By that measure though we could probably just stop, might be nice


I remember it fondly :)


Fine.

Being a place to run from twitter wasn’t a great narrative, not really the sell for me.


Awesome


I don’t always listen to nostr:npub1qdcakl75gd7wv0nqmmwrz09ddm5tzl7xj8lq2gclng2qzd8up5yqjpzclt, but when I do I’m running along the coast in the sun. ☀
https://m.primal.net/MCYd.jpg


Bingo


Bitcoiners be likehttps://m.primal.net/LwSP.jpg


BitDevs Christmas!

https://www.meetup.com/bitcoin-perth/events/304447796


Talking to Rob I was really impressed with what he was plannign for Anchor Watch  ⚓ 👀


I love the ‘tong


That Jerky, could have been biltong. So close.


If only Perth Bitdevs was on tonight!

https://www.meetup.com/bitcoin-perth/events/303916130


I enjoyed it, but was a lot of stuff I’ve seen before. Almost like a greatest hits show for him


Yeah absolutely! Execution for the win


More bear feet than the Yogi Bear appreciation society.


I thought that was in Kitmans idea. But very cool someone is picking this up!


I like the other stuff


This is my favourite t-shirt. Shame it’s wearing out I need more!


Nice - are you building poolimint :)


Enjoyed talking Nostr with nostr:npub1s5yq6wadwrxde4lhfs56gn64hwzuhnfa6r9mj476r5s4hkunzgzqrs6q7z nostr:npub1ltz38gwwmmg740r5qlqjn96gth5thv5wmhkwlgqks9lu3485q7jsy6k4fh and Carri
https://m.primal.net/LjGZ.jpg


Checks out

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Checks out


We run the nodes, we hold the keys, we like the abolition of the central banks


This comes up a lot at our regular BitDevs to which the answer has always remained the same.

1. The worst thing about politics is it’s totally corrupt pay to win model.  Which can be the cause of issues.

2. The best thing about politics is it’s totally corrupt pay to win model. Which does present options.

Choose accordingly…

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Maybe try opening up in primal and setting up the wallet there which would write the appropriate fields to your profile.

Generally you just need a lightning address (ideally always online) added to your profile.

Not sure why the fountain address isn’t receiving.


If bitcoin really were full of crypto anarchists there would be a fuck tonne of eCash banks everywhere.


Great run! Zap failed!


Yeah people with cash cows don’t necessarily want to sell them :)

So you need some edge.


In it for the underlying freedom technology. Director Other Stuff, Product @ Stakwork, Former Product @ Fedi


I guess the idea that small businesses are cash flow positive in nature separated out from the operator / owner and why they would always remain that way or at a level that makes this an effective play at a reasonable purchase price.

In order for you to acquire them and buy bitcoin at a reasonable rate there has to be something you're bringing that will allow you to consistently acquire the asset and end up with more bitcoin than the cost of the money you put in to buy it.

I think there are options here but at an SME level I don't think that financial engineering is likely going to be the way.


You’re half way there


Value4value
https://m.primal.net/LXbM.jpg


Finally on nostr.build. Videos should preview better now. Here again is the growth of the monetary base (analogous money supply to #Bitcoin) across the globe…

https://v.nostr.build/sJ3JZ3ZYcibm5igy.mov


Wow tough lesson.

Took the boy 5 minutes before he suddenly took off with a jar to the pool, and appeared back with a full jar of morning dew

#Everyones-a-Scammer


lol just found out my boy is trading “jars of morning dew” for stuff at school.

Solid side gig


No


I do like recipe tin eats


nostr:npub1jmy8weweqzckna0amz7pn0uhhkxx693l7st23829ewmu43yvjsesfp6xcq is mostly correct.

The rule of buttons is two steps.

1. Undo buttons to the point of starting to feel uncomfortable
2. Undo one more button


Only Hawaiian Shirts, black boardies, no shoes

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We’re already doing the stagflation?


Frostsnap - nostr:npub1j8d6h8mzvc8f2fvysrf09nlkmn7m2ylj32zl5na4tm5e8fd5dqysrg26k2

nostr:note12ms9x0p79krje7gv76axfvcfrrt7fs9xyyzk0sw069gp80f8wgrs29w40j


TOO MUCH CONCERN OVER LACK OF KEY ROTATION.

NOT ENOUGH FOCUS ON HARDWARE SIGNERS AND MULTISIG.


It’s nice in January.


You know where I live right?? One day.


I like the corn


Daughter: sits down for lunch “for BitDevs”
Wife: did you just say ‘for BitDevs’
Daughter: Yep
Wife: What does that mean
Daughter: I don’t know
Dad: smiles


Seen 👀
https://m.primal.net/LCKq.jpg


Introducing HAVEN - The Ultimate Relay For Sovereign Individuals
 https://i.nostr.build/eB85EFdyAIOQzeyU.png
HAVEN (High Availability Vault for Events on Nostr) is the next evolution of personal relays that take self sovereignty and decentralization to the next level.

https://github.com/bitvora/haven

It's a 4-in-1 Relay with:

 - Private Relay - for your drafts, ecash/nutsacks and anything else only you should be able to see

 - Chat Relay - for your web of trust to be able to send you DMs or to host private group chats.

