Gary Gensler says he and the SEC helped moved #bitcoin along. Interesting take.
https://cryptoslate.com/gary-gensler-takes-credit-for-bitcoin-etfs-claims-sec-helped-crypto-dismisses-altcoins-and-hints-at-resignation/


Talk about a throwback time capsule flashback...I'm looking forward to a Mike Tyson fight.


Hmmph. FBI raids Polymarket guy's home. How about that?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/11/14/fbi-polymarket-ceo-shayne-coplan/76289111007/


Prettier version: https://stacker.news/items/766688


### Election battle

Bitcoin and, by extension, cryptocurrency somehow finagled their way into a favorable position during the recent US election cycle. Bitcoin got both major American political parties to try and "out-support" or "out-crypto" one another. Republicans seemed to get the head start in the pro-bitcoin race. This was headlined by talks at Bitcoin 2024 in Nashville by candidates Donald Trump and Robert Kennedy Jr. and Senator Cynthia Lummis. Pro-bitcoin candidates started receiving a lot of support in terms of voters and a lot of money as well. No doubt, these facts motivated Kamala Harris to [pivot](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/kamala-harris-courting-crypto-investors-154517134.html) and begin to speak in a more bitcoin and crypto-friendly manner.

Thinking back to exactly two years prior, in November of 2022 when the FTX situation blew up, bitcoin has come a long, long way. In the FTX fallout, the buzzwords were scams, thievery, funding terror, and the need for crackdowns, regulation, an "[anti-crypto army](https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/14/elizabeth-warren-anti-crypto-ftx-00082624)" and [Operation Choke Point 2.0](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/print/operation-choke-point-2-0-how-u-s-regulators-fight-bitcoin-with-financial-censorship-). The climate and future was bleak.

Fast forwarding to the 2024 campaign, in essence, bitcoin had somehow positioned itself in the fortunate spot where both major parties and candidates were essentially competing to be the most pro-bitcoin. Skeptics may rightly say, "I hear the talk, but show me the results." Still, compared to a couple of years ago, this was and is a good place to be.

### What if...

What if bitcoin could now finagle its way into a Bitcoin Cold War between the US and Russia and/or China or both? Or, what if bitcoin could get a cold war going between ANY and all other nations who wants to jump in?

### Game theory

We learned in skool that the [Prisoner's Dilemma](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma) (PD) was often applied to the old US vs USSR Cold War arms race. The nuclear arms race brought up this question: Why would rational nation-states spend billions to build immensely dangerous weapons with the whole intent of never using those weapons?

To be fair, the weapons were actually used...they were used to deter. They were not built with the intent to use as in firing the weapons, but they were built to deter the opposite side from firing theirs. So, in this way, they were in fact used. But, back to bitcoin...

President-elect Trump (and RFK Jr. and Senator Lummis) all spoke of a bitcoin strategic reserve or "stockpile" as Trump put it. (Sounds like nukes.) Russia and the [BRICS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRICS) nations have voiced the intent to [create a currency](https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/how-would-new-brics-currency-affect-us-dollar-updated-2024) to compete against the US dollar. Suppose Russia decided that bitcoin should be a part of that reserve currency. If Russia were to see the US buying bitcoin heading toward the goal of 1 million BTC as proposed by Sen. Lummis, the Prisoner's Dilemma may well kick in. Or, conversely, if Russia and BRICS were to move first on acquiring BTC, the US may see this as a very real economic threat and the Prisoner's Dilemma game theory would be game on.

In a way, the international game theory is already on. Bhutan has been mining bitcoin since 2019 and now [holds over 12,500 BTC](https://cointelegraph.com/news/el-salvador-bhutan-bitcoin-holdings-surge). El Salvador adopted bitcoin as legal tender in 2021. Since, they've been acquiring and hodling to the tune of [just under 6,000 BTC](https://cointelegraph.com/news/el-salvador-bhutan-bitcoin-holdings-surge). That's not huge, but it is 6,000 BTC and it's off-of-zero and that means...game on. What's more, the game may already be more widespread internationally than thought. [This report](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/governments-hold-surprising-amount-bitcoin-125711893.html) estimates that nations hold 567,000 BTC (and it's outdated...notably with [Germany having sold](https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2024/07/11/germany-almost-done-selling-bitcoin-holding-less-than-5k-tokens-after-latest-moves/) their BTC).

Bhutan and El Salvador are small countries getting a jump start and head start in the bitcoin cold war. If and when a larger nation with greater resources jumps in, well, we'll just have to see. Frankly, China and the US already might be in a bitcoin Cold War, see the image below:

https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/crrdlx/Ep5s4jD6BiCf7UyLXxagJAWfPERnnLdPWpfndknfJSTb3zDWfWFwgEL8iZZ4yWyXbou.PNG
>Source: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/governments-hold-surprising-amount-bitcoin-125711893.html

But...numbers. The most critical number is 21 million. Another number is [between 600,000 and 1.1 million BTC](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/much-bitcoin-does-satoshi-nakamoto-133700742.html). That is the number of BTC that Satoshi Nakamoto apparently holds. And one other number is the [3.8 million lost-forever BTC](https://www.bankrate.com/investing/how-to-recover-lost-bitcoins-and-other-crypto/). And that means scarcity.

So, 21 million, minus 850,000 that Satoshi holds (the mid-point between 600k and 1.1 M), minus 3.8 million lost, whittles the BTC supply down to 16,350,000.

If the US begins to pursue Senator Lummis' 1 million BTC goal, that would mean the US would hold 6.1% of all "liquid" bitcoin. As Russia or China or BRICS as a whole or every other nation saw that 16 million dwindling, the game theory FOMO would kick in hard.

I write FOMO because, with the Prisoner's Dilemma, a dynamic of we/they psychological gamesmanship ensues. The fear is that the other side WILL do something which will, in turn, slam our side in defeat. During the nuclear arms race, the fear was that the other side would build a massive nuclear stockpile. And, if our side did not stock weapons, they would then have a huge power imbalance over us. So, fearing this power imbalance, each side took the rational action and built the weapons.

https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/crrdlx/23tHbTvSisqCAYoumwChM2iYzKeKzPiT1z3QAFQoM46GW8Ye4ckpGtEnaMJd1n1sHtLqb.jpg

>The Prisoner's Dilemma usually is shown with "points" of some kind. The most ideal box would be box A with both side getting 100 points. But, due to fear of winding up in box B or C, we wind up in box D...clearly, not the best box.

With bitcoin, the fear would be that the other side might amass a stockpile of BTC. And, if we did not, then they would then have a huge economic power imbalance over us. So, rationally, both sides should begin to gather BTC to avoid such an economic imbalance.

https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/crrdlx/23tSzLNGUGfspmfigR4Tbie5bzxxwz6XWGSiC93ntRr1pufzy6JbA2kiE7vQ7kZLPiXSn.jpg

>Just like with the nuclear arms race, box D is the rational outcome in the Bitcoin Cold War.

With the hard-coded scarcity of bitcoin and with multiple players in the international game (not only the two players in the Prisoner's Dilemma), the numbers become not only an incentive to get and hoard BTC, but a flywheel of an impetus driving acquisition. There's one other factor that plays into starting a bitcoin Cold War: the US already has economic hegemony as it enjoys having the US dollar as the world's de facto reserve currency. This fact is exactly the motivation behind BRICS and its challenge to USD. Although BRICS may wish to create a CBDC of some sort, stockpiling BTC to back that CBDC still exists as a very real possible part of that plan. At this point, NOT doing so would almost be irresponsible.

What's more, time is at play as well. I'm reminded of Einstein's [E=mc²](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass%E2%80%93energy_equivalence) which I don't understand. As my chipmunk brain figures, if a rocket was accelerating and getting close to the speed of light, it would take more and more and more energy to keep accelerating, this to the point where it would become impossible to finally reach that speed. So, it never gets there. This never-gets-there with BTC is because of (1) scarcity, of course, and (2) the market order book. Taking the US as an example, and if the US holds 200,000 BTC currently and wishes to get to Sen. Lummis' goal of 1 million, the States need to buy 800,000 more BTC.

https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/crrdlx/23tcNzjWrzgy4wEkhKjMHnBwMy6mZgGZD8gxvYf8j11xNtq2KS8FbJ4F2VTP5xpqK19HS.png

However, it's not simply 800,000 times current market price. The more that is bought, the more the order book is gnawed away. The means the current spot market prices increases. I tried to estimate the amount of money that would be needed to buy 800k BTC given the current order book and market depth, but I failed. Maybe someone else can figure it out. Anyway, it's more than the $71.4B that Microsoft Copilot told me:

https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/crrdlx/EoibRsBUfMj8Hy7tDwvAbWpbWHSLyYRTWmgCP18z4n7LNB4yLsY2fvtPGRPdysFtZ8B.png

Accumulating bitcoin might be seen in same way as with the nuclear arms race and Einstein's theory. If we're not going to get to the speed of light, but we still want to go faster than anyone else, it may be best for a nation to buy bitcoin now.

For nations to avoid being left behind in this game of game theory, the best and smartest move may be to begin accumulating bitcoin now. The Prisoner's Dilemma tells us that the possible consequences of NOT doing so are simply not an option. The rational choice is to stack.


Wrote this about a bitcoin arms race. https://stacker.news/items/766688


To be fair, a prosecutor or even a defender should use any precedent that buttresses their case. That's how the legal system works - two sides engaging with everything they can in a clash to hopefully extricate the truth and justice. I know that using the Ulbricht case in this way is not popular in Bitcoinland, but to not do so would be litigiously irresponsible.


He's entered clown world status. I'll just ignore going forward.


Has a nice ring to it:

"...built on Lightning and Nostr!"

https://x.com/PlebLab/status/1854636532470063391?t=eUQ8g-3SBYKiBvxVVoSTHQ&s=19

#plebchain


Catching a flight in a couple minutes. Gate guy just announced this will be the pilot's last flight after a long career and then he's retiring. Said they're going to do some water spray salute or something as he leaves. And tomorrow's his birthday. That's him in pic. Everybody clapped in congratulation. Kinda cool.
https://image.nostr.build/c4556573586763d992255fe5b14385e7b26b9ae704735d43e772f92d39abb9b1.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/04066bb734b8fda15d54ab401a7ef28482cc7b46079128330d017fff93f80c33.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/05bc0a4616d59b78cbdcfd48fd5e13031b3705d0519d83c9d74babfe401c489c.jpg


That top photo would make Van Gogh proud.


It is on.


I gotta say, with a name like "Jessica Starr," I would picture a different woman in a rather niche industry.


Trump #bitcoin report card
https://github.com/crrdlx/trump-bitcoin-report-card
https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/crrdlx/Eo1vxmDakJm3FAr1XGbno8qiVcAhFQacWtAR8u5C6kXLQNXmDt5Phhg644eFNzaouTJ.png


So I'm guessing it felled to the downhill side with all the branches on that side?


Beautiful. It's important to step away, connect with nature, and breathe. 🌳

Okay, now back to #bitcoin and politics!


Love it. But I do wonder, why 280k? Number seems a bit random.


