I mean, that's why grunge exists, right?

Xers got fucked dry and I truly feel bad for y'all. It's hard for me to imagine how to navigate socioeconomic hardship without access to parallel systems, let alone the internet (I'm a middle millennial btw)


GM mane, I see you're up early too


Yes they are


🤔 Sometimes that's true, and I do like the occasional spicy dish. There's a balance to be struck with heat and flavor


A lot of mining companies really are opportunistic and the halving is Bitcoin's way of purging them. At the end of the day, I keep my sats and they don't. They can have fun with their fiat


They can sell more corn to me for all I care 😂


#carnivore  #diet is not really healthy for humans

cats  are carnivores but they eat grass as well, sometimes other herbs

similarly, humans usually need a little bit of fibre in their gut, so actually the proper diet for us is #paleo, which omits mainly grains and is minimal carb

we are nearest genetically to a family of animals whose diet is highly mixed, there are carnivorous, omnivorous and vegetarian apes and monkeys, but they originated through the lemur, the link between felines and monkeys

the most similar of the apes to us are chimpanzees, who are largely carnivorous, but also eat quite a lot of different kinds of fruit and herbs

seed eating makes sense for animals with an extremely high short burst energy requirement, like birds and rodents, the starches are very rich sources of sugars

but humans, despite the fact that sugar is very important, are adapted to diets with higher fat content and high sugar/starch content is digestible and can be used but long term it causes health problems, and the reason why heart disease, cancer and diabetes are now pandemic in our species

it has been known for a very long time that a diet high in sugars and starches is bad for health and lifespan, but the people who control the media, the government, the chemical and agricultural industries, mostly bankers and their families, most of them related to each other and back to ancient tyrannical dynasties, like to kill off populations of humans for sport and their religion of misanthropy called eugenics

it is not "trendy" to eat paleo, it's what your body was evolved to live on, and the only thing that has changed since the majority of human history since then was around 40,000 years ago we became able to consume milk also beyond the age of around 8 years or so, often earlier

really, paleo is the conservative diet choice, and the modern diet is the progressive and wrong one, and it not only shortens and lowers the quality of life, it makes you more suggestible and prone to psychosis, because of the way the blood sugar can agglomerate on your nerves and disrupt nerve function, which is the basis of most types of psychosis - it is no coincidence that the family of drugs that cause the most overt psychotic effects are ones that block the signalling system of the neuromuscular system via acetylcholinesterase inhibition, and a similar effect occurs gradually getting worse, to cause alzheimers, and is at play in motor neurone disease

#carnivore diet, and the #milk diet, which nearly nobody talks about but i believe it is a known thing - are elimination diets, and cannot be followed indefinitely, though they are great for recovering from especially type 2 diabetes

if you are finding benefit from #carnivore  it's probably because you have early stages of type 2 diabetes, insulin resistance

it helped me enormously to switch to milk, not only because of the relatively low cost and high nutrition of milk, but because my diabetes has advanced to the point where i was having neuromuscular problems with my eyes and general weakness, and the cause is the chronic high blood sugar forming plaques around nerves and reducing nerve signal conduction especially to muscles, leading to weakness even though my muscles have actually got plenty of glycogen to work with


So high time-preference


phew
I consolidated ahead of time, thankfully


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Down tremendous. I question whether or not the DOJ really wants more bitcoin like nostr:npub1g0587hzzckcncxfm78n0996qe2s58nspy29wf02tqcj5sdzcpj4q6j40hv says, but we'll have to see, especially with that dumb EIA "survey"


The most effective way to orange pill society is to produce something that society wants, and demand Bitcoin as payment.

This forces people to study Bitcoin and figure out how to access it.

Team Fiat is producing iPhones, cars, air travel, houses, etc. It's impossible to access without having fiat in the loop.

This is creates demand for access to fiat.

What is Team Bitcoin producing? What products and services are *impossible* to acquire without having Bitcoin in the loop?

What products and services are we producing to drive the demand for access to our magic internet  money?


The whole album


The Bends


So based 🍳


WHAT? I CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER MY ASIC


dude what the fuck


The Leviathan can go fuck itself 🫡


Yes 🔥


lol


lol
MKBHD is a nocoiner, too


😑 They better not start fucking with my Robosats buys


GM Nostr
There's nothing wrong with dumping your KYC stack 😉


Opium Wars turned into the Dopamine Wars


Nostr, much like Bitcoin, is more about censorship resistance than privacy.


I'm so deep that I don't even know who they are lol
The only Nostr skeptic I have any respect for is nostr:npub1xapjgsushef5wwn78vac6pxuaqlke9g5hqdfjlanky3uquh0nauqx0cnde


Destroy what destroys you https://i.nostr.build/O6vE.jpg


The first ASIC miner (Excluding USB sticks, whole different story) was released 11 years ago. The Canaan Avalon A1 (or Avalon1).

It was released when the global hashrate was 20 TH/s (you could probably do that by overclocking an S9 today)

A year later, global hashrate skyrocketed to 10,700 TH/s

A year later, it super skyrocketed to 334,000 TH/s.

ASICs changed the game. Will anything else? (I swear to God do NOT bring up quantum)


Just under 12,000 Blocks until the next halving 🫡


DEEZ NUTS


Absolute unit...bias


owned
⏰ > 🐦


This video perfectly describes my shitcoining days 😂


WOW that is wack


When I change careers. Not much longer now fortunately


I had a pre-paid phone for the longest time (in the states). I kept pre-paying it even after I moved to Japan because I needed the SMS codes that were occasionally sent to my number. This was with T-mobile.

One day T-mobile just took my number and said you no longer have this number. No warning, nothing. Talk about a great way to get any non-2FA accounts hijacked... just gave the number to someone else. This was despite me having frequently re-filling the balance and using the number every week.

Is this crazy or what... I even checked to see if maybe they discontinued the pre-paid program at that time, but nope, it was still up and running (no idea if it is now).


Simjacked by your own carrier? I can't wait to ditch phone numbers for good


Sponsored by Tether


Cam'ron lol


We're gonna need a Nostr obituary count at this rate


Wokism's 'class warfare' approach to race is truly noxious and I am NO part of it


Imagine how dumb American govt ! They sell #bitcoin for fiat that they can print 🤡


Yes. They are retards 🤣


More for me, then


I wish my family would shut the fuck up about Trump


Wow, is that the same Rampage?
https://www.rampage.eu/


Pi nodes are cringe


Us buying the dip ⚡
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1747416392293335040/vid/avc1/720x1280/1PaeMg8rpCi-Bq_e.mp4


Honestly...I miss Chicago


Probably a good idea with the elections coming up


This sounds like botnet whackamole, but at least it works. Godspeed 🫡


Recently I've become more sympathetic to people who hodl and don't want to spend their sats...so long as they don't get on a high horse about it


The “high fees” of the last few months would have saved you money if you paid for your groceries via BASE LAYER #Bitcoin payments, and that was the accepted form of payment. Everything in the store costs 3-5% more because credit card fees and chargebacks are added to the cost of the grocery items. The fact that people are complaining about “high fees” means they haven’t yet figured out how everything around them is priced.


*around us


Credit card fees are not at all comparable to bitcoin fees. This is what nocoiners/shitcoiners don't understand, especially for the fact that
🗣 ANYONE CAN MINE BITCOIN BLOCKS
🗣 ANYONE CAN MINE BITCOIN BLOCKS
Your mention of how things are priced around is has me thinking that even when we spend bitcoin today, we're still paying fiat prices. Still better than using dollars tho so I'm still at PubKey lol


I love seeing the Mullvad ads in the trains


So he's even more based, then


He should've been a stand-up comedian instead


These days I really do think that racism can only rise to prominence from state sponsorship; statism by proxy. No coincidence that people who tend to that bias highly prefer autocratic regimes.

Over the holidays, I saw a plastic statue of a black Santa Claus in a shop. Giving Santa black skin does nothing to bridge any cultural gaps--they're just turning everyone into white people. That gave me another clue to what wokism is trying to achieve


🤣 Time for me to watch this again


SHITCOINS


They would pay a heavy fine for bullshitting reserves. Look, those ETFs are just charging people to hodl bitcoin for them--they're only after the fiat


👏 I never let anyone forget that Dimon was one of the founders of Epsteingang


The Orange Pill Dispensary is now CLOSED. They're on their own


That looks so good. What are you gonna make with it?


He's a tether maxi


Buon appetit, Zack 🍽🐦⬛


or they prefer federated (read: capture-prone) social networks


Please let's not start saying that ecash is self-custodial. It is not.

You hold the ecash, we get it. The ecash part is non-custodial, ok. It's been thought of that way since the 80s. It's fine to think that way if you're literally the central bank and the ecash you issue IS THE MONEY AND NOT A REPRESENTATION OF AN UNDERLYING ASSET – only a central bank can do this. Repeat with me: Only a central bank can do this.
Ecash today is a representative of an underlying asset. In Cashu and Fedimint that's BTC. You give up control over that underlying asset. You measure everything in terms of that underlying asset. It is all about the underlying asset. You have NO GUARANTEE WHATSOEVER TO REDEEM THAT UNDERLYING ASSET BACK – ecash systems the way we are building them today ARE CUSTODIAL – please don't make things more complicated than they need to be. Please do not manipulate language and especially, do not confuse noobs who are still learning. I almost want to say that a framing like this irresponsible.

