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I recently had a short conversation with my uncle about saving in Bitcoin. The conversation wasn't very long, but we touched on the difference between trading Bitcoin and saving in it, but I got a little stumped after telling him that the money in the bank was merely a promise. His response was: why is Bitcoin NOT a promise?

I tried to think of an answer, but being technical myself, and having a very technical understanding of it all, I couldn't find a satisfactory answer that was understandable. I needed to walk away and give it some thought. This article is the result.
## What is the definition of a promise?
Before we begin, let's take a moment to differentiate between two things that people think about when they hear "promise" in the context of money:

1. The "promise" of money having value in the future
2. The "promise" of you always having access to money to use for trade

Money has taken shape in many forms in history, from shells, to gold, and now paper money issued by government. There is no promise of any form of money having value in the future. It is possible for our central banks to make such a promise, but this is not something that they have absolute control over; money is merely an expression of what we, as individuals, wish to use for trade and savings.

Currently, most people use government issued currency for trade and as a unit of account, however as trust in our governments and central banks erode, people start to look for alternatives. There is good reason to look for alternatives in today's world, our money is being used against us; our money is inherently political - not only regarding how taxes are handled, but also how newly issued money is directed towards political causes while newly issued money causes debasement of our savings. The 2% target inflation is always framed as a noble goal, but in fact it is a promise to constantly debase your money.

But I digress, the second promise is what this piece will focus on. The promise of you always having access to money to use for trade.

> **As long as there is a middleman facilitating your payment, or facilitating the withdrawal of the thing you use to transact with, there is a promise.**

If there is a middleman between yourself and a trade, then there is a risk of that middleman refusing to honour your transactions. Worse still, if a bank goes bankrupt, something that has started happening again recently, there is no guarantee that your balance is refunded in full.

In the UK, [the FSCS  protects 100% of the first £85,000 you have saved, per UK-regulated financial institution (not per account)](https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/savings/safe-savings/). This is needed because the bank may not have the funds owed to you, the money that you thought was yours may never have been there at all.

This is a risk that applies to all forms of custody. If you purchase gold, but the gold is held by a third party in a secure facility, then you do not have gold, you have a promise for gold; when you go to claim your gold, you may find that it is no longer there.
## Banks often break their promise
The 2008 financial crisis is a historical event, it showed that banks took risks so large, that they could not fulfil their duties to their customers. Banks were considered too big to fail and bailouts paid for the survival of a predatory industry, effectively through money printing. At the same time, small businesses were allowed to fail, people lost their jobs and their homes, and yet the wealthy class became wealthier and banking became more prominent and structural to our society.

More recently, in early 2022, a large number of Canadian citizens found their bank accounts frozen, including their business accounts, leading to concerns of being unable to pay employees, as well as being unable to buy groceries, fuel or medicine. This action was initiated by the sitting government using emergency powers against their own citizens who were protesting government policy, **without court orders or any sort of trial**, and in the aftermath the Canadian federal courts ruled that the use of emergency powers to roll out these actions was [unreasonable](https://ca.news.yahoo.com/cp-newsalert-federal-emergencies-act-182031478.html). Although this action was temporary, it had a profound effect on many.

In the UK in mid 2023, Nigel Farage had his Coutts bank account in the UK closed with no reason being provided. Nigel is a controversial figure in the UK, one who has been accused of being racist and bigoted, and therefore it was hard for many to empathise with this story. During this event, after Nigel made this issue public, the bank then made a statement to the public via BBC News with a reason: that his account was underfunded, without first sending the reason privately. Then it came out that this was a lie made by the bank to safe face, as they changed their reason to Nigel having views that were "at odds with our position as an inclusive organisation".

This story was interesting, however what was less publicised, was the stories coming out about [ordinary people receiving similar treatment](https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jul/30/uk-banks-closing-more-than-1000-accounts-every-day), with no reasons being provided, and much harsher personal consequences.

Many such stories exist, but get lost in a swarm of noise and often become forgotten after some time as if it never happened. Much smaller stories exist too, I personally had a payment blocked, and after making a call to unblock it, they asked a series of questions and then decided that they would not honour the transaction. Fortunately, I was able to move my funds to another bank account to make my payment.

Others still have had their bank accounts closed with no reason given, even though they are not criminals, and are not involved in anything suspicious to their own knowledge. Too many people rely on bank accounts, cash is being painted as a tool for criminals and being phased away, and with a bank account being the only way to participate in the online commerce space, the systems we have built as a society place too much power in the hands of middlemen and not enough in the hands of citizens who rely so heavily on this infrastructure to partake in normal activities.
## Is Bitcoin a promise based system?
Bitcoin is virtual, most perceive it as being "on the internet" and conclude that therefore it must rely on middlemen and servers just like everything else online.

Bitcoin is more like BitTorrent; for most people, this is a technology most familiar as the tool for finding pirated movies, music and other content. This technology connects people around the world and provides a way for people to share files and data, its most popular, or at least most publicised application just happened to be piracy, and yet it still exists today. Even though industries tried, It could not be shut down because it is not a centralised service reliant on a single company or server somewhere.

Bitcoin is not a business, anyone can and will participate in the operation of Bitcoin, it is more like a community project where the people who operate it also rely on it for savings and trade. Such a system cannot be found and shut down, nor will such a system be abandoned easily.
### No user accounts
One of the most significant innovations that bitcoin uses, is the ability to have **security without user accounts**. A lot of people who are introduced to Bitcoin will first look for a regulated exchange so that they can learn how to purchase bitcoin, unfortunately, exchanges are for-profit businesses and they would rather you remain a customer to them, than you progress to taking custody of your bitcoin. When you purchase bitcoin on an exchange and do not withdraw them to a wallet that you control, you once again have a promise for bitcoin.

Even the most popular exchange, Coinbase, has terms and conditions that state that [they may suspend, restrict, terminate, deactivate or cancel your transactions or your access to your account](https://www.coinbase.com/legal/user_agreement/payments_europe#anchor-7-suspension-termination-and-cancellation). Also if they go bankrupt, [user assets could become subject to bankruptcy proceedings](https://fortune.com/crypto/2022/05/11/coinbase-bankruptcy-crypto-assets-safe-private-key-earnings-stock/).

To clarify: if you are registering for an account, providing an email address, password and other personally identifiable information to some service provider, and you use this service to manage your bitcoin, **you do not really have bitcoin**.

Let's explore the two main aspects that make Bitcoin a self service operation with no middlemen:

1. The Bitcoin address,
2. The mining function
### The Bitcoin address
The ownership model of Bitcoin doesn't allocate funds to people, instead it allocates funds to unique numerical identifiers which we call "Bitcoin addresses" and the use of these addresses help to separate the relation between an individual and the bitcoin that they might have control over.

Think about cash, the cash exists as an independent thing, I may own a £5 note now, but if I hand it to you, now you own it. In the same way, if I have control of an address with 0.5 BTC and I hand over that control to you, now you own that money.

Bitcoin is not quite the same as cash, because control over bitcoin isn't physical. Controlling bitcoin requires the possession of private information, and typically, just like an idea, information can only be shared and cannot be transferred like physical objects can. Products like the [Opendime](https://opendime.com/) provide a practical way to produce and contain this private information in such a way that it can be trusted to only exist in a physical form, this then behaves exactly like cash because when I hand you the device, I no longer have possession of the information within it.

The ability for such a product to exist is not to be taken lightly. Imagine being able to trade one of your bank accounts for goods or services, or even just as a gift without having to inform or ask permission from your bank! Even if the banking services are down for the day, you still have a means of trade as long as you believe the bank will eventually resume operations.
#### Normal operation
Of course, the usual way to use Bitcoin is online or using mobile or desktop applications. To load a Bitcoin address with funds, a payment needs to be made and broadcast to the Bitcoin network.

When we wish to move bitcoin between addresses, we use our bitcoin applications to create a transaction, we can think of it like a blank cheque, and we use our private information to apply a digital seal. The private information is called a private key, and the digital seal is called a cryptographic digital signature.

Unlike a signature on a physical cheque, the digital signature cannot be forged; If bitcoin moves between addresses, the only people that could have moved it are the people who own the private key(s).

Once the bitcoin has been reallocated, the new owners need assurance that the bitcoin cannot be "double spent"; that is, the customer must not be allowed to attempt to move the *same* bitcoin to an *alternative* destination. To ensure this, Bitcoin introduced a function called mining.
### The mining function
Mining is at the very heart of Bitcoin, and this is where the question of whether there are middlemen appears to become a little muddy.

The miner performs two tasks:

1. First they collect and choose a set of transactions to cement into a block.
2. Then they attempt to cement the block and broadcast the data to the rest of the network.
#### Choosing transactions
Once a transaction is cemented into a block and broadcast to the network, any alternative signed transactions that attempt to spend the same bitcoin are can simply be discarded as garbage. This is the assurance that recipients need.

Miners cannot modify transactions in any way and they cannot redirect funds or make their own transactions on your behalf, however since miners choose the transactions to put into a block, it could be concluded that they can also choose which transactions to omit from blocks too. If this were true, then miners would inherit the power to freeze funds and censor transactions as they see fit.

Fortunately, mining is a competitive business, transactions offer fees in bitcoin for miners to earn, and opportunity drives competition. Bitcoin mining requires nothing more than access to energy, computers and the internet. This means that mining has competitors from all around the world. If a miner chooses to omit a transaction from a block and broadcast it, the transaction will simply be mined in a future block by another miner.
#### Cementing blocks
To draw an analogy of mining, imagine a game competitors draw parts of a face in a particular order. Let's say everyone needs to draw the left eye, you draw your eye, then everyone races to win a game of chance: everyone must roll 10 dice at a time and the first person to roll all ones wins the round and submits their drawing before the game moves on to another drawing.

The dice game takes time and energy to complete and out of all of the competitors, it really is anyone's game. This is similar to how mining works; miners work with odds so low that it takes 10 minutes on average to complete a round, and the winning miner submits their choice of transactions with a mathematical proof that they beat the odds. We call this proof "Proof of Work (PoW)".

