Man sometimes the worst thing about being right is it takes the NPC's years to figure it out and you rarely ever get acknowledgement for taking a rash of shit and standing your ground despite.

The last 4 years especially have felt like i am living in some awful simulation and its tiring to feel like you're constantly swimming upstream.

And it's not just bitcoin/financial related.  It's health, it's politics, it's parenting, etc.. I just find most people are so incredibly unrelatable and a lot of the old friends we have i can't say how i really feel about almost anything without upsetting peoples feelings.

Anyway, happy Friday. At least i have fuck you money.


Hi y'all !

Long time lurker, first time poster, I am very pleased to finally annonce Satonomics (https://satonomics.xyz) ! 🎉

Which I've been building full-time since November 2023 and started looong before

In short: FOSS Glassnode (https://glassnode.com)

In long:

Satonomics is an open-source suite of tools that computes, distributes, and displays on-chain data, making it freely available for anyone to use.

While mempool.space gives a very micro view of the network this tool is the exact opposite and very complimentary by giving you a more global/macro view of the flow and various dynamics of the network.

It doesn't matter who you are and what you want to do with the data, I strongly believe and it is very important that anyone should have a full and free access, be able to verify and visualize any kind of data from the network. And so you'll find many many charts (and soon dashboards), or routes through an API (if you prefer it raw) to do anything; from doing a health-check, gain insight into the current or past state of the network or even trading, I don't care, do what you want !

I realize it's not as exciting as ecash and nostr/bitcoin tools but it is something that needed to be done. We can't have fiat-minded 700$/m closed tools like Glassnode being the go to.

Warning: very early and very alpha, things might break and the data might be false (and I'm 100% positive that some datasets are)

Anyway, enjoy and let's keep building ! 🔨


Hey everyone,

Assange is finally free, what a great day !

On my end, I just launched the project on geyser: https://geyser.fund/project/satonomics/

If you can please send some sats, otherwise a repost would really be appreciated !


https://m.primal.net/IxrC.mov

In v0.1.1 a really nice new feature is having a free link to the dataset right in the legend next its name !


In tribute to the most humble of inspirations, nostr:npub1dergggklka99wwrs92yz8wdjs952h2ux2ha2ed598ngwu9w7a6fsh9xzpc, check out my latest Swan Original.

https://youtu.be/ntXUsMQqpf8?si=8Ih7uf_4rUFxjICt


Risk...🤣

Bitcoin is not risky. Putting your money in an asset that a government can cancel, lose, debased, or refuse to insure (even though insuring is also debasing) is the RISK.

If you are risk-adverse, place your value in a place where it won't simply disappear. The time chain is the only objective form of savings, exchange and unit of account EVER!


This was great! Thank you both. 🫡


Take a break. Come back stronger. 🫡


Band is performing and the singer sees a kid with a banner asking to play guitar with them.
 Singer says:
- Do you really know how to play guitar?
- Yeah!
- What's your favorite band?
- Guns N' Roses
Watch what happens next...

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


Can you survive on nostr?

After waking up in the nostr:npub1fpansrhscr23yxqlkvwx365gnfewgj7jljz45qh595p3rj6w7easarkl6t  crib I was greeted with nice French breakfast and now dropped off at the airport.

Surviving the first 24hours worked because of this AWESOME community who helped me with commuting, sleeping, p2p trades and sending me locations accepting #btc.

This community is truly amazing. I Love Nostriches 🧡🧡  shoutout to nostr:npub1psjwxg6j9re7u5mf6j52gm4f9u50r2pexm0xrtrtgqpagq6y6s3qhfa504

What do you think should we try to push this challenge as long as possible?

I’m about to board a plane to another continent and thinking about keeping the challenge up until I fail 👀

#reallifebitcoin
https://m.primal.net/IzjM.jpg


🚨 SCAM ALERT! 🚨

A fraudulent website is impersonating 'AmberApp' to steal private keys and sensitive info.

The fake site is: ❌https://theamberapp(dot)com❌

We will NEVER request your private keys or ask you to connect your wallet through any channel ✋

IMPORTANT: Only use our official site: http://amber.app ✅

If you notice any suspicious activity or question the authenticity of any communication claiming to be from AmberApp, contact us immediately at support@amber.app

Stay informed and protect yourself from scams. Read more here: 📖👉 https://help.amber.app/en/articles/8951738-commonly-encountered-types-of-scams

Snapshot of the fake website ⬇ https://image.nostr.build/2d8d2fba88d44e0d9f31d3dc83c3e97e317ee676f3b841e8c0cad4e8c3fe1b73.jpg


#Adobe just announced new terms that say they will do whatever they want with your content, so here are some alternatives to consider:

➡ 3DS Max

• Blender

➡ Acrobat

 • Evince (read)
 • Inkscape (edit multi page)
 • LibreOffice_Draw (create, edit, sign)
 • LibreOffice_Writer (create)
 • Nextcloud LibreSign (sign)
 • Okular (read, annotate, sign)
 • OnlyOffice (read, edit)
 • PDF-Shuffler (merge, arrange, delete)
 • XReader (read)

➡ AdobeXD

 • Akira
 • Figma
 • Lunacy
 • Pencil
 • Penpot

➡ After Effects

 • Astrofox (audio responsive animations)
 • BlackMagicDesign Fusion (proprietary)
 • HitFilm (proprietary)
 • Natron

➡ Animate

 • Blender (3D)
 • Friction
 • Glaxnimate (2D)
 • Synfig (2D)

 ➡ Audition

  • Tenacity
  • Audor
  • LMMS

➡Cinema 4D

 • Blender

➡ Fresco

 • Krita

➡ Illustrator

 • Inkscape
 • Krita
 • sK1

➡ InDesign

 • Lyx
 • Scribus

➡Lightroom

 • Darktable
 • Raw Therapee

➡Paint

 • Krita
 •MyPaint

➡Photoshop

 • GIMP
 • Krita

➡PremierePro

 • DavinciResolve (proprietary)
 • Kdenlive
 • Olive Video
 • OpenShot
 • Pitivi
 • Shotcut


Good morning!


Julian Assange emerges from the court after a hearing to appeal his extradition to Sweden in 2011

Scene taken from the documentary Risk (2016) by Laura Poitras
https://m.primal.net/Ixvl.mp4


Made a bet today with a skeptic that Nostr will have more than 1M weekly active users by Jan 31, 2026

We are at ~35k today

That’s about 18 months from now

LFG 🚀


Seems to be a bunch of large fiat interests selling their bitcoin recently. Bullish.


#HOWDONOSTR - How do I use Nostr?

Nostr is much, much more than a Twitter alternative. Nostr allows us to have portal digital social identities that we can use in various applications and capacities. For this next iteration of #HOWDONOSTR I'll focus on a few of the applications that I use and the various ways that I use Nostr.

Since we know that Nostr uses a public and private key pair and keeping our private key safe is of utmost importance, we'll start this off with the basics and then move on to relays, before discussing applications.

* On my desktop, to login to and utilize the various applications, I'll use the Alby web browser extension to manage my private key. This works with Chrome, Brave, Firefox, etc. You can install it here: https://getalby.com
* On my Android phone, I'll use the Amber application to keep my private key safe when using native applications that support it. You can download Amber here: https://github.com/greenart7c3/Amber
*  I'll also use the Kiwi web browser for accessing many web applications. With the Kiwi browser, I'll use the Nostr Connect extension because it's more lightweight than Alby. You can download Kiwi Browser for Android here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kiwibrowser.browser
You can install the extension here: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/nostr-connect/ampjiinddmggbhpebhaegmjkbbeofoaj

Nostr allows us to be in-charge of our digital social identity and allows us to be in-charge of our entire social graph. We can accomplish this by running our own relay. I do this in two parts.

* I run a private local relay on my Android phone. This allows me to easily write offline notes and save all of my drafts to my phone where they are not accessible by anyone but myself. I do this with the Citrine application. You can download it here: https://github.com/greenart7c3/Citrine
* I also run a publicly accessible relay that only my wife and myself and have write access. That means that no one else can save their social information to my relay, but everyone in the world can access my relay to read our notes and events. I use the Nostream relay for this. You can get started with Nostream here: https://github.com/cameri/nostream

Do I need to run two relays? Maybe not, but I do, because I can. Nostr allows me to easily do these more technical things if I want to do them, allowing me to be fully in control of my entire social graph and social identity.

Now that I have my private key being secured and managed and my notes and events are stored on my personal relays, I'm ready to start using various Nostr applications!

My number one daily driver is Amethyst for Android. It allows me to login via Amber to keep my private key safe. It allows me to easily use my private relay that runs on my smartphone. I use Amethyst because of the number of features that it supports, integrating with many other Nostr clients and various aspects of the protocol. From AI generated feeds of notes, to a bitcoin powered marketplace, to live streams and more. However, Amethyst does suffer from some stability issues and causes me headaches from time to time. Because of this, I also use Primal. Primal is smooth and stable. It lacks some of the extras that Amethyst has, but if I want an experience that just works, I choose Primal.

Nostr really shines on the web. Most of Nostr's Other Stuff clients are not native applications for Android and iOS, they're web applications - regular websites powered by Nostr. Remember, to securely use these applications, you'll need one of the web browsers and extensions that I mentioned above. Alternatively, you can also use many of these with nsec.app. This website runs a Nostr nsecBunker in your web browser, allowing this application to function as a secure key management application.

