Exactly my thoughts. Also, halving hasn’t happened yet.


Hang in there, regarding the debt! The good part is that it should eventually mostly just inflate away! As long as the rate is not too predatory.. (I hope it’s not)


GM


#Ukraine https://image.nostr.build/ed3a1c7b851f7e854179822a36f2610b5198a1651f5b9f12497ed5607c782d95.jpg


These days, 10 years ago, the most tragic events of Euromaidan took place on the streets of Kyiv. Security forces opened fire with lethal weapons against the protesters

On February 18-21, 2014, the most massive clashes between protesters and security forces took place in #Kyiv since the beginning of #Euromaidan. The consequence of those events was the flight from the country of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, the annexation of #Crimea and the beginning of a protracted conflict in southeastern #Ukraine.

According to various estimates, between 78 and 83 activists died in and around the Maidan between February 18 and 20, 2014. After February 20, more than 20 more protesters died of injuries. After these events, the dead began to be called the "Heavenly Hundred".

https://x.com/nexta_tv/status/1759624222962266467


Maybe an inept atempt at kickstarting a Great Wall of Europe?


I am just a pleb, who orange pilled a president, who made BTC legal tender. You can do whatever you want, yet, by definition USDT is still a shitcoin.


Yeah.. I find that a bit naive, sorry! I think what this war has demonstrated is that what matters is the ability to strike the enemy supply lines, as well as concentration points deep behind enemy lines. So rocket propelled artillery, and such. Further, on the frontline it’s really about drones, electronic warfare, and armored vehicles.

Everyone having a weapon will just make everyone a legitimate target first, and an immediate subject of torture in any areas captured by the enemy.

Really, the only role you want to be in if you find yourself in the combat zone is to be a combatant.


They are just being naive when it comes to Russia. I guess it’s a natural human thing. People just before WW1 or two didn’t exactly think it’d unfold the way it did.

I mean, it’s not like I don’t understand the sentiment. I do. I think that wanting to get out of NATO, not getting involved in any wars not on their soil, and leaving Europe to its own devices, is a coherent position to have.

But then, don’t pretend it has anything to do with pacifism, freedom, or striving for a better world. Because it’ll be a world where the last islands of freedom are increasingly puppeteered by authoritarian regimes.


My children are older than your son.

Having been born in the Soviet Union, it so happens I understand Russian, although that is not my native language. Me knowing that language is a consequence of Russian occupation that my nation went through. I can also read Ukrainian, but to a lesser extent. I am saying this to explain that I can and do consume primary sources on what’s going on in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus. Your assessment that Ukraine is ‘worse’ can only be a result of some type of propaganda that you have been exposed to. Because if you would have gathered information from primary sources for the past decade, you would know that this is simply not true.

I don’t ask for Americans to send troops to Ukraine. Not least because that would provoke a direct confrontation with NATO, which would pull my country directly into the conflict, and part of the frontline would be situated directly in it. The fact of the matter is though, that Ukrainians have nowhere to go. The beast has come to their house, the fight is on their soil. Where are they supposed to flee to?

All I’m saying is, while they are fighting, they should get everything needed to defend themselves. Because if they stop fighting, and Ukraine stops existing as it gets subsumed by the beast, that will just embolden it. And less than a decade from now, there will be an attack on a NATO country, and that’s when you’ll end up sending Americans to again die in faraway places. That’s the path we’re on of Russia doesn’t suffer a decisive defeat resulting in the collapse of Putin’s regime.


What the fuck do you even mean? I’m not talking about some rosy future where no Putin can wage war. I’m talking about here and now where a war is currently going on.

Yeah, I haven’t seen war, unlike all of my grandparents whose lives were ruined by it. I’d like to keep it that way, that’s the whole fucking point.


I have been toying with the idea of buying some land to start a #homestead , or build a house, or something. But I’m having a lot of doubts lately.

I see how people fawn over Putin, not realizing fully what he is and what he actually represents. I see political in-fighting in America about amusingly minor issues in the grand scheme of things. I see a non-negligible part of Americans actively being against supporting the Ukrainian war effort that could stop Russia here and now. I see rest of the West finding their heating bills much more important than said support. I see truckers and farmers in Poland not seeing past their nose to what’s to come.

