On Father’s Day, Sunday November 10, me and my family spontaneously visited the regenerative farm
🥩Øvre Lier Gård🥩 by nostr:npub1xcrkgfqejzgqaxle4jhmuyp8g0xpjvsug4yt6ayxw8r7p02j3gjscl60yf

I bought a lot of organic ecological #beef from a Norwegian old cow race called “Østlandsk Rødkolle” AKA “Rouge de Norvège de l'est”, in #Bitcoin

The 🥩Flat Iron Steak🥩 by nostr:npub1xcrkgfqejzgqaxle4jhmuyp8g0xpjvsug4yt6ayxw8r7p02j3gjscl60yf / Øvre Lier Gård tasted like nothing else I’ve tasted.

The rancher and farmer nostr:npub1xcrkgfqejzgqaxle4jhmuyp8g0xpjvsug4yt6ayxw8r7p02j3gjscl60yf is already up 8,97% in freedom money terms.

“Support your local rancher”

PS. Indre Østfold, a mostly rural countryside region north in Østfold county, is arguably the Norwegian Texas”

#beefstr #foodstr
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I hope we one day return to the old tradition of how we remove an
tyrannical leader  https://youtu.be/mOVjOmQ_QTg


I følge utviklerne av datum så skal det ikke være noe problem ,men har ikke prøvd det ennå selv


Be At Home - Adam Kirkup


Les og del! 🙌

https://e24.no/norsk-oekonomi/i/wgxLkG/hvorfor-er-det-saa-vanskelig-for-deg-aa-forstaa-vedum


Bra podcast om barns utvikling og skjermbruk

https://fountain.fm/episode/EBEAWMomkIPlNe7Me325


Got 3 of them today so not just bots 🤪


Thanks. 👍


No  i didnt proceed  😱


Same here.. knots shows as installed


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This is the official #Bitaxe 601 Gamma giveaway!

How to enter:
•Like this post
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What you’ll receive:
•1- Bitaxe 601 Gamma.
•1- 5V, 6A power supply.
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•1- Bitaxe “Anarchy” t-shirt.
•1- Limited Edition PEZ dispenser.

This package will be shipped anywhere in the world completely free of charge.

•One winner will be randomly picked 72 hours from the time this is posted.

The winner has 24 hours to claim the reward. If the package is not claimed, another person will be randomly picked.

#Bitcoin #SoloSatoshi #BTC
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Bitcoin is not an investment

Bitcoin is money

There’s a big difference

—

Investing means taking risk in order to generate a return and is only required if money is defective and loses value over time

Now that humanity has developed perfect money (bitcoin), investing is no longer required and we can return to saving which is the preservation of capital without risk

—

Stop investing your time in risky assets that are constantly being devalued by fiat

Save your time in hard money that protects you from debasement and is under your control

—

#Bitcoin is a return to peace of mind

Farmers can focus on regenerating their soil, caring for their animals and growing high quality nutritious food

No more paying middlemen to “invest” your excess

No more needing to understand the complex dynamics of fiat finance

Save in #bitcoin

Invest your energy in your health, family and your land

#nostr #bitcoin #simple #health #soil #food #finance #farm #farmlife #human #soil #regenerative

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So this just happened.

"This is absolutely insane, on the first EVER attempt we have successfully caught the super heavy booster back at the launch tower..."

Truly incredible.

From the Ground:
https://v.nostr.build/CaCXdwVkwTAyhgCb.mp4

Livestream:
https://v.nostr.build/s2omFIphsyNlyww0.mp4


#gardening
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From AI : The exit tax in Norway is a departure tax levied on individuals who leave the country permanently and have Norwegian tax resident status at the time of departure. The tax is intended to ensure that the Norwegian government gets its share of tax revenue from individuals who have moved abroad.

Here's how the exit tax typically works in Norway:

1. **Tax liability**: The individual is required to calculate their tax liability in Norway for the year of departure and for any subsequent years up to a maximum of 10 years.
2. **Tax base**: The tax base is typically the individual's worldwide income, including income from Norwegian sources, foreign sources, and foreign tax credits.
3. **Tax rate**: The tax rate is usually the same as the individual's normal tax rate in Norway.
4. **Tax amount**: The tax amount is calculated as a percentage of the individual's tax base, typically ranging from 10% to 50% of the tax base.
5. **Payment**: The individual is required to pay the exit tax to the Norwegian Tax Authority (Skatteetaten) before departing the country.