* Snort.social or Iris.to are popular clients, but not performing for me as well as they used to, so now I'm using Primal.net and Coracle.social more and more. Primal is very stable and simple, but Coracle is loaded with features that keep bringing me back. Coracle's new custom feeds feature is a game changer, however the UI is a bit much and may seem overly complicated.
* For audio chats, I listen to NostrNests.com where people chat with friends and Plebchain Radio hosts their weekly podcast. I used to do weekly shows here every Monday, but it's been a while for me.
* Zap.stream is a Twitch or YouTube alternative for video consumption. Here, I watch friends and streamers here, interacting with them live, chatting, zapping, and consuming all that they have to offer. Sometimes it's weekly podcast shows, sometimes it's gamers playing video games, or sometimes it's just developers hacking away at code during a live coding session.
* I use Highlighter.com for reading long form notes or blog posts, but I also use Highlighter for sometimes writing my own. Content creators can also use Highlighter to create subscription tiers, similar to Patreon. I don't use that feature, but it's nice to have for those looking to fund their content in other ways similar to what exists elsewhere on the web.
* I use listr.lol to manage my Nostr lists, to help me organize npubs that I follow.
* I use metadata.nostr.com to restore my Nostr profile, including my contact list, if a rogue client accidentally deletes or alters my contact list in a way that I didn't intend. This does happen from time to time. We're early.
* I use w3.do to create Nostr powered shortlinks for sharing with others.
* I use Wavlake to listen to music, supporting artists in a value for value manner. I use this application on the web and I use this application on my Android phone too.
* I use Shopstr.store to sell items, such as old Android phones. I've sold 3 via this Nostr powered marketplace.
* Tunestr.io is a website similar to Zap.stream, but it's specifically for live musical performances.
* I use Zap.store to manage applications on my Android phone as an alternative to Google Play or Obtainium.

I use these applications the most, but many more applications exist across the Nostr ecosystem. I encourage you to check out https://www.nostrapps.com from time to time and see what's available.


Guide to using AI without broadcasting your deepest thoughts to attackers.

1. Self host your AI models. Don't use hosted services.

2. Follow the theinference code or at least make sure that someone else can follow it (opensource).

3. Turn off logging (is a feature in most open source UI).

4. Don't fine tune with personal data or else be very careful with the security of the new weights.

 anything else is just broadcasting your conversations with AI to at best ad companies and at worst the exact person or institutions you don't want.

Everything is conveniently indexed for your attackers if you mess up.

Being focussed on privacy doesn't mean you don't use new tech, it only means you do it responsibly.


Welcome!


Review of The Genesis Book, by Aaron van Wirdum (@AaronvanW)

I bought a signed copy of van Wirdum's first print of The Genesis Book at BTC Prague.

Let me just say from the outset, that it's my opinion, that this book, which gives you a deep insight into the history of the making of Bitcoin, will without doubt go down as one of the classics.

The title of the book is a clever word play, as the first block that Satoshi Nakamoto mined in January 2009 often is referred to as The Genesis Block.

Van Wirdum studied journalism as well as politics and science at the University of Utrecht.

He discovered Bitcoin in 2013 and has worked for many years in Bitcoin Magazine, including as editor-in-chief for the print edition.

The book covers a description of the ideas and actual problems related to

- the problem that Bitcoin aims at solving, which is the political control and abuse of the monetary system

- a global pool of multidisciplinary geniouses' attempts at creating a form of digital money based on chryptography that could break the rulers' monopolies, most notably people in the Cypherpunk movement

- Satoshi Nakamoto's solution to the problem, and how it for the most part represents a clever pick-and-choose of the best technical features and ideas in various failed projects of the past

The content is based on scholarly research, including in-depth studies of economics, politics and computer science, as well as on interviews with some important people in this history, including Adam Back and David Chaum.

The language is clear and easy to read.

The book's content is structured logically, with (1) chronology + (2) early giving the reader a good basic understanding of the relevant ideas related to technology, economics and politics, as two overarching principles.

It includes chapters that presents in-depth presentations of many of the various attempts at creating a revolutionary monetary system.

Van Wirdums gives us insights into some of the innovators' background and personalities.

Reading about how they interacted with others within and outside the community, makes the book an engaging read.

The bibliography and endnotes are extensive and the total volume of the book comes in at 346 pages.

For a book that covers so much ground in terms of history, sociology, culture, politics, economics, technology, game theory and chryptography, it's impressively easy to read.

I'm not well versed in the technical domain, and therefore I had to slow down my reading in some parts of the book - to try to get the essence of for instance how different forms of chryptography works.

However, I consider that to be a pleasant part of the reading experience as well, because it gives me a psychological reward when I feel that the book helps me develop my interdisciplanary skills.

Lastly, I believe The Genesis Book gives us a glimpse of the author's own personality:

He treats people with respect and sobriety,  presents the history with good structure, a clear and uncomplicated language, gives ample room for engaging storytelling, as he sneaks knowledge and understanding into the readers' minds without giving us the feeling that we are studying - instead just reading for the pleasure of it.

It takes significant curiosity, talent in pedagogics, long experience with writing and a high level of intelligence to produce something like this.

Thank you, Aaron van Wirdum, for  this massive feat of yours.

I'll store the book safely, and won't lend it to anyone except my nearest family.

And who knows - my copy of The Genesis Book might gain significant economic value in the future, just like Bitcoin did. https://image.nostr.build/3f82bcdcbeb1b588e681f6b8d5d399558c61968707e87fdfcf6a5ec34f4b1276.jpg


Piece of history: Julian Assange's 2010 Oslo Freedom Forum talk, delivered the last time he was a free man

It's a remarkable talk, I suggest watching it

He gave it right after releasing Collateral Murder, before his ability to travel was frozen

Six months before the banking blockade, one year before the Bitcoin fundraiser began

But most of the points remain fundamental

"The greater the power, the more need there is for transparency"

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


Keep in mind that there are a lot of scammers on Nostr, just like any social media.

All of the Lyn Alden impersonators with links to “trading signals” and stuff are scams.


I used to watch/listen to books and podcasts at 1.5-2x speed in order to save time and be more efficient. I took pride in thinking I was "smarter" than the typical consumer because I was blowing through tons of content.

However, I started to realize that I was not ingesting what I was listening to, particularly when I was multi-tasking. Ask yourself, if you attended a university lecture on mathematics and macroeconomics, how much would you learn if you were doing pushups and box jumps at the same time?

The podcasts and books that are online today are incredibly valuable and I took this for granted. My goal now is to sit down and listen/take notes on one podcast episode per week, digest the information, and be able to summarize the content to a friend, in a few key talking points. Learning isn't about chasing degrees and certificates... We need to normalize giving ourselves TIME to think deeply about what we've learnt but also the SPACE to determine what it actually means.


Reflecting about intentions today. Here’s what strikes me

99.9% of intentions (to have a certain job, to go on this holiday, to have this relationship, to improve our body in some way, to create this project that positively impacts the lives of others) are formed from our experiences.

But our experiences are limited.
Therefore 99.9% of intentions are limited too.
This is why, even if they manifest, we do not feel free.

Faith is where our intentions are not conceived from our experiences.

The known is a shadow which shrouds the unknown from becoming seen.

Faith is love of the unknown.

The prayer of the faithful is “may my path be illuminated with the light of the unknown”


I have a hypothesis that one of the biggest commonalities among current Nostr users is the ability to find signal and find others who are also good at finding signal.

It may be the most powerful skill because nobody, not you or me, can know about or be right about everything. Some of my favorite people have glaring holes in the models, especially if it’s in an area that’s outside of their wheelhouses. But I noticed that each of them is good at identifying people who also find signal and then continue to learn from them.

You probably weren’t browsing developer sites and stumbled upon the Nostr code, kudos if you did. No, you heard a podcast or heard from someone on Twitter or IRL about Nostr and decided that it seemed like signal. Now here you are, with other people who did the same thing, all compounding.

For that reason, I’m convinced that Nostr is currently the highest signal, fieriest crucible for ideas anywhere, either on the internet or in meatspace.


That resonates with me. Thank you!


Damn auto correct.


Yes. Good. I switched to Qobuz because of Tidals MQA-shitcoinery… Time to comeback back? 🤔


Good morning! Thank you. Good to know.


This is huge 🔥🔥🔥

Deichman is Norway's largest and oldest public library, and now they have published a review of our book UNBAR, where they say:

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We recommend UNBAR

This book is a nightmare for those who print your money.

Authentic, engaging and unique book about monetary policy, the threats of globalization and the problems with monetary monopoly.

The idealism is not only refreshing, but also necessary: because you've probably never seen someone expose one of our most basic systems so naked.

The synthesis is so fundamental that you are left gaping on behalf of your own civilization. https://image.nostr.build/0cb940e8f52991ad8bc336015a2068286fb96a7fbb9c1c02e77e376440ec79a4.jpg


Very insightful article on the state and pace of AI development by Leopold Aschenbrenner, who recently left Open AI.
Long read but well worth it.

https://situational-awareness.ai/


#Nostr could learn a thing or two from #StackerNews.

Over there, everything comes with a price tag in sats, every post or comment requires you to pay some sats. This helps prevent spam, bots and low-quality content.

There are no meaningless Likes/Upvotes there aswell, only Zaps, so users zap each other all the time and sats are flying left and right. The platform takes a small fee and then rewards the best content, creating an environment where V4V is highly encouraged. It truly feels like a circular economy.

On the other hand, Nostr feels like it's still stuck in the fiat Twitter mindset, where meaningless Likes are still thing and barely anyone zaps.

Nostr should consider completely removing likes/reactions from clients and replacing them with zaps. There's no excuse for anyone not being able to pay 1 sat instead of a Like. Posts and comments should also cost a small fee that goes to relays. Additionally, implementing a paywall for DMs, so users who i not Follow have to pay a set a mount of sats would help against spam.

#bitcoin #lightning #asknostr


The best way to stay anonymous online is to not get attached to one pseudonym and start over regularly regardless of how popular you get.

#privacy #cybersecurity #opsec


Microsoft Copilot+, Recall, and every other dogshit AI feature that Microsoft is shoving down Windows user's throats are all dead on arrival. Nobody asked for it, nobody wants it, and nobody will benefit from it. It's a gimmicky and a #privacy nightmare that will only drive more people away from Windows and straight into the arms of #linux.


"Mises made a distinction between credit that is backed by savings, and credit that does not have any backing. The first type of credit he labeled commodity credit. The second he labeled circulation credit. It is circulation credit that plays the key role in setting the boom-bust cycle process.

When credit is fully backed by savings — that is, it’s commodity credit — it permits the expansion of tools and machinery. With better infrastructure, it is now possible to produce not only more goods but goods of a better quality. The expansion of real wealth is now possible.

In an unhampered market economy, borrowers are users of savings who make sure that savings are employed in the most efficient way — generating profits. This means that real savings are employed in accordance with consumers’ most important priorities. We can thus see here that as long as banks facilitate commodity credit, they should be regarded as the agents of wealth generation.