This area of freedom is precious and unprecedented. And it won’t last if we’re not in the mood to collectively pay for kit and munitions for people who are paying with their lives. And sure, if you’re on the other side of the pond, this might not touch you personally. I guess it’s fine to not care too much about other people’s freedom. But for me, all the #freedom that #bitcoin and #nostr provides will mean shit if my potential homestead gets bombed to phosphorus covered ashes in 4-8 years time.

So I guess I’ll just get some more of the orange coin and wait to see how things unfold. In case I happen to need to get property somewhere further away from that God damned metastasis of an empire.


Why am I not surprised.


A killer surf company, needessentials, linked up with my band and has been using our music in their incredible surf videos for the last year or so. This is the most recent one. Dig in! It's a serious vibe and some incredible surfing and excellent music all round. They showcase the lifestyle and stories of the surfers as much as the surfing. They're doing some excellent work!

#surf #nostrsurf #surfing #music #nostrmusic #tunestr

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmEN57EJEm4


A foolish and malicious cop out by Apple.

What this means for Mutiny users? If you've installed as a PWA, the data is segregated. With the new update, Apple will bounce you to safari, which still works. However, it'll be at a blank slate.

Be sure to back up your seed phrase!

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/02/15/ios-17-4-web-apps-removed-apple/


So, basically joined Nostr because someone showed it to them, and only have it on that single app, but don't necessarily know how and why it works.


I think that's for people who might not have saved their nsec somewhere else.


Welcome to the year of the dragon! Finished up this banjo at the end of last year just in time. It's an undescribable feeling creating something that will outlive you for generations...
#yearofthedragon #art #artstr #handmade #banjo #engraving #artist
https://m.primal.net/HcYf.jpg


That’s nostr:npub1f5pre6wl6ad87vr4hr5wppqq30sh58m4p33mthnjreh03qadcajs7gwt3z


I only see your notes from 7 days back. You can't really expect to have much traction in 7 days on Nostr. The community is not huge, there are no algorithms to surface you, everything is organic.

That being said, I think your account has a lot of potential! I'd suggest to not focus on Bitcoin as much. In my opinion the most interesting people here are the ones who don't talk only about Bitcoin or Nostr. Like @rev.hodl


Ignoring


nostr:npub1uyz4w2w4rcphk0q5arzkutrecgscxwzajj4dkvh9mjyqjtxslm6qea8632  is Wyoming strong.

https://youtu.be/UJsVYOfrc3M?si=hIjNuA_qNChSOqLs


Sort of. Except Russia is the empire. There are still many federation subjects with their own "titular" ethnicities. Bashkirs, Tatars, Karelians, and more.  I think that's part of the problem that they can't figure out of they're running a nation state or an empire.

But yeah, Russia hasn't successfully run a democracy for a meaningful period of time. So they don't have the collective memory to fall back on how to run a democratic country. They then believe en-masse that it's not actually possible, and that it's a sham everywhere.

It really looked like there was a period after the Soviet Union where they really tried to run a "normal" country. Then that didn't work out, so they fell back to what they're used to - having a tsar. If you look at Russian history, that's a recurring pattern. They try to modernize and be like any other European country, then that doesn't work, then they become antagonistic to the West. Then they lag behind in development. Then someone figures to try and modernize and be "normal". Rinse and repeat. I hope they can somehow break out of that cycle eventually.


Well, yeah, but that's apparently not a realistic option.


Yeah, pretty much. We basically started the government, the military, the intelligence services from scratch right away. Whereas in Ukraine initially the same Soviet institutions persisted. Including the personnel.

But there are reasons for that. Our historical situation was markedly different. Latvia was a full fledged nation during the whole interwar period. One that was well developed industrially and socially. Think interwar Denmark or Finland. So from our perspective, and also according to internation law, we restarted that country, treating the Soviet Period as illegal occupation. As we didnt want a repeat of that situation we single mindedly took the geopolitical course "as far away from Russia as we can get".

For all the other ex-Soviet countries apart from the Baltics the situation was different in that for them the independence sort of 'happened'. E.g., they didnt spend late eighties trying to get out of it. So then the response was different too.


