Should five percent appear too small
Be thankful, I don't take it all

Cause I'm the taxman
Yeah, I'm the taxman

George Harrisons estate going to be raking it in assuming they moved it out of the uk!


What they worrying about they said it has zero value in feb... https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/blog/date/2024/html/ecb.blog20240222~0929f86e23.en.html


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62m73my0dno LOL


Like something from a William Gibson novel


Creepy, also I know it's only a patent application and so companies just put any old shit in and see what sticks but come on...If the patent office is underfunded maybe they should be able to just put fines on large firms when string together obvious shit in the hope of getting a patented.


Lol just noticed noStrudel now has a task manager, it's becoming a whole nostr based OS!


Probably not too much of an issue as to be effective probably reply guy makes a new reply guy account (I expect anyway, haven't checked) for each reply which is what makes it difficult for relays to just block based on npub. Your followers if they do acidently follow the bot will only be likely following 1 or 2 instances which are probably only used once and so won't be seen again and could be manually muted anyway. Of course if you follow someone that starts following all the reply guys as they appear you might want to unfollow them!..


Do they jump when Moraes asks?


If I'm looking at my phone then I'm bored.


25%... Luckily he was pretty late to the party cause that's going to hurt on near 0 cost base! Hope Satoshi isn't a yank!


:confusedgirl:


Signals shitcoin makes use of SGX wonder how this effects it. Also I remember Prof Emin suggested some 2nd layer for BTC that would rely on SGX as an alternative to lightning, luckily it was a non-starter introducing a dependency on a single vendors proprietary tech.


Put last ATH on there as they always assume everyone jumps in there.


Created 1st account early 22 I think. Left Twitter the first/only nostr November, so no idea what's going on in the world since then!


Should be random order on each load! Also as they used checkboxes I assume you can have as many as you like just to really fuck with people!


https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/12/patreon_apple_ios/
Another instance of Apple being twats, IMO their gear isn't all that anyhow but I know some love if for whatever reason...


Scammers going to scam.


Finally got some sun, back to normal as soon as it rains again!


I'd always have liked to see the old HK approach.


Cheap money for the Gov, they'll be be getting creative with the taxes come October trying to claw back any money they think went to the undeserving.


If you didn't see it yet you should also give Pyscho Pass a look - The first series I remember being really good.


You should point your nip5 to protonmail domain else this could be anyone...


Yep, using monero isnt going to do shit for you if you need to provide proof of funds, e.g. in UK if buying a house.


https://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/1eajvvj/did_we_win/
It's over!


very nice!


Congrats spain


Fuck


Get in there!


Come on then England!!


just over 6k to go
https://platform.arkhamintelligence.com/explorer/entity/germany


Just used https://azte.co/ to buy a little BTC, nice to be able to just go ahead and buy some without all the KYC bullshit getting in the way


Lol Germans really want to be rid of that BTC before weekend!


Me too also amethyst..


11 Blow - Blossoms (Blossoms)


get in there!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3i2YYjLQm-k


Spain to win


Wonder how many on nostr will get that reference!


interesting article


They're going to take a beating on the pitch today.


Lol, with England the problem is watching them suck the fun out of every game they play in! Who knows maybe Sat will be different, you need to have eternal optimism.


At least you don't have to suffer watching them!


Watching England as a England supporter?..


I try not to be so cynical!


Yeah they'll say anything. Also isn't a large amount of the US stack actually from the bitfinex hack, so doesn't actually belong to the US at all. Could be wrong, all/most crypto journalism is just recycled shit so difficult to get any real facts.


Never


'All livestreams that you can access inside of the application are blurred so you cannot identify specific people' LOL so atleast there's a quick way to get monetisation, premium user can get unblurred stalking footage! Also odd the way some people think that having CCTV is the same as the cameras should just be live streaming footage, also odd that there no signage to tell people that they're being filmed and broadcast at the bars...


If you have a credit card, they already know everything about you,” said Dan Berg, 53. - For fucks sake some people have zero imagination, or maybe Dan doesn't actually go out any more and these streams are how he gets his kicks.


GM, AML/CFT is the illicit activity 👇

https://m.primal.net/JFTm.jpg
https://www.therage.co/weaponization-of-fatf-standards-rusi/


Feed then all into an LLM then you can argue with the idiot in realtime!


Come on England you useless pricks!


Despite all the hype around AI, got to say that using chatgpt just now to help with some issues I was having with async python and qt was much quicker than searching the web or rooting through stackoverflow.


Come on England! That's 5pm UK time if you don't want to miss the first half!


Bitcoin journalism is fucked.

I started The Rage because I'm tired of investors and advertisers telling me what to do for below minimum wage compensation.