In contrast, whenever banks embark on the lending of circulation credit, they in fact become the agents of real wealth destruction.

As opposed to commodity credit, circulation credit is not supported by any real saving. This type of credit is just an empty claim created by banks. In the case of commodity credit, the borrower secures goods that were produced and saved for him."

https://mises.org/mises-wire/mises-explains-difference-between-circulation-credit-and-commodity-credit


JUST IN: Elon’s chatbot advises Elon:

“It seems that the time has come for Elon Musk to fulfil his promise and allow árelas to accept Bitcoin payments once more.” https://image.nostr.build/739c686e6c479d225c4031cfa3fc391c7fe9518b6c9d460c50c854c04767a6bd.png


Sats aren't your most valuable asset—time is. You can always earn more sats, but you can't get more time.

If you can save people time without losing value, you'll have something everyone wants.

Make content that gets to the point.
Build apps that cut through the noise.
Create products that simplify things.


A lot of people seem to see voting for trump as „the lesser of two evils“,  wondering what else they can do to protect their bitcoin from regulatory overreach.

But the US isnt „the greatest country in the world“ because of its presidents - if anything, it is *in spite* of them.

The US government consists of more than the presidency. It has a fairly well working judiciary in place, which exists to help the people hold the government accountable and ensure that no laws will be passed infringing on your rights (doesnt always work but often does).

From a legal perspective, the US is a great place for bitcoin due to its laws around free speech and enterprise, which enshrines the use and ownership of bitcoin not just as property, but as a tool for communication.

The problem ergo isnt the politicians. The problem is your own complete political apathy when it comes to anything other than elections.

If you want to protect your bitcoin, stop spending millions of dollars and thousands of hours supporting political candidates who will say anything to get your votes only to drop you like a hot potato once elected. Instead, use that time and money to boycott and organize - its what the system was designed for.

There are enough grounds to sue the US government, private citizens, companies and institutions if the right to own, use or interact with bitcoin was to be infringed, and its how the majority of civil liberties were established.

Ending racial segregation in schools didnt happen by presidential decree - it happend through Brown vs. Board of Education. The right to an attorney: Gideon v Wrainwright. Interracial marriage: Loving v Virginia. Burning of the US flag as speech: Texas v Johnson. Right to abortion (though now overturned): Roe v Wade. Same sex marriage: Obergefell v Hodges. Porn on the internet: ACLU v Reno.

You have rights, and you need to stop thinking that you are powerless without some babbling politician to enforce them. Spend the time and money on grassroots organizing, which is much more in the spirit of bitcoin anway. Politicians hate this trick.


Bitcoin is the people’s money. The network and its future belong to all of us. It’s not any better or worse than we humans.

Bitcoin’s flows of value? Millions of decisions. Gifts and exchanges. Someone is parting with one thing for something else, more valuable to them. Someone on the other side of that exchange is doing the same and both consider themselves better off in the aftermath… otherwise it wouldn’t have happened.

Bitcoin is just that, but scaled up to the globe.

And Bitcoin’s market cap reflects another human choice: to hold a non-debaseable currency over a debaseable one.

This thing is just preferences being manifested. The tech simply gave people another choice and another, more efficient and far-reaching way to do that.


Damus not being able to remember where I was on my timeline of notes when I return to home screen after whatever action I take is one hell of an annoyance nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s

Primal is so much better at this but buggy on iPhone when writing notes and trying to fix writing errors nostr:npub16c0nh3dnadzqpm76uctf5hqhe2lny344zsmpm6feee9p5rdxaa9q586nvr


Mathusianism and the equating of energy usage with a lack of concern for the environment have been engrained in education. The world doesn’t have an overpopulation problem or an energy usage problem. It has a greed problem.


There’s this guy I had seen around town over the years but never spoke. He knew I was into Bitcoin and I knew he was into environmental activism.

We happened to run into each other and got to chatting. He seemed like a honest thinker and good conversationalist. He’s a biologist and I’m an engineer. We’re both thinking about systems, albeit from opposite ends.

Eventually we got into the Bitcoin topic. Specifically, its energy use. I mentioned how some companies are using the economics of mining to bring electricity to villages in Africa where it was not economically feasible before. I also mentioned that our civilization requires abundant energy for it to continue advancing technologically & socially.

He said he believed there were too many people on the planet and energy abundance would exacerbate this problem. I retorted with my firm belief that every person on Earth deserves access to energy. Anything less is a “fuck you, I got mines” attitude.

I don’t think anyone had said that to him before. He seemed shocked. And it seemed like he knew the argument was valid.

I hope he will rethink some of this before we run into each other again. Looking forward to another conversation with him.

Remember everyone, the best way to refine our position and beliefs is to have honest and open conversations with people we disagree with. No need to get angry, use it as an opportunity.

We ended our conversation with a smile and a handshake.


₿looming out of the cave https://image.nostr.build/4b651a85d5190bd6b13544e292a0e0e9f51c5f12f676597d63a908950c7809ba.jpg  nostr:note188e5467slwrqg5e0zdzdxsn5drsud2rv9c7e5gpjsejs40hg6fqq5p4xw5


GM! 🫡


to my friends across the pond, check this out. literally fighting for #btc !!!
can you say that? I know I can't.
#smij approved
smij #zapd

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I built https://stratum.work to get this block template stuff in front of more eyes. It shows real time template data sent to miners to work on and you can watch for similarities between pools yourself.

This thread does a great job explaining the data:

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Good morning!


The self righteous and fantastically rich people in the west who have the power to solve these problems many times over are not at all concerned with the plight of other people, and are satisfied with pontificating and endlessly describing the same problem over and over. PATHETIC

Thankfully because Bitcoin is software and software can’t care about who writes it, the problems of fiat will be solved by people who can describe a problem, think, and who aren’t Virtue Signalling, playacting cowards. This work is happening without their permission or knowledge.

Buying Bitcoin to make payments is going to be the number one use case on Earth. It’s going to be done with Pine wallet, Blue Wallet and Azteco as the means of getting Bitcoin. I’m not speculating by the way. Mr. Jabesi is 100% correct. He can see this thanks to his perspective.

Without exposure to different perspectives and the ability to empathise, it is not possible to understand why Bitcoin was written. If you think Bitcoin’s use case is solely a “store of value”, you are parochial, ignorant, mind blind and closed off from reality. You don’t matter.

Bitcoin Matters. Bitcoin Exists. Bitcoin doesn’t follow your instructions or fit into your thinking; it is a tool that obeys the person who writes on it. If you understand what it is, you can use it to solve problems. That’s all there is to it. What you believe doesn’t matter.

Your limited imagination isn’t the standard that Bitcoin or developers must adhere to. Your lack of imagination, exposure, experience and guts is entirely your problem. It is not the reality. Other people who are not like you and who live in reality are not constrained by you.

If you’ve constructed the correct model, written the software to give your ideas the power to act, and have market access, the world can change because you’re not a coward and understand risk, problem solving and entrepreneurialism. The weak and frightened can’t do this.

WhatsApp, Airbnb, Uber, Apple, Whisper Systems and others all exhibit the correct way of thinking. If you can’t muster the thinking for yourself, you can try to emulate…but nothing can cure your cowardice. You’ll never build something like Uber, invest in it or be associated.

Cowards just don’t have what it takes to change the world. A coward could never build Uber, and similarly the global Bitcoin Unicorn will not be built by or associated with cowards. These are matters of fact, not opinion. Facts don’t care about your feelings.

Nothing in the last 1000 years would have been built if men and women spent time describing problems as an end in itself. Definition is the first step only; it isn’t the goal. Solving problems and helping people is the goal. Bitcoin exists to solve a problem. Cowards ignore this.

Bitcoin was designed to replace fiat. It wasn’t designed to co exist with it. Many people simply can’t imagine that that goal can be achieved. That’s their problem; the problem of a lack of imagination. Bear in mind, none of these people thought fiat was a problem at all.

Do you really think that these imaginationless “recent converts” who want to constrain and pigeonhole Bitcoin can imagine the future? If you do, you’re a fool; these people can’t imagine anything, let alone what the near future will be like. On the other hand developers can.

Because entrepreneurs are aiming at a point in the future, they can see a future with their tool in it. The imaginationless can’t, because they don’t even know the tools are in development. Steve jobs knew that no phone in the future would have a keyboard. Normal people scoffed.

And YOU are not that stupid because you understand what Bitcoin is, are not a Virtue Signalling coward, and understand that the tools and services of “The Transformation” are being built right now. You don’t just talk about solving problems, you’re solving them by acting.

And let me be perfectly clear, and I’ve said this before. People whose role it is to act as educators are essential parts of the Transformation equation. In order for anything to happen people need to be persuaded that Bitcoin is a boon, and not a threat. medium.com/hackernoon/bit…

The Transformation needs gifted writers, thinkers and educators like @saifedean who is a perfect example of entrepreneurial spirit, and risk taking with his new education platform set to disrupt the global University system. Universities won’t like it like Banks hate Bitcoin.

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Something still feels a little cringey about reposting your own notes and other stuff. 😅

I get that sometimes it’s necessary if you’re trying to get an idea out to a broader audience of differing time zones, but sometimes it’s downright cringey.

It is just me? #asknostr #asknorstr


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Meatspace:
- People get together with a small number of others they want to follow up on and build long term relationships with (family, friends, ...)
- People gather around common interests and values (concerts, conferences, sports, games...)
- People organize around common goals (building businesses, ...)

Big Tech Social media:
- People blast out messages to the universe and hope an algo, that lives on bribes, will be friendly enough to get it to the "RiGhT" people
- People consume feeds of messages curated by another algo. Since the sender didn't do the work of listing (and reaching!) the proper recipients, algos fill the void.

👉 Let people selectively reveal themselves:
1 person < private group chat < list of selected profiles < public community < multiple communities < universe


I’m new in this platform, Jack, Gigi and Matt are convinced that in less than five years it will only be Nostr.


After spending 7 years as a political prisoner, I understood what freedom really is when I was under solitary confinement.  Freedom is not one thing, freedom is the sum of being able to do many things, that’s why I believe that financial freedom is one of the many dimensions of freedom at large.


