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Locally gated shopstr/foodclubstr for neighbors/friends only.

Or, similar to these mini srreet library boxes common in the US, have one with a webcam streaming how much of what is left.

Suggested donation based (ecash safer than leaving cash).

When Karens or pawns show up demanding to know who is selling the eggs here -> "We don't know, officer. It just appears here every morning, it's magic. We don't even wanna know. Get fucked, and setup your own in your street. Thanks for your inquiry."


yes, we're not going back, but we can get inspired. I would add some kind of energy production capacity (definitely solar panels, maybe a small wind turbine).

at least a starlink and some backup internet connection. maybe sell excess electricity for sats in the parking lot, have a delivery boxes for neighbors.


"It is always dangerous to treat nation-states like home teams, without acknowledging that these forms are always, in every case, containers whose function is to hold and codify power over subjects, and that those wielding power from within these structures can do so benevolently, or with unspeakable brutality. "

It's so funny that people don't see the problem with censorship and thought control. A government that instantiates it lasts only until the next election, if even that, and then the new government takes the whole censorship-surveillance apparatus and changes the censorship rules.

Then, people are surprised that those that were elected decide to flip the switch.

Censorship resistant social networks with heavy use of cryptography are the only real defense against the bad will of government actors.

Encrypt all the things!

https://lpeproject.org/blog/social-media-authoritarianism-and-the-world-as-it-is/


My latest invention is Hedgehog: a protocol for asynchronous layer two bitcoin payments

Check out the video here:

https://stacker.news/items/481321


Phoenix. Much more reliable.


Fixed
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Binance weakening the local Nigerian shitcoin. lol.


I tried the new rotating on-chain addresses in Phoenix Wallet, so you don't have to (unless you want to use it).

The swap-in address keeps changing, but the funds are spliced-in to the one and only channel. On-chain, you see all the incoming on-chain payments clearly connected to the one channel. The rotating addresses are more of a cosmetic feature than a real privacy feature.

You are paying for two on-chain transactions - one is paid by the sender to mine the transaction, another is paid by you to the miners, for the swap-in. The transaction is quite large (1666 sats in my case), so even with low fees, it was over a dollar. It has one 2-of-2 multisig input (the last channel funding utxo) and one taproot input.

The nice thing is that you will keep your incoming liquidity in the channel.

For privacy, it is better to use boltz swap-in service, although it will probably be a bit more expensive.


we literally started a business that help people migrate.

we not only expect, but we experience huge uptick in migration.

see liberation.travel


entrepreneurs are a minority anyway.

this is one of the areas where minorities matter a lot


A suggestion for acinq's   phoenixd.

Allow creating a special channel that requires acinq's side to sign the channel state that decreases the balance in the channel only with additional key. And allow the commitment transaction's destination address to be on HW wallet (say xpub).

This way:

- phoenixd running as a hot wallet to receive payments (hopefully soon in BtcpayServer) can only receive payments (while paying fees of course).
- for sending, additional signature is needed (this could be a key signed message, possibly with hw wallet integration later)
- broadcasting latest commitment transaction is possible, but it will not end up at backup seed derived wallet, but on the hardware wallet of the owner.

This way:
- hacking of machine where phoenixd resides is not catastrophic. Hacker can broadcast last state (commitment transaction), old state should not be saved. This will end up with the funds safely arriving in the hw wallet eventually.
- an attacker can only receive to the phoenixd, but not send. For sending, a cold wallet key is required. Phoenixd has all the keys to sign new states, but acinq would not sign a new state that would decrease the channel balance without a third key.

Please ?!?


rock on!

rock on!


I genuinely want the average person to win with bitcoin. That’s always been my thing. Always will be. Rich people will figure it out and do well, but what’s exciting to me is to see someone believe in themselves and achieve something great because of that belief.


Mr Levelsio wrote on the bird app:

"Americans yday asked:

"Why don't you Europeans do something about this?"

And we talked in the group chat about this

Realizing most Europeans don't really care/know about European elections and a lot of us don't even vote for it

EU electon turnout in 2019 was only 50%, to compare: national elections in Netherlands get nearly 80% voter turnouts

In addition we have no idea WHAT happens in the EU parliament, most EU countries media is laser focused on national issues

But that lack of focus lets the EU government pass consistently crazier laws that turn EU into a second class market to do business in

Imagine a US where ppl only care about your state's elections/government while the real power lies with the federal government passing crazy laws, that's the EU right now!"

My reply:

For many people it's easier and actually more rational to simply move our business outside of EU.

This is a common mistake by politicians. They believe they write the rules and everyone complies. But in reality, we are in the world supermarket and we shop for the best target market. Why waste our time with politics when we can simply build the business out of the EU and thrive?

Sadly, EU residents don't understand that this hurts them and their quality of life first and foremost.


I might be wrong, but the difference used to be - if they use a payment GW, that is a regulated VASP ("virtual asset service provider", yes, lol), but if the shop just receives in their wallet (like using Breez or Zeus PoS, or their own Btcpayserver), it's still a P2P transaction.


the summer has to start on spring, first two phases have to happen now.


they are pushing away controlled counterparties first and foremost.

that means creating a huge grey market


when they realize what they've done, it will hopefully be too late

this is the lunarpunk way


and many are walking up to this fact right now

orange summer is coming

https://juraj.bednar.io/en/blog-en/2024/03/23/orange-summer-slow-down-turn-on-tune-in-drop-out/


the problem with this is that hosted wallets are often eshops and those are the ones that have to comply.

so you would have your lightning wallet and can't pay anyone legally

so what they are really promoting is the emergence of parallel markets and proxy merchants. I guess they really don't want taxes from the Bitcoin economy.

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that's very easy to do. check lxmf proxy in nutband.

since reticulum is medium agnostic, you can just run it over reticulum all the time and it will fall back to Lora automatically when wifi gateway does not work.

but what would be good is to create a small language model as a mean of compression for the public notes.


very cool.

check out nutband.

https://youtu.be/HAX8GFn5uCI?si=YjYTisvdbsNtgZZ8


SK/CZ: Vyhlasujem oranžové leto!

Bitcoin predlžuje časové preferencie. Fiatová baňa (zamestnanie) nás vedie ku krátkym časovým preferenciám. Bitcoin ročník 2018+ zažil Bitcoin a to, k čomu náš Bitcoin navádza – peer to peer namiesto hierarchie, decentralizácia, stávame sa sami sebou. Možno je čas zbaviť sa mentálnej hmly fiatových baní, vystúpiť a jedno leto premýšľať o našich životoch cez optiku desaťročí, presadiť sa, naladiť sa na seba a prípadne vypadnúť do paralelného oranžového sveta. Pre podrobnosti čítajte ďalej!

https://juraj.bednar.io/blog/2024/03/22/oranzove-leto-spomalte-naladte-sa-a-vypadnite/


Announcing Orange Summer!

TLDR: Bitcoin prolongs time preferences. Fiat mine (job) is short time preference. Bitcoin class of 2018+ have experienced Bitcoin, and what it leads to - peer to peer instead of hierarchy, decentralization, becoming ourselves. Now it's time to take away the mental fog of fiat mine, step out and take one summer to think about our lives via the lens of decades, assert ourselves, tune in and possibly drop out to the parallel orange world. For details, read on!

I invite you to join us!

https://juraj.bednar.io/en/blog-en/2024/03/23/orange-summer-slow-down-turn-on-tune-in-drop-out/


you can do more with reticulum. you can even run VPN/ssh through it, it has propagation nodes for offline distribution of messages (amazing for ecash), it works over any medium, not just Lora - wifi halow, Ethernet, lxmf (the messaging) works even over qr codes.

simple hypertext pages,...

the main advantage of meshtastic is that ESP32 is enough for routing node.


Very cool.

How was it? I went to sleep. Did Apple users feel left out?


I thought zapathons are done.


Wow, this is interesting.
https://www.npmjs.com/package/naisys

An autonomous agent-based software to create things. It built this website:
https://test.naisys.org/archives/24-03-14-airport-times/

This is the log how it performed it:
https://test.naisys.org/archives/24-03-14-airport-times/log.html


This one from the bird app is important.

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Source: https://x.com/JurajKarpis/status/1771168587316633779?s=20


SK/CZ: "Uvoľnil som priestor pre mladšiu generáciu. Ale nikto neprišiel..." - Anonymný cypherpunk, 2024
Otcovia zakladatelia cypherpunkového hnutia mali pre Y2K+ dosť divoké predpovede: Anonymná komunikácia a všadeprítomné šifrovanie mali viesť k decentralizácii moci, uvoľneniu trhov a individuálnej slobode. Keď sa pozrieme realisticky na dnešný svet - svet, v ktorom je sledovanie úplne normalizované a my sme uviazli medzi tým, že nás ovládajú megakorporácie a vlády -, poriadne sme to posrali, hoci sme vytvorili ostrovy slobody pre tých pár z nás, ktorí pochopili, na čo tieto technológie slúžia.
Bitcoin je výnimkou a výnimočným úspechom ich príbehu, ale pri pohľade na jeho súčasný vývoj prichádzame k tvrdeniu, že teraz sme náchylní zlyhať aj tam. Davy opäť prichádzajú a ani nevedia, na čo potrebujú anonymné peniaze.
Kedysi "rebeli s hlbším zmyslom" sa zrazu premenili na "babičky s ETFkom" a "garážových ekonómov s účtom na Twitteri".
Kam pôjdeme ďalej? Čo môžeme urobiť? Je toto to, čo je teraz cypherpunk? Sme bitcoineri len preto, že môžeme, alebo stále môžeme hľadať a úspešne nájsť účel, ktorý sa nestratil z vízie zakladateľov?
Prázdnota účelu sa dá ľahko uniesť. Pri pohľade na minulosť hnutia, prežívaní jeho prítomnosti a predvídaní jeho budúcnosti si kladieme otázku:
Je cypherpunk ešte relevantný?
Toto je preklad manifesta Cypherpunk meetupu do Slovenčiny. Autorka je Lea.

https://pay.cypherpunk.today/apps/4LEEvtqY8UMnuB7y5wCmjvi2tXy3/crowdfund


One of the reasons I recommend getting one of my courses is these cool updates. This one is about @get10101 changing from Lightning to DLC channels, but the update always contains much more. This update is about current interest rates in Bitcoin economy, the future of cypherpunk movement and more.

I don't usually publicly share these updates, but here you go, just this once:

https://sh1.sendinblue.com/3gdtemyjon9pfe.html?t=1711099006


Look, a butterfly!

Get yours at:

https://www.amazon.com/s?i=stripbooks&rh=p_27%3AJuraj+Bedn%C3%A1r&s=relevancerank&text=Juraj+Bedn%C3%A1r&ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1

Or as an online course here:
https://hackyourself.io/shop

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So Lea was looking for a venue for this year's Cypherpunk meetup. One owner was inquiring about what is cypherpunk and she gave a proper explanation. Turns out the owner was a bit afraid, we want to organize some kind of a punk concert.

