If you haven't seen Dirty Coin The Movie, I recommend that you do. For those unfamiliar, it's a bitcoin mining documentary that investigates the often misunderstood industry.

https://www.dirtycointhemovie.com

The film dissects environmental debates, energy consumption myths, and the behind-the-scenes realities of mining operations.

It is beautifully crafted and appeals to a wide audience, not just for its cinematic beauty, but for the compelling story it tells and the thought-provoking issues it addresses.

https://youtu.be/mzw3koyXNS4

I've seen it twice and I'll see it for a third time in November. There are screenings worldwide; here is a schedule if you want to see if there is a screening near you.

🎬 Dirty Coin Upcoming Screenings:

📍 Washington D.C.
🗓 Sept 23, 2024
🎟 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dirty-coin-the-bitcoin-mining-documentary-in-washington-dc-tickets-1002705026727

📍 NYC
🗓 Sept 25, 2024
🎟 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dirty-coin-the-bitcoin-mining-documentary-pubkey-tickets-1014999941147

📍 Baxter
🗓 Sept 28, 2024
🎟 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-mining-conference-minnesota-registration-880150643267?aff=oddtdtcreator

📍 Montreal
🗓 Oct 02, 2024
🎟 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dirty-coin-the-bitcoin-mining-documentary-in-montreal-tickets-1013726833247

📍 Amsterdam
🗓 Oct 08, 2024
🎟 https://lu.ma/hapqmiee

📍 South Carolina
🗓 Oct 17, 2024
🎟 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dirty-coin-the-bitcoin-mining-documentary-tickets-1002460926617

It's so worth a watch, and it won the Best Movie award at the Bitcoin Film Festival in Warsaw earlier this year.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2024/04/24/bitcoin-halving-party-unites-art-and-tech-at-warsaw-bitcoin-filmfest/

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https://youtube.com/shorts/u02AQycCBZk?feature=shared

This is not a paid promotion, I’m just a huge fan of the film!  😁⚡💕

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


Baby runs onto the pitch and gets a red card
 https://t.co/xRINQXszn7 https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1835613482516955136/vid/avc1/720x786/L6UQjphI40nlqRUn.mp4?tag=16


Very soon, hopefully Nostr will have highly private DMs, we already have best-in-class Tor integration, true anonymity, nearly every user has their data distributed across the world.

I think we are on the right path, should not be distracted. #Nostr


Stack on. DCA. nostr:note1jl2hane2mruk5yjjns24vrht42r3du8j3tjfc38d99uww9ay246swcdn2s


By and large Bitcoiners criticize people for being NPCs but, personally, it’s all the people with main character syndrome that scare the shit out of me.


:PepeLaugh:


1. Put the nsec in an NFC tag.
2. Hide the NFC tag in your clothing.
3. When you need to use the account, tap the tag use it.
4. When the app goes to the background, the phone deletes all traces of it.

If somebody confiscates your phone, there will be no trace of your real account.

And now they will think you operate only the decoy account.


Just playing devil's advocate... sometimes I go through dry spells where I don't want to connect with anyone... I'm sure there are others out there with the same sentiment


:Gigachad:


I completely reject the idea of:

Dumb relay, smart client

Why would we want the more powerful hardware that is online all day to be dumb?

It has all the potential to do the computing people want and all day to do it

Instead we want clients to, in real time, digest all these notes and compute them, filter them etc?

Anyway I'm gonna keep making smarter relays


Calling someone “nostrelites” is like holding a sign over your head that reads “I’m a beta submissive zero confidence sheep and I’m proud of it”

Don’t do that. Have some respect for yourself. You don’t need to label anyone to give yourself worth, you’re already worthy.


I'm not familiar with OSM, but Organic Maps has a mobile app that works really well


https://media.tenor.com/3-0Df-t1sJkAAAAC/pakpakthree.gif

Play real sports


Appreciate it


We just released Boltz Client v2.1.6 "Ball still low, pain still high" 😅

Highlights:
* listswaps pagination
* allow specifying all tenant
* track unspent tx outputs in GDK to fix another low-ball related bug

For the full rundown check the release notes: https://github.com/BoltzExchange/boltz-client/releases/tag/v2.1.6


It's amazing that bitcoin exists, and that it continues to work. It's amazing that nostr exists, and that all the stuff that we only dreamed about a few short years ago is being built out before our eyes.

Zaps and splits and eCash and self-sovereign infrastructure and streaming sats and swarm highlights and zapraisers and marketplaces and secure chat and and and. And this is just the beginning. "It's as bad now as it will ever be."

Grateful to be part of it all.


Only tech nerds would get this

https://media.tenor.com/FiXIz-WW9pgAAAAC/hahah-hehehe.gif


What are the fees like?


Ooof, truth hurts


This is what I'm rocking atm

https://image.nostr.build/0332f62659b677035a8f55f21dfbb96239538c0adfeffce5075b37d22361f2cd.jpg


Surely you don't actually believe this?


Need to see more from everyone in this second half


I'd say he inherited this team more than he "built" it... With that said, I do appreciate how Slot's team is more composed. You don't see us as stretched as you did under Klopp


No change in our lineup

https://image.nostr.build/80d990cc60d796076b6037c11a3bdf6503359619744340ac25382bcac0acc19f.jpg

#LFC #Liverpool #PremierLeague


Been thinking about something related and wanted to proposing something the next meetup 😉


What are you listening to while you code?


Inventory velocity rates


The red leather couch 🤌🏻🤌🏻


That's a tough question... I've seen people today their display names... For example "Braydon Fuller [old npub]" but if someone knows your nsec they could always change it


Looks like she has a bidet


:Gigachad:


Saw Berlanga fight live on the Wilder Fury 3 undercard... Was initially super bullish on him because of his KO record but he underwhelmed that night

Hard to bet against Canelo even if he'll be outweighed on fight night

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Saw Berlanga flight live on the Wilder Fury 3 undercard... Was initially super bullish on him because of his KO record but he underwhelmed that night

Hard to bet against Canelo even if he'll be outweighed on fight night

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Saw Berlanga flight live on the Wilder Fury 3 flight... Was initially super bullish on him because of his KO record but he underwhelmed that night

Hard to bet against Canelo even if he'll be outweighed on fight night

nostr:nprofile1qqsqhqffrjl3kcdhrvn3f52fd4tqudeldt6xhjwqnvfqpkhuf8syqfqprpmhxue69uhhyumnd3shjtnxd9shg6npvchxxmmdqyt8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytn0deekzarn9ehhyecpr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ez6ur4vgh8wetvd3hhyer9wghxuet52l3urh who you got?

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still one of my favorite trolls from our teenage youth in the 2016 presidential election https://image.nostr.build/cba898c5ba88d03bcb0128dbeb9faf7a035d4de73c1038d25f0a7f3f6e14b0f4.jpg


Did you eat the cookie though...?


There is no plan art the moment... Create a new npub and secure your nsec key


:LMAO Pepe:


:PepeLaugh:


The ole pull the chair technique, classic strategy


Whoops thought it said 5 words or less


Silk Road > Drugs > Bitcoin > Epiphany


Lurking...


What are books that changed your life?


The biggest takeaway that I got from the Bitcoin meetup yesterday was I've been slacking on my non-KYC stack

Appreciate the discussions nostr:nprofile1qqsv83cj9336755plm3mjvudzzhxtvtxlln0w0cuyuk9cyfqvpmnr4cpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtcprpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuendwsh8w6t69e3xj730q9z8wue69uhkj7r5dd3xg7thxauhvmm6v3jx5emxwenh2dnc0pj8vmehwejkcansdpa8v6rkwphk66nndfjhsutvxs68vur3vdukgtn0de5k7m30ft6mft

#plebchain #growstr


Martin Luther is more like Vitalik, bitcoin like the Catholic Church.


:PepeMoney:


Yes, and donated to his money bombs


:Eye Pepe:


I’ve started a Keet.io room where I’m making available a free pdf of my book, Why Bitcoin, and where we can discuss chapters.

Join us: pear://keet/yrbs8ryp4waqo6n4d7kpznjuqtuimqfiji3c4uwgz5ckzxkgxcsbd57cyotc6p5j5i3y7h9xok59yq678gbkfdoa8h15mcahjn45we569napb7mg


UNIT

https://media.tenor.com/eXWI3XDTIOUAAAAC/g-unit.gif


In her defense, she definitely has a point. Sometimes less is more. I've started unfollowing people that spew out notes and noise


Public WoT relays:

wss://wot.utxo.onewss://nostrelites.orgwss://wot.nostr.partywss://wot.sovbit.hostwss://wot.girino.orgwss://relay.lnau.netwss://wot.siamstr.comwss://wot.sudocarlos.comwss://relay.otherstuff.fyi

These relays should have very minimal amounts of spam <3


https://media.tenor.com/9KBiT4pYDM8AAAAC/gif.gif

I'm coming back from an ACL tear last year and just started playing footy again... Having that as an outlet helps

Will keep you in my prayers


🔥 40K SAT MEME CONTEST 🔥

Satoshis mined from the #Bitcoin network are WILD and untamed, unlike exchange sats 🐯

We wanna spread the message of WILD SATS in a big way, but need your help!

✅ Make sure you're following us
♻ Like/boost this post
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We'll pick three winners:

🏆 = 25K sats
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MEME YOUR 🧡 OUT!


"Where the Wild Sats Are"

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https://image.nostr.build/4a77adf55c08260db0d75f08d11b724c4a0c2aff66c0b00abf7d66f0f041b001.jpg

https://media.tenor.com/WrbE2wl1WW4AAAAC/hat-tip.gif


:PepeLaugh:


A short thread:

https://image.nostr.build/aa14996f047045c0b04523b25ccee1e0d28a544d6592bbaaa036e22793c28504.jpg

#plebchain #growstr #deeznutzstr


Yeah, international breaks suck


:Gigachad:


Greentextbot is life


DN


I've been working on a decentralized electronic voting protocol that's fully peer to peer, eliminates the possibility of electoral fraud or double voting, keeps votes private, and is verifiable by anyone.

It benefits from Nostr relays, and Bitcoin’s clock, and DOES NOT require a blockchain or token.

I would greatly appreciate cypherpunk eyes looking over it before releasing.


:LMAO Pepe:


if you're running a WoT (Web-of-Trust) relay, please let me know. I'd like to compile a list.

wss://wot.utxo.one -  nostr:npub1utx00neqgqln72j22kej3ux7803c2k986henvvha4thuwfkper4s7r50e8
wss://nostrelites.org -  nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424
wss://relay.diegoyegros.com -  nostr:npub1p3rfw7wscmzfn9z3fa74nzgyqe70p57j8mws0e88dh7awjepmzcq7jgxl9
wss://wot.sovbit.host -  nostr:npub1gnwpctdec0aa00hfy4lvadftu08ccs9677mr73h9ddv2zvw8fu9smmerrq

What's a Web-of-Trust relay?

