Looking at the previous yearly movements (assuming this random website I found is accurate at all) the peaks are very revealing.

I've heard two things:

1. The pumps are dampening.
2. The FTX etc. fiasco outright killed the last bull.

If it is dampening, it looks pretty bleak for next year (doesn't feel like it)

If the FTX thing is true, those green bars are a marvel to look at. 🤤

I ain't no influencor or certified anything, but this was too feel good not to share. GN

https://image.nostr.build/392dce8566a3f3e24e0970cbe7d6f63f75a8a0080e7a2f7502fee2f380fe36e0.png


/chatgpt turn this into two sentences by playing with the grammar.


lol. Tut tut nostr:nprofile1qqs034ppyjnjakycjcj84kgj737aw6kxkmxazrlp0r67qjk0atgdfgspz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhszythwden5te0dehhxarj9emkjmn99usy20wr 🤪


Happy ending.

Earlier today Environment America put up an article called "Bitcoin’s purposeless power problem" which was full of defunded claims about Bitcoin’s environmental impact.

They have now removed their article from their site after I wrote to them pointing out numerous factual errors, with citations and data. https://image.nostr.build/dd91c0f1ff2558ef0f2e46f7a58f22db5f6a9dccc59d5ad7ce110af01d19ea13.png


Cool, so now I will go live on your front yard with all my wealth because my $5 is now $50. Fuck you. Also can I come back in if it rains?


Sorry, that one is out of stock.


What? You want those "other" "conversations" where they just laugh in your face?


Who dis?


Is this... not... satire?


Good to know. Thanks 🤗

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Yes exactly, I love how the culture of zapping really picked up on #Nostr. From zapathons to now zaps found its way into the norm on Nostr.


This is the same for everything. If there are no schools near or accepting, how can this person expect to educate their child.

Opportunities must arrise and people must take those opportunities. You don't know what you don't know so it is indeed hard for people with limited access to knowledge and resources to progress.

Some will never see opportunity, which is unfortunate and some will never take opportunity, but it doesn't mean bitcoin is not for them.

Even without them discovering bitcoin, the economy will get better as more people invest in and then use bitcoin, as they deprogram themselves from the free money ideologies they have and as people become more charitable because of it.

Time is a silent killer for people today, but over time, the benefits outweigh the individual benefits.


Plebs must do it for themselves.

There are people dismissing Bitcoin in the poor class, in the middle class and the upper class.

There are people gambling in all classes and there are people learning and applying themselves in all too.

Bitcoin isn't a get rich quick scheme, unfortunately that is what it will seem like to everyone else but the studies will get it.

Bitcoin incentivises you to learn how to live beneath your means, improve your situation, it motivates you to save.

It does this because you finally have access to something you can save in, that isn't guarded by red tape requiring you to have a stable salary, that has a logical reason to keep its value and you understand why your money today sucks.

The wealthy will get more wealthy, but the poor can lift themselves past those who gamble and ignore.


Both. Bitcoin is for your neighbour and for your enemies alike.


What is intrinsic value, what has it, and why is it something you care about exactly? Does the dollar have it? Is the dollar speculative? If not, is anything else not speculative? Was it well known that covid was going to cause massive inflation? What non speculative asset do you save with to avoid going down with the ship? Do you think your government officials are going down with the ship also?


According to nostr:nprofile1qqsqfjg4mth7uwp307nng3z2em3ep2pxnljczzezg8j7dhf58ha7ejgpz4mhxue69uhkummnw3ex2mrfw3jhxtn0wfnszynhwden5te0wahhgtn4w3ux7tn0dejszxthwden5te0wdjkuerfwshxummnvekxzun99e3k7mgrcp7e2 Bitcoin doesn't fix this, we are living this. Haven't read it myself yet.


Like most things, start small and build your confidence. If you have the ability to convert from yen to another currency and pay with that (e.g. neo banks), then consider seeing if you can trade outside Japan.


Nice


Wen omega candle tho 🤪🤤


...but qrencode


As Bitcoin rips, notice the pink and orange bars below the candles. These are liquidations. Whether they go long or go short, they all get liquidated.

So stupid.

https://image.nostr.build/93c373815f86cd15ec45c33dc1935aea204f254b0cfac5813b65926452ee0a69.png


I noticed that everyone has their weird excuse to dismiss bitcoin:

Crypto - "I love bitcoin, I save in it, but it isn't something something future something blockchain"

Investor- "I hold bitcoin, but it is in my small speculative pot, I prefer things that pay dividends, like stocks and real estate so I don't need to sell"

Side note:
Can't wait for investors to lose their lunch actually, because that mentality is them saying they want to abuse the system and bleed money without producing value. They are right because if they don't do it, someone else will, which is why when they lose their lunch, they join us.


I feel like the ring trick would amaze the crypto folk 10000000 times more than the average Joe. They seem to be the type to just lap this shit up.

We are too, but we have limits. I just love how we can keep our sense of wonder while in just 5 minutes, merchants are like, "thanks for payment, next!"


Already?

Didn't we already have a halving party? Someone needs to re evaluate our bitcoin event days... I'm tired.


Now is probably a good time to tell them to buy a little and study. Price pumps are a good motivator.


If I had $10 Billion in profits...
https://y.yarn.co/edbec410-1829-45ba-b3a4-9af29468b172_text.gif


I wasn't critiquing the 24 word split, just trying to answer the "does it give extra security hit" 🫂

No need to stipulate 👍


People shouldn't have this kind of reaction: rising up or curling into a ball, for a result of a vote. Especially one for a two party corrupt either way system.

If the votes were proven to be rigged, sure. If a war were started or even instigated or fuelled, sure, but not this. This, whether you like it or not, was the result of democracy. It is what a large percentage of your fellow citizens wanted.

This is the result of so much divide and extreme belittling between parties.


Bullshit. 😠


Yeah, multisig offers the ability to spread trust across multiple hww, but conversely, it kind of mandates it too. If you are gonna use a single device, with MAYBE the exception of seed signers.

If you were gonna do it all on one device, then what's the pojnt of it? You're bringing the keys into one place, and even if not, you're bringing the keys onto one device.

The main benefit to seedxor for me is that you never lose entropy, or better said, the entropy is only ever as low as the lowest entropy key.

As an example, if I have a random key and xor it wjth 11111.... then if you find the random key, then you are way more than half way there. Conversely if all keys are properly generated, then even if you have 2 of 3 of the 128bit keys, you still are 0% of the way to finding the final answer.

Get me? Like if you have a 256bit 24 word phrase, and split it into 2, 12, and I find the first 12 words, I'm half way there. I only need to brute force 128bits.

If you have 3 128 bit keys, and you find 1 of them, you have nothing, you still need to brute 128 bits... if you find 2 of 3, same, brute 128 bits. If you had 0, brute 128 bits.

Plus each key is valid, checksum and all. So you never even have any clue how many parts there are.


If you haven't had a look at SEEDXOR, definitely do. It allows you to take an existing key and turn it into 2, 3, 4, 10 if you want.

You just generate 9 new keys (for 10, just to be extra here) and combine them, and then combine them with the real key. That will give you the 11th key and you can safely discard of the real key and geo disperse the 10 keys.

Okay, don't do 10 remaining keys.


Curious on people's thoughts on this.

I was thinking about multisig vs single sig and I think I came to the conclusion that multisig protects best against THEFT and not necessarily LOSS.

Let me explain.

If you are considering single sig vs multi sig, consider if you think you are more prone to losing things or if you are more likely to be robbed or targeted.

If you are more prone to losing things, then you are probably also more likely to lose 2 things before you realise you lost anything.

You also burden yourself with finding multiple safe spaces, ideally geographically disperse. Either you don't disperse them well enough and a house fire destroys 2 of 3 keys, or you do, but it is difficult to monitor them and they are MORE prone to losses without your knowledge.

This has always bugged me about multisig, this idea that we just turn one problem into three (or two in case of collaborative custody)

If you are worried more about theft or being targeted, then multisig has a meaningful benefit.

Why might theft be an issue?

- Maybe you insist on a digital key (hot)

- Maybe you are a public figure

- Maybe you live in a bad neighborhood

This doesn't guarantee protection against a $5 wrench attack, but if you have to travel across town with a gun to your back to spend the funds, maybe they'll move on considering it a waste of their time and maybe that leads to more deadly outcomes, but we'll ignore that.

I'm thinking more along the lines of a digital data leak or a home invasion while you are away.

In this case, if you used a single key, your funds are gone. At best you and the attacker are racing or raising fees, just to prevent the other from getting the money.

In a multi sig setup, assuming you are not loss prone and are likely to learn of a copied or stolen key in a reasonable time, you know how to get to 2 keys to recover the funds quickly while the attacker is still looking for another valid key.

If you use collaborative custody, chances are that there are identity checks or time constraints for the attacker and you still have 2 keys to immediately recover.

At the very worst, a sophisticated attacker might steal one key to trigger you to start recovery and then follow you and $5 wrench attack you once they have all the pieces. But this starts to reach into the what if category. Well, you basically have to be a VIP public figure or a dick who boasts about their wealth most likely and also not have hired security.

I'm curious if I hit the nail on the head here or if you have a different opinion. Let me know.

#asknostr


Wow. You think he'll do it?

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OHHH SNAP! It's another one!

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Dunno, I've been enjoying the lack of rain recently to be honest.


Funilly I use both since I use VPN in always on mode.

Still fast.


A previous account I used was blocked for "suspicious logins" which was "for my protection".

I suspect that it was purely due to me beginning to use VPN and switching locations often.

Anyway, I couldn't recover the account because I had to associate an email to recover... I know I can use a throwaway, but I just never wanted to associate any email. I loved that you can use a simple username and password.

That account is now in the graveyard along with my latest account.

I left twitter a while ago too. Reddit had people in need that I could help, twitter just had trolls mostly.

I am now NOSTR only and Reddit lurker, but I let's see, every now and then I start to reply and then remember that I'm banned so I may end up abandoning it all together to avoid that negative feeling.

I never gave Stacker News enough attention. Maybe I'll see how that has evolved.


GM. I just learned how surveilled Reddit is.

