The 30-year Treasury auction today went terribly. Huge price tail; basically a half-failed bond auction. There hasn’t been an auction that bad in many years. Some people chalked it up to a cyberattack on China’s largest bank, which interfered with their ability to do Treasury transactions, while others contested that this was the main issue and instead argued it was a lack of demand for duration. Treasury market liquidity is really weak.

And then like an hour later Jerome Powell was interrupted in an IMF talk by eco-protestors, and he dropped the f-bomb on a hot mic.

Fun stuff.


Knowing people who own a restaurant is good, because you can be sure that they don't poison their friends and customers with overcooked seed oils, they get good meat, free range eggs, great milk and they avoid chemicals and added sugars.

Sadly, I don't know many restaurant owners like this, but those that I do know make all the difference.

Thank you! 🙏


more of this energy https://image.nostr.build/904b4f0b8834f11c6359b39bc895396d0f0f11e2fff072b78f849b168d5af783.jpg https://image.nostr.build/0bb50b40dc12c74fafa7cc8706cd86d6184f443e1c64f4be32907471f618a0e6.jpg https://image.nostr.build/0c4cd80a8fc03bdeb63093aac11720e6b7109eb56e5a3a8c9b752bc3f35e3a0f.jpg


Yes please!


Owners of electric cars have one rule: Always Be Charging (ABC).

Shopping? Be charging. Going on a hike? Park your car and be charging. Need to pee? Car should be charging.

I don't own an electric vehicle. My solar panels are always charging the batteries though.

But now I have this rule for my smartphone. The batteries are ridiculous. Getting a coffee in a coffee shop? Be charging. Taking a nap? Be charging.

It gets complicated, because there are so many devices that should be charging these days...


Imagine traveling to another continent 500 years ago… or even a hundred years ago, what you experienced traveling from Europe to Indonesia, from North America to Africa, or from Australia to South America was a completely different cultural experience than what you were used to. People acted differently, thought differently. There were different, almost alien customs.

With globalization, the world turned to a homogeneous cultural soup. We have kids in Laos listening to Taylor Swift and eating burgers. Every hipster in Amsterdam eats sushi three times a day. A startup CEO connects with Pachamama with their Harvard-educated Ayahuasca shaman. Because of global trade and easy travel, we become more alike.

That is not good or bad. It is good to take the best from the world and consciously adopt it as our own. Being different is not a problem either though. It makes us unique and with uniqueness comes specialisation and market edge.

Each part of the dark forest is different. There is no single recipe for a good life, a good society, a magic structure that will solve all our problems. There is no template to copy. There is only our skill to discover what works for us, in our particular situations.
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What a surprise!

Experts that want to save children also sell message scanning software.
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“If you want to use a debt based inflationary monetary system, go right ahead, doesn't affect me so long as you don't try to force me to use it as well.” - Ross Ulbricht


What you really want is revealed by what you do when you have more freedom and resources to do what you want. By this measure, it is men who more want kids. - via Robin Hanson

(this "what you really want" is called demonstrated preference in absence of scarcity)
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Very probably


Entering a forest, most people don't dare to mentally comprehend the dark part of the forest. Its inhabitants are always friendly, exchange ideas and trade, but not every visitor is allowed inside the dark part of the forest.

When people are infected with the statist virus, they might not understand or know how to interact with the booming life of the dark forest. The old ways have to be left outside. People who are free will always find a way.

They are welcome and we gladly interact with them. Together we grow, create and enjoy what liberated life has to offer.

In the dark forest, we are together, free of the old ways.
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No. The bug will be in the code of the browser or operating system, vpn can actually make it worse in some cases (easier to do the technical interception combined with unearned trust in the certificates).

I suppose you will be able to manually remove their certificates from your trusted certificate store.


👉 Epizoda 2⃣ Digitální (R)evoluce bude o DIGITÁLNÍ IDENTITĚ. V pořadu zazní mimo jiné názory nostr:npub1m2mvvpjugwdehtaskrcl7ksvdqnnhnjur9v6g9v266nss504q7mqvlr8p9 a nostr:npub15xkpvjux5fw2q0kgl8m9c6pv0wu5urgctq9tthftmu559lf4wxqqknkrnh.
Dnes ve 20:00 na YT kanálu V.O.X. News #koukej! https://video.nostr.build/0cb21af28dae42ad78b09f1b03103b97e7247432bbbeffb4dcb9e9dff0d7a8be.mp4


Welcome to the dystopia, episode 31337, European union edition.

I will for sure remove these eu certificates completely, even if I have to build my Firefox from source.

Disgusting, I would expect this from China, Russia or Iran, not "the west".

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/11/article-45-will-roll-back-web-security-12-years


Most people from Muslim culture I know follow some of the customs, but are not really religious. Meaning they don't practice it. So they don't drink alcohol, but they don't pray either. That's why I was asking about culture.

Of course there are many religious Muslims and Christians, but because I don't care about it that much and faith is a private thing, I don't really come into contract with it. I don't go to church.

About circumcision - if religious (I would say more cultural), it's widely practiced in Judaism, Islam and even some eastern orthodox and coptic Christian sects. While I don't particularly endorse it, I don't come into contact with it while traveling.


How do you get your coins? I talk about peer-to-peer crypto acquisition in the latest episode of the OptionPlus podcast - how it was intended! From historical veksláks in totalitarian regimes to modern OTC dealers, I offer insights into private and secure crypto acquisition methods inspired by among others - pot dealers. We do not have to fear regulations, markets always provide what is in high demand. Discover hedging techniques that otc traders use and the importance of money as a memory of good deeds of society. 🎧

https://hackyourself.io/2023/11/08/how-peer-to-peer-over-the-counter-dealers-return-crypto-to-its-cypherpunk-roots/


NEW: 🇪🇺 Euro usage for international transactions is declining FAST 🚨 https://image.nostr.build/97e6b2333ed3eeef398d0034c451803db23e0fd716fe3c11444c7ee5bb333cdb.jpg


You should tell the landlord that your energy consumption for your 2kW bitcoin miner is also included in rent. Hopefully they get the message 😂


Shamir backed up seed of course.


Hire a cleaner, split the cost.

It's not so much that guys don't want a clean house, they just don't want to do the cleaning. And you should not do it alone.


Yes, but I rarely ask.

So I'll ask more.

I think curiosity comes even before respect in this case...


SK/CZ: S nostr:npub1y2se87uxc7fa0aenfqfx5hl9t2u2fjt4sp0tctlcr0efpauqtalqxfvr89  super otcovský podcast o tom ako cestuje s rodinou a psom v dodávke a žije nomádsky život.

Tento rozhovor za mňa jeden z najlepších v sérií otcovských podcastov, odporúčam...

https://otcovia.com/2023/11/06/17-karel-od-martiny-o-nomadstve/


Why not passphrase and decoy wallets? Seems easier.


People from the western (Christian culture) countries think it's weird to travel to culturally Muslim countries (not talking about religion).

Imagine how it must be the other way around:
- drunk people who smell bad on the streets, even in restaurants. People smell if beer and are getting progressively more stupid with every drink
- only one wife per man allowed, yet men often sleep around. Why the dishonesty? If a husband can sustain two women, be honest to both and marry both. If not, don't do it.
- people scrub shit off their asses with paper. Don't they have running water to just wash it? What century is this?

I don't know if I got it right. Anyone coming from Muslim culture (again, not talking about religious stuff), am I completely off? Would you add something?


Nope. The OP is definitely not a ledger shill.


If your country introduces this, you already failed to leave it 6 months before that moment at latest.

Don't give your productivity or presence to dystopias, give them feedback, vote with your feet.

And have a plan B (for example with liberation.travel)


To communicate, we need to connect. Mouth to ear, face to face, but also over longer distances.

For our parallel monetary system in the dark forest, we need some form of connectivity as well. That does not necessarily mean internet connection though. Local Cashu mints, or local lightning channels. The peer to peer nature of lightning is underappreciated. We do not need internet connectivity or uninterrupted connection to the whole bitcoin p2p network to be able to make local transactions.

Peer to peer messaging, using encryption and signatures is one of the better researched areas of cryptoanarchy, that's what cypherpunks started with.

Basic infrastructure can be built on email, with even simple apps and encrypted groups. DeltaChat is a good example. For high latency and resilience, mesh networks are even better. Reticulum is media independent (LoRA, tcp/ip, paper qr codes), encrypted by default and dynamic mesh routed protocol suite. For longer distances, take messages few times a day using a long range drone. Old school fidonet style mashed up with high tech UAV.

Btcpayserver, bluewallet or Zeus with local nodes, Cashu and others add payment infrastructure on top of mesh networks. For lightning, you can receive bitcoin state using Blockstream satellite receiver. Determine current prices using on chain data with UTXO.live.

Starlink or other ISPs are nice, but what if internet connection is down? Let's be conscious, play with the tech and know what we'll do. Direct experience is even better. We can do this.

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😂😂😂
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Coming to your statist dystopia soon(tm)

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Energy consciousness
Let's be conscious about energy. After we move away from centralized finance, energy is the next lever of control of the central planners. While it's good to participate in division of labor, we are quite dependent on state monopolized and hierarchical energy grids. We might find ourselves in a situation, when energy is only for companies that pass some ESG certification and it can become part of the emerging social credit scores.

Traveling too much without an approval? Maybe your CBDC wallet won't work at the gas station anymore. Sorry, no plane ticket to Bali. And turn up the temperature on your AC. Energy (for transportation and powering electrical devices) can be controlled centrally both through the financial system and through the distribution grid that is often monopolized, centrally controlled and sometimes government owned.

It's not too hard to upgrade our thinking. Be conscious of your energy usage. If it heats up, it probably uses a lot. If it moves or spins, it's medium. Understand your usage. Connect cheap power meters to outlets to understand what is going on. Optimize when it makes sense.

Solar power is widely accessible, although also quite visible. It won't heat up your home during winter in mild climates, but it will probably cool your home during summers. Learn about batteries. LifePo4 are good for solar. You can put it also on a car. There's also wind and hydro energy.

It does not mean you need to switch. Energy is abundant and cheap and makes many things  - including climate change - more bearable. Energy and money allow us to adapt to change.

The dark forest, if it's secluded physically from the mainstream society needs an energy source. Don't count on the grid to work.