It's a type of relay that anyone can read from, but only certain people can write to. If the owner follows you or one of the people that the owner follows, follows you, then you're considered inside their Web-of-Trust. You can then write to this relay!

Example:

I follow  nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m but I do not follow @billybob.  nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m however does follow @billybob. Therefore, @billybob is allowed to write to my WoT relay.

Even if you're not inside a WoT, you can still use these relays for reading Nostr content. This relay software also fetches and archives content from people inside the WoT automatically. This means users inside the WoT don't even need to choose these relays and write to them for their content to be available on these relays. And then readers can enjoy this content with little to no spam. Cool.


Every atrocity is intentionally caused by government until proven otherwise. Never forget.


https://image.nostr.build/f05d2ec4a40387e9d12ebb4c794efa751b6e0a021038325f97e51e5bcffdf915.jpg

https://media.tenor.com/r8eY2NfumXEAAAAC/thats-the-good-stuff-right-there-matthew-hussey.gif


10,000 hours studying bitcoin > 10,000 hours talking on split screens and at conferences


🔴Difficulty epoch 428
92.67T hashes
An increase of ⬆3.58% to a new all time high difficulty to find a block! https://image.nostr.build/2f2419ab388ed336d30da50f3c024ca711649cd7d1e626fabf301d68572c49f3.jpg


DN?


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https://media.tenor.com/ugqABRny2OMAAAAC/alright-okay.gif


Me too. It's a wonderful thing. It would be a dark world without Bitcoin.

Final note: Long term holders like you and me don't set short term prices. Prices on low time frames are all just algorithms and degen traders who are trying to leverage back and forth. And those traders have been correlating positive Trump sentiment with positive Bitcoin prices recently.

Doesn't affect anything in the long run but its a valuable indicator short term. If Trump had done well we probably would've edged up. I don't make the rules.


+1, writing in Satoshi Nakamoto

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Respect is earned.
This debate has made a clear decision for me.
I'm writing in a vote for Satoshi Nakamoto.


When I hear anyone start talking about sh!tcoins

"QUIET PLEASE" -Donald Trump


Good point regarding Harris exceeding such a low bar

I don't know if I agree with your theory about the bitcoin price since the average American probably aren't hodlers... Either way though, I'm content knowing I can opt out and conserve my work with the most pristine asset ever created


I objectively disagree...Watching Trump at 78 still show conviction and his mental acuity in the face of the moderators trying to set traps shows his resolve

With that said, I agree that neither will solve our countries problems....Hence why I'm buying Bitcoin every hour


According to who? I don't think this at all

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:PepeLaugh:


According to who? I don't this at all

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Oh I got to the "get f-cked" place a few years ago... You can lead a horse to water...


:MJ Stop It!:


nostr:nprofile1qqstu7jjjx6n969erredexq539y2x0f7pks80zxhg9hh8dx8298s3espzdmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ue082mnc8's Sparrow Wallet


#Bitcoin mining is freedom tech.

Nostr is freedom tech.

If you 🧡 freedom:

✅ Give us a follow
♻ Like/boost this post
👇 Drop your favorite freedom tool

We'll be zapping each legend who does 100 sats each and don't wanna stop anytime soon!


Immaculate Mother of God https://image.nostr.build/aadc0074b0a890e7021ef255603205f3694ea5448ad019cbade9263fe698a2cf.jpg


Morning! You still using Flockstr do schedule the monthly meetups? I need to be more consistent on attending


nostr:nprofile1qqsyvrp9u6p0mfur9dfdru3d853tx9mdjuhkphxuxgfwmryja7zsvhqpzamhxue69uhhv6t5daezumn0wd68yvfwvdhk6tcpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctcscpyug needs some competition

https://media.tenor.com/1NjrnFE-s0YAAAAC/move-trending.gif


:Simp Pepe:


According to a report ( https://informaconnect.com/academy/companies-entering-trillion-dollar-club-in-2024/ ), Elon is going to become the world's first trillionaire in 2027. His current net worth is around 250 billion and it's estimated growing at 110%.

Satoshi's estimated bitcoin holdings are around 59 billion. If they became a trillionaire through their bitcoin holdings, it would imply a $909,000/BTC price.

Who do you think will become the world's first trillionaire?

#asknostr #plebchain #1satzappoll


The more time I spend in the meatspace around my normie friends who poo poo Bitcoin and have faith in the government, the more I realize that they aren't my real tribe

Thank God for Bitcoin

Thank God for NOSTR


4) Control your money


No protein??!


Actually have never seen it, but will put it on my list


That feeling when you initiate moving your corn off the exchange (and without fees)

https://image.nostr.build/0bbbd819c6bd49cca44d82145894c35ace4014e9c7b3551bf2f30dc432a90d19.jpg

https://media1.tenor.com/m/olrJuVMndToAAAAC/satisfation.gif

#plebchain #growstr


Prayers up🙏🏼


:PepeLaugh:


"Bro we were just talking about splitting a pizza"
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Https://video.nostr.build/dd8fadf156ba16ef59755e6a908662f96eb8a4d0a4759bedebd7a9c5c50d8cad.mp4


I respect you because you're a bitcoiner 🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻


What's the brand?


:Gigachad:


:MJ Stop It!:


Should be back up!

#noderunners #plebchain #growstr

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Just lost power because of this heat wave

Shutting down Red Lion Universal Bank in the mean time

Please don't force close channels 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

#noderunners #lightning #plebchain

https://amboss.space/node/02139c236e0f8e6b0dd11134ac4e363718e254778792ce3031979f457786405a44


https://media.tenor.com/LyaxqrTqr3gAAAAC/exactly.gif

https://image.nostr.build/9ad753884f3df3c5de9fcd77c2581412fb20f2fbdf1ac978bdbe06b434aa2f4d.jpg


If you're DCA-ing, you're always buying the dip

#plebchain #growstr #dca

https://media.tenor.com/7HUogy7rXs4AAAAC/feel-me-think-about-it.gif


Gotcha...I got the basic Fold debit card but couldn't justify paying the $100 for Fold+


:Simp Pepe:


What platform is this? No fees??!


Boxer briefs


Web of Trust Relay:

This relay looks at who you follow, and who they follow, and saves every note in this trust network automatically.

I added it as my only relay in amethyst and spam is now completely gone.

Anyone in my web of trust can use my relay:

wss://wot.utxo.one

But the much better solution for nostr is to run your own WoT relay

https://github.com/bitvora/wot-relay

ps I'm faster than nostr:nprofile1qqsrhuxx8l9ex335q7he0f09aej04zpazpl0ne2cgukyawd24mayt8gprfmhxue69uhhq7tjv9kkjepwve5kzar2v9nzucm0d5hszxmhwden5te0wfjkccte9emk2um5v4exucn5vvhxxmmd9us2xuyp


Challenge accepted Reply Guy.


Check them out and if you decide to sign up feel free to use this invite (or don't...I don't enjoy people spamming me so I totally understand 😅)

https://river.com/signup?r=TAANDZKH


How about nostr:nprofile1qqsrtv3u6qkj6a09tnhr3l0wy67g9uw3t57ftqyqpvztpk3wmd6306spzdmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ue0tsdfc0? I want to say they're sub 1% fee... No fees after 1 week of you DCA


That fee percentage is double a service like nostr:nprofile1qqsvn0dkjt80raqrxd470c98n7zrdehmcvj6p5hgw3kyku6zyd8z0fqpzdmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ue0t0hd0d... Have you thought switching? More sats for you


:PepeLaugh:


Followers are their dopamine hits.
Sad but true


Bye replyguy.

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Who are the peasants in your meme?


The price of Bitcoin is reflected by the value assessed by the people that have it, and, WANT IT THE LEAST.

It is not a measure of adoption, just a partial indicator - eg a historical look at cycle lows can give some indication. You can never see adoption in today's price.

It's also important to understand the price is not a justification for the validity of a token to compete as money.

No matter what price a shitcoin may achieve, or the returns it has provided, you should never use that to justify its existence. High price scams are successful scams, and will all eventually fail as money.

Similarly, you should not use Bitcoin's price as justification for it being the best money contender.

So how is adoption measured if it is not with price? Fundamentally, adoption is the size of the network of people preferring to receive Bitcoin as payment for their time and labor, in terms of the portion of that payment they wish to keep as their savings in Bitcoin, rather than convert back to their local government shitcoin... This is not something that can be easily measured and it is not seen with clarity in the price.

By the way you should also not use the price of a shitcoin to attack it, because then you are supporting the idea that price can be used to assess if something is a scam or not.


nostr:nprofile1qqs8k0mcqd6sw3h524qn5gslszt9am9knmes3uh268dgnnpv3yfwj6qpzamhxue69uhky6t5vdhkjmn9wgh8xmmrd9skctcppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qyw8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68yttsw43zuum9d45hxmmv9ejx2a30y7ph8a I like your world view... Do you have a list of books that helped shape it?


Peoples' manners while shopping in Costco are sh!tcoins, but the membership pays for itself... Allows me to buy more corn


There is a surge of business bitcoin adoption happening, including 1000+ companies on River.

We're proud to present our new report: Why Business Bitcoin Adoption Grew by 30% in 1 Year.

In this report:
- An overview of business adoption so far
- Where adoption stands today by all publicly available information
- Case studies of 7 companies using bitcoin
- Why business treasuries today lose value
- Bitcoin's role as a treasury asset
- River-specific insights
- How businesses are using bitcoin for payments

If you'd like to help us spread business bitcoin adoption, please share this with business owners you know!

You can find the report here: https://blog.river.com/business-bitcoin-adoption-2024/


:Gigachad:


CONGRATS!


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I really enjoyed interviewing nostr:npub1hea99yd4xt5tjx8jmjvpfz2g5v7nurdqw7ydwst0ww6vw520prnq6fg9v2, creator of Sparrow Wallet.

We went deep on this one.

#wallets #freedomtech #privacy #pain

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/print/privacy-and-pain-craig-raw-creator-of-sparrow-wallet-on-self-custody


Hypothetical question, not planning on spending any of it until the next halving


Boosting this for more confirmation... Would any accountants chime in?

#asknostr #plebchain #growstr

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Costco mixed nuts with sea salt


We're not worshiping her, we're praying to her to intercede for us


https://media.tenor.com/ORNRp_g47RUAAAAC/i-remember-this-neo.gif

That's where my npub was born!


