Satoshi didn't really create the ideas and principles of Bitcoin. Those had already been laid out by others in various forms.

I think the true genius of Satoshi was putting those principles into a format that humans can actually use AND then disappearing.

I think the truly revolutionary Satoshi contribution was to not stick around for glory (not that Satoshi shouldn't be proud - pride is good). Humans tend to focus on humans more than ideals and principles. Any little imperfection of the human immediately becomes ammunition against the ideals and principles presented by the human. Ayn Rand was probably the most notable example of this.

Satoshi, whether intentional or not, took that from enemies of freedom. All they have to criticize now is a codebase for ideals and principles that just work beautifully.


You're contradicting yourself. You're the one who mentioned not trusting Monero (code) because of a person. If you don't doubt the code, why does that person influence your trust of Monero? That doesn't make sense.


Exactly. It doesn't really matter who created it. Disappearing is one of the best things Satoshi did. Humans focus too much on people rather than ideas and fundamental principles.


I'm not convinced that it is very private if you're just swapping in and out of things that aren't at all private (most people are). That's always been my problem with it. It isn't a good store of value, so it doesn't incentivize people to stay in it fully. The on and off ramp data is quite telling, as meta data usually is. That's really where I think Bitcoin privacy issues mostly exist anyway (on and off ramps). Fixing that, in my opinion, leaves little reason to use Monero given it's economic design and self-induced security limitations on the network.

I do support the mission though. Frankly, this technology is still relatively young and the top players (just Bitcoin and Monero in my opinion) can make each other better if we cooperate and improve. I'd call myself a Monero fan overall, and I'm certainly in the Bitcoin Maxi camp.


Luckily, I figured out that Bitcoin was the golden child about six months in and didn't get rekt (or bring others down with me). I can't imagine intentionally fucking people over for a little fiat. Alas, having principles comes with the baggage of actually having to be productive for a living.


Bitcoin may not be of any particular political party, but it absolutely is political.


My only wish is that decimal values for Bitcoin transactions would get totally replaced by sats.


The current security model should be entirely changed before we encourage more people to use more things on Nostr. Otherwise, almost everyone is just going to copypasta the same nsec into everything that asks for it and get rekt at some point. We need a new default.


Also, you gave something your nsec if you're using Amethyst to sign notes. My opinion is that I should have the option to give NOTHING my nsec ever. I don't see how that's possible right now and would discourage building critical services on Nostr until we fix that. I don't think Proton should allow it for security reasons. That's my whole point.


I think the fundamental issue I have is that an app needs to be trusted. I'm not just focusing on typing the nsec into untrusted apps. Even trusted apps can be dangerous, even if by accident. My only issue here is with saying that X company/service should use Nostr instead. Sorry if I haven't conveyed that well. The Nostr general model IS better, just not from a security perspective yet. Nostr should be treated as alpha testing right now until we have at least Bitcoin like security options. We don't (at least from my research), so I disagree that legacy solutions should instead build on Nostr. That's all I'm saying here. People are treating it like it's ready for every service to build on and it isn't. Many more people will get rekt than on the current legacy model, in my opinion.


Well done then. It is a very simple and natural demo. I'm just annoyed that I didn't think of it before today. It's so simple.


*can't do that with an nsec


It is NOT the same thing. Even using the same password across websites is not the same as using the same nsec. You can go and change your passwords if one gets compromised and even recover from a compromised password in most cases. You can do that with an nsec. The two things are not equivalent, even if the same bad practices are used for both cases. If I show you my nsec I can't just go change it. Everything is gone forever. That is a lot more catastrophic than even using the same login for every website. For one, an attacker would need to know every place I have an account and go there separately and do something bad. An attacker with my nsec would instantly have access to anything I have on Nostr forever and there's fuck all I can ever do about it. Those two things are clearly different. The idea that we should be throwing everything onto Nostr right now is bananas, and that's the only point I'm making here.


Sending a payment to Lightning Goats (YouTube livestream) from my self-custody, no pemission required wallet is going to be my new demo for people IRL. I will then do the same for the goats using my connected Nostr profile to give Nostr some love too. If they don't get the innovation after that, they just aren't going to get it and I can move on having at least fed some goats with my time.

I absolutely love watching them get excited for treats in real time. Seriously, go try it out. nostr:npub1v60thnx0gz0wq3n6xdnq46y069l9x70xgmjp6lprdl6fv0eux6mqgjj4rp


That isn't the only difference. Having my Proton password compromised doesn't also compromise my bank accounts, social media, etc. That's essentially what would happen if one app mishandled your Nostr key. You'd have your entire stack lost all at once. The whole selling point has been one key for all these different things and that is a broken model from a security perspective.

As I said, people can use different keys for every service, but that doesn't solve the root problem. You've simply limited the reking to one service, just like the password model we have now. Except there are no recovery options.

We need a way to give our private keys to no one. Just like Bitcoin. I shouldn't have to give every wallet my private key to transact, nor should I on Nostr.


I'd also love to see sub keys that can somehow be neutered or destroyed. I imagine signing an event using something like a 2/3 multisig or whatever that essentially destroys the other keys for signing and replaces it with one only the holder of the master key(s) can see. A password reset like behavior. Of course, someone who gets the master key(s) would still become king. No way to fix that without offline protections like we have for Bitcoin.


You'd of course sign into apps using a public key, but any actions would require a signing device. I mean to have this as an option, not a requirement. This would be cumbersome for most people, but higher profile and more security conscious people should have the option. Especially if we ever want to have presidents, etc using this stuff. (We should).


I haven't check in on this issue in quite a while, but that doesn't sound like a full implementation of what I mean. Creating the key is only one component. It would need to become a standard across the Nostr ecosystem so that events can also be signed using the Coldcard. Meaning I never type my key into anything ever again. I don't even need to see it. I'd just have a seed phrase. Maybe I'm missing something but I haven't seen that functionality yet.


I've been saying since I got on here that the nsec model as it is will get people rekt at some point. We need a way to sign things without giving all these rando apps our one private key.

I also don't buy the proposal for a different key for each app. That key could still be critical even for one app and we should therefore have a way of giving no service the key in my opinion. A bunker is a good idea, but I'd even like to see a hardware signing device like we use for Bitcoin.


You're just a key to us.


"Scaling LLMs to get us to AGI like we scaled internal combustion engines to reach lightspeed." - @halvarflake


Ha. Nice.


Yeah, two completely different things, which was my point. Comparing them and calling this safer is simply wrong. Getting your seed from a screen on an internet connected device is never going to be as safe as not. The added complexity IS the security. They should stay in their lane of hot wallets and not pretend that they are an alternative to using offline solutions. It would be different if they said safer than other hot wallets. But they explicitly compare to hardware here. Someone will eventually get rekt.


That really depends on how one defines safety I guess. I only consider airgapped hardware to be "safe" for my main stack. Saftey is quite relative to context. This would be "safe" for a small amount for me, but I certainly wouldn't use some software only solution for a large amount. Still cool regardless. Just made me think.


Safer compared to what?


Musk is a Utilitarian, which is one of the worst philosophies around. He will sell anyone and any principle out in an instant if it means getting what he wants. Cucking for dictators is just one of many symptoms of his utilitarianism.

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Lol they can go fuck themselves.


Ideally, few people will have to know much about it at some point. It'll just work and be so ingrained in daily life that few think about it.


Most of those more or less do the same things. I think YouTube is going to be the most challenging by far.


Honestly, I just feel good knowing that some dick sack can't nuke me from digital existence simply because I don't meet some arbitrary standard. In a word: Freedom.


Fair enough. The desire was always there, even if the technology wasn't yet.


Frankly, the issues are much deeper than spyware for all of those. I wish we could go back to just worrying about spying. Software now is designed to manipulate and control us in some pretty sick ways.


I'm guessing free wasn't so free.


I think a lot of people miss my actual point. I left it in detail on the GitHub issue if you care. My issue is that they snuck it in BEFORE I had a choice and didn't tell me it was happening. I lost trust for the developers. Yes, I can go use a different app but I was committed to that app and team. I supported them. I also included suggestions for how to change the culture and update model such that users aren't violated by "features." I have no issue with drafts. I have an issue with saving them and broadcasting them without user knowledge and consent. Yes, the technical issue was LATER addressed, but the misalignment in ethics is what bothers me. They shouldn't have implemented it in that way and not seeing an issue and publicly committing to not doing it again is what bothers me. I love Amethyst otherwise and wish I could trust them again.

So no, I don't think my point is moot and the fact that others do saddens me. It's an ethics problem, not a technical one.


Lol I never knew zap bots were a thing. Perhaps the only bot I would support.


It's quite bizarre to use Chrome if one expects respect for privacy...


The killer app of a recursive function is itself. lol

Some people just don't understand that the wheel hasn't changed much because it moves shit around really well as it is.


I'm going to be a Bitcoin boomer who gets to tell young people about all the clown shit I went through in the early years.

I'm kind of okay with that future. It seems hopeful and teaching history to young, free minds is a happy ending for me.