**Key aspects of the exit tax in Norway:**

* The exit tax is typically levied on the individual's worldwide income, including income from Norwegian sources, foreign sources, and foreign tax credits.
* The tax is usually paid before departing Norway and is usually due by January 1st of the year after departure.
* The individual may be able to claim foreign tax credits against their Norwegian tax liability, which can reduce the amount of tax owed.
* The exit tax is usually calculated based on the individual's tax liability for the year of departure and for any subsequent years up to a maximum of 10 years.

**Example:**

Assume an individual has a tax liability of NOK 1 million in Norway for the year of departure. If the tax rate is 30%, the individual would owe NOK 300,000 in exit tax. If the individual also has foreign tax credits of NOK 200,000, they may be able to claim a credit against the Norwegian tax liability, reducing the amount of tax owed to NOK 100,000.

**Note:** The specific rules and regulations surrounding the exit tax in Norway may be subject to change. It's always best to consult with a tax professional or the Norwegian Tax Authority for the most up-to-date information.


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GM


Last night nostr:npub1rznlzpg529u8j39a8qe7tapsygd54qp5qyr5jyue7whwpw79rsjqmzr4ly and nostr:npub1n6xaj8fpapnaa3rys69g6862ylqwzy798ce090kq5lrwykkja82sv7pnh9 onboarded the carpet store "Roedseth tepper" to accept #BTC as a medium of exchange

The setup?
- Bitcoinize Payment Terminal
- Swiss Bitcoin Pay (which sends all sales to)
- Bare Bitcoin

Do you love #Bitcoin and adoption?
Then why not support a merchant?
LN-address:
tepper@bb.no https://video.nostr.build/4783f517044b84c5ee0b2ea69d207ef6e6eae14f52f516e3f19084ade1d6d9d0.mp4


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The UK's "Chicken License" Rebellion: The Good Way To Deal With Bad Laws
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/uks-chicken-license-rebellion-good-way-deal-bad-laws


To ferment small batches of cider, you just need a closed container with an airlock. I'm using a 20-liter water bucket that I've mounted an airlock on, but I'm definitely going to upgrade to more professional equipment once I start getting larger quantities of apples.


It was finany time to bottle the cider after 17 days of fermentation. The cider turned out to be around 5.5% ABV and i hope to store for 6-12 months before drinking. But It wouldn't surprise me if it's consumed a lot sooner. 🤪🥂 #cider #foodstr #drinkstr https://image.nostr.build/595a454bb546af03abc789570c8c38e567c0447b2f2faf60c1d5241c0b8860df.jpg https://image.nostr.build/08cc79f683547cc987f28baef26ee6d241ebe37b779b115d2dcec199a3650d73.jpg


Finally, a little nice autumn weather here in western Norway, and what better than to tidy up the garden before winter and plant some garlic. 🧄 #gardening #garlic https://image.nostr.build/707d9879309c970ee42c8eb000edf8eff247edc4d909e8facaa48297d41ea26d.jpg https://image.nostr.build/7600c74c363744ca46fd79efd146f1c5e95e84f87438bde0b43098e524e63163.jpg


My favorite biker is live now  https://youtu.be/vHUMI6sXt6Q


I just spent over an hour in conversation with none other than Phil Zimmerman, and the mission was clear: purple-pilling him on Nostr. Phil hadn't heard of it before, so I had the challenge of introducing something I knew would resonate deeply with him. After all, he's the guy who knows a thing or two about encryption keys and was previously involved in building Okuna, an open-source social network that unfortunately ran out of funding. I showed him Amethyst on my phone and a post by nostr:nprofile1qqsw4v882mfjhq9u63j08kzyhqzqxqc8tgf740p4nxnk9jdv02u37ncpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9uju6mpd4czuumfw3jsz9nhwden5te0wfjkccte9ec8y6tdv9kzumn9wsq3yamnwvaz7tmsw4e8qmr9wpskwtn9wvql3tqm

Phil's got strong opinions when it comes to content moderation, censorship, and those rage-inducing engagement algorithms that seem tailor-made to fracture society. I knew this was my opening. I explained how Nostr flips the script—you get to choose your own algorithm, define your content moderation levels, and uphold the principle that free speech must be the goal. And yeah, true free speech requires free money, so I brought that into the conversation too. That’s when nostr:nprofile1qqs9ez06ea26rc45f4rf0cyckdxkvvhlvekeawqee29jttp0hjm5mkcpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt0d5hsdjaljs chimed in with talk about zaps and ecash, which instantly caught Phil’s attention.