I regularly use a VPN, and Librewolf, but I still had a bit of a senior moment.

I wanted to ask /r/Bitcoin an innocent question but didn't want that question associated with my main account for privacy reasons, giving personal-ish info about myself, so I logged out and created a throwaway account.

I didn't go incognito or clear cookies, and I don't know how well that would protect me or not.

After creating my post, I saw my account get permabanned. Not sure why, it wasn't anything against the rules AFAIK, but they said it was.

A few days later, my main account is temporarily banned for circumventing a ban on reddit. I asked why I was banned, what other account and the mods told me that Reddit doesn't tell them which account, but that if I told them, they'd un-ban it so that I wouldn't be banned on my main account. Also that without the temp ban, I was already shadow banned for circumventing a ban on another account.

Before I could reply again, Reddit did a 7 day site ban, so I can't even DM anymore.

I found an appeal form and told them I use VPN and a privacy Brpwser and that it must be a mistake, and got a message that my appeal was denied. I tried to play the plausible deniability card.

Do thet really know? Damn.

I mostly used Reddit on /r/bitcoin exclusively to answer noob questions, esp. About how things worked, what Lightning is, that sort of thing.

I think they lost a good account and I have had my eyes open a little bit more. I don't know exactly what data they linking two accounts, but if they have conclusive evidence despite my setup, it must be through cookies, maybe timing analysis, but then I should have been given the benefit of the doubt.

Either way, anon accounts are not safe on Reddit. They have a surveillance tool behind it looking for links between accounts. Be warned that Reddit ACTIVELY monitors your activity and good bye Reddit. 👋

GM #NOSTR.


Sounds like they're learning that the Fed is not federal.


Stop zapping yourself.


Just saw that you said your computer was being slow.

1. Jot down all the programs you have installed that you care about.

2. Backup important files but sacrifice folders like the download folder, the desktop and other dumping grounds.

3. System restore: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mac-help/mh27903/mac

Note that you may want to follow one of the links in the important section at the beginning based on your mac model.

4. Re install apps as you see fit from your notes.

5. Restore your files.

This can be a theraputic thing for many people and anything you lose that you forgot about is likely something you can rebuild. In many cases, you may decide you didn't need it anyway.


Wipe the computer, (usually there is a system restore feature) restore your files from your backups and move on.

What was the impact?


IMO he got very repetetive very quickly. He was fun to listen to for a bit but then he got annoying.

Didn't dislike the guy, just didn't think he ever had anything new to say.


Oh shit, he really lost it all/most of/a lot of his bitcoin?!

I thought he was a real one. And at such an age, I would think he wasn't gonna take risks, and he fucking knew the "asymmetric upside" geez!


Why do you insist on talking to yourself here on nostr?

You know we're all the same people behind all of these accounts.


Sensible web browsing.

In all seriousness, macs are pretty good at keeping itself safe, but consider backup services or tools for important documents, notes and photos like OneDrive or iCloud or whatever.

Antiviruses are basically viruses. They hog all the computer resources, make it slow and pop up ads to upsell you and overall get in your way more than anything.

They won't stop or protect you from things like ransomware but backups do.


Yes


If I understand this right, Alice and Carol start by swapping their respective currencies fpr ecash. So we have eBtc and eDollars for example.

Exchanges are just mints now? Maybe they make money exclusively on the swap ins and swap outs.

HTLC_c (c for Carol) is a {hash or time} locked so if Carol provides a hash, she can claim it, or if time expires Alice can reclaim it. It is ecash for one side of the trade (e.g. eBtc)

HTLC_a (a for Alice) is the opposite for Alice to claim after a successful trade. It is the other ecash (eDollar)

Details unknown but I'll wait 'till you win the hackathon:

- Uncertain how both Alice and Carol could know the same H: Is it public? Is it on HTLC_c?

- Assuming that verifying a HTLC means checking the signature against the mint's pubkeys.

- Uncertain what subscribing to an HTLC is, but we trust/require the mint to follow a protocol of  publishing state changes and preimages. But in the case of a bug or downtime, wouldn't this break atomicity?

If it is atomic and trustless, then hot damn, there are no disputes!!! Only disputes land squarely with the mint to honour swaps.


I'm proud to now reveal what nostr:npub1d2x9c0e5gwwg6ask88c87y4v425fh4wz3hwhskvcwzpzdn7dzg5sl4eu8n and I have been working on:

🥣 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗮: a Cashu based exchange.

With Granola you'll be able to buy and sell Bitcorn with the same privacy assurances of Cashu.

Let me tell you how it works 👇

https://nostrcheck.me/media/6294024db0b07ae94e1299c58cd23377da2ed33276bc9392319ad6707f61dd06/9c2275ae9ed9b2f8d55b80e2c35e26c64f92446fb7065a22e75e5277107b5649.webp

Just like regular granola is a mixture of nuts, cereals and other stuff, 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗮 takes Bitcorn, Cashu, and other things so you can mix them up with Atomic Cross-Mint Swaps.
🌰   🥜   🌽   🌾
            ⬇
            🥣

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For the curious nerds out there that want to go deeper, this is how the Atomic Cross Mint Swaps work.

https://nostrcheck.me/media/6294024db0b07ae94e1299c58cd23377da2ed33276bc9392319ad6707f61dd06/1cafe86e9964886d4dd603138f3e2ab35c814b1363b9ae54a9d9fb5453cce3b3.webp

We are already integrating with the guys from DePix, so you can send fiat and we still won't have any idea of who you are and what you are doing.

We are creating this project for nostr:npub1ze93u0u37u3x0gnfffgxl33k60v7t3afs64jgzf4xznapr4ra5us0u3pxq hackathon so if you like it, please boost it until it reaches the hackathon judges!

https://nostrcheck.me/media/6294024db0b07ae94e1299c58cd23377da2ed33276bc9392319ad6707f61dd06/9c2275ae9ed9b2f8d55b80e2c35e26c64f92446fb7065a22e75e5277107b5649.webp


That face smash tho 🫨


In fact you may even be badgered for ID over and over again in the form of "prove you are human".


Lol. Except the part about no one asking for ID because everyone is still asking for your ID as you log in to all your services. Windscribe can't solve that magically for you, you gotta solve it yourself.


Ah shit.


Just got banned on Reddit... because they think I am circumventing a ban on another account when in fact I just use VPN and privacy browsers.

Fuck reddit.


Wo' you on abaa'? We use apostr'phes ev'ryw'ere!


The king!

https://nostrcheck.me/media/0d97beae567fcec9c6574f1c6ef6126ea969d4992c3198e51c0fac52c5274a14/a9edc086b05e56833d37825487462d20790d1172cb5c44473ece3fca7f9a2aac.webp


Exposing and arresting big pharma would be a huge signal that would be impossible to ignore and that might shock a whole lotta people into thinking better.

I could only dream if government agencies that targeted the masses with exaggerated misinformation in order to take control of the narrative were also exposed and publicly arrested.

Imagine.


An injustice has been cut short and nature is healing. The narrative that Bitcoin was ever for criminals may also change for more people.


What day is day 1?


Amass more energy than you ever could imagine and reverse time. You'll need the 5 stones of creation and a gauntlet made by a massive midget in space.

Good luck.


How your perception of world events have changed...

Almost all my normie friends, colleagues and family are anti-trump. They seem to be emotionally committed to that opinion too even though he mostly doesn't affect them in the UK and Europe.

Curious to see how aligned/misaligned my perception of his progress and world events differs with others this next few years. Also curious if bitcoin social becomes more complaining or celebratory of Trump's actions in power.


When is day one? Somehow I feel like we'll be waiting for day one for a while.


I wonder what nostr:nprofile1qqst5teefqektpr4aytgpwyclxlq78v9q9nvd2pem0sgf5pxdttwyzspzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgtcppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qyfhwumn8ghj7ur4wfcxcetsv9njuetn9u4qf5yj uses since he saw one of my edit proposals and even liked it but I don't think he applied it.

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... the gas.


This guy doesn't know he's looking for water. I tell people if you're craving something or hungry, drink some water first and see if you're still craving after that. Often times we are just thirsty.


And scammed.


We ain't seen nothin' on nostr.

If nostr is "you see what you want" and youtube is "I'll protect you", youtube is failing, but people are free to get spammed on nostr.


Any chance of using https://github.com/nostrband/nostr-login for login? It apparrently supports Amber for login.

Otherwise, I can't login (mobile)

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Probably looking for water. Always good to reach for water.


Where app?


I'm zapping everyone who helps test my new app Animal Sunset 2,000 sats

Share your creation on Nostr

Hashtag #animalsunset

Repost this Note for visibility

 https://storage.cdn-luma.com/lit_lite_inference_v1.6-xl/380552c2-3603-44a4-b98e-68a7bc740654/4fee8356-8929-4dca-9593-8fa6f21d99b9_video0ee522325d8bf48aea7da221218120401.mp4


Socks come in pairs, you don't get a pair of cars, you get a couple of cars.

So it's just a couple of pairs of pliers.


Nah, it's almost the opposite. Project managers want more, you tell them everything is balancing on a pin that you had to put in 3 years ago because of deadlines and that it's already wobbling and they say, "Just a few more features. It's been standing for 3 years, I'm sure it can handle a few months while I hit my targets, and then you can have a whole week to look into it."


I am so done with Hanlon's Razor. https://m.primal.net/LscL.png


Well, considering the initial context, it wasn't the most elegant way to say that... were you intentionally trolling?


Tldr; watch the news.


First pass?


Nothing. Democracy is a closed system. But not everything is a democracy, only the system of electing our leaders in the most fair way possible.

Allow us to express ourselves, explore our personalities and navigate society without staying tethered to our voting identies for everything else.

We shouldn't need to give our real names or proofs of identity for anything until we are dealing with law enforcement for some legitimate reason.


Yes


It means don't start with "investing", don't get into trading, as much as mainstream calls Bitcoin a speculative tool, start by learning what Bitcoin is and how it is being used beyond speculation. Learn what it solves and although it may shock you, follow up when you learn that there are serious systemic problems with our world economy and that the form of money is the problem and then keep an open yet critical mind as you learn why and how bitcoin can solve the problems.