Leetspeak for the win!
https://image.nostr.build/7ff639c63b57d67f48be51cf135756687ccb365478cf880cce6ff5ba046ac1e1.jpg
#bitcoin #plebchain


How come no one is inking about the puny size of #halloween candy this year? Now #inflation is hurting the children.
https://image.nostr.build/63238e6706e1eb8224293f87305cfce661e3d45ef496577f5aaa4d662dca1d67.jpg


A out Satoshi Day: https://satoshibitcoinconverter.on.fleek.co/pages/satoshiday.html


Been forever since I last checked, but wow! I named "Satoshi Day" back in 2017 as the day 1 USD penny equals 1 sat. Back then a penny got you 110 sats. Today a penny only gets you 14 sats.
https://satoshibitcoinconverter.vercel.app
https://image.nostr.build/bacb9759d0d26c095d34637a60434705516b5f47e75c9268444ae28a7dbcb267.jpg
#bitcoin #plebchain


Dixville Notch, NH - first U.S. ballots are in.
Harris 3
Trump 3

(Biden won all 5 of 5 in 2020.)
#politics


Okay, thanks. Will check. Digging around I found this which seems helpful to me: https://wikifreedia.xyz/a/naddr1qvzqqqrcvgpzquqjyy5zww7uq7hehemjt7juf0q0c9rgv6lv8r2yxcxuf0rvcx9eqqyxu6mzd9cz6vp37xtuts


I've decided small engines have been placed on earth to grant man rare glimpses of pure joy when they suddenly run, but mostly exist to perpetually teach us humility, patience, long-suffering, perseverance, and to test us to not lash out at others.

Worked on one all day, and failed.


this is a test


Oh wait! kind 1234! Nope.


How come the "event publisher" on https://nostrudel.ninja isn't working anymore? #asknostr
https://image.nostr.build/d2f7261b116152a2f56f4bf4a90771ef5e5dd38ca2adf5bd3cd21a52a32e518b.png
(At least it seems to not be working for me.)


this test


I'm reading it (again) right now...am at the part where Squealer is twisting the narrative on Snowball's part in the revolution. The master plan is all laid out, step by step.


No bueno. Do we have a #nostr alternative yet? Or any alternative yet?


Compliant. I'm a lettuce on top of burger guy, but you do your thing.


this a test


nostr:npub1m4ny6hjqzepn4rxknuq94c2gpqzr29ufkkw7ttcxyak7v43n6vvsajc2jl and/or nostr:npub1m3xdppkd0njmrqe2ma8a6ys39zvgp5k8u22mev8xsnqp4nh80srqhqa5sf What's the latest on the kind 30040/30041 front? Last I heard, y'all seemed to be working out the syntax of how to put things together in a more standard fashion and maybe working on a front end. (I could be wrong here.) Been a while since I've looked at this, but started wondering.


Good take. We're just scratching the surface with "build on bitcoin" stuff. I guess you can "build with gold" (jewelry, electronics, bling teeth), but it's not the same.


That's good stuff.


I don't know about anybody else, but I continually get blown away by the amount of innovation and new things that constantly pop up. It creates a feeling of always being behind and having so, so much to learn.

So many things to do and learn, so little time. And that's a good problem to have.


I just learned that my Public key color is #005bc4
It's a really nice shade of blue. So, I've got that going for me.
 https://image.nostr.build/153a0ccd824fb993b8e1d288452d58677b923851e589faa9e39c08f62f7ec853.png
#nostr #grownostr


When I first started learning about bitcoin, which I still am of course, I asked the question, "What is bitcoin?" Someone online answered with the two words, "digital gold." I was nonplussed and thought it was a flippant answer. Turns out, it was right. But, bitcoin is even better...it's even more scarce than gold.


Bitcoin is digital gold.


I joined nostr and see a lot of bitcoin content and that's a big reason I like it and am still here.


On October 31, 1517, an ordinary day in Wittenberg, Germany, became pivotal in history when Martin Luther, a German monk and theologian, allegedly nailed his "Ninety-Five Theses" to the Castle Church door. This act ignited the Protestant Reformation and transformed Christianity.

To grasp the significance of Luther's actions, we must consider the early 16th-century context. The Catholic Church dominated Europe, wielding immense power over spiritual and political matters. However, widespread discontent arose over practices like the sale of indulgences—certificates promising remission of sins in exchange for monetary contributions, often funding projects like St. Peter's Basilica.

Luther, grappling with salvation and faith, viewed the sale of indulgences as corrupt, undermining Christianity's core tenets. He believed salvation was a gift from God, attainable through faith alone. This conviction led him to draft his Ninety-Five Theses, challenging the Church's practices and calling for reform.

The Theses addressed issues like the misuse of indulgences, papal authority, and the need for a return to biblical teachings. Initially, it was an invitation for debate among scholars and clergy. However, the invention of the printing press allowed rapid dissemination of Luther's ideas, reaching a wide audience.

The Theses sparked intense debate and controversy, resonating with many disillusioned by the status quo. As his ideas spread, they inspired a movement to reform the Church and return to early Christianity principles.

Luther's act on October 31, 1517, is seen as the catalyst for the Protestant Reformation, leading to the establishment of various Protestant denominations and a significant shift in Europe's religious landscape. The Reformation challenged Catholic practices, emphasizing individual faith, scripture, and personal relationships with God.

In the following years, Luther faced significant opposition, being excommunicated in 1521 and declared an outlaw at the Diet of Worms, where he famously refused to recant. Despite the risks, he continued advocating for reform, translating the Bible into German and promoting access to scripture for all believers.

The impact of Luther's actions in 1517 cannot be overstated. The Reformation led to profound changes in Europe's religious, political, and cultural life, paving the way for individualism, questioning authority, and modern democratic principles. Today, October 31 is remembered not only as the day Martin Luther initiated a religious revolution but also as a symbol of the enduring quest for truth and reform against institutional power. Luther's legacy continues to inspire movements for justice, reform, and spiritual renewal worldwide.

Blocktime: 868 282
v/byte price: 4 sat/vByte
Hash Rate: 702.91 EH/s
#bitcoin 🧡 https://image.nostr.build/c56301f4402b3d6cb0e3bcac832255bf4022b67106b69f1929f16546b1e332e0.jpg


This is so true. He wasn't in it for the green candles, he was in it to pastor souls, but no question in my mind that Luther would have been a bitcoiner.


It's a good day to reread the whitepaper (and all of Satoshi's writings).
http://hive.blog/@crrdlx/satoshi


Don't know the answer to that question, but I know one.

Credit though for proper plural form of Faketoshi. https://image.nostr.build/9f70e3342ebb3ba055bd3e9751d5207663ba5edd16c4b322c3a0853bf388c3f0.jpg #bitcoin #satoshi


Never heard of Stephen Molllah, and great quote.


Two things: (1) stunt, but hey, they're trying!  (2) I suddenly have a craving fish and chips.


My guess...they're launching something like an app or a memecoin.


Here we go again...group says it will identifyi Satoshi today.

Well, bonus points for the publicity stunt.
https://www.cryptopolitan.com/pr-agency-expose-satoshi-nakamotos-london/ #bitcoin #plebchain


They're saying out loud what their intention is: build a CBDC. Interesting they reference "wildcat" banks of 1820s Andrew Jackson Era. (Government imposed its will then.) I can't recall if Trump stated a position on CBDCs and I'm almost certain Harris did not.
https://decrypt.co/289255/us-treasury-cbdc-replace-stablecoins


Huge if this comes to fruition. Huge.
nostr:note180sn3xena2rjx7gd56cyadd4a6tkt6xxfgpx3vunmg24sav7tyrq3uu6qa


Super Bitcoin is a value-based internet centered on BTC, and share Bitcoin's consensus security. This value internet not only inherits the security of the existing Bitcoin network but also transcends BTC's current limitations of being solely used for transfer, providing the Bitcoin network infinite potential for scalability and flexibility.


Edited "Kicking the Hornet's Nest" (everything Satoshi wrote publicly in chronological order). Made the Nostr Wiki at https://nostrwiki.vercel.app
All my links at https://linktr.ee/crrdlx and about me page at https://hive.blog/@crrdlx/about


I totally forgot about https://npub.pro until I heard it mentioned on a podcast this morning. It's so easy and clean. If you're on #nostr and don't know about it, maybe check it out. So easy to turn your nostr into a website like this: https://crrdlx.npub.pro/


Just wrote this in a reply to someone:
No doubt! We almost hit a bitcoin ATH today. Who knows what happens tomorrow?! 😀 On a somewhat related note, I just saw the headline below and thought this is really bullish all around. Now that BTC is in ETFs and making its way into retirement funds, it's definitely happening and reaching the point of no return (I think we're already there). It used to be where bitcoin was for the crazies. It's come to the point where it's irresponsible to NOT have BTC in your portfolio to some degree.
https://x.com/BTC_Archive/status/1851370395615801348 #bitcoin


Saw a guy put a dollar in the soda machine, pushed button, no soda. So, puts another dollar in, pushes button, no soda. Did it once more before giving up, being mad, and 3 dollars poorer.


I made a VERY simple game-of-chance at https://wusang.vercel.app. It has a little pirate treasure story and a random chance to find an #ecash cache. With #bitcoin pushing all time high, who knows how much those sats will be worth one day?
 https://image.nostr.build/bc1bcf6ba7974551f7eeb73d07b916f71747950fff015c0c36ab36f239303288.png
#bitcoin


Okay will do, thanks.


Rookie questions regarding #meshtastic: I'm thinking about getting a unit to mess around with, but feel a bit overwhelmed. I hear about Heltec as simple and inexpensive starter devices, (1) are these only for chat type of applications (that's what I seem to see in vids)? Today I listened to a podcast talking about LoRa and how it may be able to mesh web pages as well, at least some point. (2) Is LoRa the same thing as the Heltec devices? And (3) could you point me to a for-rookies resource or two that won't make my head spin?

I can dig around but thought asking for tried-and-true resources might save me some time.
nostr:npub1ya20ep3dd0qt0suhzprxztv5y43arqwps73ercvqa44sp7qw0edsp4x9ty


Ambitious, I like it.


For some reason, I've always like gloomy Autumn.


I really like that new #satoshi statue in Lugano. Would have been really cool if a secret code was hidden in it, like a #bitcoin private key. I'm looking at all those bolts or rivets and thinking binary code could have been embedded.
 https://image.nostr.build/e7776b67d052f52bcdb70bf612603dd0ff940a49d1b94765d7c6e5bce8019634.jpg
https://stacker.news/items/740888/r/crrdlx?commentId=741223


Strong.


Bullish (but doubtful).
https://u.today/michael-saylor-offers-microsoft-help-to-make-1-trillion-with-bitcoin


Made this a few years back.  Ages just fine.
https://image.nostr.build/1472f0e977231f18d9014da02298328c7dfcebe99f632547e39fc7cf8f29068e.gif
#bitcoin


conspiracy


Me no full understand, but me like: https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2024/10/24/bitcoin-project-bob-maps-out-how-the-original-blockchain-could-take-over-defi/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines
#bitcoin #plebchain


By the way,  I was going to send you a zap,  but you don't have a wallet set up. Might want to set one up so you can hear a few sats.


Thanks for the heads up. I just noticed and fixed it and then saw you're note,  but thank you.


I blog over on the Hive blockchain and made a little game called "Wusang" (World's Ultra Simple Asset Numbers Game). It's a stupid-simple game with a pirate treasure story. A bot generates a random number, you maybe find a hidden treasure token.
This week I added #cashu #ecash as a "treasure chest" to be found. There are hidden bitcoin sats out there in the wild to be discovered. Find the ecash token, get the sats. Simple.
Info on this simple game: https://hive.blog/bitcoin/@crrdlx/bitcoin-ecash-comes-to-wusang
 https://image.nostr.build/5a92b9d1b6d9a3f930eaa00af2d295d4c3a0e6c46f988227010a727dfcce2996.png
#bitcoin #plebchain


I tried to read the Minneapolis' Fed's [paper about bitcoin](https://www.minneapolisfed.org/research/working-papers/unique-implementation-of-permanent-primary-deficits). I made it through the first sentence before I said, "Forget this."

![fed2.PNG](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/crrdlx/23xpY4k52X4s2hKQm55XtZdxWbAXz7Ksm4YHLUBFCwxomFdYj38xF9EinvFchKuuALP1Q.PNG)

The paper reads:

>Imagine and economy, specified in continuous time, in which the government issues stock and pays a flow of non-negative dividends.

