This is the lightning wallet tier list. We don't make the rules. #bitcoin nostr:nprofile1qqsrf5h4ya83jk8u6t9jgc76h6kalz3plp9vusjpm2ygqgalqhxgp9gpzfmhxue69uhk7enxvd5xz6tw9ec82cspzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejszyrhwden5te0dehhxarj9ekxzmnytql6f0

https://video.nostr.build/f0c837d6bb605feabbc24cb346995606dab4687a71ff9c450cd4804e1b847987.mp4
#memstr #meme


Exciting times ahead. Thanks ECB for this poll on the future of money.

(Poll link attached)
#bitcoin 🧡

https://x.com/ecb/status/953945215299194880 https://image.nostr.build/a1487e96749ca261334d8a0f5b1646be5d9e617921897d5c90785eabfce37836.jpg


Thankful for all the people contributing code to further the bitcoin and nostr mission.

Thank you! 🧡💜


Wait, you as customer not merchant need to kyc? wtf ..


Opt out, use self hosted FOSS ecommerce systems, plenty to choose from.

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Check out https://new.iris.to for a ReplyGuy-free Nostr experience. When logged in, it hides replies from people who are not in your social graph. You can display the hidden messages by clicking on the button underneath.
 https://image.nostr.build/62e5c3558a5e73ccf98611f16cc3b726b9d431e213f33d3cc32e81e066bbd524.png https://image.nostr.build/20e354fe8bdf1a17d3b157d9e8267b8d4888e2af511fb5b93ee0e9e127748b5d.png
https://image.nostr.build/49f1ee71224925bc0804ff525271e94b21e657c21f1cb7635bc18153447c50c3.png

There's also "Adventure" feed for showing all notes from your social graph:

https://image.nostr.build/0d754b8223e03ab64dde6e9368b69bc51e6d18835dc31d94f8f4d1cd19eda17a.png

I have worked on it together with the Nestr "decentralized GitHub" team. Nestr frontend and Iris are built from the same codebase using build configuration options for different branding and features. You can easily extend the configuration to make your own branded version. Source code to be released soon™.

The client is based on NDK. Full SocialGraph up to 2nd degree is downloaded on first login, and thereon only missing follow lists are queried. I'll be experimenting with options to go beyond 2nd degree.

The graph is serialized and saved locally in a compressed format, which is much faster to load than it is to reconstruct the graph from Nostr events. My graph consisting of 260 follow lists and 23000 users is 3 MB on disk.

It's still very much work-in-progress and mostly tested on desktop Brave, but it's already my favorite way to browse Nostr.


Got a new relays page with some helpful tips on uptime / relay numbers:
https://files.v0l.io/a6f0491d0a7ed5bf91868c855b689eb0949614333db8cca4d8ca250374a3cd45.webp


Ohoh... https://image.nostr.build/add88ffed891abac83ad81ae5181725af2d01a0d3ac4c43d4c7917367be55654.jpg https://image.nostr.build/3ae09b6e39fec34de527d9e2db1ce58e2a25eb2449a893a0a8c08f1e2871cd31.jpg


That massive supply shock has been imminent for 4+ yesrs now... Stay humble and stack sats.


when your self custodial lightning address was down and you missed out on 100 sats of generational wealth from your friend  nostr:npub1utx00neqgqln72j22kej3ux7803c2k986henvvha4thuwfkper4s7r50e8 https://media1.tenor.com/m/rUr7fKjgx9AAAAAC/cute-sad.gif


A reminder sent to the European Parliament and the European Council: this is what Chat Control and the Going Dark initiative will result in – total surveillance and the end of secure and private communication.

You can read the articles at mullvad.net/why-privacy-matters

https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/113/113/582/829/988/892/original/2a4e2a45206af8ab.png

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If you can see this, Tor is now inside of Amethyst.

No more Orbot.


Streaming sats is still a wild (and wildly underappreciated) thing. It's so fucking cool to see sats fly in on a minute-by-minute or even second-by-second basis.

Mind-blowing 🤯


Mining is all about using waste heat or stranded electric. If you aren't tied into one of those or winning the lotto solo mining you are going to get fewer sats than buying on the open market.

My s19 heated my house all winter. Paid for itself and future winters sats are all profit.

I'm also planning to build a food dehydrator and a fish tank heater out of miners. I was using the electric anyway so 100% of sat rewards are profit.

nostr:nprofile1qqsy6q3ua80awknlxp6m368qssqghct6ra6scca4meepumhcswkuwegpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7qgawaehxw309ahx7um5wghx6at5d9h8jampd3kx2apwvdhk6tcppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0hzcsrt already built a dehydrator and converted his electric dryer to get heat from a miner too. He even used a miner to make maple syrup.

Others are heating pools, hot tubs, home hot water, and greenhouses.

It isn't that mining is unprofitable, it is that you didn't do the work to figure out how to profit and thought you could just turn on any random miner on residential electric rates and get a free ride.


👀
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A curated list of known public #attacks on the #Nostr network
https://github.com/ronaldstoner/nostr-attacks/blob/main/README.md


Da werden die Gewinne zum Dollar angezeigt obwohl man Bitcoin eingestellt hat. https://image.nostr.build/4af75bfaf97acf2d2b41337c6b87c996e25205bd64475575b4267ac2e23becd4.jpg


this is my new startsmall tracker. all money movements will be recorded here. foundation is focused on crisis relief, girls health and education, and free and open source software.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-ycOLoA496Qj37IHJvrXO3Vg2ETvMphtRGjyv2FNn8c/edit?gid=0#gid=0


Many people question whether investment will still take place on a #bitcoin standard.

In his #BTCPrague keynote "Investing and Venture Capital in the Age of Bitcoin",  nostr:npub1jqdsh6ls92m688jd44p7l8cvldh3cxaxxwu0hemvgy945qnaff4sejmefv discusses this from the perspective of Austrian Economics.

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

Full keynote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9t28MaQR_Y


The practice, known as "Active Listening," involves artificial intelligence software that captures real-time intent data by eavesdropping on users' conversations through their smartphones. https://bit.ly/3XfhlHY #ai #phone https://image.nostr.build/5c2d4153b1d0a420040406b37712b09d367314bf3f1deec97a28ee81025241c2.jpg


The nostr:npub14f26g7dddy6dpltc70da3pg4e5w2p4apzzqjuugnsr2ema6e3y6s2xv7lu is the biggest existing Bitcoin Circular Economy.

The best example of a real Bitcoin Community Bank acting as a Bitcoin Service Provider

Running open source with the Blink stack, nostr:npub155m2k8ml8sqn8w4dhh689vdv0t2twa8dgvkpnzfggxf4wfughjsq2cdcvg, Bitcoinize machines, Bolt Cards and on/off ramps with Bull Bitcoin

https://blog.btcpayserver.org/case-study-bitcoin-jungle-cr/
https://m.primal.net/Kjzc.png


Lol https://i.nostr.build/5PoCSHin2cgi7i4I.jpg


“No event has traumatized me so much as watching nearly the whole of the professional, media, and academic class be entirely fine with the sudden imposition of totalitarian controls on association,  movement, and speech provided they could luxuriate at home - believing there to be a killer virus extant - and hang out on video chats as the workers and peasants kept society running and delivered groceries to their front doors. That same group was thrilled to receive trillions in payments for having done this.

Again, nearly the whole of the top 1/3 of society was just fine with this, and certainly raised no objection. Many within this group manufactured excuses for their deeply disgusting disdain for others.

I doubt I can ever recover the respect I once had for the wealthy, the educated, the credentialed, and the successful. In the Covid period, they deployed their privileges as a weapons against modern ideals and against all the people they (secretly) regarded as their lessers.

This really happened. And it revealed everything.

In the end, they were rewarded for their disgraceful attitudes and behaviors. This reality, again, more than anything I've ever personally witnessed, has shaped my views on nearly everything and fundamentally disrupted much of what I once believed.”

- Jeffrey Tucker


I was making good progress on a new Woocommerce / nostr:nprofile1qqs22d4tralncqfnh2kmmarjkxk8449hwnk5xtqe3y5yry6hy7ytegqpzemhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejz7qgcwaehxw309ahx7um5wghxvmt59emkj73wvf5h5tcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsymkvl9 plugin when Lunanode went down tonight.

So it's an affiliate app. People can earn sats shilling my store. That's not the cool part though.

1. No need to create an account on my site. All you do is take your lightning address and encrypt that with a public key I provide, add it to my store URL. I'll have a page that makes that easy, but you can verify it or do it yourself 👍

The URLs it makes are pretty long, but that's a later problem.

2. When someone buys something after following your link, the plugin decrypts the referral URL, calculates the payout, then sends some API calls to my nostr:nprofile1qqs22d4tralncqfnh2kmmarjkxk8449hwnk5xtqe3y5yry6hy7ytegqpzemhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejz7qgcwaehxw309ahx7um5wghxvmt59emkj73wvf5h5tcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsymkvl9 to create a Pull Payment then a Payout Request for that. Then Btcpayserver sends the payment to the lightning address.

3. The plugin confirms that was all done and adds some notes to the order so it doesn't get paid twice.

I'm making this mainly because I hate marketing and want others to do it for me. Also I don't want to have to deal with tracking orders and paying people manually. Set it and forget it.


RepyGuy bot is a perfect example why filters are not censorship. Just because it can be done does not mean it should be done.

Filters help to get rid of assholes exploiting the protocol and impairing its users experience.

Same with ordinals, just annoying spam that impairs the monetary network.


Only retarded bots will reply to ghis useless note.


Number of educators go up! nostr:note1le5sdqn4jhwp0zmxwnht54n5wlutlqc2kyevc6pfp83pn4ul79qsl4zuph


We’re dropping the full recording of #BTCPayDay from Riga 2024!

Did you miss out on  nostr:npub1yul83qxn35u607er3m7039t6rddj06qezfagfqlfw4qk5z5slrfqu8ncdu Riga Bitcoin week? Want to rewatch your favorite moments? We got you… check out the trailer below and link to the recording of the whole event.

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

The full video is on our YouTube channel 📺 . Hit like, subscribe & comment to help us increase the reach of Bitcoin-related content.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWZPN-SAO3U

3+ hours of content includes talks from:
-  nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx
-  nostr:npub1zfytz6ktce3av2svlfpl0e79e44tnskxmvlpkcmc7q0xct3qa49swvm60l
-  nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg &  nostr:npub1y24gz5gwucl79vtv4ctwpysl0r5m4xyzu2rgulnr44ks3t5mt92q4nz2ad
-  nostr:npub1qm72nur0wn8cdgt0unp0amzssuqxg03tzpd4r87e856nxtz344fs6g74md
-  nostr:npub14j7wc366rf8efqvnnm8m68pazy04kkj8fgu6uqumh3eqlhfst0kqrngtpf & dstrukt
-  nostr:npub1rj7eh0eu3skwcyr5adpcjwxft9z4yjdspjryq6gynqw2j49f9a3quqjpw2
-  nostr:npub134mhsyeg5c7nj2dxu2jfxzwk6y3dn5z405tnyvtkutr6n37r44hqpj4pkg,  nostr:npub1sn0q3zptdcm8qh8ktyhwtrnr9htwpykav8qnryhusr9mcr9ustxqe4tr2x,  nostr:npub1szpa7cypmyd59083qs3pte9lez22lzfu6pl2guhgqx7q09x68y6qquh3td
-  nostr:npub1ydua4nhjuj36k6hrjkj5kn0zrz8su6xcl76rvvuaxhrnngu7xccqsmutvr &  nostr:npub19jfsjxx7gtw2t52qepx93ek57fdstfwszct3qqwzns4zxmvsc5gswf8rx0
-  nostr:npub14f26g7dddy6dpltc70da3pg4e5w2p4apzzqjuugnsr2ema6e3y6s2xv7lu &  nostr:npub1spdnfacgsd7lk0nlqkq443tkq4jx9z6c6ksvaquuewmw7d3qltpslcq6j7
-  nostr:npub1za04drthlvxtwsq0phwc4mgh8rxhjafjkv2w7pf6ze5afka8gvaquadur3,  nostr:npub1j8y6tcdfw3q3f3h794s6un0gyc5742s0k5h5s2yqj0r70cpklqeqjavrvg and others...