Interesting concept for those who can easily trade fiat for gold. I'm guessing he can do that because (assuming you mean US or US-like jurisdiction) the government considers gold a commodity rather than money.


I doubt many of them even fully understand that world. So much of it seems to be bullshit stacked on more bullshit from my perspective, but again, I don't know everything.


Regarding my most recent Trump post:

Admittedly, Kamala makes me sick enough that I can understand why some people would vote for Trump out of desperation (assuming she carries the torch).

I probably just wouldn't vote if there was no other option, but I get it.


Honestly, I've been going through cycles where I think I have shit figured out only to find myself feeling like a noob again at some point.

I consider this a good thing. It means that I know my limitations and seek to improve. Unfortunately, I had to age to figure this out. Circle of life.

We're all noobs at something. Thanks for sharing your experience with others.


Will look into it. Thanks!


Yeah, that's why I threw minimized in there. There is no practical KYC free way that I can think of or reasonably perform myself. I'm just looking for ways to minimize the risk. I can for sure say that pictures of my face, state ID, social security number, and full bank details isn't it. lol


A thing doesn't need to be perfect to be better (whatever that means in a given context).

It's okay to pursue better rather than perfection. In fact, you'll probably go insane chasing perfection.


Trump has made it clear that he would be a totalitarian if he could be.

I don't trust anything the man says. He's putty that will mold to whatever will boost his ego the most.

He'd be anti-Bitcoin if enough people cheered him on. He'll be whatever the crowd wants him to be, and I haven't seen any limits to this. He has no identifiable principles beyond those of whatever crowd happens to be in front of him.

It's sad to see so many people enthusiastically falling for the bullshit.

Full disclosure: This is a note to my past self as much as anyone else. I fell for his bullshit once.


I'm a fuckwit who KYCed on multiple exchanges when I did most of my stack building.

What are some of the best (that you have used) decentralized, KYC-free (or minimized) exchanges?


I'm paying more sats today for a service because I forgot to renew during the dip.

RIP life's a bitch sometimes 😂


I agree, which is why I was hoping I was just missing some when I posted this.


It literally wasn't configurable nor optional (aside from just not using it, which is my point).

This isn't my path. I'm not the one who snuck it into app without user consent. I've made it very clear that I miss Amethyst. I just don't trust the developers until they acknowledge the issue and commit to not doing it again. I would absolutely use it again. Not getting the issue is the problem.

And if you don't see the issue with saving what people type (even when they chose not to share it) without their knowledge or consent, then you are missing out on ethics.

Adding in configuration options after the fact doesn't address the root issue, which is the nonchalant attitude toward user privacy and choice.


Running your own relay is the only way I can think of. But even then, 'immortal' isn't an appropriate term.

I think the only certain fix is to accept that your art will likely die like everything else. It could be the case that the laws of this universe ultimately won't allow anything in it to ever become immortal.

I understand wanting your art to be preserved for as long as possible though. It's probably the same reason humans invented religion, heaven, the soul concept, etc. We put so much of ourselves into our work.


I would greatly appreciate recommendations for mobile Nostr clients that aren't Primal or Amethyst.


Amethyst.

Because I don't trust the developers/updates anymore.*

*I posted a note about this recently if anyone cares why I lost trust.


The Primal feed is so confusing. It only showed me the note I commented on, which makes it seem as though you're just referencing the Amethyst app. I didn't see the entire context until clicking your reply. Sorry about that.


For reference, nostr:npub1t0nyg64g5vwprva52wlcmt7fkdr07v5dr7s35raq9g0xgc0k4xcsedjgqv initiated the Github discussion I mentioned at https://github.com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/issues/848


I was partially wrong about #Amethyst drafts. I found a discussion on GitHub saying that drafts will eventually be optional. I was wrong to say that the a fix is seemingly not coming.

However...

This sort of thing should really be worked out before a "feature" (quotes because I considered it a violation rather than a feature) is added to the application. Or put it in a testing/nightly branch that doesn't get pushed to regular users who don't want partial features thrust upon them with no recourse, warning, or options.

Sending out drafts without my knowledge or consent is wrong. Giving me the option to enable such a feature would be correct. Doing something bad with the intention of making it good later is still bad. I lost trust for the developers even if this issue is resolved, because I can never know when or if they'll just do this sort of thing again.

I really don't want to investigate every update to be sure I'm not being violated in some new way. I do sometimes just want to trust that developers of the FOSS software I use and support have a general sense of ethics and respect for me as a user. No one is verifying everything all the time. 'Don't trust, verify' is little more than fantasy. There simply isn't enough time to do this for everything in life.

I hope the update model, culture, and ethics change so I can go back to using Amethyst. I really miss it.


DO NOT ASK WHY SOMEONE WAS BANNED.

ASK WHY IS IT POSSIBLE.


Interestingly, I feel the same about consumption as well. I got so tired of maintaining the platform accounts that I just deleted them. I never knew when someone was going to get kicked off or hidden from me. It's just too exhausting for me even from a consumption standpoint.

The Nostr social media use case has a lot of growth potential, but I'm already all in on it.


Is it a bug or are the relays being pruned? I'm not sure which term Nostr devs use, but I assume relays prune data to save space.


Ha. My client interpretted my use of an old jpg meme as an actual jpg. Some memes just meme themselves.

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Lol Managing client WordPress websites taught me this immediately.


It is nice to see Nostr first gaining traction.

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Goteem


Everything exists until it doesn't.


No, it isn't. It would just require that Americans actually pay for the wars they think are just, which indeed would mean far fewer wars. Perpetual war would be unaffordable. And it wouldn't be the rainbows and sunshine that people like to pretend it would be.


Neither.


It will probably last longer anyway.


We are carrying our approach to less meaningful systems into critical systems, and that's why we end up having disasters. We need to separate our systems and use a philosophy that makes sense in each context. The Windows a gamer uses may be the same as what runs 911 call centers and pretty much everything in my emergency department, but losing a gaming machine clearly matters less. So just firing out broken software as if every device is the same is a really dumb and broken model. Convenience may matter more to the gamer, but it doesn't for someone who isn't breathing. This is a massive issue beyond any single person or company.


The difference though is that people can choose to go slower than the speed limit in the US. We generally don't punish going too slow (rare exceptions). That's not really true for a lot of the things we were talking about here. These issues are largely beyond any single person's control. It requires a shift in culture. That was my whole point.


Unfortunately, I think you're right. That's why I try to buy the alternatives whenever possible. That indeed usually means that I'm driving older vehicle models that tend to change very little and don't have the newest features. The same goes for my phones, computers, etc. Saves me sats and frustration though!


I've been a full time user for about 15 years. I can't say it was always as easy as it is now 😊. It's easier than ever.

No system is safe. However, I think there's something special about being able to see the code and fix it yourself if you're so inclined. Everyone tends to benefit from such a system. Crossing your fingers and hoping it works out (Windows) is inherently less secure in my opinion.

I think we should have more diversity with critical infrastructure. Losing multiple things at once is really what causes the choas. It's a compounding problem.


My guess is that a lot of people died/sustained injury as a result of the recent Windows issues. We may never know the full impact since it isn't something that is tracked (to my knowledge).

People are so concerned about relatively much smaller issues. I just don't get the feeling in real life that people actually understand just how close we are to going back to the dark ages at any second. I literally watched it happen in a matter of minutes.

We need to address this.

I've been preparing for years (digitally and physically). I've been reaching out to friends and family to do my small part to make people more resilient. Currently, most people are minutes away from being totally controlled by anyone willing to establish any form of control during chaos. That is terrifying. We need more independent people in a world that has incentivized dependence.

Peace.


Can confirm hospitals. We were in the dark ages.


It was much worse that grounded flights. My emergency department couldn't accept ambulances and our 911 centers were completely down. Police systems were down. We managed, but people probably died from this and we just don't know it yet.


I have and I am extremely concerned.


I work in emergency medicine and last night was a total shit show. People seem relieved that a bad automatic update was the likely cause of all the Windows disruptions (rather than an attack). Let's say that was the case.

People should still be massively worried about an update that can just cripple our major systems around the world.

"Interoperability" is great until it bites your ass off.

Very concerned about what I saw last night. Our 911 centers were down as well. These systems are fragile.


Probably returning favors. Trump is bullshit and so are most Republicans. They proved that during his first term.


I got called a conspiracy theorist once for telling someone about MKULTRA.

Many people don't understand the difference between conspiracy and conspiracy theory.

A conspiracy theory also does not need to be void of fact or reason, nor does it need to 100% accurate to be useful. Many crime investigations begin with conspiracy theories that are adjusted as the facts are discovered.


It cost well over $50 for the several I have built, but it could have been close if I didn't buy a case.

Still well worth it though. I love SeedSigner. 🥰


Phoenix is the only Lightning wallet that hasn't annoyed me so deeply that I hate to use Lightning.

I've spent more time trying to get other popular ones to work than I have actually sending sats with them.