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This is straight-up fire 🔥
Makes me so fucking bullish. We will win!!!

https://video.nostr.build/9c95a18fffe6db6349e5103e3af64c3695bb5e879b6200113c629b4ffc19108d.mp4

#bitcoin
#sats
#nostr
#value4value


The path to be a real Bitcoiner

1. Simplify your life because complicity clouds your mind.
2. keep learning about Bitcoin everyday, do tests and improve.
3. Learn how to integrate Bitcoin into your life and exit from fiat world.
4. Share what you have learned, onboard people and businesses around you.
5. Buidl something Bitcoiners want!


“I look upon an increase in the power of the State with the greatest fear because, although while apparently doing good by minimizing exploitation, it does the greatest harm to mankind by destroying individuality, which lies at the root of the progress.” - Mahatma Gandhi


Something’s in the air.

Speaking to common self-employed folk, the kindergarten owner/guide, the plumber, the wall painter… they can feel it. If you talk to them, they realize something is not right. They have their hand on the pulse of the economy. They get it.

They also live in the dark forest. They do peer to peer, cash to pocket transactions. They have it in their power to protect themselves.

Most of them have heard about Bitcoin. Most of them either have it already or want to get paid in it. Some of them prefer gold, which is OK.

If you live in the dark forest, you get it, you want to escape the declining world and be part of the ascending world. You naturally gravitate towards Bitcoin, towards unschooling, towards liberty, towards creativity and peer to peer relationships. You go where you are treated best, but it often does not mean changing a country or moving - you can change your jurisdiction by opting out of some economic interactions - and opting into the dark forest interactions.

No need to talk to common employee in the coffee shop to try to convince their boss to accept Bitcoin. Talk to the producers and owners directly, interact with people who are not part of a corporation. They know something’s in the air already. They don’t have to go all-in, but they want to have their plan ₿⚡
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Nope.

Most tech savvy nostriches run their own nostr:npub155m2k8ml8sqn8w4dhh689vdv0t2twa8dgvkpnzfggxf4wfughjsq2cdcvg


Fiat problems


There is a particular annoying scent that you can't forget, it is a scent of regulatory capture. You can of course smell it out if politicians and bureaucrats, but when you recognize it, you can smell it also from "business people" (people who think they are doing business, but actually use the power of government coercion to capture whole industries with their frienemies - their big corporate competition).

Whenever there are conferences on "AI safety", "addictive apps", "disinformation", "energy crisis" and many other topics, you can feel the scent from the airport hotel ballroom where the conference takes place all the way out. The smell comes from the money trying to create regulations to limit competition and make the sponsors' products mandatory in one way or another (one very common way is "certification"), but you can smell it from the people. Everyone comes with well paid homework from these events. Bureaucrats write regulations that increase the power of the stamps in their hands. Politicians have new fears to talk about and new promises to make to make them go away. Corporations are buying small competition for bargain or let them go bust.

If you want to avoid the scent, avoid airport hotel ballrooms, all the conferences where industry experts talk about "we should self regulate and I'll tell you how".

Or even better yet, take a walk in the dark forest. It smells of connections, creativity and it is the home of mycelial networks that connect peer to peer parallel economies.

Cypherpunk evolved into Lunarpunk and lunarpunks manifest the dark forest.
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For those of you who know Ulver's Nemoralia by heart, this will be a good discovery.

https://open.spotify.com/album/67FP3BCUU76SMehqHlYG89?si=jniCCzwIQzu50iz4uIXW3w


Perfect! ❤

All I'm saying is that it's all what I call "other people problems". It's not good nor bad for me. I mean the existence of enemies, not their actions, they can have consequences for me.


Probably post-rationalization. But good he's saying it openly. Woke is rotting the world.
https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/df55b328443579402008fda678a4a8e7b31e0432696838c96fe80e61b40354d5.webp


SK/CZ Decentralizovaná burza nostr:npub1c40rwav67rtl4pmy56wa8vhh8cynlm0zvhr96mcnd5xat74ldxmsm8ttqy nad bitcoin / lightning umožňuje stabilizovať dolárovú hodnotu vašich btc alebo vytvoriť bitcoinom kolateralizovanú pôžičku - a to celé nad lightningom a bez toho, aby ste svoje sats poslali tretej strane. Využíva technológiu discreet log contracts ukrytú v lightning kanáloch. Video návod majú účastníci kurzu Etický vekslák a Ako využiť hodnotu bitcoinu bez toho aby sme ho museli predať už pár dní vo svojich kurzoch, ale tento projekt je natoľko kúl, že som ho popísal aj v článku pre Bitcoin Alza.

Pozor, aj keď je to non custodial a kúl, je to veľmi experimentálne. Total reckless zatiaľ.

CZ: https://www.alza.cz/10101-decentralizovana-futures-burza-lightning-network

SK: https://www.alza.sk/10101-decentralizovana-futures-burza-vyuzivajuca-lightning-network

Kurzy: https://juraj.bednar.io/product/ako-vyuzit-hodnotu-bitcoinu-bez-toho-aby-sme-ho-museli-predat-minikurz-miniebook/

https://juraj.bednar.io/product/kurz-eticky-vekslak/


True, but it's also very unhealthy (for you). My heuristic is - avoid comparison to other people. Be self-referential. Are you better than last year?


Any tips for lora fine-tuning of LLaMA-2-13B based models? (I am training Synthia-13B-1.2).


Life goals:
1.) Think about adopting some nicSynthia-13Bnitely not “Rustler”
2.) Write a book called “Cryptodigrami” (no idea what it means)
3.) Find out why this fine-tuning of Synthia-13B performs so poorly
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https://image.nostr.build/71594cf46da858aa5771512b8706d9ce41e3d56ca34f0a29232069e62e9f97ff.jpg
On this day in 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto released the #Bitcoin whitepaper outlining an electronic cash system with several important properties:
🛑 Double-spend prevention
🔐 No trusted parties
🎭 Anonymous participation,
⛏ Hashcash-style Proof-of-Work

Check out the whitepaper here and celebrate by sharing it with a friend today. ⬇

https://blockstream.com/bitcoin.pdf


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

EN: https://hackyourself.io/product/cryptocurrencies-hack-your-way-to-a-better-life/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/8057043482

SK: https://juraj.bednar.io/product/kryptomeny-vyhackuj-si-lepsi-zivot/

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


Haha, this is a good one!
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Not yet so popular feature request: Let’s replace hugging face model downloads with bittorrent again. Downloading from a super slow website is not fun.


Markets are efficient hypothesis.

If markets are efficient, there is no edge to be had and no one will ever make money trading except for betting.

If markets are not efficient, there is edge to be found.

But before you start trading - to you and me - non-specialists, markets are efficient. The edge is on the other side of the order. We are the inefficiency.

Do not trade.


Ako môže podcaster využívať aktuálne služby umelej inteligencie – chatgpt, midjourney, auphonic (spolu s whisper), photoshop a ako to celé prepojiť? V tomto videu vidno veľkú časť môjho procesu vytvárania podcastu – nepotrebujete zvukára, filmársku a audio techniku, fancy štúdio a ak si robíte popisy a spravujete sociálne médiá, ušetríte tiež kopec času.

https://juraj.bednar.io/talk/2023/10/30/ako-vyuzivat-umelu-inteligenciu-pri-tvorbe-obsahu-audio-video-podcasting-socialne-media/
https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/3b9e9bb1b00ef0ec9c4d970c73261798989c10ca54ae571957bc719d8942ef93.webp


Depends what you do. But coding anonymously is really smart these days.

I am a book author, so that not so much. But still possible.


Police? Help you? Maybe in fairytales.


Something I regret I have not done coming to cryptoanarchy space is staying anonymous. The technologies and vibe is such that this is possible to a large extent and we have good role models.

The catch there is not being a jerk while being anonymous and that some people can't handle. But we also have good role models.

To be fair, some people fail at the not being a jerk even if they're not anonymous.


Great interview. If you don't listen to anything else, listen to 1h45m into the interview for about 8 minutes.

It is the ultimate critique of european-style censorship. I've been saying this for years. If people think bad stuff, you want to know about it. Not make them secret heroes who share it privately and then they win. By banning speech, you will not ban the opinions. It does not work like that and there's plenty of examples.

The whole interview is great.

Thankfully, cancel culture has not come to Nostr yet. That’s why I love this place so much, even though my “reach” is almost zero. I appreciate you all, for the place that we have built.

https://pca.st/zrrti69a


Good morning!

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


From life, from the signal group
🤣🤣🤣.      👇👇👇
I had the cops at my door today, so I quickly uploaded my BTC ATM to github, locked my pc, opened it, and they just said someone stole my bike. That's called paranoia. 😃


https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/25741292.2020.1725366

They mention multiple sources and estimates, so it's good start to see different estimates. This is among the most conservative.

I would add these not so much fun things:

A 2018  study by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) found that less than 1%  of criminal proceeds are laundered through the formal financial system.

A 2019 study by the IMF found that the cost of AML compliance for banks is estimated to be between 0.1% and 1% of global GDP.

A  2020 study by the World Bank found that AML compliance costs can be  particularly burdensome for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

0.1% to 1% of GLOBAL GDP(!) to fight paper dolls. OMG.


These 300 billion $$ is wealth of the society lost to political bullshitters and censors.

Also: Money laundering is beautiful.
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After listening to nostr:npub14mcddvsjsflnhgw7vxykz0ndfqj0rq04v7cjq5nnc95ftld0pv3shcfrlx with nostr:npub1mutnyacc9uc4t5mmxvpprwsauj5p2qxq95v4a9j0jxl8wnkfvuyque23vg, I have a lot of thoughts.

First of all, it's an amazing product, PWA, this is cryptoanarchy!

I'll read on more about the subscription tech, that looks great.

A few notes:
- talking about security, you did not mention the main problem with PWAs, which is not solvable with third party verifiers and that is the fact, that the web server can serve different Javascript for different users. With stores this is difficult, you can't target someone and give them a different binary, so reproducible builds and auditing do really help. But if I learn someone's ip address or deliver them a tracking cookie, I can steal from them specifically while the whole internet thinks that there's no backdoor. Working with critical it systems in the past, vendors would often ship hotfixes specifically for customers and we would always tell them "nope, ship it publicly through official channel, we don't want a hotfix for us". Maybe serving static html/js via ipfs-like system with fixed hashes?

