The Vietnam War had no war bond campaign unlike previous wars because they knew the war was too unpopular and the bonds would fail to sell.

The US was forced to officially end the gold standard in 1971 after attacks on the currency. Attacks that would obviously have failed if the gold standard hadn't already been secretly abandoned.

At least in America, the original purpose of fiat was to engage in wars the people did not want.

Sell all your USD for bitcoin, defund the war machine.

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I bought one because of this.


Do you have a better metric for broad new conviction and interest in #bitcoin than rising fiat price? If not I'm going to continue to be happy to see the price go up for that reason.


Not graphene (shame) but I was using florisboard. nostr:npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z just tested in openboard and it worked.


I can't tag people in posts in amethyst, it crashes. I'd tag a dev with this post but, well, you should be able to figure out why on your own.


I have an oura and love it. Absolutely key to figuring out some health issues I was having. So happy with it my wife got one for herself. Wear it 24/7 except during some workouts.

After a year with an oura the biggest takeway is it is not a workout tracker, it is a recovery tracker. It will tell you how your body is recovering from the stress you put in. It does a terrible job tracking any workout I've tried other than rucking and you can't see live data to target a HR zone, only a summary after.

So my current approach is, oura app is my central touch point for all fitness tracking. polar H10 for any target HR workout, kettlebells and rowing in my case. I manually add that workout into oura after I finish based on H10 data. Oura is good enough for rucking for me. When I'm fighting, BJJ, I just use the oura app estimator to track that workout.

This may sound slightly down on oura, it isn't. After a year of training with it I've totally flipped my thinking to what is normal. Knowing your recovery state is far more important than knowing how hard you worked.

My advice to any curious biohacker is to get one. Without it you have no real information about how your self experiments are affecting you.


Day 2 my sleep quality according to my oura ring was back to normal levels for me, I have long running sleep issues though.

Not sure how to describe how I felt this morning. Sore but the sore felt good, I know that doesn't make sense. Kinda like how after a perfect workout you feel tired but the tired feels good. I really felt deeply compelled to move in a positive way. Couldn't wait to get into my morning workout and still feeling good after the workout.


In before....

"The amplitude of the stress and anxiety Mr. Craig Wright has had to endure through assorted trials has caused him amnesia to and affected his memory and understanding of how to program and understand declarations. He is planning to sue the system for mental distress and damages"


I'll try anything. Last night was night 1 of my no more soft bed experiment. I feel far less sore than expected.

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Congressional Budget Office numbers are out. Spoiler alert mainstream accountants in the mildest way they can are saying all the lights are blinking red.


Butt sprayer on a stick. $30 and 15 minutes to install.


ALWAYS SELL dollars for more sats. Time to update that Satoshi quote for a sats are the standard world.

When someone tries to sell all the world's supply of an infinite asset, the more they sell the lower the price goes.  At some point, it gets too worthless for them to sell any more.  It's terrible for the people who haven't sold the infinite asset yet because there are no buyers left.  As the price keeps going down and down, buyers keep holding out for even lower prices and refuse to buy.

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I always remind christians that the bible warned them about me, the devil knows the scripture and can quote it to serve his purposes. They'd know that if they read it. Of course if they read it and let 2 brain cells bump into each other they'd be atheists too.

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Maybe lightning terminal finally got my fees right, or maybe there were a ton of lightning bets on the game last night, either way, highest fees ever for my node.


If you’re #Republican you’ll love Bitcoin, its free market money, not controlled by government.

If you’re #Democrat you’ll love Bitcoin,  its money run by the people, not corporations.

Or maybe you’re #Independent because the whole system is broken...we have something for you too, #Bitcoin


Ever notice how not a single dollar that funds war, corporate subsidies, or going to the banking class gets "put on hold" during a govt shutdown?

Yet they eagerly close the parks and national monuments...

You think there's something to learn from that?

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I've got transmitters coming out my ears. The flipper is not the only one that can be used for nefarious purposes.

https://youtu.be/zCHpCb-FQqs

That said...

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Canada forced my hand, I'm finally getting one.

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Sending this to every boomer I know.


I have had this exact issue. Makes me laugh every time.


My phone likes to autocorrect fiat currency to fist currency, and it’s not wrong.


Can we please have a presidential election where any of the candidates are beneath the average human life expectancy…


95% of the man who will pass this around and pat themselves on the back about how tough they are, are also far too soft for those jobs.


This is why I always call it xitter now. Both written and spoken.

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Technology ruins everything. Replace them the old fashion way, liquor.


I quit a while back. Much better without it. If you need it, that is a unnecessary weakness. Most regular users I know are chronically sleep deprived and would crumble without caffeine.


The population decline panic is based on the unfounded assumption that there is a correct number of people and it is greater than or equal to the current number. Why do you assume that?

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Don't overlook the little things—spending a few moments with a friend, getting in a quick workout, choosing the healthier food, taking a day off, saving a little money. It may seem like nothing to skip over it in that moment, but our daily decisions are like a ship's captain making little tiny course corrections. Veering slightly left or right in the moment may not make much difference, as we tell ourselves we can easily correct it by veering right back the other way. But given enough time, the captain who veered his ship a little to off course will find himself far from his desired direction.

We are the captain of the vessels of our lives, and it is in these small and seemingly insignificant decisions throughout each day that we form habits. Habits that begin today determine who we will be and how we will live months and years from now. There are many things beyond our control, but the habits we form and future we build start in the little moments we have today.


Dude invented #bitcoin but they don't think he can time travel? 🤣

Time to bring back my campaign for a new flaired hashtag...

#craigwright💩

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Found this in my spare cables bin. Single A to dual micro B, unknown origin or purpose. 2x rpi 3b+ off a single A port or a house fire? Place your bets now.

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It's been easier to convince people to hand over half their income, their children to war, and their freedoms in perpetuity - than to engage them in seriously considering how roads might function in the absence of taxation.


I am not a larp. I just have a ton of infrastructure I want to sell to NGOs at a massive markup.


So stupid, but once I thought of it I couldn't get it out of my brain.

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So Powell goes on national TV and admits the dollar is on course to die. Will normies start talking about the time in history that America went on to the gold standard from fiat? WTF happened in 1879?


No one ever tries to claim ownership of things they don't value. the two are impossible to unlink.


To the mass of matter, not to steak or beer. They are basically instantly changed from highly valuable to not at all.


What % of lightning traffic do you think is just node runners rebalancing? I balance, it pulls you out of balance, you balance, it pulls me out, repeat forever.


I think arguments against the concept of ownership only work until you bump into consumable goods. Once I drink a beer or eat a steak no one else can ever gain the same value from them. In a way, I can't access them either.


Lately I'm annoyed with our community figures. So many even on nostr are ready to roll over and declare custody impossible to sell people on fedi. Try harder, let's figure it out.

Look no one person can rug you, great but I bet the federation is going to be you and 5 of your friends so what difference does it make to me as an end user?


LOL, by trade volume they are the most successful ETF launch ever.


Is there an ask a bro if he's okay day? Because there should be


Testing #meshastic between two of my devices on my bench. I amuse myself.

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Never was never will.

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I love simplelogin. Of course I care so little about their reporting I wouldn't even roll a new alias to see their articles.


Protests are a sign of sanity and a sign that democracy is still alive.
You should be worried for the faith of countries where there are no protests not for the ones where protests are allowed.
🇷🇺🇨🇳
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IF YOU WANT YOUR HAM RADIO LICENSE. I WANT TO HAVE YOU TEST AT THE BITCOIN VETERANS SETUP FOR NASHVILLE BITCOIN 2024. PLEASE REACT OR BOOST TO INDICATE INTEREST.

i was planning to not attend this year for reasons but enough interest woukd change my mind.


US GOVERNMENT MAP ON KNOWN MINING LOCATIONS.

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I don't see a dot for my s19 heater.

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I see the heltec v3 board on the in dev page unless I'm mistaken. Perhaps patience and a donation is the way. I can always do i2p to get started.


An hour after I cave and order a couple of meshtastic devices, I find this. I didn't know about Reticulum. Of course I ordered heltec V3 which aren't supported by Reticulum.

Now you know.

Now I have to decide how I'm play with Reticulum. More hardware?

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Sounds like a good place to advertise for #nostr


They have been trained to see the violence of the speech while ignoring the violence needed to control that speech.