When I say security I'm referring to attack surface (more code and features) and separation of duties principles. Something that deals with money should have the smallest possible attack surface in my opinion, which in this case means the smallest possible codebase. Added functionality can come from other, connected software if some users want. It's a best of both worlds approach where people can decide how they want to use software rather than just packing everything into one app regardless of whether people want it or not. Similar to how addons and plugins work.


I guess we agree then. I just think it would make more sense to connect two different pieces of software to avoid redundancy and increased attack surface. I'm imagining Bitcoin budget apps that can connect to Wallet apps without necessarily having an integrated codebase. And it avoids added complexity for those who don't want it. Similar to how budget apps now connect to bank accounts.

I'm realizing now that there's a fundamental difference in how some of us use "wallets." I keep larger Bitcoin stacks (like bank savings accounts) and move funds into hot mobile wallets for spending, much like I would with cash. So for me it wouldn't make sense to have my budget app built into a hot wallet, since it isn't my primary "account." It merely facilitates spends and receives for me. I'd want a separate budget app that can connect many other apps for a broader use case.

Either way, you can simulate what you want while getting the benefits of separate functionality. There's no reason we can't have both, I'm just thinking about modularity and security alongside UX.


Pine64 is really cool.


Probably wouldn't be a bad idea given how shit a lot of the design is (most programmers aren't all that great with UX stuff, in my experience). Others, myself included, could probably learn from it.


Unless I am missing something, you're describing a budgeting app, and a lot of those already exist. Granted, no good ones that are FOSS in my experience.

I find it odd to use a wallet as a budgeting tool. Although, it could be useful to connect it to a separate tool that multiple wallets/addresses can connect to. This solution works for individuals and groups (families, businesses, etc)

Having a secluded wallet with the same functionality would be redundant and make less sense beyond a single user. I also think it's better practice to separate the major functionalities for modularity and codebase management. I generally think it's a bad idea to bloat wallet software.

It makes more sense in my mind to have Bitcoin focused budgeting software that can somehow watch transactions in a private way and categorize transactions automatically using text input on the transaction or manually if you choose.


Haha So I'm not the only one. Interestingly, I sold one a few months ago for $700. So maybe try listing them instead of letting them lapse if any still have time left on them. Paid off for me.


Wonderful.

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It's my opinion that people are trying to make Nostr do way too many things. Zaps are as far as I will ever care to go on the money front. I really do not want or need my nsecs to control money. I don't want or need my wallet to be social either. I can use money focused apps for that.

Money transmission laws are absurd, but here we are.


Either way, not even telling me this was happening has made me lose all trust for the people building the app. The technical particulars are irrelevant for me.


I didn't set any relays anywhere and I certainly never chose to enable this. I don't want the data to go anywhere. That is my entire point. There is no save draft prompt or a setting anywhere that I can see. I only found out the app was doing it when I was looking for a different setting and noticed that every note that I exit without posting is being saved and sent somewhere that I must send a delete request to. It's concerning to me that the developers don't see the issue with doing something like this without any input at all from the user. It isn't intuitive that closing a note saves everything you type without your consent.


I'm officially done with #Amethyst. The draft "feature" is disgustingly invasive to me. I tried waiting around to see if the course would be reversed but that clearly isn't going to happen.

Thoughts I type but decide not to share should not be sent out against my will. This should at worst be something a user opts into in the settings. Requiring that I make a request to delete something I didn't choose to share really pisses me off.

Sad.


Developers: How do you feel when someone reports an issue with "doesn't work" as the details?

That's how I feel when an app tells me "there was an error" or "something went wrong."

What the hell am I supposed to do with that? How can I file a decent report if I need to? How can I address an issue that's hidden from me?


I've even went back to buying DVDs and physical books. There's something wonderful about not needing permission to watch things I paid for. And not a person in the world knows I'm doing it. No WiFi, no BS licenses that just disappear stuff on a whim. I'm completely cut off and at peace with my bare bones display and DVDs.


For me, it's been Nissans. They have some old trusty models that change very little. I still have a 2013 Frontier that I love.


Buying a retail display instead of a "smart TV" was a really good choice for me. It literally just turns on and does nothing until I hook a device up to it. Just a screen, which is all I really want. No garbage software that doesn't get updates. No spying. Just a display. It's quite beautiful.


My FICO score has been decreasing as my debt has decreased and my net worth has increased.

My FICO score went to the moon back when I was broke and spent more than I earned.

A guy putting his lifestyle on credit was deemed more financially stable than a guy who is now wealthier than the vast majority of his peers.

I get that the system needs some metric to judge finances (and I'm not giving them any), but I get a chuckle out of the metrics deemed good.

Alas, no one gives a fuck about Experian when I pay in full for vehicles, etc.

#Bitcoin has given me an alternative to the clown world we live in, and not just as a number go up technology. It truly has changed my thinking in many areas. I value creation more than consumption, which is how a healthy economy and financial system (including personal finances) works in my opinion.


Good. That was my goal. Plus, nostr:nprofile1qqsywt6ypu57lxtwj2scdwxnyrl3sry9typcstje65x7rw9a2e5nq8spz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqz8mhwden5te0vf5hgcm0d9hx6ctcd9kkzmrfwd68xtn0dekxjmn9qy28wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytn00p68ytnyv4mqu0s8zt gets dunked on by Odell so much that it's nice to see him get a win occasionally.


My mom can only be scored in the worm game since she's dead.

#DarkHumor


A request for those who write technical documentation:

Please include author information if you use "I," "my," etc. Citing these documents is weird when no author is listed. The only option is to list the project, organization, or website name, which makes no sense when an individual writer is implied in the document.

Thanks!


English readers read from left to right. It makes sense to have the question mark come first since it is a question. That information should come as soon as possible.

You went to the fair!? > Lame. I figure out that it's actually a question and not a statement after I've been told that it's a statement. It's a rug pull; a grammatical shitcoin.

You went to the fair?! > It's presented first as a question (because it is) and then the question is exclaimed. This makes more sense if the goal is to ask a question with excited emphasis.

Neither is correct in my opinion, but one clearly makes more informal sense to me.

Peace.

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I give my cats water that is better than what 99% of humans drink and they still go for the tub drain and faucets like they're dying of thirst. Suckers. Love them though.
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I actually had a service delete my number (yeah, I couldn't even transfer it out) for using too much unlimited data, which was 30GB at the time. Hearing them try to explain that would have been amusing if not so annoying.


I took about a month off from social media and it was a really good decision. Although, Nostr is all I have left. 😃 It was still a great decision. My emotional state is a lot better.

Glad to see that progress is still being made in the #Bitcoin and #Nostr space. See you in a week. Maybe.


Your fees have always been fair in my opinion. At least in the year or so that I've used the platform. You should consider a warning (if there isn't already one) about DCA and withdrawals of small amounts to cold storage. I think a lot of people are going to get screwed by the push to move any and all amounts to cold storage.


Sort of. Yes, you're still living in the same reality that the others have influence over (their experience on Twitter can cause them to make decisions that affect you) but you can still benefit from the aspects of reality that you can control. Not using Twitter may still benefit your life greatly, even if not perfectly. My life IS better without Twitter even though many other people still use it. I can also mitigate the impact of other people choosing to use Twitter in areas I can control.

Everyone around me using Twitter doesn't negate all of the benefits of me not using Twitter. I still have some agency and exercise it to maximize my life in reality. This sort of viewpoint can quickly slip into nihilism if we aren't careful.


I conducted an experiment to demonstrate the point in my other comment. On average, I would NOT see 18 out of every 25 posts that are loaded on my feed (using the most aggressive filter offered by the client - which clearly isn't much of a filter). I don't understand all the underlying mechanics, but allowing me to only see the 7/25 posts I want to see has to save data. I can't see how it wouldn't.


I always accept reality and then do everything I can to maximize my life in reality. Delusion is the alternative.


Even then, 'Unlimited' is pretty much always limited in some way. At least in the US. It's a deceptive term here.


I think it would be a start to let people better choose what they see. I see so much content from people I don't want to see. I would only see content from people I explicitly follow (no global bullshit, nothing from the people they follow, etc). I literally only want to see posts from those I 'follow.'

This isn't a broad solution, but it would certainly lower the amount of data my connection needs to download. Currently, well over half of what I see on Nostr is shit I don't even want to see.

I'm sure there are other preference settings (filters) that could greatly reduce data usage. This seems like low hanging fruit, but I'm not knowledgeable enough on Nostr to know for sure.


#Amethyst

The 'automatically play videos and GIFs' setting should be two separate settings if possible.

I want GIFs to play automatically and don't want videos to play automatically.


I've encountered push back before on many topics which is to be expected given that my philosophy is generally in the minority.

What's always amusing is when my nationality (American) is used as a way to dismiss my views on something. This takes multiple forms, but the general intent is the same.

I'm amused because most of my philosophical views and politics come from people who weren't born and raised in the US. Many of my views aren't even popular with Americans.