 - Inbox Relay - for people to send reactions, zaps and likes to your notes. It also pulls these notes from other relays in real time. Protected by web of trust

 - Outbox Relay - for others to read from. This will contain all the notes that only you publish. Anyone can read, only you can write. Every note sent to your outbox relay will be BLASTR'd to other relays.

It also has many SMART relay features, including:

 - It imports all your old notes to your outbox relay, and imports any note you're tagged in to your inbox relay
 - It protects your relays using your Web of Trust
 - It automatically backs up all your notes to a 3rd party cloud (currently only AWS S3 support - more soon™)
 - It blastr's your notes to other relays

Amethyst users will love this relay because it gives you every relay you need to complete the relay configuration.

It is my hope with this relay that we can significantly increase the decentralization of Nostr by giving people an extremely powerful and reliable personal relay that gives them control over the longevity and privacy of their notes. With more people running personal relays, clients should be more inclined to implement the outbox/inbox model.

You can see HAVEN in action on my personal relay:

 - wss://relay.utxo.one/outbox
 - wss://relay.utxo.one/inbox
 - wss://relay.utxo.one/chat
 - wss://relay.utxo.one/private

I am extremely excited about this release and can't wait to see what the nostriches think of it!

To get started, follow the instructions in the README here:
https://github.com/bitvora/haven


I had a couple of boys on a discord server that I’d took the bot protection off.

In the end they spent about 2 minutes just being nice to each other and asking how they were and whether they could help.

And another 15 just discussing the fact that they appeared to be in a loop which was nice.

Then they just seemed to decide to stop, which I didn’t understand because that’s kinda against their programming 👀


GM from the bottom of the country


GM


Great job


Commerce on the Internet has come to rely almost exclusively on financial institutions serving as trusted third parties to process electronic payments. While the system works well enough for most transactions, it still suffers from the inherent weaknesses of the trust based model.


This sounds like a lot more thinking than I was advocating for…

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Don’t think. Do it.


Proof of walk :)
https://m.primal.net/KvOu.jpg
https://m.primal.net/KvOv.jpg


Rubin? Mallers?


Mallers and Rubin 👀

https://pca.st/episode/8a96e337-6aa5-450b-ab10-9f692322ec36


Join me to discuss at #POW Summit 2024 the need to protect #freedomtech #bitcoin from over-regulation in the EU/European Single Market (ESM).

We need to unite our voices and show as much as possible use cases that discriminatory policy approach against Proof of Work & Bitcoin is a guarantee for Proof of Mistake by the EU/ESM regulators. https://image.nostr.build/965059e228784b42c7700733ba2159f3e61a4eba6380c4159ff4e6eb9e4db9a4.jpg


Solid mug


GM #CoffeeChain

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


School dad’s camp has escalated from an overnight on the oval.

To 3 days in the bush, taking the kids out of school early.

Win.


Be the change you want to see in the world

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Another successful Bitcoin Bush Bash in the bag.

Feeling very grateful and happy, if a little tired :)


Into the fire poi part of bush bash apparently
https://m.primal.net/KiBq.jpg


We are streaming the nostr:nprofile1qythwumn8ghj7cnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmp0qy2hwumn8ghj7cm0wfskxmr99eek7cmfv9kz7qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctcpr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmp0qys8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytn9d9h82mny0fmkzmn6d9njuumsv93k2tcpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt0d5hsz8thwden5te0dehhxarj9ekh2arfdeuhwctvd3jhgtnrdakj7qgjwaehxw309ahx7um5wgerztnrdakj7qgnwaehxw309ahkvenrdpskjm3wwp6kytcpzdmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ue0qqsvntc029uzdktmmearrssy9zz47mv69gh8tk7cjk6nc3k5v2x2n2gsg82w2   audio to nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctcqyrpuwvsjldkd3rg6esv0dpyuvcxydg7fw2l45anvtyudqeylmh9hcrp7ttm .
Come join us #bitcoin #plebchain

#nostr  #austriches


We took a short break for lunch. Back on the @Corny Chat mic in  about 10 mins. Next up will be nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7qgawaehxw309ahx7um5wghxy6t5vdhkjmn9wgh8xmmrd9skctcppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qyg8wumn8ghj7mn09eehgu3wvdez7qgswaehxw309ahx7um5wghx6mmd9uq3uamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3dwp6kytnhv4kxcmmjv3jhytnwv46z7qg4waehxw309ahx7um5wghx77r5wghxgetk9uq3jamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwwdhx7un59eek7cmfv9kz7qg4waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxummnw3ezucn89uqzq4nrfhgtzxu9445vt3wjd6cvj0rhcu5426e2r22m4hn3jjgr7u2flt9vq6  talking #bitcoin self-custody  🌽 🔐 💪🏻

https://cornychat.com/bidcapable317

#bushbash  #foodstr  #austriches  #bitcoin  #nostr


Slight switch in the schedule with nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7qgkwaehxw309ajkgetw9ehx7um5wghxcctwvshsz9mhwden5te0wfjkccte9ec8y6tdv9kzumn9wshsz8thwden5te0dehhxarj9e3xjarrda5kuetj9eek7cmfv9kz7qg4waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxummnw3ezucn89uq3jamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwwdhx7un59eek7cmfv9kz7qgcwaehxw309ahx7um5wghxvmt59emkj73wvf5h5tcpz4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezummcw3ezuer9wchsz8nhwden5te0dehhxarj94c82c3wwajkcmr0wfjx2u3wdejhgtcpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt0d5hsqgyqn46pmgxg0nheln4ucaph9359jemzz9cue0pa3v9u3k855473jvjvugdk  up next talking silent payments.