I can't find it now, but there was writing about how the nature of dreams changed after the invention of movies. Basically seeing television alters dream content and you cannot go back.


Food intolerances are likely far more common than we currently think. It is easy to have one and simply seem like a sickly person with no obvious reason why. Gut health is health and keto is a very restrictive diet, so you likely cut out your intolerance food. This is why every food type restrictive diet has true believers who swear it changed their life.


What you notice in a book changes over time. When I first read Animal Farm the communism was what stuck. I read it again about a year ago and I can't get this passage out of my head since. It is remark by one of the farmers touring animal farm near the end of the book.

"Today he and his friends had visited Animal Farm and inspected every inch of it with their own eyes, and what did they find? Not only the most up-to-date methods, but a discipline and an orderliness which should be an example to all farmers everywhere. He believed that he was right in saying that the lower animals on Animal Farm did more work and received less food than any animals in the county. Indeed, he and his fellow-visitors today had observed many features which they intended to introduce on their own farms immediately."


What's more compassionate?

A) Producing something people need & making it available to others as a voluntary exchange.
      OR
B) Forcing people to pay for something (using the threat of a cage or death) because you believe everyone needs it.

As painfully obvious as the answer should be, we live in a world full of people who are religiously devoted to the second option.

So thankful 😊 to have #Bitcoin #Nostr as the seeds for making such violent religious beliefs technologically obsolete 💛


Orwell better predicted what they were going to do to us, Huxley better predicted how they would get us to comply.


Talk groups to me specifically means working with the digital audio; DMR, c4fm, dstar, m17, opensky, mototrbo, and p25 are the ones I can think of off the top of my head. The last 3 are mostly on professional radios and rarely used by hams near me. Opensky I think is basically dead even for professional use. P25 is king for emergency services right now, but they are often encrypted.

APRS, winlink, js8, and SSTV are part of a long list of digital modes that pass non audio data in the digital encoding. Think like a modem back in the day. I convert an image or text to a noise pattern then convert back at the other end.

APRS is sometimes built in to radios, more often on digital audio radios but doing digital audio modes isn't a requirement to have aprs.

All of those digitals modes and others can be used with analog radios if you have the interface cables or even just by audio coupling to a computing device that understands the encoding. For example, I have captured SSTV images sent from the ISS just by holding my VX-6R next to my android phone running the robot36 app. I have also APRS reported my location using my VX-6R and aprsdroid app on android by holding the PTT and then hitting the send position button in the app. This last one is not ideal because you are clogging the airwaves with a transmission far longer than it needs to be, fine for testing or emergencies though.

Fldigi on a laptop with an audio cable to a quansheng radio will get you a ton a digital modes for not a lot of sats if you already have the laptop. Then you just need to find someone in range to play with. Digital audio is going to cost about 2x the other digital modes to get started last I looked.


You are correct that the different implementations are not compatible. There are no radios I know of that support more than one digital audio mode. Most desirable is a matter of opinion.

C4fm from yaesu is easiest from what I was told, never used it. DMR is the only one supported by more than one manufacturer. DMR is the only one I've used. DMR is roughly 5x as complex as an analog FM radio to configure.

My first radio was a DMR radio. I own 3 of them. I use my yaesu vx-6r and quansheng uv-k6 analog FM only radios the most. The quansheng is a great first radio if you aren't certain you will stick with the hobby, dirt cheap. If you are looking at analog radios, I would stick to radios supported by chirp.

If you are set on a digital voice radio, go on repeaterbook and look at your local repeaters. An HT is only going to reach repeaters 10-15 miles away at most depending on terain without an external antenna of some kind. The best digital mode for you is the one with the repeater you can reach. Without that you need a hotspot or you overpaid for a feature you never use.


Depends on which ones you are looking to get involved in. There are different digital radio standards and they aren't compatible, around me DMR is most common. Check with local hams if you can to see what is common around you.

I only have experience with DMR. Any DMR radio is going to be fine for the most part. The big hassle is the CPS to program it. For a beginner I think the opengd77 cps is easiest by a mile. The only downside is it means flashing your new radio with a 3rd party firmware. I have a UV380 and the flashing was easy, well worth it for the easier CPS. Many consider the anytone the king, but I like my uv380 more after flashing opengd77.

HTH, feel free to keep asking questions.


Lots of lightning hate going around, but all from people who are still very xitter and influencer minded. Nostr native and nostr only folks don't seem to buy it.


#asknostr anyone seen spam to "undisclosed recipients"?

Using simplelogin and proton. Not sure how to figure out who leaked and make the appropriate alias changes on this one.


I don’t come here to debate politics. I come here to make fun of it.


Taza and endangered species both make good high test chocolate bars without a bunch of extra crap.

What source do you use? I'm always on the lookout for some good ways to get cacao into my system.


I love that the people who call bitcoin a scam run this joke of a system. Be open minded to criticism, but consider the source and their incentives too.

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Trust zaps were a crazy time.

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If Epstein's banker insists #bitcoin is used to pay for sex trafficking, I'm forced to believe him. He is the expert on financing sex trafficking, I've never done it at all.


So weird, I use Bitcoin to opt-out of fiat debasement.

I can't believe Jeff's banker said that at Davos...

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Yeah, that isn't it. I expected to hate it based on the internet rage machine. It was very clear that sexism is bad. Women in charge with no checks is just as bad as men in charge with no checks just in different ways. I actually LOL a couple of times and I liked it in the end. Robbie and Gosling were both great. Will Ferrel is the worst part of the movie, but I generally dislike him anyway.

That said, I don't know what counts towards oscars these days, but it didn't look like an oscar bait movie to me. Those are all "gritty" last time I looked and Barbie isn't gritty at all.


Help me understand the discrepancy here... I'm starting to think some of these big accounts are getting paid by the people who want to custody my bitcoin in their federation.

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So the people who knew with 100% confidence custodians can't be trusted, bought a mountain of BTC via custodian. The incompetence at FTX is unending.

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Tell me more about this weather station. I'm interested.


There is an infinite amount of money at the federal reserve.


Before or after they DDoS you themselves so you pay up?


All mobiles can be base radios with a base antenna and a power supply. For 2m and 70cm this is what everyone does except the few who do those bands on the very expensive HF radios that also support those bands.

If it is in the budget, consider the  yaesu vx6r HT instead. It is a superhet instead of SoC so it will reject unwanted signals better. Submersible instead of just water resistant. It also has wideband recieve so you can listen to many other frequencies outside of the usual HT bands for greater situational awareness. Many consider it the king of prepper HTs. Mine is my go to backwoods carry radio.


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Google remembering my passwords is about as sane as using Google VPN. They are top 5 organizations I'm hiding from easy.


If I mention that I am posting under a nym and the real person behind this nym may run other nyms, is that breaking the fourth wall?


This nym has never been on xitter. I'm sure I'm not the only one to have that idea.

What is BBO in this context?


This just reminds me how much skrillex sounds like a modem getting raped.


Also HSAs for the American plebs. The ETF shouldn't be the majority of your new stacking from free cash flow, but they certainly have their use cases.


Just as long as some dummy keeps taking them I'll keep selling them.


Did you get mad about the animals on front of oreilly books having nothing to do with the language?

The truth is nostr doesn't matter in the same way that most people have no idea SMTP is how their email gets around or UDP for their Netflix. We can call it whatever and use whatever logo and only nerds will know.


I did not sell any #bitcoin today.
I did buy more bitcoin today.


I love it. So now if I wanted a taste I have to pack up the whole lot and move it all to another broker. If blackrock did their market research, and I believe they did, then this us a massive footgun.


The pleb who runs a miner that helped secure the #bitcoin blocks stored on their own node that contain a lightning channel open to another pleb and that channel passed a payment for goods or services traded between those two plebs is king.

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I think the #bitcoin community was starting to feel smugly certain. ETFs, fee issues, big blockers wanting to fork to support ordinals better, and lightning FUD will put people back in their place.

Bitcoin only has these powerful traits that guarantee its success because we all collectively will it to. If we get lazy about defending the important bits, Bitcoin can still lose. The smug certainty isn't good for promoting active defense.

