Here's an audio if you don't want read:

https://juraj.bednar.io/assets/audioblog/podcast_audio/you-dont-have-to-do-it-a-better-life-awaits.mp3

And here's the feed for my blogs as a podcast:
https://juraj.bednar.io/assets/audioblog/feed.xml
https://fountain.fm/show/3MjdPUN26O8yQAtaXBmL


I started writing reply to this, also to some people in the comments. And it became long, I wrote it as a blog:

https://juraj.bednar.io/en/blog-en/2024/11/20/you-dont-have-to-do-it-a-better-life-awaits/

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Works with that setup too. We are not hermits, we have families, and very good living standard.


1.) masses are not interesting to me
2.) it never happened, I feel well liked and happy


You can simply walk away from the modern systems of slavery.
Why don't you?


What I appreciate most about nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg is not his effort to build the future free, private banking system for free people.

It is that he advocates for and enables an entire ecosystem around this vision. Pitching, and building up those around him, so that the experimentation expands, and nature may select one or more winning freedom tech solutions.

I am grateful for Chaum’s idiosyncracies and taking it as far a world class cryptographer can take his invention.

I am grateful to observe nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg build and enlist and entire community of galaxy devs and contributors to swing the pendulum of power back to the individual and family unit, away from the monetary subverters. nostr:note12hdlwl44gggk4v4awunku5f84eqd986zzes2k9wjxvw3ejcxwzxqmmuqrx


Yes, worked like a charm.


PSA: A lot of normies are coming in to Bitcoin soon. While most of them will probably use the normie side chain (Blackrock), some of them will understand what Bitcoin is about.

You can front run them not only by buying, but they will also raise fees on the time chain.

Open and fund your lightning channels now.

If you don't know how, this is it:
https://hackyourself.io/courses/a-quick-introduction-to-bitcoin-wallet-setup-buying-payments/

Also note that Bitcoin does not require KYC. Beware of exchange that want your personal data. They are government surveillance agents. In the free course, there are many options such as nostr:nprofile1qqsd54k9fd0xwjwkttgr3svkg7reftu5una95nhacg95nxq7fmzkdscpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtcdmwcdp

Create good backups. I'll soon have an article up on seed backups.


Running  nostr:npub155m2k8ml8sqn8w4dhh689vdv0t2twa8dgvkpnzfggxf4wfughjsq2cdcvg 2.0.

Migration was super easy. Everything worked. Very cool.


Venice has started offering API access for all Pro account users. I have tried and it works with Continue in VS Code (to some extent, only the chat interface) and also with Open-WebUI. HOWTOs for both here:

https://github.com/jooray/ollama-like-venice/blob/main/API.md

The API is throttled, but otherwise unlimited. I am still offering lifetime pro accounts here:

https://hackyourself.io/venicepro

So for one time payment, you get LLaMA-3.1-405B chat model, image generation, and you can use it from your apps via an API.

Of course, you can get a normal subscription too, I think that the lifetime account is just a bit of a better deal, it is currently one of the most affordable ways how to use AI.

Venice also has uncensored models (both text and image generation).


I was stranded in a car in a storm. The storm took out all the cell towers. With nothing to do, I decided to do some biohacking, chill out, use some Near Infrared Light, and do some vagal stimulation to remove the stress of the freaking wind that was shaking my car and throwing over reusable bathrooms around me.

I turned the device on, but it needed to log in and go to the internet. Which was, of course, not working because of the storm.

Why does an electric nerve stimulator need an account and access to the Internet? I sighed. A few moments later, I wanted to learn about BLE hacking and reverse engineering. The code was written mostly by ChatGPT anyway, but I did some nice reverse engineering of the protocol. The result is this micro app. Have fun.

Desktop: https://github.com/jooray/pulse-libre-desktop
Mobile: https://github.com/jooray/PulseLibre

Screenshots:

https://image.nostr.build/bd54cde0e95017b684906d6d60bb25a974c1a0189441f6a7b09cf7e57e5eb376.jpg

https://image.nostr.build/5c81b4e31a3e5b38d39fa2e6cf83fd015e167a68095738289e22e65e7414b220.png

I even did a not so perfect icon:
https://image.nostr.build/89c47078dd5bb5cc0701a5eaa09f3397c3eaff45330985bd73be258adbe2ab7f.png

I love coding.


A few months ago, I was dealing with rescuing people's coins who had a wallet called Block.io, and they also had some kind of web wallet for bitcoin, litecoin, and dogecoin. It mainly worked for operators of General Bytes ATMs because they didn't have to run a node. It functioned as a 2-of-2 multisig with a non-standard scheme. So even though users had private keys, they couldn't import them and spend from any standard wallet. You need to create the signature in a different way.

They were quite strict - if some tainted coins came in, they blocked API access to the account for the entire ATM network and wouldn't respond to emails for 2-3 weeks. Just like that, they'd send an email saying, "Sorry, you violated the terms, goodbye." Pretty harsh. Of course, they acted like, "Well, you have the private keys, so take your coins. It has nothing to do with us; we're just a tool for creating signatures and making transactions." They had some redeem script on GitHub where you could supposedly save the coins, but it didn't work and used their retarded blockchain API, so it was all wrong.

I solved this for one person whose coins I saved, and I thought it would be a good business to help many people because there was real stress. They had money locked up that they couldn't move, and a company just abandoned them.

Now new people are writing to me, quite a lot of people, asking for help to save their dogecoins. It's always dogecoins, I don't know why. They write mainly from Latin American countries, Brazil, wherever, writing in Spanish or Portuguese. The reason is that the service has shutdown completely. No support email replies.

 I think for retail clients, it worked so that the second key from the multisig was stored on their server and encrypted with a key that the clients had. So basically similar to ProtonMail, where the private key is stored on the server, but they don't have the passphrase, so they have to decrypt it locally somehow.

Block.io ended their operations, now they only do their paid Blockchain API, Sochain. So desperate people are writing to me that they don't have access to their coins, they didn't notice the email that Block.io was ending operations, and they don't have the second private key. I can't help them; it's a multisig, and they don't have the second key. It's a total mess because this is like a hardcore rug pull, but they didn't even steal the money; they just completely abandoned their customers. If they at least emailed the customers their encrypted secondary key, I could decrypt it and save the coins. But now they are behind an API that no longer exists.

Lots of people are writing to me whom I simply can't help because I can't sign the transaction. But it's quite bizarre that everyone has Dogecoin, really, 100% of them have Dogecoin and only Dogecoin.

Anyway, if you are stuck and you have both keys (not a secret pin), check out my recovery services. And always have your coins, in your wallet, not in some API or on an exchange. For many people, this was life-changing money. Gone.

https://juraj.bednar.io/en/recovery-service-for-block-io-wallets/?contact-form-id=9651&contact-form-sent=9663&contact-form-hash=d8101ca2f9da24aeef050a7a7f2034fd46c0d181&_wpnonce=545bc43961#contact-form-9651


New podcast 🎧 How to fix the Internet – Nostr, Reticulum and other ideas

The internet is broken. We want free stuff, so we are the product.  The datacenters are not free. Our identities, our social graphs, our  channels and often our revenue are either owned or passed through  intermediaries, who can flip the switch – and we’re gone. There are ways  to take our online lives back, but it needs a bit of a cypherpunk  mindset, and willingness to experiment.

Reticulum is a low-level  mesh network when the basic Internet infrastructure fails. We can run it  in cities over radio. Nostr is a protocol for publishing content,  building social graphs and building replacement for Twitter/X,  Instagram, but also Meetup, maps-based apps and many other things. And  most of it (somehow) works today. If you are a bit cypherpunk and not a  normie, come over!

https://hackyourself.io/2024/11/14/how-to-fix-the-internet-nostr-reticulum-and-other-ideas/


"Part II: The Dehumanizing Process of Immigration Systems" by Travin Keith #HCPP24

At HCPP19, Travin shared experiences with broken immigration systems. Five years later, he discussed ongoing challenges and insights on expanding his flag theory footprint.

 https://paralelnipolis.info/v/G9eNq5o_23Y/hcpp24-part-ii-the-dehumanizing-process-of-immigration-systems


nostr:npub1m2mvvpjugwdehtaskrcl7ksvdqnnhnjur9v6g9v266nss504q7mqvlr8p9's book has the best explanation on how to make it work at least for me, but I must admit it’s something I’ve only tested with a few thousand for learning

https://www.amazon.com/Cryptocurrencies-Bitcoin-Decentralized-Payment-Networks/dp/8057043482


New project: a podcast version of my blogs. Locally generated. First the llm processes the blog into a form that is better for speech, another llm verifies that the first one did not screw it up. That should get the text blog into a more readable form. Then I do speech to text, which I verify via text to speech, I also change the parameters automatically if the output is not good.

I even had to change the phonemizer, to recode the inference model a bit.

Text to speech components are on my github.

The podcast is value4value enabled, so I accept sats per minute if your podcasting app supports it and boosts. The boosts are directly integrated with my podcasting 2.0 dashboard (also on my github).

https://fountain.fm/show/3MjdPUN26O8yQAtaXBmL


V Amerike majú odvolené a my sme sa s Filipom ešte raz pozreli na predikčné trhy – čo nám hovorili ceny, ako sa vyvíjali, a množstvo ďalších tém o predikčných trhoch. Crowdfunding sťahovania sa Muskovej dcéry mimo USA, kontroverzná stávka na inauguráciu, regulácie stávkovania, ale aj AI v EÚ, či cenzúra internetu.

https://juraj.bednar.io/podcast/2024/11/11/filip-legeny-predikcne-trhy-2-dynamika-cien-ako-crypto-bros-predpovedaju-buducnost-cenzura-internetu/


There were these smart contract markets, like Augur, but people did not value decentralization vs worse user experience. Traders prefer centralized and user friendly right now.


Only market determines prices.

You mint yes and no tokens (only on the platform, they are not crypto tokens). Their combined value is exactly 1$ (because either yes or no happens and the payout of one will be 1, payout of the other 0).

You can then add a limit sell order to the order book for whatever price you want. And when someone wants to buy for the price, voila the market has spoken and initial price is born. The process then repeats, like on any other market.

How much is in the bets is not interesting, because you can create arbitrary amount of bets, without price risk. Holding both tokens does not add any information to how risky it is.

Volume is interesting. Most interesting is the full order book.


BTW the price itself is not what is interesting about this, the price dynamics is what's most interesting to me. Also - for good price, you need access, use of real money and anonymity.


There is no locked funds, open interest is not interesting. For each binary bet you have one yes and one no for every dollar and you can turn them into a dollar at any time, since their combined value is exactly one.

Open interest does not mean much on these markets because of the constraint.


It's a centralized service.

There were a few decentralized but they did not have traction. unfortunately people prefer ease of use. I consider it an application that I use.

It uses usdc.

What is decentralized about it is the price action, which is a result of trades (including arbitrage with other prediction markets).


But are they lost?

I don't know their priorities in life. I don't believe everyone should live as I do. Maybe they prefer shorter but sweeter life, maybe it's worth it for them. Maybe they are not ready yet.


You need to message polymarket, or there's also Bitcoin prediction market (also centralized) here:

https://www.bitcoinprediction.market/


When you walk around computational vector spaces, you keep finding these peculiar pebbles. Some contain galaxies full of life embedded in the fractal structure of the pebble.