What we need are publications willing to let journalists investigate the crap out of the companies, representatives and people enabling the building of surveillance tech behind the scenes.

What we get are publications selling out to corporations, startups and politicians writing public relations puff pieces to keep their returns on track. The point of journalism is to hold power to account, not to become its bedfellow.

There is no lack of talented, experienced, investigative journalists covering bitcoin. The problem is that they write what the powers that be don't want you to hear – so many are out of a job, dabbling away at the next press release for mainstream media, or doing below-minimum wage contract work to pay the bills.

I'm incredibly overwhelmed by all the positive feedback we've been getting for The Rage. In just 8 weeks we've scooped major publications and drove discussions around AML, Samourai and Tornado Cash together with your help. We've even made enough to cover operations with almost 400$ raised, thanks to all the zappers out there.

But here's the thing. I didn't come here to write a good piece every once in a while leaving stories untold left and right because I can't afford to focus on investigations full time. I came here to fuck up the financial surveillance complex. That's why The Rage now needs your help.

We're trying to raise 0.25BTC so we can contract the best investigative journalists in the Bitcoin space to tell the stories that major publications can't afford to print.

If you value your financial freedom, please consider donating via our Geyser fund. We cannot do this without your help.

https://geyser.fund/project/therage

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


'saying that it had already been used to send 183,000 suspected cases of abuse to the National' - So how many of those were false positives?.. Also if it's flagging up pictures for manual review I wonder how many people have access to view those supposedly private pictures, and when then there's an inevitable leak I wonder how many more people will find their pictures online? Why is it that the default now is to always assume everyone is guilty of a crime rather than do some actual police work?


Interesting, didn't realise some services were already voluntarily doing chat control https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/


Looking forward to England at 8.


Now it works on zap.stream:
https://zap.stream/naddr1qq9rzde38q6rwdfkxucqygxsm6lelvfda7qlg0tud9pfhduysy4vrexj65azqtdk4tr75j6xdspsgqqqwensq070xp
nostr:nevent1qqsfgsy292gux2hg5x34xdg74najx6ds6rsls8jgxlx6w46u8lpwpmspz3mhxw309akx7cmpd35x7um58g6rsd3e9upzp5x7h70mzt00s86r6lrfg2dm0pyp9tq7f5k48gszmd42cl4yk3nvqvzqqqqqqy7gsy5y


irobot why do you sit there thinking for ages then ask to empty your stupid fucking bin even though you just did it?! You little prick!


Most interesting thing in the article is the hostel!


Then a lot of miners will learn an expensive lesson.


in the west the skies are filled with bones


the brown owl looks back towards the flames


to spain


Just had a quick and the only articles I could find mention large amounts, over $500mil of NEM, whatever that is. Also coincheck was based in shibuya, same as gox lol!


fly away


magpie


So the gox coins finally seem to be on the move.


Just got nostrudel to sign in using NIP46 with some python code and a local python relay... really wasn't expecting it to work so easily with the local relay not running as wss so pleasantly surprised.


Its almost as if theyd prefer that people didn't write open source code... How long until linux is illegal? Be much easier for the police if everyone just used commercial OSs that'd automatically report users if they did anything suspect.


Wasn't the dutch gov that started implementing the travel rules years in advance? Do they have a particularly militant financial enforcer or are they like a test country to see what financial surveillance people will tolerate before its rolled out across the EU?


If the summary I just read in wired the judgment is retarded. Seems like they could use the same argument against any dev who wrote software that get used in anyway by any criminal. Be after E2E devs next.


Just got NIP59/giftwrap chat working in python and tested back and forth against oxchat on a phone
https://github.com/monty888/monstr/blob/master/examples/giftwrap_chat.py


Test


Terminology matters.  Words mean things.  There is no such thing as a "custodial wallet"; that is an "account" you have with a custodian.

When you say "non-custodial wallet" you are playing the tyrant's word games.  "Non-custodial" implies that "custodial" is the norm.  It is not and never should be.

Because there is no such thing as a "custodial wallet," there can be no such thing as a "non-custodial wallet"; that's just a wallet.


Think I'd rather Pycharms didn't come up with suggestions rather than making shit up. Must be some AI bullshit, especailly when it doesn't seem to be able give auto completes that it should easily be able to work out!


Looks like its from here https://bioedge.org/beginning-of-life-issues/ivf/american-ivf-clinics-are-happily-offering-sex-selection/
Last quote in the article is comedy gold -

A psychologist – who chose the sex of her third child – told Slate that sex selection could be dangerous. The parents have ordered an ideal child – and they might feel cheated if their offspring doesn’t follow the script. “She has also seen seemingly open-minded parents who—after investing time, money, and pain into selecting their child’s sex—are devastated after their kid comes out as trans.”