💯 agree. And at the same time, I've never had an angel come to me and told me I was blessed amongst men


I understand that completely... My point is I'd feel safer saying screw the IRS if I didn't have to convert back to USD and use those payment rails versus spending it in a district where bitcoin is already legal (and already done my homework of making my stack more private)


EL Salvador is the nuclear option; hence the reason for my question in the first place


Would not renouce citizenship... I wouldn't have to covert back to USD though and took enough privacy precautions with my stack... Doubt the IRS would send someone to reconcile


I feel you 💯% when you say f the IRS, but the reality is I wouldn't want to get audited and fined...

I have thought of options though like relocating to El Salvador


So let's say in a year from now I want to sell more bitcoin, the short term lots that have become the newest long term lots would be sold first, correct?


🤯🤯🤯...Wen Galt's Gultch?

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Hypothetical #asknostr question for accountants:

Let's say I want to sell some of my Bitcoin... My earliest purchases are going to be hard to calculate my cost basis because I didn't keep good records/the platform my now be defunct...

Let's say I want to use LIFO (since I do have better records of my cost basis). I currently DCA hourly so there's this past year's lot of bitcoin that is short term holdings.

The question is can I choose to use LIFO on only bitcoin considered long term holdings?

#plebchain #growstr #accountingstr


Hypothetical #asknostr question for accountants:

Let's say I want to sell some of my Bitcoin... My earliest purchases are going to be hard to calculate my cost basis because I didn't keep good records/the platform my now be defunct...

Let's say I want to use LIFO (since I do have better records of my cost basis). I currently DCA hourly so there's this past year lot of bitcoin that is short term holdings.

The question is can I choose to use LIFO on only bitcoin considered long term holdings?

#plebchain #growstr #accountingstr


Jabroni


Those words are directly from the Bible

So
https://media.tenor.com/zIEZWjIY_XgAAAAC/shut-your.gif


:Gigachad:


Bitcoin art in takes over🙌🏽

#bitcoin #streetart
https://m.primal.net/KaWe.jpg


Wall Street will be closed for Labor Day


⚡PlebLab had two major releases in August.

The first one was Startup Day in Mexico City, where we will be introducing a whole new slate of Bitcoin companies to a new audience. While kicking off a brand new Bitcoin startup ecosystem down there.

The second one was PlebTV, our first Bitcoin only software platform that we released entirely ourselves in house.

These are both super special releases to my heart and I am grateful for all the support from the builders in the lab, plebs and founders giving me great advice along the way.

Proud to say PlebLab collectively continues to make significant contributions to the ecosystem while maintaining steady sats flow on a micro budget.

Talking with my sister today realized 😝 I might be the only CEO in the game who takes the public bus to work and gets paid nothing to do what he loves everyday. (humble beginings she said)

Looking forward to all the new challenges I will face again in September, and the knowledge God will give me to solve them.

God has blessed me with incredible resilience, creativity, love for others and tenacity. Grateful for the opportunities ahead.

If your building something epic, find me.

Bitcoin only,
🤙onward


CITIZENFOUR? ...was a great documentary with the real time footage


Citizen Four? ...was a great documentary with the real time footage


Tri-tip?


GIFBUDDY UPDATE!

- Add your own gifs with uploads
- Load more gifs to find what you want
- Faster gif loading
- Less memory intensive on the server

MORE GIFS, YOUR GIFS, FASTER
https://media.tenor.com/2nIE5QDDMkoAAAAC/austin-powers-yeah.gif

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Took one today since I didn't sleep strait through the night, felt good


:PepeLaugh:


Ranch covered chicken nugget between some fudge striped cookies

https://media.tenor.com/3hpmO6YbGj4AAAAC/hmmmmmm-very-interesting.gif


This was NgU's guide for auto rebalancing back in the day, prolly still relevant

https://twitter.com/CryptoSharks131/status/1490409704735973377


This was NgU guide for auto rebalancing back in the day, prolly still relevant

https://twitter.com/CryptoSharks131/status/1490409704735973377


My reaction was a mix of:
https://media.tenor.com/_hLOQx93h_QAAAAC/wtf-gif.gif
and
https://media.tenor.com/wXpOrZ9UAtsAAAAC/good-job-awesome.gif


MOTM so far:

https://media.tenor.com/QpVtDe4d628AAAAC/casemiro-fred.gif

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I had a very productive meeting with a friend last night. We discussed Trump at the bitcoin conference, Lumis, all of the "bitcoiners" around Trump, the sudden about face of Jamie Diamon on bitcoin and the "defection" of Kennedy.

Why is Trump committed to making energy so abundant? It all points to one thing.
Trump was chosen by the deep state to squash bitcoin. He is pacing and leading on the topic and when he is selected into office he will make many announcements that bitcoiners will get very excited about. Legislation and executive orders will be passed, but they all are designed to poison the well.

* Free energy is bad for bitcoin.
* Controlling semiconductor fabs by bringing them into the US, is bad for bitcoin.
* Incriminating stablesats (something Strike does) is bad for bitcoin.

What do I mean by bad for bitcoin? I mean it slows adoption. Price action, even if you see as irrelevent, is a major orange-pilling force.

The price of bitcoin during this and past epochs is closely tied to its cost of production. At least part the cost of production is set by the average cost of electricity to produce blocks. Ultimately, the base price of bitcoin is calculable by the amount of profitable mining equipment, operational expenses, the current hashpower and the average cost of mining pool energy. Make electricity 1/10th the cost and the cost of fresh bitcoins at least gets cut in half. Hashpower and difficulty is not determined by the price of electricity, but by the trading price of bitcoin and the semiconductor fab bottleneck. The amount of energy expended per block is determined by the amount of profitable equipment is in existence. Therefore free energy is bad for bitcoin.

Incriminating stablesats is bad for bitcoin adoption, and goos for the dollar. Stablesats enables the bitcoin network to piggyback on the unit of account in existing jurisdictions. This means you can send and recieve bitcoin over the lightning network with a stablesats partner with instant settlement and no counterparty risk AND without needing to track your buy and sale price of bitcoin. No capital gains taxation involved. This makes stablecoins, which are backed by fiat, obsolete. As you should already know, stablecoins are partnered with central banks and the treasury of the state. They are merely another parallel central bank. Stablesats breaks central banking because a stablesat bitcoin lightning channel or stablenut mint is backed only by bitcoin and adjusts purely on market oracles. No dollars or government issued treasuries are involved.

In summary; When Trump stood in front of the shitcoin conference (evidenced by the croud cheering at firing Gensler) and the repeated "bitcoin and crypto" phrase, then he closed by telling us to "have fun playing with your bitcoin and crypto"; he revealed his intent. He is pacing and leading because he wants to lead the bitcoin movement. Why? In order to control it. He wants to control it because Bitcoin is bad for the government, it takes power away from it. Trump knows the fiat dollar is the US government's greatest source of strength both  abroad and domestically. Trump has said he "likes the dollar" when asked about bitcoin. Trump is now surrounding himself with bitcoiners, and creating bitcoiners-in-name-only like Diamon.

Can Trump be trusted to force power from hands of congress, the deep state, intelligence and surveillance agencies and the military industrial complex? Are you delusional? The "Art lf the deal" guy, the one who coined the phrase "you can only negotiate from a position of strength" is going to lay down arms? I think not.

God Bless


On the list, heard good things


:peepoClap:


First real test for Arne Slot #LFC #Liverpool

https://image.nostr.build/77339886ce22ab9993b09909fd955dcc955706b098d7feaecdc77bbf6f17d201.jpg


Be aware of your negative self-talk, anon. When you make a mistake, be kind to yourself. You deserve it. 🫶


:vibePls:


PSA: for all those who haven't heard and communicate in GIFs, nostr:nprofile1qqstuu6ccnl9q9yvejhuqt4zqhvqz30z2wyf4gu43k404p3hq37ggrspz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduqs6amnwvaz7tmwdaejumr0dsq32amnwvaz7tm9v3jkutnwdaehgu3wd3skueq4kymtq's gifbuddy.lol is so simple... Searchfor GIF, click on GIF, paste into note

Install as a PWA

#plebchain #growstr


Influencers 🤣🤣🤣🤮🤮🤮


Sure, maybe...I love the confidence and genuinely jealous of it... I'm just hoping you show some humility when you put things into perspective


But without Satoshi you wouldn't be retired, right?


And had He stayed dead, He would have been long forgotten...

“And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins.”

–Paul the Apostle of Jesus Christ
1 Corinthians 15:17

https://ref.ly/1Co15.17 via the Logos #Bible Android app.

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Proverbs 16:8

Better is a little with righteousness
than great revenues with injustice.

#bible #biblestr


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

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

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

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

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

And all they did was click to copy #gifs

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


:Gigachad:


Node runners realizing that this one #zapathon post will make more sats than they will in a week

https://media1.tenor.com/m/a-qxdv8yjaIAAAAC/nah-nope.gif


Dirty Coin heads to D.C
Please help me spread the word.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dirty-coin-the-bitcoin-mining-documentary-tickets-1002705026727?aff=oddtdtcreator


Smdh


Look, ma, I'm famous! Nostriches really gonna push this to the top of the charts nostr:npub1yfg0d955c2jrj2080ew7pa4xrtj7x7s7umt28wh0zurwmxgpyj9shwv6vg 🔥
Love you wierdos ✌
https://image.nostr.build/1da278495b8d0a52e47c8baeed68aa01915a411427fd275d7db3cd642afdc54b.png
https://wavlake.com/track/91110a7e-4103-4343-81e0-0d237b2f1229
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What's for dinner?

#ribstr #foodstr #dinstr #growstr

https://image.nostr.build/ed18ba0ef808eaf19dc35a30d1235fd1226889cfeb1ffd1dc4dedf85e9e90f7f.jpg


Never seen that, thanks... So true though about the trumpet section, out of this 🌎


My favorite Outkast song of all time... So chill


Want to CoinJoin over NOSTR relays?

https://joinstr.xyz/


Technical analysis, AKA astrology for men


https://x.com/hartgoat/status/1827838041769357354 based lol. Def a useless heifer


:PepeLaugh:


Great article from well known cryptographer Matthew D. Green about Telegram per recent events

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2024/08/25/telegram-is-not-really-an-encrypted-messaging-app/


Curate agressively and regularly who you follow and unfollow.  You are the alg here - you are in-charge of your own feed quality.


Living organic


#BitAxe is anarchy in the #Bitcoin mining industry. The anarchy “A” in our brand symbolizes:

•No hierarchies.
•Non compliance.
•True decentralization.
•Freedom.
•Inclusion.

Global hash rate distribution has commenced. The open source mining ideology will never die. The miners of last resort will ensure freedom money prevails for the future inheritors of the world
https://m.primal.net/KITH.jpg


Don't care, tbh


That's what happens when you grow up in a society too worried about being politically correct


:Simp Pepe:


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

Fountain 1.1 with #nostr is now live on iOS and Android!