Look under the autumn leaves fallen from the Merkle trees!

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The designer for our paper Nocoiner Syndrome is lit. We are very grateful for the visual identity of the paper, including the notes on the margin. And also for managing the printing. You can find printed editions of No Coiner Syndrome at some of the cool conferences over the coming months.

Check his web and portfolio and contact him if you need amazing visuals for your project:

Web:https://nogoodkid.com/
Portfolio:https://dribbble.com/nogoodkid

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But who chooses the doctor? Why would you choose a bad doctor?


It does not cut it's own throat. It works the same way as other standards - it is taking out competition. Access to loans is only late addition, although it by itself is enough motive in fiat economy. Getting access to money printer for negative interest rate is worth a lot of money, sure they can hire a few people to write some ESG bullshit paperwork, it's cheaper than whatever they make on interest only.

But the real thing is capture of the market. Big corporations enforce this bullshit through network effects. Want to be a supplier to IBM? Sure, show them your ESG project. Want to do consulting for a bank? Oh sorry mate, even though you are single contractor, we can't accept suppliers without ESG. Because we want to keep our ESG certificate too and if we contract with non ESG entities, we lose it.

Basically ESG is creating special market with privileged access with cheap credit and cheap competitors out. And they get preferred access to money printed by the state (budget)


I feel it's very good I have no idea what you are talking about.


Yet I don't eat cereals, eat meet and eggs, and I definitely use many natural medicines.

Condpirators vs Juraj 0:2


What about all the other meetings behind closed doors. Who wins, whose conspiracy will win?

Because of computational irreducibility (Wolfram), we don't know, we have to let everything play out. All the people behind closed doors have their plans, and even that they have a lot of power on paper, we actually have huge leverage. It is super hard to control many (and there are many competing for the control), yet we can easily figure out how not to be controlled.


Everyone is responsible for their actions. And every trade has two sides.

If I was hooked on heroin as a kid, I would blame my parents more than the dealer. I have even less strict attitude towards food companies.

They are offering and I am choosing, I am very picky and I am at the driver's seat of my life.

I don't know about other people, maybe they are happy the way there are. If not, it's only them who can change their lives, not even their friends and definitely not the companies.


Not only they don't share all interests, they all want more power, which is a zero sum game, but also their strategy to reach their individual goals differ.

But yes, there's emergent phenomena even there


There are conspiracies. One very famous and well documented is demonetization of silver.


My application is still pending. They need 584 more stamps


And why would you want to get hooked? You can get hooked on heroin, are you a customer of a heroin dealer? Probably not.

There always need to be two sides of a deal. It would be evil if you had to buy their product. But we don't.


ESG is profit motive - it is pure regulatory capture.


It is by definition in complex systems. That does not mean that parts of it are not intentional, only that it is the result of many interactions of parts of a complex system.

Economy is a complex system.


Emergent behavior is not coincidence


Some people have motives to sell us more food or sell our attention. Other people sell healthy food, information on how unhealthy the food is. Some platforms are designed not to grab our attention and sell it. For every force there is a counterforce in the market. Everyone is discovering what works for them.

This world view of evil conspirators trying to kill us takes away our responsibility. No one is forcing me to use big social or eat seed oils. They have business plans, I have my plans.

It is all more like a bazaar, yet people seem to imply there's a single hierarchy with a plan. Even the big corporations and states compete with each other.


Often with emergent phenomena, we can't really tell why exactly something happened, in a level of detail.

Why did Bitcoin trade at a certain price yesterday? There are many inputs coming to this, but real answer is that supply and demand met at a certain price. Everything else is guesswork and storytelling. There might be some truth to it, but it still only is a tiny thing that influenced the price. The price in this case is the information. That's the output of the inquiry, yet people still seek stories.


Why everything has to be a conspiracy? The food industry is so evil that the CEOs sat down and hatched a plan how to make us all sick, probably buying stock in drug companies to fix it?

This sloppy thinking does not pass through the razors. It is complicated (Occam's razor) and much better explained by stupidity (Hanlon's razor) than malice.

People are confused by this, because they see emergent behavior. Yes, everything has sugar, because sugar sells. There's no conspiracy, the companies are selling people what they want. So don't want what is not good for you.

I know that it's much more fun to believe that there's an evil with a face and name causing all our troubles rather than saying people demand this and market supplies.

People can't agree on a date of a meeting with five people. But world wide conspiracy flourishes, it's kept mostly secret (except of you, right? You're one of the few that know about it, because someone tweeted about it).

Conspiracies are for people who want to complain and find whose fault something is. Much better approach for each individual - identify what's good for you and demand it. And don't get fooled by emergent behavior in complex systems. It might feel planned, but it just appears out of trillions of interactions. Yes, it's magic. Soros, Gates and Klaus don't have much more say in it than you do.


Trouble with the private feed:

- when I add private feed, I can play the episodes, but value splits are not recognized, which is weird.

- the added private feed does not stay under Shows in my Library or anywhere else (only the episodes that I played).

This is the feed:
https://juraj.bednar.io/assets/audioblog/feed.xml

Am I doing anything wrong or is it buggy?

I am on Android on 1.1.6

(What is cooking is hopefully a small revolution, at least for me - we'll turn Fountain and any podcasting 2.0 app into a reader app for blogs 😉 . Feel free to listen :)


thanks!

i did not notice the three dots there. so many useful things in that menu that I did not know about. maybe it should be more noticable. I've been checking for it on the right side where it usually is on other apps.

I'm updated to 1.1.6, I'll see if it fixed the problem, thanks!


Question and bugreport for nostr:nprofile1qqsx2wyjt6lmvc05rrvv05r5hm3w3t7h0pcpmkyswrpd4ymd2u09tscpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq3kamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu339e682mnwv4k8xct5wvhxxmmdqywhwumn8ghj7mn0wd68yttsw43zuam9d3kx7unyv4ezumn9wscn3xgh

Question: how do I import custom rss feed? Not opml, I have a feed URL and I can't seem to find a way to open it

Bug report: Lately, fountain forgets where in the podcast I stopped listening. I listen in the car, get out, put on headphones, open fountain and it starts where I was before listening in the car. Sometimes it forgets between two listens. Very annoying. I'm on GrapheneOS, I don't kill the app or anything weird. This is a new problem, it wasn't like this before.


GM
https://m.primal.net/LvfT.jpg


Let's find the cassette! 😀

Who has it?

My bets are on the Hawk Tuah girl.

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A friendly reminder that we are still far away from the #bitcoin 2021 ATH. https://m.primal.net/LukE.png


The lesson at the end is exactly what I've been doing for a long time now. Don't read the news, read the prices.

Not only about the outcome, but how probabilities react to smallest changes in the environment. Matching over 3 billion is definitely not just crypto bros trading their hopium (as @robinhanson's paper on Futarchy says "Shall We Vote on Values, But Bet on Beliefs?"). That kind of money trades an edge.

What is even more funny to me is how people think that someone would just buy trump yes tokens to see a number move on one platform. No, you do that when you have insider information. Funny thing was that it was the other way around - Trump's team was watching Polymarket numbers to see what works.

When my wife asks me if there's going to be WW3 this year, I say I don't know (no one really knows), but to see the odds, I look at the markets. The crypto bros trading these markets have an edge.

Now free Ross and I'm going back to coding. And order some coffee from my crypto bro wins on polymarket.

P.S.: https://juraj.bednar.io/en/blog-en/2021/06/23/prediction-markets-crowdsourcing-information-for-good-decisions/

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What Polymarket got Right that the Experts Got Wrong

As the dust settles on the election, there’s a story that the WSJ and NYT didn’t tell you. While the mainstream news was busy with their TV pageantry and hedging on calling key swing states, Polymarket, the world’s biggest prediction market, had already delivered its verdict by midnight EST, declaring Trump was 97% likely to win. This was before the media called even a single swing state.

All throughout this election, Polymarket was always one step ahead. I want to explain why this is, because judging from the Twitter responses I was getting last night, most people deeply misunderstand this.

There are two fundamental things that Polymarket did better than the media.

1. Polymarket was more accurate on the forecast going into the election.

Let’s take the pollsters and analysts. Election poll-based models claimed the race was a dead-even 50/50. Polymarket meanwhile was priced Trump with a distinct edge—going into the election, he was priced around 62% to win.

If you remember, the mainstream media derided Polymarket for this difference. Polymarket should be the same as the modelers, they said! Obviously it means you can’t trust Polymarket. It’s priced differently because it’s a bunch of Trump-loving crypto bros. It’s invested by Peter Thiel. Only foreigners trade on it. It's unregulated, so it must be being manipulated. There's a whale pushing up the price of Trump. And on and on.

Implicit in this dismissal is a deep distrust of markets. As though markets cannot be trusted unless affirmatively proven otherwise. And of course, if you actually trusted the markets, you might not trust the media anymore. And their whole business model is predicated on you distrusting anyone but them—why else would you continue to click on their never-ending stream of clickbait?

But anyone with experience with markets knows: it doesn’t fucking matter if a market is composed of  Republicans, or Democrats, or foreigners, or whatever. In reality, we know that JP Morgan was using Polymarket, as were some of the largest hedge funds in the world (most have non-US subsidiaries). It was integrated into Bloomberg Terminal, it was being quoted on CNN. And yet the media spoke of Polymarket as though it was 4chan.

Understand, Polymarket traded $3.6 BILLION dollars on the presidential election. This was the largest election betting market by volume IN HISTORY and AN ORDER OF MAGNITUDE more than any other election market ever. There was more riding on this than any single modelers’ career prospects. Understand—markets work because of how much is riding on getting the answer right.

These supposed biases—being Trump-aligned crypto-pilled non-Americans—didn’t skew the market’s accuracy. (It seems obvious in retrospect that being non-American might improve your ability to dispassionately predict an election.)

But the identities of the bettors didn't matter. Prediction markets distill input from many diverse actors to produce prices that transcend biases. Markets don't care about ideology, they only care about being right.

And as it turns out, Polymarket was more right than any pollster or modeler.

Now, I want to be clear what I’m not saying: the difference between 60/40 and 50/50 sounds big, but it’s not. Elections are noisy. High school statistics will tell you that if you want to tell if a coin is rigged to be 60/40 rather than 50/50, you would need over 100 coin flips to have 90% certainty. The outcome of “Trump won this election” does not tell you whether the coin was 60/40 or 50/50.

My point is not that Polymarket was right and the models were wrong. They actually didn't disagree with each other by much. I'm making a more subtle point: the market was consistently pricing Trump’s odds higher than the polls. Remember, the market knows what the polls and analysts are saying. Markets incorporate all existing information—but Polymarket disagreed with with the pollsters. The only explanation that analysts could come up with for this was: Polymarket is biased.

They didn’t have the humility to imagine, maybe, just maybe, Polymarket knew something that was not being captured by the polls.

Polling sucks. This is all well established now. In the pre-Internet era, polling was much more accurate. Landline poll response rates were often above 60%. Today, poll response rates are around 5%. This means pollsters are getting massive sampling biases, and there is no possible way to correct these biases without baking in clumsy statistical corrections. (Plus pollsters—who are ultimately selling a product and have reputations to keep up—frequently herd their estimates together to avoid being an outlier, which fucks up poll aggregation.)

