What would your $1200 stimulus check be worth today if converted to #Bitcoin in April 2020?

https://www.bitcoinstimulus.net


Yes please!


The whole album is a banger


Was the Miami Mall Alien thing from January a nothing burger?


Four years ago today, nostr:nprofile1qqsrhuxx8l9ex335q7he0f09aej04zpazpl0ne2cgukyawd24mayt8gprfmhxue69uhhq7tjv9kkjepwve5kzar2v9nzucm0d5hszxmhwden5te0wfjkccte9emk2um5v4exucn5vvhxxmmd9uq3xamnwvaz7tmhda6zuat50phjummwv5hsx7c9z9 published his first commit on his new project called NOSTR. Happy Fourth Birthday NOSTR!
https://m.primal.net/Luho.png

Don't forget to send Fiatjaf a GM to show your gratitude 😂


NIP-69 fixes this

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Never forget


Presenting Athenut – privacy-preserving web search powered by Kagi and Cashu

Always wanted to use Kagi but thought it's a joke that a privacy search engine requires you to create an account and pay with a credit card? Athenut wraps around the Kagi API and lets you pay for searches with Bitcoin. Every individual search is paid for with ecash which means that you have no account and your payments can't be correlated to your searches.

In the background, Athenut has an entire Cashu wallet built in that is almost completely hidden from the user. All the user does is to pay a Lightning invoice and see how many searches they have left. It's made for grug brains who want to be free. You pay, you search, that's it.

This is simply amazing, I've been dreaming about this for so long. It's only the beginning. We're going to make Error 402 great again!

👉 https://athenut.com 👈

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I recommend signing up for an account with nostr:npub1getal6ykt05fsz5nqu4uld09nfj3y3qxmv8crys4aeut53unfvlqr80nfm. (If you need a promo code, someone here will help.)

Create a Lightning Address and set up Alby Hub, it’s a self-custody wallet.

Get their browser extension that signs you Primal events and doubles as your wallet.

The tutorials are here:

https://guides.getalby.com/user-guide/alby-account-and-browser-extension


nostr:nprofile1qqs0w2xeumnsfq6cuuynpaw2vjcfwacdnzwvmp59flnp3mdfez3czpspzdmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ue0q6vjal and nostr:nprofile1qqsve2jcud7fnjzmchn4gq52wx9agey9uhfukv69dy0v4wpuw4w53nqpzdmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ue0qhwg8f standing beside a statue of himself in Lugano 😂 https://nostrcheck.me/media/3f770d65d3a764a9c5cb503ae123e62ec7598ad035d836e2a810f3877a745b24/e7cf8d3f3dec545fc87d8e4e615fd7ac4232ce3d64e4617649e9ee21ec693c18.webp


My long-term Bitcoin concerns mostly revolve around apathy.

What if not enough people care to self custody?

What if not enough people care to enforce the rules by running nodes?

What if not enough people care to put in the hard work seeking consensus for improving Bitcoin?

The most important thing is that we continue discussing Bitcoin. The exchange rate is merely a SIGNAL that we have done well SO FAR.


People still participate in Politics?  #politics #joke

https://video.nostr.build/2e2a5db4a640478485e24dd1025c46b2b786f7a3ac7f700ee21dd1bca089224f.mp4


Good reminder that bitcoin was designed to help ppl you don't like, do things you don't like with it.

Learn to like that, or will be a rough ride.

Nostr too 🫂


Any plans to make this available on ios?


Eastern TN, Western NC, upstate SC are rekt. Hundreds of roads in Western NC simply no longer exist.

The state and federal response has been ongoing, with over 1,000 personnel, including National Guard assets, deployed according to FEMA. A disaster declaration for NC has been made but crews cannot traverse over collapsed bridges and 100+ foot ravines.

Main interstates I-40 and I-26 have collapsed sections. Numerous state roads have washed away.

Many secondary roads into neighborhoods are effectively eviscerated for miles. Survivors can't get out, help can't get in.

It's hard to get into Asheville. A 30 minute drive take 8-12 hours with many roads not existing, the remaining gas stations swamped. To get into smaller towns in the mountains is a day's journey if possible at all. National Guard trucks with food and water have to stop at collapses.

Similar to Hurricane Katrina, where boats and helicopters were the only viable means of aid delivery in the first days, air support is currently the most effective way to connect Western NC to the outside world. There are a limited amount of helicopters operating. Although the water has receded, the roads are still impassable.

This is still very much an active search and rescue mission. There is a high number of missing (in the thousands per state media) because people can't get in touch with loved ones. We saw this after Hurricane Ian as well, and expect that number will drop significantly when phone service/internet returns. For death toll and recovery, the final number will likely not be known for at least a month.

