From the introduction: This book should be different in that it explains how to use the cryptocurrency phenomenon to improve your life. I won't avoid philosophical and economic topics like why non-inflationary money is good – for the individual and for society. However, we will also look at new opportunities in the job market, new industries, products and services (e.g., cryptocurrency custody, hardware wallets). We'll talk about how we can not only tame the infamous volatility but plug it straight into our financial plans. We'll talk about what our options are when the bear attacks (i.e., the Bitcoin price starts falling against the dollar). We'll explain why and how to embrace cryptocurrencies in your business. We'll think about how Bitcoin can help the transition to renewable and green energy just by using proof of work. I'll try to introduce you to my vision of payment networks and possibilities, such as making prediction markets available and useful for getting accurate information about the world, new forms of rewarding content producers, scaling down the financial markets, so they are usable by everyone. We'll talk about how to create a community of people with whom we can use cryptocurrencies together, whether in travel or in commerce with each other. As a bonus, we'll talk about how we can communicate securely once we have that private money without third parties. We'll critique regulations and talk about what to do about them on a global level (deregulate!), but also how we can respond on a personal level.  The aim of most of my books including this one is to create a mind-opening effect. The best outcome after reading one chapter should be a thoughtful and curious sigh of "I haven't thought about it that way before." It doesn't mean that you should immediately get a job in a decentralized autonomous organization, go all-in on Bitcoin, move to an island – a tropical tax haven – and build an independent Lightning network there for local payments that work even when the Internet isn't working. You don't even have to immediately start accepting Bitcoin, take out a fiat loan backed by it, or create new prediction markets to get good information. It's quite enough for me to ignite your imagination and creativity, consider these possibilities and realize the enormous opportunities that cryptocurrencies already bring us today.

EN: https://hackyourself.io/product/cryptocurrencies-hack-your-way-to-a-better-life/
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SK: https://juraj.bednar.io/product/kryptomeny-vyhackuj-si-lepsi-zivot/

ES: https://hackyourself.io/product/criptodivisas/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CDK3QKXM


Do you find any apps particularly good/bad in terms of a11y?


But everything else would cost fewer Bitcoin too. Not just he 1h of your labor. But 1h of everyone else labor, every product, etc., and every unit of every fiat.

Bitcoin price of some will decrease faster than of others, but all would be decreasing.

Extrapolating far far away, I believe a modest family live would be far more accessible than it is now. While accumulating riches at scale for the already wealthy would be far more difficult than it is now.


Bitcoin is NGU (Number Go Up) technology

Fiat is WGU (Wars Go Up) technology


Is anyone using/having feedback on hey.com email?

I played with it briefly before, and really enjoyed some of the noise-minimizing innovative UX features. They claim absolute privacy, and have solid reputation to lose if they compromise it.

I've never seen any #privacy experts recommending it yet, though. I wonder if it's just the matter of the price tag ($100/year), or if there's some other issues.


Is there some distinct metadata trace that would make it trivial for Twitter to deboost visibility?


I had more in mind the cause behind the US warmongering. It looks more and more like the fight for the survival of the money printers.


Thanks, got to take a look.


There's not enough talk about the petrodollar colonialism right now.


Or is there a way to get the bitkey hww independently?


Is it the same, though?

Ledger is HWW
- lot to lose from KYC

CashApp is an exchange
- you already lost it 😬


I see. I'd say that fortune 500 got the growth disease, wide portfolio of products, placing innovative bets everywhere, buying out smaller competitors, but they don't focus and perfect their core craft.

It's a safe bet that any company with 10k+ employees has a mediocre UI at best.

I've always seen pressure on delivering measurable wins, not delivering delightful experiences / value.


You got examples in mind?

Perfect custom designs take time and work, and it's risky to invest into them without some initial idea validation.


Potemkin village. illusion if importance and control.

If people/institutions want to speak up, they should speak up. Not cast votes.


Proof that Biden is listening to the nostr:npub10uthwp4ddc9w5adfuv69m8la4enkwma07fymuetmt93htcww6wgs55xdlq ?

Or just another bailout?

https://image.nostr.build/8fc29627fdc708ba858c8db93a0fb469935b82dd802ab90705fd46f3db73d3a9.jpg


The weight of the state wears all of us down. Even the corporate banks.

One by one.

Tick, tock, tick, tock.

Trust the timechain, not the state.


Scratch the "financial" off. He means all life.

https://image.nostr.build/6e9b89493f638275f88e4dcbc08da16875021c533c9e50e859536f0680305af0.jpg


Don't worry, Krugman's already working on it.

"CPI, excluding, food, shelter, gas, ... + entertainment"

See! Solved.


Chrome and other browsers on the web can already do it for you.  The quality is pretry mediocre for now. But it seems like it should be an easy marginal lift by now.


Good sign.


Proof of fiat work. Congrats!


I never realized he's such a bear 😅

But great sober points there, better than wearing pink glasses. The problems sounded like a classic story of a beloved solution in search of a problem. A super-classic for Bitcoin products.

I'm curios to hear and see more about the pivot. 💪


Ouch, bloody.


America's freedoms already got invaded without a single soldier required in the streets.


Who's gonna get them first?


And when the voters in other states realize that El Salvador was right while their goverment was telling them it's reckless.

You definitely don't want to be remembered as the guy who (explicitly) prevented its citizen from accumulating early. They better start hedging.


Investment angle dominating is frustrating. But without pumps, you wouldn't have the "came for gains, stayed for freedom".

If it takes 4 years to get from the gains mindset into the freedom mindset, and if we exponentially double the user base each 4-year cycle, then there's always gonna be 50:50 freedom:gains. But with faster rate of growth than just doubling every 4 years, the newbie gains seekers will always dominate (population wise).

The ways to change the ratio without slowing the growth would be to convert gain seekers into freedom seekers faster with education. Which I think is successfully happening.

ETF will skew off the incoming balance, but the stronger we will be few years down the road.


Any potential ETF is bad news. Pumps are bad news. All of this just reinforces investment angle and keeps broken money in power.

As long as this broken money rules, people will continue suffering. They’ll keep stealing from you, your kids and your grandkids. Incentives will remain broken.

It’s nothing to celebrate.

We should celebrate people using bitcoin as payments. Increased commerce is good. Daily usage is good. Circulation is good.


While everyone euphoric from this #bitcoin pump, now would be a good time to submit your comments to FinCEN regarding the proposed totalitarian surveillance rule that was just published.

**Comments are due by January 22, 2024.**

PLEASE REPLY TO THIS NOTE and add the text of comments you submit for others to utilize in their submissions.
***
Comments must be submitted by one of the following methods:

Federal E-rulemaking Portal: https://www.regulations.gov.

Follow the instructions for submitting comments. Refer to Docket Number FINCEN–2023–0016 in the submission.

Mail:

Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, P.O. Box 39, Vienna, VA 22183. Refer to Docket Number FINCEN–2023–0016 in the submission.
***
Here is the FinCen “Proposal of Special Measure Regarding Convertible Virtual Currency Mixing, as a Class of Transactions of Primary Money Laundering Concern” which was added to the Federal Registrar today:

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/10/23/2023-23449/proposal-of-special-measure-regarding-convertible-virtual-currency-mixing-as-a-class-of-transactions

***
Here is some info on global money laundering that may be helpful:

https://withpersona.com/blog/the-most-mind-blowing-money-laundering-statistics-of-2022

PLEASE ADD ANY OTHER LINKS, IDEAS, COMMENTS THAT MAY BE HELPFUL FOR OTHERS TO UTILIZE ⬇


FAFO accounting method


I've heard the third one was also representing legacy right-centre. But I'd rather get info from someone local.