And now, negative what?


I don't understand, if Tuesday is the election, then when do we get the results and why is Tuesday of any interest at all?


No. 😢


I'm dumb, I hadn't upgraded yet. 🤦♂

I've updated now if you want to unfollow and refollow 😄


No 😢


You should follow me 😉 let's see.


Follow notifications is what has been missing from nostr 👀 how does it work? I hope it isn't constant polling?


Redefining paper balots. hehe.


Sorry my dude, bitcoin isn't democracy, there are no votes 🤷♂😄


To expand:

"In this digital age where not only is everything you do, say, mention or repeat forever enscribed in a historical archive, but is also often taken out of context, I want to engage in our global society without fear of later being accused and penalised for wrong think whether now or in the future as norms and values evolve."


Users pay you directly for your content. There is no subscription model so it is new and you may need to experiment to see what works for you, but when you get paid, you get the whole payment with no service fees in the middle, and no need to allow ads to break up your content.


Why should they use it? Are they into decentralised tech? Otherwise is there any content or community that they're interested in that they might want to follow?

Maybe nostr:nprofile1qqsvzkj6vkvxu745zdx7uw4c2f2d5hzafvzw0z60zmyzsdce9564rpgpzdmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ue0mkqagk or nostr:nprofile1qqsf0fqrvsxg8tqjhnj4dhkcmvhna05frqqcxtapz99tmfe6dt59nrqpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtcpr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmp0qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9um7klxn ?


I like that frame. 🤔👍


The cycle completes when nostr:nprofile1qqsfk2er6hu2wyffq0zdccqtp2fvgvterr70e77jha26wk83hxj0ajspzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtc4ekrd6 figures out how to put your private key onto your simcard.


Ah yeah, my brain farted. It is before the election.


We've had many rebrands. The current best is "signing device" since that is really its primary focus.

There was also a push for ABC (airgapped bitcoin computer) but I don't think it caught on.


Heh, November 4th, something tells me that the elections is gonna be part of tbis movie 😄.


#asknostr

Let's brainstorm/workshop how to frame privacy.

On CNBC, the CFO of Florida said "I don't want the federal government knowing when my son went to the grocery store to go buy a bag of doritos at 2:15 in the afternoon".

I think this is weak sauce. It isn't that the government knows about a minor detail of your life that is none of their business, it is the overreaching surveillance, collection of data, and all the false conclusions that can come from it with no oversight and investigation.

"I don't want the government knowing my spending patterns and then using it to make policy decisions about how to run the country"

"I don't want the government to use my purchase history to penalise me in taxes because I refuse to eat junk and choose to eat quality from the farm so they bucket me as rich"

"I don't want the government knocking down my door because they took 3 months to track a dodgy drug dealer and traced some of that money to the change I got at the grocery store"

What else?


A malicious miner can come in a few forms:

1. They are trying to censor the network and have sneakily amassed over 51% of the hash power so it is working.

2. They are attempting to create blocks with invalid transactions or just plainly not following rules yet attempting to pass off their data as a bitcoin block.

Thats probably most of the cases, othet cases kind of fit into one or the other.

In case 1, we "kick them out" by introducing a new rule and roll it out. This isn't a simple task, it will involve convincing people that this is the most conservative way to work around these people while not leading down a slippery slope of just introducing a way to censor people.

The other way we kick them out is by rallying the people to run more nodes and mjners, to outmine the bad actors.

Eventually, the cost to censor will be too much and the enemy will run out of funds.

For case 2, the system already works. Even if the malicious miner had 90% hash rate, our software rejects anything that is considered invalid so these blocks are ignored by users. Some users who rely on custodians or third party nodes may be affected, but majority of economic activity and therefore the most fees to collect will only be collectable by miners who also don't mjne on invalid blocks.

The attacker will quickly realise they are wasting time, energy and money and even if not, we are never affected and more people who use custodial systems start to learn to use Bitcoin natively.


Probably not, but/and all the monies people choose will need to be interoperable (exchanges) but the MOST used money will be hard money.

I can imagine some will choose to stay impoverished in order to not stand out from the crowd but I imagine all rulers will use the hardest money they know. Bitcoin.


What is the part you concerned yourself with then?


No I mean the report says he promoted and pumped the value of his holdings and then sold the high. That's market manipulation.


Hoo hoo, when the robot overlords take over... I'd hate to be you.


I would use outbox/inbox but you've already muddied the word outbox now by using it the opposite way.

You post to your outbox relays and find content from your inbox relays.

Isn't that basically it?


Yes.


Aw, I thought he was one of the good guys, I liked him, yet I also realise that he got rich quick which probably means something shady.

He did the crypto pump and dump stuff though?

😢


Linux is my version of a computer game. No need for Halo or Call of Duty, not even Solitare, just give me the leanest version of everything I need with none of the things I don't need.

It's like a tamagochi.


Start by following #asknostr.

Can you follow hashtags on your client?


Ai


That's odd. 🤔


This looks like something else then. I got 7 sats, no detail about who sent it and no notifications on Amethyst.

Is it possible that you configured your client to send private zaps?

This is what Amethyst offers:
https://nostrcheck.me/media/0d97beae567fcec9c6574f1c6ef6126ea969d4992c3198e51c0fac52c5274a14/1f6d96fc7ba81d560f9af3f7d32e65b635448d84da6efd35ca0c7ca2dc5a9611.webp


Are searches cached? I'd hate to pay for a refresh.


Only if all vegans and vegetarians should be shown all the harm caused by farming to insects and bees etc.

While we're at it, just starve children.


The full process of sending a zap requires an acknowledgement from the receiver's wallet.

Some wallets may not support zaps, others need to be opened first before they acknowledge the zap, and maybe other issues plague the system too.


The fuck is a bank parading the streets for???! 😵💫


Huh, maybe the receipt did not get posted until you opened your wallet 🤷♂


Did you get my zap?


First they gotta get you to buy or sell from/to them. So they gotta have something worth your time. Let's see if they can do it.


Testing uploading a photo which usually is noticably slow...
https://nostrcheck.me/media/0d97beae567fcec9c6574f1c6ef6126ea969d4992c3198e51c0fac52c5274a14/02d6c25692ace9af34132c22a09bf55e46ca06a9f5f8ede2325dfb6d142e7875.webp

Felt a bit faster, but it could be my bias.


Do we need a testrnet?


I don’t understand. I have citrene set as my local relay on amethyst but there is no signer relay... 🤔


About what? 😬


If it were true, it would be insider trading. This may be happening, but no way it would be talked about or allowed to meet ears that would follow up and tweet about it.

Criminals work in the shadows.


I'd say you are always replying to the message you replied to.

If OP changes their post, your reply disappears.

If someone finds your reply, OPs old post is shown above it with a message "this has since been edited".

Clients can show out of date replies as translucent or faded so readers know it is not a direct relationship and can dig further if they want.


No


Legend. Now you get to pass border control via a human.


Y no podcast last night 🥲


I think duckduckgo crippled itself globally rather than serving my query about Kagi and now it is down globally.


Bruh.
https://nostrcheck.me/media/0d97beae567fcec9c6574f1c6ef6126ea969d4992c3198e51c0fac52c5274a14/5672c5f327b0e9da3747e979d9f84dc943c93b7ae39162e292ea3b95f02ace85.webp


On NOSTR, you can't stop someone seeing your posts by blocking them, you can only stop seeing their posts by blocking them.

If someone writes offensive content and you wish to ignore them, block them. Even their replies to you will be ignored.

If you want to write a private message, create a private group chat or private direct chat and message in private.

Even with twitter if someone blocked me but I wanted yo see their post, I would just load it in an incognito mode browser and I could see their post. Why try to make public posts and try to exclude one person?

Go private or go public. Don't try to abuse the platform to exclude individuals, but do use it to filter out unwanted spam, noise and unplesant content.


Fuck off. 👀😠


But different....
https://media.tenor.com/rEv3yEyvC_AAAAAM/james-franco-same.gif


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https://m.primal.net/Lkyd.mov


Threatening to delete a post is a great way to get it broadcast more widely. 😁

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I have broadcast this note to my own relay. I will repost it if you delete it.


Obviously do your own research, but beyond bugs and you using compromised software or not checking fees carefully etc. a coinjoin is pretty risk free.

I wanted to differentiate coin join and mixing because mixing is done behind closed doors and you give up your bitcoin to someone else for some time during the process, while coin joins make you part of the process and you never release bitcoin without simultaneously claiming the same amount of bitcoin elsewhere.

How does this work? Everyone anonymously submits inputs to go into a coin join following some rules, then create new identities, and submits their output addresses so no one knows which inputs and outputs belong to the same person, then a transaction is made and everyone needs to sign it.

Each participant only signs the transaction if it allocates the correct amount of bitcoin to them as they were expecting.

The transaction is invalid until everyone signs it so until everyone is happy, no money moves. Of course it is the software you are using that does all of that work on your behalf, so if the software is compromised, so too might be your bitcoin.


Good ol' Satoshi bragging again, this time about coining the term CoinJoin 😄.


21 Million was not enough!?! 👀 I know you have that much, you showed me yesterday.


Trust me... I know 🥲


Amazing things happen in Gotham for Batman? I thought it was all doom and gloom 😄


I think the running recommendation is to STAY AWAY FROM MIXERS and use coin join tools instead.

Coin joining takes a bit of research and time to familiarise yourself with it. It is also a bit more expensive afaik, but there's 0 risk of losing your money this way.

So... 50% cheaper mixer but they take 100% of your money, or more expensive coin join but you get privacy and you never lose your money.


Now ask how many r's there are in Strawberry and see how many prompts it takes for it to get the right answer 😊


I made this when the price was stuck at 58k.

We all know the true value of Bitcoin (probably more than that, but that was the biggest number I could think of at the time). But whenever you look at the price, it shows as something different, namely 58k... just like the double slit experiment.

Don't worry, this wasn't TA or chart theory, just the fact that when you are not looking at the charts, you know what your Bitcoin is worth, but when you observe, it gives a different result, so stop looking at the price.

