# A Declaration of Separation

## To The Governments & People of Earth:

We claim the right to exist, and we will defend it. We do not seek to overthrow anything. We do not seek to control anything. We/merely wish to be left alone.

All we ever wanted was to live in peace with our friends and neighbors. For a long, long time we bore insults to our liberty; we took blows, we did what we could to avoid injury and we worked through the system to get the offenses to stop. That has now changed.

We no longer see any benefit in working through the world?s systems. At some point, working within a system becomes cowardly and immoral; for us, that point has arrived.

Regardless of the parties in power, their governments have continued to restrict, restrain and punish us. We hereby reject them all. We hereby withdraw from them all. We hold the ruling states of this world and all that appertains to them to be self-serving and opposed to humanity. We now withdraw our obedience and reclaim the right to strike back when struck. We will not initiate force, but we do reserve the right to answer it. We did not choose this ? it was forced upon us.

## To The Governments of Earth:

You are building cages for all that is human. In the name of protection, you have intruded into all areas of human life, far exceeding the reach of any Caesar. You claim ultimate control of our property and our decisions, of our travels and even our identities. You claim ownership of humanity far beyond the dreams of any Emperor of any previous era.

Understand clearly: We reject your authority and we reject your legitimacy. We do not believe that you have any right to do the things you do. You have massive power, but no right to impose it upon us and no legitimacy. We have forsaken you. We are no longer your citizens or your subjects. Your systems are inherently anti-human, even if all their operators are not. We are not merely angry young people. We are fathers and mothers; aunts, uncles and grandparents; we are business owners and trusted employees; we are mechanics and engineers and farmers. We are nurses and accountants and students and executives.

We are on every continent.

This is not a burst of outrage; this is a sober declaration that we no longer accept unearned suffering as our role in life.

For long decades we sat quietly, hoping that things would turn around. We took no actions; we suffered along with everyone else. But after having our limits pushed back again and again, we have given up on your systems. If our fellow inhabitants of this planet wish to accept your rule, they are free to do so.

We will not try to stop them. We, however, will no longer accept your constraints upon us.

From now on, when you hurt us, we will bite back. If you leave us alone we will leave you alone and you can continue to rule your subjects. We are happy to live quietly. But if you come after us, there will be consequences. You caused this because of your fetish for control and power. The chief men and women among you are pathologically driven to control everyone and everything that moves upon this planet. You have made yourselves the judge of every human activity. No god-king of the ancient world ever had the power that your systems do.

You have created a world where only the neutered are safe and where only outlaws are free.

## To The People of Earth:

We seek nothing from you. We do not want to rule you and we do not want to control you.

All we wish is to live on earth in peace. As always, we will be helpful neighbors and generous acquaintances. We will remain honest business partners and trustworthy employees. We will continue to be loving parents and respectful children.

We will not, however, be sacrificial animals. We reject the idea that others have a right to our lives and our property. We will not demand anything from you, and we will no longer acquiesce to any demands upon us. We have left that game. We reject all obligations to any person or organization beyond honesty, fair dealing and a respect for human life.

We will shortly explain what we believe, but we are not demanding that you agree with us. All we ask is that you do not try to stop us. Continue to play the game if you wish; we will not try to disrupt it. We have merely walked away from it.

We wish you peace.

## To Those Who Will Condemn Us:

We will ignore you.

We welcome and seek the verdict of a just God, before whom we are willing to expose our innermost thoughts. Are you similarly willing? We would stand openly before all mankind if it were not suicidal. Perhaps some day we will have to accept slaughter for our crime of independence, but not yet.

Your criticism and your malice are much deeper than mere disagreements of strategy or philosophy. You do not oppose our philosophy, you oppose our existence. Our presence in the world means that your precious ideals are false. Some of you would rather kill us than face the loss of your ideologies, just as those like you have either hated or killed every sufficiently independent human.

You present yourselves to the world as compassionate, tolerant and enlightened, but we know that your smooth words are costumes. Oh yes, we know you, servant of the state; don't forget, we were raised with you. We played with you in the schoolyard, we sat next to you in the classroom. Some of us studied at the same elite universities. We watched as you had your first tastes of power. We were the boys and girls standing next to you. Some of us were your first victims. We are not fooled by your carefully crafted public image.

## What We Believe

1: Many humans resent the responsibilities that are implied by consciousness. We accept those responsibilities and we embrace consciousness. Rather than letting things happen to us (avoiding consciousness), we accept consciousness and choose to act in our own interest. We do not seek the refuge of blaming others, neither do we take refuge in crowds. We are willing to act on our personal judgment, and we are willing to accept the consequences thereof.

2: We believe in negative rights for all: That all humans should be free to do whatever they wish, as long as they do not intrude upon others; that no man has a right to the life, liberty or property of another; that we oppose aggression, fraud and coercion.

3: We do not believe that our way of life, or any other, will make life perfect or trouble-free. We expect crime and disagreements and ugliness, and we are prepared to deal with them. We do not seek a strongman to step in and solve problems for us. We agree to see to them ourselves.

4: We believe in free and unhindered commerce. So long as exchanges are voluntary and honest, no other party has a right to intervene before, during or after.

5: We believe that all individuals should keep their agreements.

6: We believe that honestly obtained property is fully legitimate and absolute.

7: We believe that some humans are evil and that they must be faced and dealt with. We accept the fact that this is a difficult area of life.

8: We believe that humans can self-organize effectively. We expect them to cooperate. We reject impositions of hierarchy and organization.

9: We believe that all humans are to be held as equals in all matters regarding justice.

10: We believe that the more a man or woman cares about right and wrong, the more of a threat he or she is perceived to be by governments.

11: We believe that there are only two true classes of human beings: Those who wish to exercise power upon others either directly or through intermediaries and those who have no such desires.

12: Large organizations and centralization are inherently anti-human. They must rely upon rules rather than principles, treating humans within the organization as obedient tools.

## Our Plans:

(We are building our own society. We will supplement traditional tools with networking, cryptography, sound money, digital currency and anonymous messaging. Our society will not be centrally controlled. It will rely solely
on voluntary arrangements.

We welcome others to join us. We are looking for people who are independent creators of value, people who act more than talk, and people who do the right thing because it is the right thing.

We will develop our own methods of dealing with injustice, built on the principles of negative rights, restitution, integrity and equal justice. We do not forbid anyone from having one foot in each realm - ours and the old realm - although we demand that they do no damage to our realm. We are fully opposed to any use of our realm to facilitate crime in the old realm, such as the hiding of criminal proceeds.

We expect to be loudly condemned, libeled and slandered by the authorities of the old regime. We expect them to defend their power and their image of legitimacy with all means available to them. We expect that many gullible and servile people will believe these lies, at least at first. We will consider traps laid for us to be criminal offenses. Any who wish to join us are encouraged to distribute this declaration, to act in furtherance of our new society, to voluntarily excel in virtues and to communicate and cooperate with other members of the new society.

Free, unashamed men cannot be ruled.

# We are The Free and The Unashamed.


I used to use whirlpool CLI too. Now I use Sparrow Headless for this exact use case.


Good memories are the best presents.


I offend. Therefore I am.


This looks like a suburban hellscape


#Bitcoin meetups for the week ahead in the UK 🇬🇧 & Ireland 🇮🇪

Week 4

22nd - 28th February

- Canterbury/Kent
- Leamington Spa
- Berkshire
- Manchester
- Essex
- Edinburgh

All you need to know: 👇🏼

⚡Canterbury/Kent

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You’ll find them at The Millers Arms on Tuesday 23rd at 7pm.

https://x.com/kentbitcoin/status/1734557271315595494

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⚡Leamington Spa

Leamington Spa Bitcoin will be at The White Horse on Wednesday the 24th for their monthly meetup. Join them at 7pm.

http://t.me/leambitcoin

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⚡Berkshire

The Berkshire crew will be at the Volunteer in Theale on Thursday 25th January 7.00pm.

https://x.com/bitcoinshire/status/1743965628333961269

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⚡Manchester

On the 25th it’s nostr:npub1w2d0xngltuu86yn0jfak23sty9xwnu6kwudswpdrhtxydwnhjslq60jesu turn. Join them at The Smithfield Market Tavern, 7pm.

https://btcmap.org/community/bitcoin-manchester

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⚡Essex

It’s Bitcoin Essex on the 25th also. Reach out to them on their Telegram group or on Twitter/X. t.me/bitcoinessex

https://x.com/btcessex/status/1748236265802141913

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⚡Edinburgh

Every SATurday nostr:npub1jr8sgwrpuk66n9evk76jnfd6wxept4k3uv2vwjw42fhvzvl3mdes38wwnw trek around Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh and talk #Bitcoin

Join them this week at 12pm

https://bitcoinwalk.org/

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🔗The Bitcoin Festival is a new grassroots mini conference happening this April in Nottingham, UK https://www.bitcoinnottingham.org/bitcoin-football-festival/

🔗For a list of all the meetups in the UK and Ireland visit our website for details on how to join them. https://bitcoinevents.uk

🔗Check out our map to easily find your nearest. https://bitcoinevents.uk/uk-bitcoin-meetup-map/

🔗Join our Telegram channel for info on all the latest meetups https://t.me/BitcoinEventsUKHub

#bitcoinmeetup #bitcoinevent


Investing in #Bitcoin  feels like planting a seed in a digital garden, and watching it grow into a thriving ecosystem. 🌱  http://res.cloudinary.com/dfdwyn5dh/image/upload/v1700622514/a6enmqgresswdnbkofjh.jpg


As a project, GrapheneOS continues to grow with exceptionally loyal users, and it is easy to understand.

We are not some hobby or experimental OS. We are a work of (almost) 10 years of mobile and Android security research, with paid developers, members from many branches of computer and security expertise and volunteer moderators. Everything GrapheneOS has and will implement is added to target the current threat landscape, and is designed to combat real threats. Our security developments aren't to combat irrelevant, baseless 'what-if' scenarios or create easily attacked obscurity tactics and security theater features. We are not scammers who rely on telling you that you'll be "bulletproof" or "untraceable" unlike what came before GrapheneOS.