What are you going to say to the noob who wants their Bitcoin back but the federation broke down during an update and the database got completely rekt? How is that non-custidal or self-custodial or whatever the opposite of custodial is.

With all due respect, this is a bad take.
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Mel Brooks and Dave Chappelle were on the right track


Go to 'Security Filters'


One of the reasons why I'm changing careers. Fiat-brained people are becoming more and more dangerous at this point


The plot twist might be that they'll adopt tether and have a bank custody the reserves in some parliamentary LARP


Get AWGE in here


He's real chummy with the IMF and he appointed an ex-banker. Y'know, revolving door type shit. Milei has already bent the knee


What percentage of them do you think are bots?


That's the best part 🤣


She reposted it? lololol
This is the coolest thing I've seen this week


There are plenty of Nostriches here who post non-bitcoin content, anyway


I'm surprised no one has onboarded a small animal/cat/dog rescue shelter here tho. That's is both a good cause and content, photos& videos of cute animals. I think that would work really well here.


democracy doesn't mean freedom, it means power of the people

kratos means power or sharpness

demos means people

it only means good things if the majority of people involved in the quorum are wise


Oh, and nostr:npub1yye4qu6qrgcsejghnl36wl5kvecsel0kxr0ass8ewtqc8gjykxkssdhmd0


Welcome 🫡
Check out nostr:npub1f5pre6wl6ad87vr4hr5wppqq30sh58m4p33mthnjreh03qadcajs7gwt3z , nostr:npub1ej493cmun8y9h3082spg5uvt63jgtewneve526g7e2urca2afrxqm3ndrm , nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg , nostr:npub1cn670f663n3ks02jnnlsvd5y88zjnefy8343ykaxs7y3nzzketrsrjwt8a , and nostr:npub1fnn2h0tgm2mwnl0kar5ez25wztum2w0q0rrrf326n0ljn999znwsqf4xnx


It always stops me dead when I hear nostr:npub1864jglrrhv6alguwql9pqtmd5296nww5dpcewapmmcazk8vq4mks0tt2tq get a shout out when I'm listening to a pod.

Thanks nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a for mentioning us on your latest WBD episode. 🙏

And to your point about bitcoin communities, be sure to check out our directory here:

https://btcmap.org/communities

371 and counting. 📈


I didn't abandon Nostr. Bear in mind that I was touching a lot of grass, too. When I came back, I took an absolute axe to my follow count and now I'm rolling with ride-or-dies only. On the whole, Nostr is great and I've made a lot of new friends here


That's one of the reasons why I took a break from Nostr a couple months back. I've run into my fair share of shallow social climbers in this space. The way that Bitcoin reveals incentives is truly a blessing as it makes it easier to decide whom I want to spend my scarce time with. People who bring their baggage/fiat tactics from fiat land ALWAYS find out


Get em nostr:npub1fnn2h0tgm2mwnl0kar5ez25wztum2w0q0rrrf326n0ljn999znwsqf4xnx & nostr:npub1e2wk36e9vg8uw40phrrkkhc4tax8a9ken3fjcyy63vmdyz9aee2sk9el27 🤙🏻🔥

Straight #Plebchain 💪 https://v.nostr.build/J7zW.mp4


lewd


Yeah it's just as cold here in New York


Filled up my truck today...in the cold.
Battery was on 11%...and didn't think I was going to capture the footage.

Anyway....

Recycling is non-seasonal.

Everybody in the city has a stash of cans and bottles hidden out somewhere. 😂 ♻

I'm here to give you the scoop.
https://video.nostr.build/2c1bb0e01108ed9a9de81135e803278482a2beca7957e4d0a031ec0bdd69827d.mp4#m=video%2Fmp4&dim=544x960&blurhash=%5DoD%5ED%23x%5Dn%23bIWA%3FwofWAozadtTWBWVayofRPRiogaekCROaeofaea%7Dofj%3FkCaebHozkCazj%5Bj%5Boga%7DWBfQj%5DWBaeayayfR&x=7f4b17090aebd781ba3d815fbad2a19ef9188b1bcd7cb039584f7227c5212987


lol
Jesus fuck


PSA: Jeffrey Epstein didn’t use #Bitcoin.
He used #JPMorganChase.


I am buckled the fuck up. Now I just need to find some popcorn...


Honestly, I highly suspect that he's being facetious since JPM is an "Authorized Participant" in BlackRock's ETF. Then again, I have a hard time talking these fiat clowns at face value 🥖🎪


JP Morgan played a large role in the creation of Ethereum. Some of their alumni made Kadena, too


Oh ok


Oh, I did stray from your original point lol :P I was agreeing that Nostr isn't a replacement for Insta or Xitter

"Microblogging experiment" and "dev hangout" is an apt description. I'd also tell newcomers that using Nostr entails a DIY approach where they'd get the most out of the protocol by getting their hands dirty


This isn't even Nostr's final form.

My personal prediction is that the Other Stuff will take precedence over the Notes. The implications of a decentralized relay system that is basically a sovereign Internet-of-Things are much, M U C H more far-reaching than microblogging, especially when E2E encryption matures here.

There's room for other social platforms since they each have their own strengths. As much as I look askance at its current user base, I actually think that BlueSky has a chance to outlast Xitter. Overall I think Nostriches should be more aware of its current shortcomings like key management and poor search/filtering tools


Sutton Bank*


As much as I love Cash App, I feel like at some point someone will force Sutton Back to bend the knee


Fiat is canceled, it's a cancer. #Bitcoin is the new American dream, she's a dancer. Don't be a backseat pussy take a chance sir.


Joe Kernen is an actual bitcoiner. He's our guy on Squawk Box. I wonder if he has an npub


I'm pretty sure Jamie Dimon was on the island


It's just funny at this point. This FUD is old enough to do algebra


2024 bitcoin conference should be held in davos instead of Nashville


Tryna decide between this and Pubkey tomorrow... 🤔


If you rug-pull people using #bitcoin, it doesn’t mean that you are exempted and shouldn’t be called out !


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

people who will do everything, lie, cheat, play games, paint pretty pictures of how great they are

that's called narcissism

everyone has a self opinion but narcissism is toxic because the person does it at the expense of other people and for no real reason, they are deeply disturbed by the lack of endless praise upon them

i know i'm not one because i'm just as critical as i am boastful... i have been repeatedly called salty and nerd and other kinds of dismissive insults and that's because i don't care about teh attention, the fact is i get attention when i do good things and that's what it's supposed to be about


did he buy more bitcoin


BlockSky lmao 🤣
That site seems very unappealing to me, but I think there is a demand for these trigger-safe pillow forts


God I wish


🤔 Wow, I didn't think of that scenario. That would mean that a lot of people are gonna get blown up while swing/leverage trading


Time to start mining ⛏


don't wait for them to reprice everything in sats

go ahead and do it for yourself

want ur rent to get cheaper and cheaper over time

so rn now rent is 4 million sats a month.

so when bitcoin hits 80k per coin, my rent will be 2 million sats

want ur bills to get cut in half?
go ahead and make the mental UoA switch.


Stop buying rpi’s for nodes https://image.nostr.build/ae29a1bd70c6b26991c2d17c03b62c464d6126e24fefe624918b965377639330.gif


Future internet cops sent from BlueSkyNet. I do not endorse Imperium Press!


Nostr is not B/tcoin Twitter


2024 is the year of Rogue Money.

#Bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/5c0989c82d69461b9c9f1dff79b7bd059b12687d139bf6a1f64c0fcc1c6f8d7d.jpg


THE #BITCOIN GIRLFRIENDS PLAN HAS BEEN ACTIVATED BOYS https://image.nostr.build/cf1463d04e11da3c6ecd203314ce88c2d04e03550a86a81fab8fe8364148792b.png


Border control is another method of boiling the frogs


Even Proton? Gamers at large seem accustomed to getting shafted by companies


I really do have to cook my own meals just to avoid linoleic poison


You were right the first time--they were granted permission, not freedom


Our campaign doesn't actually encourage people to vote for a candidate.

The point is to show people that a politician won't fix our problems, but better money will.

You can "vote" for better money by using #Bitcoin any day.


Smells like boiling frogs


If it was possible to vote your way out of slavery we wouldn't need Bitcoin.

Freedom is taken not given.


Heard on a podcast recently we should focus on 'unbanking the banked' rather than 'banking the unbanked'.

Really hit home that one.


If you put lipstick on John Boltom, what do you get?
Nikki Haley


🤡 LMAO 🤡
All Dave does is send in the clowns lolol


What did they do this time?


seriously i need to post this again

linus torvalds featured on kinder surprise

linus torvalds

it was some time in the late 80s when he was a kid

you literally can't find this info anymore

they trying to gaslight me i know it was a thing, fuck them


I can't breathe lololol


oh my god lmfao
lolololol
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Good I love mountains. Enjoy 🎂


lmaol


Many such cases 🤡
He can go ahead and swing trade his corn, more for us 😁


Hell yeah, BACKR00MS has been stuck in my head ever since it came out. Def gonna give your boy a listen
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=ftaXMKV3ffE&si=pa0aLizWr_6kZWpF


Is he another fiat bagholder?