Organizing this event wouldn’t be possible without you who bought tickets & our dear https://foundation.btcpayserver.org supporters.

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 nostr:npub10pensatlcfwktnvjjw2dtem38n6rvw8g6fv73h84cuacxn4c28eqyfn34f
@BaillieGifford
@Tether_to
 nostr:npub17xvf49kht23cddxgw92rvfktkd3vqvjgkgsdexh9847wl0927tqsrhc9as
@LunaNode
 nostr:npub1hcwcj72tlyk7thtyc8nq763vwrq5p2avnyeyrrlwxrzuvdl7j3usj4h9rq
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 nostr:npub1m8t2cxsgchnt49szctlduaj2yjs8paypvltmrdesprtgdra5m8aqatqgp7
@Unbank

Thank you!


Our third cohort kicks off 🎊
https://m.primal.net/KhFf.jpg


Ok, who of you is ReplyGuy? Great idea to boost nostr stats but fake. You can stop now.

k thx, bye


We are thrilled to welcome Unbank as a supporter of the BTCPay Server Foundation!

Unbank has utilized BTCPay Server for over two years to provide off-ramps allowing people in the US to do a cardless cash withdrawal from 23,000 ATMs without a bank account.

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

To learn more about Unbank visit: https://unbank.com

If your business relies on the technology developed here at BTCPay Server, consider supporting our Foundation: https://foundation.btcpayserver.org

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


I guess first we need to see reality: majority of the EU officials wants to introduce this regulation. European Parliament is against of it. We still can do change and express our position.

Leaving EU is not a solution.
Danish Minister of Justice Peter Hummelgaard said encrypted services and social media - naming Telegram and TikTok - were widely used to facilitate crime and that if it was up to him alone, some communication platforms would be geoblocked and shut down.  https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/sweden-denmark-pressure-tech-platforms-over-gang-crime-ads-2024-08-21/

And it is just one example. Sweden, France, Hungary, Spain and other the same. Because citizens of these countries think that someone should defend their rights without any efforts. It doesn’t work like that.

Your rights will be easily taken, but not given. So help to involve as much people as possible to resist and stop this abusive regulation.


URGENT: PROTECT YOUR PRIVACY COMMUNICATION RIGHT NOW!

on 4th Sept 2024 #ChatControl regulation representatives of EU goverments will resume work based on a secret document according to Patrick #Breyer, former Member of the European Parliament.

Help to mobilize everybody to defend our #privacy of communication and its developers, investors!

If no preventive actions from your side now, this regulation will be endorsed on 12/13 December 2024.

According to the draft regulation dated 28 May (Council document 9093/24), ChatControl deploys to do, for instance:

🔻 “upload moderation”, users of apps and services with chat functions are to be asked whether they accept the indiscriminate and error-prone scanning and possibly reporting of their privately shared images, photos and videos.

🔻Scan by “artificial intelligence” technology previously unknown images and videos;

🔻If a user refuses the scanning, they would be blocked from sending or receiving images, photos, videos and links (Article 10).

🔻End-to-end encrypted services such as Whatsapp or Signal would have to implement the automated searches “prior to transmission” of a message (so-called client-side scanning, Article 10a).

During the last discussion on 24 May, the Council Legal Service made it clear that indiscriminate chat control scanning of non-suspects is still envisioned and remains a violation of fundamental rights.

Nevertheless, most EU governments are determined to go ahead. https://netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/2024/05/2024-05-28_Council_Presidency_LEWP_CSAR_Compromise-texts_9093.pdf

🌎 Tell your goverment and parliamentarians, that the proposal should be rejected altogether!

🔴Is your government in favour?
→ Ask for an explanation and for your government to revert its course.

🟡Is your government abstaining?
→ Ask why and demand that they take a strong stance against chat control.

🟢Is your government opposing?
→ Great, but take a closer look at the reasoning: Some governments like #Germany e.g. only object to the scanning of encrypted communications, but are fine with the indiscriminate scanning of other private and public communication, with the end of anonymous communication by requiring age verification, or with introducing a minimum age for “risky” communication apps. Also critical governments need to do more, exert their influence in the Council of the EU and agree on a joint list of necessary fundamental changes to the proposal. Absent such revision they should ask the European Commission to withdraw the chat control proposal as it stands.

🔴 In favour of ChatControl: France, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden.

🟡Abstained: Estonia, Netherlands, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Austria

🟢 Opposed the proposal: Germany, Poland

When reaching out to your government, the ministries of the interior (in the lead) of justice and of digitisation/telecommunications/economy are your best bet. You can additionally contact the permanent representation of your country with the EU: https://op.europa.eu/en/web/who-is-who/organization/-/organization/COREPER/
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Paying #BOLT12 offers with LND to CLN on my #Raspiblitz 🥳
https://image.nostr.build/88decaa76cffc7eafd96d5e20b6e086352532e6ba6572d140b63bbbfaedbeb74.png
https://image.nostr.build/93099017d94bca4ba3358a92435b6d94a02a312682ca2b645b3f3f0dc0f50907.png
Using the new LNDK release with LND: https://github.com/raspiblitz/raspiblitz/pull/4726


https://image.nostr.build/41a3a6c4e12e0215d3fe7ac2ccb0f48f09276f1508fc33f6f5ddb45a90a111d8.jpg
#Bitcoin #Nostr #Memes


You guys are rockstars, Paul upgraded the plan, and now all the chapters are uploaded!
Enjoy the whole book.
https://podcastindex.org/podcast/531078


📣 New: Breez SDK - Liquid 0.3.0 ⚡💧

It's a big one — the new release includes:

🔥 LNURL-Pay support
🔥 Go & C# bindings added
🔥 Background receive via mobile notifications

Plus new API features, optimizations, and fixes👇

https://m.primal.net/KeBT.gif

https://github.com/breez/breez-sdk-liquid/releases/tag/0.3.0


Today Alby Hub 1.7.2 was released which includes a new Friends & Family app for quickly onboarding (you guessed it) your friends and family to bitcoin and lightning, powered by your hub's liquidity. They get a wallet without having to understand lightning or have their own channels, and not rely on large custodial services. They can get their own lightning address with an Alby Account, or connect their new wallet to the Alby extension, or very soon connect to Alby's new mobile app, Alby Go.

I'd love to jump on a call with anyone who would like to test the Friends & Family app or Alby Go, or just hear any feedback in general if you try it on your own! feel free to DM!

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Here is how I got #citrine to work as both a local relay and as an exposed onion service as outbox relay on my phone. Thanks to nostr:nprofile1qqsda2memtapc2lykjnd8t9px4ake2stw39lg6k49xj6u3jz3pteu6qppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qyghwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnhd9hx2tcpzfmhxue69uhkummnw3eryvfwvdhk6tcf3g7ce for the idea!

Download Citrine and start as local relay

Open Orbot
Tap more
Tap onion hosted services
Tap user services
Tap +

Add any name to service
Add 4869 to both ports

Hit save
Exit from orbot
Restart orbot by closing out or force close
Restart orbot and connect orbot vpn again
Tap hosted services and copy new onion url

Open #Amethyst and go to relays
Add ws://yournewonionaddress. onion:4869 to outbox relay
Remove any other outbox relay
Hit save

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#nostr


Phone to Phone private giftwrapped encrypted DMs. That's pretty badass, given the state of the world.
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As Craig Wright sits in a closet somewhere in Asia, prompting chatgpt into wild delusional rants, his thoughts sometimes wander to the glory days.
https://m.primal.net/KclY.mov


This is where Oreos come from. 👀 nostr:note1687q0gaqmcf2mj0nlxuk0r2ndap3gsk3um239q4nscw72grfxaesu88c7x


Yes but we look into a light mode if youconnect to external LN node/service which does not need a bitcoin node, but no ETA, yet.


Banks be like: '#Bitcoin is imaginary,' while the money printer goes brrrr...😅😅  http://res.cloudinary.com/duz6er8nb/image/upload/v1723516854/actoncfahi2mfe84kjht.jpg


Nice, when BTCPay Server. Easy one-click installer like (or better) than Lunanode would be nice.

Pricing in Sats could get a bit pricey when we moon, will prices adjust in that case?


With just a click of a button you can have your very own #albyhub instance running in the cloud.
https://m.primal.net/KcAo.jpg


Want to know what it's like building a Bitcoin company?

Check out what our CEO @npub1797h37mc98f6363m5nysxd0t2swuz7nxq4z83saw77em3czld6xqvuar68 had to say during his closing panel with  nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m,  nostr:npub1cn4t4cd78nm900qc2hhqte5aa8c9njm6qkfzw95tszufwcwtcnsq7g3vle,  nostr:npub1saxmd5km0vusxhl84tqeaqaysftezh3h6ne22h95efntutth42yqlju5fv, and  nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx at #BH2024 by  nostr:npub1yul83qxn35u607er3m7039t6rddj06qezfagfqlfw4qk5z5slrfqu8ncdu https://m.primal.net/KaVX.mp4


GM. Indeed. 💜


The initial version of caniuse for nostr from Marco.

https://marcodpt.github.io/nostracker/

https://image.nostr.build/42c2e3ff354fd4518173895e5140a26874ad8a75de7097b18dec7dab261b57ff.jpg


The dildo of consequences rarely arrives lubed.


it's the best time to start a lightning node.
Alby Hub is here and the mempool fees are cheeeeeap ~2 sat/vB.
are you running it?


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#Bitcoin #Nostr #Memes


This year’s #BTCPayDay in Riga was the best one yet! Appreciate all of you who joined to make the event bigger and better.

We hope you enjoyed the talks and announcements, and we look forward to seeing you at next BTCPay Day!

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Big thanks to all of you who bought tickets & our https://foundation.btcpayserver.org supporters for making this event possible!

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#Nostr 🇧🇷 images are free to use of course 🤙
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Without Private Property, there is no Privacy


#Nostr https://i.nostr.build/hUpLRVWfG9FozKrH.jpg


🤣🤣🤣
#bitcoin #shitcoin #nostr #freedom
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Keep it Gangsta #Nostr https://i.nostr.build/X3WKTPxZ5s6a9weO.jpg


Announcing  nostr:npub1ydua4nhjuj36k6hrjkj5kn0zrz8su6xcl76rvvuaxhrnngu7xccqsmutvr, ₿ Director at  nostr:npub19jfsjxx7gtw2t52qepx93ek57fdstfwszct3qqwzns4zxmvsc5gswf8rx0, as a special guest at BTCPay Day Riga on August 26th during #BH2024!

For years, George has been driving #Bitcoin adoption in Bulgaria through the country's oldest football club, often using BTCPay to do it!

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Besides that George is the founder of Bitcoin Ready initiative & publisher of Bitcoin books in Bulgarian via https://bitcoinready.bg.

Learn more about him and the work he does by visiting https://georgemanolov.com

This year, we've secured a relaxing venue in a historic villa with a beautiful garden in the heart of Riga! Enjoy plenty of outdoor areas for unwinding and talking with people.

Event capacity is limited, so sign up soon to secure your spot.

https://day.btcpayserver.org


When nostr:npub1j8y6tcdfw3q3f3h794s6un0gyc5742s0k5h5s2yqj0r70cpklqeqjavrvg joins NASCAR.
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As a wise man on Madeira once said, it's not so much about having the right answers, it's about asking the right questions. While I'm not certain whether I have found the right questions myself by now, let me share the current set with you today.