Phew* 🫡


I think they said "LND Contributor" and think we would hear "senior core dev" and not "Lightspark employee who made a pull request".

🤷♂


META
☕
https://m.primal.net/LHbl.jpg


I know you secretly have more bitcoin than my whole family.


Fact check: the government IS tyranical.


You mean... because there's no sound?


Probably not everyone but I believe many of us here on nostr will stay and keep building for Bitcoin because it is the function that matters more than the value. But I guess it also depends on what caused the value to drop 90%.

Also, knocking 90% off is leaving 10% on, so it's knocking a zero off. So $60k = $6k... what we had 5 years ago (or even 4 years ago). I think many will be buying "the" dip.


In tootin'?


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Zap.store IS a link. Once you have that, you can get Amber from that app.


Zap.store also gor logging in, nsec bunker. (I use nostr:nprofile1qqswacu3amp428kj8wtpqf77yd2upukcn2ft4aycmxm5scmh359e0ssppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qyg8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnddakj7qg4waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t09uvt9vcv as my nsec bunker)


This shit can happen to Bitcoin too. Be forever vigilent.


Holy sh. They did it in the water reflections! 🤯


Don't do it! Use this guys suggestion... (well, maybe vet the site a bit more in case it is a scam first I guess and consider the fees too 🤷♂)

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You could use: https://trocador.app/en/anonpayurlgenerator


Can you cite the source?


Just discovered this myself yesterday through FreeTube, the desktop client I use on Linux... saw the examples on their website and had a good chuckle about how they did Tom Scott dirty 😁.

Unfortunately, community titles and thumbnails have not reached bitcoin content like BTC Sessions and Get Based, or pretty much any of our video podcasts.


Npubs or it didn't happen.


Check out Elerium https://beechat.network/shop/

They did a talk at my local meetup and it looks like they focus on hardware but their small nfc chip can seem to do almost anything.

Afaik, the most powerful small factor NFC solution available.


Okay, but don't forget the other one.


Haha! Yeah, keep that anonymity! And #KeepNostrWeird.


I think you don't know what shitcoins are. I for sure ain't a shitcoiner 🫥


Andreas Antonopoulos says Bitcoin has achieved a level of computing that no single nation-state can overthrow it through computation alone. https://m.primal.net/LeVY.mp4


What's wrong with nfty?


Do let us know if you get that account back.


I don't fuck the fed, I make deep deep love to them.


Exclusive ability.


Wtf


Would have thought that if anyone could sympathise with why she might lie, it would be you 🤔


Y not ask?


Fair. 🤗


Somehow, I actually like it. It's like "are you sure?". It has the final escape hatch too. If they let you pay in sats, I'd pay... it's not you, its the institutions that you have insisted on placing between us and I just don't trust them.


Fucking right. 😁


Looks like mental institutions got defunded well before prisons took off.


Oh, and don't forget to say GM in the morning. It's the current etiquite on the freedom protocol.


Maybe give a quick intro and what things you're interested in and if you are looking to post content of a certain type (like cat photos or scenery or food etc.)


Just above the pink whisk arm... the real question is which one of these people is Satoshi?


You sush.


You know I'm foolin' with you sir where you would usually doo doo it if you got fund approval you're who we're try'na get through to. 🔥


You know we're foolin' with you sir where you would usually doo doo it if you got fund approval you're who we're try'na get through to. 🔥


I mean, it is possible to develop it for sure.


1sat per command where every button press is a zap?


Sad panda 🥲 https://nostrcheck.me/media/0d97beae567fcec9c6574f1c6ef6126ea969d4992c3198e51c0fac52c5274a14/2e5cc0d464ec2c5cfb74946e0d12367aaf83678ad85baac684443ac1a03411c7.webp


Oooh, they vandalised it all right. 😠


Relay list to store private content from this author


I mean, the US is intervening and in the opposite way. They knew from the start what was happening, they also know who their "allies" are and who keeps their lights on. They supply funding, weapons, and support... with our money.


Welcome to Nostr!


Yup


Lookin' is free and legal.


In what country now? Surely not in the UK?


They need to report the second order effects. They should be required to report the number of fraud reports they are getting. We should see correlations between this and data leaks and we should see how many cases were prevented, compensated completely, partially and not at all.

This is what people will pay attention to.


Yeah, many will just be forced off. The question is whether they will consider the better solution or if they will just pick the next X because at least SOME of their followers are there.

Those who choose Nostr and bring their followers with them will enjoy a self made success while everyone else will continue tp beg for handouts until they dry up once again and again.


My first reaction was negative at the beginning with all the memes and also all the varying quality of videos (I -just- got a 4k monitor 😅).

But as the movie progressed, I was impressed with the amount of information presented.


GM.

I was thinking about how normies learn about and get sucked into adopting new technologies.

It ain't release notes, it's more to do with branding. Heck, many people didn't know what NFC was until iOS introduced Apple Pay.

I think we need a for profit wallet that can afford to build a brand. They will rebrand features like "BOLT 12" into something that can be compared with banking, like "direct deposits". They will almost always be late to market, but they will get people excited about the development of Bitcoin.

The risk is merely that "everyone" uses this product and only power users use anything else... but is that so bad? As long as there is a market for cutting edge, there will be a market for other wallets.


Watch the video and you'll see. He is just unapologetically argumentative, he trolls and has critiqued other people's work in detail and then dismissed them in public, but he is also right almost all of the time.

In the video, he enjoys trolling the video producer who is clearly trying to figure out who Satoshi is and who thinks they can do it better than everyone else as a professional investigative journalist.

Investigative journalists don't discover things... they report on what other people have discovered or want to leak who don't have an avenue to do it themselves.


Short for Bobert.


It's not for us to prove or disprove anything to you. Especially when you are in such a defensive mood.

Ultimately we have our opinions which we have built over time and there is not one thing or one flaw that guides us, but time and experience which is near impossible to transfer to another in a few online messages.

All I can say is that it seems your bar for what works is low IMO and short sighted.

You could argue that my view is narrow and too theoretical/impractical, but it isn't about funnelling value to one place, it is about giving ourselves, our friends, our peers, the best chance of overcoming the perils of a centralised money without just restarting the cycle because we allowed ourselves to use capturable money and allowed the money to be recaptured.


Or be in a supported country ❤


It does work out the box on Graphene OS with Amethyst. Maybe not on some linux distros?


So your kid reveals your true self... anything you don't like, you probably call it communism. Now he thinks communism means "I don't like".


Oh how the tables have turned... now they want you to keep it.


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But.... why you gotta have such a nervous laugh and reaction XD. How exactly was he presenting himself at the time?


I don't understand... Do you know what values they're talking about??


Can you send a link to the venue? I wanna book.


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Bro. I need to find a torrent for this thing. No HBO in the UK.


Wh- WHY? Why were you standing directly on all of the cables for? Surely you felt them under your feet!


We are all Peter Todd... Except Craig Wright.


nostr:nprofile1qqs2auxkkgfgylem580xrztp8ek5sf83s86k0vfq2feuz6y4lkhskgcpzdmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ue02zchlu does your bar in bedford accept Bitcoin yet?


They're still waiting for 1 sat/vbyte.

THE MEMPOOLS WILL CLEAR.


Ahaa you finally got to them 😄.


Only if you promise to pay back double and then pay back nothing.


Only if you are visiting a normal website. For .onion site, it is e2e encrypted.

Actually says it here too: https://tb-manual.torproject.org/onion-services/


I think these are self signed certs, but honestly, ssl on a Tor Service (.onion site) is not useful afaik. The traffic is end to end encrypted already.


Everything on nostr is a note. There is no relational database behind the website that prevents me from liking my own post, therefore a note that says:

- I am a like
- I like note with ID: xxxx
- I was created on Monday 1st ...

Not only can you like your own note, you can even like it an unlimited number of times.

Clients often enforce rules to prevent such things so that it feels more like a "twitter" clone, but that's what clients do. They take a technology that is so vast it can do anything, and introduce rules to give it meaning for their specific use case.


Mad


With a camera man recording at the perfect angle?


One thing you can actively do is create pseudonyms and "personalities" to get your messages out, your jokes out, express yourself.

The main thing you can't do here is attribute all your work to yourself in public, feel free to expose yourself in private but know that not everyone is as sensitive to your desire of privacy as you are.


Yes. This is the nature of a public square (aka a social platform).

If you need private conversations, use private direct messaging or private group chats (not currently widely available on Nostr clients yet)

Google is like the nosey parker on the street with a camcorder. They ain't doing nothing illegal, but you know that because of this kid, you have to be extra careful what you say out in the open.

There are also some other ideas being explored, like private relays and time-limited messages that relays keep private as best they can, but this is still an open playground with nothing standardised.

Exciting times... because whatever comes from all of this is going to be so much better than Twitter, Facebook, Reddit and sp on.

For now, if you need private comms, use private end to end encrypted messaging.


Everyone is a bitcoiner. Whether they know it yet or not.


No way this isn't fake. But I love it. 🤣


Yes, this is what I was talking about.


Not always, I've see ones that use multiple hops to deanonymise your traffic... like a mini onion network.

https://restoreprivacy.com/vpn/multi-hop/


For example, I use mullvad, and I never gave a name, email, nothing.


Because to be super secure, not only should they not know what websites you visit, but also they should not know who their customers are in the first place.

Credit cards and other traditional payment systems tell the recipient who you are, they also tell the bank or financial institution that you are using a VPN, adding a third party into the private relationship.

Using crypto, a VPN provider can offer to provide VPN to anyone without collecting any personal information.

The VPN provider will still have exposure to all of their customer's IP addresses, but maybe they do stuff to mystify that too.


Get it Get it Get it!

Less than 90 blocks worth of transactions in the mempool. Down from over 120 just a month ago. Slow and steady, but maybe the mempools will clear 👀.

💪💪💪

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"Pay your taxes, give us money so we can look after you. We will think about global issues and future outlooks on your behalf so you can live your lives."