The Israeli-Palestine issue, for example, is one in which my current views were argued to me by three people who were not born and raised in the US. I was convinced by their arguments and changed my views.

Most of my economic views come from several Austrians, a Russian, and several Europeans.

Most of my philosophical views come from a former Russian from the Soviet Union, Aristotle (Greek) and several Europeans.

My worldview has largely been formed by people who were not originally American (some of them later chose to be, some existed before the country did). I considered Eastern/Asian views in the aforementioned areas and found them to be lackluster. The reality in those places isn't one I want to live in.

The US is made up of parts of every place on earth. I've been exposed to a large array of people from other lands, ideals, cultures, food, religions, philosophies and politics. I had a conversation recently with an African refugee I work with who was tortured and imprisoned for political crimes. I learned a lot. I was partially raised by an old black southern lady as a foster child, so my worldview even goes outside of the white American family.

My point here is that people can be more than the country they live in. I've built a worldview from many components and I advocate for it because I think it is the best (otherwise, why have it?). I am not a moral relativist and I will never apologize for that.

I think the US is the closest that a government ever came to being moral and I'm not ready to give up on those ideals (for everyone, not just white men). And no, I don't buy Anarachy.

Maybe I'm not the ignorant one.


I've thought out my position and made up my own mind based on research of history and philosophy. Where I live has nothing to do with that.

Feel free to challenge my arguments with your non-chauvanistic, non-fanatic, non-ignorant counter arguments that must be better since I haven't met the arbitrary standard of having lived in a country you approve of.

I can only imagine how enlightened I'll be after seeing this preview.


Not me. Lol I had coworkers who argued with me and told me I was wrong when I told then that we would all suffer for years for that stimi. I even did some math at the time to predict what it would cost them in the long run.

Turns out my math was wrong (I've always had to work extra hard at math). It turned out to be a lot worse that my math predicted. Hahaha.

I bought #Bitcoin with the stimi and stacked my nuts off during the bear.

I'm doing alright. 😁


Meh. They know they can't ban it. But they are essentially banning themselves from the industry if this is the plan. They'd be smart to welcome the industry and the downstream growth that would come with it.

Alas, fuckem.
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I should add that my plan even includes moving within the US between states. Lots to consider for stuff like this.


Lol fucking morons.
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We are prepping to leave if it gets so bad that we can't realistically live here anymore, even if temporarily. That can mean many things, but I'm just prepping because I can't know the future.

I'm a patriot, not a fool. I like to prepare for anything.


It was always that way to some degree if you look back at our history. It doesn't require a large percentage of people to cause the tide to shift.

You have to remember that we made it through a Revolution and Civil War. I'm not saying it won't get messy, only that I think we will come through it better off. Fortunately, I don't think violence is necessary this time around.

I think our odds are better than they ever were for those before us. The enemy needs us to feel defeated. Don't give them that privilege.


Yes, that's what I was trying to ask. I didn't realize it has specific firmware.


It would be cool if #Amethyst removed the zap button for people who can't be zapped. I waste a fair amount of time trying to zap people who don't even have an address setup.

An alternative cool option would be to allow a default to be set that sends the sats to an address of my choice (configured to be default with no extra input from me when zapping) instead of the user I'm trying to zap.

The point here is to either stop wasting time or at least have sats go somewhere when I click the zap button. The former makes more sense, but having both options would be cool.


Already is. Thanks for the suggestion though. There's probably a tradeoff somewhere that made Phoenix faster. I'll survive.


Cute.

This is a good opportunity to recommend Bitwarden and the highest 2nd factor option offered for accounts.

But don't use Bitwarden for your 2FA as well. It's unfortunate that they encourage that.
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I wish it was faster to startup but I think that'll be quicker now that I'm using it more as my main wallet. Still going to be unfortunate when I take a week off from Nostr or something and don't use it.

I'm not sure why it's slower than Phoenix. There must be a technical reason and quite possibly one I'd respect.


No, I just meant the default wallet. I'll have time to screw around with nodes when I'm done with school next year.


Excerpt from 'Permanent Record' by Edward Snowden.

#cybersecgirl #snowden

The Internet is fundamentally American, but I had to leave America to fully understand what that meant. The World Wide Web might have been invented in Geneva, at the CERN research laboratory in 1989, but the ways by which the Web is accessed are as American as baseball, which gives the American Intelligence Community the home field advantage.

The cables and satellites, the servers and towers—so much of the infrastructure of the Internet is under US control that over 90 percent of the world’s Internet traffic passes through technologies developed, owned, and/or operated by the American government and American businesses, most of which are physically located on American territory.

Countries that traditionally worry about such advantages, like China and Russia, have attempted to make alternative systems, such as the Great Firewall, or the state-sponsored censored search engines, or the nationalized satellite constellations that provide selective GPS—but America remains the hegemon, the keeper of the master switches that can turn almost anyone on and off at will.

				It’s not just the Internet’s infrastructure that I’m defining as fundamentally American—it’s the computer software (Microsoft, Google, Oracle) and hardware (HP, Apple, Dell), too. It’s everything from the chips (Intel, Qualcomm), to the routers and modems (Cisco, Juniper), to the Web services and platforms that provide email and social networking and cloud storage (Google, Facebook, and the most structurally important but invisible Amazon, which provides cloud services to the US government along with half the Internet).

Though some of these companies might manufacture their devices in, say, China, the companies themselves are American and are subject to American law. The problem is, they’re also subject to classified American policies that pervert law and permit the US government to surveil virtually every man, woman, and child who has ever touched a computer or picked up a phone.

(*paragraph formatting, my own)

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Running nostr:npub1xnf02f60r9v0e5kty33a404dm79zr7z2eepyrk5gsq3m7pwvsz2sazlpr5


Funny coincidence.
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Appreciate it. Address for zapping?


What software are you using?


I want to start mining Bitcoin at home. Any recommendations on FOSS mining software for generic PC hardware?

This is a lottery/principle/hobby setup. I don't care about odds of winning and don't plan to use a pool, if that makes a difference.

#Bitcoin #Mining


It's probably an unpopular opinion, but I think the US government becoming more aggressive will ultimately lead to more freedom. Every day, more Americans become disillusioned by being attacked from various angles.

People are becoming freedom fighters in unexpected ways. For example, we now have an association fighting for the right to have fucking cigars. Yes, that's a sign of how fucked things have gotten, but it's also bullish because it shows that people are fighting on fronts you may not even know exist.

I think this will have a compounding effect over time.

I'm bullish as fuck on America. It gets disheartening sometimes though. I have bearish moments and my family is prepping in case we ever have to leave. But I'm not giving up until I have no other recourse. The original ideals are worth fighting for even though they haven't been applied equally.

Americans are also pretty resilient people. We tend to get pretty unruly very quickly when pushed too far. Unfortunately, we can take quite a lot of abuse.

I think people should adopt the virtuous American ideals in other countries too. I hope we can adopt the good from abroad here. I want to see all humans thrive everywhere. But this is my home and I love it.

It saddens me to see Americans trash our home and what is good for the actions of government and central banks.

I guess my point here is that tyrants do not deserve our submission, no matter where you are. This is not their planet and we should all fight as hard as we can for what is ours by right.

#Bitcoin and #Nostr are going to be super important in the coming years.


It's probably an unpopular opinion, but I think the US government becoming more aggressive will ultimately lead to more freedom. Every day, more Americans become disillusioned by being attacked from various angles.

People are becoming freedom fighters in unexpected ways. For example, we now have an association fighting for the right to have fucking cigars. Yes, that's a sign of how fucked things have gotten, but it's also bullish because it shows that people are fighting on fronts you may not even know exist.

I think this will have a compounding effect over time.

I'm bullish as fuck on America. It gets disheartening sometimes though. I have bearish moments and my family is prepping in case we ever have to leave. But I'm not giving up until I have no other recourse. The original ideals are worth fighting for even though they haven't been applied equally.

Americans are also pretty resilient people. We tend to get pretty unruly very quickly when pushed too far. Unfortunately, we can take quite a lot of abuse.

I think people should adopt the virtuous American ideals in other countries too. I hope we can adopt the good from abroad here. I want to see all humans thrive everywhere. But this is my home and I love it.

It saddens me to see Americans trash our home and what is good for the actions of government and central banks.

#Bitcoin and #Nostr are going to be super important in the coming years.


It's probably an unpopular opinion, but I think the US government becoming more aggressive will ultimately lead to more freedom. Every day, more Americans become disillusioned by being attacked from various angles.

People are becoming freedom fighters in unexpected ways. For example, we now have an association fighting for the right to have fucking cigars. Yes, that's a sign of how fucked things have gotten, but it's also bullish because it shows that people are fighting on fronts you may not even know exist.

I think this will have a compounding effect over time.

I'm bullish as fuck on America. It gets disheartening sometimes though. I have bearish moments and my family is prepping in case we ever have to leave. But I'm not giving up until I have no other recourse. The original ideals are worth fighting for even though they haven't been applied equally.