This is a long form article, you can read it in https://habla.news/a/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzqmpddzaqzmpfzstl6x820srtwdlvzslh64kh3lw5ffdjfzzx2f0vqqxnzdejx5cnjdp3xy6ngvpcmn0q2g

Dear friend,

it seems like you have decided to turn your back on those walled gardens and set sails to enter uncharted territory. A world without walls, an open world, a world of beautiful chaos. At least for today, I don't intend guiding you out of the safe harbour onto the open, endless sea. Today, my only intent is sharing a few thoughts, before you depart.

As a wise man on Madeira once said, it's not so much about having the right answers, it's about asking the right questions. While I'm not certain whether I have found the right questions myself by now, let me share the current set with you:

* What causes the discomfort that drives you out of the walled garden onto the open sea?

* Are you trying to transfer from one walled garden to the next one, where the difference being a slightly friendlier colour on the wall?

* What are you hoping to find on the open sea that walled gardens cannot provide?

* What are you willing to sacrifice for freedom (of speech)?

* What will you need to keep the ship afloat?

* How will you react when you find yourself in the middle of a storm?

I sincerely believe that it's worthwile taking a step back before departing to reflect on the big picture and the underlying paradigm shift between walled gardens and nostr. This is not about building competitors to broken systems, this is not about mimicking centralised services, this is not about repeating the same mistakes over and over.

This is about building a new world, an open world without walled gardens and data silos.

Onwards!


I think we should spend (or better, spend and replace) to build the infrastructure/adoption for the future. When we are all rich we want to spend BTC directly and not change to fiat to buy stuff, right? But I can see why people don't want to spend their savings stack and that is fine and I don't assume they are spooks.

You may not want to spend at all because you have not much but a 10x from here will change your life in the future, so every sat is precious.

Or another reason would be, instead of spending/selling, you borrow against your BTC and spend stablecoin/fiat instead.


I sat down with the first ever political candidate in #France (maybe Europe)

To make their ENTIRE platform about #bitcoin

Her name is Aurore and she’s so damn based and brave to have tried this.

It’s a historic moment in French political history.

Watch the full interview here!

Vive La Révolution 🤙

https://youtu.be/eTRL4ppbRMQ


Exactly, nobody said free speech is easy or comfortable. But it is needed to build opinions. We can idividually ignore opinions of "idiots" but we should not censor them.


Imagine the most vile, detestable, hateful person you can. That is the person whose right to speak needs to be protected.

We might be that person, for someone else.


Ok let me rephrase:

I will pay 50,000 sats to a few devs each who can help me properly test a Bitcoin API for about an hour.

Please reply if interested


📣 New merchant!

Xarambinha Pizzeria Expresso now accepts #bitcoin payments ⚡

One of the first pizzeria to make home deliveries in Madeira! Italian Restaurant. Dine-in, Takeaway and Delivery.

📍 Funchal, Madeira - Portugal
⚡ Lightning payments supported
💳  NFC cards supported
🔐 This merchant has 100% control on their Bitcoin

#BitcoinAdoption #BitcoinCircularEconomy #Madeira

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Tangentially, but not specifically.

Pick something. Anything, really. Any thing. A orange.

Using any language you like, describe it, in totality.

You can't. This is the finiteness of our understanding which limits our ability to just describe things, and, that isn't even enough to give a "complete" description since you would only be describing the thing and not it's place in the universe, how it grew, the history of the genetics that caused it to grow the way it did, how the matter from which it was grown was assembled, and even how the matter from which it is composed came to be in the first place, and I don't mean in the general, hand-wavey "we're all stardust" blech kind of explaination, but with exacting specificity down to the most transient sub-atomic particles that build the thing.

None of this matters to most people, but, very thing, every human, every instance is quite miraculous because of everything, and I mean literally everything, that had to go exactly as it did to lead us all to the point where we can have this conversion on various devices in widely different locations practically in real time.

That is why everything you do matters. That is why everything that has been done matters. That is why you matter. You are infinitely important even if you are only an infinitesimally small part of what we can observe the universe to be.


TECHNICALLY SPEAKING THE BRAZIL X BAN IS TRIVIAL TO CIRCUMVENT.

THAT IS MOSTLY IRRELEVANT.

WILL LIKELY STILL BE EFFECTIVE AT SILENCING BRAZILIANS WITH LARGE AUDIENCES. LARGE KNOWN X ACCOUNTS. THEY WILL RISK PUNISHMENT IF THEY POST.

NOSTR DOES NOT FIX THAT.


Dropped mine 2 years ago after 12 years macbook because back then the price/value and linux sucked on desktop and windows was no option. Now for 2 years on tuxedo with tuxedoOS (based on ubuntu 22.04 LTS w KDE/Wayland and rolling releases) which is pretty much plug n play.


it feels like the macos hype for devs is blowing over, great, Apple doesn't deserve all the "yes they're a feudal tyrant but they're special so we'll put up with it" exceptionalism
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Cap lock odell understands.
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if you download strfry on your computer you can do:

strfry sync '--filter={"authors": ["32e1827635450ebb3c5a7d12c1f8e7b2b514439ac10a67eef3d9fd9c5c68e245"]}' --dir=down wss://relay.damus.io

to make a backup of all of your notes, where 32e18... is your hex pubkey. it will only copy down the notes your local strfry relay doesn't have. negentropy set reconciliation ftw.

working on coding this up as a feature in notedeck/damus ios, so all your notes stay synced between your devices.


At the Sovereign Individual panel at #BH2024 with nostr:nprofile1qqszfcmuredsezagmh382j70l33mtv5elqrylrae9z70x9decjt97wcpr9mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuumwdae8gtnnda3kjctv9uq3camnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3dwp6kytnnv4kkjum0dshxgetk9uq3uamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3dv3jhvtnhv4kxcmmjv3jhytnwv46z762846l nostr:nprofile1qqsgdp0taan9xwxadyc79nxl8svanu895yr8eyv0ytnss8p9tru047qpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqpz3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuvtnv96zummjvuq3qamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wwa5kueg9820us nostr:nprofile1qqsfrjd9ux5hgsg5cmlz6cdwfh5zv2024g8m2t6g9zqf83l8uqm0svspzfmhxue69uhkummnw3ezu7nzvshxwecpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgqg5waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t06ujj0q I promised a note with book recommendations, so here you go:

A Lodging of Wayfaring Men, Paul Rosenberg
https://freemansperspective.com/audiobook-a-lodging-of-wayfaring-men/

The Second Realm, Smuggler & XYZ
https://anarplex.sirion.io/files/secondrealm/

Aristocracy of Action, Anonymous
https://anarplex.sirion.io/hosted/files/aoa.html

A Declaration of Separation, The Free and Unashamed
https://anarplex.sirion.io/hosted/files/declarationseparation.html

Alongside Night, Neil Schulman
https://anarplex.sirion.io/hosted/files/Alongside_Night_free30.pdf

Vonu - The Search for Personal Freedom, Rayo
https://vonupodcast.com/free-vonu-book/

The Big Book Of Secret Hiding Places, Jack Luger
https://archive.org/details/JackLugerTheBigBookOfSecretHidingPlaces

Extreme Privacy - What It Takes To Disappear, Michael Bazzell
https://inteltechniques.com/books.html


Nostr is a screaming beacon of hope, created for when platforms and governments become overzealous.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/aug/30/elon-musk-x-could-face-ban-in-brazil-after-failure-to-appoint-legal-representative


> [Justice Alexandre de Moraes]  also said people or companies who use virtual private networks, or VPNs, to access X will be subject to daily fines of 50,000 reais ($8,900).

https://apnews.com/article/brazil-musk-x-suspended-de-moraes-46c9d5c5c895e17d9adfac43e6ac20fd nostr:note1jkckc7yj7r52rq95dn45g6s20f05j5dm470xayus2mthty5ln4gs2wyh32


#Nostr banners (Free to use) https://i.nostr.build/xbWbsuuCdMlwy1P3.jpg https://i.nostr.build/KWrim5bbt2zkMRSw.jpg https://i.nostr.build/UXg21NbVZnTBDqoB.jpg https://i.nostr.build/2LHqPiSTc19RIfXQ.jpg https://i.nostr.build/fAJBP2HBY1hJITrN.jpg https://i.nostr.build/6ZJCF1Ue2HAahCsw.jpg https://i.nostr.build/2gX8vCZrrS7auXIz.jpg https://i.nostr.build/ZfVNbLn1kohwIj0j.jpg


I took your advice and built a gif nostr companion app:
https://gifbuddy.lol/

You can download the PWA to your home screen, search for your gif, copy the address and paste it into your client

On the back end, for every gif that gets copied/clicked, an API request is made to upload to  nostr:npub1nxy4qpqnld6kmpphjykvx2lqwvxmuxluddwjamm4nc29ds3elyzsm5avr7 by  nostr:npub137c5pd8gmhhe0njtsgwjgunc5xjr2vmzvglkgqs5sjeh972gqqxqjak37w

From there a nip94 request is done so that the content can be accessed by any client in the future

Now, anyone who searches for gifs using this tool is also helping to build the gif repository for nip94 and adding fallback urls to nostr.build

And all they did was click to copy #gifs

https://media.tenor.com/VrufNvHPA1QAAAAC/i-hope-you-guys-are-proud-of-me-chris-c.gif


GIFs are back, baby

https://media.tenor.com/bVUh2pUkmZMAAAAC/futurama-were-back-baby.gif


GM ☀ Time to work again on the book. This #Nostr design will I add to it of course ✍📝📖 #art #v4v #grownostr #artstr

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According to Zuckerberg, the FBI was pressuring them constantly to censor in 2020-2021. They couldn't speak up about it for a host of reasons, mostly around the fact that they are a centralized entity that has to do what the governing authorities tell them.

Extrapolating out, we can assume that such shenanigans have been and continue to be at play for every centralized company to keep the regime's narrative going. This is why Nostr is so important.


Now that a few days have passed, it's time to start drawing conclusions from #nostriga

First, thank you for making Nostriga such an amazing event nostr:npub1y67n93njx27lzmg9ua37ce7csvq4awvl6ynfqffzfssvdn7mq9vqlhq62h, nostr:npub1zu5tdnq7w63fgmsfz85te7e6zeg7y2lt8q8r9jp5zcg68jfy73jqraqtgz, nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m, nostr:npub1j8y6tcdfw3q3f3h794s6un0gyc5742s0k5h5s2yqj0r70cpklqeqjavrvg and everyone else contributing 💜

To be honest, Nostriga was one of the best conference experiences I have had in a while. Great spirit, deep conversations, real & honest takes and 99% signal.

Nostriga made me super bullish on the next months. Hope to see you around you beautiful (and occasionally weird) #nostr folks.

Onwards, nostriches 💜🔥

#grownostr #plebchain

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Baltic Honeybadger changed my life back in 2019. Each subsequent conference has been even better than the last one, including the one last week!

What a week!

A massive thank you to everyone who made it happen, including (but not limited to)  nostr:npub1zu5tdnq7w63fgmsfz85te7e6zeg7y2lt8q8r9jp5zcg68jfy73jqraqtgz  nostr:npub1y67n93njx27lzmg9ua37ce7csvq4awvl6ynfqffzfssvdn7mq9vqlhq62h  nostr:npub1797h37mc98f6363m5nysxd0t2swuz7nxq4z83saw77em3czld6xqvuar68  nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m  nostr:npub1j8y6tcdfw3q3f3h794s6un0gyc5742s0k5h5s2yqj0r70cpklqeqjavrvg

♾ /21M


"We believe everyone should be able to explore the internet with privacy. [...] We advance human rights and defend your privacy online through free software and open networks."
—  nostr:npub1y8av7a5337erepxphjf50c9p4w5ghu6zu56fjqklpw0n06d7wvgqwh5cy0
https://opensats.org/blog/tor-receives-support-grant


Making this book is a lot of work but also a lot of fun. #Nostr #v4v Book ✍📝📖 #art

https://geyser.fund/project/bookstr https://i.nostr.build/Iqf4rgnTWrhzQUcI.jpg


First time I see the login page of my ISP router after uninstalling IVPN on Linux.
Don't get me wrong https://ivpn.net is my favourite public VPN (no info for accounts, can be paid with cash, lightning and monero for the freaks), but it doesn't mix well with my Tailscale - WireGuard connections.