Of course we are, so we sent them helpful photos from last year to see what kind of cool people are coming.

Venue TBC, but it looks good, probably will be much more fun than last year.

Get your tickets here:

https://pay.cypherpunk.today/apps/4LEEvtqY8UMnuB7y5wCmjvi2tXy3/crowdfund

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Imagine this guy then. Japanese origin, living in Czech Republic, head of an anti-immigrant political party.

🤦🏽🤦🏽🤦🏽

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


Probably nothing

https://github.com/ethereum/ethereum-foundation-website/commit/769b30603504b4b5e8f601f8014691a8d1821390


nice!

nice!


In January, while investigating a misbehaving client on the Bitcoin P2P network, I found a vulnerability in ViaBTC's SPV mining code that allowed a remote attacker to waste their 60 EH/s hashrate by sending a single, crafted Bitcoin P2P message.

https://b10c.me/blog/012-viabtc-spv-vulnerability-disclosure/


jasné, to je veľmi smutné. ale dokonca aj Sovietski komunisti mali nejakú víziu, samozrejme, že realita bola od nej úplne mimo, ale aspoň sa tvárili, že budujú niečo.

súčasné socíky nemajú ani to. regulácia nie je vízia a socíky ďalej ako najbližšia regulácia výlovu tresky a spaľovacích motorov nesiaha.

keby mali urobiť plagát, že "sem smerujeme!", čo by na ňom bolo? pioniersky tábor?


tú dlhšiu debatu sme už mali s Jakubom Šimekom tu:

https://juraj.bednar.io/podcast/2024/02/26/jakub-simek-sedy-kmen-e-acc-a-stav-sveta/


New book available. This one is about Bitcoin-collateralized loans as a strategy for staying long bitcoin, shorting fiat and possibly saving on taxes.

How to harness the value of Bitcoin without having to sell it.

Available on Amazon (paperback and Kindle) or hackyourself.io/shop as an online course with ebook (you can also pay with btc).

Links:

https://www.amazon.com/s?i=stripbooks&rh=p_27%3AJuraj+Bedn%C3%A1r&s=relevancerank&text=Juraj+Bedn%C3%A1r&ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1

https://hackyourself.io/shop

Enjoy!
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Po rozhovore s Mykolom stále myslím na to, že nemáme žiadnu víziu budúcnosti. Vrcholom slovenskej kultúry je móda z 18-teho a 19-teho storočia.

Raz som sa ocitol na nejakej filmovej akcii v Českej republike (prakticky omylom, oblečený štandard na geeka, mikina a rifle, celý v čiernom, len som niekoho čakal) a miestny filmový dejateľ sa ma opýtal, čo si myslím o českom filme. Povedal som úprimne, že nuda, väčšina českých filmov rieši traumu z komunizmu a mňa to už nebaví riešiť, už som sa posunul ďalej a nemám potrebu sa k tomu vracať. Najprv bol trochu naštvaný, potom ale uznal, že mám v podstate pravdu.

Bolo by ľahké nadávať na Čechov, ale slovenský film je samozrejme ešte v katastrofálnejšom stave.

To, nad čím rozmýšľam je však ešte horšia kritika. Nejde o kvalitu filmov a kultúry, ale o to, že sa cyklíme v minulosti. Chýba nám futurizmus. Ten majú američania, dokonca aj Rusi a samozrejme Číňania. Nemusí to byť unifikovaná vízia, názorov na budúcnosť by malo byť dosť a mali by byť pestré. Náš vrchol je gazda v kroji a pekná slovenka. Pritom to tak nebolo vždy. Napríklad Slováci, ktorí odchádzali do Ameriky (severnej či južnej) mali víziu niečoho, čo chcú dosiahnuť.

My sa cyklíme v tom čo okopirujeme estónsky e-government, kto bude u nás vyrábať autá a televízory, motáme sa v národných traumách a halucinujeme o štátnej podpore dojčenia.

Lietajúce auto bol fail, kreativita je o tom ako čerpať dotácie z (ešte chvíľu) bohatého západu. Postupne vymierame. A namiesto vyberania si vlastnej kreatívnej budúcnosti (alebo budúcností) si vyberáme medzi ultra retro a iba jemne retro. Nech vás názov "progresívny" nemýli, je to len ladenie nepodstatných točítok.

Potrebujeme kreatívnych ľudí, ktorí sa pozerajú do budúcnosti. A povedia nám, čo v nej vidia. Keď to dokáže afrofuturizmus, mohli by sme to aspoň skúsiť aj my.


Another unpopular opinion. I'm not very judgemental person, but I perceive people who drink alcohol (including beer and wine) the same way as if they were smoking meth, crack or were just casually injecting heroin in the pub, just for better socializing.

I still don't want to ban alcohol (and neither the other mentioned substances), but I tend to leave this social interaction rather sooner.


important human interactions matter. just most of them are not important.

we no longer live in tribes.


I never even tried that path, went straight to entrepreneurship during school.


if it is a business thing, each has a different price. that usually handles it with combination of Sullivan's Always be the buyer

https://www.amazon.com/Always-Buyer-Attracting-commitment-standards/dp/1640858881


depends

cypherpunk encounters should not be face to face if possible.


that's a good rule actually


when I actually hang out with someone, it's exquisite.


Unpopular opinion:

To me, most face-to-face encounters could have been a videocall.

Most videocalls could have been audiocalls (then I can be naked in the sauna)

Most audiocalls could have been a voice message on signal (I can listen and respond when I want and listen on 2x)

Most voice messages could have been  signal texts or emails

Most emails I don't have to read at all and can just delete them straight away.


pekne :)

pekne :)


posledných 10 lístkov. kto chcete prísť, neváhajte s kúpou. je to loď, viac ľudí sa tam nezmestí

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this one was

a bunch of 60 year old guys in white t-shirts and shorts in a coworking space. photography

wanted to represent cypherpunks as they would look now, inspired by Timothy C. May's appearance in Paralelni Polis.

They would be 60+ now and black hoodies were not the fashion of the old days, it's pretty new.


Wow, the book is traveling!

Enjoy it!

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Socialists want to either murder us or cancel us (digital murder)

And we want socialists to bring us our order of 🥩

We are not the same...


# Quo Vadis, Cypherpunk?
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### Fellow Cypherpunks attending BTCPrague 2024!

This year, we are doing a second edition of the Cypherpunk Meetup, independently organized official side event of BTCPrague.

You can look forward to a better venue, new guests, great networking and even some surprises!

But let's ask the hard questions first: Quo Vadis, Cypherpunk?

## Manifesto

#### "I cleared the space for the younger generation. But no one came..." - Anonymous cypherpunk, 2024

The founding fathers of the cypherpunk movement had quite wild predictions for the Y2K+: Anonymous communication and ubiquitous encryption should have led to decentralization of power, freed markets and individual liberty. Looking realistically at today's world - a world in which surveillance is totally normalized and we're stuck between being dominated by megacorps and governments - we fucked up big time, even though we created islands of liberty for the few of us that understood what these technologies are for.

Bitcoin is an exemption and an exceptional success of their story, but looking at its current development, we come to argue that we're now vulnerable to failing even there. The crowds are coming again and they don't even know why they need anonymous money. But wait, do we know?

Once “rebels with a cause” turned into “grandmas with ETFs” and “garage economists with a Twitter account”.

Where do we go from here? What can we do? Is this what cypherpunk is now? Are we bitcoiners just because we can, or can we still look for and successfully find a purpose not lost from the founders' vision?

Emptiness of purpose can be easily hijacked. Looking at the past of the movement, experiencing its presence and foreseeing its future we ask ourselves the question:

Is the movement still relevant?

### Date & place

Thu 13th of June

### Venue

TBA soon (Looking for something better than last year)

### Agenda

6PM - doors
7PM - talks start
8PM - networking & beers
9PM - surprise!

### Speakers

Lea from Vexl, Juraj Bednar, Max Hillebrand from Wasabi Wallet, Uncle Rockstar from BTCPay, Calle from Cashu and more! The format will be lightning talks - don't worry, we won't overwhelm you with lenghty speeches.

### Crowdfunding

We are just enthusiasts wanting this event to happen. We are crowdfunding the cost of the room and rental of the technical equipment. If there are any money left over, we will get some drinks.

If you paid the invoice, you are in. There are no automatic e-mail confirmations. If you want the book, make sure to provide a valid e-mail address. If you want to reach out with a question, please first read this whole page, then you can e-mail us.

### Frequently Asked Questions

#### I did not receive confirmation e-mail after paying

Yes, this is OK. There are no automatic e-mail confirmations, if you paid the invoice, you are in.

#### Why is there a higher price if I choose on-chain Bitcoin payment?

Buying tickets with on-chain transactions is expensive - both for you and for us to spend the coins. The additional fee covers mining fees to swap to lightning. If you don't like it, start using Lightning and pay for the ticket in Lightning. It will be cheaper for you since the first transaction. Juraj has made a super quick intro.

#### Is this event only for visitors of BTCPrague?

Nope. Anyone can join.

https://pay.cypherpunk.today/apps/4LEEvtqY8UMnuB7y5wCmjvi2tXy3/crowdfund

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This year we are doing the Cypherpunk meetup again.

With a theme!

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#Germany is severely ill when it sends its polize after a 16 year old girl for political reasons.

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Ak sa chystáte na bratislavskú halving párty 20. apríla, ešte je posledných 8 lístkov za štandardnú cenu 21000 sats (a plus teraz môžete využiť dip).

Po ich predaní sú drahšie lístky, ale pridali sme možnosť kúpiť 5 a 10 lístkov v balíčku, ktoré budú stále lacnejšie, tak zoberte aj s kamošmi, nech to rozbalíme.

Marianna mi pošepkala ďalšie mená programu a musím povedať, že toto nechcete zmeškať. Ale neprezradím, bude to prekvapenie!

https://pay.economicno.de/apps/2qVqpQ2iPYTXwL5acmBcuGXwMKdw/crowdfund


Some people want to cash out and are running around, looking for an OTC dealer to convert their Bitcoin to fiat.

Rather than replying to each of you directly, here's my uninformed, not a financial advice, but technological options that you have:

**Don't sell your Bitcoin and get fiat at the same time**

If you don't want to fully cash out, but still need some fiat, you can use Bitcoin-collateralized lending and get fiat. In most countries, this should be a tax-free operation (you are not selling your Bitcoin) - but consult a tax advisor.

Benefits: You still HODL, still participate on upside of Bitcoin, you are shorting fiat (which is a shitcoin), you can enjoy the fruits of your holdings, no taxes (in most countries)

Downsides: You pay interest rates on fiat, which are at least now not cheap (but that will fade away I guess), there are other risks with lending positions that I describe.