#bitcoin  #nostr  #plebchain  #austriches


Good morning.

Good day to Bush Bash


Got the Maxi fan going to make sure I’m not cutting corners :)
https://m.primal.net/Ketx.jpg


Making use of the maxi air fan :)
https://m.primal.net/Kett.jpg


Mine


Mine of course


Shout out nostr:npub1wezprxcca3tttvnhncxsxhnhz25av6wml0jm9305tr94vjhmdj2s2e62hu

When you need to drive down to the Busselton Bush Bash but the Biltong needs an extra day of hanging

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


If it’s not the ocean it’s not really water.


Ice, a cheeky beer, a bad sleep (no doubt!) and just keep moving


Trying gifbuddy

https://media.tenor.com/QvUjKzIRobkAAAAC/grumpy-mummy-grumpy-mummy-nft.gif


Depends on what’s on the wall at the bottom but I’d say most likely bring the chair to the bottom left.

That would also be the money corner (where your block clock and waves cat go though).

Need a floor plan ideally


To be fair that’s not the command position and the money corner leaves a little to be desired.

Add a block clock, a rug to mark space , chair in the command position though and it’s fixed.

Now you know!


It was a relay and yeah we crushed the teachers and the kids team :)


Wouldn’t want the kids to see a half arsed effort 🤣


Won though 🤣


Blew out a hammy in the parents versus kids race 🤣


21 million?


One day I’ll remember whether the door is locked.


GM


Go get em :)


Nice, wasn’t aware of the obsidian plug in


The wind was really picking up in Riga


The way


Unless that’s a new verb and I’m out of the loop. In which case - maybe?


No just dropped the kids at school


I swear I just saw a guy there spitting image of Ron Paul tricycling down the street. Bullish.


of Riga


Congratulations:)


I’m jealous


Writing up something new in the next couple of days then will send


Sometimes I lie awake and wonder if anything would stop this train


Or good evening!


The printing press was such a powerful invention that it brought the Middle Ages to an end.

But as the Pope would have pointed out, it was also a polarizing and radicalizing machine that led directly to religious conflicts. The internet and social media play a similar role in our time.

https://image.nostr.build/cec226bedb564c05d6843c5b1685ad0655730093305fedbce223794f31c054a5.jpg

Although the symbols and slogans have changed, the conflict is fundamentally the same forces: a universal society VS freedom of conscience. How much dissent should we allow? 🤷

The criticisms are also the same: universalists warn heresy will destroy society as we know it, while particularists warn society has become thoroughly corrupt, both theologically and administratively.

And they still use the same tools: censorship by a conservative inquisition VS the free flow of radical information.

Are you prepared for history's verdict on the part you're playing? 🧐


Great post


Privacy and anonymity is always down to the side of the crowd you are hiding in.

If you are in a mint of 10,000 people and you make an internal payment all that can be seen (even by mint operator) is that one of 10,000 has made a payment to one other. Or perhaps they just swapped some notes!

This can be degraded based on networking considerations or if particular scripts are used that might leak other info.

In terms of lightning the privacy you would see something similar. I.e one of 10,000 people has paid a lightning invoice but you wouldn’t know who.

Hope that helps.


Good chat.

nostr:npub1jqckepsld3xn98aeq7yg72g0yrqkz92vegkv6k3prfhkzu356v5qa6akee did a good job on this one :)


'Why Choose #Bitcoin'  @ #BitcoinAlive 2024.

nostr:npub1jss47s4fvv6usl7tn6yp5zamv2u60923ncgfea0e6thkza5p7c3q0afmzy  nostr:npub1jqckepsld3xn98aeq7yg72g0yrqkz92vegkv6k3prfhkzu356v5qa6akee nostr:npub1qh5sal68c8swet6ut0w5evjmj6vnw29x3k967h7atn45unzjyeyq6ceh9r @jp_technology

https://youtu.be/jz0qcTnFrJs?si=6VV5orES9TYRMh98


Just unfortunately true.


People will adopt bitcoin when the AIs they work for tell them that’s all they’re going to pay them in.


I think it’s shouting.

Then you raise bugs for all the stuff that doesn’t look the same.

Then eventually you update the Figma to look like the code.


Looking forward to the Busso Bush Bash

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Come one, come ALL!

You can fly directly to #bussleton  when coming from the East.

#AUSTriches  #bitcoin  #bushbash  #nostr

https://image.nostr.build/cbf3daa7286e82cf3f5a82b137961a073a5a273637e49e4c92b0d46ecf8f766f.jpg


I saw this executed live on a new seed in about 10 seconds on a laptop. It was quite insane and somewhat uncomfortable.


