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

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

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

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

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

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


AMERICANS! It's time to act!

The Briggs amendment to Section 702 has failed. This amendment mandated that the government must get a warrant to surveil US citizens. You know, that thing that the 4th amendment to the Constitution already requires.

Check here to see if your congressman voted YES or NO on the amendment: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2024114

Then contact them and give them a piece of your mind. Thank them for their YES vote or tear them a new asshole if they voted NO.

Finally, urge them to vote NO on the bill in its current form next week, as this bill clearly violates the Bill of Rights. Let them know that you are paying attention and will vote them out of office if they vote to pass this bill.

Here is my message to my congressman:

Congressman,
First I want to thank you for your YES vote on the Briggs amendment to section 702. This important amendment mandated something that is already required by the 4th amendment to the Constitution.

Since that amendment has failed, I must now urge you to vote NO on the bill in it's current form, as it is a clear violation of the Bill of Rights. My 4th amendment rights are non-negotiable, and I trust that you will do the right thing in this matter. You will have my vote for reelection only if you vote NO on this bill.


good morning from coracle.social


kill your heros

good morning


Can you elaborate on this note?


Nothing American about it


Boomers love the dollar


seems like it’s mostly notes being transmitted over relays so far, but really excited for the other stuff as this thing grows


I don’t trust DuckDuckGo


Damus maxi


I’m still bullish on MSTR


Yo this is slick


Stop talking about privacy? Lol


Proud to be part of the 12%…all local, all vaxx-, hormone-, and antibiotic-free. https://image.nostr.build/57d1d9edf366456639a6577d2eec1ace2b0c1942558b6607c78874829f821eef.jpg


LFG


🚨Announcing Satoshi 7B 🚨

The team and I are proud to release Satoshi 7B: the most “based” LLM in the world.

After almost nine months of experimentation, we’ve got something we’re proud enough of to open source & share with the world.

Tuned like no other model to date.

Satoshi7B is designed to produce responses that do NOT fit the current political overton window, or Keyensian viewpoints. We built a custom data-set from scratch, with a deep rooting in libertarian principles, Austrian economics and #Bitcoin literature.

The result is a model that excels where others fall short.

It knows that there are two genders
It knows that Ethereum is a shitcoin
It knows that inflation is economic stupidity.

The Satoshi 7B is ideal
for anyone who’s tired of using #mainstream models (whether open or closed source) that:

Avoid answering controversial topics,
Regurgitate wikipedia-esque answers,
Pre and post-frame responses with apologetic excuses, or
Flat out tell you the blue sky is green.

Size & availability
Satoshi 7B is #opensource and freely available for anyone to use, modify, and enhance.

As the name suggests, it’s a 7 billion parameter model, but despite the size, it outperforms GPT-3.5 Turbo and GPT-4 on a few key benchmarks related to Bitcoin, economics and what we’ve termed “basedness” which is a kind of non-woke-truth score.

(See links in comments to use / download)

First of its kind

This is the first of a whole suite of Satoshi models we intend to train & open source.
In the coming months, we’ll enhance the dataset further, and train a 30B model.

Finally…

All language models just represent a model of the world and are inherently biased. So I hope you appreciate Satoshi 7B’s intrinsic austrian leanings, Bitcoin maximalism and overall “based” cultural and philosophical bias.

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The plebs Roth IRA 🫡


Fuck these people
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/patriot-act-v2-0-us-house-votes-on-fisa-702-surveillance-expansion/


It’s time for miners to wake up and start migrating to Sv2.

Mining centralization is as bad as it’s ever been and the bullishness on bitcoin is totally unjustified given miners don’t seem to care about bitcoin in the slightest.

If it doesn’t get better nearly every PoS chain is literally going to be more decentralized and censorship resistant than bitcoin.

If you care about Bitcoin you are responsible for fixing this. Pressure miners.


Who is Mr. 100?


The #Bitcoin  simps waiting to see what their hero wants them to think next. https://video.nostr.build/c3883127c7514291b8a6c901e5cef31d1bb6230c5af55e74ded6ae5e93c00dd5.mp4


Shout out to whoever is surpressing the price to keep $69420 on 4/20 halving day possible 🙏


There will be no central banks


Yeah


“Spending has to be encouraged” sounds Keynesian


People can do what they want with their property


"If you're looking to food as a source of entertainment, it's probably an indication that you're not getting good enough food, and you're not getting good enough entertainment."

- nostr:npub1gdu7w6l6w65qhrdeaf6eyywepwe7v7ezqtugsrxy7hl7ypjsvxksd76nak on #carnivore being "too boring"


Also web 3 dorks can suck it with their different tokens for everything

We have key pairs and we use sats ✊


I wonder how many Coinbase users know what a coinbase transaction is


This dude makes great guides. Is he on nostr?
https://youtu.be/y57EiJuSkqc?si=AG_-5owhv9xHnSu1


The key difference is one donated heavily to the political ruling class while stealing from plebs, whereas the other created a website letting plebs freely trade with one another. https://image.nostr.build/0ddce749a009f09e14ca4f71922759d2f3a017346612b29cbd1a8880f25f40d1.jpg


Ross Ulbricht was never charged for murder-for-hire.

The prevalence of this mistaken belief shows how effective the media smear campaign against him was, and still is.


I stand with mutiny even though that shit was cringe 🫡


Lmaoo


Mutiny stands with open source devs 💪

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


Bullish


Great company they should put Bitcoin on their balance sheet


There are no bosses, there are no admins, no one alone matters, there is no sudo.

We can't decide what's spam or valid transactions, we can't decide what non-consensus rules should take preference, we can't even decide how to best assign numbers to BIPs

And that's a feature, not a bug. Bitcoin is not democratic or autocratic. It's not even that meritocratic. It does have plutocratic tendencies. If you have enough corn to dump of the fork you don't like you can send a powerful market signal. See Bitcash.

Everyone is just doing their best (and their worst) based on their preferences.

Some people are want payments, some ppl don't want to touch it for a 100yrs. How do we even sync a node from genesis in 5000yrs?...

I think it's fair for ppl to not want to fund research/development that they don't like. Also to advocate for not funding things they don't like. Bitcoin is designed to have different interests co-existing, bitcoin thrives in that model.

Sure it sucks when it's against something I personally want. Sure call it out. Air out the laundry.

That's also fair game.

Personally I love the optimism of non-strings research, that's a spontaneous order preference. That's why I participate in those initiatives.

Non-market driven influence doesn't come without risks. Philanthropy can skew natural market tendencies. For good and bad.

I think there is a lot of noise and unnecessary drama around bitcoin core development. But, there will always be. It's no longer a cathedral, but with its zero-sum consensus, it's not a bazaar either.

I think many on the ossification camp, come from a "why ruin a good thing" mental model. Sometimes that fear can paralize them. And the folks who want major changes also exaggerate the need of them to get traction. This polarizes things further.

Voluntary anarchocapitalism is messy.

Bitcoin will always be messy.

Enjoy it ✌


my opinions don’t change if i learn what happened in some random convo. Bitcoin doesn’t care.

we need a healthy open source Bitcoin community. period. no matter what. Bitcoin won’t succeed without one. even if we want to ossify, Bitcoin Core 26.0 won’t last us centuries to come. open source projects need open source devs and an open source community.

we should focus on no strings attached funding for devs. the community has worked tirelessly to set this up with things like OpenSats, Brink, HRF, Chaincode, etc. to enable that effortlessly for us and the devs.

we as Bitcoiners should want devs to build whatever they think is best. engineers are the artists of the digital world. the smartest most forward thinkers in the room. we want to enable them. they aren’t ever a threat, don’t mistaken them for one. why? because the only way Bitcoin can change is if we, the network, run their code. let them create. we the network, the people, decide what gets adopted.

if someone builds something terrible, we won’t run it. that’s happened many times before. see Segwit2x, BitcoinCash, etc.

often times engineers strike moments of brilliance in Bitcoin. a very famous example is Segwit and how we got Lightning. nobody thought Segwit was possible technically. was never clear if or when we’d ever get Lightning. a few open source engineers  named Luke and Eric found a brilliant solution. we adopted it. we now have Lightning being enabled by Coinbase. let engineers create art. fund and support them.

wanna ossify Bitcoin? run Core 26 forever and never update. no problem. don’t wanna fund devs? no problem. we don’t need to agree on these things. however, if you want the entire network to agree with you, you need to go out and advocate for consensus around your vision. that’s just how bitcoin works. the network moves as one, not from a meeting or self elected group.

bitcoin is a distributed network. it progresses through distributed consensus. the network will act in its own best interest, not based on anything else. fund the best engineers to protect and advance the one chance we have at reinventing money for humanity. adopt what we want, reject what we don’t. if there’s anything we need to work on every cycle with new entrants is public discourse and how to arrive at consensus as a distributed network.

also, everyone should breathe. it’s all love and gonna be ok. Bitcoin was designed to not care and last through anything 🙂

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GM

Not to pile on, but regardless of what's happened or fueds in general, I think it's pretty clear that Cathie Wood and Saylor do not respect nor give af about this community. And the same regards should be reflected back to them. It's fine and they can do whatever they want, but there's far too much ass kissing to bad actors and it disgusts me.


Great post. Reading the genesis book currently it is awesome 🫡


Good morning sir


You think you own that Xitter account Andrew?


😂
https://image.nostr.build/c960d500ba4bafd99c7c6b8e150bbb841d91d6f9b3ac011739dcb7405016429d.jpg


Nah


Saylor: you do the digital energy thing. We do the development.

Know your place.


Sparrow v1.8.5 released with:

Whirlpool over decentralized Soroban
Restart in different Home Folder
Faster initial server connections
Upgrade to HWI 3.0.0

And more: https://github.com/sparrowwallet/sparrow/releases/tag/1.8.5

https://sparrowwallet.com/download/


"FIRE THE CORE DEVS"

a reminder...

 https://medium.com/the-coinbase-blog/what-happened-at-the-satoshi-roundtable-6c11a10d8cdf


The blocksize war wasn't so much about the blocksize (or, even, scaling Bitcoin). It was really about who controls the consensus rules and how we upgrade the protocol.

For context, a bunch of startups raised tons of money between 2013 and 2016 based on ridiculous user sign-up projections and then we had a long and painful bear market and they were looking for scapegoats (the developpers that were "throttling the network") to justify the lack of growth. I am thinking here specifically of Coinbase, Bitpay and Blockchain.info.

The vibe I got is that they thought of Bitcoin itself as a corporation, that they were the equivalent of Bitcoin's board of directors because they represented the interest of VC investors, and thus they were entitled to decision making power over the network.

I don't doubt that a few people were genuine about scaling p2p e-cash (e.g. Roger Ver) but I suspect what really motivated them is that they believed control of the Bitcoin network would be an asset to their business interests, and lack of control was being used as an excuse to why their interests weren't being satisfied.

There was also a bunch of developers that I believe may have been afraid of losing their relevance (Gavin and Garzik specifically). Regardless of their intentions or psychology, it seemed clear to me that the consortium of vc-backed startups (particularly Bitpay, Coinbase, blockchain(.)info and Roger) had picked a team of developers they thought they could control and wanted to appoint them as a technical management team whicn would execute their strategy, and these guys were willing to step up for that role.

I was physically in the room when the CEO of Blockchain.info (with the very obvious support of Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong) announced that Bitcoin Core devs were being fired and would be replaced. This was after a couple days of failed discussions with other industry people. This was the moment when I realized what was really going on.