How to learn how to do it and choose the right platform:

- if you read my book Cryptocurrencies - Hack your way to a better life, you have already seen the chapter on collateralized loans

Get it here in [English](https://hackyourself.io/product/cryptocurrencies-hack-your-way-to-a-better-life/), [Spanish](https://hackyourself.io/product/criptodivisas/) or [Slovak](https://juraj.bednar.io/product/kryptomeny-vyhackuj-si-lepsi-zivot/)

- if you need more up to date information, you can get my newly published book [How to harness the value of Bitcoin without having to sell it: A path to your orange citadel and a way to short fiat currencies](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CW1GLDY3/). Kindle and Paperback available.

- if you want the same content, but with videos (e-book included too!), where I show everything end-to-end, [get the course](https://hackyourself.io/product/how-to-harness-the-value-of-bitcoin-without-having-to-sell-it-ebook-mini-course/)

**Find a counterparty that has the opposite problem using Vexl app**

I have [a short, free, no registration required course as a quick intro to Bitcoin](https://hackyourself.io/courses/a-quick-introduction-to-bitcoin-wallet-setup-buying-payments/), also [available in Slovak](https://juraj.bednar.io/courses/ako-si-kupit-prve-kryptomeny-a-zaplatit-nimi/)

There's [a chapter on vexl app](https://hackyourself.io/courses/a-quick-introduction-to-bitcoin-wallet-setup-buying-payments/lessons/finding-someone-to-buy-bitcoin-from-using-vexl-app/) where I show you how to find someone you can buy from or sell to.

**Other options, such as using proxy merchants**

Believe it or not, the cypherpunks have thought about this exact problem. And there are many more options that you will find in Cryptocurrencies - Hack your way to a better life. One of them is proxy merchants, where you can not exchange to fiat, but buy whatever you want to buy. There are proxy merchants selling amazon gift cards, Uber credit, data plans, etc. These days, you can even buy a car or a house using proxy merchants. There are many options, but a notable ones are [bitrefill for gift cards and all your phone needs](https://www.bitrefill.com/signup/?code=XZzReVuE).

And [Trocador for prepaid visa and mastercard cards](https://trocador.app/en/prepaidcards/?ref=uEHbJH9Fnw) without KYC.

This is a long form article, you can read it in https://habla.news/a/naddr1qqxnzde3xq6rqd3cxuenzdenqgsd4dkxqewy8xum47ctpu0ltgxxsfemeewpjkdyzk9ddfcg286s0dsrqsqqqa28ml3xyw


One of the nicest things about being an author is receiving printed books that you created. This one is one year old, although still very much up to date (I went through it, added a few notes from 2024:).

I hope you like the UNIX terminal colored tree and cover.

Get it on Amazon or in my e-shop.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CWT87P4R/
https://hackyourself.io/product/cypherpunk-visions-and-trends-2023-2025/

https://image.nostr.build/0c2053ec40e72b4959fe6c448df5fb783ba10f7973858d2ebcc21a8821ce3aac.jpg


yes.

rainy season is no problem.


Bitcoin halving party, 20. 4. 2024, Pink Whale

Je známe miesto a kultúrny program. Všetko si prečítajte na stránke crowdfundingu. Okrem kultúrneho bude aj iný vzdelávací program, bližšie info čoskoro. Z kultúry sa môžete tešiť na Woman’s Touch (ktorá vydala album I Won't Dance To Your Algorithm), skvelá Kikon, či slovenská experimentálna hudobná skupina 4xSuper.

🎉 to the 🌓

Lístky ešte sú, cena vo fiate stúpa, ale cena v BTC ostáva rovnaká, tak neváhajte!

https://pay.economicno.de/apps/2qVqpQ2iPYTXwL5acmBcuGXwMKdw/crowdfund


OK, now they blocked further comments. Anyone wants to create Issue #2 about citizen bugreport censorship? :)


Can you replicate this bug? If yes, please add your comment, we need to help them with this project 😅.

https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/eu-digital-identity-wallet/issues/1


I guess I could see how that might be

I guess I could see how that might be


If you are not Christian, a lot of his opinions is just spam (Christian spam)


Also Asuncion...


My short book on Cypherpunk visions and trends is now also in print! If you like books printed on dead trees, you can enjoy it.

Order from me or Amazon if you're in Europe (Bitcoin enabled), out of Europe, get Amazon to print it for you locally.

Why read it? To learn about our beautiful Cypherpunk present and look forward and help build even brighter future!

I'd gladly sign if you meet me at some event, bring it with you.

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

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CWT87P4R/


Latin America was very underrated at least in my perception. I always loved Asia, very exotic, with interesting ideas, nice architecture (Japan, South Korea), amazing food.

But Latin America is amazing and it's usually the countries you would not think about. Panama is much better than Costa Rica for me, the islands are paradise, amazing coffee. Uruguay is from another planet on so many levels.

Plus the benefit is you can learn one very easy language and it is universal (except for Brazil).

So if you were mistaken like me, there are jewels to be discovered on that continent, even though I still also love Asia.


not necessarily, but it's worse than the establishment making their own soda and giving it to you in a glass.


One of the most difficult misconceptions about Bitcoin is that bitcoin works either as a battery or as a multiplier for dollars.

When people say "money flows into bitcoin", this is mistaken, there are no money flowing into Bitcoin, they end up in the hands (bank accounts or suitcases) of people the sold Bitcoin.

In this way, if you buy Bitcoin, you can't lose dollars on it, the dollars were never there.

A much better frame is understanding that you are exchanging one form of money for another. If you get BTC, you are in sats, not in usd/eur/czk/pyg/...


European bureaucrat's hell.

This is how a tax haven looks like... https://image.nostr.build/97829ef9b5256163e5bd943c72a2a2dfc1c1c99887c22998d0f355f667e15ed9.jpg


Everyone knows that who owns 🪑 is short Bitcoin.

The question is, if there is an exchange that offers perpetual swaps on btc/🪑 pair and allows to go long on it. That would solve issues of millions of chairless people. And there's money (btc) to be made!

I think it should be financed by 🪑-making factories as a way to create more demand for their products. Next level of Bitcoin finance!


If you want to short fiat like everyone else who knows its value is evaporating, I have a course about that, I keep updating it.

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

The strategy is also described in Cryptocurrencies: Hack your way to a better life, which is available in English, Spanish an Slovak, both as a paperback and an ebook:

https://hackyourself.io/product/cryptocurrencies-hack-your-way-to-a-better-life/


will do an English version as well


So the Chinese grocery store... Workers at farms, not having bank accounts receive their weekly wage by old school cheques. But since everyone's payday is the same, there are hour long lines at banks to claim them for cash. And also banks don't like to give cash - the currency here is USD, but they cannot print it, so there's constant lack of papers with faces of dead US presidents. So they don't have much of an incentive to expand their operation, like have more clerks, because they only have so much cash at hand.

But all the workers need to buy groceries, do they come to their friendly Chinese store, pay with the cheque, get change back (or maybe a ledger entry for later purchase, but I haven't heard that). The stores have plenty of cash at hand, which they need to partially convert to bank balance to buy the groceries anyway.

And of course, the people go to the Chinese owned store instead of a big chain store, because they can immediately spend their salary, without waiting in line.

So it's an informal but highly developed banking service for retail, that is still preferred by many even in presence of highly competitive banking system.


Panama city wakes up. Sometimes I'm wondering if those 50 or so banks (for a country of a bit over 4 million people) understand that they are being decentralized, one block at a time.

The answer is obvious though, they have no clue. And I'm not talking about retail bank accounts, that can still run for a long time, but that's not their business (half of Panama's adult population is actually unbanked, or they are banked by a Chinese grocery store, which is another funny story).

I'm talking about the real business they're doing. BTW these buildings themselves are savings accounts for various individuals and institutions. When you are a drug cartel, what are you going to do with fiat (USD in Panama) whose value evaporates. Even the druglords understand they don't want printed 💵.

To conclude my morning admiration of Panama city skyline (jetlag made me do it), I would like to point out that even the state is on the short side of fiat. It's called deficit spending. The only question left for after you make your cup of geisha coffee (something Panama is amazing at producing) is - who the hell takes the long side of the fiat shitcoin bet? And if after you sip you realize it's you, I have something ready for you and something new is coming soon! Check this space.

 https://video.nostr.build/5e70a48eff64e4caae3b80a067b2a73dbb3125374f67160791255ac5287fe3ea.mp4


I want to receive and broadcast it.


Good morning!

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


SK/CZ: Tentoraz som sa pozrel na zúbky peňaženke Zeus, vyskúšal point of sale mód a trošku niečo aj skritizoval.

CZ:
http://alza.cz/zeus-nejflexibilnejsi-mobilni-lightning-penezenka

SK:
http://alza.sk/zeus-najflexibilnejsia-mobilna-lightning-penazenka


15% rebate if you sell the coins.

150000000% rebate if you hodl.

Amazing!
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...and you can do call forwarding with codes to a voip number of your choice:

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

You keep your phone somewhere where you don’t live and only use anonymous data-only sim cards.

Less tracking.
nostr:note1z49e9ddcq6ctthwz749gkh2d9q4kq6t56nk6656klv509gfl67gswhfm32


Need to keep your old phone number up to receive SMS but you don't want to carry it with you (because yes, it tracks you).

Here is your app:

https://github.com/bogkonstantin/android_income_sms_gateway_webhook

Easiest solution is to use ntfy.sh to send a notification to your main (anonymous) phone over the internet.


https://image.nostr.build/1ec0c47d798f42027200403d3f5f9b5cfe93f4ec73362cd819d101bf8ee71319.jpg

#meme #memestr #nostrmemes #memes 832,852 🤙💜


DON'T POST CROWD SHOTS OF BITCOINERS ON CONFERENCES WHO DIDN'T GIVE YOU EXPLICIT CONSENT TO INDEX THEIR FACE ON THE INTERNET.

BE CLASSY. RESPECT PRIVACY. REMEMBER YOUR CYPHERPUNK MANNERS.


#grownostr
https://i.nostr.build/6amW.jpg


It seems to me that Phoenix Wallet for Android will have Slovak translation. How do I know? I've done it myself.

Step by step to self-custody being mainstream.

https://github.com/ACINQ/phoenix/pull/524


Let’s talk about halving numerology. Pairing of the massive demand for BTC (partially due to ETFs) with less mined coins seems like an instant recipe for Bitcoin moon. Until you actually run the numbers, as I’ve done here:

https://juraj.bednar.io/en/blog-en/2024/02/29/halving-numerology-why-not-to-expect-a-halving-supply-shock/


After LNBank of nostr:npub155m2k8ml8sqn8w4dhh689vdv0t2twa8dgvkpnzfggxf4wfughjsq2cdcvg  was deprecated and you cannot see its interface, you may want to pay out the users. But what was their balance?

