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 "[Liquid Network] recently released Simfony which is a high level language for writing Bitcoin smart contracts

It looks and feels like Rust 
and compiles down to Simplicity bytecode

simfony.dev" - nostr:nprofile1qqs8yl8ra33qgg7xxnhgql026a9xc344438v47tsa3fvvyfaguaj2lcppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0vv0u63 #liquid #bitcoin 
 Cc: nostr:nprofile1qqsqyredyxhqn0e4ln0mvh0v79rchpr0taeg4vcvt64te4kssx5pc0spz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhs23yh5n

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 "The situation Americans find themselves in today is truly a rock and a hard place. Our own government (yes, on both sides) is effectively an enemy influence working against us, but there are still foreign influences wokring (sic) against us as well." - nostr:nprofile1qqsrwseygwgtu5688flrkwudqnwws0mvj52tsx5e07emzg7qwthe77qpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7dz399u 
 Back on nostr for the second or third time and it's hitting harder than ever. The vibe is growing. So many improvements!

GM 
 Inflation erodes what seemed to be safe bets. Insurance rates are turning the screws on all homeowners. Ht nostr:nprofile1qqsglcljg053zgvpsyrcwh23hjj08l84gdph42t329gweqpkxkynn3gpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhskkkvjf

https://image.nostr.build/be6c32c94775b57a279088fbab71f2aa540f59140350099fa827b94e5bf30253.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/93900ccca2c5d497ff4795704bfbbb392ea6b37ca5dc999313095c3dcb29a78c.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/454022595a53760e7b1d90736f3cc16da6c341d89e9824864b99ae16cd8993dc.jpg 
 What do you think of adding Nostr support to some RSS readers out there? Does anyone know of a go... 
 What's an RSS reader 
 Doing nothing is incredibly difficult 
 Practice makes perfect 
 #transparency #newstr 
The World Bank has "misplaced" an astonishing $41 billion in climate chang... 
 How is it that after all this time people still dont understand that owning #Bitcoin doesn’t me... 
 I think they understand, but concerns get eyeballs. I :heart: ossification AND the many ecosystems in which Bitcoin functions. 
 This is the way
nostr:nevent1qqsqh0mdurappqwzcaw4se6lvuh6msfxzrhv3epl2y6nr6rz397pgfqpzpmhxue69uhk... 
 Convert espresso into code -> automate getting more sats -> virtuous cycle of caffeine and coin 
 Reflexive podium gripping. Classic cope. 
 This is life. Maybe not biological, but complex, useful, messy and in that way beautiful. 
 I keep thinking about nostr:nprofile1qqsw3znfr6vdnxrujezjrhlkqqjlvpcqx79ys7gcph9mkjjsy7zsgygpr9mhxue69uhhqatjv9mxjerp9ehx7um5wghxcctwvsq3samnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwdehhxarjd93kztnrdaksz9thwden5te0wfjkccte9ekk7um5wgh8qatz7tvu4p's BRING THE DRAMA comment and looking at X it seems we need to convince a lot of people who are CONFIDENTLY WRONG in order to have real fun. 

https://image.nostr.build/7e49025331b8c996cf43913b7e6c5d17a928711a6d1f07e52877cb309c5e7b49.jpg 
 I'm beyond wanting to convince anyone but imagine if Nostr were an even better place to argue. Not sure how it's possible. I'm no debater. But like get 50 people like him on here and it could be massively entertaining. 
 "Did you see what they're saying on Nostr?"😱
 
 Nostr getting discussed in context of BlueSky not being decentralized.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41955725 
 i was trying to watch something on netflix, and netflix didn't like me using a VPN. 

So i torren... 
 Exit = voice. I choose physical media. The second hand market is cheap for popular titles. 
 Who made nostr relay for umbrel? 

I wonder if there are any plans to expand the functionality? 
 Does umbrel have to bless apps for easy installation? That repo looks a bit quiet. 
 OP_DOG is way better than OP_CAT 
 nostr:nprofile1qqsw3znfr6vdnxrujezjrhlkqqjlvpcqx79ys7gcph9mkjjsy7zsgygpr9mhxue69uhhqatjv9mxjerp9ehx7um5wghxcctwvsq3samnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwdehhxarjd93kztnrdaksz9thwden5te0wfjkccte9ekk7um5wgh8qatz7tvu4p on product development philosophy. Also I appreciate the editing of this one. All the streamed pods should put out an edited and/or highlights version. Some of the most popular channels have a clips channel as well.

https://fountain.fm/clip/GBHKJowK4GV3x6rhsPbI 
 Hey, this is Tadge.  First post on nostr.  Using "gossip" desktop client. Not sure if this works,... 
 Bullish for everyone

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 Might be taking another run at $69,420 again tonight. 👀 
 Wouldn't mind a dip but Bitcoin waits for no man. 
 Strange things should be documented. 
 Comments on the particulars of the translation were interesting. We have to be mindful that who owns the models will affect the output. 
 I rarely tell you about my private life, because I prefer to talk about art, but I have to tell y... 
 Aww man sorry to hear about this. Hope you are able to feel better soon. 
 Is garlic affected by hyperinflation?? 