Three phrases stood out to me in that sentence.

1. "Imagine an economy" - I actually like this start. I'm nerdy enough to enjoy a good though experiment. And, "imagine an economy" is pretty good bait to hook me in. Economists often imagine places like an island or a prison or a remote village, all with limited resources, then go from there.

2. "in continuous time" - I think, "Huh?" Continuous time? As compared to time that is not continuous? Time that morphs back and around? Is this set our imagined economy apart from some science-fiction wormhole? I really have no idea what this term "continuous time" means or why they felt it necessary to specify this type of time up front. Immediately, I have a strong hunch as to where this is going...this paper is intended to be written with a academician's linguistic style that intends to confuse. Frankly, this style of writing is used as a weapon. It linguistic bullying toward a reader. This paper would write in such a convoluted manner where every sentence is contingent on, and qualified by, other statements or phrases. If anyone wishes to convey a point, write simply and clearly to convey that point. In my view, this paper would not do this.

3. "non-negative dividends" - Okay, writing gymnastics aside, now we're just making stuff up. "Non-negative dividends" paid by the government? Never heard it put that way. Usually, dividends to stock shareholders are simply called, "dividends." The very fact that they label them as "non-negative dividends" begs the assumption that there must be "negative dividends." I've never heard it put that way, but "negative dividends" <u>is what's called "taxes"</u>. And, yes, I guess governments do pay out negative dividends all the time.

I don't know about anyone else, but I'm all for the government cutting back on its steady flow of negative dividend payments.

#bitcoin #plebchain


I'm Jonesing hard and dang close to getting one.


What kind of bizarro clown world did I wake up in?

The FED bank of Minneapolis wrote about "useless pieces of paper (bitcoin for short)" and that "the price of bitcoin converges to zero."

Umm...considered fiat currency?

And yet, the only solutions to this alleged bitcoin problem is to either ban it (a "legal prohibition against bitcoin") or tax it.

Somehow, bitcoin is worthless and headed to zero, but yet it's still worthy of being taxed so as to balance deficits.

I'm so confused.

Source: https://www.minneapolisfed.org/research/working-papers/unique-implementation-of-permanent-primary-deficits
Article: https://cryptobriefing.com/bitcoin-fiscal-impact-report/

#bitcoin #plebchain


What kind of bizarro clown world did I wake up in?

The FED bank of Minneapolis wrote about "useless pieces of paper (bitcoin for short)" and that "the price of bitcoin converges to zero."

Umm...considered fiat currency?

And yet, the only solutions to this alleged bitcoin problem is to either ban it (a "legal prohibition against bitcoin") or tax it.

Umm...if it's useless, then it's harmless. And, if it's worthless and going to zero, taxing it is pointless.

Somehow, bitcoin is worthless and headed to zero, but yet it's still worthy of being taxed so as to balance deficits.

I'm so confused.

Source: https://www.minneapolisfed.org/research/working-papers/unique-implementation-of-permanent-primary-deficits
Article: https://cryptobriefing.com/bitcoin-fiscal-impact-report/

originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/734418


I gotta say, that headline and graphic is pretty funny.
#plebchain
https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/crrdlx/242hYf4NqMD2FBu2JKD9SSx3AvrwUDeP6rd5gEyPJDRKFtu3GFrHneTLPeu4ysT8HRmZh.PNG

https://protos.com/donald-trump-serves-fries-at-mcdonalds-five-days-after-flop-crypto-launch/


Correction: taut not taught. That bothered me.


GM #nostroids.
https://image.nostr.build/f0b39853fbfa51ddca2eb67c801d760d7d9d0218d10f8ff1ca243515147df585.png


Wow


My gripe was that with the plexi, we couldn't hear each other. So, we stuck our heads around it and drew even closer to one another to communicate...the exact opposite of what it was supposed to do.


Well, that's it boys and girls, pack up bitcoin and put it away. A central bank said its a bad thing. They're now kinda admitting that it ain't going to zero, but it's just bad. We'd all better go bad to good ol' central banking 'cause it's more fairer.
https://www.theblock.co/post/322116/perpetually-rising-bitcoin-prices-would-lead-to-societal-impoverishment-ecb-economists-claim?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss
#bitcoin #plebchain


Sorry to see that. That's stinky. Evil-me imagines a strand of fishing line tied to the flagpole. When they yank it out, it draws taught across the stairs, thus stringing up a self-tripwire at the top of the stairs.

I would never do that, that's not right either, but the thought does come to evil-me.


It's still weird.

https://www.cryptopolitan.com/sam-altmans-worldcoin-rebrands-to-world/


If you like #animals, here's a #turtle story (actually a tortoise story).
https://peakd.com/nature/@crrdlx/unexpected-vistor


"I told Jenny she needed to use SPF 50 by the pool."


ACC


Honest question because my chipmunk brain doesn't compute this: what does "voluntary bottom up grassroots collectivism" mean? I'm guessing you mean people working together open sourcey to build something (nostr) so as to avoid something like ISP run internet or Facebook-like social media? The "collectivism" word is what makes me nervous.


I'm thinking things are going even better than Satoshi imagined. He wrote  "if 0.001 is worth 1 Euro..." Right now it's worth 60 Euros. https://satoshibitcoinconverter.on.fleek.co/satoshi_calc_EUR.htm


Wow, 1,000,000 $20,000 "forgivable" "loans" is $20 billion. (1) That's called a handout, not a loan. (2) It's only if you're a black man. How is that not racist against every other race and not sexist against women?
https://www.theblock.co/post/320930/vice-president-kamala-harris-vows-to-support-a-crypto-regulatory-framework-in-plan-to-support-black-men


Well this is new (to me at least) and cool: #bitcoin #lightning prediction market. https://www.bitcoinprediction.info/
#plebchain


It's crazy the way are figuring ways to send #bitcoin. This is via radio waves using #meshtastic and #ecash: https://njump.me/nevent1qqste6zpvu2v6pv333yslslynv2tzlm3h5526hckdxexd7qwt5hfvsgpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0wd68ytnsw43z7q3q5jnttpymeytm80hatjqcvhhqhzrhx6gxp8pq0wn93rhnu8s9h9dsxpqqqqqqz0c2ecy I did an ecash via sound a while back: https://crrdlx.vercel.app/ecashsound


Gotta say, the Trump WLFI token sounds rather amateurish at best, scammy at worst. From my non-lawyer view, seems like it checks all boxes for the Howey test (which you don't want to do). #plebchain
https://ecoinimist.com/2024/10/12/wlfi-token-public-sale-launched/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=wlfi-token-public-sale-launched


No red flags here.


The DNC attacked Green Party Jill Stein, obviously fearing she'll draw dem votes. I wonder if the Streisand Effect will kick in and the ad backfires. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect #politics

Article: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/10/11/jill-stein-ad-third-party-presidential-candidates-2024/75625798007/


Somebody just asked on /r/bitcoin:

Is coinbase good to have my bitcoin investment in?
Is it safe for long term holding?

Of course I'm thinking: self custody!  But then I'm thinking, you know, maybe he's not ready for that. If he asks questions like that,  maybe having total control with no safety net is actually not very safe and maybe coinnase is safer for him. This especially when somebody said cold storage is better than hot and the OP asked what's the difference?

#bitcoin #plebchain


Since the HBO documentary came out last night, I'll score my prediction from last week: https://peakd.com/bitcoin/@crrdlx/hbo-says-they-found-satoshi

. Usual suspects: C (Peter Todd isn't too often mentioned, but he's mentioned)
. Old doc as evidence: C- (the forum post is not new, but the asterisk thing is an obscure angle...really reaching in my view)
. No tx signed: A (this was an obvious one)
. Sci-fi author: F (though that would have made a much better story)

Overall grade: C-

Hey, that's passing.
#bitcoin #plebchain


Didn't see this coming...HBO show claims Peter Todd is #Satoshi. The main bit of evidence apparently: he edited out some asterisks in a bitcointalk post.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/08/investing/satoshi-nakamoto-identity/index.html #bitcoin


That kiddo dislikes that closed source door.


I don't like hurricanes.


Keyboard smack is the best.


crrdlx

Edited "Kicking the Hornet's Nest" (everything Satoshi wrote publicly in chronological order). Made the Nostr Wiki at https://nostrwiki.vercel.app All my links at https://linktr.ee/crrdlx


People are betting on who HBO will name as the supposed Satoshi. I find it weird that such a possibly human-manipulated "bet" could be or should be on the books. News flash: those people who made the documentary know who is named as Satoshi. No doubt many people were involved in filming, editing, producing,  etc. I'm sure they had to agree to an NDA, but if enough money is up for grabs, you don't think somebody is going to quietly nudge their buddy in the right direction to bet on?
https://u.today/len-sassaman-enters-spotlight-as-top-satoshi-candidate-ahead-of-hbo-documentary #bitcoin #plebchain


Maybe a little slow, but progress.
https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/1842992611495236042?t=uswPpe_oGmYocXnd8GwWRw&s=19


Everybody knows you're need to wear two masks, Chad.


I totally hear you! And that's my point...it's too high. I'm not sure how we got used to any number above 0 as "okay" inflation. Any  percent above 0 is that much of your income being reduced yearly. Getting that 2% annual income boost is a farce...we didn't gain anything. And if inflation is above 2% (which it is), we lost money.


I think he's talking about about 3% Inflation.  Maybe, which is still way too high.


Thanks, I asked over on Stacker News and what you said is what they're saying. Appreciate the advice.


I'm looking for some bitcoin lightning advice and Stacker News is the place with people who know what's up.

Mutiny wallet is shutting down at the year's end. I've been trying to get my sats off of it and I'm finding out it's not as simple as just: (a) enter amount, (b) send. Obviously, LN is not a strength of mine.

My goal is to get the entire balance off Mutiny, I've removed some, but am failing at getting all the sats off.

![stash.jfif](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/crrdlx/23vsBSu29zDmxkHcxfUUDGvUTxg8YnSPkR1n5wCgy2NZNiw7JVvzgu645PdnRDYLWV59A)

Seems to me that my balance is larger than my outbound limit and that's the issue. The error message reads "We do not have enough balance to pay the given amount," which is a little odd because the balance shown is way above the amount I tried to send. I tried several amounts, decreasing them each time, with the same message. When I finally entered an amount beneath the "outbound" threshold, then the error message does not appear. Then, it does seem like the tx would go through (I backed out).

My guess is that the error message should really say, "Whoops, you're trying to send more than your outbound limit allows," or something like that. Anyway, I'm stuck.

![channels.jfif](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/crrdlx/23tRtVvNp1CzUALzsArDNRM9WM99M3uEkYKFypyxrywZGYraLgpCJRpvsUr7RfwUaCvDG)

So, what are my options?

- Open another channel?
- Switch to on chain transfer?
- Other option?

And what would be the benefits and detriments/costs of each?

I'd be appreciative of any help.

originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/711443


What I heard was:
- blah blah big words blah macroeconomics blah big words blah blah regulation blah oversight
- we know what's better for the El Salvador people than they do


Why obsessed? Biggest mystery in centuries IMHO. Show on HBO coming out Weds Oct 9. https://stacker.news/items/710028


Somebody on Stacker News asked "Do most lay people know who Satoshi is lol" yesterday. Today, I did a poll. The results are in.
https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/crrdlx/Eo4Jo3LoeT233G5rQX16snzbN4iyb48WAygkmPjWaSEK1a4fkw4evVugAYhD9DYPFV7.jpg
Full story at https://stacker.news/items/710977
#bitcoin #plebchain #satoshi


Yesterday, the following question was posed here on SN:

https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/crrdlx/23uFuHKuyHe3pYhvMkRNUecsY1eCWANVeoXJcudwzGpF8mdxe2T6a5wHbFhGQn5iPzCnE.png

Link to the conversation: https://stacker.news/items/710028/r/crrdlx?commentId=710037

>Do most lay people know who Satoshi is lol

That's a fair question. Since my curiosity was piqued, and since I knew I'd be able to interact with several people today, I figured I'd just go ahead and do an informal poll.