Plus, Trump is special. He is uniquely divisive in American politics. So for three elections in a row, we have seen massive polling errors that underestimated his support—the so called “Shy Trump Voter” effect.

Polymarket presumably believed that the polls were missing this. The pollsters said, no: we’ve updated our models and corrected for it. Polymarket said: I don't buy it. Polymarket was right.

Now, again! Polymarket did not say the election was 90% for Trump to win. 62% is not a sure thing, and elections are genuinely uncertain. But what irks me is that there was not even a tinge of curiosity from the media about the delta. Maybe Polymarket knows something we don’t? Maybe there’s information we’re missing that’s not being captured in the polls?

Remember, Trump massively outperformed his polls all across the country, in both red states and blue ones. He sweeped every single swing state, and even won the popular vote—something most people thought impossible.

Are you really so confident that there was no way to detect this—the sentiment of tens of millions of Americans—that didn’t involve the same old pollsters running the same old Internet surveys?

This is what being a student of the markets teaches you. Markets are smart. But they don’t explain themselves—they just show you the outcome.

That brings us to the second way that Polymarket outperformed the media.

2. Polymarket called the election in real-time, way before the media did.

The inscrutability of markets came in full force on election night. Polymarket moved quickly and violently before a single swing state was ever called. According to Polymarket, the election was over by midnight, while the mainstream media was milking the drama until the election was officially called at 6AM the next morning. Why was this?

First, Polymarket saw an important correlation that the mainstream media was not willing to explain to their viewers. You see, polling errors are seldom random; they are usually correlated across states. So when traders saw that Trump was massively outperforming his polls in states that were not themselves competitive—picking up huge vote share in NYC (cleanly blue) or Florida (cleanly red), this meant that there must be a massive polling miss across the country.

Polymarket immediately picked up on this and realized that the swing states could not possibly be competitive anymore. Polymarket priced Trump to win Pennsylvania at 90% by 11:30PM, when only a small portion of the Pennsylvania vote had been counted.

Prediction markets don’t wait for pageantry or pundits. It doesn’t care if it invalidates the sacred ritual of waiting for the votes to be counted. Remember in 2020 when Fox News called Arizona early (which turned out to be correct), viewers were outraged. Trump vowed to boycott the network over it. This reinforced the lesson—the networks must sit there and dutifully count up the votes. Don’t be too clever.

But markets don’t care about drama. They only care about outcomes. Obviously, it would be incredibly difficult to explain to a CNN viewer that the election is over, the polling error in non-competitive states is too big, Kamala is doomed and you should go to sleep and not bother to wait for swing states. It goes against the narrative that the media has been reinforcing for months. The public wants simple, explainable stories, and everyone knows how the narrative is supposed to go—you wait for the swing states and until one of the little colored bars crosses the 270 line.

At 12:51AM, the NYT was still showing this dramatic chart and headline. By then Polymarket already had Trump priced at 98% to win.

So election watchers dutifully stayed up through the night so the media could complete its empty ritual of filling up the bars.

Polymarket’s traders have no loyalty to narrative and no incentive to play up the drama for ratings—they just call it straight. @shayne_coplan, Polymarket’s founder, said that Trump’s campaign team was reading Polymarket to try to understand how to actually interpret the odds. The media even had the gall to complain that Trump was declaring victory when his electoral count was at 267—at that point, the Polymarket odds were so low that they registered as 100%.

The beauty of markets is they respond instantly to new information. The fastest trader who incorporates the information gets a prize—profit. This is something traditional media fundamentally is not set up to do. They have to filter events through layers of interpretation, narrative making, and internal politics (recall Murdoch’s intercession into the 2020 Arizona call).

The decentralized nature of Polymarket bypasses all this bullshit. It lets information flow without any interference.

There is a lot to reflect on from last night. This election was a resounding reprimand of the Democratic party, a rejection of the expert class, and an immune response against an arrogant media.

But for Polymarket, it was a night of pure vindication.

For me, the lesson is this: the next time something important is going on in the world, skip the op eds and check the Polymarket odds.


hopefully only his family. let's give him some peace and let them enjoy the moment.


Lower the cost to exit slavery.


Innovations happening every day. If you are using chat interfaces to AI for coding, you might want to paste all your codebase to the prompt, right?

I bring you "unapaster", part of my dotfiles. Unapaster copies all the code, including filenames into clipboard.

BTW: You need a working pbcopy command. On macOS it is there by default, on Linux, it is defined in dotfiles.

https://github.com/jooray/dotfiles/commit/65b1cb73c469cd1f04786043668486a209ea3b7d


You have been asking about the source of the second part, it's here:
https://x.com/esrtweet/status/1853277598840672361

I don't have a link to the manufacturer, maybe ask esr.


My podcasting 2.0 dashboard has another small update.

- it shows a number unique contributors (if they have a username) per podcast and per episode
- it groups sats per user and per episode, so you don't have 24 sats every minute, but it's shown per user for each episode.

(and if you have not heard the episode on the screenshot, I highly recommend it).

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

Get it here:
https://github.com/jooray/podcaster-boost-dashboard


They are not and it's crazy expensive for my use case


Do you know of any great text to speech models that do intonation well? Open weights. They do not need to clone voices.

I've tried suno bark, but it sometimes hallucinates. I need the reading to be literally what's written. Also tried f5-tts, intonation is not great and the speed varies a lot, so when it's reading multiple texts, the speed of output speech is different between generation. The duration predictor is also not great and sometimes causes cutoffs.

Have I missed something?

English only for now is ok.


One man's raging dystopia is another man's hot immigration opportunity.

Ja vždy keď počujem tento muzak tak mám chuť pustiť k tomu 30 oscilátorov, vŕtačky, zbíjačku a zvuk zásuvky, ktoré to kompletne zničia, navždy.


Wow, what do you use for inference?

Check out this:
https://github.com/jooray/lxmf-ai-bot

Works out of box with any lxmf client including nomadnet and sideband.


exactly. reticulum is much cooler than Meshtastic.

I also love Meshtastic of course, but just the scale of things you can do with Reticulum is completely different.

nostr:note1nu7wsw9hp9tgme6m4tayx309wzz3s75cvtwhte5x3u7cgdqw450q6lxajl


Beautiful.

Yesterday I was walking through the forest, a bit lost. I opened my phone (GrapheneOS powered) with OSMand and found my way.

Both are free and open source. Yes, the operating system and the navigation software. But so are maps. Imagine that someone went to the same forest, with a gps recorder and walked all the paths just to contribute to a free and open source database.

These days we have open weights AI, my mum is 3D printing something for a friend. It's an amazing world that was easy to imagine, but it was much harder to actually believe that this is how the world turns out.

Over from the bird by Eric S. Raymond:

You can just make things.

This is my massive white-pill about the revolution in small scale manufacturing that's going on right now.

The immediate trigger is a story I read about a guy who was annoyed that his wife needed a wheelchair, and the designs were all crappy and hideously expensive and made in China. So he booted up a small factory that now builds custom wheelchairs, delivering them for about $1,000 a pop, undercutting the Chinese by a factor of five.

The context, though is something that's been going on since the first mass market 3D printers in 2009. We've had more than a decade now in which many of the people who would have become part of the hacker culture I came up in back when software was the cutting edge have been learning how to use FDM printers, desktop CNC mills, laser cutters, EDM machines, and all kinds of physical fabrication techniques that you can set up in a garage or a basement.

The lesson has had time to sink in. If you're clever about it, you can hack matter the way we learned how to hack code - high speed, low drag, flexibly and playfully.

You can just make things. Without bimpty-bump millions of dollars of startup capital. With the new tech you can start small, turn a profit on boutique items, and scale up organically.

SpaceX is part of this story, using rapid iterations of custom designs made with 3D printing in sintered metal to continuously improve and simplify their rocket engines. So are Defense Distributed and the other semi-underground firearms-fabrication anarchists. So were the people who figured out how to garage-build respirators during the COVID panic. And now so is JerryRigEverything, the YouTuber who built a wheelchair factory.

The software revolution of a quarter century ago was fueled by Dennard scaling driving down the cost of compute power and wide area networking. Suddenly you could do things on a desktop that had taken raised floors and dedicated computer rooms just a few years before. Hackers grabbed these new possibilities and ran with them. I helped the movement understand itself.

I see something very like that happening again now. But instead of the demassification of software, we're seeing the demassification of manufacturing. The new hackers are being playful with atoms rather than bits. But the same spirit is there; I can feel it every time I wander into a makerspace.

These kids are not going to be stopped. There's too much fun to be had. Too many brains chasing every problem in sight. If my hacker culture didn't still exist it would make me all nostalgic to watch them.

But no. The old hacker culture and the new one flow together at the edges. The apprentice I'm teaching systems programming has a side-hustle printing models for mail-order customers. The kids put their part designs in public repositories; they didn't have to discover open source and distributed collaboration, they grew up absorbing both through their pores.

(Which has the accidental result that though I'm not leading things and writing manifestos this time, I'm one of their culture heroes anyway. That feels nice, I won't deny it.)

And you ain't seen nothing yet.

FDM and other small-scale fabrication technologies are attracting enough attention to improve at a torrid pace. There are obvious synergies with robotics and deep learning that haven't kicked in yet. Or, maybe they already have in somebody's garage, and we'll find out about it next week or next month.

It's a swarm attack, a disruption from below, and lots of conventional large-scale manufacturing outfits are going to suffer the fate of massified Chinese wheelchair factories - they just don't know it yet. They'll be undercut by cheaper, lighter, faster, smarter, custom, and localized.

Somewhere, Buckminster Fuller is whispering "ephemeralization" and smiling.


They might be well paid, but it's also horrible for them. They end up losing a life in a loveless hierarchy inside a building with artificial light and bad coffee. See here:

https://cryptoanarchy.institute/nocoiner-syndrome-2024.pdf


The plastic cap haiku

Caps that never part,
EU rules bind tight, but still,
missed mark in design.


Pretix would be great. It's used by CCC, HCPP, Paralelní Polis.

Although for me it could be super simple. Actually I don't even need the sales system, only pre generated tokens and I can distribute the tickets myself. I organize very simple events. And I'd like to not even have email address or any other user info. So what nostr:nprofile1qqs9pk20ctv9srrg9vr354p03v0rrgsqkpggh2u45va77zz4mu5p6ccpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsz9thwden5te0dehhxarj9ehhsarj9ejx2a30qyg8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnddakj7xph5zr created is even better than pretix, where there's a more complicated sales process with t-shirt sizes, email addresses, name tags.

I just need "one entry, not used yet, valid".

Can't wait to try it out.


proof of concept for nostr:npub1m2mvvpjugwdehtaskrcl7ksvdqnnhnjur9v6g9v266nss504q7mqvlr8p9 – chaumian ecash conference tickets? nostr:npub1parp0lkn26z4aznndhr0l09zfdfm8mkmmlmre8jgt92ajrywsd0q3samkj

required only minimal changes in the mint and the wallet. the mint sells tickets for a fixed BTC price via Lightning. users can trade tickets aftermarket without double-spend risk – buying a ticket that has been sold multiple times, a very common issue for conferences, concerts, etc. should we explore this further?

https://image.nostr.build/899fcab031848113930d17f60ac693e5a77fcac4225cf24c26a82a2919906f93.png


AnyType. Rely on full text search, no organization ever except for basic folder structure.