Americans are also pretty resilient people. We tend to get pretty unruly very quickly when pushed too far. Unfortunately, we can take quite a lot of abuse.

I think people should adopt the virtuous American ideals in other countries too. I hope we can adopt the good from abroad too. I want to see all humans thrive everywhere. But this is my home and I love it.

It saddens me to see Americans trash our home and what is good for the actions of government and central banks.

#Bitcoin and #Nostr are going to be super important in the coming years.


This song came to mind for some reason.

Although, it's the opposite emotion of what you're conveying.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2en4ofkt1eo&pp=ygUkdGFrZSB5b3VyIG1lbW9yaWVzIGkgZG9uJ3QgbmVlZCB0aGVt


Just because something is too expensive for you doesn't mean it is a rip off. A new business or small business isn't entitled simply because it is new or small. Those things aren't virtues on their own.

I also take issue with the claim that #Nostr is free. It may be free for you to use, but that doesn't mean that someone isn't bearing the cost of it. Relays use energy and require hardware and maintenance. Developers put time into building either at their own expense or those of us who make purchases, donate, etc.

I do think Nostr is better, but there's a subtle (increasingly less subtle) distaste for anyone who dares to charge for things growing in the #Bitcoin and Nostr space from what I have been seeing.

There is usually a veiled moral superiority attached to things that are free of cost, as if those things have no cost in reality.

If you're using Nostr, clients, etc free of charge then someone else is paying your way for you. That's just the reality.

I get that not everyone is financially able to pay (if true, maybe you have bigger concerns than social media and should spend that time elsewhere, but that's a separate topic and really depends on the person and context).

It's the smug moral superiority and disdain for those who dare charge for their effort that bothers me.

X isn't free to operate and the businesses on the platform probably aren't giving their effort away for free either. Small or new businesses don't have to buy those extra services. The market will set that price.

I don't see virtue in encouraging people to be leeches and shaming those who charge for what they're offering. Nostr has many worthy virtues and advantages over X without shaming the profit motive.

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I am not sure what your point is or which opinions you are referencing. This explains the opinions I expressed in this note. I have a wide array of opinions on many topics that I spend time researching and thinking about.


True. I'm starting to be known as the #Bitcoin guy in my hospital. I've had people ask me randomly about it who I rarely see or talk to at work.

It's happening slowly, but it's happening.

Unfortunately, I do still get paid in fiat and have fiat bills, but I save in Bitcoin and spend and replace when given the opportunity.
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Being ignorant isn't always bad. I tend to focus on the big stuff. Some people get bogged down in the minutia and do nothing useful in the world. I prefer to spend the majority of my time being productive instead of following every little drama on the internet.


I don't even know what you're talking about so maybe this is blissfully unaware inception.


That's probably a good sign.


Boredom probably.


I don't understand why it needs to be 'or.' SeedSigner is strictly a signer. It doesn't store a seed in a secure element. I have a use case for both. I use a Coldcard and SeedSigner.

SeedSigner, in my opinion, is great for multisig and absolute zero cold storage. You can use it for everyday use, but I don't like to keep a single seed laying around with too much value attached.

Basically, I find the SE more convenient for #Bitcoin I plan to touch a lot more often. Once that gets large enough, I may consider moving it to a key I generate using Entropia and use the SeedSigner if I ever need to quickly use a key without loading it into a SE.

The point is that there are uses for both. They aren't really the same.
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No, and I have no desire to. I know my current needs and no other country on the planet, currently, allows me to do the things I value most as freely as I can now. Hopefully that changes. I doubt it will. My best hope currently is do everything I can to not lose this in the US.

I have spent a lot of time researching to come to this conclusion though. I can't live as I do now in any other country, sadly. Even western ones. But that's all from a legal perspective.

Philosophically (my preference for Westernism), I don't need to visit any particular place. I think Western philosophy in general is better.

So this issue for me is one of legal structure and philosophy. That, for me, means the US is best. I can leave and choose not to. It wasn't until I could leave that I fully realized this because I didn't have a choice one way or the other before. Now I stay completely by choice. I'll never say that will never change though if somewhere else meets my needs better. And I actually hope competition does improve. I'm not excited about the fact that I have nowhere better to go from a legal perspective.

I'm less rigid about visiting other places, but there are places I will absolutely not visit in their current state. Nothing has interested me thusfar.


The west, even with all of it's problems, is still the best in my opinion.

There's no place on earth I'd rather live than the US and I have the resources to move to any country I want.

And even if I did want to live in another country, it would definitely be a western one.

We have work to do, but I'm not ready to forsake the west in favor of something worse.

Pass.


The fuck are they talking about? It's being offered to clients by the largest asset manager on the planet lol


I'm reminded of grunts

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Lol Maybe having a bunch of little shitcoin shields will work out in the end.
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100% I thought your point was that they don't matter if not currently being enforced. I've seen them be reawakened before.


I don't see #Nostr as a compelling YouTube replacement yet. It isn't even close in my opinion. TikTok, probably (I don't use it). The others, definitely. I have already replaced them.
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Unfortunately, it does matter because more laws allows little tyrants to pick and choose when convenient. There have been examples of really old laws coming back to the surface because some politician needed it.

Dormant doesn't mean not dangerous. We should remove as many as we can. It rarely happens because it's too convenient politically to keep them around.


It sucks to be a company navigating in the US period. Our government has almost total control of economics now. It was hard enough even when I ran a small LLC. I can't imagine all the bullshit larger companies have to deal with.

I'm sure it is worse in some states though. I don't doubt that.
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Or it's far more simple. Universities and Islamic sympathizers have conditioned particularly young Americans to think that the West, even with it's problems, isn't better than middle eastern alternative ideologies, where barbarism reigns supreme.

Ridiculous ideas like Israeli genocide contribute. Defending yourself from people who are on a religious crusade against you isn't fucking genocide.

Palestinians enabled Hamas and continue to do so. All blood is on their hands.
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Or it's far more simple. Universities and Islamic sympathizers have conditioned particularly young Americans to think that the West, even with it's problems, is worse than middle eastern alternative ideologies, where barbarism reigns supreme.

Ridiculous ideas like Israeli genocide contribute. Defending yourself from people who are on a religious crusade against you isn't fucking genocide.

Palestinians enabled Hamas and continue to do so. All blood is on their hands.
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Using the Lightning network is as frustrating as it is amazing.


It's a sign of how fucked things are that the FBI suggests that a sign of legitimacy is being asked for your identity information, all of which is typically used by identity thieves and financial criminals.

NOT having to give over your identity and privacy for a service though is probably illegitimate.

Lol Clown world.

#Bitcoin


Let's make B and/or C happen for this man.

He has a newsletter linked on his profile.

@OpenSats ?

#Bitcoin #Nostr
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On a side note, I recently saw something somewhere about how Substack is slowly working to fuck it's writers by taking more ownership of the subscribers list (so it can't be as easily moved elsewhere). Something to consider since you're considering building it up more. I really dont want a Substack account again but I will for you. Would appreciate an alternative or something on Nostr whenever possible.

This may be a thing at some point:

https://www.morningstar.com/news/pr-newswire/20240410da84128/former-truth-social-executive-to-launch-substack-alternative-letr


I've started learning C++. Not sure I'd call it meditative though lol Maybe I should have went with Rust 😂


B and/or C all day and B doesn't need to be in Bitcoin really. You're falsely limiting yourself. If you can, awesome. If not, then just get a fiat gig. If anyone gives you shit I will personally donate time telling them to go fuck themselves.

I'll also buy your newsletter in whatever state it's currently in while you work on it.

Throw stack selling right out the window. Let's figure out how to solve this problem AND build your stack more.

Thanks!


B or C all day and B doesn't need to be in Bitcoin really. You're falsely limiting yourself. If you can, awesome. If not, then just get a fiat gig. If anyone gives you shit I will personally donate time telling them to go fuck themselves.

I'll also buy your newsletter in whatever state it's currently in while you work on it.

Throw stack selling right out the window. Let's figure out how to solve this problem AND build your stack more.

Thanks!


Probably because it contradicts everything he's spent 30 years selling people.


No we don't.
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Seeing people talk about unexpected NIP changes is the major reason I don't plan to bother with developing on Nostr.

I'm simply unwilling to constantly chase changes that wreck my work. Backward compatibility or fuck off as far as I'm concerned. Constantly changing the rules in the middle of the game sounds like hell.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding the complaints, but this has been my takeaway as a developer who considered it.
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Yes, I just deleted all my defaults and readded them as non-zaps, so you shouldn't see the info when I zap this note now.


It looks like you can make this the default behavior in Amethyst, which is pretty damn cool. Problem solved in my opinion. Thanks for bringing this up. It's a good point.


I actually just noticed this in Amethyst, so I'll send another (56 sats) with the non-zap option. This may be the answer to your concern. This is how I assumed zaps were happening for me, but I think now I was wrong.

 https://image.nostr.build/83550227c24b3a67682dfc9beecfa00690b79d79492e5394c9ecf09d8906c40e.jpg


I see. I didn't realize you meant that your issue is with other people seeing it. I would say that this problem can't be solved if you're using your real identity to send me funds. That information is going to be somewhere.