Latvia ia nowadays a boring western country - EU, euro, NATO, IKEA, rising housing costs, bitching about our democratically elected government, the works.

Belarus is run by a dictator whose wet dream is to run a combined Belarus-Russia country. Even huge mass action by the population three years ago after the last sham election didn't manage to depose him. During the protests getting anally raped using a police baton, or beaten to death in police custody was a very real threat.

I'm sure the people of Belarus will eventually achieve their freedom. And then they won't let another strongman anywhere near the government.


Yeah.. Somehow we really dislike the idea of Russia invading neighboring countries.


Here’s a rational argument against his position from someone living very near to Russia. You might even visit here if you choose to attend the next Nostr Unconference :)

What riles me up the most is his gripe about “NATO expanding and encroaching on Russian interests”. Here’s the thing. We worked very hard to get into NATO for more than a decade. Look up Vaira Vike Freiberga NATO speech. We wanted to get in because we never wanted the repeat of Russian occupation. We barely survived the last one as a nation.

He can’t wrap his mind around the idea that people might have a will of their own that they exercise through action.

From our point of view it was us who wanted out of the Soviet Union , we took action to achieve that (see Baltic Way, barricades). We wanted to get into EU and NATO. We took action and achieved that. It’s not Soviet Union breaking apart, and NATO expanding. We did it, even though nobody apart from us was very keen on either idea.

From this perspective, we understand Ukrainians. They wanted to rid themselves from corrupt pro-Moscow president who wanted to nix the EU association agreement. They took action, and achieved it.

To punish them, Russia annexed Crimea, and invaded the country. Then launched a full scale invasion 8 years later to destroy Ukrainians as people and as a nation.

He can’t stomach the fact that people can have a will that they express through action. He can’t stomach the fact that people would want the freedom to choose their own government.


One sided and incomplete. With incomplete being the more important thing.


You’re right, the Nazi collaboration is not a very meaningful fact in this context.

What are meaningful facts however are how Moscow was a backwater during most of the time he discussed, how Alexander Nevsky fought very hard to subjugate other parts of old Rus under Mongol rule, and how the realm governed from Moscow was called by many “Muscovy” well into the 18th century to discern it from the Western part of old Rus.

You could as easily interpret medieval Rus history in a way that shows how the country whose capital is Kiev is the direct descendant of Kievan Rus, and the country whose capital is Moscow has little to do with it, apart from being founded and run by people who betrayed old Rus.

You could also argue that Russians are not a real ethnicity, because the ancestors of modern day Russians are the Russified local tribes from around Moscow, as well as Mongols, Tatars, and everyone else at some point falling under Moscow’s dominion.

I wouldn’t interpret history that way myself though. Because it’d be as one sided as the bullshit Putin spouts.


Interpretation is everything though. Apart from that, he very conveniently forgets facts that don't fit his narrative. Such as Soviets collaborating with the Nazis on the attack on Poland.

It was a very weird pseudo-historical diatribe.


Tucker Carlson interview: Fact-checking Putin's 'nonsense' history https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68255302 #Russia #Ukraine #Belarus #Poland #History #Putin


GM from the orhwr side of the globe! 😅


Sorry for being snarky. I hate the man vehemently. I live in a country that borders Russia and falls squarely within their imperialist ambitions. Were it not for us getting into NATO two decades ago, I might be in a trench right now. Or dead already. So that inevitably colors my attitude towards him.

I get your point, but how else to frame him really?

He is detached from reality, and he demonstrates it clearly in this interview too. If he wasn’t, he would’ve never started the full scale invasion. No rational actor would.


Which part did you like more, the part where he explains how Hitler was just compelled to start the war by attacking Poland, because Poland just wouldn't give Gdańsk away, or the part where he describes how Zelensky's father who was born in 1947 fought in WWII?

He's not a madman, but he is a KGB-man. Which means he has trained to lie and deceive professionally.

Anyone listening to what Putin has to say without keeping this in mind is doing themselves a huge disservice, and risks becoming a useful idiot.

Like Bush Jr. believing he was able to get a sense of Putin's soul.


Interview summary in one picture. https://image.nostr.build/38e7a3eef4a4b3cb939c453e21750e87a130b64164659cb5981e53b585eb435a.jpg


You risk losing solid 20 IQ points by watching it, so be careful.