- is there some news about dlcs? I'm super excited about dlcs, I've interview nostr:npub1tthrhn3mc8k6c72rn6uwfnclnlk6hcsg7lr60xfc0w3jlnxgy4jqmf5yzk from nostr:npub1c40rwav67rtl4pmy56wa8vhh8cynlm0zvhr96mcnd5xat74ldxmsm8ttqy.

https://hackyourself.io/2023/10/12/the-future-of-lightning-powered-trustless-finance-with-philipp-from-10101/

I am super excited about dlcs embedded in lightning channels.

10101's stablesats implementation, done in a compatible way would be amazing in Mutiny and I'm sure there's a way how you both can make money on the fees - I don't think handling market makers and oracles is very easy, I would let 10101 people do it and Mutiny can charge fees for opening positions as well.

- one way to monetize Mutiny might be integration with shift services in a specific way. In central europe there are many shops that accept onchain btc and ltc. I don't want to hold any ltc and onchain btc fees can be very high. If I can scan a ltc qr code and it would get paid from my lightning balance, I would pay for this service. There are also online services that accept only onchain payments. There are weird people who want different coins too and I'd like to be able to scan and send while using only lightning.

- a pos mode with a lightning channel with higher incoming liquidity (paid for) and ability to autodump incoming shitcoins to lightning would be great


Reminder: A great free tool for onboarding people to Bitcoin and Lightning.

Learn how to setup wallet,  backup, receive, send, all in under 5 minutes. And then play with ATMs and other fancy stuff. No registration required.

English version:
https://hackyourself.io/courses/a-quick-introduction-to-bitcoin-wallet-setup-buying-payments/

Slovenská verzia: https://juraj.bednar.io/courses/ako-si-kupit-prve-kryptomeny-a-zaplatit-nimi/


10101 : You send dollars (but it's actually sats), the recipient receive whatever (but it's actually sats), everything self-custodial and p2p <-- Bitcoiners love?

https://image.nostr.build/6148c1cf8095c1a2ba64279996340c65a5c3f03456ce76d038201c5150bfe072.png
#Bitcoin #Lightning #Onlysats
Credits: nostr:npub1mxrssnzg8y9zjr6a9g6xqwhxfa23xlvmftluakxqatsrp6ez9gjssu0htc on X


The state - or to make matters more concrete, the government - consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine for something they can't get, and to promise to give it to them. Nine times out of ten that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time it is made good by looting A to satisfy B. In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

- H.L.Mencken


# Why use cryptocurrency payments at all?

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Why is privacy of payment networks important?

https://freedom.tech/privacy-and-no-kyc/


🎙 Ever wondered how cypherpunk technologies truly work? Dive into the latest OptionPlus podcast episode to decode the mechanics behind these tools and understand how they amplify your freedom. 🚀

The relationship between privacy and freedom is often vague. Privacy is something you should have more of, and if someone does not allow it, it's seen as an attack on our liberty by itself. I think the relationship goes much deeper.

Listen on to find out.👂🌐🔒

https://hackyourself.io/2023/10/25/how-privacy-electronic-cash-and-cypherpunk-tech-increase-our-freedom/


1. There are productive people. They raise quality of life of society
2. Society decides (by majority rule) that the wealth shall be redistributed
3. Wealth evaporates, productive people leave (either stop producing or go where they're treated best)
4. Society needs to attract productive people back or go backwards a century in quality of life.

We are at 3 in Argentina, in most of the best also, but at early stages. Some countries are at 4 (Dubai, Paraguay, El Salvador,...)

https://juraj.bednar.io/assets/post-covid/post-covid-en.pdf

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From my friend nostr:npub15xkpvjux5fw2q0kgl8m9c6pv0wu5urgctq9tthftmu559lf4wxqqknkrnh:

The Socialist Death Spiral

In Argentina, Massa won (against Miley), the Argentine Minister of Economy, who caused almost 150% hyper inflation in the country and made Argentina one of the poorest countries in Latin America (note that 100 years ago Argentina was one of the most advanced and richest countries in the world).

The poverty that has emerged in Argentina over the last 20 years is of a destructive nature. The country has the highest number of psychologists and psychiatrists per capita in the world because Argentines are so severely depressed that they cannot save anything and can barely earn enough to survive. They even have hedonistic tendencies - they spend everything on good food and drink because in a few days' time the money will be worthless. Paraguayans, who have always been the poorest in Latin America, have started to go to Argentina for cheap shopping. In Patagonia, I have met young Argentines who go on holiday to Argentina just because they do not have the money for a trip abroad. They do not forget to mention that their parents or grandparents were rich and travelled a large part of the world.

Thanks to their socialist, irresponsible state, Argentines have become poor.

And as it happens in poor countries, desperate people vote for the left, in this case the same socialists who put them in this dismal economic situation!

They vote for them because they are now offering them a bailout - new welfare packages, more money for education, health, infrastructure... And where will the Argentine government get this money? That's right - they'll just print it, because that's the only thing they're perfectly good at!

Which will make inflation even worse and make Argentina even poorer.

It is a perverse combination of Stockholm Syndrome and unconscious economic masochism.

In 2020, more than half of all registered workers in Argentina will be employed by the state! (It will probably be even more now).

These people will never vote for Milei, who wants to abolish the ugly big state, as their livelihoods depend directly on the state. With over 55% of registered employees working for the state, it stands to reason that the majority of Argentines will vote for socialists in order to maintain the status quo.

We are entering a perpetual socialist death spiral:

1. We vote for socialists, which makes us poor and gives us insane inflation (because a socialist government has to print new money to pay for its populist promises).

2. We are poor and therefore desperate, and we vote for even more socialists who promise to "save us" and offer us more socialist benefits - with the money they print, of course.

3. Inflation turns to hyperinflation and we are poorer than ever.

I point out that the socialist death spiral is not only in Argentina, but also in Venezuela, for example. Where, despite the absolutely negative experience of socialism, which has defacto destroyed the whole country, the people continue to gravitate towards socialist politicians whom they believe will 'save' them in a destroyed country. Maduro's opposition, Juan Guaidó, is no rightist, as you might expect, but a hardcore socialist who subscribes to the tradition of Hugo Chavez.

Our Uruguayan lawyers have written to me to say that they are not keeping up with the new applications for Uruguayan residency from Argentines who have completely lost hope in a prosperous Argentina which become the country with the worst economic growth in Latin America, specifically negative 3%.

And as a global opportunist, I will continue to reap the benefits of Argentina's hyperinflationary tourism and enjoy the lowest prices in a socialism that will collapse for at least the next four years.

Although I do feel sorry for the Argentines themselves.
https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/69aacc7fda1b721b17b7b259b0f9090571f53983648751d382f28bfcbe6889c1.webp


My talk from MoneroKon is out. It is about doing a simple chain analysis of Monero merchants.

Thanks for having me and for those who were not there this year, you can watch the recording.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sTT84Up7FY


It's gone. At least for living full time and tax residency. And definitely for business.


Gluten-free minority rule almost overtook dining, hipster level 2.3/5.0 and over is catering well to non-gluten people.

Good.


Inak sk verzia:

https://peter.horvath.digital/

Cz: https://poboril.notion.site/poboril/Jsem-Jan-Nov-k-a2dbf37399a84c0b9ba474ff971d78cc


Pojem 5 ráno je relatívny. Konkrétne k časovej zóne, kde sa nachádzaš :)


EU wants to be a leader in regulation. Let's unpack this. Regulation is by definition limiting what you can do - in modern liberal democracy, everything that is not forbidden is allowed. That means every piece of legislation  is limiting what you do - you could do everything before legislation.

So EU is proud to lead in red tape. Let's now talk about how wealth and prosperity is made - by voluntary exchange. Regulation limits what kind of voluntary exchange happens, thus making us poor.

Thankfully, this is an opportunity for other countries. EU "enabled" "markets in crypto assets" with their regulation. What is the result? If you want to do a project in this area, go to Switzerland, Dubai or Latin America.

Want to do innovation in AI? Perfect, in United Arab Emirates, you're welcome.

Limiting speech in USA by presidential overreach is now a hot topic in court. And EU does this openly, proudly, writing well publicized letters to social media. Like an angry barking dog protecting a territory. The problem is, the dog only barks, shits and pees there, it does not improve it. And everyone sane just walks around, because the barking does not make sense.

I would say if you want to produce something, especially something big, avoid the "innovations" of the barking dog and go elsewhere. Especially if you need to focus on the problem you are solving and not paper pushing and navigating around red tape. It makes an order of magnitude difference.

I've written about deregulation also in this short paper:

https://juraj.bednar.io/assets/post-covid/post-covid-en.pdf


PSA: get out of custodial lightning wallets, switch to non custodial, on chain fees are low.

Fun weekend ahead, let's get those keys also for lightning!


SK/CZ: Ak vás zaujíma platforma Firefish, napísal som howto pre Alza, môžete si vybrať český alebo slovenský jazyk.

@firefish_io poskytuje Bitcoinom zabezpečené pôžičky alebo možnosť investovať fiat a zarobiť fiatový úrok.

https://www.alza.cz/platforma-firefish-pujcky-zabezpecene-bitcoinem
https://www.alza.sk/platforma-firefish-pozicka-zabezpecena-bitcoinom


I came across Atomic Finance yesterday.

Non custodial options on BTC, so far they can only be bought (they are selling a "passive strategy" - specifically they are selling collective covered calls where they have 70 BTC locked). Pretty nice, although they are on-chain, if they did it like @get10101  it would be even more cool, because there would be no onchain fees.

Unfortunately those options are only very near-money and not too long expirations.

What I like is how they explain it all, it's almost like an embedded educational platform, although there's no better education than being nicely rekt by your own mistakes:)

https://atomic.finance/


I am raising the price of my successful course and mini e-book How to harness the value of Bitcoin without having to sell it.

Three reasons:
1.) Fiat inflation is real, the prices are rising
2.) The content provides incredible value, especially to people who do not want to sell their Bitcoin (and possibly suffer the negative emotional or tax consequences).
3.) I am constantly improving it. I added a complete guide to @firefish_io platform.

You can grab it for less sats until the end of the month, then it will go up.