Yeah but also seems like he was lying a lot or contradicting himself at least, maybe on purpose to cover tracks (if clever) or just boasting?... Was making 10K a day at one point then not even a millionaire next, works alone but then it actually sounds like he's just bottom of the tree.

Anyway it sounds like the kid and his friends/associates aren't going to be hard to find. Like the guys in Goodfellas when they just made the big score then they all start driving around in flash cars or buying their girlfriends expensive jewelry etc!


Wonder if they'll start wondering why they keep getting request for their nostr nip5 json!


You given nostrudel a try?


I just took a look at the https://tumblr.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4417356885527-Tipping page on how to set up tips.

Min tip $1
You need to set up a KYC'd account with Stripe (so probably geo restricted, at least to only places where stripe operates) and anyway how is it normal that to use a service you have to open an account with their banking partner?
You don't get the tips till they reach $25
You need to be 18+yrs to use?!
Depending where you live >1% cut is taken from each tip

Hopefully we can do better!
For example it should be possible to tip a nostr account without a nostr account and with any bitcoin wallet support lightning payments.... Though I just tried tipping your post not signed in via nostrudel but couldn't get the payment request to come up.


Tumblr still exists?!


Sounds good, definitely better if US companies/citizens stepped up. Especially as when/if the US gov drags anyone to court,they might argue that none of those protections apply to non US citizens, pretty sure they already do that in the case of surveillance.


Especially seems once you cross the line into running a business/making profit you really want to listening to those lawyers, even if they're telling you things you don't want to hear. Wasabi devs might have got some shit but at least they're not on a plane to the states... Many of those mouthing off probably aren't really taking any personal risks themselves.


Seems an overreaction but can't blame people not wanting to get extradited to US then spending years fighting a possible lengthy jail sentence for writing some software.


Udi tried guess he just couldn't get enough engagement. Sad!


https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/25/samourai_wallet_laundering_charges/

'Again, this service is typically sought by people who don't want the police to know what their tokens are being used for, or what they did to acquire them.' - Odd, don't think The Register would go with the same angle if this was a tool for private messaging.


The way that is written really sounds as if they're implying that using any cryptocurrency using software that doesn't KYC means you're immediately doing something suspicious or near illegal.


Nice fees are low so there's money to spend again


Now I'll have to look up what the actual definition is for a honeypot is!


Guess they weren't a honeypot after all.


Lol still over £200 in lighting channels my side but 0 to spend, guess that's those high base fees.


Basically got NIP44 encryption working in python https://github.com/monty888/monstr so think I'll quit whilst I'm ahead for today.


Glad you decided to hang around on nostr for a little longer! lol


Sounds like the problem isn't the adverts, they could have a subscription with no adds and free with adds. It's the spying and selling user data on and making that the choice for the free version. I'm cool with them being told to go fuck themselves!


What about Tor relays? They don't require a .com but maybe would be better with specific low data/text only clients?


doing something dumb... Anyone any clue why the following python code isn't coming out to match the keys as NIP44 at https://github.com/paulmillr/nip44/blob/main/nip44.vectors.json

from cryptography.hazmat.primitives.hashes import SHA256
from cryptography.hazmat.primitives.kdf.hkdf import HKDF
import secp256k1

def get_conversion_key(priv_k:str, pub_k:str):

    the_priv: secp256k1.PrivateKey = secp256k1.PrivateKey(privkey=bytes.fromhex(priv_k))
    print(f'using priv: {the_priv.private_key.hex()}')

    the_pub: secp256k1.PublicKey = secp256k1.PublicKey(pubkey=bytes.fromhex('02'+pub_k), raw=True)
    print(f'using pub_k: {the_pub.serialize().hex()}')

    tweaked_key: secp256k1.PublicKey = the_pub.tweak_mul(the_priv.private_key)

    print(f'tweaked {tweaked_key.serialize().hex()}')

    h = HKDF(algorithm=SHA256(),
             length=32,
             salt=b'nip44-v2',
             info=None)

    con_key = h.derive(key_material=tweaked_key.serialize()[1:])
    print(f'conversion k: {con_key.hex()}')

get_conversion_key(priv_k='315e59ff51cb9209768cf7da80791ddcaae56ac9775eb25b6dee1234bc5d2268',
                   pub_k='c2f9d9948dc8c7c38321e4b85c8558872eafa0641cd269db76848a6073e69133')


Prick should have bought BSV then. Just another degenerate gambler, probably one day we'll all be buying up his sats cheap...


Started trying to implement NIP44 in python, shouldn't be too tricky but like always I'm getting different key values generated to start with, obvs doing something stupid...


