitcoin should be vividly clear to you now. PGP and Bitcoin are both:

1. Pieces of software that can be rendered as printed text on paper

2. Software that generates unique blocks of human readable text

3. Designed to generate text that is 100% covered by the First Amendment

The purpose of PGP is to absolutely verify the identity of the sender of a message and ensure that the message was not read or changed in transit. The purpose of Bitcoin is to absolutely verify the ability of the owner of a cryptographic key (which is a block of text) that can unlock a ledger entry in the global Bitcoin network. Both of these pieces of software are messaging systems and services that absolutely fall under the First Amendment in every aspect, from the source code used to generate the software clients that do the message signing to the text the compiled clients generate, send, receive and process.

Bitcoin is text. Bitcoin is speech. It cannot be regulated in a free country like the USA with guaranteed inalienable rights and a First Amendment that explicitly excludes the act of publishing from government oversight.

Bitcoin and PGP generate messages that are initiated by their users. Each of the messages that are generated by these two pieces of software are unique. The only bodies of law that could possibly be invoked regarding their output and source code are Copyright and Patent law respectively. The Bitcoin source is not copyrighted and the core idea of it is not Patented, and in any case, none of this has anything to do with the nature of Bitcoin messages, or your right to publish. Typewriters can include Patented methods in their construction, and those Patents have no bearing on your First Amendment right to publish what you create with a Patented tool.

Copyright gives the generator of these texts privileges under the law imposing fines on someone copying your message without your permission, but Copyright law has nothing to do with exporting, regulating or imposing a tax on the messages themselves, and of course, forbidding the copying of your Bitcoin payment message rather negates the purpose of using Bitcoin.

Taking all of this into account, if any legislator, regulator, three or six letter US agency or other bureaucrat dares to try and regulate Bitcoin, they will be on a hiding to nothing. A legal challenge will be mounted (https://t.co/HfGxuOmyt6), and will have to be mounted, because if the State can legislate against a single piece of software that generates messages, a legal precedent will be created allowing the US government to regulate all software no matter what it does.

Bitcoin’s operation is fundamentally no different to what all email, text messaging and internet connected software does; relay messages. The only difference is in the software that tracks how the messages of the sender and recipient relate to each other. Email is no different to Bitcoin, save for the fact that a record of the sender and recipient and content of your email is not stored in a public ledger one against the other. We know it’s stored in a private database, but that’s another story. Wink wink.

Here is another example (https://www.eff.org/cases/bernstein-v-us-dept-justice ) of case law proving that this reasoning is correct.

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In Bernstein v. US Department of Justice it was established that code is speech and is protected by the First Amendment. This absolutely and unambiguously applies to Bitcoin, with eerie parallels to KYC/AML in Bitcoin. The unconstitutional ITAR requirements are exactly the same as asking Bitcoin traders to register as “Money Transmitters” and seek licenses before they can be paid to transmit text to the Bitcoin network for publication on the public ledger. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals found in Bernstein’s favour, and ruled that software was speech protected by the First Amendment and that the government’s regulations preventing its publication were unconstitutional. It is clear to see that Bitcoin falls squarely into the category of protected speech, there is no way around any of this, and the US courts must come to the same conclusion for Bitcoin. Bitcoin is protected speech, and the case law says so explicitly.

The position that Bitcoin is money is fundamentally wrong, and systems like it have existed for many years without gaining the attention of any three letter agencies. Take for example FarmVille, the massively popular farm simulation game on Facebook.

https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/1*Y0b6FOSODj3Y1yId9BsCug.png

This hugely popular game is no different to Bitcoin in nature. FarmBucks exist in a closed system, just as Bitcoin does. The only difference is the size of the space where the messages are being sent, and in the case of FarmBucks, the number of users and transactions (messages sent) was large. FarmVille had 83,760,000 monthly active users and not a single one was subjected to KYC/AML to exchange fiat for FarmBucks or FarmCash. Why not? What happened to that money? Why weren’t FinCEN or SEC all over that game as they are on ICOs? No one can explain this adequately. This example is very useful as a tool to pull back the curtain on the people who assert that Bitcoin is a money and is fundamentally different to a money kept in a game. All the rationales they use (mostly in the form of run on sentences) to explain the difference are inaccurate, and never address the fundamental processes; if they did, they would have no choice but to conclude that Bitcoin is no more subject to regulation than FarmBucks or PGP are.

Clearly, allowing legislation to touch Bitcoin means that any software of any kind will suddenly be liable to arbitrary and unconstitutional restriction. It will set a precedent that will be devastating to all software development in the USA, and software is the means by which everything is run, communicated, exchanged and ordered in modern society. In fact, it is impossible to run a modern society without software.

Twitter for example, could find itself being regulated; it transmits messages that are no different in nature to the messages that Bitcoin transmits; the only difference being the publicly maintained ledger and application of the messages. In fact, twitter could turn itself into a Bitcoin company quite easily by adding a few fields to its message JSON schema (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON#Example) to include a Bitcoin address for each of its users, adding a page to its client and running its own Bitcoin server pool. Would that extra text suddenly transform Twitter into a bank? Would that suddenly change the nature of each Tweet that is sent on their network, and cause them to be “Money Transmitters”? How is having a Bitcoin address integrated into your Twitter account different to making a promise by hand on Twitter to your followers or in a direct message?

Essentially, Bitcoin allows you to make written contracts with people without knowing them or signing paper; the network and software takes care of identifying and fulfilling the promise, all with cryptographically signed pieces of text. What the people calling for “BitLicenses” are asserting is that because Bitcoin right now has a particular use, it should be exempted from the basic law of the United States of America. That is completely insane, and will have unintended consequences that would be absolutely disastrous for the American economy since almost everything today is mediated by or touches software.

On the other hand, if Bitcoin is left to flourish and the market allowed to define the services, means of setting the value and resolving disputes, Bitcoin as an ecosystem will be extremely robust and widespread, just like the Internet is today, after having grown for twenty years without any regulation or oversight from the State.

Furthermore, as I have said previously, the country that does not enact Bitcoin legislation will become the starting and endpoints of all Bitcoin transactions globally by first mover advantage (https://hackernoon.com/our-submission-to-the-british-governments-digital-currencies-call-for-information-160fbf103bbc). All other jurisdictions will see Bitcoin passing through them untaxed, and there will be nothing they can do about it, as Bitcoin is an unassailable peer to peer network.

We have seen a similar phenomenon with the legal position of encryption in France. SSL was regulated in France until Dominique Strauss-Khan, former managing director of the International Monetary Fund, removed the restrictions (http://www.theregister.co.uk/1999/01/15/france_to_end_severe_encryption/). They knew that “French e-commerce” would take place inside “le pays Roosbeef” if it were not possible to secure French websites with SSL on demand without friction. American Bitcoin businesses (since the endpoints will be in their jurisdiction) will be taxed on their profits, and this will be a percentage of the trillions of global transactions made on the network for every conceivable and inconceivable purpose.

The same is true for any other country. The United States looks set to cripple itself by enacting “BitLicenses” and declaring by fiat that Bitcoin is a currency, or a commodity or legal tender. As I describe above, Bitcoin is none of those things by nature, and the myriad number of applications it can be put to is only just being discovered. Our project Azteco is but one of them, with the potential to reach the billions of unbanked people in the world, and provide them with an easy way to access internet e-commerce, world-wide, with a system that makes payment fraud impossible. The potential benefit to the unbanked and the websites that sell goods on-line and the jurisdictions where those websites operate is without precedent. Only a fool would do something that could harm the advent of this transformation, or shun this new technology and the business building on it.

No legislature will be able to keep up with the advances in software that are taking place; there are too many developers and efficient tools in the wild all over the world, all with equal access to the market. The best the State can possibly hope for is to tax new businesses that use the new tools as they emerge, and encourage entrepreneurs to incorporate in their jurisdictions. If America wants to drive away Bitcoin developers, exchanges and new businesses, by all means, do so and take the consequences. There are many other places in the world where fast internet pipes have been laid and where the government is not so backward. Skype was founded in Estonia, not Silicon Valley, and this is for a reason. All the big Bitcoin exchanges are outside of the USA. There is a reason for that. No one wanting to start a Bitcoin business is planning to move to New York from anywhere, because they know that their business models will immediately come under attack.

For those of you who are frightened of a free market in Bitcoin, rest assured, all the laws that currently exist to do with fraud, theft, misrepresentation and everything else, continue to apply to all people and corporations who use Bitcoin. Bitcoin does not make laws or your personal or corporate obligations moot. When you deal with a company, you retain access to the law and recourse to it. When someone makes a promise to sell you goods with Bitcoin, that promise is not nullified because you are paying with Bitcoin. Good Bitcoin businesses will build dispute resolution systems the way that eBay and Amazon have, so that you never have to go to court to obtain justice if there is a problem. Online, reputation is everything, and bad reputations can destroy your credibility and customer base over night. This is a far more powerful incentive to behave correctly and fulfil promises, which most people do by default in any case, rather than some arbitrary and absurd “BitLicense”.

All the “BitLicenses” in the world could not stop MTGox from having a software problem, and no law can bring back the money lost either directly or through the disruption the event caused by the software error. Once again, entrepreneurs powered by the Internet make life easier and better, not laws and regulations. Regulation does not make software correct; developers do.

I have one recommendation for anyone advocating that there should be a “BitLicense”. Don’t waste everyone’s time, money and resources proposing this anti-American idea. The EFF has better things to do with their time than teach the PGP “Munitions Case” lesson all over again. If it goes to court, your side will lose, and as a consequence, America will lose its head start as all Bitcoin entrepreneurs flee the USA for environments that will allow them to innovate, grow and prosper.

And what can the business people who want a “BitLicense” forced on the software industry say? That they don’t trust themselves? That’s patently absurd. That they do not trust their competitors? If it’s the case that their competitors are not good actors, then the good actors have a market advantage, and remember; a license cannot protect the public from fraud or provide any guarantee of any kind, it can only distort the market.