P.S.: I am forced to collect personal data during the order (don't even ask which bureacracy does this. OK, it's 🇪🇺), but it does not matter to me how you identify (your name) or where you live. Be creative. I've heard Hong Kong is nice. The only thing I really need is your e-mail address if you ever need to reset your password.  Please pay with Bitcoin Lightning or Monero if you can.

https://hackyourself.io/product/how-to-harness-the-value-of-bitcoin-without-having-to-sell-it-ebook-mini-course/


Ako sprístupniť ľuďom Bitcoin? Maťo alias Svedok Satoshiho mi porozprával o svojej ceste od finančného poradenstva k orange-pillingu. Rozprávame sa o tom, ako sa nenechať oklamať, ako ľuďom sprístupniť Bitcoin podľa nás správne. Bavíme sa o tom, či sa tešíme na Bitcoinové ETFko a či je to správna cesta pre všetkých. Je Bitcoinový maximalizmus vhodná cesta pre nováčikov? A taktiež o zálohovaní, shamirovej schéme, passphrase a mnohom ďalšom.

https://juraj.bednar.io/podcast/2023/10/18/ako-ludom-spristupnit-bitcoin-orange-pilling-so-svedkom-satoshiho/


Thank you!

I hope you enjoy it.


To me, everything green grows from carbon from the atmosphere.

So green is not a good representation of current environmental movement.

More carbon in the atmosphere => more green stuff growing. They should pick a better color.

Maybe red, especially if they promote carbon taxes. Like a good communist.


Generating datasets for training my llm from my writings.

All 100% foss.

The training generation runs on solar energy, so I'm even orange (not green😂)


People ask me about how to get more freedom in their lives. I wrote a book that is a good start "Cryptocurrencies - Hack your way to a better life". But if I am talking about turning of the state, I have two more general pieces of advice:

1) Forget the state solutions. All of them. Most people get fixated on "I'll use the state health insurance, I will get this or that benefit and then I'll get a tax residency somewhere, ...". No. Forget state health insurance. There are no benefits. The way you should be looking at state is in the rearview mirror, riding away from it towards freedom.

2) It's okay to do it slowly. You will not be able to switch all at the same time. Do it step by step. Enter parallel economy. Quit employment, be entrepreneurial. Look for market solutions to all needs that the state still provides to you. Unschool your kids. For many of us, we grew up in a statist society for decades. It is OK for it to take a decade or two to leave.

As for each person's road to freedom, we take quite different roads. I am interacting with people who used @liberatravel services to get another residency. Some have kids, some have jobs, some have a disability and there's no one recipe. It's like X vs. Nostr. X represents the state, you have one app, one interface. With Nostr, you have many choices. That means you need to invest time to figure out what works best for you. But when you do, it's better.

My book with many Bitcoin-related, parallel society and lunparunk freedom hacks:
https://hackyourself.io/product/cryptocurrencies-hack-your-way-to-a-better-life/


Definitely built by taxes.

Especially the bridge.


The point is that it can help others. I'll publish it.

But what surprised me was that I did not teach it this, it was not part of the fine tuning dataset. I only slightly nudged it towards bitcoin and it got it by itself.


It's actually the other way around at least for parallel economies. The parallel food market saved a huge part of north Korea from starvation. And the regime knew it and let it slide.

There's parallel market with movies for example.

I'm not saying there are secret societies which freely talk shit about the Kims. But it's also true that parallel societies make significant contribution towards higher quality of life there. Including Russian and Chinese smugglers. Imagine - your business is smuggling stuff to North Korea! Yet there are people for whom this is a good business proposition.


Yes. I  think this is probably the only really correct answer. Dollar is in the head.

I would add that not only now, but also in the future. When there was a parity between euro and dollar, one euro could buy you one dollar, but it was not a dollar.

And physical bills might not be available, it's not a question of value, but liquidity. In Panama or Argentina, papers with dead us presidents are in short supply and people have to use another forms of usd.


No, they are not losing money. They might back it with an obligation with another foreign bank that made a usd-denominated loan.

When you change your eur for DAI, is MakerDAO voluntarily losing money? No, the exchange happened, but there is no US dollar. DAI was “printed” into existence by the form of a loan, backed by the obligation of the borrower to repay the loan plus interest to unlock their collateral.

At no point anywhere DAI touches the dollar system, except for the USD value of ETH given by price oracle.

In traditional banking system it is the same. It might be backed by loan obligation in a third party bank and it probably has absolutely nothing to do with FED or american banks. USD-denominated loans are how international trade works, 90% of USD-denominated loans are made this way (outside of the banking system).


Trying to close the position, I get "Fill Order Failure". Sorry, we couldn't match your order. Please try again later.


I am starting to like my fine-tuned LLM. Not only it is not woke so far, it understands the world much better:

Fiat currency, also known as government-issued or legal tender, has several problems that make it risky to hold:

1. Inflation: Fiat currencies are subject to inflation as governments can print more money whenever they want. This leads to a decrease in the purchasing power of the money you have saved.

2. Debt: Fiat currency is often used to pay off debts, which means that the more a country uses fiat currency, the more debt it tends to accumulate. This can lead to economic problems such as high interest rates and even default.

3. Counterfeiting: Because fiat currency is not backed by anything tangible (like gold or silver), it's susceptible to counterfeiting. This can lead to losses for individuals holding large quantities of cash.

4. Risky in the long run: Fiat currencies tend to lose value over time due to inflation. So, if you hold onto a fiat currency for a long time, you're likely to end up with less buying power than when you started.

5. Political risks: The value of fiat currencies can also be influenced by political factors, such as changes in government or social unrest. These factors can lead to volatility in the currency market and potential losses for holders of that currency.

All these problems make fiat currency risky to hold, which is why many people turn to alternative investments or currencies like cryptocurrencies, which offer a more stable store of value.


I am not even requiring any proof that they exist. I believe that the dollars only exist:

1.) in our heads
2.) in some position on the balance sheet of the bank

There is usually no “dollar position” - definitely not in a safe and usually not in a forex market (that would be expensive - swap either happens or not, that is not a position. a position would be future, but that has funding cost).

The balances that we see are actually same thing as DAI or LUSD, or Tether. I claim that there is no difference between these forms of dollars and most electronic dollars. Or no substantial difference. The only difference is payment network through which you can send it.


Well, that was the question - what is a dollar?

To be specific - is DAI, LUSD, Tether, USDC or covered short of btc/usd perpetual swap a dollar? If not, what specifically is different about a dollar position in Deutsche Bank or HSBC in London?


Being a salaried employee means being a voluntary slave. Nice if you do it consciously and understand what you’re doing, but also the person chose to be an employee. There’s no inherent need to be employed.

Debt in parallel financial system is better than debt in bank, but of course that’s only possible if you have enough collateral.


Thank you. Watched, but that was not what I was looking for. I was looking for explanation of how eurodollars exactly appear on balance sheets. Like step by step explanation - person A, takes a USD-denominated loan, what appears on the balance sheets, what are collateral/reserve requirements (if any), …

This is more high level explanation, there are some balance sheet “screenshots” flying in the video, but not well explained. I watched this yesterday, also interesting, but also too high level:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GwjR7yRGGs


Can you only have one channel?


SK: Vyzerá, že zachrániť sa treba pred viac než len zvyšovaním daní. Vďaka úspechu akcie a prosbe o jej predĺženie som akciu "Zachráň sa" predĺžil o týždeň, teda do 22. októbra.

Naučte sa byť zodpovední, postarať sa o seba, ochrániť svoje peniaze, pripraviť sa na volatilitu.

https://juraj.bednar.io/blog/2023/10/05/zachran-sa-drz-si-penazenku-a-bez-promo-akcia-pri-prilezitosti-zvysovania-dani/


FED does not know about most of dollars and most dollar loans are outside of FED jurisdiction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurodollar


How would you recognize that the digital dollar is a dollar.

Paper bills are a tiny fraction of dollars in existence.


Depend what you mean by easier. More free societies don't need parallel society. There is more demand for them in North Korea than in Netherlands


Thank you, I did not know that..will have a look.

So you upload a multisig schema to the wallet and then it can recognize change addresses and such?


If you could audit, how would you tell? What would be the audit question that would decide it?


A nice blog about forced association vs free association.

I perceive democracy as a form of forced association. People who don't want to cooperate and are at each others' throat (either literally in a form of primitive violence, or intellectually - cancel culture, network effect enforcement) are forced to choose a government. Or rather - they have a process that chooses a government that is then forced to everybody.

It's like a pendulum - we piss you off, they you piss us off, and each voting cycle, everyone hopes that the "good ones" win and will show once and for all to the bad ones what the public really wants.

Free association does not have this problem. There's no force. Do you want to participate? Cool! Don't want to participate? Also cool, do your own thing.

I think there are three ways out of this mess:

1. Nothing changes. We do this for decades. At least half of the population is constantly pissed (who the half is is constantly changing). Long and slow decline
2. Authoritarian way - monarchy. Think Dubai. The ruler says how things are, you can stay or you can leave if you don't like it. No matter what you do, you won't change the outcome of government, so you do your thing.
3. Libertarian way - don't force things on people. Want to support Ukraine with weapons? Sure, here's a crowdfunding campaign. Don't want to? Sure, you don't have to. Want to vaccinate yourself against current covid strain? Go ahead, market provides. Think the vaccine is dangerous? Well, don't get injected.

I believe most people in the west will live under number one. Constant polarization and infighting. Many are leaving to number two. Migration to well working monarchies is going on. Many productive people no longer want to move to Europe, but to Dubai or even Saudi Arabia.

And us bitcoiners will find a way to live under number three. Parallel societies, detachment from where we were born and opting out of states and opting in to various parallel communities and Dark forests.

If you read history books, you might come to an impression, that history is one thread - ideas that won were all that happened. But the present and the future will be heterogeneous. Even for people who live in the same city in many cases.

🍿 and let's discuss.

https://freemansperspective.com/lesson-devon-avenue/


Hard one - what is a dollar? If you have a balance that you see in some app, how can you tell that what you have there is a dollar?

And I don't mean in a trivial way ($ sign next to the number).


Wonderful people, is there a good explanation about how the eurodollar system works internally? What do banks have on books, etc.

I hoped this talk would shed more light, but it's too high level. https://youtu.be/25BQmHUqvVU?si=WqR0r3uWKhnwZ17b

Wikipedia entry is helpful, but I still have many questions.


It has always supported multisig, so does this version.


Funnily enough, the secure element firmware is actually open source.

And the way they use it, it does not matter. Just hacking the secure element is not enough for anything, it only contains the encryption key for the seed. It's a weird way of doing things, but you need to trust it much less.


This is geek porn. This analyses Bitcoin chain data to estimate average price on any given day just from the BTC amounts sent on chain. The script assumes that people send round dollar amounts, so they put amounts into bins based on most commonly sent amounts and they try to fit the curve of the payment amounts to this.