Bitcoin has to be a thing that can survive these institutions or it will never bring the society wide time preference changes we all hope for. The ETF was always going to be part of the future. We have to defend what is important through these next fights the same way OGs did during the block size wars. The only way to avoid this fight was to stay so niche the real power of bitcoin remained unrealized for most of the world.

Don't complain. Join in the fight. Self custody. Run a node. Stay sovereign. Educate yourself. Help other plebs to do all those things too. Win the fight instead of avoiding it.


I watched closely today for amusement value. The constant leaks and fake news was fun like a good sitcom. Especially since I didn't really care. Like a sitcom, now that it is over my life and thinking is unchanged. I'm going to take every spare penny and buy more bitcoin every payday. I'm only going to buy in ways that lead to self custody.


The only reason to sell to blackrock is because you view bitcoin as a means to more dollars and not an end goal of its own.

The amusing part is, selling gets you less dollars than holding. The people in the bitcoin space who want dollars the most, will get access to the fewest.


The futures fund release lowered spot demand because the degen traders could play there and never buy spot to cover win or lose.

11 new companies are selling real bitcoin starting tomorrow. That is available to a market that excluded themselves before because of custody issues. It is being sold on the exchanges that handle most of the worlds trading volume for the first time.


Watching all the fake announcements and leaks today...

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Jimmie : [interupting]  No, No, No, No, let me ask you a question. When you came pulling in here, did you notice a sign out in front of my house that said "Dead Fiat Storage"?

Jules : Jimmie, you know I ain't seen no...

Jimmie : [cutting him off again; getting angry]  Did you notice a sign out in front of my house that said "Dead Fiat Storage"?

Jules : [pause]  No. I didn't.

Jimmie : You know WHY you didn't see that sign?

Jules : Why?

Jimmie : 'Cause it ain't there, 'cause storing dead Fiat ain't my fucking business, that's why!

#cybersecgirl #satlife


What I do is still use alby for zaps. Fees for custodial lightning are much lower than my node because it is often not a real LN TX. Alby is a fraction of my non custodial lightning which is a fraction of my on chain. I batch movements between alby and my non custodial solution as needed. All non zaps are from my node. Any failed to find route from my node I send to alby then on to the final destination.

I know it is not Puritan approved, but even as a node runner this is the pragmatic solution for me.


I read it as a final parting shot before he concedes and approves. Also a bit of don't think letting bitcoin in means each new meme token is getting in too.

I definitely see shitcoiners who think bitcoin approval means a bonk or eloncumrocket or pepe approval is only a couple of weeks away.


That 145 sat lightning fee makes visa look expensive. Losing microtransactions would be disappointing. It wouldn't stop us from killing the monster that enslaves us all.

My life is better with bitcoin. My bitcoin life is better with lightning.


I see people talking about lightning fees rising because #bitcoin fees are rising like that means lightning doesn't work. Let's look at a couple of my recent TX, 145 sat lightning fee vs 27,000 sat on chain. 186x the fees to be on chain. I think that is successful to me.

Yeah, lightning fees are disappointing. So are people with strong opinions who either don't really use bitcoin or can't do basic math.

I know lightning has real issues but TX fees don't belong on the list.


I had clue what any of that was and I do now because of you. So which one of us is really the bad person?


Everyone got their money from FTX right up until the day no one got their money from FTX. If I'm right, one day they run out of money and whatever you didn't get on chain yet is gone. If I'm wrong, oh well, I just buy in another place now. Since that other place has lightning I can cover my fees fair and not be out much more than when I was taking that risk with swan.


What are you doing, are you another xitter person who thinks being mean to random strangers on the internet makes them cool or important?


I tell people this about #bitcoin. I will always have a bitcoin that I like available to me. Even if it is just me and my node running a very outdated version of core.
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Is your hardware wallet airgapped?

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I got a UV-K6 #hamradio and flashed the egzumer firmware on it. I'm impressed so far. A band scope on an HT is nice. I'm also really liking the display with names and freqs both shown at the same time.


This. Also, skills building is important to #prepping

If you aren't studying you aren't a #prepper you are just a hoarder.

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They know how powerful the information they are collecting is. They don't want their competition to have it. Not because they want to help you. Because their manipulations work better if no one else is also trying to put ideas into your head.

I don't want someone else trying to sell you a Lexus when I'm trying to sell you an Audi. You might buy the Lexus instead, or worse of all get decision paralysis and just keep the money you worked hard for. You should definitely buy an Audi instead of bitcoin. Just make sure you click this tracking link first. DO NOT BUY WITHOUT CLICKING THE TRACKING LINK.


ETF? End The Fed.


I left swan because I talked to multiple people who swan was losing money on. At some point that breaks and breaks means somebody paid for sats they didn't receive. I want to receive the sats I pay for.


When you use it up, and you will, buy generic UV resin. Bondic is $15 for 4g and the light. You can by 200g of Picasso resin for $20 and use the same light to cure it.


I think it is that they need a large % of customers to allow them to custody and never withdraw. Even million sat UTXOs aren't profitable at current fees unless my math is terrible.


If you currently do business with swan, look at what you pay in fees and spread to buy then look what they paid in fees to give you those sats on chain. Do the math yourself, I bet you find they are losing money on you as a customer.

I find it unlikely that everyone else is somehow paying 10x the fees I am or costing 1/10th in on chain fees. Once I saw that I moved my DCA somewhere else.

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There is nothing funnier than millionaires pretending that billionaires are out of touch.

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If #bitcoin fees stick at psychological round numbers in $ or sat/vbyte will tell us a lot about who is paying those top fees. I think it will be $ round numbers sticking around $100 for most of the after halving run.


It is crazy specific sometimes too. I had a week where every other thing in Facebook was ai bikini pics of Emma Watson because she was the other half of the screen while I watched a comedian's video one day.

For stupid bonus points, during that week I don't think I saw a single video from the same comedian.


Did you know that some places have no car (or shoe) safety inspections?


Today I slipped on wet leaves and twisted my ankle while #rucking with a 45lb pack. I know it is a poor craftsmen that blames their tools, but I went ahead and ordered new hiking boots anyway. This is my old boot, what do you think?

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Every time someone calls me unamerican for criticizing the government I remind them of our history. Someone should remind our government.


Oh, those notes that make me think "what on earth did I miss"


WTF is an air reply?


If you think hating Trump means loving Biden you haven't read much of my post history and might be a bit simple minded.


I never did make it to 30, but now I'm reading Gibbon so I've got some new material.

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I have an amateur radio license and I'd be happy to help you or anyone else reading this get theirs.


Thinking adversarialy about the near future arrack vectors on #bitcoin

1 Clog mempool with shit
2 offer out of band ways to push a TX through
3 make the out of band the only thing that works because mempool is so clogged
4 why don't we just turn off mempool it doesn't work and no one uses it?
5 control the out of band TX management

Thinking about this from a positive angle... this seems like a missing mining pool feature. Instead of paying you, we give you discounts on TX (to be included in our pools block templates but not others so you may have to wait)

I would send my 1 sat TX straight to braiins and pay my 5% discount to current mempool fee out of my mining payout. Even at price parity to current mempool everyone is saved an entire TX or more this way so it is a deal. I don't ever have to send to my wallet or do coin control with my mined sats.

Given all 3 options; on chain, lightning, and TX fee credits. I would probably use out of band credits about half as often as lightning payout and on chain basically never at current fees.


Not just theft, all income from profitable criminal ventures is to be reported and taxed.  This is not new. Al Capone's conviction was for tax evasion, they couldn't get enough evidence to convict for anything else.


I boosted, quoted, and zapped myself and others many times by accident while scrolling. When I was first here and learning there was a time when I was the only one who had ever boosted one of my notes. This pairs well with nostr's permanence.


I already going to buy it, this way I get to enjoy buying it as much as reading it.

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When I quit I was sure I'd relapse. I've had one here and there since and I still like the taste but the experience is terrible.


If your lightning channel saves you 3 on chain transactions over its lifetime, you profit from opening it. If on chain fees go up because of bull market antics, your savings increases.


I see it says CLN, does it do LND?


#asknostr did you set up a lightning address for your own node? If so, which method did you use?


Thinking about #bitcoin privacy in a high fee environment where mixing isn't a great option. It occurs to me that a big ass lightning  node is an innocent and useful way to pseudo wash inbound KYC sats, get your sats into custody sooner, and have bigger UTXOs on chain.