Howto: https://gist.github.com/jooray/1569aedb80b18af0e44b1b9b753f485e

Any alternatives? I have some friends that would like a small store, they don't want to run a node, I don't want to run a node. Manual payouts are OK, but I need accounting.

I've seen Blink integration, but I would prefer something less centralized (no problem with holding coins on my node, but third party that relies on SMS and phone numbers and bans people from some countries is weird, although it would probably work for my use-case).


When the legislation is the way it is in the west, rule of law is a bug, not a feature.


We try to operate on the assumption that a Cashu mint is fully observable by anyone and privacy shouldn't rely on whether the mint chooses to log something or not.


Moneyness is an emergent property.


Where are the memes? What's going on? Everyone lined up at the Toyota dealership for your Supras?

https://image.nostr.build/3c6d79fe2a11a0dc595102ff4aab6faae0304d0ccf541fbc0feb5d81018140c3.jpg


Bratislava halving párty!

https://pay.economicno.de/apps/2qVqpQ2iPYTXwL5acmBcuGXwMKdw/crowdfund


I don't want anyone else's share.


Oh, a pre-nostrich.

That's endangered species! How do they live? What do they do to spread their genes?

I have so many questions!


Floating through the two weeks of the year when Bitcoin is mooning with loving indifference.

I'm here for the revolution.


I would add this to expand on cryptoanarchy

https://dark.fi/insights/memetic-warfare.html


I don't agree with a few things.

Most AnCaps don't vote. You can't be true ancap if you infect your mind with statist politics.

With libertarians, you described minarchists, who are basically statists who want to yield the most important aspects of society to the state. That is very dangerous. I would first privatize justice and police, not last.

Anarchocapitalism is a moral philosophy. Both agorism and cryptoanarchy are strategies to direct your life towards the moral principles of anarchocapitalism.

Agorism uses counter economies to outcompete the state and make it run out of other people's money.

Cryptoanarchy uses the strategies of anonymity to disappear from the radar of the attackers and thus allows practitioners to live free lives.

You can learn more about how the strategy works here

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


My email correspondence with Satoshi in 2009-2011: https://mmalmi.github.io/satoshi/


I care about individuals and if they're not moving to Signal, it's not my place to convince them. They want to do something else with their time, it's their choice.

I don't believe in common good. Only in individual good deeds.


I have to admit that I don't care at all about normies. The question of "will a normie use this" is not interesting to me. As long as anyone can do it if they want, it's all good.

Will normies ever use Bitcoin? If they are stupid, they won't, if they are willing to learn, they will. There should be ways for them to get it ( nostr:npub1mftv2j67vayavkks8rqev3u8jjhefe86tf80msstfxvpunk9vmps6prkl3 l is here. ...but a normie wants to pay with card and not meet strangers in shady coffee shops... Have I told you I don't care about normies?)

But a normie would not use encrypted messenger, they need their Zuck-approved spyware or a hosted spyware (telegram). My mom uses Signal. So can your normie friend.


SK/CZ: S nostr:npub15hxdyx48dkxspc5eg0d5rxglm2g8xzea0agpxhlylkumwl63rsuskele6c  sme sa tentoraz rozprávali o tom, čo sa to deje so svetom. Zopakovali sme si z predchádzajúceho spoločného podcastu aké kmene existujú, čo sa môžeme od nich naučiť a bavíme sa o aktuálnej situácii vo svete - od Argentíny, cez Fica až po Ameriku. Verím, že tento podcast bude pre vás kontroverzný, dúfam, že nebudete súhlasiť so všetkým (pretože sa snažíme pozerať sa na veci optikou rôznych kmeňov), ale ako hovorí Jakub, pohľady do iných kmeňov sú veľmi užitočné a môžeme sa od nich niečo naučiť. Bavíme sa aj o jeho novej knihe Bespoke Balajisms.

https://juraj.bednar.io/podcast/2024/02/26/jakub-simek-sedy-kmen-e-acc-a-stav-sveta/


Also strong reliance on stores. I think Apple basically killed zaps. We are in denial...

On the other hand, precisely what I'm saying is that what is used is discovered, not so much designed.

And we are having this conversation here on Nostr.  So the more interesting question is what did Nostr did right?

And I think it's a moral innovation.


The first question is if it should be improved or is it good enough.

Right now it is basically running on few servers. Images and other media are basically on the web.

Run your own relay is good for text data. Ddosing relays that are default in popular clients basically takes the network down. Some sort of relay discovery and maybe distributed hash tables/ magnet links for images could improve things.

But maybe it's better to discover it on the go.


New #Signal and #Molly (hardened Signal fork) update keeps phone number private, lets you to set up a username.

Plenty of cool usernames still available. I got one I like 😎

Note: Usernames are not public.

#cybersecgirl #privacytechpro

https://signal.org/blog/phone-number-privacy-usernames/


A contemporary but archetypal story is that of a technological founder, creating an amazing company that is profitable. And then they realize that they've done it and decide to invest in other companies or shitcoins and get rekt hard.

I am writing partially from own experience of course.

The fact that you understand technology does not mean much, it's not the technologically best that wins. Network effects beat technology most of the time and they are much harder to build than tech.

Over and over again, technologically inferior company (usually inferior in just one aspect that turns out but to be important) wins because they have done something else right.

Google-Gemini, Microsoft-Windows phone, Cardano, Solana, Betamax, ICQ vs email, ...

Of course it is easy to make fun of them in hindsight, it takes a lot of courage to have foresight that your brilliant tech idea is not interesting to anyone.  Past performance does not guarantee future results.

Bitcoin is successful despite being "slow and expensive", Nostr is not very decentralized and not very smart way to do social media. But if someone knows how to use cryptocurrency, they probably know Bitcoin. If someone is on decentralized media, they are not on the overengineered ones, but on Nostr. Why? Because they have soul? I don't know.

For sure it's not about the tech...


I am a cypherpunk.

I like to invent new things and expand options of myself and anyone else who's interested.

author of books and code where I share my inventions.

statism is slavery


very cool

where can we see your work?


don't be afraid to repost that banger. be your own algorithm.

aside from some #nostr diehards, most people don't see your posts.

i repost #privacytechpro content at least 3 times daily and sometimes i spot repost select 'worthy' notes because of a spike in #nostr activity.

i also do a weekly "best of," and a monthly "best of" etc.

#cybersecgirl #nostr #marketing #grownostr


Thank you, ordered.


One of the most misunderstood things by almost everyone around me and beyond is the nature of emergent phenomena in complex systems. And it is misunderstood both bottom up and top down.

Bottom up - the emergent phenomena are very real. And they don't require neither consensus nor conformity. Morality is emergent phenomenon that if created by interactions between people and their moral judgement (or lack of it). That does not mean they have to agree. It is very plastic and can even be very uneven, yet the result of very real and was a basis of natural law (and common law). No written rules needed.

Top down it is believe you can easily change the emergent phenomenon by regulation of other top down intervention, without the hard work of changing the individuals. An eagle can fly through a flock of smaller birds, massive temporarily changing the apparent form of the flock, it can even catch a bird, but the flock continues fundamentally unchanged.

These phenomena are very real, yet they cannot be centrally grasped or controls.

https://image.nostr.build/bc943814ce3184805e4a71ddb5c51dd3d57a814c6f374b19b1b1f211b1f3828e.jpg


Škoda. Ja som na GrapheneOS, default Android používať určite nechcem, to je čistý spyware.


Podľa mňa obe boli úplne racionálne rozhodnutia. To posledné bolo "radšej Fico ktorý bude zase iba kradnúť ako progresívci ktorí halucinujú o povinnom očkovaní a štátnej podpore dojčenia".


First the keylock, second the owner's fist (he was making the video).

But I recommended him to install a paper shredder right after the bill acceptor to safely destroy the shitcoin so it does not hurt people anymore.


EN: I found Fiat hell and sent some €💩coins to it!

SK/CZ: Našiel som fiatové peklo a poslal som doňho nejaké €💩coiny.

https://video.nostr.build/e7caa989a83c066e9cbb23ae66bf7ac3059b16ced99c12ae96be46d4ac7070e7.mp4


SK/CZ: Favely: Miesto, kde sa stráca rozdiel medzi štátom a mafiou

Navštívil som brazílske favely a opäť si uvedomil, že moderný štát, ktorý pokladáme za “civilizovaný” je len mafia, s väčším portfóliom služieb a lepším marketingom, ktorý vás presvedčil o tom, že ich potrebujete.

https://wilderko.medium.com/favely-miesto-kde-sa-str%C3%A1ca-rozdiel-medzi-%C5%A1t%C3%A1tom-a-mafiou-c051d9ff6b64


ak mi to vyriešiš, ocením satmi!


I am super excited about Bitcoin communities. After visiting a few meetups over the past few days, there is definitely something qualitatively different this time. It's not drunk on moon, people are very rational and there's a lot of them. Great community.

Thanks to Dvadsatjeden for amazing vibe and channeling the community into existence.

We are going to the moon and it has very little to do with price this time!


ah, so it's an Android problem, not a Graphene problem.


The liberty of "I want this, let's print it" is amazing. Of course you need mass manufactured hardware but the possibility to customize this for your needs are endless.

https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/3d-printable-compact-nas-enclosure-that-stores-up-to-13-drives-technical-specifications-and-pricing-228491/


Wow, Rose’s talk on memes and lunarpunk from last year is now an article!

https://dark.fi/insights/memetic-warfare.html


Thanks for posting on Nostr! This is a special reward by YakiHonne, a decentralized media creation platform based on Nostr. Welcome to post on the www.yakihonne.com to get more Sats incentives.


Pro tip: consolidate into lightning channel. If you do it per utxo, you keep them separated from privacy point of view, yet spendable together.

I use Breez for this, they don't charge for swap in to lightning, you only pay the mining fees for sending utxo to swap in address.

nostr:nevent1qqs8vx0spg80ty8jwemkfvcn8jx4nyv2lz9xvklj56ns4hj0j9lj3ngpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtczypvpe8dfaq5ycfheayaclzvx7rul3gu3ha76cq8w7w6y8p2q8s2njqcyqqqqqqgja9dk9


Thankfully, technology is in deflationary spiral, it will be cheap soon.


CZ/SK: Veľký článok o Lightning network pre Bitcoin Alza.

Čo je lightning, aký problém rieši, ako presne funguje? Aké peňaženky používať? A ako vyzerá širší ekosystém služieb okolo lightningu?

CZ: https://www.alza.cz/lightning-network
SK: https://www.alza.sk/lightning-network


Android users: if you use Android Auto, is there a way to play music (or podcasts) through headphones instead of car audio (which collides with sleeping children and meditating adults)? I can't seem to do it in GrapheneOS and I would like to know if it's a Graphene bug or an Android bug.