Morning here, but still good to help get going! lol


Therefore, send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee.

https://github.com/monty888 https://nostree.me/npub1t39l8e2gdq7kr7mjhe053skl7r84ryqmnhvca6xmz780u53wxf0swj0fey


Nice. Done on GrapheneOS. First time I searched for it I accidentally typed unobtainable and stumbled across an old shitcoin!


Keanus brain storage is not big!


Let the hate flow flow though you Molly!
https://www.theguardian.com/global/commentisfree/2024/mar/28/sam-bankman-fried-prison-crypto-regulation
Admittedly it's a shame that coinbase became a complete casino with a facade of legitimacy whereas it used to be a pretty safe place to recommend for new people. Anyone that was wiring cash to MtGox though should have known the risk, and anyone with a ounce of sense shouldn't have trusted FTX and Sam especially so the regulators and politicions (Looking at you Bill and Blair... Bet that was a nice paycheck!)


Mans been busy, going to need to check their commit history...


Wonder if its cause it works under some conditions and there is no indication that there is a paywall, for example I can see it.
Any way https://web.archive.org/web/20240329025608/https://www.wired.com/story/deaths-of-effective-altruism/


UK should send him home.


Just ordered this book https://hackaday.com/2022/08/05/books-you-should-read-the-hardware-hackers-handbook/ Feel like it'd be good to get an understanding of hardware that I've always avoided. Interestingly in the comments I see this book makes an example of extracting the key from a trezor one (Though maybe this won't work any longer...)
Also this site seems to be really useful too.


Off to watch Dune 2 on Imax later


Why does anyone use LinkedIn?


Just looked at cointelegraph for the first time in years... Easy to see why people hate crypto.


Clementine on the computer, Poweramp on android, and music player on graphene.


The bits about compliance lol


Thanks, back and already planning next trip there!


Just tried to renew domain, they use coinbase commerce, yuk. You get the option to use coinbase account, nope or some weird thing they call self custody but still seems to involve downloading some shitty coinbase app. Just used debit card in the end.


developer punk3700 - guaranteed idiot just going by the nym.


’could care less’ sad he's definitely not English!


Good work. For those who don't have twitter this nitter instance worked for me today...Maybe it'll still be working tomorrow...
https://nitter.esmailelbob.xyz/CryptoDevil


Try this https://proton.me/support/pay-with-bitcoin


I dont think you do it in quite the same way. You add credit then convert that into the subscription.


You can already pay for proton mail with btc. I always do.


Sounds like it, and if someone is using the old version of the app they'll still be able to find you so backend hasn't changed at all.


Ninja suit 🤣 Why sign anything when you have evidence like that?!


Lol, so like having to open a bank account with the same bank as each shop you ever want to use! Such vision.


What's this mean? The only way for a merchant to accept payment is if customer also has coinbase account?!


Heading to Japan for a few weeks. Looks like BTC already at ATH against the yen 😃


Justin still around, thought they'd rounded up most of the twats from last bull market. Shame.


CSW bad with both code and words it seems. Also faces and names! 🤣


And the odds of being passed on to the CPS just got that little bit better!


Yeah way too much of craigs nonsense in there. Also 'But because COPA is the plaintiff, it must demonstrate that Wright is not who he claims to be' - wrong, as usual another journalist completely out of their depth.


Think CSW just waived privilege. Shit just got real!


Be pissed before lunch!


This mofo 🤣🤣!!

C: You speculate why AlixPartners didn't image the BDO drive. They have told your solicitors they had no knowledge of Samsung drive.
W: They said lots of things, changed their story multiple times.

https://nitter.perennialte.ch/bitnorbert/status/1755913628077744379#m


The aus tax office picked its moment?!


Even more comedy gold?!


Watching v is for vendetta again as its on tv


Electrum you pos force closing on me 1st time I try and use the channel!


Lol just looked up Lord Grabiner, CSW lawyer.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Grabiner,_Baron_Grabiner

Denounced in an official report by Members of Parliament re collapse of Arcadia group -

’He was content to provide a veneer of establishment credibility to the group while happily disengaging from the key decisions he had a responsibility to scrutinise'

Sounds like CSW found the right man for the job!


How does Creg ever get anything done with those dastardly computers modifying his files in the background?!


Actually temped to get some, monero is good for bitcoin.


LOL judging on https://nitter.perennialte.ch/bitnorbert/status/1755183741956227500#m notes this is an absolute car crash for CSW. How much shit will he have spun by day 6, COPA probably following up with Ontier, contacting cytrix, Looking for Jonny the American lawyer and who could forget Papa Neema?!? Not to mention saying both forensics experts weren't up to the task, I guess not everyone can get in to Charles Sturt Uni!! I think he's also droped all his previous lawyers/solicitors in the shit and now even his own and I think he might be talking law shit to the Judge!!!


Doesn't need to be SMS though so its OK.


Nice that his dumped Ontier right in the shit!