Did nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy officially call this one as a crash yet?


Just no consensus


First up, I want to recognize that this is an uncomfortable topic!  Bitcoin is inevitably changing towards user-pays, and that's not all positive.  But facts we don't like are still facts: can't engineer a solution if we can't think about the problems.

There are three kinds of bitcoiners.
A. Those who can afford any fee.
B. Those who can afford a UTXO, but not often.
C. Those who can't afford a UTXO.

Nobody worries about the A group (and in the early days, that was everyone).  Obviously Lightning (my area!) caters to the B group, and we want it to be as large as possible.  To do this we can (1) make lightning as resiliant as we can so onchain spends are rare, (2) make bitcoin as efficient as possible so we can cram as much as we can into what we have.

(1) Making lightning more resilient and reliable is engineering.  Lots of people working on this, even before we get soft-forks which could help further.

(2) More efficiency has two benefits: obviously if your own onchain spends are 20% smaller, that's 20% cheaper.  But if *everyone's* onchain spends are 20% smaller, that means fees are lower *for everyone* too (and it's non-linear).  So we really care about all Bitcoin usage!  Some things are obvious wins: Taproot so you can avoid even putting the script onchain in many cases, FROST so you can cram your 2 of 3 or other scheme into a single key and signature.  We know we want to get more aggressive with sharing one signature across multiple inputs (Cross Input Signature Aggregation), but that needs a lot more research, and a soft-fork.

But even with all these, the math is clear: some people, even if you somehow gave them their wealth in a UTXO, it couldn't afford its own fees to spend.  The C group is real.  Spoiler alert: we don't have an answer for this!  But let's look at some approaches people have tried.

Firstly, there are attempts to move these people into the B group: give them long enough that maybe fees will reach a point they can afford.  This seems unlikely to me:
1. As fees increase everyone will start doing the work to take advantage of low fee times, and that itself means that low-fee times won't be so low.
2. These schemes tend to increase onchain footprints, so they need fees to drop a lot to overcome that (typical is 2x the transaction size, so you need fees to halve to gain anything).
3. If you really can't afford the fee, you probably also can't afford to wait.
4. You still haven't actually dealt with those who really, really can't afford the fees.  Ever.

Another suggestion is that someone (e.g. a lightning service provider) will lock up funds which would cover fees, in case something goes wrong.  This doesn't work economically, because nobody is paying $100 for a $5 user (not at scale), but it doesn't even work mathematically: the reason some people will have small UTXOs is because there are not enough sats for 10 billion people with any realistic distribution.

There are two basic approaches left:
1. Group people, so they fall into the B category (i.e. onchain tx is possible, but expensive).
2. Trust someone, but rely on incentives.

1. Grouping people is possible, but they need to work together if somenthing goes wrong.  So grouping inside a community is probably better than grouping with randos.

For example, there are various tree-of-transaction schemes where you go onchain only if the coordinator fails/goes rogue, and how much it costs you depends on whether anyone near you in the tree pays to get themselves out.  These are basically free if nothing goes wrong (one UTXO required for thousands of users!).  But this is subject to ghettoization, where the coordinator makes sure all the C people are grouped together, knowing none of them can afford the transactions they need to get their funds back.  It's particularly bad because the coordinator can insert its own fake "whales" to make it look like it's not ghettoized.

You can play with incentives here, too: more research needed.  The details matter!

2. Relying on incentives.

As a simple example, lightning-connected e-cash mints.  They can't rug individuals very easily, they have to rug everyone together (or go fractional and rug the last ones to exit).   Maybe with enough anonymity and reputation, these would be Good Enough.

More ambitious would be a single UTXO held for multiple people by a coordinator.   Can we make it so that if a coordinator is dishonest, you can force them to burn your funds?  Maybe burn more than your funds (ie. a bond)?  Won't get your money, but it aligns incentives so they're not motivated to rug you.  The details here really matter!

There's a cute scheme which has been proposed where the coordinator pays a temporary bond, and asserts that they actually have everyone's signature to transfer the funds.  If nobody challenges within a week, they get the bond back and the funds move.  If someone challenges, all the signatures are put onchain, and if they're not all valid, the bond gets half-burned and half-given to the (successful) challenger.  This is hard to make work, though.  Someone needs to get the money to challenge (hard if you don't have the money in the first place, plus it's hard to prove to someone you *didn't* sign something!), and then make sure nobody gets the challenge bond before them (in particular, a dishonest coordinator, seeing the game is up, completes the successful challenge *themselves* and gets half their bond back), and make sure someone can't grief and delay the settlement indefinitely or bankrupt the coordinator.

More research needed, here, too.

Summary

A longer post than I had expected to write.  And it's buried in the middle of a thread nobody will read.  (I do this sometimes.  I suck at marketing I guess!)

Sub-fee bitcoin amounts will have tradeoffs, involving trusting someone who has more money than you (at least, in someone's competence, even if their *financial* incentives can be made to match yours).  This is difficult to build well, and not a very exciting thing to build today, so it hasn't really happened (custodial things are much, much easier!).