We are not some average AOSP distribution simply taking the Android base, piling other apps or flawed, insecure additions and treating them as our features. This is not innovation. GrapheneOS changes the AOSP base from all levels, hardening the most exploited components or replacing them with extra secure alternatives that we maintain or have even developed from the ground up. Projects like Hardened Malloc, Vanadium, Camera app and PDF viewer are some users will reap the benefits of in their day to day lives. Other OS's taking such work shows how valuable this work has been.

GrapheneOS is one of the only open-source projects to trailblaze mobile security, from implementing a lock screen bypass fix before Google, reporting numerous security vulnerabilities including ones used by companies attempting to attack us, and adding enhancements upstream to numerous open source projects. GrapheneOS is the first and still the only platform to have ARM hardware Memory Tagging Extensions implemented in production with the Pixel 8 and also the only browser in production when counting Vanadium as well. If you look at the project's socials for this, you will see additions like these have been planned years beforehand.

The foresight the project has for what we should implement should tell you what the experience and skills of the team members are. GrapheneOS is here to stay, and the work done will be around to stay even longer. Even if you don't use the OS you have reaped benefits of the work. It's never too late to understand what you are missing out.

#GrapheneOS


Naughtiness…🤣🤣 https://image.nostr.build/9c55d3b3d72c316018657426e47867910def97159bf0ecfba93bfa93df113e06.jpg


It is impossible to bring down the entire internet. What is possible is to get the centralised entities, your Virgin Medias and Verizons, to block access to their customers. The internet continues, therefore Bitcoin continues.


Thank you for your protection

https://www.firstdirect.com/help/bank-accounts/payments-and-transfers/cryptocurrency


There are folk out there who put their cash into a USD etf instead of just holding the cash?


Its like hospitals. Empty hospital do not make for good business. Nor does having a bunch of soldiers sat around doing nothing.


That's hawt


Just looking at the mempool, sending onchain. My money, my choice of fees, my validation through my node.
My freedom
Our freedom
This is the way 🤙
#Bitcoin🔥


Do it! Grab yourself an old refurb dell or lenovo office desktop, easily less than £100, stick a new ssd in it and give it a whirl!

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Stop funding Cloudflare!

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Appreciate you giving it a go buddy.


https://open.spotify.com/show/6Xtjo7TBSNo5uPmmM9kVnY

My #audiobook is available on #Spotify , its included in your premium subscription if you have one


I needed these today. The universe has provided.

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I always walk away from the crowd, even if that means I end up alone. The crowd is boring.


ZBD too


If the state is the problem, is his solution a one world government?


I wear two Lakhovsky bands. The energy effect if them is palpable. My arm was like an energy antenna when I visited the pyramids in Teohuatican.


Bidets are the business


I AM CALLING FOR ALL BITCOINERS WITH BALLS, FOR MASS CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE OF 2024 AND ONGOING !

Today I have 4 entire years of TOTAL civil disobedience and more than 8 years of not paying any taxes to thieves !

If I was able to do it, you can do it too!

Oh, you don't know what is "civil disobedience" ?
Here is a TLDR:
- do not comply with any request from a government. I mean ANYTHING. Just ignore what they say.
- do not pay any taxes. Simply reply to their requests with a letter of conditional acceptance. If you don't know what is conditional acceptance, read and learn.
- do not go to vote any politician. FUCK'EM'ALL
- if you work for a public institution (people's money): quit that job and start doing a private contracting. Accept, ONLY Bitcoin as form of payment. Demand to be paid in Bitcoin !
- withdraw all your money from any bank and convert them to Bitcoin. Don't be a pussy DCAing...
- use only Bitcoin. Who still have fiat money and bank account open is a fucking pussy slave.
- buy only from merchants that accept Bitcoin.
- create around you that Bitcoin circular economy

IT'S ABOUT SENDING A MESSAGE AND NOT ABOUT GETTING RICH...

https://i.postimg.cc/Kz3vS74B/darth-cbdc-compliance.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/cLvhR9RZ/darth-freedom.jpg


Good morning!

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


Thank you buddy. I tried to zap you for such a fantastic answer but couldn't. Drop me an invoice for 420 SATs please.


Heat alone can't dismantle the water molecules into atoms.


I still don't get the how. A pan has a hot surface at the bottom and the water touching the bottom of the pan turns to steam, OK that's cool. The steam water molecules are moving so fast and with so much energy they push the water out of the way, but surely the gap that is created by the pushing is a vacuum no?


Thank you for answering my question. I appreciate the input.


When water is boiling, where do the air bubbles come from?

#asknostr


You pick. The first step is always the hardest when going down a new road. Pick the step that is easiest for you to conquer. Conquer that then pick the next easiest step for you.

Everyone's first step will be a different one.


Take one of these steps to up your privacy game. Just one.

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Its all debt funded actually


So there is a small sliver of justice in the world.


When you need help with using #Bitcoin, don't turn to ChatGPT.

I've got you covered. 😎

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

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

(From @BitcoinShopBiz on Twitter: https://x.com/BitcoinShopBiz/status/1745771775621787921 )


Those damned fact checkers


I'm lucky if my bank balance gets over £1000at any point in the month. #TheStruggleIsReal


Kinda like being asked should I fuck myself with a cuecumber or a banana. Either way you gonna get shafted dude.


Smile, and the world smiles with you. You really do have the power within you to forge your own reality.


My skin type is tough.


The inverter will need to deal with the peak load when the freezer starts up each time. Fridges and freezers don't require a steady load.


Smells like winning to me.


What about my purple velvet pimp daddy suit? Could I get away with that?


Ahhh the old 3.11


Me and the Nostr fam stackin sats and sending notes while the rest of the world is falling apart https://video.nostr.build/e88b98e6371b64f6a291d370a07765d9faa6d567875391d2824a8ebba5f573aa.mp4


Over the last few months it feels the bitcoin community has gotten more and more jaded on lightning. To be honest, this is for good reason, back in 2017 we were promised a decentralized payment network that would always have cheap payments and everyone would be able to run their own node. Nowadays, the average lightning user actually isn't using lightning, they are just using a custodial wallet and the few of that do run lightning nodes often find it a burdensome task. For us at Mutiny Wallet, we are trying to make this better by creating a lightweight self-custodial wallet and in my opinion we have been executing on that dream fairly well. In this post, I'll analyze these issues and present a new way to view lightning and what that means for bitcoin going forward.

First and foremost one of the hardest UX challenges of lightning is channel liquidity. No other payment system has these problems today besides lightning so this often confuses lots of users. To make matters worse, there aren't any practical hacks that we can do to get around this. Muun Wallet used an on-chain wallet + submarine swaps to get around the channel liquidity problem, this worked very well until fees went up and everyone realized it wasn't actually a lightning wallet. The better solution is JIT liquidity like we do in Mutiny or splicing like that is done in Phoenix. These solutions abstract some of it away but not enough, we often get support questions confused on why some payments have fees and others do not. The fact is channel liquidity is not a usable UX for most end users.

The other major pain point of lightning is the offline receive problem. Inherently, you must be online with your private keys to sign and claim a payment. There is technically an ongoing spec proposal to be able to work around this (essentially creating a notification system of when people are online to receive payments), but it doesn't solve the fundamental problem and still has limitations. There has been a few attempts to get around this, most notably was Zeus Pay lightning addresses. These essentially worked by just creating stuck payments and waited for the user to come online to claim, this caused a ton of problems for people and even forced us at Mutiny to block users from paying them because it caused so many force closures. This is a hard problem because the entire rest of the bitcoin/crypto ecosystem works by just copy-paste an address and you can send to it whenever, there isn't caveats around asking your friend to open their wallet. This is further exacerbated by things like lightning address that requires a webserver to even get an invoice in the first place.

Channel liquidity and offline receives in my opinion are the two most obvious reasons why self-custodial lightning is not popular. When most users hear about any of these, they just think screw that and move to a custodial wallet because it is so much easier. If these were our only two problems, I think self-custodial lightning would be fine, it may never be the predominant way people use lightning, but we could get the UX good enough that we have a significant portion of people using lightning in a sovereign way. However, there are more problems under the surface.

Channel liquidity is a problem, but it is also deceptive. When you have 100k sats of inbound liquidity you would think you could receive up to 100k sats, but this isn't the case, often you can't actually receive any. This is because of on-chain fees, when a payment is being made in lightning you are creating pre-signed transactions that have outputs for every in-flight payment, these outputs cost potential on-chain fees and the high on-chain fees go the more it eats into your liquidity. After we've solved most of our force close issues Mutiny this has been number one support request. Even if you do everything right, understand liquidity and have enough for your payment, sometimes it still won't work because on-chain fees are too high. This is always really discouraging because isn't the whole point of lightning to not have to
pay on-chain fees? Fundamentally, all current lightning channels could become entirely useless if on-chain fees went high enough because a single payment would require too many reserves. Obviously this is hyperbolic, but I hope I am getting the point across that on-chain fees don't just effect the opening and closing costs of channels, even if you are a diligent node runner that only opens channels when fees are low, that is not enough, your channels need to be large enough to pay for the on-chain fees of each HTLC at any future on-chain fee rate. As on-chain fees go up and up this problem will only get worse.

The proposed solution to these reserve issues are things like anchor channels, package relay, ephemeral anchors, etc. These are all well and good but kind of just mask the problem. They do solve it so the fee reserve can be much lower and possibly zero, however with the tradeoff that you need on-chain funds available to fee-bump your force closes so they can actually get into a block. This again breaks the UX for self-custodial users because they _have_ hold on-chain funds alongside their lightning funds so they can do those on-chain fee bumps. The size requirements for their on-chain funds is still dynamically based on how high on-chain fees can spike. Solutions for this can include having someone else bump your transaction fees but this brings basically a trusted 3rd party into the mix and isn't ideal.

When you lay out all the different tradeoffs a lightning node needs to make, especially in a high fee environment, it makes me think, what are we doing here, are we going down the wrong path? Lightning is still fundamentally a fantastic payment protocol but its limitation is that it requires _scale_. Basically every problem I've outlined goes away when you have a large lightning node with lots of liquidity and high uptime so many we should optimize for that. The market has been telling us this for years already, +90% of lightning users are using custodial wallets because it works so much better at scale. So how can we use large scale lightning nodes without custodial wallets?