Crazy huh?! Yet if you're a UK citizen you better be careful what you say. Makes you wonder what else the courts are being used to hush up.


https://craigwright.net/blog/bitcoin-blockchain-tech/the-story-of-bitcoin-continued/

Enjoy 🤣


He probably has a whole catch me if you can type backstory waiting to be told, similar to his exploits in South America on operation jawbreaker, or his martial arts training by mystical old masters...


Its 2024 and news articles are still talking about the power use of single bitcoin tx and 7/tx per second.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/02/us_currency_power_bitcoin/


There probably many on Nostr that know that by default it's not really great for privacy. For example the original and probably still the most common DM spec where you can see whos communicating with whom, or clients that automatically open urls/img in those events... Those people probably aren't the loudest though.


Well that's what Apple is offering so far,not sure it'll be enough to satisfy EU. Nevertheless fuck apple.


Seems fine, its good to be able to see that the ETF actually have the funds. You can't cash out btc so they're not going to blow anyone privacy by sending to them either.


Congrats, hope Craig's year continues as it's begun!


I remember working with people who had outlook pop a message whenever they receive a mail. I could never understand why anyone would want that.


This fucking guy!!
https://craigwright.net/blog/bitcoin-blockchain-tech/dr-craig-wright-issues-settlement-offer-to-copa-members-and-all-parties-in-upcoming-intellectual-property-litigation/


Going today without kids.


Sparrow v1.8.2 released with:

Improved transaction tree
Quicker transaction tab loading
Reduced rescans on Bitcoin Core
Effective fee rate for CPFP

And more: https://github.com/sparrowwallet/sparrow/releases/tag/1.8.2

https://sparrowwallet.com/download/


https://taxjustice.net/2014/10/08/money-taxation-isnt-theft/
Just read this...


https://nitter.net/ColinLeMahieu based in London... Nano and BSV wtf did we do to deserve this?!


Mercurylayer seems like a interesting scaling solution:

https://mercurylayer.com/


Nice


Lol get in there Bedford!


Was X ever a thing? I remember using something called twitter back in 22!


Just got to the end and the main pos actually got zero jail time and praised for his co-oporation with FBI! Probably scamming again already, and it doesn't even look like they made much effort to recover funds from him. Ffsk!


In 10 years or so that $10k will have the whole country working full time for the IRS reporting on then fellow citizens.


Just watching bitconned on Netflix... Knew 2017 was crazy but who actually falls for this shit!


Just noticed the option to bookmark in both amythyst and iris so no longer have to like anything that I planned to go back and look at.


Scam should be the default position on anything cryptocurrency.


A years a long time, things might look very different dec 31st 2024. Best of luck.


They take 100% of the goodwill we created over the last 2 years, sell it to the Chinese, and give us 5% back to legitimize it all.


2-4% isn't a dump. Cash payouts probably coming from coin trustees already sold.


Pretty much any comment section on any IT site, about anything!


Almost back to bitcoin is doomed because fees are too low times!


I find it confusing just working out what's custodial and not in the lighting world..! Anyway in my understanding, sending is pretty easy non custodial its receiving that's a pain, so for example here on nostr I have a custodial address to receive zaps but I'd never actually use that wallet to send.


Any android bitcoin wallets support psbt, e.g via nfc with a colfcard?


Lol csw is from fucked.. Some on x shoild try and get Arthur van pelt over here.


I miss the excitement of not knowing if i was pasting my public or private though!


I feel nothing. Have a 16sat/vb ready to broadcast when things blow over... If anything I might reduce the fee.


Cashu token at each hop sounds good... Just started playing with the ecash Python code.


Someone actually wrote a non official nip for this a while back. I started writing some python code doing the basics ... But i wasn't sure if it was crazy good or crazy bad! https://github.com/monty888/republishstr


Have Argentinians ever had a bitcoin bear market?!🤣


Having the bluesky company probably helps e.g. they have a job opening for a Community & Strategic Partnerships Lead. Nostr is pretty chaotic in comparison. I expect if nostr ever starts getting more mainstream users it'll be via a app built atop of nostr that executes really well and has a contact point for journos to talk of visions and such stuff..


Sadly r/buttcoin has deteriorated in the same way as r/bitcoin has. It used to have better criticism in the same way way that r/bitcoin sometimes had stuff other than price memes. I guess things just moved on... Maybe some butters will turn up here some day!


The bitcoin white paper explaining POW is relatively easy to read and reason about, even if working out how things will actually play out in reality might not be. I've yet to see anything similar for a POS consensus mechanism. It just inherently seems more complex and for that reason I'm out.


Clients should try their best to support delete but users need to understand the limits. How many people got burned believing in snapchats empheral messages.