Very cool and clever.

https://utxo.live/oracle/

How could this be used? For example if you want to build an island economy that has only/mostly blockstream satellite connection and very bad internet connection: https://juraj.bednar.io/en/blog-en/2021/05/14/how-to-build-local-payment-systems-on-top-of-bitcoin/


New OptionPlus podcast about one of the most important projects in Bitcoin space that almost no one knows about (yet). I interview nostr:npub1tthrhn3mc8k6c72rn6uwfnclnlk6hcsg7lr60xfc0w3jlnxgy4jqmf5yzk  from nostr:npub1c40rwav67rtl4pmy56wa8vhh8cynlm0zvhr96mcnd5xat74ldxmsm8ttqy  about their Lightning wallet with integrated lightning-DLC based futures/"stablecoin".

This project allows you to hold sats, but also a synthetic dollar-value position - that is just sats under the hood. No tokens, no bullshit, just Lightning-DLC magic. We discuss how this project can bring mainstream finance on top of Lightning network, how you can have lightning powered credit, hold any asset in your lightning wallet without trusting third parties.

https://hackyourself.io/2023/10/12/the-future-of-lightning-powered-trustless-finance-with-philipp-from-10101/


Trezor Safe 3 is out!

It's like the Trezor One, it costs €10 more (€79 vs €69). Changes compared to One I noticed:

- it has a secure element (not even the Trezor T has one)
- it can do Shamir backup (for me a killer feature, why I primarily used Trezor T and not Trezor One)
- it has USB-C (yes!)

Get yours here:
https://affil.trezor.io/SHJY


Woke up in my Coil T-shirt.

Everything was dissolving

Keep it going
https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/77834c181eaeea29c412d203b02fae2ab935b16988fbc9212fbd0f4cfe158e99.webp


🎙 New OptionPlus episode: "Financial Surveillance and Crypto Utopias". Dive deep as we transition from tax havens of yesteryears, through financial repression of the today's world to tomorrow's Bitcoin-driven world, hopefully more free.

In this episode I dive into the workings of current financial surveillance systems and how parallel financial systems are better. Or are they? 🚀🔍🔐.

https://hackyourself.io/2023/10/11/financial-surveillance-and-utopian-bitcoin-future/


It can be all shortened to:

Central planning does not work


The society, in 2023.


Some cute lunarpunk orange-pilled snails 8-bit style by nostr:npub13ru8q7j9aqj6z0knsvej40nw9ugy4dzdsau3303z25qg8g44nesqtrc9st

https://stacker.news/items/277626


Nope :(

Maybe it would be cool to publish referenced events / notes by clients to all the relays that don’t have them.

nostr:npub1plstrz6dhu8q4fq0e4rjpxe2fxe5x87y2w6xpm70gh9qh5tt66kqkgkx8j nostr:npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq955 nostr:npub1wnwwcv0a8wx0m9stck34ajlwhzuua68ts8mw3kjvspn42dcfyjxs4n95l8
https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_0079b397d21c47ff09d2d72fcc502509f31fc7aeb371a774.webp


This is pretty cool. Using rsslay to subscribe to pubkey of my podcast. Then I can just quote and post. Not sure if other people see the note because it is only published to rsslay relay by default. But maybe client will repost the original note as well to publishing relays.

Can you see the quoted note (if you have not added rsslay's relay)?

nostr:note14uwzyhmftmrqmgcaz6wchlfx5h4dxwsnvte0chtulcc4qz45ydxqcp4gsn


I'm glad to hear that.

I love cbase, but I haven't been there for ages.

I'm fine with skeptical. Not so much fond of the German green statist religion.


I did not expect to see the day when intelligent people would applaud censorship and demand more of it.

Historically, there has always been a reason for it. Heresy, against the king/emperor, opinions against ruling commies, demands for more freedom, or protecting the cult of the great Kim.

Now we need to protect stupid people from dangerous ideas (misinformation). And then wonder why did they elect people they elect..

I'm amazed why this seems as a good idea to anyone.


Government database?


Well, not communicating and switching to close only is shady...


Completely crazy that an unelected supranational entity can force countries to devalue their currency like this. We’re talking about the sudden loss of wage purchasing power for tens of millions of people. But you better do it, or else! https://image.nostr.build/c4d8cdd3315429db48d505933ab7a32f9213415ea24fa9682f100ac6ebdb1e0b.jpg


What? Cbase is bitcoin enabled?

CCC was very anti-bitcoin, so it's good to see.

BTW in Paralelní Polis many people have the nfc implanted in their hands - no ring required. Also using lnbits now...


Anyone knows what happened to Kollider? It seems they stopped posting, platform is in withdrawal-only mode.

Regulatory threats and silent shutdown? (They did not rugpull, you can still withdraw, but not open any new positions).


Nice open-source tool for easy configuration of OS (Linux, Windows and macOS) and software for better privacy.

https://privacy.sexy/


In most EU countries, the censorship is based on DNS. But this does not work anymore with new browsers. They use DNS over HTTPS and encrypted tls negotiation.

If you don't want to be censored, don't host in EU and don't use European domain names.

https://www.ghacks.net/2023/10/07/the-end-of-dns-based-site-blocking-is-near/


Regulate first, innovate later.

Censor first.

The EU way.

https://www.ocregister.com/2023/06/30/the-eus-regulate-first-innovate-later-mantra-will-sink-u-s-tech-firms/


SK: Ak ešte náhodou nepoužívate Bitcoin alebo poznáte niekoho, komu chcete ukázať ako ho používať, vytvoril som rýchlokurz geniality, ktorého výsledkom bude superschopnosť používania Bitcoinu. Vytvoríte si a odzálohujete si peňaženku, prijmete a odošlete Bitcoiny. A to všetko za menej ako 5 minút videonávodu.

Samozrejme, potom budete mať otázky - ako nakúpiť, ako zaplatiť v obchode/eshope, či je to bezpečné a tak. Tak ak chcete, môžete pokračovať a všetko ukážem a vysvetlím detailne. Kurz je zadarmo a nie je potrebné sa ani nikde registrovať.
https://juraj.bednar.io/courses/ako-si-kupit-prve-kryptomeny-a-zaplatit-nimi/


Wordpress with BTCPayServer plug-in.

I use BTCPayServer for crowdfunding and as a payment gateway, but for hosting webs wordpress is great - with lots of plugins.


Already in force in Slovakia and in many countries. But the EU's plan is much more sick...

https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_5645922687470245001696603903.webp


More or less. There's a video explaining it in the course.


So remember those useless gdpr privacy policies that you have to click on and that no one ever reads?

I'm so glad that we all waste our precious time on them when I look on a paper on a window of a customs office and they are "delivering" some document by sticking it on the window. With all the personal information, including name, address and year of birth.

But it makes sense, I go around all the bureaucracies in every city at least once every two weeks to see if there's a letter for me stuck on the window.

Or maybe not.

State is retarded.


Kešovica.

Nestane sa to ale majetkom banky, trochu sa to rozdelí medzi rôznych aktérov (jedna banka, druhá banka, kartová spoločnosť, sieť, ...). A nie sú to vždy dve eurá. Ale pointa platí.
https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_23d7dfc82abfd16099bf47bc451c9104c44c1bd7506b403c.webp


A super quick free introduction to Bitcoin as a video course. No sign-up needed. Lightning-enabled. Learn how to setup a wallet, send and receive payments, buy Bitcoin at an ATM and use Vexl app to find someone to buy from when there's no ATM.

Feel free to share with friends as an easy onboarding tool. The first two lessons are enough for basic usage, total onboarding time: Less than 5 minutes.

https://hackyourself.io/courses/a-quick-introduction-to-bitcoin-wallet-setup-buying-payments/


https://shorturl.at/cCDUW

There's no password. There's some problem with hash in url. Try this.


https://shorturl.at/cCDUW

There's no password. There's some problem with hash in url. Try this.

And no. Does not have anything to do with address.


Ok, like this.

https://shorturl.at/cCDUW


https://drive.proton.me/urls/C4MVAW6CYW #OF3SoMMeuLnE

Link again. So it does not ask for pw.


Here are the slides from my Analysing Monero stores talk from @MoneroKon Prague 2023. It is a simple chain analysis of Monero chain to estimate turnover of stores. Shown on real store.

I wanted to talk about the unwarranted belief that just using Monero is 100% magic that protects people against surveillance. But don't worry, I have actionable steps. Also, @cakewallet added coin control, which makes things easier.

Hope the talk recording itself is released as well by @MoneroKon team.

https://drive.proton.me/urls/C4MVAW6CYW #OF3SoMMeuLnE


Today: made another nice deal with a proxy merchant, found another one for something else I needed. Paid for child related services and also adult education using lightning. None of these were me pushing anything and two of those were initiated by the other side without me even mentioning bitcoin.

Also received value4value for my podcast episode and sold btc to a family member.

All other transactions were cash.

We have arrived. If nothing else changed with Bitcoin and if the world went to shit tomorrow, we have all we need to operate a functioning parallel economy.

We are going to make it.

We are not mainstream, but we are enough and in many ways much better.

Welcome to the dark forest.


Resistance is happening.

#1337

HCPP was great.

https://image.nostr.build/01c91c86277c75828a1ae2e951d339d297165642cfc6f7d1447e1de8293314a5.jpg


New favourite LLM: TheBloke/Synthia-7B-v1.3-GGUF

New favourite user interface: https://lmstudio.ai/


Great article if you are moving away from Europe. Get to know Asunción, Paraguay.

https://hackinglives.substack.com/p/explore-asuncion-your-complete-guide


Roughly: 1kWp makes 1MWh per year where I live. Lifetime 20 years. So divide the price (without batteries, which double the price) by expected yield over lifetime.


This relates to nocoiner syndrome

nostr:note1gn03dztgjpz0sgjcjxae5ar5gngnrguhuv8w2el8ds0v0498c7mqepphey


Použi zákon kryptomenového izomorfizmu:

https://juraj.bednar.io/blog/2022/10/24/zakon-kryptomenoveho-izomorfizmu/

To je exotický coin zmeň na niečo s likviditou (btc) a potom #[0]

Ak chceš meniť krypto na papieriky, nie je žiadny dôvod nástojiť na tom, aby človek poskytujúci papieriky chcel rovnaký shitcoin ako ten čo chceš predať.


The cost of electricity from fv if you use it all is 80-100€/MWh over the lifetime of the system in central Europe.

