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 NOT A COMPETITION 😂 
 #integritychain 
 my body is ready to reach peaks level of performance and value creation

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 They can also be your warrant canary. 
 yes, they keep me safe 🙏 
 Is this a five of eight multisig federation? 
 It's 5/9, Nostr swallowed @TomerStrolight 
 DECENTRALIZED CORRUPTION CANARY 
 we'll see if it also keeps me from posting in ALL CAPS 😂 
 I serve #Bitcoin and hope to never get corrupted. To ensure this I'm designating nodes:
 @Pavlenex @Gigi @hodlersway @Marce @MILLS @johnkvallis @Jeff Booth @miles

If the majority of them say that I am corrupted - then I am. If corruption happens, they will announce it together and provide a path to redemption. 
  @TomerStrolight is also a node. Need to do better with Nostr. 
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 Wanna buy a piece of land from me ? 😁 Rare 😂 
 Nah, @miketwenty1 is just gonna create more and rug us 😆 
 you should be, one of the best Bitcoin presentation / talks created in the last 10 years 
 Great job, hopefully you do more of this and less of fat fingering of posts on wrong accounts. 

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 I'll do my best 🫡 
 Good weekend activity! TY 
 I can't wait to hear your impressions... it is super cool having this setup where you can just send the coins to get mixed and sent to your cold storage when ready.

Thinking to record a coordinator video next, but need to check with my lawyers. 
 Did you make this video? 
  @webworthy made it, I was just holding the camera to capture his contour.  
 Keep me honest 🫂 
 You want to try out CoinJoin and PayJoin, but don't know where to start?

Uncle got you covered! Here is an easy going video demoing how to use your @btcpayserver to CJ+PJ in like 5 minutes.

Now you can easily increase privacy of your #Bitcoin stash.

Questions?

https://youtu.be/84BHF0JzerQ

Just had to show off trailer first. Below is the complete video where I walk you through everything step-by-step.

Use 40 sats/vbyte environment to give CoinJoins a try.

A big shout-out to @kukks for coding everything necessary to make this video possible.

https://youtu.be/Qwo8qcfnZ14

This all started a couple months ago with drama on not being able to withdraw from exchanges to certain addresses.

With this setup, you can now easily withdraw to @btcpayserver, and your coins will be auto-forwarded to your cold storage in the end.


### Where to from here?

Leave your comments and questions, and I'll do my best to answer. 

Reshare and like for visibility; thanks for supporting Uncle! 🫂 

Huge thanks to @webworthy for all the editing, follow the guy and subscribe to our YouTube channel where he publishes a lot of goodies: https://www.youtube.com/@BTCPayServer

Also, while recording this video, I discovered some fantastic content creators. I highly recommend checking out their videos:

First off @N8hanWilliams offers a wealth of excellent Bitcoin related tutorials, including a course on Wasabiwallet. 

I highly recommend subscribing to his YouTube channel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9hdav36WAo


Then there's IanMajor, who not only featured one of my memes in his Twitter header, but also runs awesome YouTube channel.

Also - a recommendation to subscribe to his YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLFg3MmxHr8


In my full video, I also show off two easter eggs... of course, no Bitcoin video tutorial can go without mention of @BTCsessions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECQHAzSckK0


Lastly, @ODELL recorded a TFTC21 guide 4 years ago on 
COLDCARD + wasabiwallet. Really cool watching even just to enjoy the history.

You can now upgrade this setup: hot wallet will CJ and then once done, BTC will be auto-sent to cold storage.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=sM2uhyROpAQ. 
 Promises made, promises kept 🫡

PayJoin and CoinJoin your Bitcoin with ease, by using @kukks plugin in @btcpayserver

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 Wabisabi allows you to mix any size UTXOs and you get standard size outputs. Default coordinator they run is also free for UTXOs under 1 million sats. 
 Thank you and Wasabi team for making this happen and producing videos during launch... Pointing out those to people as well

https://youtu.be/zGVCrwMKKn0 
 If things get really weird, is it better to ride this out 

A. In a city 
B. On the coast 
C. In ... 
 F all the way 
 😂 
 If you want to loose a friend just borrow him money 
 That was never a friend, good way to discover who is who. 
 The Solar System belongs to #Bitcoin 
 😂 
 Hmm interesting, do people in the US think US is somehow related to bitcoin? 
 Some want to coopt and control Bitcoin.
They will learn that Bitcoin can't be coopted and controlled. 
 Don’t forget out of this world 
 Universe is too wide for consensus of Bitcoin blockchain to work, but I'm sure we will figure this one out in due time... as we begin to directly harness significant portion of Sun's energy.