You have Dvorak and Smetana, we have Palo Habera. We're not the same.


GDPR - How Not to Protect User Privacy

A blog about how the state, with good intentions, managed to reduce privacy, decrease wealth, and create another European regulatory megafail.

https://juraj.bednar.io/en/blog-en/2024/11/03/gdpr-how-not-to-protect-user-privacy/


GDPR – ako chrániť súkromie užívateľov nesprávne

Blog o tom, ako s dobrými úmyslami štát zhoršil súkromie, znížil bohatstvo a vytvoril ďalší európsky regulačný megafail.

https://juraj.bednar.io/blog/2024/11/03/gdpr-ako-chranit-sukromie-uzivatelov-nespravne/


on the contrary, I'm very pro lisp!


Everyone is also not a KPI. We are not everyone.


AI in VIM? Sure.

Now show us your emacs setup! Ctrl-Shift-Meta-Alt-A (release keys) Shift-Meta-Alt-Option-I to start generation? :)

#emacsvsvim #itsnotevenfair #vimftw

https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.vim


don't get a job! jobs are a scam!

peer to peer awaits, if you are a Bitcoiner already, don't join a hierarchy, opt out!

https://hackyourself.io/2024/07/18/you-are-a-bitcoiner-now-whats-next/


Dostanete svoju VR prilbu, a to od schválených korporácií – buď Meta, alebo Apple – takže máte na výber, no nie? A budete šťastní.

Toto je podľa mňa tá najpravdepodobnejšia dystópia.

K tomu vám pribalíme plán na univerzálny príjem a výživový roztok do žily.

A ako bonus? Dvaja klauni na výber, aby ste sa nenudili. Stará partička politických aparátchikov sa bude neustále doťahovať aby vás udržali v "napätí". Budete sa cítiť slobodní, veď predsa volíte každé štyri roky. Ich osud závisí od vás - a svojom úspechu v tlačovkových dueloch.

Vypnite to. Je to shit. Pri telenovele sa aspoň môžete naučiť španielsky. To sa inak mnohým hodí viac ako tlačovka - stretneme sa vo Villa Morra.


Wow this is insane:

Oasis, the first playable, realtime, open-world AI model. It's a video game, but entirely generated by AI. Oasis is the first step in our research towards more complex interactive worlds.

Oasis takes in user keyboard input and generates real-time gameplay, including physics, game rules, and graphics. You can move around, jump, pick up items, break blocks, and more. There is no game engine; just a foundation model.

https://m.primal.net/LqQE.gif

https://oasis-model.github.io/
https://github.com/etched-ai/open-oasis


don't do engagement as KPI.

are you having fun in your life of the better kpi


Normies use ChatGPT, not google search to ask about how to get rich fast.

It's new times.


Fixed it
https://image.nostr.build/0058c5efc09d5558d26a693421ab83108aa5bd5b263fdb7399e59640f205257b.jpg


Didn’t we already do the glitch scenes

https://media.tenor.com/ne1791asfmoAAAAC/wxs-pjsekai.gif

nostr:note1f2euhf6zlcnxxhetr5y36egdlcxf3ec0au83h24z406zlh9h9k0scs7lyj


very cool, what device is it and what STL?

I have a bunch of lilygo 1.6.1 that I use (mostly for Reticulum, not Meshtastic).


Definitely not lazy, but I am a lazy #Linux  or #Unix user ( ⊙‿⊙). Thanks https://www.commitstrip.com/en/2017/02/28/definitely-not-lazy/

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/411/160/659/508/436/original/7e86a57a9252eafe.mp4


nice, thank you


No. bitcoin hedged, only the accounting unit is different.


i mean the code that I can run myself, not someone else's node.

do you know what they're running?


check nostr:npub13ru8q7j9aqj6z0knsvej40nw9ugy4dzdsau3303z25qg8g44nesqtrc9st (nostr:npub1guvns4ld8k2f3sugel055w7eq8zeewq7mp6w2stpnt6j75z60z3sarf239), he makes very cool decentralized house music.

he also did some yet unreleased tracks for the first episode of nostr:npub1f49twdlzlw667r74jz6t06xxlemd8gp2j7g77l76easpl8jsltvqvlzpez


Is there a Cashu mint implementation that supports EUR (or USD, but I am more interested in EUR) tokens and has a callback for hedging for mint and melt operations (minting through Bitcoin of course) and can get an exchange rate somehow?

Bonus points if there would be a way to swap BTC and EUR balances (basically a eur-side melt paying another mint invoice for sats denominated mint).

Of course asking for a friend, I only do testnet EUR.


It needs an Alby account just to see what kind of downloads there are. Something that is preferably a software, not a service relying on a third party?

Or is there a way to run Alby Hub without Alby account?


Electrum comes to mind, but preferably something with two buttons Send and Receive, not a super complicated menu and channel management.


Strangely enough, two people have asked me already about a desktop lightning wallet that is non-custodial, but is not a full node requiring bitcoind or something complicated (it can have full node like Breez, if the node is invisible to the user and doing something like Neutrino). Something like Phoenix or Breez, but for desktop.

Any ideas?

I checked: Breez, Phoenix, Zeus don't have desktop versions, Green does have desktop version, but it's based on prehistoric Green version that doesn't do lightning.


EN: A domain is a fiat asset.

That's why I've been recommending for years not to use a .sk domain and why I'm glad that, for example, Nostr identities don't have anything to do with domains (unlike fediverse or email).

The attached article is about a domain for the new brand of slovak tv and radio (another rebrand just to change the director) and how they took some student's domain for his personal blog, because of course state TV has bigger cock.

SK: Doména je fiat asset.

Preto už roky odporúčam nepoužívať sk doménu (viď kniha Hackni sa) a preto som rád, že napríklad Nostr identity nemajú nič s doménami (na rozdiel od fediverse alebo e-mailu).

https://www.techbyte.sk/2024/10/exkluzivne-stvr-ziskala-domenu-stvr-sk/


Just discovered your podcast, been listening to past episodes for all morning. Great content!


Don't get psyoped into believing that running a Lightning node is hard. It's not.

Most people just wants to sell you something.


Hey internet friends! My name is Mitch and I run the Project Untethered YouTube channel (112k subs) where I share the best travel hacks I’ve discovered from the last 9 years digital nomad-ing in the road. Things like tricks for finding cheap flights, packing hacks, sneaky travel scams to avoid, and basically everything you need to know to travel smarter for less. If you like travel and wanna save money, check it out!

I’m sitting next to the Great nostr:npub1qqvt0m3nlvjnssmrn33w9yh7cuq2dx5nkz8wxax9hk5hrjdnj4jqz8cn3w  right now, who I hear is a big deal around here and convinced me NOSTR is the future 😎

#introductions #travelstr #travel
https://www.youtube.com/@ProjectUntethered
https://m.primal.net/Lmay.jpg
https://m.primal.net/Lmaz.jpg
https://m.primal.net/LmbA.jpg


New on Fountain | Option Plus Podcast with Juraj Bednar

 nostr:npub1m2mvvpjugwdehtaskrcl7ksvdqnnhnjur9v6g9v266nss504q7mqvlr8p9 wants to us to be free and prosper. His podcast shows us find a better way of living through life design, biohacking - and bitcoin. You can now boost the show as you listen on Fountain.

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

https://fountain.fm/show/y0gebGFAwiozvBv8VDac


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

BTC Prague '24 was the first #Bitcoin conference to have a dedicated #Nostr booth. It was crowd-funded via  nostr:npub1kmwdmhuxvafg05dyap3qmy42jpwztrv9p0uvey3a8803ahlwtmnsnhxqk9
 and it was amazing! 🔥

Now, the Nostr booth is going on a LatAm tour 🌎, attending  nostr:npub1ze93u0u37u3x0gnfffgxl33k60v7t3afs64jgzf4xznapr4ra5us0u3pxq, LaBitConf and  nostr:npub1ad0ptuzte83alpkpqqctvewlaqj5zq23c83m82xw8apg4t6zlyns6xng2c to further #grownostr .

Check out the Geyserfund page for all the details, and don't forget to donate to help make this tour a reality!

https://geyser.fund/project/thenostrboothinitiative


The nocoiner syndrome is not simply having no Bitcoin. Most people on this planet as of this writing have no Bitcoin. Some don't know about it, some have not invested enough time to learn about it, and some do not want or need it for its properties.

The nocoiner syndrome is a condition under which a person perceives early adopters of Bitcoin as immoral. Often, this condition stems from their perception that early Bitcoin adopters in their vicinity have quickly become extremely wealthy, by not producing anything, "just buying Bitcoin". The root cause of this syndrome is perception of a "missed train" and further justification of why Bitcoin itself and also the early adopters are bad, immoral, or misguided.

To be diagnosed with the nocoiner syndrome, individuals must actively oppose and judge Bitcoiners. This often involves hiding trauma from past dismissals of Bitcoin as unworkable or harboring suppressed feelings like 'we missed this train' or 'it is too late.' This leads to animosity towards Bitcoiners.

https://cryptoanarchy.institute/nocoiner-syndrome-2024.pdf


The🍁 "haiku"

Falling autumn leaves,
sixty percent SOC set,
battery on guard.

(Non haiku version:

When the leaves start to fall
I set minimum state of charge to 60%
My home solar system becomes mostly a backup battery
Ready for the system to fall too)


i meant something else, but this would work too.

i mean I make bitpunk.fm cassette from the digital recording and I mail it to someone who wants it on the other side of the pond.


that's the part I don't understand and I need to.

looking forward!


This looks so cool! If only I haven't been burned by so many kickstarters in the past 😩

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hiro-akihabara/fabcassette-open-source-portable-cassette-tape-player-kit


OK, a quick hack solution is to put custom search into Alfred or similar launcher (Albert on Linux) with your openwebui instance URL followed by /?q={query}.

Acceptable for now, although still a bit slow.


Does anyone know how to run Open-webui as a wrapped app with keyboard shortcuts to act as a replacement for local Siri (Apple Intelligence)/ChatGPT apps? Like pressing a hotkey will give me instant prompt to type in, without searching for browser windows and creating new conversation?

Adding a context menu to texts to allow summarization, shortening, elaborating, changing tone, or just custom rewrites would be cool as well. Especially because it would be multi-language (contrary to Apple Intelligence) and local (contrary to ChatGPT).

Another option would be any Ollama client that does the same. Open-Webui is cool though, because it can have multiple prompt styles and can work with multiple ollama endpoints, so I can use ollama-venice proxy for models that don't fit into the machine's RAM.


GM, it's not the best book but it's honest work. What matters though is consistency.

The hardest part about philosophy is to remember in daily life what you once understood during a meditation. On the spot, within a second or two, when life challenges you, to be able to recognize your emotions and to remember what you've once read and decided how you would act. The hard part is not understanding, it's acting on it when you actually need to. Even a child can understand it because what's good is often simple, even trivial.

The only way to get there is through repetition. Do philosophy every day and your moral instincts will grow like a muscle.

https://image.nostr.build/9b0b3d7cef2f742172bffe11733b20923adf3b6d347c54f1f2f47f883ebf0395.jpg


when small men
create long shadows
surely the sun is about to set
--lin yutang


Cool protocol, although another option is that someone else records it on the cassette. It's maybe the easier solution for overseas shipping.

