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 I get so excited about taking a video just for my wife to show Rad of the dumbest little things that I just know he is going to think is SO cool. 🤣 nostr:note1zrszxhyvzgfcwk7nfu9cnwtscuu0apv0avnsggh52lw4dw58frtqp3w0m2 
 Better yet, duress decoy. If you use this PIN shows alternative user profile.

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 Would love to have this for a secure mobile device 
 Oh shit I didn’t even realize this. 
 No words can capture the joy you feel when your newborn laughs for the first time. 
 1000% 
 Very true, however it will continue this way until we get complacent and expect it, then it will rip faces off, and crash viciously, and rip faces off again, and then obliterate leverage holders, and then oscillate confusingly, and then the market mood will begin shifting again. 😆

While we are in the slow and steady phase right now, the volatility is far from gone… for better or worse. 
 Once or twice at least 🤣 
 Do you know how printing money raises prices?

By wealthy bankers and corporations who get it for nothing buying up all of the critical resources and assets while they’re cheap.

It isn’t trickle down money, it’s trickle up ownership of everything.

#Bitcoin fixes this
#Fiat is slavery 
 No we aren’t. 
 My Start9 is down for some reason. Lightning wallet stopped working about 48 hours ago while traveling 
 lol, still just focused on getting Holesail integrated and how it will be used. The problem with if the power blinks or if it goes down though is I can’t log back in to get it back operational. Don’t have an easy solution for that yet. Just assumed it would stay working 🤦🏻‍♂️ 
 Just unlocked my albyhub back home and it started working again instantly. Good to know how well it responds. Sad that the power blinked out and I lost it for half my trip to Lugano 
 How is it that after all this time people still dont understand that owning #Bitcoin doesn’t mean control over the network?

It will take time to unlearn the fiat frame. Thinking that only *certain* people should own #Bitcoin or it’s in trouble is the opposite of why it exists. 
 yeah the problem is they aren’t using colored tags. They need to get some colored tags so it’s easy to tell everything apart. That would fix it. 😆 
 There is no reason worth spending even minutes of your energy trying to convince this moron. Bons is a true fucking idiot, let him lose all of his money, imo. 
 I won’t deny the potential entertainment value 😆 
 Scenario:
#Hacking #Bitcoin #Cypherpunks

Say you had 10 minutes (minus finding it and setting up) with someone’s MacBook, and you wanted to “infect” or pull as much information from it as possible without ANY logs showing that you’ve done anything to it, or plugged in any devices.

The MacBook is closed, asleep, and locked with the basic password.

What could you do, and could you ensure that there was no indication at all (no logs whatever) that suggested you had tampered with it?

If yes, what would you need to pull it off?

#asknostr 
 How could you prevent usb logging though? I plugged in nothing but a charge cable and immediately unplugged it and there were like 100+ IOPort logs and kernel logs. 
 In this case there are explicitly zero logs whatever for the time in which this would’ve occurred. 
 How would they get root access to delete the logs? They wouldn’t be able to without it right?

The real question is about whether someone got into the computer at all, or if it wasn’t even touched. Because during the time span the logging has no records.

So either it was a sophisticated actor with merging I’m not aware of, or they could get root access. But then the question is how they could get root access to delete logs, and then also are there separate logs for deleting things from the file system? 🤔 
 I have no idea. I’m trying to find out if someone got into my MacBook because someone broke into our room and rummaged through our shit 
 I’ll be doing an episode on it, but it was in the hotel. We have video of him entering and when he left 
 They actually didn’t leave much indication that they were there. No obvious suggestion that the laptop was even touched, BUT it happened at the bitcoin conference, was at the speaker’s hotel, and happened *during* the speaker’s dinner. It seems obvious that it was a targeted attack in at least some fashion. 
 I tested it for 10 minutes while asleep just in this train ride. Zero logs whatever. It appears to be shockingly asleep when it is in fact asleep.