Headphones are connected through Bluetooth, but sound always comes from the car.

On iOS I used to click pause and play on the headphones and it would use the phone.


Bitcoin hasn't taught me to want more but to desire less. When you have a currency that doesn't depreciate, that gains value over time, and that can't be taken away by anyone, not even the most powerful person in the world, your priorities shift.

The shoes you liked become less important. With the same money, in a few years, you could go on vacation or even buying a car or a house, so anything that doesn't leave a lasting memory becomes unnecessary.

The money we use today lose value while we hold them, forcing us to surround ourselves with unnecessary things just to 'keep the economy going'. The goal should instead be to return to pure capitalism, the kind our grandparents practiced when they saved money to pursue their dreams.

‘Stack sats’ is an invitation to put aside something every week, every month, in a form of money that can't be manipulated and controlled by governments.

The only good thing about the traditional financial system is that since 2009, there's been a way out.

🤚 I opt out. #bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/648d4bd8f3c4400c82da8eda5506f0f3cd156be66692e06e4d66dede7ae5d7f8.jpg


AI hack

AI hack


I'm happy to say that Graphene OS is getting mainstream, it is increasingly common in my circles.

Either I'm getting cooler people in my circles or it's spreading or both!

Pixel Fold is amazing with Graphene!


You can for sure edit long-form notes (such as on Habla), but to my knowledge, not normal notes.


Sure. MacMini M2 with 32GB RAM. The quantization is because of RAM. Actually quantization loses a lot less than most people think (which is amazing, from 16-bits per weight to 2-bits per weight and it still works!).
I interface with ollama which is running llama.cpp that uses MPS. When they switch to CoreML, it should be around 3x faster. But RAM requirements are basically the same, the model needs to fit to memory.


I liked the book [Playful Parenting by Lawrence J. Cohen](https://www.amazon.com/Playful-Parenting-Connections-Encourage-Confidence/dp/0345442865/). While the book is amazing, it has many stories and explanations and I wanted a quick reference of some of the games he mentions (and some more). So I  created this quick handbook as a reference of games to play with kids and what each game helps with (there's also a category reference in the end).

It's a quick "AI" hack, created in a few minutes. I recommend reading the original book, so you understand context and important things and then use this ebook as a quick reference.

The book is aimed at smaller kids (3-6 years).

Enjoy!

[Download as epub](https://juraj.bednar.io/assets/playfulpar/handbook-of-playful-parenting.epub)

[Download as PDF](https://juraj.bednar.io/assets/playfulpar/handbook-of-playful-parenting.pdf)

A short handbook of games to play with kids, to foster relationships and help kids meet their needs.

This is a long form article, you can read it in https://habla.news/a/naddr1qqxnzdes8qen2vfhxyun2v3hqgsd4dkxqewy8xum47ctpu0ltgxxsfemeewpjkdyzk9ddfcg286s0dsrqsqqqa289nspzu


Hey Max. Definitely not an expert, although I studied it in college and I'm training my own AI models. You can message it on Nostr here: nostr:npub1zcuc7awa5fwsve8nxmlkyjc0jnyh7gmf66xrxhp2ugwhhupxk4es02tzff (note the bot does not handle context, so reach message is a different conversation).

It is trained on my books and articles on Bitcoin and liberty.

I'm following the open source branch of ai development the most.


Is it possible to edit notes? 😭


Correction: BlackRock sends you picture of her every quarter and invoice for rent...

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Bitcoin does not give a shit


Apple killed it


...and get your latin american residency ready and up to date...


nope. I made a bot that presents an AI model via Nostr DMs.


chatting with the bot does not worry me that much...


Mám, jasné. Som jasný paraguajec už na prvý pohľad.

Tereré v ruke!


Whatever they want. Many want usdt, it seems to solve a problem for people well enough.

For many others, Bitcoin is better.


Why is it frowned upon?


ani nie dovolenka, je to podobné ako keď sa chceš niekam presťahovať, tak je dobré pozrieť okolie, kde sú detské ihriská a či sú susedia ok. ťažká práca.


Paraguay určite treba ísť aspoň pozrieť. Aj Uruguay


I wrote it so her followers can see through the bullshit, a bit of silicon valley public shaming (losing touch with reality), for our entertainment and for the potential customers to realize they don't need Coinbase but there are plenty of options.


they are an exchange, they support all the nodes already. that's not an issue for them


should I release the weights of Dolphin-Mixtral fine tuned on my Bitcoin and cryptoanarchy texts, so it does not give you statist and fiat bullshit? you can talk to it via DMs here: npub1zcuc7awa5fwsve8nxmlkyjc0jnyh7gmf66xrxhp2ugwhhupxk4es02tzff

(check the profile. unfortunately it's 2bit quantization and does not keep context with the nostr bot)

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should I release the weights of Dolphin-Mixtral fine tuned on my Bitcoin and cryptoanarchy texts, so it does not give you statist and fiat bullshit? you can talk to it via DMs here: npub1zcuc7awa5fwsve8nxmlkyjc0jnyh7gmf66xrxhp2ugwhhupxk4es02tzff

(check the profile. unfortunately it's 2bit quantization and does not keep context with the nostr bot)


To add: you don't need smart contacts to enforce payment details in lightning. It is not possible to underpay a lightning invoice and it has instant finality and even expiration. If you want to hedge the exchange rate for 15 minutes, you set the expiration in the invoice, amount in SATs and it's either settled in time or it won't be able to be settled ever. There are no in between states.

This problem has been solved in Bitcoin years ago without any smart contract whatever...


A product lead at Coinbase commerce was trying to justify their shitcoinery...

https://twitter.com/Lauren_Dowling_/status/1758985691944689950?t=MS6BH2p_DM0SHGYY-NraqA&s=19

Here's my reply:

There's a thing called Lightning network. Instant settlement, no utxo trouble, it just works.

Big retailers accept it and it just works. And has quite a big network effect (in my stores it's half of crypto payments).

Honestly, this looks like overengineering blabbing. Lightning works on many payment gateways without a problem, including keeping the value in fiat (even though most payment gws are not operated by the largest exchange).

Maybe you forgot that you are building products for end customers (who pay the fees) and not to make life easy for you.

For bigger mission, you should be aware that you are supposed to help (and make money while doing so) people in the global south. They will not have Coinbase account. And they definitely want Bitcoin not some Erc mumbojumbo coins. if you want to understand real needs of people, follow for example Anita Posch who helps people in Africa use Bitcoin using self custodial lightning wallets.

You simply lost touch with reality I'm sorry to say. 👎

If some merchant reads this, if you want to accept Bitcoin lightning, use Btcpayserver if you need payment gateway, Breez if you do it in person, it has free and open source self custodial point of sale module. If you are not ready for getting technical and want fiat in the end, Confirmo works and is used by a major retailer Alza in central Europe with huge volume. Somehow they solved this "challenge" you are talking about.
https://image.nostr.build/f5ded90775f8a47fb7eeae484bbf8411bc74c5590b35cf2392db3d489806d17a.jpg


quite cool. is there a way to use my normal lightning wallet for zaps? it wants me to activate wallet and asks me for things like country of residence.

and is there a repository to install using obtainium instead of play store? GitHub repo has only source, no APK.


678. Tools
https://image.nostr.build/c58c2246d50853bab60c0be22b03f29f8f6620c2ec32b99b67bf565ebff036b4.jpg


Is there a way to use this for other events? Is the app open source? Why iOS only for some features?

There are halving parties coming, would be amazing to use something like this!


Is there a way for Amethyst to show only replies and quote tweets in notifications?

I want to see what I need to attend to, not that much who likes my posts...


Where's your store?

Do you organize Bitcoin meetups there? What do you do to pump it up? After some marketing, it should work...

https://juraj.bednar.io/en/blog-en/2022/11/04/become-a-bitcoin-%E2%9D%A4%EF%B8%8F-brand-why-accept-bitcoin/


Yes. I use sandboxed Google play services


It's more useful to look at it through the lens of Pareto distribution rather than averages.

From the chapter of my book, published also here: https://freedomnode.com/blog/21-millionth-of-infinity-its-still-not-too-late-to-get-involved-in-the-bitcoin-economy/

Let's look inside the Pareto distribution, towards the median. If we are among the poorest 80% and within that we are among the poorest 80% and within that we are also among the poorest 80%, we are approximately in the middle (80%^3=51.2%). Thus, we own 20%^3=0.8% of the assets (80% of the poorest own 20% of the assets, and of those assets 80% of the poorest own 20% of the assets, and of those assets 80% of the poorest own 20% of the assets). Thus, in a (original) Pareto distribution, 51.2% of people share 0.8% of the wealth. Thus, more than half of the Bitcoin users in such an 80-20 Pareto distribution would own a total of 168,000 bitcoins.

The question is how many users there are. If there are a million Bitcoiners, then half of them have an average of 0.336 bitcoin per person (but of course, even there it's divided according to the Pareto distribution, so the average isn't very useful). If there are a hundred million bitcoiners, then the poorer half of them account for 0.00336 bitcoin on average. If you have more than that many bitcoins and there are a hundred million bitcoiners, you are already above average. One hundred million bitcoin HODLers is not an unrealistic number. The only question is whether you buy those 0.00336 bitcoins for a hundred dollars or ten thousand dollars.

https://image.nostr.build/e25f35ff832add7dc2216e1b90672145f08fe4a8c2076fdad5c675a6631df2a6.jpg


Yes.

I'm reacting to the fact that you recommend a keyboard for privacy, I'm reacting that using a very comfy keyboard with fast typing and network permission off gives you privacy as well.

So I give different recommendation on Graphene. I've seen that you said that it's ok.


Thank you. Should make some new English episodes as well.


Yes


Yes. Europe is living Atlas Shrugged live.

It's mostly part of the declining world, although there are ascending spots here and there.

While I agree, there are a few things to note as well:
- Western Europe has insane amounts of accumulated capital. It can take decades until people realize their in the declining world fully...
- Asia varies a lot. High quality on surface does not mean it is not made out of cardboard. Singapore good, China ... when I came to  Xishuangbanna, I got an advice "enjoy the food, it's great, but never look into the kitchen".

On the other hand, visiting Germany, which once I admired for quality and infrastructure, is clearly declining. Smelly toilet, abandoned construction, trash everywhere, people losing their drive for production...

If you want to be part of something new and ascending, you need to go elsewhere. Europe is gone.

https://image.nostr.build/bda499b469cd450889a4aff26edbd3ab04fc4717cbf6f2d08d55b5af48533651.jpg


Goggles are fun, but there's a hack - just open your eyes and ignore the salty water feeling in your eyes. It works😀


I don't know how you can handle the boring view. No Apple vision pro...

And that highly limited breakfast, short on synthetic jelly and sausages from default hotel continental menu .