The form of up front payment is irrelevant, it's never free, unless you are not able to use it all. I can use it all and don't care much about heated water, I take cold showers and don't need heating in summer. So any outage of hot water does not concern me. Space on the roof is also limited and completely used in my case (for the part that is usable for solar, half of it is in shade most of the day).


I think that means that you can migrate from mobile to desktop by exporting from mobile and importing on desktop, not that you can use the same profile on both at the same time.


Cheapest battery, but very expensive to heat. It consumes a lot of energy.

I can survive without gas, heating is electric. I have spent some time without gas and I can manage. My computer and internet connection is more important than heated water. I have backup electric heaters (and an infrasauna).


Ďakujem, opravené.


Ricardo from Bitfinex did an interview with me on volatility, Paralelní Polis, T.A.Z. and my book Cryptocurrencies - Hack your way to a better life.

I hope you enjoy it, I had fun with this one.

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


🎙 New Option Plus episode! Dive with me into uncertainty, volatility, and freedom 🌪. From the 2020 challenges to Bitcoin's potential as a financial safety net, I uncover choices that maximize gains in a chaotic world. Explore optionality in life & finance and discover how to thrive in unpredictable times. Tune in! 🎧🚀

https://hackyourself.io/2023/09/13/optionality-navigating-uncertainty-harnessing-volatility-and-freedom


I can't connect them, I park the car further away from the house


My goal is also grid independence, not saving money.

I believe the grids are going to fail.


I heat with gas...


This is amazing. Simply amazing.

nostr:note1f4dfraf3ssqywlyyc5352gsdutdgv7mrq89dd57law0s4lpsg7gscgzrn6


🚨 Breaking news: http://Haltia.AI unveils the most private personal AI assistant in the world 👇

https://apnews.com/press-release/ein-presswire-newsmatics/privacy-ff62672ef884cdba4e646f853f33faa2


Ah, you mean charge another battery. There are already batteries in the car, so buying another one does not make any economic sense.


Just casually trading bitcoin in the dark forest...

WIll I see you all at Paralelni Polis's Hackers Congress (HCPP) this weekend?

For those that do not know - it's 10th anniversary edition of probably the only cryptoanarchist conference.

https://video.nostr.build/32d527e190e91455a24707e4dab3a20cd509a9f3f9fdbf0d4a6d3aad31cde0d5.mp4


Yes, that is horrible. Schools like child prisons are all around the world, crackheads are specific to some places.

Anyway, my Nostr timeline does not have any of that. I think it is our responsibility to make sure we follow the right people.


(And not very accessible)


Batteries are heavy. Like really heavy.


I the campervan, I have no use for excess energy. And there is plenty. Unfortunately I cannot connect the panels on the van to the house. I was thinking about mining, but the capital costs are too high.


I used to pre-cool the house with ACs when there was excess energy, but I am mainly doing it for resillience against the failures of the grid, so I got another battery and there will be no excess energy unfortunately, I use all I make. I don't have big enough roof.


Maybe from the point of view of the providers.

I have no interest in sex (real nor virtual) from some women on Nostr, I have my partner for that and they have nothing to offer me.


If you've been wondering why is the hipster coffee scale so expensive and why you can't just buy any scale with 0.1g precision to make your V60, you are missing the fact that hipster scales measure grams per second do you can be sure you pour over water at the right speed.

Now you know.


SK: Prechod do tretieho tisícročia bol po trochu hrboľatej ceste. Boli sme zvyknutí na stabilitu, zažili sme hneď niekoľko bublín a ich spľasnutí, pandémiu a chaos. Náš mozog je pripravený na lineárny a stabilný svet, ale pre tretie tisícročie potrebujeme byť pripravení na volatilitu, krízy, chyby centrálneho plánovania a popri tom ideálne prežiť šťastný, spokojný a zábavný život. S hackmi pre tretie tisícročie to pôjde ľahšie…

V tomto online workshope môžete preskúmať niektoré mindsety, ktoré sú možno užitočnejšie pre exponenciálnu dobu tretieho tisícročia ako tie, ktoré máme od čias lovcov a zberačov.

Workshop som robil live a táto online verzia pochádza z audiozáznamu workshopov. Proces je jednoduchý – vypočujete si záznam a zapíšete si do “pracového zošita” vaše myšlienky, postoje alebo vyriešite úlohu.

Cieľom kurzu je zvedomiť si niektoré mindsety, ktoré máte nainštalované a prípadne preskúmať, či nie je na čase niektoré trochu zmodifikovať.

Pozrite si niektoré lekcie zdarma, aby ste si vedeli predstaviť, ako kurz prebieha: https://juraj.bednar.io/courses/mindset-hacks-pre-tretie-tisicrocie/

Ak sa vám páči, tu ho získate: https://juraj.bednar.io/product/mindset-hacks-pre-tretie-tisicrocie/


Both


SK: Teším sa, že sa môžem podeliť o svoju najnovšiu epizódu podcastu, tentoraz na tému Bitcoin vs. fiat mindsety! V čom bitcoineri rozmýšľajú inak ako fiatový mainstream? Ako nadšenci bitcoinu vidia svet, akú silu má diverzifikované vedomie ako protipól monokultúry myslenia?

🎙🎧

 https://juraj.bednar.io/podcast/2023/09/24/bitcoinove-mindsety-vs-fiatove-mindsety/


Yes, very low network effect though, that might not be a problem.

But real problem is absence of desktop that synchronizes with mobile. SimpleX has a desktop version, but it has a different set of chat profiles and you can't sync unread status.

Element got pretty cool lately, especially with spaces. I don't do 15k rooms though. If there are 15k people, I think encryption kind of stops making sense.

Here's my encrypted messengers blog, I try to keep it up to date.
https://juraj.bednar.io/en/blog-en/2022/05/03/encrypted-messengers-comparison/amp/


I don't do appointments and especially not before noon. 😂


Victron remote management

Showing my photovoltaic system parameters - if I'm charging battery, what's the electricity consumption,... It's super interesting, I get a feel of all energy flows in the house.


Starting Oct. 15th, China will ban all academic tutoring, including 1-on-1 tutoring.

Run!


This is me these days.

VRM is more popular than YouTube on my phone.

https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_7441968229195001731695401630.webp


The only cure for trauma is acceptance.

Radical acceptance is a good book on the topic.


I have a talk about freedom that begins the same, but with pictures...

https://freemansperspective.com/the-corporate-cocoon/

A form of it without pictures is in this podcast of mine: https://hackyourself.io/2023/09/13/contrarian-thinking-entrepreneurship-and-bitcoin/

The picture represents people going to their shiny office in the morning...


Inak privátne cesty sú úplne bežná vec, čiže netreba filozofovať, stačí sa pozrieť ako to funguje.

Dokonca aj privátne železnice.


Každý môže mať inú banku. Ako je možné, že si môžeme navzájom platiť? Nemusím mať účet v každej banke?

V Japonsku existuje niekoľko firiem ktoré prevádzkujú metro. Majú osobitné trate a niekedy aj stanice. A magicky funguje jedna kartička na všetko.

Cestujem po svete a v každej krajine je iný mobilný operátor. Nezbláznim sa z toľkých sim kariet?

Je v záujme komerčného prevádzkovateľa aby používanie a platba bola pre každého čo najjednoduchšia. Vynútiť sa to samozrejme nedá, keďže nie je centrálna autorita. Ale samozrejme racionálni účastníci vytvoria systém, ktorý im dlhodobo prinesie cash...


Presne ako v niekoľkých tisíckach free zones a special economic zones po celom svete.


Netreba si zmenu predstavovať ako že niekto zamkne dvere na parlamente a od zajtra je voľný trh. Zmena sa deje vo veľkom už dnes.

Pekný príklad je rozpad rímskej ríše. Ľudia ešte pár sto rokov po tom ako rímska ríša už de facto nefungovala a v praxi žili v inom zriadení stále používali mince s cisárovou hlavou a volali sa rimania.

Masy ľudí prechádzajú na Bitcoin, na súkromné zdravotníctvo, na internet,... Paralelná ekonomika je 10%-50% hdp (podľa toho koho sa pýtaš), ale realisticky v cz/sk tak 20%. Vo väčšine vzťahov už dnes si mimo štát. Keďže nefunguje, stráca zmysel používať ich služby.

Inak pozor - to, že ľudia nemajú peniaze je dôvod prejsť na súkromné služby. Štát nedokáže magicky vygenerovať bohatstvo z ničoho, nemá čarovný prútik na vytváranie vzácnych zdrojov. Ja som napríklad klient plne súkromného zdravotníctva a platím menej ako by som platil v štátnom systéme za oveľa lepšie služby. Keďže štát nemá informácie o trhových cenách tak produkuje aj pri tom čo má poskytovať obrovskú neefektivitu. Čiže ak ľudia nemajú peniaze, tak treba súkromné riešenia.


SK: Sľub západu: Pozrite sa ako naši obyvatelia prosperujú. Máme pekné a kvalitné nemocnice, kvalitné produkty, každá rodina vlastní auto. Je to výsledok liberálnej demokracie a voľného trhu. Ak budete mať podobné zriadenie, môžete si túto prosperitu užiť aj vy, obyvatelia “krajín tretieho sveta”. Zaveďte parlament, prezidenta, demokratické voľby, budujte inštitúcie, počúvajte naše rady a čoskoro nás dobehnete.

Na tejto premise bol postavený svet. Investície zo západu do krajín, ktoré boli priateľské a chceli obchodovať, prípadne občas prispeli západným firmám nejakými daňovými prázdninami. Integrácia do medzinárodných štruktúr a aspoň na oko prijímanie západných viedli napríklad na Slovensku k továrňam na autá..

Realita, obzvlášť z pohľadu vnímania obyvateľov týchto krajín sa dosť zmenila. Krajiny tretieho sveta vnímame stále ako miesta, kde chodia bosé deti kilometre pešo po rozpálenom piesku pre vodu a ak tam vôbec zavíta doktor, tak ordinuje v “nemocnici postavenej z vlnitého plechu”.

Lenže toto už dávno nie je realita v mnohých týchto krajinách.

Touto myšlienkou začína moja prednáška na akcii CryptoVestiBull v Žiline. Čo teda generuje prosperitu? A ako s tým súvisí Bitcoin?