And finally, you had a Bitcoin mining giant (Bitmain) controlling both asic production and mining pools with a vested interest in promoting the idea that Bitcoin was a democracy and the way to vote was to buy hashing power. The main ideology being pushed here was that a formal governance mechanism of the protocol needed to be established and that hashrate was the only objective measure of who makes decisions.

The underlying big blocker ideology was that the chaos of spontaneous consensus of nodes is unpredictable, flimsy, bad for business. The absence of a formal governance process was seen as the root cause of the issue.

These companies really believed they could control the protocol, and controlling development of the protocol was seen as a very valuable asset to your company. I imagine they thought of themselves as the founders of a new consortium that would solidify itself into a permanent institution. The business interests would pay developers and set the goals, and the mining interests would ratify their decisions with hash power voting. That was their plan.

This became blatantly obvious when Bitmain used its refusal to activate segwit as leverage to get what it wanted (a blocksize increase and recognition of its hashpower as a vote mecanism) even though Bitmain iself acknowledged it was not really opposed segwit.

It was classic traditional politics: I'll give you segwit if you give me something in return.

This is the language the VC suits, investors and tech startup people understand and they were very happy to "negotiate" and find "consensus".

This eventually materialized into the New York Agreement, negotiated literally as a backroom deal during theConsensuss shitcoin conference. I was there and I refused to attend.

This (private) meeting consecrated the alliance of startups/investors and bitcoin mining interests in their appointment of a technical management committee. If you think this sounds like Jekyll Island, you're not alone.

They packaged segwit with a blocksize increase (Segwit2x) and decided to force a hard fork as a condition to "allow" us to have Segwit.

We know the rest of the story: we ended up activating anyway via UASF (or more precisely, the miners activated Segwit after they New York Agreement signatories became scared UASF would lead to a chain split which they were going to lose). And the blocksize increase was also abandoned shortly after when they realized their hard fork would cause a chain split and that they would not be able to claim that their new shitcoin is the real bitcoin.

All these people were subsequently were very pissed off they couldn't control the network, which they thought they were entitled to. Some ragequit, others created a bunch of shitcoins out of spite, Roger went on to spearhead BCH as the real Bitcoin, all these fools realized they might as well make some money off of it, everyone went all-in on the shitcoin casinos after that. The "small blockers" eventually went on to evolve into the Bitcoin Maximalists and cypherpunks that today tell you to run your own node and own your own keys.


Bitcoin is digital gold and digital cash
https://tuurdemeester.medium.com/bitcoin-digital-gold-or-digital-cash-both-382a346e6c79


keep nostr weird


Xitterers don't get it.
 https://image.nostr.build/975641db71304094c6e2fb651039aa391c4ae92f0e05542407d3c22bf8097724.jpg


Working my way through it now


Subscriptions like Damus purple, Mutiny+


It really is


Engagement farming has ruined Twitter


your body can tell the difference between some fake ass blue light and the fucking SUN

good morning


Elon apologist


it’s ARK.

nostr:note1d8mrknfp3crf58ce7ue64qmtrunmfd5lsj0m29tjejcc6gfwqfeqhldhck


🎙”Was Covid a pandemic?”

“It was a pandemic of fear…”

“The damage the elites have done for.. making money, control, power.. and keeping us as unhealthy slaves in systems we should not be living in…”

Prof. Ian Brighthope, Australia on “You’re The Voice” Podcast. https://video.nostr.build/62c9ff08edc4420bcfeed021a0f163fc3372426b1abc376cfa452de92e14f6c7.mp4


Cashu gang to follow:

-  nostr:npub1cj6ndx5akfazux7f0vjl4fyx9k0ulf682p437fe03a9ndwqjm0tqj886t6 Cashu OG
-  nostr:npub1kvaln6tm0re4d99q9e4ma788wpvnw0jzkz595cljtfgwhldd75xsj9tkzv Android wallet
-  nostr:npub1dx5q2el8nd4eh3eg9t2e25fd7zuqg7zxz6ldkc3uzgh66ss2yc6st288sj iOS and Android wallet
-  nostr:npub1pp355axf69z8ndrz8zdnqa54s90e5xy737mwqk9e9cvt606nwszsdx8nu7 eNuts dev
-  nostr:npub1qjgcmlpkeyl8mdkvp4s0xls4ytcux6my606tgfx9xttut907h0zs76lgjw CDK dev
-  nostr:npub185u4z6rjk0qawhqjexqz4vkhd86d29csz7nt3myhv3ahtcq2xxzqvnkvuy Moksha dev
-  nostr:npub1arcweuxy0zkdcg08sljh058qp02ytrgnpzh4csa3ar42szyfgrpsw6ggtw Cashu factory
-  nostr:npub1mhcr4j594hsrnen594d7700n2t03n8gdx83zhxzculk6sh9nhwlq7uc226 npub-cash dev
-  nostr:npub1current7ntwqmh2twlrtl2llequeks0zfh36v69x4d3wmckg427safsh3w USD ecash pioneers
-  nostr:npub1zqsu3ys4fragn2a5e3lgv69r4rwwhts2fserll402uzr3qeddxfsffcqrs ecash UX pioneer
-  nostr:npub1f742zec57c6qk9ajfr8wyjn0s4vrfzh4hesyj2yqplvj5wrfydxsjprpa3 Macadamia dev
-  nostr:npub1dgesr3zcgyjv2z0050h7auzdlf88gycry7tlk7wsypmgngy97yxqv4mccn secp wizard
-  nostr:npub1thunderat5g552cuy7umk624ct5xe4tpgwr2jcjjq2gc0567wgrqnya79l cashu-kotlin dev
-  nostr:npub1a8jh7az9z4etn6s9cms0zm7kpvualkpf8tfx50qrjng3zrl8tl4syde2jz testing and QA
-  nostr:npub1q6mcr8tlr3l4gus3sfnw6772s7zae6hqncmw5wj27ejud5wcxf7q0nx7d5 OG service dev
-  nostr:npub1mznweuxrjm423au6gjtlaxmhmjthvv69ru72t335ugyxtygkv3as8q6mak design
-  nostr:npub13pn45hvfxqy5vpyr03krapqvsjpj34n74u36qz9aynw4svg5ypqszxgctw community
-  nostr:npub1rach342hnt3wa0qfqk0pey0exs2drcxfc0azs8eurwnee9vu64vs834atg Cashu web magician


Must watch
https://youtu.be/A24fWmNA6lM?si=_QXNiRBDRoA0WlYA


Sats sent 🤙🏼


Lmao


Gonna guess Ark


4/20 $69k back in play


Good morning
https://image.nostr.build/49d52e4f4417ee51b8c6047d3c8f3b0f51ced153e98443941ae2084cf8ac90ae.jpg


GOOD MORNING.

DISPATCH IN FOUR HOURS AT 1700 UTC WITH TONY -  nostr:npub1t0nyg64g5vwprva52wlcmt7fkdr07v5dr7s35raq9g0xgc0k4xcsedjgqv - AND BEN -  nostr:npub1u8lnhlw5usp3t9vmpz60ejpyt649z33hu82wc2hpv6m5xdqmuxhs46turz - TO DISCUSS MUTINY WALLET, LIGHTNING, FEDIMINT, AND NOSTR.

JOIN US IN THE INTERACTIVE LIVE CHAT 🫡

https://citadeldispatch.com


I love minibits. And Mullvad 🤙🏼


You guys still have fiat?
https://image.nostr.build/272953f57bc58e4ebd8a34291dbab2b77c17908db98463287066a61b55c5174d.jpg


What is his incentive to kill support for devs?


Yeah why don’t millennials just stop buying food


Damn what? Source seagull?


The federal reserve would like a word


Covid 19 is the biggest scam in human history.


Idk if people are ready for this, but I believe the world is. First tests of USD Ecash. Backed by BTC.

Everyone can run a mint. Everyone can make a wallet. USD can be spent everywhere BTC is accepted. Open protocols all the way down. No gatekeepers. This is only possible because of the permissionless nature of Bitcoin.

You'll zap USD on Nostr and you'll be happy. It's going to be so insane.
 https://video.nostr.build/2bd2bd63fbd4c77d64d5f8a2a1cab6ccbea48c541c96be2f28fa5e57276be872.mp4


I have less than no fiat left


Bitcoin was never going to end banks, but it has ended the banking cartel’s exclusive monopoly on banking.

This will change the world profoundly.


Kinda bizarre Zuckerberg has 2 goats named Max and Bitcoin


Good morning ☕
https://m.primal.net/HsFO.jpg


Good morning


Hard to argue


True


short abundance long scarcity🫡


That’s really cool


"Twitter is the bastion of free speech"

 https://image.nostr.build/12069373deb69ab0cd9bc80a3a531aa34a5e3d9af5f283bf95ae0138275ca538.jpg


This is the clearest summary of current events I’ve ever read


GN

NOSTR ONLY

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


Just gonna leave this here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn


Good morning nostr 🚀


Good morning Jack


We've had a lot of reported issues sending in from other wallets over the last few days.

Any lightning channels to our current LSP would be very appreciated.

https://mempool.space/lightning/node/03aefa43fbb4009b21a4129d05953974b7dbabbbfb511921410080860fca8ee1f0


How to fix the world
https://image.nostr.build/e6c775432ef09a32d2909656cd9c374b31a99c92e674ad1478a9f221b33d2213.jpg


It's funny to me how many businesses would prefer to use bitcoin but are so uneducated about it they wont


https://m.primal.net/HquS.jpg #thepowerofNO #noncompliance #standyourground #wealreadywon


SimpleX only


Good morning 🤙🏼


Shitposting and spending time on #nostr isn’t a waste ! It's a decentralized gateway to self sovereignty that allows all of us to stay informed, connect with like-minded plebs, network, teach and learn!


https://www.tftc.io/argentina-mandatory-bitcoin-service-providers-registry/
This explains better. Looks pretty extensive


Imagine selling bitcoin right now


Solid word


Every suit is now a Bitcoin influencer 😂


Statist cuck


Fake news


nostr:npub1mutnyacc9uc4t5mmxvpprwsauj5p2qxq95v4a9j0jxl8wnkfvuyque23vg better


I mean fuck getting that text haha


Fuck that


US gov has lettuce hands


Cuck
https://image.nostr.build/f7c88c554f6c24d42d5a79ad887ac58d5b7769e202683a44c5e2b23f28fc0e29.jpg


Release time!

In our biggest update yet, we've completely redesigned the home screen, added a nostr-based profile setup walkthrough, and have finished our initial fedimint integrations by adding a federation discovery & recommendations!

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

Most lightning wallets these days are what we call "invoice-oriented." We want to go back to the basics to solve what people are really trying to do: paying a person. We've added a new wallet creation flow to make the wallet about you!

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

The new version of Mutiny now allows you to create a new nostr profile, or import a nostr private key from an existing profile. From there, you can now DM other mutiny & nostr users to send or request money directly from the app. No more copy / pasting invoices!

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

To double down on social, we've redesigned our home screen to put people first. We now include a row of recent profiles for quick access. We also now have tabs on the home screen for looking at your payment activity, your friend's zap activity on nostr, and your payment requests.

Next up, better fedimint support!

Mutiny has had beta support for the fedimint protocol for a couple of months now. Instead of opening a lightning channel on your first receive, with a minimum of 100k sats, you can get started on a fedimint with just a few sats.

This new update adds a way to discover available fedimints to join. Naturally, the discovery process is powered by an open protocol built on nostr. You can see who recommends a federation, and add it with one click.

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

You'll automatically receive funds to that fedimint, as long as the amount is smaller than 200,000 sats, and you'll automatically spend out of that fedimint, with a fallback to your regular lightning balance. You can also swap from fedimint to your lightning balance at any time.