Are you sure that this information is visible when using an external wallet? When I click zap, my Phoenix app opens and handles the transaction. As far as I know, #Amethyst is just sharing the destination with the Phoenix app. Maybe it is visible. I have no idea how to even check. I will zap you 64 sats and you can see.


A concern I have is that people need to understand that there is a key involved that can't simply be reset like an X password currently. Hiding that may be a disservice.


Do you mean a condiment company that's seed oil free? I'm not sure what you're trying to say here.

But I do make my own ranch and have found my other sauces without seed oils or other bullshit. Just ingredients I'd use myself. There's trust there, but ketchup and BBQ are simple enough that I doubt they're lying, especially since oils aren't even in them (olive tends to be faked).


Why would you give sats to someone you think is going to come after you for it? Either way, you don't have to use an npub or wallet attached to your real identity.


This only matters if you want to be anon. At which point you'd just use Phoenix or something anon like that. Seems like a non issue, at least in #Amethyst. I don't know how all clients work. I don't care if you see that I zapped you because you can already see me on Nostr anyway. If I cared, I'd have an anon npub and zap with an anon wallet.

Aren't the zaps going to the same address listed on your profile? I don't see how doing it there would prevent you from seeing who sent the sats. We aren't doxxing each other by sharing information that we already know about each other. Unless I'm misunderstanding.


Nice try, feds. 😁


I'm hard on #Lightning, #Nostr (and clients), etc because I want them to succeed.

Sitting around and patting each other on the backs isn't going to make normies want to use this stuff.

We need it to be easy for the least tech savvy people in my opinion. Otherwise, all of it will be niche forever. Maybe that's fine for some people, but not for me.


On a side note, Strike does no fee withdrawals if you're willing to wait 24 hours. They must be doing it as a batch and building it into their buy fees, which are also pretty good in my opinion.


It's probably better for privacy too. I'm not sure by how much, I'm just guessing that it is to an extent.


There's a difference between understanding technology (some of it) and understanding philosophy, economics, history, politics, banking, etc.

It's not fair to say that they should have understood the need for #Bitcoin simply because they worked in IT (which can mean many things anyway).
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My brain can't understand the X maxis who talk about #Bitcoin signal.

The signal is clearly on Nostr. I get that we want to expand the content here (I do, at least), but it doesn't get better than this for Bitcoin centric people in my opinion.

It's just weird that people don't apply the same principles to something like social media. X is pretty much the fiat version of social at this point.

I know I said I'd call things fiat less, but I think it's fair here when discussing #Nostr vs X. There are many similarities to Bitcoin vs fiat.

I'm not even saying they have to be Nostr only like me. But they aren't even cross posting. It's just weird.


Why aren't all the Bitcoiners who still use X? Mysteries everywhere.


I prefer deflationary volatility over the alternative inflationary volatility. People who ask this probably haven't experienced hyperinflation yet (neither have I, but I've always been smart enough to learn from others)

My wealth trended toward zero on a fiat standard (and I had to constantly work more or do stupid shit to fight it)

My wealth has trended away from zero on a #Bitcoin standard. Now I work and produce in accordance with my values and what I want rather than what the fiat system wants.

It really isn't a hard choice.

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The whole concept of banning "self-hosted wallets" is ridiculous. Any regulated exchange, for example, holding funds is storing private keys. You can't ban this element without banning the entire thing. And you can't really ban the entire thing so what the fuck are we even talking about anymore?

It's clear at this point that all the political drama is coming from bank owned politicians. Most banks won't make it and they know that.

Fuck 'em.

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#Bitcoin is a race to beat the CBDCs that are coming with or without Bitcoin. Her gold and silver certainly aren't going to make a difference.

The world is digital, and she doesn't want to accept that. I like Lynette and I happen to think she would be an unstoppable force in Bitcoin. The woman is brilliant.

Bitcoin IS a trojan horse. The difference is that the goal is to give people a way to live in a modern world without having to submit to CBDCs. I don't want to sell my gold for CBDCs (one of her plans to make it in that world).

I want to use Bitcoin and other tools at my disposal to completely circumvent CBDCs. CBDCs MUST have competition if we wish to ever be free, and analog gold is NOT a competition. It isn't even a competition now. That's literally why fiat exists today. Gold couldn't cut it decades ago and that isn't going to change. It's gotten worse if anything.

I wish Lynette would come aboard, but she probably never will. She just doesn't get it.
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>Be Progressive
>See all the shit Progressivism has caused in the US and become Bitcoiner
>Remain Progressive

This is one of the more baffling types of people I've seen come into #Bitcoin. I think it's probably because people just aren't aware of the chaos that has been caused by Progressives, particularly in the early part of the 20th century.

It's even more bizarre if they are aware.

My point here isn't that American Progressives are bad people necessarily. They just hold bad philosophical ideals that have been politically horrible, particularly for the people they claim to care so much about (poor, minorities - consider Eugenics, income taxes, etc).

I don't want to erase the historical problems that led to Progressivism either. Early humanity was rough, particularly on women and anyone without the power to make it in a "might makes right" world (before Capitalism). Things still aren't great today, although I think Progressivism/collectivism is actually the reason for that too.

Progressivism happened to be born during a transitional period for humans that was kind of shitty for a lot of people (life before sucked really bad too). No doubt. However, collectivism and near total government control of money and economics wasn't the answer and we are still suffering from the votes for it 100+ years later.

Just something to think about the next time you have the urge to expand political power. You might be fucking many generations and yourself in the process.


I'm sure government intervention will do the trick. Lol Everything else they intervene in is working out wonderfully.

How about we stop conditioning people to be antisocial? That might lead to less loneliness.
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I like when my wife does yoga. Does that count?


Nor should you even want to. That's antithetical to the point, in my opinion. The elimination of force is exactly why I found #Nostr and continue to use it.

You try to force me to see shit I don't want to see and I'll dip. Fortunately, I don't think that can happen given how Nostr currently works.
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Use #Obtainium to manage many apps using this technique in a simple GUI. Updates are handled too.


You can use #Obtainium to do this for many apps. It'll manage updates too. Not all apps will handle updates automatically.
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Elizabeth Warren (no relation) is an evil, lying scumbag. She is selling out Americans and deserves no mercy.


So we are all on the same page then that #Bitcoin is money? Because if it isn't, then none of this makes sense. If it is, a lot of other shit is about to make no sense.

I think the government is shooting itself in the foot with this one.
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Lol I own it specifically because it isn't Democratic.
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Some of those illegal use cases are freedom and human rights angles. Your strategy here is one in which freedom and human rights constantly shrink as governments outlaw them. And then you'll just not do them? Great, but that defeats the purpose of #Bitcoin. For example, what if self-custody becomes illegal? Will you shame people who still do it even though that is the innovation?

Illegal doesn't mean immoral.
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Some of those illegal use cases are freedom and human rights angles. Your strategy here is one in which freedom and human rights constantly shrink as governments outlaw them. And then you'll just not do them? Great, but that defeats the purpose of #Bitcoin. For example, what if self-custody becomes illegal? Will you shame people who still do it even though that is the innovation?

Illegal doesn't mean immoral.


Same. I get no value from a feed full of Japanese, German, etc.


Reason


Exactly.
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JP Morgan was a proponent of sound money and expressed grave concern about what would happen to the US without it.

Turns out he was right lol

#Bitcoin


That's a super hard question to answer given how different hardware can be.

Some things I would try:

Try the nonfree version in case a weird driver issue is the problem. (I doubt it).

Try a different drive in that slot.

Make sure that BIOS settings aren't the problem

Make sure the new drive isn't the problem

Try a different GNU/Linux OS to see if it has the same issue

Make sure the drive and slot you're using are bootable. This could go back to BIOS settings or some other problem. Hard to say from my perspective.

Make sure you have the latest iso in case there was a bug. Try rewriting it to a different USB on the off chance that corruption or a bad stick is the problem. And try a different port to boot from. Don't use any dongles or external docks if possible. Boot from a port on the machine.

A lot of this is shot in the dark ideas that likely won't work but have for me in the past for other problems. Try these in an order that makes sense with your hardware.


Running Start9. #Bitcoin syncing.

Pretty cool.


I actually think having mostly #Bitcoin people early on was fundamental to shaping #Nostr into what it should be.

Many people will benefit without knowing or caring. I'm okay with that.
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Same.


Never in my life have I stumbled into a community of like-minded individuals like nostr. And I love it.

When nostr grows 1000x with all kinds of different types of people and sub-communities, I'll still be hanging out with you guys, the crème de la crème in my book.


I've always used it through #Obtainium. It shouldn't be a problem if you use that. But I'm turned off on principle at this point.


This is a good read.

I remember finding Bluesky and Damus (which I quickly learned should have been called Nostr) on a list of Twitter alternatives. Nostr best aligned with my view of what the future of social media should be (and must be if we wish to be free).