The lack of media presence on the ground isn't for lack of trying - reporters can't get into many areas for the same reason rescue can't. Even if they could, communication systems are destroyed / offline.

This is not going to be a quick recovery for anyone. Some rural parts of Western NC may never be rebuilt.


YOU ARE NOT A PERSON!

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


Hodl. Buy btc on the regular. If you spend btc, buy to replace what you spent. Repeat.


I think nostr:npub17u5dneh8qjp43ecfxr6u5e9sjamsmxyuekrg2nlxrrk6nj9rsyrqywt4tp has the most exhaustive resource list on his site https://www.lopp.net/bitcoin-information.html


True. Preserve your purchasing power. Buy Bitcoin.


Word


Nostr CEO was unreachable, so 🇪🇺 sent only Elon a note.
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🤣
https://video.nostr.build/930f16fdf087963d44a10048b184977b63da845ea97d4e36d20fc05dffd0ccf8.mp4


While you were busy making fun of the UK for criminalizing free speech, the UN finalized its Cybercrime Convention which will overrule bank secrecy and criminalize hacking, whistleblowing, and security research.

The convention, which was finalized last friday, drastically expands government surveillance powers and enables the widespread sharing of personal data between UN member states.

The convention mandates the identification, tracing, confiscation and seizure of "proceeds of crime, property, equipment or other instrumentalities" and the collection of real-time traffic and content data on behalf of requesting member states.

It further mandates member states to establish criminal offences for "the concealment or disguise of the true nature, source, location, disposition, movement or ownership of or rights with respect to property" and  "the conversion or transfer of property [...] for the purpose of concealing or disguising the illicit origin of the property" when committed intentionally.

As the Electronic Frontier Foundation explains, the convention includes "documents saved on personal computers or notes stored on digital devices. In essence, this means that private unshared thoughts and information are no longer safe. Authorities can compel the preservation, production, or seizure of any electronic data, potentially turning personal devices into spy vectors regardless of whether the information has been communicated".

While the treaty defers most articles to the governance of local laws, it states that states "shall not decline to act [...] on the ground of bank secrecy".

Full story:

https://www.therage.co/un-cybercrime-convention-bank-secrecy/


Start by gradually posting on nostr once a day then suddenly you’ll see you don’t miss twitter


I worry about what happens when everyone figures it out. It’s not going to be gradually. It’s going to be suddenly.

Plan accordingly. ♎ https://image.nostr.build/c719bd98dafeb8b2f572e7fc7c8ead999c6492007ae20575bdc1d858446fcaac.jpg


I'm gonna tell you a life hack.

- go to duckduckgo
- open their AI chat thing
- choose one of 4 models (got 4o mini is great)
- chat with that thang

Free. No tracking. No accounts. Open source models included. Did I say free? And no accounts.

I have an OpenAI account but this is the only thing I've been using for a few weeks. Privacy feels great.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=test&t=fpas&ia=chat


Crypto is the noise, Bitcoin is the signal.


The spreads are too high on btc atms

I think the local meetup idea is a good one. Find a popular watering hole and start inviting people there to have a drink and talk bitcoin. Ask those already in there if they want to learn more. Show them how easy it is to setup a wallet. Send them some sats. Stress the importance of holding your own keys. Stress the importance of preserving your purchasing power in the hardest money ever created. Do this X times a month. Once you buildup a regular crew, ask the manager of the watering hole if they would consider taking payment in bitcoin. Cheers!


Each block in the blockchain contains a group of verified transactions.


Ask merchants if they will accept bitcoin/lightning for their goods


Been listening to DJ Static and Professor Groove since I stumbled upon the WEFUNK radio station in iTunes.

For the #funk #soul #hiphop fans, check out #wefunkradio

https://www.wefunkradio.com


Do you want to know about how this fucked world works?
Read the Lux pills updated post by mo and thank me later
https://stacker.news/items/629450


🔥 BREAK FREE from the central banks! 🔥

#Bitcoin's open-source technology means NO centralized control over your money. Hold your private keys & empower yourself 🌟💪.

Say goodbye to the inflation and the fiat empire crumbling before us. 💸💼

#BitcoinRevolution #FinancialFreedom #GrowAPair #HoldPrivateKeys https://image.nostr.build/35d86c5a9b964e2d6ad6ab6ec3220b51ae1e2b46900bc8e0e36c76291d30eb05.jpg


As the old saying goes…not your keys, not your coins!


We all need to be very aware that what  nostr:npub1sn0wdenkukak0d9dfczzeacvhkrgz92ak56egt7vdgzn8pv2wfqqhrjdv9 is describing here is not some distant dystopian future. It's our dystopian reality.