No problem I can use some of the numerous VPS-s I can log into to be a Tailscale exit node to spoof the IP address of my devices and servers. They can be shared too.

A quick guide from the source: https://tailscale.com/kb/1408/quick-guide-exit-nodes

#networking  #privacy


There are those who come here with certain expectations (images don't load, can't find users, DM privacy sucks, no blue checkmarks, ...) and a conflicted mind that doesn't let them enjoy the freedom of chaos. They need it to be wrong and broken so they can handle the dissonance when going back to Elon's private global hellscape.

Then there are those who come and see an infinite space of possibilities and also challenges, they see the beauty in the chaos. They know that this protocol owes them exactly nothing.

They ask: what can I do with nostr what has never been done before? And slowly they realize how big this question really is.


TODAY IS THE TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF BITCOIN LEGEND HAL FINNEY.

HIS WIFE, FRAN FINNEY, WILL BE JOINING US ON CITADEL DISPATCH TODAY AT 2100 UTC TO CELEBRATE HIS LIFE.

JOIN US IN THE INTERACTIVE LIVE CHAT. 🫡

https://citadeldispatch.com


Made this a half year back. So maybe good to share it again. #Nostr & #Bitcoin (English, Spanish, French, Thai)

Free to use/share of course 🤙 https://i.nostr.build/RbKmnYIg1wz2YaKz.jpg https://i.nostr.build/1qPBXtwiRshLmmsy.jpg https://i.nostr.build/1aeJA7Xyi66Hv4zb.jpg https://i.nostr.build/gepvLioqGgpY9zWw.jpg


Join me in supporting  nostr:npub17cyatz6z2dzcw6xehtcm9z45m76lde5smxdmyasvs00r4pqv863qrs4ml3's mission to bring open source #bitcoin education to the world

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Again I’ll say, A SINGLE U.S. COMPANY (NVIDIA) has a market cap (3.09T) nearly 3xs larger than the market cap of Bitcoin (1.17T) in USD terms.

THATS HOW EARLY WE STILL ARE PEOPLE.

The world has no idea.


Agree with nostr:nprofile1qqs8d3c64cayj8canmky0jap0c3fekjpzwsthdhx4cthd4my8c5u47spzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0wd68ytnsw43z7qg5waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t0qy3hwumn8ghj7urjdau8jtt90pcx2unfd4jkuapwdah8yetwv3jhytnrdaks0duay6 that most people don't care about censorship resistance but they do care about the magic connecting string that they can enter in any other app and suddenly all their data shows up.

People value freedom of movement in nostr and they instantly feel it when they try.


How Qatar Spreads Chaos In The Middle East And Fuels Radical Islam In Europe

From ZeroHedge

Authored by Adam Starzynski via ReMix, People who have been following international news closely in recent years might have noticed that Qatar keeps appearing in the headlines and clearly punches well above its weight in world affairs for a country with […]

Aug 27th 2024 2:00am EDT

Source Link: https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/how-qatar-spreads-chaos-middle-east-and-fuels-radical-islam-europe

Internet Archive Link: https://web.archive.org/web/20240827064425/https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/how-qatar-spreads-chaos-middle-east-and-fuels-radical-islam-europe

Share, promote & comment with Nostr: https://dissentwatch.com/boost/?boost_post_id=829872


Regarding Durov's arrest:

The Russian Embassy in Paris, as is customary in cases where information is received about the detention of Russian citizens by the local authorities, immediately got to work. There is no need to remind our diplomats of their functional duties.

And I remembered how in 2018 a group of 26 NGOs, including Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Freedom House, Reporters Without Borders, the Committee to Protect Journalists and others, condemned the Russian court's decision to block Telegram. Other similar statements were made in the West (1, 2, 3, 4).

All this was said by them because on 1 July 2018, the Yarovaya law came into force in Russia, obliging telecommunications service providers to store records of telephone messages and internet traffic of their customers for six months, as well as keys to decrypt users' correspondence and provide them to the Russian Federal Security Service upon request. There were legislative complaints against Telegram, which existed in many countries due to the technical parameters of the encryption system.

These Western NGOs called on the Russian authorities to stop creating obstacles in the work of Telegram. They asked the UN, the Council of Europe, the OSCE, the European Union, the US and other governments to oppose Russia's actions and protect the fundamental rights of freedom of expression and privacy. They also called on Internet companies to counter unreasonable and unlawful demands that violate the rights of their users. They demanded that the Russian authorities guarantee the rights of users of the global network to publish and anonymously view information on websites, stressing that any restrictions must be authorised by a court of law and fully comply with the European Convention on Human Rights.
However, Durov has remained at large all this time, continuing to develop Telegram.

I publish a screenshot of all the Western profile structures that spoke out then, including a collective appeal. Do you think that this time they will appeal to Paris and demand Durov's release, or will they swallow their tongues?

@MariaZakharova https://i.nostr.build/BYyL4s8tNcUNF4Fk.jpg


Nostr is having a growth spurt right now.

As censorship and state violence against freedom of speech increases, nostr will grow faster and faster.


nostr:npub1qm72nur0wn8cdgt0unp0amzssuqxg03tzpd4r87e856nxtz344fs6g74md talking about integrating and extending btcpay at nostr:npub155m2k8ml8sqn8w4dhh689vdv0t2twa8dgvkpnzfggxf4wfughjsq2cdcvg day 2024

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nostr:npub1qm72nur0wn8cdgt0unp0amzssuqxg03tzpd4r87e856nxtz344fs6g74md dropping knowledge at nostr:npub155m2k8ml8sqn8w4dhh689vdv0t2twa8dgvkpnzfggxf4wfughjsq2cdcvg day. https://image.nostr.build/7886945ee4a52731ba9d3bddf446dd4ff3df04826b2045ccbdc87ce77624644f.jpg


Got it, yes seems that's not possible but we are trying to figure out how to make it work. Unfortunately Shopify is locking down their silo more and more.


Did you follow docs? https://docs.btcpayserver.org/Shopify/#accept-bitcoin-in-shopify-with-btcpay-server

Afaik, the field is deprecated but will be available at least until end of this year. Or is the field gone completely?


When platforms start to fall, protocols will remain. you can’t arrest email, http, or nostr.

X, telegram, rumble, *can’t* have free speech in a world where governments can compel to censor by threat of imprisonment.

The world may realize they need nostr sooner than they thought. https://image.nostr.build/1a5d6409a896956801ef8bee6720600b91bf92d7893b9ae844eb88e5d2c0f495.jpg


BREAKING: The German trade balance has just turned negative for the first time since 1990.

„Exportweltmeister“ no longer, and this is the result of a completely insane energy policy. https://image.nostr.build/bfcb10b70fe58910c4669ece0ffad39d38abe4e3df4d9f2b2a6f820ed8352448.jpg


Baltic Honeybadger 2024 - Day 2 Livestream

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/baltic-honeybadger-2024-day-2/


Conference round 2!

#BH2024 is about to get started. 🦡

Entry opens at 9:30 am
https://m.primal.net/KKTS.mp4


I was just walking down the street, coffee in hand, suddenly realizing how "normal" it all is already. Like most days, I went to a coffee shop that accepts lightning. Like most days, I paid directly with sats that someone zapped me here on nostr. Like most days, neither the merchant nor myself thought twice about it, or took a minute to marvel at what just happened.

So, allow me to do just that. Marvel at what just happened. While everyone is having a fantastically crazy time at #nostriga, uncountable people are using bitcoin in a myriad of ways. Some for savings, large and small; some for transactions, large and small; some for other stuff. Bitcoin is slowly but surely entering the world stage. Some commentators will tell you that this is good. Some commentators will tell you that this is bad. Whatever the case may be, it is unavoidable.

I see nostr under a similar light. As platform-based manipulation and censorship ramps up—which it inevitably will—the usage of nostr will ramp up too, and with it the usage of zaps and everything else that comes with it. And soon enough, buying a coffee (or breakfast, lunch, and dinner) with zap-based income will be normal. Just like it's "normal" to be an "influencer" today, or a "YouTuber" or whatnot... It's not everyone's cup of tea, but it's a normal thing. Anyone can do it.

Back to my coffee. I remember when I had the "oh my god, I can live on bitcoin here!!!" experience for the first time. It was in Bitcoin Jungle, a couple of months after the initiative was launched. I stayed there for 2 weeks or so, buying the necessities of daily life with sats outright. And it worked. Flawlessly. I had zero payment failures, and was exclusively using Zeus with my own node. It was incredible.

Why is this incredible, you ask? Shouldn't stuff just work? Yes, it should. But building out the tech and the infrastructure to make it all work is BLOODY HARD. I remember the first Lightning Conference in Berlin, in 2019. Everyone came, everyone had all their channels and wallets and everything prepared, and ~50% of payments failed. For... reasons.

Fast-forward to today: I go to one of the 100+ merchants in the city that accept bitcoin, a quick tap on the PoS device & QR code scan, boom, done. Is it always perfect? Of course not. Will it get better still? 100% it will. Very soon these merchants will have NFC-enabled devices, and the tap-to-pay experience that people are used to with cards & Apple pay will be normal for bitcoin payments too. If you are in Riga right now, you'll experience this first-hand thanks to Bolt cards and BTCPay Server. It's awesome, it's open-source, and it works. And it will get better still.

We are truly living in the best and weirdest timeline; a timeline where shitposting on the internet can buy you lunch and dinner; a timeline that spawns amazing technological movements like #nostr; a timeline that, every ~10 minutes, allows for a small miracle to happen. A timeline where "magic internet money" is a normal thing; a timeline that, thanks to the magic dust of cryptography, enables anyone to speak about anything, without having to ask for permission. I'm grateful.

Thank you, Satoshi. 🙏🧡


Was können Bitcoiner aus der Niederlage der Bauern vor 500 Jahren lernen und was sollten/könnten sie besser machen?

Das hab ich AI gefragt und hier die Antwort:
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Die Niederlage der Bauern im Bauernkrieg 1525 lässt sich auf mehrere strategische Fehler zurückführen. Hier sind die Hauptgründe für ihre Niederlage und was Bitcoiner daraus lernen können:

1. Mangelnde Einheit
   - Bauern: Fehlende zentrale Koordination und unterschiedliche Ziele.
   - Bitcoiner: Sollten eine einheitliche Vision und Strategie entwickeln, trotz dezentraler Natur.

2. Unzureichende Organisation
   - Bauern: Keine professionelle militärische Struktur.
   - Bitcoiner: Müssen gut organisierte Netzwerke und Gemeinschaften aufbauen.

3. Technologische Unterlegenheit
   - Bauern: Schlechtere Bewaffnung und Ausbildung.
   - Bitcoiner: Sollten technologischen Vorsprung beibehalten und weiterentwickeln.

4. Mangelnde Ressourcen
   - Bauern: Weniger finanzielle und materielle Mittel.
   - Bitcoiner: Müssen ausreichend Ressourcen für Entwicklung und Verbreitung sicherstellen.

5. Fehlende Unterstützung der Mittelschicht
   - Bauern: Konnten Städte und Bürger nicht vollständig für sich gewinnen.
   - Bitcoiner: Sollten breite Unterstützung in allen Gesellschaftsschichten anstreben.

6. Unterschätzung des Gegners
   - Bauern: Unterschätzten die Macht und Ressourcen der Fürsten.
   - Bitcoiner: Dürfen die Macht etablierter Finanzsysteme nicht unterschätzen.