What these “BitLicense” advocates actually want is a guaranteed market advantage. They are Crony Capitalists. They want to prevent the emergence of a “Golden BB” entrepreneur that might destroy their business, they want to slow down and stifle innovation, so that they can become the entrenched and unassailable gatekeepers. They want to bar new entrants to the market. It simply will not work. And it’s un-American.

The American legislature must let the American dream flourish and extend its power to Bitcoin, or it will be compelled to obey the law, and this has started to happen. Two judges in the USA have now found that Bitcoin is not money, and have thrown out “Money Laundering” charges against two men:

“
U.S. Magistrate Judge Hugh B. Scott ruled in a money laundering case in Buffalo, N.Y. that bitcoin is more like a commodity and is not a form of currency, according to a local news report.

He recommended the money laundering charge be dropped against the defendant since bitcoin isn’t money.

In another money laundering case last year, Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Teresa Mary Pooler stated it is very clear, even to someone with limited knowledge in the area, that bitcoin has a long way to go before it is the equivalent of money.

Archive: https://archive.is/pKQJ2
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Bitcoin is not money. KYC/AML should not apply to it at all. The Hugh B. Scott ruling is highly significant, because it directly contradicts the idea of BitLicence. And lest there be any doubt, all of this, including legal remedies for breach of promise, applies to “ICOs”, which are also nothing more than text stored in a database. The fact that they are called, “Initial Coin Offerings” is irrelevant to the underlying processes, and it is not illegal to parrot the language and terms of finance, which are not trademarked or copyrighted. The Hollywood Stock Exchange wasn't deceptive because it called itself a “Stock Exchange”. Opponents of Bitcoin and ICOs have no good arguments, and the threadbare pretexts for regulation they’re able to synthesize are as flimsy as fiat.

Listen to this piece read out by a real person (https://anchor.fm/thecryptoconomy/episodes/CryptoQuikRead_260---Why-America-Cant-Regulate-Bitcoin-e4b4s8/a-ah3bvg) on The Cryptoconomy Podcast.

Read this article in Spanish (https://sovrnbitcoiner.com/por-que-estados-unidos-no-puede-regular-bitcoin/). Translated by Wave @insatwetrust.


software should serve you not manipulate you


less than 10%, maybe more than 5%


I WANT LOVE BUT I WONT FORCE IT


https://media.wired.com/photos/5f87340d114b38fa1f8339f9/master/w_1600,c_limit/Ideas_Surprised_Pikachu_HD.jpg

wow, a government registered corporation running a sham of an open protocol is a man in the middle


a term of agreement; meaning based in reality, typically used in relation to topics or points being made that may seem edgy depending on a person's political or personal beliefs


それだとぽわってしまう
https://image.nostr.build/8c42404b6a4194d8cf1c23d03af1489ee243b64eee1f57fec3cb5105771efaa9.png


assaults someone with no expectation of retaliation or self defense. what a fool


FOSS, Free and Open Source Software. this is different than Open Source. reproducible builds. reputable developers and users of the wallet. ability inside wallet to: control fees, manage utxos, coin control, adding notes to transactions.


my friend, I think we agree more than we disagree 🤣🤣


yes I am being disingenuous on some level. I've used monero before, and truly have nothing against it, but i don't think it's a necessity to transact privately.

by learning how bitcoin works, one learns that it is entirely transparent. this allows one to plan on how/where to acquire coins outside of exchanges, and when/where they may potentially link utxos and potentially identity.

similarly to my being disingenuous, I think it's disingenuous to say Bitcoiners need monero to spend privately. but I guess this is where we get into semantics about privacy & anonymity.


reeee you need to learn this whole other system to transact privately /s https://image.nostr.build/10c59821b2c2f2b366081147ddc64925423897fb684900f2d9847835f6a529e6.jpg


The irony of Tor user that want to mask themselves due to privacy reason while, they are using services like telegram.

You use something to mask yourself for privacy but you still sacrificing your phone number for a service.


Three weeks ago I wrote an article on the EU's new AMLR in Bitcoin Magazine, detailing how the EU passed ALM laws restricting the use of Bitcoin privacy tools without any data to back up their claims that privacy heightens money laundering and terrorist financing risks.

Alex Stachtchenko took it a step further and ran the numbers. For every Euro confiscated, 200€ are spent. This means that the EU's AML compliance costs of 144B Euro exceeds all money ascribed to crime per year at 110B Euro – and still, 99% of criminal profits escape confiscation.

Despite their absolute inefficiency AML laws continue to be expanded, subjecting all EU citizens to total financial surveillance for the price of catching 1%. It is a system that has grown completely out of control and is in no way proportionate to the right to privacy enshrined in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

It's a long read, and its in French so you'll need to translate it, but I guarantee that it will be worth every minute of your time.

BM article:
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/legal/eu-parliament-adopts-aml-laws-regulating-bitcoin-based-on-questionable-assumptions

Alex' article:
https://medium.com/@AlexStach/les-d%C3%A9rives-de-la-surveillance-financi%C3%A8re-menacent-nos-d%C3%A9mocraties-323fbdc1ccbf

https://image.nostr.build/0d7632afe0b2d12e5c537683aeea5a2eab16f94acbb1842d1303e17e030b5e22.png
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love quasi 🫂


snort is really looking nice


his earlier podcasts with more computer scientists I enjoyed more. they felt more relevant to Lex's personal experience himself as a CS person. alas I was watching them as they were coming out to entertain me at work.. but everyone's got their own preferences.


currently just using zeus for lightning for simplicity at the moment, though it does interest me.


fetching invoices on my end for other users seems slow rn generally, so it definitely could be timing out on my end.


hm. still not working on my end.


"Zeroes and ones are able to make one free,
Turning once broken promises into global opportunity,
Who wants to have a poetry battle with me?
Never sharing our privkey...not even a peep,
Down the rabbit hole you'll go, oh so deep.
But that freedom is stolen if we stumble or sleep,
We do this as the digital We; a community free.
Keeping it private, one must key!
The lock of oppression from which these bits free me,
No longer controlled, who will I be?
Nelly Furtado; a bird. You're free.
Emancipate, navigate land sky and sea.
Prosperate, blossom net, in the hands of the ! Weeeeeeeee !
A very interesting thing the journey to me."


that was the one 🙌


unable to fetch invoice


I still haven't forgotten my first roya zap. haters gon hate


Those who want power over you, want one thing more than literally anything else:

For you to believe you cannot defeat them, there’s nothing you can do, and that you should give up.

This is 99% of the game. Don’t fall for it.


for years I've been mistreated and ridiculed by some on the basis of "you don't use your _real name_"

now "they fight you" stage is in and these same people are posting "hOw dO we protect DEVS in FOSS?!"

pathetic


Sorry that watching a zealous judge throw a fellow developer in prison without the slightest hesitation or empathy makes me a bit impatient and cranky :-)


turning once broken promises into global opportunity


For accessibility awareness day, I tested several apps and it's not good.
Amethyst Android - Grade B+
eNuts iOS - Grade D
Mutiny iOS - Grade D
Snort Android & Web - Grade E
Damus iOS - Grade E
Primal iOS & Web - Grade F
You're pretty much left out in the cold as a blind user.

I know some of these are super new, done by small teams, open-source contributions, etc. But there just seems to be a general disinterest in properly marking up UI elements. This stuff is easy to fix, just needs a few motivated hands.

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


gm 🫂


GM


Patch your git software devs, five CVEs patched in the latest update including two RCE exploits

https://github.blog/2024-05-14-securing-git-addressing-5-new-vulnerabilities/


🇬🇧 The verdict against Tornado Cash programmer Pertsev criminalizes legitimate anonymity and all programmers who make it possible. We Pirates fight for digital freedom because freedom is the foundation of our society!

More: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/conviction-of-tornado-cash-programmer-privacy-is-not-a-crime/

https://digitalcourage.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/449/616/181/385/936/original/b0363c595266d720.jpg


It's more important for the cost of running a #Bitcoin node to stay low than for the cost of on-chain transactions to stay low.


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By embracing timeless aesthetic principles, we believe we can place bitcoin rightfully in these traditions and give the ideas the respect they deserve, honoring the past while educating and inspiring the future for generations to come.

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Read the full announcement here: https://nakamotoinst.substack.com/p/help-give-sni-timeless-beauty
https://m.primal.net/HwFh.png


She’s looking for a man in finance…

#asknostr https://v.nostr.build/7GEB9.mp4


Gm, the "ecash lobby" are like 12.5 people of which I am at least 3 myself.


Introducing Boardwalk Cash - the first dollar-based Cashu wallet built on top of #bitcoin and connected to #nostr.

https://BoardwalkCash.com

We now have stablecash on bitcoin - completely interoperable with the lightning network.

Share your lightning address or invoice to receive dollars. Paste a lightning address or invoice to send dollars.

Boardwalk Cash connects to any nostr client via NWC. Zap dollars on nostr apps like  nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg or on Discord with our Zap Bot.

This is a very early product and there are not many public mints, so use at your own risk. Yet, we’re excited to show some of what ecash and nostr can offer for advancing #bitcoin payments.

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


In other news: Blacksmith sentenced to 48 months jail; his knife was used to stab someone. This follows the incarceration of an automobile manufacturer, as one of his cars was used for a bank heist. https://image.nostr.build/e752e49812e7ca4fa733e1858dda24192deaf733ef261d7de26e120111f21fa6.jpg


sparrow, blue, & zeus.


GM 🫂🤣


GME trading was just halted lol. We’re so fucking back.


Dumb relays, smart clients. I will die on this hill
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yup 🔥


good timing 🤣


that + being able to spin up new keypairs at anytime is what peaked my interest. being able to use my preferred client and keep all of my social graph.


has something in particular changed?


bitcoin is the only stable monetary unit


IS THERE A PUBLIC GITHUB REPO FOR THIS AND YOUR OTHER APPS?


When I learnt that suffering is an integral part of the human experience and that most of our problems stem from trying to avoid suffering.
+ add to that: most people don't have anything to suffer FOR. So they resort to narcissism.


happy for you! take the progress as it comes 🫂🙏🏻


hey freaks

https://youtu.be/WzhIxDpzaIs?si=07NYpOy-9eWcVnsc


yup! beautiful nostr 🤙


GM


Warning: If you value your profile, do not sign up for ZBD. They will take over your nsec


There is a common phrase: “he/she woke up today and chose violence”.