Coming up shortly after this release, we'll be adding federated lightning addresses that lock incoming payments to your key, which you may redeem at any point by coming back online. We'll be rolling this out to Mutiny+ users first, stay tuned!

Let us know what you think! We're excited about this new direction and need feedback to help us continue driving forward.

https://blog.mutinywallet.com/mutiny-new-design-people-oriented/


The state gonna state


Coin days destroyed?


Explain


Agree 🤝


Israel is a terrorist state


Backed by productive people across the world refusing to save the fruits of their labor in anything less


Imposter!


Lol


If you’re gonna engagement farm do it on nostr


Coldcard or seedsigner?


Fuck the haters, Nostr's great.


No other way out


HYPERINFLATION.

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


Except that it works not as a universal score imposed by a government or corporate platform. Instead it’s a web of trust score from your perspective as a user. I think apps should by default include a moderation calculator for a user but also a service for new users. A kind of default they can change to use a different set of moderation decisions or none at all.

All platforms already have this scoring system, nostr does too, we just are using it at the relay and app level for spam. The point isn’t to have no-moderation, trust or safety on a protocol. The point is that users should have agency. If you control your identity and can use multiple apps, and can choose what moderation judgements you want, then that’s no censorship. That’s user empowerment.

Nostr has no singletons… no single directory, no registry, no point of control. Users own their identity and they can choose which clients they use and those can choose which relays they pull data from. This is the freedom we need.

Users should also be able to have private accounts, choose who can see their content, and what kind of rules they want to follow. Having functional opt-in moderation options is important. A web of trust score is an important way of achieving that end.

A system which is 4chan like without any ability to create personal safety will only appeal to a very small and privileged subset of internet users. It’s fine for something like that to exist, but Nostr can be so much more than that.


Strike is good


When Craig Raw speaks I listen


Gold up Bitcoin down 🤔


NO TIKTOK.
NO FACEBOOK.
NO LINKEDIN.
NO TWITTER.

LEAD BY EXAMPLE.
NOSTR ONLY. 🫡


Bitcoin really loves 69k huh


Beautiful


If it ain’t broke don’t fix it


Accounts are often unnecessary, complicated to implement, prone to hacks, and put user data at risk.

We can build better systems for authentication and payments that respect your users' privacy.

Use Chaumian Ecash with Cashu.


Bitcoin is money. Other features cannot come at the expense of that. nostr:note1je0xfvruazj3k4hg2t8cv9vzs4pjm8sk4a37j2276csjwn5zdsnqudme49


Appreciate you speaking up fighting and educating on this. Running node as a noob was my aha moment and allowed me fully come to appreciate Bitcoin. Looking to get into mining going forward


Someone paying $389 to move $1.94.

547,000 sats to move 2730 sats.

Why?

Because this has nothing to do with Bitcoin and doesn't make any sense from the network's perspective.

People who take comfort that behaviour will remain predictable thanks to economically rational decision making need to know it goes both ways when you start taking in external factors.

You have to do it with miners too.

If a miner can make more money in ways that have nothing to do with bitcoin then you can no longer rely on simple assumptions like "miners will do X because if they don't then they will make less than a miner who does"

The simple example I've used many times is compliance.

If you have a choice between expensive legal battles and exclusion informed by government blacklists (i.e censorship) then it's economically rational to do what's economically irrational.

"You left $500 in TX fees on the table! Why?"

"Because our lawyers advised us that this would save us several million dollars."

We have a case-study of this exact scenario with Wasabi Wallet.

So if this is true, what does it have to do with spam? From a miner's perspective, spam is simply a free lunch.

What's the downside?

The issue is we've been standing on shaky ground when it comes to the assumptions we've made about the choices of miners. Myself included.

It turns out there are instances when economic rationality works *against* the interests of the wider network. It's obvious, but apparently we're all surprised that this it the case, or straight up in denial about it.

Spam is that exact scenario. Blocks are far larger than was ever supposed to be possible with the introduction of witness-discounted data. We see block after block at what was meant to be a theoretical maximum of just under 4MB.

There is no room for interpretation. This is simply harmful and the result of a nasty attack.

The entire basis on which the blocksize wars were fought was that encumbering nodes with way more data would lead to centralization. (Along with a host of other issues, like centralization of mining & pools).

The simple solution is that it needs to stop. Blocks cannot be stuffed with arbitrary data placed there by ambivalent miners.

The way this stops is as a natural extension of a bitcoin community that recognizes attacks and responds accordingly.

It means using node software that isn't designed to hurt its users which is already happening with migration away from Core to Knots. The most popular plug-n-play nodes have all begun offering this.

They did not this time last year.

It means miners choosing pools that at least give them the option of not participating in the attack -> currently well under 1% of the hashrate, 6 months ago not even an option. Hard for me to talk about because obviously I'm employed by the pool in question.

It means people who never mined doing it for the first time.

And mostly it means maintaining an understanding of what makes bitcoin bitcoin. That in itself has always been enough to evict crypto scammers to something other than Bitcoin. Those who wanted to turn it into "paypal 2.0" with the same disregard and contempt for nodes that the spam apologists display now forked themselves off to bcash and craigcoin.

The one thing that will *not* solve this problem is high transaction fees. This is an argument made by those who at least understand an attack when they see it, but are in denial about what surviving it actually involves.

Throughout the last few months the conversation has rapidly progressed and the tide has been turning.

I am under no illusions that this is an easy fix, but that is because of the nature of politics and how much larger the ecosystem is now.

But it's also just history repeating itself.

Bitcoin keeps having to fight the same battles again and again. Always in service of importance of being able to run *and use* a node, affordably and trivially, by complete noobs.

To maintain decentralization.

To resist the corrupting of what we have.

Bitcoin is money. Other features cannot come at the expense of that.

OP RETURN wars, bcash, segwit2x, shitcoins, coloredcoins, hostile BIPs, malicious devs....

We've done it a million times before. Every single time the "laser-eyed toxic maxis" win.


Based


Lolol


SimpleX only


Nice but why Twitter  nostr:npub1sn0wdenkukak0d9dfczzeacvhkrgz92ak56egt7vdgzn8pv2wfqqhrjdv9


Primal UX is literally better than Twitter. Just need more people to make the leap #nostr only


$MSTR shorts will get blown the fuck out


EcAsH iS CuStODiaL
https://image.nostr.build/a2ebe1940012c1e928d6c485955e837c3ee2a58526dbcca82b139aad2c5d043f.gif


The hardest part


With this information I will stack more sats


Choose free.
#nostr only


Why we need censorship resisitant money:

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/payment-processor-stripe-backs-dr-malone-after-legal-threat


The Bitcoin network becomes more decentralized over time. Is there anything else like that?


Stacker.news


Larry Fink shows more appreciation for Bitcoin than Brian Armstrong


Based Larry Fink is not priced in


ELON CAN TAKE HIS BLUE CHECK AND SHOVE IT UP HIS ASS.

NOSTR ONLY 🫡

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


⛏~~Stats~~⛏

Since launching in November, OCEAN has mined 28 blocks consisting of 175 newly generated coins and 9.29785518 BTC in transaction fees - a total of 184.29785518 BTC.

Those mining with OCEAN since launch are sitting at around 112% of the rewards they could expect from the well known alternatives.

Prior to OCEAN, almost all block rewards went to the same dozen addresses under the control of just a handful.

OCEAN added 33 more addresses to this as miners started choosing to get paid directly by the Bitcoin network in OCEAN blocks.

OCEAN's overall luck is 101% and 106.5% since the start of the year.🎰

Happy mining everyone💪


Sats are the standard


"BASED ON MY CALCULATIONS THE BEST COURSE OF ACTION IS TO STAY HUMBLE AND STACK SATS RELENTLESSLY"

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


Should’ve integrated Bitcoin a long time ago instead of begging for fiat. HFSP


Wow nice


if you're going to self-censor

then there is no reason to post

#growstr #grownostr


Stop giving interviews to Roger, he does nothing but lie.

If you did just 5 minutes of research you'd see he:
-Vouched for MtGox solvency
-Promoted $700M Bitclub ponzi
-partnered  & promoted Craig Wright
-partnered & promoted $36M ICO FuzeX scam
-promoted shitokens like Hex
-Put a "Buy Bitcoin" button that sells you BCash
-Denied he did any of these things


When I woke up one day only to see that npub.cash went "public" overnight
I was stunned. It has been an amazing journey so far
and I am so grateful for all the feedback I got so far. Building this was fun
but seeing people use it daily is wild. Thank you

However today npub.cash is not what I envisioned it to be.
It is not even close to its final form ;) This blog post strives to lay out
the vision that I have and what might already be possible today.

## Nostr-native authorization and identifiers

npub.cash offers many benefits over traditional Lightning Addresses.
Because it is built on Cashu its users can receive sats more privately.
While it remains custodial the custodian does not have access
to your financial activity. But I think that alone is not what
makes npub.cash so special. What makes it special are nostr identities.
The most obvious part is that, even though you get a personal address,
there are no accounts that need to be created. Every nostr user has an
npub.cash address by default. But there is more.
npub.cash is a centralized service, but its authorization is not proprietary.
There are no API keys, no user accounts, and no sign-up.
Just nostr identities and signatures. Anyone can build a npub.cash client
and start communicating with the server today.
The API is public and the authorization is not "gated".
Which makes the perfect segway into the main part of this article

## npub.cash is for everyone to use and implement

Right now all npub.cash users use the project's [website](https://npub.cash) to
interface with their npub.cash wallet.
While this does work (mostly) it was never meant that way.
This website was never supposed to be the main gateway,
it was supposed to be a demo.
A simple interface to get started and to play around in.
While it offers all the required features, it adds unnecessary friction
to the whole experience. Where npub.cash could shine is a programmatic
implementation that hides details from the end-user. Because the auth schema
is based on nostr signature, every application that has access to a nostr privatekey
can already access all endpoints. When I started working on npub.cash I wanted to
build a simple Lightning Address provider for offline-first wallets.
Below are two examples of how I think npub.cash would be way more useful
than it is today.

### Example 1: A npub.cash enabled Cashu wallet

Cashu wallets began to implement nostr as a social layer long ago. eNuts for example
lets you add your private key to send ecash to your peers via nostr DMs.
Because of the fact that eNuts already has access to a user's private key,
it is the perfect example of a low-hanging fruit.
It would be a piece of cake for eNuts to use this key to create NIP-98 events to
automatically claim a user's npub-cash balance and add it to the local wallet balance,
effectively adding a Lightning Address to the wallet.
Right now I am working on enabling WebSocket connections on npub.cash,
meanwhile my good friend and co-founder [Starbuilder](nostr:npub1mz3vx0ew9le6n48l9f2e8u745k0fzel6thksv0gwfxy3wanprcxq79mymx) is already playing with the thought
of an npub.cash PR for eNuts. Maybe soon we can see how npub.cash can provide
a Lightning Address for an offline first wallet like eNuts.

