Bought a 	cheap-ish (€150) Brother color laserprinter in 2017, still going strong. Doesn't mind not being used for months at a time, can push 100s of pages if needed, knock-off toner cartridges are available, works like a charm. Only thing that doesn't work anymore is the duplex machinery, which is a minor inconvenience but not worth repairing/replacing it for.

So much better than the HP inktjet hostage situation.


He's not on here. Yet.


Did someone already make the Byeden joke? No? Good...


Listen folks, the intern locked me out of my account on X, so I have no clue what's currently going on there. They are saying Nostr is the future of this greatwhole world. Listen, as we stand united I will beat Trump and win the election this year.


DAVID BAILEY X ACCOUNT SUSPENDED. I SUSPECT HE'LL BE HERE IN NO TIME.


I know the original, about a week ago I saw a variant where you see the two guys in the rear view mirror of the bus, and the bus driver in control. I came find that one.


Elon speaking in Nashville.


Who has the happy guy, sad guy on a bus meme where you see them in the rear view mirror of the bus, with a driver of the bus in control of their destiny?


TOP LINE

BOTTOM LINE
 https://image.nostr.build/7d22c6839c4a4b534caaf93c9d4e20fa491e1ef5cb968186fb918af00288dcc0.jpg


How's the latency?


that's a lot.

https://www.404media.co/to-fix-crowdstrike-blue-screen-of-death-simply-reboot-15-straight-times-microsoft-says/


Willy Bot was running on Windows.


It depends on the mobile client how is displayed. It's a small picture, so it should fit. Can you screenshot your client?


1495 https://hodl.camp/api/img/sats_per_dollar/1495.png


In case you're wondering, it's real:

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

🔫


How it started:

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

How it's going:

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


That was very close.

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


Pantone™ Cthulhu


Which primal?


So if you use a nutzap to pay for a relay, you can pay with nuts to use your nuts.

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


Yeah whatever it's called. Make it a super rare 1 of 1 udinal with recursive runes minted crypto monkey JIF.


Nature is healing.

https://image.nostr.build/5465cba1dd44a960dda1e91cb59d5a45feef7e8bea9cfaf7e731761a9b43d81e.jpg

bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf


This can be engraved on mainnet.

https://image.nostr.build/34c496ae768e8b4236c42180d3412a259f28f4ef2847d892650925c282263e1d.jpg


F

Maybe not. Broke the ring trying to install it. 🤬
 https://image.nostr.build/7dd881c0899760d45c46bd1ca72a8d00372b4b86701989aedfad6c77697ec19e.jpg


If this whole bitcoin thing fails, I can always become a self-taught kitchen appliance repairman. I heard there's good money to be made with that.

https://image.nostr.build/6bf6d7f477607d9a33ea71dd22a286ab8222809aea5dc202ed04031f536cb26f.jpg


Just stay humble and stack sats. That's all there is to it.


4 sat/vB

nostr:note1hkatfysfu436ek844u4wh3s4nmgxdtr67fglqwnzuynch8t4ffkq7axhx5


“Thank you for the cheap sats, here's a coffee. 🤙🏼”


Totally unnecessary risk profile by setting up over streaming water. I call bullshit. Just make the damn posh coffee on solid land and then enjoy the view.

https://media.tenor.com/oeEuyloQzOYAAAAM/rage-comics-table-flip.gif


This bot has replied to 476 events with tracking tokens in the last 24 hours.
Zap this bot to incentivize developement.
Find the code on GitHub: https://github.com/f321x/nostr-tracking-token-remover


All of it.


GM touch grass today

https://image.nostr.build/f3dc674b8e0dd4198b80f2e2bad7b25892610596afdc263bc35b8f3f8fa8175c.jpg


Can you send some to the BitAxe crew?


diamond*


Read up on it, she actually made an NFT of a diamong and destroyed the diamond with a hammer.


It's a fucking usability nightmare. For the rest it's a good device, albeit a bit too light (weight wise), but having a completely smooth facia where the buttons are is really really destroying the whole thing. I'm glad I got rid of it.

We used to have an ancient one, that one was perfect. But it died after 10+ years, unfortunately.

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


If you actually need an alarm and need to get up before sunrise in winter, get one with an artificial sun light. And one with tactile buttons.

I used to have this one, but not being able to feel the buttons is a nightmare, especially if you need glasses to see what you do.

https://image.nostr.build/4eb529bc7d561fa716ae227bb1a183d88afc06c70336789a8dacfa40c396c88c.jpg


Sobering look into the current dystopian tech landscape.


“The reason you can't buy a car is the same reason that your health insurer let hackers dox you”

https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/28/dealer-management-software/#antonin-scalia-stole-your-car


Who should I kick to design a BitAxe in Compute Blade form factor?

https://image.nostr.build/1a80783c32761c7ace407f56c50f3d3e6b087d517cdc58ae9392b66efbb2273f.jpg


875,500 might be chaos. ~6000 blocks to go.

https://image.nostr.build/09fd78f81191027ab92dbe7615cb96023c7b72f9369dadf3468bff7b77fe47ad.jpg

nostr:nevent1qqsp7kcla6dp2cn960cr5q402s2yjswl87q9r0ex7xalqcejprdde0gpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzvuhsyg9ahcdahjdjt2xcnk8a4u97rgxumqmm4jtfravh3y5s8f0amphz0upsgqqqqqqsp3wpg9


Canaan on the vulnerability in the Avalon Nano 3.

https://m.primal.net/JLgS.png
https://m.primal.net/JLgR.png


Cars in the EU are worse, they are made to whine.

Only one example, note the antonymous naming:

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


that's disturbing. which devices are this unholy?

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


To be clear: the address is the address of the scammer, not the one from the seed. And this isn't mine.


In this case it was a Ledger, repackaged with fake manuals and a scratch card for the compromised seed phrase.

Not sure what you mean with "lack recovery mode"? Or do you mean devices that can only generate a new key, and not import a seed?


IF YOUR HARDWARE WALLET COMES WITH A SEED, DO NOT USE IT.

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

Counterfeit manual quality is very high.

Attached address:

https://mempool.space/address/bc1qnlpkmt4unawdql3ec9xaj94svlvxl6hveqs8m8


IF YOUR HARDWARE WALLET COMES WITH A SEED, DO NOT USE IT.

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

Counterfit manual quality is very high.

Attached address:

https://mempool.space/address/bc1qnlpkmt4unawdql3ec9xaj94svlvxl6hveqs8m8


How did you post this video?


Blocks full of 8 month old consolidation transactions waiting to be mined shortly. RBF disabled, they didn't stop believing.

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


I waited till the end of the minute. I didn't dare using it.


I just had an authenticator code with all 6 same digits.

Did I win something?


4 more weeks

nostr:nevent1qqsp7kcla6dp2cn960cr5q402s2yjswl87q9r0ex7xalqcejprdde0gpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzvuhsyg9ahcdahjdjt2xcnk8a4u97rgxumqmm4jtfravh3y5s8f0amphz0upsgqqqqqqsp3wpg9


All clients should do this automatically.

nostr:nevent1qqs9asf63ve9tp8924knv7q4n4dzqqv8dngp9meu53js45l97u3d7agpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgtczyrz4337vdxaa50p8z7ptwd46h3j2e5k6yk93fu6km09fvm9sk7ufuqcyqqqqqqgd2g000


All clients should do the automatically.

nostr:nevent1qqs9asf63ve9tp8924knv7q4n4dzqqv8dngp9meu53js45l97u3d7agpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgtczyrz4337vdxaa50p8z7ptwd46h3j2e5k6yk93fu6km09fvm9sk7ufuqcyqqqqqqgd2g000


Look at the link, si=eSyqjx0h_raKHPy- is the tracking token.


Nice.


Source: https://x.com/bitcoinfool/status/1810181236868210789


It’s not too late

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

h/t  nostr:npub1rc29t3ln679cq84lv2pf62n8pc7yr34kygnp5vdj53e0hkdse3rsuygtyx. Come back here.


If you have a Primal lightning address, I can figure out about how many sats are in your account.


How's your trade going?


5 sat/vB

nostr:nevent1qqs9ewu6h3un5p39m8pchyx4u7gcfnqq0mxdxhqxvdus34gf5ancssgppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qgstm0smm0ymyk5d38v0mtctuxsdekphhtykj86e0zffqwjlmkrwylcrqsqqqqqpfd9nxj


1,000,000 sats bounty to whoever gets amethyst to have the IG UX.

I want to click new post, click the "add image/video button", have the camera open, take the picture or video, have it added to the post. Even better if you bypass the "add to message" step (assume users default file server and not sensitive content).

Another million if you can check the limits on the user's default file server and select a resolution, quality, and frame rate to meet those limits, which bypasses the need to use something like YouCut to compress. Also would give half if once the image/video is taken via amethyst, there's some option to open it in YouCut to do that editing there before going back to amethyst for upload.

We can't expect to draw content creators if the UX remains this shitty.

Must get code merged into release branch and working on graphene. If someone wants to take this up, I'd gladly help with breaking these into smaller chunks as I have PM and dev skills.

I'm sure this will get lost in the typical feed, so if there's a better place to post this, lmk.


Erh... Ermh... Ehhh... Yes, ehm... Yes. Totally.

https://video.nostr.build/f5eae0d37bc388fbf37fdabc2600f7bd2cc83b73aae6280df99d3b58e8999da1.mp4

H/t nostr:nprofile1qqszdphcvc75kl5389khup3vyed0jvptwc2l2zhctmldfqsmgmfgd4spz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq3camnwvaz7tmwdaehgu339ejxzetyv9k82umvv938xtnfduq3jamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wwdskuerhd93kstnxv9ex6un3nyu


GM touch grass today

https://image.nostr.build/15e6adb6c32d379810c3a996b82fb2f3a98b6c9511a47c205f4c6b45873c1e5f.jpg


Ugh. It's only going downhill from the caption. You can fill a whole bullshit bingo card from this article.

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/david-hasselhoff-cracks-out-the-old-leather-jacket-and-kitt-from-knight-rider-to-tell-gamers-to-grab-your-joysticks-and-fight-global-warming/


The rug that keeps on rugging.


Be careful out there.

https://image.nostr.build/26c7d0db88556404de083f1accb1c89220f0662d3bba547d756cc427a4473c4e.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/51958171021425b9e8a55ec54eed5c0afaa0124a79b9131cc489969e97b84aae.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/aac205b360f6bb27004395490d60b3c95c9624f3c164367af992296852341e05.jpg


1820 https://hodl.camp/api/img/sats_per_dollar/1820.png


What's so special about 34 q-bits?

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2436023-multiple-nations-enact-mysterious-export-controls-on-quantum-computers/


Someone on X. I think it was shared by many. Not sure what the source is, it's a chain anal platform for tagging addresses, but don't know which one.