Buy lightning sats KYC, send to your node ASAP, loop out big UTXOs to cold storage when your channels start to fill up. Creative use of loop out instead of the designer intended purpose.


Proud smelly bastard.


They’ve printed trillions and those trillions have not been changing hands as is evidenced by the collapse in the velocity of money.

This chart proves the COVID stimulus checks were nothing more than bread and circuses.

This is your monetary system on fiat. Abject favoritism.
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Lies cost converts. People will find out you lied and they will lose trust for the thing you were supporting.

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The gov came for nostr:npub1utx00neqgqln72j22kej3ux7803c2k986henvvha4thuwfkper4s7r50e8, he is fine but he had to shut it down. It is open source so you could run your own instance.


🎄🎁🫡🥂🍾 #Bitcoin #Nostr #merryChristmas 🎄🎁 https://image.nostr.build/60998c59b73a98afeb1b2467584d31866ced63d35cd3388e8944b7bfb5b06cec.jpg


Me: Let me just open a lightning channel quick....
New blocks times: ....

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Is there any overlap on the venn diagram of the always on VPN crowd and the owns and uses google home or Alexa speakers?


Yesterday marked my 1 year #nostr anniversary. Proud to be here in the early wild days and see it grow.


I zapped a rando 100k early on and they zapped it right back. I think some others did million sat trust zaps. Early zap days were wild times.


Merry Christmas all.*

*not available in all timezones at this time. Please be patient and we will be with you shortly.


This chart proves the case for bitcoin.

The S&P500 has never topped the 1929 all time high, when adjusted for m2 money supply (inflation, or dilution depending on pov). https://image.nostr.build/f03749a51d60418af0cbd3fa6deec41126cf2154bacbb5502e3ecf7e2d0442a1.jpg


Here's why there are deep incentives for a Bitcoin fork with the Ordinals people.

Ordinals/BRC-20/Inscriptions are now VC funded. And they're going to be pressured to keep growing, no matter what. Yet the hype around their stuff will inevitably fade. And whatever profits they had will dry up. So what will they do?

There are two paths. One is to increase revenue, the other is to reduce costs. The first will be very difficult to do without some new narrative. And they might try that, but it's going to be very difficult on Bitcoin... At least as it currently stands. They could move to another chain, but then, their whole reason for existence, being built on Bitcoin will be no more. Hence the incentive to create new narratives around their stuff and to add "features" to generate interest means some sort of fork.

The other path is to reduce costs. The most obvious cost is the fees being sent to miners. And to reduce that, you need to increase block size or make the blocks more frequent. Either way, this is incentivizing a fork.

The point is that once VC funding entered the picture, the path was set. There will be a conflict of visions and a "peaceful coexistence" was never going to be the outcome.


I've lived in places where you duck at the sound of gunshots. I've also lived in places where you whip your gun out and fire off a few celebratory rounds with them like a dog barking because they heard another dog a mile away.

Given that, I'm not sure what you mean by "checks out"


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I am not an influencer so I can say I was wrong, get your utxos consolidated now.

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I'm going predict against the trend. This year #bitcoin fees will be high over Christmas.

Ordinals are driven by younger retail buyers. Christmas card money is coming.

I'll be watching and I've got TX to send, so I hope I'm wrong. It isn't what I want but what I think.


*once we solve the oracle problem, which we have no hopes or plans of solving.


The State is the organization of robbery systematized and writ large.

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Great info for running #bitcoin lightning nodes without the risk of being down during a power outage. Far more reliable than a basic UPS. Plus you can get your #hamradio on for some sovereign comms with your sovereign money.

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What a world that the victim list may be public but the client list is still a secret.


Years to learn an instrument only for some idiot with bruised knuckles and a recorder to come eat your lunch. Slash better watch his back, the ukulele girls are coming for him.

Seriously cool for art. The AI lets you turn your creativity into art without the years of torture learning the mechanical skill.

Seriously bad for the kind of person who has mechanical skill but no creativity.

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8" AC infinity carbon filter
8" AC infinity fan
Crypto cloaks shroud
S19
Crypto cloaks shroud
AC infinity muffler

I now have an s19 heater + room air filter under 70Db. It is only 80 inches long.


One of the reasons it took me so long to get started with bitcoin was that the only person I knew who was trying to convince me was a mETHhead.


Look at this shameless lying.

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If BSV is better why didn't they build there? If BSV has all the smart people then why isn't BSV king?


It doesn't take much in the brains department to figure out what a maxi would do. This nocoiner NGMI.


A week ago... right there with you.

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My mining pool reports uptime as a guess based on when I reported shares that meet their filter. Finding shares is luck and sometimes you just don't even when you were up and mining that entire window.

This means I usually get a two 9s report even with 100% uptime. As an IT guy, the low uptime reports on a device I manage are very triggering.


Why the second fee spike from ordinals? Interest had died down, but then binance announced they plan to start listing brc-20 tokens. This is people with on chain skills trying to front run the exchange only traders.


I think I just decided next years Halloween costume.


Well at least we can be certain they'll sell.


Someone in my local #bitcoin group said they were asked why bitcoiners get excited about adoption when it means they will pay higher prices for sats. They wanted help to put it into words, here is my answer.

We want others to join us because the real magic of bitcoins power only comes when everyone switches and the low time preference way of thinking starts to have a global effect.

My current wealth is already in Bitcoin. I could maybe add 5% to my stack over the rest of my career if the price stays low. By contrast, if Bitcoin consumed all global wealth tomorrow, I have enough that 5% richer will mean nothing to my day to day life in that world.

I believe that a Bitcoin world for everyone is way more than a 5% better place. Less government, less war, less poverty, less crime, better food, better healthcare, better care for the environment, and 1000 other things improve.

I want to live in that world tomorrow with what I have today far more than 20 more years of this world but I'm 5% richer when that world finally gets here. That is why adoption means more to me than a couple more cheap sats today.


I have never closed a tab in my life. If I know the address, I have that tab open somewhere I just need to find it.

Only a slight exaggeration.

Hi, I'm Bill and I'm a tab hoarder.

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And this way there is a rolling set of options for people you are anxiously waiting to see find out. You aren't likely to get bored of your grudge before they get theirs.


I've decided the tools to front run brc-20 mints are hurting #bitcoin more than they are helping. This is true for both sides of the argument.

If you believe these tokens have no economic value, then you know they will not be used and they will generate little or no traffic after the mint. So you just drove up the mempool for nothing forcing them to try again and extending the length and height of this period of high fees.

If they have value, you just destroyed it.


Look how straight that board is, you must have been in the lumber aisle for hours to find that.


People really use strangers reviews to pick books? Personal recommendations plus the back catalogs and new releases from authors I already know I like will keep me busy until the day I die.

Goodreads is just an imperfect place to keep a list of books I've read so I can search if I can't remember if I read that one before.


CLN or LND?


This your PFP on the open source privacy respecting dating site you are on?

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Monkey JPG fans were paying up to $200 TX fees on ethereum. I think that is what we should be mentally preparing for.

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# Taproot didn’t cause Ordinals ❌

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

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

## Arbitrary data in Bitcoin has always been possible

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

Some examples of this:

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

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

## But I thought Taproot enabled this?

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

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

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

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

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

## Does that make SegWit bad?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

## So what can we do about it?

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

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

## The solution? Covenants

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

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

<https://covenants.info>

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


With the increased fees in Bitcoin's mempool forcing more users into using custodial Lightning wallets, it may be time to once again revisit the Ark protocol.

"Ark is a second-layer solution designed to help scale Bitcoin transactions by using a shared utxo model that enables anonymous, off-chain payments through an untrusted intermediary called the Ark Service Provider (ASP). ASPs are always-on servers that provide liquidity to the network, similar to how Lightning service providers work."

https://www.arkpill.me


That shouldn't affect 2 meter so much that I pick up nothing with the squelch manually open.


#asknostr can anyone recommend a streaming stick with no ads that supports 4k and isn't a complete spy machine? I'm prepared to isolate it from the rest of my network to limit the spying.


I took my #hamradio outside to try to catch some of the anniversary #sstv images from the #ISS. It seems like their transmitter is broken. Full 10 minute pass with a decent elevation and I didn't hear a thing.


I would like to offer my most insincere (not a typo) apology to anyone who thinks #nostr has too much #bitcoin content.