7. Zu aggressive Vorgehensweise
   - Bauern: Oft gewaltsame Aufstände, die Gegenwehr provozierten.
   - Bitcoiner: Sollten auf friedliche Integration und Koexistenz setzen.

Strategien für Bitcoiner, um gegen eine Zentralmacht zu bestehen:

1. Bildung und Aufklärung
   - Breites Verständnis für Bitcoin und seine Vorteile in der Bevölkerung schaffen.

2. Technologische Innovation
   - Kontinuierliche Verbesserung der Bitcoin-Technologie und Infrastruktur.

3. Regulatorische Zusammenarbeit
   - Konstruktiver Dialog mit Regulierungsbehörden, statt direkter Konfrontation.

4. Dezentrale Stärke
   - Nutzen der dezentralen Natur von Bitcoin als Vorteil gegen zentralisierte Angriffe.

5. Globale Vernetzung
   - Aufbau einer starken, internationalen Community für gegenseitige Unterstützung.

6. Wirtschaftliche Integration
   - Förderung der Akzeptanz und Nutzung von Bitcoin im Alltag und in der Wirtschaft.

7. Resilienz und Anpassungsfähigkeit
   - Vorbereitung auf verschiedene Szenarien und schnelle Anpassung an neue Herausforderungen.

8. Ethische Ausrichtung
   - Betonung der positiven gesellschaftlichen Auswirkungen von Bitcoin.

9. Diversifikation
   - Nicht alle Eier in einen Korb legen; Entwicklung verschiedener Anwendungsfälle für Bitcoin.

10. Langfristiges Denken
    - Fokus auf nachhaltige Entwicklung statt kurzfristiger Gewinne oder schneller Umwälzungen.

Durch diese Strategien können Bitcoiner eine stärkere Position aufbauen und besser gegen potenzielle Widerstände von Zentralmächten gewappnet sein, als es die Bauern 1525 waren.


Looking to hire a front end dev to make a website for a medical side-hustle of mine. Eventually would like to incorporate either nostr:npub155m2k8ml8sqn8w4dhh689vdv0t2twa8dgvkpnzfggxf4wfughjsq2cdcvg or nostr:npub1cwneqlnjgs3rdtk97c2ffy2df9dm5zycgj3dsg8c3z00hchxjmfqtvraju

Hit me up if interested! #asknostr


I was there, Gandalf. https://image.nostr.build/3d51585e40c2569e11806d4bad21aa2de14a997cd0ff7a14fc51757f22c11b80.jpg


Source?


It’s a Rockstar world.
We’re just livin’ in it.

#Nostriga 2024
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Generational wealth.

Bitcoiners talk about it often. Building citadels, starting a multi-generational legacy.

It sounds incredible on paper, but there are two questions I find myself asking when I think about this tooic:

Who would I be if I inherited wealth?
Who will my children become when they inherit what I leave for them?

Most of us didn't come from money. We have to hustle, and our struggles define us. Our willingness to work hard & smart, to do what needs to be done for the good of our families, is a common trait amongst bitcoiners. It's what we want to instill in our children.

This doesn't mean we throw our kids out in the wilderness and see if they survive, but we do have a responsibility to make sure they understand the struggle. That they know what it's like to be in the trenches of life.  That they don't take for granted that which we climbed out of when we sought a better way via #Bitcoin.

This is also why it's incredibly important for us to take care of our health, because these parental responsibilities don't end when our kids turn 18. These life lessons take decades to learn, and we need to be there for our children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren, should we be so lucky.

Your day will come. When it does, make sure everything you worked for is in good hands. 🧡


Fountain 1.1 with #nostr is now live on iOS and Android!
https://m.primal.net/KGni.mov

Why Nostr?

We regularly hear from both listeners and podcasters that the social features in Fountain are a great way to discover content that’s worth listening to.

When you support a podcast, or comment on an episode, your message is surfaced to your followers in the Fountain home feed and anyone that sees these can add the content to their library.

But this came with a few problems. When you first start using Fountain you wouldn’t have any followers so your posts wouldn’t get seen. If you wanted to share something you were listening to, you had to choose between leaving a comment on Fountain, or sharing on another social platform.

Today we are excited to announce a massive update to Fountain that solves these problems with Nostr:

- You can bring your existing profile and followers to Fountain
- Your boosts and comments will be surfaced in other Nostr clients
- Posts shared from other Nostr clients relating to audio will appear in your feed
- Conversation and interactions now flow freely across multiple apps

Read more about the new Fountain nostr features here: https://blog.fountain.fm/p/1-1

Please let me know your feedback!


very sad to miss but will join the madness tomorrow 😭

kudos to "the uncle network" for sponsoring this very important party of a very important day 🫂


Happy Bitcoin Infinity Day!
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Free lunch at Spikeri Hall during #BH2024’s Noob Day by nostr:npub1yul83qxn35u607er3m7039t6rddj06qezfagfqlfw4qk5z5slrfqu8ncdu

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There are a couple books that so fundamentally changed my life, yet they are not known by most of my friends.

If more people would read these books, I'm convinced the world will turn a better place much sooner.

So I will do everything in my power to deoccult these books, specifically to publish them as audio books.

The first is Cryptoeconomics - Fundamental Principles of Bitcoin, the most rigorous book about Bitcoin, and a groundbreaking work in praxeological thought.
https://podcastindex.org/podcast/4363136

The second is A Lodging of Wayfaring Men, the beautiful fiction story that directly inspired Bitcoin, the Silk Road, and federated ecash.
https://podcastindex.org/podcast/531078?episode=26704256672

Please, take your time to read or listen to these books. I hope they will improve your life as much as they did mine.


NPC 👀

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GM. Joining tomorrow 💜


I'M SO GOD DAMN BULLISH ON #nostriga, SO DECIDED TO GO FULL ODELL ON THIS NOTE 🔥

SO WHO OF YOU WILL BE IN RIGA YOU BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE 🫂


Oh boy. The UK National Crime Agency's latest Risk Assessment finds "cryptoassets are increasingly used to launder non-digital proceeds of  crime" and names increased risks to children through end-to-end encryption.

The only problem: the assessment provides no concrete data to backup its claims and stands in direct contrast to industry findings.

You will be surveilled and you will be happy, even though we are terminally incapable of publicly demonstrating a need for increased surveillance at all.

Source: trust us bro.

https://www.therage.co/uk-nca-national-risk-assessment-2024/


Folks over on X are having a difficult time understanding why I’m focusing my efforts on #nostr.

Here’s why: https://image.nostr.build/c01cbf357f65c2f0f2f3510aa0e7cb0d88ad0cb2f227a1c131b5827bf2fd73de.jpg


Have you signed up for #NOSTRiga yet? Our team will be issuing a new batch of tickets one more time this Wednesday!

Sign up here:
🎟 https://tally.so/r/wbdMlL


We're celebrating 7 years of developing BTCPay Server together with you! It's been a wild ride, all started by  nostr:npub1zfytz6ktce3av2svlfpl0e79e44tnskxmvlpkcmc7q0xct3qa49swvm60l's tweet.

Thank you to everyone who has joined us in our mission of obsoleting BitPay and creating FOSS tech that enables anyone to accept #Bitcoin.

https://video.nostr.build/8d17114b705596684ac1304a3ab391a82d46daabaae77a373c0d81bf252e20ae.mp4

This year has been filled with incredible moments; one of the most significant being the release of the "MY TRUST IN YOU IS BROKEN" documentary.

Thanks to  nostr:npub1rj7eh0eu3skwcyr5adpcjwxft9z4yjdspjryq6gynqw2j49f9a3quqjpw2, anyone interested in the history of BTCPay Server can now just watch https://youtube.com/watch?v=Z78ZbPcsc3g.

We're very excited for what's to come in the next year. Want a sneak peek? Join us at #BTCPayDay during  nostr:npub1yul83qxn35u607er3m7039t6rddj06qezfagfqlfw4qk5z5slrfqu8ncdu #BH2024 on August 26th to learn more.

Register on: http://day.btcpayserver.org

Kudos to our current active contributors, follow them!
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@dstrukt__
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@TChileta

Join us:
http://github.com/btcpayserver
http://chat.btcpayserver.org
http://t.me/btcpayserver

Finally, a heartfelt thank you to our https://foundation.btcpayserver.org supporters. This journey is so much better with your involvement and backing.

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@BaillieGifford
@Tether_to
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@LunaNode
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Shoutout to all our amazing contributors, ambassadors, sponsors and merchants that build out important bitcoin infrastructure to accept bitcoin payments. We will make fiat obsolete. 👏💚

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Bitcoin Conferences. https://m.primal.net/KBgq.png


The #BitAxe Hub BETA is now released and fully open sourced. Do with it as you want.

It's still a work in progress so have fun y'all.
If you remix or modify share you files so I can add it to the page.

Grab it here:
https://printables.com/model/976630-bitaxe-hub-v1-beta/files


I've just published the draft NIP to bring highly secure DM and group messaging to Nostr via the MLS protocol.

I've been studying this space for months now and after looking at a lot of different options, MLS (messaging layer security) stood out as the right way to approach solving DMs and group messages. It's highly scalable, an internet standard, and allows for graceful upgrading over time.

Done right – this NIP allows us to build extremely secure, uncensorable messaging clients that have no centralized coordinators or servers. Which is what I plan to do next. 😉

https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1427


Father of new Thai premier, Thaksim Shinawatra, keeps a Blockclock on his shelf 👀
https://m.primal.net/KBdG.jpg


Gewinnspielzwanzig is so back!

In Kooperation mit nostr:npub1l5pxvjzhw77h86tu0sml2gxg8jpwxch7fsj6d05n7vuqpq75v34syk4q0n rufen nostr:npub1pzptxv5nwqnr8mvz88ll6sq3hwq2c3yv439pr9puguzvwn5qz8jsj3ax2p, nostr:npub18hxp27srqnkzd6snrg85u4mw9kn8lawxdxqff8z4h4lshvd4a7ssmtxks4 und nostr:npub1dskk3wspds53g9larr48cp4hxlkpg0ma2mtclh2y5key3pr9yhkqjvjuc2 zum 21-tägigen Bitaxe Meme Contest auf.

Gesucht wird bis einschließlich 06.09.2024 das - in den Augen der Jury - legendärste Bitaxe Meme auf nostr.

Teile deine besten Bitaxe Memes unter den Hashtags #bitaxe und #bitaxegobrrr und schon nimmst du teil. Bitte versichere dich, dass nostr.einundzwanzig.space und relay.damus.io unter den Relays deines nostr clients sind, damit die Jury deine Memes auch finden kann.

Zu gewinnen gibt es einen Bitaxe Ultra samt 3D case und hochwertigem Netzteil - powered by GoBrrr.me Shop.

#einundzwanzig #plebchain #memes

Mehr Infos findest dazu im Gewinnstr Special: nostr:naddr1qvzqqqy9hvpzqmpddzaqzmpfzstl6x820srtwdlvzslh64kh3lw5ffdjfzzx2f0vqy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq3zamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wwa5kuef0qqrk7jn9vevkwms72xcsy


BTCPay Day at  nostr:npub1yul83qxn35u607er3m7039t6rddj06qezfagfqlfw4qk5z5slrfqu8ncdu Baltic Honey Badger 2024 #BH2024 is gearing up to be our biggest one yet!

Join us on August 26th at K. K. fon Stricka villa, starting at noon. Expect presentations from our team members and lots of great guests.

Hurry up, reserve your spot, and join us!

https://video.nostr.build/38a01d8623df27e507046a5e20febb597440f5f0a8a5d5140f593c22c8690c6f.mp4

#Nostriga is already bringing tons of great people to town, we're lucky to host people like  nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx and  nostr:npub134mhsyeg5c7nj2dxu2jfxzwk6y3dn5z405tnyvtkutr6n37r44hqpj4pkg as #BTCPayDay guests and talk about impact they've had on BTCPay.