I can't offer this yet, our recording capabilities are pretty low quality.

https://fountain.fm/episode/Ap8ySkb8dF3azttpOt2S

nostr:nevent1qvzqqqpxquqzpfpkugnew0rn4s0lgm8d8gdsrrmslwrzn0eqm0v884df5s2nk75afal76w


Unfortunately, no. I can try to create the subtitles, but it would be quite tiring to read subtitles of such a long podcast.


Some even have The nocoiner syndrome. Although it's curable.

https://cryptoanarchy.institute/nocoiner-syndrome-2024.pdf

https://cryptoanarchy.institute/nocoiner-syndrome-preview.jpeg


¡Olvídate del banco, pide prestado con tus criptomonedas! Nuevos protocolos descentralizados permiten usar Bitcoin como garantía para préstamos, ofreciendo privacidad, control y accesibilidad.

https://gccviews.com/prestamos-con-garantia-de-criptomonedas-una-alternativa-a-la-banca-tradicional/


They got a dose of loving kindness in the end though. That should make them less resentful.


Don't know House of Leaves, but it reminds me of S.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/8956607788/


The guys from ECB should get this to study.

nostr:note15yv99085zajkv0z0pk3vl40dn7tt884r3t3jtrpt3aswqq9nad2qvehrxu


Cypherpunk + AI.

Converting semantic vectors to encrypted with fully homomorphic encryption and doing compute without knowing the source.

https://image.nostr.build/30d5ffd90b637bb18cbbd2a325b360154a742ffd56b7aae787ecaa40c3f83ed6.jpg


Už jste bitcoineři, gratulujeme! 😎 Každý den ale stojíte před výzvou – dokážete vytvořit větší hodnotu podnikáním, nebo je nejlepší strategií prostě hodlovat #Bitcoin? 🤔
nostr:npub1m2mvvpjugwdehtaskrcl7ksvdqnnhnjur9v6g9v266nss504q7mqvlr8p9 rozebírá, jak využít příležitosti, které Bitcoin nabízí, a zároveň přispět světu tím nejlepším, co v nás je. 🌍🙌

Podívejte se na celý záznam z #ChainCamp 2024 👉 youtu.be/JpBDGy6NaZU


I think this would be an ideal use case of Cashu (Cc nostr:nprofile1qqs9pk20ctv9srrg9vr354p03v0rrgsqkpggh2u45va77zz4mu5p6ccpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsz9thwden5te0dehhxarj9ehhsarj9ejx2a30qyg8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnddakj7xph5zr). The only problem is that mints can't do keysend now. There should be a way to get the node to give us invoice that would be processed and logged on the server side as keysend. At least until v4v spec adds either lightning address, or even better bolt-12. But there should still be a way to do keysend payment, as podcasts won't have to migrate.

Cashu would add a choice of custodians, self sovereignty, privacy but no need for channel management.

Another option is Nostr wallet connect, but that would not expand the selection that much, it's pretty much Alby and mutiny these days, while mutiny is shutting down. But hopefully NWC will be adopted by more wallets.

Both Cashu and NWC are usable from web, with very simple APIs, so implementing this is possible even in the browser apps (PWAs)


Check out Juraj's podcast to dive more into the Optionality concept. (He's pretty active on Nostr as well; I just can't find the npubs now..)

https://fountain.fm/show/y0gebGFAwiozvBv8VDac


I've tried them out. So far:

- all seem to support only Alby, I don't have Alby account, except for Podverse, which wants web-ln browser extension (probably better, but I still don't use it).
- PodcastGuru has not updated episode of my podcast since August. All other players see the new episodes, this one does not

Do any of these support a different model than Web-ln / Alby? What I like about fountain is that users can immediately begin.

On the plus side - wow, so many apps!


Yup, the any-amount ecash will be based on KVAC also used in WabiSabi and Signal! The mint only needs a single private key, and the entire wallet can be stored in just a single nut. All that while also vastly improving privacy (blinded amounts, like confidential transactions).

It's going to be so fucking beautiful 🥹


What are other great v4v players besides fountain?


cashu.me now supports restoring ecash from a seed phrase

https://video.nostr.build/1e4c3ad0d0f87179050087cd9d996424dc2241d6f49d47c5addaeb643a3f0660.mp4


SK: Predikčné trhy predstavujú praktický spôsob, ako môžeme nahliadnuť do budúcnosti bez nutnosti spoliehať sa na tradičné, často nepresné metódy, ako je veštenie z kávových usadenín, hlasovanie, či komentáre “odborníkov” v novinách. Filip poukazuje na fakt, že tradičné metódy získavania informácií, ako sú prieskumy verejnej mienky, môžu byť dosť zásadne nepresné. To znamená, že predikčné trhy, ktoré umožňujú účastníkom investovať do svojich názorov, poskytujú presnejší a realistickejší odraz skutočnosti

Prečo “gambling” hovorí niečo o svete, ako ho možno používať na hedging budúcnosti, poistky, získavanie informácií, či robenie lepších rozhodnutí alebo dokonca financovanie verejných statkov?

https://juraj.bednar.io/podcast/2024/10/27/filip-legeny-predikcne-trhy-ako-nevestit-buducnost-z-kavovych-usadenin/


Banyk pyčo

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I got this one. No Bluetooth headphones, but has a recording function.

https://www.amazon.de/dp/B0D5R63Z7X/ref=pe_27091401_487027711_TE_SCE_dp_i1


If you don't have the cassettes, you can even make them from the digital version yourself! Just start a v4v player like fountain, press record and flip the tape when the time comes.


Hack for kids: instead of an unrestricted access to a tablet, give them a walkman with cassettes. They get understanding of physical medium, they can record songs they like (even from YouTube), stories, ... Modern walkmans can record from analog audio input, some have even an integrated microphone.

They have fun, they can play and it's entirely their own thing.

On the other side there's no corporation wanting their attention to fill their head with cornflakes ads.

And then you give them nostr:nprofile1qqsy6j4hxl30hdd0pl2epd9harr0uakn5q4f0y000ldv7cqlneg04kqpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsz8thwden5te0dehhxarj9e3hjurgv4e8qatwdvh8gmmyv9uj7qghwaehxw309ahx7um5wghxy6t5wp6ku6ewvekj7su0fdq cassettes to listen to some good music (e.g. nostr:nprofile1qqsg37rs0fz7sfdp8mfcxve2hehz7yz2k3xcw7gchc392qyr526eucqppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0cr555r) and they also learn about Bitcoin and analog encoding and a lot of other stuff.
 https://image.nostr.build/c8e9a9c0ea0d0e32444f7aa43379f6e40962dd3cdf8d15e785b984026c4123bb.jpg


🌄 Cesta Bitcoinera je kľukatá a strastiplná…

@dusan měl tu čest otevřít celý #ChainCamp a jeho úvod z roku 2140 byl naprosto epický! 🚀✨

Cesta každého Bitcoinera vede přes spoustu překážek – od shitcoinů a scamů až po různé chyby, které nás formují a posouvají blíž a blíž k #Bitcoinu.🌐

Podívejte se na celé video a inspirujte se zkušeným edukátorem Duškym 👉 https://youtu.be/nZXRBY_WDPk?si=DWFgogEMmiXJ1XGU
https://m.primal.net/LibY.jpg


i should have started my node!

I'll try to run nostr over lora one day


If you are ok with deciphering Slovak text into English, here's my setup.

https://juraj.bednar.io/blog/2017/05/03/preco-podcast/

https://fountain.fm/episode/UZja41zrce4ibncf7B5A

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I did not make the picture. :)


I've seen a video of making roses out of autumn leaves and ignored it at first, but there's so many maples around that I tried. There are some birthdays coming and I'm honestly not a fan of buying cut flowers, they're also lately seriously expensive, more than the gifts even👀

Just take a twig, fold some dry leaves and roll them around twig's end, tighten a few with a thread every time. It takes a LOT of leaves, this is about 15 and it's half done. I added some other leaves to make it visually more interesting when it's made bigger, because I don't think I'll manage to get some clean look anyway.
I know what we're doing with kids tomorrow, several of these roses could make a pretty thing. And grandmas will get something my kids made themselves, by themselves, of course. Their idea completely etc etc.😄

https://image.nostr.build/93df4cdb61679c52a88b9dccf7cc2e1fc96fa5e124363de534671bf2d37a8447.jpg #diy #idea #flower #autumn #decoration


same for me, until it's overtaken by the normies

enjoying it while it lasts

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I did not know this was possible, very cool. A way to do it in Firefox anyone (I mean the right click way)?

https://alfy.blog/2024/10/19/linking-directly-to-web-page-content.html


A more detailed write-up: https://juraj.bednar.io/en/blog-en/2024/10/23/how-i-save-my-time-and-attention-with-value4value-podcasts/


Well, you can always listen in a browser, but I think this realization is a feature, so I'd rather find something more valuable to listen to. Valuable for me.


Interesting. I think I do. What exactly does not work?

* Host juraj.bednar.io:80 was resolved.
* IPv6: (none)
* IPv4: 95.217.142.57
*   Trying 95.217.142.57:80...
* Connected to juraj.bednar.io (95.217.142.57) port 80
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> Host: juraj.bednar.io
> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/5.0)
> Accept: */*
>
* Request completely sent off
< HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
< Server: nginx
< Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2024 20:43:37 GMT
< Content-Type: text/html
< Content-Length: 162
< Connection: keep-alive
< Location: https://juraj.bednar.io/
< Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=15768000; includeSubdomains; preload
< X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
< X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
< Referrer-Policy: strict-origin-when-cross-origin
< X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
<

<title>301 Moved Permanently</title>

301 Moved Permanently

nginx

* Connection #0 to host juraj.bednar.io left intact


Here's a more detailed write-up:

https://juraj.bednar.io/en/blog-en/2024/10/23/how-i-save-my-time-and-attention-with-value4value-podcasts/


I think both.

Here's a more detailed writeup on it

https://juraj.bednar.io/en/blog-en/2024/10/23/how-i-save-my-time-and-attention-with-value4value-podcasts/


BTW: There are a few shootouts to you in the podcast, so boost up your Slovak skills 😃


That's official liberation travel t-shirt!


Experiment of increasing sats/min to 200. What happened?

EN: https://juraj.bednar.io/en/blog-en/2024/10/23/how-i-save-my-time-and-attention-with-value4value-podcasts/

SK: https://juraj.bednar.io/blog/2024/10/23/experiment-s-value4value-podcastami-ako-posluchac-aj-ako-podcaster/


S Pavlom Šimonom sme nahrali super podcast o energetike, decentralizácii, energetickej intuícii, miningu, .... Dlhší, ale veľmi výživný podľa mňa.

https://juraj.bednar.io/podcast/2024/10/23/pavel-simon-energeticka-intuicia-decentralizacia-a-bitcoin/


After setting 200 sats/min for v4v listening in Fountain, something unexpected happened to me.

I am much more picky about what I listen to. Example: I started to listen to some techie AI podcast. After few minutes I thought to myself "I know all this stuff they're talking about and I'm paying for this, I'll skip ahead". I skipped and switched to a different podcast eventually.

Normally I would tell myself "I know this stuff, but the guys are nice, maybe I'll learn something new".

Value4value works in both ways. I reward creators for the value I receive, but it makes me very conscious about what I receive.