Consider that as more people join, and as miners get faster, the rounds would start to shorten. Bitcoin naturally readjusts itself to ensure that this is not the case, and so more effort put into the network leads to a higher assurance of security.
#### Breaking the cement
The cost of time and energy assures that anyone attempting to change the historical records in any way would need to expend more energy at a faster rate than the rest of the miners in the network working together.

To visualise this, imagine that there is a group of builders building a fleet of houses. You as a solo builder wish that houses had a flat roof, so you start building your own fleet of houses of the same quality, but you start a little late. You hire your own team who agree that flat roofs are the best, but you need to pay them out of pocket because you don't get paid until you have built more houses than the other team who is still building at a steady pace.

Assuming you manage to build as many houses as the other team, there are a few more hurdles for you to jump over, but you now have a chance at swapping out all the old houses for your flat roof alternatives and you get paid. All that risk and cost might have paid off, but attempting to build the same quality at a faster rate means that the payout will likely not cover your costs.

Bitcoin is harder to break than cement. It may require constant human action to work, but incentives keep it going in the same way that keeping a fire alive requires people to fetch wood, and let's say those who fetch wood are rewarded with food, the overall win for everyone is that they can cook food and stay warm, so the system works.
### Is Bitcoin a promise?
No. Bitcoin has a lot of complexity, and this complexity is a trade off for achieving digitisation without other compromises. The potential of Bitcoin to become the next evolution in money is real, and for some it is even realised. No one in this system has power over anyone else, as long as you have bitcoin in an address that you own, it will be there for as long as forever, and when you wish to move it, there will always be someone available to cement that transaction into a block.

Yes, it is digital, yes it is mostly accessed via the internet today, but people are already building technologies to overcome these limitations. LoRa devices (long range radio communication) are being explored as an alternative to the internet as Bitcoin doesn't require much bandwidth to operate, in Africa bitcoin payments happen over USSD, a technology similar to SMS that works on old "feature" phones like the old Nokia phones that were popular early in the year 2000.

Even if all electronics and cross border communication shut down for some time, Bitcoin doesn't stop, the lack of communication will cause some problems, and another money like gold might be better for local trade for some time, but eventually communications will come back and the system is elegant enough to resolve and continue operation.

Also remember that while gold is less complex and easier to understand, it is only trustworthy and cost effective to use for local trading. This is why, in the digital global economy that we are in today, gold is not suitable, and in a brighter future, a system like Bitcoin is better money that can replace all of the trusted institutions with greedy middlemen that we have needed until now to operate in this modern economy.


Fail. Rekt.


Love this. Shame. Its nowhere on YouTube or any videoplatformss I can find.


It had a lifetime guarantee... It's own lifetime.


My reaction was more like: nice.
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I got confused... How can a post that I've already liked be so high in my feed when I haven't opened the app since yesterday?

Then I realised it was boosted. Well played.


But I love how seamlessly I can travel to different places and just use 1 account of credit. No waste, no research into what sim I should buy every time. 🔥


Big fan of their service. Normally works seamlessly. I did have issues in Madeira and I'm embarrassed to admit that it took me a few days to decide to delete and re-install the esim.

That fixed it.


"Lifetime" yours or mine?  👀


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https://t.me/londonbitcoinevents ?


How much did greyscale have?! And is it all just going to coinbase now? Wonder how that "btc on exchanges" chart is starting to look now.


Yep. In China they went as far as to build a great firewall and yet, citizens find ways to use tor.


Super excited about this one. Its gonna be huge!
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What is this blossom on nostr that nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx mentioned??? #asknostr 👀


Same https://i.ytimg.com/vi/RC1l5oadNz8/maxres2.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEoCIAKENAF8quKqQMcGADwAQH4Ac4FgAKACooCDAgAEAEYQyBSKHIwDw==&rs=AOn4CLAcRjIvF0XgEqq-DajhRyaXV6B7Gw


GM #Nostr


Running grapheneos


What did he say? He said something?


Maybe 😶


Turns out my tor security was set to "safer" not "standard". Fyi for anyone who sees this.


🏆 ⚡Let's make #bitcoin  history NOSTR PEOPLE 🏆 ⚡

If Tinder and Taco Bell can do it.. we can too 💪 🧡

Please like, RESHARE, quote vid, do whatever you can to get as MANY signatures as possible:

⛓ ⤵ 🖊 the link is here:

change.org/bitcoin-emoji

https://v.nostr.build/mllGR.mp4


Robosats won't load in my tor boewser... It's stuck looping through the loading page.


#asknostr


Is @robosats down?


Haven't heard from you in a while... What's the current thesis for the current dump? Anything interesting happening visibly in the market?


How many sats have you not yet acquired?


Nostr is becoming a real social media with slightly more diverse topics and I love it.


NGL, I paused for a minute before I realised what was wrong there.

And I'm a software developer by trade. 😂


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If you don't follow yourself, you won't see your own posts. It would be like you post something and turn away immediately.

Very early on, we realised that clients felt more intuitive if you followed your own content. We just didn't decide to hide this from users like all other platforms do.

Why even allow yourself NOT to follow yourself?

Who knows, maybe someone will find a unique use case or develop some killer feature or some killer app that works better when you don't follow yourself and it becomes the popular thing that drives everyone to nostr! 🤷🏻


Did it get deleted?


There are different types of zaps. Zaps are like a receipt that shows who sent what, but they are pretty much disconnected and unnecessary for a lightning payment.

 https://image.nostr.build/2538eb235200d49af572661dfeaecc7619c476ea0db7cee61857821dd6327b1e.jpg


It's literally not the same level of complexity for any amount.

- You don't try to secure 100sat utxos,
- You don't spend more than your stack to buy a signing device,
- You don't use multisig for pocket change
- You don't use hot wallets for retirement funds.


Wait this is still happening???


Press and hold.


So more like robosats where reputation isn't as important anymore?


Everyone is anon. Even if you have a sensible name, it might not be your real name and we'd never know.


Why? It's not native but this reads like there is extensibility that allows us to use secp256k1 with the android key store. Not sure in what context you're looking at this for, but...


Nsec bunker... But I've not played with it so I have no idea how easy/hard it is to use and which clients support it etc.

Maybe nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft can help.


Doge food is not for human consumption.


I agree, there isn't a massive amount of transparency.


Not at all, actually the reason why a hardware wallet can rely on pin security is because as a physical device it assumes there will be physical security too (e.g. in a location protected by secret service inside a safe within a room that only authorised personnel can enter etc.). Also it may have a self destruct feature like the ColdCard, where it bricks itself after a few incorrect tries with no way to recover.

But talking just in general about wallets set up by hardware devices, you'll always be told to write something down, back it up, hide it, maybe stamp it into steel. Maybe you are given many things to back up, but for a typical user setting up their first wallet, it's usually 12 or 24 words that they need to keep a copy of.

It's the copy that is the most important thing. Hardware wallets are not built to live forever. Electronics can fail, they can be broken and they can be lost or stolen.

The backup is actually your master, the device is more like your secondary which is designed to kill itself before giving up your private key, but also built such that it could kill itself when you make a few mistakes and it can do that because it knows it is a secondary.

The physical backup needs even stronger security, maybe it is split into parts (using a cryptographically sound method like seedxor or Shamirs secret sharing scheme) and secured in different locations.

You use the primary if the hardware wallet is compromised, lost or whatever, so it can be put out of reach where it takes days to get to if you need.

With more corporate situations, you're probably going to use a multi signature wallet where there are multiple keys and signing is a multi step process where different people are responsible for each key and there is a well thought out signing ritual.

If I were president, I would also be sure to consider a way to hand over the bitcoin to the next political party that gets sworn in and make sure it is a well thought out and well documented process. It would probably involve generating new keys and a new address and having the funds sent to the new address because you can't trust people to lose their keys.


Saylor uses a custodial service. At least for his company.

Until now, so has bukele. Pretty sure this is a small percentage of his stack that he's taking off the exchange but it's good because until now I think it was custodied with an American company.


Lol. Pin to the hardware wallet. 😉

You don't need a hardware wallet to create a cold bitcoin address. And we have no idea how they have set this up.

What we do know is that it is using an older address type Pay-To-Script-Hash (starting with 3). So it's likely not a simple single signature address.


Not yet afaik. They have 1 out of many pending trading protocols released, but this is the first step.


Is there a migration path from bisq 1 to bisq 2? In terms of keeping your reputation and fiat source/destination details.


The infamous dating app? nostr:npub1ve8qwrlztemdmnh62jffcr0y9m9dpqgqjdg8ufx7gc3qw5wdk74qyv9ka6


What number were you expecting to see? Did you think there would be a lot more or a lot less?


I thought you missed the opportunity to say bullshit, then I read it again, then I saw it.


Fuck you, I refuse to use email


The first 1000 to repost this will annoy nostr:npub12262qa4uhw7u8gdwlgmntqtv7aye8vdcmvszkqwgs0zchel6mz7s6cgrkj


nostr:npub1u8lnhlw5usp3t9vmpz60ejpyt649z33hu82wc2hpv6m5xdqmuxhs46turz good to put a face to the name🔥🔥🔥 it's Dee from bitcoinology 🤟


I look forward to the turning point where I can live well enough with little to no fiat use. When I can take myself out of the fiat market, where I don't need anything you are selling but I might indulge if you accept bitcoin.


nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a is great


Doesn't affect me, I don't use tick tock.


At best you have encrypted messaging, but this is not something that has been fully explored because many are happy to rely on tech like simplex.

The very next question after yours is "how do I revoke access to the content I permitted to someone previously?" And the answer is that you cannot. If you sent someone text or information that they are able to decrypt, then it is theirs forever.

Likewise, if you permit someone to see your birthday on Facebook and they take a screenshot, you can revoke their access, but you cannot prevent them from knowing your birthday or revisiting the screenshot.


Good point, black rock and all the hedge funds have no chance.


Woah! I'm honoured that someone would make an AI image of me!


Fucking hate being put into a basket.