What are the odds for the second round given this result?


Bitcoin is about the separation of currency & state.

Everything outside of that is personal philosophy/experience.

This won't lead to abolishment of the state, it will lead to the abolishment of terrible incentives that are spiraling out of control.

There will be a state, & they will be public servants once again - not gatekeepers of freedom weilding their monopoly on violence against their constituents.


ARG Presidential Election - Betting market says Milei for sure.

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

https://polymarket.com/event/argentina-presidential-election-who-will-win


Agreed. I feel like discretionary expenses will accelerate their declines. Definitely seeing it around myself pretty substantially already.


It might be a superior solution for some problems, inferior for others.

Tools should be used, not loved.


A wheel where you can come and spin yourself a cancer price.


Gm, Mr. Shawn


You still need to work because the goverment prints money.


Roads are nice. But what about the bombs?

Who would be dropping bombs on civilians around the world if we wouldn't have the goverments.


Congrats! It ain't easy. 💪


Let them police the TV broadcasting as much as they want. The harder they squeeze, the more people will flock to the internet.


I was surprised he got so much time on air.

The single topic where UK might have more freedom of speech than the US.


We thought Google hit rock bottom with #privacy.

Its new beta feature on Google Files for #Android called “Smart Search" is the trap door.

This creepy new feature on by default & scans every file on your phone. Why is this bad? Because it could potentially ruin your life. (1/3)

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/261/816/914/697/065/original/c8f54cf989790809.jpg


Gm ☕🦩


Fair point.


Can't a bitcoiner operate as a Trojan horse?

Even if not an admitted maxi, he at least seems to know very well the right from wrong on the economics, and money.

I'd say the knowledge is the thing which makes one a vitcoiner, not words or laser eyes.


Did he say it?


If not accepting Bitcoin, then he's giving censorship powers to the payment providers oligopoly.

Let's see what's gonna be the collateral kill here. Likely the freedom of speech.


𝗦𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗦𝗮𝘁𝘀 & 𝗜𝗻𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗰𝘆 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲???
𝗬𝗲𝘀…

𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝙐𝙏𝙓𝙊 𝙈𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙜𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩

You’ve probably heard of UTXOs, but what exactly are they? And why do they need to be managed?

I’ll answer both questions, and point you to some easy-to-use tools that can help you, because 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘜𝘛𝘟𝘖𝘴 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥𝘯’𝘵 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭.

Let’s get started ⬇

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

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝗨𝗧𝗫𝗢𝘀?
Think of Unspent Transaction Outputs, or UTXOs, as bundles of sats. In the dollar system, the equivalent would be bundles of cents, represented by coins or notes. With the USD, you have 12 possible types of UTXOs, or bundles: 1¢, 5¢, 10¢, 25¢, 50¢, $1, $2 (rarely), and all the way through to $5, $10, $20, $50, and $100. 💵

The difference with #Bitcoin, is 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘯𝘶𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘢𝘵𝘴 can be merged together into a single UTXO. So instead of just 12, there’s practically an unlimited number.

They are called Unspent Transaction 𝘖𝘶𝘵𝘱𝘶𝘵𝘴 because every on-chain Bitcoin transaction has 𝘪𝘯𝘱𝘶𝘵𝘴 (the sats being sent by the payer) and 𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘱𝘶𝘵𝘴 (the sats being received by the payee, and the sats being returned as change to the payer). The amount of bitcoin you see in your wallet is simply the sum of all the UTXOs linked to your private key.

𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗨𝗧𝗫𝗢𝘀?
There’s a few reasons.

First of all, properly managing your UTXOs can save you on-chain fees because every UTXO involved in a transaction adds more data to it. This costs money (sats) because block space is limited, and the more your transaction “weighs”, the more you need to pay miners to include your transaction in the next block.

Consider these real-life examples:

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

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

In the first example, notice how 8 UTXOs are used for the transaction, compared to just 1 in the second. Even though their fee rates were almost the same, the total fee for the first example is much greater than the second. This is because the “weight” of the first transaction is greater.

So, the lesson?

𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘜𝘛𝘟𝘖𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘥𝘥 𝘶𝘱 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥, 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘰𝘯-𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘢 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 𝘴𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘰𝘯 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘴. 😎

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗰𝘆?
UTXO management (or lack thereof) can either help or hinder your privacy, so it’s important to be careful, and understand what you’re doing.

Prior to UTXO consolidation, it can be difficult — or even impossible — for a person or program to prove that 2 or more UTXOs belong to the same person, but once you’ve combined UTXOs, it’s easier to link them together.

To illustrate this point, let’s assume you have a UTXO that you acquired from a KYC’d exchange, and another that you received by selling something at a yard sale. Because you were responsible and used a different receiving address each time, no one would be able to verify that they’re connected to the same user.

However, if those UTXOs are ever used in the same transaction, someone monitoring those addressed on the blockchain may be able to deduce that they belonged to the same person. That won’t tell them 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 about their ownership, but it will give them valuable clues about your on-chain activity. 🕵

Not everyone is concerned by this lack of privacy, but if you are, then you’ll need to choose your UTXOs very carefully when consolidating or spending them. Doing so can actually 𝘦𝘯𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 your privacy, rather than harm it.

𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗨𝗧𝗫𝗢𝘀
Consolidating your UTXOs is as easy as sending them to yourself, and the best time to do so is when the mempool — the pool of pending transactions — is low. The amount of data in your transaction will be high, of course, but when there is low demand on chain, and you’re only paying a few sats per vbyte,  your total fee should be reasonable and you’ll be in a better position for future transactions, and for when there is more demand for bitcoin block space (ie; when the mempool is full).

There are several wallets that let you view and manage your UTXOs when spending or consolidating them, including Sparrow Wallet, Electrum Wallet, and Blue Wallet. These allow you to select your UTXOs and pay the lowest fees possible, thus leaving more blockspace for other transactions (they often do this automatically, but no algorithm is perfect).

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

In the end, managing your UTXO set is a bit of art and a bit of science that requires conscious effort, and the lower fees and privacy benefits from 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘳 UTXO management can make it worth it.

A special thank you to nostr:npub1t289s8ck5qfwynf2vsq49t2kypvvkpj7rhegayrur0ag9s2sezaqgunkzs for bringing this topic to my attention! 🙏

Be sure to 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸🔖 this, to refer to when you need to manage your UTXOs.

𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁 and share it so that more people also learn about UTXO management.

And if you’d like to share 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 thoughts on this, drop them in the 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀.👇


"...walking through the city..."


Of course he is. He just doesn't admit it.


I would say world is healing. But given the meatspace world context, it's actually the flight to safety. And crypto is not the safety.


Angry old man who's having hard time to maintain his underwear clean.


It's a poor man's fiat multisig.


They just magically composted like that 🤷♂


All of them are.

https://image.nostr.build/95476c41b0dab9640b640757296e67d5c3eff5bf00d5a21adab9b023867066db.jpg


Damn, congrats!!
Madeira is such a beautiful spot to be.


Dorsey talked a bit about him on the Mallers podcast as well, and pointed out some of his other chad-like traits. Dedicated focus, proof of work, his BJJ focus recently.

Could it be that he did catch a Bitcoin bug and is falling into the rabbit hole, and that explains his conversion from robot to a human?


How does the Intl one work? I see just the standard one with small print "Valid only in the US and DC"


WOW! He can teach birds to fly.


Yes, that's a bigger one, and quite surprising. Seemed like a cash cow business.


Roger Ver providing surprisingly sound advice on leveraging #Bitcoin to undermine war and genocide in the Middle East.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uq7iFvMhno


White paper collection on the streets https://image.nostr.build/9c1975078dd4dae4496a15d69ba5b3c69b9c071dec2e9898b1bdc6675da1863b.jpg


PO box will keep you private to the sender.