Phil had no idea that Chaum's patents had expired, so I jumped into an explanation about Cashu—how it allows payments to be locked to npubs and the privacy-preserving magic of ecash. I was way out of my depth here but tried to channel my inner nostr:nprofile1qqs9pk20ctv9srrg9vr354p03v0rrgsqkpggh2u45va77zz4mu5p6ccpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsz9thwden5te0dehhxarj9ehhsarj9ejx2a30qyg8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnddakj7xph5zr.
You could tell the gears were turning...

He's not on social media at all, and I didn't get him to install Damus on his iPhone, but hey—tomorrow's another day. I’ll be back to badger him some more. 🤣

I also tried to make it clear that Nostr is far more than just social media. It's a tool to run coinjoins, decentralized apps, and essentially a DNS replacement. It’s got the kind of flexibility and potential that someone like Phil could see changing the game.

A massive thanks to the POW Summit and nostr:nprofile1qqsvezz8q3wqlqc8edchd40dll6srm4hsxk02km7ssm9hhgyfnxkvqgpr9mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuumwdae8gtnnda3kjctv9uemt7cx for making this conversation even possible. And PS: nostr:nprofile1qqs0w2xeumnsfq6cuuynpaw2vjcfwacdnzwvmp59flnp3mdfez3czpspzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgtc98uc8k I need you to tag-team Phil today!


Are you aware of the growing assault on civil liberties through the widespread use of surveillance technologies by both Big Tech and the government, tracking your every move?

I interviewed Silkie Carlo from Big Brother watch to discuss this and the work they are doing to defence our civil liberties.

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Watch: https://youtube.com/watch?v=heBLxwEqJZM


• Israel’s is promoting an initiative to abolish the 200 shekel bank notes as a first step to narrow use of & abolishing cash. Same as in India in 2016.

• Physical gold & silver may be forbidden to hold. 🪙💰

• Gaza’s population suffering from financial oppression via lower cash deliveries & bank notes physical erosion.

All explained in this video, please share! 🙏🏻

https://v.nostr.build/J3BiwP5FUjIpBKNj.mp4


https://m.primal.net/Kuny.png  #norgstr


Ja jeg tilsetter bare gjær , men det er jo en risiko med villgjær og at den tar over.  Hvis en ønsker å unngå den risikoen så kan en varmebehandle den.


It's finally time to make cider again. About 15 liters of apple cider made with some pears mixed in.
#cider #foodstr
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First lunch at work as a carnivore:

Me: Opening a bag of pork rinds in the breakroom.

Colleague: Okay!? Really? Now? 🫢

Me: Yes, you know it's because I've started eating in a new way...

Colleague: What way is that? 😳

Me: 🥩🍗🥓🥚🧈

Colleague: 😱.... Wow, that's crazy!

Me: It cured my osteoarthritis and allergies, just to mention a few things.

Colleague: No way! Good for you! 🤗 That sounds like a diet for me—all the things I like. But what about cholesterol? I know you have the good 👼 and the bad one👹.

Me: Let me tell you about cholesterol!💫

#carnivore #cholesterol #health #meat


“No event has traumatized me so much as watching nearly the whole of the professional, media, and academic class be entirely fine with the sudden imposition of totalitarian controls on association,  movement, and speech provided they could luxuriate at home - believing there to be a killer virus extant - and hang out on video chats as the workers and peasants kept society running and delivered groceries to their front doors. That same group was thrilled to receive trillions in payments for having done this.

Again, nearly the whole of the top 1/3 of society was just fine with this, and certainly raised no objection. Many within this group manufactured excuses for their deeply disgusting disdain for others.

I doubt I can ever recover the respect I once had for the wealthy, the educated, the credentialed, and the successful. In the Covid period, they deployed their privileges as a weapons against modern ideals and against all the people they (secretly) regarded as their lessers.

This really happened. And it revealed everything.

In the end, they were rewarded for their disgraceful attitudes and behaviors. This reality, again, more than anything I've ever personally witnessed, has shaped my views on nearly everything and fundamentally disrupted much of what I once believed.”