#### Methodology

There were a few groups of people I surveyed. Each group <u>received only one of the two questions</u>. (Asking one question would contaminate the results of the other, [Hawthorne Effect](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect) style, so, only one question was asked per group.)

The questions were:

1.  *What is Satoshi Nakamoto famous for?* (open ended question)

2. *Who started bitcoin?* (multiple choice question, options below)
Wei Dai
Nick Szabo
Hal Finney
Satoshi Nakamoto
Vitalik Buterin

For the second question, I originally wanted to include made up names rather than real ones. But, I was running late, in a hurry and just did what I could do. Originally I had Adam Back in there, but I wanted a varied "look" to the names so I put Vitalik in at the end. Maybe I shouldn't have used bitcoin (or ETH) related names...someone might truly think one of them actually *is* Satoshi and therefore indeed started bitcoin. But, my thinking was that if they're that much in the ballgame, they'll get it and say something.

As far as methods, I just gave a piece of paper, showed the question, let them write an answer, picked up the replies. For question 1, I did say, "If you don't know, just write that you don't know."

#### Stats and responses

Below is my notepad scratched out stat sheet.

The top half was in response to question 1., "What is Satoshi Nakamoto famous for?"

The bottom half are the tallies in response to question 2., "Who started bitcoin?"

https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/crrdlx/Eo4Jo3LoeT233G5rQX16snzbN4iyb48WAygkmPjWaSEK1a4fkw4evVugAYhD9DYPFV7.jpg

And below are the responses to the question, "What is Satoshi Nakamoto famous for?"

https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/crrdlx/23vsjkRk8K9jDXsroPUCUHtvmemxGuXhuXuXsPoQuPEYNk8uTChxw7udpsBXAQNJ5eaUz.jpg

#### Analysis

Question 1: What is Satoshi Nakamoto famous for?

The takeaway here is that only 3.5% of the people could look at the name Satoshi Nakamoto and place it with bitcoin. In the chat linked above, another person thought the number would be over 50%. I had guessed 20%. My data today was 3.5%.

We're still early.

Almost all of the answers were "I don't know." There were nine other answers, or guesses, though. The thing I found most intriguing was that three of the nine had to do with automobiles. The responses were "make vehicles," "car brand," and "a car guy."  I want one! Other fun answers were "karate," "samurai," and "creator of Dragonball Z R.I.P."

Question 2: Who started bitcoin?

Given a list of names to choose from, Satoshi Nakamoto was identified as the bitcoin creator 41% of the time. Okay, the masses got the plurality correct, although still not at a 50% majority. What I found interesting was the spread of the other answers. If they *didn't* know about Satoshi, why did they choose the names they chose? "Szabo" must just have that bitcoin-coder name thing going on to garner 28%. And Hal Finney? That name just sounds friendly to me.

And that response in the bottom right in the image...that person has a future.

#### Satoshi car

Somebody help me out. I now need an A.I. mashup image of what a Satoshi Motors Company automobile would look like. Please post. Wen Satoshi car?

----

pinging @Bell_curve because you asked the question and @ZezzebbulTheMysterious because you wanted see the results.

originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/710977

Are you part of the three and a half percent?


A while back I put Satoshi"s words that wrote on chain as an ordinal to ensure they'd always be immutably stored. So the words that started the #Bitcoin blockchain now persist on the chain that they started.
https://www.ord.io/34145265


This meme is so accurate. Nancy Pelosi actually said Biden belongs on Mt. Rushmore for stepping down...for being willing to NOT be the president.


Whoops, wrong date! The Satoshi "identifed" documentary is Weds 10/9 (not the 10th, that's a Thurs). So...this is good...we find out who Satoshi is next Wednesday! cough, cough
#plebchain #bitcoin
https://stacker.news/items/710028


I've written before something to the effect that, given the revolutionary impact of #bitcoin, the Satoshi identity might be the biggest mystery since...well, I'm not really sure since when. But, I feel bitcoin is the most revolutionary idea/invention in economics since Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations in 1776. Maybe it's the most revolutionary one ever because bitcoin is Adams' capitalism automated and auto-running, independent of man's whims and combining so many various intellectual fields (econ, math, comp sci, game theory, human psych, physics, sociology, politics and governance, more).

![Screenshot_20241003_175508_Samsung Internet.jpg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/crrdlx/23wgjRJy322yzFV6FgbKdu16yQtcNquqrGwB5R3u4HQnmXEi4rA4ogca7ZicicVpPf24p.jpg)

HBO evidently has a documentary coming out next Weds, 10/10 where they've "identified" Satoshi. We'll see.

I'll make my call right here:
- It'll be one of the usual suspects, my guess is either Nick Szabo or Wei Dai. I'ld guess Szabo.
- They'll offer up as "evidence" a document or email that has previously been unseen, something from early 2008, or even prior, referencing bitgold for Szabo or b-money for Dai.
- And that will be essentially the crux of it. There won't be a transaction signed by Satoshi's keys.
- I'll offer one wildcard prediction because it's fun. They might ID a science fiction author. I don't read sci-fi (maybe I should), but I understand that sci-fi authors almost always pre-write almost every innovation that's ever happened. I could see them referencing a bitcoinesque currency or idea in a sci-fi novel and them naming the author as Satoshi.

Got my popcorn ready! 🍿 (Now, if I only had HBO. 😃)

https://cryptopotato.com/upcoming-hbo-documentary-claims-to-have-identified-satoshi-nakamoto/
#plebchain


"crrdlx"


"crrdlx@getalby.com"


Well, that's better than being made in North Kareo.


It is 3, I just want to put in the Wei Dai emails that I wrote about on Stacker News. Call it 3.01. Hah.


I really appreciate your kind words. I really like the chronology of the thing. When you go through all of Satoshis words, the dates and times and how he interacted with others, you start to get a glimpse into his mind. Satoshi also seemed polite, clear, logical, oractical, and professional to me.

I'm currently working on tweaking out edition 3  with the Wei Dai stuff (that's my weekend plan). Then I'll get the links updated.


Well, that was a nice surprise. I did nothing (besides make a post or comment) and..."someone joined Stacker News because of you." I really don't know how or why! And I just looked, I earned 32 sats somehow! 😀

If you're not there yet, and you like #bitcoin or #nostr, you need to join Stacker News and you can earn sats also. Ref link: https://stacker.news/r/crrdlx
https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/crrdlx/23tkhgbCen6eDrJFBZKpbsv6qz2bnBfqZwHgD17edpcpk1LGfsXk9B7TewpNio6hCpdJ2.jpg
https://images.d.buzz/Screenshot_20240928_042819_Samsung-Internet.jpg.jpeg


Gigi, I gotta ask, is there a source on the text in this image? I'm guessing AI?


After push-mowing for an hour and 20 minutes, and with a van-sized patch of grass left to go, my mower starts surging...essentially out if gas. Darn, now I gotta, stop, go get the gas, refuel,put the gas back,  restart the mower, just to finish one tiny splotch.

Oh no, its on! I start mowing in 2X mode, literally mowing in circles, get a bit dizzy. The surging gets worse so that I have only seconds before it goes conks out...

I sure it''s going to go kaput with only a twin size bed patch left to mow, and me huffing and dizzy...

I halt the circles and start zig zaggimg back and forth...

I get 'r done! Seconds to spare!

Celebrate small victories.

Two minutes later, I be like...

https://image.nostr.build/c83b283703babc3416bb0b18fcf7efbf698043a189fd3f252fe5986289b6ad10.gif
#plebchain


Just saw this reply. And, wow, for anyone who can adeptly answer all of those questions, I'll tip my cap. Amazing how much I learn from bitcoin, and such a wide range of things...math, econ, psych, tech, etc.


Anyone else zoom in and read?

"The soul it die not, see me, and in a manner I claim not to know."


Not sure on Black Mountain. Saw this today re: Waynesville. The creek I'd estimate is usually 20 feet lower than those buildings. https://www.themountaineer.com/news/frog-level-onlookers-watch-horrors-of-flood-unfold/article_01f88a24-7ce9-11ef-83c4-cbf5aebb463e.html


Well, that was a nice surprise. I did nothing (besides make a post) and..."someone joined SN because of you."

Join Stacker News and you can earn sats. シ Great place to read and chat about #bitcoin too.
Referral link to join:  https://stacker.news/r/crrdlx

https://images.d.buzz/Screenshot_20240928_042819_Samsung-Internet.jpg.jpeg

#plebchain #gm


I'm not really any of these (I do have a old CB I use on occasion while traveling). But, this is stuff that interests me.


I'm not sure I follow, but the title "Kicking the Hornet’s Nest" is derived from Satoshi's quote (see page 490 of Kicking at https://crrdlx.vercel.app/kicking/Kicking_the_Hornets_Nest-e3-20240616.pdf). As far as knowing who Satoshi is, I used to think it would come out in time. Now, I'm starting to question that. I still think it will at some point, but maybe in decades from now.


A like from Wei Dai regarding early #bitcoin emails.
https://stacker.news/items/702785


https://image.nostr.build/c76c071a044de2001767cea0cc2e50cf06900c93a01a21fa82a36ca6e5ddfe42.png
#coding #plebchain


It's a small #coding victory, but a big one for me as a hobbyist, ahem, "coder." I successfully made a tweak to my Hive-blockchain based "game" Wusang (World's Ultra Simple Assets Numbers Game). Celebrate the little things! 🏴☠
Wusang: https://wusang.vercel.app
Successful change: https://peakd.com/hive/@crrdlx/hbit-and-wusang-policy-change


At first glance I thought that was a 3.5 inch floppy disk beside the coffee (actually, the trackpad I see now). I thought, "Wow, that guy really is old school...love it!"


Is nosdrive no more? The relay wss://nosdrive.app/relay seems kaput for me...nothing recorded to Google Drive since Sept 9.
#asknostr #plebchain


Javier Milei laid things bare at the UN. yesterday. Guy goes into the belly of the beast, again, and spits truth, again.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw2UMwLbMCE


Milei's Davos speech was incredible. An instant classic. Haven't heard this one yet.  Just looked up link: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw2UMwLbMCE


I just saw a guy with the description:  Certified Bitcoin Professional.

Heh. Where do I get my CBP? https://image.nostr.build/87a3162639f19a4413533783ce5077e0ba06e3752635b062f0b463c414b5e38c.jpg

#bitcoin #certifiedbitcoinprofessional


This is the nostr graphic that I like.


I have a carambola tree (star fruit) that puts out way more than I can eat. So I put out most for free. I've met more neighbors doing this than I would have guessed. #gardening#dfoodstr  https://image.nostr.build/ff7f14f6918e75128743acc4c104af119f226393fdfc4fa4715037afc33809a2.jpg


#Nostr without relays but via web? Would that be #Nostw?
https://njump.me/nevent1qqsd4maysseup2fkeyp5jtxqsltlal8xh5klflh32j754jha96m50mgppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qgsdulkdrc5hdf4dktl6taxmsxnasykghdnf32sqmnc7w6km2hhav3grqsqqqqqp8y3yjh


Apparently, nostr somehow uses the same tech as taproot. I think the nostr keys being the same or in the same format. I really don't know. Someone, might have been Melvin, explained to me that nostr can somehow intrinsically hold bitcoin ordinals (which exist because of taproot).

We need an explained for dummies on this.


I've long thought the left-to-right straight line political spectrum is wrong. At the ends, it somehow bends around down into a circle until the far left and far right come together. And that's not a place you want to live in!