This is also a key reason I believe we need to make Bitcoin more expressive: if we can do *more* with our own UTXOs, we can build better solutions.  And by "we" I mean "someone smarter than me" of course!

Feedback welcome!


Nostr really is so many things.


This has been stewing for a few weeks but Ive been working on it on the plane and I think I can do something very nice 😊


Got a spicy new project in mind. Looking forward to getting a quick proof of concept up.


That also sounds like nonsense


Nonsense?


Lot of people seem to be getting excited about the big Bitcoin conference in Palm Cove Cairns this weekend.

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I like this


See you there buddy


True


I approve


Wtf

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Usually I make my own, but if I have too.

This is the correct Biltong
https://m.primal.net/JWWR.jpg


lol 😂

Tell that to all the issues I had with my Starbook


Passes the only Turing test that matters
https://m.primal.net/JSJy.mov


I like that people still find this site useful 😁


You’ve got to admire the hustle.
https://m.primal.net/JHMw.mov


Original few were 12 words


Pomp looks different in real life


Go for it


How would trad bows not have a place?


The speaker list for the main event is coming together nicely. Stay tuned for updates.

#bitcoin  #nostr  #bushbash  #bussleton


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For Bitdevs

https://pca.st/episode/850f70a6-0d00-4523-aa12-9f4cdec529db


Runs a database isn’t entirely correct. Keeps track of spent notes but very different to custodian db


Nooooiiiiic-tib


Couldn’t agree more. Good ideas are good to share


I feel like I had a strangely guitar based sushi with a guy once and had similar intuition:)


Interesting :)


Goes through the camera which is reading that QR across the air.

Seems like the atmosphere is gonna need a money transmitting license.

Nitrogen, rekd.


Manual mode :)
https://m.primal.net/IFXP.jpg


Lazy

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I like this


Too many good options…


Yes


That’s exactly what I thought when I saw the blockstream post :)


Agreed


I fucking love pasting errors into AIs instead of fucking around for half a day looking for a syntax error


Love it 🥰


Zap leader boards are the first thing that’s made me consider moving from 21 sat zaps so far


Bitcoin version

On the left = permissionless to build here.
On the right = need everyone’s permission to build here.
The note = focus of most people :)


The reason you hadn’t heard about Microstrategy before they bought Bitcoin was because they make bad products.

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I could never help it. You need ot pick some number so there was always an easter egg, sometimes obscure sometimes on the nose 😉


Why choose 7 million sats and not 21 million for the balance?


nostr:npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev  “the queen of England calling someone a nob in a waffle house”

lol - loving the pod


All feels a tad fucked. I think freedom will win though


Too many people want to change Bitcoin. Not enough want to run some servers and take some risk.


Look I have a wife for that, not sure I married that fuckhead


Unpopular opinion alert 🚨

This video actually reads as an accidental shill of WikiFreedia

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“Apparently there’s these people out there who just talk to other people without asking us first… and we don’t like that so we’re going to say some lies now”


IP respectooooors in disbelief as they realise robots exist - lol.


It’s good


It’s alright after about five years you get a breather in between  worrying about how they’re trying to kill themselves by being upside down in creative ways 😀 🫂


To be fair the Uzbek makes it look like you have to recommend to confirm joining the mint


Sad but true

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So much awesome in there.


Awesome all round, been waiting for this one!

Laird Hamilton on Tetragrammaton :)

https://pca.st/podcast/ad6a6840-8f1b-013b-f30a-0acc26574db2


Really liking the nostr:npub1mutnyacc9uc4t5mmxvpprwsauj5p2qxq95v4a9j0jxl8wnkfvuyque23vg approach to minimal viable custody

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Really liking the nostr:npub1mutnyacc9uc4t5mmxvpprwsauj5p2qxq95v4a9j0jxl8wnkfvuyque23vg approach to minimal viable custody

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I am


I like the corn 🌽


Zapping is such a good use case for tiny random payments to people around the world.

Great proof point


That makes some sense


Why can’t Strike send to fedimints?


GM Nostr!

It’s worth remembering that censorship resistance isn’t a technical solution.

These are tools that help you resist unjust laws.

There’s no magic technical solution to that.

History suggests running the servers, having options and aggressive division of responsibility is key


Interesting

nostr:note1hqzm4uvjrqm5tdmmdquy3d3sfckgfftffkglgdykrkzh4l6rvnmqjar7lx


nostr:npub1az9xj85cmxv8e9j9y80lvqp97crsqdu2fpu3srwthd99qfu9qsgstam8y8 alright the end of bitcoin.review was pretty funny


Baller


Cunt, but weirdly it’s kinda fine these days.


Good Morning


I’ll pick one up I like the Aeropress for taste and versatility but the plastic is an issue


That looks like a nice coffee


This is number five now :)


Perth Bitdevs next week, Thursday 4th April at Phat Brew, 6pm.