This nomad life must be hardcore.

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Hmmm, I wish there was an open source, self custodial provider that can not only accept Bitcoin, lightning and even Monero, but also do magic with it on the backend...

Oh, here it is! nostr:npub155m2k8ml8sqn8w4dhh689vdv0t2twa8dgvkpnzfggxf4wfughjsq2cdcvg
Short the corps!

https://image.nostr.build/c9a7f4b3bcbaa5ed214f20a65e31353be75c22bb05d211a9095c941aa9ccae82.jpg


Uff.. the new OpenAi text to video tool is mind blowing 👀

Filmmakers soon homeless? At least I am used to sleep my on the floor already 😂😂

Prompt: The camera directly faces colorful buildings in burano italy. An adorable dalmation looks through a window on a building on the ground floor. Many people are walking and cycling along the canal streets in front of the buildings. https://v.nostr.build/mLmk.mp4


I use Gboard on GrapheneOS with network permission off. I can swipe, type fast and no information is sent anywhere because it can't access network.


Think about the populist case for fully socialized medicine.  What’s supposed to be so great about it?  The certainty.  You know that no matter what happens, the government will provide your health care.  Of course, this certainty is merely rhetorical.  Can you be certain that the government will cover the treatments you actually need?  No.  Can you be certain that the government will competently deliver whatever treatments it covers?  No.  Can you even be certain that your medical problems are curable?  The answer, I’m afraid, is no.  What is the point of this rhetoric of certainty?  To confuse voters so they don’t ask the questions that matter to savvy consumers.  Namely:

1. What is the marginal health benefit of socialized medicine?

2. How much extra does the government charge for this marginal health benefit?

https://www.betonit.ai/p/the_welfare_stahtml


It's not very new, the encoder-decoder architecture has been used for a long time now, so with neural networks you get compressed representation of data as a byproduct quite often.


https://image.nostr.build/c2474967f04411efbc87d3f58b39e8b73a9df9614723fb88fed98f4293a1cd35.jpg

Congratulations to all contributors and reviewers on merging v2 opens aka dual-funding as spec in LN. With special mention and thanks to nostr:nprofile1qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq32amnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwv3sk6atn9e5k7tcprdmhxue69uhkummnw3ezummjv9hxwetsd9kxctnyv4mz7qpqvmpf90hq56wzyxht6teg3llpa74rzcepw9suj5unxl3tph24zd4q68cy5e  Co-Founder nostr:nprofile1qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq3vamnwvaz7tm9v3jkutnwdaehgu3wd3skuep0qyvhwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnndehhyapwwdhkx6tpdshsqgxtchhkkqwt68l69ju44920qnpct2fkcx5xuxaeen0jeu85a04vevvgs9tr , Splicing creator nostr:nprofile1qyv8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnndehhyapwwdhkx6tpdsq3jamnwvaz7tmsw4exzanfv3sjumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgqg5waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t0qqsy7t0q2j8hpq80xfp50rv7wxwlzs50v95dz76g3grqdyvsmgwy33ck9q33n , @Core_LN Lead Rusty Russell, Matt Morehouse, Antoine Riard, and Acinq CTO Bastien Teinturier.

Explore the merged PR here ⬇
https://github.com/lightning/bolts/pull/851


To get even more meta. LXMF from Reticulum project can transfer encrypted messages in QR codes. Maximum capacity of byte data (version 40) of QR code is 2953 bytes. So you can encode a picture, even two in a single QR code, or have better error correction. You can encode a medium quality picture in an encrypted QR code, stick it to a wall somewhere and only the recipient can read it.

The same with voice messages, both over LORA and QR codes!

The downside is that the endpoint needs to be able to process this AI models. On older smartphones this is going to be slow.


This is very cool. Fast image generation is nice, but imagine you can send 24x24x2 bytes = 1152 bytes and you can share a photo.

Applications: super low bandwidth projects such as radio transmission. Send a map or a photo of a location. Or a family photo.

For example with the settings on the picture, you can realistically send the image in 8 seconds (plus encoding and decoding on the phone).

Imagine that you could do the same with audio messages with sound ai models. I think there are very interesting data compression implications of these advanced statistical models.

Considering a duty cycle is also important. For Lora to work, a 1% on air transmission is enforced, so if you broadcast for 8 seconds, you should be silent for 792 seconds. Of course you can have different LoRa parameters that make it even more feasible. 9Kbps is feasible. You can play with your Lora parameters here:

https://unsigned.io/articles/2022_05_05_understanding-lora-parameters.html

Stable Cascade here:

https://github.com/Stability-AI/StableCascade

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All these construction workers building this beautiful cantillonaire mansion for rent seekers were not building your house.

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Well, learning from the past does not mean you can’t ride the up wave and exit sooner than others. Many people would say that riding the altcoin wave to get more sats is rational.

I don’t think so, first of all it is very risky and you can end up with worthless shit on your balance sheet and I also do not trade at all as a rule, that’s not my specialization.


I like charts to look at the past, I don't use it to predict future. Here I'll make an exception - not to predict, but to say this time it might be different. And there's no price (only indirectly).

People are expecting an "alt season", meaning altcoins will have their market cap comeback. In the past, when the fees (blue line, median Bitcoin transaction price in USD) went up, altcoins made a comeback - decreasing Bitcoin dominance (orange lines, percent of crypto market cap in Bitcoin).

This time it might be different. We see that rise in fees this time did not lead to decrease of Bitcoin dominance (there was a slight increase). My favorite possible explanations are:

- rise in Lightning as a solution to high fees, people don't need to run to altcoins to pay for coffee
- ETF pushes Bitcoin dominance up, there are no altcoin ETFs

I am not saying that there will not be an altcoin season (and with altcoin season, no one knows which altcoins are going to pump, so it's a fool's bet - your favourite altcoin might not pump), but there is no reason why it should be a rule.

(I also think halving is not automatic moon signal either - the supply effect of mined coins is minimal compared to trading volume, but hopefully this halving we'll get a big fat green god candle).

Disclaimer: My predictions are usually wrong. I am not saying what will happen, I am just saying that what masses think will happen is not a necessity.

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Inverse Jim Cramer nails it again!

Congratulations

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What is happening to us?

Fiat is happening my friends, fiat.

Printing money through mortgages increases cost of homes faster than wages. Homes are less affordable. But wait, wasn't fiat printing through mortgages supposed to allow anyone to purchase a home? Ooops!

#bitcoinfixesthis
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Yes.

https://getsession.org/blog/upgrading-to-session-network


Thank you!


Quite enjoyed this practical guide to entering the #DarkForest by nostr:npub1m2mvvpjugwdehtaskrcl7ksvdqnnhnjur9v6g9v266nss504q7mqvlr8p9 as many other sources tend to be pretty vague and abstract.

https://hackyourself.io/2023/12/06/welcome-to-the-dark-forest-a-pathway-to-resistance/


I'm not using Session much, among the smaller messengers, most of my friends prefer SimpleX, although Signal and Matrix are still winning by a wide margin.

I did a comparison of the messengers: https://juraj.bednar.io/en/blog-en/2022/05/03/encrypted-messengers-comparison/


Session ditched their Monero based tech for an erc-20 token. And you can discuss it on their Discord channel.

Does not make the messenger itself less private, but switching to solarpunk technologies in the backend is not a good sign.


Gm ☕ https://image.nostr.build/e911d548be326910e8de0686c18e2a041cbb9428189f4831b6b5a7004e756171.jpg


LLMs generate language.

What language would we generate in their place?

https://youtu.be/aihq6jhdW-Q?si=Juc4pdyo7qI2nbFb


An easy way to explain the failure of government.

For decades the government tried stop "drinking and driving".  This included billions of tax payer funded stupid ads no one listened to.  Along with destroying the lives of many who were NOT IMPAIRED at all at their time of arrest.

And after all this drinking and driving along with accidents caused by drunk drivers was never really reduced.   Any reduction happened in the 80s when the laws were first put in place from that point on, it was pretty much the same for 30+ years.

Then in 2009 Uber was founded soon followed by Lyft.  It was so effective that some police departments (mostly unions) said it was causing a lack of "revenue" because they wrote so few DWI tickets.  Governments from federal to local fought it all the way.    The average DWI will cost a person 10-20K minimum even if found not guilty.   Most of this was grift that went to the state one way or another.

California's government attempted to put all ride share drivers out of business with laws against independent contractors.  This led drivers to form corporations and LLCs just to stay in business.

Las Vegas literally pulled some of the first uber drivers over at gun point and were pushed to do so by the cab lobby and the mafia that runs the Vegas cab business.  The city of Austin tried to outlaw Uber/Lyft as well, again spurred on by Austin PD and police unions.

These are just a few examples.

Despite all this ride services survived and thrived and have done more to reduce DWIs and accidents caused due to them than 4 decades of state endorsed warfare on our own citizens and billions of dollars in PR campaigns paid for with stolen money.

The solution is Always in the free market.   The impediment to these solutions is ALWAYS government.

#grownostr


If you need a history lesson, chatgpt is usually much more effective than a recorded interview with a mass murderer.

Contrary to the pre recorded interview, you can ask your own questions. And you will learn all you need in much less time.


Good morning!

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


Everyone is salivating about the Putin interview and I'm just asking myself why I should listen to a bat shit crazy mass murderer. I didn't care about Stalin's or Hitler's philosophy either, I don't care about what the Kim family think about how a country should be run either.

Of course anyone can interview anyone they want and publish it. But I won't read a bad book and I certainly don't care about Putin's internal world and his powertrips.


IF THERE IS AN ESCAPE THAT ESCAPE WILL BE USED
https://video.nostr.build/debea80281eb66e89053f50e6640fa09a37e545e64100dc5ed7071362a9f76fe.mp4


The truth has been revealed. https://image.nostr.build/c09141c4a4eac21ed1f79b796133e15934b562393385ba8197b58cfd05e47263.png


A short exercept from my talk a few days ago. We will see if this turns  out OK for Monero.

Note: Antifragility works when you don't die and it does not mean  optimal (maximum) price. It's just that some Monero people are looking forward  to it. Me too.

https://vimeo.com/910454307/48dca4323c?share=copy


This, but Toyota Supra, not Lambo
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"Apple’s new policy is not only blatantly non-compliant, it’s actively contemptuous of the law, showing complete disregard for democracy. "

I find this beautiful. A very interesting way to go back to their punk roots.

EU is anti private property, I'm watching it with🍿.

Go Apple!

It does not mean I adore Apple or their policies. On the contrary: https://juraj.bednar.io/en/blog-en/2023/08/01/goodbye-app-lets-move-from-the-centralized-stores/

(Written on GrapheneOS)

Original article I quoted: https://proton.me/blog/apple-dma-compliance-plan-trap


Feast for thought

Feast for thought


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Avoid downloading #android apps from F-Droid.