Where's the garlic on my garlic bread?!?! 

#whatsgoingo... 
 Yes, take it up directly with the central bank 
 i did the math and everything is stupid 
 With expanded scope you'll begin to find non-stupid things 
 Anyone who buys bitcoin etf shares gets punched in the balls. I don’t make the rules. 
 Not buying until they promise some kind of yeild. Then I will proudly brandish my stupid big balls. 
 THE nostr retention rate is less than 1%

Hard to say if this is terrible or close to normal - my... 
 For trusted users, and we definitely need to filter out loosely linked accounts, it's about 7% over 30 days. This is a better time scale for something so new. The other thing is this is more an issue to solve at app level. It seems a few apps have analytics so they should look at how changes affect this.

https://image.nostr.build/6a3de699386e7b4f9621e9ac1035863a26c1e018a3958a8062cfb447bf9c41d4.jpg 
 That's however Nostr.band defines it. Think it's something like page rank. 
 The former is a good question for @brugeman, retention though is definitely meaningless if it includes easily generated keys and profiles. 
 Just had a random conversation with someone about how math is the history of civilization, and ho... 
 "Just to be clear we're going to be using base 10 for this conversation." 
 Season the steak with salt thoroughly and leave it for one hour. This draws the moisture out.

Pa... 
 Yasss.

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 SBF attempted to suppress the price of bitcoin by selling customer funds.

He is not the first pe... 
 The nerve! I'm for generally being lenient but this is very hard to forgive. 
 They ask important questions about Nostr's selling points. What's the value prop? What keeps us here and improving the place? 
 test 
 👁️‍🗨️👁️‍🗨️ 
 Guys, need your help to create a slide on

"what do you like about NOSTR"?

Or what do you think ... 
 It's the people. Oh, protocol... everything is signed. No, even better is that it makes public key distribution and discovery fun. 
 Who were the fiercest fighters during WWII?

Who were the most important? 
 I just know you won't find them in Slaughterhouse-five 
 call me crazy but I want a "theatre" mode in Snort! 
 For videos or you just want it wider? I'd like if the layout were more compact perhaps with a sidebar. I get about two-three small notes tops without scrolling. 
 Great numbers! Where do I find this?! 
 Let me know if you have some wild idea that would make Snort awesome - an integration, or somethi... 
 I love the way coracle shows how many relays a note went out to after pressing send. I always fear notes aren't getting full distribution. 
 Yeah, I often get a warning from Firefox that the page is running slow. 
 Let me zap the project and get a little badge that at least on Snort shows me what a kind and giving person I am. :) 
 Nprofile is an npub with the possibility of embedded relay info 
 Where did you find this? 
 On my morning walk, was thinking about the possibility that Satoshi is just the NSA.

Ignorance i... 
 If true the dollar played itself 
 Anyone know the skinny on bluewallet? Bluewallet.io 
 Your heart will be touched by someone special this week. 
 I'm not saying it's a bad flow. It's a good start and amazing that we can do this with uncensorable cash, however it's not a single tap or a long-press and another tap. Imagine a profile with a note for each plan saying how much to zap. I must be missing something. 
 Only if you ride max leverage with zero down variable rate like a degen. If you go fixed rate reasonably levered it's just fair play. 
 I wouldn't get too wrapped up in moral purity. The reason is each central bank has their primary customer who will be taking out a volume of loans that we could never offset.

Went looking for a quote that addresses this line between ethics and reality and this is the best I found: "Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something." -Henry David Thoreau

What I take from that is not to deny yourself and family the advantage of assets that pretty much require loans to obtain just because you don't want to be complicit in a theft-based system. In that you really have no choice. If however you want to act and are willing to sacrifice then it should be collectively so that the effort scales to the point that central banks must respond.

I suspect this could work by forming an organization whose membership pledges not to take out any loans until inflation, real inflation not cherry picked numbers, falls below some rate. 
 Did the Panama papers show who these elites were? I never knew if there was historical/trend data in that release.