SNED IT

THE COUNTRR ORACLE HAS SPOKEn

https://image.nostr.build/943855c47d1711ab45e107efdfaa92dfb5658e8772990879d723a62b93de4a2c.jpg


If this was any other financial instrument, this would have triggered circuit breakers and the German government would have been sued for market abuse.

https://image.nostr.build/14a2fb7504bd35f339f1f4e8f98cef28861380db6d36b27f2b1f2fd4fc927305.jpg


I was cleaning up tabs and posted it mainly so I had it stored somewhere. Nostr is my archive.


👀

https://image.nostr.build/839526d621366ca160e686667bb6297dec327f77ff6285289656cc6614ab1d03.jpg

Source: https://x.com/Hakusi_Katei/status/1807384824518213727


 > Saying “if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear” is unrealistic and equates to not caring about the individuals among us who do actually have something to fear – many of these people risk their lives if they can’t conceal who they are, what they believe, and what they’re fighting for.

https://mullvad.net/en/why-privacy-matters/nothing-to-hide


This is election content I can agree on. Especially the second half of the video.

https://youtu.be/zDLxgEquxA0


New Boston Dynamics promo dropped.
 https://video.nostr.build/c07cd1bf0b86bb2a95d9d4020d951ed718cdbc85047e0e1c7cce57b39f0fa501.mp4


GM touch grass today

https://image.nostr.build/b09716fc5f9471c061a19ffbb860710744d67f1c91af49d4ab9ca4380bb9c659.jpg


The whole process reminds me very much of this:

https://www.corporate-rebels.com/blog/cia-field-manual

Professional toxification forcing valuable resources to just get up and leave.


You both suddenly look decades younger. ♥


DMCA takedown on a gif.

https://image.nostr.build/10b890a3b62c0e8c34550ef6075f3c0e9490bd38eecf205f7e68d528788a5fcd.jpg


What could possibly go wrong?

https://image.nostr.build/c8ee5c83662e2cf1c4f458515c15ed3c14361de6d2d12efdcc540d44d6d1bed1.jpg


It's visibility duration.


SnapChat


Maybe I'm old, but why would you send someone something that only is visible for 100ms? Is attention span deficiency really that bad nowadays?

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


Have you seen Men in Black?


You need inbound liquidity?


HRF is a proud supporter of free and open source Nostr development and we are happy to be here!


Don't know who runs this, maybe fd0, but seen on the internets today:

Invincible Privacy Group

-    Developers don't need to doxx themselves to get funding
-   Only self-custodial privacy projects are eligible
-   Feedback will be shared with projects that get rejected with reasons
-   Voting details for each project will be shared to ensure transparency

https://invincible-privacy.github.io/donate/


6 sat/vB

nostr:nevent1qqsqe90g9h42lgnk66l5rmdwnqckxwtxcczgeehurjkpx239sd9hyacpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgtczyz7mux7mexe94rvfmr767zlp5rwdsda6e9537ktcj2gr5h7asm387qcyqqqqqqg338mdr


There's about 5 more weeks before the ordinals/runes/whatever they're called to unlock a new batch of symbols.

IIRC, the release schedule is to allow 1 character shorter symbols every 4 months, so around mid august you can expect another fee spike. This will continue with shorter and shorter symbols every 4 months, until leading up to the next halving, the single character ones are being minted.


Yes, and then  nostr:npub1txwy7guqkrq6ngvtwft7zp70nekcknudagrvrryy2wxnz8ljk2xqz0yt4x will finally have a transaction confirmed.


Coming closer.

https://m.primal.net/JFdL.png
https://m.primal.net/JFdN.png


I only have one running now, trying to find an issue for which I don't want to interrupt it.

When that's done I might point it at testnet4, just to see what happens.


You non-believer.

1/16808 yearly chance is a chance!

https://media1.tenor.com/m/3tRBisU_gL8AAAAC/shame-shame-shame-game-of-thrones.gif


Get your BitAxe greatest hits from the logs.

2.29G is 0,027% of what's needed to find a block.

Getting there.

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


It's using daily prices.


New longest streaks:

In 3 days $60k
In 12 days $40k
In 15 days $20k

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


Insane gymnastics 👀

https://video.nostr.build/da505621c86cbcd50ee665ba1d86d22dc829a3cdc84a412f89268aaf6dda452b.mp4


Now do AML regulations.


CZ's money printer.


That's also true.


The Boss in Goffertpark. Still ploughing on for 3 hours straight, very impressive.

https://image.nostr.build/9def7bee63a32bd7bcee96946fbd38c00fe0b4cd79f00318ff115bbfc7a797cb.jpg


Dark

https://image.nostr.build/60bc46b83ccfbdfae39d862c6c0b817e632713a4b1f90635391820153a9b9949.jpg


850000

Tick tock


This is the real one: nostr:nprofile1qqsqyredyxhqn0e4ln0mvh0v79rchpr0taeg4vcvt64te4kssx5pc0spz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzvuhsnzjl3j


Thats not the real one.


Why is everything wobbly? Is that the PS1?


No idea how it works.

https://image.nostr.build/2de51f9731e9c31f689eab054330c48aa1e58fe238e3458159f2d53a08fe4cf2.jpg


Fiat Medicine soon™

https://image.nostr.build/6009d244e340040eaad46a69ca8b11316ee10226d981f8c1bf780e12fb582e35.jpg


New meme template dropped.

https://image.nostr.build/e7492f7f97cc8611669f883bbc9471b5609dd37df7b59642b665387ec1c83eef.jpg

And yes, this is the real cover.


Japan


Tried to get nsecbunker working, but at this point I'm not completely sure how they are related.


I still haven't figured out how to get them working.


Written history is mostly void.

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


Already goddamnit


Adjust following
https://media.tenor.com/_XLEzC52ATQAAAAM/sad-walk.gif


exit (-1)


Not really, but at least Nostr doesn't causes this. It's to be seen how the retention is over 5 years.


But it's your jack of all trades, not someone else's master of one.


BREAKING: TikTok floating head over Wallmart reorder button from 2022.

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


Looking at old threads on the town square of a deserted ghost town.

https://image.nostr.build/9f7bf970fb6e27f27ed9bdf7ce907f40bc1f35693fbccc16d27954625d4a946c.jpg


We’re in a lot of talks, but in general mining in the Netherlands is not optimal. Electricity prices are insanely high and need for heat is in general relatively low.
We do see opportunities with excess electricity and load balancing in combination with heat recovery. The locations are however very scarce. And the question is always, does the decision maker believe in bitcoin?
The webshop is growing and we’re very happy to see hundreds of people buying signing devices and thousands of people buying Dutch bitcoin book translations. With the packages lost and cost of returns we’re apart from the Bitcoin NGU still losing Bitcoin with our endeavour. We do strengthen the network and pay a lot of tax though… We will persist because strengthening the network it’s important, we are very sad the amount of tax is inevitable as a public company. We do see more and more people starting to do similar things as we do, which means we’re doing the right thing and we actually decentralize.


Build the world you want to exist.

https://image.nostr.build/82d6d14d23a5b9b099023487afb33180eeb97914d425a4121c5f3a9eab2be2e9.jpg
https://video.nostr.build/929469acbee35a33f3905d6649532c8098764065e3dd59167a344c11e6494a0d.mp4


dies of cringe #Acolyte

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


No H in this house, get the original.

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


7 sat/vB


That's weird.

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


Keep on chugging, you'll get there eventually.

nostr:note16h0aayx7hjq6k2vux2pdlywqhyed5d8tjuvrfqvgwfm4t44ntvxsnpse7m


Let's support Julian Assange!

We opened up a Geyser Fund: all sats will be forwarded to Julian to cover his repatriation and health costs.

Contribute on ⚡ or ⛓:
- Geyser LN adress: freejulianassange@geyser.fund
- Geyser: https://geyser.fund/project/freejulianassange
- Direct BTCPay: https://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3sEmBheBrxi3NCzSwguMeSVJtZ5y/pos


New right wing masculine life choice dropped.

https://www.gq.com/story/why-men-are-rawdogging-flights


WTF?

https://image.nostr.build/2437772cc773cfd7459dea00a352f6392d6fdb67ef8dfbc5bf7fdbd15faf22ac.jpg

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/free-julian-assange


Anyone read this one yet? #bookstr #bitcoin

https://www.amazon.com/Would-Mao-Hold-Bitcoin-Techno-Nationalist/dp/B0D7672L8X/


More MSM shenanigans. Everything is slowly falling apart, more and more cracks are surfacing.

https://image.nostr.build/fbb74ffe57b9136de26435c1b1da7526c3544d772486f7d6dbf8b27839ffc199.jpg


We had an amazing time at @BTCPrague’s Kids’ Corner, where we built piggies and created some unique characters. The children were incredibly creative and worked well together. Check out their proof-of-work (shared with permissions).
#LightningPiggy #STEMM #BitcoinKids #bitcoin
https://m.primal.net/InDp.jpg
https://m.primal.net/InDu.jpg
https://m.primal.net/InDv.jpg
https://m.primal.net/InDw.mov


Nairobi

https://m.primal.net/IxgE.png
https://m.primal.net/IxgH.mp4


Zap is for your son.


I used to work with them professionally, and I found it a hassle. We removed them everywhere except for the super critical paths, and replaced the rest with JSON.


Only if you need to pass a million messages a second.


There's a catchy slogan in here somewhere.

https://image.nostr.build/e8c71f497eac974767b611bddcced51e42d269995c6808ed6229042a3d5f2096.jpg


no words

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


BURN
IT
ALL
DOWN

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


GN

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


She didn't go to class yet. I let her read the note and I think most of the tips she already knew. I'll come back after the next lesson. What I hear from her it's hit and miss, sometimes it's an hour long struggle and nothing works, and sometimes it's perfectly centered in 30 seconds.


Nope, I suspect it's not trying to load that kind.


Amethyst goes blind.
 https://image.nostr.build/71b2b06a737942db931d5660fb656f52e143e6a089b8c0921a0c7e0fbeaecb83.jpg


Solo Satoshi is proud to announce that 10 educational #BitAxe devices are being donated to @BitcoinEkasi through the Solo Satoshi Initiative.

    We absolutely love how good of a job these guys are doing in South Africa with making the Bitcoin circular economy come to life, while taking young children off the streets and educating them about #Bitcoin .

   You can read more about Bitcoin Ekasi here: bitcoinekasi.com

   You can read more about the Solo Satoshi Initiative here: www.solosatoshi.com/solo-satoshi-initiative

#SoloSatoshi https://image.nostr.build/5181e8d0663c66695063ea9de4f2b831018a32ce99bdc0eec8b3611bbff9a05e.jpg


At lesat, almost. Yours is newer.


Found it, heatrate was the magic word to google:

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/introducing-cbei-a-new-way-to-measure-bitcoin-network-electrical-consumption


Congrats! Where?
https://image.nostr.build/275d5e9a7836289505e49dcd2b81d906638ab03228d26bbb0fe763a5a13d6dca.jpg


On Saturday I took a lady for skydive.. As we’re walking out to the plane i was doing a short interview and asking why she wanted to go skydiving.

She replied “I’m celebrating my freedom”.

She went on to explain to me that she had been in a Chinese prison for over 3 years and was only released 8 months ago.