In May, Elliptic, together with researchers from MIT and IBM, developed a dataset to identify "the shape of money laundering" on the blockchain.

This dataset attempts to predict money laundering activity that has "not yet been labeled" by distinguishing between what the dataset defines as "anomalous signatures" and Bitcoin transfers between "licit services".

Falling out of these clusters deemed normal by intelligence financed corporations already leaves you penalized. Avoid KYC services? Flagged. Can't tie your transactions to a bank account? Flagged. Frequent user of coinjoins? Flagged.

You are already being debanked because a computer program has decided that you are a money launderer – not because you did something illegal, but because your transactions are deemed abnormal – and you have no legal recourse as suspicious activity reports swear financial institutions to absolute secrecy.

It's the full on criminalization of privacy in finance. The future is here, and it's Orwellian.

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


My final slide from my keynote today on the main stage in Nashville

Onwards! ✌
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What could the dollar price of #bitcoin over the next 10 years look like with a 50% CAGR?

CAGR, or Compound Annual Growth Rate, is usually used to determine the average growth rate of an asset per year.

Let's conservatively set CAGR at 50% per year and a starting price from this year of $55,000 per bitcoin. See the links below as to why 50% is conservative.

Year 1 (2024): $55,000 x 1.5 = $82,500

Year 2 (2025): $82,500 x 1.5 = $123,750

Year 3 (2026): $123,750 x 1.5 = $185,625

Year 4 (2027): $185,625 x 1.5 = $278,438

Year 5 (2028): $278,438 x 1.5 = $417,657

Year 6 (2029): $417,657 x 1.5 = $626,485

Year 7 (2030): $626,485 x 1.5 = $939,727

Year 8 (2031): $939,727 x 1.5 = $1,409,590

Year 9 (2032): $1,409,590 x 1.5 = $2,114,385

Year 10 (2033): $2,114,385 x 1.5 = $3,171,577

https://casebitcoin.com/charts reports a bitcoin CAGR of 155% over the last 5 years.

https://curvo.eu/backtest/en/market-index/bitcoin?currency=usd reports a bitcoin CAGR of 102% over the last 12 years.

https://bitcoinroi.com/cagr/ reports a bitcoin CAGR over 1 to 13 year grouping span (low of 26%, high of 115%, average of 71%)

https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-s-compound-annual-growth-is-an-unheard-of-200-cagr from 2021 reports a 10 year bitcoin CAGR of 196%

Are we not bullish enough?


Real Bedford has acquired 66.9 BTC for $4,500,420.69 @ avg price of ~$67,220 per #bitcoin .

As of today, Real Bedford HODLs 82.7 $BTC acquired for ~$5.37m @ avg price of ~$64,925 per bitcoin.

15.8 BTC is held in float for football matters, the rest is held in our treasury.


The killer app is that you can read this on a plethora of different clients.


Huge milestone: First demo of Nostr Web Services (NWS) bringing TCP to Nostr. With NWS, you can host any existing web application on Nostr without having to use DNS or even announce your public IP to the world, simply by sharing your service's npub (or nprofile).

Try it out the demo yourself. Here is a Cashu test mint running with NWS. Let's use curl to retrieve the mint's information. The request travels from your computer to the public NWS entry relay, then through nostr to the service's NWS exit relay. At the other end is a Cashu mint with HTTPS encryption.

```
curl -s -x socks5h://relay.8333.space:8882 https://nprofile1qqs8a8nk09fhrxylcd42haz8ev4cprhnk5egntvs0whafvaaxpk8plgpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuwpnxvejuumsv93k2g6k9kr/v1/info --insecure | jq
```

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

I can't stress this enough: THE MINT RUNS BEHIND HTTPS!

The NWS entry relay can't read your traffic. It's encrypted. We can host public entry relays that can be used by anyone.

This means we can plug the entire internet to it 🌐.

Let's plug it into Cashu for now. Nutshell wallet supports socks5 proxies (that's how it uses Tor). By setting the public entry relay as the proxy, the wallet can now connect to a mint's npub/nprofile and communicate with it via NWS.

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

This is going to be so freaking cool. And it's going to be a lot more useful than just for Cashu. There are still bugs and issues that need to be ironed out but the code is coming out soon. Watch this space.


The Tornado Cash trial against Roman Storm is not a trial against one person. It is a trial against us all.

Is the right to financial privacy protected by the US Constitution? And will code remain classified as free speech? Will we turn the law on its head by arguing that those seeking to keep their private life private must be guilty until proven innocent, and that any person aiding in such undertaking is deemed guilty of conspiracy to commit a crime, because criminals want privacy too?