The clients really need to handle the delete events also I think, assuming that's what the user wants. They could also have an option to show events that have previously been deleted.


begun the OP_RETURN was have!


for got the image...
https://monty888.com/images/tx_info.png


Anyone know why you'd bump fees like this? The tx is already going to get mined but it looks to me like the tx is still (automatically?) getting fee bumped every few secs


Just fed some goats at https://lightning-goats.com/


nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg hi, justing playing with enuts cashu wallet. Really slick, good work.
On send via nostr, would it be possible to just add a scan of the npub there/paste epub as maybe they're not contact. Also a simple text search would be nice where you have a lot of follows.


How does it compare to something like cashu? I think its possible for an ecash mint to be multisig like liquid.


Lol r/buttcoin


Cool looks like you can now login to bitrefill using a lightning wallet.


The 2min read warning on UK bitcoin services is getting a little annoying now seeing as there doesn't seem to be a way to get rid of it..!


reminds me of how video was manipulated in the running man film.


Location test


Not sure because it probably depends on how/why you use that wallet. I have used electrum on mobile and desktop at the same time. If you have the mnemonic keys  its not necessary that the mobile and desktop have to be the same software.


And it supports BSV which is pretty sus...


Had to give Cockney Violin a listen just to see what it was.


Alex de Vries bs again.


Btc currently making 50x bch block reward in feed alone. Nice


https://iris.to/ goto settings social graph maybe?


They pretty much say they'll be no privacy.


Programmability and balancing privacy sections are worth a read, sure they won't be front and center during any marketing or gov rollout.


’skyline' is feed too triggering also!


Looking forward to all that linked browsing history being sold and linked with facial recognition contact lenses..


Is there anyway to attach a small payment to a nostr event in a way that it can be claimed by the relay you post it through? I suppose you could encrypt a cashu claim encrypted with relays pub key and tag it to the note...


Bless them. Though 6 years ago I couldn't have sent a few SATs your way and not even noticed fees were high.


High btc fees also good talking point to pump whatever shitcoin also. Got to spend money to make money!


https://monty888.com/images/signing.mp4
NIP46 signing from python, only problem is getting rate limited trying to make the command responses... 😞


'and relevant parts of its code will be published open source to exclude any possibility of misuse, illegal tracking, tracing or government interception.' That's alright then...


Lol


Threshold 0EUR, really looking forward to tracking down those names and addresses for those 21sat zaps I get on here!


Especially if you like to clean out cookies and disable scripts.


Like the bad guys in Austin Powers that won't die!


Think BLW, OBW were from the same family and they're were the lightning wallets, used them from when lightning was reckless until they finally stopped being developed. Tried pretty much every other wallet but they were best in my opinion.


About four layers down into some code I wrote trying to make an ’easy' change... Fucks sake, don't remember writing any code whilst drunk but...!


There was a point where I could recognize who wrote an event via the hex pub key.


US military spending almost as much as Walmart and Amazons REVENUE together!


This is my garage except all the bikes are thrown on top of each other in a disorganized mess!


#nostrnovember KICKS OFF TODAY!

Last year JB invited us to isolate ourselves on nostr to figure out what bugged us and to try to improve the nostr social user experience (in other words: build). This year we do the opposite! Builders have built, a lot, since last year so this year we want to also focus on spreading the word about nostr in other social channels!

Get your favorite streamer over to zap.stream!
Get your favorite cook to post their secret recipies at nostr.cooking!
Get your favorite shitposter over to your favorite social client!
Get your favorite blogger/newsletter over to habla.news!
Get your favorite Pinterest account over to pinstr.app!
Get your questionaire guy(wat?) over to formstr.app!

GO PURPLE PILL THE MASSES!

nostr:nevent1qqsytj78t62e7llm7k3pf3gaphd2xencpv7820qsj2fy0gs3ea0spfspzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejsz9nhwden5te0wfjkccte9ehx7um5wghxyctwvsvy7a7z


Electrum, and previously obw on mobile wallets have worked well for me. Have previously had own clightning node set up but that definitely felt like a lot of work for a worse experience, at least for the amount of effort I was prepared to put in.


Well I guess one thing would be that even bitcoiners have other interests (hopefully!) Maybe start posting about those. It's easy to have multiple accounts so you can keep things compartmentalized too.


Also just 'bug fixes' ..


You can also do relaying similar to tor using wrapped events see https://github.com/motorina0/nips/blob/republish_events/705.md I coded up a rough version in Python a while back https://github.com/monty888/republishstr


While everyone euphoric from this #bitcoin pump, now would be a good time to submit your comments to FinCEN regarding the proposed totalitarian surveillance rule that was just published.