Combining existing large scale lightning infrastructure with self-custodial solutions sadly, isn't totally possible. The only real way to do that as of now is Muun Wallet which as we talked about earlier, doesn't really solve the problem because everything is just an on-chain transaction. However, Muun was onto something. The architecture of having a simpler protocol interface with lightning is genius and gives us the best of both worlds. We can make fast cheap payments and let the big boys collect fees for running the lightning node. Aqua Wallet just launched which is essentially a Muun Wallet but on top of Liquid, this is a good bandaid fix but doesn't get to the root of the problem.

Before we go further we should take a step back and break down what problems we are trying to solve. Bitcoin has a fundamental scaling limitation through the block size, if we could make infinite, then we wouldn't necessarily need any layer 2s because we could just make on-chain payments. However, we live in the real world and have a 1mb block size limit, and this limits the number of transactions we can make on-chain. Lightning is a huge improvement to bitcoin because we don't need to put _every_ transaction on-chain, we just need to open a channel and can make seemingly countless payments. So why isn't lightning the silver bullet? Lightning lets us move payments off-chain but what it doesn't do is let us move ownership off-chain. Fundamentally lightning still relies on that, at the end of the day, a utxo goes to single user. So even if every on-chain transaction was a lightning channel, we still run into the limit of how many people can actually own those channels. What we need is another layer 2 that can scale utxo ownership and caninterop with lightning, that way we have a way to scale ownership combined with scaling payments.

So how do we scale ownership? Simply put, the answer today is custody, whether that is pure custodial like a Wallet of Satoshi or in the grey area like fedimints and liquid, the only way to do it today is through custody or federated bridges. In bitcoin, the only way to delegate ownership of a utxo to multiple parties is through multisig, however, that requires every user to be online when anyone wants to transact, and when you take go down this path far enough you end up just reinventing lightning.

Are we doomed then? Is there no way to scale bitcoin in a self-sovereign way? Luckily, the answer is no, but we need some soft-forks. Covenants are the way to scale bitcoin ownership. There are a bunch of covenant proposals but at their core what they propose to do is to add a way, so you can have a bitcoin address that limits where and how the coins in it can be spent. This can seem scary, but we already have these in bitcoin today, OP_CTLV (Check LockTime Verify), which was soft forked in 2016, only allows you to spend from a bitcoin address if the transaction has a given locktime, this lets you gate _when_ a utxo can be spent. What the current covenant proposals do is let you gate _where_ a utxo can be spent. With that simple primitive many different protocols can be built that allow for scaling ownership.

There are a lot of current covenant proposals, the main ones being: OP_CTV, OP_VAULT, OP_CSFS, OP_TXHASH, OP_CAT, and APO. They all have different functionality and tradeoffs but in my opinion we should be looking towards activating a form of covenants because otherwise we will likely be moving towards a future of less sovereign bitcoin users.

The future is not bleak however, even without covenants we can still scale bitcoin for the world, just not in the ideal way. At Mutiny, we are full steam ahead on implementing fedimint into the wallet, in my opinion (and the rest of the team's) it looks like the best current scaling solution for bitcoin. Fedimints give us the ability to dynamically share ownership over a group of utxos and is able to interop with lightning through gateways. It is the pinnacle of the scaling dream for bitcoin with current technology and I can't wait to help make it reality while we can.


If the ETF is rejected, we dump and I stack more bitcoin. If the ETF is approved and the price pumps, I stack more bitcoin. If the ETF is approved and the price dumps, I stack more bitcoin. The goal is to stack more #bitcoin. It hasn't changed. Don't forget the plot.


Looks perfect for a cold dip.

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I don't see why you would want to carry your hardware wallet with you at all times?


And they say sea levels are rising.


My Experience of Living in Turkiye under Soaring Inflation

https://stacker.news/items/376570


Solution. Kill mempool.space permanently!


Is it going to be the mother of all shitcoins?


I'm the same, prefer to record it in my mind even if my memory is shit. Just be in the moment.


We can beat them!

- Self-custody your #bitcoin
- Use a lightning wallet for zaps, purchases and sales
- Run a lightning #node
- Connect your lightning wallet to your node

Who cares that most businesses don't accept bitcoin because we don't need them. They need us. We are the hodlers, not them.

We can spend our sats among ourselves just like what we're doing here on #nostr, zapping each other.

Our bitcoin economy can and will continue to grow. It's decentralized and open source.

we are superior to their pathetic CBDC.

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#Nostr https://image.nostr.build/98ff12b30afb82b6e6a000865a669eb2ee306ff8201de90abad4ce9976028c72.jpg


Whilst I haven't deleted my twitter account, I haven't even logged into it for a good 6 months.


Ah man, I feel another rabbit hole approaching....


Make joining the highest signal platform you new years resolution and get 10k SATs for doing so!

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You guys know how to bring the new year in with style!


Far too few


Check out my mate Chidori


Tru dat!


I got the seats next to you!


Paco making it happen.

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That timestamp is not in UTC which is the Bitcoin timezone.


If you are American.


“Tax his land, Tax his bed, Tax the table, at which he's fed.

Tax his tractor, Tax his mule, Teach him taxes
Are the rule.

Tax his work, Tax his pay, He works for peanuts anyway!

Tax his cow, Tax his goat, Tax his pants, Tax his coat.

Tax his ties, Tax his shirt, Tax his work,Tax his dirt.

Tax his tobacco, Tax his drink, Tax him if he
Tries to think.

Tax his cigars, Tax his beers, If he cries Tax his tears.

Tax his car, Tax his gas, Find other ways To tax his ass.

Tax all he has,
Then let him know,
that you won't be done till he has no dough.

When he screams and hollers; Then tax him some more, Tax him till He's good and sore.

Then tax his coffin, Tax his grave, Tax the sod in Which he's laid...

Put these words Upon his tomb, “Taxes drove me to my doom”