Recently, I've been trying to decipher a question that seems simple: "Did Satoshi write these emails?" There are three emails in question involving two people (other than Satoshi):
- Wei Dai (two emails)
- Jon Matonis (one email)

For the back-story, I wrote about this conundrum at https://stacker.news/items/691013 The upshot for my ponderance is that the NakamotoInstitute.org (BTC-friendly) does *not* include these emails, but the NakamotoStudies.org (BCH-friendly) site *does*. I wondered, "What's up?" Is this a BTC-vs.-BCH blockchain thing? A block size thing?" Frankly, I don't care. I just want to know if Satoshi wrote them.

Regarding Wei Dai, the general consensus in the SN comments linked above was that I should go to the source...go to Wei Dai and ask. If real Satoshi-emails, then either he or Satoshi released them "into the wild" at some point and then they started to appear on various websites. 'Til maybe now, I hadn't seen that release point.

The Dai/Satoshi emails mostly pop up in two places in a search: bitcoin.com and gwern.net. I was familiar with bitcoin.com (and thus was a bit skeptical), but was unfamiliar with gwern.net. Was it just another bitcoin website? Anyone can make one. Was there an agenda? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

So, going to the source, I reached out to Wei Dai via email today. We'll see.

Digging around, Wei Dai's site https://weidai.com says any questions can be posted publicly at https://www.lesswrong.com/ as an AMA. I went there. The "release point," evidence of Wei Dai sending out those emails may well be recorded there.

Here is a message from gwern timestamped March 16, 2014 to Wei Dai asking about the Wei/Satoshi emails:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/YdfpDyRpNyypivgdu/aalwa-ask-any-lesswronger-anything?commentId=hGuDqrpRTYiBsRB5Y

Screenshot of the Wei Dai to Gwern reply:
https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/crrdlx/23uFsVjJLZjzHuUTEFa5wX3p6CCwWGv6DNVnbqQUPKzKgPhE2xw9FB7cg6gB6QXJfFfax.png

Gwern's response to Wei Dai a couple of weeks later:
https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/crrdlx/48JBGdhjZuTLKgTeAUXKuyaMikD2Kvh4HPK7vdiqpfvo24L4TshWkH4NRaqWuY5yJi.png

The page on gwern.net is still live at https://gwern.net/doc/bitcoin/2008-nakamoto. Being healthily skeptical, I looked for that page on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Unfortunately, that page is only first archived [in 2023](https://web.archive.org/web/20230208163356/https://gwern.net/doc/bitcoin/2008-nakamoto). But, gwern.net does go back to [2010](https://web.archive.org/web/20101011153322/http://www.gwern.net/) and the first bitcoin mention there seems to be [July of 2011](https://web.archive.org/web/20110723141839/http://www.gwern.net/), so, it was early.

The bottom line here, to me at least, is that Wei Dai's emails seem legit. Assuming the timestamps are legit, and that the emails being discussed from Wei Dai are indeed the same ones that gwern has on his site, then they're legit. It would take quite a bit of foresight to plan this out, starting 10 years ago, for this to be fake. The fact that the timestamp is pre-BCH, pre-block size wars is a big plus in my view as to the emails being legit. Those were the main reasons a question even arose in my mind, that and the NakamotoInstitute.org vs. NakamotoStudies.org exclusion/inclusion.

My next question, then, is back to NakamotoInstitute.org. Why, actually, are the Wei Dai emails not there? There must be a reason, and if a solid reason, why not share that reason publicly?

I reached out to NakamotoInstitute.org asking effectively, "Why are the Wei Dai and Jon Matonis emails not included? Not judging, just honestly curious." We'll see.

Regarding the Jon Matonis emails. I'd never even heard of him until this week. If you need a program to know the players, like me, he's apparently the former Executive Director of the Bitcoin Foundation (see [Wikipedia article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin_Foundation)). It seems a bit hard to pin down what he's up to today. I will say one of the top hits when searching for his name pops up with [cypherpunkholdings.com...](https://cypherpunkholdings.com/about-us/board-of-directors/jon-matonis/) under "board of directors," complete with "cyphepunk" misspelling (screenshot below) What's more, that link forwards to a Solana DeFi project. Hmm.

https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/crrdlx/EoCpNqtJuquEMYKwV9jgpeuURM44eSaUSxSPSCoeyfqPaSShz8prMYeeQ4c3yv2bTcT.png

I reached out to Matonis via his hushmail.com email. We'll see.

That's all. Summary:
- three Satoshi emails (to two people) are in question
- the Wei Dai emails seem legit to me
- the Jon Matonis email, I'm not so sure
- would love to hear back from NakamotoInstitute.org

We'll see. :)

nostr:npub1wfvjajv0336mpxhdk6xvlafp20p8mch5083wyjd6xxnerlaxf5kqhsvx9a - tagging you here because I thought you might be interested in the Wei Dai part of this


Recently, I've been trying to decipher a question that _seems_ simple: "Did Satoshi write these emails?" There are three emails in question involving two people (other than Satoshi):
- Wei Dai (two emails)
- Jon Matonis (one email)

For the back-story, I wrote about this conundrum at https://stacker.news/items/691013 The upshot for my ponderance is that the NakamotoInstitute.org (BTC-friendly) does *not* include these emails, but the NakamotoStudies.org (BCH-friendly) site *does*. I wondered, "What's up?" Is this a BTC-vs.-BCH blockchain thing? A block size thing?" Frankly, I don't care. I just want to know if Satoshi wrote them.

Regarding Wei Dai, the general consensus in the SN comments linked above was that I should go to the source...go to Wei Dai and ask. If real Satoshi-emails, then either he or Satoshi released them "into the wild" at some point and then they started to appear on various websites. 'Til maybe now, I hadn't seen that release point.

The Dai/Satoshi emails mostly pop up in two places in a search: bitcoin.com and gwern.net. I was familiar with bitcoin.com (and thus was a bit skeptical), but was unfamiliar with gwern.net. Was it just another bitcoin website? Anyone can make one. Was there an agenda? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

So, going to the source, I reached out to Wei Dai via email today. We'll see.

Digging around, Wei Dai's site https://weidai.com says any questions can be posted publicly at https://www.lesswrong.com/ as an AMA. I went there. The "release point," evidence of Wei Dai sending out those emails may well be recorded there.

Here is a message from gwern timestamped March 16, 2014 to Wei Dai asking about the Wei/Satoshi emails:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/YdfpDyRpNyypivgdu/aalwa-ask-any-lesswronger-anything?commentId=hGuDqrpRTYiBsRB5Y

Screenshot of the Wei Dai to Gwern reply:
https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/crrdlx/23uFsVjJLZjzHuUTEFa5wX3p6CCwWGv6DNVnbqQUPKzKgPhE2xw9FB7cg6gB6QXJfFfax.png

Gwern's response to Wei Dai a couple of weeks later:
https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/crrdlx/48JBGdhjZuTLKgTeAUXKuyaMikD2Kvh4HPK7vdiqpfvo24L4TshWkH4NRaqWuY5yJi.png

The page on gwern.net is still live at https://gwern.net/doc/bitcoin/2008-nakamoto. Being healthily skeptical, I looked for that page on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Unfortunately, that page is only first archived [in 2023](https://web.archive.org/web/20230208163356/https://gwern.net/doc/bitcoin/2008-nakamoto). But, gwern.net does go back to [2010](https://web.archive.org/web/20101011153322/http://www.gwern.net/) and the first bitcoin mention there seems to be [July of 2011](https://web.archive.org/web/20110723141839/http://www.gwern.net/), so, it was early.

The bottom line here, to me at least, is that Wei Dai's emails seem legit. Assuming the timestamps are legit, and that the emails being discussed from Wei Dai are indeed the same ones that gwern has on his site, then they're legit. It would take quite a bit of foresight to plan this out, starting 10 years ago, for this to be fake. The fact that the timestamp is pre-BCH, pre-block size wars is a big plus in my view as to the emails being legit. Those were the main reasons a question even arose in my mind, that and the NakamotoInstitute.org vs. NakamotoStudies.org exclusion/inclusion.

My next question, then, is back to NakamotoInstitute.org. Why, actually, are the Wei Dai emails not there? There must be a reason, and if a solid reason, why not share that reason publicly?

I reached out to NakamotoInstitute.org asking effectively, "Why are the Wei Dai and Jon Matonis emails not included? Not judging, just honestly curious." We'll see.

Regarding the Jon Matonis emails. I'd never even heard of him until this week. If you need a program to know the players, like me, he's apparently the former Executive Director of the Bitcoin Foundation (see [Wikipedia article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin_Foundation)). It seems a bit hard to pin down what he's up to today. I will say one of the top hits when searching for his name pops up with [cypherpunkholdings.com...](https://cypherpunkholdings.com/about-us/board-of-directors/jon-matonis/) under "board of directors," complete with "cyphepunk" misspelling (screenshot below) What's more, that link forwards to a Solana DeFi project. Hmm.

https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/crrdlx/EoCpNqtJuquEMYKwV9jgpeuURM44eSaUSxSPSCoeyfqPaSShz8prMYeeQ4c3yv2bTcT.png

I reached out to Matonis via his hushmail.com email. We'll see.

That's all. Summary:
- three Satoshi emails (to two people) are in question
- the Wei Dai emails seem legit to me
- the Jon Matonis email, I'm not so sure
- would love to hear back from NakamotoInstitute.org

We'll see. :)

@BITCOIN - tagging you here because I thought you might be interested in the Wei Dai part of this

originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/694651


Squirrel got rugged by that guy.


Recently, I wrote this: https://stacker.news/items/684558?commentId=684701 and asked whether three emails were "legit"...did Satoshi write them. Still wondering, I thought a wider explanation might be worthwhile.

Somehow, I'm finding myself lost in a techno labyrinth and then mired in a quandary of muck. Here's why...

![satoshi-leatherbound.jpg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/crrdlx/AK3eHCTZJNmnLFYLQDg8dvEkqtYY9vJAumT74aWrAEiCLYxZBQsEdDHMVDSLgS4.jpg)

Image source: generated at leonardo.ai

### The background

In 2019, I edited a book called "Kicking the Hornet’s Nest: The Complete Writings, Emails, and Forum Posts of Satoshi Nakamoto, the Founder and Creator of Bitcoin" with the goal of logging all of Satoshi Nakamoto's public writings in chronological order ([links here](https://hive.blog/bitcoin/@crrdlx/satoshi)). There were other similar resources out there, and a somewhat similar but incomplete book, yet none were arranged strictly by chronology or without heavy editorial commentary added as a layer on top of Satoshi's writings.

I wanted Satoshi's words, alone, in order, all of them.

A second edition of "Kicking" came out when three "Satoshi emails" were released in 2020. Since the goal was to include *all* of Satoshi's writings, a new edition was needed.

Then, with the "COPA trial" in early 2023 a new slew of never-before-seen emails were released by Adam Back and Martii Malmi as evidence in the case. This was a couple of *hundred* more emails, half from Satoshi and the other half *to* Satoshi. So, a third edition of "Kicking" was needed.

### The start

My current quandary started when I got a ping via X saying I'd missed Wei Dai's emails with Satoshi.

https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/crrdlx/23wMyix4neRki9BgsjZGYV7qpaHvmiwXUVMtm8XP8MQEpCNApb8BVQcY8qdAxa3kenpdw.png

Wei Dai's work is the first citation in the [bitcoin whitepaper](https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf) (page 9) and Dai is a cypherpunk legend, of course. This omission was a rather egregious error on my part, "How did I miss that?" I wondered. Like finding an overlooked golden nugget, I eagerly wrote back to thank BITCOINALLCAPS: "This is defitely [sic] something to include. I'll investigate, and thanks for the heads up!"

### That feeling

Since I'm currently still tweaking out the third edition, this Wei Dai email discovery came at an opportune time to make adjustments. However, I had, and have, a funny feeling.