AFAIK, any of the services would require an ID to setup, and put it on some goverment forms, so it's not 100% private, but still an improvement.

Some of the private providers offer you additional services too. Remailing for example.


Yea. It does feel like they are sacrificing the ESG narratives per se. But they took the climate out of it and running with it; and with the war mongering instead.


Is balkanization of culture the problem per se or the fact that it's happening within a monolith centralized governance?


CBDCs will come dressed up as tax credits. Everyone loves tax credits and discounts.

In the meantime, the prices of not encouraged things will be getting unaffordable.

They will weaponize the Cantillon effect by steepening it and giving giving these ESG chances to partially participate on it.


They can't afford to use violence against the principled peaceful voluntary protest (opt out). If they do, they instantly lose all remaining credibility and support.

On the other hand, it would be easy for them to squash violent actions with even more violence.

Prime movers going on strike is the opt out. Bitcoin is the natural Galt's Gulch.

The more monetary energy you port there, the less power the CBDC has.

Practically: - Start selling your work for BTC only; demand inconvenience surcharge for fiat payments.


Nostr product design problems; or more specifically - specific client UIs / new feature mockups.

The other day, you stackranked dozens of the most common user problems. Let's take those one by one, brainstorm a solution, potentially, discuss and compare how various clients are solving it.

I'd definitely join some.


The world is headed in this direction. Resist now or suffer in tyranny forever.

https://video.nostr.build/ed59c268dca89b8a259c9c667ef23101de94cd212f1379a96f6b139a2f88541b.mp4


Great subscribe.

Especially for the times when the insurances getting expensive, and unexciting locations getting suddenly more exciting.

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Debt getting expensive?


Congrats! Many more and more valuable honors to reach still await out there.


Taxi drivers always knew what's up.

When in Prague, enjoy nostr:npub1v5kafs3x3k9xkyl7ljm3zqc6lsynkd66mscjm8qt7mpq880danjszpfld9


Strong calm wisdom words from nostr:npub1g4lp0dl2j75ytgx3l287m2vhvktx0r363t6xm3n8r4qwq5xws47swgxt9c today. Something which belongs more here than on twitter:

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Go for it.

Can you even have a better setup for it then now?


Triple check first!

*Manually* confirm that you can recover even from the seed plate alone. Then proceed with happy burning.


Go to some if you can. Witnessing the community in person is empowering. Don't go to all.


Evil things can happen when people start thinking that the intelligence can be a substitute to ethics/morals. - "trust the science", Keynesianism, ...

In this context, I'm concerned about what all the AI Ethics boards come up with. I bet that field attracts shitcoiner type minds like crazy.


But it is indeed pretty stupid to be forced to play these games. Just the amount of human capital wasted on constantly adjusting and studying the small prints.


That's pretty fair game to me.

I keep cash/bitcoin for small businesses who would prefer it. Otherwise, loading up the 0%apr cards up to the max (unless it's some specifically privacy conscious purchase)


What's the trick?


Getting in ridiculous amounts of debt becomes suddenly rational if you predict a monetary reform happening.

Is that maybe the unseen thing for many pundits, even amongst bitcoiners?


Imagine how often Biden walks "his" dogs. Two german shepherds. He would be flying on the leash behind them and swiping the floors.


Integrating NOSTR into a learning management platform and governance platform.

Students can chat and ask questions on each lesson pages.

Nothing crazy or mindblowing, start off with just a simple public group chat to purple pill some folks.

https://image.nostr.build/e856c5e8851529bea3a4bc64942569868df078547b169a274fb2ffd8688037ff.png


There's a lot to critize on Ledger, but this sounds to me like a number from some random third party survey.


More dangerous/expensive for a kid to be gaining independence. Can't walk/bike anywhere alone, less open spaces.

If there would be a metric for the time the kid spends in front of the TV/PC, that might be even more striking correlation with earning potential.


What AI tools are you using for dev? I’ve mostly been using copilot and Chatgpt but this article reminded me there has got to be a ton more out there. What else is worth trying?

https://www.stepsize.com/blog/ai-tools-every-software-developer-needs-to-know


Pipelines are for mere mortals who have to prioritize. 😅


*Of course, the only sustainable way to take revenge on the oligarchs and eve-growing unproductive state is by entirely opting out of their game. Voting harder just changes the speed of the downfall.


There's a lot of votes to pull from outside of Biden/Trump voters too.

Imo, majority of people realizes this 2-party theater has been cancerous for the America, and they are sick of people arguing about politics. Those people would love to take revenge on these oligarchs by voting for any outsider.


Check out another great discussion I had with nostr:npub1yyhng9y4t5tu2t8c2gaxwp635zu4su7pqzlyxncc436f5j906xvsawxnuq. We talk homesteading, prepping, sustainable building, Bitcoin circular economy, nostr and more.

nostr:nevent1qqsrnxy2lmjdrq2scdrx7xw5x03j4v9mhhft0hhxwhge7unmhlhpslcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsygpp9u6pf92azlzje7zj8fnsw5dqh9v88sgqhep57x9vwjdy3t73nypsgqqqqqqscgkj64


It would be a great paywall feature. Pay to see the link 😅


*navrch.


Stacil by community rewards program "Rada znudenych sousedek". 10 carbon credits za dochazku, 100 za kazdyho odsouzence, a nezmezny pocit konani dobra k tomu navrh.

Snad to aspon vypada, ze budou hrde nosit odznacky, aby se dali jednoduse odlisit.


Does comment to a comment count?


I'm curios. What happened with the Bitcoin "HSA" setup? Did it just seem as a redundant business distraction, or what's the story?


They delivered at first, and then started over promising instead


Tvl, soudruhu, neco mi to pripomina. ☠🍒☠

"DSA pracuje s mechanismem „Notice and Action“, který uživatelům umožňuje online platformě nahlásit, že nějaký obsah považují za nezákonný. Platforma pak musí toto oznámení posoudit. Podněty důvěryhodných oznamovatelů platformy musejí posoudit prioritně."


✅ - optimizing for volume/growth at the top of the funnel over the quality of the funnels. No one ever asks about attrition and churn. Pinnacle of the web 2.

Hard money and positive interest rates make churn so much more expensive.


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Thinking about all those union strikes. If they don't push for Bitcoin adoption, they sell their members very short.


I did come up with handful of thoughts how to exploit it too. 😬

Someone just takes a picture/screenshot saves it. Plugs it into a script which will just run 24/7 attempts for milking it. And the donor would struggle to find out.

But yea, there might be ways to minimize the risk, do it with non-adversary audience only, built some not protections, ..


It's an ecash. Text cash.

Basically a bill, whoever comes first to claim it, can add it (receive it) to their ecash wallet.

1 ecash = 1 sat. Ecash is fully private and free to transact. But it is custodial, so sooner or later, you want to convert them back to sats on lightning.


I see some native androids have it in the camera/gallery apps. Not in my default ones. I'll probably got to use separate qr reader app for these.


I hate these. How does one scan a QR on the screen with just one phone in a hand?

/android


Yea. But what's abuse threat vector here.

Semisol can't be at the top of every mountain, at every random time frame. Normies would just scan and follow the instructions.


They'll stop going there then 😅


I'd even add a time factor then.

Use case:
- Print a QR sticker, every 100 blocks replenish the faucet with some set amount of sats. Make them available for claim for the first n users.

- Stick it somewhere in the streets. On the public transport, etc.
- Or listen, my dream use case which I thought about for a while and didn't know how to do. Go climb some tough mountain, post in at the top as a Bitcoin geocache. (Make bitcoiners climbers and climbers bitcoiners).