Our team members will also be presenting the work done during past year and what's ahead.

See the full agenda and register on https://day.btcpayserver.org


See you there  nostr:npub1za04drthlvxtwsq0phwc4mgh8rxhjafjkv2w7pf6ze5afka8gvaquadur3,  nostr:npub1zfytz6ktce3av2svlfpl0e79e44tnskxmvlpkcmc7q0xct3qa49swvm60l,  nostr:npub1y24gz5gwucl79vtv4ctwpysl0r5m4xyzu2rgulnr44ks3t5mt92q4nz2ad,  nostr:npub14j7wc366rf8efqvnnm8m68pazy04kkj8fgu6uqumh3eqlhfst0kqrngtpf,  nostr:npub1qm72nur0wn8cdgt0unp0amzssuqxg03tzpd4r87e856nxtz344fs6g74md,  nostr:npub1rj7eh0eu3skwcyr5adpcjwxft9z4yjdspjryq6gynqw2j49f9a3quqjpw2, dstrukt!


Palindrome Block 856658 👉👈


I'm pretty confident scientists can at a minimum measure the temperature and determine if it's getting hotter on average.

I'm not confident they know why it's happening, how it will change or not change in the future. These people don't even know if it will rain tomorrow.

And I know for DAMNED SURE the answer isn't to implement communism, reduce energy production or impose higher taxes.


So many people in bitcoin and some of your fave influencers have real behavioural and mental issues.

Narcissists and plain rude li’l bitches, it’s quite disappointing when they reveal their true colours.

See, just because we’re right about this wonderful internet token it doesn’t mean we’re a) special, b) right about any number of other things.

Be kind, anon. And if you are a bitcoin influencer, be even kinder.

Make it your f*cking grind to be kind.

I try to do this, truly, but still f*ck up loads.

PS - you are special if you’re reading this 😉


Mit dem falschen Fuß aufgestanden? Habe nix anderes gesagt. Für die einen bleibt es ein Investment weil sie nie tiefer in das Rabbithole eintauchen. Einige weniger werden den proof of work erbringen und alles hinterfragen und tiefer in das Rabbithole abtauchen und erkennen das es die Welt verändert.

Jeder darf in Bitcoin sehen was er will. 🤷♂


Ein Investment bis jetzt, je tiefer sie ins Rabbithole gehen desto weniger wird es als Investment gesehen. Manche kommen nicht weiter und verirren sich. Wir können ihnen helfen den Weg zu finden aber ohne proof of work bleibt es ein Investment.


While you were busy making fun of the UK for criminalizing free speech, the UN finalized its Cybercrime Convention which will overrule bank secrecy and criminalize hacking, whistleblowing, and security research.

The convention, which was finalized last friday, drastically expands government surveillance powers and enables the widespread sharing of personal data between UN member states.

The convention mandates the identification, tracing, confiscation and seizure of "proceeds of crime, property, equipment or other instrumentalities" and the collection of real-time traffic and content data on behalf of requesting member states.

It further mandates member states to establish criminal offences for "the concealment or disguise of the true nature, source, location, disposition, movement or ownership of or rights with respect to property" and  "the conversion or transfer of property [...] for the purpose of concealing or disguising the illicit origin of the property" when committed intentionally.

As the Electronic Frontier Foundation explains, the convention includes "documents saved on personal computers or notes stored on digital devices. In essence, this means that private unshared thoughts and information are no longer safe. Authorities can compel the preservation, production, or seizure of any electronic data, potentially turning personal devices into spy vectors regardless of whether the information has been communicated".

While the treaty defers most articles to the governance of local laws, it states that states "shall not decline to act [...] on the ground of bank secrecy".

Full story:

https://www.therage.co/un-cybercrime-convention-bank-secrecy/


A lot of people self sabotage when they're about to win. don't be one of those people.


Imagine being a salon owner and the secret service tapes over cameras, breaks into your salon, uses the restroom for a 2 hour stretch, takes some candy from the front desk and leaves the door unlocked on the way out. 😀

New Meme Template just dropped. https://image.nostr.build/846d00d0595b225ee2e5d4846e8f1911b2c8b9e9c9a4efbdb309c2cef316dca1.jpg


"Some people are so poor, all they have is money. "


Pseudoscience? No problem.

Circumstantial evidence? No problem.

They’re just going to do whatever they want. No matter the truth.

Rule of law is the most critical part of a functioning society. If you can’t be sure that the courts at least try to treat everyone the same then what’s the point? nostr:note1rs0r8dlggamrtaxq44xh8kxgqzy9p7pvvtmc0vgdpm4r3w4gdjgq445pzy


Elegant calculations defend sensitive assets.

Few.


Does anyone know of #Bitcoin hardware or software wallets that are accessible for blind users?

Looking for options with strong accessibility features. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated!


Achtsam in die Neuen Zeiten: Kriegspropaganda

This is a long form article, you can read it in https://habla.news/a/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzqmpddzaqzmpfzstl6x820srtwdlvzslh64kh3lw5ffdjfzzx2f0vqqxnzdejxvcngdesxuerzwp43jxm5j

Will man der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung glauben, so handelt es sich bei Propaganda um den Versuch der gezielten Beeinflussung des Denkens, Handelns wie auch Fühlens von Menschen. Charakteristisch für Propaganda ist, dass sie darauf verzichtet die verschiedenen Seiten einer Thematik darzulegen, sondern gezielt Meinung mit (Fehl)-Information vermischt. Wer Propaganda betreibt, strebt nicht danach zu diskutieren oder die Öffentlichkeit gar mit Argumenten zu überzeugen, sondern greift zu verschiedensten Manipulationstechniken, die die Emotionen und das Verhalten der Öffentlichkeit beeinflussen. Propaganda nimmt dem Menschen (eigenständiges) Denken ab und gibt ihm stattdessen das Gefühl, mit der übernommenen Meinung goldrichtig zu liegen. Hier zeigt sich auch der wesentliche Unterschied zum Journalismus: Journalismus strebt nach Aufklärung, indem alle verfügbaren Fakten und Hintergründe dargelegt werden und der Empfänger selbst darüber entscheiden darf, was er für richtig und was er für falsch hält [1].

Zwar verbinden wir den Begriff Propaganda heutzutage mit autoritären und totalitären Staaten, wo diese auch zweifelsfrei Anwendung findet, doch kommen Propagandatechniken auch im Westen zum Einsatz, wenn auch in einer auf die demokratische Herrschaftsform zugeschnittene Art und Weise. Wie die Geschichte gezeigt hat - hier sind die Werke von Edward Bernays ganz besonders relevant [2] - wurde Öffentlichkeitsarbeit, sprich Public Relations (PR), basierend auf den Erkenntnissen der Propagandaforschung verfeinert, über welche die öffentliche Wahrnehmung von Personen, Konzernen und Regierungen beeinflusst wird. In Summe lässt sich daraus ableiten, dass auch Propaganda in unseren Breitengraden Tradition hat.

Nun halte ich es in Zeiten von (leider) wiederkehrenden heißen Konflikten in Europa besonders wichtig sich über existierende Manipulationstechniken wie auch gezielter Meinungsmache in (Massen)-medien bewusst zu sein wie auch erscheinenden Artikeln, Posts, Videos und ganz besonders Schlagzeilen mit einem gewissen Grad an Achtsamkeit zu begegnen, um nicht umgehend Opfer von Manipulation zu werden. Denn wie schon von der bereits erwähnten Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung erwähnt wurde, kann nur jener sich gegen den Einfluss von Propaganda wehren, der diese als solche erkennt. Dadurch motiviert nehme ich heute die Prinzipien der Kriegspropaganda ins Fadenkreuz.

> „Auf die Dauer vermag auch die frechste und bestorganisierte Propaganda nichts gegen die Wahrheit.“
―Albert Schweitzer

## Die Prinzipien der Kriegspropaganda

Unter dem Eindruck des Ersten Weltkriegs schrieb Arthur Ponsonby, britischer Adeliger & Staatsbeamter, 1928 das Buch "Lüge in Kriegszeiten", in welchem er die Mechanismen der damaligen Kriegspropaganda untersuchte. Er steht übrigens im Verdacht Urvater des berühmten Zitats "das erste Opfer im Krieg ist die Wahrheit" zu sein [3]. In diesem Werk schildert Ponsonby 20 Aspekte, die wiederum später von der Historikerin Anne Morelli im Jahr 2001 zu den zehn Prinzipien der Kriegspropaganda zusammengefasst wurden. Wie sie selbst betonte geht es bei diesen Prinzipien nicht darum herauszufinden, wer lügt und wer die Wahrheit sagt, wer das glaubt, was er sagt, sondern Mittels dieser Prinzipien die verbreitete Propaganda zu veranschaulichen und ihr Funktionieren zu beschreiben (Seite 6, [4]). Nachdem ich mich selbst mit diesen Prinzipien beschäftigt hatte, wurde mir mit jeder einzelnen Gedankenrunde immer klarer, wie die von Anne Morelli beschriebenen Prinzipien als wie eine Art Leitfaden verwendet werden, um Pressemeldungen, Argumente und Schlagzeilen in Sozialen Medien so zu formulieren, dass unabhängig vom Geschehnis stets eine unterbewusste Botschaft mitschwingt, so dass der gewünschte Effekt der Manipulation maximiert wird.

Nun könnte man nach Durchsicht der größten Tagesblätter des Deutschsprachigen Raums etliche Beispiele für jeden einzelnen der in Kürze vorgestellten Prinzipien präsentieren, doch habe ich in Anbetracht des Themas bewusst Abstand davon genommen, um nicht gewisse Journalisten - oder kriegstreibende Propagandisten wie ich sie nenne - samt Klarnamen an den Pranger zu stellen. Wie Anne Morelli, sehe ich den größtmöglichen Mehrwert darin, die Mechanik offenzulegen, um die Leserschaft für dieses Thema zu sensibilisieren.

### Wir wollen keinen Krieg!

Stets wird versichert, dass man den stattfindenden Krieg keines Falles wolle. In einer demokratischen Gesellschaft ist Krieg ein ungebetener Gast, weswegen Bevölkerungen fast ausnahmslos jedes Mal in die Kriegsbereitschaft hineingelockt werden müssen, siehe Brutkastenlüge im Zusammenhang mit dem Irakkrieg. Nun kann man sehr oft beobachten, wie Staatsführer stets in aller Inbrunst gegen den aktuellen oder einen eventuell bevorstehenden Krieg poltern. Wenn jedoch alle Personen an den entscheidenden Machthebeln so sehr gegen Kriege sind, wie können Kriege dann überhaupt ausbrechen?

### Der Gegner ist allein für den Krieg verantwortlich!

Der zugrundeliegenden Logik nach zeigt jeweils die eine Kriegspartei auf die andere und schiebt dabei die Schuld für den stattfindenden Krieg der anderen Seite zu. Selbst hat man natürlich keine provozierenden Schritte gesetzt, wie etwa das Stationieren von Raketensystemen, das Verschieben von Machtblöcken oder Ähnliches. Statt zum Mittel der Diplomatie zu greifen muss der Konflikt jetzt weiter angeheizt und der Krieg fortgeführt werden, denn schließlich muss dieser Krieg jetzt geführt werden, damit (ewiger) Frieden herrschen kann - siehe "Krieg ist Frieden" nach George Orwell. Darüber hinaus kann der Konflikt auch deshalb nicht beendet werden, weil der Feind sonst "unsere Werte" zerstört, "uns" die Freiheit nimmt oder gar ein Genozid "an unserem Volk" stattfindet.