I like it. It is funny. But it is imperfect.

“Violence” is now a verbal defensive phrase that means too much. To “wake up and choose violence” in the modern parlance of people who know zero struggle means to choose public verbal opposition. Okay, sure. But not really.

I woke up today and chose rhetoric. Not violence.

I spent years doing mixed martial arts competitively. I know violence. I am trained in a dozen ways to choke someone out, and have been choked out in’s dozen ways. I have had a 200 pound male fireman try to beat me unconscious and fail to do so. Even that wasn’t really violence, since it was controlled. Assholes on my trailer park bus stop in my teenage years were violent.

Verbosity isn’t violence. It is rhetoric.

I woke up today and chose rhetoric. I woke up today and chose to defend noncustodial privacy tools with language and resources. Coordinating messages between entities shouldn’t be a crime per se.

Bitcoin is anti-fragile and will continue to be so, thanks to all the people who work hard for it. But it is not without a fight.

Privacy is necessary in a free society in the digital age. A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto made this clear three decades ago and is still true.


nowhere close.


Saylor is trying to create a trust anchor. But since anyone can create their own DID:BTC without Microstrategy's approval (lots of spam), the anchor must be Microstrategy's KYC platform.

Microstrategy will have select DID:BTCs they have approved and probably KYCed to receive the Orange check. This means, Orange check verifiers must not only check the DID Document but verify if the DID itself was signed by Microstrategy's master key.

Like nostr:nprofile1qythwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnwdaehgu3wvfskuep0qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7qgawaehxw309ahx7um5wghx6at5d9h8jampd3kx2apwvdhk6tcqyqzvj9w6alhrsvtl5u6ygjkwuwg2sf5lukqskgjpuhnd6dpal0kvjr7awa6  would say: ORANGE CHECKS ARE JUST BLUE CHECKS FROM A DIFFERENT COMPANY.


freedom tools are freedom tools for everyone. we can all have are own idealized reason for "wHy nOsTr", but in the end its here for ALL of us.

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natural selection will do what it must 🫡🤭


stuck in mompool


prosecutors be like.. https://image.nostr.build/f9d059e0af8eaf3929c2a1df731134ea424eae6bba7043eeb9aefc98b03a3f76.jpg


are you hosting on a VPS, or a home server?


BIG SPEAKER 💪🏼💪🏼


i connected and i posted a note
https://image.nostr.build/0608b8f4bf7c21762dd457ea4567fb0df20de6f351d54b7e60500f94737b79aa.jpg


on fire tonight, brother


nope


church potlucks are the food version of samurai whirlpool. hope you documented the cap gains and kycd everyone that ate your potato salad


Did anyone use the heat transfer of a frying pan to transmit a transaction yet?

Would be a nice weekend project: create an air-gapped transaction, build a little device that heats up a frying pan on one end, and once it hits a certain temperature threshold (measured at the other end) you book it as a binary ONE, and if it doesn't hit the threshold in a certain timeframe you book it as a binary ZERO.

The frying pan would literally act as a transmission device, and once the binary string is transmitted through the pan, you broadcast it to the network by whatever means. Bonus points if you broadcast via ham radio, just for the heck of it. And also because you could give it a nice name like "Ham in a Pan" 🥓🍳

https://dergigi.com/assets/images/bitcoin/2021-08-02-implications-of-outlawing-bitcoin/ham-radio.jpg
https://dergigi.com/slides/2022-riga/images/highres/mj-bacon-wallpaper.webp
https://dergigi.com/slides/2022-riga/images/slides/v9d.033.png


when was the last time mempools cleared?


welcome 🤙 it is a little wonky compared to X, but when you find an app you like, you can bring your profile, and followers with you.


Can someone test my nostr relay on tor please? ⚡

➡ ws://xvgox2zzo7cfxcjrd2llrkthvjs5t7efoalu34s6lmkqhvzvrms6ipyd.onion


bitcoind on debian server, and an umbrel.


Does anyone have information for onboarding to zeus? reading the docs now (which are great btw) and would l feel like I would benefit from a video, or an additional article.


Either everyone has freedom of speech or no one does.


It’s property so they can tax it. It’s money so they can crush money transmitters.

Again, there is no rule of law, there never was. The rules were always just words floating in the aether. They can do whatever they want to you whenever they want, but you’re either not that valuable or threatening, for now.


To Terrapin
nostr:nevent1qqs2lj6wtvgvlfm7g8r6a5rf0hydhas4rj3nym6us6e09qgxqpl0rlgpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqzypjed5qpmj0wpt5mj2g8mjgq233qnp9zyyuf4z0gan2xvzzyu8j76qcyqqqqqqgesmyhf


https://youtu.be/sqgkdjNiOzQ?si=znnAhREjIztVJGOk

https://image.nostr.build/df2fb97e1931e439f9cf4b8e2cc092f2dc1682eab8d58ea4a75a793d82e3ebb5.jpg


what are your thoughts long term on LSP's?


Chrij, a legendary #csgo player liked one of my tweets so I went to investigate.
Apparently, he is ultra based. We need to get this legend on nostr
 https://i.nostr.build/WGAga.jpg


How is @SamouraiWallet a "money transmitting business" if users never surrender their private keys? How is there a "transfer" if users retain custody?

Otherwise, why isn't an ISP a MTB? Or a miner? Or a node operator?

Announcing new law by imprisonment is disgusting. https://image.nostr.build/2ab1f7b29ab44eede4d5c3b9afca07071617c1e4c6832413c45077d8593d6729.jpg


A Cypherpunk's Manifesto

by Eric Hughes

Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn't want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn't want anybody to know. Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world.

If two parties have some sort of dealings, then each has a memory of their interaction. Each party can speak about their own memory of this; how could anyone prevent it? One could pass laws against it, but the freedom of speech, even more than privacy, is fundamental to an open society; we seek not to restrict any speech at all. If many parties speak together in the same forum, each can speak to all the others and aggregate together knowledge about individuals and other parties. The power of electronic communications has enabled such group speech, and it will not go away merely because we might want it to.

Since we desire privacy, we must ensure that each party to a transaction have knowledge only of that which is directly necessary for that transaction. Since any information can be spoken of, we must ensure that we reveal as little as possible. In most cases personal identity is not salient. When I purchase a magazine at a store and hand cash to the clerk, there is no need to know who I am. When I ask my electronic mail provider to send and receive messages, my provider need not know to whom I am speaking or what I am saying or what others are saying to me; my provider only need know how to get the message there and how much I owe them in fees. When my identity is revealed by the underlying mechanism of the transaction, I have no privacy. I cannot here selectively reveal myself; I must always reveal myself.

Therefore, privacy in an open society requires anonymous transaction systems. Until now, cash has been the primary such system. An anonymous transaction system is not a secret transaction system. An anonymous system empowers individuals to reveal their identity when desired and only when desired; this is the essence of privacy.

Privacy in an open society also requires cryptography. If I say something, I want it heard only by those for whom I intend it. If the content of my speech is available to the world, I have no privacy. To encrypt is to indicate the desire for privacy, and to encrypt with weak cryptography is to indicate not too much desire for privacy. Furthermore, to reveal one's identity with assurance when the default is anonymity requires the cryptographic signature.

We cannot expect governments, corporations, or other large, faceless organizations to grant us privacy out of their beneficence. It is to their advantage to speak of us, and we should expect that they will speak. To try to prevent their speech is to fight against the realities of information. Information does not just want to be free, it longs to be free. Information expands to fill the available storage space. Information is Rumor's younger, stronger cousin; Information is fleeter of foot, has more eyes, knows more, and understands less than Rumor.

We must defend our own privacy if we expect to have any. We must come together and create systems which allow anonymous transactions to take place. People have been defending their own privacy for centuries with whispers, darkness, envelopes, closed doors, secret handshakes, and couriers. The technologies of the past did not allow for strong privacy, but electronic technologies do.

We the Cypherpunks are dedicated to building anonymous systems. We are defending our privacy with cryptography, with anonymous mail forwarding systems, with digital signatures, and with electronic money.

Cypherpunks write code. We know that someone has to write software to defend privacy, and since we can't get privacy unless we all do, we're going to write it. We publish our code so that our fellow Cypherpunks may practice and play with it. Our code is free for all to use, worldwide. We don't much care if you don't approve of the software we write. We know that software can't be destroyed and that a widely dispersed system can't be shut down.

Cypherpunks deplore regulations on cryptography, for encryption is fundamentally a private act. The act of encryption, in fact, removes information from the public realm. Even laws against cryptography reach only so far as a nation's border and the arm of its violence. Cryptography will ineluctably spread over the whole globe, and with it the anonymous transactions systems that it makes possible.

For privacy to be widespread it must be part of a social contract. People must come and together deploy these systems for the common good. Privacy only extends so far as the cooperation of one's fellows in society. We the Cypherpunks seek your questions and your concerns and hope we may engage you so that we do not deceive ourselves. We will not, however, be moved out of our course because some may disagree with our goals.

The Cypherpunks are actively engaged in making the networks safer for privacy. Let us proceed together apace.

Onward.

Eric Hughes

9 March 1993
 https://activism.net/cypherpunk/manifesto.html


* KYC on-ramps
* No protocol level privacy improvements in bitcoin-core
* Wasabi collaborating with Chain Analysis
* TornadoCash arrest
* Roman Sterlingov arrest
* ETF
* Monero delistings
* KYC all miners
* Samourai arrest

Are you sure we are winning?


oh fuck yeah. congrats! I'll check it out


Privacy is not a crime but a fundamental right 🗽

#SamouraiWallet #Bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/b92bc895aee90c33998e90f907c37465924563745d23ab1aee0b69c59c1f23d7.jpg


looking forward to your project.

I hope you and the baby can feel better and get some much needed rest. 🫂


this would be ideal. fedimints too. onion route all the packets


COPA coming to Samourai’s defence is what I expect to see announced next. This is a historic case that will determine the future of Bitcoin.