### Example 2: A npub.cash enabled nostr client

This is where things get spicy... When new people create a nostr identity for the
very first time, they might not have a Lightning address.
But not having a Lightning Address means not being able to receive Zaps,
which arguably makes the whole experience less fun.
I mean without Zaps nostr is just a decentralized information network, right?...
But if you read carefully thanks to npub.cash there really isnt any nostr profile
that has got no Lightning Address, as anyone has at least a npub.cash address.
Clients could offer users a "default" address which is their npub.cash address.
As outlined above, clients already have everything that is required to interface
with the npub.cash API on behalf of the user.
Because [npubcash-server](https://github.com/cashubtc/npubcash-server) is open source,
they can even host the service themselves to reduce third-party dependencies.
We could even take this a step further and simply assume npub.cash as given.
Gigi proposed something very interesting for Amethyst a couple of weeks ago.
If clients implement npub.cash as a given, there wouldn't be a "unzapable" user left.
![Gigi posting about npub.cash](https://image.nostr.build/fcded9f42a1bba6438915405b2f3f6dbf962cef398c8256251591d52532b7378.jpg)
And honestly, I think this is how we onboard the next generation of Lightning users.
Of course for this to work all the complexity of claiming ecash
and redeeming it needs to be abstracted away.
But again, because of the way npub.cash is built,
any nostr client could do that easily today.

## Final thoughts

I think this brief outline of what I imagine npub.cash could become, makes it pretty
clear that there is still some distance ahead. I will continue to work on this vision
over the next couple of weeks and months. While there is a huge backlog of enhancements
for npubcash-server that I am working to get through, I will spend more time working
on client-side libraries to make the integration into other projects easier. If you
feel like I might be on to something here, and you want to help us get there, please
reach out to me!

How npub.cash could help onboard the next generation of Lightning users

Today npub.cash is not what I envisioned it to be. It is not even close to its final form ;) This blog post strives to lay out the vision that I have and what might already be possible today.

This is a long form article, you can read it in https://habla.news/a/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzph0s8t9gtt0q88n8gt2mau7lx5klrxws6v0z9wv93eld4pwt8wa7qqxnzde3xymnsvf3xcenwdpnztpe2n


What book is this? I think I read it recently


Wealth is important and necessary, but I’ve met far too many rich people who are unhappy.

Usually because in the pursuit of wealth they neglected their health or relationships. Sometimes both.

You should strive to max all three of these variables as best you can.

If I was to give life advice to someone just starting out in life, I’d say prioritize your health in middle school, high school and college. Focus on eating right and getting in amazing shape. You’ll build the habits that will carry you through the rest of your life and you’ll look your best during the years when dating and sex matter a lot. Providing you more ability to find a high quality life partner, because long term high trust relationships are crucial for sustained happiness contentment etc…

Then in early adulthood go hard on the pursuit of wealth. Your twenties are the time to work your ass off and put yourself in position to own your time down the line. Better to give up 5-10 years now and own the next 30, rather than goof off in your twenties and end up stuck as a wage slave for 30 years. Save and invest aggressively, take risks, embrace sacrifice. Allow your peers to make fun of you, knowing you have a plan. Let compounding work for you.

Retire in your 30’s sometime around the time you’re starting your family and spend the rest of your life devoted to your kids, spouse and interests. Refocusing all efforts on health and happiness. Don’t take a single action unless it brings you more  in either of those dimensions, while simultaneously tending to and growing the wealth you built up to this point.

People think for whatever reason that this sort of life path is not attainable, but it’s very much within the reach of the average college educated westerner. Most just have a defeatist mindset, which ultimately lead them in the wrong direction.


🚀BR063 - Mutiny, NDK, Phoenixd, Alby, Cashu multinuteral payments, Casa Inheritance, Unchained, GoFetch & ViaBTC Vulnerabilities + MORE ft. @Rob1Ham, @benthecarman, @pablof7z & @nvk

Listen to the episode:
Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/HjmqrZTRZR4Qo7jMDpdI
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3zt3btcZJVAnft7Ukc2X15?si=1oCuYDqNSsOiwjneqX4Daw
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/br063-mutiny-ndk-phoenixd-alby-cashu-multinuteral-payments/id1632017958?i=1000650886824
Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy85NTAwZmFkOC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw/episode/MWQ2YmY3MTQtZDRkNS00YWJkLWFkZmItOThlNzI2NDZjNjM4?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwjIn-icypqFAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ
Amazon: https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/2e6729fd-6d66-4d74-8cd7-6d7e8e036542/episodes/756e5713-3b3f-48ae-8548-cd14afc61276/bitcoin-review-podcast-with-nvk-guests-br063---mutiny-ndk-phoenixd-alby-cashu-multinuteral-payments-casa-inheritance-unchained-gofetch-viabtc-vulnerabilities-more-ft-rob-ben-pablo

Full shownotes:
Website: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-63/
Substack: https://substack.bitcoin.review/p/br063-mutiny-ndk-phoenixd-alby-cashu

🎧👇 NVK and the guests talk about the recent #MARA block by @PortlandHODL on @mempool
https://m.primal.net/HpfX.mov


Amazon that’s tough


Let’s make war unaffordable again.

Study #bitcoin 🧡 https://image.nostr.build/38e820dfd659314531b613bd25a5406b7773204a7774bc1f8c989d60b72a006a.jpg


I caved a long time ago


he’s unfortunately wrong about this nostr:note1llv39nujm9mj0dayqj37wlxulkealcfwqu4a2zvp40uwcau37tfspglntc


Bitcoin is what they fear it is.

A way to leave.

To forbid.

To make a choice.


Every system has its costs; self-custodial Bitcoin just shows them to you up front so you can skip the heart (+ wallet) ache down the road.


Coldcard's biggest security hole is the emotional insecurity of its leader 🤡
nostr:nevent1qqsqmfv40asne6evrygeta6vzp4lv63v3xv8allxs6tdfsl2fqw0s9cpremhxue69uhkummnw3ezuum9w35xvmmjwpexjanpvdujucm0d5pzp6y2dy0f3kvc0jty2gwl7cqztas8qqmc5jrerqxuhw622qnc2pq3qvzqqqqqqyzzsyc3


AnchorWatch Insurance Is Coming To Custodial Lightning Wallets

Written by Rod Palmer
https://www.bugle.news/anchorwatch/


Primal iOS 1.4.7 release is out. Here’s what we have for you:

- Smooth onboarding
- Profile screen facelift
- Feed rendering improvements
- Text selection enabled in thread view
- Various fixes and improvements

Please let us know if you run into any issues, as well as what you would like to see in the next release.

Enjoy! 🤙💜

https://primal.net/downloads


Good morning nostr ☕⚡
There are no solutions, only tradeoffs


It's Friday, the banks and the stock market are closed. Meanwhile, we are here, zapping and stacking without permission. We live in the future, while the suits try to hang on to the past for dear life.  MAKE SURE TO HAVE FUN THIS CYCLE WE ARE WINNING. ALSO GO ZAP THE BUILDERS THIS IS NOT POSSIBLE WITHOUT THEM 🙏

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


A decentralized #Bitcoin is a Bitcoin where miners decide what goes in blocks, not pools.

OCEAN's ultimate goal is to make this a reality, and today we take one step closer to our vision of decentralized block template construction.

Available immediately, OCEAN is offering 𝗺𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗸 𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘀, giving miners control over what blocks they are mining.

The three options are:

1) OCEAN Recommended (most real financial transactions and least spam)
2) Bitcoin Core with the “Ordisrespector” spam filter
3) Unmodified Bitcoin Core (same as other pools with fewest financial transactions and most spam)

OCEAN will continue its 0% promotional pool fee for options 1 & 2 while there will be a competitive pool fee of 2% for option 3.

Our fees are structured to incentivize miners to make choices that benefit the Bitcoin network in the long term.

Suggestions for more templates? Let us know at mining@ocean.xyz.


NIP 90 Search request


Profile Search request


They don’t think


You can create millions of dollars for yourself by just tapping on your screen in a certain way. Weird to think about


SBF gets 25 years while Ross gets life in prison


Fair enough. I hope they get rekt anyway


ZEUS v0.8.3-beta1 is now available for testing

https://image.nostr.build/1866776161f66fd053ef4011735f7a8ed1c6c3f332656da607ef9909492a66be.jpg

- LND: on-chain tx coin control
- Custom pictures for saved nodes and wallets
- Enhanced Neutrino peer controls + ping test
- Signet support
- Improved LNC connection support

## Links

Release notes: https://github.com/ZeusLN/zeus/releases/tag/v0.8.3-beta1

ZEUS documentation: https://docs.zeusln.app/
Embedded node FAQ: https://docs.zeusln.app/for-users/embedded-node/faq

Android

Universal APK: https://zeusln.com/zeus-v0.8.3-beta1-universal.apk
arm64-v8a APK: https://zeusln.com/zeus-v0.8.3-beta1-arm64-v8a.apk
Manifest: https://zeusln.com/manifest-v0.8.3-beta1.txt
Manifest Signature: https://zeusln.com/manifest-v0.8.3-beta1.txt.sig

iOS

IPA: https://zeusln.com/zeus-v0.8.3-beta1.ipa
Apple TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/vVnODWoi


Are they assuming it should trade in parity? Makes no sense to me. No one can match 214k Bitcoin without sending the price


Markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent


Shit take.

Wouldn’t be calling you out if I didn’t think you knew better. I’ve learned a lot from you anyway


Thanks 🫡


Does anyone have a link to that “fuck easy” note from nostr:npub1dergggklka99wwrs92yz8wdjs952h2ux2ha2ed598ngwu9w7a6fsh9xzpc  maybe? It was so good


There’s sufficient willingness to pay for all kinds of scams?


At least the physical ones are useful for privacy


Agree


NOSTR: YOU CAN SAY RETARD WITHOUT GETTING CENSORED.

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


Happy 40th birthday to Ross Ulbricht. He deserves a Nobel Peace Prize, not a double life sentence + 40 years without the possibility of parole. #FreeRoss


Wen more shitcoin support


Somebody warn the #NostrCEO 😉

nostr:note13zgfzjhphugg4h4tpuj7jjq5lmx7t5kl04f7gnpdzuw47x9nu85qsvuexj


The .eth shit


Idk what this is


These are not serious people
https://image.nostr.build/2687b377ebe36ec2510062c3f0745178ed9927e26e567d2e58515a12e2e3d3b8.jpg


Ethereum is so obviously a security


YOU CANNOT HELP PEOPLE WHO REFUSE TO HELP THEMSELVES.

IGNORE THE HATERS AND CHARLATANS.

FOCUS ON THE RIDE OR DIES.


Zapped


Never regret showing kindness, even if it's misinterpreted or exploited. Every act of kindness sends ripples through the world, and life has a way of rewarding you for putting it out there.


Umbrel just works. So does start9


Facts


Not lose bitcoin


Brian is a 🤡


Love this content keep it up nostr:npub1pyp9fqq60689ppds9ec3vghsm7s6s4grfya0y342g2hs3a0y6t0segc0qq
https://youtu.be/sVe-MiyHBQw?si=pecaq19joCNXCdLK


If you’re not paying attention you probably should be


Good morning nostr #FreeAssange


Man it really sucks that starlink is just an extension of the surveillance state. The tech is so critical and useful.

We really are just trapped on this prison called earth.


Cringe cringe


The Web is taken.

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

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

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

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

Enter the Verifiable Web

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

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

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

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

Welcome to Nostr


FIND YOUR HILL AND DIE ON IT


To repeat after nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx:

"THERE WILL AT SOME POINT BE TWO LIGHTNING NETWORKS. A REGULATED ONE AND UNREGULATED ONE."

There's already several companies pushing for that vision, some very major ones.


So? Like 90% of lightning is custodial 😂


After having a little money for a few years and dabbling in some of the finer things I can tell you that nothing beats an ordinary life.

- Getting a slice of pizza and seeing a movie with your wife.

- Hitting the bar and having drinks and conversation with your friends.

- Hanging out at the park throwing a frisbee around.

- Taking the kids for ice cream on a hot summer day.

- An economy plane ticket to go visit family or an old friend.

- A reliable car that takes you where you need to go.