Why Nostr?

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

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

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

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

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

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


Not anymore...unless you spend a certain amount of money for the Fold+ subscription you can't make enough sats to pay for the membership


:Gigachad:


Something I’ve thought about a lot in the past couple of years:

Money is the one good that every single person uses. It’s one half of nearly every trade.

As long as the price of money is set by a centralized entity, a true free market is fundamentally impossible, because every transaction is influenced by price controls.

I literally just had to pull the car over to start writing: while listening nostr:npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe describe “lightbulb moments” (in the context of free markets and deflation), a lightbulb — call it a zap — struck me profoundly…

Unlike the fiat system, Bitcoin IS a free market for money. Meaning that in Bitcoin terms, “half the equation” is already resolved into a deflationary free market system. Even with governmental price controls on many products, because of how radically free Bitcoin is, it completely changes the nature of the trade.

What clicked for me was this: Bitcoin exists — it’s already here — meaning that, humans already, here and now, have the choice to operate/participate in a free market, where prices fall forever.

It’s not “when we reach hyperbitcoinization” or “when Bitcoin is legal tender” or “when adoption happens on XYZ level” (although all off those help to can grease the wheels). It’s already here, if you CHOOSE to measure in Bitcoin.

No joke, my mind was blown so fully that I had to pull over so that I could write this stuff down. Now that I did, I realized it belongs on Nostr 🫡

Back to the drive, and to the podcast. Thanks for keeping my wife and I company, nostr:npub1cj8znuztfqkvq89pl8hceph0svvvqk0qay6nydgk9uyq7fhpfsgsqwrz4u  and Jeff 🙏🔥

https://fountain.fm/episode/nvE4MO4qv2SB4q9ZcItK


High time preference


Right. But you're saying you would retire at this moment on ~3 Bitcoin? I don't believe you


Please explain


All virtue is integral. You cannot take just one piece of it without the others, otherwise you end up with vice.

Prudence, or low time preference behavior, must be integrated with fortitude and justice, otherwise you just become a miser.
Fortitude, or courage, without prudence or temperance turns you into a degenerate gambler.
Justice without fortitude or temperance turns you into a keyboard warrior who never acts.

Seek virtue as a whole, not just the part that happens to be useful to you right now.


:LMAO Pepe:


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

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

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

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


The Assumption of Virgin Mary

👸⬆☁✨


Proof of work 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🤌🏻🤌🏻🤌🏻


nostr:nprofile1qqsqhqffrjl3kcdhrvn3f52fd4tqudeldt6xhjwqnvfqpkhuf8syqfqpr9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezu7n9vfjkget99e3kcmm4vsq3vamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwdehhxarj9e5kuen0qyw8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68yttjv4kxz7fwwak8vuewwdcxzcm9yjetjc nostr:nprofile1qqs8x0z5yl64e6aqrg8kvpatplg3sv4mkf7hmvtm2u88adak3gypmxspr3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmqprdmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuumhd9ehxtt9de5kwmtp9e3ksqg6waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxummnw3exjcmgv4ejummjvuz99cj0 don't think Virgil did enough... Such an entertaining fight though... Hats off to both, would love to see it again


4 real... Great fight so far, both fighters are game


Virgil getting after it immediately

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STEPH CURRY


Behind the back, fade away dagger 🤯🤯🤯


USA 🥇
https://v.nostr.build/p94YHLULlGDBfWmr.mp4
https://i.nostr.build/vnAkkQNddif4B67u.jpg


Please do not be a simp for politicians!
FUCK'EM'ALL


here for free sats


:PepeLaugh:


It was trash for a finale, be honest


:Gigachad:


Mary, Queen of Heaven & Earth, pray for us!

#Mary #HolyMother #BTC #Zap⚡ #Nostr #JulianAssangeIsFree 🔥 #God #Trump #Prayer #USA 🇺🇲

https://image.nostr.build/11e2747d417e662ed5e26b9fb1659dad1dd36ab941554609987f89d70087dc2b.jpg


The only time I've ever donated to a politician was Ron Paul, way ahead of his time


That eyebrow though

https://media1.tenor.com/m/YpcIZFgyptoAAAAC/the-rock.gif


Great orange pill for the normies


Some of ya'll need to read this a couple of times

https://blossom.oxtr.dev/f3fa47ce9af0ee2aa44d00d676a7699fe28d5f3ecb3845aeb147e6a8e90c7af1.jpeg


Bitcoin, not crypto


😭😂
https://image.nostr.build/1a938006420bd17f138d7b00b0c1f009e88e177668b4b6c0b4e89c5db2ff5eee.jpg


Donald Trump spent less than 5 minutes preparing for this speech.

He doesn’t know us…


BITCOIN 👏 CONFERENCES 👏 DO 👏 NOT 👏 REPRESENT 👏 BITCOIN

IF A CONFERENCE SHAKES YOUR CONFIDENCE IN BITCOIN, YOU'RE IN IT FOR THE WRONG REASONS


Has anyone tried the Stamet Stack regimen? Any positive feedback? #asknostr #microdose


They charge extra for them... Unless your stewardess hooks you up


Congrats!


Any politician: Elect me and I'll fix all the problems

Me:
https://tenor.com/view/donald-trump-wtf-yeah-ok-gif-12803988


Moving your #bitcoin into self custody is great feeling

https://media1.tenor.com/m/_LrkimwtigUAAAAC/oh-yeah-oh-yeah-gif.gif


Today's mentality:
Fail harder! 🔥


Arthur Hayes' Maelstrom Fund Launches Bitcoin Developer Grant Program

"Maelstrom, like other companies in the space, indirectly relies on the work of open-source Bitcoin developers. We are therefore keen to give back and donate to the Bitcoin technology, on which the crypto ecosystem depends."

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/arthur-hayes-maelstrom-fund-launches-bitcoin-developer-grant-program/


Today is finally here, with the release of the 0xchat v1.3 beta version.

### Major Feature Updates:
1. Added NIP-29 public/closed groups, supporting group notes.
2. Private group chats now use the NIP-17 chat room implementation.
3. Added DM inbox relays setting.
4. Added P2PK option for sending ecash via wallet.
5. Support for file server selection, including custom NIP-96 and Minio server.
6. Chat messages now support reactions and zaps.
7. Adopted the new NIP-51 list standard, including blocklist, channel list, and relay group list.

### Other Updates:
1. Added one-tap zap.
2. Profile settings now include an npub.cash address prompt.
3. Added local note drafts.
4. Support for naddr and nevent notes.
5. Optimized image viewing animations.
6. Moment feed now includes contact and follows options.
7. Pull down to load new notes.
8. Notifications for mentions.
9. Optimized video viewing.
10. Notes now have a "More options" menu for sharing, copying note IDs, etc.

Of course, there are also performance optimizations and many bug fixes. I believe it's now much smoother. If not, feel free to call me out.

**Warning:** The relay group is still in the testing phase. Both the client and server might have many bugs, and your group messages might be lost. Please use it for testing purposes only.

iOS TestFlight version: https://testflight.apple.com/join/AjdJFBmU

Android APK version: https://github.com/0xchat-app/0xchat-app-main/releases/download/v1.3.0-beta/v1.3.0-beta.apk


how the rich wash their money via PAC:

elon musk donates a lot to a PAC.
then the PAC uses the money to advertise on X.com

money is washed back to the donator


:Gigachad:


Is your assumption that all popes are saints?


What are you using?


Pray the Rosary everyday

#God #Prayer #USA #BTC #Zap⚡#Nostr #JulianAssangeIsFree

https://image.nostr.build/1e2de232c933064c3603e9502a77a4cbb9d6b044ee7b8d838c5cd3a05d121954.jpg


:PepeLaugh:


Bitcoin vs ethereum https://image.nostr.build/d2c41cabff0d58c6d102c6fe0d334dadfcfbf228729f268c46d251683bb52e01.jpg


BRÆKING: BIDEN PROPOSES SAVING DEMOCRACY WITH BATTLEBOTS, THE GREATEST COMPETITION OF ALL TIME.
https://m.primal.net/JRHC.mov
https://m.primal.net/JRHD.jpg


Any guides?


:vibePls:


Parman on the "shocking" revelation that Bitcoin is not money. Hear me out...

Bitcoin is a money CONTENDER. What it currently is is a barter token competing to be money. It's the best one, the leading one, and it's inevitable that it will win and be the ONLY money (there may be some minimal bartering going on at the irrelevant fringes).

For Bitcoin to be money, there needs to be no (or minimal) barter in the social economy in question (the world). The world is currently bartering fiat monies (with fiat MONEY within each country, roughly speaking), and the closest thing to world money is USD. You can't have multiple monies in a system, that's barter.

The purpose of Bitcoin is not to end 3rd-parties and custodians (retail/commercial banks) - it's to end CENTRAL banks (the control and manipulation of money).

Eliminating 3rd-party and trust, as Satoshi discussed, is related to someone being trusted in controlling who owns what money in the SYSTEM, about what is true, to avoid double-spending (The Byzantine General's problem).

Proof of work and the time-chain combined with algorithmic rules about which state is valid is how he solved this - it has nothing to do with accounts and custodians HOLDING money on behalf of others (as BCashers will have you believe for their own purposes).

We actually NEED banking as a service in society, otherwise we aren't freeing our time to specialise. With money, we don't have to be our own baker, or dentist, or farmer... or banker.

Specialising is risky in the absence of a money economy because we don't know if we can buy all the things we want/need with our output; we have to barter. Money solves that so we can specialise risk-free and increase our output. When everyone does that, humanity flourishes. So it's counter productive for a money society to advocate that people should be their own banks. Instead, Bitcoin allows us to be our own bank, or someone else's, should we choose to, with no barrier to entry. THAT is what fixes banking - it fixes that they have a monopoly. We don't need to eliminate banking, that's outrageous.

Banking is hard. Not only does it help people to have specialised services to secure what they own (which they can do in a trust-distributed way, OR on their own if they think it's necessary), but banking also efficiently brings lenders and borrowers together (fractional reserve is another topic, and which Bitcoin makes honest, doesn't totally eliminate, and doesn't need to 100% - a rant for another day).

Central banking is arguably the greatest scam and scourge on Humanity there ever has been, and needs to be destroyed. A totally different thing to retail banking which needs to be FIXED not eliminated. Bitcoin does this.

If you want to know more about the Byzantine General's problem solution...

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/the-problem-with-money-explained


Help a nostrich out #prayerchain
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Sending prayers 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼


- Intercept an HTLC on your routing node
- notice that your channel has insufficient balance and the forward will fail
- while the HTLC is held, rebalance your channel using an atomic ecash swap with your channel peer
- continue forwarding the HTLC

near-instantly

🥜🤝⚡


Yeah, it's nice not having to install an extension


Layers are the only way to scale a networking system. Every previous monetary and networking structure in history has done this same thing.