The high stakes Samourai case is no different to Bernstein v. United States, and requires a final, definitive answer to the fundamental (already answered) question, “What is the true nature of all cryptographic operations taking place in computers?”.

And Bitcoin is simply math being performed in computers, and it is literally nothing more than that. The same arguments for Bernstein, and Phil Zimmerman’s case (http://www.skypoint.com/members/gimonca/philzima.html) apply to Samourai, and the same defences should work if The Constitution hasn’t changed. And it hasn’t.

If COPA do not rise to this challenge and defend the underdog, then the floodgates will be opened for the missapplication of money laws to all Bitcoin operations no matter what they are.

At the fundamental level, Bitcoin is speech. This is not “Semantics”; this is a plain statement of fact, established in law.

Everything you do in Bitcoin is protected speech. If you believe that this event applies only to “mixing”, you are mistaken.

The simple act of “moving” Bitcoin from one address you are known to control and are registered with, to another address that is an “unregistered Bitcoin address” could be construed as a criminal act in the future if COPA don’t kill this.

And I hope they kill it. With fire.

 @opencryptoorg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States


We are all Samourai. https://image.nostr.build/7be91ca00f6eec66e3be8495ad2647ac6ef6543251a31b9b52319efc20d93443.jpg


RIP Samourai


their current incentive structure is not demanding them to change.

personally I don't get it. it only helps the entirety of the network in the long term view. they probably are just complacent and don't feel the need to change up yet.

But I think Matt made a phenomenal point mentioning the sub-pools being dishonest, fraudulent actors, and that should in and of itself be enough incentive for them to change up. was a great rip.


happy we are all here.

₿


congrats fren 🫂🎉


imo Phoenix, but it needs the initial channel opening fee which may cause slight friction. isn't custodied which is a plus though.


halving on bicycle day is pretty cool too


It's getting scary ...
https://vasavatar.github.io/VASA-1/video/realtime_demo.mp4
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/vasa-1/
#ai #microsoft #genai #vasa #facegen


Necessary Evil cover by Unknown Mortal Orchestra is the third song in the set.

#tunestr
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Cashu USD ecash. Be your own Tether.

All you'll need to run this permissionlessly is a Bitcoin Lightning node. Decentralize fucking everything, anon.

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


clean


absolute gas 💖🔥🤘🏻

#tunestr #music #jam #eggs #eggy

https://youtu.be/cQCe3MPEPKc?si=Cum69KuaGxBnvKEV


Don’t just be wary if you don’t have sole discretion over your nsec, abandon that npub and that company WITH HASTE


it's a shame.
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don't do me dirty like that fam 😂 I'm going to play the new set at pre release this weekend. looks strong!


some new npubs r only here for clout and zaps

some old npubs r also only here for clout and zaps

*ducks*

 https://i.nostr.build/zd4ZZ.gif


ossification is a hard tight rope to cross in our Bitcoin world.

the protocol works as intended and the more changes made, the greater the likelihood we find unaccounted for bugs, etc.

on the other hand, bitcoin currently cannot scale for the global use we all idealize.

the answer is probably somewhere in the middle, but we will have to wait and see. I think ecash is a promising development, to help Bitcoin and Lightning on the coming years.


LukeDashJr? wasn't he running Knots?


Another reason to be a nym 🚨 https://image.nostr.build/1b127ba3f404b1c26a386777c35b71823234fde523ff645712a5d15b13292e58.jpg  nostr:note12nlvhegn7xczts29htjnyzzladq8t7jp8pzp407xuy3fkckrty4q2pl5xl


looks good, but it stays being pork roll.


Windows keeps getting worse

https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/windows-11-doesnt-have-enough-ads-says-microsofts-latest-plan-to-force-more-ads-onto-your-pc


it was ARK

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they're welcome to voice their 'concerns' on nostr. but they'd probably prefer deleting their bad takes on X when it suits them.


what made you want to use Nix for your system?


I love the discussions about banning this and that, banning Bitcoin, banning #guns, banning, banning, banning.

"The tool itself having no moral character, and any object in the world doesn't have a moral character. So this means my knife in the kitchen I can use to butter my bread, or I can use it to slice somebody's throat. It's not the butter knife that is good or evil. It is the human actor, the moral agent, who gives an action, the moral character, whether we see it as good or evil.

And you can do this with anything with the shoes of a bank robbery, with the car to get away from the bank robbery, with the phone lines being used to blackmail people. And like any #technology, can be used for bad purposes. So this, I think, is the argument we have to push back against.

When the regulators say, oh, #Monero, #Bitcoin, whatever, it's too dangerous. We cannot let the people have it. Well, yes, it's going to be used by criminals, yeah, but it's not inherent in the tool."

Do you want more? Tune in, Wild Life - The Unschooling Podcast with AlexAnarcho!

#worldschooling #homeschooling #AlternativeEducation #SelfDirectedLearning #EducationRevolution #ChildLedLearning #LifeLongLearning #CreativeEducation #EmpoweredLearners #UnconventionalEducation #HomeEducation #UnschoolingLife #HolisticLearninghttps://m.primal.net/Hsri.mp4


THIS MY SONG FOR THIS BULL

https://open.spotify.com/track/4SnHrTMznHnx26RNH2Z6Sq?si=gZstBnpKR6aA62KSvu5Jqg&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A27wYCoAJYIyymo5LIe6Jz8


#bitcoin is better money
https://image.nostr.build/358d513f591c6fd11a8b17bf0d709cb37dbc0823a96da71e60d4753d8994b6be.jpg


this mf spittin 💯🔥


GFY 🤝


GN


A few of the criticisms mentioned earlier are correct, yet they are complete non sequiturs. Bitcoin will not be eagerly adopted by the mainstream, it will be forced upon them. Forced, as in "compelled by economic reality". People will be forced to pay with bitcoins, not because of 'the technology', but because no one will accept their worthless fiat for payments. Contrary to popular belief, good money drives out bad. This "driving out" has started as a small fiat bleed. It will rapidly escalate into Class IV hemorrhaging due to speculative attacks on weak fiat currencies. The end result will be hyperbitcoinization, i.e. "your money is no good here".


seedsigner is wife material
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testing proxmox relay reboot


yup


😂

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


maybe nostr:npub1tv8gmfhalwnxxquxjzeh6gtdsdz6vg7vx0s3rt7s7uuw6aujh32qn77wn2 could provide some clarity for you 🙌🔥 an amazing hardworking dev for the project


I find the fewer expectations I have for nostr the more I enjoy it.

I am more of a lurker than a constant conversation contributer, so I'm sure my experience differs from yours.

nostr is still fairly new and arguably a niche alternative to traditional social media, so I don't think you should feel discouraged.

if we want this to succeed, we need to be vigilant and not give up.


me looking at my seedsigners. have yet to find anything close to the quality I find in this little FOSS device.


I believe in freedom. there is no CEO, or company with misaligned incentives to get between me and my followers. I create my own algorithm.

nostr is FOSS, nostr is freedom tech 🤙✌


hell yeah. thanks


I agree with you that it should 💯 be a feed preference. most features in my opinion should be readily available and all use a toggle to include or exclude at the users discretion.

I think where we fundamentally disagree is that I believe deletion means a specific action of permanent removal; it cannot be retrieved. it is probably just a semantics issue I have, but I feel like more harm could come from people misunderstanding "delete", rather than knowing they cannot.

I'm not sure how this feature will be reconciled in the future, but these nostr devs continue to improve, and upgrade this experience, so I'm not too concerned.


there is no delete in the internet.

there is no delete on any social media. only, "don't show this to my followers". X and Facebook still have all of the data. It is a perception of deletion.

there is no delete in nostr. i can rebroadcast all of the notes of people I follow to a private relay that doesn't accept edits/delete events types.

at best, you're catering to people's conditioning and making them feel 'at home'.

at worst you're deceiving people into believing they can fully remove their posts.

further, screenshots are hard to prove the pubkey posted said note; screenshots can be manipulated and photoshopped. nostr events being cryptographically signed is a significantly more honest proof of post.

there is no delete in the internet.


It really sucks getting turned down for a job because I have "too much experience". 😮💨

I'm trying to move forward in my career. If you need an expert web developer who thinks outside the box and can make amazing things happen, hit me up and I'll send over my CV/résumé.

Friends boost friends 🫂🔄


"I am lost but not alone"


'Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.'

Terence McKenna

https://media.giphy.com/media/f4jVSpmwGMW2lA48Ia/giphy-downsized-large.gif
#wisdom #philosophy #psychology #spirituality #poetry


This reminds me of an early oversight when check-cashing via your bank app debuted.
You could write a check in your own name, deposit it, and access the cash.
If the next day it bounced leaving you in the negative, you could just write another check for an amount plus the negative balance, and withdrawal cash yet again.
It went unnoticed until the amount got so high the transaction was flagged, because you were in the green again inside 24 hours.
One day the government is going to try to create a new line of credit out of thin air to buy all their debt, and it’s not going to work.

We’re all sick of breaking our backs and spending the majority of our lives chasing fiat to live while they live outside their own rules.

US Government:
YOU CANT BORROW ANY MORE MONEY BRUH. Your fucking credit score is zero. Sorry but you need to pack your shit and get the fuck out. You’re a deadbeat, you’re a bum, you have no work ethic and you ain’t worth shit.

nostr:npub1nyjvepdyl8hpx9qe09fjcvluk025jm5dh2rnvk6jwcfexem5ykcq9e39ch 😘 https://image.nostr.build/166329c0bc49ad400a4cb5fb2ba2d1c7a6b3853e8097a2bb9dca7a58dab00b70.jpg


not overkill, imo


this is so fuckin wild 😂


GOOD MORNING, ENJOY YOUR EASTER YOUR WITH FAMILY. ✌ ☮


GM ☕

I hate it when people say 'I wish I believed in Bitcoin as much as you do.'

It's not a belief. Bitcoin is not some sort mythical creature like unicorn or Santa. It's an actual means to an end, like making use of gravity or electricity when building things. It's physics, math and verification.