When he's gone, Do not relax, Its time to apply The inheritance tax.”

~~~~~~~~~~~~

 Accounts Receivable Tax

Building Permit Tax

CDL license Tax

Cigarette Tax

Corporate Income Tax

Dog License Tax

Excise Taxes

Federal Income Tax

Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)

Fishing License Tax

Food License Tax

Fuel Permit Tax

Gasoline Tax (currently 44.75 cents per gallon)

Gross Receipts Tax

Hunting License Tax

Inheritance Tax

Inventory Tax

IRS Interest Charges IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)

Liquor Tax

Luxury Taxes

Marriage License Tax

Medicare Tax

Personal Property Tax

Property Tax

Real Estate Tax

Service Charge Tax

Social Security Tax

Road Usage Tax

Recreational Vehicle Tax

Sales Tax

School Tax

State Income Tax

State Unemployment Tax (SUTA)

Telephone Federal Excise Tax

Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax

Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Taxes

Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax

Telephone Recurring and Nonrecurring Charges Tax

Telephone State and Local Tax

Telephone Usage Charge Tax

Utility Taxes

Vehicle License Registration Tax

Vehicle Sales Tax

Watercraft Registration Tax

Well Permit Tax

Workers Compensation Tax

Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago, & our nation was the most prosperous in the world.

We had absolutely no national debt, had the largest middle class in the world, and Mom stayed home to raise the kids.

They enslaved us through taxes and debt…

https://t.me/LauraAbolichannel


Discipline > motivation


Just so I have this straight Mount Everest is the highest peak at 29029 ft above sea level and assuming for a moment you could see water from there you would be able to discern a curve. Planes cruise 32000 ft and higher and you can't from a plane? Wouldn't the curve be more apparent the higher up you are?


Please explain how it is obvious when you climb a mountain?


The quality of the CGI images gets better and a better every day!


Pffft, what's he talking about? He still has carpet!


Just another week in Onboardingland.

My cousin is off zero after talking to him for around 18 months and he now has a solid stacking plan that fits in with his lifestyle.

The owners of the cottage we've been staying in this week are now also off zero thanks to them allowing me to pay them for the fire wood we bought off their son with lightning. They also have a stacking plan to execute.


I've been a fellow cabin mate on the good ship Imposter Syndrome. Always been a confident guy but was blown away by the skills of my new team and took me a good while to find my feet and my place in the team and to feel in myself that I belonged. Having a good team around me most certainly helped me overcome this mindset.


Sounds familiar

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Would not surprise me in the least. I've noticed over the past decade that whenever the printer goes brrrr one of the few real world signs is that I get sequential notes out of the ATM. When that happens, two to five months later there is a noticeable price rise in the supermarkets. I got a bunch of sequential notes yesterday.


If I own all the properties already, what state do the other players start in? Doesn't sound like it would be much fun to play.


Defo getting back on the carnivore train.


Winamp was peak audio player. Good times.


Mercator projection is a lie on top of a lie


That will make a beast bud


I just mailed these 140 envelopes full of free #bitcoin resources!

104 Bitcoin Sticker Packs
18 Bitcoin Business Kits
9 Bitcoin Business Stickers
9 Bitcoin Postcard Packs

Thanks for getting involved! 🫡 https://image.nostr.build/b2b25331c9e98bc3dcea3141c2dee30614ebf0f3d07b35d5ec82f090972fee8e.jpg


If you hosting on own hardware, why would you not start with a 2TB drive at least?


Fuck banks


Here I am struggling to stack 14,620 SATs per month


Fun Fact: The S&P500 has never regained its 1929 high after allowing for the growth of M2 money supply.

https://telegra.ph/file/45ecf737f746c29e9793b.png


Regular buys, made regularly, really is the best and lowest risk and lowest headache inducing method of building your stack. Start today!

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💜🧡⚡stack sats #government  #studybitcoin #bitcoin ⚡💜🧡 https://image.nostr.build/95c61fae1e35d82e4ccfe17c409a065909a69cedc04ea220b16962ad14e3e970.jpg


I've always run my own


https://i.imgur.com/OwzsroJ.jpeg
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Using an S9 Bitcoin miner to heat a cold from growing plant starts this spring. Been running it at 500-700w to keep temperature 70-80°f. I unplug and open the up the cold frame during the day if it's warm to get more light and wind to make for stronger plants. On cloudy cold days it stays running to keep it nice and warm. It's been working very well so far! #bitcoinmining #plebmimer #permaculture #homesteading #gardening #cannabis #bitcoin #s9


Let me know where I can donate the extra €2 to. :-)


The Hitchhiker's Guide to 2024 — and beyond
https://insanelyfree.substack.com/p/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-2024-and


Argentineans:

What would you say are the second and third order effects of inflation?

Particularly interested in non-price related effects.

I have some thoughts on this but very curious to know what you’ve observed.

(Writing in English because I want this to be useful to non-argentineans to learn from)

Boost tagging argentineans for visibility.

Cc #[0]


#Merry #Christmas #Nostr

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I found the plugin had been automatically disabled and all I could do was remove it upon the last major update.


If they they were €69 I would have jumped all over it.


Classy looking spread bro.


That would be divorce papers thrown in her face if that was us. I would be equally as freaked out as the dude playing that.


Merry Christmas to all you guys.


Got a node id for us?


The navigation did try to, but I back out of it pretty quickly. We did go for a walk later on after a big lunch.


Proof of walk in the Welsh countryside today.

https://nostrfiles.dev/uploads/xjOvSod451yqlmLhzdao.jpg


VM Burner Phones: Complete Guide

Did you know that you can create a virtual machine of a degoogled android on your desktop Linux PC, to create infinite fast burner phones to isolate spyware apps?

WhatsApp, Telegram, CashApp, Hushed Bitcoin SMS, Facebook,
These apps all worked for me on a VM of LineageOS.

Research by Amnesty International and the Intercept have presented significant evidence that apps such as “WhatsApp” by Meta are vulnerable to “0-click” Pegasus malware that can completely take control and do surveillance your phone without you ever even clicking a link.  This presents the dangers of trusting many apps that do not take the same security precautions as privacy-focused apps from F-Droid.

However, telling readers of our website to “never install WhatsApp because of corrupt government malware” is usually a non-starter.  So instead, we suggest putting known vulnerable spyware in a virtual machine.

Any Linux distro will do.
You have 2 main choices for virtual machine, Oracle Virtbox and QEMU KVM.
And for the phone OS, you want to do LineageOS.

For VMs, we recommend Lineage, and NOT Graphene and NOT Calyx.
Lineage is better suited for VMs because it’s got an x86 build, while as GrapheneOS has ARM builds that won’t work in a VM without a rebuild from source.  CalyxOS won’t work in a traditional VM, but you could potentially use an Android Studio Developer Kit to recreate it in a test environment.  We do NOT recommend doing this with Calyx as you likely will face technical hurdles with the Android Dev Studio configuration settings, while not getting any clear benefit over just using Lineage.  Remember, the reason people want Calyx over Lineage for physical phones is to lock the bootloader.  This isn’t relevant for a VM.

Virtual Machines

Let’s compare and contrast the 2 VM choices:

Choice 1) Oracle Virtbox
Pro: Oracle is more convenient and easy to setup.   Also it’s easier to have a VPN outside the VM, to prevent IP leaks and manipulate your identity.  While as VirtManager QEMU is forcing you to put it on the router, which is not convenient for the average user.
/
Con: Oracle’s Virtbox is open source for the VM itself, but the copy-paste functionality in the extension pack is not open source.  Even with that “FOSS sacrifice”, I personally had copy-paste issues setting it up.  Also Oracle is a shady company.  They got their company’s name from selling database services to the CIA, and they are heavily involved with the US government’s mass surveillance program.  Previous CEO and current chairman Larry Ellison criticized Edward Snowden saying essentially “nobody was being wrongfully hurt by the surveillance”.

Choice 2) VirtManager QEMU KVM
Pro: KVM is more private being more fully free and open source.  Also this option is more secure.  Technically malware will have a harder time escaping KVM (a level 1 hypervisor), but you’re very unlikely to face VM breakout with malware originally designed for phone baseband modems.
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Con: Harder to setup.  Even harder to get copy-paste functionality.  And you won’t be able to put a VPN on your desktop, you’ll need an open source router to manage your identity.

Managing Identities

In my personal opinion, VPNs INSIDE the VM phone itself are bullshit and too high risk because these apps all jockey for higher level privileges.  I want the VPN OUTSIDE the VM.  But I’m sure that the internet has enough people who will disagree to curse me out.

Let’s talk about snapshots real quickly.  So while snapshots are convenient, they are NOT good for getting a new identity.  If you don’t believe me, try taking a snapshot, installing Hushed and registering an account, and then rewind the clock by restoring from the snapshot.  When you reinstall Hushed, you’ll find that it recognizes and remembers you.

Instead, the best way to get a new identity, is through the VM’s storage file.  When you first setup Lineage, then save a copy of the file itself (with the same name or it messes up setup) and put it in a different folder.  Then when you want a new identity, delete the original file and setup the VM to point to the new location.  If you want both identities at the same time, for Oracle you need to modify where the entry your VM manager points to.  For KVM, I found it more intuitive to spin up new VMs with different datasets without snapshots.

In summary, if you use Oracle without copy-paste extension pack, you can probably get this up and running in a single day.
Linux → VPN → Oracle Virtbox → Lineage

Or if you hate Oracle, then:
VPN Router → Linux → QEMU VirtManager KVM → Lineage

Reach out to us for help.


They aren't taking your money. ;-)


This. Really this.


Selling for things you need is not the same as selling for fiat.


End of days. You fall for the trap and place your currency in their custody for the paltry 5%. 6 or so months later you'll find the promise they made of returning your currency back to you on demand is reneged on.


During the previous cycle, we’ve established a ton of new tools and projects that completely changed how we interacted with #Bitcoin.

I think many dont properly appreciate the fact that Lightning is becoming (or possibly already has become) the primary mode of interaction. And even despite fees, onboarding onto Lightning is seamless due to a growing ecosystem of LSPs. 2 years ago that honestly seemed like an overly optimistic goal.

In addition
• we are finally on the cusp of workable DLCs, we will likely very soon have bitcoin native “stable sats” via this tool
• multisig is becoming an industry standard for BTC native financial services
• Fedimint/ecash is starting its rise - which will completely change the custodial landscape
• we have two insanely exciting new communication protocols making their MVP debut - Nostr + Hypercore
• There is an explosion of new entrants in the Lightning ecosystem
• We have numerous new mining & mining pool projects around redecentralizing hash power coming to fruition - Including a FOSS package to “run your own pool.”
• Everyone is bitching about fees being too high instead of Bitcoin’s “security budget problem.”
• We have multiple, entirely novel approaches for new scaling layers - including an incredibly creative new means to use ANY arbitrary code to enforce ownership of a bitcoin UTXO.
• Traditional finance cannot ignore us any longer. For better or worse, they are allocating.
• A country adopted bitcoin as legal tender and started building national payments infrastructure with the bitcoin/lightning stack.
• We have multiple other increasingly bitcoin friendly regimes and political leaders popping up across the global south.
• Streaming sats, zaps, lightning prisms, running lightning services for friends and family, user friendly personal nodes, zero setup non/custodial Lightning - these were all “what ifs” at the end of the last cycle. Today they are all here.