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And now it has finished 🤗


There was a time when they had their own default server but they killed it off and I was wondering how you could have had a lightning wallet today.


Gotcha! No worries.


Because unless you're hosting your own server and using that, they don't do lightning anymore...

Did you not have to put something into here? https://image.nostr.build/a81ffa6804b17238314e618534b928760e49245cc055379be4e56ef80cae4041.jpg

Or how long ago did you set up your wallet?


Also... You're using BlueWallet as a lightning wallet?


It does... Just tap the number and see it cycle from bitcoin to sats to fiat.


Wait? Why CSW? Doesn't the S stand for Satoshi? Or does it stand for something else... Like Smith? 👀


E


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Where have you been? Going to any meetups this week?


This real?
Hahah
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I'm unfollowing this account in favour of nostr:npub1c878wu04lfqcl5avfy3p5x83ndpvedaxv0dg7pxthakq3jqdyzcs2n8avm


Afaik, it's if the URL starts with legend.lnbits.com then you have a problem. Otherwise you're good. nostr:npub1c878wu04lfqcl5avfy3p5x83ndpvedaxv0dg7pxthakq3jqdyzcs2n8avm


Who's ezb?


Well, it's not bs, they expand with the disclaimer on the first line. 🤷🏻


This is only about the lnbits demo server... You can still run cashu on your own lnbits.


Why the long face?


Do also consider that there are no single Bitcoins, only utxos, some of which might be the size of  a single bitcoin.


The only way to tell how much energy is in a bitcoin is to take it out of the Blockchain. Of course this means reverting a tx in the past, which would take more energy than you can ever hope have and time is also a factor.

A Bitcoin has so much energy it feels unlimited but there is technically a finite amount.

Also, I don't know anything, bitcoin isn't a battery, this is just stupid metaphors that Saylor insists on spreading.


Coinbase is copying Saylor’ strategy for #Bitcoin accumulation, but likely applying it to altcoins instead…yikes!😬

Supposedly it is a reaction to Wall Street becoming bullish on digital assets.

I worry that this is less of a calculated move and more of an egotistical one.

I’ve talked about Coinbase’s potential to become FTX 2.0 before, and as long as they give me good reason, I’ll continue to warn people about the atrocity that is counterparty risk. https://image.nostr.build/4a4ce4a32f8e59754420d3b91a09eef268526fb5b4337adb71916be171e77358.jpg


Strike went down? 😅


This is why FUCK COINBASE and other companies that support chain analytics companies.

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Rule of thumb, just be sure to withdraw at least 10000 sats each time you withdraw from an exchange for future fee reasons.

Trying to withdraw smaller amounts may lead to larger than expected fees when you try to use bitcoin in the future. It's just one of those things we have to learn about as we start to understand the nuances of this new type of money.

If bitcoin was like everything else, it wouldn't be interesting or useful, but being different also means having different limitations to learn how to work around.

As a quick example of a problem cash has that you probably don't see as a problem today, you can't just hand someone a $5.99 coin, you have to make it up from a $5 note, and a bunch of coins.

These problems will become second nature in the future for bitcoin too.


Just buy small amounts of bitcoin. 1 sat = 1 satoshi = 0.00000001 BTC = less than a penny right now.

Of course people don't stack individual sats at such a price, they just buy as much as they can afford, as much as they feel comfortable with buying and make sure it is somewhere they think is safe.

If you are collecting your sats in an exchange, this is okay but once it is more than you might carry in your pocket, move it to a bitcoin wallet that you have full control over. Coinbase wallet, Binance wallet, Exchange XYZ wallet, these are not bitcoin wallets, BlueWallet, Sparrow Wallet, Phoenix Wallet, Samurai Wallet, these are Bitcoin wallets.

Do spend some time looking up the differences between the wallets, do ensure you are keeping "open source" and "self custodial" as the most important features before things you might want like "lightning payments", "coin joins", or "multiple accounts" etc.

You won't get a lightning address from a custodial wallet other than nostr:npub1xnf02f60r9v0e5kty33a404dm79zr7z2eepyrk5gsq3m7pwvsz2sazlpr5 as far as I know, but do shop around, do experiment and find the best one for you.

Anyway, the stacking part is easy. I hope you got it.


The traders haven't discovered nostr yet so this is a good place to cut through the noise... For now.


We don't trade. We don't trade bitcoin, we don't "take profits", we're here for the revolution.

We've also seen traders come and go, and we've seen their fates where maybe a few get rich, a lot end up becoming influencers making money from their viewers and pretending that they're making money from trading and many more go broke.

We see that simply being patient and focusing on understanding the utility of bitcoin and not just its price action is what gives success.

We all thought we were late, we are not millionaires or billionaires, but we are doing well enough now that we no longer desire to run in the rat race. And yes, trading and trying to dig your way out of poverty is the rat race. Standing still in fiat and trying to earn your way out is also the rat race.


No. We all know cashu ain't a layer 3.

Call it Layer 2 and ¾.


#asknostr #askbitcoin
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Is there a desktop lightning client that is as user friendly as, say phoenix or mutiny wallet that I could integrate into a server and add an lnurl server and/or bolt card server to?


Whole*


Saylor proves that #bitcoin is not scarce because you can have a slice and still have a while pizza left. 🤯

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Well you see, you can keep dividing the pizza into smaller and smaller slices which means it isn’t scarce, hence the infinite pizza displayed here


1. Find a venue like a park or pub or some place public but with space.

2. Pick a time once a week and commit to always going there.

3. Advertise on twitter, nostr, Facebook, wherever you want, even put papers up on trees, whatever.

4. Welcome anyone who comes and break the ice with "how did you come to learn about bitcoin?"

The rest happens naturally.


Help. What the hell can I use to see nsec.app working??? I tried to put it's connection string into the nsec bunker field on shipyard for example.

#asknostr #nsec.app


Imagine being so delusional that you refuse cash payments, in a country where 75% of PoS payments by volume is cash based.

Never mind the bizarre rationalization of 'responsibility' and 'safety'... let's ignore that for a second.

One can sort of understand this in a first-world country where few people use cash anyway. This trend leads to dark places, but it's understandable that people just follow it.

But here? In this country. You really gotto be living in a rubber bubble to put up a sign like this.
 https://image.nostr.build/b0cec99aca9b8edc104bc8fc49bda627e575ac780984c5f9cbb32b6d13159229.jpg


I think it's all the same. It will just feel nuttier because past is diluted in the mind while present is amplified.


I was getting this yesterday. I just tested a smaller amount on you and you and it worked. Maybe try smaller amounts.


Wasn't this coming soon like a year ago?


Even Elon Musk has realized what is going on at Bluesky: https://fxtwitter.com/elonmusk/status/1767273166374633895


I did once... Not really on purpose... Out of incompetence... And I paid the price.

I guess it's documented here: https://youtu.be/4w25Je1sfAE?feature=shared


https://youtu.be/ojXxuibPLp4

I've just shared this with my whole family. nostr:npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev just won the "explain bitcoin" game. There is no other explanation needed.

So fucking powerful. 🥲

All zaps to this post go to nostr:npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev.


Honestly, that book is a bit shit IMO, but Broken Money by Lyn Alden seems to be the whole encyclopedia in one.

After that, then look for any and everything by GiGi. Then run a bitcoin node, I'd recommend Raspiblitz if you want to get stuck in the deep end, and it sounds like you do.

Good luck!


Unless... You need a head over your head?


I'm always ready. I just never sell. It's the best way to just not give a shit either way. 😉

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We have a banger this week!

This Friday 15th at 17:30, join us as we host nostr:npub157y6gz0l0rfhw220rfwnujeff6q2mec33nzkwz23umkrt6482exq8e60gr giving an insight into his field of work, presenting MATT: Merkleize all the things.

We are hosting at our usual location in Holborn, see details and signal your attendance at https://www.meetup.com/bitcoinology/events/299725733/


HE COULDN'T DO IT! HE COULDN'T STAY HUMBLE.

GUESS WE ONLY GOT STACKING SATS NOW. 🤷🏻

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GM. The pump is fun, but with so many looking to time the market, and so many who pride themselves with being "first to get out" coming in (institutions), the drop is gonna be mad.

I expect the rise will be madder, but remember to just weather the storm, this isn't the last bull run and it probably isn't the best either.


Even most people with bitcoin don't get it 🤷🏻

They're waiting to see if they can time the market.


Even goody 2 knows what's up. 👀

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Ask about the imf... Low key the ai knows it's evil without you even needing to hint at it.


Default is where the signal is at. Pun not intended... Actually, fuck it, pun intended. 🚀


I've bookmarked this. We can never know the future, but it would be super interesting and funny if we start seeing massive sell off after the halving.


The government in the middle attack has already been disproven. You are not "given" BTC, you accept it. And a wallet, even one that supported covenant locked BTC, would not accept BTC locked in a recursively limited way.

Also theoretically if it would, then a government could simply use multisig to keep bitcoin permissioned. They would never give you BTC directly, they always move funds to a multisig where they are one of the parties in a 2 of 2. This way you must ask permission to move funds and they only grant it if you move funds to a 2 of 2 with themselves or another "trusted" authority.


What if this bull run is institutions coordinating to pump BTC before the halving so that they can suppress the bull run after the halving similarly to how FTX did?


Afaik, the bitcoin is in custody... Also it's in custody with a US company. This is what I've heard, but if true, it's super scary.


✨ Multinuteral payments – Pay a single Lightning invoice from Ecash balances on multiple Cashu mints.

We use Lightning multi-path payments (MPP) to achieve atomicity.

This has wild implications for UX and privacy and is a significant breakthrough for Cashu.

Most Cashu wallets have multiple small ecash balances across mints to minimize the custodial risk.

Paying a large LN invoice, however, was a pain. Amounts larger than any of your ecash balances required a multi-mint swap first (swap ecash across mints via LN).

Not anymore!

Instead of one big LN payment, wallets could send multiple small ones from a dozen different mints all running their own LN node.

Either all payments succeed, or all fail. The mints don't communicate with each other. Receiver doesn't notice anything.