There are 9 board members and community committee members. No single board member can really accomplish bias funding. The math doesn't work.

And if still don't like it, GFY 😘

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Dan Aykroyd on SNL in 1978, describing the “Inflation Maintenance Program” which is quite literally Joe Biden’s “Inflation Reduction Act.”

But to be fair to Joe, every single U.S. President since 1913 has printed money out of thin air thanks to the Federal Reserve.

And just to be clear, printing money is *literally* inflation. https://v.nostr.build/5GXrK.mp4


It is not possible to share this image too widely. Please help me spread it far and wide.

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True wealth is well beyond money and bitcoin.

Sometimes it’s worth to spend sats for unforgettable memories or helping out a friend. Money is only a means to an end.

Even as bitcoiners we shouldn’t forget that.

Stack hard but don’t forget to experience life 🤝


Welcome back! 🫡


Inspired to move my thinking over to this platform. Will then take the edge off for the Twitter audience.


I recently had a big shift in my life that has me feel like I am back from the dead. A second chance as what I had been building for a decade, and then proceeded to fuck-up because I was too stupid to see and value what I had been working on. I was sloppy and thoughtless about much of my approach to life and let that suck me into my own self-aggrandizing bullshit. In short, I was pretty childish about what I was doing as I thought I had made it.

A year and a half later, someway somehow, I got the smallest of shots to fix it. It was a massive risk that I had to stake really everything I had built on. But in that moment when I had to make a move, to do or die; I took a deep breath and took everything in that moment. I knew what it was, what risk I needed to take, and what the cost would be if I had miscalculated. But I knew, as knew more than anything in my soul that I would make it—but only with that risk being taken. It honestly felt like one of the most badass moment of my life because I really showed up for myself with no doubts, lack, or hesitation.

I crave moments like that in my life. They define the peaks and troughs of life, and are the most intense character building moments of my life. It is to choose to be the man in the arena, marred with the blood, sweat, and tear that only those who step into the arena will ever know. It is vastly more rewarding and fulfilling than any life with the cold and timid soul who choose a safe life where nothing is ever at risk.


The Web is taken.

They control your data: Servers can change anything you send at any time: E-mails, medical records, private family pictures, social media posts, orders etc. You won't even notice it. Not only they can change, but you can also create new content as if they were made by you. Your history is written by them.

Servers do too much: They convinced us we don't have enough processing power and moved all the logic from our applications into servers. Even though a phone has an equivalent processing power than a single server today, we believe we must use complicated server architectures to achieve anything in the web. Phones are the cloud.

Everything is a rental: You don't own your domain name. It's a rental. Your server is a rental. Your digital certificate is a rental. You don't own anything. Your digital identity is a rental.

Data Silos force you to stay: Moving is too hard. They profit on making things just difficult enough to keep your around. After all, it's just 9.99 a month.

Enter the Verifiable Web

Own your keys, own your content. No one can write for you. No one can change what you write.

Sign everything you send. Every little like, every little key press. If it wasn't signed, it didn't happen.

Verify everything you receive. Trust the signer, not the servers in between.

You decide how data gets to you and where it stays. Your digital history is assembled by you.

Welcome to Nostr


We've arguably never had a chart that tells such an important story about Bitcoin mining and emissions.

This new chart, the result of 12 months research from the Digital Assets Research Institute (DARI) says: “Over 4 years, Bitcoin price and hashrate quadrupled, but emissions didn't grow", effectively ending the speculation that Bitcoin emissions will rise unsustainably in the future as the network expands.

www.batcoinz.com/p/issue-013-5-pretty-pictures-that https://image.nostr.build/2126cdc69b404f8b98a4091dd820d182cc1564e7bd3af8bcbda7f10a54fb8400.png


I listened to the What Bitcoin Did Saylor podcast, and I really want to respond, though that may be unwise. But I want thoughtful, fearless content in my feed, so I should start making some, right?

Firstly, while analogies can provide useful guide rails for understanding, listening to people *arguing* using analogies makes you stupider. Debate the thing itself, not the words about the thing: it hurts my head to even think about doing this, so I won't.

Let's set my priors first: I assume we're talking about technically solid, well-vetted, backward compatible protocol changes: this is the minimum bar.

I don't wholesale agree with Saylor's "don't threaten anyone's investment" hard limit. This has happened multiple times in the past, from the dust limit breaking SatoshiDice, enabling Lightning threatening miner fees (real or not), and segwit breaking stealth ASICBoost. These interests can, and will, stand up for themselves and will compete against other benefits of changes.

To be explicit: I consider any protocol change which makes block space usage more efficient to be a win!

Obviously Saylor is invested in Bitcoin the asset, and can afford to do all his business onchain in any conceivable scenario. His projection of a Bitcoin world in which there are 100,000 companies and governments who use Bitcoin as the base layer is interesting:
1. This does not need "smart contracts", just signatures. By this model, Bitcoin Script was a mistake.
2. It can work if Bitcoin does not scale and is incredibly expensive to spend and hold. By this model, the consumer hardware wallet industry is a dead-end and needs to pivot to something else (nostr keys, ecash?)
3. You could do this with gold, today? Bitcoin here is simply an incremental, not fundamental, improvement. I think this is suggestive, though: that such a network would not be long-term stable, and very much subject to capture.
4. In this view, Saylor is simply a gold bug with first mover advantage, shilling his bags. That's fine, but it's important to understand people's motivations.
5. This vision does not excite me. I wouldn't have left Linux development to work on making B2B commerce more efficient. I wouldn't get up at 5:30am for spec calls, and I sure as hell wouldn't be working this cheap.

I believe we can make people's UTXOs more powerful, and thus feel a moral responsibility to do so. This gives them more control over their own money, and allows more people to share that control. I assume that more people will do good things than stupid things, because assuming the other way implies that someone should be able to stop them, and that's usually worse.

I believe the result will be a more stable, thus useful, Bitcoin network. I am aware that this will certainly benefit people with very different motivations than me (Saylor).

Thanks for reading, and sorry for the length!


People don’t see what we’re dealing with behind the scenes.
As a chairman of the United Bitcoin companies the Netherlands (VBNL) a lot is happening. In the last few months we had serious issues with the bank that facilitates most on/off ramping for exchanges in the Netherlands.
In January a large part of the bitcoin exchanges received a cost increase from €499,- to €4999,- per month for their bank account. In April they received a letter that the companies had until 10th of June to move their funds and operation to another bank. The bank accounts were going to be closed down.
The issue is that many exchanges have built extensive API’s for smooth on/off ramping with this bank. So this was a move that caused a lot of stress for many people. Communication with the bank was impossible. So every individual company took them to court. Only one case was actually brought into the court room and the company won. The other companies received a message they could hold their bank account.
The insane cost increase is still there and creeping further through the list of bitcoin companies.
We’re now looking at a way to reduce the cost, because for small companies it means bankruptcy.
This we do as companies together. And VBNL has been doing this for over a decade now.
For now it’s a bank, and on 10th of September we’re facing an even larger cost issue. The Dutch central bank. We won the court case with 11 exchanges but off course they appealed and now we’ll be standing at the Supreme Court. The central bank has burdened the exchanges with millions of regulatory oversight cost that were not lawful. A win during this court case would not only drop the cost for the exchanges between 2020-2024 but most likely also impact future cost under MICAR and the Authority of financial Markets. We’re currently looking at a €5.6 million cost from just AFM for the ongoing regulatory oversight for MICAR in 2025. Wish us luck.

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It's been a long time since i used nostr:nprofile1qqsgajr2e8ssj7vesefqdrhxkqpz8w8ryed2hvl79rakkwmw999de9shuz8h5 , but I'm trying it out  again and I really like it. Great job getting it this far.


Done! No sats required. 🫡


GM ☀ PV 🤙

The co-founder of Business Insider, Henry Blodget, was charged with securities fraud in 2003 for distributing false reports about tech companies, fined $4 million by the SEC, and banned for life from trading on the stock market.

They’re not sending their best.


Some hodlers aren’t hodlers..


So U.S. based ETFs amassed more than 1 million #Bitcoin  (>5% of supply) in a couple of months and price just doubled. Where the f* is all this #Bitcoin  coming from?


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“The Day The Dollar Die” - Peter Tosh
https://m.primal.net/IZqO.mov


Yes, who’s selling?


Genuine question then — who is selling to the ETFs at this scale. I’m one of the bitcoiners you describe with BTC I’ll never sell…but supply is satisfying enormous demand without price skyrocketing


I’m hiring.
Hello everyone, I have a simple idea for a Free Assange campaign and need someone who is familiar with apps or can develop one. As I said, it's very simple (so is the budget - EUR 5.000) and I have a graphic designer. Who feels up to the task can DM me.

#FreeAssangeNOW


2008 - Volvo V70


Exclusive on Nostr (for a while, at least)!

Leave a comment, like, subscribe, and brush your damn teeth!

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Today, I was published in a Norwegian news outlet discussing the Norwegian parliament's initiative to ban Bitcoin mining in Norway. The hypocrisy is unreal, considering that Equinor, a Norwegian oil and gas giant with the state as the majority shareholder, is mining Bitcoin on an oil field in Argentina.

#notinmybackyard

Thanks to the team at Subjekt it got published just in time for the Oslo Freedom Forum. I hope our politicians join the Financial Freedom Track next week, I sure will.

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https://subjekt.no/2024/05/30/bitcoin-mining-kan-vaere-bra-for-klimaet/

Unfortunately in Norwegian, but you can use your preferred AI to translate it.


Great episode!