So, was that the real Pootin or one of the doubles?


Haha!


How did you guess? Is my handle a dead giveaway? 😂🤣

🇱🇻 🎉 👋


*best 🤣


Please be like nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a and post your bear content here!

Welcome!


The really sad thing about constant currency devaluation throughout the world is that it benefits those who have the most access to cheap credit at the expense of those who do not.

People on the lower end of the income spectrum in Egypt are generally dealing with cash. Their wages and savings get debased, and they own fewer hard assets, so they have fewer offsets. Their ability to buy imported goods diminishes, their ability to travel outside of Egypt diminishes, and their costs in general rise.

People on the higher end of the income spectrum in Egypt have access to foreign bank accounts and/or have multi-year domestic property loans, which are basically currency shorts. They mitigate the impact from the ongoing devaluation, or in some cases benefit by it.

As a tangible example, last year I took out a 7-year loan or currency short against the Egyptian pound, and used it to buy a villa that houses a 9-person extended family (7 when my husband and I are not there). The money supply goes up by 20% per year but my interest rate is 3%, which is an ultra-cheap long-term currency short. Within the first six months of the term, the Egyptian pound was already cut in half relative to the dollar. Who knows what the exchange rate will be over the next 6.5 years.

The past four decades of global Fiat World have been like a game of Blackjack. In Blackjack, you try to get to 21 without going over. In Fiat World, you get into a position so that you can take out low interest debt and buy scarcer assets with it, and you do that as much as you can but without going bust in a downturn. The major governments can do that the most. The big banks are next. The big funds and asset managers and public corporations are next. The wealthy individuals are next. Then the middle class, and then the working class and the poor.

And the global aspect of Fiat World is important. An asset allocator can operate globally, so among the 160+ currencies out there, they can arbitrage them. They short a currency with negative real interest rates, and buy good assets somewhere with it. I personally did it in Egypt not to make money (we don't plan to sell for the foreseeable future) but to ensure good housing for the family at modest expense. But global firms do this around the world to make money. As the global economy got more and more financialized over the past four decades, a lot of professional talent shifted from engineering or medicine or wherever else and moved toward financial arbitrage.

Weak money financializes everything else. Strong money can de-financialize everything else.

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


VERY IMPORTANT, to all good people, to all open minds and burning hearts, plebs, I am writing this to you:

How am I doing? 🔥 I am at WAR 🔥.

Don't ask me how I'm doing;(

I will not answer you as it really is. I can't say as I usually say - "great" or "super"!!!

Because I have a fucking war going on at home!!! At home!!!!
Some nits decided to seize or damage my home, my country.
They are shelling us every day, pushing thousands of tanks at us, shooting, killing.

I'm in a very bad mood, I can't think of anything worse, I have nothing to do but think about destroying the enemy on my land (actually, I have a lot of projects), because they came with evil from the side of evil, and they are evil, russia_is_evil!

And you, don't think for a moment that you can understand me, sitting at home on a warm couch somewhere in Europe or the United States, but I understand you, because I didn't understand it in 2015.

Brothers and sisters, everyone who carries goodness inside! Wake up! Evil may be sitting next to you right now.

The ignorance that rides on the ego and creates a vicious circle in which these amoebas accept the lies of propaganda as the truth of life. This is the enemy, it is everywhere, it is stupid and poor, but it can be aggressive and physical, even launch missiles into your house, be careful!!!! It is the enemy of everything good in this world, it is the enemy of intelligence, goodness and good people.

And it must be destroyed. There is no other choice. Unfortunately. A war has begun in which this will happen.