I went to a meetup this weekend and I'm feeling bullshit AF.


NVIS, or Near Vertical Incident Skywave, is a method of radio communication that uses shortwave frequencies to achieve effective local and regional communication. This is particularly useful in areas where line-of-sight communication is hindered by obstacles like mountains or buildings.

1. High Angle Radiation: NVIS antennas emit radio waves at high angles, typically between 75 to 90 degrees. This allows the signals to reach the ionosphere quickly and reflect back to the Earth's surface.

2. Short to Medium Range Communication: By reflecting off the ionosphere, NVIS covers a range typically from 30 to 400 miles, bridging the gap between line-of-sight VHF/UHF communication and longer-range HF skywave communication.

3. Antenna Types: Common NVIS antennas include simple dipoles, inverted V antennas, or loop antennas, often positioned only a few feet above the ground or on rooftops.

4. Ionospheric Dependence: The effectiveness of NVIS depends on the current state of the ionosphere, which is influenced by solar radiation and time of day. It's most effective at frequencies between 1.8 MHz and 10 MHz.

5. Applications: NVIS is widely used in military, emergency services, and amateur radio operations, especially in rugged terrain or during natural disasters when traditional communication methods are disrupted.

This method offers reliable, consistent coverage over a specified area, making it a vital tool in various communication scenarios.

https://youtu.be/k3IFj_Z5cLM


The tokens and NFTs offered by ordinals were already available on other chains. There are only two reasons to build it on bitcoin specifically,

An attack.

An affinity scam.


As a redneck, a bitcoiner, and the inspiration for this insight... I'm both offended by and proud of this post.


No they won't. The whole point is that this way they affinity scam bitcoin.


If ordinals people really feel that they need bigger blocks there are fork chains they can use.


I bought bitcoin because I was already an expert on everything. You have your cause effect backwards.

I'm only half joking. To buy bitcoin you have to already be the kind of person who is sure you know better than the mainstream narrative. Get a couple of contrary opinions right and your confidence to buck the trend will only grow.


The difference between "street drugs" and "medical" is the arbitrary whims of government officials. It is loosely correlated with harm vs help at best and definitely not a perfect categorization.


The rules of when to get low transaction fees have changed. It used to be weekends when the institutions were off work.

Now I think it will be Thursdays. Most ordinal traffic is individuals. Most paydays are Friday and they are off all weekend to build transactions. Thursday is farthest from pay day so the funds available for inscriptions should be at the lowest level.


Fees are back down to 250 sat/vbyte. Anyone panic opening lightning channels?


Drugs have greater value to society than ordinals.

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Just in case there was a list I wasn't on yet.

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🧡💜 #money #bitcoin ⚡ #nostr 💜🧡 https://image.nostr.build/762b693bb282e2cad57c9bae002c3004ce0c17ec823799fc7b6b85dd9e5bdeb9.jpg


I just set up an account with nostr:npub1xkere5pd94672h8w8r77uf4ustcazhfujkqgqzcykrdzakm4zl4qeud0en for that exact reason. I have not used them enough to endorse them yet.


I think minting NFTs or tokens is an immoral way to profit off of the degens who are into that sort of thing.

My #bitcoin mining profits being up is profiting from them but I feel no moral misgivings about it.


nostr:npub1jg552aulj07skd6e7y2hu0vl5g8nl5jvfw8jhn6jpjk0vjd0waksvl6n8n picked a great time to start shilling Liquid.

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No.

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Friday night to myself, time to party.

I already did 2 hours of #HF #hamradio

Now it is time to really cut loose...

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Who decides what is a fair distribution? Mostly people who want some of yours.

https://youtu.be/SRKpX4rbvLo


I heard I could compare my sats zapped out vs received on nostr.band

My total sent is smaller than a single zap I once sent 😆. Maybe not a perfect record.


Another #meme about my frustration with job hunting.

https://image.nostr.build/8d9e71975d9c1136ea14d3aa451953649fdba0e9e4143094d1125e864537e1bc.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=1229x1252&blurhash=%7C6E2zw-V00Ri9tRPt69ZxGV_%25Mx%5DWBTJt7IAM%7BxapIE19Ft7S%7ENG%24js%3AbIM_IUW-xus9NGxu-pRj%7Eq9FRQayj%5DRjoMt7t7-%3BV%3FROxunOxaNaofkCD%25t8tQWC-Vj%5DS%23WBofX-xbjGNGVsogNZWBozxaV%40s%3ANFogNFo%7DR*R*&x=26a5d61b71bfe0e82c66ef256fae02f23390743826275acc83df3d9ba5ab6008


An inclusive job application doesn't ask 100 questions about my age, race, gender, gender expression, pronouns, or anything of the sort.

All you need to know is my experience and my education. If you skip all those questions I'll think maybe you mean to be equal and inclusive.


First I post...

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Later that day.

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My crystal ball is well calibrated this morning.

What happens when you leak my iris scan Sam?


If Blackrock was saying certain #bitcoin transactions were invalid and should be removed from the chain, you'd be screaming.

But a core dev you agree with says it and you support censorship.

BITCOIN IS PERMISSIONLESS
BITCOIN IS IMMUTABLE
BITCOIN WON'T CHANGE FOR YOU


I want to see Ark developed enough to play with it. Seems really interesting to me.


Choose violence, uninstall WhatsApp.


I'm seeing shit engagement and I'm not willing to admit my posts are shit and take that self worth hit...

Any up to date relay recommendation lists?


Hope this helps explain the lightning network.

1. What is a channel?

A 2 of 2 multisig wallet where your node holds 1 key and the other node holds the other. You can then track who owns the sats in the multisig without updating the bitcoin chain and incurring on chain fees.

2. What are the different types of channels?

The multisig wallet could be legacy, segwit,  or taproot. Also public or private.

3. Liquidity?

If I open a channel, I provided all of the sats so they are owned by my half of the multisig. That means I can spend immediately using that channel by assigning them to the other node owner. I cannot receive using that channel at first because there are no sats assigned to the other node that can be reassigned to me. Liquidity refers to the number of available sats to send in each direction. Spend and receive liquidity have different values.

4. LSP?

Some lightning offerings like breez take care of most of this for you. Your node only opens channels with their well connected node. It is a full node with self custody but much easier to run than CLN or LND where you have to manage your channels.

5. zero fee routing?

Lightning still has fees, they are usually just fractions of a sat so you rarely notice.

6. How or why would one "[open] a channel to other nodes"?

Using your node software. The purpose is either to manage your liquidity or to improve your connectivity in the network. See lightning payments usually pass through multiple nodes. If your node can't find a way to get funds from you to them, the payment fails.

I am not a lightning dev, but I did read mastering the lightning network.

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KYC requires infinite invasiveness. All of that data used to be good enough, now the hackers have it so they need more invasive proof to KYC you next time.

23andme has already been hacked. Those selfie and drivers license companies will be next. Fingerprints, iris scans, realid, passports, and any thing else you can think of will all be public information.

The next thing to replace all of that will be more privacy invading and more annoying. Then that will be leaked and become useless too.

The pattern never ends until the concept of KYC is abandoned.

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They take days off all the time.


This #meme feels both lazy and necessary

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assuming this poll wasn't fudged most people ( including republicans ) support price controls, which is basically communism.

as somebody born in USSR i can tell you this will only lead to empty shelves, and ultimately stunting among children due to a diet of ( subsidized ) bread and water.

because we all know they won't subsidize meat or eggs, which is what children need to develop.

we are looking at a future where 90% of people are both diabetic and malnourished.

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

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Who? I want to zap them for post.


I pity people trying to make their living as a #bitcoin influencer focused on price and trading.

Waking up every day like: fuck, I need to fine another way to stretch "buy as much as you can" into 10 minutes of original content for the thousandth day in a row.


Stupidity knows no party.


Characteristics of money checked against the US dollar.

Medium of exchange, yes
Store of value, no
Unit of account, yes
Legal tender, yes
Standard of deferred payment, yes
Liquidity, yes
Stability of value, no
Interchangeable, yes
Portable, no (limited severely with capital controls)

66% was an F when I went to school. Maybe the money isn't broken, maybe it was just never really money in the first place.


"Money doesn't solve any of my current problems because I have so much money I've already solved all my problems that money can solve" doesn't really roll off the tongue or make anyone feel bad for you.