I am glad to be here even though clients and such can really piss me off sometimes. I hope my rants are at least useful to someone developing this stuff. Things have massively improved since I first started using #Nostr.

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Phoenix isn't going to make it if giving up preemptively is their strategy. And they just fucked over the normies I onboarded. I don't have time to fix this for them right now.

This is a good opportunity to stop onboarding people through app stores. Either #Obtainium or NGMI.

Seriously reconsidering Phoenix too just on principle at this point. Not even a little resistance.

#Phoenix #Bitcoin


Your TOS link doesn't work.


We'll make it through to better days.


Being unaware doesn't mean it's all good. But it is good sometimes to be unaware. At least for my mental health.


Imagine still thinking that Trump is going to save you. NGMI
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Good thing I never used an app store. #Obtainium


Maybe. But is every person on the planet expected to immediately share an opinion on everything?
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*Quantum computer enters chat*


Possibly, I just think it would be better if we had the option to essentially filter content out from people using it. I would be willing to bet that I'd end up being annoyed far more often than not. Friction isn't a small thing. It matters and removing it will only increase the problems. That's basic logic in my mind. Harassment isn't not going to get worse when it's far easier to spin up a new identity.

Yes, it's possible already but we have to consider the consequences of making it easier. Filters are the way forward in my opinion. Like filtering out new npubs, for example.


Yes, but it's also a convenience for spam and harassment. Currently there's at least a time barrier. Not as easy as one click in your client. There's always another edge on the sword.


Are the npubs being generated from the same nsec? I'm thinking of how hardware wallets generate a new Bitcoin address.

If so, that's cool but it would probably turn into spam and harassment hell. 😂


Agreed.

I don't see the point if I can't self custody. It basically just becomes a CBDC.
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This was pretty good.

What Bitcoin Did with Peter McCormack: A Paradigm Shift in Money with American HODL, Preston Pysh, Harry Sudock & Jeff Booth

#Bitcoin

Episode webpage: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/a-paradigm-shift-in-money

Media file: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/whatbitcoindid/WBD801_-_Hodl_Pysh_Booth_Sudock.mp3


Who is going to run all these various layer 2 mints when things like iLlEgAl MoNeY tRAnSmIsSiOn SeRvIcE exists?

It seems like only institutions subject to the current financial system rules would be allowed to. So what's the point ultimately?


Lol I remember when I started using #Amethyst and found out GIFs worked (they didn't in the client I was using).
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Will is the more important question. You'd have to convince everyone to use it for it to replace current email. Or somehow have a bridge between the two. I don't see that happening any time soon.


Error messages like this are totally unhelpful. #Primal

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


Boo-fucking-hoo. I say this as a paying Tuta user. Your competition doesn't owe you anything simply because they have a larger market share.  Running off to government actually turns me off as a current customer.

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College textbook companies found a way to make books even more fucking ridiculous. The push toward ebooks has landed me with an experience where it takes 30-60 seconds to turn the damn page. Timing out, logging in, failures to load, no access without a connection, service maintenance, dogshit search... All of these wonderful benefits without even saving on cost.

It seems like technology is getting progressively worse everywhere I look. I often spend more time suffering endless bugs and trying to fix shit than I do getting work done. Usually, it seems like problems begin with some new feature I didn't want or the endless need to keep updating things that already work fine. Everything seems to be in a constant beta state. Something new is being added before the last thing even fully works. I miss the days of 'stable' versions of things that were made as solid as possible before the next thing was started (at least that was my experience).

It's a troubling trend in general, textbooks aside. I've always been into technology but it just isn't fun anymore. It's an exhausting burden these days. Maybe it's because I'm older. I don't know. But I definitely think quality is getting worse.


#Amethyst has an option to request deletion of my drafts (that I didn't even choose to save). Who am I sending a request to? This implies that someone else is storing what I type even when I explicitly chose not to share it.

This "feature" is making me consider not using Amethyst anymore. And if it becomes standard everywhere then I'm probably just done with #Nostr. This is so fucking invasive and I don't want it.

It would be different if I was asked and had to explicitly save the draft. But I've never been asked and only found out this was happening while in the settings for something unrelated.


It's hard for me to say anything about Nostr is private. It can kind of be if you go through painstaking efforts from the start. It would indeed be nice to start moving in that direction as a default.


Using the #coldcard Q has been absolutely irritating.

The most critical failure so far is the inability of my laptop camera to scan the QR code on the Q screen (in Sparrow). I suspect screen brightness is the issue and there's no obvious way to control it while the QR code is on the screen.

There are many excuses one could throw at me if not for the fact that the SeedSigner works perfectly with the ability to control screen brightness.

The Q is cool as a concept, but actually using the thing has me thinking it'll likely end up being forgotten in a drawer. Who tested this thing? I'd be curious to know if they used common hardware and environments likely to be found in the lives of real users.

I have other issues too, but this is a pretty big one since this basic functionality is one of the main reasons I bought the thing. I've come to expect it since using the SeedSigner.

For the record, the QR scanner on the Q has been phenomenal and is better than using the SeedSigner camera. But... The SeedSigner at least works.

My use overall gives me the impression that the Q is a beta product that should be clearly labeled as such. The software has bugs that shouldn't have made it past QA (for example, one of the trick PINs fails to do the expected procedure when the incorrect PIN attempt threshold is met).

Other settings are poorly explained and have led to bizarre outcomes that I had to figure out with no help from the poorly organized documentation.

Other minor UX issues exist, such as the New Password (etc) options being at the bottom of the list of passwords and notes in the Secure Notes & Passwords feature (again, who actually used this and thought it made sense?). This is tedious once you build up a list and have to scroll to the bottom of the list (or press up from the start of the list) to add a new note/password. The options should always be at the top of the list and not buried at the bottom.

In summary, don't buy it yet if you're not expecting to basically be a tester for a company at your own expense. If you are okay with waiting around for it to become complete at some point (hopefully) then it is pretty neat and you'll probably like it. The claims of best in class security are questionable since something as basic as an incorrect PIN option fails. What else hasn't been thoroughly tested?

#Bitcoin


I wonder when running a #Bitcoin node will be considered an illegal money transmission service and intent to money launder.


The indictment against the alleged Samourai Wallet (SW) operators was unsealed today. A few friends have been asking for my opinion on it and my channels are blowing up. I used to serve in law enforcement as a detective that specialized in cybercrime and blockchain analysis. The following information may be useful or interesting to some.

Reading through the Department of Justice’s press release and the indictment itself, here are my initial thoughts:

There are plenty of examples of past investigations resulting in arrests/convictions related to the operation of custodial mixing services, with Bitcoin Fog being the one in recent news. With a service taking custody of funds and moving funds between other people/users, they are likely going to be considered a money service business. And if a money service business doesn’t block Americans from using the service, the US Department of Treasury will require the operators of that service to register with them and follow their compliance regulations. Many foreigners have been arrested in foreign jurisdictions in order to be prosecuted in the US with an American judge and jury for allegedly violating federal American laws (read that sentence twice).

With these sorts of cases, you are typically dealing with the idea that a service didn’t register correctly and follow compliance regulations. And then the other idea is that the operator of the service knew and allowed funds to move through it that would be considered “illicit” or “sanctioned.”

Examples of illicit funds may be proceeds from illegal drug sales or funds stolen from someone. The sanction piece can involve entities, such as particular Bitcoin addresses, individuals, companies, or countries, using the service or receiving from the service. The US federal government maintains a sanction list.

The above summary has been an on-going fight on privacy, censorship, and regulatory overreach for a while. It isn’t new (and Roman Sterlingov should be free). SW’s indictment is different from the situation I summarized above though.

SW was a non-custodial service. This means that users controlled (their private keys to) their funds themselves and the service provider (SW) allowed the coordination between users through its infrastructure, such as the app, the server, the continued development, etc. This makes this case much more interesting and more concerning to me.

Regarding the first count against the men: Conspiracy to Commit Money Laundering. The SW indictment alleges that SW was a service that provided “large-scale money laundering and sanctions evasion.” So we are talking about users using illicit funds with the service and sanctioned entities using or receiving from the service. And we are talking about the SW coordinators “conspiring” with the relevant users to do this.

The indictment is constantly referring to SW as an “application” that is conducting or facilitating the mixing through a “centralized coordinator server.” Who controls the application and server? Allegedly the two men named in the indictment.

When it comes to SW’s Whirlpool service: Through their server, their application is selecting the inputs. Their application is communicating information between all users necessary for the mixing to occur. Their application is using the private keys on behalf of the users. Their application is broadcasting the mixing transactions to the Bitcoin network. The picture the indictment is painting is that the application and server are essentially doing the money laundering, as opposed to the users using the service. Similar verbiage and logic are used to describe SW’s Ricochet service too (adding hops to a send you intend to do).

The above summary is the most shocking piece of the indictment, in my opinion. The implications of this reach beyond Bitcoin-related apps and services. Think of the apps and services, just in general, that a user could use to engage in criminal behavior. Now think of arresting the developers/creators for what the user did.