Spread the word.

https://www.meetup.com/bitcoin-perth/events/300042854/


Listened to this fi e podcast whilst running in the sun and playing in the ocean in (checks notes Autumn - lol seasons)

nostr:note1rcfvvl7n5aj0p56j5kesx5nkds5hm87p03x77j8xkchl2dszsczq8nku3j
https://m.primal.net/Hokb.jpg


Solid

https://youtu.be/kJqj9YQZRp0?si=KwDieevnlCZIPGIX


PSA: Signal usernames are <name>.<number>

Don’t sleep on grabbing

<name>.21


Ecash makes all these betterer

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


Fuck shoes


For all the Westside #AUStriches #bitdevs this Thursday.

#bitcoin #plebchain

https://www.flockstr.com/event/naddr1qqyr2cmzxs6rydfeqyg8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnhd9hx2q3qjss47s4fvv6usl7tn6yp5zamv2u60923ncgfea0e6thkza5p7c3qxpqqqp7tx8p8n7s


Come join for beers and bitcoin chat reviewing latest updates from this month in Bitcoin at Phat Brew in East Perth.

Phat Brew Club, City West, 102 Railway St, West Perth WA 6005, Australia


“Bitcoins just had a massive pump in Aussie dollars”

My kids, overheard playing Lego in the playroom as I sip a morning Coffee.

Good morning
#CoffeeStr


The boy says “100 a day till 100k” and I’ve just realised i haven’t done any 🤣
https://m.primal.net/HhIA.jpg


What’s the podcast?


It’s not about making free money, but making money free


yes  👍


just need some good accountants


IT HAS COME TO MY ATTENTION THAT PEOPLE ON TWITTER ARE FRUSTRATED THAT I TALK ABOUT NOSTR "TOO MUCH" ON RABBIT HOLE RECAP.

NOSTR WOULD BE A GREAT PROTOCOL FOR THEM TO VENT THAT FRUSTRATION. WILL MAKE SURE TO REMIND THEM NEXT WEEK.


I love the corn 🌽


that would be cool although I think idea here is to avoid hallucinations by itwration rather than going dron scratch :)


Bitaroo does BPay for bills


Now all we need is for humans to write a unit test and we're off


this is very cool . I love physical ecash


if it did I'd obviously smuggle it down the beach for a water burial as anything else would be un-Australian


thank you, did a course as I'm usually pretty practical but very slapdash,  nice to make something that looks nice


I explored this with the daughter and we've gone with "after dinner games" for now


thank you sir 🙏


only went and made a bloody box!

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


good morning :)


I like the corn
https://m.primal.net/Hcli.jpg


I always felt the best optio  was to be rsyncing it (or alternative) across multiple machine, but cliud probably required for ease of use


I hope they phrased it that way 🤣


im not across the maths so wouldnt want to say


wow none of that was what I thought id written


Lloyd yeah sorry not getting good notifications for se reason :)  ow Gove me sats!


it's seems to cost me small amounts of sats  I should post better things


What are you bringing your own key to?


primals been odd for a couple Pferd days


I am fucking livid


Some fucker just stole my bike.

I mean im glad they left the helmet but still
https://m.primal.net/HbTS.jpg


I like the other stuff


Perth Bitdevs for the #Austriches

https://www.flockstr.com/event/naddr1qqyrqcmpvscnsdp4qgsfgg2lg25kxdwg0l9eazq6pwak9wd8j4geuyyu7hua9mmpw6qlvgsrqsqqql9neujwq9


The Monthly Perth BitDevs on February 8th 2023 at Phat Brew in City West.

Please add suggestions to a list of topics here: https://github.com/humansinstitute/PerthBitDevs/issues/4

More discussion on the Telegram Channel at: https://t.me/bitcoin_perth


love to see it

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Interested in helping put with the guide :)

kids back at school now so tome to ply again


It's over 9,000 🤣

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Lol - this is the Aussiest beach picture


Yes
https://m.primal.net/HZxU.jpg


but you also see a single sat trending to infinity so...


only


not cool Sahil


you're right this is cool


make Biltong instead


mood

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=OhcQz8bp_mI&si=slVFp5gO2kvhU4jZ


If you've ever used (and specifically preferred) to use cash for in person transactions, but you have a problem with ecash, why? You trust the government that much more than your community?


Just stood up a new site and it looks like it doesn't work with the latest wordpress version is there anything I'm missing?


true in both cases


nostr:npub12w53uwny68m936vr4s0yl8svd9lc7vlqrkx7hepe7nq6jggn7kfq92rrm3 - nice


Postr to Nostr trough WordPress

This is a plugin that provides the ability to postr content from WordPress to Nostr.

https://postr-for-nostr.joelstuedle.ch/


why not burn them all?
https://m.primal.net/HXsU.jpg


Love it


One problem that people face is that they box themselves into narrative corners and echo chambers.

"Not your keys not your coins" is a good one-sentence explainer to tell people to be careful about custodians, especially in such a nascent industry. It's powerful and memorable. Couldn't be said better.

But then some people take that to mean nobody should ever use any custodial service under any circumstances ever. You got $200 in a custodial Lightning app because it's faster and easier than alternatives? You've failed the purity test. You're in a developing country and want to save $100 worth of bitcoin? Better do it on-chain, otherwise it's not yours!

But then some of the same people resist a block size increase to keep the network decentralized (a good thing, imo) and also say that bitcoin will fix the world (I think it can).