Imagine the beauty of this.

This eliminates the need for inter-mint coin control almost entirely. Wallets could show the user one unified balance across all mints and handle it all hidden away from the user.

You simply scan an invoice and an orchestra of Ecash mints and Lightning nodes begin their play.

This is yet another cool example of how ecash can significantly improve the safety and security of custodial Lightning wallets.

The deep integration of Cashu with Lightning makes this possible. And we have more ideas.

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


Don’t be like him 👀 https://image.nostr.build/7a33b47dab23610a08f4f63232fe58ce0fdcb7cea6844cb98c3eb7de85f0ee17.jpg


The human b is partly in German, but it's so good.


This is about an able person making fun of a retard... Not cool, don't make fun of disabled people.


D(f)ucking narks.


Ugh! I wonder what the next title will be for the rhr 🤷🏻


I use npub.cash you can go there and either create yourself a name, or use your npub as your username.

You copy the lightning address (looks like an @npub.cash email address) and save that into your profile as your lightning address.

Whenever you get zapped, you'll get a notification and whenever you want to withdraw the funds to your own wallet, you can follow instructions on the site to get funds to your own wallet.

I typically use Phoenix Wallet for my personal bitcoin lightning wallet.


How did they know what was said in the group? Isn't WhatsApp supposed to be end to end encrypted? 😨


Isn't that the same?


What can a UK citizen do if I'm not a miner, a business or anything but a pleb?


I am a fucking scammer.


Hell9
https://video.nostr.build/6fafe5e2881ab727670d472d2be4d9d90a3cbff5d6d63ed5440146516b71038b.mp4


This is not good advice... Of course you tell them it is a transfer. Transfers aren't taxable events.

Self custody with KYC is still objectively better than custody with KYC.


I think I got a free lunch when I tried to pay using CoinCorner bolt card to their BTC payserver. I also tried phoenix wallet but I had no internet at the time.

They would hide the terminal behind the desk so I couldn't see confirmation but they told me it was paid and I looked for the payment a bit later but couldn't find it.


Getting a lot of nostr:npub1498f4ya5laqfp53vt02ewqnhe94tvnl0ek7gn2tu6qeppr2pzk2sllz3y7 impersonators here on nostr trying to convince me I can make quick money 🤦🏻


Who is coming to London's Advancing Bitcoin this month?

#asknostr


Thankyou, so, more feedback:

1. Printer and keypad don't work together but the toggles don't make this clear until you exit and reenter the menu.

2. The invoice printer doesn't show the qr code

3. There is no print on the pay page

♥


Yes, I was using the B button on the bottom to show the keypad and make an invoice.

Now I can see the invoice feature. It would be cool to be able to print the invoice BEFORE payment was done and include the invoice QR (I have a thermal printer I'd like to use it with)

Then of course a confirmation receipt is good too.


I didn't have this button. I didn't add any products.

Although this screenshot is 0.8.2-beta2, it looked exactly like this:

 https://image.nostr.build/5fc9859e219e79c7863529e40effe7ae552dd3dccae0e5e7643b3ba81d38fb20.jpg

Fortunately the new flow clears the bill every time you go back so no more issue.


Currently using V0.8.1, but I see no clear buttons anywhere. Will look for a 0.8.2 update.


nostr:npub1xnf02f60r9v0e5kty33a404dm79zr7z2eepyrk5gsq3m7pwvsz2sazlpr5 I was testing the POS feature but I kept cancelling the payment, but it keeps appending to the old order... How can I clear the order and start again (I didn't bother to create any items)

 https://image.nostr.build/5e9c5b9000489805805041e39340ed6cb9cc05ffdb62694e219759edad6ac2e0.jpg


I appreciate all the likes and zaps. 🙏🫂

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I'm invested in seeing that edit come to fruition 👀. I wonder if I'll get a notification or if I have to just sit here and watch it all day.

At least I won't be watching the BTC price tonight.


1) Very interesting feature

2) Wtf Derek?! https://i.nostr.build/VXj7.jpg

P.s. I love the @npub1pktmatjk0l8vn3jhfuwxaasjd65kn4ye9sce3egup7k993f8fg2q5tpxa6.


I offered him some at the end, he politely declined.


Woah! Now I can undo calling you my friend.


Woah! Now I can undo calling you a beautiful person.


Hahahaha! They just had to get a proper hater on there. I bet they think they're being "balanced" with a bitcoin agnostic guest and an anti bitcoin guest, but balanced would be including a pro bitcoin guest. Anyway, I'm preaching to the choir.

https://youtu.be/HK13nVxBYxI


So many 1 clicks 🤣


Okay, you can stop zapping me. But you can give me the npub and I can have a look at why this person might be blocked for you. Send it in a DM if you don't want to make it public.


There is none, but here's something to look at:

Go to settings > advanced > Payment channels.

There you should see a green bar and on the left it will show your balance, on the right it shows "inbound liquidity".

This is the capacity of your wallet. When you spend, the bar gets more empty and as you receive, it gets more full.

When the bar is close to full, the channel will grow. This will typically happen as you receive some bitcoin and when you generate the invoice that will cause this, you will see a warning. It will either say "this payment will fail" with links to help you change your fee limits, or it will say "on-chain fee expected" with links to see details.

The extra fee is like an administration fee for Phoenix to allocate more of their bitcoin towards your wallet as incoming capacity, making your wallet bigger.

So all in all, I don't believe there is a limit, but maybe keeping more than a few million sats is too much anyway... If you have more than you are going to spend any time soon, consider looking into cold storage.


Amethyst is for android only ☹. Do you know the npub of who you want to unblock?


Did it work?


Wow. My account has made a total of 5876 events. 🤯

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Settings > muted accounts


Amethyst. But I have primal, let me see if I can figure it out there.


Lol @ nostr:npub1lr2zzf989mvf393y0tv39ara6a4vddkd6y87z784up9vl6ks6j3qtudl6a. (Sorry not sorry)

Not sure about your client, but in mine I can go to the menu and see "security filters" where I can modify my block list.

Try look for something similar 🤷🏻


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Nostr first! (Youtube later)

FREE BITCOIN IN THE STREET FOR BULGARIA

Please share, zap and do your thing Nostr.

💜 💜

https://v.nostr.build/YJK2.mp4


Remember to have her check the price. I forget to do it myself, but it's an important step we want to just feel like routine.

Love all round. 🤘♥


No.


Yesterday I got my cab home from the airport and the driver asked me to pay for the parking ticket. This was specifically because he only had cash and since I'd paid for the ride by card, he gave me cash in return.

Once in the car, I joked: "today was your lucky day, usually I only take bitcoin". What followed was a very deep conversation.

My driver was from Argentina, he had fallen into a pyramid scheme under advisement from a friend and was very sad that this friend had done such a thing to him. He has conviction, he refused to continue the scheme, but this meant that he was the victim.

He asked questions like "how can something so powerful exist?", and "who can do anything against these top wealthy people". He was in a very defeatist mindset and this was no place to talk about technicals. I assured him that there was something different about bitcoin, mentioned the fact that owning more bitcoin does not give you any more control over the system, comparing it to how more fiat gives you more political power which allows more influence in where newly printed money goes.

At the beginning I asked if he was interested in learning about bitcoin after bringing it up, this wasn't unsolicited selling, and bitcoin isn't a 5 minute pitch either. I let him lead and listened and agreed most of the time.

He was so knowledgeable about the problems in the world but he knew of no light at the end of the tunnel and he is healthily skeptical but it was not only out of intelligence, it was learned from his experiences.

He wanted to give me advice, his advice, not knowing anything about how I manage my finances, was not to put everything in one basket. Don't put all your faith in one thing. He has seen friends fall into a trap with Tesla where they bought, became successful (on paper), did not take back at least the capital, and then lost it all.

I wasn't going to be able to explain the difference between bitcoin and stocks here, plus I wasn't going to spit in the face of a man giving me advice. I thanked him and asked if I could return some advice.

I thought the best fit book for everything we had discussed was Hidden Repression by #AlexGladstein. I wrote the name of the book and author and suggested for him, specifically not to buy bitcoin, but to read this book, that it will confirm his understanding, explain the mechanics of how it works and shows how bitcoin can help.

I then paused and told him that he should first just find videos featuring this author because it is free, and see if it resonates.

I hope this is the first step to his understanding of bitcoin as a tool that addresses problems that clearly burdens him. He may decide to forget me, to forget my advice, but then again, this could be the beginning of hope for him in the same way bitcoin is hope for me.

Just wanted to share this story. I also want to say that I am very thankful for people like Alex Gladstein who have been enlightening us and helping to connect the dots as well as showing us real examples of how bitcoin is fulfilling its potential. It also helps us explore and evolve our understanding of bitcoin, and to reach others who need bitcoin.

Peace out.


correction: $84,000

You know what I meant.


The number to beat is $8400. Until then, we haven't broken all time high in Afghanistan.

That's right, Afghanistan has you all beat. 🤘🤟


Home #memes
https://m.primal.net/HhvH.jpg


It's okay, because you know the bitcoin is not in the computer, but also the new laptop is in the bitcoin. 🤷🏻


I MUST STAY HUMBLE!!! I CAN DO IT!!! ..... Can I offer you some advice?

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Yeah, but being frugal is always an intentional thing, you need to put effort into it and from watching just this video also, I get the strong sense that this guy will shut down anyone who tries to give him advice, especially if it sounds like not being frugal.

Bitcoin has connotations on the surface of being an investment, a gamble, a risky asset, and knocking all of those barriers down will be harder with this guy than others in my opinion (which is already hard). I think I've always been frugal, so being frugal is not the issue, it's the vibe I'm getting from this one guy.


1 BTC = 100M sats. Always has been.


You only need a sample to get an idea of Bitcoin's currently perceived value. Remember that this is all that it is.

There isn't even a single price of Bitcoin; the price listed on Coinbase will be different to that listed on Kraken, Binance, and whatever else.

The prices tend to be close to one another only because people and/or bots will trade the differences between exchanges, which sort of syncs them.