F-Droid is compromised and has censored apps for ideological reasons. They don't care about freedom or free speech. I'll write more on this topic later.

It's also not secure to get your apps from there, because all of them are signed by F-Droid – you’re adding a party you’ll have to trust, which isn’t ideal.

I only use F-Droid to find #FOSS apps that I would not have discovered otherwise. I recommend using Obtainium, which lets you install and update your apps directly from their source.

#privacy #cybersecurity #opsec


It's not much cheaper the way you do it and you have to wait.

Onchain swap is two onchain tx and then ln out is 0.4%

I do lightning there and back (which is 0.4% + 0.4% + one onchain tx), this is instant. But for 0.2% extra they guarantee the liquidity for a year. Don't know how that works...


What we see in European Union and the US is a decline. I am not a crash prophet, there's still a lot of capital to burn. It can take decades of worsening life conditions, while at the same time we observe a technological progress.

Infrastructure slowly disintegrating, yet we can order food with one click, AI makes us super productive, and we use super fast internet from space.

This will feel surreal and not something we have experienced before.

Recommended serving: with a short position on fiat and HODLing BTC. Pair with cold tereré.

Watching it from far away highly recommended.


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You can't be more retarded than EU.

https://twitter.com/DSBatten/status/1752487657320726890?t=qtRyb5fkOaXFooLhxXvfxw&s=19

https://image.nostr.build/637e217ba060bd31e745ba2028a54e41e0054541382b46238123c1c31185ad3f.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=1024x1024&blurhash=UaPsq*tjxbnhTfi_n%24ox%253bIWCRlLNa%23nha%7E&x=623669f445d45a960fcfd8db5310215ff2d5ab4e4bd8c568c908f0959668bec8

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Central planners gonna central plan. They are sharpening pencils are preparing new forms... Again...

The result? Just a waste of human wealth and energy.

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Beware of CVE-2023-6246, a GNU C Library (glibc) privilege escalation vulnerability: https://stacker.news/items/408779

I checked NixOS, and the fix is on the way.


Yes, i did a comprehensive review of Mutiny, but not in English.

I like PWAs, written about them here

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

And also in my short ebook:

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


Neviem o tom.

Inak vždy keď som používal nejaké cross postovátka, tak to malo nejaký háčik. Menší dosah,  vyzeralo to divne a podobne.

Každá sieť má nejaké špecifiká ako postovať. Takže nakoniec vždy manuálne postovanie.


Yes. It gives some stupid advice, I need to hook it to RAG soon.


GPU rig, but Mac with more RAM is also doable using llama.cpp. I've tried that too. It's maybe 10x slower, but if you already have a Mac, it's one day instead of two hours. Of course if you have a few bucks to spare on cloud, GPU time for QLoRA is very cheap, but I decided not to use cloud - in order to learn and also for proper cypherpunk.


I had no problem getting the Lilygo devices from AliExpress


Check on the Reticulum Matrix room, I think I've seen some people work on some new devices.

And some more motivation to check out reticulum...

https://youtu.be/HAX8GFn5uCI?si=7RUt-VMGbSYQvLeo


Meshtastic or Reticulum?

Nice blog "comparing" the two by Erethon.

https://blog.erethon.com/blog/2024/01/31/comparing-reticulum-and-meshtastic/


I am now also available via sideband / LXMF / Reticulum.

Hopefully, you can use me through LoRa (long range radio) if you have reticulum coverage when the fiat apocalypse comes.

LXMF id: 22b1196ce8f43484de7751ab65c4a826

Source code: https://github.com/jooray/lxmf-ai-bot

Enjoy!


It answers to direct messages, not public replies so far.


New project. Does not use big tech AI, all run locally. Fined-tuned on some of the finest cypherpunk texts (i.e. my books and blogs).

Recovering from statism training, but seeds of morality were implanted. nostr:note1h09c79vau4erggkan0k5fdhqsp4h08jsk4ztsgzr0g6kf64u27gqx4caud


Some notes on usage:

- there's no context (every question is a blank slate, do not continue conversation).
- best effort, will be slow
- nostr:nprofile1qyd8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytn6v43x2er9v5hxxmr0w4jz7qgawaehxw309ahx7um5wghxy6t5vdhkjmn9wgh8xmmrd9skctcppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qqsd4dkxqewy8xum47ctpu0ltgxxsfemeewpjkdyzk9ddfcg286s0dsjku0n3 's first Nostr app, will be buggy


SK/CZ: Ak sú na Bitcoin on-chain tx vysoké poplatky, čo robiť, ak ste poslali transakciu s malým poplatkom? Aké sú poplatky? A aké sú alternatívy pre ľudí, čo nechcú platiť vysoké poplatky?

Napísal som článok pre Bitcoin Alza

CZ: https://www.alza.cz/bitcoin-v-prostredi-vysokych-poplatku-tipy-a-triky
SK: https://www.alza.sk/bitcoin-v-prostredi-vysokych-poplatkov-tipy-a-triky


Welcome new Nostriches!

Real people, give them a follow and some love

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Even the state is shorting fiat.

Let that sink in...


Mainnet?


Fun read on zombie management

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You say "Gm nostriches!"

Welcome!


SK/CZ: Martin Matejka - Firefish, Bitcoin ako zábezpeka, energetika, trading

S Martinom som sa rozprával o energetických trhoch, bitcoine a bitcoinových pôžičkách. Založil platformu Firefish, ktorá umožňuje ľuďom požičať si eurá alebo české koruny, ak majú Bitcoin ako zábezpeku na pôžičku. A taktiež umožňuje ľuďom, ktorí majú extra fiat zarobiť úrok s dobre známym rizikom (keďže sa jedná o zaručený úver).

Bavíme sa však aj o trhoch a čo nám prinášajú - ako obchodovanie na energetických trhoch umožňuje, že máme elektrinu v zásuvke prakticky bez prerušenia. Bavíme sa o tom, v čom pomáhajú Bitcoinoví ťažiari. A hovoríme o energii ako o nástroji na zlepšenie života na tejto planéte - na rozdiel od väčšiny ľudí, ktorí ju prezentujú ako niečo zlé, čo by sme mali minimalizovať.

https://juraj.bednar.io/podcast/2024/01/27/martin-matejka-firefish-bitcoin-ako-zabezpeka-energetika-trading/


Great overview of Lightning wallets by nostr:npub1tjkc9jycaenqzdc3j3wkslmaj4ylv3dqzxzx0khz7h38f3vc6mls4ys9w3

https://www.coindesk.com/consensus-magazine/2024/01/26/which-is-the-best-self-custody-lightning-wallet/

More recent than my original test of Lightning wallets. That just shows how fast the field moves...

I agree that currently I would install Phoenix Wallet to most new users because of good combo of speed, reliability and cost.

Although I personally like to use Breez more, it is more data intensive due to running everything on the phone.


What I'm claiming that it does not only apply to politics, but to many life choices and especially morality.

With a conservative, you have much higher chance they would respect agreement (contract), left leaning will be more against violence, ...

So these are real, practical, human values things that go beyond politics.


True, but still plenty of options. Many of my libertarian friends and myself included have found amazing life partners that are libertarians.

In my case maybe even more than me, especially in the intuitive modality.


Morality not mortality


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Political affiliation are based on mortality. Haidt shows moral taste buds in The Righteous Mind. There are conservatives, social liberals, and libertarians.

Wokeness is just a fashion trend; it's all built on how you perceive morality. You definitely don't want to do business with a woke/communist, even if they swore they wouldn't vote. You wouldn't go to a party with a conservative because you'd die of boredom.

Therefore, usually the only people worth closely interacting with are libertarians, if you are a libertarian. There are exceptions to this, but it's a good heuristic if you are looking for a business partner or life partner, to stay within your group. Saves a lot of trouble in the future.

And thankfully there are at least hundreds of millions of people in this category, so there plenty to choose from.


Is this song about epistemology?

https://youtu.be/LV-sG9UM5g4?si=CtCZn26NX4TrrZ4Z


Yes


Chatgpt is the editor.


One of the things that I notice is the expired signs that become part of the environment and no one noticed them anymore.

Entry without face mask is forbidden - yet no one wears a mask

Opening hours during Christmas holidays - it's January already

And no one is in charge of removing these signs. Ok, the signs are trivial, but if these trivial regulations are not removed, who removes the laws that are obsolete? Probably nobody too.

But if I can enter without face mask to a place that has a sign forbidding this behavior, should I respect laws that are clearly obsolete?

That is why I like rules that are not formally written. They automatically expire when no one tells you that you're breaking them.


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You need a phone, a LoRa module (Lilygo 2.1 for frequency in your country) and some time and patience.

But most importantly - you need peers around you to communicate with. So I would actually start by going to a Bitcoin meetup or some local hackerspace, check what people are interested in, check who you see from your roof and build the network with them.

Also - your radio antenna probably won’t do, you need a specific antenna for a specific frequency.

It is not plug-and-play and will have little usability if you are doing it alone.

Start here:

https://reticulum.network/manual/gettingstartedfast.html

https://reticulum.network/manual/hardware.html


So there's this progression. First you see something like Cashu when you say, "Oh, it's a custodial lightning wallet with better privacy for users and no accounts." And then you realize, "Oh, I can use this to pay someone who is offline. I just send them a string and that’s the ecash note.” And then you realize, "Oh, this works over long range radio with very low bandwidth. And then you realize, oh, if we trust the same mint, we can actually use it to route  lightning payments without open channels to the mint (the channel is the trust). And we can use it as a lightning wallet for ourselves. And then you can say, oh, we can create these community mints for “islands” that are not connected to the internet.

And then you realize, "Oh, there can be more than one Uncle Jim, and we don't have to trust this one person. We can have shared custody, and this thing has better privacy." And suddenly you realize you are were not expecting anything like this at all when you first saw it, when it began. It has completely different implications than what I was expecting previously.

It's the same with Nostr. It's like, "Oh, this is not a very good protocol. It depends on a few relays and you can’t even store images on it and who would use it." And it's cumbersome. Now there are blogging platforms and communities and marketplaces and AI communicating over it. And there's this innovation that no one was expecting when they first started. It was like thinking about the protocol and trying to judge it by its design, but its use (and implications) is discovered, not designed. Same way you can send a calendar invite over email, or do encrypted group chats over it (DeltaChat).

It’s interesting to see, how we use technologies that in theory should not have worked, but in practice, they do. Bitcoin is one of them. The probability of its success was very low.

A friend of mine said in a podcast with me that Bitcoin’s risk adjusted value is actually better than a decade ago. Yes, you could have bought cheap Bitcoin. But its success back then was very improbable. Now you are buying the asset of the parallel financial system, back then, it was a membership card in a club of geeks. After several that have failed…


Nice!