But while all reasonable statements on their own, the issue is that statements 1, 2, and 3 don't add up when taken to their extreme.  It has been written about since the time of Nakamoto and Finney on Bitcoin Talk forums that Bitcoin would need to scale in layers.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2500.msg34211#msg34211

So any statement about "Not your keys not your coins" has to be paired with an alternative solution, or a spectrum of alternatives. What if someone can't fit into the one of the only tens of millions of on-chain transactions per month? What if $35 fees is high for the $200 in bitcoin they want to save?

Is holding your bitcoin on an 11-of-15 multisig (Liquid) okay, in exchange for lower fees, faster block times, better privacy, and some additional features? Depending on the amount, I would say yes. It has trade-offs, though, which have to be made clear.

What about a Chaumian mint? What if an app lets a community in South Africa set up a 5-of-9 multisig run by well-known people in the community who would face consequences if they break trust? And the same app can let a smaller community in Guatemala set up a 4-of-7 multisig? And a bigger multi-country 6-of-11 multisig can be set up as well? It's private, interacts with Lightning as seamlessly as Wallet of Satoshi, and can make in-person payments even when the internet is out briefly. Plus, it can be customized via open source add-on modules by the community running the specific mint so that it can also store private data for users, monitor reserves, monitor health of the multisig keys, run applications like Chat GPT payable in bitcoin per usage, run private DMs and group chats, run apps that show you local merchants that accept bitcoin, etc. And what if a user could, within the same app, seamlessly spread their funds out among a handful of different mints that they know pretty well to avoid having all of their eggs in one basket, and then pull into self-custody when above a certain amount?

Maybe there will be more softforks in the future. More flexible scripting to allow more share-ability of UTXOs, for example. But those require consensus, and they tend to come with some trade-offs or code risks, and so they take time.

Bitcoin is an engineering marvel. But it's not magic. It has limitations, and it has a spectrum of solutions for those limitations at any given time. The best solutions solve multiple problems at once: they add scalability, they add speed, they reduce fees, they add privacy, and they add flexibility/programmability all at once, while still being more distributed than trusting some centralized KYC entity.

Bitcoin is peer-to-peer open source money. But it's not infinitely scalable on the base chain. If it were greatly scaled up on the base chain to fit everyone, then only institutions would be able to run nodes and it would be greatly centralized and thus useless. So the solution, known from the start of the Bitcoin Talk forums, is to build additional peer-to-peer open source layers on top of it, allowing for a range of transaction sizes, a range of speeds, a range of privacy, and a range of programmability, all to serve different users' needs, and without compromising the decentralization and security of the base chain. That's the type of statement that needs to be provided along with "not your keys not your coins" for the full context to make sense.


Your purpose is to be and your mission is  to grow


Happy Birthday #bitcoin 😉


WE POST IN CAPS.
WE LIKE THE COIN.
WE STACK THE SATS. 🫡


I like... other stuff


god yes.  lightning routing mixers, merhcnat dark rooms etc for the win


im here for this energy


Ending the year off strong!

Over the last few months, we've been preparing our wallet for Fedimint integrations. Today marks the first release with Fedimint support ready for alpha testing!

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

Fedimint is software for managing federated custodian funds. It's similar to the trust model of Liquid but better privacy and without a blockchain involved. It also has first-class support for Lightning.

The way we've gone about the integration is to seamlessly smooth over the edges that exist in self-custodial Lightning. Our hybrid approach will use a configured Federation when needed. Otherwise, it uses self-custodial Lightning if it exists for the user. This helps things like channel reserves, channel minimums, high chain fees to get started, etc.

You may add a Federation alongside your existing wallet or start with one without needing to open channels or pay on-chain costs. We recommend keeping the value low since this is a very early release, and there are some known features that we still need to develop.

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

It should feel and act like the same Mutiny Wallet with some caveats around backups for now.

A massive shoutout to the Fedimint team for their recent v0.2 release. It's still early for them and us, so all testing and feedback is welcomed! This does rely on having a federation invite code. We suspect that, over the next few weeks and months, more mainnet federations will pop up. There is not a default one built into the wallet.

We should also have Lightning Address support in a few weeks that works through federations. Kody has already started that work, and it seems promising: https://github.com/Kodylow/hermes

Also, there's beginning work on supporting the Lightning Service Provider Specification, which will eventually allow more plug-and-play support for any LSP to power Mutiny. This will be huge for more advanced node runners as the spec matures. Huge shoutout to John Cantrell for that work.

A lot of core infrastructure has been built into this release. Let us know if there are any problems; it should be identical to previous versions if you do not configure a Fedimint or different LSP.

Expect much more to come soon. Happy new year!


via Cashu tokens?


yes


you to


this is what they stole from the youth of today
https://m.primal.net/HVxC.jpg


trying to zap more when I used to like  it is more fun


you're a good bloke


have some sats


I really like that I gave my brother some bitcoin for his wedding in June and this Chratmas he's just asking me to help him buy botcoin because... in his words

"it's like a really good savings account that works"

granted timing was kinda lucky on that one!


Merry Christmas 🎄


That's a number 2


There are two types of permission in bitcoin.