The actual economic effects of minimum wage policy are horrendously misunderstood by the vast majority of the population https://nostpic.com/media/0018b7ee33fb253843639c62e292fec700a69a93b08ee374c5bda971c9b39564/6122cc682f67de2797acdc6362e4d64a81258867b452f03881f0f377dc2364e2.webp

I dove into that, plus many other common "free stuff" misconceptions in my podcast with nostr:npub1jt97tpsul3fp8hvf7zn0vzzysmu9umcrel4hpgflg4vnsytyxwuqt8la9y HERE 👇

https://youtu.be/g6x8pTtWGGg?si=PNAdY-_byvuG_5dB


whether you believe the “spook” memes or not, Saylor is so clearly using his influence to pull up the ladder behind him it baffles me he still has any simps left.

and fml it’s clear he doesn’t even understand wtf what he’s talking about whenever he tries to put forward the most palatable version of this take he can come up with.

stripped of “spacetime laser energy” trimmings, his actual take is: “ossify now, scale with custodians, number go up if you’re already in.”

that’s not an entirely unreasonable position, but it needs to be identified more clearly, weighed up mindfully of his technical illiteracy around consensus and forks, and argued against more forcefully in light of these realisations.


#meme #nostrmeme

Fact
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PSA on one of my favorite bitcoin companies (until today unfortunately).

Bitrefill has sold me prepaid mastercards from a company that appears to be a scam. Unfortunately bitrefill is not answering my DMs and customer support has been handwaving arguments all day. I'm honestly somewhere between angry, sad and disappointed and really at a lost for words rn, so I hope this helps me get my money back.

I bought several of these prepaid Mastercards on Bitrefill's site, advertised as ‚accepted anywhere Mastercard is accepted‘. Except they’re not accepted ‚anywhere Mastercard is accepted‘ – in fact, they are accepted nowhere returning 'this card is not recognized'.

So now my money is stuck, and Bitrefill says it can’t give it back because it sold me a valid giftcard coupon for a product that does not seem to be legitimate.

I’m a huge fan of bitrefill and have been using their services for years, so I’m extremely surprised that they would a) offer such a product in the first place and b) respond (or rather not respond) the way they did when being confronted with the problem.

It seems that bitrefill has done zero due diligence on this product and simply copy/pasted their marketing claims to their site. I have always trusted bitrefill to offer high quality products so I’m not sure what’s going on here, but it would be great if they could give me my money back after a series of very unsuccessful customer support contact with their team.

I have spent all day going through several mind bending headaches in attempts to retrieve my money which seems to be close to impossible looking at trust pilot reviews. As I’ve also shared with bitrefill's customer support agent, I’m not the only person who has had this experience with this card issuer, after which the bitrefill agent apparently decided to just stop responding.

My DMs are open to resolve this issue (and I hope bitrefill will take this product off of their site immediately).

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RESPECT #CYPHERPUNKS
RESPECT #BITCOIN

#relaythat https://i.nostr.build/vGWxk.jpg


Slag.


I believe providing artists, content creators, and merchants with the tools they need to connect with their audiences and publish/monetize/sell their work on nostr is where devs have a good chance of becoming more financially sustainable. Most people aren’t going to flock to a new social app to support their favorite devs (as much as I love and admire you devs, think how ridiculous that sounds anyway), but I believe many people would flock to a new social app to connect with and support their favorite artists/creators/writers. Provide an easy and streamlined way for creators to do their work and monetize it, and charge creators a fee, or take an agreed-upon split of zaps/payments, to access those premium features and analytics geared toward helping them with their business. Nostr is preferable to traditional content platforms because it mitigates the risks of middlemen having too much control over your content or seizing your “means of production” so to speak by banning or shadowbanning you, and coupled with bitcoin payments it further mitigates the risks associated with centralized payment systems. There are good generic social clients on each OS, but I believe there needs to be more specialization by enabling/empowering creators and entrepreneurs. This ought to become the primary focus of these social apps, because that in turn can drive more economic activity and user growth.


This is how we win.
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'Need' now means wanting someone else's money. 'Greed' means wanting to keep your own. 'Compassion' is when a politician arranges the transfer.

- Joseph Sobran


Paying lightning invoices through Nostr instead of http. 🤯 Good bye DNS.
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Announcing: Harbor, an ecash desktop wallet for better bitcoin privacy.

https://blog.mutinywallet.com/harbor/

Privacy for the common person is a value worth fighting for. When we see a lack of freedom tools, we must build them into existence. They don't appear on their own.

Much has been said about privacy at the Bitcoin protocol level. For now, we build it on higher layers where we can be more nimble.

Ecash is a tool available today that combines with Bitcoin to bring new levels of common privacy. Cashu and Fedimint are two existing implementations we're interested in.

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Harbor Privacy: All communication runs over Tor. Mutiny is not in the middle of any connections or transactions. Funds in the wallet get a Privacy Score to show how the mints provide privacy over time. More to come on this in the future.

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Harbor Multi-mint: Instead of relying on a single mint with your funds, spread the risk over dozens or more. Harbor manages this for you, showing you a single balance while connecting with mints for you. A mint can go offline with minimal impact on you.

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Harbor Automation: Running as a desktop app unlocks ability to do long running processes in the background. Move money in and out of mints on your preferred schedule to maximize your desired level of privacy. Harbor makes suggestions, but you are in control.

Move money in and out of Harbor using Lightning or on-chain. We love Bitcoin, and we love privacy. We hope Harbor gives everyday people more privacy and peace of mind.


Wow just figured out Bitmain's latest fuckery in real time.

I'll give you the back story...

Once upon a time Bitmain was grinding merkle roots instead of nonces aka "covert ASICBOOST".

This gave them an advantage over other miners who didn't know this was possible. One company went out of business - KNC - citing "the Chinese having some secret advantage we don't know about" - which turned out to be true precisely for this reason.

It's one of the reasons ASIC manufacture is so centralized today and this is correctly identified by many as being one of the most vulnerable aspects of the entire bitcoin ecosystem.

The ASICBOOST issue came to a head when Bitmain used their influence to block the activation of SEGWIT (essential for Lightning) because it would break their ability to do it - at least covertly. Well, they would still be able to use asicboost, but just in an obvious way that would mean everyone else could do it too. They had patented it so as to try and prevent this because that's the kind of people we're dealing with here but I digress...

When asicboost was independently discovered by Greg Maxwell Bitmain lied and said they weren't in fact using it.

This was after years of bullshitting about segwit, with Bitmain pretending to be in favour of "alternative scaling solutions" or even doing segwit as a hard fork instead which would allow them to continue what they were doing.....

Absolutely nobody believed them thanks to GMax having reverse engineered one of their ASICs and demonstrating what they had built and tried to keep to themselves.

This was a watershed moment in the fork wars where everyone suddenly understood why Bitmain had been making nonsensical arguments against segwit forever. Wanting big/small blocks wasn't a related discussion. Segwit fixed TX malleability and was a no-brainer upgrade and in the end was combined with a block size increase anyway as a compromise.

So we proceeded with segwit anyway, at which point Bitmain switched to overt asicboost which is actually even more powerful, it just requires grinding version bits instead of merkle roots but it's obvious if a miner is doing this.

Now everybody does it so essentially the net effect of it being possible is zero, except your node asking you wtf miners are doing signalling for upgrades your node knows nothing about (upgrade coordination is what version bits are actually supposed to be used for).

Oh well, relatively little harm done. If you're happy to ignore the obvious dishonesty and effort to undermine what's arguably Bitcoin's most important ever upgrade.

Fun extra tidbit: Antbleed - an intentional backdoor with which Bitmain could remotely shutdown any Antminer in the world. They said it was for shutting down stolen ASICs but immediately patched it once it was discovered.

Anyway, this company now accounts for 25-30% of all blocks found, if you naively observe the blockchain.

That's not enough to spook anyone, but unfortunately many smaller pools are in fact just fronts for Bitmain which we know for three reasons:

1. The smaller pools are clearly using blocks constructed by, or for the benefit of, Antpool.

2. They share the same custodian of their newly mined coins (Cobo).

3. They have a lending program to bail out smaller pools who get in over their head due to FPPS.

And the trend is sadly in the wrong direction, given Braiins recently abandoning its old payout model and becoming just a simple proxy for Bitmain as result of switching to FPPS.

[Massive shoutout to @mononautical and @0xB10C for helping uncover how centralized pools have become. Those are their Tweeter handles, idk if they're on Nostr.]

Summary - Bitmain is not just Antpool, it probably accounts for >50% of block templates and manufactures >90% of the mining hardware in the world.

So where am I going with all this?

Amazingly, it's about empty blocks.

What does that have to do with anything?

Well, famously OCEAN has found 3 empty blocks in its short existence, causing many to wrongly make allegations of some sort of issue with the pool itself.

This spurred on endless debate about why pools make empty templates in the first place and the actual reason so many of them get solved.

In short, pools send empty templates then immediately follow up with full templates. So quickly, that the interim period accounts for a tiny minority of the empty blocks that get found on the network, and none of ours.

In all three cases with OCEAN, the miner solved the empty block long after already having a full template to work on -

   - leaving the pool in a position to either throw away a perfectly good (but empty) block or to broadcast it to the network and get miners >90% of the reward of a full block. Obviously the latter makes sense and does zero harm to the network while still adding to the overall PoW necessary for any attacker.

So why would an empty block happen a few seconds after the pool had already sent an updated job for a full block?

Because Antminers suck.

*What we didn't realize was that they intentionally sucked.*

You can send an updated job to an Antminer and watch it continue to work on an old job for over 60 seconds in edge cases.

This was something we assumed was due to design of the ASIC itself, and thus just poor engineering on the part of Bitmain.

But it turns out we were wrong, it's due to Antminer firmware.

We know this because they just released a fix for it.

So Bitmain watched, while people kept mining empty blocks, everyone would wrongly attribute it to pools, while explainers on popular websites like mempool(.)space would offer wrong explanations about it happening due to pools being slow to send proper templates and seemingly no one would understand even the motivation for sending empty templates, let alone the reason they get worked on for so long.

But the fix being something that gets released right after OCEAN starts explaining what's really going on here is beyond reasonable doubt.

They had a fix for it, and have been using that fix for their own mining.

Now they can't get away with it because increasingly people are realizing that Whatsminers and ASICs from other manufacturers aren't finding anything like the amount of empty blocks because they switch jobs far more quickly.

An Antminer has a far greater likelihood of finding an empty block because it spends longer working on old jobs.

We've been out here yelling that the issue is with the ASIC *NOT* the pool.

The fact that Bitmain intentionally crippled the firmware on the Antminers they would sell to the world, while keeping more functional units for their own mining is typical of everything Bitmain.