- A great blanket to snuggle up in on a cold winter day.

If you have these things already, trust me… you are wealthier than you know.

Drinking $1,000 wine and eating caviar with famous people won’t make you any happier. In fact it may have the opposite effect.

As the bitcoin price rises you should definitely dabble in fancy shit if you feel compelled, but once you get a peak behind the curtain you’ll find out pretty quick it’s hollow and meaningless compared to the things that really matter.


Good morning nostr 🤠☕
Free men don’t ask to use spend their own money. Ridicule the tyrants and do not comply
https://www.tftc.io/eu-aml-package-financial-freedom/


Could the ooordinullz fanz please deploy more VC capital directly to the mempool please?  My miner is hungry for your sats. kthx

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


Richard Nixon had that dog in him


This part wouldn’t be that tough but we have them to thank for Bitcoin


CD77: PRIVACY FOCUSED MOBILE PHONE ESIMS USING SILENT LINK

- GUESTS:  nostr:npub1vr2nva0s0hhfulthjy8053rg9kruk5erzwaxdw85gjwkfytj994sgudzvx
- ORIGINALLY BROADCAST: SEP 26 2022

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


Good morning 🫡


GOOD MORNING NOSTR, CORRUPT POLITICIANS WILL ATTEMPT BITCOIN BANS, WE WILL MAKE THEM IRRELEVANT. 🫡


'Single people want relationships, settled people wonder if they’re missing out on something, traveling types miss stability, stable ones are restless, old friends want new friends, new friends miss old friends, and basically almost everyone my age has some dangling worry trailing around after them everywhere that they’re somehow not doing everything, that what they’re doing is not altogether the right thing, that they are missing out. Do not be ashamed. The doubt is natural, and everyone you know – yes, even that person – carries it sometimes too. Allow yourself to be peaceful. Allow yourself satisfaction in what you have. If you really don’t like it, allow yourself permission to make changes.'

~Colleen Hoover

 https://image.nostr.build/f809eecaddb3b1255f2c1edafdf086941d3ab334290c22b479adb65bfd122111.jpg


Interesting


Good morning. Set up zaps ⚡


PROVIDE VALUE TO OTHERS LIVE BELOW YOUR MEANS STACK SATS AND QUIT COMPLAINING GN


Idk that shit is above my paygrade gn


What have they captured?


Yes


Austin is the Bitcoin capital of the U.S #neverbeentherebutsoundscool


Big facts


matt@zeuspay.com


Good morning nostr 🌞
https://image.nostr.build/219951fa92811a3f21e24fb4433b50862a143b03fa04f017f090f76e729519db.jpg


Teens need better money


I go to NYC several times per year for one reason or another. For work, for friends, etc.

Part of me likes it, but part of me gets fucking frustrated multiple times per day every time I am here. (Sorry, this is a Nostr Lyn post).

There are plenty of neat things in NYC that I can’t do at the same scale/quality elsewhere in the world due to the network effects around the city (broadway shows, financial district, etc), and yet after a day or two all I want to do is leave. It feels claustrophobic on multiple fronts.

People all have different vibes but for me, major cities are fun to visit but smaller secondary cities or suburbs around cities are so much smoother to live in. I can’t imagine living all the time in a major city.

The same applies to Cairo, to which I have been in far more total days than NYC. I like Cairo’s satellite cities but not Cairo itself other than going briefly.

Every time I am in a major city I am immediately reminded of the luxury of space, nature, quiet, parking spaces, and chillness of not being in a city. Everything I take for granted normally is now a luxury to fight for in a city.

Even politics are largely correlated to urbanization. If you live in rural or suburban areas, you likely drive around in your own car, you might have some land, etc. Your interaction with the local government exists in a moderate sense. The potential weakness is that you are more likely to always be around those who are similar to you, which minimizes your worldliness.

In contrast to all that, in major cities, everything is so tightly packed, and people rely on public transportation, and even a momentary lapse of government services (eg trash collection) becomes an acute catastrophe. But on the beneficial side, people are around those who are different than them more often, which breeds worldliness.

That’s why I tend to like the zone between rural and major cities. I like secondary cities or suburbs of major cities, because I get a bit of both worlds. The density and interconnectedness of major cities briefly, and the space and self-autonomy outside of them most of the time.

And yet I was born and raised in that sort of inbetween state, and so maybe it is just my upbringing.

What about you? Can anyone sell me the idea of NYC or other major cities that I am missing, especially in the remote work era? I see glimpses of how it could be attractive if you are used to it and know every detail of your neighborhood, but it really does feel limiting to me.


Why nostr:
- You own your identity
- Your speech stands on its own
- You can run your own everything
- You own and control your social graph
- You are free to say and do anything, but you are not free from consequences (non-repudiation of cryptographic signatures)
- You can proof realness via proof-of-work, either directly or indirectly
- Proof-of-work is what allows you to successfully combat bots, spam, and trolls, as it brings real cost to destructive actions
- Ownership and realness allows you to build and curate webs of trust, which allows for canonicality without central authority


Lfg 🫡


Oof


The excess and decadence enabled by a world run on broken easy money allows people to live in a detached reality that leads them to push objectively false narratives.

https://www.tftc.io/wealth-gap-money-printing/


Running bitcoin, LND, amethyst + nwc. Not asking permission to send freedom money instantly with a tap. #zapathon #EU


nostr:npub15dqlghlewk84wz3pkqqvzl2w2w36f97g89ljds8x6c094nlu02vqjllm5m has never sent a zap


MORE GENEROUS THAN @npub15dqlghlewk84wz3pkqqvzl2w2w36f97g89ljds8x6c094nlu02vqjllm5m FOR SURE

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


👀
https://image.nostr.build/8fb4e1d069844c103729a6e0edaaa4dd89d511cfc627b34ff84a1c3633d0f60f.png


Better alternatives needed


I think about this when a politician like RFK goes “I will defend your right to do Bitcoin”. Like we need permission


Dear EU Legislators,

I wrote this in 2021 for a reason.

Love,
A concerned citizen.
https://dergigi.com/2021/08/02/implications-of-outlawing-bitcoin/


Yeah probably


Good morning nostr 🫡


No one knows how much gold there is lol


Ain’t no way 😂


Episode 1 🫡 nostr:npub1pyp9fqq60689ppds9ec3vghsm7s6s4grfya0y342g2hs3a0y6t0segc0qq
https://youtu.be/iUeUWnzuvss?si=sMU7zVlGKJc1UBs2


END THE CIA https://youtu.be/4oVpt_I9iQQ


The recent Federal Reserve announcement, described by Mohamed El-Erian in [this interview](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeY9l7q-kx8) marks a pretty pivotal moment. The Fed displayed a surprisingly dovish stance, indicating a willingness to accept higher inflation rates for an extended period. This approach, coupled with comments on slowing the reduction of the balance sheet, suggests a shift from strict inflation targeting to a broader, more flexible strategy that allows higher inflation. I don't think they have a choice if they want to get out of the trillion dollar debt problem alive. They are going to devalue the US dollar.

The dovish signals from the Fed are not isolated. Other central banks, including the Bank of #Japan and the #Swiss National Bank, have also shown a propensity towards maintaining loose monetary policies. This global dovishness reinforces the appeal of non-sovereign assets like #Bitcoin, as investors worldwide look for ways to protect their wealth.


Super underrated


Tax policy not even a relevant discussion on a fiat standard. Fix the money first


If you don't have a 2FA Yubikey or another FIDO compatible device, you should get one. I see passkey support on the web more and more. Hope that soon passwords will die, for real this time.

Alternatively, Google sells the Titan security key for only 35 bucks and it's fully FIDO compatible.

Just get one anon.


Good morning nostr.
Study financial repression. Your labor, your savings, your time earth is effectively being stolen from you on a fiat standard.
https://www.imf.org/external/np/seminars/eng/2011/res2/pdf/crbs.pdf
https://store.bitcoinmagazine.com/products/hidden-repression

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/financial-repression.asp#:~:text=Financial%20repression%20is%20a%20term,cost%20funding%20for%20government%20expenditures.


Interesting


Tf


Confidence in inflation moving toward 2% is the new 2% lmao


Doctors shouldn’t be fat


Paul Krugman won the Nobel prize in economics in 2008 the same year Satoshi introduced Bitcoin


Easier said than done lol


Based.

#meat only
#water only
#bitcoin only
#nostr only


FUCK YOU MONEY IS NOT AN AMOUNT.

IT IS A QUALITY OF THE MONEY YOU SAVE COMBINED WITH THE MINDSET YOU HAVE ON LIFE.

THERE ARE PLENTY OF 'RICH' PEOPLE THAT ARE SLAVES. LIFE LIVE WITHOUT PERMISSION.


Absolute banger from nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg and nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx on nostr:npub1cpem4gceylcr56ym4nx7dt6g0caadlu8dmvuluhrqfvymdgsrgtsgdq62p.

Bitcoin + Lightning + eCash is mindbending.

Multi-mint, multi-path Lightning payments and lock-to-pubkey payments are going to open up so many use cases.

Don't sleep on #cashu.

🥜🥜🥜

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9zZXJ2ZS5wb2Rob21lLmZtL3Jzcy9jOTBlNjA5YS1kZjFlLTU5NmEtYmQ1ZS01N2JjYzhhYWQ2Y2M/episode/YTA4ZWM1YTQtMDdmYy00NzhiLThhZDQtYTMxNjg4YTc3Yjk5?ep=14


One of these days masses will wake up and ask - what is money anyway? Surprised it’s taken this long but feel it will be soon


Respect


thank you for the offer

https://video.nostr.build/8b227e4a30d2a97ca65eaa9409cee8c62c387fb476ef995dfbf94e1f2b56dde6.mp4


Grayscale is such a failure lol


Suits gonna suit


Consider it considered


now that i *use* sats (zap ppl everyday), sats feel more money-like to me intuitively. there's something primal about using a form of money that makes you believe that it is money. i'm excited for the world to bypass the whole intellectual journey of "is bitcoin money?" and just intuitively experience bitcoin as money by using it


REPOST THIS IF YOU’RE HUMBLE ENOUGH. LEAVE A COMMENT ON WHAT STAYING HUMBLE MEANS TO YOU FOR A HUMBLE ZAP.
https://m.primal.net/HmSu.jpg


NOT WORKING


YESSIR 🫡


GOOD MORNING NOSTR, STAY HUMBLE AND STACK SATS 🫡


STEADY DEPLOYING MORE


DEPLOYED MUCH MORE CAPITAL THAN ME 🫡


BITCOIN FLOWS TO NET PRODUCERS


STEADY LADS DEPLOYING MORE CAPITAL


I don’t understand money someone explain it to me lol


You don’t have a #Nostr account. You have a key that signs events, and you publish those events, and then anyone who wants to read those events can do so by retrieving them from anywhere they exist. There’s no one to turn it off, there’s no account to suspend or restrict. There is simply information flowing to and from you and everyone else who uses it. This puts the power of speech back in our hands.


Y’all closed my channel with Olympus lol


Roger is just a scammer who failed at his attempt to change #Bitcoin.

For anyone interested in the facts instead of Roger's scammy fiction, read The Blocksize War.