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### Der Führer des feindlichen Lagers wird dämonisiert

Dieses Prinzip folgt der Logik des Reduzierens eines ganzen Landes auf eine an der Spitze sitzenden Person, also dem Zuschneiden auf Putin, Obama, Scholz, etc. Diese Person repräsentiert quasi einen fleischgewordenen Dämon, der die Macht über das Feindesland errungen hat und nun in Abwesenheit von geistiger Gesundheit einen Konflikt vom Zaun bricht. Morelli argumentiert dazu: "Man kann eine Gruppe von Menschen nicht insgesamt hassen, nicht einmal als Feinde. Es ist daher wirkungsvoller, den Hass auf die feindliche Führungspersönlichkeit zu richten. Der Gegner bekommt so ein Gesicht und dieses Gesicht wird natürlich Gegenstand des Hasses werden."

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### Wir verteidigen ein edles Ziel und keine besonderen Interessen!

Der Fokus auf moralische und legitime Werte spielt diesem Prinzip nach deshalb eine besondere Rolle, weil es dazu dient die wirtschaftlichen und geopolitischen Ziele der eignen Seite zu verdecken, was auf das Stärken der Zustimmung der eigenen Bevölkerung schielt, da der Konflikt zu einem gewissen Grad nur durch Zustimmung eben dieser Bevölkerung geführt werden kann. So hatte Antonio Gramsci dargelegt wie sich die Ziele des Ersten Weltkriegs in drei Punkte zusammenfassen lassen: den Militarismus zu vernichten, die kleinen Staaten (wie etwa Belgien) zu verteidigen und die Welt für "die Demokratie" vorzubereiten. Letzteres Argument fand sich auch in den Konflikten des aktuellen Jahrhunderts in ähnlicher Form als "Spreading Democracy" oder "Befreiung des Iraks" wieder. Ergänzend könnte man zu diesem Prinzip sagen, dass ein Unterton von "der Feind ist ein blutrünstiges Monster aus einer barbarischen Gesellschaft" mitschwingt.

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### Der Feind begeht wissentlich Grausamkeiten, wenn wir Fehler machen, geschieht dies unbeabsichtigt

Erzählungen über Gräueltaten des Feindes stellen ein wesentliches Element von Kriegspropaganda dar. Zwar sind Grausamkeiten zweifelsohne integraler Bestandteil eines jeden Krieges, und das auf beiden Seiten, jedoch ist die gegensätzliche Darstellung der eigenen "humanitären" Armee, die selbstverständlich von der Bevölkerung geliebt wird, und der feindlichen Armee, die als einzige Kriegspartei Grausamkeiten begeht, altbekannte Propaganda. Üblicherweise begnügt man sich nicht mit den tatsächlich auftretenden Verbrechen, im Gegenteil, man kann in vergangenen Konflikten wiederholt beobachten wie Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit am Schreibtisch erfunden werden, um den Feind als die Wiederkehr Adolf Hitlers erscheinen zu lassen.

### Der Feind benutzt unerlaubte Waffen

In gewisser Weise ergänzt dieses Prinzip das vorangegangene und das nämlich um den Aspekt den Krieg selbst auf ritterliche Art und Weise zu führen, als wäre Krieg ein vollends definiertes Brettspiel, während der Feind geächtete Waffen einsetzt - zu jenen man selbst natürlich niemals greifen würde. Die Geschichte zeigt, dass hier oft der Gegenseite vorgeworfen wird, was die eigene Armee-(führung) bereits lange vorbereitet oder gar eingesetzt hat. Ein älteres Beispiel wäre die Verwendung von Giftgas im Ersten Weltkrieg, während Streumunition wie auch mit Uran angereicherte Munition ein trauriges Kapitel der vergangenen Monate ist.

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### Wir erleiden geringe Verluste, die Verluste des Feindes sind erheblich

Zitat aus dem Buch von Morelli: "Von seltenen Ausnahmen abgesehen, schließen Menschen sich eher den siegreichen Anliegen an. Im Falle des Krieges hängt die Präferenz der öffentlichen Meinung sehr stark von den augenscheinlichen Ergebnissen des Konflikts ab. Wenn die Ergebnisse nicht gut sind, muss die Propaganda unsere Verluste verschleiern und die des Feindes übertreiben."

### Anerkannte Kulturträger und Wissenschafter unterstützen unser Anliegen

Ein unterschätztes Mittel der Propaganda ist das Einbeziehen von Personen des öffentlichen Lebens, favorisiert jene zu denen möglichst große Teile der Bevölkerung ein Vertrauensverhältnis entwickelt haben oder Personen mit einer gewissen "moralischen Autorität", wie etwa geistliche Führer. Darüber hinaus ließen sich in der Vergangenheit - wie auch heute - Künstler und Medienschaffende dazu instrumentalisieren Filme, Dokumentationen und Karikaturen über den Feind zu erstellen wie auch zu verbreiten. Man rufe sich in Erinnerung, dass man nicht ohne Grund von der Heimatfront spricht. In einer halbwegs von Demokratie geprägten Gesellschaft entscheidet das Wahlvolk wie lange ein Konflikt noch geführt werden kann bzw. wie stabil die kriegsführende Regierung im Sattel sitzt.

### Unser Anliegen hat etwas Heiliges

Dieses Prinzip mag bei erster Betrachtung an die Kreuzzüge erinnern, bei jenen "der Wille Gottes" in gewisser Weise im Mittelpunkt stand. Ein in meinen Augen wichtiges Element bei diesem Aspekt ist die versteckte Nachricht des Kampfes Gut gegen Böse. Wir, die Guten, kämpfen gegen das Böse, den Feind, und treiben diesen Konflikt nun gewaltsam voran, um die Welt von dem Bösen zu befreien, die Welt also einer Heilung zu unterziehen. Neben dem religiös angehauchten Argument scheint dieses Propagandaprinzip um das Schlagwort "Demokratie" bereichert geworden zu sein. Wie in meinen Augen zurecht aufgezeigt wird, sprach auch George Bush von der "Achse des Bösen" wie auch der Pflicht dem Irak Demokratie zu bringen, also ein Gut, dass gottesgleiche Züge zu haben scheint. Sprachliche Ausschmückungen wie "Gott ist mit uns" tun in Botschaften, die sich nach diesem Prinzip richten, ihr übriges.

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### Wer unsere Propaganda in Zweifel zieht, arbeitet für den Feind und ist damit ein Verräter

Das zehnte und somit letzte Prinzip kann mit den vorangegangenen Prinzipien kombiniert werden. In manchen Situationen dient dieses Prinzip jedoch auch als Leitmotiv im Umgang mit kritischen Stimmen aus der Heimatfront. Wer auch immer Meldungen, Schlagzeilen oder gar Argumente infrage stellt, ist automatisch ein Kollaborateur des Feindes. Anhand dieser polarisierten Betrachtungsweise des "entweder bist du für uns oder gegen uns" muss umgehend Farbe bekannt werden. Durch diese Eliminierung einer abgewogenen Betrachtung von komplexen Ereignissen wird es also unmöglich gemacht, eine abweichende Meinung zu entwickeln, ohne einen regelrechten Lynchprozess am Hals zu haben. Man könnte dies auch als das Ende des Meinungspluralismus interpretieren, wo jegliche Opposition zum Schweigen verurteilt wird und zur Not diffamiert wie auch diskriminiert wird.

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## (Weitere) Methoden der Kriegspropaganda

Wie in [6] präsentiert, können Propagandisten auf eine erstaunlich große Bandbreite von Manipulationsmethoden zurückgreifen. In meinen Augen lohnt sich ein kurzer Blick darauf. Ein wesentlicher Punkt, den es meiner Meinung nach zu beachten gilt, ist die Tatsache, dass mit dem gezielten Einsatz von (Kriegs)-Propaganda meist lange vor dem ersten Schusswechsel begonnen wird und auch nach Beendigung des Konfliktes Propaganda einen wichtigen Teil der militärischen Strategie darstellt.

### Die Rolle von Angst

Das Zeichnen eines immanenten Bedrohungsszenarios, welches besonders über die emotionale Schiene wahrgenommen wird, stimmt Menschen am ehesten um die Notwendigkeit eines Militäreinsatzes zu befürworten. Dabei spielt es meiner Ansicht nach gar keine so große Rolle, ob diese Bedrohung real existiert oder nicht, ausschlaggebend ist die gefühlte Wahrnehmung der Bevölkerung. Bestehende oder induzierte Angst lassen sich durch geschicktes Beeinflussen schnell in Wut wandeln und am Ende des Prozesses in einen flammenden Hass auf den vermeintlichen Feind. Aus diesem Grund wird oft ein Zustand der permanent gefühlten Bedrohung geschaffen, sodass in den Köpfen eine gefühlte Gefahr für Laib und Leben so oft wie möglich präsent ist. Dieser Prozess wird durch ständiges Wiederholen der Botschaft verstärkt, bis es sich tief im Unterbewusstsein der Bevölkerung eingenistet hat.

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### Zensur

Zensur - das gezielte Unterdrücken oder Weglassen von Informationen zu einem Sachverhalt, ist schon lange fixer Bestandteil von Propaganda. Bestimmte Sichtweisen können in der Abwesenheit von Gegenargumenten oder gar Gegenbeweisen besonders gut verfestigt werden. Hierzu genügt es aus Sicht des Staatsapparats nicht nur Beiträge zu löschen oder Meinungen zu unterdrücken, nein, damit dies möglich ist, muss flächendeckende wie auch umfängliche Überwachung stattfinden, damit in den Augen des Unterdrückers problematische Informationen schnellstmöglich aus dem Verkehr gezogen werden können.

Von Zensur betroffen sind Druckerzeugnisse wie etwa Zeitungen und Bücher, aber auch Ton und Bildproduktionen. Auf digitaler Ebene können Webseiten, Blogs, Content Creatoren oder gar ganze Online Communities hiervon betroffen sein. Im Kontext eines Krieges ist es für die heimische Konfliktpartei von enormer Bedeutung Zensur anzuwenden, um dem Feind keinerlei geheime Informationen zukommen zu lassen - zum Beispiel über Waffen, Truppenbewegungen oder geplante Manöver der eigenen Einheiten. Ein weiteres Anliegen geht in die Richtung wie der Krieg in der Öffentlichkeit dargestellt wird. So kann ohne Anwendung von Zensur das Vertrauen in die Politik schwinden und somit schlussendlich die Zustimmung zum Fortführen der kriegerischen Handlungen schwinden. Dies kann beispielsweise passieren, sobald die Bevölkerung von Niederlagen, Fehlschlägen, dem von der eigenen Armee ausgelösten Leid oder gar Kriegsverbrechen der eigenen Reihen Wind bekommt. Daher ist es im Interesse des Zensors solche Informationen geheim zu halten.
Während die direkte Zensur in der westlichen Welt weitestgehend abgeschafft wurde, findet indirekte Zensur nach wie vor Anwendung. Hierbei ist die Zugangskontrolle zu bestimmten Informationen gemeint. Es existieren quasi Torwächter, die darüber entscheiden welcher Journalist welche Informationen gefüttert bekommt. Darüber hinaus können Informationen - etwa über bestimmte Kriegsverbrechen - bewusst vorenthalten werden oder Journalisten dürfen bestimmte Orte erst gar nicht betreten. Somit bleibt vielen Journalisten wie auch Berichterstattern oft nichts anderes übrig, als die Meldungen der Militärführung zu übernehmen.

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Eine dritte Form von Zensur, die in meinen Augen oftmals gar nicht erst bedacht wird, ist die Selbstzensur von Berichterstattern. Obwohl es in vielen Fällen keine politischen oder militärischen Zensurvorschriften gibt, unterschlagen Berichterstatter bestimmte Informationen. Erklärungen hierfür können Motivationen wirtschaftlicher Natur eines Mediums, direkte Bestechung oder Begünstigung sein. Nicht zu unterschätzen ist die aufkommende Angst eines Journalisten sich durch das Vertreten von unpopulären Ansichten Karrierechancen zu verbauen. Zu dieser Gefühlslage kommt hinzu, dass Journalisten oftmals wegen ihrer eigenen Weltanschauung und dem damit verbundenen Wertekompass die Realität nur einseitig wahrnehmen.