It could probably be adopted quite extensively for zapvertising as well.


For the tipping use case:

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Can you actually technically set it up as a faucet for n amount of m-value invoices?

- Same QR code for all.
- Don't allow a single wallet/browser to claim it more than once
- But allow things like "first n users scanning this qr can claim 50k sats"


Fax machine worked well for Krugman for long, but then even himself got to upgrade.

People upgrade when they need to. Ie when their perceived comparative (dis)advantage becomes too big. Our goal is to make it big.


How do you measure the real number, though?

The higher the "official number" would be, the fewer Bitcoin it would buy.


In a single day, the US added more than half of #Bitcoin’s entire market cap in debt. That’s something like 10 million BTC. And yet there are still people that are unsure if $27k is a good price to buy. https://image.nostr.build/02e8d0900a5c2c2f9704b1758a2bf1b67e0eea125429e37f8de7e67a4dc79413.jpg


It's legal everywhere. But don't you dare to bribe anyone else, that would be a crime.

They've just monopolized it.


Without the first mover market advantage, there would be much fewer first movers 🤷♂

Joinstr sounds like a logical next step.


Even good guys get hacked or leave bugs in the code.


Yup, the illegitimate rulers can't stand the laugh. It weakens them and empowers the oppressed ones. The less legitimate they are the more it hurts them.

Anecdote from across the border from different time:

https://image.nostr.build/472b4823998adc977abef33569cd8ae2e1e589a1d7a4495af1b79bb13055ffad.jpg


More people should be talking about this(IMO):  https://bitcoinmagazine.com/legal/us-government-frames-bitcoin-privacy-as-criminal by nostr:npub1mznweuxrjm423au6gjtlaxmhmjthvv69ru72t335ugyxtygkv3as8q6mak


Macro does look pretty poor, it makes me lean more to the Bart side.


2sats; It would be great if you can add time stamps with published times to these if it comes from some news.


The question of our times: What happens to the world when the Prime Movers go on Strike?

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


It would be cool to dump these in a poll and encourage people to upvote their highest perceived priority issues.


88% ?

I don't want to hate, but that's little too high, isn't it?


Wow. Very meta thinking!

Little too technical, tbh. I would towards reputation being something organically growing on top of someone's interaction, and rather being defined as valuable, but limitless, not scarce per se.

To be little more practical, on how to start discovering these user preferences for what they deem reputable - I like the idea of separating the algos from the interface itself, and allowing the mass independent experimentation and validation of these.

And hopefully then, in some backward fashion, we can start understanding the most common factors behind this reputation(relevance) in broader population.


Physics?


2 primers for the solution:

https://image.nostr.build/8fbf9555f178f79b5bee888ec7517f3ba2d6fbb83525a1ab778c053c1bc2f67e.jpg

Both little outdated by now. But I believe that you got to study the search/feed interface evolution to be able to design the winning prototype. We won't just stumble upon it.

I might re-scan these two and write up something in respect to Nostr social feeds.

The biggest blind spot I'm seeing for now is in the belief that user controls will solve everything. Because more often than not, user's actually don't know what they want.


Hazlitt is the best econ teacher.


Most of the public service is either openly malicious and corrupt, or just naive wealth redistributions under the threat of force. And most people are very blind to the unseen effects of these redistributions.

Of course, there might be individuals and individual cases which benefited from her. But if you want to look at her aggregate net contributions, then you should look how much wealth she helped to produce. Did she ever run a profitable business, or at least has been employed in one? If not, then her legacy is about being parasite on top of productive society.


It's gonna be a case study on Randian Virtues of Selfishness and majority's misunderstanding of it.

My hope is that Bitcoin wealth won't have as strong centralizing tendencies as the fiat one, and that the education will spread equally widely and it will undermine the power of the naive mobs.


zaps and merch sales have covered half of damus payroll this month. Just wanted to say thanks to everyone who keeps zapping and supporting Damus when they can 🫂

I have a new respect for people trying to bootstrap companies. Hopefully I can keep building freedom tech as long as possible… but it ain’t a walk in the park 😅


Elon on the border.

Instant thought - How long until he explicitly offers Blue Checks as a solution for nonexistent passports?


Makes sense.

I liked these spots away from town when I lived there. It's for sure good to get out and see more than just the city. ✌

- Galway is nice if you have the time to get to West coast. Probably quite popular tourist trip, but worth it.
- Glendalough lake and Wicklow mountains are beautiful for hiking if you catch the weather, and it's closer to Dublin.
- Howth is a cute small coastal (and a bit touristy) fishing town, you can just take the city train to.


Sales at silent.link

#BTC  ⬆ vs #XMR ⬇ vs #LN ⬆ https://image.nostr.build/37675362a2b4dfefb11bc58f781d1f09175d83d31a6799762539ef9e2402da27.jpg


The bitcoin circular economy is not just about transacting in bitcoin, it’s also about transacting with people who share a similar set of values, which inevitably influences the products and services which they offer, and the manner in which they do so.

@RemnantMd is one such example. A medical doctor & bitcoiner, he is pushing back against ‘fiat medicine’, by exploring an approach to health which is more consistent with ‘bitcoin values & principles’.

He was also on the front lines during ‘the hysteria’, and shares with me his take on the many ‘shenanigans’ that took place, the distorted incentives that led to the misrepresenting of facts, treatments which harmed rather than helped, and his arc from hero to villain at the hospital where he worked, ultimately being dismissed for his resistance to mandates.

It’s a wild and important story / perspective to hear.

https://fountain.fm/episode/tszRpbYuyKqEUhGzuuL3


Not really, but the tour in the Jameson museum is really well done 🤌


Honestly, I’m just so grateful for all of this.

I’m a pretty morose guy, so the fact that there is this community of people building the tools of the future in order to ensure that posterity will have a shot at being free means so much to me. I don’t think I could have escaped the darkness that had entrapped before finding bitcoin; and it’s not about the money, but about the ability to simply own something in a world that wants you to own nothing, and be happy about it.


Gradually, then suddenly 😅

I'm looking forward for more AI content. Let's go!


You should start sneaking in Mandibles quotes in between the release notes.


Hey hey, she's not wrong. "You can *apply*".

It's basically an efficient system for central entity to process all your 'life applications'.


Laser sharp thinking


We can learn and play with the parameters. No need to distribute the zaps evenly.


There should be some marginal attribution of each of the zaps your received.

Let's say if Jack boosts you a lot more marginal impressions and zaps, he should get a zap share somewhat proportionally amounting to it.

A new bot account with no follows shouldn't get any amount.

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What do you guys think about the game theory of this for big accounts?
- Will they have too strong of an incentive to just keep boosting other notes?
- Would it be wrong to do so?
- -> I'm thinking it could be a great force for decentralization; similar to the Joe Rogan podcast giving spotlight to new interesting people.


I got practically robbed by a banker and then an insurance broker in the same afternoon.

I guess just another business day for them. But it's less annoying knowing they'll be out of businesses sooner or later.


I don't understand bitcoiners unhappy with immigrants. Isn't that what we want, a free world, free markets, free movement of people?

"Ahh but they come to my country and accept to work for lower wages, they loot our jobs."

Don't worry, if there are people willing to work for less, that's the free market. Specialize more to justify a higher salary.

"The state is corrupt but please defend us from the free market and don't allow immigrants, protect our industry." 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

What is your opinion?
#nostr #asknostr


You're right. US Immigration process is one of the worst regulatory capture cases in the world.

They have no stated goals, and no defined metrics to measure how good they are doing their job; and if course, no responsibility for doing it poorly.