Next meetup! This Wednesday at Holborn. Learn how the bolt card works inside and out, enabling #Bitcoin  payments to look and feel like contactless card payments.

Join us, details: https://www.meetup.com/bitcoinology/events/299262327/


https://i.nostrimg.com/fe16e908c011a1b87a56b0943ab7d4ab74ef4b4467cc752b7e264acce38b1aaa/file.jpg
#meme #memes


You were missed in Madeira nostr:npub15w99e58vynflyrzgwzsr9svcjyym7yrufn5xfr7ut2wyfy43hrcqslyz93 🫂


Lol, this looks like it was forged. What's your excuse this time Dr Wright?


Bitcoin


I had higher hopes from this prior conversation:

https://image.nostr.build/c1bd3aa6cb7965b9417c678a87046b016e1487ff20c727c7da93e7c7849be00f.jpg

P.s. I like how I don't need to redact names in this app... Has it always been like this?


Here's one from today... I'm a little disappointed in my friend really but I refuse to pretend I know the future.

https://image.nostr.build/9e5d4615a15a0a5468bc88f7fd56eb830137578afcf91cc18fd2c2ae9c2a6d34.jpg


But the lord has spoken
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Do one with rishi sunak pleeeeese


This might even improve user confidence if they know a mint they are using is heavily used, they might feel safer to use it ....

But at the same time, it's super easy to sybil attack this so....


Would it make sense to have a transparent mint where you can see every time they sign in a live feed?

It would be pretty cool for me to see my own ecash swap on a live feed and how shrouded it is amongst other swaps by other people...


Are you sure it's nostr or people who just have your old lightning address and are "zapvertising" or just tipping you with old info they have?


I'm able to answer questions on Reddit. This means that the newbies are back (because I often don't have enough confidence to answer the more advanced ones in the bear market)


Weird how as the value of the bitcoin goes up, so too does my generosity


Maybe he's somewhere reminiscing too and reconsidering his position.


Yes, but the purchasing power of the less money you earn stays the same.


I only use it for bitcoin telegram groups... And bitcoin telegram users don't simp for ad revenue.


GM


GM.


He said it himself, he doesn't want to have to think about money. He has his plan, it's working good enough, there is no way you will convince him to even speak the word bitcoin.

For him, frugality isn't about fairness or beating inflation, he never even mentioned it.

For him, it's about surviving without evolving. Budgeting is a skill he's learnt and he's good at it. Many bitcoiners are good at it too, but this is where it stops for him. He's done it, it worked, he has no ambition to improve it.

It's only when frugality is no longer enough, that he will look into anything else.


Deletion was done... Deleting the original request won't reverse that.

I think it's in the spec that you can't delete a deletion request actually.


👀
https://video.nostr.build/ecd694af93b45b1345a70c164b8cffce357de41c497174f005e27051ce5ee453.mp4


One of us.

Wait, does this mean that we need to start wearing suits?


Somebody asked how my bitcoin was going... I said "it's going okay 🙂" their response was "oh it's okay, I understand you have to say that" 😁😁😁


Just thinking adversely. CBDC proponents are looking at ecash, but how can they use that to get everyone on board first and then fuck everyone over after?

It's also a pressing issue for cashu mints too tbh, mints want to stay under the radar and stay legal, I don't think many will want to explicitly break the law.

So I guess these rules can apply to them too and this will effectively drive cashu underground for the most part where most mints ARE illegal.


Depends... Look at Coinbase making you declare WHO you are giving to with personal info too (address), a mint can make you declare who you are receiving from and might even threaten you with "it is a crime if you lie"


But you're in Bitcoin Atlantis right?


Nah, 59k already.


Not sure what "verifying" nips is, but a NIP is a "nostr implementation possibility". It's a way for people to document their ideas in a structured way and formalise it so it can turn into a standard feature across many different applications and clients.

Nostr is not only open and free for users, but it's also free for developers to build their own apps and ideas on top of it.


GM 🫂


Same 😁


Not sure I understand, but nostr:npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z, is this your test account? Are you a doctor?


Is that dotted line the projected trajectory??? 👀😂


Still loved the way you baited him 😁

I agree people should watch/listen to the pod. There ain't nothin' to prove to a hot headed dev that knows better than you. 💪


Was it good?


No. £45k


See you all soon™


Shame. Next one then. 🫡


Are you coming to Madeira?


I tried, they will have to learn the hard way but I'll still be nice to them.


Lol. The cheek on her eating a tomato as if it isn't full of shit itself 😂


Why? More context needed.


Seems too contrived to be real. 😶🌫


If this is local, your lightning node knows what's real. Lnbits manages accounts and organizes the sats across the accounts but if you delete lnbits it doesn't delete your sats, they just all become accessible only to the administrator in charge of the lightning node.


Bitcoin puts you into the elite class. When governments decide to go to war or support it, everyone gets poorer except the big cats who store their wealth in assets... They get richer.

It is now your duty to find and lobby for more wars and even things like UBI and CBDCs so you can get another dollar in the wallet.


https://youtube.com/watch?v=ByS13qHW3Gk

Vibin' on this one.


I feel like this is related to bitcoin because it's about you not posting about bitcoin. 😶🌫


Giving tips to a popular celebrity in public is kind of underrated. Honestly I think the v4v model would work 100x better for the already famous if normies and celebrities were on this platform.

I feel like most fans are gagging for ways to get closer to their idols/crushes/obsessions and paying small amounts directly to them inches you closer. Especially when you can also attach a message.

What I'm saying is that whenever nostr is ready, we just need celebrities to endorse it and boom! Loyal fans will roll in and we will have won.

I almost think that celebrity endorsement is enough to get people to learn about nsecs and npubs even.


Wtf, I quoted the wrong post and now my mistake might never get deleted 🙈


Never mind me, just sending sats to nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m Dorsey for shits and giggles.

nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m is Jay Z and Beyonce on here yet?

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I had issues zapping wallet of satoshi once on Amethyst and it somehow turned out to be because my default was set to private zaps or something. Changed my zap default to public and it all worked fine.

I know... Damus, and I know, not the same error, but sometimes the error messages lie, and I know, created Damus, but sometimes the creator is wrong too. 😁


No issues for me.
https://image.nostr.build/257d87233506690e1f720cfdd940606dd1a2483b956a0757d05e198b8a03c9b5.jpg


All these people telling you to go to sleep, reminds me of this song.

https://youtu.be/r2GEb4MrkvU?feature=shared


55,959. Not sure what you're talking about, we're no where near. 🤷🏻😪


Gotta love the consistency here:

- ultra sound money
- turbo parabolic
😂

https://image.nostr.build/2ffdbac6dc84eb0961598285374a9e16e1c2c5d3e7930acef1b5f845ea737763.jpg


Wait... It got audio booked?! And by guy swan? 🤯


Is that like the hunger games? Are you giving me the smaller piece?


A is clearly not half, the mushroom top which has most of the bread belongs to only 1 side. The other side is smaller.


Was it recorded? Can it be recorded?


2 things:

1. Yes, but what you don't know is whether the same token has been given to someone else.

2. But if you (or your wallet) provides a public key, then the ecash can be locked to the public key and then you can be sure that you have cash with your name on it™ and can validate it offline. (I've never done this, not sure if it's a released feature yet but it is definitely possible)

With 1. You need to claim your ecash immediately for sats or for a fresh ecash to prevent double spending.

With 2. The sender either needs to prepare the ecash with your name before they send it to you while they have internet, or they need to have internet when they send it to you. You as the receiver don't need internet to prevent double spend in this scenario.


Yeah but is this generally good advice? Checking the website is good evidence that the app is official?

I would typically expect the website to link to the app too for confirmation.


It's really just a really exciting prototype that is still under development. Not for use by anyone but geeks and not for anything but pennies yet.


No Blockchain, added value is privacy better than bitcoin and lightning, based on solid technology invented years ago but curtailed due to no appetite from the original target audience (banks).

Yes it's a shitcoin, but it's not making false promises.

It's blown up now because it finally has lightning addresses and good ux which basically lets it replace custodial wallets like WoS and it's a huge step up in terms of privacy.

I'm not sure there is a reliable mint yet, but the technology is getting there... We just need a company like WoS to run a mint and we have as reliable as WoS custodial bitcoin wallets that can't target you, freeze your funds, they can only rug you but their reputation is on the line.


That's not any proof, I could make a malicious app and pretend it was made by you... Or does apple do url ownership validation?


Not on android


Elon zuck.


Actually I like the small text of B and the big text of A. 🤷🏻


A


I want to know how much of cashu and fedi is compatible.

The way I understand it, cashu is lightning only and single owner but this makes it faster and easier to develop for... So they focus on fast innovation.

Fedi is more focused on custodianship, backups, derisking etc.

If you consider Fedi focusing on the bottom and cashu focusing on the top, it feels like these things can come together and produce a killer product in the future.

Curious if that's something that's been considered/discussed.


How about this one...
https://image.nostr.build/669f66f414bb55dfe8824d62a3968515e40aa87dbddf0dc8218bb95340ca90d7.jpg


Hmm, not sure I like this one... nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m doesn't explicitly set this page up, then when I send sats, he doesn't receive it and if he never learns of this site, he never knows.

What am I missing?


It's so nuts that I can just look up someone I follow and send them some "cash" privately and for any reason, and with little fees and no war machine in the middle 🤯

https://image.nostr.build/ebd1e355f2ff2719c6dcfdd85be0c3c7ceba16eee70fe2827a334f20117fb31f.jpg


Do both. Cashu shows us the power of pre releasing and driving innovation, Fedi shows the power of slow and deliberate action.


No. Context is only context. After context, you need a point. 👈


Nah, that's a funny one for real. 🤣


https://image.nostr.build/6bba89f4237d4adc097ca2446cf6260c06c638e5d2b8b6dd67c084f4e9e0d580.jpg
#meme #memes


I feel like we could overlay the two to heavily imply that bitcoin is the stable currency while the small drop in dollars is just the icing on the cake omitting all of the productivity giving the dollar more value before they inflate it away.