The link that BITCOINALLCAPS gave was to what I thought was a semi-sketchy looking video. (See the YouTube video linked on the X post above: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkcwUortfWE) The vid was interesting in that it talked about Satoshi reaching out to Wei Dei pre-whitepaper. Then it analyzed nuanced differences between the *drafted* whitepaper title and summary when compared to the *final* title and summary of the whitepaper.

A little searching pointed the "source" for this missing Wei Dai email as bitcoin.com. That site has a list of Satoshi emails, forum posts, etc. I noticed two correspondences that I'd missed: Wei Dei's two emails and Jon Matonis's one. However, the likely more-respected Nakamoto Institute at https://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org did not include those three emails. That feeling came back to me, with the question, "Are these emails for real?"

If you're unfamiliar with bitcoin.com, then you may not realize why I got a funny feeling and why I began to wonder about the emails at all. It's a long, sordid story, but I'll try to *briefly* summarize.

At first there was bitcoin. Then, around 2017 as bitcoin grew and struggled to scale in size, the "block size wars" went down. Some wanted to increase the block size to unclog the chain, others wanted to retain the small block size that Satoshi had coded. The big blockers eventually forked Bitcoin (BTC) to start Bitcoin Cash (aka, "B-cash") and took the symbol BCH.

There was much animosity, and frankly, there still is. Bitcoin "maxis" today consider BTC the *only* bitcoin. Maxis even say there is bitcoin and *no* other...that there actually *are* no other cryptocurrencies...that all others are merely scam-coins. These folks consider themselves purists by retaining Satoshi's original small block size. The B-cashers consider themselves purists, retaining Satoshi's "electronic cash" ethos so that someone could buy-a-cup-of-coffee with a transaction on the main chain.

If you're keeping score:

|coin/chain:|Bitcoin|Bitcoin Cash|
|-|-|-|
|symbol/nickname:|BTC|BCH or B-cash|
|block size:|small blocks like Satoshi coded|big blocks so electronic cash can exist like Satoshi wrote|
|website:|bitcoin.org|bitcoin.com|
|site founder/owner:|started by Satoshi|owned by Roger Ver|
|Satoshi's writings logged at:|nakamotoinstitute.org|nakamotostudies.org|

And, to really throw gas onto the fire, and I hate to even bring this up, but there is Craig Steven Wright. His "Bitcoin SV" (BSV) coin spun-off from Bitcoin Cash. BSV claimed to be the even more pure purist coin as "Satoshi's Vision," hence the "SV." If you're reading this, you know about Wright...and the COPA trial...and his debunking as Satoshi...and all that. I'll return to this topic in a moment.

Like I said, this is a long and sordid story.

So, why dig up this muck here?

### Back to the emails

My question was/is, "Did Satoshi write the emails to Wei Dai and Jon Matonis?" And this is where I entered the techno-labyrinth.

The video source I mentioned above aroused skepticism. The narrator focused on certain items, namely the emphasis on "electronic cash" or "ecash" or the "b" in "b-money." He didn't mention "b-cash" that I caught, but the I wondered if that was the allusion projected. In other words, I wondered if there was/is an agenda, as if to say, "b-money is b-cash which is the real and original bitcoin."

And, back to Craig Wright. I was unfamiliar with Jon Matonis, so I searched, and this article came up: https://jonmatonis.medium.com/how-i-met-satoshi-96e85727dc5a. The upshot is that in 2016 Matonis believed Craig Wright was Satoshi Nakamoto. (I'm curious as to his opinion now.) Suddenly, the reason for excluding the Jon Matonis email from the Bitcoin (BTC)-friendly [NakamotoInstitute.org](https://akamotoinstitute.org/) was apparent. This was high blasphemy.

The labyrinth got more convoluted. The website [NakamotoStudies.org](https://nakamotostudies.org/) is Bitcoin Cash (BCH)-friendly. (See the left-leaning green "B" symbol? It's the same as on the BCH symbol instead of the familiar, right-lighting and orange BTC symbol.)

![screenshot-2024,09,18-17.43.32.414.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/crrdlx/23tSuaAoYTGDLArhs8UbeafA6596RuiburpfTCYKdxc4aEfcqNdfjuegCayePXDBGkTX6.png)

![screenshot-2024,09,18-18.31.27.063.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/crrdlx/242sCSm6unHpt8x9ByFhVFZsPbWmCrMJyqbeotaYaW6XMKaZ5836HpPAV2oy4zRet7jVq.png)

![screenshot-2024,09,18-18.35.05.480.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/crrdlx/242Di7UWoPA3Ra79zSDsr2fv4zT6fi3QRwBJfCo9jFhr6BngpjSjRbXTYbjA8TDoRNiJC.png)

For some reason, the NakamotoStudies.org (BCH-friendly) site does *not* currently show the Matonis email, see [this link](https://nakamotostudies.org/emails/satoshi-to-john-matonis/). Actually, all "Emails" are "forbidden."

![screenshot-2024,09,18-17.36.53.344.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/crrdlx/23vsrFxbbdR44AeraUqGeLphGP97pVfyg4vn3X7wLXRaSESJGqqC28aQjVk9LZXzrQ9Ln.png)

Though not live now, the Internet Archive Wayback Machine has captured the emails [here](https://web.archive.org/web/20200119190105/https://nakamotostudies.org/emails/satoshi-to-john-matonis/).

At this point, the tecno-labyrinth is confusing and the muck is deep.

It *seemed* simple. I just wondered if Satoshi wrote the emails, but now I'm mired in website inclusion/exclusion censorship and gamesmanship, B-cash talk, and Craig Wright-is-Satoshi nonsense. Labyrinth and muck.

### Canon or canon not?

In Christianity, there is the idea of Biblical canon. Canon is *what should be included* in the Bible, non-canon is everything else. Christians believe canonical works are inspired scripture, where the Holy Spirit guided the authors of the books of the Bible. As man used his own words and writing styles to literally write, the Holy Spirit actually guided each word perfectly so that the finished work was not just man's words, but "God-breathed" words.

The early Christian church, then, had to figure, "Which works are God-breathed canon and which are not?" Or, practically speaking, what goes into the Bible and what does not?

This gets into the weeds a bit, but there was no official meeting to decide what gets into the Bible and what did not. The "Early Church," that is, the body of Christian believers in the first couple of centuries A.D., essentially agreed as a collective on certain books as being in line with Christian thought and agreed that others were not. As a group, they nodded and said, "Yep, this is in," to the 66 books we recognize in the Bible today, and they said, "Nope, not this" to everything else.

I say this gets into the weeds, and it does. The Catholic Church may bring up the books of the Apocrypha. And, even then, the church might distinguish the Old Testament Apocryphal books versus New Testament Apocryphal books. It gets complicated.

What's more, some may argue that official church councils or positions officially codify or accept certain books as doctrine, or not. That is, the official church officially deems canon, or as deems non-canon. Yet, others may argue, as I do, that it is not an official church that is the gatekeeper of canon, but rather that it is instead the decentralized body of believers as a group, guided by the Holy Spirit, which accept canon and reject non-canon. If canon is God-breathed, it is not a council of church men who decide canon or not. Rather, it is the church, the believers, guided by the Holy Spirit that decides.

This is now deeply in the weeds, but the point remains...some works get in, some does not.

### Bitcoin is not a religion

To be clear, I'm very much *not* a fan of throwing religion  onto bitcoin. We do it at times, maybe in a solely fun way, such as with the "Genesis block" or in other ways. Bitcoin is a lot of things: economics, computer science, physical science, mathematics, philosophy, game theory, and more. But, it's not religion.

The reason I even included the religious discussion here is to illustrate the point of including or excluding text. Recall my question, "Should the Wei Dai and Jon Matonis emails be included in Satoshi's writings?"

And, I mentioned two ways above what made Biblical canon or non-canon: (1) official decree or (2) unofficial acceptance by the people. In the first case, I wouldn't want an official bitcoin meeting of people to decide yes or no as to what is Satoshi's writings and what is not (of course, being decentralized, there can be no official bitcoin meeting!). And, to the second, I don't want the bitcoin community to collectively agree yes or no, "This is in, this is not," as the early Christian Church did with Biblical canon. My desire is this:

If Satoshi wrote it, I want it included in "Kicking."

Yet, the question still nags, are these emails Satoshi's words? Are they bitcoin canon or not?

### My hope

To include or not to include is my question? My reason for writing this is to hopefully get unstuck from the muck and mire. My options at the moment, as I see them, are:

1. Don't include those emails in "Kicking the Hornet's Nest."
2. Include them alongside all the others in the chronological place they would go.
3. Include the emails, but add an editor's comment effectively as an asterisk saying: *here is the email, but take itwith a grain of salt.

Currently, I'm really not sure which option I'll go with. If I had to choose today, I'd choose option 3. I've already done this with the "I am not Dorian" post, as below.

![i-am-not-dorian.PNG](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/crrdlx/23uFwS9uoSznQAdVhmsikm9KscNhRxFq1RTDxesYUhxjvDqQXMA2gZ181ki4WAU4mPqBH.PNG)

This is odd in a way. I'm a Christian, by faith. Faith, by definition, is believing in what cannot be proven. And yet, I love bitcoin, who's #1 mantra may be, "Don't trust (believe), verify." So, my hope is to find an answer to whether these emails are Satoshi's or not. Perhaps there is a telling clue or clues in the source or metadata of those emails that proves or disproves them. My hope is to verify yes or no, legit or not. Maybe someone who reads this, more adroit than I, can enlighten me on a telling point that reveals whether Satoshi wrote the Wei Dai and Jon Matonis emails, or not.

I'm curious and listening.

It seems simple: did Satoshi write these three emails?

This is a long form article, you can read it in https://habla.news/a/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzqqzmcn0yrn7ttq8hrjkk46ysn2tk26rr8f8k4y7xkl74hlh3rcdzqqxnzdejxcmnqvf3xqenwv3h3erpwx


I had a coworker talk about a situation today that seems crazy to me. She needs some money for something, home repair I believe. She wants to take some money out early from the company IRA (I didn't know we even had one). Bottom line, she was told she needs the company's approval first. "To get my own money?" She said the words I was thinking.

I just kept thinking...bitcoin.

#bitcoin


We bitcoiners can like both #bitcoin and #gold. Seems like golders cannot though for some reason.


Got the email below, haven't had time to check if it's real or scam. Says Google Play needs KYC. If true, that's sad. #kyc #plebchain

Critical message Your developer profile and all apps will be removed from Google Play if you do not complete account verifications by Oct 11, 2024 (in 28 days)
Your developer profile 'crrdlx' and all apps will be removed from Google Play on Oct 11, 2024 (in 28 days) if you do not complete account verifications in Play Console.

Your deadline to complete verification
Oct 11, 2024

Complete verification in Play Console
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What you need to provide to verify
When you verify, you'll be asked to confirm whether your developer account is for an organization, or whether it's for personal use. The information you need to provide depends on your account type.

a D-U-N-S number (organizations only)
If you're an organization and you don't have a D-U-N-S number, request one at no cost from Dun & Bradstreet now. This process can take up to 30 days, so we recommend requesting a D-U-N-S number immediately. Learn more about requesting a D-U-N-S number
a phone number for Google Play users to contact you (organizations only)
an email address for Google Play users to contact you
a phone number and email address for Google to contact you
an official document to verify your identity
an official document to verify your organization (organizations only)
If you earn money on Google Play using Google Play billing, you'll also need to verify your merchant payment details.

All developers must complete account verification to comply with the updated Play Console Requirements policy. To learn more about account verification, visit the Help Centre.


Here's a photograph of my little garden. I think this is photograph number 3, and if you look closely, you can see little sprouts starting to pop out which is kinda cool. #garden
#gardening is good for the soul.