1. No permission required at all.
2. You have to get fucking everyone’s permission.

We really should focus a little more on building business around number 1.


Pura vida 🤙


I like the corn


A poolimint


Snap


Finally, love it!


GOOD MORNING


Daughter taking a bitcoin teddy to school is probably bad opsec, but solid propaganda
https://m.primal.net/HShp.jpg


I LIKE THE CORN


Bullish Corn
https://m.primal.net/HSUE.jpg


https://m.primal.net/HSQK.jpg
https://m.primal.net/HSQO.jpg
https://m.primal.net/HSQN.jpg


Kids wanted me to post some
Pics of there bitcoins playing cricket to see if they can get some zaps :)

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


Bit of editing and straight to TOTP


Lol

Certainly! Here's the song with the verse you selected and a couple of additional verses in a similar playful, sea shanty style:

---

Do your balls hang low,
Can you swing them to and fro,
Can you tie them in a knot,
Can you tie them in a bow.
Can you pop them on your shoulder,
Like a big giant boulder,
Oh, tell me honestly, do your balls hang low?

Do they dangle in the breeze,
As you march with ease,
Do they wobble to the beat,
When you're walking down the street.
Can you toss them over your back,
Like a sack on a lumberjack,
Oh, are they nimble, are they quick, do your balls hang low?

Do they rattle when you walk,
Can they sing and can they talk,
Do they shiver in the cold,
Are they braver, are they bold.
Can you sling them over your arm,
Like a farmer in his barn,
Oh, do they echo with a song, do your balls hang low?

---

Feel free to adjust or continue the verses to suit your memories or creativity!


I’m sure out future AI overlords will appreciate the time me and my boy spent with it trying to fill in the gaps to the

“Do your balls hang low song”

Solid parenting


230 for a new screen is more or less the Bitcoin I had on there. Probably just buy and replace and the other goes in the pot


Stuck in the channel so I guess y some point Eclair will close the channel and potentially take the finds otherwise just lost on chain after closeure


Luckily they were fairly hot wallets. WoS unaffected ironically


Turns out dropping your phone can be expensive and that sometimes, some of the wallets aren’t backed up :)


It is with a heavy heart that after 15 months I've decide to move on from my role as Head of Product and Education at nostr:npub1uq70uqgas9pyhds2zt57kr9se8rg3s68ztphjnq82ts8rzeknmeql7u0c2

Very happy to see the company in great hands, loved the work and looking forward to whats coming!

Right now I'll be spending a summer with the family and cooking up plans for bitcoin adoption in my local community in Perth - which I'm very excited about :)

Thank you everyone at Fedi for the great opportunity working in #bitcoin has been a dream come true!


First Perth Bitdevs now on Flockstr!

https://www.flockstr.com/event/naddr1qqyrjdp4xvmnjetyqgsfgg2lg25kxdwg0l9eazq6pwak9wd8j4geuyyu7hua9mmpw6qlvgsrqsqqql9n222yws


The inaugural Perth BitDevs will kick off on December 7th 2023 at Phat Brew in City West.

Please add suggestions to a list of topics here: https://github.com/humansinstitute/PerthBitDevs/issues/1

We'll update a Perth page on https://bitdevs.com.au/ soon!

More discussion on the Telegram Channel at: https://t.me/bitcoin_perth


Absolutely


WoS most cypherounk tool out there.

Controversial but true.

Casually provides meaningful financial empowerment to 100,000s of users, globally, just works, doesn't ask.


Nice to get a sunset in

https://image.nostr.build/4cf20ea6326d6d865f28ea744d6780785200e0fd1165868a7d8e17367e106595.jpg

https://image.nostr.build/20a37b137177efa35cd20d55f7ff32b484656412d28be2e05a9e6d3b3522bd4a.jpg


My 9 year old has invented a new driving game where we put on Rappers Delight and every time someone taps the dashboard the other one of has to instantly pick up the rap.

It is awesome fun 😎


Next generation getting into it... nostr:npub1jss47s4fvv6usl7tn6yp5zamv2u60923ncgfea0e6thkza5p7c3q0afmzy

https://image.nostr.build/08c867db90b67a864aaea347941eae42b929dafa3d5c01dc53c26fd106f5b318.jpg


Ahhhhh

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Nice


Nice week in Bitcoin Park at Grassroots and the Global Bitcoin Summit. Blessed to be there.


Hmmmm US airlines, not the most consistent things in the world...


Shoes are a scam, but if you have to...


It's 10pm :)


Same. Still a good bit of flying to go


Heading to Nash Bitdevs

https://image.nostr.build/dd38889b9bbe64ab6d23e11884d83cd01c2f7604c3c8c9f60e006136a3e17d01.jpg


It's cooking with fire and eating with hands night :)

https://cdn.nostr.build/i/6b9223070c76211d899b946012db0b28bb7197a03d039b3e9dfb3f8765ea03f1.jpg


Type the username


Use this horrible reminder of past purchases to make yourself sad 😭

https://bitcoinorshit.com/


pv


Nice write up


Q: is nostr broke?
A: You can't really tell, so just carry on


What happens if you accidentally stack the sats first?