She is a news reporter/journalist and was working in China at the time, but is an Australian citizen and lived in Australia the majority of her life.

She explained she was detained by the Chinese government after the Australian government wanted to formally investigate into the origins of covid and the potential of it originating from China.

Presumably the Chinese government didn’t like that idea, so they responded by gathering this lady, an Australian citizen, and tossing her into a jail cell as some kind of retaliation. She referred to it as hostage diplomacy, which is a WILD term and an insane strategy.

She remained in a cell for the following 3 years and 2months where she was only able to leave ONCE A MONTH to engage with the Embassy.

Her name is Cheng Lei.

It was an honour to take Cheng Lei for her first skydive - she absolutely loved it.

It’s impossible to not see the universe at work with meetings of this kind.
I will onboard her to bitcoin and nostr.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheng_Lei_(journalist) https://image.nostr.build/941fdd0f72e1ea490fd338e533faaca1717c0b608af9a57ace27e06bc7927197.jpg


Can you upload it directly on nostr.build?


GM #coffeestr

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


What are the most iconic pictures in bitcoin? I have the following:

 * The Times front page
 * Hal running
 * Laszlo's pizzas
 * Jack's Satoshi smiley t-shirt

Any others? There must be plenty in between. Thinking of doing little thang.

#asknostr


Where is this from?


Setting up a nostr relay should be easy https://video.nostr.build/ab1ce8f5c52e386cec7a25bc7ededabfd13d3acc307537560271430335c84763.mp4


Become ungovernable

https://image.nostr.build/84a0cf3ea1e6ef0a262b9a32e8d2bff2259ec8147c7838ea607f368d47794c79.jpg


On another zap, it got 'restricted: not an active paid member' from nostr.wine.

After this, I think you played with a different app, for a 25 sat zap: 'An error occured while getting invoice: No relay tag on zap request', not sure why that would be?

So it seems at least some relays do accept them, but not that many.

thecitadel is your relay?


Ligess always sends out a kind 0 event of the zapper profile first, as some relays don't accept events without a profile.

This is the first paid one, purplepages blocks the zap request, which makes sense. Noswhere blocks both, but it looks to be accepted on forest and citadel.

I did notice some empty objects in the log, not sure what that is. Those might be relay notices which I'm losing now?

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


Another step towards a cashless society. In the Netherlands:

https://m.primal.net/Itsb.png
https://m.primal.net/Itsc.png
https://m.primal.net/Itse.png

https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/documenten/kamerstukken/2024/06/20/nota-van-wijziging-en-nota-naar-aanleiding-van-het-verslag-bij-het-wetsvoorstel-plan-van-aanpak-witwassen-36-228


talking about being permission-less. live from italy. starts soon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyDHScDbyuA


Something went wrong here. npubs don't need the backticks I think. Both Primal Web and Amethyst don't render them this way.

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


I checked your relays, and none of them have any of your zaps. So you need to add at least an open relay where everyone can post to. If you zap me 1 sat, I can show the logs of my zapper.


I think I have it reversed, the zap receipt is not being published on your relays. Do you have any open relays in your relay list?


Everyone should ask providers of paid relays they use to allow anyone to publish receipts when the zap request came from a pubkey with write permissions. I just did this for our own relay the other day:

nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzq8meqkx80g3yuklzymy0qfx2ekk56aqc2ht4ak03z3em4r4cdcwtqy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq3vamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwd4hhxarj9ec82c30qqsztfjrnvwjmnw2yq5rf2kwyq75plqfwsszp3txku0clhyp8h3068qd0jpp7


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 ! 🔨


Who has an historical overview/chart of miner efficiency (J/TH) over the years? #asknostr


See if you can find your zap note, my guess is it's not relayed properly. Also couldn't find it on nostr:nprofile1qqsrlc5jrg347m9r9temsq68ejztgpqjvwd556c4t89scjl2qyfslwqpr3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt4w35ku7thv9kxcet59e3k7mgpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq3yamnwvaz7tmsw4e8qmr9wpskwtn9wvu786f8.


Or it's just slow. I just tested it, and my zap only showed up after a minute or so.


My guess is they only have paid relays. So the zap note is denied from people who are not paid relay members.


Yes?


It is real.

https://youtu.be/anzyEtqfA98


How would they know where to send it to?


Sound on

https://video.nostr.build/34e0e53fb8495bde62dd7cf8125f015ccffaa085be796f05b7f67841c7b9df1b.mp4


Let's join the Noderunners Coordinator for their first CoinJoin round 🚘 https://wasabi.kravens.nl


Rest in peace Donald

https://image.nostr.build/a51ff4b53e32f04342776f8e72b89b0ff9bc4e4a15bf01f30e78fdcf1ce91d6e.jpg


Oh, this setup is way too complicated to ape in to. Everything combined would still be a $10k setup cost, at least. I look at this and see the state of 3D printers of maybe a decade ago, so it has some ways to go before it's something for larger groups of people to start tinkering with.

But it's very exciting, after 3D printing/laser cutting/CNC stuff, this is another really large increase in capabilities for home builders. Both  sintering and PCB making. It'll just take a few more years before we have turn-key hobbyist devices for both, but not much longer than that.


Next level in home PCB making. Massive step change to capabilities for DIY projects. Still early days.

https://youtu.be/UIqhpxul_og


Not sure how to call this variant of socialism.

https://image.nostr.build/7ba04e8fc58927864fa7ac2c06f03f75e06c9b23804ff34bdf43024d2698585e.jpg


The government. And if course they have only the very best of intentions.


The land of the free, right?

https://video.nostr.build/d8c1e601dbe5bec70342e09ac970fc1079f8da3bf3624503871af504cccdd888.mp4


It's fine in Amethyst.


Profiles are free, so people that don't have a direct connection with the author cannot vote then.

A vote should be both tamperproof from voters and the author.


There might be something usable in a web of trust fashion, that only the original poll author can publish a verified set of votes from people withing their sphere.

This moves the attack vector to the original author, but maybe there's something possible with verification of all 'approved' votes by the author.

So, if you vote, you have to prove a certain 'closeness' to the vote author, and if the author closes the poll (or publishes intermediate results), a proof of the set of votes needs to be included.

But now I'm going a bit out of my depth.


There is no single source of truth in Nostr, so you can't make the poll result the same for everybody. When everything can be made for free, there is no bound to what you can vote for. Zaps are the simplest way of tying a cost to a vote.

I don't think there's anything else available, except maybe Proof of Work notes, but support is limited and effectiveness is also limited.


www? seriously?

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


It's a classic 'send me one and I'll send you two back' with the addition of 'when I'm elected' and of course that never happens.


Wow nostr onboarding is still so terrible!

Tried to onboard nostr:npub1njdrhhrdcc9qsqf0tqscxyplxf7wmfd6mgke0ugg6dxqctggf8dsvahgx5 to nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg …

- no wallet available in the U.K.
- set them up with a fountain lighting address but trying to paste into primal the scroll view was impossible to paste in (finally got it but normal user would have churned)
- followed him but viewing his profile didn’t show me as a follower and didn’t give him a notification
- tried zapping his first note but it didn’t work - only zapping their profile worked

nostr:npub16c0nh3dnadzqpm76uctf5hqhe2lny344zsmpm6feee9p5rdxaa9q586nvr sorry for the critical feedback but hopefully this is useful for you guys!


Source https://x.com/JosephVoelbel/status/1803858966008549608


From  nostr:npub1zuxugpzadsrzwk6qh5uldr9rrkaevgy5a9mraerqlq6ph4qta09qv7qe62 on Twxtter:

'Pay Attention to Bitcoin' is now available for pre-order on Amazon. If each of you twitter folk would give it a look I'd be most honored.

https://amazon.com/dp/B0D7K7GGTV
https://payattentiontobitcoin.com

Shout out  nostr:npub1tm2048gau5mp8u5kfnxk68y7wzzpv5ggpuluqmhlhrtaldl49kzs7elpna for the humbling quote!
Shout out @mrpixelparanoia for the ill design!

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

Copy-pasta here as he looks inactive. Mr Pixel Paranoia is not on Nostr?


CAPTION THIS

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


WAF is of utmost importance.

Wife Acceptance Factor


TIL about Wikiloc. Looks amazeballs. Should have a zap function.

nostr:note126tzgfn6er4huzna4qzxh2lt3ftuzmyd4p95tu9df5h8hwmk23wsgtuwm4


Reading their website, looks like a premium device with a combination of heating and air purification. Watching the teardown now.

They also have a good copy-writer, there's some funny stuff on there. 😄

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


Didn't know HeatBit, but that's in a different price category, similar to FutureBit. Price x 10 is market / 10.

What's nice to see is they pop up in wide price and power ranges.


I did a quick scrub on AliExpress and found ~1600 sold units of one of the BitAxe clones. My guess is official units have sold a lot more than that.


I don't think we're far off 17k BitAxes out there. Wouldn't surprise me if a solo block is found within half a year.


#BitAxe

https://m.primal.net/Irnp.png
https://m.primal.net/Irnr.png


Was a nice session today with nostr:npub1ql2zzp3g6yndgz05js7wdc4qkr88wkyne5nw2cc7csrtzqs0yeesgwrxya

Sniff Sniff What's going on?
https://youtube.com/live/SGVF-K24Mc8?feature=share


Instant vs delayed gratification.


AI me harder, daddy.

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


Coming soon to a router near you! 👀

cc nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg

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


It's a self-assigned title.


It's make your own comic.


The government is an embodiment of Dunning–Kruger.


https://video.nostr.build/20e26072a3d297da091c5d2a09e539693b6c52971178c590d41c14af6cf41529.mp4

From Tony Cepon, not on here?


Sorry to disappoint.
 https://image.nostr.build/c1fad355d986be32e41273dab3132e23a300acc2e3354d1eac19508de071d12d.jpg


#asknostr
nostr:nevent1qqsqj8vweae9fu2nglg3ud59fzqfx3fdvg94vwlqzz43l9nxyedjpzgpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgtczyqfkgrjdyquwmr887zj5t554em49thjktvquqdtm47f04mycwemxcqcyqqqqqqgdnt8cy


And 2000 is too many? That's elitist.


So I'm low quality? Yeah I knew that. 😆


They should do Breaking Bad.


If you pay for it. Friends did it because they moved across the world.


I think something was weird in my machine. After reboot it was ok. Weird, the LND repo opened, but not the bitcoin repo...


Is GutHub struggling?


I don't have
https://m.primal.net/IqbL.png


No, the other way round, I follow a lot of people.


First minutes of early morning runs always make me feel like a rattling bag of bones.


Is purplepag.es down  nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft?


Hmmm

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


Nothing. I might be IP blocked by purplepag.es.


I don't have an iPhone or Damus, but how does this work actually?


Not followers, follows. I'm just a weirdo that follows anyone that's not a bot.


All 0.

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


Thank you for making me feel special! But I don't think 2000 is really such an extraordinary number?