Belief is a fiat construct. Bitcoin is complete opposite of that. Bitcoin is knowing.

https://i.imgflip.com/7lawfu.jpg


it isn't, but using TikTok as a pretense to attack applications broadly on different app stores, and applications broadly is fucked up and an attack on EVERYONES freedom.
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simply, the suits on TV are number go up statist fiat cuck bros; these talking heads have no interest in the pursuit of freedom and plebians upholding their rights.

they're getting the guests they want.


🇺🇲 The *US House of Representatives will vote* on Wednesday on a bill that would *force TikTok* to *cut ties with its Chinese owner* or *get banned in the United States*.

🇺🇸 🇨🇳 The legislation is the *biggest threat yet to the video-sharing app*, which has surged to *huge popularity* across the world all while causing intense *nervousness amongst governments* and security officials about its *Chinese ownership* and its potential subservience to the Communist Party in Beijing.

The *vote is likely to occur at 10:00 am (1400 GMT)* and is *expected to pass overwhelmingly* in a rare moment of bipartisan entente in a politically divided Washington.

#Nostr | #growNostr | #Press | #PLEBchaiN | #Newstr


when it comes to bombing innocents or removing citizens freedom, partisan politicians cannot join hands quicker.

they do not represent us.


"Social contract"
 https://image.nostr.build/0d24f7e56031fc9aa5b67a8df6386c8feac308dd0b130f74ec75acf64ac1c2aa.jpg


love this. +1 nostr


Dreams on Shrooms
 https://video.nostr.build/66f2df8a72a0d3cf803d92ea955f4eff0dcf86213686bc8763ea4d1b1bb92e3c.mp4


This was such a good band. So much energy and it gets so funky. #jam #tunestr #music

https://youtu.be/ugu9Or84i9M?si=1cJF8wxcKF9TEV-8


We are told energy is expensive, and again pay high bills. But this is legacy rape yet again. Energy is abundant and Bitcoin shows this, the mining industry is pushing development of super refined systems to harness this. The World is changing fast thanks to bitcoin. An abundant future is approaching 🔥


RIP


mask up 😷


they're all winners in my book
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In high scoo I drew dis one https://i.nostr.build/ROVq.jpg


nothing too fancy necessary. local hardware store or Amazon will do the trick. most come in the shape of a pen, so that's generically what I would recommend. I wouldn't spend more than $25-$30 on it.


DIY

1) large washers
2) large nut & bolt
3) handheld electric engraver


It’s hard to overstate the impact of the Satoshi Nakamoto Institute when it first launched. A couple of Texas-Austrians effectively orange pilled a generation of bitcoiners in the most genuine and intellectually fulfilling way possible. Many that had been around prior to SNI like myself found new conviction around this bitcoin thing we were playing with after reading nostr:npub1j4u5gjzjyggr3h96x3gjy4akdgwxuk7mgvumv72gym2qyje7fn5s47d6x9 and nostr:npub1hxwmegqcfgevu4vsfjex0v3wgdyz8jtlgx8ndkh46t0lphtmtsnsuf40pf ‘s work, along with the wealth of knowledge they curated. Seeing SNI get its second wind is the most bullish bitcoin news since the ETF. I just donated to contribute to their second act.

https://nakamotoinst.substack.com/p/sni-going-institutional


THANK YOU FOR SPEAKING CLEARLY. MESSAGE RECIEVED 🫡🤙


bitcoin-backed ecash is free banking by the people


so many talks on the open source stage feel like they don't belong there, with the stage being named "open source".

the talks themselves were really good, but felt like Satoshi stage talks in content, but didn't have the potential audience draw and were put on the "other stage".

I am not at the conference, just was interested in the open source stage from home and watched both days live streams. I suppose my expectations didn't match the conferences itinerary; great talks, but I was maybe expecting more open source Bitcoin development.


This speaks to the precise reasons why I have continued to choose to steer SeedSigner away from being a company; once you have investors, employees, leases, contracts, and all of the other obligations that come with them, incentives shift, and IMHO, not in a direction that was right for the idea behind SeedSigner.

As much as I have tried to get Jack to engage with, or even make the slightest mention or acknowledgement of our project, it unfortunately has yet to happen. Given his proclaimed  passion for FOSS, I always thought he would dig what we are doing -- how cypherpunk is it for bitcoiners to build their own cold storage signing tool?!? 🙂 Heck, Jack and I are even from the same city.

Over time I don't know what to think of it. In the end you just have to kill your heros and build for yourself and the people around you.

nostr:note1670qzh20np0cc70z5njnpuncwj5t0pnm42uw6j79gw3u45rwq67q4m8036


thankful for this FOSS project. the simplicity and flexibility are unmatched. buying standard parts and not doxxing myself to a company like Coinkit is elite. The entire Seedsigner team is deeply appreciated by us plebs; thank you for the continuous improvements and dedication.


GOOD MORNING ☕


you're ahead of most people already doing what you're doing using Linux and FOSS tools 🤙

finding the ones that work best for our needs is what matters most. 🫡🫂


I have to say the arch-install script really does a great job of abstracting away the annoying install process. I had a really nice customized i3 install setup on my laptop until my ssd died and then I tried arch-install with KDE and everything works great. Still probably not best for first-timers, but very cool!


I came here for freedom money, not for financial gain. Over the past 12+ years I have watched Bitcoin 12000x vs USD, and it blows my mind every time this happens. Even after all these years. Maybe I still haven't accepting the reality of it all.

Many of us were told over and over that we were making a terrible decision, or that we were idiots for investing in "tulips." Ridiculed and laughed at constantly. Not just by strangers, but by family and friends.

They were wrong.

Not only did we make a good decision, we made one of the greatest decisions in recent history. We had the conviction, the nerve, and of course the autism, to do what we thought was right while everyone else doubted.

Many of us were freaks & weirdos for most of our lives. Let's be honest - most of us probably still are. But we're the weirdos with motherfucking conviction. We're the freaks willing to put it all on the line for a belief, because maybe there's still something worth hoping and fighting for in this clown world.

We were right.

You can stay humble while you stack sats tomorrow. Today you pat yourself on the back. You text your brother with an "I fucking told you so." You look at yourself in the mirror and smile at a motherfucking winner.


I hit the open with amethyst on android as well as spring on android and it opened both perfectly. 🤙


to be honest I've never even tried 😂 I'll try rn


I use njump to share individual nostr posts with my friends who don't use this platform. very useful for that


I am not sure if it is doable on #amethyst. some clients have it and some do not. I believe Odell uses Gossip client for desktop.

getwired.app uses PoW21 for all posts, and acts as an anonymous posting client.


in addition to cryptographically signing this note with his private key, he also used his computer to do a small amount of 'Proof Of Work' which depending on his purposes (maybe a relay he uses requires it to store the note longer term; or some other reason) he believes there is some benefit in doing it.


GOOD MORNING MATT. BEEN A WHILE SINCE WE HAVE HAD A DISPATCH, AND THIS ONE SOUNDS LIKE IT WILL BE A HEATER.


Unpopular opinion: most boomers got fucked too and are working into retirement when they should be financially free.


I've met so many of you over the years, it's just been a blast every fucking time. Some of you are my closest friends, even though we might not see each other often. Some of you I feel very close to, and maybe we've never met—or once briefly.

The next couple of days are going to be a whirlwind, and I already know that I'll be an emotional mess. Lots of conversations, lots of activities, little sleep, and an overdose of high vibes.

Remember these days. These are the good old days. Bitcoin will be very normal one day, and nostr will be too. Cherish the little moments. You are here now, and that's what matters. And remember to take care of yourself. And each other.

Love ya'll 🫂🧡


TBH I get a deep sense of nihilism when the price goes up this fast. It’s mostly having the face ripped off of how superficial and fleeting our generalize pricing mechanisms are, and how hypnotized we all are within this system of ‘value’.

Bitcoin has always been worth this much (and much more!), we are just waiting for the rest of the world to see it too. It almost like I feel ashamed of knowing that I’ve been right all along and haven’t thrown down even hard, and been even more insistent about what we are doing.


Only one year ago, $60K could have bought around 3 BTC.


A mantra:

"If you don't believe me or don't get it, I don't have time to try to convince you, sorry."

Spoken by the oldest of OGs, Satoshi Nakamoto
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#bitcoin
https://video.nostr.build/760b59c020ec4a35e5dddebf8c54006326ececfb8f304ce4cc68e5196d270bbc.mp4


test note


Do not use Cashu mints that you don't trust. We're still early and this is new tech. Use only very small amounts that you are ok to lose and treat it as an experiment.

Cashu is still a baby but one that's growing fast. We're busy hardening the entire ecosystem.

Please be mindful 🙏


I don't own anything of great value besides my eternal soul and my ability to transact on the #Bitcoin Network


Deleted my account last year when they started charging high fees for API access. I didn't really use reddit, besides as an outlet to scroll during work. I don't miss it, and am happy to use it without an account when I'm searching for specific information.


super cool


I misunderstood you, I thought you meant as incentive + on boarding users would get npub+ecash wallet+ first zap. it wouldn't make sense to spam key creation in your case.


what would stop npub spam creation, claim nuts, sweep, create npub, claim nuts, sweep?

I'm sure someone could automate this process.


have fun! safe travels 🫂


fresh Bent

https://tftc.io/boris-johnson-1-million-in-bitcoin-from-tucker-carlson/


WE STAND WITH YOU nostr:npub1xw7h0efeg5s8gla2uyu55jh4lfrlgppcjemrwkmdc7lgvhkcz3fqpvumsa 🫡

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


Julian Assange, nostr:npub1sn0wdenkukak0d9dfczzeacvhkrgz92ak56egt7vdgzn8pv2wfqqhrjdv9 and Ross Ulbricht have demonstrated that the USA is following the same practices as communist countries like russia and china! They prosecute anyone who opposes them, no matter of what!


A decade ago I was in my car at a stoplight, and there was a bunch of seagulls eating a discarded bag of fast food in the intersection.

When the light turned green, the car in front of me went slowly to give the seagulls a chance to fly away, but they didn't. Instead, the car's tire just slowly ran over a whole pile of seagulls, who just kept going after the fast food as they were run over. I just watched horrified as this played out.