Sure it can be incompetence and coincidental timing on the fix, but I sincerely doubt it.

The conversation around empty blocks reached the point where people were beginning to realize something was broken with Antminers and then they just happen to release a fix for it right after people finally start catching wind of what's really going on.

__________________

So imagine this -

You sell shovels to gold miners, and as we all know, the people who make money during a gold rush are the people who sell the shovels.

But in this case the shovel seller is digging for gold himself too.

And he has intentionally sold crappy shovels to all of his customers so as give himself an advantage.

Empty blocks kept happening, people kept blaming pools.

OCEAN got attacked over it. We explained the real reason they happen so much, and Bitmain releases a fix right after.

Insane.

This goes further than empty blocks.

It's not just empty templates that take forever to work their way out of an Antminer, it's *all templates* and pools are constantly updating work as new transactions show up.

A super lucrative transaction shows up in your mempool?

All other pools are sending an updated job to hundreds of thousands of Antminers who will ignore it for a while, while Antpool has their miners working on it more quickly.

It's not hard to see the motivation for all this, especially going forward as TX fees become more and more important.

Again, insane.

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If you want to watch @wk057 and I figure this all out in real time, watch the video below which was just intended to be a discussion on why empty blocks happen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BkyhdxnDrM


 JUST IN💥
 #Bitcoin continues to operate flawlessly with no leaders, no employees, no head office, no board of directors, no regulating body, no accountants, no lawyers, no debt, and no masters.


It seems like only yesterday that #Nostr started. Was surprised to learn that we’re already over 1,600,000 users.  Thanks to all people here that make this place special and all of the developers creating ever improving user experiences and utility.


It is not true that Bitcoin’s rebellious, DIY, mid-seventies-like, Cypherpunk era is over.

The exact opposite is true.

Bitcoin was written after the mid-seventies Home Computer revolution took place and “ended”, putting the power of software development in everyone’s hands at a cost of essentially zero. Before that, to develop and run software, you had to book time on a large UNIX machine at a University, and that was only possible if you were enrolled as a student at an institution with a computer. Computer illiterates don’t know any of this important context and history.

Bitcoin was written on widely available, ubiquitous commodity computer equipment available from Walmart to Radio Shack. It was written in programming languages that were free and on operating systems that came for free with the machines they ran on. None of this was true previously; the cost of a commercial software license for AT&T UNIX was $30,000, out of reach for all but companies and educational institutions. Even the single user license of $150, whilst not an impediment for the die hard, was eliminated when Bitcoin was written by GNU. Universal availability of computing made the software development revolution possible. It meant that anyone anywhere could write software without permission, admission to University or supervision of any kind, and then they could distribute to anyone anywhere it without permission at a cost of near zero.

In the early days, software was distributed by mail order on floppy discs. Then it was distributed by BBS systems over telephone calls modem to modem. Now it is distributed over the Internet, for free. The commodification of computers and elimination of the cost of tooling to write software, remote connecting and expanded access to every form of intellectual pursuit in software from game development to book writing and research.

Can you see what’s coming next?

Universal access to programmable synthetic money in the form of Bitcoin will mean that anyone anywhere will be using Bitcoin. Nation States, hedge funds and sovereign wealth funds’ are irrelevant to this, and will continue to be downstream of the innovators from the public, just as they were and are with the Internet, email and Bitcoin. Nation states, hedge funds and sovereign wealth funds did not develop Bitcoin (or email or the web), and could not have developed it. They could not have imagined any of them, nor had they the skill to implement it. (See Paul Krugman’s predictions about the Internet being no more important than the Fax machine, or his most recent predictions about Bitcoin. What a joke!) The members of their impotent class will be, at best, peers on the network, like everyone else is. They are no longer special, privileged or required. At all.

That’s the whole point of Bitcoin, in case you didn’t know.

Jeremy Alaire famously said many years ago of the Bitcoin ecosystem, “It’s time for the grown ups now”. He was 100% wrong, and ended up peddling altcoins and unethical stablecoins because the immovable and immutable object “Bitcoin”, resists partially informed incomers with their clever plans to improve it. This feature of Bitcoin (and it is a feature, not a flaw) is what is currently being missed by FinTech bros, WallStreet Wonks, tenacious tangentials and other people who have just come to the ideas that spawned Bitcoin; reality no longer operates by proclamation of the self anointed.

It is a good thing that a small number of Americans are finally capitulating to Bitcoin, however in addition to capitulation, their parochial “Policeman of the World”, “my way or the highway”, “our institutions and governance models are the only possible way forward” mindset is best abandoned by them; no one on Earth wants to hear it, everyone is fed up with them, Bitcoin can’t hear it, and all real Bitcoiners ignore it.

The subconscious urge to control everything is strong in many characters; this is why rebellion is cast in a negative light by Statists. Change is not rebellion. Change is the essential process of all existence. Change is coming to what money is and how it is mediated, and in this change, the old players are removed from management, oversight, design or input of any kind. They are excluded. They are exsanguinated.

Yesterday’s men can’t conceive of any power outside of the familiar structures from their past; “the big boys” will always be the great powers. They don’t seem to realize (why should they?) that Bitcoin is sitting on top of something that has already completely eroded the power of many venerated “staple of modern life” institutions to great effect and universal benefit

Journalism: Junked
Music Distribution: Marginalized, Decimated
Publishing: Pulverized
Dictionaries: Destroyed
Telephone Companies: Trashed, Castrated
Censorship: Cauterized and Circumvented
Government Postal Services: Gutted, Piked, Slaughtered

Only the most naïve of people thinks the entry of Nation states, hedge funds and sovereign wealth funds as peers on the network abolishes Bitcoin’s rebellious, DIY, mid-seventies-like, cypherpunk era. On the contrary; the spread of Bitcoin makes Cypherpunk and the culture of rebellion the norm. It is Cypherpunks that are the innovators, and they’re continuing to prove it. Look at how one software company, Blockstream, run by a Cypherpunk, is providing financialization services to a nation state that were unimaginable before Bitcoin. All of this is obvious to anyone who can think.

The Cypherpunks and their direct descendants are building the new companies, software and services that cannot be revoked or “supervised” by outsiders, cowards, Statists, carpetbaggers, thieves, Socialists, and other human moths attracted to the bright flame of Bitcoin.

Look at Nostr for another example. While everyone downstream of Twitter as consumers complained bitterly about it, one man decided to offer a possible solution to it. No one saw it coming, or even thought it possible. Now, like it or not, an ecosystem has the very real potential (because it is real) of emerging on it, where the people using it cannot be told what to do or say.

This is exactly analogous with what happened with Bitcoin. Wall Street Wonks complaining bitterly about “the corrupt system” could not imagine Bitcoin, and then Bitcoin…existed, and now it cannot be stopped, like it or not, and its nature will not be changed because Bitcoin’s rebellious, DIY, mid-seventies-like, Cypherpunk era is not only not over but will never end. This is a safe prediction to make; look at how features of the web are developed, through the IETF process. The people at the coal face are doing the hard work of fundamental design, and corporations have nothing to do with it beyond paying the salaries of the designers; the “big players” don’t have a say in how things actually work.

Apple learned this the hard way by trying to introduce a new protocol called “AppleTalk.” Launched in the mid-1980s, AppleTalk was designed to facilitate networking in Apple environments, allowing Macintosh computers to connect and share resources seamlessly. Despite its initial success within Apple’s ecosystem, AppleTalk struggled to gain broader acceptance due to the dominance of other networking protocols like Ethernet and TCP/IP. Over time, as the industry standard shifted towards TCP/IP, Apple gradually phased out AppleTalk, officially discontinuing support for it in 2009. “2009”...a special year, wasn't it? This is exactly like Wall Street trying to “take over” Bitcoin and change it. It cannot happen, and there will be no “The Grownups are Here Now” moment in Bitcoin. History indicates this strongly, but you have to know your history in order to understand this.

These are just a few of many examples showing the nature of the change and who is being excluded as a consequence. Everyone who has the power to create software and services is fed up to the back teeth with being told what they are, what they can do, what they can say, how they must implement software tools, and being on the bottom rung of the perverted “Society” where Nation states, hedge funds and sovereign wealth funds have control over what money is and how it is allowed to move.

That’s over chaps.

The masses using Bitcoin at every level are together far more powerful than any Nation state, hedge fund or sovereign wealth fund. The masses using Bitcoin as money is an absolutely inevitable outcome, and it will happen on the terms of the Cypherpunks, not Nation states, hedge funds and sovereign wealth funds.


The power of incremental improvements can be astounding over time. https://image.nostr.build/87a2fc547447910399bf32f6cb8d82d3c5087370055630ea008a994fa764a54f.jpg


I just realised I single-handedly could keep the entire bitcoin network running if literally everyone else was shut down.

Sure, hash rate would not be great but that’s irrelevant, the network will adjust its difficulty regardless.

It’s quite wild to think little old me could have such importance, I’m just a poor pleb.

#BitAxe
#Start9


Lots of jubilation about Trump coming out with a pro- #Bitcoin script, but I’d just like to remind everyone that Trump’s DOJ indicted Julian Assange under the Espionage Act, he didn’t free Ross when he was President, and he didn’t pardon Snowden.

Actions speak louder than words.

Anyway, goodnight.


Good job! 🫡


One year ago, my health was a disaster. 😢

I could barely do one pull-up and could not bother to exercise or eat well. 👎

I decided to start practicing what I preach. No more excuses. ☝

Proof of Work, mind and body, must be the way. 💪

I was 10kg too heavy, which hindered every aspect of my life — very precisely, my passion: bouldering. Imagine climbing an inclined wall with 10kg extra strapped to your waist.

Yeah, no. 😅

But being able to compete in an obscure sport was not enough.

I needed peers. 🤝

My friend and Konsensus Network co-founder Edouard stepped in. His remarkable self-control, sense of agency, and total accountability impressed me deeply. He made me want to be a better man and showed me how. For that, buddy, I am in your debt. ❤💪

Another friend and peer is Riku, who dragged me out of my man cave to incorporate regular exercise into my “too busy” schedule — something I have never done. Now I exercise 5x a week. Jungle gym, sometimes bouldering. Thanks for holding me to it, mate!