I mean it's a big jump to think something can replace such a huge infrastructure. A lot of people think it needs to be patched.

Bitcoin doesn't solve for everyone anyway, at least not yet. So she's right in thinking that we can't just kill the banks and let everyone figure out bitcoin.

If you need quick fixes, things that will get you re-elected, then bitcoin isn't the solution at all. But getting small things to change or look like they changed is your MO.

Why she is so aggressively anti bitcoin? There's a lot of ego in that answer I'm sure.


Yeah but I think it's clear that blue sky is a bubble. I mean it's a bubble here too, but we're at opposite ends. How do we merge the two and neutralise these bubbles?


Wtf? What's with influencers and boxing these days... Are they really that poor?


nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx, NOSTR ONLY 🫡
https://i.nostr.build/333l.jpg


Sometimes you put down the phone for just a few hours and you've missed the whole plot.


So... Have these people been identified and arrested? Isn't this the type of thing police are supposed to manage?

What's next? Mercedes at fault for drunk man knowingly drink driving and man goes free but Mercedes needs to do something about this?


What is this? Did this make it into evidence or something?


Nope, it's back


Wait wat? Censored almost immediately???


Lol https://wikifreedia.xyz/craig-steven-wright


Is this satire?


Then start the branch from scratch... 🤷🏻

Sometimes it's not worth doing the complicated option.


Why must I login to see anything?


They send false reports on your posts randomly right? Or just pick some of your latest posts or target all of your posts...

It will be up to clients to consider this. The web of trust model of trusting your friends more than strangers will likely be useful.

If you have to report someone's posts often, that person will likely not be someone your friends follow.

If you're a public figure/influencer, you might want to use a second account to report people.


I can't access any of the Nostr things that rely on nsec bunker or login providers. I'm on mobile and I can't even create an account.

I feel left out. 😥


Shh! I don't remember this part, but also don't spoil it for me.

I am a very forgetful person. 🤷🏻


Opnsense?


We kind of already suspect this... Why else is everyone (and I mean everyone) so scared about, and loyal to, paying their taxes?


Kinda like 2fa for every action your app takes. Sometimes you see things and wonder why it does it at all.

Also I hear that there is a relay that never deleted old lists so it might be able to help you restore your follow list in the case where this happens.


You give your keys to an application or a website, that application or website IS you.

They can then just do anything, including pretending it didn't see your followers list, creating a new one with your new follower and re-publishing the list with just 1 entry.

Using remote signers like getAlby on desktop, Amber on android, etc. you take back control albeit at the consequence of more button clicks to do something.

You can auto approve things like adding likes, zapping, or whatever you do often, and everything else it will pop up, show you what it's doing and you can inspect it before you approve it.

This way you have a second layer of defence to prevent bugs like this having a worse impact on your nostr experience.


This caught my eye:

> Outside the darknet, the hidden part of the internet used for criminal activities, it is hardly used for payments at all.

I assume that they know about the lightning network, but because it is not on the WWW, it is TECHNICALLY part of the dark web. There are plenty of bitcoin related stores that take bitcoin, but I guess the payment itself happens on the dark web.

But wait, isn't visa, MasterCard, all of that, isn't that also part of the dark web? Anything that is not accessible publicly is dark web, if I put a password to an admin section of a web platform, that is the dark web. If you need a password to access Facebook content, that is the dark web.

Hmm, well criminal activity is everywhere, including the WWW. I guess it also happens on the dark web too. 🤔

Okay, rant over, time to read more.


What was the ECB post that this referenced?


Dunno, but I was building some networking infrastructure yesterday guided by chat gpt, I hope it didn't introduce a backdoor or something.


They all bought bitcoin and now are content with letting the system burn to the ground because they've already opted out.


https://media.tenor.com/ijhDqmBnCWIAAAAM/the-office.gif

Welcome back to nostr. 🫂


I like that site. Looks pretty, shame I wasn't able to follow people and see a feed from it.


Zap is already an English word. Hodl should never enter the English dictionary.

🤷🏻


1. THAT wasn't misinformation
2. He didn't target that information to any particular group.

So I guess this article is saying he was telling the black community the opposite...


Can't find it 😢

#asknostr


He was trying to convince the black community to get vaxxed?


This feature is standardised by a spec called NIP89. Not super useful to you I'm sure, I just needed to post something so I can come back to it. I remember there was a website where you could set it from, need to find it and report back.


Note to self. Turn all devices off and enjoy the scenery.


I heard that some wallets had a 10000 sat balance limit... Not sure which ones, but someone was complaining about that.

Maybe it was 100,000?

🤷🏻


I just don't understand why the US needs to launder money... They already print it and we believe it, they already tax us every time we breathe, they already have all the money... Someone explain why they need more money?

My brain is going to: they buy assets which puts money into the economy which means they need more money to buy more assets and assets get more expensive so they need more money to afford more assets?

But wouldn't all of this be clear to us? What do they own? Who does "they" include?

Do you have the answers?


Bro do you see that?!? Bitcoin is suuuper volatile, sometimes it's up, sometimes it's down and the volatility is so big it jumps above and below the whole stock market!


"This is because priority is given not to the press who arrive on time, but rather members of the establishment press to ensure that they have a seat."

So press is allowed, they're just selective about who is allowed. This reads like a rant from someone venting their frustrations.

Hopefully the establishment press is still able to do honest reporting on our behalf.


Tell me more... How can a spammer counter report? Reports are about posts not people, unless you're blocking someone.

Also reports are tied to your account, so people that follow you are more likely to be warned, while people that follow the spammer and not you are less likely (depends on how the client works).


Crazy, more bitcoin inflows but less than last week and the price drops?


Weak. Fucking crooks.


Nope https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nope_(film)


https://beincrypto.com/mathematician-future-economics-quantum-bitcoin/

Hahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahaha haha........

nostr:npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev's rant on economist's having physics envy comes to mind


nostr:npub1mutnyacc9uc4t5mmxvpprwsauj5p2qxq95v4a9j0jxl8wnkfvuyque23vg how can I get the fedimint feature? Looks like I need a fedimint invite?


That's my point. Art and war are not connected. Art and war can happen at the same time.

Anyway, it was just a thought. Sorry, didn't mean to rain on your parade. Sorry to be a negative Nancy, have a good day. 🫡


No, this is not in England.


Hitler and Nazis stole and protected art while waging war... Art isn't the antithesis of war.


Self fulfilling prophecy


The joys of a censorshipless protocol. 😂

nostr:nevent1qqsflkv60rarkfm9dqyalvryrx0z7jacrmezz5njqzggtcg5lz67axcprdmhxue69uhkummnw3ez6ur4vgh8xetdd9ek7mpwv3jhvq3qt3ggcd843pnwcu6p4tcsesd02t5jx2aelpvusypu5hk0925nhauqxpqqqqqqzdcv5uu


Except you nostr:npub1cj6ndx5akfazux7f0vjl4fyx9k0ulf682p437fe03a9ndwqjm0tqj886t6, never you.

nostr:nevent1qqsxruvgzwdxdvxu6mu8f0d6p5rjknz5tkulla68sn2f963alyr5gscpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzvupzqrvhh6h9vl7we8r9wncudmmpym4fd82fjtp3nrj3crav2tzjwjs5qvzqqqqqqyp45ldt


To everyone trying to find solutions by typing differently, shut the fuck up dor


nostr:npub1kvaln6tm0re4d99q9e4ma788wpvnw0jzkz595cljtfgwhldd75xsj9tkzv I have feedback about your description character limit 👀
https://image.nostr.build/2c6f47a929df1d43cb2a235bdd55bdc122e7fe41ea1bb20dfeac887bebf6c302.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=902x1920&blurhash=%5B26a%40tVy%3FwD%2500%25h9Ft8%5E-X*-rNF-%3AxII-WEXNQ%3AtkIU%247R%7EMyR%25DhbWH%40kB_MMK%252IU9Xru9En%2C&x=882c6a8da72c602270bc80caf25f26e0df7b6ef778b972b574d364ccdc855e6f


Neither is whistle blowing. Free Snowden.


Sure but I felt like you made it seem like it was related to you starting to sleep on the floor, I thought that's why you started sleeping on the bed half way 🙂


Was it really sleeping on the floor that caused it?


Mi primer bitcoin maybe? (My first bitcoin) it's an open source project to teach kids about money and bitcoin... But it's suitable for anyone with an open mind. It's also translated into many languages and if there s language it isn't translated in, contributions after welcome.


But it still doesn't require a web server? I thought that was the promise of bolt 12.


Silly question, where does @twelve.cash come from? Is it relying on DNS?


This song is describing bitcoin 👏👏👏


1. Why can't I just log in with my npub? Why must I use nsec bunker?!?! I don't want to register to anything.

2. The sound cuts off after a few seconds of me switching to another app on my android phone.


Something like this? https://github.com/lnbits/lnurlp

https://image.nostr.build/e1d6acb099376380184c73e969a91b682ab397a67d2c008b12a4e62992c853e2.jpg


Long form posts on nostr can sometimes be a pain in the butt. If we want longer posts, we need better UX for it too.


Free Julian Assange!


Take that dog off your head. 😂


Hodling is not enough.

nostr:nevent1qqstxcsmhdf9faqcfdzkslfe7p57395du0nh9v846h83atj4pulv8ygpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzvupzqrvhh6h9vl7we8r9wncudmmpym4fd82fjtp3nrj3crav2tzjwjs5qvzqqqqqqygkp0mx


What are you, a spook? 🫥


We’re frontrunning society by a couple hundred thousand of blocks.
This is a post to all the #Frontrunners! https://image.nostr.build/593b398b8c5fabea648fbad76b71bda2087beb226c766c95447539b056df4de5.jpg


nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg ideas welcome 🙂


where's the pump?


Just bought this little gem. Gonna use it to show off ecash.