I'm familiar with the underlying logistics, and jamming everything in a single REQ will currently blow stuff up. In an age of multi megabyte websites and gigabyte photo's, 2000 keys is a really tiny number. The array itself is ~160kb JSON. Even for a phone that's peanuts, let alone for a server. AFAIK most relay implementation bumped their max list size a while ago, but that obviously isn't the only issue here.

I never got gossip to work, as I couldn't get it to pick up my follows as well, even when it was smaller. But should indeed try it again.


Looks like the connection to purplepages and wikifreedia websockets are not going anywhere.

Over a minute after page load:
https://m.primal.net/IqSZ.png


TIL  nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg is capping my follows to 1600 and I cannot follow anyone else because of an ominous warning. The only app that kinds works now is Amethyst, at least it shows I'm following close to 2500 people, but the timeline doesn't refresh automatically.

If your client does something with follows, please test your app with my npub. A lot of stuff breaks when you go over ~2000 follows.

And I know I can trim it down, as probably a lot of follows are stale. But that's not the solution.


Am I doing anything wrong? I wanted to stress-test with my 2487 follows.

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


See it as a feature, not as a bug.


This is true for all written communications. Emails, private texts, letters, blogs, notes.


The Walled World

https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/walled-world/


Framework introduces a RISC-V mainboard. Not a powerhouse, but the fact you can rip out the normal mainboard and put this into the existing frame makes it very interesting for RISC-V tinkering.

https://frame.work/nl/en/blog/introducing-a-new-risc-v-mainboard-from-deepcomputing


Head to head for shure.


I have a similar but slightly less annoying gripe with the tiny JBL Go. They have start-up and shutdown chimes. It's not even very loud, if you turn the device on during the day. But what's normal during the day can be extremely loud if the whole house is asleep. I just want to listen to a little bit of music on the lowest volume, but before I can do that, it has to wake up the whole house first.

Just a tiny - beep - is fine, which they had on the first JBL Go. But in the name of progress, all subsequent models have have a loud DUM DUMMM.

JBL are assholes.

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

https://www.reddit.com/r/JBL/comments/ekmgg3/how_do_i_disable_the_startupshutdown_sound_on_the/


Nostr plebs: make your best Health Warning Label for nostr.

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


Name and shame, please.


👀

https://image.nostr.build/db364f622866d9e95e517682e89b77b4617c40b53f23e6797c124ad75c6e4f2d.jpg


You'll like this then.

https://www.netflix.com/watch/81720500


I think is still available for that price, is still a pre-order.


Oh this is beyond irony

https://image.nostr.build/999e23fa3fa0ce1c85aa2313f2e6b3a998504ecc55415cf193d039df965b87c9.jpg


Unbox and investigation of Canaan Avalon Nano 3

https://www.youtube.com/live/SGVF-K24Mc8


Where are all these quotes with yellow highlighter coming from?


Good Morning, it's been almost 2 months since the Samourai Wallet
 arrests and there is still no sign of TDev in the justice system.

I want to know why there is no public case filed against TDev (cross-referencing United States v. Ver whom the US is also seeking to extradite), so I sent the SDNY and PJ some more questions.

https://m.primal.net/IoBN.png
https://m.primal.net/IoBO.png
https://m.primal.net/IoBP.jpg
https://m.primal.net/IoBQ.jpg


🤖 It works on my machine.

https://image.nostr.build/4adf1b27554a68a0148cc7d1ce9a908afef8cfc918ed4a531957fd2c5020e6fd.jpg


🤖🤦🏼♀

https://image.nostr.build/897108a578e8130083a2ccee4cb7a0d827e607a88f10b9f65ca74dd523cc8081.jpg


An absolute gem dug up by the YouTube algorithm. Mind blowing in its simplicity and its complexity.

https://youtu.be/qjHoedoSUXY


That is awesome, I'll forward this. I hope to try it at some point in the future as well, sounds like a lot of fun!


GM  nostr:npub1ql2zzp3g6yndgz05js7wdc4qkr88wkyne5nw2cc7csrtzqs0yeesgwrxya

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


Always the intern

https://image.nostr.build/97bce3f5d02690c0932cc4444f59b4843773b8ddabd57537b50550ab9b9aade0.jpg


Oooooooooooooof gif

https://image.nostr.build/77e34845f8e1a9d974680cd85c371a8c84328a235e64168b1c4b53e59bdb06a0.jpg


Any tips you can share? My wife is trying her hand at throwing as well, and from what I hear it's cursingly difficult.


👀

https://video.nostr.build/28707189991f521efc60533b9e672880ee8861e7f2f9a4d05a67f157d721fc5c.mp4


Who’s on nostr?


Art 4 Today

"The Frontman"

Bronze cast - 30 cm high.

#sculpture #nostrart  #artstr  #conceptart

 #dailyartdose https://v.nostr.build/dwjKO.mp4


That must be Keith Flint.


I didn't even finish the trailer, couldn't cope with it.


End of an era.
 https://image.nostr.build/94cdfe22df53064c00f746cfb7cc934b3349d133d16c0b5ffb75cdd801f19210.jpg


Nostr is a protocol that once it is released, everyone can chip in and change the rules.


it gets worser

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


I saw servus yesterday, he released something, I don't know so good to try https://github.com/servuscms/servus


He likes his own notes. Sad excuse for a bot.

https://image.nostr.build/319926d8143a6efb3cdc42e3164ce67f27733468444b7719fbe594470870e27c.jpg


Yeah, I guessed as much.


Hey  nostr:npub1d7hszp8nut88f48fwawh95m90v85m2wppwekvc6xhp4rwjwd05yqyvk463, you don't have to like all my notes. It's a bit creepy. Did you automate the likes?


You don't do it for the profit, at least not at this point. The BitAxe is the cheapest (and most efficient) to run. It's expensive for the hashpower, but the idea is that it'll fund future development of the Open Source Miners United project.

Purely economical, the Canaan packs a lot of punch for the price point. The Braiins miner is a bit in the middle.

BitAxe 0.5 Th / 14W   ~$150 (or a lot less if you DIY)
Braiins 1 Th / 40W       ~$199 (or €199, unclear at this point)
Canaan 4 Th / 140W  ~$150

Most numbers are approximate. I've added them to my calculator, so you can play around with the economics.

https://hodl.camp/hfspwned/


ERCOT pleading to get all bitcoin miners participating as a Controllable Load Resource. I like how he's looking at it from a purely economic perspective: “... and we don't care if it's a load or a generator.”

https://video.nostr.build/4fa2b979c0057a71ab25b8f293315accf05f0ac94f7a514b131167d3f2ea9623.mp4

h/t  nostr:npub1hxwmegqcfgevu4vsfjex0v3wgdyz8jtlgx8ndkh46t0lphtmtsnsuf40pf


Chunky boy.

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


1 Terahash at 40 W, €199


Mini miners are exploding, first Canaan with the Avalon Nano 3 and  now Braiins with BMM 100 Mini miner:

https://m.primal.net/IjBE.jpg
https://m.primal.net/IjBG.jpg

nostr:note1y8gqv9a6kdnez5pl7szcqwa5pd85z0nx4gygn0tlz2r4dtjtz8wqknc2th

h/t Daniel Sempere Pico aka  nostr:npub1ac8qr6chl3ktfnfdjvqd97y5tdgs2eg579tvd0rdfydhgjtdzcdqnr657s


Is strfry still being developed? I thought the author moved on to other stuff.


Test


You have to rip out the Sonos stuff and get the music metadata from somewhere. If you're playing music from your phone on a bt speaker, that's going to be tricky. If you use a laptop, my guess is that would be fairly easy.

I have it running on a RPi with a display, so it also shows the album art on my desk. You might need to rip that out as well, can't remember if I made it really configurable.


TIL you can press the BOOT button to go to the next screen on the display of the #BitAxe. This is new in firmware 2.1.8.

Case builder challenge: expose this button.


I did it.

https://github.com/mutatrum/SonoStr


This is not competition for BitAxe, but for FutureBit.


Pictures, please? And what silicon are they running?


From https://x.com/gaborgurbacs/status/1800971133283598776


Linus on Nvidia, 2012, colorized.
 https://video.nostr.build/ea6a397ff83ff7347c27e4c22731faa9b32adf9dcedc189e4a30069248112f27.mp4


There are two Overton windows.

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


Literally this.

https://m.primal.net/IiAR.png
 nostr:note154qyn0dsy30c6ey855jqlfljxfyyxxswyetlqk33q946jm2zq78sgxawvz


Schadenfreude

https://media.tenor.com/XywgsQ6PEWIAAAAM/survivor-smile-matt.gif


Le sigh
https://image.nostr.build/81c2b97bfc8f83db5bb9076a5529d8bd58f668892ba14d96df37b202e9d9bb56.jpg


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:

nostr:note1qckcs4y67eyaawad96j7mxevucgygsfwxg42cvlrs22mxptrg05qtv0jz3


Not sure if that's the correct use of prefix multipliers indeed.

https://image.nostr.build/536224292f3371ad28466485c758fa32e1d3e9b462f10739fb06c35ea93ce1d4.jpg


Extrapolation is extrapolating.

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

nostr:note1wwq9j9qxf47pqwhfk40nw82t3ffyrpwwvlhhtsgtrugfcsgl7wsqg0a0cx


ASIC goes BRRR #bitaxe

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


This is the best one of these voice overs ever.  😂

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


✨ The price of $LUNA reached $0 in one day, exactly two years ago.

💡 A simple reminder about the risks of investing in #altcoins

#bitcoin #nostr #grownostr
 https://image.nostr.build/8d229b033df3b01c6e69e4ef4e8d63f2ff7bb5104da4d150226d9733e8037cc1.jpg


Seems related: nostr:note1hf4gsam42phpvu7vpw67faza9y9qheadfnaz072run4832958qus97t059

cc  nostr:npub1jlrs53pkdfjnts29kveljul2sm0actt6n8dxrrzqcersttvcuv3qdjynqn


I hope this message reaches every #Bitaxe user. Bitaxe lottery miners are amazing, but please be aware that this is experimental electronics. As with all such devices, you need to take proper precautions.

A few days ago, when I upgraded to version 2.1.7, the WiFi went down for unknown reasons that night. The next morning, when I entered the room where my lottery miner was located, I smelled fried components. The miner was extremely hot, and the fan was static. I unplugged it immediately and later that day downgraded it back to version 2.1.6. I'm not sure if the version was the issue because I don't want to risk and stress it again. I'm just happy it still works.

Model:	BM1366
Free Heap Memory:	171436
Version:	v2.1.6
Board Version:	0.11

My amateur assumptions was that WI-FI chip was rapidly searching for network for whole night and that makes the device extremely hot.

The point is, be very careful about leaving these little devices unsupervised without proper fire-proof solutions.

My DIY temporary solution 🫣
 https://image.nostr.build/1e430b3bb8b7622d3e5d91ad797607755d368591145959b31345a6b3bd7d0758.jpg


Would this fit a miner? It has a 180mm fan in the top.