There is no reason L2 or L-whatever has to be an IOU. Sure people will use them because trust is the foundation of society. There isn’t anything wrong with IOUs, the problem is **systemic, fraudulent IOUs** that are counterfeit into the market indistinguishable from the money itself.

Fractional reserve is a systemic structure of our money. Fractional reserve in a bitcoin world is explicitly external to the money. MtGox was fractional reserve. FTX was fractional reserve.

It’s not a matter of “we’re gonna get fractional reserve.” We’ve had it from the very beginning, and we have seen the results 100 times. They implode and go out of business. The systemic problem of fiat is that they do NOT impose, but grow like a cancer because the money itself is cheated to keep them alive.

In short, your concerns are not really relevant, because the base layer is always present to prove existence, validity, and ownership of bitcoins. That will make it behave like a global decentralized incorruptible court for who owns what.

Thus we will extremely likely (and are already doing) build 10,000 networks *on top* of #Bitcoin.

But there are a literally limitless number of way to extend the trust of the base layer, up to any and all other layers. Ark is a great example, all transactions off chain, every single user has unilateral exit ability.

Bitcoin will have no problem scaling because it’s an open, permissionless protocol. The base layer simply needs to be reliable, solid, and radically neutral, and there will be nothing that we cannot do with it.

Human ingenuity doesn’t have a hard cap.


I'd be open to a 5mil/5mil channel... Let me know and we can coordinate a BOS channel open

https://amboss.space/node/02139c236e0f8e6b0dd11134ac4e363718e254778792ce3031979f457786405a44


I’m calling it, the loser of tonight’s debate was….me for giving it one ounce of my attention.


They’re both entirely incoherent. This is a sad farce. What a mess.


The end ! 🇺🇸 it was a pleasure to knowing you🫡


RFK


Done. I feel dirty now


I’m at an airport in Japan what did I miss?

Nothing?!

Cool!


:PepeLaugh:


:Gigachad:


real decentralize mean user(s) need run own shit in self-custody cannot piggyback on others
80% are laser eyed barkers not even running nodes. what do u expect.


Welcome to the club


:peepoClap:


Not enough people like this these days


Hi y'all !

Long time lurker, first time poster, I am very pleased to finally annonce Satonomics (https://satonomics.xyz) ! 🎉

Which I've been building full-time since November 2023 and started looong before

In short: FOSS Glassnode (https://glassnode.com)

In long:

Satonomics is an open-source suite of tools that computes, distributes, and displays on-chain data, making it freely available for anyone to use.

While mempool.space gives a very micro view of the network this tool is the exact opposite and very complimentary by giving you a more global/macro view of the flow and various dynamics of the network.

It doesn't matter who you are and what you want to do with the data, I strongly believe and it is very important that anyone should have a full and free access, be able to verify and visualize any kind of data from the network. And so you'll find many many charts (and soon dashboards), or routes through an API (if you prefer it raw) to do anything; from doing a health-check, gain insight into the current or past state of the network or even trading, I don't care, do what you want !

I realize it's not as exciting as ecash and nostr/bitcoin tools but it is something that needed to be done. We can't have fiat-minded 700$/m closed tools like Glassnode being the go to.

Warning: very early and very alpha, things might break and the data might be false (and I'm 100% positive that some datasets are)

Anyway, enjoy and let's keep building ! 🔨


:PepeMoney:


Needed this 🤌🏻🤌🏻🤌🏻


:Math Pepe:


Deserved it


TANK DAVIS


#Bitcoin will be spent by people who need to spend it.

#Bitcoin will be hoarded by people who prefer to hoard it.

If you prefer to transact in #Bitcoin, even if you don't need to, that's because you want to be part of the borderless, permissionless economic zone(s) being created in parallel to the permissioned economic institutions of today.

I know what economic zone I want to proliferate in, but I wont admonish someone for wanting to use their Bitcoin differently.

It's antithetical to our mission of creating the largest voluntary economy in human history.

This is why I don't cry about blockspace usage, this is a free market - deal with it, stop crying.


What's the opposite of an influencer? I want to be that.


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And Benavidez is always entertaining


☝🏻... At least they saved face from getting swept


Looks super clean


I'm at 10 months post op... Wishing you the best of luck


Open-source development is the backbone of the #Bitcoin  ecosystem.

We made an overview of 115 open source projects 👇

It highlights the work of brilliant developers that are working on something much greater than themselves 🙏
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peepoClap


yes


PepeLaugh


:Gigachad:


:PepeLaugh:


My DCA caught it


I continue to work on my hedgehog protocol and I've figured out how to add some cool features to it. I wrote a "bridge server" which helps "translate" hedgehog payments into lightning payments, and it works right now, which means a hedgehog wallet can pay regular lightning invoices. I also added support for something I call "unilateral channels."

What that means is, someone can be fully offline, not even talking to you, not even aware of you, and if you have their pubkey you can send them $100 in bitcoin (for example) in such a way that they "receive" it in a new hedgehog channel. You just use their pubkey to create a multisig and fund it with the $100, then send them a string of text containing signatures for the "force closure" transactions that they need in case they have to unilaterally exit from the multisig. Then, whenever they next get online, they can paste that string into their wallet and instantly start using the money in their (already confirmed!) new hedgehog channel to make hedgehog payments and lightning payments.

You you could also use the unilateral channel feature to "make up" a bunch of keypairs, get some business cards, print out channel opening/closing information on the business cards (using the pubkeys from each of the keypairs you made up to create the multisigs), fund the multisigs yourself, and then "gift" them to people by just handing them the business card. Each recipient gets a new, prefunded hedgehog wallet with full support for sending and receiving lightning payments, with two simple steps: (1) visit a webpage (or download an app) that runs hedgehog wallet software and (2) scan the qr code to import the channel data.

All of these features have some interesting side effects. For example, since you can receive money into a new hedgehog channel without being online, you can keep your private keys fully offline in an airgapped hardware wallet, and whenever you want to send money over hedgehog or lightning, you can just prepare the transaction in your software wallet, encode it as a series of several psbts, pass those to your hardware wallet for signing, and let your software wallet send the newly signed transactions to the bridge server.

You could also *receive* money over lightning into a separate hot wallet, and regularly withdraw it to a cold hedgehog wallet by using your hardware wallet to individually sign the various transactions that are involved in receiving lightning payments and revoking old state (but this requires implementing support for receiving lightning payments on hedgehog, which I haven't done yet -- see below).

I am currently working on a feature that I call "virtual channels" which allow you to make a unilateral channel without going on chain. This lets you cheaply give people hedgehog channels that "fully" work, with the tradeoff that you (the sender) have a copy of this virtual channel's private keys, so you have custody of the recipient's funds. But the channel works just like a regular hedgehog channel, with the same interface, its own balance, full support for sending and receiving hedgehog payments, and sending lightning payments. So it's sort of like you're hosting an lnbits wallet for someone, only with hedgehog's ability to effectively emulate asynchronous payments. Which means you don't need a server to host this software, a regular phone or even a web browser should work fine, because you don't need to be online all the time, only the bridge server does.

Once virtual channels are ready I want to add support for "receiving" lightning payments into a hedgehog channel. I wrote up a specification for it here (https://github.com/supertestnet/hedgehog-advanced) but I haven't implemented it yet. Once that is done I think hedgehog will be ready to implement in a "real" wallet. It will have so many cool features:

- keep your keys airgapped and still (a) send hedgehog payments (b) receive hedgehog payments (c) send lightning payments (d) regularly withdraw lightning payments from a "hot" wallet into .your airgapped hedgehog wallet without needing to do any base layer transactions

- if exchanges like kraken or swan add support for hedgehog, any user who has monthly or weekly autobuy enabled could receive these regular purchases of bitcoin directly into a hedgehog wallet -- hot or cold -- and be able to spend the money on lightning or hedgehog as soon as it confirms, without needing to come online til they want to actually spend the money

- if you are sending someone money and your recipient is *on*line, you can use a hedgehog wallet as a regular lightning wallet

- if your recipient is *not* online, you can pay them by making a unilateral channel for them on the base layer, and to do that you just need to be willing to pay a base layer tx fee and know one of their pubkeys (technically that part is optional, as you can just make up a keypair for them -- though I personally wouldn't trust a keypair that some rando made up for me and I would sweep all funds from such a channel whenever I next got online)

- if your recipient is not online and you don't want to incur a base layer fee, you can make a "virtual" (i.e. custodial) unilateral channel for them and deposit whatever amount you want to pay them into that. You can then send them its details and go offline, and they can sweep it whenever they next get online, without any further help from you (i.e. you don't need to be online when they sweep the funds! They just need the bridge server to be online)

- this emulates asynchronous lightning payments pretty effectively, without the need for the sender to run a server or rely on a third party custodian. But there is a "first party" custodian -- the sender retains custody of the funds in a virtual channel until the recipient sweeps them. And there is a third party bridge server, who can censor payments, though if that happens, the sender can just retry with a different bridge server and stop using the old one

- it also emulates "pull" payments, which are useful for subscriptions. If you want to subscribe to twelve months of bitflix, you can send bitflix twelve virtual channels where each one has a timelock on the virtual channel opening transaction. This effectively means that the first virtual channel cannot be used til 1 month goes by, the second one cannot be used til 2 months go by, etc. As each timelock expires once per month, a single virtual channel becomes usable each month. This allows bitflix to sweep funds from one channel per month, thus "pulling" pre-authorized funds from your wallet according to a predetermined schedule

- if you ever want to cancel such a subscription, just make a new transaction with the bridge server overwriting all the remaining virtual channels you gave to bitflix. The bridge server will then stop treating the virtual channels as valid, because they can no longer redeem the money in them even if it comes to their side of the virtual channel, so bitflix can't use them anymore either, and thus your subscription is effectively canceled

- all of this can work just fine today without waiting for bitcoin *or* lightning to upgrade -- which I think is just amazing!


Sauna, never enjoyed humidity


:Naruto Pepe:


Praying for your family, may her soul rest in paradise


Random idea: pick one month out of the year - say - July … and work on nothing but client interoperability to make sure things work across all major clients.


Kyrie and Luka need to drop 25+ for Dallas to even have a chance...🧹🧹🧹 incoming


Also ESPN is the sh!tcoin of NBA broadcasts, no one is trying to listen to Doris Burke comment on basketball

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I remember getting two stimmies, $1400 and $1200 and they were immediately converted to bitcoin... Was a no brainer

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There are always many things you can do with your time, but implementing silent payments (https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0352.mediawiki) for Core Lightning is rising in my to-do list.