Just run windows bro. Send pictures of your ID to open an account and get windows once and for all.
Whats ya problem, got sometin to hide?


We've got a lot of work to do


And nothing of value was lost


Who?


doxxd


lol what is that surgeon's general warning at the bottom
lolololol


The people getting into bitcoin now and later are on are those who prefer to live as scammers. They will pretend to share your values. Remember that they do not.

In 2019 I was transparent when I attended what I think was the first beefsteak. I wanted to get to know other bitcoiners in part because by definition, they have all the wealth in the world -- I am where the misallocation of capital drains from -- I am the source of wealth that the world is robbed from by this misallocation, and there are various others like me, though often successfully psyoped into false humility and capitulation. I came to understand bitcoin rather than capitulate.

But the scum of the fiat world will not go quietly. Hodl hard. Many will come with nonsensical drivel that I see many in bitcoin enamored by -- I hope the enamorment is high only by number of people rather than bitcoin, but this is unknowable. I may come too, not with violence and fiat style grift, but with real offerings of technological greatness. It will be simple to verify the data I present should our paths cross, and you may do so if you wish.

I simply kindly request that you consider not operating out of such desperation for escape from fiat bearishness that you allow yourself to be lulled into nonsense of the brand that this guy and Elon Musk do. The world is both actually greater and worse than you care to admit. Stop chasing simulacrums of techno-optimism when you can have the real thing. The world grows poorer when mediocre men try to do something. Bitcoin will punish your arrogance and make most bitcoiners who fancy themselves wise poorer, even after fiat is dead. Bitcoin is shuts you the fuck up money, but if you just shut the fuck up without bitcoin forcing your hand, you can retain more of your wealth. Yes, bitcoin does it eventually, but over how many decades? I will see the fixing of everything commence will I still draw breathe, not some protracted century of fools doing one final round of capital misallocation.

I bring nothing more than the facts of life, the universe, and physical reality. The numbers cannot always be run, but they always can be inquired upon and there is objective truth. I only bothered rediscovering the meme of negentropy maximization years after living amidst fiat while doing the actual maximization in just about the most unquestionable domain imaginable. If you do not sincerely seek greatness and confront mediocrity with great intolerance, the world shall advance more slowly.

Anyway, it's late my time and I'm recovering from a mild flu so I will end my disorganized rant before I meander further.
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incompetence in government is not the benefit

disobedience in the people is the benefit

rebel or be minced

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They'll run out of bitcoin to buy before it reaches $1mil/coin


He's directionally correct but I'm not a fan of this type of prognostication


He's pretty intransigent honestly


We are hiring a Chief Executive Officer for Btrust 🔥

Btrust is a non-profit organization established to decentralize the development of free and open-source Bitcoin software. Initially focused on Africa, our mission is to locate, educate, and remunerate developers in the global south to contribute to the Bitcoin protocol and its associated technology stack.

Although no prior Bitcoin experience is necessary, we’re seeking a leader who shares our enthusiasm for Bitcoin’s potential and values and the importance of a decentralized contributor community collaborating to shape the future of global money.

If this sounds like you, go ahead and apply here:

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/bitcoin-talent-co/450f0be8-d8ad-49a7-aef1-797686beaa00


Got his ass


Yeah, that's another can of worms, as those clauses serve as life support for their "market." I guess we still have to deal with it while we build new systems


Also, healthcare and "insurance" is a match made in hell. Hospitals would do very well to mine bitcoin and tell insurers and PE firms to fuck off


Another reason to leave the fiat world behind. Bitcoin IS insurance because of self-custody


Sparrow is the bitcoin standard of coin control, but Trezor Suite and Thunderhub show UTXOs too. Anyone know any mobile wallets that do this?


once you realize the power of your tongue, you won’t say just anything.

when you realize the power of your thoughts, you won’t entertain just anything.

and once you realize the power of your presence, you won’t be just anywhere.


What a clown lol
Was probably too busy building killer bots to do research


LOL
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH


Wait, they can only buy ETF shares during market hours?


They'll make sappy commercials about joining Hal's run


Nos already supports disappearing notes in nostr by letting users set expiration timestamp and only pushing to relays that support expiring notes. https://image.nostr.build/753e0dbb615f93f22a8518e1ae3b959c2a6ae520798e8263ce4d53c42ea7e645.jpg


Sovereign IoT 🫡


He's waiting for exit liquidity. Truly shameless


omg I almost forgot about that All In clip lmfuckingao
THEY EXPLICITLY SAID THAT THEY WILL DUMP SOL ON RETAIL AND THEY WERE LAUGHING ABOUT IT
LAUGHING
Solana baggies deserve everything they get


I'm dying lol


Leave the fiat world behind 🫡


I can't wait for the phase where people provide unruggable healthcare--constellations of bitcoiner private practices in Nostr groups where patients custody their own documents with cryptographic key pairs


Yeah lol. I still like her music though


Dollar maxis really think that USD will be around forever lol. Beef went up last year and people want to have more dollars so they can buy less food
lmfao


Literally two dudes in a shed 😂
Send this to them


Same


Found out recently she was a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN's Food Agriculture Org 😳


Stopped reading at "cash flow." Statist slaves and opportunistic Keynesians are ngmi


TAKE THE ORANGE PILL NOW OR GET THE ORANGE SUPPOSITORY LATER


🔔 🔔 NEW OP_RETURN 🔔 🔔

09/01/24 SEC Chairman on the brink of second ETF approval

https://mempool.space/tx/07bcf35c548e402e2219fbd846d4e736418d777c38bda6465e7f2956fd63e948


Blue check??


Blue check 🧐


Maybe they need a longer, more-complicated password. Like a... Like a... Like a sort of key, or something.


The ETF tweet was a double-spend.


And this is why unconfirmed means unconfirmed


rekt


I see many people that want to "fix Bitcoin" with all kind of mental gymnastic "solutions" that are NOT Bitcoin, but nobody is looking to fix what is obviously not working well: force closing channels.

Right now, Bitcoin and LN works as is supposed to be.
It is not a real problem opening channels in high fee environment. You can fix that with batch opening channels and consolidate the fees.

The problem is when you get a force close channel, because on the path you got a shity Tor node, with shity maintenance and your HTLC got stuck on the way, then triggered the force closing. Or whatever other reason for that force closing that can cost you a fortune.

We can transact very well and fairly cheap over LN if we do not have all these crazy force closures in high fee env.

I can live with opening channels in high fee env. Is a cost that node runners could asume it and can be manageable.

But I cannot live with the threat that some day, some payment got stuck for reasons that I cannot control and for that my channel got closed.

Spend and replace works perfectly fine on LN to refill your emptied channels.

Please STOP looking into bullshit solutions and fix the damn force closing channels. Then we will have another 10+ years of smooth adoption, meanwhile we can build more robust solutions for billions.

https://i.postimg.cc/t7GjCWnS/I-have-spoken.gif


North Coast Nostr


I should get some bear meat during this bull run


so, today i learned about #nostrocket

and i already knew about #negentropy

and i'm like, ok, so people kinda get that some kind of loose distributed consensus is a good idea for nostr

i'm currently building a relay with an interface to a "sMaRt CoNtRaCt" distributed database engine

i think there is a clear case for some types of events to be replicated fast over blockchain style byzantine fault tolerant database clusters, many, the more the merrier

i think that people in #nostr  with their #bitcoin  only leanings are pushing too hard to exclude shitcoiners from nostr when the single thing that their silly systems do that is actually relevant to us, is something bitcoin can't do

and we don't want it to:

storing bulk data

people are a bit confused about this

Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerant  (pBFT) database replication protocol was invented in 1999

it enables a cluster of replicas of a database to stay in sync to a pretty tight time window, according to some simple limitations:

- each extra node in the network needs an extra message at each step in the protocol for agreeing on the state change

- so long as 2/3 of the nodes agree it doesn't matter whether the other 1/3 are dead or malicious

practical implementations as tested by the Cosmos project show that about a maximum of 99 replicas can be added to a cluster before it starts to get bogged down by waiting for messages

in contrast, the bitcoin ledger can have literally millions of replicas because the difficulty adjustment of the nakamoto consensus doesn't need to account for the voting process of pBFT protocol messages

the block hash itself is the permission to publish a new block

it solves the problem of latency but the trade-off is that the more mining resources there is available in the world, that aren't mining on a given database, the less the security of the protocol

that is, it's very difficult to make a proof computation that is specialised enough that nobody with the capacity to do it is doing anything else except mining on that database

this is why the SHA256 hash is actually perfect for the job, and why there can only be one monetary database for our planet, and probably at least solar system

i'm not sure if y'all grasp that i'm "working with the enemy" on my relay project, but i'm not considering them to be enemies except as far as they perpetuate the meme that staking has anything to do with security and is anything more than a mechanism to contain the number of pBFT replicas involved in the consensus

y'all need to get used to the idea that shitcoiners are coming to #nostr

they are coming whether you like it or not

but i'm just here to tell you that the pBFT protocol is a good idea for scaling nostr, and it doesn't need to be centralised, i can imagine hundreds of pBFT clusters each with different implementations each replicating a relay for the network as a whole

even #nostrocket  uses a staking scheme (peg based, like liquid)

:facepalm:

when i have the resources, i'm going to build a clean, pure human voting consensus based pBFT replication based relay for nostr databases

i think that social acceptance is a more powerful regulator than fucking stake, basically. you can make a replica of our relay cluster, because you seem decent, and we keep you in the group because you stay decent

#devdiary


The corporate press had the Epstein-Maxwell story and didn’t put it out.