One hand is playing a literal lottery with human lives while the other is essentially doing the same, just in a super slow process with millions of costly duplicit steps, years long waiting times, all designed just to max the immigration attorney business.

The worst part of the design in my experience is the unpredictability. You enter the process, not knowing how long it would take and what would be the outcome (high variability in both for most cases). It's a tremendous waste of human capital.

It would be so easy just to setup 2 OKR metrics to be tracked for every immigrant who gets in, and outsource it to a couple of competing companies (even DVMs)
- A) minimize delinquencies
- B) maximize wealth creation (jobs and taxes)


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*Chase won't let you buy KYC Bitcoin


He doesn't have much more advertisers to lose, though.

I'd go with Russian ties, and then step up nationalization of SpaceX for national defense threats reasoning.


They look like mempool transactions waiting to be mined in a block.


Cuba video was epic, and so insightful! Keep it up, Joe!


Is it non-custodial if (I assume) you have to KYC & ask for permission to offramp?


I recently got Xero - Prio ones for the gym/crossfit - I was mindblown by the comfort and sensibility I have in these.

On trails/street/hiking I got my 3rd pair of Altras - Lone Peak - equally comfortable. But I do destroy them yearly after a heavy use on rocky trails.


Proof of Walk

👣👣👣


Impressive proof of work; Congrats!


#amethyst #ux #feedback
cc: nostr:npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z

Yup, the color really pops on the black background. And I've always loved time series charts. They convey so much information without being complicated.

But few things which did make the UI a bit complicated to me at first:

1) The "Today arrow icon" evokes to me switching in between different time frames. But instead, in production, it does hide/display the whole chart.

*I would actually enjoy the ability to switch from daily, weekly, monthly, yearly view with the x-axis changing accordingly.

2) It took me long time at first to decipher which events are being tracked on which y axis. There might be way to visually seperate them and make it more obvious that right axis is for the zap amounts only, while left axis is for everything else.

3) Even when the chart is displayed, there still persists the big top-front-and-center Global/Follows/Muted  switch, which doesn't interact with the chart anyhow, but with the detailed notification feed displayed below.

I'd suggest to strictly visually seperate these two; move the switch below the collapsible chart.

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Lmk what you think, and let's find some UXD who wants to play with it 😇

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Is he actually suggesting that, though?


Habla is quickly becoming the best Nostr Client.

GM.


Sorry for unsolicited critique 😅

I'd say the nose is a little too big and wide. And the eyes aren't much Asian here.


Twitter still has stronger network effects for any macro/investing convos. And for now, those are still very free from any censorship attempts, so it's a harder switching cost tradeoff for these convos.

That's why I have even higher respect for Lyn for committing to nostr.


It does look like a Texan, but not a Texan Korean. Haha.

I'd go with Jason Wrich here.


The face looks familiar. James Damore?

What's the government connotation here?


Hope he will get on #nostr soon.. #freeRoss

https://i.nostrimg.com/0028bbcf60d41e723a84d99031a42a82d29369f7fa9090cd40a056619aa67431/file.png


I'm surprised they still unironically assign zero risk to *italian* goverment bonds by now. 😅


Sounds like bank nationalization to me. 🤌


EU Macro Ponzi: Some fascinating stuff from Italy.

August - Italy imposes 40% windfall tax on banks because of their unfair excess profits (from lending to the government at non-zirp interest rates)

September - They tweak the terms in order to allow the banks to limit the excess tax burden if the banks increase their reserve buffers (government bonds holdings)

Basically they are so desperate because no one's buying their bonds that they have to blackmail the banks with 40% taxes.

Some gem quotes:
"Italy will revisit a contested windfall tax on banks by giving lenders the option to boost their reserve buffers instead of paying the levy."

"The new terms favour banks that hold a higher proportion of government bonds among their assets because they carry a zero risk weight."

"Rome intends to use revenues from the levy to fund tax cuts and state guarantees on loans to small and medium-sized enterprises."

"Italy's antitrust body will monitor banks to make sure they don't charge customers more for services to offset the levy, the amendment said."

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https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/italy-tweak-bank-tax-give-lenders-option-boost-reserves-draft-2023-09-23/


ECB story as well.


1) Counter the pre-bunking. Refer to it as a Money Reform instead of CBDC. That has the proper communist connotations and resemblance of 1953.

2) Throw Slovakia in first as a test 🙃. No seriously, why Brussels doesn't want to adopt it in Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, France for 10 years first to prove that the experimental money reform doesn't have side effects.

3) There's not enough WeChat oppression stories in the whole West. Some of those dissident stories might be interesting even for the progressive/liberal/pro-refugees groups of the society.

It's hard to pierce the bubble without showing/experiencing the pain. And the other side is smart, they will lead with the benefits and save the pain for later.


What's your daily meal intake look like? Are you refusing to supplement with protein powder and trying to get all protein from the meat only?

Idk understand your goal, but it doesn't seem to fit the low time preference healthy body, tbh.


That's a brave question!


Is this the direction you're pointing out to?

Expectations - being the most probable outcome of the next event
Faith - is rather unrelated to specific individual event outcomes, and rather about strongly believing in some principals.

People use them interchangeably, which is fine in some contexts, but they can also have very different meanings.


This one is just a good complementary thought.

https://image.nostr.build/c31b089b5bf13a991bf79d39ccb993251c28fe29116c388f1c950ec9b7c1d77d.jpg


Assuming that you have in mind the *positive* expectations here, it reminds me of this famous Havel quote.

https://image.nostr.build/a5ddfa6c7e1ebed6ca1aaf1e426978cb3662de9630b17d393203188434569a75.jpg

I think that faith and hope are synonyms in this context.


This is your periodic reminder to install Amethyst (and all other Nostr clients) through Obtainium instead of Google's PlayStore.

Just follow this video:

https://cdn.satellite.earth/2bd7e308c1797d64fca09b1d61e9bde24c68dd45e501c7383eff1e85392df11f.mp4


We are beginning the development process for transmitting Nostr events in a peer-to-peer fashion, away from relays. This will start with Gift-wrapped DMs, Private Attachments, Private zaps, Private Text Notes, and Private Reactions; and will be the preferred transmission choice if both users are online, falling back to relays when they are not. Our Push Notification system already transmitted over 500,000 GiftWrapped Nostr events that relays will never see. With a full P2P this will get even better and will open the doors for voice and video calls directly inside Amethyst. Side-stepping relays won't be easy or quick. And I am sure we will get strong pushback from relay operators. But we will get there. And while this might start as an Amethyst feature, it will be a NIP and other clients will be able to join the privacy train.

Nostr is just starting.


Nice! Share more pics of the setup, I'm curios.


https://image.nostr.build/b8b8a193c0a6aa0f37ec2e2eb7a6d04f9d7ddb142f3168bca26bb52fdd5fbde7.jpg

Winter is coming; have you built your nostr:npub1lrjgpa9m2dl6esdah5pq7m005ymwh4glq4aet76q2zlz2f83esfsa2zvrj S9 miner space heater, yet? I just finished my second (yellow one on the left). CC's kit comes with case, adapters for upgraded fans, and screws, and their pdf has a complete shopping list with idiot-proof instructions. Plus the kits are on sale for 20 bucks off right now:

https://www.cryptocloaks.com/product/s9-space-heater-case-bitcoin/aff/18/

These things are modern, sexy, and wife approved! nostr:npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev gets full credit for making me ask myself how can I heat my home while stacking sats. I also totally recommend nostr:npub1rxysxnjkhrmqd3ey73dp9n5y5yvyzcs64acc9g0k2epcpwwyya4spvhnp8' tutorial for expert step-by-step assembly instructions.