Unfortunately, we are all PSBT internally, so we need support so we can receive, which the authors argue (sensibly) should be the first priority for wallets. There's a delving post on this, so I did my bit by annoying Ava Chow into looking at it. We can probably hack in some experimental thing if we need for now, but proper support on libwally would smooth the path for Blockstream Green in future, which frankly is a much bigger win than CLN support.

Looking forward to the day when they're not "silent payment addresses" but simply "Bitcoin addresses".


Bitcoin doesnt NEED a fork.  At least not right now.

There are certain future attacks that could be mitigated with a fork, but that also introduce new attacks.  Any fork itself can be seen as an attack, in that it can lead to divided consensus and a chain split.  This has happened.

There are feature additions, but it is challenging to prove that they are safer than the risk of the fork itself.  So the bar is high for those.  Something like "simplicity" might have a chance of gaining mind share there.

There are some quality of life improvements, such as for the block size to increase with hardware improvements.  While this has its dangers, it also can potentially prevent two other attacks in future, such as disruptive deep reorgs, and also disruptive fee attacks.  This surface needs to be mapped out and explained in far greater detail. Possibly over the next 4 years.

Anyone advocating for a fork may be well intentioned, but if that fork is contentious, it can potentially split the chain and that is likely a bigger danger than any percieved gains.  Our enemies know this, which is why they agitate for such efforts.

The thing I learnt in the last cycle is that you should be dubious of any fork that is an appeal to authority.  And you should be open minded to any fork that is stands on its own merits.


Great take


I use satellite.earth


:vibePls:


Good morning, I made a new nostr client: keypub.coracle.social

The goal of keypub is to help surface posts by infrequent posters. It takes the approach of summarizing the content before displaying it to you so that you can more easily get an idea of what you'd like to look at, without having to scroll to the bottom of your feed.

https://v.nostr.build/nWn9n.mp4

This was inspired by Spring '83, which is described here:
https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/specifying-spring-83/

Expect more experimentation in this vein!


Just helped a friend move some bitcoin off of nostr:npub1cashappn03s3cl2ljsdntv0v28e2um5lgx4vjctqjt23pcwzjhsqmtdg5l

Let's go! #selfsovereignty #bitcoin


:Gigachad:


I’m not Biden or Trump. I’m just pro people waking the fuck up and using critical thinking instead of being useless bottom feeders


Great fee reference https://i.nostr.build/3P9ln.jpg


:PepeLaugh:


:Simp Pepe:


:PepeHands:


Which one?


I listened to the What Bitcoin Did Saylor podcast, and I really want to respond, though that may be unwise. But I want thoughtful, fearless content in my feed, so I should start making some, right?

Firstly, while analogies can provide useful guide rails for understanding, listening to people *arguing* using analogies makes you stupider. Debate the thing itself, not the words about the thing: it hurts my head to even think about doing this, so I won't.

Let's set my priors first: I assume we're talking about technically solid, well-vetted, backward compatible protocol changes: this is the minimum bar.

I don't wholesale agree with Saylor's "don't threaten anyone's investment" hard limit. This has happened multiple times in the past, from the dust limit breaking SatoshiDice, enabling Lightning threatening miner fees (real or not), and segwit breaking stealth ASICBoost. These interests can, and will, stand up for themselves and will compete against other benefits of changes.

To be explicit: I consider any protocol change which makes block space usage more efficient to be a win!

Obviously Saylor is invested in Bitcoin the asset, and can afford to do all his business onchain in any conceivable scenario. His projection of a Bitcoin world in which there are 100,000 companies and governments who use Bitcoin as the base layer is interesting:
1. This does not need "smart contracts", just signatures. By this model, Bitcoin Script was a mistake.
2. It can work if Bitcoin does not scale and is incredibly expensive to spend and hold. By this model, the consumer hardware wallet industry is a dead-end and needs to pivot to something else (nostr keys, ecash?)
3. You could do this with gold, today? Bitcoin here is simply an incremental, not fundamental, improvement. I think this is suggestive, though: that such a network would not be long-term stable, and very much subject to capture.
4. In this view, Saylor is simply a gold bug with first mover advantage, shilling his bags. That's fine, but it's important to understand people's motivations.
5. This vision does not excite me. I wouldn't have left Linux development to work on making B2B commerce more efficient. I wouldn't get up at 5:30am for spec calls, and I sure as hell wouldn't be working this cheap.

I believe we can make people's UTXOs more powerful, and thus feel a moral responsibility to do so. This gives them more control over their own money, and allows more people to share that control. I assume that more people will do good things than stupid things, because assuming the other way implies that someone should be able to stop them, and that's usually worse.

I believe the result will be a more stable, thus useful, Bitcoin network. I am aware that this will certainly benefit people with very different motivations than me (Saylor).

Thanks for reading, and sorry for the length!


Jesus:

"I have come to seek and to save the lost."

Again Jesus:

"I am the way."

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Make Plebnet Great Again


About that time again

#foodstr #growstr #steakstr

https://cdn.satellite.earth/2605475ad922c077286e66a53208a7feffcb8bf29f72840e7970ae8406e7b7e4.mp4


You're very blessed


I'm coming to terms with the fact that there will always be sheep and wolves. There will always be a group of normies who don't want personal responsibility and just want to be numb before they are blindly led to slaughter one day.  And there will always be wolves who are ready to feed off these individuals.

But I also know there are lions who don't care about either of them.  My whole life I've look for ways to escape the clown world. For a long time I felt I needed to "get off the grid" and separate myself physically, but was trapped and never could.  Bitcoin gave me a powerful tool to exit the system and not become collateral damage to the mistakes and abuse of others.


Maybe this is healthy? I had this feeling today too


You all know this BI smear is just an attack on Jack right?

Fiatjaf is collateral damage.

The power structure is getting desperate.


She's got a fivehead, just saying


https://video.nostr.build/46ec8d6bad9097dcafc1148f6404c6ef2b8a326171dc8971b5345c823f199e6e.mp4
#biblestr #jesus #christisking


Interesting 🤔🤔🤔


A classic


:Gigachad:


:PepeLaugh:


Hmmm really makes you think, appreciated this video


My technical analysis has been guaranteed correct 99.99% of the time.

Based on the current support levels, a bullish DOUBLE penis shaped pattern has formed. This is the most bullish pattern that you can ask for. But the resistance at current prices is concerning and could mean there is more downside. Expect bitcoin to go up, down, or trade sideways in the near future based on buy and sell pressure. Refer to TA chart below.

Follow the discord link in my bio for the best trading signals and alerts in the industry. Currently new members of the trading community can join at a 3% discount of the original membership price. You don’t wanna miss this deal! Sale ends in 10 minutes, get in before it’s too late.

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PSA: If you were born with a penis, then however you feel is a way that a man can feel. If you were born with a vagina, then however you feel is a way that a woman can feel.

It's completely insane that with zero standard for comparing feelings across sexes or even between any two people, some will claim that they feel like something they aren't. Accept the things you cannot change. You can like whatever you want to like & live however you want to live, but you cannot change who & what you are. Trying to do so will only destroy your life.


It's because they simp for influensoors...I read it and it wasn't that great


0.87.4 #Amethyst is

https://media1.tenor.com/m/HEMQmYHww6MAAAAd/borat-borat-very-nice.gif

Digging the smaller resolution


Which grocery store?


:Angry Pepe:


RTL


Was a valient effort making it to the fifth, hats off to both of them


Breedlove isn't interesting but the behavior is where men (I include myself in this) are going wrong. Never ever ever get a girl pregnant you haven't fully vetted, I would say never sleep with a girl at all you haven't fully vetted. If you do knock up girl that's your girl forever, you splurged in it, you own it. Never sleep with a hoe, never date a hoe and never marry a hoe. One of the biggest psyops we as men have fallen for is accepting hoe behavior.


Never had bison... Is it good?


https://cdn.satellite.earth/afe7e43c321d128a9d3fdcca244c38e93dc620a117ba91f1a5d2a2ce81c1e4aa.mp4

#ProofOfSteak #growstr


👏👏 https://i.nostr.build/WG7nL.jpg


if you're reading this, you've survived June 1st

may you make it through the month 🫡

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


My meetup did a community coinjoin with electrum.

https://mempool.redactrx.com/tx/40c05de977b7453eb0b0b5085be36e5fa0b3ea9da543f3aa6a5426c4ffcb05d9


https://media1.tenor.com/m/XijMHHXuvvMAAAAd/smh-huh.gif

Scammers gonna scam


No one knows until you meet your Maker, but Pascal's wager...


:PepeLaugh:


Protect yourself at all times... As a big Wilder fan, I don't know what he was doing... Time to hang em up


https://media1.tenor.com/m/5N9derc9UcgAAAAC/no-bugs-bunny.gif

There are groups and resources that I use to run my lightning node better

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:Gigachad:


I'll check the offerings out, thank you!


It'll be a good matchup...I think Holiday and White both got all defensive team


4 real, he looks like he plays in slow motion and still dominates


Luka 🤯🤯🤯


:PepeHands:


NGL you make some good points


Summarizing my thoughts on ecash

For some reason this ecash trend seems to be gaining steam instead of going away, so I'll try my best to detail my thoughts on ecash into one post.

1. The incentives are broken

Ecash finds itself between a rock and a hard place. For users to trust the mint, they need to know that the people behind the mint are trustworthy. If the people running the mint reveal their identities (or even just nyms), they're a trivial target for regulators and law enforcement as it's clear a mint is an MSB.

If the people behind a mint don't reveal their identities or nyms, users of that mint are subject to trivial rug pulls with no recourse. Which do you prefer as a user? Mint operator rug pulls or government rug pulls?

If a mint had been targeted like Samourai Wallet was, instead of just a potential privacy loss, all users would have lost all of their Bitcoin.

2. Ecash is not "self-custodial"

For some reason this concept of ecash being "self-custodial" is a thing, merely because the tokens themselves are self-custodied (and require proper backups of seed phrases etc.) While the lines get a bit weird, it's important to separate two things:

1. The asset people want is Bitcoin, not ecash tokens.
2. The asset people give up custody on is Bitcoin.

The ecash tokens themselves are completely worthless IOUs without the Bitcoin behind them, so even if I can take custody of my ecash tokens, I have 100% given up custody of my sats to a third-party.

Because of this, talking about ecash as self-custodial is disingenuous -- no one wants empty IOUs, they want Bitcoin. When they use ecash they do not have custody of their Bitcoin.

3. Ecash still requires all of the hurdles of Bitcoin self-custody

The hardest hurdle for many people to adopting Bitcoin is the simple first step -- writing down 12 words and making sure not to lose them. With ecash you still have this single greatest barrier of entry as you must backup a seed phrase or secret in order to restore your ecash tokens.