The images show the number of air targets shot down by our air defence forces that terrorists launched at us only in 2023. these are only rockets and large Iranian kamikaze drones. You can also see the official figures of our enemy's losses!!  (just imagine for a moment the amount of metal and meat that is coming at you)
and of course, a couple of photos and videos of us destroying this disgusting thing. …

👾

So I'm now using all the Bitcoin technologies to produce the drones and robots we all need. I'm a very peaceful person and see bitcoin as a universal good, but now I'm at war, and bitcoin is with me! https://image.nostr.build/e282e188cc3f937fd0bd21fdc0d239d6459463eeaa8671883c488190eeba667c.jpg https://image.nostr.build/805e70eed7f8546efb8ae896d83eeed490695341a510d37ba3a63b000edfb012.jpg https://image.nostr.build/9099b9c5c4a0f5705f62fffce02ab730262210927767f4acfc85715c10f2c583.jpg https://image.nostr.build/fa6f854986a4fd061f141249d9c29d82d37e6a74d69dc02455129000f75a048a.jpg https://video.nostr.build/f50dfecd52bef6ea3d44a253423654d46a47ba64a568a056bbe492a8bd29279c.mp4 https://image.nostr.build/e3fcac506800a4411d3b309f075bb2e0336cebfc23ff4d343b9288e9d164d2ea.jpg


You’re here now, aren’t you? :)

But yeah, there’s Lyn Alden, Jack Dorsey, and “Nostr celebs”. Though I do find interesting people to follow from time to time!

(I’m not one of them, I just lurk, comment sometimes, and repost stuff)


He's back!!! :D


Thanks! Is there any back of the napkin calculation regarding how much space is optimal?


He’s just giving benefit of the doubt.


How do you keep the rabbits in the colony if they roam free like that? Don't they burrow out of it?


The U.S. broad money supply currently consists of approximately 2.1 quadrillion cents.

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


“We work jobs we hate, to buy things we don’t need, to impress people we don’t like.”


Why do you want to be in the last 10%?


Theft at the baselayer.
https://m.primal.net/HZJU.mp4


He did. It’s just that you don’t need GitHub to use Git.


But, but… Staff will get fancy new jackets!


Russia’s Hidden Colonialism: Its Origins, Forms, and the Ways to Escape It https://european-resilience.org/analytics/russias-hidden-colonialism-its-origins-forms-and-ways-escape-it #Russia #History #Colonialism #Racism


Former Russian president and prime minister on Ukraine. That’s why there is no other way than Ukraine to win this war! #Ukraine #Russia #war https://image.nostr.build/80eacb8f004c85549ab12fd1027cd99db378975e2ab956afee3f489579aa72ca.jpg


Hope you got them good in those two fights!


Can’t figure out. Are you actually on Nostr, or is this just some kind of a Mastodon bridge? 🤔


If only there was anything that could be used for payments instead. You know, some type of censorship resistant internet money. /s nostr:note10p2q7efyumacv4q3kluwmk6h6anf6680sc9lgdrkxs7wwk6xthws52ad3n


https://i.redd.it/hk93unbe8xp31.jpg
#Privacy


GM


Do you understand Russian?

I do. Meaning, I'm able to gather information from a wide variety of sources. Western, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Russian opposition, Russian propagandists in English, Russian propagandists in Russian, as well as Russian ideologues, and just normal netizens.

Let's put it like this. Your view is at best incomplete.


Never would've guessed this. Like, given all the geekery on runet, I find it pretty weird that people haven't gotten around to making cool looking fonts just for the kicks!

I mean, if the Japanese can have cool looking katakana fonts, I'm sure really cool lookin Cyrillic can be done too!


10 years. 10% to FOSS. This is the way.
https://image.nostr.build/1ea8de5344eaf822347d36098219a1ce67d16ecbcdbc81f3772db75ebb1802a6.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=716x1246&blurhash=%5D6S6PlIA_3WB%3Fb4nt7-%3Boft74noL-poft7IUWVxuj%5Bt7RjWBofWBofM%7Bofofaej%40_3jYM%7BjsRj%3FbogWCWCRj%7EqoKRiofM%7B&x=c719a5112c89dfeb8c19b3325f6901c87ad733de8f6180a7a85de06cc4064e91


You don’t have a #Nostr account. You have a key that signs events, and you publish those events, and then anyone who wants to read those events can do so by retrieving them from anywhere they exist. There’s no one to turn it off, there’s no account to suspend or restrict. There is simply information flowing to and from you and everyone else who uses it. This puts the power of speech back in our hands.


Do you think they’ll extend it in March?


And also pretty bad advice. People, don’t use code sent to e-mail/phone as the second factor. If you’re targeted, you can get SIM swapped, and your e-mail can get compromised.

The best second factor is a hardware key (Yubikey), second best an authenticator app on your phone.