Become a home miner this winter, get paid sats while heating your home, and add to the #Braiins Pool hashrate to help secure the Bitcoin network.

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Inheritance tax is one of the worst ones.

If we have to have any taxes, then the land value tax is the most fair concept to me.


Really? What's your reference point? There's far less moonbois clapping and threads here than twitter had, no?


I'd love to have an app, where I could have zapped the person I copied the HW from.


+1 for decoupling. You can "delete", and then post a new one.

Clients following the delete request can choose how to display it in the UI.

In all other clients, it would be cool if it just looks like a quote tweet of the old note.

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Benefit of quoting each of the edited versions - you can wee what engagement/comments were there with the specific previous versions of the note.

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UX-wise, in terms of other users experience (who might have responded/boosted/quoted) your old note - I don't see any clean way how to allow edit without actually NOT hiding the previous versions.


Busted!

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Camper vans


Well, that's the hope. But I saw Tucker-Paxton interview describing the voter fraud, and I don't know how much was is a campaign vs objectivity, but the idea that there would be any independent states left got threatened a bit. And the plan to just move to TX/FL might be insufficient.


All NostrDevs from the past 7 months are available on our GitHub and have also been released as pods.

We believe in educating the masses with the power of freedom technology. This is the way.

 🤙

https://github.com/PlebLab/PlebLab_Workshops/issues

https://pleblab.transistor.fm/episodes


- great dataviz; would be awesome to see them dynamically throughout the time.
- overall, not too surprising; maybe just the scale of the imbalance.

https://image.nostr.build/f9e8bdb29ec9c37fbf35c53d0f4621913e780477db3ee3f68e6daf930b5c728f.jpg
- This one feels scary similar to the political diversity of the CCCP, USSR state institutions.
- but one thing there - there's no y axis. Do the ones at the top have just 60/70/80% domination? If it's closer to 100%, then it's pretty fucked.


Although we often focus on the positive aspects of Nostr, it is important to also discuss its shortcomings and areas for improvement. This is not meant to criticize any developers, who have done an incredible job so far. However, as with any software project, there is always room for growth and improvement. What is something that you DO NOT LIKE about Nostr?


Fun idea!


Ancient lifeforn from gilded ages which finally ported itself to the internet.


It's easy to see why they think that, but it's so naive. Balaji's on point, The West has bren rapidly becoming the Soviet East.

If you project 5-10 years ahead, the only hope to teach this generation better is the pain Acceleration or Bitcoin.


I didn't realize UK is as fucked. Is there a possibility to appeal this retarded decision? I guess not without doxxing oneself in the first place?


Is it just me, or does it seem like everyone is super reluctant to monetize services and relays on #Nostr?

If we can’t make these things sustainable then we will either lose them, or they will stay nothing more than a weird little corner of the internet with lots of hope but no chance of ever scaling.

I still haven’t seen the basic model of zap sharing tried by any major client or relay. But I DO see regularly comments about how expensive relays are. I mean it might not work, but can’t we TRY it?

I want to make the distinction here too that this doesn’t mean we are closing off the network, we are adding permissions to the protocol, this doesn’t suggest at all to used closed source code, we simply need the services necessary to keep this ecosystem robust, to be profitable and have the resources to thrive. If they aren’t, then NONE of this works. Economics is everything.

I know building features is more exciting. I know we all want to make everything that we can free, and I agree all of the *code* should be shared. However, I think there is a natural insecurity (and I say this because I have this problem personally) with charging a fair price, and fearing criticism or the ire of people who believe everything should be free (as in price) when we need things to be free (as in Liberty). They are not the same, and confusing the two could stifle, or drastically slow down, the insane potential of this place.

TL;DR We have GOT to divert some energy to thinking about how to make this ecosystem sustainable, or we will lose it.

(Disclaimer: this isn’t a judgement on whoever is thinking about this problem. It just *seems* like few are. If you are building in this way please share your ideas or what you are trying. I’m extremely interested)


Thank God for nostr


Fight for is a strong word. They just produce PR now.


Hey, is there a Bitcoin friendly analogue to 99designs?

Can’t even get a logo design without doxxing myself… crazy

Or are there anonymous prepaid cards 99 would accept?

Or can you just make us a better logo?


Dotace podle kvality vlady prava je taky dost dobra. Klasicky "Zdanime vas az na kost, ale no worries. Kdyz budete poslouchat, tak dostanete neco z toho zpet."


Especially for Neymar. 🙃


Agreed; pretty impressive speech from Voorhees; worth checking out.

A Saylor-level eloquence, but more compact, and far less apologetic of the state.

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The name brand doesn't sound too dissimilar from  "Bitcoin Maga Podcast". Sure, each of these political bubbles have decent size audience out there, and could attract new people to Bitcoin, and ultimately convert people into apolitical sound money maxis instead of projecting the world solutions through these traditional political means.

But you're also running temptation of audience capture, and isolating discussions just within a closed set of bitcoiners.

Bitcoin for fairness is better name to me; probably not a better (SEO) brand.


GM Nostr! I'm looking for some non-technical PM help for Nostr.how – if you're interested DM me!


Great project choice. G-forms lack of privacy guarantees is so annoying.

How is it gonna look like here?


Memories are forever, Laura. Forever


Macro? Or btc/crypto specific?


Especially for btc things.

SimpleLogin has super easy and friendly UX.


What's the best way to get into hvac? Got any podcasts you recommend on the topic?


Data pipeline error?


Let's be honest, we failed Assange, and our generation will always have to live with it.

We were not ready for real journalism.
https://i.nostrimg.com/d26524ae81e8c41c82e11fde42e349315b62cc935c99259c86b0502e92a8f476/file.jpg


I can see that. Especially if you don't have programmatic ads, and rather something more static.

Well, develop ad blindness and just don't see then 😅


Spot on. You don't own your destiny, if you owe 140% of GDP to someone else and you even gave up your own currency and money printer to Brussels.

https://image.nostr.build/a81837d467771d4472f20c7d3873fa85f01e0133222f5590f7ba79425d067194.jpg


SEO is big.

nostr.com is pretty important in the short term for discovery and onboarding.

In the long run, clients should SEO and brand themselves. No one's gonna care about email.com equivalent in 10 years.


Is the complementary ad model a complete tabu? Same as algorithms, I don't think it should be.

YouTube like client would be a great space for advertising other nostr projects and onboarding new nostriches.

What makes the ad-space trashy is either if you as a platform lean more into ad money vs ad quality (relevance); or malicious censorship (especially if you're a monopoly).

If you nurture your ad-space to be high quality first, highly curated links to complementary nostr services, it should work really well.

And if you start caving away from quality into being a sellout, nostriches will just stop sharing your links, and start sharing the competition's ones. Because, building a sustainable monopoly on nostr will be close to impossible.


You liked the conversation? 👀

Utterly failed to meet the hype to me.

Tucker pushed his script and went through the checklist of his questions without listening to and engaging with the answers. He was a poor partner for the conversation here. Especially if his point was to showcase to the Americans the dangers of the socialistic progression through welfare handouts to hyperinflationary collapse.

Closing out with the question put in doubt whether the police would protect Milei against rioters if he wins was weird. Reminded me of his question to Trump whether he things he would get assassinated.

Overall, ingenuine from both sides. I should have done something more productive than listening to it. 😐


P2P tools rental.

Lawn mowers, chainsaws, 3d printers, ladders, ...


Hilarious. She must have enjoyed that a lot too. 😅


Forget about ETFs. When Tucker starts orange piling the disenfranchised with this much focus, clarity and urgency, that will get wild.

On the path to steal the long awaited internet-breaking bitcoin show from under (the sleepy) Joe Rogan's nose.