4. There is no incentive for custodians to implement ecash

While a custodian could switch to ecash out of the goodness of their heart, the incentives are broken for custodians. Not only does ecash harm the UX their users are used to (not having to store a secret seed phrase), it also introduces additional infrastructure complexity. Instead of just running a database, now they have to run additional mint software to provide their users with tokens, and handle support cases where users lose their tokens.

In theory a custodian could just also store the seed phrase for their users, but then have we actually improved on custodians at all? They even have custody of the ecash tokens in that case.

5. Custody is a line that cannot be crossed

The core of what makes Bitcoin unique is that we can actually take custody of it ourselves, gaining immense freedom and self-sovereignty through a bit of personal responsibility. Even though I am a massive proponent of building better privacy tools, sacrificing custody to get better privacy is a non-option for me.

Surely we can do better and build privacy tools on top of Bitcoin (or directly into Bitcoin's consensus layer) that allow us to have both privacy and self-sovereignty via self-custody.

I will not give up custody of my Bitcoin, no matter what, and you shouldn't either. "Better custodians" are just custodians with extra steps, and still strip us of self-sovereignty and thus freedom.

6. Time is a more scarce resource than even Bitcoin

Even though I have been very outspoken on what I view as a pointless venture, I am not here to stop anyone from building what they enjoy in the space. Devs working on ecash are free to do so as of course I have no control over them, though I fear that time spent on improving custodians is time that we will not get back. It's clear that the US gov and many in the EU are seeking to ramp up their attacks on Bitcoin privacy and self-custody, and our time to build tools to route around them is growing shorter and shorter.

P.S. - None of what I write is a direct attack on any ecash dev, and I have immense respect and personal relationships with most of the people working on this stuff. Respect for an individual doesn't have to mean I agree with them on every avenue they pursue.

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China - Taiwan
Russia - Ukraine
Israel - Palestine
Red - Blue

All of these and more system - anti-system clashes will allow for increasing money printing, and totalitarian control.


Announcing: Harbor, an ecash desktop wallet for better bitcoin privacy.

https://blog.mutinywallet.com/harbor/

Privacy for the common person is a value worth fighting for. When we see a lack of freedom tools, we must build them into existence. They don't appear on their own.

Much has been said about privacy at the Bitcoin protocol level. For now, we build it on higher layers where we can be more nimble.

Ecash is a tool available today that combines with Bitcoin to bring new levels of common privacy. Cashu and Fedimint are two existing implementations we're interested in.

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

Harbor Privacy: All communication runs over Tor. Mutiny is not in the middle of any connections or transactions. Funds in the wallet get a Privacy Score to show how the mints provide privacy over time. More to come on this in the future.

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

Harbor Multi-mint: Instead of relying on a single mint with your funds, spread the risk over dozens or more. Harbor manages this for you, showing you a single balance while connecting with mints for you. A mint can go offline with minimal impact on you.

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

Harbor Automation: Running as a desktop app unlocks ability to do long running processes in the background. Move money in and out of mints on your preferred schedule to maximize your desired level of privacy. Harbor makes suggestions, but you are in control.

Move money in and out of Harbor using Lightning or on-chain. We love Bitcoin, and we love privacy. We hope Harbor gives everyday people more privacy and peace of mind.


❗Attention developers:

🧑💻To incentivize collaborators we have created a Rewards board in Sats, so far issues about the Mobile client from Mostro have been included, later other important issues will be added.

📌 Check out: https://github.com/orgs/MostroP2P/projects/2/views/1

✋We must clarify that Mostro is not a company but an open source project

🙏The amounts offered are a way to thank for collaboration and are thanks to the generous donation of contributors, mostly anonymous, but also to two important institutions that have given us grants such as HRF


Bitcoin Country, here we come! 🌴

We are thrilled to announce that OCEAN has expanded into El Salvador 🇸🇻.  OCEAN MINING S.A. de C.V. will serve as our global hub of business development as we continue to bring features to market that push the envelope of decentralization in #Bitcoin mining.

Thank you Nayib Bukele, Bitcoin Office SV, and Stacy Herbert for creating the blueprint for Bitcoin adoption and for welcoming us into your country.

https://ocean.sv

https://url-shortener.newsdirect.com/DWho6ywY

https://url-shortener.newsdirect.com/g8jtB8Yg
 https://image.nostr.build/8d8ac9ea6da609a1e5c6881643310a827b7eaf711cc6fe623ea5a155959696d7.gif


Now we talkin https://image.nostr.build/2f50fb915832b0cd4f587b88c3a1b0852905fd88e83813566d1296fe8317ab86.jpg


We are stoked to finally release Chain Swaps today🙌

Chain Swaps let you swap directly between Liquid and the Bitcoin mainchain and lay the foundation for more chain-to-chain pairs in future.

Learn all about it in our blog post 👇
https://blog.boltz.exchange/p/dispatching-chain-swaps


:PepeLaugh:


Will do, appreciate the lead!


Let's do this!


I appreciate you!


Thank you sir!


https://image.nostr.build/b4884a1e29f4ecc1be4aff01c2c447bcfea3124f428e6a4bf127478fb0cad345.jpg

#Padres


Ok, I'm going to put this in the universe...

I've started updating my resume and ready to work in the Bitcoin space.

I have 6 years of experience as a Business Systems Analyst/Project Manager at a large defense contractor.

Please repost or DM if you have any leads

My resume will be sent soon nostr:npub1ex7mdykw786qxvmtuls208uyxmn0hse95rfwsarvfde5yg6wy7jq6qvyt9 nostr:npub1jg552aulj07skd6e7y2hu0vl5g8nl5jvfw8jhn6jpjk0vjd0waksvl6n8n nostr:npub1tftc33ttam85wraffce62cgtvvjrmttquqlv6a0agtfm5nl4vues82xar5 nostr:npub1jan3xfrvxmd35smylytmnp3ne0sgqh2x47yq766s55zaf6eja4rselx52y nostr:npub1spralxq6jlw5rdy0249vqr5sh43rfrlx2wzv3rhjjqedw559w9psrs8s72 nostr:npub1f43d6hn2c4dwyszegr6e7mcrp2v5as4nanz42mydc4pvecswgmwsz02wyy nostr:npub1sqzr42dj8vx32yd5jcvvl3ytux45kl0etgf6y2ymjvmd7lqmuwmqk9vk7v

#plebchain #growstr #bitcoin #bitcoinonly


Protect South Park at all cost! Their cultural critiques are 🤌🏻🤌🏻🤌🏻


:Gigachad:


#yestr and thank you!


 no one person knows what's BEST for Bitcoin, that's why there are numerous people who take this on.
Fuck saylor for thinking he is some arbiter of who should be funded'. According to him he want to fund people furthering inscriptions considering his DiD system utilizes it.

OPEN YOUR EYES.

COVER YOUR EARS.

STOP LISTENING TO THE SIRENS SONG.


A "country" is an arbitrary geographical border around land, that people within are ruled by a particular criminal organisation called government, and it is represented by a flag and a sports teams.


+1 Nova


:peepoClap:


Had him on skates


Let's go! And thank you!

02139c236e0f8e6b0dd11134ac4e363718e254778792ce3031979f457786405a44


CLUTCH


Kyrie, top 5 PGs of all time? #NBA #WCF #Dallas #Minnesota


And also now you owe me a channel 😉

JK but if you have some liquidity let me know


Classic gif


If transgenderism were a crypto-currency it would be ETH.

- Thinks it's a world computer, doesn't work.

- Thinks it's money, has no supply cap.

- Thinks it's a commodity, passes the Howey test.

- Founded by someone who was emotionally traumatized about his video game centralization, ends up centralizing and pre-selling tokens.

etc


:PepeLaugh:


Watching nostr:npub155m2k8ml8sqn8w4dhh689vdv0t2twa8dgvkpnzfggxf4wfughjsq2cdcvg #MyTrustInYouIsBroken ... These guys are legends


Dude has a very punchable face and an annoying voice, just saying


:MJ Stop It!:


And gay


Bitcoin flag on Mt. Everest happened today.

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


:Gigachad:


First one and last one. Sorry y'all, is just... lol

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


SMH


What's the third though?


Genius with his handles


LeBron wouldn't have won in Cleveland with him


Jaden had a great first half


Luka, Kyrie, and Ant... Gonna be a great series


This Minnesota Dallas series is gonna be 🔥... Great game so far


:PepeHands:


Interesting perspective on the root of mental illness:

Many theorists have said that entirety of mental illness boils down to one thing: refusing to accept life as it is and instead trying to escape or control it through the various symptoms that are listed in mental health diagnostic manuals, including worrying, drinking, brooding, obsessing, avoiding, controlling, conflict, etc. As Buddhist psychologists point out, when a person finally stops fighting life, claiming, “things shouldn’t be this way,” and instead accepts all of life—its joys and suffering—as it is, life gets surprisingly easier. Rather than resignation and hopelessness, you discover new realistic possibilities because you can finally see where you have meaningful agency and choice. For example, if a person is being battered by their partner and fully embraces this reality emotionally and cognitively, the excuses and self-blame automatically quiet down. They see reality for what it is: "my partner hits me and isn’t likely to stop unless I do something different." Like the sky after a storm, once the emotions of accepting a painful reality wash through you, what is left behind is sparkling clarity. You can clearly see real-world options and then consciously decide which of these you are willing to act on today.


I'm currently taking a dump on the clock... Feels good man


Great series QW-sama


:PepeLaugh:


Thorlos?


Release the Creed.


Great read


There are issues with all implementations, but if you aren't as technical CLN doesn't have as many tools as say LND...

With that said, CLN is much more modular and light weight. Pros and cons to each implementations


Grass is not always greener


Discrete Log Contracts + Ecash is going to enable so many incredible use cases that weren't practical before. There is an order of operations to all of this and patience is key.

https://conduition.io/cryptography/ecash-dlc/
https://m.primal.net/IIUg.jpg


Fees are at 7 SATs/vbyte... Who's trying to open up a balanced channel?

nostr:nevent1qqsta8manzthdy528n8jghlcv8v6h90xunn37e0y92rra2a20dsdhpqpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgq3qrcr8h76csgzhdhea4a7tq5w5gydcpg9clgf0cffu6z45rnc6yp5sxpqqqqqqzfn7ll5


https://media1.tenor.com/m/21NZ4IAfMT0AAAAd/testing-new.gif

But maybe they are talking about the Iranian president?