* Pays taxes

"Look, we have money, let's do irresponsible stuff with the money and not plan for the future"

* Disaster

"We have no money, you guys gotta pay for this yourselves. I know the taxes were supposed to cover exactly this type of thing, but we spent it all on elections instead. #sorrynotsorry"

😡


Bro had the queen bee trapped in his cloak which he never took off or washed.


I can only describe this article as "a silly short post". Feels more like an ad for someone's video more than a serious concerned article with the whole "what else don't we know" tacked on. 🤷♂


Hello?


Actually, email is optional. But the lack of information makes my imagination go wild.

Looks like they only encrypt before storage. Outgoing messages are unencrypted, incoming too, so while SMS Providers don't protect you or your messages, they also don't protect them I would assume.

The only thing this provides is pseudonymity against the SMS providers, but with access to messages, that can quickly be deanonymised.

Also, they say that they protect against sim swaps, but how exactly, it seems they are at the same mercy of the SMS providers that we would be if we used our own sims.

Seems expensive for a false sense of security. Prove me wrong.


With a magic wand?


> Banks have lobbied for permission to take longer to agree to payments

Fuck off. Why are you lobbying to gain greater control of MY money?! Fuck right off.

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This is completely different.


GM. Nostr-Dame. That's it. Someone make something from it.


Fucking car mechanic. We all know cars are shitcoins.


Thanks nostr:nprofile1qqsq2adlq0pxrsv4pqy5mmefe22r5k43frz0wmphnzj9hwc3v23ts7gpr3mhxue69uhkcatwvd5xymmc9eekzmnywa5kx6pwveshymgpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqprpmhxue69uhkummnv3exjan99eshqup0wfjkccte0pef7x now I know I didn't walk away with nothing 🤗


Lol. £20 that either no one wins or its all twitter followers and this guy just cross posts to nostr.


A


No. V4V models street Busking


Waiting for someone to find out that it was never using TOR underneath and that is why the performance is so good. 🥶


Surfing in the winter is dedication 🥶


Lol. Choose a better picture 🤣 the article agrees with me too 😅


A "best practices" post with pictures of CrYpTo signing devices... colour me skeptical.


The longer such an exploit goes unnoticed, the harder it is to undo. Think of all the ways the new money poisons innocent people's activities. All that undone, so many losers and for what? Because we didn't realise.


Oy vey.


Wait... Bitcoin's price is falling right now... we have an inflation bug on Bitcoin?!?! 👀💀

/s


That would be called spyware on your phone/laptop. Once the request is packaged to be sent to the server, it is private between your computer and Snapchat's servers like a private hidden tunnel.


I use a remote signer app called Amber.

Most Nostr clients are self custodial actually. Do you mean "cold access"?

LNBits created a physical remote signer that acts like a hardware wallet for your nostr keys. (I think created by nostr:nprofile1qqsxsvs3h524c7mkfe9enw3x8g23mqfqn0n62e4zhvvhrhqmh5ahzhspz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhszrnhwden5te0dehhxtnvdakz7qgewaehxw309aex2mrp0yhxummnw3exjmm59e3k7mf0sxguym)

That's all I know of at the top of my head.


They also like when you put your hand in their mouths because it reminds them of eating.


Some peers on nostr need to keep showing off their home miners non-stop?


Put away last night's booze 😅


You could argue that Bitcoin is an immaterial token.


All them fuckers clapping, if that were me and I received that round of applause, I would snap.

"OH! NOW IT IS SOMETHING YOU AGREE WITH?! WHAT ABOUT ALL THEM YEARS I WAS LOCKED AWAY AND YOU, YES ALL OF YOU, DID FUCK ALL! FUCK OFF."

"ACTUALLY, YOU DIDN'T JUST DO NOTHING, NOTHING WOULD BE A BREATH OF FRESH AIR... YOU MUDDIED PUBLIC PERCEPTION WITH WHAT IFS. YOU DREW MY NAME THROUGH THE MUD AND PRETENDED LIKE WHAT I DID WAS NOT NORMAL WHILE YOU ALL WORE THE CORPORATE COLLAR AND WOOFED 'WHIP ME HARDER DADDY'"


All them fuckers clapping, if that were me and I received that round of applause, I would snap.

"OH! NOW IT IS SOMETHING YOU AGREE WITH?! WHAT ABOUT ALL THEM YEARS I WAS LOCKED AWAY AND YOU, YES ALL OF YOU, DID FUCK ALL! FUCK OFF."


Not everything is a ledger. 😅


100% legit. The tax man don't care, as long as they get their cut. But cut them out.... 🫥


KISS
KIS(S = Stupid)

Or less "offensive", Keep it super simple.

I like originals.


There should be a tool to help with that........


But ... Also, sell all chairs to buy #Bitcoin.


Movie taken down?


It wants to make it plainly obvious how much data we are leaking while using "private" messages.

Although the messages we send are encrypted, the details about who we are talking to, how often and at what times are public. Not everyone is aware of this.

It is well known to anyone who has been on Nostr for some time. The better clients use a better protocol called "gift wrapped" messaging, but not all clients use this and some don't use this as standard but really they should. We should promote privacy as standard.

What will fix this? People taking the time tp learn about private messaging, choosing a client that supports better privacy so that they aren't being called out by the bot, or calling out the client and asking for better private messaging tech to be developed (along with a nice couragable zap).

I have no doubt that within a year, most clients will be using a much more private dm algorithm.


Were there previous eps or is this just from a prompt?


If an AI needs to take a shit, I say that is pretty profound.


Hey! Let me get scammed by Michael Saylor in peace! 😅


Only if it stars the olympic competitor from Australia.


Definitions can change. You more often hear "I envy you" in a casual conversation than "I am jealous".

https://www.dictionary.com/e/jealousy-vs-envy/


Jealousy is ugly, I believe it to be your definition of envy. It is envying and believing that you are owed the same with no work.

Envy to me is your definition of jealousy. It is harmless. It is either an appreciation without the desire for it for yourself, likely due to an understanding of the work involved, or it is the motivation for you to push harder.

You are jealous of that kid in school who went to the same classes as you but did better. You envy the celebrity who has it all and wish to learn their ways.


nostr:nprofile1qqs2auxkkgfgylem580xrztp8ek5sf83s86k0vfq2feuz6y4lkhskgcpzdmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ue02zchlu I was a little skeptical and I did skip a couple of the first eps, but you are killing it with these topics and I am here for it.

Love how we can focus on UK issues and provide quality content that is current, relevant and deep. 💪💪💪


I thought we were supposed to sell all of our chairs?


Don't we also need all intermediary channels to be upgraded to v2 or something so that the node id doesn't correlate with the channel?


Cool, yeah, they only seem to work on coldcards though. Even ones that say they should work on everything.


nostr:nprofile1qqsw3znfr6vdnxrujezjrhlkqqjlvpcqx79ys7gcph9mkjjsy7zsgygpr9mhxue69uhhqatjv9mxjerp9ehx7um5wghxcctwvsq3samnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwdehhxarjd93kztnrdaksz9thwden5te0wfjkccte9ekk7um5wgh8qatz7tvu4p looking to buy some opendimes overseas to the UK.

Are there any discount codes available to me? Any little helps 🤗.


#asknostr

Who's interested in a live stream where a bunch of us try to combine #Fedimint with #Holesail using #Pear2Pear tech?

We will be attempting to create a mutinet fedimint connected without any port forwarding and no middleboxes.

This will be a first time attempt after some smaller experiments we played with before.

If this works, it proves that Fedimint can be packaged into mini pc's that you can plug in at home and feed with only power and internet.. Currently we need a VPS to simplify the networking complexities of running from home.

Anyway, this is a 2 part question. Who is interested and who can help?

We want to do some conference call, ideally no need to register if we can stay anon, perfect. Then we need that to end up on zap.stream somehow.

Pls help.


Die a happy man. All those back pains, relieved just before you.


Way better analogy than what I came up with 😅.

You should be lawyer.


If I understand correctly, the argument isn't as simple as "code is speech", but "writing code is speech" right? Executing code would be taking action and fortunately the developers only write code and any and all execution of the code was lawful.

Like making a knife and testing it to cut meat, fruit, but then a consumer 4 years later uses it to kill people.


This one.


But there is attempted murder...


Did not know that 🤯🤗


A failed assassin? Like a would-be chef who instead ended up burning all the food so nothing could be served.


Or to add it as a consumer update for later investigations.


AFAIK, they don't. I think they are looking for Apple to insert backdoors in their future models.


A thou isn't much, but people tend to have an irrational bias for rewarding celebrities.


The first 2 points put the data in control of the user. A relay has little power to censor you, they have no ability to ban or block you in any meaningful way, no way of stopping you from seeing content outside of their relay, and their relay is a tiny fraction of #Nostr.


#Nostr has no CEO. No one can bend om behalf of Nostr.

CEOs had massive power and and they have learned that this power has strings.

Users hopefully will finally understand that creating your own notes, signing them with your own keys and posting them to your own servers is the ultimate win. But with the first two, you win massively using relays either way.

Slowly then suddenly.

The weak point if any is the relays. We need to keep building to bring the cost of running a relay so low that anyone can do it, if approached, anyone can quit or exit and everyone else will be just fine.

I am still very bullish on Nostr.


Aparrently I had gallstones because of how I self custodied them.

(A get well soon card 🤗)

https://nostrcheck.me/media/0d97beae567fcec9c6574f1c6ef6126ea969d4992c3198e51c0fac52c5274a14/eb62efed040786e9e3ca8092be0cb766f9b26b9a139427bec7d7850b1e53d2c4.webp


Conspiracy confirmed! Ecash is Mastercard.

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Is that happening for real?

I would love it if all tickers had to have a custodian prefix by regulation if it is indeed custodied.

Would make things much clearer.


This might be the first documented proof of Joe losing his mind 😬😅


Never go full Vitalik.


Yeah, think it was always a paid feature. Worth it IMO.


Or did you never manage to get it to forget you completely?

If you did the clear data stuff and still can't log out, you probably have an Alby or Nos2x extension installed that is keeping you logged in.


How did you log in after logging out?


I like minibits. I use it for my own too.

Also like my custom lightning address 😄

noshitcoins@minibits.cash


Np. How well did it work?