Túto úvodnú myšlienku som rozpísal v blogu: https://juraj.bednar.io/blog/2023/03/27/recept-na-prosperitu-kto-sedi-pri-stole-kde-sa-rozhoduje/


The problem is reputation in the presence of sibyl attacks.

Seller accounts on silk road had a 100$ fee to create the account and escrow. List, discover and sell is not a problem. Problem is cheaters.


Post quantum ready. Nice.

https://signal.org/blog/pqxdh/


Inak toto neplatí, že kritizovať môžem až keď ponúknem príbeh.

To je podobné ako hovoriť, že otrokárstvo je nemorálne. Na to nemusím vysvetľovať kto by zbieral cukrovú trstinu keby nebolo možné vlastniť otrokov a koľko by stála.

Dane sú krádež. To je principiálne tvrdenie o morálke. Kto by staval infraštruktúru? To nejak musíme vyriešiť, ale nemôžeme kradnúť a vyhrážať sa násilím.


Inak tým, že kto by staval cesty je väčšinou prvá otázka ktorú etatisti riešia pri debate o slobodnej spoločnosti ma dosť baví ako Hoppe v Democracy a god that failed spomína "overproduction of roads" 😂

Kniha inak nedávno vyšla v češtine vo famóznom preklade a dá sa kúpiť aj za ⚡.

https://ausekon.com/produkt/hans-hermann-hoppe-demokracie-buh-ktery-selhal/


1. Rieky by mali určite byť súkromné

2. Monopol buď všetkým vyhovuje (a potom nevadí) alebo funguje len vďaka ochrane štátu... väčšinou regulatory capture: pekne na súčasnej realite vysvetlené ako takéto monopoly v spolupráci so štátom vznikajú tu: https://youtu.be/F9cO3-MLHOM?si=yfHanE2pgUW4cPPy


Toto je nesprávna otázka. Musíš sa opýtať inú otázku - ako by si ten problém riešil ty, keby si nemal štát?

Zorganizoval by si crowdfunding? Vymenil kamarátov? Išiel pešo menej často a na dlhšie? Opravil by si cestu s dedinčanmi?

Anarchokapitalizmus nie je systém, iba sada jednoduchých princípov. Problémy riešia ľudia (podnikatelia). Jeden problém má tisícky možných riešení a ktoré si ľudia vyberú v danom konkrétnom prípade je na nich. Je to ako pýtať sa "ako by si riešil medziľudské vzťahy"... No, individuálne. Aký je problém? Koľko sú do nich ľudia ochotní investovať energie? Čo je pre nich dôležité.

Tento fetiš centrálneho plánovania a rýchlych odpovedí, lebo sme si na to zvykli budeme musieť zabudnúť. Nanešťastie tam vedie už aj ekonomická realita. Plánovači sa rozpadajú.


Bohužiaľ. Ak ti na tom záleží, aby si sa tam dostal, musíš prispieť. Ak neprispeješ, tento problém vyriešiš inak - pôjdeš pešo, na bicykli, vlakom alebo im zavoláš cez starlink.

Oprava tej cesty stojí stále peniaze, akurát tú cenu spravodlivo platia tí, ktorí tú cestu chcú použiť.

Prečo chceš po mne aby som platil opravu cesty po ktorej budeš chcieť pozerať kamošov. Mne je jedno, či sa tam dostaneš. Ak sa oni rozhodli žiť v malej vesnici kde je nanič cesta, tak proste urobili rozhodnutie - lacnejšia nehnuteľnosť za cenu zlého prístupu.

Práve ten štát to celé komplikuje. Pridáva vrstvy ľudí, ktorí rozhodujú o tom, že ja mám platiť za to, aby si ty niekoho mohol ísť pozrieť. Prečo?


Sú jogurty v obchode za 1000€? Prečo sa predajca nerozhodol, že bude za jogurt chcieť 1000€? Pretože ak maximalizuje zisk, musí ponúknuť cenu, ktorú je niekto ochotný zaplatiť.


"It's fun for me that just showing up as someone who owns themselves or takes ownership over
 themselves and being authentic is just by its very nature transformative.
 And I think there's something about entrepreneurism that takes greater advantage of this than
 let's say corporate life or government life.
 The point of bureaucracy is actually so that individuals don't have to take ownership.
 And things that get really big, but they're not growing in value, they're not growing
 in usefulness and everything else.
 After a while, it's that nobody should be accountable for anything that's happening.
 I think that's when things go bad.
 When you're in an internal structure where you're actually punished for taking ownership."

- Dan Sullivan


Pruning is costly too, lazy pruning is easier - when you want to cache something, remove something else to the dirty laundry basket. There's no reason to prune O(1) cache if it is not full, that actually adds complexity.


Dane sú krádež


This is basically what Cambridge analytica did from social media interactions and other data, so there's no surprise this is possible. Just that you know that this definitely is possible.

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-09-collaborative-psychology-ai-chatbot-infer.html


SK:

https://mailchi.mp/e3131d505ab7/vstpte-do-temnho-paraleln-ekonomika-v-sasnosti

https://image.nostr.build/ffeba137ee35d187a535c6c2c776faa70579a8900d8af9be1fdf695a8e018e58.png


In this episode, I explore the power of  contrarian thinking and its relationship to Bitcoin. Let's think outside the box, challenge conventional wisdom, and  explore different paths. Combining your unique abilities in various fields gives you an edge and allows you to quit hierarchies and thrive.

Bitcoin is something new and beautiful that is being created right in front of our eyes. It's the place to be right now. We can't experience the founding of Amsterdam stock exchange, or the beginning of the internet anymore, but we can be right there where a new parallel financial system is being born.


Premýšľali ste niekedy o tom, či je "temný les" - sieť paralelných ekonomických a sociálnych štruktúr - len cypherpunkovým snom alebo zásadnou spoločenskou silou? Ponorte sa do najnovšej epizódy môjho podcastu!
Sú univerzálne, kodifikované a majoritou prijímané pravidlá to najlepšie, čo generuje civilizáciu? Aká je veľká paralelná ekonomika? A ako s tým súvisí mágia Bitcoinu - sú to len peniaze alebo je to vstupenka do nového sveta? Poďme spoločne objavovať neznáme a vkročme do temného lesa... 🎙🚀

https://juraj.bednar.io/podcast/2023/09/13/vitajte-v-temnom-lese-prechadzka-paralelnymi-strukturami/


🎙 New Option Plus Podcast episode! 🚀 Dive into the power of contrarian thinking, Bitcoin's underestimated impact, and why macroeconomics is "snake oil science." Discover how embracing volatility can lead to success. Break norms, find your edge.

https://hackyourself.io/2023/09/13/contrarian-thinking-entrepreneurship-and-bitcoin


I wonder if they played Einsturzende Neubauten as well. There it could easily be a love song and sound like "a pack of wolves is chasing me".

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2218593120


You can drive also with comma, you just don't have to.

Driving with comma is more of a pleasure though, you don't have to do the monkey work.


That's the way to do it


Work outside of home also fluctuates, people are often just hiding in their offices, playing the widely distributed game of "pretend I'm busy".

Two points: I think really creative work (such as programming) can't be done for eight hours a day straight (you can have bursts, but then you need downtime).

Hunters-gatherers worked to get whatever they needed for about 5-10 hours a week. With our technological productivity, we "work" four times more. Of course we want more things out of life (such as dentists and Thai massages), but it shows some kind of trouble in the offices. People are wasting time and paper pushing.


I think that rebelling is also being controlled by someone else, you just invert the sign.

I also used to think that the recommendations are generally not stupid.

Unfortunately, we are at the point, when doing exactly the opposite of government tells you is the best heuristic if you don't have more information to base your decision on.

https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_7637587140861738041694442209.webp


Someone should cancel these guys. It's clearly written in the law that this stuff has no medical use, but these researchers insist that they have done some undemocratic process called randomized control trials that keep showing safety, efficiency and medical use.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2808950


People are discussing jfk assassination. I don't know what happened, but the cultural implications that are known are pretty interesting.

Here's a fun output from chatgpt about a bit of history that not many people know:

Here's a concise timeline of important events relating to Lee Harvey Oswald, Kerry Thornley, Discordianism, Operation Mindfuck, and the JFK assassination:

1. **October 18, 1939**: Lee Harvey Oswald is born in New Orleans, Louisiana.

2. **April 17, 1938**: Kerry Thornley is born.

3. **Late 1950s**: While serving in the U.S. Marine Corps, Kerry Thornley meets Lee Harvey Oswald.

4. **1961**: Thornley moves to New Orleans. Later, he begins writing "The Idle Warriors," a novel based on his interactions with Oswald during their service in the Marines. It's noteworthy because it's written before Oswald becomes infamous.

5. **1962**: Discordianism is founded. Principia Discordia, the main text of Discordianism, is written by Greg Hill (under the pseudonym Malaclypse the Younger) and Kerry Thornley (under the pseudonym Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst).

6. **November 22, 1963**: President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Lee Harvey Oswald is arrested as the main suspect.

7. **November 24, 1963**: Oswald is shot and killed by Jack Ruby while in police custody.

8. **Late 1960s**: Operation Mindfuck (OM) is initiated by Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea, in collaboration with other Discordians. It's a form of guerrilla ontology, using misinformation and pranks to challenge people's perceptions of reality.

9. **1970s**: The conspiracy theories surrounding the JFK assassination begin to gain traction. Thornley's prior association with Oswald and his book "The Idle Warriors" bring him under scrutiny. Some conspiracy theorists suggest Thornley may have been involved in the assassination or was part of a larger conspiracy.

10. **Mid-1970s**: Thornley claims that he was manipulated by intelligence operatives and began to believe he might have been unwittingly involved in the JFK assassination plot.

11. **1975**: Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea publish "The Illuminatus! Trilogy," which includes references to Discordianism and Operation Mindfuck. It playfully weaves conspiracy theories, including ones about the JFK assassination, into a narrative that blurs fiction and reality.

12. **November 28, 1998**: Kerry Thornley passes away.

This timeline offers a brief overview of the connections between these figures and events. Each topic on its own has a more detailed history, and there's a significant overlap, especially when delving into conspiracy theories and the interplay between fiction and perceived reality.


Pro tip: if you are buying a car, first check if it is supported by comma.ai. If not, you'll have to manually drive it like in the last century and that feels like...

https://media0.giphy.com/media/umehzEQ4uJdfO/giphy.gif


In Europe, bitrefill esims work great. You can buy them with lightning with cheap data.

Keepgo.com has European and also foreign esims, they only support onchain bitcoin though.