Survivors can now tell their own stories on a censorship resistant protocol either with their names or anonymously.

They don’t need the press.

They can’t be censored by the powerful.

This gives me hope.


cocaine post lol


BITCOIN TWITTER IS JUST LINKEDIN AT THIS POINT.

THAT ERA IS OVER. A BETTER ERA HAS BEGUN.


crypto lol
Come get your boy


My grandma front ran Blackrock during this bear market. She’s 85 and throwing my inheritance in BTC because I told her that’s what I would want 🤣🫶 thanks nana for being a legend


Best grandma


They don't know 🤭


People still don’t understand. Bitcoin doesn’t need regulation, Bitcoin IS the regulation.


Meshtastic does sound almost like the original twitter /twitter.

Is there some sort of #meshtastic feed so why can see what is being said? 👀👀

Can we get nMesh to be a thing? Lol

Might have to buy one of these lil gadgets, curious to see what's flying about my area.

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Ive been using “the alternative” for over a decade. migration is rarely about the client. almost always about either a reactionary event, or viral novelty. nostr now enters the post honeymoon period. the long dark night of the soul.
now we find out who is here for shallow reasons and who isnt.


Yeah, they're commonly sold at fencing operations


Another thing I like about Nostr is that it's also easy to spot shallow social climbers on here. Nostr doesn't fix this, but it's easy to spot, and it's rather rampant


I highly suspect that this is astroturfing for Xitter's upcoming WeChat banking scheme


Taxes pay interest on Treasury bills and nothing else, they don't actually "pay" for anything


most of the people just don't know they are being bamboozled

doesn't make them evil

doesn't make them any less dangerous

stay frosty


Love Memphis rap


If you mine a block in the woods and nobody can spend it, does it make a sound?


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Saturday night is UTXO management night. 🤓


Promises made, promises kept 🫡

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It all increases rug risk and places people at the behest of the asset managers. It's bait


Partially correct in the sense that those sats aren't bonafide on-chain UTXOs, but imagine 500 million people trying to get into a 4MB block. 2 billion


Something like GrayJay
https://grayjay.app/
Dunno much about Polycentric


I forgot they have a shitcoin lol. A temporary solution before they get charged for securities fraud


Reee indeed. Their moderation policies highlight the incentive problem that comes with being subsidized by advertisers who squirm at certain themes and words. YouTube is an insanely overvalued platform, and the alts use similar strategies, so yes, it's gonna be a problem for the alts eventually. I think the only way those platforms can survive is by adopting a value-for-value model or a subscription model with no free version


"It literally can't go tits up"
—1RONYMAN


Same, I still have a copy of Skin in the Game. Gotta say though, even with an editor I have always thought he was a shit writer and looking back, he was always a dollar maxi shill


Oh yeah? Watch this


lol


Just spoke to the CEO of Bitcoin and they said we should expect something big at block 840000


Same 🥩🍳
I love my skillet


Hey nostr, I have some nodes to sell!

Not only could you get some solid hardware (even nostr:npub126ntw5mnermmj0znhjhgdk8lh2af72sm8qfzq48umdlnhaj9kuns3le9ll started selling some of these), but you also get my time & expertise. We’ll figure out how you need me to spend my time to help you - I am looking to be a resource to plebs trying to navigate migrating away from a rpi, devs looking to cleanup their digital environment, or enterprises looking to scale their solutions.

Laptop & desktop purchasers will be guided on installation, setup, & maintenance of their new physical & virtual servers! Proxmox is FOSS software we will use to allow for the commoditization of all of your machine’s resources, allowing you to get the most out of your purchase. With one physical machine, you'll be able to cram a dozen virtual ones inside while I'll show you how to manage their compute/memory/storage requirements and interactions.

These are used ebay purchases, I'm not trying to profit off the hardware, just stacking sats with my time. Shipping or pickup at #chibitdevs included. Until I offload this hardware and complete the hourlies, I’ll be restricting my assistance to these buyers. But, I'll likely eventually offer support for byo hw/sw.

https://btcpay.dimi.gg is now live, please chat with me before a purchase if you have any questions. Payjoin enabled.


I have a lot more research to do. I heard accounts that SegWit was disruptive to development but didn't look much further into it


Great analogy, and that is a lifelong question


So true


The suits don't know this 🤭


LOL
Reminds me of my own shitcoining days


Best outcome tbh


I want more functionality on the protocol layer in order to minimize trust, alleviate fee pressure, and never have to open a Microstrategy/JP Morgan Lightning account. Then again, I don't have a dev background, so I could be missing a few things here


This bot proves my point: nostr:npub169n9eaf0t20j0nefwqlqtnqcpsym22k2nw6e3tevtrrru4et7wrsh5w47v
We need more L2s than Lightning


if more bitcoiners knew what a malign influence Bill Gates had on computer programming and operating systems they wouldn't be cheering for c++ as the only competent implementation of bitcoin

the guy is straight poison brah

if he'd got his way there wouldn't be open source at all, and as it was we got stuck with satoshi building the first bitcoin on windows and C++

don't worship the stones on which moses stood

celebrate the ones he holds in his hands


If Bitcoin ossifies too early, then it can only scale with trust. This narrative has only been losing traction over the past few months


and beyond 👨🚀


WINNING


I never bought that theory and I think the only reason the truther movement gained traction is because the intelligence community was very cagey about releasing documents. They're still hoarding a lot of CCTV footage since Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is still detained (wtf). It's a red herring

TO BE FAIR I haven't done due diligence on Cantor Fitzgerald yet


Central planning is a smoldering shit pile. Karl Marx was truly a pied piper


Who among us can get HBC onto Nostr ? This hairstyle from Fight Club just reminds me of the Ostrich depictions.

https://i.nostr.build/Rd8q.png
https://i.nostr.build/XdB7.png


There's plenty of ETF talk on Nostr, too...
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I had a BlockFi account when nostr:npub1s33sw6y2p8kpz2t8avz5feu2n6yvfr6swykrnm2frletd7spnt5qew252p taught me about paper Bitcoin. I shat bricks before I got my HWW. I withdrew every sat, and nine months later, they went bankrupt. This community is based


Yeah, he's a composer. Saw him perform 10 years ago


G  F  Y
Invoking 9/11 for the umpteenth time. PATRIOT Act has nothing to do with preventing terrorism, it was a power grab to expand supranational surveillance systems all while covering their tracks for getting in bed with the mujahideen in the 70s

The real reason I'll never forget 9/11 is because over the years I realized that the tenants of the North and South Tower became unwitting conscripts of our nation's senseless forever wars. The powers that be will watch you splatter on concrete at 200mph and they won't give a fuck. They'll drum up some security theater and sign everyone's rights away with your blood. I will never forget


She'd be goated for that honestly


It's good to have multiple wallets and to be constantly learning about L2s. There will be more options than Lightning in the coming years


Also, selling for fiat means you lose purchasing power for goods in the mid-long term


No guarantee you'll get that corn back since exchanges are slowly drying up. If you have some fiat obligations to take care of, then maybe


ETF? End The Fed.


Only if they have bitcoin


I think that's actually Pretty Lights


Be extremely skeptical of anyone who wants to ossify the current state of the #Bitcoin network while promoting Self-custody.


coracle.social so far


I'm not saying they should stop. They're going to help mature the libraries and come up with some cool stuff.

I'm saying...
If you work in a hospital IT department, Nostricize your department's scheduling script.
If you work in a factory, Nostracize your workflows.
If you work in accounting, create a Nostr bookkeeping app.
And so on.
Build things you are used to working with.

Nostr where you are.


matrixport.jpg


zap. stream / tunestr
Nostr Market
Flockstr
Stemstr
Habla

I've been hearing about people tinkering with Nostr to handle futures contracts. There's a lot of potential to distribute raw materials over Nostr for pure economic signal. The Xitter clones were a good start, bit that space is pretty saturated right now


We need lots of groups. Agile groups.
Lining up a never-ending list of features and knocking them over, like dominos. Features for this project, features for that project, maintenance for a third project, concept phase for the next project.

High-throughput development.
This is why corporations are rich and we are not.

But we don't need corporations to organize. We don't need an employer or a leader or anything. Just build teams with your bros and start working.