Every once in a while, I just wonder why the seagulls never got out of the way despite how slow the threat was.

Anyway, looking at the bond market reminded me of this again today.


not from either, but I have interest in NH and TN


What has Julian Assange really done? He is literally being punished for engaging in real journalism.

He reported about despicable war crimes committed by the US and other countries, and now they are making an example out of him.

It's happening in front of our eyes, and we are not able to do anything about it. It's an absolute shame.
https://video.nostr.build/5edecee81fc787b5269947a95b762b18aa7bb02db9f72198a09f9bd74919933a.mp4


#bitcoin https://video.nostr.build/d90a69a97a5e089533779a35cb875403cf9fa0c6bb8fb694928cc858f81c8bfc.mp4


nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx https://i.imgflip.com/8g2uac.jpg


Back then, we would just zap each other nuts for fun.  Many of us didn’t even know we had nuts zapped to us.  Often, the nut zaps were large enough to buy a car or house today.

https://newfastuff.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/KORPM7j.png


GOOD MORNING.

THERE ARE DEGEN TRADERS WHO SELL CORN FOR CUCK BUCKS.

THERE ARE HUMBLE BITCOINERS WHO STACK CORN FURIOUSLY.

THESE GROUPS OF PEOPLE ARE NOT THE SAME. #BUILTDIFFERENT

THEY ALL WISH THEY HAD MORE CORN THOUGH.

https://giphy.com/gifs/gorilla-ape-great-vsz2HSQ1ukJpdHv6af


gm 🫂🤙


I 💜 NOSTR
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hell of an introduction


I look forward to this when it gets pushed to play store. thank you


sick whip, my DUDE


GOOD NIGHT 🫂


there's no need to link this npub to that npub per say; but using it will allow to use your current sphere of influence to help your business. there are tradeoffs


Why should we vote between two people who have not participated in a single debate who only agree on one thing: The person in charge of the money should stay the same.


They've always been a perfect match but in the last months Cashu has been Nostrfying pretty hard!

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


Today, after many moons, I relistened to Pump It Up by, Endor.

It's a certified banger 🙌


GOOD MORNING 🫂


🔥🔥
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Dont you think Balaji would post on Xwitter that he is running nostr? don't trust, verify.
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Trying to do my very best


give us the full stat spread pls 🤙


GOOD MORNING NOSTR, LEAD BY EXAMPLE 🫡


Just the European parliament in Brussels today.
https://i.nostr.build/6Dxn.jpg#


also coldcard product is not FOSS. imo this is out of line with the "don't trust verify" mantra we all speak. 🤷♂ seedsigner is the 🐐
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everyone else has mentioned KYC options, so I'll go against the standard reply..

when you buy from any of these companies you're trusting them with your tax ID, name, address, phone number, etc. If any of these companies are hacked or compromised, how would this impact you? Knowing how much bitcoin you have, as well as a slew of other personally identifiable information.

Stacking Bitcoin privately NoKYC is more challenging and annoying; I'll concede that. But I strongly believe that this is protection from government 6102 type of executive order, or a hacker with a wrench that finds out who you are.

At the end of the day it comes down to the tradeoffs you are willing to make.

However the most important thing is to stack sats, however you're able.

https://blog.kycnot.me/p/kyc-no-thanks


a hot day in your hometown and you complain

a hot day on a tropical beach and you call it paradise

a cold, snowy day in your hometown and you complain

a cold, snowy day on a ski slope and you call it perfect

the weather is not what's bothering you


github pages allows you to host a website through github. they'll give you a clunky & long domain name that contains your username and other bullshit. I host my website that way (cheap and avoiding VPS costs), but I got my own domain which points to github.

I believe I found a guide somewhere on the internet when i set this up a year ago. if I have time during or after work I'll do some web searching to see if I can find the resources I used.


For anyone grocking Minibits today, check out nostr:npub1rxysxnjkhrmqd3ey73dp9n5y5yvyzcs64acc9g0k2epcpwwyya4spvhnp8 excellent 👌 Minbits tutorial. Sessions' tutorials are clearly the best thing on the Internet.

Applause to the devs and everyone involved in this project. It is impressive! Don't forget to give back if you're enjoying open-source work. And if you can't give back, nevermind. Free software is for everyone to use as they please.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igJF8ccMnbQ


this is the way
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It is harder for government to display control when people have freedom via a free money. They don't mind wasting electricity on Christmas lights or Xbox consoles because they don't give people autonomy. This is about control.


fuck off, grfiter government
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GM MATT. ENJOY TODAY 🤙


GM

Technology can be used for many different things. It may be used by different people, different companies, different protocols, to represent different use cases all valued differently.

At the very least, the Bitcoin Blockchain represents this. You cannot control what tech is used for or how it is valued.


I'm using amethyst and the Minibits app (play store). it's very intuitive, and seems to play nice. it allows you to use your nostr keys & nip05 for a custom address or you can choose from options they provide. I loaded it with a couple hundred sats to test and haven't had issues.


we went from sending long strings for ecash cashu redemption, now we can zap with it.


Just set up minibits, haven't zapped or been zapped much since I stopped using WoS. I appreciate the simplicity and thought that has gone into minibits.

I've played with the cashu lnbits extension last year and the nutstash wallet too. minibits is a nice evolution from those early projects. I'm stoked for the future of freedom tech.
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Has anyone listened to this yet?

I'm am only part way through, so pardon any potential misinterpretation.

What I am taking away from Rizzo's belief and perspective is that irregardless of one's views of the current state of Bitcoin, and particularly the Ordinals issue (not a fan personslly), is essentially that Bitcoin is building an immune system for itself. Persevering in high stress situations often leads to growth!

While the fee environment is not ideal for many westerners, and probably really bad for many in other parts of the world, this is like a sickness that will hopefully inspire new growth and development to scaling Bitcoin, and in the best case scenario become a healthy and functioning network of nodes, miners, users, and beyond.

I don't like ordinals, nfts, or shitcoiner grifts, I think the most important thing one can do is STAY HUMBLE AND STACK SATS.

I think Bitcoin fixes this.

https://youtu.be/YqDkuIsgfY0?si=OPMSqAhkoV96WEGq


this an amazing, and incredibly useful heuristic for identifying spooks and psyops.
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mix them again! ideally multiple times


the comments are a good read for tradeoffs/different perspectives.

personally, I'd mix it all and make that the "nokyc" stack. if nostr:npub1w8rrew9yye3lla4hr5uuh7zx9he6qu2rd55hwx9ctyyp0rjqz45q9ch663 wants more kyc sats, I think it'd be best to start another KYC stack separate from the rest of your stack (if you want more KYC corn)

GL fren 🫡🤙

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Not Your Keys, Not Your Coins
Not Your Node, Not Your Rules


GOOD MORNING NOSTR, FREEDOM TECH IS HOPE 🫡


Until someone builds a popular version of a technical concept but on top of federated ecash, I don't really want to hear about any sort of soft fork. If you can't demonstrate PMF, why risk the hardest money in history just because a nerd has their opinions about financial tools?

Example, fuck APO or LNHANCE. Build federated channel factories and let me know how it goes and if you get any demand.

Covenants? For the love of God someone build something useful first, because everyone has failed at getting interest in any sort of vaults beyond simple multisig. The biggest advocator for them has even failed to get any interest in his user facing tool for building and visualizing covenants.


I’ve decided to try my hand at technical analysis. https://video.nostr.build/6709d9409e6e3438534f51385555256c668cb19c60a18ab1ae4c0b18934b582f.mp4


Rust Nostr v0.27 is out! 🦀

Released also JavaScript, Python, Kotlin and Swift v0.8.0

This release introduce the `ClientSigner` (way to use the SDK client with different types of signers: Keys, NIP07 or NIP46), NIP07 support for WASM/JS, database performance improvements and more!

Thanks to nostr:npub1f5uuywemqwlejj2d7he6zjw8jz9wr0r5z6q8lhttxj333ph24cjsymjmug nostr:npub17q5n2z8naw0xl6vu9lvt560lg33pdpe29k0k09umlfxm3vc4tqrq466f2y nostr:npub1u8lnhlw5usp3t9vmpz60ejpyt649z33hu82wc2hpv6m5xdqmuxhs46turz nostr:npub1zk6u7mxlflguqteghn8q7xtu47hyerruv6379c36l8lxzzr4x90q0gl6ef nostr:npub1mheh5x5uhplms73kl73hwtg4gf57qxq89fvkwc2ykj8y966l05cqh9qtf9 for contributing.

https://github.com/rust-nostr/nostr/releases/tag/v0.27.0


thank you for everything you do 🫂🤙


Cashu tokens have been
1) send to space and back to earth, and
2) sent over mesh network radio
3) sent offline from phone to phone

Are we in a cypherpunk's dream?

https://void.cat/d/XNkUnyLicY7tfNEWyN8cRX.webp


EVERY DAY THE BLUE CHECK TWITTERATI PICK A NEW THING TO ARGUE ABOUT.

NONE OF THAT MATTERS.

EYES ON THE PRIZE.

FAMILY. FRIENDS. FREEDOM. 🫡


NO PRIVACY? NO FREEDOM.

NO FREEDOM? NO WEALTH.


#asknostr #askbitcoin

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Is nip44 meant to be used with kind 4s for DMs? The nip only defines the encryption, not how to do any of the nostr events

Cc nostr:npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z nostr:npub10jcnehsxwrjepupvh602pl83up0dh3wv3fqfwv062smygqvpeuwsk03kag


not if I have to be dependent on his server running all of these api's and software packages. if I could self host on my own server, I would think it's a cool idea.


EVERY PROFITABLE BITCOIN BUSINESS SHOULD SUPPORT THE OPEN SOURCE CONTRIBUTORS THAT MAKE THIS MOVEMENT POSSIBLE.


ELON CAN SEND A TWEET FROM THE PRESIDENT'S ACCOUNT IF HE WANTS.

CENTRALIZED SOCIAL MEDIA SHOULD NOT BE USED FOR OFFICIAL COMMS.