I am now 3kg away from my target weight, can do nine pull-ups, and did not place last in a bouldering competition like the year before. I have a long way to go, but I can’t ignore the results!

Finally, I want to thank Jose from madeiraclimbingcenter.com for putting up a hell of a boulder gym with tight problems. And for accepting #bitcoin, duh.

Konsensus was sponsoring the boulder contest with top knowledge!

It turns out there is a second-best, eh? 😂

I feel very grateful and more potent than in a long time, and I wanted to share my progress. 🙏

It's never too late to unscrew yourself! 💪

Share to spread the good news and inspiration 🚀

And GM to you all! 🎉🙏

You are in control, no one else. ☝🔼📈 upwards!!
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How Google’s AI is harmful:

Google originally got popular by figuring out which pages get the most traffic for keywords, through how many links they have from other high traffic sites.  In other words, the engine’s ranking was designed to reflect the choices and popularity of the overall market.

Now the goal is for AI to sift through the information and tell you its opinion.  In other words, Google isn’t just “saving you time” with AI summaries.  They are seizing power over what defines truth.  Then once a certain view is promoted through enough mainstream channels, it BECOMES the popular view, with limited external forces, checks, or balances.

And what does Big Tech consider to be true?  Well, even Google’s CEO has openly said that conservatives are “low information” voters, and he openly said he wants to use AI to suppress these voices. [1]  And even worse than that, they unveiled their new AI to sift through your photos on their cloud.  As DigitalTrends reports:

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“With the new “Ask Photos” feature, you can soon search your photo library using a conversational approach rather than just keywords. For example, Google demonstrated that you can ask Google Photos for your license plate number or for photos of your child swimming over time by simply asking questions such as “What’s my license plate again?” or “When did my daughter learn to swim?” [2]
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Now with AI showing you photos on command, this for-profit advertising company will have the ability to shape your views on your own life experiences after knowing everything about you.  “Want to sell women’s make-up or weight loss?  We’ll show the ugliest pictures of potential customers to themselves right before an ad for your cream!”

By the way, on an unrelated note, 4 new security vendors have flagged the RebelNet domain as malicious, to purposefully prevent traffic.  So if you share this, it might be my only shot to make a difference.

Sources: https://simplifiedprivacy.com/google-ai/


The more I listen,
The less I speak.

Often a feature,
Sometimes a bug..


It is not possible to share this image too widely. Please help me spread it far and wide.

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GM


Politicians need to realize that not allowing permissionless innovation is a national security risk. Regardless of how you feel about the nation-state as a concept, putting a damper on innovation just causes your tribe to fall behind in civilizational terms.

Every time you require a license for people to build stuff, your enemies rejoice.


Do you understand?

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 nostr:npub1cn4t4cd78nm900qc2hhqte5aa8c9njm6qkfzw95tszufwcwtcnsq7g3vle schools Blloomberg on "crypto" nonsense.
"#Bitcoin is the only money within the cryptocurrency space... #Ethereum is a technology... the market often conflates it with money"
Just now on BloombergTV

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


I LOVE it when incredible people I meet in this space over time go on to create their own platforms to help others.

Ser Ulric is one of those people.

New podcast on his show Money Matters. #Bitcoin

https://youtu.be/Ce1foh_lqtU?feature=shared


"Bitcoin doesn't need further improvements" is an attack on Bitcoin.


JUST IN: Julian Assange wins the right to a full appeal from 🇬🇧 UK High Court, allowing him to present his case again to a British court before any US extradition process can proceed. https://image.nostr.build/59c162dfaa80d975ff539bfc4de1d2c362d343c839dc44f19b47e2e932fdcd12.jpg


Very important new initiative

http://p2prights.org

A place for anyone to make tax-deductible contributions to help protect open-source developers working on privacy technology, lightning infrastructure, and Bitcoin products


Nice! 👍


"I cannot make my days longer, so I strive to make them better."

- Henry David Thoreau


Guys, I'm fifty years old and only now just learned this technique for pulling T-posts out of the ground.  This is clearly a failure of the educational system at all levels.  I honestly feel a little betrayed by the whole of society that this exists and nobody told me about it.  You all just let me sweat and grunt and wiggle posts back and forth for hours like a chump.  I've pulled almost as many muscles as posts trying to extract them the hard way, when I could have been yoinking them out of the ground with almost no effort this whole time.  Anybody who knows this trick should feel obligated to teach it to at least five other people.

#farm #tools #diy #garden #backpain #grownostr #themoreyouknow

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Someone told me that extolling the virtues of nostr sovereignty won't help adoption and the only thing that matters is UX.

I think they're right when it comes to mass adoption. But I believe that in order for mass adoption to happen, we first must build a base of ideologically motivated early adopters who won't mind rough UX.

It's the fringe early adopters who will be willing to put in the work necessary to get us to mass adoption.


“If you wish to get out of prison, the first thing you must do is realize that you are in prison” - Gurdieff

Love this quote because of its many layers of meaning in the transition the world and each of us is going through.

Easy to see in others….hard to see in ourselves.


I believe Bitcoin is intentionally transparent, for a number of reasons. One of those reasons is the anonymity set delta.

The smaller you are, the larger your anonymity set.

The larger you are, the smaller your anonymity set.

This makes it expensive for governments to hide their actions, but cheap for individuals.


GM, Gigi!


Say hello to https://silentpayments.xyz/

Wanting to learn more about Silent Payments, see which wallets support them, or find out how to integrate them into your wallet?

I've built out a website with all of that info and more to do what I can to speed up Silent Payments adoption. https://i.nostr.build/EnGDG.jpg


GM and Happy birthday!


I have now deleted my Twitter account, and my medium account. All articles have been transferred to Nostr. I'm also done submitting with Bitcoin magazine for fairly obvious reasons.

Trying to channel my inner  nostr:npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe here- vote for and build the world you want to see in your actions.

Nostr has incredible potential. Within the very definition of that potential there is no free lunch. Expect to pay for relays to host content, for clients to deliver it to you, and zap for posts or content you want to see. It should incentivise others to host, deliver or create content. I need to do more of this, but as a start any zaps to my articles on Nostr have been set up to send half to the relays that host them.

Elon Musk continues to head down the wrong path in many of his actions to monetise Twitter. It is fairly clear that much of what  nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx predicted is coming true. By layering in identity verification, he is seeking to extract ever more value from users information.

Nostr needs to benefit from what Taleb referred to as the intolerant minority - in this case those who vote with their feet and refuse to engage with the walled gardens of Facebook and X, etc - and instead bring their time, money and attention to Nostr.

#nostr
#deletetwitter


Our peers are getting imprisoned, shutting down operations, or going dark.

But yes, there's nothing to worry about, I should shut up and keep coding and giving away everything for free because this community wouldn't use it otherwise.

Fun times.


GM


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Reminder: bitcoin and crypto are antithetical to one another.

Anyone who claims they "like both" understand neither. https://nostpic.com/media/0018b7ee33fb253843639c62e292fec700a69a93b08ee374c5bda971c9b39564/b779a66d87c9bedb1688d5b6a48f5a460a88d9ac68e651302cee759134f191d2.webp https://nostpic.com/media/0018b7ee33fb253843639c62e292fec700a69a93b08ee374c5bda971c9b39564/382c53775826d6b35c05efbd60dda0a99985d1e70f3da3d46b66dc368dc88af4.webp https://nostpic.com/media/0018b7ee33fb253843639c62e292fec700a69a93b08ee374c5bda971c9b39564/a19a4d608b96baade5c75f8ea88d4798fe56f56cb79964ea02b941a0422e873e.webp https://nostpic.com/media/0018b7ee33fb253843639c62e292fec700a69a93b08ee374c5bda971c9b39564/29d0ae5c3208bba6eddb6f9c7d19f8f59b50a7d56b67ad2d39aeec8339ab817e.webp


They want you to feel scared, they want you to feel the doom and gloom.

Get out of their framing, you are being gaslit.


It is not about based vs woke.

It is about independent vs subservient.

Think for yourselves. Pursue truth. Build your life as though society and supply chains could be disrupted for several months.

It doesn’t mean being a prepper. It means understanding what your life relies on for a moderate amount of time, and thinking for yourself.


Imagine this from a western nation.

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One of my favorite videos that really impacted me was with Andreas Antonopolous from 2017. Despite owning bitcoin for 4 years prior his messaging here really impacted me and i went from a magic internet money enthusiast to deeply principled.

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

The entire discussion can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feEZeku-jZU


I wanted to make a shareable overview video that people can point their family and friends to about money, banking, and bitcoin.

“Read this 500 page book” doesn’t always go over well, but “watch this half hour video” is more approachable.

So, hopefully it’s helpful:

https://youtu.be/jk_HWmmwiAs?si=-8Okyee-gqeaPdvm


✨ Announcing the release of Cashu.me – a Cashu wallet for the web! ✨

Cashu.me is a Chaumian Ecash wallet for Bitcoin built as a progressive web app (PWA). Today, we're excited to announce its first release and would like to thank all developers and users who have helped to build and improve this wallet. Cashu.me is free and open-source software released under the MIT license.

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To get started, open Cashu.me in your browser and install it to add it to your home screen. We recommend to use your device's native browser for the best experience. Beware that Ecash is a bearer asset which means that if you delete your browser data or lose access to your device without a proper backup (see below), you will lose your funds. Use this wallet only for small spending amounts.

New Features

Countless new features for this release give you the best possible Ecash experience. We're bringing this ancient crypto technology back into the 21st century and present you a modern interpretation of the original cypherpunk vision - built on Bitcoin.

At a glance

- Modern UI
- Support for Bitcoin and USD
- Seed phrase backups
- Animated QR codes
- Intelligent coin selection
- Send Ecash offline
- Receive Ecash offline
- Lock Ecash with P2PK
- Discover mints via Nostr
- Swap Ecash between mints
- Remote control with NWC

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Read the full release notes here: https://gist.github.com/callebtc/67da3f586ef273df80bf679e464bc3f3

You can host the wallet on your own server. Find the images on Dockerhub or build it yourself with the GitHub repository
https://github.com/cashubtc/cashu.me


"The most dangerous risk of all is spending your life not doing what you want on the bet that you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later." - Randy Komisar


Two things that we're building:

- There are going to be Cashu mints that will only be reachable via Nostr. They won't have IP addresses but npubs.
- There are going to be Cashu wallets that synchronize state across devices via nostr. No cloud.