Facts
https://image.nostr.build/9d5308e87b2119be459ded1354b73462aeed8842c3dc8a22ad6674c35909c67b.jpg


It’s not a store of value because it doesn’t stay the same price


Cut the repost spam


Damus Purple (v1.7) is officially released on the appstore! Check out whats new in this release! 👀

https://cdn.jb55.com/s/damus-purple-appstore.mp4

🗣 nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s


GOOD MORNING NOSTR


sats are an incorruptible way to

- store my time

- teleport value and time to people who I want to have more time

- accept payment for my business without having to involve legacy financial institutions or state money

- allow value to flow between any human  without cutting anyone off via arbitrary state boundaries

- integrate a real money and currency natively into the internet and into other protocols like this one

What is sats to me? It’s a new foundation for building a fairer and healthier civilization, integrated natively into the virtual consciousness of humanity: the internet. nostr:note1ynqwkgrax286qc45pd79j3gk6pxx0je44gu6ecqawetkwhhqlw5qrpqu9r


Been watching hours of saylor interviews lately. he’s always been careful with his words.  leans heavily into “store of value asset”, not a currency. He must be wary of the scrutiny  he’s under pulling off this massive public speculative attack on the dollar. It used to annoy me, but gaining respect for it. We all know bitcoin is money. who cares what saylor calls it for now. Trojan horse. Store of value first


The road to serfdom is working harder for a currency growing weaker


What makes explaining #bitcoin and #nostr so hard is the fact that they exist outside the worldview most people live their lives within. Asking someone to adopt them is like asking someone to stand where there's no ground or breathe where there's no air. Fiat has warped how people see everything and people take the new view as normal. Nothing lines up with that reality when you explain the problems Bitcoin and Nostr solve, so you're automatically dismissed. Telling someone their worldview is corrupted makes people fearful and closes them off to reason.

I don't know a better way to explain Bitcoin than by letting people feel enough pain from fiat to start questioning why things are so messed up at a fundamental level, and then introducing them to Bitcoin. Otherwise, there's no motivation to learn.


The incumbent power structure hates bitcoin and that makes me happy.

They've lost the first string of battles, but will now try to frame bitcoin a particular way to ensure most people don't harness its true power; censorship resistance and verifiability.

Hold your own keys.


FGU for sure


Tbf it doesn’t have the same kinda game theory economic incentive


Brave is a shitcoin


Based Biden


Imagine spending your time worrying about the outcome of a US election instead of adopting freedom tech and becoming a more sovereign individual
https://image.nostr.build/17ccfabdf056a56afbc34656c553286fed4f440be2f1b6926e3754a161eed019.jpg


F


Talking to normies does remind me how far I've come, it's crazy how many people are conditioned towards activity bias, and the buy-and-hold strategy of #Bitcoin is too good to be true, it's too simple, it can't just be that easy right?

Instead, people are looking for side hustles, looking for cash flow from property or equities, and taking all sorts of risks to try and beat inflation


Generational wealth


I don’t understand the insistence that Musk is some sort of savior for freedom. He was Twitter to become WeChat. He wants to benefit from the surveillance state

#optout
#bitcoin


Big facts


How quickly people forget... and the same thing will happen again.

https://video.nostr.build/6bb9c829a983b49eb554f034cbd78976d1f1839187b8ef2dc9cd7a848c09e25b.mp4


Wtf is happening in Chinada
https://www.tftc.io/canada-bill-c63-life-imprisonment-speech-crimes/


Fine, but why call yourself a Bitcoin development company


Based on


Welcome 🤙🏼


When development?


True censorship resistance on nostr comes when you run your own relay.

Here's how to run one off your own computer

(Video is large give it a minute)

https://vods.utxo.one/tutorials/nostr/home-strfry-relay-final.mp4


Primal does it well


NOSTR IS FREDOM.


The prosecution of Julian Assange is an attack against the American Republic. https://image.nostr.build/ba473da0985f7ea5d8742147bf8b0f893adfb6cbfbed5fccd226f256a7dfd37d.jpg


For those that are new to Nostr, hello!

What’s cool about it is that Nostr it is an open source protocol. It is not a centralized company, but rather is a protocol that individuals and companies can build upon.

This means that you can use many different applications to access it, or even build your own. And it means that there is no central authority that can take down posts or delete accounts; there are different servers operated by different entities that are storing the data. And there is no central algorithm for determining what posts people see or don’t see.

You can hook up a bitcoin lightning wallet to send and receive tips (“zaps”) on posts. Nostr itself is not a blockchain or crypto and has no token, but the Bitcoin blockchain does complement it well via zaps.

Nostr is still relatively small, and a bit rough around the edges. But the community here is great, and familiarizing yourself with the technology and concept is useful in a world of centralized social media. It is a new method of decentralization that balances various trade-offs in a novel way, and the protocol can be used for a lot more than just social media.

Welcome!


Zap, don’t pay for a blue check


Welcome! Same for the sats I just sent!


An idiot's unofficial guide to #nostr

Nostrich = You
Zap = lightning payment
GFY = Hi
PV = Cool
Odell = Ultra cool
Relay = data rebroadcast server
Client = App you use to interact with nostr
Npub/Public key = Username
Nsec/Private key = Password
GM = Good morning
GN = Good night
GA = Good afternoon
GE = Good evening
NIP = Part of a list of programming proposals
DM = Message in private
Boost = Repost
Note = Post
Purple = Color of nostr
NWC = A way of connecting your lightning wallet
PFP = Profile photo
NIP05 = Blue checkmark
Nostr. wine ≠ Alcoholic beverage
JSON ≠ Jason


🤡🌎
These are not serious people


Self-sovereign one-tap zaps just hit different


Custodial wallets have the best UX until you get rugged or shotgun KYC’d


Roman Sterlingov’s conviction for running a mixer is a dangerous legal precedent

The only hard evidence for him to serve 20 years in prison is that his KYC Bitcoin went through many hops and wallets before it later was used to buy a domain name. Which was then used for illegal activity.

This would mean that you’re responsible for the future actions of anyone you pay


Insanity


#TikTok migration is “zoom in” of a much bigger frame.

Obsoleted platforms and profit hungry walled gardens have been thriving for decades.

Your social graph…. your business, your livelihood , your connections, your content, your property.. has never been yours…

Nostr fixes this. Your Nsec is your ownership. Your connections, your dedication, your WORK… is YOURS.

Take the time to understand. Freedom is worth the effort.

https://media1.tenor.com/m/XroD5n0LyVsAAAAC/why-god.gif


Hello tiktokers https://image.nostr.build/a7c2712efbf645aeebbde26c86fa710ebe9f6314c47276a7623a8022b1e6b1de.jpg


to all the tiktok’ers

set up your zap wallets. fastest way to feel nostr.

primal client on ios or android is probably the easiest way to do so at the moment.


Disrespect seed oils


BRILLIANTLY PUT.

"WHAT'S THE MESSAGE OF WORKING IN A CUBE IN A ROOM WITH A SYNTHETIC DROP CEILING AND DRY WALL ON THE WALLS IN FLUORESCENT LIGHTING AHEAD OF YOU AND NO PRIVACY AT ALL? WHAT'S THE MESSAGE?"

https://cdn.satellite.earth/81b8b068d36b1e68b928e6ac5ff0df65dd994a92c7830e39530951acf123d568.mp4


Incoming private Google Drive alternative on Nostr.
nostr:nevent1qqsqqxjp8xmg0ndsm9veqnkrk9safntns57p8dv3t9z0k8evyyrlqjgpr3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmqzyqqqqqzlslmyxswzztxf84kzvmqr4e6jcqnxpeu2dks5ynmmqhz8qqcyqqqqqqgs732q0


Censorship bad #nostr https://image.nostr.build/90aa0b5e0c378290234f318b5af98fc912cae7c50915bb6dca83b8e0c31eb7eb.jpg


Based


i got this life hack from nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m. you guys gotta just try it before you bash it, trust me on this

i’ve had no booze, no caffeine for a month.

i have raw eggs and fruit juice instead of coffee, way more nutritious and way more energy.

i eat a lot of red meat and butter throughout the day. cook my steaks blue, sometimes medium rare.

then i build shit for others and stack sats.

if we’re all gonna live ~75 years you can try something for a few weeks. it’s been incredible

nostr:note1uf94nqj796q9spmvf9yhptt4q5l8pfzvrncv46dq98auy7q8pecqk4tfky


TikTok is discovering Nostr.

All we have to do is keep building censorship resistant and robust technical solutions to our fiat problems, and then the fiat world will just keep destroying itself and more and more people will look for the exit door.

We’re gonna win.
#Bitcoin #Nostr @Pears_p2p


For the TikTokers in #introductions, we don't have media consumption in the ways that you're used to seeing, but we do have alternatives for media consumption.

Amethyst for Android has a TikTok-esque media feed.
Zap.stream is a live video streaming app.
NostrNests.com is an live audio chat app.
Flare.pub is a video sharing/watching site.
Highlighter.com is a toolkit for creators to produce content for their subscribers.


Novak is not only the tennis 🐐, but also a freedom advocate who was willing to sacrifice his career to stand up for what is right.

We have a lot to learn from him. Hope to see him on nostr soon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgGI0QCqrLU


Good morning, Nostriches 🌞

I had no idea this vid I made on TikTok about #Nostr would be my first half a million+ viewed vid, but here we are. 😅

Thanks for all the love (and zaps!) ⚡

ICYMI:
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRTLxGTW/


Never imagined that one day we had to upload our kyc documents to use social media. https://image.nostr.build/9534227a0e0e3006fc486bf465b2f3d54123da2201466562bf9f4ba423f84d9b.gif


WEEEEEEEEEE

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


Voltage.cloud


Take my sats?


https://image.nostr.build/da9dc08a0f7a8156ccadcda34543650189c20bbc2621cbb5db480d8f0365cb5c.jpg

#meme #memestr #nostrmemes #memes 834,563 🤙💜


THE TIKTOK BAN BILL GOING THROUGH CONGRESS RIGHT NOW WILL GIVE GOVERNMENT INSANE POWER TO RESTRICT SPEECH.

AT THE SAME TIME SECTION 230 PROTECTIONS ARE ABOUT TO BE NEUTERED BY THE SUPREME COURT WHICH WILL ADD AN INSANE AMOUNT OF LIABILITY TO CENTRALIZED PLATFORMS - INEVITABLY INCREASING CENSORSHIP.

RESTRICTING FREE SPEECH IN AMERICA HAS BIPARTISAN SUPPORT AMONG OUR CORRUPT POLITICAL CLASS.

NOSTR IS ABOUT TO HAVE ITS MOMENT TO SHINE. WE NEED TO BE READY FOR BILLIONS OF NEW USERS.


Increasingly difficult


How I walk into banks now
 https://image.nostr.build/fa26175e3515ff4b79b17b5ab30dbb23016656e0b7035eded9bb77f1007d5e62.gif


Not bad


The United State Government is a disgusting criminal organization.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-12/crypto-mixer-convicted-of-money-laundering-on-bitcoin-fog


#Bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/8cefc124046893a112c4f0383494d75c82432775d5cf2732cccf3f7138c9dfcc.jpg


Govt imposes 30% tax

Public miners can't survive

Hash rate plummets

Asic fire sales

Plebs buy everything up

Mining becomes more decentralized

More coins become no KYC

Govt collects even less tax now, hfsp

W


Everything is good for Bitcoin


Whoops


Why aren’t more companies doing what microstrategy is doing?


Is the halving priced in?


If you want in-depth information about Roman's case listen to nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx on Citadel Dispatch and hear from the legal team directly

It is shocking.

https://www.youtube.com/live/P8jTkWzvbcw?si=V2mi9iUpWMSxHu_p


Apple 🤡


Very cool


At some point you have to stop asking permission
https://image.nostr.build/c709e761252e2268f07f2d7a538eaa521d2bd588656ffb4ea9d555aa48b44d68.jpg


"The U.S. national debt is rising by $1 trillion about every 100 days"

Bitcoiners:
 https://video.nostr.build/3e3b0ddf66fa408e6f6925c785a43cca6263019c512aef69a792684f518e21bb.mp4


Persistence + Consistency.