Cyborg roasting hard here.

What do you thinks is the best economy of zero app?


Since the summer heat is over? 😅


Looking from the outside, I think that traditionally it's been harder for a designer to get onboarded on  the open source project than it is for a dev.

Good path might be in making it, and the understanding of the problems we're trying to solve more accessible.


Lol. How did you get out?


So that the DVMs would perform any services, beyond just returning data answers?

I guess that in the end of the day, online service is just data... Interesting

Are there any close examples already?


BIG NEWS. 👀🥩
A month ago nostr:npub1x458tl7h9xcxa66vr4a8pg0h2qz96pnhwnfpcra0le9090uk5t5qw7armt turned me onto White Oak Pastures.
( whiteoakpastures.com )
I've been looking for a good rancher to accept #Bitcoin as payment. So... I asked. They responded they didn't take Bitcoin at this time. I replied inquiring if someone had time to talk about accepting it, explaining that they are a very values driven company and I believe Bitcoin encompasses their values. Well, today, one month later, I receive an email from White Oak Pastures. I'm happy to announce they now accept BTC as payment. I'll attach the emails to this post. So please, GO GET YOUR MEAT. BUY IT WITH THE WORLDS HARDEST MONEY. SEND THEM AN EMAIL. SHOW THEM SUPPORT. This is how we win. This would not have happened if I had not simply asked. Now let's get them on #nostr #steak #meat #agriculture #farming #grownostr
https://m.primal.net/HLGk.png
https://m.primal.net/HLGl.png


We need "Filter out" button next to "Follow" on #Amethyst. 🙏

https://image.nostr.build/ee3372a69f4c82abfb91c3855f5f6920e76faf5b62e4fbcb021f022e9700e20e.jpg


I 100% recommend this action nostr:note1d94chrvnsn2p4jserz5v0h8z5ym99qqmnrtt3jj48y6qwmm0l79saewzwm


Zaps vs Likes:

Can we evolve the design debate further?

Likes:
- Worthless
- But user can contextualize their meaning with different emoji reactions (👍; 👎; 🫂; 🎯; 🤡)

Zaps
- Carry value
- But lack context (the most context you create is by sending 69 or 420 sats)

Is there any client/design mockup which combines them into a single reaction? A zap with context message?


Yes, I believe it's illegal to provide this in the US without KYCing yourself with the provider.

It protects from the sender knowing your address at least.

==
It would be cool to have a temporary rental of these delivery boxes (Amazon boxes) style. As soon as the postman puts the package in one of the boxes, you get a notification with the unlock code.

But it's a silk road territory providing this as a service 🤕


There are PO boxes in the meat space for this.

I'm not seeing a way how to cross the cyber and meat space here without doxxing your address at least to some centralized middle men service (PO box) in the process.

Intriguing problem, though.


I agree here with these house examples.

But it can be a slippery slope, and there is a time and place for choosing the principled approach over playing the game becomes too corrupt.

It's a scale with slippery slope.

Especially because *they* won't start actively penalizing the wrong behaviors, they will just keep increasingly subsidizing the pre-approved behaviors (while making alternative choices too costly for most of the people).


Interesting debate would be whether it would be hypocrisy to use the subsidy to build solar for your house while knowing and arguing that the system is net worse for everyone.

I would argue that operating under the fact of these market regulations, it would be ineffective use of capital for you to not use those subsidies.

It's potentially potentially a delicate battle between staying morally uncorrupted and truthful vs surviving.
- Reminds me of the old communist saying in CZ which perfectly describes how this corruption of market incentives breeds corruption of morals - the saying was "Who's not stealing (from the public), is stealing from his family"


Yup. Great option if you're far from the grid, or if the the grid is unreliable and you need to have some backup plans (solar, generator).

Theoretically, if you had access to a reliable grid with a free electricity market with no regulation obstacles or subsidies, the power from the grid would be always cheaper than what you can obtain yourself.

The problem of the subsidies and free market obstacles is that it shifts the incentives of profit maximizatiin away from builduing and maintaining reliable grids with cheap energy inch by inch towards milking the subsidies.


Nice looking form!
Bon appetite.


Keep the health tips coming, pls. #PV


Could. How to eliminate it?

Maybe if there's a spec to coinjoin with any user-selected coordinator?


I see it just static.


"Regulated and permissionless"


Construction code either makes it impossible, or very expensive to be creative.


Bitcoin companies don’t want to hold your bitcoins

Nostr companies don’t want to hold you data


Not as much in the bear. But imagine bull with btc actually decoupling in next 2-3 years while all other assets stay at best  and true inflation of living costs steady at 10+% and unemployment rising...


How do we hack his prompter???


I just found out that he was on JRE two weeks ago; I totally missed it.

I started listening to it, it's a nice humble level-headed dudes chat. Nothing internet - reading, but solid background for the car ride.

Noteworthy is how he's trying keep his normalcy and stay away from the fiat/fame highlights. Great example to others.

https://image.nostr.build/fd70ed6f1a11b62c07933b0bb792fccb81ed66e6563ae8eb4fbc80670954067b.jpg


Give me your most WILD nostr feature idea. ANYTHING goes!


Do you mean a glut of people skilled just with corporate emails and spreadsheets?


Aah, that makes sense. I approve the prioritization here.


Soo, why so tall?


Tbh, as I'm reading, I'll look into it to bug airlines and Expedia on my behalf.


There could be many legis cases for refund (ex airlines, ...) where it makes sense to outsource the hassle to some legal not AI. And they officially presuppose these.

But I'm sure they are aware that they might be boosting fraud as well. But that doesn't mean that they are necessarily the one committing it.

The problem is that the game theory for immoral cc users is 100% win; trivial financial or reputation penalty if caught.

Ref: https://fortune.com/2020/06/23/donotpay-coronavirus-gym-cancellation-airline-refund-raise-series-a/


Some people are making business out of automating charge backs for cc users.

https://donotpay.com/learn/chargebacks-and-refunds/

Dire need for different payment methods.


Yea...

This is a great early article about the monetization possibilities of relays from nostr:npub17vfczefc56xsh920rtkfad0t347xc8j5llta3wvs8hglq8sxycxst57j5y

https://andreneves.xyz/p/the-rise-of-paid-nostr-relays

Since then several paid relays showed up, most popular probably nostr.wine, and they are playing and creating the market.

Currently it looks like there's severe imperfect information on this market, and there's wild guesstimation about what price to expect for what service, and how to implement in a sustainable business model.

Tldr, solutions come to the problems.


Supply always comes where the demand is 🤌


Fiat jobs vs blue collar jobs; effects of AI & recession on them.


Trust the science


Permaculture principles are simple:

Do a lot of good shit with what you have around you.

Ask others what they're doing with the shit around them.

Try & then try again.

#permies


She should have said "two weeks" to perfect the pitch.


That's a big cave. So many options 🔥🔥


I totally did it!

nostr:nevent1qqswkzcpnf7tszakdnzmysswn60vkmr9t8exgn34xxwp6qxf4avzddcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsyg8lr4j70zkgzkf05l4mn6lunutrzz8qhmuq7ut93sj5jl4rs02f2upsgqqqqqqszfzcc7


Nashville should totally follow this model. They are right in the city center, that's a perfect spot to engage with public, and making it a fun fair instead of an exclusive private club.


BTC Prague had a smart 2-tier pricing.

1) Main stage access ~$300
2) GA without main stage access ~$30
- that included access to all the "village" with booths, side stages, food courts, chill zones, ...

Great for people not caring about the speakers' content. And those might be either experienced folks, or the normies on the edge.