When I plug **anything** into any port however, for even the slightest amount of time, there are hundreds of logs. 
 What would you have on the ISB, and how would you root it to get remote access later? 
 @Enki had a good point though that with remote login they could delete the logs as soon as I got it turned back on maybe? 🤔 
 Can you do that without interrupting the sleep though if the computer is already on and booted?

The computer was specifically asleep, then when checked there was literally no indication that I’ve found so far of tampering. When I opened it back up it appeared to be in the exact same state. You couldn’t boot into another OS without closing the other down right? 🤔 
 POW.space it’s not open yet but the place is awesome. Going to be a cool bitcoiner location in Lugano 
 Hmm I’ll look into it. 
 Gold will rise in price due to the printing of money, but its network will not have substantial growth fundamentally because it has severe physical limitations.

#Bitcoin will not only respond to global liquidity (stronger than any other asset actually), but it will also have significantly outsized growth because it is still nascent and the network itself (the number of people who use, invest, and trust it) is expanding rapidly and will continue to do so for a couple of decades at least. Then its technology and the protocol stacks on top of it are vastly expanding its capabilities and reach, and as a digital asset it has no limits. In the case of its continued survival it can and will be more widely adopted and capable than any other money in history. There are simply entire layers of the market that cannot be served by permissioned, fiat money. Bitcoin doesn’t have those arbitrary boundaries.

I say invest a little in gold if you want a hedge against #Bitcoin, but otherwise I’d put as much as I possibly can in BTC while the world still hasn’t figured out what it is. 
 “Privacy is treated like a luxury, but it’s a necessity.”

@ROCKSTAR https://v.nostr.build/Qxtwev7EhbTcWffF.mp4  
 #Bitcoin privacy with a hell of a panel… https://v.nostr.build/eCghasSGYrFDczDh.mp4  
 Stoked AF at the new shit being released at Plan B, pubkey is basically something I’ve been thinking about for months and that we’ve been trying to make work for PearDrive (though it’s not a main focus).

Pubkey could save us an enormous amount of work 😆

Also randomly threw @jimmysong into the picture, lol https://i.nostr.build/Z8ASapre33ki1PVu.jpg  
 Yeah it has been the whole time. It’s only the Keet app where their specific UI and how they put it together that isn’t fully open source yet. But all the pear stuff is completely open and has been the whole time 
 Does anyone have any ideas regarding whether #bitcoin will continue to produce 100-150% averaged ... 
 I try not to predict what the bitcoin price will do with any specificity aside from my conviction that it will always go up on long time frames priced in fiat. 
 I’ll simply say that a doubling every two years until about 2040 wouldn’t surprise me. I don’t think it will be stable like that though, with most of that growth on the front end. But that puts #Bitcoin at about $12million per coin in 2040 when the US debt will most likely be at $100-$150Trillion (barring any crazy monetary events before then, which is probable)

Before we get to that point though there’s no telling how the landscape changes and how we think about “the price” to begin with. 
 Ok I’m intrigued… what is pokey and why should I be excited?

(Using Damus on iOS for reference atm) 
 Can anyone recommend a tool to cross post nostr/twitter? 
 connect.nos.social 
 The secret to a good Ai scene like this is doing each element individually. Much better results, just lots of compositing. Then use a video-to-video to clean up any poor compositing or edging on the final version. 

This is pretty dope. I’m still so excited for what Ai is going to do for genuinely talented storytellers and people with a real vision. The potential for seeing it come to life has shifted dramatically. 
 Nice! I haven’t tried moshi yet 
 You stole the spirit of the post I was going to make when I did this for the first time in Lugano 😆