Or Czech prepaid sim cards (kaktus, o2,...) are also good.

In no case will anyone ask you for your identity.


Another reason (besides privacy) to use foreign (anonymous) data sim card is that it just works better. It will connect to more (usually all) networks that have coverage. People with local sim cards often complain that their operator does not have some coverage. I always have coverage, because I'm in roaming and I connect to any network available.


Yes, that's how it works.

Changing it is easy in the interface, powerpress has that in settings.

Authenticity of rss feed is more difficult, but you usually enlist the podcast in various indexes and it's their job to verify if it's not a duplicate.


All AI is biased. Machine learning is about discovering and learning biases of the world. That's literally the first sentence of our textbook of machine learning from college.


Unpopular opinion: people fear that their fellow citizens will vote for fascists. Yet they already live in a form of fascism. Economy that is formally mostly private, but controlled centrally by state regulations.

Another unpopular opinion: the alternative to the fascists are communists or hard core socialists.

This does not look good, however you look at it and for whatever results you pray for.


I've been predicting a cypherpunk flavor of Artificial intelligence in my short ebook Cypherpunk visions and trends 2023-2025.

Now, something's cooking and I am very grateful that I can participate.

HaltiaAI liftoff 🚀

https://www.zawya.com/en/press-release/companies-news/unprecedented-collaboration-nine-cypherpunks-one-ai-company-one-goal-r6dq0i8u


Podcast with music - if someone publishes music with a value4value tag, it is then possible to do podcasts as mixtapes/dj sets and the value4value for that section (including boostagrams) go directly to the author of the music.

Bitcoin ⚡ + podcasters + musicians + creators + value4value = 🚀

https://fountainpodcasts.substack.com/p/fountain-08-music-podcasts-beta-player


Preparing a presentation about the Dark Forest for Lunarpunk festival. I had to remake this old meme...

https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_1579098596757188321693742151.webp

https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_4010958180282345801693742156.webp


The popular opinion is - people are stupid, education would fix that.


I use VPN a lot and I post in groups with a lot of people.

But the problem is that it is unpredictable and I cannot rely on a system that can request a CAPTCHA at any time and not deliver my automated message.


Signal does captchas now. So not very usable for automated scripts.


Just putting this out there. If you have not yet seen this, check it out. Well worth your time, I think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YQpq_2DUQQ


Huge improvement proposal for Nostr clients - if I post something and relay connections are not very good (bad internet, relay outages, I exit the app too soon), hold the post in local storage and retry later automatically.

If the note is not seen by enough relays, keep retrying.

It happens to me quite often that I post / reply only to find out that the post is long gone and not stored on any relays.

Happened with Damus, Plebstr and Iris at least...


Gamma Gamma Theta from dimension 23, that's me! 😎👽


Batching. There tends to be less communication and less noise if I answer once per week.


Yay! Excited to try Renepay

Core Lightning v23.08 Release Candidate 1 has been tagged and now it’s time to test new & experimental features before release like:

🌲 Taproot address support for #CoreLightning

⚡ Introduction of Renepay developed by Eduardo Quintana &
renepickhardt

✂ Splice funds in or out of a live channel


Only the insiders. Most people have very uneducated opinions, so they should not bet, although funding the insiders is also a good thing, they do not provide much information.


For millennia, an underground war has played out between state civilization and free society.

But grand events are playing out. The pendulum swings towards freedom. This is the hour.

RESISTANCE IS LIFE✊🏽

🗓September 29 - October 1
🎟http://hcpp.cz

#hcpp23 #resistance

https://nostr.build/av/4cb83e027db687191fbf6483e21529dd2be2658b5254952cb04dadeace9a13f2.mp4


Yes, that's common.

But the most common bugs have nothing to do with encryption.


Agreed, but... You always "have to sell it". If your strategy is to always buy BTC (or you are earning BTC), you probably have some costs, unless you are living a 100% self-sustained life, grow your food on your property, ...

If you have fiat to spend, it means, you have not bought BTC with that fiat.

So if you earn 100% in btc (if you get fiat, you convert it to btc), then you always have to sell it sometimes. I just think that selling btc is way worse option than using it as collateral. You end up with much better position than by purely spending fiat. And that's true even if you got hacked/rugpulled, because as the btc collateral appreciates, you withdraw it.


Mobile app is a dead end.

https://juraj.bednar.io/en/blog-en/2023/08/01/goodbye-app-lets-move-from-the-centralized-stores/


What others think is not important, but I'll tell you how I make money on inflation. The key is not to sell your Bitcoin (then you have to "realize" the loss), but to only use it as a collateral for a fiat loan. There are many ways to do it (I teach about several of them and it depends on how you are spending).

So strategy:
- If you have fiat, buy bitcoin
- If you need to sell, borrow fiat and spend it immediately
- If the interest rate is lower than the price increase (price inflation), that means when you pay it back, you will have to work less for it, so you are increasing your purchasing power the higher the inflation is
- hopefully the bitcoin collateral appreciates, but the key is, you do not have to make a decision to sell it ever.
- as bitcoin appreciates, you remove it as a collateral and back to hardware wallet

People of course don't like risking the collateral in some sort of (ideally decentralized or p2p) platform, but then they sell the bitcoin for consumption, which is immediately losing it completely. Of course there are risks and you need to overcollateralize, but this strategy has been amazing for me. And it actually removes the number of price decisions you need to make: always buy BTC, never sell BTC, spend carefully, but when you need to (not when BTC price is good).

More about this an many other strategies:
https://hackyourself.io/product/cryptocurrencies-hack-your-way-to-a-better-life/
(or https://www.amazon.com/dp/8057043482?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860 and also available in Slovak and Spanish)

And this is a more up to date course for this specific strategy: https://hackyourself.io/product/how-to-harness-the-value-of-bitcoin-without-having-to-sell-it-ebook-mini-course/

But the main strategy is: Have respectful disregard for other people and their opinions on your life 😅


Well, if the states actually would provide these "services" that they borrow money from and they could not be provided by the market and raised with voluntary money, bitcoin would be bad....

Anyway, about deflation, I think explaining why it's good is a challenge. My best attempt at explaining it so far:

https://freedomnode.com/blog/21-millionth-of-infinity-its-still-not-too-late-to-get-involved-in-the-bitcoin-economy/#deflation-doesnt-matterprogress-and-saving

(It's a chapter from my book, but I published it on freedomnode by nostr:npub1lmmtcd92aqyglur0ekgk2s5mqh3f5yv0pc0eeed3qp0pglw3mejqefxdhu for people to read freely)


The nostr:npub1plstrz6dhu8q4fq0e4rjpxe2fxe5x87y2w6xpm70gh9qh5tt66kqkgkx8j Zap button is already broken. When PWA?

Any other Nostr PWA recommendations?


Of course these are probably the right reasons for bad parenting, but it's bad parenting nevertheless.

About patience, I like this quote: “if you have to tell a child something a thousand times, perhaps it is not the child who is the slow learner.” - Walter Barbe


Center is the most boring place of the pendulum. But in this case best for me, although I usually avoid it.


Another Nostr-only confession: When I hear/see 70% of parents interact with their children, I pity the children. Commandeering, yelling, irrational, gaslighting crazy people.

On the other hand, when I hear/see the amazing 10%, it is an inspiration for me to learn how to interact with my children and makes me hopeful for humanity.

Imagine you are in your 20s or 30s and you have an authority figure yelling at you: "Get out of water, NOW!" - "Why?" - "Because I said so!" - (looking weirdly) - "I am counting down!!!!! 10!! 9!! 8!! ...."

And now realize that compared to 20-30 year old, the 3-6 year old won't be able to tell themselves "what a bitch, screw you, you are insane" and just leave.


Here they have a state recycling scheme. State forces stores to collect deposit for bottles. Something similar is in Berlin (or Germany?) for beer cans and bottles.

But saving €0.15 is not worth collecting the bottles and driving (yeah, eco) to the store where they collect it. I usually shop online, so I do not go to stores anymore, so I would go only for that and definitely not by bus.

A trash can for plastic is outside my house. Maybe it will even help someone who can collect the bottle from there and make €1.5 for 10 bottles.


Here's a fresh pie chart since the beginning of the year from a store that accepts crypto.

Lightning really took off this year. Litecoin is dying. Monero is going slightly up.

BTC on-chain: 25%
BTC Lightning: 54%
XMR: 14%
LTC: 6%
(percentages rounded)

https://cdn.nostr.build/i/53a6ed8d384385dc83a70b8eb407372083a7a8f4456a2e2643b06994dc429fca.png

This is an older figure from the same store.

https://cdn.nostr.build/i/d47d20b728d108791978deb0a34ad844911e62fcdaa5c41d286429fb16a1afda.png

(Screenshot from Cryptocurrencies - Hack your way to a better life: https://hackyourself.io/product/cryptocurrencies-hack-your-way-to-a-better-life/ )


Nostr only confession: I never return plastic bottles even if I have to pay deposit. I throw them out in plastic trash like before the mandatory deposit scheme. It just don't make any economic sense for me.


nostr:npub1plstrz6dhu8q4fq0e4rjpxe2fxe5x87y2w6xpm70gh9qh5tt66kqkgkx8j nostr:npub1eqmj85el4pkg7qdj2jcae24qykev5evnyz2s6pzdytzpkhga4u5sdmhexk please add spaces before urls ☺


OpenAI (better called StalinAI now) suggest a regulation on performant hardware to make sure people don't train evil models.

Wokeness through corporate regulatory capture. 🤮🤮🤮

https://cdn.openai.com/papers/forecasting-misuse.pdf

My Cypherpunk visions were really visionary, we need FOSS AI, not "open"ai

https://hackyourself.io/product/cypherpunk-visions-and-trends-2023-2025-ebook/


Not sure. You can import your Twitter follows very conveniently with https://snort.social/new/import

I just think the *the same people* post more quality stuff on Twitter than on Nostr right now. Nostr talk is currently to 90% about .. Nostr (Zaps, clients etc. etc.)

Maybe it's because there is a wider audience and thus more eyes on Twitter, so ppl naturally communicate a bit more "serious" while here it's still a bit like a sand box...

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With time it'll come, I'm not too concerned. The growth is astonishing, and what the implementations have achieved in such as short time is brilliant (native payments, spam prevention relays w/o moderation etc)

Yet at the moment, when I want real info / discuss things seriously, Twitter is still the place.