And since my time is precious, I actually save it.


some inspiration from dads on how to handle this situation

https://m.primal.net/Leqk.jpg
https://m.primal.net/Leql.jpg
https://m.primal.net/Leqm.jpg
https://m.primal.net/Leqn.jpg


Prečo by som klamal?


Peňaženka je integrovaná a chce osobné údaje. Čo je za mňa no go.


bandwidth depends on the physical medium. you can do wifi and the bandwidth is like wifi. LoRA is super slow, but that is only one of the options, it runs over almost any network

you can also run IP over reticulum, but probably not the best for your use case


I'm interested!

followed you as well.


you can! nutband is only to exchange the token with the mint for fresh one over reticulum. you actually send the tokens over reticulum (lxmf is the chatting protocol).

so you send it however you want, but when you receive it, you want to exchange it with the mint and nutband allows you to do also that over reticulum, not internet.


I thought he was, but now I can't find him. He does not do much social networks, he writes code mostly.


we should go to Ozora, it's in Hungary.

I've heard good things


For me, monero is definitely not an enemy.

As to how, you can actually do quite a lot

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


That is actually a really good idea. And you can type the amount and hand over just the ecash notes in that amount. And just mark them as spent locally. Much safer than dumb card which gives everything.

How does one make a flipper app?


RELAYS HAVE EVOLVED!

Nostr relays have evolved beyond their initial role as dumb pipes or simple databases. Today, the Nostr ecosystem is home to a variety of specialized relays, each offering unique functionalities.

What unique relays exist on Nostr? Here are a few:

wss://gm.swarmstr.com - A relay for GMs only
wss://catstrr.swarmstr.com - Cat pics and content about cats
wss://questions.swarmstr.com - A questions only relay
by  nostr:npub178umpxtdflcm7a08nexvs4mu384kx0ngg9w8ltm5eut6q7lcp0vq05qrg4

wss://eyes.f7z.io - notes with the 👀 emoji only
wss://140.f7z.io - 140 character max notes, like Twitter's old policy
by  nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft

wss://algo.utxo.one - a new type of algorithm based relay
This type of relay category is very new, but will grow over time.
by  nostr:npub1utx00neqgqln72j22kej3ux7803c2k986henvvha4thuwfkper4s7r50e8

And then we have WoT relays or relays that operate with a Web-of-Trust, brining less spam to users in a more trusted and safer environment. Here are several WoT relays:

wss://wot.utxo.one
wss://nostrelites.org
wss://wot.nostr.party
wss://wot.sovbit.host
wss://wot.girino.org
wss://relay.lnau.net
wss://wot.siamstr.com
wss://relay.lexingtonbitcoin.org
wss://wot.azzamo.net
wss://wot.swarmstr.com
wss://zap.watch
wss://satsage.xyz
wss://wons.calva.dev
wss://wot.zacoos.com
wss://wot.shaving.kiwi
wss://wot.tealeaf.dev
wss://wot.nostr.net
wss://relay.goodmorningbitcoin.com

To fully leverage these relay advancements, we now need new sets tools that can make the most of these new features. It's time for relay management and relay explorers to take on a more prominent role within our clients. These tools can help users discover, explore, and even rate relays, encouraging greater decentralization of content on Nostr. This also opens up exciting new opportunities for how users find, engage with, and share information in new and unique ways.


Turn on, tune in, opt out


Looking forward!

The talk you mentioned is here in English: https://hackyourself.io/2024/07/18/you-are-a-bitcoiner-now-whats-next/

Dlhšia verzia v SK: https://juraj.bednar.io/podcast/2024/04/13/oranzove-leto-stanme-sa-tvorcami-svojho-zivota-s-mariannou-sadeckou/


Looking forward!

The talk you mentioned is here in English: https://hackyourself.io/2024/07/18/you-are-a-bitcoiner-now-whats-next/

Dlhšia verzia v SK: https://juraj.bednar.io/podcast/2024/04/13/oranzove-leto-stanme-sa-tvorcami-svojho-zivota-s-mariannou-sadeckou/

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Introducing: AlgoRelay

Build your own nostr algorithm!
https://i.nostr.build/XPRvfXEpnW3C37k3.jpg

AlgoRelay is the first nostr native relay capable of serving personalized, algorithmic feeds without the use of external or proprietary APIs or DVMs.

It prioritizes surfacing content from the people you care about, based on your personal interactions.

For new users, it solves the "who should I follow?" problem by surfacing popular content in a global feed with our best content.

Clients can easily add personalized feeds by  displaying notes from a single relay, using the same REQ parameters we're already using - simply perform an auth handshake.

Coracle is the first client to implement it, you can see it in action here:
https://coracle.social/relays/wss%3A%2F%2Falgo.utxo.one%2F

Don't like the way my relay is surfacing content? You can easily adjust the weightings in your own relay by changing a few numbers - no coding required!

I look forward to seeing a blossoming market of algorithmic relays putting choice back in the user's hands. This is a big step forward for nostr, giving the masses what they want using open source, transparent algorithms.

This relay is released under an MIT license, feel free to use it however you see fit.

To run your own relay, get started here:
https://github.com/bitvora/algo-relay


What flipper app is this?


price inflation (euroshitcoin purchasing power evaporation) incoming

I like how they found a mascot that always scares the shit out of everyone. it's even creepier when she smiles.

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yes

now I have fridge :)


Even if you don't use Reticulum, just reading the design is beautiful. Mark got so many things right. For example encryption by default, medium agnostic, supporting super low bandwidth networks, but allowing universality.

And then you get to see the Sideband app which is the messenger and you get disaster team maps complete with GPS telemetry, situation reports, ...

It's just beautiful.

Also, many times I played with the code, I thought I could do something better and then I just realized why Mark did it the way he did and it's way better. I can improve it by adding features, but what is there is just a piece of art.


Our criticism of recently published
Wired article: "Wired's Attack on Privacy"

https://simplex.chat/blog/20241016-wired-attack-on-privacy.html


I wonder why anyone thinks it is a good idea to have support for a Bitcoin project over Telegram. I asked one question and got five scammers immediately. They even told me to delete the question from the official support chat to avoid being scammed, and that they will take it from here.

Dear projects, have you heard of e-mail?

Telegram is the "until you forget how horrible is" type of experience. It's like McDonalds. You eat there when you forget how you felt the last time you did from the food.


I call this orange summer.

my talk about it from nostr:npub167n5w6cj2wseqtmk26zllc7n28uv9c4vw28k2kht206vnghe5a7stgzu3r

https://hackyourself.io/2024/07/18/you-are-a-bitcoiner-now-whats-next/


they are not, but the LoRA part of meshtastic uses the same link layer, so separating the data out and handing it over could work


platforma na pôžičky kryté bitcoinom.

pre ľudí čo majú btc nástroj ako využiť jeho hodnotu a nepredávať Bitcoin, čoho vedľajšia výhoda je, že nie je potrebné podporovať organizovaný zločin (platením daní).

Pre fiatérov je to výhodný termínovaný vklad ktorý je pomerne bezpečný.

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

prípadne nie konkrétne firefish, ale princípy popisujem detailne tu: https://juraj.bednar.io/product/kryptomeny-vyhackuj-si-lepsi-zivot/


Very cool episode, thank you!

I'm playing with Reticulum which has a bit more mature architecture, you guys are would love it. It runs on the same devices, but also IP / I2P, wifi halow (the new wifi standard that's up to one km range). It is a networking stack though, it can do ssh, messaging over the radio through the city, I even ported ecash cashu over it so you can send sats. It is done mostly by this one cool guy Mark who lives in an RV and puts all his soul and time to this. And it is actually meshing, if there's a route, it finds it. Neighbors can do wifi, you go further over lora. Very cool. And it's encrypted by default.

The messaging apps can work over wifi, so if you have a node at your home (or an RV), when your phone connects to the wifi, it automatically connects to the mesh. If you send a message, the node forwards it through lora or whatever

https://fountain.fm/episode/Thk97UqdpIL6BJLNPmFo

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A super cool thing would be able to run an RNode and rnsd Reticulum in a way that it would also listen to Meshtastic messages and route them at the same time.

With one rnode you could participate in both networks. Is it feasible? Especially the hardware/format part, we could just demultiplex the Meshtastic messages and pass them to Meshtastic app, so we don't have to implement any special Meshtastic messages logic.


I don't understand the question


Bohužiaľ kvôli ľuďom, ktorých skoro zabili na CryptoVestibull mali už iba slabé, takže som si musel dať 5, aby mi to šlapalo a prebralo ma to 😉


Hey  nostr:npub1v5ufyh4lkeslgxxcclg8f0hzazhaw7rsrhvfquxzm2fk64c72hps45n0v5 and  nostr:npub1unmftuzmkpdjxyj4en8r63cm34uuvjn9hnxqz3nz6fls7l5jzzfqtvd0j2. I am trying to claim my podcast on Fountain according to this manual:

https://support.fountain.fm/article/56-how-to-claim-your-show-on-fountain

I don't see a "Claim your podcast" in the three dots menu. I am on 1.1.5 (1183) on Android (GrapheneOS).


You can do notebook lm now in free and open source. This calls apis, but running it locally without cloud is very feasible. https://github.com/gabrielchua/open-notebooklm

https://fountain.fm/episode/Thk97UqdpIL6BJLNPmFo

nostr:nevent1qvzqqqpxquqzqxdx57ud5xk72ecg52eckr002dduegn26nqjzvm3tfe9gltpd3ff0chve3


We are spending trillions on AI to make stuff like this

Worth it https://v.nostr.build/zVhZLSkc2gD4SOt6.mp4


Awesome episode, even the ads are cool. I have recently set my rewards to 200sats/min because why have this space technology to send cents. But I was kind of not feeling so happy when I was listening to some podcasts and they had ads and I'm thinking "why am I paying to listen to ads?". But good job in choosing ad partners that are actually cool and open source.

About Meshtastic - it is definitely cool, but you guys are going to love Reticulum. It runs on the same devices, but also IP / I2P, wifi halow (the new wifi standard that's up to one km range). It is a networking stack though, it can do ssh, messaging over the radio through the city, I even ported ecash cashu over it so you can send sats. It is done mostly by this one cool guy Mark who lives in an RV and puts all his soul and time to this. And it is actually meshing, if there's a route, it finds it. Neighbors can do wifi, you go further over lora. Very cool. And it's encrypted by default.

https://fountain.fm/episode/CMUnAYUryjxXSyy4Vc0J

nostr:nevent1qvzqqqpxquqzpql5mz33l9h006emj8ev200ryzrzgfv663faka74km06pedtq0sqenkhum


Cool. Screen recording single app and Type-C connection is already in Graphene for a few months AFAIK.


Oznam: Firefish môžete používať už aj v Slovenčine.

https://firefish.io?ref=gjep97jk


did you mean reproductive Wednesday? 😀

very interesting post, thank you.


oh sweet, a cassette. check out nostr:npub1f49twdlzlw667r74jz6t06xxlemd8gp2j7g77l76easpl8jsltvqvlzpez especially

https://www.bitpunk.fm/@bitpunkfm/episodes/rewinding-the-future-hcpp24


It's nutband:

https://github.com/jooray/nutband

I did not succeed in making an apk, but Stick succeeded.


Yes, it was hardcore, but I brought it on myself voluntarily. They had to postpone the event, some speakers couldn't do the new dates and I took the opportunity to shape the world a bit :).