Not everyone will like this but it doesn't matter because it can't be stopped.


Just casually making #bitcoin history on the daily.
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Why would you post this?


Dream flow: buy new phone, enter 12 words, done.

Everything's set up, including my config, apps, contacts, etc. The 12 words are my nsec in this case ofc.


I’m selling ASIC miner parts. Everything from control boards, to cords, to fans, to PSUs. Both Whatsminer and Antminers. Can do various quantities, individually or even bulk. I also got universal S19 PSUs which are so much easier than stock APW12125 and it’s 27 versions. Hit me up if you need a replacement of something or just wanna stock up for the future. Best way to contact me right now will be Telegram. Please share if you don’t mind. https://t.me/tatumturnup


Because I am a Bitcoiner.

I have dedicated all my life to computer science and the investment world. I have always had a lot of intellectual curiosity about any subject, which led me to read a lot about Austrian economics, I soon understood that the system was a scam, but at that time there was no Bitcoin.

I lived at first the birth of Bitcoin, but I did not pay much attention to it, I thought it would not be successful, electronic money, that is hackable I thought.

Soon after, some events happened that marked my destiny forever, I lost what I loved most by negligence of the system, I was helpless and alone, after this being in absolute shit, the system attacked me again and tried to steal what was mine.

After years of litigation I won, but I never got a pardon, I was never compensated nor did I recover the losses that the whole process caused me.

All this process was accompanied by a deep depression, I abandoned everything, friends, family, hobbies, but I never abandoned the desire for revenge and the desire to learn, and in those moments of shit a light went on, Bitcoin embraced me.

After 4 years of fighting alone against myself, without medication, without help, I could get out of depression, I could get out of that shit hole, but I came out much stronger, I was no longer the same person, and also someone accompanied me throughout the process, Bitcoin.

I think that fucking algorithm helped me more than anything else in the world, it made me understand many things, it made me understand that at the end of everything, you are the master of your destiny, never expect help from anyone, always check, never trust, and it also made me be patient, perseverant and hardened me. It made me become a man, a man has the obligation to defend his own, a man must endure the blows and has the obligation to stand up and fight, until the last day.

I have never been one to tell my intimacies, but I am a Bitcoiner and I will die a Bitcoiner, this is my story and it will be written here forever.

And maybe this story will be useful for times of adversity like the ones we are living, fuck the system, the system will not help you, in the worst case the system will kill you, fight with all your soul against it.


I’ve seen your notes. Really impressive. Keep it up! 🫡


Good to know. Thank you! I’m on Zorin OS myself on my first non Windows laptop. Feels good. 😏


SURVIVE IN THE JUNGLE OR EXIST IN THE ZOO.


we're dca'ing bitcoin https://block.xyz/documents/bitcoin-blueprint.pdf


All of the profits from the first thousand copies of Broken Money went to the Human Rights Foundation, since Alex Gladstein's public research was so useful for the book and I like the work they are doing worldwide.

The profits from the next four thousand copies went to making an animated half-hour video about Broken Money to reach people that haven't read the book, which we released a few days ago.

My graphics/editing team wanted to make sure that the video had good average viewer time in the first week to help with the YouTube algorithm, rather than the video be sent a ton of clicks that might watch it only briefly and hurt the early quality metrics, so they advised me to soft-launch it at first. We purposely haven't notified my email list or my Twitter feed yet, etc. But it's out there.

It's a half-hour video about the technological evolution of money, with animation. We put a lot of production value into it. And for the people who were sad that I didn't narrate the Broken Money audiobook, I did narrate this video.

In the coming weeks I will spread awareness for the video across my platforms, but for starters, it has been found here on Nostr.

Enjoy:

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Good morning. ☕


GM!


things i realised while developing nostr:npub14a3s46a8mr8kar9duvfzd2gz8sntjxcykwslyx84dfnexfzfdzhqz4ejtd for last 8 months on nostr.
one thing i have realised.
- Not a lot of dev resources online other than GitHub read me and handful of very basic videos.
- Telegram groups are your most accurate source of information.
- By the time you get hold of NIPs and get busy developing your app, either new NIPs come out or previous implementations change without any major announcements. unless you are actively monitoring nostr social feeds, no specific newsletter you can subscribe to mentioning the changes in NIPs you are interested in.
- Help is hardly available. No volunteers, No major Sats contributions, cant run ads. Even if there is no backend, hosting relays or creating something meaningful is gonna take a toll on your pocket.
- Community is helpful. Some people really love to test your ideas and give suggestions (like nostr:npub1r0rs5q2gk0e3dk3nlc7gnu378ec6cnlenqp8a3cjhyzu6f8k5sgs4sq9ac ) but otherwise, its you and your own vision of a service.

Overall, No guarantee of if its gonna work out in the long run or not.
Creating on nostr is supposed to be more fun. That’s why we are creating on nostr and not a centralised API driver another app like billion others. However that really seems to be getting tougher and tougher.

I do not wanna lose hope. Some apps really have made their names and i feel glad everytime i see a new app rocking on nostr and utilising its potential to build cool features. however, it seems i took a bite bigger than i could chew. I am not gonna stop though. Even if the chewing takes longer, i am in it for the long run.

When has it not worked in the end after all right?
#HappySundayNostr.


nostr:npub1cj8znuztfqkvq89pl8hceph0svvvqk0qay6nydgk9uyq7fhpfsgsqwrz4u made Forbes. Bravo ser, very well said 💜🤙💯

https://image.nostr.build/b4e0a58e253f65188e9f2b5a006e364d9bb614385fd5f59c8afb69028c8904e9.png

https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2024/04/26/doj-arrests-over-cash-like-privacy-concerns-and-fbi-wallet-alert/


If you’re worried about anything in the current news cycle and you haven’t watched nostr:npub1rxysxnjkhrmqd3ey73dp9n5y5yvyzcs64acc9g0k2epcpwwyya4spvhnp8 video on Fedi yet, you probably should….and then imagine the scalability and where it takes us.

https://youtu.be/um2VL22R-J0?si=OywaPlmQxYHo66OH


Legend

Be like Hal https://image.nostr.build/969ff6cb1b846e2e15c90797f152efa280a468ada4ee795544e6af78b2aa5214.jpg


I'm not here on Nostr because I run away from Twitter. I'm here because I'm in search for an internet as it once used to be.

I'm a hacker who fucking hates that social media is in the hands of private companies. I remember using IRC and meeting likeminded anons online. I remember what the internet utopia felt like. People who didn't care what your name or status is, people who aren't interested in sharing their boring holiday pics with random strangers online. I'm not interested in what politicians and influencers have to say. I don't care about the latest mainstream trend that's going viral.

I want random weird interesting smart people around me who share their ideas in a free and open space that isn't controlled by anyone.

That's all I'm looking for. There aren't many such spaces on the internet.


"You're so quiet. What are you thinking about?"

Me: https://image.nostr.build/28297625d450ec3a8d9641b049fc2c20ee4477b1aec937b6dc90623af01de779.jpg


Wow, unreal! Source?


I am feeling emotional RN ngl

Don't ever let any fucking normies tell you this was easy, it wasn't


Don’t spend a dollar‘s worth of time on a ten-cent decision. https://image.nostr.build/3f8ef951fcf552fa6f747b8d57de2ac8fd063fb873f28e14dd884366b3d8e93d.jpg


🚨New #leak on #ChatControl: EU interior ministers want to exempt themselves, police staff etc. from error-prone scanning, while searching our messages indiscriminately - outrageous! Read on:
https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/leak-eu-interior-ministers-want-to-exempt-themselves-from-chat-control-bulk-scanning-of-private-messages/
#Pirates

https://digitalcourage.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/275/645/729/534/351/original/fdd5f160becde7b2.jpg


Perhaps someone can do a writeup on the main source(s) of pain when it comes to Tor relay support. Fixing that (all over the place) might be a good grant topic? nostr:note1mwrm0hffg7pswdtuhmcjk9qeuf7m67j3jvj6chufcvhxzmfr2mpsefxl54


https://m.primal.net/Huzc.jpg 🧡 💜


The more you reinforce a system based on theft, the more it steals from you, divides you, and then controls you.

From that system, war is inevitable because it is a requirement that you believe it is someone else’s fault to retain its power over you.

With the chaos from the existing system bound to expand over the next number of years, it will be easy to get pulled back in.

The more you reinforce a system based on truth, the faster the world changes to hope and abundance. We are early, but our actions matter more than we realize. Every node (we) matters.

Keep the higher ground, and help others see it.

#Bitcoin
#Nostr
And soon….#Fedi


nostr is still mainly used alongside twitter. in the best rare case, as a replacement. and only because people are running away from something about twitter they don't like.

there is nothing that people want to run to nostr for yet. zaps were promising, but bitcoin is still a hurdle (one that primal is doing the best at overcoming), and it's doubtful lightning could scale to a massive adoption moment.

nostr needs a feature or experience that's unique and sets it apart. i *think* that is the ecosystem of microapps over the long term...but it's definitely not in the short term. and that might be ok.

for twitter the initial draw was the simplicity and weirdness of 140 characters (we started with zero network effect, facebook had it all...that's built over time). later it became the conversation which lead to the "public square" (owned by a private corporation ¯\_(ツ)_/¯). and then as it grew, it had a single point of control/failure people could attack.

nostr doesn't have to worry about that last bit. it's an incredible feature. but not one the average person cares about (no matter how much they yell "FREE SPEECH!"...if people actually cared about free speech, bitcoin and nostr would be all they used...they don't).

all this to say, we're not doomed. but what we think is the killer feature isn't right now. who's going to discover the one that is?


It's amazingly cringe arguing with non-developers about why ceasing work on the base Bitcoin protocol is retarded rather than a genius way to eliminate risk.


Just tell them to install a 10 year old version of Bitcoin Core and keep their life savings in a hot wallet? If they refuse, you won the argument. If they don't refuse, they lose their stash and their opinion no longer matters :-)