I assumed that'd be the answer, yes. Well, not the part about the fonts.

I find it sad though. I'm actually looking forward the day when "Made in Russia" is a sign of quality. Not just within Russia, but outside of it too. Because that'd signal that a tectonic paradigm shift has happened within Russia, and the world in general has likely become a better place because of it.


Looking forward to the day when people who hate Bitcoin are on Nostr. That's how you know it has succeeded beyond all expectations. 😄


Any idea why that's the case? Where I live using the local language increases sales. To the point where manufacturers from neighboring countries sometimes even use a local-sounding brand just for our market.


I love Nostr to the bottom of my heart, but do you really think that dimwits who can't get a Yubikey would be any better when it comes tk handling nsec? 🫠😂😂


I do the same atm. I do believe it'll grow up to where you can have a kind of a wallet app for the keys, and delegate all signing to it.

I think Alby does something similar, but I haven't tried it!

Btw, the suggestion to tag stuff is a good one. Basically lands the note in more global streams for people who might not be following you to see!


That's basically BTC Lightning "tips" on your notes. Won't get rich that way, but it's still a nice gesture. For that to work you need a Lightning address associated with your account. Primal has an integrated Lightning wallet and rakes care of that! (Might depend on geo though)


Pretty cool visualization of countries' debt levels.

nostr:note18fnc9kkj477tj8lgtt0nffyd8264yd0f0huczsme335m5nza6j4sdjz5l9


Btw, can't zap you!


I see this! How dead is dead?


I don't think there's any KYC you can pass by holding up a handwritten note.


If I read it correctly it's an AI generated image that passes the normal user verification routine used on subredits where ahem... mostly images are posted.


You have a posting quota? 😅


Just learned that Niklaus Wirth, inventor of Pascal programming language, has died. Pascal was important part in my programmer’s journey, it was second language I learned as a kid, after BASIC.


The power of inertia is formidable indeed.


Да, мобильный. Второе видео, которое ты потом опубликовал, показывает нормально!


Ну как? Они просто следуют партийной линии, как полагается хорошим овцам. А партийная линия такая просто потому, что вечеринка отлично демонстрирует, насколько ложным является тезис о том, что эта война якобы представляет собой борьбу светлых сил православной России с агентами гнилого Запада в Украине. Гнилой Запад курит в сторонке, когда Киркоров выходит на сцену.


Primal too. Why?


Yeah, I ❤ Rust too 😂😂


Sounds like you want to use a cargo workspace for your project!

https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch14-03-cargo-workspaces.html


Русские сервера только для российских ботов?


Looks like the zap approval requests are not going through for me at the moment too. I had this a few days ago as well, but I think they all rolled in a day later.

That made me try Primal though, and I must say the zapping functionality there works great. So I now switch between clients, and use Primal when I want to zap!


What the hell!

For real? Hope you're good..

And, well, Happy New year! 😅


Judging by the facial expression Mr E is losing though! 😬

Monopoly is a great game. In that it teaches very well how the system can be basically rigged against you!


Totally


Who needs to be tagged to renew the #nostrverified domain? 😬

#asknostr


Oh man, lol 🤣

I'm sure that must be a thing though!

<Googles frantically>

Yup, it is 😄

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


Aaand they missed the 'Indian IPA'. But I guess they just didn't need it for the meme! 😄


nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg Just set up Primal to try it out and see if zaps work out of the box on iOS. Pretty seamless experience, kudos!

However, it'd be great to know more in detail what it is that I just set up! 😂

Given that I got a persistent address, there were no channel opening fees, and you needed an e-mail address, I assume the node is not in the phone, right?

Also, if I buy sats from the wallet, do you get a cut and I support development of Primal in that way too? It's cheaper to get the sats from an exchange,  but I'd be happy to top up from the app, if it supports the resistance!


Correct, supply constraints (mostly due to deglobalization / economic protectionism / geopolitical conflict) will likely continue adding price pressures even as demand wanes, resulting in stagflation.

One great model for safe haven assets is Exter's pyramid. His model was created before the advent of Bitcoin, which is existed then would be on the same level as gold. Self-custodied Bitcoin generally has no counterparty risk, like physical gold.