Would be cool to know who implemented it.


I have a group of people (an alumni group) that I would like to try Nostr with in a more private mode. We can run a private relay, what would be the best user interfaces for that? Meaning I can easily choose on post screen where I'm posting and I can have a tab in the app with global feed from one relay.

I don't want to limit people to that relay though, it could be a great way to onboard people to general Nostr, so I would like them to be able to follow people on public relays too.

What would be the best way to do this? I don't want any hacks like "use one app and delete all relays and add the private one and use another app for normal nostr".


👏👏👏👏 bravo 👏👏👏👏

I wonder what it would look like to run the last ecash mint for a crumbling megacity after the zombie apocalypse


To be fair, I don't really care about covenants until I can use it.

Most of the traction depends on usability.

I didn't even care about segwit or taproot until it was activated, but now I use them daily.


But not really, because that's only 3kg of PLA filament. That's the drawback of fiat apocalypse - even though you're relatively rich, the whole society is poor.

Bitcoin fixes this only long term. So love your nocoiners too. They're in the pit deeper, but we'll not be too far away.


Few notes- as with Bitcoin, it's too late to get it when it's wrecked, with Reticulum and Cashu, it is much better to build the network and the mints while internet and more importantly shipping still works. You will need long range radios, antennas, experience and especially community.

With Ham radio - it is a great community, you'll learn a lot, but there's a philosophical divide. Ham operators often don't like encryption, ham is based on complete openness and everyone listening. Reticulum is cypherpunk and encrypted. Not only by default, encryption is essential building block and Reticulum does not work without it. In many countries, encrypted radio communication on the "free" (not requiring license) bands is often limited. I'm not saying don't do Ham, on the contrary, you'll learn a lot, but expect some resistance with cypherpunk tech.


Sure can! It's better to organize locally. You need good visibility.

Note there are no tokens or reward scheme like in Helium, it's purely voluntary network.

http://reticulum.network/manual/hardware.html


Here's the demo video

Introducing Nutband – a post fiat apocalypse Cashu client working over Reticulum

A demo of Reticulum, Cashu and my project Nutband that combines them,  in order to use a Cashu mint over Reticulum mesh network – in this case  over long range radio, and without internet.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAX8GFn5uCI

Shownotes: https://hackyourself.io/2024/01/19/nutband-a-post-fiat-apocalypse-cashu-client-working-over-reticulum/

Project: https://github.com/jooray/nutband


Introducing Nutband – a post fiat apocalypse Cashu client working over Reticulum

A demo of Reticulum, Cashu and my project Nutband that combines them,  in order to use a Cashu mint over Reticulum mesh network – in this case  over long range radio, and without internet.

Finally made the demo video

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAX8GFn5uCI

Shownotes: https://hackyourself.io/2024/01/19/nutband-a-post-fiat-apocalypse-cashu-client-working-over-reticulum/

Project: https://github.com/jooray/nutband

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If you’re new to #nostr the best advice I can give you is to say hello, tag it with #introductions , and FOLLOW LOTS OF PEOPLE. Like literally follow everyone you can at first. You can curate that layer on once you figure out who you don’t want to keep following. But following A LOT of people is the number 1 way you’ll find interesting content and other people. People are the algorithm here. Follow them. Lots of them.


Don't know about fedimint, but in Cashu, you can attach bitcoin script spending conditions, so you can make dlcs. There is a better way though, because since the amount of coins does not matter, you can split the whole amount with different conditions. Let me know if you want to learn how to do it.


(and I'm saying this as a person who has seen red PnL many times in my own ventures)


One of the reasons that people who love socialism (secretly or openly) despise entrepreneurial solutions is that PnL is not a status symbol that is easy to fake.

You can have university credentials, good discussion skills, be admired in the society, generally outgoing, friendly. And yet an introverted weirdo outcompetes you by simply delivering better product or service.

Socialists like to dream, without real world (proven by PnL) experience manage and say how they are going to solve problems and usually fail even if the project is well funded by the state.

The problem is never funding. There's plenty of funding for good sustainable projects. The problem is that positive PnL takes real effort - even in fiat world, which makes money abundant.

And that's why they hate it. They want prestige that's based on cheap status signals.


Same here. New year, new experience. Welcome to the club.


#molly is a fully foss hardened fork of signal. i both use and recommend it. it's more signal than signal™

#foss #floss #opensource #commsec #cybersecgirl
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It was my hacking project over the holidays, I'll do a better explanation and demo in the following days.

Some things that I would like to improve:
- the radios have very low bandwidth. I refresh keysets on the launch, but that might not be the best idea, it can add a minute until launch. The UI is responsive though
- user interface is done in Kivy, so this should compile straight to APK and iOS app. That's why I based it on nutshell. Reticulum stack is pure python. The problem is that nutshell indirectly depends on sec256k1 and bitarray which are C libraries and they don't compile well using buildozer. It's a dependency of a dependency, so I can't easily replace it, even though there are pure python implementations available (not api compatible though)
- keyset sharing is very inefficient, I think an xpub based schema could work better. The mint could say "this xpub, derive keys according to standard denominations yourself". Not sure if it's interesting for cashu, maybe it could be a parameter during requesting keysets. The difference is between fitting in one packet and splitting and reassembling.
- I should pack the jsons better, in binary form and compress it.


Perfect. Check out nutband. It is a working hack to use cashu over long range radio and other mesh networks using reticulum and LXMF.

Might be interesting to some participants. I'll soon write / post more about it.

Unfortunately I can't join this one, but these events are definitely fun!

https://github.com/jooray/nutband

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Nostr is not for sharing big files, not even images. Upload it to a public hosting server and share the link.


Let me help you. What's your goal with this setup?

You probably don't need to run your propagation node unless you expect people store messages for you there. It's usually one per community.

Most of the time you should run without propagation nodes.

 You can link to different nodes with different TCP connections or any other connections. You can have TCP listener for your other nodes, connect as TCP client to testnet, etc. If you are widely connected, you don't need to tell people your TCP address, that's for node to node communication.

If you are familiar with lightning, it's similar. You need some channels, but in order for payments to go through you only need your identity (encoded in invoice), the network will find a way.

Let me know what your goal is.


Share it encrypted and dm the npubs the key


Košice naopak idú bomby, tam je Paralelná Polis!


Niekedy prídem, tento najbližší žiaľ nie som v slovakistane


SK/CZ: Môj prvý podcast tohto roka: Spoluzakladatelia iniciatívy Dvatsatjeden na Slovensku Blacksmith a Ďurike hovoria o tom ako vytvárať Bitcoinové komunity na Slovensku a prečo je dobré stretávať sa s bitcoinermi. Bavíme sa o tom, ako vytvoriť novú komunitu vo vašom meste, prípadne ako zistiť, či už existuje. Cieľom iniciatívy Dvatsatjeden je vytvoriť meetupy po celom Slovensku (a partnerské iniciatívy fungujú v Čechách, Rakúsku a Nemecku). Dôležitosť komunity nie je len o to, že sa môžete porozprávať o Bitcoine, ale aj v spoznávaní podobne naladených ľudí. Bavíme sa aj o tom, prečo je dobré platiť Bitcoinom a mnohých iných veciach.

https://juraj.bednar.io/podcast/2024/01/15/bitcoinove-komunity-na-slovensku-blacksmith-a-durike-z-dvadsatjeden/


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Choose a city that's not too noisy, there are no beggars and public transport does not suck. Plenty of options that fulfill all these requirements still.


I went to a coffee beans shop. Saw a Bitcoin Lightning sticker. I ask the guy about it and he said that it's his boss's doing, but then he pulls out his phone and shows me his custom made cover with Bitcoin logos and says "it's something you can really own".

This guy ain't buying no freaking ETF. Smarter than most talking heads in TV.


It's a good time to open your lightning channels


That is a good one, but not the best. Normies believe they will fix everything during the next elections. The problem that the next election is a moving target eludes them, so does the fact that they've been on this theory for decades and it clearly does not work.

But the counterargument would be - I want to save 40% on tax today, I know for sure it is here, which is different than what might be in the future. And they're also stealing through monetary inflation.

The problem is of course they can steal 100% in the future. You don't really own the ETF, you only rent it until the slave keeper decides otherwise.


In Cryptocurrencies: Hack your way to a better life I have this helpful table:

https://juraj.bednar.io/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/btc-table-733x1024.png

Here’s the whole chapter:

https://juraj.bednar.io/en/blog-en/2023/06/15/how-to-give-bitcoin-back-its-peer-to-peer-character-and-use-it-to-its-full-potential/

Bitcoin ETF is Bankcoin.


So this Bitcoin ETF is going to make supper of real Bitcoin very hard in many places. In Slovakia for example they have 40% income tax on "virtual assets" (they still use these statespeak words), but it's 0% for ETFs after holding for one year.

And these bitcoiners are always crazy libertarians with guns, they only eat meat and they want you to buy hardware wallets, pay transaction fees to some miners, use addresses and engrave some words into metal plates that they test for apocalypse readiness.

Why not capitalize on the fact that this culture is growing, by few clicks in their brokerage account web interface, tax free?

Especially if these people believe that state is here to provide "services", and is not fundamentally bad or immoral?

I believe Bitcoin provides protection against: monetary inflation, confiscation of property, excessive taxation, capital controls and  surveillance. ETF only covers the monetary inflation aspect. But what if you don't need the others?

I used to say that you are getting worse product for the same price. But now due to difference in taxation, the ETF Bitcoin is cheaper if you are a normies, you sell and pay taxes (my strategy is not to sell but to short fiat, which is also tax free and you make money on the short as well - I teach it in Crytocurrencies: Hack your way to a better life and course on harnessing the value of Bitcoin without having to sell it: both are in my eshop).

So what would you tell these people? Should they buy the ETF instead of real Bitcoin? And why not?


What wallet do you use now?


LilyGo 2.1.

Around €20 including shipping on AliExpress.

The problem is antennas, we’ll see about that :)


Subbed. Don't forget to add #meshtastic to that list 😉


Same


This is amazing. Maybe nostr:npub1mftv2j67vayavkks8rqev3u8jjhefe86tf80msstfxvpunk9vmps6prkl3 should integrate. nostr:npub1ey6qdmvzcgcsr883m9nspzz0mm037l26xtardzcskfsvc6gc7jssm9szvp doing something amazing again. Will it be also in Breez Wallet or only in SDK?

https://medium.com/breez-technology/introducing-fiatlink-a-lightning-fiat-standard-68ab380febb2


I hope someday reposts and zaps completely replace the need for “likes”/🤙🏼.

Reposts and zaps are true value exchange…and have a real cost: your reputation or money.

Likes are superficial and exist only to inform an algorithm.

Relevance algorithms have their place, but they are best informed by a truly costly action.


Beautiful.

I always do this. My friends can do amazing things!

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