Regarding the second indictment against the men: Conspiracy to Operate an Unlicensed Money Transmitting Business. The indictment says the SW operators were “involved in the transportation and transmission of funds intended to be used to promote and support unlawful activity.” There isn’t any mention or consideration of custody of funds in this. The logic of the indictment: Some users may have used SW’s application and server for “unlawful activity” and therefore, SW was involved in the unlawful activity. Again, this is a scary precedent. Think of the applications and servers out there right now that users may be using for unlawful activity.

There are many mentions apparently from the coordinators themselves that address the knowledge and intent element (important for a criminal trial). The SW operators were obviously passionate about financial privacy and resisting compliance regulations. Their messages (especially with their style of messaging) will be easy to spin/take literally, even if the coordinators were just trying to be edgy with their marketing/brand. The SW coordinators did not help themselves in this regard.

I think the government will focus a lot on the coordinator’s knowledge and intent of the service being used for illegal activity. I believe this is how the government will “limit” the scope of the precedence and how it will try to differentiate the SW service from others.

Regarding the illicit funds/sanctions piece: The blockchain analysis showing funds from Dark Web markets that sell illegal drugs flowing into SW’s Whirlpool will be easy for the prosecution. The same goes with sanctioned entities sending to or receiving from SW’s Whirlpool. It will also be easy to show funds flowing from known hacks, exploits, and/or thefts flowing into SW’s Whirlpool. The government will need to prove the men knew this was happening and that they facilitated it by providing the SW application and server. Their mouths may be their downfall on this one, but I think it is pretty clear that the SW operators’ intent was to provide a neutral financial privacy tool that didn’t control user funds, leaving the responsibility of the use of those funds on the users themselves.

With the logic in this case, I wonder if it will be argued that blockchain analysis companies are also culpable since they surely had their own funds being mixed in SW’s Whirlpool to collect data points. Were their funds facilitating illegal activity? Or were their funds facilitating financial privacy in general? (Maybe facilitating privacy was just the byproduct of having the chance to trace through exclusions.)

Overall, the case leads to some interesting questions.

Is a wallet software and developer a money service business now? How about a full node? These both facilitate the transmission of funds too. The implications of this case are not good for privacy or code. I’m ready to donate to the defense.


You have a seemingly loose (if not meaningless) definition of a scam.


Probably loving you.


How long until "illegal message transmission service?"


Privacy is under attack on every level : #bitcoin , social media and messaging applications.
The FIAT cartel is coming after everything that supports our privacy online.
This is the WAR that #cypherpunk OGs were talking about.
It will be long and ugly.
The cyberspace is the frontier.

#privacy #selfcustody


Why unite and fight if there is no turning back? You're contradicting yourself. The USA clearly is not totalitarian. Yes, we have some bad laws and need more legal protection for privacy, but that doesn't mean the US can't "turn back" or that our government is totalitarian.


This had to happen and most BTC people were pretending that it's not a threat..well it is. Without a fight, without something huge happening the FIAT system won't allow privacy in #bitcoin space. They want to have the same control as they have in "their financial system".


Privacy is normal and good.

There has been an effort among authorities to make “money laundering” and “financial privacy” the same thing. That is, the mere act of moving money privately itself becomes a crime. That’s not okay.

Money laundering is when money that is obtained through crime is concealed by obfuscating it with clean money. The actual crime is the initial non-financial crime (say, mob stuff), and historically money laundering involves manual activity to work with the criminals.

Now that open source tech can make certain transactions private, authorities increasingly equate all private money transfer with money laundering, even if the developer of the open source tech had no direct involvement with criminals. Authorities target them regardless, and sanction the technology itself. Financial privacy becomes synonymous with crime in their minds, and in the minds of the public.


That isn't going to happen as long as mining is so profitable. Why would they make less than they can? Also, you can mine on pretty much anything. Your chances of success will just reflect how much you spent on hardware. If you want the same reward without the same cost of entry then good luck. Life will never work that way.


Just print more days. Easy peasy.


Life will be so much better now that government has stepped in to control who owns TikTok. Well done. I can't wait for my life to drastically improve. Nothing pleases me more than some government intervention in business.

#Bullish
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24^24 instead of 2048^24.


Well, that's a lot fewer possibilities than using all 2048 words for each slot.


I agree on X, but I do sometimes miss seeing different stuff on Instagram, for example. Sometimes I just want to see content from my favorite cigar brands or whatever. I love Bitcoin, but I can understand why some people don't want to see the same shit over and over.

However, X was hardly different because of the type of users. I still saw mostly Bitcoin content but also a lot of other stupid shit from the crypto/gold bros. So I definitely don't see the appeal of X for a Bitcoiner in particular. Seems like the worst of all worlds with the centralization.

I'm more understanding of Instagram, YouTube, etc. Although I only use YT outside of Nostr now. Being early has pros and cons.


This is a great interview of Ayn Rand. She discusses the great depression, Federal Reserve, and briefly war as the usual "cure" for resulting economic disasters.

It's a 3 minute elevator pitch for #Bitcoin in the 1960's, in my opinion. (~21:00-25:00)

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


Reddit has been shit for quite some time, in my opinion. I deleted myself gleefully. Nostr is better anyway.


It's interesting watching "Bitcoiners" become commies as soon as the fees go up.

Spoiler: Fees are meant to support the #Bitcoin network. They'll probably be much higher at some point.

"Spammers" are paying for block space and you aren't. Cope or fuck off and create a better solution.


Or nodes


Applying a filter to your own machine isn't censorship. Censorship requires force, and there's no force being applied to other miners. Anyone can come in and not filter if they wish. I lean toward no filters, but calling it censorship is inaccurate. That's the answer to your question. False premise.


The latest Elizabeth Warren (no relation) wealth tax nonsense is probably just more banking fud meant to scare people away from #Bitcoin. Ignore the evil scumbags.


Honestly, I haven't seen an Apple product in many years that I thought was bigger than the hype surrounding it.

The early iPhones and iPods are the last time I remember being impressed. In fairness, I prefer more open products and don't pay as much attention anymore. But I could at least respect the innovation.

I've found it all especially boring after Jobs.
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I love SimpleLogin. It's been quite useful.


Would be cool to give him a SeedSigner lol


Is it really even inflation when the cap is already known to everyone? You can start with 21M already priced in. You can't do that with things like gold because we don't know the total possible supply.

I'm not sure inflation has the same meaning for #Bitcoin. It doesn't for me at least.
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Fuck every crown.


Average people in the US (or any country, really) would be wise to not fuck around and find out with producers and skilled professionals. They will leave and other countries will compete harder for them as time goes on.

See the great brain drain that Britain experienced several decades ago. Humans don't like to be robbed and controlled. It's a universal, timeless fact.

We all suffer the consequences of stifling our brightest and most able.


The last thing I'll see is my usual #Bitcoin buy. Fuckem


That feeling when a Nextcloud update doesn't cost part of your soul...


Fair. That's rude as fuck.


Try it. Plasencia is good. But it does have CIA in the name, so be careful. 😬 https://image.nostr.build/3618ff76c51c104dd9207e0e6ab187c1c56e70dafbfddf5975d9b4668b860392.jpg

#Cigars #Cigar


Stop trying to get her back. You aren't letting go and that's why you're depressed. Stop reaching out too. It's weird and certainly isn't going to make her want you. You're just making yourself look weak and needy and women generally don't want that. It's just reality. Chasing women does not work. Allow yourself to be depressed and actually move on. Friends, hobbies, work, etc will all be a better outlet and will get you right again. That's my advice. Take it or leave it.


We should do a 100% wealth tax on any Senator with a net worth over 500k.


Elizabeth Warren can tax deez nuts. This is just a rebranding of the stupid fucking idea to tax unrealized gains. Nah. Enough is enough.
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It depends. I'll sometimes think philosophically about it, but probably not in the way you mean. Usually in the context of how I can be a better man, husband, etc.


Pass. Fuck em.

#Bitcoin
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Agreed.

I frequently find myself frustrated that clients are more focused on adding new stuff than making perfect what already exists (or even removing stuff). It's a race to the most bloated and least functional product when you're constantly competing on how much shit you can pack in.

I just want something efficient and reliable. I still can't tag people in Amethyst, for example, without a crash and I don't think picking from a list of approved keyboards is a solution at all.

I've encountered many examples on several clients of basic functionality not working and the devs are still focused on adding more features.

I don't see how this will be a winning strategy.

#Nostr
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Yeah, I'm not sure why people expect shit to just appear without any incentives.


Then don't go there. Most grocery items have fairly small margins. It makes sense that retailers would make up the difference wherever they can.
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I'm glad Lightning exists but it can be super fucking irritating sometimes. I'm bullish long term. However, there are far too many people who seem to think that it's done and good to go. It's not. There are days when I just want to be done with it and others where I'm pleasantly surprised. The experience is still inconsistent. That's fine if we're all honest about where things stand currently.

#Bitcoin #Lightning