• Tons of new developer interest has flooded into the Lightning ecosystem, and we now have the tooling and dev kits to do an order of magnitude more applications with barely any knowledge or configuration from the app creators needed for it to work securely and easily. This is hugely underappreciated, imo.

There’s a ton of stuff that I know I’m even missing here that deserves a mention, but the ecosystem has matured incredibly these past few years. Most of the biggest leaps have been in infrastructure, which is exactly what is laying the groundwork for a 10x at the application layer that I think comes with this next cycle.

___________

The REAL kicker though, is that we did this under largely the same development conditions as the past 10 years, but today, Ai is about the drastically change that landscape. Over the next 3 years, the accessibility of development and the capital required to complete a project will DRASTICALLY decline. Already we have LLMs specialized in code that are enabling “so so programmers” to build small & simple functions/apps with very little effort. We have “screenshot to code” which lets you take a picture (or photoshop) a website and it will immediately create the HTML or React code needed to make the website exactly as seen, and this is **just the beginning.** LLMs have been in the public eye for ONLY one year. The amount of building that will be unleashed in the next 3 is going to be hard to fathom.

I want people to understand, if you are technically literate at all, you NOW have the capacity to create a lighting app, a game, a desktop tool, a Nostr app, a Hypercore based software, a website or PWA, **even if you don’t know how to code.** the dev kits, libraries, and Ai combined have done all the heavy lifting for you. The game is changed, start playing.

The acceleration is about to get fucking crazy, and a ton of stuff is aligning at the same time. We have no idea how far these next few years are going to take us.

Buckle
The
Fuck
Up


Who was mad? I like like a pig in shit!


Fully agree, but who is going to see a criminal case through over a Subway sandwich? Quicker and easier to to make it very clear to their face that their actions is directly affecting their bottom line.


No. You need to go in and tell them that you would have become a customer but because of that sign, you are now going to walk out. How will they know they are losing business otherwise?


This is fine.


2 utxos with 0.1 each, both referencable by the same address.


I'm halfway through the audiobook of nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a's Broken Money and it's really good so far. What I appreciate most is that she goes into the details of working on the financial system, down to a low level. Most descriptions I've read were too abstract, she shows how do the books of FED, treasury, banks, etc look, exactly.

This part is actually from her blog here:
https://www.lynalden.com/money-printing/ (whole blog is great, but I'm mainly talking about "Bank Reserve Accounting Examples" section).

I also like that she describes the current system in terms of combined petrodollar and eurodollar system, which is important to understand.


Tipping is an outmoded practice.


But a miner is for life, not just for Christmas.


Conquered 34567 miles in my car. #numerology


They could well have got bored/run out of funds


🧡💜 #you #bitcoin ⚡ #nostr 💜🧡 https://image.nostr.build/89611e6abb3f8126649d5829c6e1c8becc24d82a64dc458c928bd5a9a4f068ea.jpg


The reason that so many smart people are so wrong about Bitcoin is that it requires a multidisciplinary approach to fully appreciate. Those who only take a cursory glance will see it as a half baked idea - Jameson Lopp

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#bitcoin #plebchain #grownostr #zapathon


Can't get an actual job delivering value to other folk so have to resort to stealing from them. Fuck those guys, I love seeing then fall and the process those tubers go through to hunt these cunts down.


Yes directly obtain the apk for obtainium from github. That's how I did it anyway.


That's next level ninja work! How do you find the tooling around Eclair?


Maybe a splinkling of Speed Garage?


Itsa trumpet thing per chance?


AOL


Price is measured in a shitcoin.


Microsoft’s agenda is very clear, they want control and surveillance over the flow of information on the internet.

Rather than allow websites to host the content themselves, Microsoft will subvert websites’ authority and post it on MSM .com.  Then promote their bullshit proxy copy on their ad-revenue site via their Bing search.  For example you search “Coindesk Bitcoin ETF” and it gives you “Coindesk via MSM”.

This has quite a few effects:
1) Microsoft leaches ad revenue
2) It creates dependency and submission from the websites that they can’t cut off the traffic from Bing, because the other search engines such as Google and Brave are now ranking the MSM version, and not the original.
3) Microsoft sees all data, not just that you searched then went to the site, but what you clicked or did after.
4) Microsoft controls the content, by picking what to proxy and then promote as trending news.  This is a form of thought control.

Some will say this thought control is benign, but Microsoft’s left leaning censorship agenda is very clear with a partnership with NewsGuard.  As ZeroHedge and the Daily Wire report, NewsGuard uses Microsoft’s Edge browser to display trust rankings like a nutrition label, and no surprise, it gives horrible ratings to conservative websites and flawless ranking to left leaning ones.  One example of the danger of this type of censorship is that NewsGuard openly has financial ties to Pfizer partners and then downranks websites critical of the vaccine, calling them fake news.

Microsoft will insert their left-leaning propaganda into the Windows start menu, innocently pretending it’s just trending news.  Brainwashed Democrats don’t even realize that it’s normalizing an authoritarian society through unquestioned acceptance of government authority.  In fact, Democrats are so shielded from criticism, that when they later read proven, factual, and academic criticism of the government for the first time, their knee-jerk reaction is that it’s “crazy conspiracy theory” because they’ve been so conditioned to never question or criticize top-down control.  This assumption is reinforced literally every time they open a program on Windows.

Sadly many other search engines just get results from Bing, and then mislead people into thinking they are getting privacy.  For example people tolerate Duckduckgo and Qwant getting the bulk of their results from Bing, to try to avoid the data collection of going to Bing directly.

What they don’t realize is that Qwant feeds user data into Microsoft’s ads.  And even more chilling is Duckduckgo being physically hosted on Microsoft’s servers and serving them all the same MSM links with kick-back surveillance on them.  Duckduck is masquerading as a privacy alternative, when they insert 3rd party JavaScript such as “improving.duckduckgo.com” onto the links themselves.  This allows Duckduckgo to learn how long you stayed on even the non-MSM articles, or what your reaction to it is.  They will likely claim this is supposedly to improve the search engine, but considering Duckduckgo is the default on Tor browser, training AI on my choices is hardly the choice for anonymous browsing.

What can you do about it?  Here’s our solutions:

1) Use a variety of search engines such as:
a) MetaGer.org
b) Mojeek.com
c) Farside.link/SearXNG
d) Simplified Privacy even hosts a SearXNG instance for you
e) Brave Search, although it’s hosted on Amazon AWS.  Although Brave does use Amazon, they have LESS propaganda.

2) Try and find the original links and avoid MSM.  For example MetaGer will serve you the originals.  You can also go to the company’s site and see the trending links.

3) If you’re going to use Duckduckgo for variety, then use it for mundane research topics or images, but avoid news.  It’s news topics that get MSM propaganda links more often.

4) Use Linux and not Windows, it’s not as hard as people make it out to be.  You don’t need to learn the command line.  You can learn in under 2 weeks.  Most apps are in a browser now so there’s not the same software compatibility issues there were 10 years ago.  I believe in you.  Now you have to believe in you.


They're not laws without the consent of the governed.


Amboss Introduces Ghost Addresses

"The Ghost Address combines the clever behavior of Phantom Payments with the user experience of the Lightning Address. It enables any node to receive payments through invoices created using the Lightning Address protocol."

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/amboss-introduces-ghost-addresses/


Chhhheeeeeeeyyyyuuuneeee!


Haha


I've said it before and no doubt I'll be saying again, but yowza!


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Why go the simple route and buy the underlying asset when you can choose complicated and let someone else leech off your holding.


Because fiat mindset number goes up.


Beat me to it, so I'll have to go Home Alone.


All depends which dictionary you are using.


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As much as I loved the original series.


Battlestar Galactica


Its all poison I'm afraid.


Been warning folk for two years. If they haven't taken action to prepare for the event, that's on them now.


There is nothing stopping you from sending your transaction. Nothing at all.


Taxes are the price you pay to be allowed to exist in an open prison. Yes prison is classified as a benefit of the system.


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#MondayMornings ✨💜🫂☕🫐


# Taproot didn’t cause Ordinals ❌

I've seen the view that "Taproot caused/enabled Ordinals" commonly mentioned across Twitter, and it's one that can be extremely harmful. Many in the space would love to further ossify (prevent change) in Bitcoin and use Ordinals "spam" as the reason for doing so, but I'd argue that that would be the worst possible outcome from this situation.

This needs a lengthy explanation to properly grasp what's at play here, though, so let's get into the fun details.

## Arbitrary data in Bitcoin has always been possible

Something most people don't understand is that a system like Bitcoin is built for data storage, it's just intended for monetary data. This design made it possible from day one to include arbitrary (arbitrary) data into the blockchain, either through methods like OP_RETURN (a good place for storing arbitrary data as it can be easily pruned) or in tweaked pubkeys (a bad place for storing arbitrary data, as it cannot be pruned).

Some examples of this:

- Satoshi inscribed a newspaper headline in the genesis block coinbase (https://mempool.space/tx/4a5e1e4baab89f3a32518a88c31bc87f618f76673e2cc77ab2127b7afdeda33b)
- Luke Dash Jr. used his pool to inscribe Bible texts and prayers in 2011 in the coinbase (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=38007.0)
- Someone added the entire Bitcoin whitepaper to the UTXO set in 2013 (https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/35959/how-is-the-whitepaper-decoded-from-the-blockchain-tx-with-1000x-m-of-n-multisi)

All of these happened before both SegWit and Taproot, and there are many more cases of this type of data storage on Bitcoin.

## But I thought Taproot enabled this?

Unfortunately, there is a common misunderstanding (thanks for the troll name [@TaprootWizards](https://twitter.com/TaprootWizards) 😅) that Taproot enabled this type of data storage, thus opening the way for Ordinals "spam." In reality, this type of arbitrary data storage on Bitcoin has always been possible, but was made much cheaper to do with the introduction of SegWit in 2017.

SegWit was a major upgrade and bug fix for Bitcoin that enabled the Lightning network to be built and included a 3MB "witness" data allowance within each block w/ reduced fees for data to incentivize spending UTXOs (therefore making them prunable). More on SegWit in a fantastic post from [@River](https://twitter.com/River) here:

<https://river.com/learn/what-is-segwit/>

This incentivized portion of each transaction (called "witness" data) is intended for things like Bitcoin scripts, but can be used to store any data as long as it's done the "right" way. Specifically, Ordinals store them in an "envelope" between two opcodes, allowing the data to count as witness data and get the discount. This storage method was possible before SegWit, but now saves on fees in comparison to pre-SegWit usage.

While this of course was not the intent of SegWit, it underlines the simple fact that if someone wants to store arbitrary data in a blockchain, they will find ways to do it.