"watch them duke it out"
It's gonna be one hell of a year. Who needs pay-per-view? 🍿


Probably better to mine fiat part-time than to sign deals to shill brands


That's why I'm vigilant--this may have been happening in some parts of Nostr, too


Really unusual situation right now: the minrelayfeen of most mempools is very close to a typical next block transaction fee, due to a huge amount of txs at the same fee.

https://image.nostr.build/89b45d2e18ec3d46e7b72c17b55c93f524e06a1d9d4881c3921cb9d254e676af.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=1080x1799&blurhash=%5DE7ws%40bAe*oGjZ-tj.s%2Bavt8RqW%3As%3BWUjZNDXBW%3FWGR%25RdkGR%3DR%3ANHNUj%7Bb1WGR*JVoNs%2CjcfhXRsSs%3Aawog-sfNW9oJWB&x=73772ab1298546496d9fbfbbbfc18861e2dfa46ea7044897a9bb79820f5de0eb

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⚠ WARNING ⚠:T-bills are radioactive waste! Handle with care.


Hey, get off, they're only 15 years old!


Buy US Treasury coins today
Sponsored by Ethereum and TRON


Its 430am

I just woke up from a nightmare where half my stack was custodied by an exchange


Value-for-value fixes this


this is the thousands of users a day they don’t tell you about https://v.nostr.build/jddE.mp4


How often do you see these types of callouts in fiat land? I stay stacking 🫡


Glad I'm not the only one who saw this
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Keep an eye on those US Treasury yields


Oh really? lol


What a gift we have to know about bitcoin… not for economic gain, but for the knowledge and truth.  This is the real Freedom.


Yo where is Sam Skies?


I think he left the US for a bit, not sure. I think he left while I was taking my own break from Nostr


When I first discovered Bitcoin, I was like man this can make me rich.

Me on Bitcoin’s 15th birthday. Bitcoin changes you. https://i.nostr.build/y6a2.gif


Saw them in Kentucky last summer, it was great


I can already see the Sixteen Candles memes coming


Money growing on trees would be an infinitely better system than the disaster that is central banking. That colloquialism should have never been a pejorative.


Starring @yellow


💯 Reject politics, embrace permaculture


Aren't they in bed with Ripple or something?


I was at a concert and found someone's credit card. I asked around to see if I could find who dropped it. Several people told me to keep it. What the fuck 😑 I turned it in to the venue


The classes of Epoch IV may be the last one able to buy bitcoin. Wait until the suits find out 🍿


JUST IN 📰: INVERSE CRAMER ETF RECOVERS TO SURPRISE OF BITCOIN BULLS. LEVERAGED LONGS BLOWN THE FUCK OUT


Elon is a bozo. He's like "banks suck, so I'LL be the bank." He's trying to arbitrage the trend very much like shitcoiners do, except he wants to build a WeChat 2 empire on fiat


On January 3, 2009, Satoshi shrugged. After the COVID shitshow, I turned to freedom tech and my hope in humanity and life itself was rekindled.

Feliz quinceañera, Bitcoin 🫡
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Gotta admit, I love seeing @Bitcoin Isn't About You and @Mark Goodwin dunk on fools


I don't get it, either


lol
I'm in Ghana right now with family
The cedi is an absolute shitcoin


Looking forward every cheap phone capable of having the whole #Bitcoin blockchain loaded in.


I want this so bad


Daicon 21 🐰


Love archive.org . Best part, they accept bitcoin donations!


Yeah, OpenPS2Loader requires ISOs for PS2 games


US$89K is FUD 🐂


I bought a memory card with FreeMcBoot during COVID and now I play ISOs from my NAS. My future kids are gonna have a trove of games to choose from


Celebrated Bitcoin's quinceañera at One Corner Garden 🇬🇭

The atmosphere is fantastic, and their food is good, too. I'll def come back another time
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lmao


I'll bet that Swan is gonna fold this year
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Swan was always sus to me. I'm ditching KYC services anyway


Agreed. What we're accomplishing here can get one's noggin jogging, and that is a victory


Not for nothing, but I never ever liked BT to begin with. The engagement doesn't seem real most of the time


Happy Quinceanera #Bitcoin

“ Girl…. You’ll be a woman soon “

We are SO early. LFG Bitcoiners😎🥰

https://open.spotify.com/track/1BmVQ5RGqqtF5cnsv6cQYu?si=b2bwotd3RDKc11xRWhP4zw https://image.nostr.build/0ff26de257a7766ac59a6a49cfc6da2f1d4f9e6d0e78e33e1ea2a522b012cf8f.jpg


Freedom tech does help people counter such wedge issue psyops. However, breaking that programming requires a mindset that rejects central planning. That can't be taught


How far would that go, though? Climate heroism is peak slacktivism, just like how the people who have been claiming that FOSS is for pedos since the 70s have mostly done F U C K   A L L for human trafficking victims. I know someone whose brain melts when I say that EVERY extraction method has geological impact and that fracking is more eco-friendly than quarry mining and pumpjacking. We will use hydrocarbons forever


Today, 15 years ago, the #Bitcoin protocol and network was born.

The first block was published and it went from an idea, to something real in the world, that even Satoshi no longer truly controlled.

This is only the beginning of Bitcoin’s journey. It is quickly establishing itself as an unstoppable and critical part of the infrastructure of this global, interconnected network we call the internet. It is the first native, digital money, without rulers, without central control, without bias. It is available to anyone to use, it is fought over and grows in an open and truly global market. And it continues to evolve with new tools, layers of additional protocols and applications, millions of users, and thousands of developers.

It has inspired a rebirth of the cypherpunk philosophy, showing with a real world experiment why the ideals of sovereignty, privacy, and digital autonomy are the best, and really only path, for an open society in the digital age.

Where the cypherpunk idea was once obscure and recognized by a tiny, isolated group in unknown mailing lists, it has now exploded through the mainstream Overton window. With more social and economic power than it has ever experienced. A set of values that bolsters confidence and conviction on those building the floor of Bitcoin’s value, creating holders of last resort, who think not in dollar profits, but in dropping every dollar as fast as possible as a matter of principle.

The capital shift into Bitcoin has poured billions of dollars worth of value into a technology of freedom and sovereignty. It has completely changed the dynamic of internet power despite the fact that many don’t even realize it. It has completely transformed the thinking around risks and security across the internet. It has brought the incredible, unrivaled assurances of hardware secured encryption keys and signing down from the upper echelons of the corporate and political world, to devices with comparable, even superior security, available to the average pleb and with applications that are stupidly easy to use.

It has inspired a new era of experimentation (even with all of the fools and the speculation that come with it) of decentralizing the third party risks we suddenly found our world drowning in.

Trusted third parties are security holes. 15 years ago that was an unknown platitude shrugged off by essentially everyone. Today it’s got billions in capital with this as a prime concern, millions who embrace and understand this principle and use, build, explore, discuss, and share every single tool and application they find that may have some hope of solving another risk from yet another counterparty.

We have changed the entire landscape and rediscovered bitcoin again and again through multiple eras.

We have built a market of people unafraid of volatility, who in fact embrace it. In stark contrast to the fragile, pathetic markets of the legacy economy who cry about volatility and beg for intervention at the first sight of trouble. Bitcoin has built genuine market strength. Rewarding those with a long term mindset and the balls to stack through the dips created by fools and gamblers. A market of those who know the future we want isn’t something that comes at the end of a magic wand, an empty government promise, and financial counterfeiting to cover up our mistakes - but with all of our collective work and attention to seeing it realized.

We have built a new, decentralized social protocol in #Nostr, beginning to realize the dream of what Bitcoin can do for the entire internet stack. And Nostr is only the beginning, with multiple other networks and protocols vying to best solve one of the greatest problems of the internet era. Never has there been more hope and excitement around the possibility that these problems could one day be a thing of the past. Bitcoin won’t just change money, it will change everything that money touches.

Bitcoin has exposed fiat for what it is, the bloated, corrupt, endlessly inflated sham that it really is. People fail to realize by itself, what an incredible victory it is that the *idea* of fiat money is breaking into the mainstream. The war of the mind is one of the most important that will be fought, and #Bitcoin is winning it.

Bitcoin has persisted through an endless and evolving blob of FUD, lies, and mainstream attacks which have only made it stronger. It has survived early critical bugs, an internal war, outlawing by one of the most powerful nations in the world, and possibly one of the greatest infrastructure shifts in internet history. #Bitcoin saw half of its entire processing infrastructure shut down, packed up, and migrated to new locations all around the world, and turned back on, without even a moment of down time.

Through it all, the blocks continued on. Tick rock, next block.

Liquidity and applications around the world, both in modern Western countries and in poor countries across the global south, has grown endlessly through bear markets and bull markets alike. There are no walls, no barriers preventing access. The entire world, one person at a time, is waking up to the promise of Bitcoin.

It has been adopted directly by a nation state, and indirectly accepted by a few others. El Salvador made Bitcoin legal tender, and has since shown the world one of the most profound underdog stories ever. It shines as an example of what sane policy and sound money can do, transform an entire fucking country in barely a few years. From violence, hate, fear, and poverty, to peace, safety, security and incredible and accelerating growth and prosperity.

Things CAN change. Our problems are NOT insurmountable. And #Bitcoin is showing us that the future isn’t something we beg for, it’s isn’t something we complain into existence, it isn’t something you vote for.

The future is something that we will build.

Today, #Bitcoin is 15 years old. And today, is just the beginning. https://i.nostr.build/AZkj.png


At least on nostr you never see the word 'whataboutery'.