Any #hamradio folks have a solution for capacitive buttons that trigger when you transmit #HF signals?

I suspect the Wife Acceptance Factor of this fix for our stove is going to be low.

https://image.nostr.build/0c12f2b3290c62614961513e467d88abec81dc195cf95219c66cc9bfb299b77a.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=1920x1444&blurhash=%23FCPR_%5DzbvD*xBrq-%3BivxZ%25%25Z%7D-oxFskVro%24M_t7%3Fbs8NHR.V%40RjX9V%40s%3A-Tt7M%7CNyRjbbV%5BW%3BWDIng4M%7Ct7WCkWRjkWWXxCt8NGWAa%23kWWUt7oK%250s%3Aa%23aJj%5DofjYj%5DbH&x=aef811068a3b01a6f50d0a91858c7a482eab54258cda862f3d10825ad3773d34


Remember expertsexchange.com?


NIP-4 Security Warning - why i use simplex and not #nostr dms

This standard does not go anywhere near what is considered the state-of-the-art in encrypted communication between peers, and it leaks metadata in the events, therefore it must not be used for anything you really need to keep secret, and only with relays that use AUTH to restrict who can fetch your 'kind:4' events.

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I saw another TrADoOr calling to sell #bitcoin

Imagine being so lost and confused in this world that selling bitcoin seems like a good idea. We have a lot of teaching to do.


Both. Both are correct.


I was thinking about Milei gutting the government the way he did. Also less but similar to Bukele. The American president doesn't have the power to do that.

In a way, a totalitarian system contains the keys to its own peaceful demise. Similar to how a democracy votes away its own freedoms peacefully.

How far America is from one benevolent dictator being able to right the ship, I may never see a free America again in my lifetime.


Don't like the proposed US laws about #bitcoin ?

Let me introduce to a simple solution.

"free no matter what the rules are in his or her society. If the rules are tolerable, he or she will tolerate them. If not, the rational anarchist will break them."

https://www.cwhawes.com/rational-anarchism/


What's in your wallet?

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I put money in Breez a while back. Breez has a handy converter to tell me how much USD my real money is worth. I've spent a bit here and there. Paid for some plumbing work, shrouds for my miner, zaps (I definetly zap out more than I receive), a few other small things. I have never added more to that wallet, only spent.  Today the remaining real money has higher USD value than when I started.

#bitcoin is fucking awesome.


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

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

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

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

— nostr:npub1dergggklka99wwrs92yz8wdjs952h2ux2ha2ed598ngwu9w7a6fsh9xzpc


Imagine having the power to crash entire markets because some guy named Larry hurt your feelings and you want his next yacht to be 1ft shorter as revenge.


Elizabeth Warren doesn't own enough bitcoin. I wish I could crash the price whenever I wanted to buy more like she can.


Are you looking to adopt?


You are gonna get your ass beat. Just remember, you are there because you want to learn. If you won any fights day 1, then who are they to teach you and how much can you really learn from them?

You will panic, the more you learn to stay calm and think of it like a game and not a fight the faster you will learn. Focus on the relaxing and one simple thing to remember, don't worry about how you were overwhelmed and forgot 99% of what you saw. People with years of experience are missing most of the details of what they were shown each class too.


Sniff the armpit of the arm that is choking you. Once I heard it put that way I stopped forgetting which way to turn. I still turn way to slow most times but at least I'm turning and in the right direction now.


Only 10 chokes in the hour? You must be getting good. I still suck.


AutoSpill attack steals credentials from Android password managers

"In an attack scenario, a rogue app serving a login form could capture the user’s credentials without leaving any indication of the compromise."

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/autospill-attack-steals-credentials-from-android-password-managers/


Seconding the vote for re-lyte. I do 0 to 3 scoops a day depending.

I'm a high salt sweater and active. I give my sweat a taste when working out and adjust my dosing that day accordingly.


If you are a parent and this isn't true for you, you take yourself far too seriously or you didn't put enough effort into selecting your kids presents.

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I know most of what I'm getting for Christmas.

I also know most of what my kids are getting.

I'm most excited to play with one of my kids toys.


I failed 3 in a row over this BS yesterday.


I wanted to take a screenshot of the setting to hide all notification data in simplex, but simplex blocks screenshots. I am happy and annoyed at the same time.

You should change setting that everywhere you can.


Any finger strikes while stamping?


Foe the love of God, do not buy a ledger, and if you absolutely must, do not use their Ledger Live wallet software. Learn to use Sparrow with a Ledger instead.

https://image.nostr.build/54516ea1371b50a05726f06d32f4bbe00d491e2127a4836a876e2b429458e610.jpg

https://twitter.com/rektbuildr/status/1732542258698694875


Defending The Undefendable: The Censoring Miner

My latest from nostr:npub1t8a7uumfmam38kal4xaakzyjccht4y5jxfs4cmlj0p768pxtwu8skh56yu

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/markets/defending-the-undefendable-the-censoring-miner


Debt being rapidly inflated away to a government doing its best to fail in exchange for knowledge you get to take with you for the rest of your life. I say go for it. You don't have to tell everyone or list them all on your resume. Just don't believe everything in those gen eds.


Privacy is not a crime. It's a natural consequence of having self ownership & the right to be left tf alone.

The criminal is the one *violating* that right.


I thought it used to be you just had to show ownership of 2 whole coins, must have been a lot of demand.


Finally made my self hosted searxng search my default search in Firefox, that was not an intuitive process.


Someone sent me a link to a few recent Elon tweets. I made this #meme as a response.

https://image.nostr.build/c8109a2692c21ec4a8b03d51de52b75f0913eda04d3a03eb18b1098fc067599c.jpg


The are going to be a lot of laws passed about #bitcoin soon. A lot of people are going to get confused about the difference between what the law controls and what the consensus mechanism controls.

I expect there will be a lot of impotent rage when certain people find out the consensus mechanism doesn't care about them or their laws.


I fixed a crypto #meme I saw.

https://image.nostr.build/2add84a6345fb86d9bbcdcecd4144f2c1b8d4ded2e3dcbcd81df69655c6db065.jpg


User Loses Funds from Account and Wallet Compromise

# Summary

A user lost 180,000 sats due to a series of unfortunate events involving nostr clients, user error, lack of validation checks, lack of key rotation or mitigation approaches.

# What happened

On Saturday 2023 December 2, a user had their profile set to a zeuspay address.  Zeuspay addresses are not readily zappable as the receiver needs to acknowledge each zap sent to them. A request was made that they change their lightning address.

The user chose to change to the getalby address that they had previously setup.  After entering an older incorrect value, they went to update their profile, but then managed to accidentally post their LND Wallet connection string instead.

A fellow nostrich realized their mistake and informed them.  The user began setting up a stacker.news account, while helper connected via bluewallet using the connection string and moved funds out.  Helper noted to user that the alby account can't create a separate wallet per account or rotate to new wallet and in order to continue using getalby, they would need to establish an entirely new alby account with a different email.  The funds were sent from helper to user's new stacker.news account.

After this, the user linked their stacker.news account with the alby account having the compromised wallet.  The user moved some funds to a different account. Later, after going to sleep, the user found remaining funds were pulled from their stacker.news account.  It's believed that Zeus wallet or Bluewallet was used with the wallet connection information to LNURL-Auth login to stacker.news

User believes their NSEC was compromised as well and has setup new Nostr account, marked old as compromised and establishing new wallets for zaps.

# Realizations

Not only do Nostr keys have no key rotation, LNURL-Auth suffers from this as well. While implementation approaches can be done, we need to get more work in this area to establish common, consistent patterns for how to rotate to new keys, wallets, etc.

In the case of a lightning wallet being compromised its quite severe as different services have no way to know the wallet is compromised as there is by design no central server to query against.

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# Recomendations

## Users

- Take extra caution when setting up wallet connect information and lightning address in your preferred clients.

- Make note of where your lightning address and wallet connection information is being used. E.g., track in a password manager.

- Be prepared to immediately take steps to update if ever compromised.

- Where possible, use a dedicated lightning wallet (without funds) for LNURL Auth logins, separate from your extensions for logging in and signing events for Nostr.

## General Nostr Clients

- Where user profiles can be edited, add appropriate validation checks on the LUD06 and LUD16 fields.  There are plenty of profiles with junk data that dont make sense.