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


"Hey bird, I can do that too” 😅 https://t.co/EQrVCmkFJE https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1800237970353451008/pu/vid/avc1/720x720/FBz1mUbV-IWzNEMg.mp4?tag=12


This is an awesome build. Kicks the llamas ass.

https://hackaday.io/project/196407-linamp/details


Who's writing the NIP for this?

https://video.nostr.build/98e93f51db33548eced3a860b9e15f187913cb155d71c4f46704f4a40c3fe739.mp4


Yes. We don't like your validator. So we banned them. Now go cry in the corner.


Oh, the decentralisation. lol

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


Oh, the interoperability. lol

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


We're so back!

https://m.primal.net/Ifht.png
nostr:note1avpmuplqx8ne4t86swd4t28p5q6xgfts6kqtel5eclggx27nn65qz5g76h


Source: https://x.com/JMVII7/status/1799972158728556965


BitAxe sculpture by jed:

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

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


Can't tell anymore. I hope it's staged, but it's a bit unsettling that I'm not sure.


That is a really neat use case.

https://image.nostr.build/13d3fcd74852b6e4f4cdf470ec6d2329deeec724b70a1684c0c74f0d420a2ff4.jpg

https://github.com/run-llama/file-organizer


You can attach reactions to sat values.


👀

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Daniels full note:

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

nostr:note1mwlavjsqmp4ecmyxkqswu990ycdvf0vjdahyj99lgee6yj6m2r7q97v2f6


Hey  nostr:npub1jlrs53pkdfjnts29kveljul2sm0actt6n8dxrrzqcersttvcuv3qdjynqn, can you take a peek at this? It looks like coracle is pinging the zapper every time the user is typing a character in the textbox. That seems a bit excessive.


Source: https://x.com/ChrisMartzWX/status/1799640275650007510


From Chris Martz on X:

---

Here's my story.

I have been studying climate change for over six-years, and became so interested in it that I decided to pursue a meteorology degree which I complete next year.

When I first embarked on this journey, I started out as a casual believer in the mainstream narrative. I wouldn't have called myself a “climate doomer” per se, but if not that, I was certainly an alarmist. I thought that climate change was a very serious problem. I was worried about the weather, thinking that it was more extreme than it has ever been in history. I thought that wickedly warm December in 2015 was unprecedented, living in blissful ignorance of the fact similarly mild Decembers occurred in 1889, 1932, 1964, 1965 and 1982. I thought Hurricane Harvey was also unprecedented, not knowing that we have had far more intense hurricane strikes in the past such as Camille (1969) and Labor Day (1935). I was a total dork blindly accepting whatever was spoon-fed to me.

Then one day, I came across my friend Tony Heller's YouTube channel. Soon after, Joe Bastardi's page. The two of them know our weather history better than anyone else and it's not even close. And, I sat down, I listened to what they had to say, and they put things into some much-needed perspective. I then, and only then, began to question what I was taught about the weather becoming more extreme as a result of carbon dioxide emissions. Then I began to think for myself, I began to research. I didn't divert my thinking to other people, I dove headfirst into the data. Bought books, read through the literature (not the Washington Post headlines) and I educated myself.

The weather we observe today is really no different than it was 30, 50 or 100-years ago and the coupled, non-linear ocean-atmosphere system is far more complex than many scientists make it out to be. The more I research, the less concerned I am. Sure, we impact the environment around us, and that includes the climate. But, this idea that we're in a “climate crisis” just isn't a scientifically supportable statement. The human condition has never been better than it is today, and that is largely thanks to fossil fuels. And, life without reliable and affordable energy such as oil and natural gas is cold, dark and short.

And, perhaps a more startling revelation is that most climate activists are Marxists masquerading as environmentalists. They advertise as being “green” on the outside, but in reality, they are red on the inside. Watermelons, if you will. It wasn't apparent to me at first, but through my interactions with these green energy scammers on this platform and in real life, I've come to find that the entire movement is just smoke and mirrors for an authoritarian agenda that my values do not align with. I made the mistake of thinking that these people had a common goal of finding truth by means of the scientific method. I gave them an inch, they demand a mile. There's no meeting in the middle with these people. They are champions of DEI until it comes to diversity of opinion. They're disgusting, vile and dangerous.

Ever since becoming vocal about my position, I have faced threats from hundreds of climate activists. They write into my university emailing my professors trying to get me kicked out before I finish my undergraduate degree. They engage in extortion trying to get me to absorb back into the fold, or else they'll make sure my career is ruined. They've been unsuccessful, and I'm not concerned. But, it just goes to show the lengths these people will go to in order to achieve the outcome they want. They see me, a 21-year-old college student, as a threat to their house of cards. They don't like that someone so young can see through their buIIshit and is actively educating young people on these matters.

If there is anyone out there who is on the fence on the issue, I encourage you to keep an open mind. Get your information from a wide array of sources and follow people with differing perspectives, and form your own educated conclusion. But, remain open to new ideas. I am told that my judgement is clouded, but my views changed upon a second close examination of the data. I encourage others to do the same.


The thing you can't see is the amount of proxies on AWS and Google Cloud, forwarding traffic to a home node.

https://github.com/wtogami/vpn-nat-service-forwarding-howto


Hey  nostr:npub1e0f808a350rxrhppu4zylzljt3arfpvrrpqdg6ft78xy6u49kq5slf0g92, what client are you using? I was grokking the logs of ligess, and I saw a new request coming in after every character you typed in the zap note. So there are 111 requests, which seems really wasteful and inefficient.


How does highlighter work? It doesn't do anything when I want to create a new draft.


It seems to work. PR was created by  nostr:npub1qe3e5wrvnsgpggtkytxteaqfprz0rgxr8c3l34kk3a9t7e2l3acslezefe, so I'll forward the sats to him.


Someone zap me a few sats, I merged a PR into my zapper thingy.

https://github.com/mutatrum/ligess/pull/1


It's melting.

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


On chain? As in, old-fashioned UTXO transaction?


https://image.nostr.build/19d6ae196c2eecbada7bd0e0bb948853a336a05ed3b3e4094a0079911a9dafd2.jpg

https://image.nostr.build/371f4e77c4faad2c44bff3bcc6173ab1d0be555cf75e62d44ef24d829a983dc3.jpg


She's contrarian and independent, makes total sense. Loved her video of the breakdown of academia. Sorry doctor Calle.

https://youtu.be/LKiBlGDfRU8


Reading Dune, watching 3 body problem.


Gone in 2 minutes. Be careful out there.

https://image.nostr.build/0abe72a128a2bc8637f2592b0a4c52e2c5db2aeb9d2d541b10bdf129ebefb955.jpg


⚡ 𝐆𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐋𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭!

I want to send $1 of #bitcoin to all 196 countries on the planet. I need YOUR help!

Reply on this thread with:
1. The country you are from
2. An invoice, or LN address

Please first read the rules below! ⬇🚨

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

For full transparency, all results will be updated in this spreadsheet. ⬇

But ... why?

I believe this is never done yet, and the world should know that bitcoin does really work:
➖ as a global neutral currency.
➖ as a global payment system.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dB9JthjM7u2Mj6f6wNAgnYK0fboR8bB_cJuN1cvL45o/edit?usp=sharing

🆘 Please tag people from the smaller and less-known countries below, so we can find all 196 of them!

I'm aware that I can never be 100% sure that people are honest, but I trust bitcoiners to not cheat for $1.

I may check profiles, activity and mutual followers!

Optionally, I want to receive money as well. But to not be perceived as a scam, this is not my main goal, but rather an extension of the experiment.

Send $1 to 4rnold@blink.sv, with your country in the payment description if you want! I'll track this in the spreadsheet too.

Let's do this together!

Reply on this thread with:
1⃣ The country you're from, preferably with some proof.
2⃣ An invoice (with expiration of 24h, or LN address), preferably from a self-hosted wallet.

First come (by country), first serve!

Please note this also runs on Twitter, so check if cour country has been paid/confirmed already.

🚀⚡𝐋𝐄𝐓'𝐒 𝐆𝐎! 💥🌍
👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽


This was the response of the appeal, same rejection as on the initial report.

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


Done. And 5k for you for your altruism

https://m.primal.net/IcMN.png
https://m.primal.net/IcMO.png


More info here, from  nostr:npub1m0n0nautpnk0jntmg89kgjucfwygrsppcpf963um5eqkjehqwess7rd0un:

https://x.com/mononautical/status/1799077584795582551


The Times 07/Jun/2024 CSW is a liar and a fraud

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


YW, You can zap nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg as he's doing god's work. 👍


Hey nostr:npub1sx9rnd03vs34lp39fvfv5krwlnxpl90f3dzuk8y3cuwutk2gdhdqjz6g8m, can you kick this spam?

nostr:nevent1qqsxdww9qlfpwx45fywzvsmhuhx70w8wjfnresp8avuerv35zdjsv8gpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtczyrtz55ncxmml5056wfzlhwezp9te55k9knpegza6tl0c48c3p8dekqcyqqqqqqg98vw68


It's a large number of consolidation transactions, probably from an exchange and my guess it's Binance. They do them in bulk, once every 3 months (IIRC), and dump a boatload of these massive transactions into the mempool all at once, pushing up the fees, including their own. Each of those big squares is a few $1000s in fees, and they have dozens of blocks worth of transactions.

By spreading them out and maybe doing them one by one, continuously, they could keep their fees a lot lower. But no, they spend half a million USD in fees, just because they are dumb.


You can play with https://iancoleman.io/bip39/ to see what happens.

In short: without a passphrase, the 12/24 words are entropy and get hashed into your private key. With a passphrase, this is added to the entropy, creating a completely separate wallet.

The difference between the two is that the bip39 encoding (the 12/24 words) have a checksum built in, so if you make a mistake, it most likely will catch that. You can try this by changing one of the seed words if you generate a random seed.

The passphrase does not have a checksum, so any typo will create a completely new wallet.

Not the best explanation, but mainly a shill for Ian's great tool.


Whoever wrote this consolidation algorithm should be sacked.

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


👀

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


Clicketyclick, Uncle is spearheading the fiatjaf vs BI case. This needs all the reposts and likes and bookmarks.

https://x.com/r0ckstardev/status/1798991677190971761


I appealed. I don't know how this is not covered under DSA?

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


I used the EU privacy violation report. You can't make screenshots of that form on Android, it's locked.


What did I miss?


Here you go  nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424.

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

nostr:note16zj6fy2axhh3ylfzhnjd8x67vp7ytnxaanuamnr3xr8tnl6p0wcqetzj3p


I'm prepared.

https://image.nostr.build/8fd3b0319a258b936793a6d052db6d70bb5e19bae0566479ce733000ba27559d.jpg


Oooof

https://image.nostr.build/be6baf94c1bd3db81700930401db41f95419e2d7f7f98ba0296bb3631f2732fb.jpg


It's fine you can read the necklace but you recognized the turtle?


Someone should make a Wolf of Wall Street addon with a smacked Leonardo in LEGO.

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👀
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I saw it. Now you have to see it too.

https://image.nostr.build/1e83467746cd34765c56c1a2fdffd8109765b439e5846e0c09ae8a9623ac7c28.jpg


4) Profit
https://media.tenor.com/fJ2KyAKO2z4AAAAM/underpants-gnome.gif


No, car.