**Comments are due by January 22, 2024.**

PLEASE REPLY TO THIS NOTE and add the text of comments you submit for others to utilize in their submissions.
***
Comments must be submitted by one of the following methods:

Federal E-rulemaking Portal: https://www.regulations.gov.

Follow the instructions for submitting comments. Refer to Docket Number FINCEN–2023–0016 in the submission.

Mail:

Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, P.O. Box 39, Vienna, VA 22183. Refer to Docket Number FINCEN–2023–0016 in the submission.
***
Here is the FinCen “Proposal of Special Measure Regarding Convertible Virtual Currency Mixing, as a Class of Transactions of Primary Money Laundering Concern” which was added to the Federal Registrar today:

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/10/23/2023-23449/proposal-of-special-measure-regarding-convertible-virtual-currency-mixing-as-a-class-of-transactions

***
Here is some info on global money laundering that may be helpful:

https://withpersona.com/blog/the-most-mind-blowing-money-laundering-statistics-of-2022

PLEASE ADD ANY OTHER LINKS, IDEAS, COMMENTS THAT MAY BE HELPFUL FOR OTHERS TO UTILIZE ⬇


Connecting to my bitcoind via nostr.

Like the way the comms are all indirect.
Think I could probably have some simple serverless pages that can replace mobile wallet, or for example generate addresses to coldwallet,allow to monitor funds etc.

https://monty888.com/images/bitcoind_bot.mp4


Dear NOSTR developers.
I want to work on an Adult Noster client designed for mature adult consumers.
I can not code.
I do know what makes a good adult site.
I've been in the adult industry for 17 years in just about every aspect.
I can also do site content, writing, and digital art.

Boost this. Please. Boost this.

Let's get it done before some developers ruin NOSTR for adult providers while denying their own personal opinions on content amount to censorship on a protocol that is supposed to be for freedom.


It's filmed over here so my partner is one of the down deepers!


Basically the CCP approach isn't it?


Stupid laws like that apply to monero also.


Lol at least the nostr lasted about 9 and half years longer than xitter!


Be good to have at least one good none bitcoin group of users I think. Though I suppose it'll always be somewhat low as it so easy to create new accounts, maybe a lot of the lost accounts are just devs test accounts... I have a few!


I just don't want every boring comment I'd make coming up in a search engine for my name.. Always hated Facebook for their real name policy. Tagging everything online to your real name plus something like Google glass etc sounds hellish to me.


Or coincorner even! Lol


This kinda feels like someone is pulling your plonker... On the other hand coinfloor did recently ask my net worth or something similar out of the blue that I did think why..?


Link previews seem like a bad idea for a private messenger in general.


So sad. Humanity is just so messed up sometimes.


hello there my dude


Predetermined.


test


Lucky have old phone so just used that. The ticket has a barcode on it which I bet they just scan anyhow. Yeah contacting support always option but weird theyd make you jump through hoops, how hard is it to have a link to PDF format?! I now hate Watford fc, hope we smash them!


Just bought so tickets for a football match, but annoyingly they come as NFC mobile tickets... Is there a way to use these on #grapheneos without installing google wallet?


If you're like me and appreciate the fuck out of GrapheneOS the devs are currently hard at work getting Android 14 into it.

They've always been speedy and the OS is the best Android experience I've ever had, and I've been into custom OS & ROMs since the early days.

Great time for some encouragement and appreciation.
(they accept crypto ofc)

https://grapheneos.org/donate

#GrapheneOS #Android #Privacy


You can still do that after you learn to code, but you'll have more chance to get the clusterfuck you receive from the 'ai' and PhD to actually work!


Basic nip98 server in python (at least I think I'm implementing correctly anyway lol!)

https://github.com/monty888/crackle


Finally watching matrix resurrections, missed it in the cinema. Hopefully not complete shit..


Yes.


Just looked in on r/bitcoincashsv ...eek some of these people will follow all the way to craigstown...


Tired to zap youbutb get err your alby might be down.


Thanks, I'll give it a try.


Lol sounds like you need more wallets! Seriously through OBW (previously SBW) has always been good, sadly think it might be EOL now through. Also the lighting support in electrum is working really well for me now, used not to.


Wonder why Firefox don't have apk file you can download direct from them and not in fdroid either?..


Trying openboad too and I see this, also if you backspace into a full stop some it's not happy either!


Actuality surprised that 150 people is only about 15% of the company!


Web install, chromium browser on Linux mint. Def going to try some other keyboards. As for the sticky out camera ,maybe will be OK if get a case for the phone.


Also thesticky out camera strip,yuk!!


Not so bad, now just need to set up how I like. Might take a little while to get used to this keyboard...!


Just bought a Pixel7 going to try and put GrapheneOS on it, hopefully I don't brick the thing straight away!