Of course, not financial advice. Do not buy or sell any security because of my posts.

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


Welcome!

I was afraid you’d be one of those people who might not hang around due to how Bitcoin centric this place tends to be. But your bio says it all, you’ll fit right in!


If I read the reasoning correctly it’s that it looks like we’re heading into a recessionary environment coupled with inflationary pressure not only from the rate cuts themselves, but also actual bottlenecks on the supply side?

Is there anything you suggest (NFA DYOR style) when it comes to investing apart from stacking sats?


Yes, exactly! Rust lets you encode a lot more into your types than what you would normally be used to in other languages.

Regarding errors, if there’s semantic meaning attached to the negative ints in the API, you might want to have an Error type that captures that meaning on Rust side. Look into the thiserror crate that lets you easily spin up custom error types.


Not yew and wasm, but lots of Rust. Typically you deserialize directly into your type, and then maybe have an additional validation method on it if the shape is not enough.

In practice it’s not really that bad when it comes to types. You can set Serde to ignore unknown fields to deal with APIs that throw the jungle together with the monkey and the banana. But yes, if something that you need out of the API can be NULL, that should be an Option on Rust side.

But that’s a win. Right? Right? 😂😅


I think your best bet is to have an account with a centralized exchange, and then doing limit orders to get maker fees. That’s the cheap part. Getting it off the exchange is the expensive part with those amounts. I know that some exchanges support Lightning, and I think on some of them Lightning withdrawals are currently free.

Opening a channel to a self-custodial wallet can get expensive, but if you’re running a node it’s probably not that bad.


“it operates on the Nostr protocol”

Oh really? How does “it” avoid double-spend then, given that the Nostr protocol doesn’t have… you know… _a blockchain_.

Clowns.🤡


In the next recession the bottom of the graphic will occur... https://m.primal.net/HVSH.jpg
#Bitcoin / #BTC / #Stack / #Sats


It probably will though. Because in normie-land Bitcoin is crypto.

I recently had a conversation on the orange tech site about Nostr. And the take-away was that many normies find the fact that as soon as they get on Nostr they’ll have Bitcoin shilled very off-putting. From their perspective it’s ‘crypto-adjacent’ and full of crypto scammers.

Now, I understand why that gets people aggravated. But it really shouldn’t, that’s just the way things are. That also means that in normie-land the price of Bitcoin rising makes people FOMO in. But a significant portion of those will be people who think that if Bitcoin could’ve 10000x, any other ‘coin’ potentially can. Because they don’t really realize that there’s actually a difference. So they’ll go for the cheapest Shitcoin with a pretty website they can find.

For a time this is bound to push up shitcoin prices too. Until the dump part of the scheme, that is. And then the cycle starts anew.

Keep calm and stack sats.


WoS still works. Just not everywhere.


Finally got around to setting up #zapplepay

Feels good man 😄


I love how people neglect the power of emergence although it’s literally the root of civilization as a whole.

If one pays attention it’s everywhere. A platform that lets people do their thing always eventually wins against a closed system, and a decentralized ‘platform’ always eventually wins against a closed platform.

It’s slower, but it harnesses the power of emergence. Which is the force of nature itself.

A garden can be made quicker than a natural forest, but the forest eventually subsumes all gardens. Decentralized money will eventually win. Nostr will eventually win. People will look back at today’s social media walled gardens as a curious trivia. Much like we see the closed computing networks of the eighties.


That’s what the Germans, the French, and everyone else with a sufficiently large distance from the Russian border relied on. That he can be understood from a purely capitalist framework, that he wouldn’t start a war that’d be bad for business, or promptly ended one if it turned out to be. Alas.

I hope the next Russian leader has better track record when it comes to working to support Russian geopolitical interests. You know, make NATO irrelevant by not posing a threat to neighbouring countries, have close trade and cultural relationships with European countries, not endanger those by starting wars in Europe, the like.


I really have issues when everything is framed as a geopolitical struggle. It completely robs people of their agency. I mean, if Russia invaded my country (again), I couldn’t care less about what kind of a geopolitical game the Americans are playing, as long as we get the aid that we need.

But yeah, agree completely with the general premise that a compromise is not in American interests. If the goal is for Putin to be finished (and I think it is), giving him some form of normalisation such that he can rebuild and restock for a renewed push 7 years down the line would be madness.