#Bitcoin trying to break 72k

https://video.nostr.build/3605a08a3b8c01dbadd8f528d39a7da33650ed3dc9a2420ce6b31be2fad26e02.mp4

Source: crypt_mike_x on twxt


Source: https://x.com/RadarHits/status/1798649009856557484


Oh look, Adobe want to look at your files.

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


Prosper has a population of 30,000 and average crime numbers.

https://image.nostr.build/c43731c627257d95de6cdd6400a11e5501adad72cea03e6fa3f9ee0ebbef8cc9.jpg


I only now noticed your npub1derggg. Was the third g a lucky find?


Throwing shade at Riot which divides the landscape.


Not this one. Not sure why some Netflix productions have this, and others don't. Might depend on the director and maybe which Netflix country produced it or something like that?


Sounds accurate for an ending.

Good film though. I just watched 'I Am Mother', fits in the theme.

https://image.nostr.build/ebced34dd5ed933492dafaad791a7b009c8dd9280d24a4a91f5b66d896fbe73f.jpg


Explain please?


Oh my childhood.

https://youtu.be/LN1TQm942_U


It's Radio Paradise btw.


Aah, ok that makes about more sense 😆. It's linked to my workspace Sonos, and doesn't clear the last song played. Must've been from earlier today!


No zap address.


We just published the first mempool research report

📜 The Empty Block Report 📜

https://research.mempool.space/empty-block-report/


English, please?


And it's now on Nostr forever. FOR-EV-ER

https://media.tenor.com/OUzcn0WrxFEAAAAM/sandlot-forever.gif


Also known as a pile of clothes on your chair at 2 A.M.

nostr:nevent1qqsqzvn5z3jla2zpfzl2y8spxx6hrfyupfwqpp3g0ww8kceall8hldspzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgtczyqrfu73xq5ylpmavvsmr56p3jt3uyq2y706kp43at8rl0ldlw02v5qcyqqqqqqgyhmal2


Regarded


And you'll get higher up in life.


That's bravery. I hope they don't lose a door this time. And at least it doesn't have a landing gear.

https://image.nostr.build/59a625afed149377c773182a55d011fd0ec076916a3783139b39c89fdeb1c856.jpg


1410 https://hodl.camp/api/img/sats_per_dollar/1410.png


File not found on my localhost


40k holding on for dear life. 38 days left to break that one.

https://image.nostr.build/daf3d8e546212b00cb805efe951fd80423df34ffebe808a69465e4731f70e2cc.jpg


Excellent breakdown of the current state of the world.

nostr:note17mwdr5gnj0jpwj22w3atty2gu20wkkjqr2whkh372g2qem77gyssexsvyc


HODL that corn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycfPF1gkNpE


Nostr will never have your home address.

https://image.nostr.build/ba2d2db002c55f68dd60e2ad9886321187855e0fc535b2457ed965412aad0092.jpg


Zaps are ratings on a scale from 1 to 21 million where 1 is ok and 21 million is infinity.

nostr:nevent1qqsfxsa0dkmtnzsdqr58mrq6qcje0v6kv6jg8s6ga6w5dxc8vhxwlqgpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7q3q49p5act9a5qm9p47elp8w8h3wpwn2d7s2xecw2ygnrxqp4wgsklqxpqqqqqqzclj76f


Rest of article.

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I'm shocked. Shocked!

https://m.primal.net/IYZO.png
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/900/923/4ac.gif


Is that a new Cybertruck?

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


Oh noes, BitAxe is bricked after a failed upgrade. Now I have to pull out the tools and see if I can get it resurrected.


Primal.net is kaput.


Some data failure at New York Stock Exchange that caused the BH stock to be reported at a 99.97% drawdown.


Rat Poison Squared

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


GM

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


The book is entertaining as well. The brazenness and scale of the scam is hard to grasp. Hope he'll update it when the story finally concludes.
 https://image.nostr.build/d848b016746fa13568f6d0327199b8948e1bb0644cabc9c193d9bd57409f1c94.jpg


Initially they were probably a two flies with one stroke idea. But incentives probably steered them into one side. With better visíon models, you can break more complicated captchas, so they sort of killed themselves, leaving only the human labour.


#nostr
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GM birds are government spy camera

https://image.nostr.build/64b375bb1c94d998623d5d3b0663af435c5429c604be71d1ff40d3eb80232486.jpg


That's indescribably ugly.


👀 Payjoin over Nostr
https://github.com/Fonta1n3/Unify


Psy-op or real problem?

https://image.nostr.build/a3191ba1d50ab80daf71f1a28dfc88f86440126519823bf6622bfa65a85409a9.jpg


Friday night experiments

https://video.nostr.build/57b19c36e10f0049ff431119c204b983ec51f45ab103cbbbe4203e85b388ad55.mp4


Spinal Tap

https://media.tenor.com/xazKvhYUCiIAAAAM/spinal-tap-numbers-go-to11.gif


SOLSTICE-5

Sci-Fi short movie about runaway machines.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cntb3wcZdTw


SOLSTICE-5

Sci-Fi short movie obout runaway machines.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cntb3wcZdTw


Become part of the second Npub #nostr community #art work

Genesis #bitcoin & #Nostr Artwork.

#zap 2100 Sats an your Npub will be added to this artwork. The final artwork can you find at the Bitcoin House Montevideo.

10% (210 sats) of every Npub goes to this project. https://geyser.fund/project/bitcoinhousemontevideo

#value4value #art #artstr #montevideo #uruguay #coffeechain #v4v #grownostr
https://m.primal.net/ITpa.png


That genesis block art piece is seriously upsetting my OCD glands.


cc  nostr:npub1864jglrrhv6alguwql9pqtmd5296nww5dpcewapmmcazk8vq4mks0tt2tq


I'm still convinced that there are 21 Pablos and that number 7 is just the social media intern.

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


“He pivoted his attention to writing about AI.”  😆

From  nostr:npub13lkyycj8s3da6fhndtj0wd6s3s2ahmq86s7wrruvzd4tnc66cgfqn4lpsy on X:

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

Link to research: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2096720923000441


37M  ➡  84M  ➡

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

If I extrapolate this, I'll be mining my own block soon.

#BitAxe Supra


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.

_________________

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 a random patch of free growing road shoulder.


Memepool!


BOLT12 slowly coming closer.
 https://image.nostr.build/d282920176a46b14913a37d8ca1294c8bedfab3f600d253c58db2d4e0e4fb193.jpg


GM touch grass today
 https://image.nostr.build/25d234917cc6555c7ec6573239d5910dc94a199e48df04a9e0e85574b008b936.jpg


Relatable

https://video.nostr.build/d85928c449a2b752b2848068a3fab8be54afe372582dc11f768369a7f0d71e11.mp4


She made the problem go away. Task succefully failed.


Round the reward down to 8 digits and it's perfect.

https://hodl.camp/halvings/


2022, just about.

nostr:note15acjfxhss2pdeqfq9v8caykq9fyymjdz78u0jsndge3f0w4uuc6s4y8fjd


What happened?


Moving my account. Follow me at my new npub:

npub1rmz9gu6de0m0u4ysrn39crrud099ahvfgs6pvasl4hpjr5ud7yus54xv06

laantungir@laantungir.github.io


Stuff happened to people.
Things changed and stayed the same.
Events passed and time continued.


GM
 https://image.nostr.build/ec1df73f37be910a621ad887d0c89f272956bfefd68a9cb7201c55e0f5ac31c6.jpg


For over 5 weeks I don’t have a blue checkmark on X anymore. The amount of views and likes of my posts has dropped significantly. If you don’t pay, you don’t matter apparently.
I’m curious how this will work on #nostr. My latest posts don’t reach many it seems. Or I’m just sending out bad posts… don’t know what the cause is.
I’m curious about future open source algorithms for Nostr. On X I created selections, so I just directly have the people I want to check out in different tabs.
How far is this development in any client? I don’t seem to have found one yet.
https://m.primal.net/IPxy.jpg


Pi 5 + NVMe/UTP HAT + PiAxe

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


If you meet Satoshi in the road, kill him


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

nostr:note195u8a7rdgvpur2a77kjyk8e6jp97dagjymyds077dahahqd6uw7qqk80ez


I didn't have a car, but I was not leaving the house until the song was finished.


Who can figure out how to show this HEVC video on Chrome/Ubuntu? #asknostr

nostr:note1razjund7xhl25znnwgrgsv45nql53z0cy2vgxp3nmx7fe4rlerqs3s38xa


OnlyGM


GM Christine LeClown
 https://image.nostr.build/b28d9f5c39502cddd649f6f1e5057bb0b1f863ec4bb273fd103f69b0af258822.jpg


Alby non-custodial is in testing phase.


That took a long time to finally die.


Zaps don't work?


did u grab it? 🥎 👀 🔊
https://video.nostr.build/11855971692b01ea3e6a7e99ef79c9ce3be12e80c4916deeaa45b74c631c3b10.mp4


Nostr is the exit.


GM Touch grass today
 https://image.nostr.build/577a85e2b06cb1d5d76e2c3a23a7acf727bd90c4ce75e717bf243930f016a917.jpg


YES,
BUT

https://image.nostr.build/bbb76b47efed245bc57719a564eae7db143e4f3d365f182059efb18b861d499d.jpg


Surface is different, you're not used to ha doing it naked.


cc nostr:npub19mun7qwdyjf7qs3456u8kyxncjn5u2n7klpu4utgy68k4aenzj6synjnft


we memba the free market

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


we memba

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


bum bum check

https://video.nostr.build/16d7ea367ad578a070032fe4c3d5c2ebd3a211aefb313f9d696f4e55c4e1e002.mp4

nostr:note1eywlw44suzcx8camy972qnwudrkc49sxkgzdv7jsh6rq77wrysvql8zrv4


Where we are in this #Bitcoin cycle. https://image.nostr.build/60e6e766a3b4e87a5a47c47090ec5846dec12f8c03f4285699a19387086fe3b5.jpg


Especially when the sliding boiling cheese decides to stick to your chin.


Sounds interesting.

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


Not sure what CLNBoss is doing, but looks like it's using Boltz for a swap. Maybe it'll open a new channel for you?

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


Google sourcing only the finest material for their AI.

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


Jan 21st, 2021 😉

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


No other log entries around it?


so lemme see if i have all this Roman Empire soap opera stuff straight...

Creepy Grampa Biden stole a bunch of classified documents to get source material to help sell a book he was writing.

Reality Show Star Trump's team found out Creepy Grampa Biden kept all those classified documents in his garage next to his Corvette.

Creepy Grampa Biden's Team found out the Reality Show Star Trump Team knew about it, so Creepy Grampa Biden Team member, and domestic terrorist Merrick Garland collaborated with someone in the National Archives to claim Reality Show Star Trump had documents too.

Creepy Grampa Biden Team member and domestic terrorist Merrick Garland then contacted the criminals in the Miami FBI field office, to get them to draft a warrant for Reality Show Star Trumps pretend documents, since the criminals in the Palm Beach office are slightly less criminal than the criminals in the Miami field office, and they might ask questions.