## Does that make SegWit bad?

If your first reaction is then to want to raise a pitchfork and campaign for no more changes in Bitcoin, remember this -- without the SegWit soft-fork there would be no Lightning network, no discount for users consolidating UTXOs, and instead users would be incentivized to create more un-prunable UTXOs as it's cheaper to create than to consume UTXOs w/o SegWit.

Additionally, Ordinals being stored in witness data allows those who run a node to easily prune them and not store them in RAM, unlike any method that leverages pubkey tweaking or other types of stenography to include arbitrary data on-chain. This means that the actual impact of Ordinals on those who run a node is drastically minimized versus other arbitrary data storage methods.

## If we didn't have SegWit, Ordinals would all use the UTXO set

It's extremely like that if we had never included the SegWit soft-fork into Bitcoin that the Ordinals craze would still have happened, and along with it a drastically worse outcome for the blockchain. In this alternate reality, Ordinals (and all similar NFTs) would likely be inscribed directly into the UTXO set, similar to how Stamps function today.

Some within the Bitcoin community have been asking for a removal of the SegWit witness data discount to force Ordinals to pay the same fees as all other users per byte. Unfortunately, this would have two extremely detrimental side-effects: it would disincentivize healthy UTXO management (consolidating UTXOs vs creating new ones) and incentivize Ordinals to be put in the UTXO set directly.

While putting the data into the UTXO set does cost those creating these NFTs drastically more, it also means that those running a Bitcoin node cannot prune the data, no matter what. Bitcoin relies on nodes being able to retain the entire UTXO set in order to verify transactions properly and prevent double-spends, and any data within that UTXO set must be kept in perpetuity.

That would be drastically worse for those running a Bitcoin node, and makes the Ordinals in SegWit witness data pale in comparison when it comes to negative impact on Bitcoin nodes.

## So what can we do about it?

The solution to reducing the cost of using Bitcoin is not censoring Ordinals (something that isn't even technologically possible, BTW), but rather is finally building solutions to Bitcoin's long-term scaling. Ordinals have highlighted something most of us knew would happen -- base-layer fees would become untenably high, as they have to for Bitcoin to be secure long-term.

In order for the average person to use Bitcoin, we need powerful scaling solutions like layer twos, and unfortunately Lightning in it's current form isn't the final solution. Lightning relies on every channel-owner (and thus user when done in a non-custodial manner) being able to settle back on-chain to resolve disputes, something that isn't economically feasible in a realistic fee environment.

## The solution? Covenants

Enter covenants, an improvement to Bitcoin that has been a long-time in the making and is finally picking up the steam it deserves in the space. Covenants enable both improvements to Lightning that make it drastically more scalable, and new layer two networks to be built that have different (often better) trade-offs compared to Lightning.

As this post is already getting a bit too long I won't dive into the details of covenants, but instead ask you to spend a few minutes going through this fantastic set of resources on covenants to better understand what they enable:

<https://covenants.info>

Have questions? **ASK THEM!** The best way for the broader Bitcoin "rough consensus" layer to work is for more people to step up, learn, and ask questions as they go.


I've had spikes of deja vu all my life so I'm sure the images will male sense when I inevitability come across the same scene.


Aw man I feel so left behind with my 200 Milly note.

Anyways, Dr Evil would be proud.


Does this point also align with when all the fake gold promissary notes started to get printed?


I honestly wish I could recall. It was so brief and freaked me out so immediately arose.


Builders gonna build

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Daily reminder: there is no such thing as a Bitcoin company (or a nostr company).

A Company is anchored in the State and may be called upon at any time to "comply" by acting as a branch of the State (giving up user details, banning certain users/customers/transactions, etc etc).

"Bitcoin companies" and Bitcoin can't both survive. If Bitcoin keeps growing, we enter the criminalization phase next. Bitcoin companies will comply with the State or be shut down.

"Nostr companies" and Nostr can't both survive either. If nostr becomes large enough, any "nostr company" will comply with the State or be shut down.

The biggest lie that Governments like to propagate is that humans can't spread risk and collaborate without registering a Company (or Security) of some kind. We've been collaborating and distributing risk longer than we've been human, there are indeed ways of doing this without the government stepping in to mediate our relationships.


I had what briefly felt like a download 8 or 9 days ago. Just a giant flick book of images which all seemed completely unrelated. The night before I slept from 6pm to 1pm!


I've been down with the flu (aka having a huge forced detox) since Friday!


Wow, paid $40 on fees for transaction today 🚀🤩
bitcoin IS digital gold (with commodity use cases we may not agree with), secured deep in a Swiss bunker with guards. Onchain being expensive to move should be expected. Just because we had a time with low demand, shouldn't skewer expectations.
The sooner Onchain low fee enviroment ends, the better. People need incentives to work on actual scaling solutions, LN, Liquid, swaps will work great for now.
Futures bright 🔥


Libretube or piped.video


Oof that's a new record that I've seen. Full on painful.


Today we are extremely proud to open-source the #greenlight client repository as part of our Developer Preview🌱

Included are the client libraries, with bindings for python and JS, as well as all the tools to self-host a Greenlight node.

Learn more at buff.ly/3IY4Mun 🚀


Well put

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Exercising my low time preference


Imagine having a monthly spending limit set in Venezuelan Bolivars. And Bolivar gets so inflated that what used to be worth thousands of $ is worth $0.01. You can't even buy a loaf of bread or a bottle of water with your GOLD MASTERCARD/VISA CARD.

Even having a limit on a debit card itself with YOUR OWN MONEY is ridiculous. Yet we all have it...

And that brings us to the fact that your money in the bank account is not yours, it's not money either and the bank is not a bank...

#bitcoin fixes this.
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Waiting for 420 to be the baseline requirement


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You can rent in airbnb or direct with bitcoin, any doubts DM!

Here you can find more information:

nostree.me/cabanasnamata
linktr.ee/cabanasnamata

#nostr #grownostr #bitcoin #accepted #huts #nature #nostriches
#helloworld #pleb #brazil #travel #vacations #cabins #plebchain #zaps


Sounds like freedom to me.


Check out Roderigo y Gabriela


Epic move. Also put your phone on silent. Just because a call or message comes in doesn't mean it needs your immediate attention. Taking that control back will also give you another big step forward.


Nice one, cheers!


One problem with being a bitcoiner is the phase when you do nothing but think about bitcoin and wait for bitcoin to solve all your problems if you shit post 24/7 about it. It won't. Its a tool. And your time is finite. Do something valuable with it.

Git gud. Work hard. Find your passion. Strive towards your goals. Stack sats.


𝗞𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘆 𝗦𝗮𝗳𝗲: 𝗖𝗵𝗼𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲

There has been a lot of talk about a recently disclosed problem with the Ledger hardware wallet, and whether it’s safe to use it for storing your #bitcoin offline.

Ultimately, this choice is up to you, but 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘤𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝙘𝙖𝙣𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝘣𝘦 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥.

More on this below👇

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

While hardware wallets in general can be an excellent method for storing your bitcoin long-term, 𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘤𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳 𝘢 𝘩𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘥𝘦𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺. Such devices allow for public verification of the device’s entire operation. In the spirit of "𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘵, 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘧𝘺," open source hardware wallets align with Bitcoin’s fundamental ethos.

Open source hardware wallets receive development contributions from the wider community, leading to 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝘂𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀, 𝗯𝘂𝗴 𝗳𝗶𝘅𝗲𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗲𝗻𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀. Closed source wallets, on the other hand, rely solely on their own development team, limiting the pace and diversity of improvements.

They can also continue to be improved and iterated upon, when their parent company no longer supports it, or if they close down entirely. The broader community can continue to maintain and update the wallet’s design and software, leading to an 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿-𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁 that will be useful to more users.

There are several available options for fully open source hardware wallets, including the ColdCard by nostr:npub1wu4aye7ll0lnrrg638e90sehzsgpzx5t39t3mwl05aa0d0ap08esdz3vw0, Passport by nostr:npub1s0vtkgej33n7ec4d7ycxmwt78up8hpfa30d0yfksrshq7t82mchqynpq6j, and the nostr:npub17tyke9lkgxd98ruyeul6wt3pj3s9uxzgp9hxu5tsenjmweue6sqq4y3mgl. There are other hardware wallets that are 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 open source, like the BitBox02, KeepKey, and even Ledger, but they each have elements that are closed source.

And today actually marks 𝗲𝘅𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝟲 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 since the ColdCard was first released!🎉 While I am not endorsing one specific hardware wallet over another, it might be worth it to at least check it out on Coinkite’s website, especially on its 6th birthday.😉

Open source hardware wallets provide superior transparency, security, and community support. They’re aligned with Bitcoin’s core principles, making them a preferable choice for user autonomy over closed source options.

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

Remember to give this a 𝗟𝗶𝗸𝗲🤙, and 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲🔄 it with others, so they can also keep their bitcoin safe and offline.

And be sure to 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸🔖 this so you can reference it later, when buying a hardware wallet.

Know any other advantages of open source over closed source?

Let me know in the 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀⬇


Depends if you have fewer utxos at the end of the move or not.


Scale and perspective. Act accordingly.

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Now that is a lady.


I'm not sure if anyone at Samourai ever came out and said what the data in the tx0 actually is for?


I though the 4 steps in the chart a while ago was just a glitch in the charting software.


Worked flawlessly for me for 4 years.


Self hosted Nextcloud buddy.


Norway by night. https://image.nostr.build/e10fdc193e3a005eddbc5b9e11910b3242f4f30636ae818e3b22c1eb72da7082.jpg


Took me 4 years to go from a Google first company to switching off the final google service. Take it one thing at a time is what I would suggest.


If your data doesn't exist in three places, it doesn't exist.

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Cornerstone of my key management strategy now. Its great having a bunch of dummy border wallet grids floating around my home too.


PMA or positive mental attitude really became the cornerstone of my life philosophy when I got my first sales job and had this drilled into me 25 years ago. I was lucky to get this lesson so early on in life. I look back and see so many forks in the road that would have ended so very differently had I not approached those important decision points with PMA.


Hit me up if anyone wants a code for my audiobook. All I ask in return is for a honest review to be made at Audible.

https://www.acx.com/titleview/A2T3IY3ND1G9M5


Nothing wrong with having options. I don't use it as my daily driver, that's my node, but I do use it, and Blink when travelling.