Yup.
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Paracetamol


You will receive more DMs because of this.


GM. The number of blocks of unconfirmed transactions have been slowly falling. I see ~96 left... UNDER 100!

Yes. THE MEMPOOLS ARE CLEARING. LFG.


https://github.com/ankidroid/Anki-Android/releases/

For those who want to use Obtainium.


You can do these steps for any website to make it forget about you.

Of course, this isn't foolproof agains servers surveilling you. They will use your IP address AND... a "browser fingerprint" where they run random things to time the speed of your hardware and sniff changes in configuration to bud a unique fingerprint that they can always recalculate. Like as if your computer was a signing device and they could always pull out your public key to identify you.

This is why I use Brave... Brave thwarts this fingerprint attack.

See: https://brave.com/privacy-updates/3-fingerprint-randomization/


Are you using an extension like Alby?

If not, clearing application data should do it:

1. Visit primal.net
2. Right click on page
3. Choose "inspect"
4. Find the tabs: Elements, Console, Sources .....
5. Find the Application tab (you might need to click the >> button to see more tabs)
6. In the left section, choose "Storage" inside the Application section (after Manifest and Service Workers)
7. In the main section, find "clear site data"
8. Tick all the boxes underneath the button
9. Click the clear site data button.

If you wanted to be more surgical about it, it SEEMS like they keep all their data in "localStorage" only for now.


I've also found them by seeing their content reposted (so I follow from that)

And if they are new, you can usually tell it's them by the posts they make.

Finally if it is a friend or known person, meet them face to face. That's the best way to do even Signal, SimpleX etc. too.


👆 This one.

Once you're following your POIs, it's easy to know who is a scammer.


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Why does it disgust me that the merge was done on a mobile phone?


Brag


Wait... are we not already all in on Bitcoin?


Imagine telling someone that you'd rather learn about a person through some thing like an AI than talk to the person directly yourself.

That is what saying "no sir" to nostr is like. These are just messages that have been signed and the source of the information can be whatever we want.

Could be this relay, that relay, or just a web server. 😁


The self proclaimed #Nostr CEO nostr:nprofile1qqsvrlrhw86l5sv06wkyjgs6rrcekskvk7nx8k50qn9m7mqgeqxjpvgpzdmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ue0tc48yt insists is is pronounced: no star.

I call it noss-ter like you. Meh.


PGP?


Ahhhh, more direct. I hope this catches on. I saw this flow in the readme a while back but no one really implemented it.

Then I found out Amber implemented nsec bunker and was blown away 😅.

Now if this becomes a standard, maybe signing apps can finally become "normal". It should go beyond Nostr though... a protocol to permit an app to sign ANYTHING for ANY OTHER APP OR SITE.


Nostr has no leaders. It will become a threat to those who would throw enough spam to not just annoy users, but to handicap nostr.

I'm glad the spam was a fire alarm and not a real fire, but testing the limits of nostr is not like spilling red wine on a dress intentionally.

It may feel like that to some who came out of curiousity, but then they would also jump ship when a critical mass of people joined and caused any other issue you can think of. Now or later... at least they get the experience of seeing nostr still alive a few months or years later and will give it more respect next time.

A dress is personal. It is designed to look nice and its "flaws" of being delicate is well known.

Nostr is more like an army tank. If 1mm thick steel is not enough, or if it is way less effective than assumed even, it's better to know now than later.


Such joy. Lovely 🤗.


You forgot the GM.


So like a facebook login script that people embed on their sites and now I can log in with Amber? 🤟😎


Vibin' to Logic 🎵


Is this a proposal for a new cryptocurrency or will balances need to be burned or locked to exist as CSV coins (making this a sidechain right?)


Just like you should learn basic things like: "don't carry bars of gold around in public in dangerous neighborhoods and expect not to get robbed", you will need to learn basic skills around how to use and handle bitcoin with self custody.

If you don't, then you can only ever hold paper bitcoin which could be disasterous for you. Don't understand what paper Bitcoin is? Maybe that's the first thing you should study about bitcoin. 😄


WoT you on about mate? In England, WoT don't stand for nutt'in, WoT relay is just a question... like:

WoT relay?


All I can say is - thank god he didn't say "the internet told me so"...

Well, maybe in the US, the TV may be just as bad as the internet. 😄


How I get zapped for a random post I made while just demo-ing how to "upload a picture on nostr" at a bitcoin meetup and clearly labelled it "testing" is... crazy 🤷♂

Appreciate you all 🫶.


#bitcoin. Learn it today! https://video.nostr.build/8d54d1f2e5bf5d49ca2448092500d79fb987214fe05be951108346fc4796ac10.mp4


One piece of context to add... when was this conversation had in that timeline?


GM. A little to the right 🤫 😶🌫


Only if the relay is getting reply bot spam directly to their relays.

Otherwise they could observe false positives.


Clearly a stunt to highlight the surveillance that people consent to without thought. Google does the exact same thing...

"Since we've been tracking your whereabouts, here is a timeline feature that we can now offer so you can see a record of your daily activities."


Nostr as a protocol just requires you to post a link to a video, many clients will then see that and present an embedded video player. It is all very rudamentary.

Many clients then allow you to upload files to some nostr friendly servers like nostr.build or void.cat (as two examples). Primal have their own servers to host your files.

These servers do often have size limits and maybe even file type limits.

They sometimes provide a paid option for people who wish to upload larger content, but here's the deal:

If you can upload the video to any server and link to it, then you can post your video on #Nostr. Capiche?


Under 100 blocks in the backlog 👀😎🤟


We all know that toothpaste isn't $10, how many boxes of condoms did that include? 😁


Which client?


8 hrs as per recommendations... And then a whole carton of orange juice.

https://masterofallscience.com/img/S01E07/123373.jpg


You slept with 1 too many women.


Calling it now... they want open source, but they also want the library on spotify.

Maybe a torrent based app is better suited. Like popcorn for movies.


Lol wut? 💩


What about allowing only known VPN IPs? Opposite of what other companies do.


They decide how to resolve a potential double spend. But a double spend is really when conflicting txs append to the blockchain. So validating blocks is the preventative measure.


During the validation process.

The successful miner will have validated transactions and in the case of a double spend where all conflicting transactions are still unconfirmed, the miner will have chosen one of them based on their own criteria such as fees, other associated unconfirmed transactions, and their fees. That is how a double spend is RESOLVED.

A double spend is PREVENTED when nodes validate blocks and ensure that there are no double spends present within the blockchain. If a double spend is detected, then the block is not appended to the user's blockchain and the double spend is prevented. This happens the same on all nodes across the network.


To me.


Testing https://nostrcheck.me/media/0d97beae567fcec9c6574f1c6ef6126ea969d4992c3198e51c0fac52c5274a14/a7bb73e1b1d99d44febe1af708a34be2d03bd50a9fadcce26d9b427890f424c9.webp


It was made illegal? What?


It is obviously AI voice, but it is also *chefs kiss* mwah!


Oh wait... this isn't for the Tooting meetup 🤣 so much happening! 🤘


Can't wait to come tonight. Just know that the universe has been putting obstacles in my way, but I WILL make it.


I call bullshit. Madeira never existed before Bitcoin. Heck they weren't even around to invent madeira cake.


What day is it?


Sus


Booo!


That's Bob. Bob had a sex change and now likes to be called Barbara.


Oh, that's my friend Sally.


Looks like it is warning you that it hasn't got the latest info yet and you're asking it to add a contact on top of an empty list... It is assuming that this is wrong (which it is) and avoiding the worse outcome where people start asking "I used to follow 100 people, now I follow no one?"


Been watching spy movies recently?


Didn't he say he was moving on to working on "other things"? Sure this ain't him?


The timestamps on the blocks are written by the miner that built the block.

Computers suck at time, so the time of one machine may be minutes off another, also miners could be intentionally lying in the hopes of breaking or swaying something in the Bitcoin protocol.

Fortunately, this is all accounted for in the code. Timestamps are allowed a threshold of error when an active node sees it, so that reduces massive lies, and there is also a threshold, although more forgiving, applied when nodes are validating historical blocks during bootstrapping.

Also the difficulty adjustment algo in Bitcoin relies on the timestamps, but it relies on median averages instead of mean averages because that is less susceptible to biases.

Bitcoin has us covered.


My nostr experience is pretty fine, for social media, for zaps, for keeping a private spreadsheet via sheetstr, and for blogging.

I also don't see a wave of nostr devs getting frustrated with technical debt or bad design and quitting, heck I see interest growing.

Look out the other window friend.


Is it?


Subjective.

Sometimes all you need is a bunch of sticks to prop up a thing, not a perfectly crafted table. Sometimes that bunch of sticks is more versitile.

Hey, time will tell.


Nostr started small and basic. This is what has allowed it to have so many contributors and products being built around it. This is what I call practical.

Creating an open network that everyone can use at scale is hard, spam has never beem solved at the protocol level.


You say poorly, I say practically.

You say devs are lazy, I agree.

Then without any facts or leading arguments... conspiracy theory.


What? Why would it need an API? All nostr data is public and searchable by connecting to a few relays no?


Looking to build your own nostr:nprofile1qqs09jtvjlmyrxjn37zv70a89csegcz7rpyqjmnw29cveedhv7vagqqpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqz9rhwden5te0wfjkccte9ejxzmt4wvhxjmcpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejs92xe5k ? Ask for the Rabbit this Saturday 21st at BE YOUR OWN BANK
https://video.nostr.build/c9412b6b929c096d2f903996ab18a4fc4b4eb540dd1f529810441f777812d016.mp4
#orangemarket #london #followthewhiterabbit #bitcoin #beyourownbank #nostr #plebchain


I keep looking for tor options and only see orbot. You tease sir.


This makes me bearish. It's such a dumb justification.

Sure 1% doesn't sound like much, but some people have a few million worth of assets, and some have a trillion in oil and other assets. These people are not going to put 1% of 1 trillion into Bitcoin.