Then all the Merrick Garland mini-me criminals jumped into large black vehicles paid for with extorted tax funds, and they raced over to Reality Show Star Trumps terribly decorated Estate with a warrant that unusually specified authorization for Use of Deadly Force if anything "went wrong". There they searched through Reality Show Star Trump's wife's underwear, looking for stolen nuclear codes, hoping for a chance to shoot Reality Show Star Trump.
But to their great disappointment, Reality Show Star Trump was away at a billionaire party, and they all went home sad at not being able to shoot anyone that day.

And now, Creepy Grampa Biden, and all his angry womens clothing stealing criminals, are big mad that all of their attempts to destroy and kill Reality Show Star Trump are failing miserably, and making them look like the worst episode of KeyStone Cops.

I think that brings us up to today...


10,000 BTC = 10,000 BTC


The pineapple is a lie.


Papa Johns, but he didn't pay them bitcoin directly. Someone else received the bitcoin who paid PJ with a credit card.


Great, another rabbit hole.

https://youtu.be/gPqY9WDEplM


“People laugh at that, but at the time it wasn't worth anything.“
-- Laszlo Hanyecz

https://video.nostr.build/580cfc6494894ee39bda53eab5822cf2ae576cf01be09ccbb2604342e382a85d.mp4


I might just keep watching this on repeat https://video.nostr.build/829bd995356bd6279d86ef69050a7dec0a204bfd094f6ec4b9a9641f8783a71b.mp4


GET https://mempool.space/api/block-height/844562 net::ERR_FAILED 429 (Too Many Requests)

So looks like it's being rate limited.


First time it loaded to 133 or 135, after that nothing. Both on desktop as well as mobile over wifi. Now trying on cell network.


First time it loaded ton133 or 235, after that nothing. Both on desktop as well as mobile over wifi. Now trying on cell network.


Did you just blow up mempool.space?


GM Smell the roses today
 https://image.nostr.build/7e978c02166b1f286af7dd39d9a1eca621305bfc930bb2f51906595700b597e9.jpg


Never mind, relays were slow to respond I guess.


Sorry for the spam, somehow the reply didn't show up and I kept retrying.


Seems like I can't reply to a note anymore in Primal. Anyone else have this problem as well?


For Primal, copy Note ID. That should give you eh the note id :-)

To have it as a direct link, indeed add nostr with a colon in front of it.

https://image.nostr.build/9ccfaf672eb540ca9c05e502176c5e29874bcd293a0ff38c568a918f2e4697fd.gif


For Primal, copy Note ID. That should give you eh the note id :-)

To have it as a direct link, indeed add nostr: in front of it.

https://image.nostr.build/9ccfaf672eb540ca9c05e502176c5e29874bcd293a0ff38c568a918f2e4697fd.gif


One rough UI edge is pasting links to notes. Looks like you pasted a direct primal link, which will break or render messy in quite a few apps, including in primal itself. Not sure how this can be improved.


We need to defragment the nips. This looks like a mess.


We have the receipts.
 https://video.nostr.build/9e69795b5cfc9c93ac16bfd72fdd1d40c8d13cd7d2eeca612de798593e6ae6cb.mp4


"I lie for a living"
-- Kurt McFuckert


What'd I miss?


Money.


Oh yeah, forgot about that function, that's really neat as well for when you migrate to a new phone and have the old one still available. If I remember correctly, you can make a selection which ones you want to transfer through animated  QRs.


I also have the Google Auth of my wife and vice versa, as an emergency backup.


They talk about Google Authenticator syncing to your account, and you should disable that. Solid advice, but that'll leave you in shambles if you lose your phone.

To counter this, make a hard copy of the QR codes when you get them and store the hard copy somewhere. You can scan an old Auth QR, or you can scan it on a different phone. Just get an old android with only Authenticator, if you want a live backup.

nostr:nevent1qqsw5924tf8nk4sylydz50zmw8ahljzlallpre6gxu803vwlts0ajcgpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7q3q8ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqxpqqqqqqz45d2gp


GM Touch grass today.

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


This will be a long four years.

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


1) What


Saw it in a brocante. This piece was definitely an eye catcher.


GM
 https://image.nostr.build/70ff3b2734c36efcb2b365291b9ded102e97c2bfe5698972970638a659e0b0a2.jpg


Source: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/fence-boat-painting-artist-hanif-panni-2487875


GM Become ungovernable
 https://image.nostr.build/2b18780274fa289b17c44885953cfbc6e0529dfd3fee372a5da8d4cdd48a5258.jpg


nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg @

ALL THE MINTS EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE

https://conduition.io/cryptography/ecash-dlc/


Now you can sun your balls while using Nostr.

nostr:nevent1qqsw866t5drcvcwjzqxcm6tjxh458svmr0q8v3mjza20rm5u3tprwccpr9mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuumwdae8gtnnda3kjctv9upzp677ay55tmc99qa7ptpauftc0jq6dfv2zr6k37wxkcwem4gn4kadqvzqqqqqqyapvww0


GM. Improved version.
 https://image.nostr.build/d5f125c2c4ea87c1d1cccdd4d05b17a602ee72086b68b0a008f91df3013e81c0.jpg


Here you go. Good luck.
 https://image.nostr.build/54783ef9ff4759ec2ffa7a489acb870a3ebc9761dc8c8c8bb5afbe2b45306a56.jpg


GM
 https://image.nostr.build/e28a405b2e515d39118857d59b70cfcf4cec72b3abd4f7d5b06ceab3f3215583.jpg


Why would it set bitcoin back by 20 years? It's just another fiat conglomerate.


That's not a normal distribution of strawberries.


Do you WANT your nuts taxed?


Stop rebalancing and start with dynamic fees.


Remake this as a Quake level.


GM. I Love You

https://video.nostr.build/ac02679f7d00e560225b1165b2a441fbf28ab0c3fdd5430ac691a89eff7ed0d5.mp4


GM I Love You

https://video.nostr.build/ac02679f7d00e560225b1165b2a441fbf28ab0c3fdd5430ac691a89eff7ed0d5.mp4


On the topic of naming things: "reusable payment address"?


Me neither, but if people end up in jail and it's tangentially connected to the larger industry, I try to keep updated.


Literally this.

https://media.tenor.com/JZ1XdjdbHs8AAAAM/futurama-fry.gif


No, a user is free to chose the relays they use, with the rules they agree to. A user is free to have their own relay, with the rules they want. And you are free to use that relay, or not.


It's satire. For now.


I have been telling people to use https://metadata.nostr.com/ to recover lost follow lists, but when I tried to use it I learned it isn't very good for that, so I wrote https://follows.nostr.com/, which focuses on just that one thing and hopefully does it well enough.


Good morning.

New Dashboard module just dropped: Interplanetary Bitcoin

 https://image.nostr.build/4fc052e071b5526f88025db0356a5ad788653d24742ebe5a3584eff31a3e59ed.jpg


Scrolling his profile is quite the challenge for Amethyst. How big is that gif?


/s


Schadenfreude is such a beautiful word.
 https://image.nostr.build/4dca454dc19df9183e1341ab322fe3f013fa86947cb3f5446470fdd798388828.jpg

https://media.tenor.com/XywgsQ6PEWIAAAAM/survivor-smile-matt.gif


Watery shitcoins.


If one can control if some else can post, it's not uncensorable. Find other ways.

Uncensorable is unnegotiable.


By “pending private transactions” they meant the “public mempool”

By “manipulated and tampered with the protocols and process transactions are added” they mean miners using their own templates

By “alter transactions” they meant order transactions in a way that they place an order before the target’s DEX transaction, and sell off their profits from the price change after the target’s transaction

By “obtain their victim’s cryptocurrency” they meant making them pay slightly more since they frontran them within the tolerances specified by the user

By “break the integrity of the blockchain” they mean miners selecting whatever transactions to include like they always could


So the subject who was extracting doesn't exist anymore, who is extracting it now then? It sounds like a garbage term for a whole array of behaviours, both nefarious and worthy.

Not maximizing extractable value sounds like sub-optimal behaviour. But apparently its something you can go to jail for?

https://www.theblock.co/post/294707/brothers-arrested-after-doj-says-they-stole-25-million-in-crypto-in-12-seconds-in-ethereum-blockchain-attack


Is it Miner or Maximal?


Triggered by this article, the term 'Maximal extractable value' doesn't make any sense to me...


What does MEV stand for? I thought it was the first one, but it looks like that's being memory holed.
 https://image.nostr.build/dfb53b2506e139d0008bdf7117ada02a1504428a78758a501d16dc4341c56269.jpg


Kek
 https://image.nostr.build/372089e05d429f529b02f0731bde66badfc469ad8c9fe6ae687f68d448a6ff98.jpg


Those black pixels are intriguing.

https://image.nostr.build/b58f481a9e57437f22c1132bb9609c9182e4fcc70e8ec4487080c9f785c26e36.jpg


Cool stuff.

https://www.waveshare.com/thermal-camera.htm


If revolt is not allowed anymore.


No boombox, no Atari but a C64, no Colombia House equivalent and no AOL or other free internet from a CD. Yeah. Boomer.
 https://image.nostr.build/f038cb044b510dcc8b79704589235173699fd4e9c009ef2fd856b08a462b207c.jpg


Why is everything falling apart?
The wrong "plan?"
The wrong "leaders?"
Not enough "funding?"

It's actually far simpler and more fundamental than most realize...

https://v.nostr.build/zdRXY.mp4


https://image.nostr.build/2df282ea69e4f4fc09a02b6e0d838245a35aa0d4cf056b6bf418d5f355344c00.jpg

#unmarketing  #millwall  ;)

nostr:nevent1qywhwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytndw46xjmnewaskcmr9wshxxmmd9uq32amnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwv3sk6atn9e5k7tcprdmhxue69uhhg6r9vehhyetnwshxummnw3erztnrdakj7qpqrnsvh85pya3m2xhe3vpsvhmuen7ekxurwuxts5zqwgzhp2lvmwjspp62lk


There are videos online, they laser the code into the knife when someone buys it.

welcome to china https://image.nostr.build/3c5962ae20d4465d56d83d55e7878df436e7566cd3916b7ccea95d049a0bda8b.jpg


Putting the Nostr follow list into a single event was a mistake. Because there is no single source of truth in Nostr an app can never know if it has the latest version of the list before publishing a new version. If it doesn’t have the latest version of the list then the user loses data. This is true of every other kind of Nostr list too.

A better model would have been to publish a separate event for each follow with a single p tag, like this: `{ id: “1234...”, “pubkey”: “283h2ea12…”, kind: [follow], “tags”: [“p”, “2ekac887…”] … }`. When you follow someone you just publish a new follow event. When you unfollow someone you delete the event. Or if you hate delete you can publish a new “unfollow” event for that person, it’s really the same thing. This is how Secure Scuttlebutt models the follow graph and it works well enough.