“If having 12 words in your head is illegal, something is terribly wrong with the law.

If the police storm your building because you are finding or creating a random number in the privacy of your own home, something is terribly wrong with the police.

If the peaceful exchange of messages is seen as dangerous or immoral by society, something is terribly wrong with society.

If speaking or knowing numbers becomes a criminal act, I don’t want to be a law-abiding citizen in the first place.”

— nostr:npub1dergggklka99wwrs92yz8wdjs952h2ux2ha2ed598ngwu9w7a6fsh9xzpc


Genius! It's almost like you're done this before fren.


Finished my bag of GoodBeans today. Sad times.


Tag 11 des Einundzwanzig Adventskalender

Heute gibt es einen "Little Printer" von Lina Seiche zu gewinnen.
https://thelittlehodler.com
Passt gut auf ihn auf!

https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/424fe53f23997a5a4fc92fe956c6deac34ce9c6e38051a3cfbe0746c7b6f15ec.webp
Viel Glück!
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Ever since the infamous Taproot Wizard 4mb block bitcoiners have been alight, fighting to try and stop inscriptions. Inscriptions are *definitely* not good for bitcoin, but how bitcoiners are trying to stop them will be far worse than any damage inscriptions could have ever caused.

Inscriptions work by embedding images or other data into the bitcoin blockchain by using a trick in bitcoin script. They essentially put the data in an unreachable code block followed by the real spending conditions so the user can claim the ordinal/NFT. It is quite an ingenious trick but has broke a lot of the assumptions many bitcoiners were operating under. Previously, the main way to embed data into bitcoin was OP_RETURN, which is basically an op code exactly meant for embedding data but had two problems for the NFT people: it makes coins unspendable and by mempool policy is limited to 80 bytes. Inscriptions has the advantage that their only size limit is the block size and since their data is in the witness, not the output, they benefit from the witness discount, allowing them to embed 4x the data. This broke a lot of bitcoiners assumptions that the theoretical 4mb block would never happen because it'd be silly to have only witness data, however, the NFT people found a way to monetize it. Now this is common place and we've seen tons of inscriptions happen, driving up fees and block sizes.

Inscriptions are an attack on bitcoin. Inscriptions are not going to kill bitcoin, but none the less, it is an attack. Exploiting a trick in bitcoin script to use the witness discount for embedding data is definitely hurting the network, blocks were never meant to actually reach the theoretical limit and it is a problem that it is happening. Nodes will be more expensive to run and this will hurt decentralization of the network. However, now that it is happening and common place, we cannot stop it.

In retaliation bitcoiners are proposing ways to "stop" inscription and these will do far worse damage then inscriptions will ever do. Almost every proposal to stop inscriptions boils down to preventing these transactions from getting into the mempool. The mempool is the battle ground of bitcoin transactions and we need to preserve it. The mempool only works if it the premier way to get the highest fee rate transactions to miners. If we lose that guarantee, people will move to centralized systems and we may never get the mempool back. Filtering spam transactions from the mempool will not stop inscriptions, at best it will delay them by a week. The people buying inscriptions are morons, but the people selling them are not, they already have back channel communications with mining pools and if we cut them off from the mempool, then the only pools getting these fees will be the shitcoin aligned pools. This has already happened to many shitcoin networks where their mempool was killed off for one reason or another and now the primary way to broadcast a transaction is through a centralized api. This essentially creates a permissioned network, where even if anyone can run a node, if you don't have access to the transaction broadcasting api, you cannot access bitcoin. We are currently seeing congress try harder and harder to regulate nodes, miners, and wallets as money transmitters and losing the mempool will make this problem 1000x worse. There is also serious security problems without being able to do trustless fee estimation if we lose the mempool, but that is out of scope of this post.

Further, filtering transactions based on "spam" metrics can lead us down a dark path. The most economical way to transact in bitcoin is *not* the most private. Today the most popular way to get privacy for your on-chain bitcoin is doing a coinjoin. Coinjoins are not necessarily economic transactions, you are merely spending to yourself along with a bunch of other people. If we set precedent that you have to justify the usefulness of your transaction to not be considered spam, soon people will find a way to exploit this to try and get coinjoins and other privacy techniques excluded from mempools for being spam.

With all this being said, if bitcoin is going to work, we shouldn't need to care about inscriptions. The promise of bitcoin is a global monetary network backing the entire financial world, if that is overtaken and its primary use case is a NFT trading platform, then bitcoin was doomed to fail in the first place. We have seen many shitcoin bubbles for over the past decade and this one is no different. The shitcoiners will eventually run out of fools to buy their scam and things will go back to normal, but we can't shoot our self in the foot trying to stop things prematurely, when we can just wait them out.

#SaveTheMempool

Inscriptions: the cure is worse than the disease

This is a long form article, you can read it in https://habla.news/a/naddr1qqxnzdesxgerxdp58yenyvejqgswrlemlh2wgqc4jkds3d8ueqj9a2j3gcm7r48v9tskdd6rxsd7rtcrqsqqqa28wdzn0j


A new guide for a new LN wallet!
Green wallet is very similar to Phoenix, but with more options to manage multiple accounts.
Definitely a good start for a new LN user!

🇬🇧 - Getting started with Green Wallet Lightning
https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/green-wallet-getting-started

🇪🇸 - Comenzando con Green Wallet Lightning
https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/comenzando-green-wallet-lightning


The ordinal debate essentially boils down to whether you think these transactions are legitimate economic activity, or spam that harms all other participants on the network.

I'll tell you which camp I land in, but first:

What say you?


GOOD MORNING NOSTR, FREEDOM TECH IS HOPE 🫡
https://m.primal.net/HSrI.jpg


This is how they roll. Let them accumulate their shitcoin I say.


Pretty fucking cold here. I just had ice cream.


Mmmm dinner


Time is money has always been a popular phrase. For the last 15 time really has been money!


I'd just sit on the ball and gaze. For hours.


Don't forget that you probably won't get 'yield' from these products and the fees they will charge will reduce the size of your stack. More SATs siphoning off into the hands of the great suited unwashed.


#bitcoin 🫡

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#meme #memestr #nostrmemes #memes 820,131 🤙💜


Voting is the presentation of two doors to give you illusion of choice, that in fact lead to the same slaughterhouse.


It ends when the individual says NO. Govern Ment (look up the translation from French) is a choice, just one we've been programmed to think there is no other side to.


I use mine for my own personal spending in a private fashion. I have been doing this for 3 years now and am on my third node purely from experimenting. Yes the risk is not zero, but my real experience is I've not lost any SATs. And yes I did open a bunch of my channels at 1 sat.


An old farmer's saying is:

Build your LN channels in summer, when fees are 1 sat/vbyte, so you can transact with your own ln node for free when fees are 272 sat/vbyte in winter.

https://media.tenor.com/j199KFNF_AMAAAAM/it-aint.gif


Totally stolen from elsewhere.

https://nostrfiles.dev/uploads/yGGe5tLxVVvtjyjQ396V.jpg


Oof. That is going to sting.

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https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/lightning-wallets-comparison highly recommended read


My personal setup is OBW with a real channel manually created direct to my node. You can always do the same to any node you like of course.


https://void.cat/d/L6gBZs2ZNCwjudjszCBm1Q.webp
Bitcoin fixes this.


https://image.nostr.build/c62d0f449a2774be66c1ae971ddeaa9a137bd6d185c604587d547218736aaa70.jpg

#meme #memestr #nostrmemes #memes 819,985 🤙💜


I've not used it myself, but its a proven wallet. Just use it what it is meant for, same for all custodial wallets, which is for small amounts which you wouldn't mind losing if you get rugged. Think of it as the wallet or purse you carry cash around in. Use the same limit as that which will be a different amount for each of us.


Our next Bitcoin Nottingham meet-up date confirmed. Wed 20th Dec, 19:00 at our regular venue (Carlton Town FC bar). Details will be added to our website v soon.
Bitcoinnnottingham.org

Also, date for your diary, Sat 6th April 2024. We've got something BIG in the making. Watch this space for updates in the next few weeks.


We need to stop using fiat as our yardstick for value.


I'll bring the campfire if someone will bring the guitar. I would but I can't play for shit.


We've had this beaten out of us for at least two generations.


Not bad #ZBD not bad at all.

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Pannatone is a drug! So addictive, I wish I'd never bought it. Making me break my carnivore diet hourly, its so damn tasty though!


8am in Berlín, El Salvador and I’ve already made two Lightning payments.

1st was 4,575 sats for breakfast at Marlen’s.

2nd was 19,700 sats at Family Market for some patas de pollo for our dog.

I make about 2-4 LN payments a day here. It’s normalized. https://image.nostr.build/659b00bed26a5654e37d350ead78aba473b52f40189f8f84452b8b3c88f72587.jpg


So ostrich steak done rare is pretty damn tasty.


6.9 million. Tee hee hee.


Can you see the correlation?

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Sorry, that is what I meant.


Obtainium is rate limited!


Taxes rolfcopter


My time doing that again and again only proved to myself how shit a trader I am.


This is the way. Welcome to the Sat Standard fren. You have successfully changed your yardstick.


Freedom
https://image.nostr.build/4387c8bb06db50b8586148479a7e5d2acfaa3578ccfd9e8a5f67979b618199a6.jpg


The Bukele DCA Way. 🇸🇻 https://image.nostr.build/8322536f2c2ab2346ed015fa14931709e6b848b36e8408b6526bf5032a6fdeb9.jpg


FUDstrs are saying 1 Bitcoin transaction uses a swimming pool worth of water. So let’s do the math on that.

There’s 326 million trillion gallons of water on earth, and the average swimming pool is full with about 20,000 gallons of water:

326 million trillion gallons of water divided by 20,000 per swimming pool is 16.3 billion trillion swimming pools left on earth.

Average block has 3073.75 transactions, and 16.3 billion trillion total swimming pools full of water on earth to pull from, that leaves us with our final math:

16.3 billion trillion divided by 3,073.75 is approximately 5.3 trillion transactions.

There’s really no reason to be afraid we have at least 5.3 trillion transactions left before we run out of water 🤣

#UnnecessaryMath #bitcoin


Tens of things every week. From the weekly shop to clothes to flights and hotels and meals out.


### Bitcoin meetups for the week ahead in the UK 🇬🇧 & Ireland 🇮🇪

**Week 49**

**4th - 10th December**

- Canterbury
- Belfast
- London
- Glasgow - Bitcoin Power Workshop
- Derby
- Edinburgh
- Kent

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#### ⚡Canterbury

#Canterbury #Bitcoin will be at the Westgate Inn Wetherspoons, 5th December at 7pm.

https://meetu.ps/c/4B50f/v822r/a

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#### ⚡Belfast

On Tuesday it’s @nibitcoinnews, see their meetup page for details.

https://meetu.ps/c/4WzmG/v822r/a

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#### ⚡London - Bitcoin Space

Join @londonbtcspace for their monthly meetup on the 5th

https://www.meetup.com/london-bitcoin-space/events/

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#### ⚡Glasgow - Bitcoin Power

Join @glasgow_bitcoin for their #Bitcoin Power workshop on Wednesday the 6th.

https://www.meetup.com/bitcoin-glasgow-buy-sell-learn/events/296108432/

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#### ⚡Derby

You’ll find @BTCDerby at the Brunswick Inn on Saturday 9th December at 3pm.

https://x.com/btcderby/status/1728690805177557161

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#### ⚡Edinburgh

Every SATurday @BitcoinWalkOrg trek around Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh and talk #Bitcoin