Been using Alby Go in the same way and it’s so fucking dope 
 Wait how did you connect Zeus though? Does it accept NWC now? 
 Yeah my LND connect has been giving me tons of trouble. Been super disappointed. @GrassFedBitcoin has said it works fantastic for him. I just get constant disconnects, and the past 3 weeks it’s almost nothing but random RPC errors for seemingly no reason. 
 I’ll investigate again when I get back, sessions was saying he was getting the same thing until Albyhub, but it’s connecting with the same tool. Seems like it’s likely something weird with whatever service that’s running it rather than LND connect specifically. 
 For just 3.1249999 BTC + transaction fees, we could use timelocks and double the block subsidy fo... 
 I’ve actually thought about this. It would be cool to write a script that adds a few thousand sats to every transaction with an anyone can spend + timelock so it can be grabbed by a miner in 20 years when the subsidy is tiny 😆 
 Ok. Noob question - is Guy Swann connected with Swan Financial Services?   I see the obvious spel... 
 It will never die 😂 
 They will call us criminals for using a money they cannot control. 
 They aren’t even quiet about it. They just write a fucking paper about how they can’t run permanent deficits if people can use #Bitcoin and that the solution is to tax it greater than the delta on currency devaluation and explicitly make it illegal… they are tyrants through to the core. 
 Getting on the plane for Lugano PlanB. Representing @Start9 @BitcoinAudible and @tunestr swag 😂 https://i.nostr.build/X46zHNhNGSFGQsYX.jpg  
 Finally got my Coinkite shirt 😆🫡 https://i.nostr.build/MNZQDMgNFrH5JxsV.jpg  
 I’m not one of those people that think voting is pointless.

I just think our 2 choices for Pre... 
 Doesn’t that kinda mean the same thing though? 😂 
 Mute list is growing, I ain't here to argue with the haters 

Good vibes and freedom tech only 🫡 
 100% 👏🏻
I mute very regularly up here. It’s nice to have better control over stopping things that infuriate me and not having Twitter doing its damndest to try to find freshly infuriating shit to shove back into my feed whenever I manage to get a few poisonous sources out of it. 
 When you jump in the doorway and bang your head, bleeding all over. 

How not to start your day 🤕 
 lol, I’ve been there 
 nostr:npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev how’d your custom pc turn... 
 A long series of failed hardware and completely nonsensical incompatibilities. 3 motherboards, 2 SATA expansion cards, and 8 sticks of “not gonna work RAM” later and she’s purring like a kitten… thankfully. 
 When Blackrock forks and dumps the real BTC that they confiscate for users who hold their shitty ETF that gets pointed at their own shitcoin… it will be the buying opportunity of a lifetime.

Will you be ready? nostr:note1x4mx3lkfwwyk5mqcfze2uzwjyh756prfgp6vct0fux659709yx9szx3vvt 
 I don’t advise it 🤣 
 Most likely, imo. There will be a battle for it either way. It may end up like segwit2x though. Dead before arrival.

I kinda hope for a fork, because I think the inevitable conclusion is the one that needs the least trust, and Blackrock will overextend the “authority” they think they have and it could be their downfall depending on when and how they go about it.

I would love to see the two systems go head to head like that. It wouldn’t be fun in the middle of it, but it would be wild AF and I still think all the long term outcome falls in our direction. Not a single foreign power will use or trust Blackrock Coin. The dissonance in the world political environment works heavily in favor of the real #Bitcoin 
 I heard this same thing during multiple of the last forks as well. There is no great cost to waiting around for confirmations. It’s not so simple, people will react and Blackrock doesn’t control mining. But main thought they controlled it too, didn’t turn out so well.

Nothing is as simple as it seems. The community, the market, mining, incentives, and the people involved are all very complex and have tons of different things in play. Because of that, the scheduling point is insanely powerful and won’t be easily overcome by a naive short term status of “there’s more mining power on ____.” IMO 
 Past trauma in tumultuous #Bitcoin times has given me a small, but notable masochist streak when it comes to a war for fork dominance 🤣 
 You misunderstand. You won’t need fiat, you’ll have Blackrock coin. The question is if Blackrock coin shoots up and real BTC crashes, will you have the balls to dump all of your Blackrock coin to scoop up 2x your BTC stack 
 We should stop saying "I asked AI to do this" - it implies AI has some kind of choice and autonom... 
 Yeah it super blows that they have a damn shitcoin network behind it. Ignorance is bliss 🤣