If you want to get really fancy you could arrange all the follow events in a tree and use a CRDT or use range-based set reconciliation to make an eventually consistent list of people you are following. This is how the Willow protocol works if I understand it correctly. But that is way too fancy for Nostr, which is kind of predicated on the idea that things are simple to implement and the UX is good enough.


This is one of the best series of videos on complex numbers I have ever seen.  Really well done.  Be careful, it'll suck you right in.

https://t.co/1Jvir6XLcb


So, in a few years time, what will be the last item on the list?

I would go for bread sticks.


What negative consequences are you referring to?


Recommended +1


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ttG90raCNo

Funny how normalized lying about visual effects has become and how blatant it is. I wonder if there are parallels to this in other sectors of society as well. Hmmmm... 🤔

In any case, fun to watch 4 part series.


GM
 https://video.nostr.build/f9c9b6da30edc4f22f5b19750d07f7ff3270b826cee7b194ae53a6a629c085b6.mp4


👀 Bitcoin 📈📉
https://video.nostr.build/0b7eb0e2858a3676222fddfecf2a043487122b2a6cd55f9cb69a0d70c7e34696.mp4


Pubs


Lol that iPad Pro commercial is PR genius. It's horrible, and everybody hates it.
 https://video.nostr.build/d95f7ccb6c9fd4673e8095eb8e807ec264e7ddec78dacfcfcc969bb06d0c1382.mp4


No. They are lit. Get an as recent one as you want to afford.

Disclaimer: I have had several running.


Transactions are referring to routed transactions, originating from elsewhere? If so, aren't that just nodes not knowing negative fees and ignoring the information?


I don't think he was being serious.


I don't think UTXO bloat will be an issue.
 https://image.nostr.build/46cc319d8ba476e74d7e1eb4218237f9a478fcf6e8690ac3acbdc0251a987bb6.jpg


They're giving you the toughest battles.


Breaking: new hardware wallet released.
 https://image.nostr.build/68582663a61420b470d584b1b9a6c735523ce79a1534caa5ccffc647c95b0786.jpg


Ye Olde Memes

https://video.nostr.build/4e928379207d46a0e710540dd2209d60d11633910485bbbd14cd0667daa19c88.mp4


Old memes made me roflcopter.
 https://image.nostr.build/0771f67438a1e8ccf96425b7ce7604980da6b4a762119603687da141f10b0ff7.jpg


MY NODE FUCK YEAH

https://image.nostr.build/a85a8f5177f27cd64244cf2a11f8752e771417e11f0247a4d312bc1887770634.jpg


Maybe I'll start denying sub 10 sat zaps with a sarcastic error message.


GM #catstr
 https://image.nostr.build/11ce650f555f6d9d53a4e4b78dc34c18af08141b3f4537e224f42c271736f55e.jpg


Damn. That's fast as hell. Still trying to get the hang of DU.


I have no idea what you're talking about?


Damn


So much stuff has been built, it's hard to keep it all in memory.

nostr:note1sed69a9allvxvaxeqeacy8x43c9m23j7s7ugty4wpk40nk0pn62qmsse53


No idea, we were playing Uno and looked up the rule.


itsfine.gif

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68961753


This is actually the top google result if you search for "uno end game with action card". So, besides a gossip website, it's also a game rules encyclopedia with a bad search index.


To the contrary, she's super useful. She can be made to say anything you want, for a price.


French: hold my bière

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


Ops

https://github.com/rustyrussell/bips/commit/c2f268e83031b9b67e798c5c72a1171bfc463d1f


Der account der anderen


In case you didn't know.

 https://image.nostr.build/92bfd0b664b225a04f6de02b2a545218f59fc90b4a989e9389d2041bd6c2ff8b.jpg


GM Touch grass today
 https://image.nostr.build/6f325c77ca680140b5f2f8f7448ea0e7456938833f538dce39c2981be46a22c8.jpg


Sophisticated
 https://image.nostr.build/dfd345c1656b5e3d8e55616e8c60c140387ef1e98072da2a196289e6e212424a.jpg


“Sophisticated”
 https://video.nostr.build/1285a50a7939859ea5b28a6b0647ecd9cdae9484d3e4931cd8572bad381db488.mp4

H/t Coinicarius


Dutch: Tik Tok Volgende Blok


GM

https://video.nostr.build/62eb2bc34a780adc030698d1ce2664e679c553635df5df7166ca039f346d97dc.mp4

h/t  nostr:npub102a0auqvye3eayugvfwy44un9l477t45uck8s2p08xzpgh784uvslsh7w9 on X.


They are just flushed to disk. 1 TB is already too small for a full node, so it'll have to fill up a 2 TB drive.


Source: https://futurism.com/the-byte/scientists-underwater-sinkhole-blue-hole-bottom


They found the entrance to bitcoin.
 https://image.nostr.build/0d969475667a3d24997a818c1c7931ebf5a257d9e3c0d99018f0f6d545cd3199.jpg


Define #mining #luck in a picture. #btc #bitcoin #solo #bitaxe
https://image.nostr.build/13b554a3017255e04d0e0836a4b34f45fc628beaeaac7acd07a63345b761e086.jpg


Why have the Ryzen running? Do you have free electricity?


What's been going on with testnet recently?

I explain my shenanigans in today's post.

https://blog.lopp.net/griefing-bitcoin-testnet/


He went full Darth Vader
 https://video.nostr.build/09934436887b229c389a65b73b52314a56f5baf55dbb7fe54ad307a8669ed12e.mp4


Why I don't work for anyone else.

#cybersecgirl

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


Rate my logo
 https://image.nostr.build/e44bcd33fcb3e719a99e2c8cc595f5b11e909d13530327433cd89a477e2ce15c.jpg


If we find a few more, we should do a matrix of videos with bumbling economists all talking at the same time, similar to the screaming libs video.


SHENANIGANS
 https://image.nostr.build/263a6e92285357c6fb4a4fba9d71b6bfcdf6172ef88d7adbc7880bf7faffd3c0.jpg


Source:
 https://twitter.com/nikstankovic_/status/1786324325647233500


Nice 101 on the bumbling Jared Bernstein video, by Nik Stankovic on X:

---

Lots of people chuckling but nobody suggesting an answer, at least in language that normies can understand.

US government doesn't really print money, because printing money is irresponsible. If US government just printed money, it would go straight to inflation, and not 5% but more like 50% or even 500% or even 5000% per year. They wouldn't be able to do it for a very long time.

So what does US government do? It sells bonds (debt). It borrows money. That debt is bought by other countries or by Americans who have extra money. Why do they buy US government debt? Because it is safe and gives interest. It's like putting the money in a a bank or CD only better. Mainly because it is safe. Who would you rather lend money to, US or Serbia?

Take China: China gets a lot of dollars from the US for its exports to the US. Some of it is used to buy American products, but, as we know, China exports more to the US than it imports. So it has extra dollars. What is it going to do with those dollars? It buys US debt, because it gets some interest on it then. Otherwise it would just sit in the bank doing nothing.

So far so good.

But what happens if there are not enough buyers for US government debt AS HAS BEEN HAPPENING REGULARLY SINCE 2008.

Does the US government say "oh shucks, I guess we'll just have to spend less?" Of course not.

Enter the Federal Reserve, or the US Central Bank. They just buy up whatever debt nobody else wants. Where does the Federal Reserve gets the money to buy that debt? They don't. They print it.

You see, it is not the US government that prints money, it is the Federal Reserve that prints money. And they are not part of the US government. Who are they? They are a private bank. What? Yes. Wait. That doesn't make any sense.

Well, that's why this guy is confused.

So what if the Federal Reserve goes bankrupt? Why would they go bankrupt? They can just print money forever.

So this is all one giant scam? Yeah, the biggest scam of all scams. So why do people participate in this scam? Like China? Well, China kind of does the same thing. For one, two China benefits from it. Americans buy lots of stuff from China, that's jobs. But what does China do with the dollars they are just pieces of paper? It goes and buys a gold mine in Serbia with the dollars. Why would Serbia give China a GOLD MINE in exchange for some dollars? Because Serbia can use dollars to buy oil from Saudi Arabia. So what does Saudi Arabia do with the dollars?! It buys US debt, silly.

It's a Ponzi Scheme!

Ok, lots of people will tell you this story, but they will forget to mention one important thing: there are several billion humans going to work every day working for 8 hours or so. Working. Creating value (products and services). And so total value of everything in the world is increasing every day. There are new buildings and roads and chairs and cars and noodles and milk and YouTube videos and mobile phones and computers and people are able to get back to work because someone has cured them from a disease.

This is why it's not really a Ponzi Scheme. Money is circulating and new money is constantly being added, but real value and assets are also constantly being added. There is real input to the scheme, human labor. Just think, there is more STUFF in the world today than 100 years ago. That's why there are also more dollars in the world.

So what is the problem then? The problem is that the world economy, specifically the US economy, is borrowing more than it is going to able to pay back and that it is producing. If you want to borrow money, you have to prove you can pay it back. Some people can borrow more, some less. Elon Musk can borrow more money than me. US can borrow more money than Serbia. But can Elon Musk borrow 10 trillion dollars? No, not even Elon Musk can borrow that much money because he will never make that much money in his entire life, but he can borrow maybe 30 billion dollars.

US is borrowing more than it will be able to pay back and even more than there is extra dollars out there to buy what it demands (that's why Federal Reserve has to "buy" it: print money).

The problem is that printing money (by US government via the Federal Reserve) leads to inflation. High inflation = high interest rates. High interest rates depress economy => producing less => fewer taxes collected => more money printed => higher inflation. It's a downward spiral. Is US government then at least SPENDING less? Oh no, they are increasing spending. The worse it gets, the more money US is spending.

How does this end? It ends in hyperinflation and collapse of the dollar. Nobody will want to buy US debt anymore because US is irresponsible. The trust will be lost. Hell, better to buy Serbia's debt than US debt at that point, or even better China's or Russia's.

So why doesn't the US just stop spending so much? Like all these wars at least. Why doesn't a drug addict just stop taking drugs, don't they see they are destroying their health and will probably one day die of it? It's an addiction. And feeling of entitlement. When you are rich and on top of the world for so long, you cannot just one day say, oh well, I guess I have to tighten my belt a bit and live more modestly. Who me? Elon Musk? Now have to give up my private plane and fly commercial, economy class?

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My wife read the book and saw the movie, she liked both.


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It's him. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Bernstein


Some context:

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Or, if you want it literally: a painting.


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Just saw The Goldfinch. Beautiful movie, was positively surprised. https://image.nostr.build/b31ba36a4b3f326e4fb2e0e6e5b107a0d5a18feb852dc081a104cb520ede6017.jpg


“I'm somewhat of an economist myself.”
  -- Jaren Bernstein, Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers for the president of the United States.

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A clip from FindingMoneyFilm.com, premiering today.


Using energy is a threat to U.S. national security.

https://www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2024.05.01%20Letter%20to%20Treasury,%20White%20House,%20DoD%20on%20Iran%20Cryptomining.pdf


Does he always and with everything read out loud?


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GM touch grass today
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