Actually I'm tears this morning...Danke Jürgen 🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻

#YNWA #Liverpool #LFC


GREAT FIGHT! Hats off to Usyk! #FuryUsyk


2-1 Fury in my book #FuryUsyk


Fury looking loose #FuryUsyk


Mental health is real


I'm the same...I think Usyk is going to cause problems but if I was a betting man I'd go Fury


NP


First time in 25 years we could potentially have an undisputed heavy weight champion... Who's everyone got? #FuryUsyk #boxing


Not sure what large means to you but I plan on having my new node at around 4 btc capacity... Let me know if you'd like to open a balanced channel

https://amboss.space/node/02139c236e0f8e6b0dd11134ac4e363718e254778792ce3031979f457786405a44


:PepeLaugh:


For everyone waiting for Bolt12 support in LND, this is a nice PR that got merged. Starting with Lnd 0.18 everyone can run the LNDK project without a custom build of LND. Hopefully this boosts the bolt12 adoption that everyone's been waiting for.

https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/8744


:Gigachad:


you good?


Going to be a good one


Congratulations!!!


Gigachad


in an era of shortcuts, the grit and perseverance to do the work is likely your strongest asset

the search for that 4-hour work week hack, for going viral or for that passive income source forces you to play the same game millions are playing and only a couple, mostly randomly, will win.

Whitewashed gambling.

most things, especially those that matter, just take time, perseverance and introspection; most people just aren't willing to do the work.


## Amber - 1.0.1

- Fix private zaps
- French translation - nostr:npub106efcyntxc5qwl3w8krrhyt626m59ya2nk9f40px5s968u5xdwhsjsr8fz
- Swahili translation - nostr:npub1q6ps7m94jfdastx2tx76sj8sq4nxdhlsgmzns2tr4xt6ydx6grzspm0kxr

Download it with [Obtainium](https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium) or download it directly in the [releases page
](https://github.com/greenart7c3/Amber/releases/tag/v1.0.1)

If you like my work consider making a [donation](https://greenart7c3.com)


Yeah thought the same... Kinda dark and I liked it


That's not picky, those people have no standards of cleanliness


Started opening a channel with nostr:npub1qgwhaaa2lsp54rl0hfx7qa3z678ax6wlre0em475rhpvl7n54cpqgg7y7n... Thank you!

Who else is up for a 10 mil sat balanced channel?

nostr:nevent1qqsta8manzthdy528n8jghlcv8v6h90xunn37e0y92rra2a20dsdhpqpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfdupzq8sx00a43qs9wm0nmtmukpgagsgmszst37sjlsjne59tg8835grfqvzqqqqqqyv55mza


I appreciate the liquidity nostr:npub1rd0z8aj4wrt7f59xfy95jtp5ue56z4vw7z2mfngnu4pjnj65vpyqxm5cc2 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
 https://image.nostr.build/114edbbcfa72c26023d63005850d4c585d67e34419f7a1419e6fcf3f123b1860.jpg

nostr:nevent1qqsta8manzthdy528n8jghlcv8v6h90xunn37e0y92rra2a20dsdhpqpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfdupzq8sx00a43qs9wm0nmtmukpgagsgmszst37sjlsjne59tg8835grfqvzqqqqqqyv55mza


- Learn to code
- Get well-paid tech job
- Realize it's all a scam
- Realize lack of personal fulfillment
- What if I could work for something meaningful and good
- Find Bitcoin
- Become open source contributor
- Finally apply your skills to a monumental human project
- Be good


https://image.nostr.build/9ca1ef1e810eb4f926322dd3eab620a838dc20468fba56fe18fad00a236e477c.jpg

Looking to spin up a new node, currently Tor only but eventually going clearnet once start9 upgrades their software... At least 5mil/5mil and can go more, please DM me if you'd like to BOS when fees are low 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

https://amboss.space/node/02139c236e0f8e6b0dd11134ac4e363718e254778792ce3031979f457786405a44


Soon going to launch the first multi-currency Cashu ecash wallet as a progressive web app. So stoked about this, here is an exclusive preview for you Nostr!

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


GM Nostr!

I am pleased to announce a step forward in my project to build a C++ dev kit for Nostr!

Announcing: Aedile NDK v0.0.2 - https://github.com/buttercat1791/aedile-ndk/releases/tag/v0.0.2

This release incorporates some build system improvements with the help of nostr:npub1ecdlntvjzexlyfale2egzvvncc8tgqsaxkl5hw7xlgjv2cxs705s9qs735, and it adds unit-tested support for reading to and writing from relays.

Additionally, the project is getting a new name: "Aedile NDK."

In the Roman Republic, the Aediles were officials elected from among the plebians who were charged with seeing to the maintenance of the city's critical infrastructure and supervising weights and measures in the marketplace.  And, of course, "NDK" stands for "Nostr Development Kit."

Stay tuned for more updates!  The next goal is to incorporate note signing with the help of nostr:npub1qdjn8j4gwgmkj3k5un775nq6q3q7mguv5tvajstmkdsqdja2havq03fqm7's noscrypt library.


Thoughts on Bitcoin?


:PepeLaugh:


✨ Announcing the release of Cashu.me – a Cashu wallet for the web! ✨

Cashu.me is a Chaumian Ecash wallet for Bitcoin built as a progressive web app (PWA). Today, we're excited to announce its first release and would like to thank all developers and users who have helped to build and improve this wallet. Cashu.me is free and open-source software released under the MIT license.

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

To get started, open Cashu.me in your browser and install it to add it to your home screen. We recommend to use your device's native browser for the best experience. Beware that Ecash is a bearer asset which means that if you delete your browser data or lose access to your device without a proper backup (see below), you will lose your funds. Use this wallet only for small spending amounts.

New Features

Countless new features for this release give you the best possible Ecash experience. We're bringing this ancient crypto technology back into the 21st century and present you a modern interpretation of the original cypherpunk vision - built on Bitcoin.

At a glance

- Modern UI
- Support for Bitcoin and USD
- Seed phrase backups
- Animated QR codes
- Intelligent coin selection
- Send Ecash offline
- Receive Ecash offline
- Lock Ecash with P2PK
- Discover mints via Nostr
- Swap Ecash between mints
- Remote control with NWC

https://m.primal.net/IFMh.jpg
https://m.primal.net/IFMi.jpg
https://m.primal.net/IFMj.jpg

Read the full release notes here: https://gist.github.com/callebtc/67da3f586ef273df80bf679e464bc3f3

You can host the wallet on your own server. Find the images on Dockerhub or build it yourself with the GitHub repository
https://github.com/cashubtc/cashu.me


I use Aurora


:Gigachad:


https://image.nostr.build/08261d426b86e8ada83a80226b66adbd1c4f3d04260c50d8072152c34c2fb831.png

https://media1.tenor.com/m/Zdyda_mn7ekAAAAd/cartman-cmon.gif


I'll reach out when my node is ready (>= 10 mil sats   per channel 🙏🏼)


Gigachad


Pioneering devs are discovering the real-world utility of Ecash in real time and it's happening on Bitcoin. It's what David Chaum was always dreaming of but was never able to see materialize.

This is also why we aren't just building a wallet or an app, but an open protocol that empowers others to build on top of it. None of this would make even the slightest sense if it wasn't built on Bitcoin.

Keychat is one of the most exciting things happening in Cashu right now. It's almost the perfect fusion of Cashu and Nostr. Keep watching!

nostr:note1pshpwanp7xy6whxxvxzdehl3dgsm24p5zl7t9szt6cjvxv6nxkuslusz32


nsec.app is just a signer for nostr, alby can connect your node which is nice, I like NWC too if you want to zap directly from your node


Tried to copy the blocks, chainstate, and indexes from an Umbrel node...redindexing did not work, resyncing now #NewNode

Running noStrudel with nsec.app on diy start9

https://image.nostr.build/3e0ec58c02aab253df5553397ddd8c414fca72805481af03dc87a6e5553d4f0b.png https://image.nostr.build/08ceb949f034cf0fb86706208f7f04f377cc7b6aac449d0cc61dac53f85d0021.png


All of my opportunities were created by all the people around me. I know zilch without all those connections. It’s all about the love, the struggle, the fight. Nothing wrong with a fight, doesn’t have to be physical. Most of our fights are in our own heads, a lack of self worth. Acceptance is the start, just accept and move forward. You have more than you know to share. 🔥


noStrudrel, there is no second best


PepeLaugh


I'm a big Drake fan and this beef has been pretty good... Wish J Cole didn't exit so quickly


I'm running noStrudel as a PWA on graphene Pixel 7 Pro, arguably the best client out rn


Next version of noStrudel is going to be so fast. I've been having fun reworking how it fetches events from relays and making it prioritize the local relay first 😀

Its to the point now where if I'm scrolling my timeline for the 10th time it barley needs to talk to public relays to fetch profile data and other replaceable events


#Speedboat #BallastPoint
https://image.nostr.build/8b2205f495ca1892d073946aa981fc0a52ea32d7771d6b690753e8e92c52e74c.jpg


#zapathon

https://media1.tenor.com/m/LLBiG9c0XG4AAAAC/judge-judy-times-up.gif


GM FAM!

Today is day one of my third year on nostr.

I feel like this is the year things really start getting wild because we are entering phase two of Bitcoin's war against the State.

As we enter this more dangerous phase, recall that danger is a gift because it brings out the best in us and forces us to up our game.

Make your purpose in life to conquer new territories of freedom, and to never surrender them.

Let your instinct for victory dominate over the desire for comfort and pleasure. The free individual is a warrior, because sovereignty can only be taken and not given.

Nostr and Bitcoin can only reach their full potential if all of us reach our own full potential. So become great. Then be great. Then remain great. And make others great along the way.


ZEUS v0.8.4-rc2 is now available for testing

- Ability to select wallet/node on start-up
- Currency conversion: Silver (XAG) + Gold (XAU)
- Password page: improve layout
- Revamped Pub theme
- UI improvements
- Signet fixes
- Bug fixes

## Links

Release notes: https://github.com/ZeusLN/zeus/releases/tag/v0.8.4-rc2

ZEUS documentation: https://docs.zeusln.app/
Embedded node FAQ: https://docs.zeusln.app/for-users/embedded-node/faq

Android

Universal APK: https://zeusln.com/zeus-v0.8.4-rc2-universal.apk
arm64-v8a APK: https://zeusln.com/zeus-v0.8.4-rc2-arm64-v8a.apk
Manifest: https://zeusln.com/manifest-v0.8.4-rc2.txt
Manifest Signature: https://zeusln.com/manifest-v0.8.4-rc2.txt.sig

iOS

IPA: https://zeusln.com/zeus-v0.8.4-rc2.ipa
Apple TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/vVnODWoi https://image.nostr.build/9b7e04d1e2ac90091687a3ceeacc5356e010ee7cc3b97c6b897ad952943b4d77.jpg


Congratulations!


4, 4 sure