First epic discussion with nostr:nprofile1qqsqg4694s8fpfpkzsdr4hwe246u96k50dsn73fgw2p7tqp07l7enlgpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtcm62q3d on privacy that was very different than how these go, then I helped people decide on entrepreneurship and Bitcoin (even though people usually decide for one or the other) and then I helped create a few more OTC traders (veksláks). It was cool.


The talk was very good (it was a fireside chat), but it was not recorded.

I also did another workshop with slides just for me. I had some notes and wanted to turn them into slides with AI (so I can click through and have nice inspiring pictures for me, to keep me hyped - it was my third talk of the day). ChatGPT said it cannot create pptx, but Claude said that the best presentation format is actually HTML anyway and created a nice slide viewer for me, complete with shortcuts and buttons and printing without buttons, if I wanted a PDF.

ChatGPT generated images per slide and then I used this:

https://github.com/jooray/html-resource-embedder

to embed all the images into the HTML as inline base-64 encoded, downloaded to my Android and opened from a file on localhost on my Pixel 9 Fold, so I had very cool speaker notes :)

Hopefully it helped to promote OTC trading and helped people realize they can bring Bitcoin to their communities and help people onboard without the hassle of exchanges and source of funds forms.


Small update on Podcaster 2.0 Boost Dashboard (for core lightning).

- looks cooler, fits on the screen
- the episode list is narrower, so you can see your boost messages (see updated screenshot)
- episodes are sorted by when they received first boost, which is an approximation of how recent the episodes are (a newer episode will probably receive its first boost later).

Does this project have any users here (besides me) are all y'all folks running lnd or alby?

Find it here:
https://github.com/jooray/podcaster-boost-dashboard

https://github.com/jooray/podcaster-boost-dashboard/blob/main/docs/screenshot.png?raw=true


People who have fiat to use have a shitcoin problem.

How did that shitcoin get to their wallet and why isn't it btc already?


Tomorrow I have a fireside chat with  nostr:npub1q3t5ttqwjzjrv9q68twaj4t4ct4dg7mp8azjsu5rukqzlalan87s57u7l3 at  nostr:npub1fc6nyvwm8y3enmy26rekaer8p5q8xhy9ujx06sdngk7d7k2258qs52zyq0.

I have made my notes in a beautiful presentation format that I will see on my phone.

And you will never know how it looks.

Slides for myself! 🍄

Have you ever done something like that? :)


Llegó radios meshtastic a Uvita para comunicaciones sin internet. Pronto podrían publicar transacciones bitcoin sin conexión de internet en cualquier parte de Uvita.1
#hispano #hamradio #offgrid nostr:npub14f26g7dddy6dpltc70da3pg4e5w2p4apzzqjuugnsr2ema6e3y6s2xv7lu
nostr:npub1az9xj85cmxv8e9j9y80lvqp97crsqdu2fpu3srwthd99qfu9qsgstam8y8

 Meshtastic radios have arrived to Uvita for communications without Internet. Soon you’ll be able to publish bitcoin transactions to the network without any Internet connection from anywhere in Uvita.
#hispano #hamradio #offgrid

Thank you, Satoshi! ⚡ (whoever you are...)

https://m.primal.net/LRud.jpg
https://m.primal.net/LRue.jpg


this usually takes months, they release one video per week or something.

but we'll see. the production company needs to deliver the footage first


under HCPP brand yes, but I think there will be something similar next year


Pre Bitcoin Alza som spísal článok o peňaženkách Trezor. Absencia článku o prvej HW peňaženke nebola zámerom, iba to doteraz nikto nenapísal, tak som to napravil. Snáď sa dozviete, čo ste nevedeli, pretože Trezor toho vie oveľa viac ako si mnohí ľudia myslia.

CZ: https://www.alza.cz/bitcoinove-penazenky-trezor-od-satoshi-labs

SK: https://www.alza.sk/bitcoinove-penazenky-trezor-od-satoshi-labs


All countries are entirely made up.

Country is fiat


One correction - most software is not actually done by large teams. It's often one to five guys in an office. The only difference is they don't have to answer customer support emails nor do sales.

I've been looking at a few projects that I liked and thought they're done by many coders. And then I met the (one) guy who has done the project :).


This talk at HCPP was my favorite. It has since been taped and published as a nostr:npub1f49twdlzlw667r74jz6t06xxlemd8gp2j7g77l76easpl8jsltvqvlzpez episode. Launch your v4v players (I was introducing, so I get some splits!) and have fun.

nostr:npub16lcw8ytugeh3ug3na93yl0tdf0gnjtduljhn2a852atf6jtvkucs7pruje should especially listen as he was mentioned. Also Osama bin Laden and Ayatollah Khomeini were mentioned, but I don't know their npubs, so not tagging.

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best guess: electrolytes and sugar


OMG, it might have been nostalgic!

what is happening? :)


I could, but then I would have to review what to repost, there is someone making decisions and it's not anonymous, it's basically freshmeat.net but on Nostr.

This is something different. Feel free to use it or not.


less “Who is Satoshi ??”

more “Thank you, Satoshi” https://image.nostr.build/cbb720b6d1ffe93ae9dca787705d67a61dbc700838bdf309445d826c7cd9baea.jpg


This year's HCPP (the last one in a sense) was pretty special for me. As probably the only conference fully dedicated to cryptoanarchy it was always my favorite.

This year it was mostly about personal connections for me. I feel that over past few years, people have been running around the world and trying things and they came to tell us about their experience and results. In the hallways, but also talks. First few years were visions, last few were experiences and lessons learnt.

But it also gave me something more. I used to get this at CCC. This knowledge of what is important, what is going on and what we are doing. I became disconnected with the main CCC ideology, which is also very political, not very cypherpunk. It turned from "we write code and hack" more "we have to speak up and lobby the european commission".

I've just realized that I got the same feeling from hcpp that I used to get from CCC.

I love CCC for other things.


welcome!


TMTOWTDI


No one follows a random npub.

Follow  nostr:npub135xvjh0cxg6n5egpkf3756nykgpnwjhuhszevv9hdr000hcnqpmqp4taeg! The whole point is to post to an audience that is interested.


Very good. I have a specific way to derive the key using PBKDF2, where you don't need anything to do with Nostr - no NIP07, nothing.

See deriveKeys here:
https://github.com/jooray/anonmicroblog/blob/main/webposter/src/index.js

This way it's Npub Pro as a front-end for reading, static HTML page for posting, no knowledge of Nostr whatsoever needed.

But I like the project, so that's not criticism, just explanation why I coded anonmicroblog like this.


good luck!

good luck!


Then we'll figure it out, maybe block the account and do something else. Everyone's responsible.

I'm a member of such anon microblog (now nostr based, but not originally) since 2006 and it still works great.


Welcome  nostr:npub135xvjh0cxg6n5egpkf3756nykgpnwjhuhszevv9hdr000hcnqpmqp4taeg to Nostr. She is a shared identity that can be used by people who want to share cool Cypherpunk projects anonymously. Usually, this is quite a big problem, because if you want to share open source code and want to stay anonymous, you can't use your existing social network.

The password to posting is going to be shared widely among devs. If you are a free software and cypherpunk author (even if not anon), ask for password and spread it wisely.

We want the anonymity set to grow, plus it's not defined, it's just the knowledge of a password. So it can't be really pinpointed who knows it.

On the other hand, there is a password, otherwise the account would be just taken over by spammers, reducing usefulness.

Lizz is accessible through Nostr (give her a follow) and you can also access her website for people who are not Nostr enabled yet. Through the web you can also easily post, the Nostr private key is derived from the password in JavaScript.

https://lizznakamoto.npub.pro/


I've tagged the wrong Lizz there

nostr:npub135xvjh0cxg6n5egpkf3756nykgpnwjhuhszevv9hdr000hcnqpmqp4taeg


Example entry

Btw Lizz was not created by me, I find it cool that someone else has found a use for it besides grumpy libertarian posts!

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that's cool. but I think this is much simpler and does not need the users to even know what nostr is, or use their keys in any ways.

very interesting project though, feel free to promote it through lizz


I am not very impressed by the expensive stuff. When a wine seller tells me they have a bottle of wine they are selling for $10k, all it tells me is that someone has written a price tag. I might sell my toenail for $10k, but that would not impress anyone, even if it's not possible to get it cheaper.

Luxury spending does not even work these days. You can rent things, you can borrow money to spend on something you can't afford, just to impressive.

What is impressive are great things for good price. Outstanding quality delivered despite limited resources. It's much harder to evaluate though.

When someone shows me expensive watches, I'm gonna ask if they can at least sign nostr events on it. Or if it just shows time like my phone.


The Tao Te Ching was libertarian like 2,500 years before libertarianism became a thing.

Chapter 75: Stephen Mitchell translation:

When taxes are too high,
people go hungry.
When the government is too intrusive,
people lose their spirit.

Act for the people's benefit.
Trust them; leave them alone.


That is not a problem, but people rarely reward the value they get unless you ask them to.

So that part is important, even the good v4v talks I've seen were about how to ask.

If you don't ask, you will get very little if anything at all, even if the people perceive it as valuable.


I don't want "financial support". I'm providing a valuable service.

It works for me. It would not work if v4v of my podcast was my income.

But there's no point in complaining. It's just an observation that changed my behavior as a consumer. I don't expect anyone else's behavior to change.

I had just not been using it right.


Yes, works for me.


Did you contact support about it?


I just made it work with one setting.


For me this is not a good way to look at it.

As a listener, if the podcast is valuable to me, I don't care if it has 10 listeners or 10000. Maybe what makes it valuable for me makes it useless for others. The idea for v4v is to reward the value, not to think about the cost.

It's the same with how I do pricing. I don't look at my costs. I look at the value I create. Cost of production as the basis of value is a marxist fallacy.

For example my podcast has probably less than 1000 listeners and I want to keep it that way. I can serve my listeners extremely well. There's no need to push it further. I just need to make sure they realize they're getting something more than if they played a mainstream podcast that is not perfect for them.

I think the only thing that should go to your calculation about sats per minute and especially boosts is what value you receive from the podcast. Their costs and other listeners don't matter.


I don't perceive it like that. I was doing it before there was value4value.

There's value and reward in doing what you love. It enables you to have conversations with people. There is a lot of non monetary value.

I just changed that I want to make this a bit different for producers as a listener.

I would do my stuff even without any v4v tooling.

But we have this tech. Let's use it.


I'm well aware of the limitations.

But also there's a super simple way to change all of this. It is literally a setting in the menu. Just put a different number.

I'm not saying everyone should change. I was doing my podcast before there was value4value.


What is sad? I don't see anything sad here.

Realizing I can do something better and doing that is not sad in my book


Odkiaľ majú firmy peniaze? Od zákazníkov.

To je to isté ako tvrdiť, že firma platí účtovníkov. Áno, platí, ale kto dáva peniaze tej firme? Zákazníci. Teda zákazníci platia účtovníkov, ich cena musí byť v cene produktov a služieb firmy.

Tí ľudia, čo si myslia, že neplatia tie dane ich platia každý deň pri každom nákupe.


Let's talk about value4value. I listen to and get value from many podcasts. I'm ruthless and stop listening if they are boring. So when I listen, they are valuable to me. And it does not always mean mind-blowing tech stuff, it can be people who get high and play music.