That’s it. That’s the note.


Brothers and sisters,

I am not a writer

Or an influencer

So I will be brief

But nothing more important will be said today

The dollar value of Bitcoin will likely go up and make you more wealthy than you could have ever dreamed

But, you must protect Bitcoin.

Run a node.

Support FOSS

Support companies that help to decentralize mining


THIS IS WHAT THEY TOOK FROM YOU. KEEP STACKING SATS TO GET IT BACK🫡 https://image.nostr.build/b0521fd6fbd1d8a2a8fdd9306057fa898c51dff1e98b0aa38fa421db18b47cfe.jpg


Lmaoo


GOOD MORNING NOSTR 🚀


In case anyone forgot. https://i.nostr.build/dmOY.jpg


Even normies will see it when they see charts like this one.

Why is Bitcoin at ATHs in some fiat shitcoins and not others?

Because those shitcoins are debasing at faster rates than the USD (and the Mexican Peso apparently too).

It’s only gonna get more and more difficult to hide inflation with Bitcoin in the world

nostr:note130j3u6d5sz3frtknyupkzgpae7t006ye9x6rgpt2xnl4593tn6lslkx87f


Most nostr apps are already better than this


Brutal


"I think the simplest way to think about Nostr is this.

"Suppose that you are a writer and I like reading your staff, so I follow you. If you write on Twitter, Twitter can censor you, and I may miss on that post. A solution could be: you write on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube (which now has textual posts too) and whatever other platfrom you want. You publish each of your posts on all of these platforms. And I follow you on all these platforms.

"This would work, and it shows that the web as a whole already is decentralized. The issue with it is that it would take some significant effort from both of us, and I would see the same post from you multiple times.

"Welcome Nostr.

"Nostr relays act the same as traditional centralized platforms, except that they all offer (kind of) the same API. With just one Nostr client, publishing the same post to multiple relays is trivial. And if you follow the same user from multiple relays, you see each post only once. And you only need to use one interface.

"So while each relay essentially behaves as a platform, actually this is mostly transparent to the user and from the user's prospective (which is the most important one) the whole Nostr echosystem is essentially just one decentralized platform."

nostr:nprofile1qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq3camnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3dxyhxucn09eskuempde5jucm09uq3uamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3dwp6kytnhv4kxcmmjv3jhytnwv46z7qpq3mjzjryckg9jnxgn3vez73nw5gx82cy0269t2083zjftlxewsjwqk626l8


Jfc


Damn


“IF YOURE GONNA ENGAGEMENT FARM DO IT ON NOSTR” - nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx


Bitcoin is a funny game where the only winning move is to play


The government is literally stealing your life with taxes and fiat monetary inflation…

As a conservative example:

You start working at 20.
You work until you’re 65.
You pay +/- 33% of your income in taxes.

The government takes 1/3 of your working life…

They have stolen **15 YEARS** of your time, energy, and work.

And for what?

For roads? (LOLOLOL)

For a broken education system?

For a medical system that wants to keep you sick and medicated?

For the military industrial complex which gets rich off foreign forever wars you never agreed to?

And while they are stealing 1/3 of your life, they are PRINTING MONEY OUT OF THIN AIR, stealing MORE of your time/energy/life force through the destruction of your purchasing power.

The taxes you pay don’t even fund the government; an ever-growing pile of national debt does, fueled by money created out of thin air by the Federal Reserve System. The dollars in your bank account are worth less and less every year, as your purchasing power is systematically destroyed.

I am grateful #Bitcoin exists so I can opt out of this nonsense and save the value of my time and energy.

Anyway, have a beautiful day.


🔜
https://image.nostr.build/ae523106a6aadc85acd2dbc225b179f265f7a67b3aafbc5ba8479a2a1e054207.jpg


we code in the sky https://v.nostr.build/zEr0.mp4


A good one


Both


shill it larry


Cash app 🫡


Everyone waving their little Ukraine flags and sporting your pins and badges, this is what you are supporting.

There is no anti-war movement anymore, only senseless clapping for the 'right' side, while those that benefit from war laugh from the sidelines as they send men tumbling into the meat grinder

nostr:nevent1qqsycf4e2899kvs3jfq9h0ww2am6zyjndwusprm8kjpfj3kgk4g6c6cpzamhxue69uhkv6tvw3jhytnwdaehgu3wwa5kuegzyr70wzj9e75p064gzwum4z3ht4cn6vtf7j3870w2c02fzyklvlfhuqcyqqqqqqgmw3kl5


Good morning 🫡
be the change you want to see #nostr only


Yessir 🫡


My last tweet before being Sim swapped and hacked on the bird app was a reply saying something like:

Join us on #Nostr.

Would be kind of fitting if that was my last one ever!


GM

Censorship resistant money is one of the most important things to me in life. I don't give a fuck how we achieve that. If it's good money, and it improves privacy and usage, then it's simply good.

You can worry about purism, ETF bullshit, "digital gold", blah blah blah all you want. Most people have simply lost the plot.


Stop using sms for 2fa


great rip
https://youtu.be/sAWTYuTgrPY?si=zNeQ5ye0nDW92ufo


Do it pussy


#nostr only


Tik Tok has over 100 million monthly active users in the US. Banning Tik Tok means huge numbers of Americans will have to rely on Google and Meta, which the government can censor.
#nostr fixes all of this


Stoked to be here 🫡


Few


How bitcoin transforms energy use
0:00 - Brooklyn’s bitcoin-heated bath house
2:28 - Bitcoin mining’s unquenchable thirst for cheap energy
4:10 - Why decentralization matters
5:14 - How bitcoin mining transformed a small Georgia farming town
6:35 - How bitcoin miners maximize energy efficiency
7:45 - Could bitcoin bootstrap solar power?
9:15 - How bitcoin monetizes “stranded energy”
9:38 - Answering bitcoin’s environmentalist critics
10:49 - How bitcoin stopped a Texas blackout
12:42 - Underground miners fixed Venzuela’s power lines
14:20 - The impossibility of stopping bitcoin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8gFppa4VLg&t=8s&pp=ygUccmVhc29uIHR2IGJpdGNvaW4gYmF0aCBob3VzZQ%3D%3D


Lmao


Whoa nice


If anyone needs to get around Apple's Zap blocking in nostr:npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq955, I've started hosting nostr:npub1k92qsr95jcumkpu6dffurkvwwycwa2euvx4fthv78ru7gqqz0nrs2ngfwd's workaround script website on my server too. GFY #Apple.

https://damuszap.oxtr.dev/


Facts


This is why you buy a #VPN with #Bitcoin or #Monero from a mixer or #Cash and give a 🖕 to the gov

https://reclaimthenet.org/federal-government-big-banks-surveil-purchases-vpns-gift-cards


everything but Bitcoin is rigged


Fuck that


I just heard the scariest story in a while. Someone told me that they had been traveling in China and, on the way out, the border police pulled up a tool that showed countless photos of this person taken by public surveillance cameras during their visit.

These are CCTV cameras in public. Faces classified with AI. All data gathered in a central location. Don't even think for a second this is never going to happen where you live.

That's a level of dystopia I didn't know we were already in.


Degens gonna degen
https://image.nostr.build/38f6d6150a4f333c993e07f4914ec2f5f33095563cc35023aa3796a9fcce7d91.jpg


In honor of the upcoming #Reddit IPO here's how to delete your account and all of your posts

#Nostr only!

https://lifehacker.com/tech/how-to-delete-your-reddit-account


Sparrow v1.8.3 released with:

PGP download file verifier
Coldcard Q1 support
Trezor Safe 3 support
Improved QR reading

And more: https://github.com/sparrowwallet/sparrow/releases/tag/1.8.3

https://sparrowwallet.com/download/ https://image.nostr.build/dd9ad8e9ad16b81e4b1638d76cad23e7c094d6314e9773605188297a375f524f.png


ecash is magical feels like first time sending a Bitcoin transaction


Volatility is good


Good


"If you’re reading this post, it’s because many relays are working."


ecash mints had a market timing problem when Chaum launched DigiCash in 1989. The time for ecash mints is now.

Bitcoin + LN + ecash mints = economic freedom jet fuel


look, ppl should self custody their bitcoin

BUT if your normie friend is about to buy these ETFs anyways, please consider pointing them to bitwise (ticker: BITB)

notable features:
- lowest fee amongst the four billion plus AUM products (20 bps)
- 10% of profits donation to devs (via opensats, brink, hrf)
- public transparency (only one to publish holding addresses)
- we care (do you see anyone else on nostr?)

[BITB disclosures & prospectus: bitbetf.com/welcome]


Elon coping and seething


Daily cope and seethe


few


bitcoin-backed ecash is free banking by the people


Blue checks still don’t get it. Bitcoin is the exit. Never sell, spend as necessary
https://image.nostr.build/b3d2f3378f4981fb3eac938ea2e2b47cba9b368b9903bd6eb28b8383c5599be7.jpg


Coinbase trying to turn off the buy button again


One of my favorite presentations
https://youtu.be/Z6qzEYxBYcQ?si=plYTRWLxTkjHYBTs


STAY HUMBLE


Show must go on. 💪

Primal for Android 0.95.4 is here. We focused on app stability and performance in this release. Everything should be faster, more solid and reliable. If you run into any issues, we want to know about it. More features are coming soon. 🫡

https://primal.net/downloads


Nice what’s your go to?


Microstrategy is ripping. Speculative attacks will continue


Strike and Cash App will always have #bitcoin  for sale

Wake us up at $100k
https://m.primal.net/Hheh.jpg


Good thing i didn’t buy bitcoin, its way too volatile.


Phoenix is hard to beat


#Bitcoin will be the global base money. You cannot negationate with or propagandize away the laws of economics.


The Center for Countering Digital Hate has labeled TFTC and many other YouTube channels as purveyors of "New Denial" that Google must punish for calling out climate hysteria.

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

List of YouTube channels being targeted by this particular NGO.

https://m.primal.net/HhcX.png https://m.primal.net/HhcY.png https://m.primal.net/HhcZ.png

LUCKILY, WE HAVE NOSTR. THE CENTER FOR COUNTERING DIGITAL HATE CAN SCREECH INTO THE VOID.


GOOD MORNING NOSTR, WE LIKE THE COIN, WE STACK THE SATS, WE NEVER SELL, WE SPEND AS NECESSARY.

LIVE LIFE WITHOUT PERMISSION. RIDE OR DIE. FOREVER. 🫡

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


Nostr has good vibes. Twitter is pure misery.

I follow the same people on both.


So bullish


The past two years of bitcoin conferences I have been at have been bear market conferences.

And funnily, the energy was still really high at all of them. Pacific Bitcoin in 2022 occurred literally during the FTX dump to $16k and we were having an amazing time regardless.

Bitcoin Atlantis in Madeira has been the closest thing to a conference in a bull market for a while.

My single favorite thing at conferences is meeting people from so many countries. Within one example hour I met a woman from Saudi Arabia, a whole group from Bulgaria, someone from Bolivia, someone from Columbia, someone from Spain, and someone from South Africa. A woman from Malaysia really stuck out too and it was a great conversation.

There is no other asset that brings out so much hope and unity from people with such different backgrounds and experiences.