Imagine trying to convince your buddy (or general normie public) who's not in the rabbit hole to get a ticket to BTC conference for hundreds of dollars, vs to come chill with you to the "BTC fair". Totally different value prop. And so much better for all the booth vendors as well.


Looks really slick


Wow. That's one thing it absolutely doesn't have! 😅


Come on, topochico is better.


Atlas Shrugged


Solid way to short fiat if they give you 0% for 15-18 months. It's an ongoing stimmy for upper middle class now.

Let's see what happens with the demand then.


I'm not into desserts normally. But damn, this one looks so fine!


You got to try in Czech/Europe. The thing they ship into the US is bottom of the barrel.


As a person living in a heavily sanctioned country, I really feel this.
Oh you want to use docker? Too bad you're from xyz. Oh you want to use gitlab? Too bad (foss my ass) .
You want to learn this skill or read this article? Sorry, information and knowledge isn't allowed for you people.
We live in 403 and 503 errors.


Single point of sales = single point of failure.

I'm sorry for the SMBs, it's a long outage 😬

https://www.issquareup.com/

nostr:nevent1qqsdkn053zpe0jyczjn79sr59fjqpmexnfwjzcdz8w7zn3c4r5v2llcpvemhxue69uhkv6tvw3jhytnwdaehgu3wwa5kuef0dec82c33ddkx5wfcv95xzctyw46k2emhvdjrwmrnvd4x2utpxp5ryd3cxpnrwdtj8qexwmnjxv6hqatp8pk8xvek0pckswt58yens0mzwfhkzerrv9ehg0t5wf6k2q3qs9c53smfq925qx6fgkqgw8as2e99l2hmj32gz0hjjhe8q67fxdvsxpqqqqqqzmeva62


Point of sale; majority market share in SMBs (coffee shops, taco stands).

They operate just in the US and CA, I think.


Explicit. I like that.


nostr fixes this https://image.nostr.build/2033c7bb90fcf6bf61f23d815a8f05c6d56de3ebaed86e49e269a07595734c27.jpg


Liquid part of my portfolio - Pilsner Urquell ve sklepe.


Curious as well.

Myself, I prefer - morning gym, then coffee, 3-4pm single meal.


Twitter's best utility is in being a great place for your nostr ads.


+1, more detail into the subsidies would help there.


Makes sense, thanks!

Discoverability - If I wouldn't know to look for some new nostr features there, I would have hard time to find them from the home screen. The "view all" wasn't really cutting it for me/suggesting that there are hidden features there. Maybe more contextual copy could help there, maybe more prominent UI if you want people to explore it.


Could be doable on a young tree; cut it out and seal with some vax resin probably.


Nice UX for the nostr feed and contacts. Just the discoverability might need some iterations.

(Dumb Q) How is it with privacy; can you correlate my wallet with the npub I enter there?


This guy was a rockstar back in the day. Still is to a degree. https://image.nostr.build/1f3d58c60c82d0f4c9e48d14a5b5816b88baf7457a420f725055613c7b7dd32c.jpg


Correct. It's little disappointing that the nuance hasn't been even more obvious in this community.


They year is 2023 and Parker is running a crowdfund without a nostr strategy.

You should still support him though. He will come around to nostr gradually then suddenly.

https://graduallythensuddenly.xyz/crowdfund/


Good morning. #bitcoin without privacy practices is a self-hosted CBDC.


One top of the mind thought from #btcprague - nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx should get nostr:npub1m2mvvpjugwdehtaskrcl7ksvdqnnhnjur9v6g9v266nss504q7mqvlr8p9 on the CD.

 #zappoll


Spot on


PROGRESSIVISM: The idea that TENS OF THOUSANDS of years of successful human civilization that led to this point against all odds had it all wrong & that we should take a chance on something new based on the premise of "I have this idea that makes me feel good without having to do anything, let's see if it works".


Let's not underestimate CZ defense. They're not gonna go easy. It might be the last bite for Gensler


Ref for some details.  https://blog.trezor.io/our-response-to-the-read-protection-downgrade-attack-28d23f8949c6


The reason they have 2 (I believe shooting for 3 in new models) is to eliminate this trust.

Being skeptic is healthy, but for sure the threat vectors doesn't double with the addition of more secure elements. Rather the opposite, the difficulty to hack compounds.


nostr:npub1va6zy0gmr8wp2328xw4h2kdvmcwjrl0nl6djv5kyv0rl4kcjcppqvzckg7 ?


Over the next five years, what do you think the chances are that talking about inflation or energy will be censored on centralized social media platforms comparatively to what happened with the pandemic during 2020/2021?


We didn't win until its first half becomes a standard economics 101 course book


It's not about blowing. It's about preferring to use them as a payment method if one can. And steadily enforcing throughout the economy that one can.


Tixel manages it quite well. But Bitcoin native would be nicer.


Also, bug summary / user experience summary filtered by tags?

Each Dev can come here once per day/week, and pull summary of people talking about his client/product/feature...


Badass. Enjoy the day!


PATRIOT ACT 2.0
-------------

$1M Fine and Up To 20 Years in Prison❗❗❗

The RESTRICT Act, introduced by Senators Warner and Thune, aims to block or disrupt transactions and financial holdings involving foreign adversaries that pose risks to national security. Although the primary targets of this legislation are companies like Tik-Tok, the language of the bill could potentially be used to block or disrupt cryptocurrency transactions and, in extreme cases, block Americans’ access to open source tools or protocols like Bitcoin.

The Act creates a redundant regime paralleling OFAC without clear justification, it significantly limits the ability for injured parties to challenge actions raising due process concerns, and unlike OFAC it lacks any carve-out for protected speech.

https://www.coincenter.org/the-restrict-act-creates-blanket-authority-with-few-checks-to-ban-just-about-anything-linked-to-a-foreign-adversary/


I'll have to check it out. Thanks for the nudge


Prequel to Mandibles


Is 30 year fixed mortgage around 8% a steal then?


Hey, not so fast.

One multicoin is one multicoin.


Good morning. Pura vida. Competition is healthy. 🤝


Thanks!


Damus


That's 2.5 Saylors.


Exciting!


Lol


We're talking about Nostr being a Trojan horse for the freedom money. But has any non-bitcoiner got here?


Hahaha, good one!

Zapped


Oh wow. I'm glad you switched, and not just because of the price.


Haha, loving this!

Unfortunately, probably too easy to censor if automated and used en mass.

But I mean, let's do it anyway and test their reflexes.

https://i.imgur.com/izO6LXW.jpg


It does look substantially cheaper than last time I looked, pretty competitive even on pricing now.

But it's about $5-10/GB if I'm looking right. I hope you really didn't pay 10x of that ever.


reminder that your IP is visible to every relay you connect to so consider running a vpn such as mullvad.net or ivpn.net, both accept bitcoin


Beautiful. Enjoy and stay safe.


Pura Vida!


Yea. Fountain works spotless to me, no real problem to solve there. More just the inspiration about the seamlessness of their implementation of the Splits.

I'm thinking about this being potentially as seamless source of funding for Nostr protocol and clients, and community charities - it would be very nice, smooth, sustainable, incentivizing value generation from all ecosystem contributors. With users still fully in charge.


We should get sat splits into the noster, same as they are in podcasting 2.0.

Anyone can choose (don't have to) and clearly signal how they're planning to distribute their zaps.


Make sure to serve the truth serum for refreshments!

I know it's early, but do it for the team, Matt.


Sounds like another state op FTX project fabricated for the sole purpose of stealing some Bitcoin, and primarily, some Bitcoin network effects.

Failed twice. So far...


Well done!

First gen Bitcoiner kids will be winning all the Olympics and everything else in few years; and whole world of nodes will cheer for them.


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