That would just embolden bloodthirsty autocrats the world over.

Besides, Putin’s signature means shit. The guy’s track record of abiding by international agreements that Russia is a party of leaves much to be desired. So a peace agreement with his government would mean shit and count for absolutely nothing.

Do I need to somehow indicate that I’m a foreign agent to keep you out of trouble?


Amazing how quickly a human mind adopts. I was reading this, and thinking, ‘Wait, Sleepy, why you GPT-ing bro?’

Kudos for not passing it as your own though!


Except Binance. They didn’t pre-comply.


To be honest, I don’t think they can discuss that legally with you. As in, if they file a SAR report, telling you that they did so is illegal and can get the individual disclosing the information in very serious trouble.

And you knowing what a SAR report is immediately makes you suspect.

Yes, totally fucked up. Fuck them.

Normies believe we live in the same financial system that people a century ago lived in, but that’s very far from the truth. The truth is that this situation where all significant money transfers must go through third parties and are proactively monitored is very new.

I’m actually not convinced democracy can survive long term in such a set up.


I just tried to send an international wire between bank accounts that I've sent between before with no problem, and got denied this time. They didn't give a reason.

People who say bitcoin is a solution in search of a problem generally don't have many international assets to deal with. International connections between fiat rails are slow, expense, ever-debasing, and at any time the rules change and block you.

Fuck them. Accelerate.


Echo chamber? What eco chamber? You mean a fine aggregation of highly intelligent individuals with a thing for freedom?


Watching the green candles with glee


Happy third birthday, Nostr!

https://void.cat/d/TebuPitkpgiQuq4hMpCunj.webp
Three years ago today, nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6 made the very first commit to begin working on the Nostr protocol. Since then, Nostr has grown into a thriving ecosystem of applications and communities, enabling people all over the world to communicate freely and without censorship.

Nostr is a shining example of what's possible when people come together to build a better future. It's a testament to the power of open source software, open protocols, and the resilience of the human spirit.

On this special day, we celebrate Nostr's developers, contributors, and our fellow Nostriches. We thank you for making Nostr a reality.

Nostr is the future of decentralized and censorship resistant communication!

Here's the original commit:

https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr/commit/6158017db0b12686218113232fff175a45953e2f
https://void.cat/d/NUiGVdJLYHHJSqyBntemVD.webp


Hi! How’s stuff?


FinCEN’s proposal to outlaw all crypto privacy is a huge overreach. They apply a section of the Patriot Act on a “class of transactions” in a new precedent. Doesn’t matter if it’s custodial or noncustodial- merely using certain type of code can be an illegal act.

People are caught by the potential spot ETF, meanwhile this is proposed. Now they fight you.

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/fincen-wants-to-outlaw-certain-bitcoin-on-chain-transactions/


I wonder if there are other easily available sets of hardware one could use. I mean, Raspberry is not the only single board computer out there!

Regarding the pass phrase, it’s what you mention, but also an additional layer of security in case your seed gets compromised, right?


Oh man, it took some time to realise that it doesn’t store the private key on the device at all! Maybe it makes sense to somehow make that part more prominent?

Like, in retrospect it seems very obvious, but I somehow kept assuming that it stores the private key too!

So, in principle I can think of SeedSigner as an equivalent to having a paper wallet and using an air gapped Linux laptop for signing? Except more robust and secure?


Wow, talk about serendipity! This is something I was thinking about just yesterday!

So what’s the reasoning why not having a secure element is a good thing?


Seems like that’s a trend. During the last 48h I’ve had imposters of nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft and nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424 sending DM requests.

It’s pretty clear from looking at the imposters’ feeds, as well as the lack of NIP-05 verification. The accounts can be reported as spam, and muted.

Not sure what spam reporting does though. E.g., what do relays do, and what happens if the genuine accounts happen to be reported.. 🤔


I think this is true in general. Most people don’t have a theory of mind of most other people, they just project themselves onto other people.

I should say ‘we’.


It’s very much a Bitcoin book from the onset 😂

It basically starts with the Bitcoin premise.

Money is a ledger, the best ledgers are decentralised and ones with low inflation potential.