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### Die Verzerrung der Sprache

Die menschliche Sprache verwendet Bilder um Botschaften zu transportieren. Dabei ist jedes Hauptwort wie ein Paket mit einem gewissen bildlichen Inhalt zu verstehen. Zudem lassen sich durch geschickte Auswahl von Worten Stimmungen hervorrufen oder unterdrücken. In der Kriegspropaganda unterscheidet man hier zwischen:

* Black Words - Diese dienen zum Erschaffen eines klaren Feindbildes, welche beim Empfänger Unbehagen und Angst wecken können. Besonders in Kriegszeiten greifen Politiker in ihren Ansprachen auf Begriffe wie Diktator, Hass, Waffen, Terrorismus, Unterdrückung, Regime, Tyrannei, das Böse und so weiter zurück.
* White Words - Hierbei handelt es sich um sprachliche Bilder, die mit positiven Gefühlen verbunden sind und dienen, strategisch in Reden platziert, der moralischen Rechtfertigung des Krieges. Hierzu zählen Begriffe wie Demokratie, Freiheit, Gerechtigkeit, Sicherheit, Frieden, Familie, Nation, Humanität, Vaterland, etc.
* Sprachliche Schönfärberei - Gezielt werden Formulierungen verwendet, die einen beschönigenden Effekt haben wie beispielsweise "Kollateralschaden" statt "Getötete oder verletzte Zivilisten" oder "Luftschlag" statt "Bombardement".

### Mitläuferfang

Es liegt wohl in der Natur des Menschen lieber auf der Gewinner als auf der Verliererseite stehen zu wollen, weswegen wir Menschen uns tendenziell lieber der Mehrheit anschließen. Mehrheiten versprechen Erfolg, denn allzu gutgläubig glauben wir Mehrheiten würden sich niemals täuschen. Die Strategie des Mitläuferfangs nutzt diese menschliche Anlage aus, indem die kundgetane Meinung als die Meinung der Mehrheit verkauft wird. Hierzu werden öfters auch Bilder eingesetzt, die den Eindruck erwecken, eine große Masse würde bereits dieser propagierten Meinung folgen.

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### Ästhetisierung

Unter dem Begriff Ästhetisierung versteht man eine verschönerte Darstellung einer Sache. Etwa wird durch eine ästhetische Darstellung des Krieges versucht dem Krieg den Schrecken zu nehmen, wodurch abgezielt wird den Krieg dadurch leichter akzeptieren zu können. Fotos und Filme, die den Krieg dokumentieren sollen, werden bewusst so aufgenommen bzw. ausgewählt, dass sie beim Betrachter eher Faszination als Abschreckung auslösen. All das sorgt dafür, dass das Bild schön und ansprechend empfunden wird, und den Betrachter die eigentlich hässliche Kriegsrealität vergessen lässt.

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### Militainment

Dieser Begriff verbindet "Militär" und "Entertainment" und besonders jüngere Leser sollten schnell erkennen was hier gemeint ist. Hingedeutet wird hier auf die aktive Zusammenarbeit zwischen Militär und Medienunternehmen bei der Produktion von Kriegsfilmen, -serien, -dokumentationen oder Computerkriegsspielen. Beide Seiten ziehen Nutzen daraus: Das Militär stellt die Ausrüstung zur Verfügung, die für eine Produktion nötig ist. Als Gegenleistung verpflichten sich die Medienmacher, den Krieg in der vom Militär gewünschten Weise darzustellen. Letztlich entscheidet das Militär darüber, was gezeigt werden darf und was nicht. So wird der Krieg zum Schauplatz von Heldengeschichten, in denen das Militär ehrenvoll erscheint und andere Möglichkeiten als Krieg zur Lösung von Konflikten ausgeblendet werden. Diese Darstellungsweise trägt dazu bei, dass das Ansehen des Militärs und die gesellschaftliche Akzeptanz von Kriegen steigen.

Auch die Computer- und Softwareindustrie wird durch das Militär unterstützt. Ähnlich wie bei Kriegsfilmen ist ein realistisches Erscheinungsbild für Computerkriegsspiele sehr wichtig. Doch wie kommt man an alle Taktiken, Uniformen, Sounds, Einsatzpapiere oder gar Stimmen und Karten heran? – Man braucht die Army. Da die sich allerdings aussucht, wer welches Material bekommt, kann sie von einem Einspruchsrecht Gebrauch machen. Das ist nicht unstatthaft, wer würde schließlich ein Projekt finanzieren oder unterstützen, das das eigene Werbebild beschädigt?

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## Fazit

Wie im Lauf des Posts immer deutlicher wird, ist die Bandbreite an Methoden, aus der Propagandisten schöpfen können, beträchtlich. Darüber hinaus stammen diese Techniken nicht aus dem letzten Quartal, sondern hatten jahrhundertelang Zeit, um verfeinert zu werden. Ich hoffe mit diesem Post zur Stärkung der Achtsamkeit im Bereich der Propaganda wie auch der Sensibilisierung im Hinblick auf den Einsatz von Propagandatechniken im Alltag beizutragen. Nur wer Propaganda wie auch Manipulationsversuche als solche erkennt, wird in der Lage sein sich dessen zu erwehren. Das Schlusswort möchte ich nun einer Person überlassen, die mich schon vor Jahren dazu inspiriert hatte mich mit dieser unbequemen Thematik zu beschäftigen:

> "Nearly every war that has started in the past 50 years,
has been the result of media lies.
The media could have stopped it,
if they hadn't reprinted government propaganda
but what does that mean?
Well, that means basically populations don't like wars
and populations have to be fooled into wars.
populations don't willingly and with open eyes go into a war
So, if we have a good media environment
then we will also have a peaceful environment.
Our number one enemy is ignorance." - Julian Assange

## Quellen
1. https://www.bpb.de/themen/medien-journalismus/krieg-in-den-medien/130697/was-ist-propaganda
2. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/493212.Propaganda
3. https://weltwoche.ch/daily/prinzipien-der-kriegspropaganda-von-arthur-ponsonby
4. https://www.morawa.at/detail/ISBN-9783866744158/Morelli-Anne/Die-Prinzipien-der-Kriegspropaganda?CSPCHD=002000000000JAZLG7CSVpoEmIWvrDniZIp7zJA2Cmz9CJ_rwt
5. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Prinzipien_der_Kriegspropaganda
6. https://www.bpb.de/themen/medien-journalismus/krieg-in-den-medien/130699/methoden-der-kriegspropaganda/

## Bücher zum Thema
- Edward Bernays - Propaganda
- Anne Morelli - Die Prinzipien der Kriegspropaganda
- Patrik Baab - Propaganda-Presse: Wie uns Medien und Lohnschreiber in Kriege treiben
- Jonas Tögel - Kognitive Kriegsführung: Neueste Manipulationstechniken als Waffengattung der NATO
- Gustave Le Bon - Psychologie der Massen
- Marcus Klöckner - Umstritten: Ein journalistisches Gütesiegel

## Videos zum Thema
- [Jonas Tögel: Kognitive Kriegsführung – Neueste Manipulationstechniken als Waffengattung der NATO](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCIsI9auGoQ)
- [„Zensur und Propaganda sind Nato-Programm“ - Punkt.PRERADOVIC mit Patrik Baab](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOFwLh1ejSE)
- [Kriegsbereitschaft und Gegnerdämonisierung ǀ Gabriele Krone-Schmalz](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oasUOVevSoQ)
- [Daniele Ganser: Propaganda – Wie unsere Gedanken und Gefühle gelenkt werden](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooM3rrBoiBA)
- [Umstritten - Marcus Klöckner](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXLaAUl5pFc)


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We'll achieve this through massive Bitcoin education and outreach.

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Hardware Wallets are devices designed to hold bearer assets which can be trivially stolen if you leak the private key(s). There’s many, many people involved in the manufacture of each hardware wallet, each of which might wish to make free money by backdooring the hardware wallet. For every other hardware wallet, you’re blindly trusting Amazon/UPS/five factories in China/the webserver you got the firmware from/etc/etc. Sure, most hardware wallets have tried to be robust against these attacks, but there’s frankly just not that much that can be done.

Wouldn’t it be nice if you didn’t have to trust the device at all, but rather an attacker would have to compromise *both* your hardware wallet and your computer? Well, we’ve had the tech to do this for many, many years! The fact that only two hardware wallets bothered to implement this boggles my mind. It’s impressive incompetence, bordering on maliciousness, honestly. nostr:note16748fqunfxq63y980gl7me3u7d6zklvg8tscg45fpfw2lhzpv05qw2l5y4


Stop using hardware wallets that don’t take security seriously (sadly, all of them except Jade and BitBox). This is a novel construction, but the class of attacks is very old.

A laptop purchased in person, immediately installing Linux without ever connecting it to the Internet is a much better way to store coin than hardware wallets. Which, frankly, is just embarrassing incompetence for the hardware wallet industry.

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YOU EITHER STAY HUMBLE OR GET HUMBLED.

THIS GAME IS ONE OF SURVIVAL. PERSEVERANCE. RELENTLESS ENDURANCE.

MANDIBLES THEN BITCOIN STANDARD. WITH CHAOS COMES OPPORTUNITY.

STAY HUMBLE AND STACK SATS. LEARN HOW TO USE BITCOIN AND HOLD IT SECURELY YOURSELF. SIMPLE YET HARD.

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Don’t  zap this or you’re in the money cult too
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STAY HUMBLE AND STACK SATS.


How can anyone cheer any Bitcoin reserve to pay back debt?

- it means a massive 100+ trillion $ dump looming in 20+ years
- why would gov be so stupid to sell their best asset, they will instead keep printing even more


the algorithm is really good at programming people

the mindless repetition is top


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Exactly 22 years ago, nostr:npub1qg8j6gdwpxlntlxlkew7eu283wzx7hmj32esch42hntdpqdgrslqv024kw published the Hashcash whitepaper describing the proof-of-work consensus mechanism, the heart and soul of the #Bitcoin network.

What a legend 🧡🫡 https://image.nostr.build/e40fb4c741a53c85fd3345f6077976af7de6365b79b8c410784e6557e0273ee7.jpg


I don't want to be rude but if you send me a DM that is not giftwrapped, I'm probably not going to answer. Please use a nostr client that supports giftwraps (Amethyst, 0xChat, ...) or use Matrix to reach me (contact in bio).

If you don't use giftwraps, everyone can see that you've messaged me. Some bored weirdo is going to look at our metadata and post it publicly as a display of their genius. It happened in the past. I wish I could prevent people from sending me DMs here in the first place.

Please be aware of this and don't use normal nostr DMs to improve your own privacy and the privacy of your peers.

Stay nutty 🫡


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Glorious
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Or did you maybe NOT choose "early lump sum payment"?


Something must be wrong then, fortunately I only lost 1.x there and got 0,3x back + I also got a small fiat payment although I did not have any fiat left there afair. Your payout should have been ~1.77 BTC + BCH according to this https://blog.wizsec.jp/2021/02/mtgox-claim-calculator.html
 which was more or less what I got out in the end.


Yes source please, I got ~20 % of BTC back, in $ terms it was ~ 19x or so. Sure 80% still lost but nobody thought that they will get anything back at all after a few years.


I deleted Telegram long time.
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Wrong. I bought monero 2016/2017 at around $60, it barely 3x'd in all those years. When you look in BTC terms it's a huge opportunity cost.

Also it has infinite inflation and you can‘t really audit supply. Likely can easily be 51% attacked.

It may be interesting for anon payments but it's surely not a store of value. That said, not sure it solves payments better than LN/ecash swaps.