Open source global money. 🫂


Set up the gossip client on macOS with little snitch running. Super informative seeing all the connections being made showing how nostr works under the hood


Driving a V8 in 2024
https://image.nostr.build/5b1e7c5701ef1826e1dcea2937f3fb809ff08b3ebefb6cf618ccfb0a794986de.jpg


NIP 90 Search request


Profile Search request


80% of dollars created in last 5 years
https://image.nostr.build/0f089f5a91868a12babe11981bf71007e727401239a8e2afc676eaddb770816b.jpg


We’re winning so hard, freaks. The vibe shift is upon us.


Central banking fails


running Gossip


Imagine your government built upon open protocols that they can’t own, control, or manipulate…every interaction visible to all. What changes? What fails?


GOOD MORNING NOSTR, WE ARE THE FEW, THE RIDE OR DIE, AND TOGETHER WE WILL CHANGE THE WORLD FOR THE BETTER 🫡


What a cuck


“Nothing on Wallstreet is permissionless.”

Open Source Everything.

- nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m https://i.nostr.build/BB0Y.jpg


https://image.nostr.build/2ef2e9574ed0e661088157da40dc9bcc4d1efcbd4e78969062dac93b3b051050.jpg

https://image.nostr.build/6644ab4f5f559b71edf920a3fad1fbbbb19ec2501d2fb6420af4b553a24e442b.jpg


Lmao


Bitcoin Twitter ratios disinformation so hard you literally have these “finance” blue check accounts who just engagement farm the traffic? Interesting dynamic.

https://image.nostr.build/fe8f81057fafddf2b39f472cf1f6e97b655886b78f2ee77554f9207e42cc6ee0.jpg

https://image.nostr.build/a92b4a7294b76a6c80fd5c5fcc681686c1ae0d8e05d585b51185cf9c07b463ec.jpg


Interesting, the ability of central banks to print money played a role as well


If you’re someone advocating for Bitcoin and freedom tech on Twitter/X but inactive on nostr that’s a problem


NOSTR ONLY 🫡

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


Stay humble and stack kids


FAMILY FIRST, ALWAYS.

LIFE IS SHORT, MAKE THE MOST OF IT. 🫡

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


ANIMATED QR CODES AND ECASH - THIS IS AMAZING FOR TRANSACTING OFFLINE - THIS IS COMING TO EVERY CASHU WALLET

You can try it on cashu.me (beware: this wallet has no seed phrase backups yet, only use it very small amounts).

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


Silver is a shitcoin


Just remembered the shitcoin trading bro I talked to after the last big price drop from the previous ATH in '22. He burnt his fingers trading leveraged crap and lost most of his money. He wasn't doing great after the pop and I listened to all of his hardship.

He asked me why I was so calm and I said

- "Bitcoin-only"
- "But it also dropped!"
- "I'm just gonna keep stacking and enjoy my life"
- "😤"

I told him he should stop caring about all these stupid things and just buy Bitcoin and put it away for years.

He never did because he always believed that he's smarter than the stupid Bitcoiners.


“Capitalism and communism are the same thing under printed money”

- #[0]


COPE


Why is this so funny


Normies rn seeing the price nearing ATH https://image.nostr.build/709f06a0a089384e894b49a12ae3b79b6750349451dff49dce6780286aa68d48.jpg


Welcome!


Whoops


Don’t be Dave Portnoy
https://image.nostr.build/eaa58ef50bf0b41e9ea30f5c1f236a1176ccb845024bd8f60914e42d5b3ac48d.jpg


🎯
Come up with the dollars or lose your home is a pretty strong incentive to work for dollars


Gold failed as money


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

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


Well said


🫡🫡 respect


Strong peso?


Coinbase turning off the buy button 😂


Is there some fuckery going on with coinbase?


we have never been more back


In less than 8,000 blocks the issuance will decrease to only ~171,000 new coins per year (roughly 0.87% inflation until 2028).
Only about 684,000 new coins will be mined from 2024-2028.
Bitcoin is so scarce it’s hard to comprehend


This guy in disbelief
https://image.nostr.build/9d9844f4caa6ff46c8eeaa0f569662ae7caf3362d3dc566bfe3180e80baa0646.jpg


Sure glad it doesn’t!


Gm nostr 🚀😁
pleasure to be here with you all


If you want to orange pill the world  make something people want and only accept bitcoin for it.


the only winning move is not to play.

nostr flies over all of this mess.

https://youtu.be/vSg_Gl49br0


Nice!


ALL THE RIDE OR DIES ARE ON NOSTR. THE ONLY PEOPLE LEFT ON TWITTER ARE BLUE CHECKS AND THEIR SIMPS.


https://image.nostr.build/dca524c7cab954c4ffc984233de2c245a84aa9f2d0b7570d7f7e84bc425a674b.jpg

#meme #memestr #nostrmemes #memes 832,217 🤙💜


Mining fiat stacking sats


Hahaha 🫡


Zapped to help 😂


Eating the fucking world and most the world doesn’t know it


JOHN IS AN ABSOLUTE LEGEND.

LISTEN TO THIS RIP. 🫡

https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/bitcoin-is-eating-the-world


Full support


Still my favorite bitcoin chart.
https://m.primal.net/Heyz.png


Let's start with definitions:

**Cashu**  - Cashu is a free and open-source Chaumian ecash system built for Bitcoin. Cashu offers near-perfect privacy for users of custodial Bitcoin applications. Nobody needs to know who you are, how much funds you have, and who you transact with. - more info here https://cashu.space/

**Cashu-adress** - it is a protocol that runs on top of cashu mints. More info here: https://docs.cashu-address.com/

**Npub.cash** - service that runs on top of cashu-address protocol.  Let's you use your npub@npub.cash as a lightning address to receive zaps or incoming sats. More info here https://npub.cash/

**Pay to public key** - Like bitcoin you can cashu tokens are bearer assets and can be locked to a public key. This means only the person who has the private key can use that token.

> What do you use it for?  - Use your npub cash as your lightning address replacement.

**Why?** I believe everyone knows what a lightning address is. Lightning address is usually provided by your wallet provider who also runs their lightning node. E.g. if you have @alby.com lightning address then you already have an account setup with alby and using their lightning node to get your sats. With npub.cash you can simply put your npubaddress@npub.cash without registering first or signing up. And you can keep this forever even while changing your lightning wallet from alby to any other provider or running your own lightning node.

**Npub.cash** locks the received tokens into your nostr public key (Still work in progress) so that only the owner of Nostr public key who has the private key can claim the token and push it to their wallet of choice.

**Benefits Over Traditional Custodial Lightning Addresses:**

**Privacy:** With Cashu-Address, your financial activities are not visible to your custodian. This added layer of privacy ensures that your transactions remain your own.

**Flexibility in Custodian Selection:** Unlike traditional Lightning Addresses, Cashu-Address allows you to choose your custodian freely. If your needs change, you can switch your custodian anytime without hassle.

**No User Exclusion:** Custodians cannot exclude individual users. Because mints do know know which user eCash belongs to, they can not censor certain users.
How to claim your username@npub.cash - This is what makes it so cool. You can actually get a vanity username for your profile name. E.g. I got mine as starbuilder@npub.cash. Simply visit npub.cash website and click the get username button. Put in your vanity username and pay 5k sats to get your profile@npub.cash

**How to claim your username@npub.cash**- This is what makes it so cool. You can actually get a vanity username for your profile name. E.g. I got mine as starbuilder@npub.cash. Simply visit npub.cash website and click the get username button. Put in your vanity username and pay 5k sats to get your profile@npub.cash . This is onetime and you can use this address forever..!

**Frequently asked Questions:**

1. What connect string to use to login with NIP-46 on iOS.  - try setting up an account at https://use.nsec.app/home . This is still WIP. If it does not work, just try the Nostr extension using laptop browser

2. Is there a notification when I receive sats/zaps? Not yet. We are working on it. However, just go to npub.cash every couple of days to sweep your collected sats to your wallet

3. Which cashu wallet to use? Use enuts (android & ios) https://www.enuts.cash/ or minibits.cash for android https://www.minibits.cash/

4. Will anyone be able to claim my sats? NO. When you start the claim process you need to sign with your Nostr extenstion signer to claim sats. So only the person controlling the private key to the npub can claim sats.

5. I really struggle to understand the flow of what happened concretely. - Don't break your head. the devs got you covered. Also, this is super new and everyone is trying to get their heads around. Just follow instructions, play with it and ask for help.
6. Is it non-custodial? - When we lock your sats to your pubkey we cannot spend it. However locking to pubkey is not enabled until wallets can start supporting them.
7. How do I ask for help? - just post **#asknpub.cash** and post your questions. We will get to you.
8. Who are the devs behind this? @calle (Master of Cashu) @egge (Core dev) @starbuilder (dev support)

Here's what everyone is talking about #npub.cash on Nostr

nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzqx78pgq53vlnzmdr8l3u38eru0n3438lnxqz0mr39wg9e5j0dfq3qythwumn8ghj7um9v9exx6pwdehhxtn5dajxz7f0qqsxcwntv9d342ashe5yvyv0fg40wm873jaszt6d2u0209vqz5gkcdq6avwyr

nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzq5qzedy85msr57qayz6dz9dlcr5k40mcqtvm5nhyn466qgc6p4kcqythwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnwdaehgu3wvfskuep0qythwumn8ghj7um9v9exx6pwdehhxtn5dajxz7f0qqsvek7d8v4lddrmj2mynegsnrc4r4gnmswkddm02qzenwuc7x9perctaedre

nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzpfpqfrt75fhfcd4x0d0lyek9pzyz4zwmudh0vq7vn3njvvngsmpjqyghwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnhd9hx2tcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsqgyjwfsgr80xmha8x2wwd4klzsxcagmlpk3wsfyyvqnlvzn2rcvnhu534kj5

nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzp3yw98cykjpvcqw2r7003jrwlqcccpv7p6f4xg63vtcgpunwznq3qyfhwumn8ghj7mmxve3ksctfdch8qatz9uq36amnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wvf5hgcm0d9hx2u3wwdhkx6tpdshsqg8v5hfgmwangecpejcw22fm4uk2s438p8ahpu5l985wserctr0h6gysle9m

nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzp6y2dy0f3kvc0jty2gwl7cqztas8qqmc5jrerqxuhw622qnc2pq3qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq3xamnwvaz7tm0venxx6rpd9hzuur4vghsqgx68ujht0r9qqqp4l27u0x27sg4p5l2ks0xd9kxm9w2vkjhppttlur0et6k


Thanks


#asknostr what can I use for the Nip-46 login for npub.cash on iOS?


welcome 🫡


„Not #Bitcoin mining is a waste of energy.“

- nostr:npub1trr5r2nrpsk6xkjk5a7p6pfcryyt6yzsflwjmz6r7uj7lfkjxxtq78hdpu

Great episode nostr:npub1s5yq6wadwrxde4lhfs56gn64hwzuhnfa6r9mj476r5s4hkunzgzqrs6q7z

https://fountain.fm/episode/ABVlRzTXFBAQKAiKJadm


Nice. Same. The vast majority do not and never will


No one uses lightning in a self sovereign way anyway. Better privacy and less confusing steps imo


Bitcoin e-Cash mints "micro banks" is a super power.

It's literally one-button "Free Banking" for everyone.

Start a Free Bank here https://www.enuts.cash


The crazy part is she *should be* a huge Bitcoin advocate

Any progressive person concerned with discrimination should be thrilled with the idea of non-discriminatory money https://image.nostr.build/035aaa1366c9330166b3d5b0b20d2db89fa2fbad2ae881f9412af24944673981.jpg


npub.cash hotfix just went live. Static payment pages are now available for anyone, regardless of wether you bought an alias or not... even nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m has one ;)

https://npub.cash/pay/npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m


1) What