With a £20 printer, I can now print and hand money to anyone within seconds (hopefully). I can swap cash for ecash, maybe print cash locked to a pub key? What else? I want to have all sorts of gimmicky demos to really spread the excitement.

https://image.nostr.build/e040c42611b3ec19c93760c69a2fad910bfa14fee90dfb04ff7123aedeb80057.jpg


Tell me more about the Zeus use case 👀


Does UK count?


This happened to you?!👀


Yes, this seems to have fixed it... Waiting for it to resync. Thanks ♥🫂


nostr:npub1xnf02f60r9v0e5kty33a404dm79zr7z2eepyrk5gsq3m7pwvsz2sazlpr5 help 😨

https://image.nostr.build/8220b556d776f03c0135de44c3035f20163271d7fb03348404b05d794bf03422.jpg


Did you release 3 videos in one day? I have these queued up (mentally) to watch when I'm free.


Waxwing is an ex teacher, he explains things well and thoroughly, I expect you will learn something meaningful if you watch it. 💪


Here's one... https://youtu.be/VwMzNE1D3so?feature=shared


I don't know too much about mining or Texas, but my thought was simply to make sure we know the goal and direct our energy towards it whether directly or indirectly.

Indirect action can seed the idea and lay the foundation so that further direct action is more successful.


It is not enough to just buy Bitcoin. If you, like me, bitcoin because you no longer want to participate in the world economy that fuels all the wars, injustices and blind hate around the world, then we must do more.

We need to drive an alternative economy, it isn't enough to take the money from the government, we need to take the unit of trade away from them too.

If we transact using fiat tools and services, not only do we support the surveillance and taxation of our trades, but we also drive demand for the very broken money that we want to divert to bitcoin.

Do anything you can, take any opportunity you find and find ways to help bitcoin spread and stick wherever you can. We will get there, the rest of them will reconsider when it becomes clearer that bitcoin is an option for them to choose.

#showerthoughts #bitcoin


Why is someone spamming the introductions hashtag??


ecash is a banking technology. This means you trust the mint not to rug you just like you trust Coinbase not to rug you.

That said, the technology is super private so targeting individual customers is impossible, they won't even know your balance, your name, or anything really.

Using lightning is using bitcoin directly. For now it's the better option but can become expensive if you need to constantly manage your liquidity (a technical task we need to do sometimes to maintain our lightning wallets); especially when on chain fees are high.

Ecash also is faster and can more easily integrate with web servers and some unique user cases that using lightning for might be clunky.

For typical use day to day, I'd recommend sticking to a lightning wallet. If you like to tinker, play with the ecash stuff. If Lightning wallets are too complicated for you, maybe ecash can help, but it comes with the trade-off that your funds are at risk of loss because they are backed by bitcoin held by a custodian.


Societal norms and relationships dictate that we use these services. We can still do okay by knowing what we are leaking and using this knowledge to stay in control of our online personas.

I refuse to be some hermit unable to communicate with my family and friends.


WhatsApp shows new terms and conditions updates... What's the new evil plot?? #asknostr


#asknostr

Is there a client-side only message submission widget for a website that sends messages over nostr?


I asked why Biden was a lizard and it now it doesn't reply to me... Even when I just say hello.

Is it a sensitive bot???


This meme will not age well. Number go up!!!


Blocked (jk, but don't do it again)


I think part of the problem is that there really is no way to bound CPU usage on virtual machines. The best you can do is monitor and kill VMs that over utilise the CPU.

When you ask for 0.5Cpu, you are given charts to show how much of the 0.5cpu you are using, but if you're running on a 4 core machine, you could be using 800% CPU and the VM will let you.

Mining is one of those use cases where you can put the VM in the naughty corner and shut it down, but when you spin it back up, they just go full pelt again.

I guess this is why you can mine on a VPS. If you buy bare metal, I'm sure you can do anything.


I am become death


Probably because he hasn't had any trouble from the banks and he probably hasn't heard of bitcoin either.


I use keepassxc. On android there is keepass2android.

It takes a little time to set up, but once done, it just works™.

Better than trying to let last pass or some other company take care of it and have your personal information lost leaked and stolen because of it. Yes, your passwords are probably safu, but your identity is not.


Imaginary numbers. Until someone with authority has signed it, every number is imaginary and becomes a real number once it has been signed.

Math is a permissioned system.


How did you want it to read?

Nostr. Fuck social media?
Or Fuck social media. Nostr?


I was trying to figure out what the f**k could have been that was positive until I saw the bottom line and worked it out.


Yeah, just the way the eye reads. I was so sure it was wrong but fixated at looking at the top, I only realised when I forced myself to read the rest. It's about how the eye follows text.


I thought this said "fuck nostr".

Not a very welcoming introduction 😥


Afaik, they are legit, but when shit hits the fan, you realise that you can only exit in 2 ways:

1. Pay off the loan in full.
2. Increase collateral and wait it out.

I wanted to pay off part of the loan with fiat but this was impossible to do.

I got rekt. Be careful.


It's terrible. It's one thing for people to be proud of and to want to express their own sexuality in parades etc, it's another to subject kids to this as if it is them expressing their own sexualities. No it's you using children to try to normalise making something personal and private into something public and loud.

The children don't know why they are doing this, it just makes their parents or their guardians proud.


Yes, just like you. See, I'm paying you bitcoin right now.


Unsigned integers... Isn't that all the satoshis in the first block? Apparently there are no keys behind it so they are unsignable.


I like it, I think there should be a password strength gauge as well though... It's still only as secure as the passphrase.


There's also a shadow on the text I'm sure of it.


Data consumption? It was taking gigabytes for me before.


Why did he go? I miss that too.


Oof, did you hear that sneaky dig? "You trust it more than an Oracle database?"

A database will do whatever it's user commands. It's a dumb ledger. Bitcoin is almost a living ledger. It doesn't just do what it's users' say, it follows rules and it is naturally regulated through the power of consensus.

So fuck yeah I trust it more than I trust an Oracle database controlled by some wankers at the bank.


https://i.nostrimg.com/7e7e2fbbb3af56c6909c514870c51b27ca9f3b4574e89c1f86cf059ffc1c17e5/file.jpg
#meme #memes


You'll share it on what?!?! 🤮 Fuck twitter.

Also congratulations, I don't really understand why YouTubers love this so much, probably because of how much extra you can earn, but you deserve it. Congratulations. 🥳🥳🥳

Just fuck twitter too.


Everything is a note. You can't delete a note. That would enable you to say bullshit and then pretend you didn't. Nostr is censorship resistant, part of that is you can't even silence yourself.

You CAN request a deletion but this is not widely supported and kind of iffy, I'm not surprised it's more iffy when you switch clients.


Do you think they might learn something from the code review that fixes or identified some crazy flaw in bitcoin??

Maybe it will highlight something in bitcoin sv 👀


Ouch! What's going on here??? What is taking all of this data?! nostr:npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z

https://image.nostr.build/dc37524ad83cb97244a291c20f422b2d1a83b4a5574f9d6adeb262f94d655f34.png


I hope you find everything in this platform. 🫂


Ew


That means at least 2 implementations in the wild already right?


A very tiny percentage. Practically zero when you consider there are exactly 2^256 accounts (right?) 😁


That moment you realise this is actually your boss and they ain't impressed.


Btw it happened a few times before so I thought it was something persistent.


Well it's not happening again. Will use this info for the next time. Thanks 🙂


I guess there's a bug letting people buy the super early bird (-3 left)


Oh and backend, I use the Olympus node and actions, it seemed to just show up while I'm minding my business on nostr. 🤷🏻


I'll wait for it to happen again but wondering if there is a place where I can pull and give logs privately.


nostr:npub1xnf02f60r9v0e5kty33a404dm79zr7z2eepyrk5gsq3m7pwvsz2sazlpr5 the app keeps telling me that the app is unresponsive. I've killed it and re-opened it, and it usually happens when I'm doing something else.

Is this a known bug or something we can work together to diagnose?


Want


It's an attack by the ai overlords


HODL.

Press add hold the like icon.


Omg, I just realised, Joe had a smile all the way until the flag hit the floor, probably thought someone wanted to help fly the flag, then when it hit the floor is when it kicked in, you see the sad reflection 😢

Some people are just nasty. 😡


Think you could make Lazer eyes??

https://image.nostr.build/15f090d5ae44bec92b3ce86d76b9a6cf85c0f57f7f13185b7840c279cd91b7d9.jpg


The smile looks fake. Math checks out though.


You'll know when it comes.


Afaik, amethyst supports using unified push for notifications which doesn't rely on Google infrastructure afaik.

What permissions does it require on fdroid for you?

nostr:npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z will know best.


No one understands me when I tell them that dancing to the macarenna is celebrating a woman who cheated on a guy with his best friends when he went away. 🤦🏻


What's your point? There's a guy falling backward and handegg is being played.

https://image.nostr.build/54ccee5876c9cd4efef382dc3ce02b0a2386d3dfa82da0ec6250b33c61aee8f6.jpg


To save money, maybe you should skip instead of driving to work.


OMFG! So fuckin' super pumped! 👀👀👀🤯🤯⚡⚡⚡🔥🔥

https://media.tenor.com/FDJe89P-xk4AAAAM/yes-pumped.gif

https://media.tenor.com/EYtj3gBvF-oAAAAM/screaming-baby.gif


I was wondering why all of these posts were always found published 17 hours ago 😁


Proud of my own work here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Money/s/RX61uj8oK3

🥲


Add + to your list of reactions by holding the button to get to the edit menu


Me neither


Same as twitter polls right?


Can someone explain his intention with this picture in the first place??? Like. Did he want to give out the impression that he's the terminator or something?


Ohhhhh! That's what it is?! Pretty cool I guess.

Compared against Amber?


I'm tellin' Google. MOMMMM! 🤣

Don't you just love nostr where you can say anything and it don't fucking matter who you are?


Start maybe by getting yourself a lightning address and then configuring it with your nostr client. Start getting bitcoin over nostr. 🤯

https://lightningaddress.com/


Cool, welcome


Is it anything like bo selecta?

https://media.tenor.com/EoLqu67NuxQAAAAM/bo-selecta.gif


https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/3422734#zippy=%2Ccountries-where-google-play-gift-cards-are-available

Can this help you?