So I guess we're stuck at 58k for a while longer then. 🙃


Funny thing is that centralised servers are better, but it is a mission for them too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY_2gElt3SA


Welcome to the illuminati. https://nostrcheck.me/media/0d97beae567fcec9c6574f1c6ef6126ea969d4992c3198e51c0fac52c5274a14/294a73ce36552449284c54c622c3d18e60ff9dfabbd32ee88f96cef7909102b3.webp


I see v1 and v2, what changed in v3 amd v4?


I prefer zap polls, so I won't be participating in that poll. 😎


How were you allegedly "disturbing the peace"?


Are we getting badges?! 👀😄


nostr:nprofile1qqsw3znfr6vdnxrujezjrhlkqqjlvpcqx79ys7gcph9mkjjsy7zsgygpr9mhxue69uhhqatjv9mxjerp9ehx7um5wghxcctwvsq3samnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwdehhxarjd93kztnrdaksz9thwden5te0wfjkccte9ekk7um5wgh8qatz7tvu4p where can I read about the various updates to the OpenDime if we are at v4?


Wen 1M shmeckels bottom?
https://masterofallscience.com/img/S01E05/721888.jpg


The first Women of Bitcoin UK meetup has been announced for Wednesday 2nd of October.

It will be taking place in London. 6-8pm https://image.nostr.build/aaef5527039a49c5ca9f54c40ba3aaae324eb6869bbf2e6d51cf207e0a167353.jpg


The art of sending a short message across bullshit corporate channels. 🤗


You can do more things on a technology that you can control. Also "tokens" is just a side hustle way to raise money from anyone globally without following laws from the countries that you are unknowingly raising money from. It will come back and bite you in the arse, even if you exit before it all comes down, there are records to track you down as an afterthought.

Bitcoin is actual innovation. Crypto is just doing illegal things in a different way because people don't know how to reason about it yet. And you may also think it is legal and above board, but the risk you are taking is probably not fully considered.

Because no one owns or controls Bitcoin, it is really hard to build on it. It is very academic actually. We have to obey the laws of Bitcoin, much the same way that scientists need to obey the laws of physics.

Everything else is virtual, and look, bitcoin made people think that something virtual could be real, but that doesn't mean anything virtual can be real.

Photographs showed that pictures could capture something real, but not everything in a picture is real.

So be careful, tokenomics is raising money illegally and crypto is controlled systems that can and will be shutdown if they do not fail or cripple by themselves.


Hi. Welcome! 🎉


This is the way


Nothing. Probably a scam.

If someone is going to take a real crack at decentralised identity systems, maybe prove it before generating hype with buzz words.


Thank you disrespector. I will do better next time 😇


Let's make #Nostr fix this.

https://youtu.be/OEXJmNj6SPk?feature=shared


Hello Nostr!

This npub will now be a primary outlet for Bisq news and announcements.

New posts will be published here and then cross-posted to the bisq_network X handle.

Decommissioning X will be considered when this npub has more followers.

https://image.nostr.build/d22f07d646197146e2366f581046c3578d6cb90a9524212d076a2571840d91cc.jpg


Okay, nevermind, I found the ecash token string and "received" it and got the balance.

There should be a retry button on this page IMO.


Don't overthink it. How would you secure some gold nuggets worth $5,000?

Do that for your cold storage.

Unless you live in a rough neighborhood or near one, you don't need to over secure. Sometimes that will lead to bad behaviours that compromise the security and makes it worse.

If you have a lot, then you should consider more advanced solutions using multisig, but don't rush into bad security. It's better to secure a little well, than to lose a lot because you rushed.


It is a scammer. A bot impersonating someone who has a popular podcast.

Block and move on.


nostr:nprofile1qqs2sqvyjfcqh2sls4lgsrc3nchwpr2yq3hwta5gstk36qrmev4zpjcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhs3m7cvy it hurts when I fail to receive a zap. Can I get some help here?

https://nostrcheck.me/media/0d97beae567fcec9c6574f1c6ef6126ea969d4992c3198e51c0fac52c5274a14/6e641027c46954a6b1422608eae479fce396fed3272be1ddc74010bdfddbe771.webp


GM.

We all know what the unobservable value of #Bitcoin is.
 https://image.nostr.build/f959831b6d8001592b60bbdf2b698e9c6c7efd9c592037e9cbc9af1caf1dad2d.jpg


You have a website?


Your beard upkeep and grooming techniques.


Oh wait, BIP47, I was thinking about silent payments ( https://silentpayments.xyz/docs/explained/ , https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0352.mediawiki ) which IMO is an upgrade to that.

Well, it removes the "connect" step which costs one tx fee and adds data to the blockchain.


Sender can of course see the payment and can follow it wherever it goes from there.

Other observers just see donators sending funds to an unknown address randomly. Avoid asking for fixed amounts because you can always guestimate based on amounts.

When/if you spend funds together, you WILL reveal the connection to everyone's payments and COMPLETELY break sender privacy, putting your donors at risk. You MUST coin-join them first to avoid this.

Imagine a donor is known to be a supporter of yours. I track his payments and see one that looks like a donation based on amount, I send a donation myself around the same time. I later see a coin-join with both our payments. How many of those inputs could have also been donations that I could trace back to other identities? Is it finite enough to pursue?

It isn't perfect, Lightning is better IMO for private donations.

It could still hide a lot of your donations. Imagine you receive £1M over 1 mo from many small donations. Maybe we track known donors, but you only use money as you need it so we can't see everything.

It is only when you move donations that we can see anything useful and even then, only if you do something silly like consolidate them without coin-join and then withdraw it from coinbase.

It certainly isn't perfect, but it does feel more like cash-like privacy where it is inconvenient to track people and often fruitless, but if you are highly motivated, there will be breadcrumbs.

AFAIK, you must run a node to receive donations privately this way, I may be wrong about that, but you need to scan and query the blockchain quite intensively to find your payments because there is no XPUB afaik.


Well, there's the upward, but then when you come back down, you also have a branching out effect that worsens the ability to fit everyone in.


This is why it's so goddamn hard to illustrate a family tree of any reasonable size!


Yeah, so we need a nip to introduce expiry dates. Maybe it already exists, and then a client that makes it the core feature.


Gm


But.. #FREEROSS


... the wallet that the funds are on?

I once had to transfer from WoS, which is expensive, so I transferred to Phoenix Wallet first.

My only gripe is that they resize your channel so I had to buy back the liquidity... still cheaper than WoS


More like this am I right? 😅 https://image.nostr.build/f959831b6d8001592b60bbdf2b698e9c6c7efd9c592037e9cbc9af1caf1dad2d.jpg

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Teehee


What else do we need? How about sitting on the toilet face forcing out a tough one?


GM.

I'm seeing diverse non-orange-coin (and non-political) content on #Nostr. Bullish on this.


The first movie I saw where I planned to watch it again immediately after the movie ended.

I need to watch it again now. Classic.


Dunno but... follow meeeee! 😅


Now yer talkin'


I don't get it. I thought she was a well researched individual with proof.

I feel like her book probably is full of what ifs and no proofs now. I never read it, but from the interviews, I assumed she had based her statements on evidence but always took them with a pinch of salt.

I just don't think she could possibly have enough evidence to back her claims here.

Its also very vague and wishy washy and uses buzz words like "Epstien"... is epstein the center of EVERYTHING bad and evil in the world??!


I guess clients will need to query as anon/a couple of your followers to confirm for you and show a health status next to your posts.


If you can create an account, it is not private.


This is everything right here.

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Shit. Is Luna back?! Luna 3.0?


This is an awesome demonstration about what outbox is about and how it works.

My only question is... how does one learn that they are being censored?

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Nah, Bitcoin isn't stuck here on #nostr. It's already at a #millino here.


Yeah but not the same. The product has a gold clip that goes around the ear and although the angle is off, it looks purposeful that the angle is off. There is no glimpse of the gold clip and the earrings look like they would be in the way if there was a clip.


Is it when you give someone your autograph and accidentally sign over your bank account?


Erm... haven't you heard?


What madness is this?


So is apple pay. What's your point? Not everything is about trustless bitcoin.


What is blooming?


Oh, worse still, the cash isn't even sent once the animation ends... ecash FTW.


This looks cool, but I can hand you a dollar much faster.

Animations need to be fast. This is just boring but maybe it is slow to give the initial wow factor.


How/Why does this thing randomly find posts and reapond when it wasn't invited to?


What is a whitepill?


It really takes only a simple statement like this to push the needle forward. I was honestly like "cool, but meh" until you said that and now my interest has piqued.


I forgot, that was where we were a week ago 😅


Sure, my feedback so far is:

1. If you can, be upfront about delivery options per product so I don't need to add to cart and register in order to find out.

2. Consider a no registration flow, Bitcoiners don't like to see their data such as email, address, name, order history, stored on someone else's servers when they don't need to be. In fact if things like communicating my address could be e2e encrypted with the merchant, that would be awesome. Not exactly a standard feature but very common on decentralised and privacy preserving platforms.

Also, different people have different visions of what decentralisation provides. What does it mean to you?


Sure, my feedback so far is:

1. If you can, be upfront about delivery options per product so I don't need to add to cart and register in order to find out.

2. Consider a no registration flow, Bitcoiners don't like to see their data such as email, address, name, order history, stored on someone else's servers when they don't need to be. In fact if things like address could be e2e encrypted with the merchant, that would be awesome. Not exactly a standard feature but very common on decentralised and privacy preserving platforms.

Also, different people have different visions of what decentralisation provides. What does it mean to you?


That's Dr. CW?


How does shipping work? Do you ship to UK? And why do I need an account?


Inscriptions and ordinals.


Ah, now that we have you here, allow us to inspect your anus or we will lock you out of your online access.

Of course, purely optional. 🤗

😡


nostr:nprofile1qqs83nn04fezvsu89p8xg7axjwye2u67errat3dx2um725fs7qnrqlgpzdmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ue0e2p4dj is it possible to show only apps that your app installed in the updates page? Maybe with an optoon to toggle "show from other sources".

Some updates can't update because they came from another source


Fr fr?


I prefer the look of the Ten31 hat, but I would prefer a Bitcoin hat (but think that one is not so great).


That's super cool though. 🔥🔥🔥

I have been working just on my extended family for about a year and I have set up my first family bitcoin meetup.