h/t @jack https://m.primal.net/HWhL.png 
 Yeah “i dont give a f*ck where you are, Who you are, Bitcoin is the future” 
 Bitcoin is the only financial system nowadays that you can use without even being a human. 
 This. Yet we still see lots of narrow mindedness in the space with Silicon Valley still being dee... 
 We will fix it, together. 
 satoshi was a waiter from the us tho

think about it, you tip on every transaction 
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 I'm really loving your graphics 
 The Whole 🌍🌎🌏 belongs to #Bitcoin 🫂🥰

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 Sun belongs to #Bitcoin 
 Bitcoin doesn't belong to the US; it belongs to the world. 
 People get lost in their silly little local games and narratives they get captured by. We will help them see beyond the noise of the bubble they are in.

https://twitter.com/FractalEncrypt/status/1743215425364668777

h/t @FractalEncrypt

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 I honestly can't wait for this 
 stack HATS lol 
 This is THE hat, there will never be a better one in Bitcoin... objectively (and humbly) speaking.  
 stay humble 🙏 #Bitcoin https://m.primal.net/HWZT.png 
 give everything, ask for nothing 
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 Are the Stablesats just Blink "holding your money for you" and keeping the interest off USDC? Or ... 
 From what I know they don't hold USDC(BDC), but rather short Bitcoin on the exchange to create synthetic USD on behalf of whoever holds account.

Since it's custodial setup you don't want merchants hold large amounts - setting up withdrawal to your Phoenix wallet for example is the way to go.

But for getting Merchants online and accepting payments over lightning, I think this is the setup to go for. 
 For all the merchants looking to accept Lightning in their @btcpayserver stores, I highly recommend checking out this newly launched plugin from @Blink – The Everyday Bitcoin Wallet!

This is a HUGE deal - once you have Blink account and tie it through Lightning connection, not only can you seamlessly accept payments without worrying about channel management and liquidity, but you also have the option to hedge in StableSats USD. 

Here's a trailer showcasing the plugin in action:

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

And then blog post on Blink's website explains all the details of setup and vision behind plugin: https://www.blink.sv/blog/introducing-the-blink-plugin-for-btcpay-server

So far in my own testing everything is working very smoothly; I'll continue to explore and play with the tech, as this has absolute potential for use in all my merchant setups and workshops at the conferences.

Finally - h/t to @kukks who is the coding powerhouse behind the plugin. It's all FOSS, so check out git repo on: https://github.com/Kukks/BTCPayServerPlugins/tree/master/Plugins/BTCPayServer.Plugins.Blink  
  @openoms hitting it with "I CONTROL SATS" setup 

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 Custodial, see @niftynei snipe of my post  
 Not available for US Residents, it's a third world country that prevents it's residents from using freedom tech. 
 BTCPay App has been announced and worked at.

USD in my view will always be custodial in some manner because it's a fiat tech.

Finally - I don't understand why need for 🌶️ and negativity. Like why create drama online - if you don't like something - hit me up in DMs - tell me what is the problem and what you want me to do. Let's not use my posts to drag down cool FOSS tech that can be used to onboard more merchants. 
 This is a plugin Galoy / Blink developed with Kukks  in his free time.

Base BTCPay Server has LND integrated in the stack so you can use it in fully self sovereign way for over 5 years... I've done integration and supported it ever since. 
 🫂 
 Assange always makes me think about the fact lies are so much easier than truths. 
 I am a developer with 15 years of experience spread across many languages and I have very high co... 
 I remember similar moment in like year 17... realized that I will never see myself as "a good developer".

Top 2% on Stackoverflow, coded multiple startups fully by myself, had years where I would literally code every day... and I would still fall victim to like "oh, but I'm not good at evaluating this random project in TypeScript, am I really a good dev".

Luckily, by that point it was already a year or so into this "Rockstar Developer" persona, so that started to take hold... 
 Yeah, this is exactly how it looks... Emperor @NicolasDorier designed it with rows of tables for us to code 😂 
 Uncle always says FOSS is the way, and it’s the way cause he has an impeccable reputation and c... 
 Thank you for your words of praise Marce... you're such a warrior for all of us that are blessed to know you 🫂 
 Where's the AI model that gives you a few different tax strategies for your given situation? 
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