POSTS SHOULD BE CRYPTOGRAPHICALLY SIGNED.

THE NOSTR POST YOU ARE READING NOW WAS SIGNED BY MY PRIVATE KEY AND VERIFIED BY YOUR CLIENT.


nowhere in there was there an actual answer to the question. mostly word salad mixed with "we got a guy. trust me bro."


MOST PEOPLE WILL NOT BUY BITCOIN,  THEY WILL EARN IT.

MOST PEOPLE WILL NOT SELL BITCOIN, THEY WILL SPEND IT.

MOST PEOPLE WILL STACK EVERY DAY AND NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT IT.  IT WILL BE THE MONEY THEY EARN,  SPEND, AND SAVE.


my rpi does the same every other week(ish). usually it seems like it's my bitcoin core not connecting to peers, and rebooting my rpi does the trick


WHO BROKE BITCON?

#YESTR https://image.nostr.build/7045032cd9cb2939fb9d7d941ef86ebd3ace25185de0b7f38e1c67993685bd9d.gif


happy birthday #Bitcoin

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


I WAS A SIMPLE FIAT SAVER BEFORE THE GAMESTOP ROBINHOOD FIASCO.

THIS WAS THE EVENT THAT RADICALIZED ME 100% INTO BITCOIN AND BITCOIN ONLY LIFESTYLE.

FREE MARKETS HAVE NO ON/OFF SWITCH.

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I bought magic cards to start playing again with friends. this has me jazzed for the new year along with a more ideal work schedule.


happy we are here doing this thang 🫡🫂


GOOD MORNING NOSTR - FREEDOM TECH IS HOPE.

FREEDOM IS NOT GRANTED - FREEDOM IS TAKEN AND DEFENDED.

THOSE WHO BUILD, USE, AND SUPPORT FREEDOM TECH TODAY WILL INSPIRE BILLIONS TO RISE UP TOMORROW.

ONWARD 🫡


THE GENIUS OF SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM:

BILLIONS OF PEOPLE THINK THEY ARE CUSTOMERS WHILE THEY ARE ACTUALLY THE PRODUCT BEING HARVESTED.


looks like fun! gm 🫂


based outlaw

https://youtu.be/QU49Td1ijk8?si=2wGRZg21p0G8zkpc


Opensource only! 🐧 🩷

#linux #opensource

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/662/770/911/569/416/original/c390f6628a128b62.mp4


I have much respect for the devs building Nostr and on Nostr. And I want everyone to have much success. But reality is that most people aren’t going to pay for something they can get elsewhere for free.


The community's mood is a little down because of one of Will's posts. The existing clients may die in the future, but I believe that there will be better clients for Nostr. Because Nostr offers value that has never been available before, he is open. Death is nature's way of ecological continuity, Nostr species will change and survive according to the environment. This is just the beginning, not the end, for #Nostr 🫡


I post this in love 💜🫂 https://image.nostr.build/3629d55b83656116cf6af412c2667040790c843a17430340c7b93777d1472d96.jpg


reposts feel like "I want you to see this", whereas quotes add perspective not seen in the original post, inspiring more conversation.


Inscriptions: the cure is worse than the disease

This is a long form article, you can read it in https://habla.news/a/naddr1qqxnzdesxgerxdp58yenyvejqgswrlemlh2wgqc4jkds3d8ueqj9a2j3gcm7r48v9tskdd6rxsd7rtcrqsqqqa28wdzn0j

Ever since the infamous Taproot Wizard 4mb block bitcoiners have been alight, fighting to try and stop inscriptions. Inscriptions are *definitely* not good for bitcoin, but how bitcoiners are trying to stop them will be far worse than any damage inscriptions could have ever caused.

Inscriptions work by embedding images or other data into the bitcoin blockchain by using a trick in bitcoin script. They essentially put the data in an unreachable code block followed by the real spending conditions so the user can claim the ordinal/NFT. It is quite an ingenious trick but has broke a lot of the assumptions many bitcoiners were operating under. Previously, the main way to embed data into bitcoin was OP_RETURN, which is basically an op code exactly meant for embedding data but had two problems for the NFT people: it makes coins unspendable and by mempool policy is limited to 80 bytes. Inscriptions has the advantage that their only size limit is the block size and since their data is in the witness, not the output, they benefit from the witness discount, allowing them to embed 4x the data. This broke a lot of bitcoiners assumptions that the theoretical 4mb block would never happen because it'd be silly to have only witness data, however, the NFT people found a way to monetize it. Now this is common place and we've seen tons of inscriptions happen, driving up fees and block sizes.

Inscriptions are an attack on bitcoin. Inscriptions are not going to kill bitcoin, but none the less, it is an attack. Exploiting a trick in bitcoin script to use the witness discount for embedding data is definitely hurting the network, blocks were never meant to actually reach the theoretical limit and it is a problem that it is happening. Nodes will be more expensive to run and this will hurt decentralization of the network. However, now that it is happening and common place, we cannot stop it.

In retaliation bitcoiners are proposing ways to "stop" inscription and these will do far worse damage then inscriptions will ever do. Almost every proposal to stop inscriptions boils down to preventing these transactions from getting into the mempool. The mempool is the battle ground of bitcoin transactions and we need to preserve it. The mempool only works if it the premier way to get the highest fee rate transactions to miners. If we lose that guarantee, people will move to centralized systems and we may never get the mempool back. Filtering spam transactions from the mempool will not stop inscriptions, at best it will delay them by a week. The people buying inscriptions are morons, but the people selling them are not, they already have back channel communications with mining pools and if we cut them off from the mempool, then the only pools getting these fees will be the shitcoin aligned pools. This has already happened to many shitcoin networks where their mempool was killed off for one reason or another and now the primary way to broadcast a transaction is through a centralized api. This essentially creates a permissioned network, where even if anyone can run a node, if you don't have access to the transaction broadcasting api, you cannot access bitcoin. We are currently seeing congress try harder and harder to regulate nodes, miners, and wallets as money transmitters and losing the mempool will make this problem 1000x worse. There is also serious security problems without being able to do trustless fee estimation if we lose the mempool, but that is out of scope of this post.

Further, filtering transactions based on "spam" metrics can lead us down a dark path. The most economical way to transact in bitcoin is *not* the most private. Today the most popular way to get privacy for your on-chain bitcoin is doing a coinjoin. Coinjoins are not necessarily economic transactions, you are merely spending to yourself along with a bunch of other people. If we set precedent that you have to justify the usefulness of your transaction to not be considered spam, soon people will find a way to exploit this to try and get coinjoins and other privacy techniques excluded from mempools for being spam.

With all this being said, if bitcoin is going to work, we shouldn't need to care about inscriptions. The promise of bitcoin is a global monetary network backing the entire financial world, if that is overtaken and its primary use case is a NFT trading platform, then bitcoin was doomed to fail in the first place. We have seen many shitcoin bubbles for over the past decade and this one is no different. The shitcoiners will eventually run out of fools to buy their scam and things will go back to normal, but we can't shoot our self in the foot trying to stop things prematurely, when we can just wait them out.

#SaveTheMempool


EVERY PERSON...
EVERY COMPANY...
EVERY GOVERNMENT...

...HAS ONE GOAL: ACCUMULATE AS MUCH BITCOIN AS POSSIBLE.

FORTUNATELY FOR US MOST DO NOT REALIZE THAT YET.


They’ve printed trillions and those trillions have not been changing hands as is evidenced by the collapse in the velocity of money.

This chart proves the COVID stimulus checks were nothing more than bread and circuses.

This is your monetary system on fiat. Abject favoritism.
https://m.primal.net/HVSd.jpg


"I don't like skiing because snowboarders use the mountain too"

so they're morons, got it


"...I can feel your soul in this product."

It is indeed in there.  🫶
https://m.primal.net/HVRX.jpg


Nostr and Bitcoin are pillars of a new digital order.

This is the way to combat clown world.


That's the product, the method is requiring a cut of the revenue from the platform to fund pre-approved content


Canada forces companies to censor news unless it’s from pre-approved sources, apparently that includes entire countries.

This started happening when there was a surge of non-government funded media which was getting more attention and saying not so nice things about trudeau.

His ideas are so bad he has to give billions of printed and stolen dollars from the pre-approved CBC just so they can say how awesome he is. It’s literally their job to say nice things about him otherwise they would lose funding.

This country is a clown show.

This is why we need nostr. https://i.nostr.build/VYnA.jpg


Merry Christmas


seedsigner maximalist


MERRY CHRISTMAS 🎅 🎄


Make peace with the fact that people hold different versions of you in their mind. Ultimately, who you know yourself to be is what matters the most. https://i.nostr.build/jJjr.jpg


❤🔥😌 https://i.nostr.build/lJlA.jpg


BITCOIN IS THE MOST STABLE WAY TO STORE WEALTH. THERE IS NO SECOND BEST. FEW UNDERSTAND THIS.


To the people who think it's important to vote for the lesser evil:

If the vote is between Nikki Haley & Gavin Newsom, who you gonna vote for then?

Was Bush or Gore the greater evil? One used a false flag attack to start multiple wars & impose the Patriot Act, the other wanted to attack your quality of life more directly by making every company & ultimately every breathing person pay the war machine for the right to use energy & exhale.

Who was the lesser evil, the openly war hungry McCain, or "peaceful" Obama, who started more wars than any other president in US history?

The lesser evil is mostly a fiction manufactured to keep you engaged. The first step to defeating your enemy is to stop funding them & stop playing their games.