We have this space age technology where we can stream money, directly to producers of content we value.

And then we send them two cents. I have produced more than a hundred episodes. Many of them have changed lives, literally. My total earn from all value4value was around 35$ - streamed sats and boosts. I don't have sponsors, even though I sometimes promote my own projects. Just the cost to produce one of these is 200$ or more (at least in my time, sometimes I rent a room / studio, although I'm pretty DIY). The cameras and microphones are not free either. Neither is server hosting (I self host, no cloud services, I run my own node).

I am not complaining though. I'm part of the problem. I did not change the default in the app - 10 sats per minute is ridiculous.

I changed my setting to 200 sats per minute to start with. 7 dollars per hour makes sense to me. It's cheaper than the tip I leave for a dinner. But if you have a few listeners that set it up, it might even pay for the production cost.

Your situation might be different. But let's use this space age technology for real, not as a proof of concept to send pennies.

Thanks to nostr:nprofile1qqsy6j4hxl30hdd0pl2epd9harr0uakn5q4f0y000ldv7cqlneg04kqpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsz8thwden5te0dehhxarj9e3hjurgv4e8qatwdvh8gmmyv9uj7qghwaehxw309ahx7um5wghxy6t5wp6ku6ewvekj7su0fdq for making me see this clearly.

Repost if you do the same. You don't have to do 200 sats/min. Do whatever feels right. It's probably not the default.

#v4v #value4value #podcasting2.0


I solar power my node.

What sideband plugin? That's actually great, I should point people to that instead of nutband, it makes much more sense.


if there was a championship of regulatory arbitrage, I think the winner would be less than 12 years old, probably around 6.


yes. meshtastic is to try it out, reticulum is what we'll actually run after the apocalypse


i don't think it was


K zvyšovaniu daní pripomínam blog z roku 2017 (je aj v knihe Hackni sa) s názvom "Bohatí ľudia neplatia dane".

Dane mimochodom neplatia ani firmy, tie ich len vyberajú pre štát, peniaze idú vždy od koncových zákazníkov.

https://juraj.bednar.io/blog/2017/01/18/bohati-ludia-neplatia-dane/


Congrats to 25 years of Euro!

https://image.nostr.build/ab604ca16f31ea24518205333863798d64312193c69fee0d4f9a3067fd4fe045.jpg


Translation of my blog "Rich people don't (have to) pay taxes" into English. The politicians like to tell you that it will be the rich people or corporations that will pay the taxes and you don't have to worry about it. The fact is that it's the poor people and people who use fiat money who pay most of the taxes and rich people can very easily avoid it.

https://juraj.bednar.io/en/blog-en/2024/10/02/rich-people-dont-have-to-pay-taxes/


added to my wishlist. please btc moon this time hard.

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Some nice talks at hcpp this year!

nostr:nprofile1qqsd4dkxqewy8xum47ctpu0ltgxxsfemeewpjkdyzk9ddfcg286s0dsppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qywhwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnzd96xxmmfdejhytnnda3kjctv9uq36amnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wvduhq6r9wfc82mnt9e6x7erp0yhs4deh46 is going to fix the internet with nostr and reticulum!

https://speak.hcpp.cz/2024/talk/KWT8AD/


Znova aktualizovaný zoznam obľúbených produktov. Pridané AI tooly, konkurenciu k Oura, ktorá vyzerá dobre, prepísané hardvérové peňaženky, pôžičkové platformy.

https://juraj.bednar.io/oblubene-produkty/


HCPP Schedule is out! My talk on Nostr is Friday at noon.

https://hardcore.hcpp.cz/


I'm with the devs.

where's the repo for the sub protocol to communicate with the aliens?

nostr:note1lkc5est82yjg26revkdygudncyxn5uz24w8ldkrcu5fezgc3dd0shd4tve


Nah, post when you have something to say. This is not an engagement farm.


From Raphael Douady:

Did you hear about the "tail concentration effect"?

When a #blackswan shows up, everything goes wrong and correlations spike to 100%. In other words, any risk factor becomes a risk source.

Correlations are not stable at all, particularly under extreme events. You need proper models to handle it, starting with #nonlinear.

Nonlinearity is more important than multi-factor.

Comic by Stefan Gasic (highly recommended)

https://m.primal.net/LHQS.png
https://m.primal.net/LHQT.jpg


FreeTek akcie v Európe fungujú tak, že je to víkendová akcia, je známa približná oblasť ("do 100km od Berlína", "západné Čechy") a v piatok večer prídu GPS koordináty a inštrukcie. Kľúčové je, aby všetci sudcovia spali a aby akcia bola na súkromnom pozemku, kam policajti bez súdneho príkazu nemôžu.

Funguje to tak dodnes. Ale možno fanúšikovia techna fungujú inak ako plebs...


Momentálne "protidrogové razie" kukláčov v bratislavských podnikoch sú krásny príklad otrokárskej spoločnosti, v ktorej žijeme. V niektorých štátoch USA vás policajti nesmú ani zastaviť na ceste pokiaľ neporušíte nejaký predpis. Žiadne námatkové kontroly. Policajti nemajú možnosť ľuďom len tak otravovať život.

V Bratislave si po práci idete v pohodičke dať matéčko do klubu, možno vypočuť hudbu a namiesto toho máte ruky na stene, oňucháva vás policajný pes a prehliada vás trtko v kukle s pištoľou. Minimálne by mali nahradiť škodu každému, komu nič nenašli, tak 250€ na hodinu.

Ak si môžu len tak zadarmo zobrať váš čas ako demonštráciu sily, žijete v otrokárskej spoločnosti. Či ste otroci 8 hodín denne, 12, 24 alebo v tomto prípade dve hodinky je len otázka kvantity, kvalitatívne je to otrokárska spoločnosť, žiadna glorofikovaná demokracia. A je úplne jedno, či je to v súlade so zákonom. Zákonné otrokárstvo je stále otrokárstvo.

Z ich pohľadu je to samozrejme boj proti progresívcom. Ich voliči doma jedia halušky s bryndzou, zapíjajú borovičkou a tešia sa, ako kukláči chytili pár nešťastníkov so "sušinou". A samozrejme 150 ďalších progresívcov bolo nasraných, čo je krásne, tak im treba liberálom, majú ísť na folklór a piť borovičku alebo doma pozerať RTVS či ako sa to teraz volá.

Riešenie? Keď na koncerty nedostávajú cash od štátu, je čas ísť naspäť do undergroundu. Privátne kluby, koncerty na dopredu neznámom mieste, na súkromnom pozemku (vybavte si súdny príkaz, ak sa vôbec dozviete kde to je), kešovice bez bločkov, crowdfunding za krypto.

Umenie v súlade so štátom je aj tak odpad. Umenie má kritizovať spoločnosť. Sponsorship=censorship.

Čítajte Bendu, paralelný underground alebo normie smrť.

Mňa na normie koncert už asi nikto nedostane. Šacovanie kukláčmi nedávam. Tak dúfam, že na môj dopyt vytvoria podnikatelia ponuku. Platím tvrdou menou.


Existuje skvelý spôsob ako bojovať proti autokratom a mafiánom vo vláde, obzvlášť ak ich základný cieľ je kleptokracia. Nedávajte im peniaze.

Kto platí dane, financuje organizovaný zločin.

Súdruh Kamenický sa na nejakej tlačovke zavzdušňoval, že mu nikto nedáva bločky. Vraj ho každý na Slovensku pozná a aj tak nedostáva bločky. Ja som ho prvýkrát v živote videl na tom videu z tlačovky, neviem prečo by som mal poznať nejakého úradníka. Okrem toho má takú štandardnú byrokratickú tvár a úradnícku rovnošatu: suché nudné sako, takže som okamžite zabudol ako vyzerá keď video skončilo.

Potom hovoril o nejakých poctivých podnikateľoch, ktorí bločky dávajú. To sú tí, ktorí podporujú organizovaný zločin, ak to nemajú na pozadí zoptimalizované inak. A vraj sú likvidovaní tými "nepoctivými".

Takže počuli ste od vedúceho financsúdruha - kto nepodporuje štátnu mafiu a neplatí dane, má navyše konkurenčnú výhodu. Dodávam len, že aj morálnu prevahu a súdruh to má opačne.


A friend of mine said something along the lines of "We have this cosmic technology of v4v splits, and we use it to send each other $0.01".

Yes, we can't change the paradigm from "zero cost, pay with your attention" to "value for value" by rewarding creators $0.01 per episode. All of us are more or less guilty of this.

The ransom model seems to work a bit better: "Full podcast available after paying $10". What I don't like about the ransom model is it is often on fiat platforms and it is often a monthly subscription. There is hardly ever any podcast that I want to pay for monthly. I would gladly pay for some single episodes.


I have a friend who told me he got VR glasses, loaded some VR porn and he was looking not at the scene, but around - the type of wallpaper, the furniture, who put the flowers on the table, ...


I did not know about this project. Very cool, but I am on core lightning not lnd, so I can't use it as is.

But having many options is best!

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Might be interesting to  nostr:npub1f49twdlzlw667r74jz6t06xxlemd8gp2j7g77l76easpl8jsltvqvlzpez,  nostr:npub19ha7tju4teqp3dmwv4p28wrcy9zd6h6hxkg5mwvjrlfycweazpkse2q0fa and possibly  nostr:npub1klkk3vrzme455yh9rl2jshq7rc8dpegj3ndf82c3ks2sk40dxt7qulx3vt and  nostr:npub1unmftuzmkpdjxyj4en8r63cm34uuvjn9hnxqz3nz6fls7l5jzzfqtvd0j2


New Free and Open Source microproject for podcasters: A podcasting 2.0 boosts dashboard, created from @Core_LN's listinvoices output.

I have a podcast, but I want to be sovereign and not host my boosts on a third party (such as Alby, although nothing against them, I just want to do it on my infrastructure).

It is a simple python script that takes the json output of the command line, filters out podcasting boosts and displays them. The output is a static HTML and JavaScript that you can open locally. No backend, pure simplicity. Enjoy!

https://github.com/jooray/podcaster-boost-dashboard

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


if they lose your attention
they lose their power


No


V tomto podcaste spájam viacero tém, ale hlavnou témou je "case study" podnikavosti. Keď som robil Výzvu podnikavosti, niektorí ľudia to pochopili ako výzvu založiť startup. To je samozrejme tiež dobré splnenie výzvy, ale môj pohľad na podnikavosť je oveľa širší. V tomto podcaste vám predstavím jeden môj "mikroprojekt", ktorý výzvu podnikavosti splní oveľa jednoduchšie - má pomerne krátke časové ohraničenie, jasné ciele, a o mesiac môžem robiť niečo iné.

V podcaste sa ale dozviete aj ako môže bežný človek používať umelú inteligenciu. Ak to zatiaľ nerobíte, vypočujte si aspoň úvod podcastu. Hovorím tiež o dôležitosti otvorených modelov, prečo by sme mali mať každý v "domácej serverovni" naše vlastné AI. A môj projekt je podľa mňa vhodný medzikrok k tejto vízii - sprístupňuje open-source modely ľuďom, ktorí zatiaľ nemajú hardvér.

https://juraj.bednar.io/podcast/2024/09/28/ako-na-podnikavost-priklad-s-ai-venice-a-financovanie-open-source-vyvoja/