Best chain.
https://21lessons.com/assets/images/bitcoin-v0.1-code.png


🤯
Satoshi is/was a bonafide polymath...it looks like magic


Go back to 2005


Got her ass


Alarm bells have been going off in my head for the past 3 years


I'm not a fan of refinement culture, either. Never was


Happy New* Year everyone.

*The real one.


When he said "have some humility" ...I felt that


"MGS"
"Parasite Eve"
based


I can't breathe lol


No lol, but that one's a banger


JUST IN 📰: INVERSE CRAMER ETF CRASHES IN FLAMES


I'm less gloomy and more bullish today. When I post the MF DOOM song, you'll know it's time 🫡


Could be a broken clock situation


AAAAAAA IT'S OVER


nostr:npub1s33sw6y2p8kpz2t8avz5feu2n6yvfr6swykrnm2frletd7spnt5qew252p is a great source for savagery, as well

https://odysee.com/why-60-40-portfolios-are-retarded#96c21dc329a9e12df6770c6727609ae7988abe83

https://odysee.com/ordinals-and-the-coming-attacks-on#cfa42ede9451daa52fb63a2b819086e95704ad01
(Go to 11:29)


This is bullish for Mullvad


You talking about video footage?


They're not liberty-minded, plain and simple. It's a good thing that they tell on themselves like this because we don't need them


One thing that I’m excited to work on into the new year is a project I’m calling “Altcoin 101.” Before you make assumptions, let me explain.

Something I’ve always tried to stay true to is to not hate what you don’t know. No matter what it is. In that same regard, I am going to be doing deep dives into various shitcoins on an intelectual and fundamental level with the view of them being a solution to a Bitcoin problem and disproving that.

This idea came from an Uber ride where the driver was fairly knowledgeable about Bitcoin (relatively), but thought that there was a scaling issue, and thus came to the conclusion that XRP was the solution. He had never heard of Lightning and was very open to learn about it. I was able to help him understand Lightning to a degree, but was not able to disprove any of his XRP claims. We have created a relationship and I’m going to keep working to move him over.

I want to share this research with you all as I conduct it so it gives you a ground to argue against shitcoins without just saying “they’re not Bitcoin so they’re bad.”


#Bitcoin #meme #memes https://image.nostr.build/05595ec94f6d32039ea01cd3b8317448a8c76a5240c09ad1c04cee98bb696e69.jpg


Pure comedy. They have miniscule consensus and their out-of-band payola scheme is unsustainable. I'm buying an ASIC ASAP


BIP 1559 lmao 😂
I'm crying


I'm getting an S9 ASAP


💯 Freedom money IS freedom communication, and protocols like Nostr are merely another layer on top. Focusing on bitcoiners is a good move since they're more likely to be liberty-minded and self-responsible


Good point, things will be very difficult for us if we're besieged by the masses...these ETFs are a trap and it's irritating how they're being treated like a nothingburger. Nonetheless, I'll find some way to work on Bitcoin as our liberty depends on it

Who knows, they may not be approved at all lol 💁♂


Honestly hope all of the ETFs rug to teach everyone a lesson


I joined the class of 2021 solely because of the Melvin Capital debacle


As long as our money is created out of thin air, capitalism cannot exist. Anyone arguing against the failures of capitalism is arguing something that hasn’t existed in well over a century. The failures and ills of society are all a direct result of central planning and the socializing of our money supply. Every form of welfare and free money perpetuates this arrangement while providing the illusion of compassion and a “safety net”. It’s all a mirage, exacerbating the problems as society and leaders lack the will to live through “ripping off the band aid”. They would rather the future generations suffer for ability to declare themselves righteous today.


GFY


We don't need to appeal to anyone who clamors for central planning


Onwards 🫡


There is much worth to be done on the freedom front, but I'm up for it, and I'll be there with all of you.

Onwards into the new year 🫡


Happy New Year! 🥂


it's embarrassing for me as a go programmer and as a bitcoiner
u
who the fuck is sitting there watching this code get written and not asking questions?

it's utter shite

seriously, how the fuck.....

it makes me very suspicious of blockstream also, as does liquid

come one guys, who the fuck pays you?

stop

this

bullshit

even nostr:nprofile1qqsqfjg4mth7uwp307nng3z2em3ep2pxnljczzezg8j7dhf58ha7ejgprdmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68y6trdpjhxtn0wfnj7qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctcpremhxue69uhkummnw3ez6ur4vgh8wetvd3hhyer9wghxuet59uxw4pj4   agrees that there should be a competent bitcoin codebase that isn't C++

fuck you all

i am ashamed of you


just want to give some etiquette

i'm taking a holiday from nostr, neither reading nor posting
uc
i am working on nostr things but i'm perceiving it as some distant star that i must make alignments to, and i'll do my best to stay current

i dunno what exactly has flipped me, i can name many things but none of them are novel to my post history, i'm just tired of this nonsense for now and i'm working until after my birthday and not gonna say hello to any of you who don't already know how to, and for those who don't, and want to, lol really stfu i'm here

i have work to do and i am not doing it due to interacting with y'all so better i work because it's all in your best interest that i don't get distracted

or at least, those who actually want a free social network

you need good code underneath you

code is a very delicate thing

it cannot be made secure without serenity

it is very easy to corrupt it

fuck corruption

and also, i need a break

whoever taught you that programmers should be social creatures LIED

we are not

we are engineers, who build information systems

any who don't focus on the building are compromising your interests


Ok almost everyone is already in 2024, lets continuing defunding the state... I exit 💪
https://video.nostr.build/9d0b69715f6074e875154252d02e370777d728b47101d1574142ea38d6c12247.mp4


Good For You 🤣
lol


LOL
Meanwhile we just say GFY over here


Forgot to mention that last year my credit score went up for no reason


Yes lol


Not true, credit scores are rather arbitrary. It's not based on merit


New York Toiletpaper can fuck off


Oof, I'll be sure to use fiat if I ever buy from them


Yep. The seeds are there nonetheless. Their feet need to be held to the fire for them to adopt a freedom-oriented mindset, that can only take time


True that education /= adoption. I know someone who still asks me about shitcoins after I've told them to DYOR two fucking years ago. Something about a horse and water


The freest energy market in existence provides pure economic signal. Few


I have friends who think they can outrun inflation by acquiring more dollars and taking on more counterparty risk by chasing yield and extracting value out of others with rent. The incumbent system pats people on the head for this, making them think they're smart. Pretty insidious. One of them even said to me that "the key to freedom is laying low beneath the system" 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

I may have to ditch them one day


Maybe if all the ETFs rug 🤣


Blessed UTXOs are an inevitability. Someday it will be “we only count Coinbase coins after block X”. Any country which chooses to exclude a subset bitcoin from their economy, creates opportunity for enemies to capture that buying power. With enough hashing power, patience, and a private mempool any (person/nation/state/corp) can wash unblessed UTXOs as txn fees.

Bitcoin is fungible… as time goes on, there will always be a buyer of last resort for *any* Bitcoin. They are just psyopping people into exposing their holding for future taxes or violent seizure.


https://cdn.satellite.earth/6011daa16075490abe99b641d87513c6509eace0b86ac7dd6e91a7d1c68763d9.jpg
At least for some percent of people glancing at this nostr:npub1e4qg56wvd3ehegd8dm7rlgj8cm998myq0ah8e9t5zeqkg7t7s93q750p76's diagram would give them a little more insight on how Nostr works. Where should we place it to make that happen?


People are still greedy as fuck


Feel like the BRC-20 market will be a bit frothy during the bull run. I'll be sure to mine their blocks and laugh when their treasuries are depleted


Bitcoin could use fewer people caring about global south and their suffering under financial fiat tyranny. It is an intellectually lazy concern to have.

Better to focus on how fiat limits the growth of the frontiers of civilization. Others will be fine without you "saving" them.

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based


1. come 2. and 3. take 4. it 5. over 6. my 7. dead 8. body 9. suck 10. my 11. black 12. dick


Yup, a bacchanal of paper bitcoin. I nearly got rekt before holding my keys for real


Don’t forget what we are fighting for:
🔱 https://image.nostr.build/0015eb4ca3c7135250e63e326d31cc5829f04c3d995f41fb4d7ad4fe7a9b6405.jpg


You're right, actually. I shouldn't forget that I was a newcoiner once and I was blessed to find the right guidance


libertarianism is actually compatible with socialism, communism, capitalism, and fascism, the single restriction being that those  systems are organized voluntarily. You can have communism in a libertarian society, it’s called a commune, but if it turns out that the system doesn’t scale or doesn’t produce, you can’t make the rest of the world your slaves to “make it work.”

Libertarianism isn’t a prescription about *how* to organize. It’s a framework to allow us to organize in as many ways as possible so we can endlessly discover and refine the concept of organization itself.

It *only* requires that you treat everyone around you as a free human with self ownership, and not your slave. https://i.nostr.build/8WRg.png


The ETFs will increase demand for block space. If fees go up before Bitcoin scales sufficiently enough for plebs to use daily, these large asset managers will be the only ones who can afford to transact on the base layer. While Lightning is a step in the right direction, it isn't enough. We need more L2s


Very irritating how people seem to be handwaving this concern. Economic weight matters, especially if fees go out of control


Imagine being too chicken to protect 12 words


Why isn't Mullvad on here yet? and no, Mostr doesn't count


WireGuard ftw


Maybe I spoke too soon


If you find yourself constantly outraged at some thing that happened or the news, or what someone said, then they have you exactly where they want you - under their control.