Is it possible to trade Google credits and use that??? 👀


#memestr
https://i.nostr.build/w72r.jpg


When did emoji packs become a nostr thing? How is this working on #Amethyst?! 🤯


new podcast series coming very soon. its been a while since i spoke with yall. im sure everybody has had time to catch up on the last season during my vacation 🤙$boost

#introductions #plebchain #grownostr #artstr #digitalarts
https://image.nostr.build/1d06f1d4a76e2a8201f5f4b48c428a1947d31210db5f076ae8a3fccbdf2d2c52.gif#m=image%2Fgif&dim=500x500&blurhash=U6S%23cE0mxq%5EwxXWWRmaz%7EO%3FBWDE6ods-xXj%40&x=053629e8f6d2aa34f2be61df998a182568da4bbcc6fe547ad550272ec03661dd


Will say hi 🫡


I saw you on stage, but didn't see you in person. Next time. Are you going to Madeira?


True story, I gave nostr:npub1a8jzweysxa9qmtmht874736aalm0lwdsl306nrys9d05ktlrhw3qcr5pj4 nightmares when I saw him in Riga.

I am the nightmare.
https://image.nostr.build/e8d35ac0728f86c3583f8587a5cd459d77dac1c2c2fbb8cb9ca821ad9ac85fb5.jpg


I'll wait for my bonus this year first. Then I'll get cocky.


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We don't want blockchains.


Want one


Exactly 2000 sats per dollar 😁
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So our posts will be copied over? Does it still have integrity as it does on nostr or can someone following me start seeing injected posts by a hacker without my nsec?


Best I can do is 10k.


Is advertising evil? Or are we all just monkeys?


1+1=?

Depends, what's their gender?


I was replying to Joe and quoting your answer 🫡


https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1756888470599967000

Biden is a laser eyed bitcoin maxi 🤯

https://image.nostr.build/f88e232c0917d930133d77288c7579c718ad938c3ad6e86d95e793103ad079f1.jpg


Nudists like nuts too.


We should probably bring non-following friends (aka contacts) back here on nostr.


How innocent it was back then.


Mom: Why are you thinking about boys again!?!
Her: No mum! It's not me, they're pushing these thoughts into my brain!!!
Mom: STUDY!!!!


Did you know the feature existed or were you just hoping?

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I thought this was a fake account or something... But... No 😂😂

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This is the next evolution above memes. 🤯

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What? No that's just my BlackBerry™. What are you talking about?


Do not leave your computer unlocked unattended.

Fify.


Everything. Your internet connection and activity is KYCd unless you VPN. Your Google/Apple device is probably KYCd if you use their play store.


ISP or mobile internet provider


Over vpn


Cryptocurrency is a dirty word Mr Cyborg. Get it out of you vocabulary. Bitcoin only.


Please take heed about opening the app every day and making sure you claim any queued funds within 24h.

nostr:npub1xnf02f60r9v0e5kty33a404dm79zr7z2eepyrk5gsq3m7pwvsz2sazlpr5 am I giving correct advice here? What's the risk of not opening the app once a day minimum?


You can also use their lightning address feature against your own node if you like. It's really like the Swiss army knife of lightning wallets.


1. Zeus gives you a lightning address which can be paid to as many times as you'd like. So yes.

2. Yes basically the same as Phoenix and with a more favourable fee structure right now too.

3. Yes and no. Fortunately you can use their always on feature, and you can also use their offline payment feature. The offline pay is a semi-trusted solution that becomes more trustless the more apps and wallets support the protocol. They do also take a larger fee for the convenience and you should open the app within 24hrs to avoid complications that lead to forced closed channels that end up costing even more in fees.

Read more about it here: https://github.com/supertestnet/zaplocker

Here's the release notes where they reference the above project as what powers their lightning address.

https://github.com/ZeusLN/zeus/releases/tag/v0.8.0


I thought you said she was following you 😁


sharing ideas/schemes* (put the slash in the wrong place)


Apart from utxo sharing/ideas schemes like ark, channel factories and mercury wallet, there's the ecash stuff (fedi and cashu) and cashu's proof of reserves idea is quite nice, although it is not perfect.

But if we want anything more sophisticated, I think we'll need to wait for some soft fork to come about, backed by solid research.


Yakihonne.com or habla.news

I wrote a couple of long form articles. Everything is nostr.

https://yakihonne.com/users/nprofile1qqsqm9a74et8lnkfcet578rw7cfxa2tf6jvjcvvcu5wqltzjc5n559qpr3mhxue69uhkummnw3ez6vp39eukz6mfdphkumn99e3k7mgpr3mhxue69uhkummnw3ez6vpj9eukz6mfdphkumn99e3k7mgpremhxue69uhkummnw3ez6vpn9ejx7unpveskxar0wfujummjvuq3gamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwv3sk6atn9e5k7qg7waehxw309ahx7um5wgknqv3wv3hhyctxv93hgmmj0yhx7un825g3gx


With phoenix it is not possible. You CAN give people an on chain address, but with that comes higher fees as you'd expect.


No. But that doesn't mean lightning can't scale or that we will find a trade off that is actually palatable for most people and not offensive to the most hardcore Bitcoiners...

You know, the type where people might say, I'll prefer to do X but for those who aren't as savvy, at least Y won't rug them.


Is that really true? They are the last hop before your phone, but if they accept payment on your behalf, then they have custody of the funds, not you. I think you're wrong about this.


An invoice is unique, so no: once paid, you cannot pay an invoice again.

Your phone should be online to receive payments, I have received payment while the app was running in the background, but never tried with the app off.

Maybe give it a try yourself. You can put money into a web wallet like coinos and coinos.io and then try to send it back after swiping away the app or whatever you want to try.

Another wallet is Zeus. They offer a lightning address which is something you can give to multiple people and they can pay as many times as they like and as much as they'd like.

They also support always running in the background mode although it could drain your battery quicker.

Finally they also support a semi-trusted offline payment solution. For this, you should open the app at least once a day to make sure payments are settled properly, and there is a fee involved for the service for each payment.


Pushing build 11 which fixes the profile-not-updating bug on TestFlight


Your profile, both old and new are valid. When you update your profile, you send that to whichever relays you are set up with and maybe some of them don't get the update while others do.

Then those relays sometimes pass it on to other relays and finally your followers get your profile from their configured relays.

All this is to say, sometimes your latest posts and updates don't spread across the nostrverse (I just made that word up) very well.

Usually just going in and re-publishing (re-saving?) your profile will fix it.


I'll be honest, I thought gpt4 was wrong until I read the question properly myself.


The AIs are on edge. Everyone is trying to trick them so they just assume it must be so. But they're so dumb that they don't read the question 🤷🏻.


If you use Telegram, you can use ln.tips


Neo didn't like it either.
https://media.tenor.com/nbl0HMOEVugAAAAM/neo-mouthshut-matrix.gif


How does it feel being able to speak again?


Yeah, it used to look like that.


She was standing on his sweatpants.


Welcome, feel free to lose the account and create a new one. Don't worry, there's no single database of user accounts so you're not spamming anyone. Everything here is a note, including your profile.

I'm not sure I can help you with your particular issue, I don't use an iPhone which is what damus runs on.

I do hear they are working on cross platform apps, but I don't think it's out yet.

If you don't trust your phone, you should know that there are power tools like nsecbunker and other remote signing tools that could help. Feel free to create an account, experiment, and create another account when you feel like you know what you're doing. Just try not to build yourself a reputation until you've created your last account (or accounts if you want to have different personas)


Or just have basic operational security, don't standout from the crowd and be fooled be fearmongers into adopting complex setups that will shoot you in the foot.
Simplicity is underrated.
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This week I wanted to catch up on the Craig vs COPA stuff and I found some very interesting things:

1. Lots of Craig supporters making content, less Bitcoiners (for fairly obvious reasons, there's more in it for them)

2. Yes all reporters offered avenues to receive tips, but there were many many more in the BSV camp. It gave the exact feeling you are talking about.


Why should your GM be private??? Share it with the world!!

https://media.tenor.com/lzvI32Y92ysAAAAM/good-morning.gif


Or was it just a participation prize?


Zaps are public. You've given the answer away now.


10 sats.


*blerghch-chogh-chhh*


Transitionary period*


Hey nostr:npub1sn0wdenkukak0d9dfczzeacvhkrgz92ak56egt7vdgzn8pv2wfqqhrjdv9, as a big privacy advocate, I have huge respect for you. Did you know people can see who you message with in #Nostr? Am I the only one who thinks this is a big design flaw?
https://nostrfiles.dev/uploads/kqYl3ZHhhR5LLOnbaFIk.jpg
Also would love to hear the opinion of the #Monero people I know:
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I guess leave it to Bitcoin maxis to develop a new social media protocol, right? NGL, this is kind of a deal breaker for me, I just think it's stupid and there is zero benefit in that. But according to them it's good that everything is out in the open because... reasons?
 I also don't know to what extent other metadata is public, like ip address and such.
#asknostr #privacy

Also more context:
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A lot of people here recommend using simplex for private messaging and there is hope that someone will develop a standard protocol to integrate simplex into nostr clients and that clients all jump for that.

In fact, if you look at the original spec for how DMs are handled, it says at the top that it shouldn't be used. https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/04.md

We're in a traditionary period, especially because developers are always scared of breaking anything that users may be using, even if that thing is not recommended to use.

Often there needs to be a migration plan before developers consider dropping a feature.


If you use a VPN, no. If you don't, then you're trusting the relays not to collect your IP and use it against you or share it.

Collecting your IP is not part of the Nostr protocol, so there's nothing stopping you from taking steps to prevent it. And if someone does take those steps, they're competing with those who don't take those steps.

The market will ensure there is always optionality and Nostr is open for all to build on and use however they see fit.


Tldr; there is no Santa Claus. 🖕

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Why can't they just use nostr or something? Why does it need to look like the internet when it was first ever invented?


Lol