#taxprotest #Bitcoin


all of the above 🫂


WE'RE GONNA REPLACE SPOTIFY
WE'RE GONNA REPLACE YOUTUBE
WE'RE GONNA REPLACE UBER
WE'RE GONNA REPLACE PINTEREST
WE'RE GONNA REPLACE INSTAGRAM
WE'RE GONNA REPLACE TWITTER
WE'RE GONNA REPLACE TIK TOK
WE'RE GONNA REPLACE THREADS
WE'RE GONNA REPLACE BLUESKY
WE'RE GONNA REPLACE TELEGRAM
WE'RE GONNA REPLACE DISCORD
WE'RE GONNA REPLACE TWITCH
WE'RE GONNA REPLACE AMAZON
WE'RE GONNA REPLACE FACEBOOK
WE'RE GONNA REPLACE GOOGLE
WE'RE GONNA CHART NEW TERRITORY AND DO THINGS THAT NOBODY HAS EVER DONE
AND WE'RE GONNA DO IT ALL ON #NOSTR

https://image.nostr.build/ee09f560e3cf79345c1778949bfaefcabd8d6abd1ae24bcc9d54402afd33c299.jpg


WoSがどっか出かけてたことに気がついてなかった


im an optimist too! education and #bitcoin seem to be the best shot we got. happy we are here 🫂🤙


I hear where you are coming from and don't entirely disagree, there are hurdles.

as for 3d guns, there are still normal firearms being illegally bought and sold even with our governance system, so i (personally) think that is a moot point. i think chemical weapons, atomic weapons, etc are probably a better/more realistic concern about removing governance.

money broadly allows people to specialize in skills and division of labor. I believe there will still be detectives, personal or communal protection. but in my opinion using a central government to divide the citizens wealth to the proper channels CAN (not always) usually be done quicker and cheaper had the people done the work themselves, or find someone else specialized in said skill.

I think there is some credibility to the Greek liturgy system or some sort of city state alternative, which *should* in my opinion be opt in.

I don't have any real solutions to these problems, I'm just painfully aware that expecting bought&sold politicians don't have their constituents best interests at heart. maybe a new money with a good incentive structure can fix that, but i don't have faith that the government can course correct itself.


I generally believe anarchy is a better solution than statism. however that means if a group of people would like to form their own governing body, they should be allowed to, because there are no rulers. it becomes an issue if people are forced or coerced to participate in or with that group.

I believe a better monetary system, #Bitcoin , will create a better incentive system to help to prevent the rampant corruption we see today, but only on the monetary system front. people are corruptible to others with lots of money, influence, commodities, etc.

as for crime, there will always be people who take the low road and do wrong, but we shouldn't throw the baby out with the bath water. even in our current system there is crime and people breaking laws.

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Think of UTXOs* as little bits of gold of varying sizes that you hold in your vault. Some are small coins. Some are big bars. Some are mere dust.

In order to spend, you melt down UTXOs into the exact size needed for that transaction.

It costs more to melt down numerous UTXOs than just to melt a few UTXOs. So from a cost perspective, you’re better off having gold coins of standard size for regular spending, big bars for long term savings, and minimal dust.

Each time you melt down your coins at the public smelter, people can see how much gold is smelted. So it’s favorable from a privacy perspective to just smelt a few coins of the size you need, while keeping your larger reserves hidden.

*Unspent Transaction Outputs https://image.nostr.build/a3eabbb169130d549f40d65b37baaf4fd50a45472f43adf67eef3740a085f448.jpg  nostr:note1ukk2hjdnkwyh844yh7890cwq9um7f93mtxtluehrcavw79awukusv5nru3


if yall don't want to solder, there are 40 pin GPIO solderless hammer in headers for rpi zeros. for sure for sale on Amazon, not sure where else. they've worked great for the few seedsigners I have built.


Elizabeth Warren hates this.

https://void.cat/d/GuwjG8sdUQ2JgpVDZkzTSm.webp


dont wait for the right moment, it doesn't exist

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JOIN OR DIE


the dudes gonna have a hard time here not being able to block whoever questions their motives


NOT YELLING. JUST SPEAKING CLEARLY.

ALL CAPS UNTIL NOSTR IS THE STANDARD.


Summarizing 2023: A subset of events for the year.

-China's economic re-opening stagnated. Had the first negative foreign direct investment flow in over two decades. And yet simultaneously, China surpasses Japan as world's biggest auto exporter. Huge gap between domestic consumption and export prowess.

-There was a US banking crisis involving a duration mismatch rather than a credit event. Resulted in some of the largest bank failures in American history, and the collapse of the 167-year old global systematically important bank, Credit Suisse. Liquidity was provided to the market and stocks went up toward all-time highs.

-The United States ran enormous deficits, resulting in one of the biggest divides between monetary policy and fiscal policy on record. Amid the deficits, consensus outlooks for a recession go largely contradicted, as some industries boom while others stagnate.

-Russia's invasion of Ukraine drags on. Russia's Prigozhin launches a rebellion, captures Rostov-on-Don and pushes hard toward Moscow, but then calls it off and agrees to leave. Prigozhin dies in a plane crash two months later, attributed to a bomb on board.

-A coup in Niger effectively pushes out France's presence from the country, and more broadly sheds light on France's ongoing presence in many African nations including with the CFA Franc.

-Israel suffers its worst terrorist attack in decades by Hamas, and responds with orders of magnitude more force on Gaza including major civilian casualties, and this war remains ongoing. Global public attention shifts from Ukraine/Russia to Gaza/Israel, and widely polarizes people across the world.

-The first recorded instance of space combat occurred as Israel intercepted a missile from Yemen in low Earth orbit. Yes, Earth's first known instance of non-test space combat was initiated not from within the United States, Russia, or China, but from Houthi rebels in Yemen.

-The first self-identified anarcho-capitalist candidate becomes head of state for a country, and for a G20 country no less. Calls for ending Argentina's central bank, after decades of uncontrolled fiscal monetization, inflation, and economic stagnation. If Argentina dollarizes, it would be the biggest country so far to do so.

-The Suez Canal is effectively closed over dangers posed to ships from Yemen. This impacts global shipping costs and energy, but likely hurts Egypt the most.

-Multiple other conflicts persist, including Myanmar's bloody civil war. Despite enormous casualties, these types of conflicts go largely ignored by the world because they don't materially affect the macroeconomy or bring major powers into potential conflict.

-The US federal government brings attention to UFOs/UAPs with multiple hearings, commissions, etc. But nobody really gives a shit. The public is like, "With all this going on, can we save the aliens topic until next year? Thanks."


MANY POLITICIANS HATE FREEDOM.

THEY ARE BOUGHT BY LARGE CORPORATIONS AND ADDICTED TO POWER.

WE WILL OBSOLETE THEM.


You are here in Mandibles.📍 https://i.nostr.build/Eymn.jpg https://i.nostr.build/rXZB.jpg


I like this 👌  keep it up my dude


"We’re talking about a change in how humanity organises itself." —Andreas Antonopoulos


UNTIL YOUR EMPLOYER FORCES YOU TO ACCEPT BITCOIN FOR YOUR TIME, IT IS CHEAP.


Got rugged by my fiat employer... Worst timing 😢

#opentowork as a Systems Engineer 😉

Please share opportunities 🙏

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/09/business/smiledirectclub-shutting-down-liquidation.html

#plebchain #nostr #jobhunt


you can't just stop math. ggez

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Sending some love your way. It often feels like, when shitty happenings come our way, it comes as a bundle of many shittenings. I hope things look up soon for you and your loved ones 🫂🙏🏻


NEVER DID, NEVER WILL.

IN THE END THERE IS ONLY BITCOIN.


Somebody ORDINAL this or Inscribe or whatever it’s called

#bitcoin
FUKKIN legend https://image.nostr.build/c4c8a489ef7f6df89f5d5510ea26540fc0b6164aa0a94fab2a4e0b91d754044c.jpg


SHOUT OUT TO BEN PRICE. HE CARRIED OPENSATS ON HIS BACK EARLY ON WHILE BUILDING A NO KYC BITCOIN BUSINESS VIA THE BITCOIN COMPANY.

THE DUDE IS A QUIET LEGEND.

ALSO WANT TO SHOUT OUT OUR ENTIRE BOARD.

NIFTY
DREAD
JAMESOB
ELAINE
JANINE
NVK

AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST GIGI WHO RUNS THE SHIP FULL TIME.

IT IS AN HONOR AND A PRIVILEGE. ONWARD 🫡


often times, people that know the most about a project are usually invested in something in that arena

this makes sorting thru discourse about projects difficult to people who aren’t insiders


If you aren't following nostr:npub1e0z776cpe0gllgktjk54fuzv8pdfxmq6smsmh8xd7t8s7n474n9smk0txy yet please do. She's been taking a break off Twitter and using nostr more.

High signal, brilliant educator, well spoken leader, and protocol expert. Need more of her type of conversations here and off of twitter 👌


https://image.nostr.build/ae4d44a4c8aeef8922535d30f0bd72f4a871be252ae0e8f444f9824580612089.jpg

#meme #memestr #nostrmemes #memes 821,847 🤙💜


BLOCKFI.
ROCKETSHIP.


TIME


DAMN


bit the bullet and paid the high fees.

it is empowering using this technology. EVERY. DAMN. TIME.


good morning the nostr 🙏🏻🤙


RoninDojo v2.1.2: Removed Bisq Support, Knots Peers Ban

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/ronindojo-v2-1-2/


this is the best primer I've read on Bitcoin.

https://pauljmiller.com/posts/why-bitcoin.html


I am HODLING

10yrs today https://image.nostr.build/6319b16fc04198d4dc418fa1eb3941ab0583d5a2c9dac9c25a4fb33bbc3c1051.jpg


Anyone on android updated nostr:npub1xnf02f60r9v0e5kty33a404dm79zr7z2eepyrk5gsq3m7pwvsz2sazlpr5 to new 0.8.0  and embedded node shows its channel to zeus is offline/inactive?
And ui flashes on channels page? 🤷♂

https://image.nostr.build/2b3ae29e6e954ee1ffbbc72beab951f3b0418354cc43512eee8c700cdbdb6609.gif
https://image.nostr.build/65f68ebead848217d0fa852364328c9864e8372768bf5f234853fcdc506bf623.gif


“The root problem with conventional currency is all the trust that’s required to make it work. The central bank must be trusted not to debase the currency, but the history of fiat currencies is full of breaches of that trust.”

— Satoshi Nakamoto https://image.nostr.build/8c73463ae9cdebc6b4a77dadc55ab702146a7eb40a33be26a12bd682407a4c77.jpg


bacon bacon bacon bacon bacon bacon bacon bacon bacon bacon bacon bacon

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