Outrage is a powerful form of control. When you're angry, they've got your attention, and they can manipulate it. The provocateur is in the spotlight, as if important.

When you ignore them, they are powerless.

The instinct is to throw more outrage at the thing that triggers you, whereas the opposite action is more effective - ignoring the thing entirely.


Writing my new year's resolutions 😭😭🥺
https://video.nostr.build/abdc51d90835709631d84097335a21d2bfe131491aa3bc936b25b64c95320e65.mp4#m=video%2Fmp4&dim=480x834&blurhash=%5D5L4scNKDixtIU00RjxuWCj%3F00s%3BV%5BWBof%7EpM%7BMxWBayIWRjaxWCofRPfit7ofofD*oftQoLofs.ofaff5W.xujuWBWBWB&x=63f9a7e6944d1ac4765199d3ae9e618da6ddeb136bdf9e9562288035d7a69566


One of the most pivotal moments of my career and that possibly changed the trajectory of the rest of my life transpired because of Timothy C. May in this video.

When asked about online child sexual abuse material he had the most strong, no compassion statements I’ve ever heard.

Yeah it’s going to be a problem, “deal with it.” He said it with his whole chest. (Watch for exact quote)

It was painful to hear. It felt personal. It felt like a gut punch and when I picked myself up off the floor I was grateful that someone had the audacity to be that real. I needed that.

Now back to compassion, is it more compassionate to act like there isn’t a problem, sugar coat it, breeze over it or is it more compassionate to be as real about the problem as possible? He seemed to lack compassion but actually it was the type of compassion that I longed for.

After I got over myself and all of the emotions I said, “Bet. I will deal with it. Challenge accepted. I’ll be more creative, more aggressive and find more solutions to prevent these crimes from happening in the first place way before they end up on the internet.”

The internet deserves to be free. I agree with the cyberpunks. The goal should always be to prevent child sexual exploitation before it happens. I believe in a world where this is possible. nostr:note1jl6gp35f29yhlmg9d0kdteauf2rjfx624mufa8krqn3u0j9egf3qzja26d


Beware, people could also use that argument to claim that there's no existing precedent for anarchy. I just don't bother trying to convince statists and let them become slaves. That's what they truly want, after all


Come and take it 💪


"people love to shit on me for this"
Fuck them all. Fickle fair-weathered fucks. I know what it's like to tell people I'm having a hard time only to be given a harder time because I don't pretend everything is all peaches and honey (and every single time they ask first!). It's like some of us haven't learned anything from our collective misadventures in fiat land. I may never use an iPhone but I still #standwithdamus . I might as well let everyone know whenever I'm having a bad time because only then I'll know who my real friends and supporters are


High time-preference + low empathy = a bad time. Fortunately, those can be fixed if people choose to


Good morning!

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


He earned his stripes doing this with real estate. The shoe fits


🤡 LOL 🤡
Let's foment a race war instead of taking responsibility


#raspidisrespector 💪💪


It's a start, you can catch up to nostr:npub1meatjvk2zunckg2y5e3gcdf35p3glnrmtqr5zywkuku5nm9sudmstwnglh if you keep practicing


Honestly at this point I hope they all rug if they get approved


True, I've found that bitcoiners have little in common with each other. If there is a group identity, it pretty much stops at "we like the coin." The stereotyping is a very handy litmus test--people in the know realize that there is little consensus amongst bitcoiners


Same, until I found Bitcoin in 2021. Although I still believe that not everyone is going to make it, seeing that there are people in this world who value liberty gives me hope for the future


This is a long form article, you can read it in https://habla.news/a/naddr1qqxnzdesxvmnsdecxqer2df5qgs897t425q7rfzxfae80krpyrm8ulm7cw5yaa5p8nrkq6l4uzrslucrqsqqqa28mh6vf4

We are freedom loving people. Nostr was created for the purpose of providing and protecting freedom. The people who are here, are here because they became aware of the freedom they had lost, and wanted it back. Nostr is free because it is small, but small things that provide something that the world needs have this pesky tendency to grow and become bigger. This is a good thing, but it also means that we need to be careful to not lose the freedom that we have.

## How did we lose our freedom the first time?

It was tempting to blame this all on ads and move on. But that would be a lie. The truth is that we lost our freedom because we gave it away. We gave it away because we were tricked into thinking that we were getting something in return. We believed that the services that we were using were free, but they weren't. We paid for them with our freedom. We paid for them with our privacy. We paid for them with our data. We paid for them with our attention. We paid for them with our time. We paid for them with our lives.

I believe that the average user has very little understanding of the true cost of the services that they use. This was not always the case. There was a time when people understood that if you wanted to use a service, you had to pay for it. You had to pay for it with money. As the Internet grew at a rapid clip, more and more capital was invested into new businesses that competed with the existing ones. Since they had huge amounts of capital, they could afford to offer their services for almost nothing. Eventually, the industry competed the prices to zero. This was the beginning of the end.

After a while, investors generally expect to see a return on their investment. This is a reasonable expectation. The problem is that the only way to get a return on investment when you are not charging for your service is to sell something else. The only thing that these companies had to sell was the data that they had collected from their users. This is when the data economy was born. This is when we lost our freedom.

We did not chose to compete these prices down to zero, but once the prices were there, we did expect them to not go back up. There are very few things as difficult as getting someone to pay for something they have been getting for free. It took a while before anyone noticed that their leverage was gone. Most people still don't know.

The companies building the products knew though. Generally, people are pretty decent at keeping track of where their paycheck comes from. The products changed accordingly, to gather and process more data, to have a better product to sell to the people who were paying the bills.

## How do we keep our freedom this time?

We need to obey the golden rule: "He who has the gold makes the rules". This is the only way to keep our freedom. We need to make sure that the people who are paying the bills are the same people who are using the product. This is the only way to make sure that the incentives are aligned. This is the only way to make sure that the product is built for the users. When we pay for a product with our funds, we become the boss. The people who are building the product have a real incentive to make sure that we are satisfied, because every time we are not, we can take our money elsewhere, which is money out of their pocket.

Saying that users should directly pay for a product is easy. Making it happen is hard. The reason that it is hard is because it is not a simple matter of just charging for the product. The product needs to be built in a way that makes it possible to charge for it. It also requires a mental shift from the users. I do not intend to understate the difficulty of the challenge. I do intend to state that it is a challenge that we must overcome.

Freedom is preserved when those who enjoy it have skin in the game. "Easy come, easy go," as the saying goes. Freedom is not free. It never has been. It never will be. It is a constant struggle. It is a constant battle. It is a constant fight. It is a constant war. Wars are messy and expensive. You do not win a meaningful victory by failing to fight, or by becoming the enemy. You win a meaningful victory by fighting the right fight, and by fighting it the right way.

The Nostr polis needs to have skin in the game. The people shitposting, creating inkblot art, creating lewds (hi Onyx), posting cat pictures, and engaging in heated political discourse over the socialistic direction of certain countries... they need to be the ones guiding the hand of development on Nostr. They are the ones that will bring users to the platform, keep it alive with conversation, and keep it interesting. They are the real value adds to the network. The most technologically perfect communications protocol has absolutely *zero* value if there is no one to use it.

## Freedom is not free

It's a meme at this point, but it's true. Freedom is not free. It is for the do'ers, payers, movers and shakers. It is for the people who are willing to put their money, time, and safety on the line. We do not have to be rich to take that power back. Those days are over. The Internet has democratized the ability to fund and direct things. We can do it a couple of dollars at a time, across thousands of people. The trick is that people have to actually do it. Collectively, as a group.

There is no wrong way to do this, except by not doing it. You can give any amount to anyone creating services and software for Nostr. Yes, it's a great thing to check into whoever you are donating to, make sure they have a good reputation, and see how well funded they already are, and make a choice based on that. It's also OK to just hand the money to a dev because you are a fan. But the most important thing is that you do it. If you don't do it, no one else will. If no one else does it, we will lose our freedom again. If we lose our freedom again, we will have no one to blame but ourselves.

## The future is bright

This is not a criticism of anyone or anything. It is a call for thought, and a reminder of some of the factors that played into how things went down the first time. We are in a unique position to do something about it. We have the technology. We are gaining the people. We have the talent and people high in openness willing to consider new ways. We must find that new way, and rally around it. We must make sure that we do not lose our freedom again. We must make sure that we do not lose our leverage again. We must make sure that we do not lose our power again.


I know, right?