Just did small thing - update nostr to show playing track from clementine music player.
https://github.com/monty888/clementine-nostr


Still annoyed the Danny Boyle bond film never got made.


Was on vine 🤣


So many good films! Will have to try making list. Try to get some good films that maybe less well known, like old HK films, god of gamblers, Mr vampire etc..


Just looked at your nostree site/ favourite movies. Not bad! Just need to add 2001, the shining and maybe some Indy!


Never fancied it much before but keep seeing it mentioned and it looks like it's a very different film to what I was imagining.


Yeah that's the one


Feel like I should watch American psychopath, never seen it before.


Kiwi browser on Android works with extensions. I use it daily with nos2x, works great.


Check out my stall on plebian market. So far I have some stickers and birthday cards that pay people bitcoin.

https://plebeian.market/stall/bloggingbitcoin


Does anyone even use chase in the UK? Weren't they the bank that got done creating fraudulent accounts for people, in which case I'd be more worried being scammed by them...


Interesting perspective though I think it might be a good idea to at least have a split where you have your anon life plus a 'legit' boring Joe life. Not sure I'm quite ready for a citadel!


Doesn't sound like it does from quick scan of the article. Unfortunately not everything can be fixed solely via tech.. E.g in the UK if you buy a house you're going to need to explain source of funds (unless Russia it seems!) How would monero help there?


Probably some clients don't even verify that events match the filter...


If you set up lightning address on your profile then you can receive tips in bitcoin. On nostr referred to as zaps.


Viewer and poster from cli here that I still work on
https://github.com/monty888/monstr_terminal


Don't go dogging in a Nissan!


Out of interest is that why you don't have zaps setup?


Good work all.


Yeah seems a lot of relays are struggling. Find getting fetches of past data slow. Updates of current posts seem to be going OK though.


    with ClientPool('wss://relay.nostr.info') as c:
        followers = c.query({
            'kinds': [Event.KIND_CONTACT_LIST],
            '#p': ['3efdaebb1d8923ebd99c9e7ace3b4194ab45512e2be79c1b7d68d9243e0d2681']
        })

        ufs = {ContactList.from_event(c).owner_public_key for c in followers}

        # this will timeout
        metas1 = c.query({
            'kinds': [Event.KIND_META],
            'authors': list(ufs)
        }, timeout=5)

        # this will return ok in damus
        q = []
        for k in util_funcs.chunk(list(ufs),250):
            q.append({
                'kinds': [Event.KIND_META],
                'authors': k
            })
        metas2 = c.query(q, timeout=5)
        print(len(metas1) == len(metas2))


So I've tried relay.nostr.info and bootstrap my client from it a few times and all seems to work OK for me.

I had an issue with this event b19927cc51e45bff87628a15f8f643f452d67ab9c5b936163c906825be585e34 because python won't let me convert the ticks on this to a date (its year 54460?!)
But that's more my issue, I should probably be dropping this event upfront.

In addition I too a look at the specific case with large number of author, and both the split style on single worked Ok for large number (>1000) on damus relay only the split style returns, though it no longer errors/returns a notice of too many keys so it might return eventually.


Sure I'll test against it tomorrow.


Yeah it seems like something the relay should deal with but it was necessary for now.


Even on non controversial topics its output has a marketing/pr kind of feel to it. Lots of words but little content, or clear that it doesn't really understand what it's talking about. That said I think it has great potential... e.g. I'd really like have something like it integrated into the terminal so I could interact with the computer more naturally. I think humans have a few more years of usefulness yet at least as demonstrated by the output of this model!


If people shouldn't be treated differently based on gender terms what purpose do they serve? Give a practical example.


But what actual useful information is being transmitted by these different gender terms? Are you saying that a man that says they are he/him should be treated different to one that says they are she/her? That sounds sexist.


Friends and family having cameras in their homes, arkward. Fortunately I don't think I know anyone with cameras but sure a lot have mics everywhere even if you discount mobile phones that everyone is carrying. Going to need to start having Faraday cage rooms in houses so everyone can relax.


Been black Friday for a year now. Bitcoin CEO needs to put prices back up.


Lol cultural appropriation!


Nice.


Green tax on bitcoin holdings... They know you had it at some point. Itd be a tough spot. Suddenly you're a criminal and much of the public would be on side.


Not sure, wouldn't the gox administrators have claim on that?


And they used customer deposits to fund/pump their shitty investments. Betfair ring-fenced customer funds right from the start, yet who knows what most crypto exchanges are doing.?! Calling them casinos is actually a compliment, most are nowhere near as professional, well run or honest!


You can easily do that already.


Proper dedication!


Just trying out rgb iris wallet


Yep 5c4bf3e548683d61fb72be5f48c2dff0cf51901b9dd98ee8db178efe522e325f... Though more of a lurker than poster!