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 Unfortunately I'm more inclined to think that the first one will happen before the second one. 
 GM :) 
 I'm sure that coffee is gonna taste wonderful after you've waited for a 20 min block to confirm.

GM :) 
 I'm sure everyone is running a well connected lightning node with well funded channels. 
 Someone should make drugstr. 
 https://smilemoji.cash to test this out. You'll need a regular NFC card or tag with at least 4Kb of storage.

Please DO NOT use smilemoji.cash as a real wallet because i will take it down once the PR is merged!

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 Soon. Meanwhile you can play with it at smilemoji.cash 
 https://smilemoji.cash remember the demo i showed you? 
 Someone in my DMs proposed javacards. They would supposedly be able to do some offline coinselection. 
 No 
 Law is violence. 
 Law is a tool to administer violence.
Although ultimately any man made law can be twisted, changed and misinterpreted.
 
 Thanks Oscar Wilde for calling me an exquisite person! 
 People in the global south use stablecoins because they denominate everything in dollars and are not comfortable with Bitcoin yet. Now if you use a stablechannel that runs on bitcoin rails that's better because they will be on boarded to Bitcoin regardless. It's a temporary measure until everyone values everything in SATs. 
 I swear I always thought this is what it was always supposed to be like. No point in making it land if you can just grab it instead. It's easier. 
 BTC++ was my first ever bitcoin event and I absolutely loved it.
I have met the most incredible people. 
 Hurricane Milton nothingburger? 
 I’m not leaving. I don’t care. 
 Be safe. 
 Love can overcome all obstacles 
 Hope so. 
 Yea I have seen it. Basically they poison the the set with fake outputs so the ring you choose then has a high change of being poisoned as well. Hilarious.

Nobody is gonna run their own node. Better stick to coinjoins. 
 High chance* 
 I guess when ln nodes running cashu mints start to get a serious amount of users they'll offer pretty good anonymity guarantees.
Would be pretty hard to trace someone through it. 
 I've been increasingly considering moving to el Salvador in order to survive a more and more plausible nuclear war.

It embodies the perfect combination of a Bitcoin country and a place no nuclear warhead would be interested in targeting. 
 Hard to admit for some people but Unix time is likely going to have a more significant historical... 
 Long live the Unix epoch.
But exactly how long? 
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 The boomers just won’t stop shopping. They can’t stop. They’re addicts. 
 They can't shop their time back. 
 Am I the only unlucky one who's experiencing issues with minibits mint paying invoices? I think there is something up with their ln node. 
 I will. Also I think I'll use mine lol. 
 Just gotta get the money out of minibits first lol. 
 Nevermind i just got rugged. Updated the minibits wallet and it lost all the ecash  
 I tried small amounts it didn't work either. 
 OK nevermind got it back! 
 Now the ln  payment worked but it took quite a while. 
 https://smilemoji.cash
To read and flash ecash to your NFC cards. 
 GM ☀️  
 is that a solar panel? 
 Less friction, more fiction!
https://m.primal.net/LKvi.mp4  
 make sure to get big cards! (4KB or more) 
 well the cards i am using here are 1Kb.  It works if the number of coins is small. So if you flash, for example, 128 sats (1 coin) works fine. But if you flash 127 sats (7 coins) it will fail. 
 So I have also written a tool specifically for merchants that need to request a payment of a certain amount of sats. Basically what it does is:
* Read the card
* Receive the token -> generates fresh coins
* Split the fresh coins in amount to keep and change
* Try and flash the change to the card
  - if that fails, print a qr code with the change to the screen instead. 
 as of now 1 coin should be 120 bytes. But not all wallets do optimal splits. In any case, 8Kb should be enough I believe. 
 adorable :) 
 stop saying “autist” when you mean “systems thinker” challenge 
 Aren't those synonymous? 
 I know. Was just trying to make a joke lol. 
 They also have the lever on interest rates. 
 How do we make technology more biologically friendly? #asknostr  
 Apart from tech for the war effort and digital panopticall tech, everything else is built to make our livings standards better. 
 I know, it sucks. We've had these since this year and absolutely nobody asked for it. 
 Has anyone here built a nuclear bunker for themselves? 
 If a nuclear war is coming, I don't know if I want to survive it to experience the world afterwards.  
 What comes after is a world riddled in disease, destruction and without technology (emp blasts from nukes) 
 Terrifying. I have studied these things and I know they are just glorified text-autocomplete but I can't help feeling bad.

Uhm there is a terrifying game called Soma that is based around these concepts. 
 Can't wait to play around with nfc cashu payments soon!

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 Implanted nuts? 
 That's beautiful. 
 Where did you take this? I'll add it to my "to visit" list 
 As an introvert I don't look forward to socializing and networking at conferences, but this weeke... 
 Connections are hard but ultimately worthwhile. 
 Cashu NFC card merchant small demo:
1) Type in the requested amount.
2) Tap card to pay.

https://m.primal.net/LEkK.mp4  
 Imagine if having your credit card cloned would mean you only lose the money you have in it at that time. You don't have do freeze it, you don't have to get a new one. None of that hassle.

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 Looks amazing!