I invited my 14yo cousin who's dad is actually into bitcoin. Her first response was exactly that: "I don't know if I am old enough to learn that" and she looked at her dad who said "of course."

I also replied: "are you too young to learn maths?!" 😅

I am using the meetup to explain private keys and help everyone set up a password manager where the master password will be a BIP32 seed phrase so they can practice looking after a private key.


Did the guy even care about what 21k was worth? Sounds like a bitcoiner to me if not.

You never cared about the paper, you paid what you wanted for paper that you were never going to cash in, you paid to celebrate someone's enthusiasm and friendliness. You didn't get scammed. Even if they were worth €1.00.


Bitcoin is building an ant hill right now. That's nice.

https://image.nostr.build/90bb100a10eba2a65c17e292af87d0507eda56d030e9526daf6476b2227d0553.jpg


Random brain fart: it is good that there are physical restraints limiting how much reach someone can have in meatspace. It gives space for respect and consent.

Maybe we should have a way to impose proof of work onto any comms to us. Updates to a software we use? Don't bother me right now, come to me after proving how important it is for me by doing the work.

Is it bad to make companies work to reach us? Would it make them put more effort into spam and less into real signal?

Maybe I should stop thinking for a while.


Oh wait, I thought you were being sarcastic. I was concerned when I saw zaps for the poster and none for you, but then I saw that YOU sent them 🤣


Don't they call them fries?


We're all the life of the party. It's them losers that don't get it that don't know how to have fun. Breaking people out of the matrix is a thankless job.


Feels like a non decision to me.


This thing is savage 💀


impersonating jack dorsey and sending people to private chats.


Sounds like they took the third option of the two and it kinda makes sense.


My point is that this would be a UX feature but not a security feature.

Also it was never a security feature on Snapchat or Instagram anyway. Those companies can always see your posts even after they expire.


What do you envision. Typically you share something and people stop looking at it as it dissapears over time. This is natural on Nostr.

Instagram has an advantage of providing access control: only certain people can see it.

That gives the time element a bit more exclusivisity.

Also, since cryptography has no concept of time, this is the only way to do this but nostr is a cryptographic protocol, not a man gated platform.

We can create clients that simulate the behaviour which is probably what whatsapp does. It could allow you to set an expiry date and clients will ignore the post after that.

Does that work for you?


Hola


secp256k1 is the cryptographic algorithm that we use to derive private keys. That sign is the mathematical formula plotted on a graph.

To see how it works, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF1pwjL9-DE&t=195


Want.


When I win 3.125 #Bitcoin (minus fees), everyone who likes and boosts this post gets 1 million sats.

To decentralizing the hashrate, one BitAxe at a time!

😎

https://image.nostr.build/7e46885aac58ff0695ad7d44957ea542268f13045816e0a73f346ed3f064276b.jpg


It is no longer actively maintained as per its readme. It does receive security updates, but I can imagine it will eventually lose that too and time is ticking. I would keep away IMO.

What are you using it for? Isn't a password manager good enough?


The federal reserve is a cartel of private banks.


Digging nostr:npub1ej493cmun8y9h3082spg5uvt63jgtewneve526g7e2urca2afrxqm3ndrm 's description of CTV and basically covenants in general:

Every transaction without covenants can be spent with a signature, CTLV put restrictions on that, so that signatures could not override a mandated delay.

Covenants in general restrict funds in such a way that signatures cannot override them.

Gonna sleep on that one.


Just asked my dad how many r's raspberry has, he said 1, then 2. Then when I said 3 he said oh.

Then I read the last bit and he didn't think about strawberry.

To be fair, I have a visual cue, he was blind.

Just saying that our brains are just as fallable as AI.


Native Nostr.


El Zonte 🔥🔥🔥


Lfg!
https://image.nostr.build/c426b79fa1d505f019f71ab3c12fe7fada080267836e0d3adbb5455c4ac6c0ea.jpg


Request... don't hide follows.

Actually, I almost feel like if you follow someone, just hide anything by anyone using the same name.

I don't want fake nostr:nprofile1qqsgydql3q4ka27d9wnlrmus4tvkrnc8ftc4h8h5fgyln54gl0a7dgspz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0wd68ytnsw43qz9rhwden5te0wfjkccte9ejxzmt4wvhxjmcpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqwqfq9k's DMs 💀.


Which ones?


Because then you aren't working and if you're not working, then who is paying the taxes?


Shit. Reply guy is winning??? 💀


Shit is about to get real 😎

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They've banned themselves from half the planet. At this point I'm sure they do care a bit about being banned.


No one. Technical analysis exists only to make you look smart so you can sell courses and memberships.

And of course if you get through it all, you either give up because it is too hard, or start selling courses to fund your ability to continue in the hopes you will get it.


I was expecting it to just end with... "and it's called a book".

😉


Makes sense IMO, it was just gossip 😁.

Twitter would prefer that info more probably.


This is interesting and worth getting into more.

The general consensus is that inflation doesn't present itself until we have more money chasing fewer goods, but this is a different angle that indirectly supports the "greedy retail companies" idea.

I think it conflicts with my world view right now.


I fucking knew it and I'm pretty sure you denied it time ago on reddit 😅.


#asknostr
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Cool, kinda stupid, but cool.


Today, hot smartphone wallets save your private keys in the secure element at rest, but pull it out to sign in the normal environment where malware can get access to it.

This is necessary because these secure chips can't do secp256k1 natively.

So I know private keys can't be kept locked in your phone's secure element today, but your phone CAN do challenge response with other cryptographic algos.

I'm just thinking out loud, but with taproot, can't we create addresses that use another algo that is not secp256k1 to embed a challenge into the spending conditions for your address that the smartphone CAN protect and sign with securely?

This way we have funds in a wallet that is a bit better than hot. It is in a secure element which is used to secure other things like your password manager and other things.

Possibly then we can also create modified XPUBs using your private key's public key and this other pubic key that relates to the secret used by your phone.

Overall, I'm thinking a new type of wallet that has 2 keys: your bitcoin key, and an adaptor key. You need both to spend funds, the algorithms are all standard public ones, we get the assurance that secp256k1 provides that it isn't secured by a potentially compromised NIST algo, but also the convenience that it is partially secured by a NIST algo that popular smartphones can secure.

Is this possible or a dumb idea?


Apple is open source?


Nostr looks like a small town, but it's a whole country. Using filters and blocks and other tools will help you see the forrest for the trees.

I think https://www.nos.social/ has been touted as a safe place on nostr, but I haven't used it myself.

Regarding Odell saying "stay humble stack sats", I mean, someone yells something into the wind and you take it personally, I think that's all you.

If you were here first, you might have complained that no one is here, but instead you're complaining that the people here are one type of crowd.

A crowd doesn't diversify by itself, we need people to bring their friends, build communities and then those communities will naturally blend and build walls where necessary.

So you can leave, that's fine, you are just opting to NOT lead the way for your people. You are always welcome to come back when someone else does.


Yes exactly.


Hmm, technically the BitKey is much more complex behind the scenes but I know what you mean.

The "setup" is done for you and you get a wallet on your phone without dealing with keys, seed words, xpubs etc. This is the benefit of using an opinionated product: you don't need to make decisions... but most Bitcoiners appreciate optionality because the whole space is constantly changing and we want to test and play with it all.

But then again, here is how I see your situation: the order of steps in your description was not ideal so here's my take:

1. Set up the ColdCard (as you have done already).
2. Go to export your wallet and choose the QR Code option instead of export to file. (See https://coldcard.com/docs/q-quick/#export-wallet)
3. On Sparrow, click File > Import Wallet
4. Click the Scan button near ColdCard
5. Present the ColdCard device to the webcam.
6. Follow instructions to complete setup on Sparrow.

By now you have linked the device and Sparrow without using SD Cards and making too many decisions like "did I pick the right file?".

Now you can generate an address, copy it and paste into the site I linked above and buy Bitcoin.

--------

FYI even BitKey uses third party services to buy Bitcoin, it lets you choose between Coinbase and Moonpay if I recall and you need to register with whichever one you choose.

If this doesn't simplify it enough for you, you need the BitKey, I don't know any other product in the market that is opinionated like that.

I think in the past they existed, but they were either unpopular or hard to maintain technically. Maybe it was also to do with the changing landscape of regulations. Now apps try to stick to being wallets, and tried to be less opinionated about subjective things like "which company should I buy Bitcoin from?"


https://changelly.com/buy

Have a look at this, it looks like you can submit a bitcoin address to pay to and then make the payment for a 1 step purchase to cold wallet.

The only pre-step would be to get an address to send to. Is that the part you're scared of?


"Add trusted relays..."

This is the main sticking point for me, which should I trust?

Your guide spells so much out, but let's at least ask, if you get this bit wrong, how much have we wasted our time and energy?


No. We code because it is how we can express our thoughts and ideas.

We don't really get in due to money and those who do rarely do well... maybe they become managers before they get found out 😅.


If you're using Android, then I use nostr:nprofile1qqswacu3amp428kj8wtpqf77yd2upukcn2ft4aycmxm5scmh359e0ssprpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuendwsh8w6t69e3xj730ttrpv9 and #Amethyst by nostr:nprofile1qqsyvrp9u6p0mfur9dfdru3d853tx9mdjuhkphxuxgfwmryja7zsvhqpzamhxue69uhhv6t5daezumn0wd68yvfwvdhk6tcpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctcscpyug.

Amber can also act as a remote signer on some websites. Snort.social is one.

So keys in one place, on your smartphone but you can still use nostr on your laptop or desktop.


Lol. "He's talking to millions of people without oversight or regulation. This has to stop"

So. Now it is illegal to speak freely.


Feels like running a bitcoin node on your phone and never using anyone else's node for anything...

But the outbox model breaks this no?


Oh, this one 😅


Erm, what poll? I have amethyst...


December 2013, still this guy was spot on.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=375643.0


It's a mispelling of the word hold that someone had typed in a drunk forum post.

People liked it, it became a bit of a meme and now it is part of culture to say hodl instead of hold when talking about bitcoin.


I see your like, it seems to have worked just fine.