![](https://usermedia.actifit.io/383d9e66-ecf8-49ae-9188-65d915df2513)


Saw this somewhere. In sum:
Exercise, eat right, get sleep, get a hobby, enjoy art, have friends and family, help others, have faith. https://image.nostr.build/cab0e6cd8c8f8ee42a476725834e4ac00643f6e258d8d69362ac952b195d2601.jpg
#plebchain


There's something special about flowers you've grown yourself.
#flowers #zinnias
https://images.d.buzz/20240907_092631.jpg.jpeg


I snapped this picture last weekend out of the window of the car. Though it came out blurry, I like it.
https://image.nostr.build/fc54e37415fe2a0692569b145454f876fbe52a0e0de61e3989117e765997b89b.jpg


From your work on Coracle and from your podcast, you seem rather good at both. You're humble.


Anybody else NOT seeing their nostr notes auto-posted to Mastodon as expected? The past few days, I've noticed that my Nostr notes do auto cross-post to X and Bluesky, but not Mastodon. Usually, they go to Mastodon no problem. Hmm. #asknostr


Learned stuff messing on a TRS-80 coding stupid simple stuff in BASIC.
Fast forward...first email account was on excite.com (sounds creepy now!)
Fasr forward...Bitcoin
Fast forward...Steem which became Hive
Nostr
Much other stuff left out. My big three now are bitcoin, Hive, and nostr.


Well, there are signing extensions like Alby and nos2x, and there is nsec.app which uses a "bunker". They take away the need to enter an nsec (which is dangerous because it only takes one oopsie to a scam site and your nostr "account" is compromised. Some links: http://nostrwiki.crrdlx.infinityfreeapp.com/doku.php?id=wiki:nostr-extension


Not sure what you're asking here by "without existing your nsec."


Wow, https://nostrudel.ninja keeps getting better and better. This latest release seems to "rank" zaps from highest to lowest, left to right. This is terrific in that it effectively gamefies zapping by incentivizing zappers to up-their-zap. In essence, this then becomes a zap-auction where the zap "winner" winds up at the leftmost position, that is, the most visible and spotlighted position. This position, in turn, ostensibly should lead to increased numbers of followers for that leading zapper. Incentives yield results. https://image.nostr.build/f9a3e180b130c0d1e75aab1d064cd45b99afd8449723b299c8fd2a908a1c3845.png
#nostr #zaps #plebchain


Stacker News at https://stacker.news/items/668006


I probably shouldn't be, but I'm terribly proud of this 1 satoshi.
https://image.nostr.build/3e823d7f0df3cbd5a497f05e5e072300ddafead2fa1065151c02c2a2b2b345e8.png
#christian #bible


nostr:nprofile1qqsx8zd7vjg70d5na8ek3m8g3lx3ghc8cp5d9sdm4epy0wd4aape6vspzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejszxrhwden5te0wfjkccte9ekk7mt0wd68ytnsd9hxkqg3waehxw309ahx7um5wghxyatfd3jqh5v6at Thought this is your kind of article: https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/04/science/fungus-robot-mushroom-biohybrid/index.html


Kinda stumbled on https://btcframe.com from a #nostr reaction I received. Nice to see another clean looking #bitcoin dashboard.


With Mutiny shutting down, I've been researching other wallets and trying things. Feels like trying to settle on a #Linux distribution! Lots of options, pros and cons. Just for hodling a few sats on the lighntning network, I've messed with and like Alby and Phoenix, but seem to be narrowing in on the Green wallet. Still testing though. #bitcoin be not for the faint of heart!


Nope, I'm not buying this alleged change of heart. When I hear "crypto for kamala" I really hear "we want donations too." This is is person who just called for "oversight" of social media, similar to what Brazil is doing with X. She and Democrats largely will do the same with #bitcoin and  crypto. You saying what you want and you doing what you want with your money, without approval, is not an option.

https://finbold.com/crypto-for-kamala-100k-fundraiser-planned-for-vp-amid-friendlier-stance/


This is the answer! Would be neat to see him totally bypass those saying, "No, you cannot do this!", without him saying a word, just bypassing.


I tend to listen to #bitcoin focused podcasts, but there's only so much one can take in. So, I'm trying to branch out a bit. Yesterday/today I listed to a pod about Chuck E. Cheese and animatronic characters. It was rather entertaining. https://slate.com/culture/2019/06/decoder-ring-explores-the-war-between-chuck-e-cheeses-and-showbiz-pizza-place-and-the-fate-of-their-animatronic-characters-including-the-king.html
#plebchain #podcast #pizza


Fooling around with Alby Hub, I successfully got my npub as unzapable. 🚫⚡ But, today I'm back to ZAPable! ⚡ (I think.)

Alby Hub is still another story altogether.


Cold storage


Nothing that could possibly go wrong here. Signed, 2008


Enjoying watching the Little League Workd Series. 1-0 game going to the final inning #baseball.


I don't know how folks here have the time to post notes so consistently. Doggone day job gets in the way. There's so much I want to do!
#time


I've often wondered why God chose to let us live longer than our dogs. I think it's to strengthen us. I'm sorry for what you're going through. It's hard and decision is hard, but the best thing you can do is take care of the pup and yourself. Dogs know.


Thanks for the info. I guess I'll be spending time figuring out what Alby Hub rekt. 😆


Just wrote this to a fellow saying #bitcoin is not a safe haven:

Bitcoin may not be a "safe haven", whatever that is, but I look at it in this way: if gold was only 15 years old, and I have a chance to invest a couple of dollars in this immutably finite asset, should I? Gold has been an investment for about 6000 years of recorded history, with bitcoin we have a chance to get a few sats only 15 years in. At this early point, it might be considered irresponsible to NOT get "off zero", that is, to get a few sats.


Just FYI, I tried to zap you a few sats, but I'm spinning and spinning. Something going on, sorry.


Okay, thank you. This is what I'm trying to find out.


And, "The Titanic is unsinkable."


Would someone send me a small zap to test things? I'm not begging here, I promise! I decided to futz with Alby Hub but now I'm not sure if my LN address is operational or whacked. Mainly, I want to see if the address crrdlx@getalby.com still works. If I receive a zap or tx, I'll zap those sats back to you.
#plebchain


The wusang.vercel.app game has a 50/50 chance of giving a bonus treasure token. It's based on a random number generated with the game commands (https://peakd.com/@wusang) <0.5 gets a bonus token, >0.5 is no token. Currently, the last 13 tries have >0.5. That's like flipping heads 13 times in a row; a 1 in 8192 chance of that happening! #math


Any company that ships goods would do well to study the coconut. There is nothing, and I mean absolutely nothing, as well-packaged as a coconut.

I've watched videos of people husking coconuts with machetes, and even with their teeth if the coconut is old and dry. However, I'm convinced they are all AI-generated fiction. Opening a coconut is dang hard. The "nut", that is, the "meat" and "milk", are all ensconced in a nearly impenetrable fortress of cushion and casing. God packages things the right way.

Even though I use a handsaw, flatbar/crowbar, and cordless drill, as well as a good deal of muscle, it's hard to get into them thangs.

https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/crrdlx/23wCBeJ3bATwnTxGDJ9sViPkcihGD7Jkbj9DJKoSQJkySfWGw6fACwd3Cc4vChzdhWD4E.jpg

I cut three vertical slices. This is not easy. The fibers inside quickly bind and grab the saw blade, as if the say, "Nope! You ain't gettin' in here buddy!"

https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/crrdlx/23uQtWKaj6H3MTfqyZaN3tgqNeVctF57SDvKgYddK4QwRSsqEWBANncycHkmwEHGiyPcm.jpg

A flatbar really helps to peel away the husk. This seems like a major victory, and it is, but the fibers do not give up the ghost easily. It takes a lot of ripping, muscle, crowbarring, more ripping, sweat and muscle. It's hard.

https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/crrdlx/23vhz7R9jXDQDBUaJ51pxW9LbQ6tRuvAYUiXWv7BJzTXmosk5cmzXxGsGtYysDQrmfQvM.jpg

Eventually, the "nut" is revealed. Two small holes drilled in the nut allow for pouring the "milk" inside. I got over 8 ounces with this one. Oddly, a coconut is not a nut and it has neither milk or meat, though we use those three words anyway.

Finally, there is the meat. The best part of opening a coconut is cracking it open. Normally, a swift smash on a hard surface splits it right in two. This time, I got thirds. Then, a coconut doesn't give up its meat easily. The white flesh needs to be carved out with a sharp and string knife. But, the payoff is terrific. There is nothing better than fresh coconut meat. The stuff that we buy in stores is nice, but it's not even close to fresh coconut.

Plebs, the proof of work of opening the nut is well worth the payoff. Somehow this just reminded me of #cashu

#nature #plebchain #cashu


#bitcoin folks have been saying thus for years. And Elin us right about the matrix.
https://dailyhodl.com/2024/08/18/elon-musk-unveils-underlying-cause-of-inflation-says-hes-willing-to-be-part-of-government-efficiency-commission/


Yes, this is what I'm finding out. Got to do a little self analysis first then begin to narrow.


Oh, I know about cashu.me and love it! I think of it as a pocket change wallet but get a little nervous if putting a bit more in than what I'd have in my jeans. Thanks for the reply.


#Bitcoin maxis, feel like upping your blood pressure today? 😀

I'm not a fan of the "s---coins" term for altcoins. However, Justin Sun's new project "SunPump" on Tron is next level s-coinery. https://bitcoinist.com/tron-memecoin-launcher-set-to-rival-solanas-pump-fun-with-incentive-program/


I've got to figure out my #bitcoin #lightning plan now that Mutiny is shutting down. Started researching wallets, but it's a lot of info and variables. I'd say my bitcoin-IQ is at the 6/10 level, on a good day. Open for wallet suggestions.

Got some helpful feedback from Stacker News at https://stacker.news/items/651096 but figured I'd also #asknostr
https://image.nostr.build/a65d06ed28f00aa3487df77d2eff7ac18024f2ad64f90dc344cf12adb38a94c5.png


Getting ready for a little Friday night football. ;)
#football


People smiling. 😃


Hi there! It's so good to see a fellow Hiver here on Nostr.


Saw this rainbow last week-ish. 🌈 The photo doesn't do it justice. It was so bright and so wide. I thought of a favorite bible verse from Genesis 9:16 - Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the Earth.  https://image.nostr.build/755de7c3cc3c577fa806861adf5ecb335589325c5e3775dd8382a704a91780e0.jpg
#christian #bible


I don't trust that guy on the left. Either not a team player or checking out the hot lemon lounging by the sink.


The 2-minute daily devotions at https://wels.app/devotion/dd/0000 are consistently great. I thought yesterday's was especially strong with its simple clarity...
----
Can Jesus Help Me? – August 9, 2024

As soon as they got out of the boat, people recognized Jesus. They ran throughout that whole region and carried the sick on mats to wherever they heard he was. And wherever he went—into villages, towns or countryside—they placed the sick in the marketplaces. They begged him to let them touch even the edge of his cloak, and all who touched it were healed.
Mark 6:54-56

You have a rare disease. It is eating away at your body and destroying your health. Every day, you are a little bit weaker.

And then you hear that there is a miracle cure. It is hard to obtain and requires a flight to a different country. It will likely be of great cost. Do you say, “Forget it. It’s not worth it. I will accept feeling terrible and getting more sick every day.” Or do you seek the cure?

Once Jesus and the disciples land across the Sea of Galilee, people recognize him. The sick and dying are carried on mats to be placed in front of Jesus. The afflicted were desperate for even a touch of the edge of his cloak as he walked by. And they were healed.

The truth is, I do have a terrible disease. I am a carrier of it. Eventually, this disease will take my life. No pills can touch it, and no therapy will control it. This disease will end in my death. You carry it, too. It is the disease of sin.