- LUD06 should be deprecated, but should be a LNURL string if provided.

- LUD16 should be preferred, and only allow for values in username@domain format. Here's a sample regex:

`[a-z0-9-_]*@(([a-zA-Z]{1})|([a-zA-Z]{1}[a-zA-Z]{1})|([a-zA-Z]{1}[0-9]{1})|([0-9]{1}[a-zA-Z]{1})|([a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9-_]{1,61}[a-zA-Z0-9]))\.([a-zA-Z]{2,6}|[a-zA-Z0-9-]{2,30}\.[a-zA-Z]{2,3})`

## LNDHub, LNBits, Accounts type systems

- Add support for rotating from a compromised wallet account to a new one.
- Users and Admins should be able to mark a wallet as compromised.
- No spends should be able to performed from the account.
- Received funds should instead be diverted to replacement wallet.
- Can continue allowing LNURL-Auth to function
- Enhance API calls to ascertain if a wallet is marked as compromised

## Blue Wallet, Zeus, any using LNDHub like accounts

- Add support for any new API calls that can indicate a wallet as compromised
- Recommend separation of wallets used for receiving value vs for LNURL-Auth

## Alby Recommendations

- Where Wallet Connection warning is, make it more prominent. Use bold red colors. Inform the user that this gives full access to the wallet and is non-revocable.

- Add support for multiple wallets on an alby account. Preferably one per subaccount.

- See notes for LNDHub about handling compromised wallets.


In America the are border stores. Stores that often are built near state lines, always on the same side. They will be things like liquor, fireworks, and strip clubs. Which side of the line each type is on tells you which state is more free and in what ways.

Informative and easy metric of freedom to look at if you are thinking about moving.


Your standards for yourself are more important than anyone elses.


7.5 second TX cycles and 2 transmissions to complete a QSO. Very fast, no time to get bored.


I just tried FT4 for the first time.

If you want to try HF #hamradio but you are on crack, that is the mode for you.


If you have voluntaryist tendencies, what shitcoiners did with DAOs is one of the biggest disappointments of the entire crypto space.


The actual US government will front run (look at the current pump) then approve to make a quick dollar off the approval news.

They don't have the knowledge,  understanding, or foresight to see the long term value of bitcoin or that the USD could ever not be king.


Ordinals are still dumb, but censorship is dumber.


Well they said the pretty words at launch, too bad it wasn't true. I won't be pointing hash their way.

Thanks nostr:npub1tr4dstaptd2sp98h7hlysp8qle6mw7wmauhfkgz3rmxdd8ndprusnw2y5g for being on top of it.

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It wasn't me.


We are filtering.
yeah but just say we aren't and everyone will cheer and support us.

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No clue how @npub1qtvl2em0llpnnllffhat8zltugwwz97x79gfmxfz4qk52n6zpk3qq87dze can sell itself on a platform of "transparency" and "bringing censorship-resistance back to Bitcoin" when this is how they approach things.

Can't think of a more disappointing Bitcoin launch in recent memory. Maybe community pushback will make them rethink their approach, but I can't sit by and watch this unfold without calling out this BS.
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By transferred everything you mean the fiat onramp info right? You don't keep your sats there?


An s19, you?


Welcome


Left to right, be ungovernable.


So my miner heater project is finally hashing on the same day they launched ocean. Coincidence? I feel like I have to use them.


I want a done to string antenna lines up nice and high for my #hamradio hobby. I figure I could get my antennas much higher that way than any throw line.

Some people use launchers similar to potato cannons, but the drone has other uses too and more precision than a launcher or throw line.


Hot sauce is usually vinegar based with no oils of any kind.


Party might not be the correct term. I have had my information immediately and automatically sold by a single person company before, so small business doesn't protect you from automatic sharing agreements.


I'd be insulted if you didn't. Although, leaking my real name proves my point in our other conversion about each new holder of your info is a potential source of a leak to that data becoming public.


My issue is none of those 5 people know anything about security. So the company gets hacked. Now all of those people and a ton more malicious actors can get all my info off the dark web markets.


The problem with that theory is, I have to give every one of them all the same information. If I could give half my address to Amazon and Walmart each that would be helpful.


CIA hackers are really getting lazy. Find my mistakes yourself fedboy. 🤣


Njalla.


#asknostr #privacy people how do you balance "if i buy everything from Amazon they know everything about me" against " if I buy things from smaller companies I have to dox myself to many more companies many of whom have worse security and are more likely to leak"


Baud limit finally changed to bandwidth limit for US #hamradio users.

Anyone have a list of modes or apps to try out with the newfound freedom?


The WoS situation seems like a perfect opportunity for satvertising. The  wallet competition can literally advertise to you inside your WoS, but I'm not seeing it happen.

Anyone else getting different satograms that are from the big lightning wallets? Are they all too busy trying to figure out if they are the next target?


I knew this day would probably come, but didn't expect it so soon.

I am being investigated for running an illegal money transmission business in Canada (nodeless)

Under the advice of my lawyers I need to shut down the main instance of it.

As you guys know I made Nodeless completely open source in the event that this happens, so that others who don't live under communism can run a honest, privacy focused payments business.

To my clients who are using it, I'm very sorry for the short notice but you'll need to find a new payment processing solution this weekend.

DM me on telegram and I will personally walk you through setting up a btcpayserver instance that you can self host, or even your own instance of nodeless.

I can't give much more information than this, not even supposed to say this much, but I owe it to you guys to let you know what's going on.

To install nodeless on your own server, you can get started here:
https://github.com/nodeless-io/nodeless-monolith


Compliance With Government Shows Bitcoin Is "F*** You Money"
https://www.thebitcoinbugle.com/compliance-with-government-shows-bitcoin-is-f-you-money/


The Wallet of Satoshi exodus for US customers is BY FAR, WITHOUT A DOUBT, the largest Bank Run and Stress Test of real value this century thus far.


#hamradio meme based on todays propagation when I finally have time to get on.

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Just zapped you using NWC and alby.


*laughs in customer deposits*
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Hardware password managers are a real game changer. I'll never go back.

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My thinking was more like the era of gold and gold certificates. We will never see them pegged, but the gold certificates were probably never a true perfect peg either. Atomic swaps are already here at a floating rate.


It is an important point about the limits of exactly what is being said by that market signal.


Depends on what I'm buying. The same answer as if you had asked "would you spend in BTC?"


I wouldn't save in XMR.

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You know the specialist will be more expensive.


This is worth your time to read.

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#bitcoin cannot resist a statist attack. Bitcoin users must do the resisting. The design of bitcoin gives us the ability to succeed in that resistance only if we maintain a critical mass of people who understand and care enough to try.

Look at how easy all of the forks were made. Bitcoin only won because there were enough node runners with conviction and understanding.

Are you doing your part?


#bitcoin people are so excited that Milei is supposed to bring a wave of new adoption.

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Sadly, none of them are open. The easiest way to do this would be bypass the factory 4 way system completely.


I feel a sudden compulsion to add a microcontroller to all of my cars.


Fakespot plugin analyses reviews to adjust online ratings based on only quality reviews. It also gives products a rating based on the % of quality vs fake reviews.

Want a laugh, go look at Amazon products on Amazon. Echo, fire tablets, and fire TV. All low quality reviews. Scores as bad as the brands with names made by random word generators.


If you've got a low fixed rate, hold on to it like your life depends on it.

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Here’s the dirty little secret of how the U.S. empire pays for all these wars

They don’t, we do.

The dollar is the reserve currency of the world

And the U.S. weaponizes it to exert influence on its empire.

However, as with all empires, their hubris eventually gets the best of them.

In 1971 Nixon ended the gold standard. This means US dollars cannot be exchanged for gold anymore. This effectively gave the politicians the power to create money.

This is important because Gold, for centuries acted as a balancing force restricting politicians from creating money out of thin air.

And as the saying goes, absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Since then, the US debt has gone parabolic see?
From 1 trillion to 33.4 trillion and accelerating.

They finance their wars by issuing more debt in the form of bonds (treasuries) and the world buys that debt. Your country, your bank, your multinational company, etc, all hold US treasuries on their balance sheet.

I.e. all these entities lend the U.S empire the money which it uses to fund endless wars all over the world, including the current Israeli genocide in Gaza.