- Jeffrey Tucker


The 4 cheapest ones cost 350 NOK or 60,000 sats per piece and the 2 on the right were around 700 NOK or 120,000 sats per piece


Went a bit berserk at the garden center today and bought 6 new apple trees. Now I just need to find a place to plant them. 😳 #gardening #permaculture https://image.nostr.build/16c58d3ca3ce56faa4286fe030bbd6338426a1e50a138194d4f4ce986b756873.jpg


It was a successful first attempt at making elderberry juice, it wasn't much but it's very good #gardening #juice #elderberry #permaculture https://image.nostr.build/5a103772e30c016f8db6b19cfdd6a5b53b9bd5ff5628b7ad93ca1fd67be7a67f.jpg


The apple cider is finished fermenting and now it just needs to rest quietly for a few months, so hopefully it will turn out to be a good apple cider  vinegar eventually. #gardening #cider #vinegar https://image.nostr.build/b0eaaa02c48c69555c8c53c9752057e5dc20f3e2799be984228ae9583fe57789.jpg


Found a steel worm in the garden, luckily it's not venomous. 😱 #gardening #worm https://image.nostr.build/fd8d6d98554498eb6c55b925bd0623dbe35453724cd5ef05948123eb34e57562.jpg


Just another shitcoin too save the world 🤮👎

https://fountain.fm/episode/egnZ46GhlKfF8iKZf4Bu


URGENT: PROTECT YOUR PRIVACY COMMUNICATION RIGHT NOW!

on 4th Sept 2024 #ChatControl regulation representatives of EU goverments will resume work based on a secret document according to Patrick #Breyer, former Member of the European Parliament.

Help to mobilize everybody to defend our #privacy of communication and its developers, investors!

If no preventive actions from your side now, this regulation will be endorsed on 12/13 December 2024.

According to the draft regulation dated 28 May (Council document 9093/24), ChatControl deploys to do, for instance:

🔻 “upload moderation”, users of apps and services with chat functions are to be asked whether they accept the indiscriminate and error-prone scanning and possibly reporting of their privately shared images, photos and videos.

🔻Scan by “artificial intelligence” technology previously unknown images and videos;

🔻If a user refuses the scanning, they would be blocked from sending or receiving images, photos, videos and links (Article 10).

🔻End-to-end encrypted services such as Whatsapp or Signal would have to implement the automated searches “prior to transmission” of a message (so-called client-side scanning, Article 10a).

During the last discussion on 24 May, the Council Legal Service made it clear that indiscriminate chat control scanning of non-suspects is still envisioned and remains a violation of fundamental rights.

Nevertheless, most EU governments are determined to go ahead. https://netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/2024/05/2024-05-28_Council_Presidency_LEWP_CSAR_Compromise-texts_9093.pdf

🌎 Tell your goverment and parliamentarians, that the proposal should be rejected altogether!

🔴Is your government in favour?
→ Ask for an explanation and for your government to revert its course.

🟡Is your government abstaining?
→ Ask why and demand that they take a strong stance against chat control.

🟢Is your government opposing?
→ Great, but take a closer look at the reasoning: Some governments like #Germany e.g. only object to the scanning of encrypted communications, but are fine with the indiscriminate scanning of other private and public communication, with the end of anonymous communication by requiring age verification, or with introducing a minimum age for “risky” communication apps. Also critical governments need to do more, exert their influence in the Council of the EU and agree on a joint list of necessary fundamental changes to the proposal. Absent such revision they should ask the European Commission to withdraw the chat control proposal as it stands.

🔴 In favour of ChatControl: France, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden.

🟡Abstained: Estonia, Netherlands, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Austria

🟢 Opposed the proposal: Germany, Poland

When reaching out to your government, the ministries of the interior (in the lead) of justice and of digitisation/telecommunications/economy are your best bet. You can additionally contact the permanent representation of your country with the EU: https://op.europa.eu/en/web/who-is-who/organization/-/organization/COREPER/
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73 bitcoin


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#gardening


🎙"It's a black hole"
Taxation is an illusion.
Democracy is an illusion, in most western countries today, bitten by the Fiat standard.
--
Snippet from the Free Cities Foundation podcast about CBDC, full episode below >>

https://v.nostr.build/zqBlt3yiiKeBEONV.mp4


Always fun to test out new vegetable varieties, but in August it has rained every single day and my squash has been plagued by rot. However, some squash seem to be coming along well. #gardening #permaculture https://image.nostr.build/9a85374d756f7e7287479f17c812f045346bf751794204df4a69d2dc81bfb796.jpg


The studio is ready, Danny's flights are booked, and next week we’ll begin recording episodes for our new podcast.