But there is a cure for this disease. It is absolutely free. No doctor needs to prescribe it, and no expensive pills need to be purchased. In fact, you don’t even need to go to the pharmacist to pick up the prescription. The Healer brings it to you. All it takes is his touch.

The one who healed the bodies in the markets also heals souls for eternity. His blood that was shed cleanses you. His obedient life purifies you. One day, we will experience in the joy of heaven what it really means to be healthy and alive. Until that day, trust his cure.

Prayer:
Lord Jesus, thank you for taking my ills upon yourself. Strengthen me to serve you in the blessing of this life you have given me. Amen.

Source: https://wels.app/devotion/dd/43508
#christian #faith


#bitcoin could do it better
https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/olympic-swimming-pool-heated-ai-data-center


The thing is, it's the OTHER policies of Harris, mainly the "Modern Monetary Theory" ideas that preclude her. When you advocate for insane "economic" policies, you don't get sane people's votes (or money).


"Biden belongs on Mt. Rushmore."


Wusang: Isle of Blaq is the World's Ultra Simple Asset Numbers Game. It mixes proof-of-work effort to get a coin with randomized luck-of-the-draw to maybe win a bonus. Info at https://wusang.vercel.app
 https://image.nostr.build/9a58897d3482166f6fc3653db4749677b4fee00e8652c2e468858fa5217118ba.png
#games


I've discovered another immutable law of the universe...

If you put on a T-shirt in the dark, it will go on backwards. Every. Single. Time.


Gotta get that bridge going. My posts here auto-go to mastodon, bluesky, and X.


And his policies?...


Good advice is good to have.
Am currently in a health care facility and the restroom taught me a good lesson.
https://image.nostr.build/c30d25994077b8bca59943dcb347c12bb1b4d9f80068d539d09f232f085f04f2.jpg
#themoreyouknow


This is something that I've come to take for granted. On the very rare occasion that I make a stock trade, it somehow hits me every time, "Oh, that's right, I've got to wait until tomorrow morning for this to actually go through." It's like putting a letter in the mailbox and waiting for a few days for the person to read it.


Neat. I understand ordinals is a word that's touchy with people around here. Still, innovation and creating and building! My thought is that stupid jpg mints will play themselves out, or not, whatever the market/people decide. Also, I think it's less about jpg nfts and more about the other stuff that might could be built some day. Any link to the project?


So ordinal inscriptions could exist on nostr, at least nostrized ordinal inscriptions?


Mutiny Wallet apparently is shutting down. My thoughts:
(1) I guess I wasted a bunch of sats opening channels.
(2) Much respect for what the Mutiny folks created though. After everything, this seems to me to reinforce the notion that people matter and people fuel these things. And, when the fire burns out or the people get burnt out, the project ends.
(3) In a weird way, this makes me like Bitcoin even more. At this point, it really doesn't rely on people much to fuel it. It just keeps fueling on and doesn't care about people burning out or businesses not paying bills or whatever causes project shutdowns.

https://njump.me/nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzphchxfm3ste32hfhkvczzxapme9gz5qvqtget6tylyd7wa8vjecgqywhwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnzd96xxmmfdejhytnnda3kjctv9uq3jamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwd4hk6mmnw3ezuurfde4j7qpqmnyfl9hjck35mw67hd659j6a2gxltmyhzq684lm99xnf6wzyeunslj44qu
#bitcoin


It feels good to get something working. I made a little token called Hivebits (HBIT) a couple of years back, it was on the fritz for several months, but I got it working again today.
 https://image.nostr.build/6d122f1a8e46c41539ea04f6b0c18a6bc0cd83fe8dca373da54e99f0d66bd11e.gif
HBIT operates with a Bitcoin-esque ethos:
- 21 million HBIT hardcoded max supply
- PoW - the only way to earn HBIT is if you provably and consciously put in some effort (simply comment with the !HBIT command), then you get 1.0 HBIT
- only one HBIT per day allowed so as to avoid pilferage and keep emittance low
- HBIT can be sold/bought etc. on the open market at https://tribaldex.com/trade/HBIT

Today's success in getting Hivebits (HBIT) operational again was due to the coding wizardry of hivetoday nostr:npub14gcd064f7nl7l30hk7tkd3msmk3nwaygwkkzfxmlqgmmrr555pfqfcrsj6 and the VPS service of Skhron nostr:npub1yequ2pswfmkgyzylmvkfawz8z3nqlh0hcgaqr4e3xy2grxplq96stt6anu Give them a look-see or follow.

All the HBIT details at https://peakd.com/hive/@hivebits/about

#plebchain #bitcoin


This is some next-level degen action: https://thedefiant.io/news/defi/degens-can-now-make-memecoins-from-tweets


Right, and yet leftist folks in the US and Europe are clambering to go in that direction.


#bitcoin and #politics are getting conjoined at the hip. The article below says Harris is trying for a Democrat reset. Two things: (1) as far as why? It's clearly money and votes that Trump's gaining and she's losing. Hard money is not a Democrat/Keynesian position. (2) Democrats/liberals must kowtow to green ecologists first and the bitcoin-kills-the-planet that's narrative that's been implanted will be hard to sway otherwise.

https://ambcrypto.com/kamala-harris-seeks-to-reset-crypto-relations-whats-behind-the-move/


Just wrote my thoughts here (tldr; it was a good step forward):
https://njump.me/nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzqqzmcn0yrn7ttq8hrjkk46ysn2tk26rr8f8k4y7xkl74hlh3rcdzqy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq3wamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwwpexjmtpdshxuet59uqzprjvxmu3lcl24pcxzezcphhz4cx92j4zdxxjrcg2l7z37cuaefhmx33df2


To bitcoiners, Trump's speech https://www.youtube.com/live/EiEIfBatnH8?si=GxYagadnY2q0Oi_s may have seemed like more of a campaign stump speech and a bit underwhelming bitcoinwise. At least that's how I perceived it as he was speaking. Whereas other speakers were in Nashville to talk bitcoin, Trump was there to campaign and bitcoin was a topic in the campaign.

Also, Robert Kennedy Jr. may have set the bar pretty high by laying out his plan with ambitious bitcoin reserve purchases. I like high goals, however, I'm not sure if his goals are even possible: buy 550 daily until 4 million. Umm, only 450 are minted per day. Who's selling?

Zooming out...
- RFK Jr. is much more free to say things. He has zero chance to win. He will not be president and his plans are moot (moot other than maybe in that they can serve to something of a "first offer" bargaining chip for Trump to react to).
- Trump stands a good chance to win, at least 50/50. Thus, he needs to be more cautious in what he says. For instance, if he'd said, "I promise to replace the US dollar with bitcoin!", the crowd likely would have erupted in applause. However, burning down the house statements like that would be political suicide. You must win office to make changes in office.

From a broad perspective, the speech was huge. We're taking steps here and this was a very big one. This post logged Trump's promises well: https://stacker.news/items/625076 but here are my thoughts:

- A former president and maybe next president spoke at the biggest (at least in US) bitcoin conference. That's de facto official recognition. That alone is a huge change from ignoring bitcoin, combating or criticizing bitcoin.
- A bitcoin reserve or "stockpile" was promised. This is a step in the right direction.
- The notion of keeping bitcoin in the US was big. It's rather general at this point, but hopefully that means protecting those who code, miners who mine, hodlers who hodl, etc. This is maybe bigger than the reserve, actually.
- Personally, I really liked the advisory council proposal. That puts bitcoin "in the White House". That puts people who get it speaking into the president's ear, instead of the media's spin or hell-bent politicians trying to drum up public attention. A good advisory council could help keep the president on point.
- Also personally, I thought the 1 BTC coin gift was pretty cool. Would love to see that sitting on the Resolute Desk.

Overall, considering how far bitcoin has come, I think this will be seen in the future as a watershed moment.

RFK Jr source: https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/07/26/robert-f-kennedy-jr-takes-swings-at-donald-trump-pitches-bitcoin-strategic-reserve-bitcoin-nashville/74561549007/
Trump bitcoin promises source: https://stacker.news/items/625076

After one day, thoughts on Trump speech in Nashville


In the US, Democrats often try to out-left each other with a "I'm more 'progressive than you" stance. And, Republicans try to out-right each other with a "I'm more conservative than you" stance.  If we can get the parties to try and out-pro-crypto one another with a "we're more pro-bitcoin than you" stance, then we'll really be in business.
#bitcoin


Democrats feeling left out and trying to shift the party narrative. If both parties start clambering to be "pro-crypto", that's very bullish for #bitcoin
https://finbold.com/bullish-letter-democrat-politicians-urge-the-party-to-embrace-a-pro-crypto-stance/


If the "central criticism" of #bitcoin is that there's a "lack of practical, real-world use", then we're doing alright. Pretty sure hedging your wealth against inflation is a practical, real-world use case. And then there's actually buying stuff. A shirt on your back or food on your table is rather practical and real-world too.

https://image.nostr.build/d0682724500467855acb5a1ba83c0dfb47640609e021f59b262a08452982711d.jpg
Source: https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/27/politics/donald-trump-bitcoin-cryptocurrency/index.html


Coding (or rather, TRYing to code) might be the most humbling thing I've ever done.

#coding #stayhumble


There's an orange #cat across the street who goes hunting each day. In a month, he's gotten a woodpecker, mouse, and toad. And that's just what I've seen without even trying to watch. Cat got skills.


Hatchet ready, time to pod.


mmm, roasting ears


Eagle: Bro, you really don't want to come over here.


Don't think it would pass at the moment, but I'd love to see a vote forced on this to better see where each Congressperson stands. Overall, bullish.
https://www.coinspeaker.com/cynthia-lummis-bitcoin-strategic-reserve/
#bitcoin


Having a medical procedure done feels so invasive. Even when the folks are professional and friendly, it's not fun.


Not sure, but I'll also ask in English too see if there's a response...

Is there anyone from #Ukraine?


Є хто з України?


I've got to try primal more. I've looked at it but then use others. Maybe time for a another look.


Agreed, it's very user friendly for noobs (for non Americans of course).


I've seen people writing about wanting an "Alby invite" and saw recently that Alby is phasing out the free tier. Two questions:
1. Is this true?
2. If yes, what is a good option for a new nostrich to get zappable? (And by "get zappable" I mean stupid easy.)

I already use Alby and felt it was the easiest and best way for a noob to get a signing extension AND lightning/zapping wallet. Alby is/was my recommendation for newcomers.
#asknostr #grownostr #plebchain


Reading a book someone gave me and came upon an interesting factoid. How come we never hear about this in the news?

Also, is it accurate to say "produces" oxygen? I thought elements cannot be broken down (hence, elements) or not created w/out nuclear fission or fusion. (Forgive my chemistry h physics ignorance.) https://image.nostr.build/d8ec7e07c6459731737a2695d1fb27f353b710a07a27a1795296df9ac7c51380.jpg https://image.nostr.build/9a02c2840280b681111e20dd8c49b2bd74a118524362894205a1fc048fdba2a5.jpg #nature #environment #chemistry #physics


Interesting.
https://cryptodnes.bg/en/elon-musk-rumored-to-attend-bitcoin-conference-with-trump/
#bitcoin #plebchain


Biden may not like #bitcoin or #crypto, but today he learned what a rug pull is. No doubt he wanted to stay in the race, but he was rugged. Lifelong learning.


Called it. Was a few days early than I guessed, but was close enough. The amazing Biden praise has already begun (and will be over tge top nauseating). Up next, Biden makes the announcement speech. #politics https://stacker.news/items/613773/r/crrdlx?commentId=614229


Whoops, meant to to you but think I replied to myself!


I've seen it growing in Asheville, NC and have tries to get some growing elsewhere in NC, but it's been very meh. It's so good in pies though!