Join them this week at 12pm

https://bitcoinwalk.org/

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#### ⚡Kent

You’ll find @kentbitcoin at The Country Hotel in Ashford on Sunday 10th at 12:00pm

https://www.meetup.com/kentbitcoin/events/297134657/

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🔗For a list of all the meetups in the UK and Ireland visit our website for details on how to join them. [https://bitcoinevents.uk](https://bitcoinevents.uk/)

🔗Check out our map to easily find your nearest. [https://bitcoinevents.uk/uk-bitcoin-meetup-map/](https://bitcoinevents.uk/uk-bitcoin-meetup-map/)

🔗Join our Telegram channel for info on all the latest meetups https://t.me/BitcoinEventsUKHub

Bitcoin Meetups in the UK - 4th - 10th December 2023

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You are not. Although there are a lot of micro and Mimi communities popping up that are spreading the good word of the circular economy. That involves spending your coin. Consider changing your stance from never spend, to spend and replace.


5 Most Privacy Focused Web Browsers

https://itsfoss.com/privacy-web-browsers/


#Bitcoin meetups for the week ahead in the UK 🇬🇧 & Ireland 🇮🇪

Week 49

4th - 10th December

Canterbury
Belfast
London
Glasgow - Bitcoin Power Workshop
Derby
Edinburgh
Kent

All you need to know: 👇🏼

⚡Canterbury

#Canterbury #Bitcoin will be at the Westgate Inn Wetherspoons, 5th December at 7pm.

https://meetu.ps/c/4B50f/v822r/a

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⚡Belfast

On Tuesday it’s @nibitcoinnews, see their meetup page for details.

https://meetu.ps/c/4WzmG/v822r/a

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⚡London - Bitcoin Space

Join @londonbtcspace for their monthly meetup on the 5th

https://www.meetup.com/london-bitcoin-space/events/

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⚡Glasgow - Bitcoin Power

Join @glasgow_bitcoin for their #Bitcoin Power workshop on Wednesday the 6th.

https://www.meetup.com/bitcoin-glasgow-buy-sell-learn/events/296108432/

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⚡Derby

You’ll find @BTCDerby at the Brunswick Inn on Saturday 9th December at 3pm.

https://x.com/btcderby/status/1728690805177557161

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⚡Edinburgh

Every SATurday @BitcoinWalkOrg trek around Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh and talk #Bitcoin

Join them this week at 12pm

https://bitcoinwalk.org/

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⚡Kent

You’ll find @kentbitcoin at The Country Hotel in Ashford on Sunday 10th at 12:00pm

https://www.meetup.com/kentbitcoin/events/297134657/

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🔗For a list of all the meetups in the UK and Ireland visit our website for details on how to join them. [https://bitcoinevents.uk](https://bitcoinevents.uk/)

🔗Check out our map to easily find your nearest. [https://bitcoinevents.uk/uk-bitcoin-meetup-map/%5D(https://bitcoinevents.uk/uk-bitcoin-meetup-map/)

🔗Join our Telegram channel for info on all the latest meetups https://t.me/BitcoinEventsUKHub


GM #nostr

Normally I wouldn’t wanna like this guy, all in plain sight. But this guy got the right idea.

Be like this guy!

#gm #btc #bitcoin #buybitcoin #studybitcoin #btconly #relai #relaiapp #stacksats #grownostr #plebchain #pleb https://image.nostr.build/960e3fedc53e20225e8da78736b60475764d4678ac6a543731e8febdcd0817c8.jpg


Yay!


2 is young Natalie Portman
6 is Gilliam Anderson


STFU about the damn ETFs. Irrelevant to the cause.

You know what we should be talking about?

A few months ago Block Inc invested heavily in a project that is developing a lightning point of sale system for merchants.

Because Block is involved in this, they will probably make sure that it integrates seamlessly with Square, which is used by merchants everywhere.

This will be a huge deal!


Cool post Christmas event for your calendars

https://twitter.com/bitcoinstad/status/1730958895416315976


Wash your mouth out with soap young man!


Both things you can't see and are too big for you to be able to control.


We have to remember that money is just a tool. Nothing more. Yes we want to use the best tool for the job, which in this case is sitting our wealth for one, but it is still a tool and absolutely should be used to improve our lives.


Not quick but totally worth the effort. I consider myself pretty week read up on digital privacy and have put many things into practice. I've not done a single thing on this list yet though!

The road is long.

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It really is unbeatable isn't it? Also the food at some gas stations is actually really good.


Well that didn't take anywhere near as long as I thought it would to sharpen 4 knives.


I guess your a dawning person? You don't mind early starts? I've always been a night owl.


Nothing to see here. Go back to watching the brain reprogramming box.

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Going westwards is usually OK for me, wasn't too bad on this trip. Its going eastwards that always destroys me.


Time to stop being a lazy fucker and sharpen those knives.

https://nostrfiles.dev/uploads/XofTrebGOovg6N1P1ykR.jpg


Promoting #Bitcoin & #liberty & decentralized tech can definitely be a bit of a cassandrean task 🤷♂ just kinda have to get used to watching people fumble about & be content with the occasional pleasant surprise when the rare person gets it.
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Doing the 6 hour difference coming back home left me a zombie for well over a week.


Fully agree. We who chose to opt out should be given the choice to use services on a pay as you go basis. If I need to get a broken bone sorted, I'd pay a pretty penny to a hospital if someone in my community hadn't set up that facility yet.


That's my thing to be the first customer for folk! Excellent work ser.


The entire Western world is addicted to debt 😮 https://image.nostr.build/e74d56f16406f2f89161bc4f884052a1d0efd48a8e3a3da82ef1e6ab834aeca2.jpg


Why would it not?


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#meme #memestr


I'm also fucking around to find out.


 Learning #Bitcoin is a long rocky journey
 Start from the first step today!  http://res.cloudinary.com/dfdwyn5dh/image/upload/v1701141804/zhmtqibhaqjgdjwi8wvv.jpg


Its bloody cold today so I'm cranking my space heater up to 2KW


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Learning the power of NO


Yes it is. Simply because we've never had it before.


Indeed, its frustrating trying to get our normal transactions through but its freearoet economics in action. Can't want it then bitch and moan about it when you get what you want. Someone is paying silly amounts for these transactions so let them.


The moon landing was by far the hardest event for me to unprogram. I couldn't let this one be fake.


Get on it! Mick would be a great guy to give your energy to.

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Why is your email icloud and not on your .space domain? Would look that bit more professional.


That just over half the population of India.


A new quick guide!
How to onboard new bitcoin users as a merchant
This guide is in your honor nostr:npub1c878wu04lfqcl5avfy3p5x83ndpvedaxv0dg7pxthakq3jqdyzcs2n8avm
Thank you for the wonderful tools you are building!
https://stacker.news/items/332759


The Fibonacci Sequence, Magic Numbers & Time.

If we look deep into the sequence (which computers have done) we find that this sequence of numbers forms a 60 digit repeat cycle. After every 60 numbers in the Fibonacci Sequence, the last digit in each number starts to repeat, it starts to recycle.

This 60 number pattern repeats all the way into infinity.

(Pay attention at how all numbers extracted from the Seed Of Life made with this pattern add up to 9!)

Research the Number 9 Code.

"Do you know that we don’t know precisely why we use 60 seconds and 60 minutes or 360 degrees. The answer is buried somewhere in antiquity. It was assumed that these were simply arbitrary units that we adopted for convenience sake.

To me this is proof that the first whole unit in the physical world is 6. Made up of the 6 dimensions mentioned earlier being UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT, BACKWARD & FORWARD. Every object in the physical universe manifests from its point of origin and extends in these 6 dimensions.

Traditional physicists say we have only 3 dimensions being XYZ or length, breadth & height. But I beg to differ. That is a limited perception based on our point of view and not from the point of origin or centre of the object being observed.

An object has the traditional XYZ plus –XYZ making 6 dimensions.

6 is the first ‘whole’ 6 x 10 using base 10 mathematics gives us 60 units.

6 x 60 = 360 The universe manifests in all 360 degrees.

6 x 6 x 6 = 216 The Divine Trinity.

● 216 is the smallest untouchable number which is also a cube
● Plato's number: Plato alludes to the fact that 216 is equal to 6 x 3, where 6 is one of the numbers representing marriage since it is the product of the female 2 and the male 3. Plato was also aware of the fact that the sum of the cubes of the 3-4-5 Pythagorean triple is equal to 216
● The total number of corner-angle degrees on the surface of a cube is 2160.
● The diameter of the moon is 2160 statute miles.
● The years of a Zodiac Age are also 2160." - Lucien Khan

#fibonaccisequencerepeatcycle
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Forgot the video 😬

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


Attention is a limited resource. Be careful where you spend it.

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#plebchain

https://image.nostr.build/c245b64b29ac2d08178958031c25327d0f9de8c905565856cfab8f24e96a5614.jpg


Do you have access to a speech transcript where Hitler said that? Not saying he didn't, but it should be evidenced.


Remember that when you react to a 'news' 'story', you are trusting that the 'story' you're being told is truthful. You are allowing yourself to fall victim of the writers programming and eliciting the emotional response that are trying to get out of you.

I highlight the word 'story' for a reason and with intention.


Have you thought about going 100% open source?
I have and here's what I use plus others which I don't:

PC OS: Ubuntu
Mobile OS: GrapheneOS
Nostr: Amethyst
Browser: Vanadium
App manager: Obtainium
Chat: Simplex
YouTube: NewPipe
VPN: Mullvad
Password manager: Bitwarden/Vaultwarden
PC on-chain wallet: Sparrow wallet
Mobile on-chain wallet: Bluewallet
Lightning wallet: Mutiny
Hardware wallet: Coldcard
Bitcoin exchange: Robosats
Bitcoin POS: BTCPay Server
Note taking: Logseq/Obsidian
Tor: Tor browser
Synchronization: Syncthing
Office: LibreOffice
Media Player: VLC Media Player
Photo editor: Gimp
Video editor: Shotcut
Audio editor: Audacity
Website editor: WordPress
PDF editor: Master PDF Editor (paid)
FTP client: Filezilla
Screencast: Simple Screen Recorder
Report maker: Jaspersoft Studio
Video conferencing: Jitsu
CAD: FreeCAD
Media server: Ampache
Bittorrent: qBittorrent
Cloud Storage: NextCloud
Astronomy: Celestia
RDP: FreeRDP
Accounting: GNUCash
Email: Mailspring
To do list: OpenTodoList


Every assumption you make about how a user can or will use your system is wrong. Every. Single. Time.


Yuh huh


Dammit man! You've just lost me a weekend!


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One can run start9 on ones own hardware?


#meme #memestr
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Refresh rate sucked ass


The "uncle Jim" LN bank scenario
https://stacker.news/items/330346/

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


Ma, look, nostr:npub155m2k8ml8sqn8w4dhh689vdv0t2twa8dgvkpnzfggxf4wfughjsq2cdcvg receipt improvements incoming. Collaborating with nostr:npub1j8y6tcdfw3q3f3h794s6un0gyc5742s0k5h5s2yqj0r70cpklqeqjavrvg on a new round of POS-related improvements.
https://image.nostr.build/aa1d1c32aa44a8c5c1b49408e2490fed141e628ed999b4da140442d91b4ba6b6.jpg


Check, check, check and check.


WoS said fuck you to the USSA. The world is bigger than the USSA. This is a mere speed bump for WoS.


Tomorrow we have our official family Christmas get together and I'm serving up chicken three ways. Roasted, BBQ grilled spatchcocked, and a stuffed porchetta.


WoS didn’t rug you.
The US government did.

Wake the fuck up.


Another one bites the dust.

It is with great regret that we write to inform you that Bittrex Global has decided to wind down its operations. This decision was not made lightly, and we understand the inconvenience it may have on our valued customers.


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"Should I get beetcoin stuff on black Friday?"

"You should totally do it, " says my little HODLer friend.

Listen to the little HODLer and get all the black Friday deals here

 https://loveisbitcoin.com/blackfriday


Timing could not be better bud. Looking forward to this one.


As is the sun.