Who is criminally liable for the anonymizing of funds taking place via Tornado Cash today? Does money equal speech?

The questions posed by the Tornado Cash trial are as broad as they are significant and will define how the US Constitution is applied to the digital age.

Full rundown of the case by David Z. Morris 👇

https://www.therage.co/why-your-rights-are-at-stake-in-the-tornado-cash-trial/


Github cannot be trusted with releases.

We're slowly fixing this, making good progress with the developer signing tool.

To which I'm adding an option to upload to a Blossom server to completely bypass the dependency on Github.

Will be sharing a preview next week.

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AML/CFT laws make you less safe. Not more.

In 2022, 78% of European banks experienced a data breach. Yet AML/CFT laws continue to attempt to mandate increasing amounts of data collection, from IP Addresses to social media activities. This data is routinely targeted, exploited, and sold on dark markets.

In honor of gigabrain takes like "We NeEd SuRrVeiLlAnCe To FiGhT CrImE", this Rage Weekly I compiled a list of 40+ recent data breaches involving the leak of personal data – just in case anyone tries to tell you that increased surveillance leads to an increase in security.

Full list 👉 https://www.therage.co/rage-weekly-data-breach-special/


People see the big dollar value of $61,892 and think they can’t afford to buy bitcoin.

In reality, you can buy bitcoin without spending thousands of dollars.


Essentially yes.

From my dollar example:
$1 = 1612 sats = 0.00001612 BTC


Don’t be intimidated by the price of 1 #Bitcoin. ($61,892)

I know I’m mainly preaching to the choir on #nostr but it’s crucial for those who are beginning the journey.

You don’t need to buy a “full” bitcoin to participate.

Satoshis are the smallest unit of bitcoin and there are 100,000,000 satoshis or “sats” in 1 Bitcoin.

$1 = 1612 sats

Start stacking those sats today!


How does it feel?


Q: Why are so many people clueless about Bitcoin?

A: The media

Here’s BBC coverage of Bitcoin since 2013

What a disaster https://image.nostr.build/1a5117806dce920553d1973fafd033e14159c56f77c552a6c6c1f4cec87fa9ea.jpg


Coinbase is not happy with us today. https://i.nostr.build/dwPMl.jpg


Opinions may be speculative and volatile


When designing Keychat, we considered the following disadvantages of the Signal App.

1、Signal App requires phone number registration. Users do not have their own self-sovereign ID.

2、Signal App users can only use Signal's servers, with no option to use third-party or self-hosted servers.

3、Signal App integrates a shitcoin called MobileCoin.

4、Signal App relies on donations and loans from billionaires, making it difficult to sustain.

Keychat proposed corresponding improvements for these disadvantages.

1、Keychat only requires generating a Nostr key. Users have their own self-sovereign ID.

2、Keychat users can freely choose which relay to use or run their own relay.

3、Keychat aligns with Bitcoin.

4、Keychat's economic model with Bitcoin ecash stamps is more reliable and sustainable.

5、Keychat offers better metadata privacy because it allows continuous changing of receiving addresses, sending addresses, and relays.


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

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


Opportunity!


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


Our goal is to provide signal in a world of noise.

We believe fixing the money is an imperative and bitcoin is the solution.

We believe censorship is on the rise and it is important to highlight what the regime wants to silence.

We believe in Truth for the Commoner.

With this in mind we are building a platform that curates the best information about bitcoin, economics, technology, culture and health.

If you're interested in any of these subjects, follow us! Become a member of our site (http://tftc.io) and join the conversation.

We're going to win.


Why #Bitcoin ?

It’s decentralized.

No central authority. No CEO. No “person in charge”. Anyone can opt in to participate on the network.


Why #bitcoin ?

It’s transparent.

Anyone can audit the public code. Anyone can confirm current circulating supply. Anyone can see the block reward schedule for the next 116 years. Anyone can use a block explorer to see every transaction ever made since the genesis block.


Why #bitcoin ?

It's permissionless.

Anyone can create a wallet, connect a node, start mining and send or receive a bitcoin transaction.

No financial institutions or governments required.


ELON CAN SEND A TWEET FROM THE PRESIDENT'S ACCOUNT IF HE WANTS.

CENTRALIZED SOCIAL MEDIA SHOULD NOT BE USED FOR OFFICIAL COMMS.

POSTS SHOULD BE CRYPTOGRAPHICALLY SIGNED.

THE NOSTR POST YOU ARE READING NOW WAS SIGNED BY MY PRIVATE KEY AND VERIFIED BY YOUR CLIENT.


happy birthday bitcoin 🧡

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