Tangential, but I've even had bitcoiners belittle me for criticizing the healthcare system. Turns out some people in this space want to hear "the right shibboleths," too lmao


They're going to be a slave


Quick reminder you can go and zap developers directly without waiting for the subscription😉


I'm not even on their relay so I can't even tell them to go fuck themselves


tradfi*


Very good point. The freedom tech space must be creative in attaining independence from tradfi. I may be alluding to tools and models that don't exist yet, some of which would use traffic as a stepping stone


I think the ultimate lesson that the value-for-value model teaches us is that art can't be monetized. Years of predatory record deals, government sponsorships, and subsidies from venture capitalists have taught us to believe otherwise. However, I think this a net positive, revealing that bitcoin's incentives shatter illusions brought forth by Keynesian usury
nostr:nevent1qqsvrqh4mgkk7ydqkdszhf7x3mg2c9ueps8fx8lcgzyart5sgxx44zqppamhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt0d5pzqpxfzhdwlm3cx9l6wdzyft8w8y9gy607tqgtyfq7tekaxs7lhmxfqvzqqqqqqyfsk0ag


AI will never replace humans because nature built a better order recogition and conservation system in the form of human brains, long long ago and its effeciencies are proven in the fact we have been walking this planet for over 200,000 years

the energy cost of running AI systems will prove to be what breaks this fanciful theory that humans can be replaced


SHITCOINS


Good idea


The ETF is for people who are too chicken to hold their private keys


You are based


I wonder how many people thought about what could happen if the government puts the screws on the asset managers holding bitcoin, especially if fees spike and price the plebs out of L1 transactions before solid alternatives are made (we need more L2s, Lightning won't cut it in the long term)


Especially the part about (a) mysterious entity(ies) pricing out miners by mining at a loss and sending the difficulty up


"Bitcoin is censorship resistant, not censorship immune. By advocating for the U.S. government to adopt bitcoin, we are playing a game of chicken with the largest economic and military force on this planet, and anyone who believes that we’ll come out of this on the winning side may have overstayed their welcome in la-la land.

Bitcoin may be a trojan horse, except it’s not the horse you think it is. Under the correct circumstances, bitcoin is able to function as a great alternative to CBDCs. You go ahead and open up your wallet app, and here comes the stablecoin monster — built on Bitcoin. Isn’t that just great? Fully censorable, fully surveillable freedom money, but at least we pumped our market cap."

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitcoin-as-a-cbdc


It's like r/buttcoin lmao


I've said it before, and I'll say it again--some people will learn the hard way to value their freedom. No sympathy for the willfully ignorant and arrogant at all

I do think there should be topic-specific relays, though


GM Nostr, don't get captured


Thank you, DarthCoin. You've taught me to defend liberty and sovereignty and to be wary of bitcoin "moderates," as they are helping bitcoin become co-opted by governments, whether they know it or not. Freedom isn't given, it is taken and defended. I wish you a peaceful retirement. Bitcoin delenda est 🫡


I'd go a step further and say that we shouldn't cater to the *willfully ignorant* and should stop making excuses for them. Some "normies" value their liberty and are willing to learn


100%. I think this is one of Nostr's biggest pain points right now and easier key management will be vital in Nostr adoption


This reminds me of nostr:npub1mygerccwqpzyh9pvp6pv44rskv40zutkfs38t0hqhkvnwlhagp6s3psn5p's note from the beginning of this month:
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Freedom tech needs to be completely outside of nation-states' sphere of influence. It's very hard for me to envision a scenario where the state plays ball with bitcoin without co-opting it


What I fear is a precedent being established where bitcoin flows to asset managers and doesn't come out, then holding bitcoin on a balance sheet is levied/disincentivized, driving people towards the ETFs. My concern is about who is holding it, though I suppose that anyone can still mine their blocks and people could not report bitcoin holdings altogether


Another reason why I love what tunestr, Ainsley, and JL have accomplished last week--put together, they earned ~13 million sats while being completely outside of Ticketmaster's usurious system. That company's days are numbered, even if it takes half a lifetime


That's why the I find the fervor around the ETFs really suspect. Why not own the real thing? Why ask for permission to hold it on a balance sheet? More importantly, is this an attempt to co-opt Bitcoin? Honestly think that people who need an ETF to have confidence in bitcoin were never gonna make it


This is the real Christmas gift right here


If he really wanted to stick it to the advertisers, he'd embrace freedom tech like bitcoin. Instead, he's like "banks suck so I'LL be the bank." I'll pray for his fanbase to realize what he's doing


Freedom tools like Nostr vaunt liberty and can resist co-option. It helps me "be the change I want to see"


lol I still remember this from The Boondocks


Are spot ETFs merely dollarized bitcoin?


When exactly?


lmfao, well done


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Wow, I didn't know Sean Lennon liked the coin or the relays


Elizabeth Warren loves this.
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save the environment by doing a bank run near you


i joined nostr today because twitter was down

a beginning of infinity


Welcome to Nostr! This is the tip of the spear for sovereign social media, hope you enjoy it here


Movie idea, John wick goes after everyone on the Epstein list.


Got his ass


Honestly I think Lightning will be used mostly by corps in the future whilst plebs will use a different L2


Few understand


That's how I got force closed this past summer. If there was a way to contact node runners that's more discreet than email, stronger contacts could be easier to hold


Good afternoon, bitcoin users still need more L2s


If Bitcoin does wind up securing the value of 8 billion people, it will need an enormous security budget. If miners earned 2 BTC in fees from blocks at $10M, that would mean miners would earn $1 trillion (dollars) per year. This puts Big Bitcoin on the level of the military, the cost of the banking sector, and energy, all trillion dollar industries, and Bitcoin affects spending in all three.

Consider that Bitcoin is a permissionless network anyone with the hardware and energy for it can join, this could be a Proof of Work-driven wealth redistribution. Mining pools are gonna need scaling layers for payouts, they'll have so many smalltime miners. Imagine if every home in the world could get heat that pays them in the same money they work their job in, earning their share of fees from on-chain activities of all sorts.

HVAC is also a multi hundred billion industry, globally. Bullish on HashVAC, bullish on lower Gini coefficient, bullish on price, bullish on small blocks, bullish on layers.

Hold onto your S9s folks. 10 ksats per year might not sound like a lot right now, especially since pools pay on-chain, but if they were streaming sats and each one were worth $.10, that'd be $1k/yr if the hashrate goes up 10x and the price is $10M. Not nothin on the global scheme of things. Bullish on cold places. Not sure how well absorption chillers work with Bitcoin miners, but there might be something there for warm places, too. Bullish on energy, bullish on humanity.

Now, with all that bullish perspective, know what an on-chain transaction costs in this future in dollar terms?

At 200 sats/vB and $10M BTC, that's $3600 for a channel splice like the kind Phoenix wallet does, which will likely be the most common monetary transaction type on-chain.

We would have to make blocks a thousand times bigger, with the chain growing 100 terabytes per year, to make them cost $3.60, and it'd be questionable if miners will make the same in fees, so raising the block size has never been incentive compatible with miners, and so that won't happen. And the economic nodes are the ones run by degens. So, that whole question is moot. There won't be a Block Size War II, because there is no threat of that changing.

Instead, as responsible adults, we will need to get used to the fact that all the things we like about how we use Bitcoin will change as it grows. The simple mental models will eventually stop working as they don't scale. As sure as a parent comes to terms with how their child grows, how we use and think of Bitcoin will need to change for it to grow. Happy quince, Bitcóin.


Lightning is better for banks than plebs tbh, that's one of the biggest lessons I learned this year. Running Lightning in a sovereign way is a huge mental burden and highly favors custodians, with all of the counterparty risk that comes with them. Really hope people are giving more thought to this instead of yeeting their entire business platform on Lightning

We ABSOLUTELY need more L2s and I'm glad they're being built out as we speak. What are your thoughts on an ecash settlement layer? AFAIK it sounds more like what I thought Lightning would be


The Life of a MaC


Volcarona
https://image.nostr.build/1fefee778c950b1bde1dc4d4f3980b8f3236b5c8c5d90ef78e94eda56b971cfa.jpg


"I was wrong before so I changed my mind"

Being able to do this is legit a super power in an NPC world


Rate my Christmas party outfit 🥳

Say the word without saying the word.

#Bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/2429243e1c720f3db485cc0530d98f80f33923faf08d937469d2818f6d2d4921.jpg https://image.nostr.build/3a06bc9928e2009c10254f0680802f56f47b6872ee41f205084590dd529daf8d.jpg


God I hope they try


FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) will never be possible when the money itself is debased and constantly inflated. #Bitcoin


He's everyone's Secret Santa
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I'm a Braiins advocate


It's wealth transfer to hashers. I should get an ASIC or three


Remember that you can mine their blocks. Eventually you'll have all the sats that Ordigang used to mint inscriptions. Bitcoin prices out rent-seekers


Cantillionaires getting priced out


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

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

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

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

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


Bitcoin is a great way to get called an idiot and a genius by your friends and family on a predictable schedule.


I'm glad my nocoiner friends don't send me FUD


Mine has had issues like this all month. Also I've noticed that every time I've walked into a lobby this yea,r there has been a disgruntled customer wringing their hands about transferring funds. I wonder what could fix this...? 🤔


Anyone willing to barter Nostrica Purple dogtag ?
I lost mine, I feel kinda naked 💜


Fix the family, fix the world.
https://video.nostr.build/0559b13bf5aa8ae72bb929c38506e700b8a01fc4c1f90f8d661c84f4996dd2e9.mp4


$B and Marc Rebillet 🤘


The kids are alright 😊


as they say in Ghana, small small


Dude fuck I forgot to hit you up last month lol I was at Red Rocks


That's not good opsec