I know what you’re thinking, but if they can create money out of thin air, then they’ll always have money, and be able to pay off their debt. Kind of

Of course, the US won’t default, instead, they will print more money (increase the money supply) to be off their debt to you, bondholders (this is your treasury yield)

But when u create more of something, that thing becomes less valuable. This is the primary and only cause of inflation. Not Putin price hikes or any of that nonsense.

The chart of the purchasing power of the dollar since 1971 clearly shows its trending towards zero.

So they will pay you back in interest, but that interest will be less than the inflation rate, so in nominal terms, you’re getting more money, but in real terms, you’re losing money.

This is how every empire in history fell. Endless wars with money they don’t have.

The Romans shaved off some gold from their coins to create more coins.

The British faked interest in war bonds prior to World War 1

Holders of US debt, all these countries, banks, multinational corporations, and even rich individuals will have two options:

1. Get REKT in real terms, or
2. put their money in hard assets (land, commodities like gold, or bitcoin digital gold)

#Bitcoin is an open-source protocol we will need to resist tyranny and financial colonialism.

bitcoin, not crypto. Study it.

In the fiat world, where money can be created out of thin air, the marginal cost of war is zero

Under a bitcoin standard, war becomes expensive again.

Read the Bitcoin Standard by Dr. nostr:npub1gdu7w6l6w65qhrdeaf6eyywepwe7v7ezqtugsrxy7hl7ypjsvxksd76nak Ammous, a Palestinian-Jordanian author who wrote the best-selling book in the world about Bitcoin.

Read it, listen to it, and study it.

Bitcoin separates money from the state and allows us to exchange value peer-to-peer without the need for a trusted intermediary.

This is a super powerful concept and a threat to the colonial systems of control.

Stop lending your money to war colonial powers, and buy Bitcoin instead.

Fix the money, fix the world.

The emperor has no clothes.

#FreePalestine #gaza #resist

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There are a couple of reddit communities. Mostly just a giant research project followed by a giant disappointment.


I am as desirous of being a good neighbor as I am of being a bad subject.

Thoreau, from On The Duty of Civil Disobedience


Pokémon as in "gotta catch em all"


Bad idea breaking into American houses unarmed.


I assumed you were trying to pick.


You may find the answer to your dilemma in the show Pokémon.


Today seems like a good day to bring this one back out.

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I can prove that the people in the government are all violent psychopaths. Follow me for a minute.

With fiat money war is profitable for some. The mechanism is this.

Politician votes for war.
War gets funded by printing money.
The war industry gets first crack at the new money before the inflation kicks in.
The war industry gives a kickback to the pro war politician.

The proof is this, replace war with homeless shelters. Does the mechanism still work? This trick works with any prosocial spending. Medical care, rehab centers, infrastructure, or anything else you could think of that benefits people all work.

If the politicians were all good friends with Ben and Jerry they could pull the same trick with a government paid free ice cream day.

They choose war instead. Their picked friends in the war industry instead of any other industry.


Teat


The State Is Too Dangerous to Tolerate

https://video.nostr.build/924d282dca37a0dc30912160e8e3130844809dbb8de2114aa25fd04592c4f8d5.mp4


Well that sucks

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I've done 84 many times. Get relyte salt and use it every day. After 36 I didn't feel much difference to the end. Feeling hunger switch to purely psychological is an interesting experience.


An app updater that lets you pull direct from GitHub among other sources.


If you are responsible for any sort of public background noise, music, or PA system and play anything that includes the sound of a screaming crowd, you are an asshole.


I like that idea.


Nostr is all json text right? As long as events are structured text any text keyboard to keyboard mode would work, someone just needs to bridge it from a nostr client to a digi mode client.


Accurate sure, which categories they chose to break out is my issue with it.


Look at that killed section. Tell me you're biased without telling me your biased.


You keep saying freeze when you mean steal.


My bet is faster and more substantial is the goal, not the illicit part.

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Scarier words were never spoken.


Where are you? In drive on the right side of the road countries, a left turn is the time the driver is most likely to die in a car accident. Having the right of way is no consolation to you at your own funeral. I always wait for visible intent to stop from cross traffic at stop signs and green lights.


Some draft dodgers were taking reasoned positions against the war, some were selfish cowards. You'll have to think and know the individual to figure it out.

Russia carries on because longer wars are more profitable for the machine.


I keep my bitcoin on bitcoin only software. I may consider that wallet if the urge to hit the casino strikes me and I get it out with shitcoins.


Thanks for the tip. More involved than I can take on right now.


I got a little problem with your police work there Lou.

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AnySoftKeyboard supports swipe typing and has no internet access. Added it using obtainium and it seems nice.


Recommended offline android llm?


I am considering a dumb phone and an ereader loaded with classics to replace the doomscrolling.


tor to my own node? I find most mobile wallets are super complicated or missing this basic feature. bluewallet should be the answer but it is buggy.


OMG, this decentralize marketplace is a complete 💩 show. 🤦♂

SuperStore (aka Magic Web Store): Appears to be no longer maintained.

GoodStr (the fork of SuperStore that appears to have make the most changes): SyntaxError and multiple TypeErrors prevent it from being functional. Furthermore, it also seems to be unmaintained!

Beyond all this, all implementations haveba critical vulnerability that leaks private keys. In other words, allows someone to steal all the money from all shop owners.

Are there any devs out there who have a functional fork and are actually maintaining it?

Pls boost this post for visibility. I want to get connected with that person on #Nostr that can help. Help me find this kind soul!


#proton is building quantum-safe pgp for everyone

"Proton is leading the standardization of quantum-safe encryption algorithms in OpenPGP, the open standard of encryption that is available for anyone to use via the free and open source libraries that Proton maintains, such as OpenPGP(dot)js and Gopenpgp."

#opensource #proton #quantumcomputing #pgp #infosec #cybersecgirl

https://proton.me/blog/post-quantum-encryption#proton-quantum-protection


What swype option do you recommend that isn't a privacy nightmare?


The keyboard you use affects what typos you make, especially on mobile. Using different keyboards for different nyms could make tying them together by analysing language usage much more difficult.


So weird that noobs will be completely unable to use it?


This video explains how to use it.

https://youtu.be/q3OuCR0EpGo?si=pQBXGt0oyJj3vuFn


This is weird but I could see it being very fast with not much practice.

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Installed, and set to default. Now to practice. Used it to send this message.

I think I like it. Thanks for the tip.


Classic mistake. Just because you didn't see it coming doesn't mean nobody saw it coming.


People thought I was crazy when I insisted on no baby talk with my kids. Talk to them like miniature adults only. Of course they are also surprised by the size of their vocabulary and quality of sentence structure for their age.

If you have kids you owe it to yourself to read some of Richard Feynman's memoir stuff. He talks a lot about how his dad instilled a scientific mindset in him.


I see a lot of traders getting wrecked in the future. I hear them talking about the ETF approval like an event. It isn't a momentary event. It creates a completely different dynamic about capital flows into and out of #bitcoin

Those changes will be permanent. Many of the assumptions about price action that worked in the past will stop working and never work again. New patterns will emerge but seem unpredictable for a long time. Trades based on wrong assumptions usually end up in the red.

TLDR: stay humble stack sats.


I think about this idea often. Those with a programming background would call this an overloaded operator. They also know to watch out, they cause unexpected outcomes sometimes.

I wonder what it does to little kids in school that we use the same exact phrase for intentional murder as a spelling error? Surely we can create more clarity than "that was wrong" for both provides.

I may sound crazy, but I have known kids who clearly internalized mistakes on tests as a moral failing.


Excellent video about using #hamradio equipment and skills in adversarial situations.

I see a ton of freedom protocols being developed but not nearly as much focus on infrastructure risks that we face. I'm hoping I can get a few more people interested in this risk.

https://youtu.be/DGOyvNLk6Bg?si=BZB8yWkNtI3FORGF


The people already complaining about #bitcoin being too expensive so they stopped buying are making me laugh.

We are only half way back to ATH. If you are only in it for more dollars, you are leaving a ton of profits on the table.

If you get it and aren't in it for more dollars, price doesn't matter. The goal is always more sats until we run out of chumps who will trade bitcoin for dollars.


You didn't apologize for the cat Rick roll.


But if you did that how would you exit scam?