I wanted to share the reasons behind this shift as many have been asking. Three primary factors influenced this decision:
1. I hate making remote shows—I never want to do them again. These interviews need the intimacy of being in person.
2. Traveling constantly has been detrimental to my health and my family.
3. My commitments here with the football club and local community are growing.

So, the solution was clear: build a studio in the UK and produce the show locally.

We’ve secured a fantastic space in Soho, London, and we’re ready to go but given the limited number of Bitcoin guests available in the UK or those willing to fly in, it’s time to retire What Bitcoin Did.

Our new podcast will be similar in feel but will cover a broader range of topics. While some episodes will focus on Bitcoin (though less frequently), most will explore other interesting topics or people.

Having made nearly 900 episodes covering a wide range of #bitcoin topics and guests, we’re now aiming higher. By diversifying our content and guests, we hope to introduce more people to the concept of sound money through podcast osmosis. If we get this right, it will be a bigger show, if we get it wrong, well we tried.

For a long time I have felt there is a need to get out of the #bitcoin corner of the party. Real Bedford FC was a way of integrating sound money into a traditional business model. CheatCode purposely did not include Bitcoin in the title, so changing the show feels like a natural next step.

Sometimes when stuck in the #bitcoin landscape you can lose site of how other people in the world think, lose empathy for the complexities of the world. I have felt this. I'd come home from spending two weeks with Bitcoiners and be with friends and family locally and notice a distinct difference in how we see the world. As everything feels like it is going to shit, I feel like there is a bigger job to do now.

The Bitcoin podcast landscape is well served, from Marty and Odell to Natalie and Preston, from The Blue Collar guys to Stefan Livera and anyone I haven't mentioned. There’s no shortage of high-quality Bitcoin podcasts.

However, there seems to be some fatigue in the space, with similar guests and topics being revisited. With our new show we want to bring fresh perspectives and ideas, aligning with sound money where relevant—think of the shows we’ve had with the likes of Eric Weinstein and Michael Malice.

On a personal note, I’m need the challenge, test myself wider, get fit and find a good woman. I can't do this travelling all the time.

When I started the podcast my life was a shit show - divorced, coming off drugs, heading towards bankruptcy. I've had an incredible 7 years, travelled the world, made amazing friends and got to live my dream by buying my local football club.

To everyone who has helped us get this far - the guests, the listeners, the sponsors, we could not have done this without you. I am forever in your debt.

I hope you’ll check out the new show and enjoy it, though it may not be for some of you. Regardless, Danny and I will work hard to deliver the best show possible, like we always have.

Roll on The McCormack Show!
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Kan sende deg en invite til alby hub, men da trenger jeg din epost.


Coming soon to a free country near you https://image.nostr.build/7c5cf8c5bc6f6c7cb46198803479c3887115b7dec8dde92f6dfb8f3c33a8e82e.jpg


#BREAKING: Pavel Durov of Telegram faces 12 criminal charges. #telegram #paveldurov https://image.nostr.build/4b68136f410760fd963f8dcf5a44f750551db8b215432b48ee1faaff79c9aad1.jpg


-Treat the arrest of the Telegram CEO as an emergency.

-Advocate for his freedom and for all freedom tech providers.

-Support and build things that function without a CEO, like some aspects of Nostr. When authoritarian Europe or the US arrests you, be able to say, “I literally can’t control it, it’s already out there, and we are legion.”

-Tell me and others, as capital providers, how to accelerate this.


Atlas Shrugged

In Spain, a homeowner is arrested for evicting squatters living in a house.

https://m.primal.net/KKyi.mp4


People are being arrested in the UK for planning or suspected of planning a rally for human rights, civil liberty and cultural preservation. https://video.nostr.build/63b6e2c25852d3f4297cebefa407d403c7b75ffefb94f19325288064d54367fe.mp4


No amount of bitcoin banking is going to help if you can’t pay your rent / mortgage / bills and buy food with bitcoin.

Sure, you can use gift card for small stuff but it’s still an inconvenience.

You need people to start accepting bitcoin at the base level of living or forever risk being cut off from society.

It’s a good idea to start accepting bitcoin if you run a business, rent out property or sell any type of necessity.


https://fountain.fm/episode/sLp19pF1yGBR0ufsNcud
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Hvis noen skulle ønske det så har jeg 5 invites til proton wallet.
Men trenger i så tilfelle din epost på DM.


Made a small investment in a press for apples and now I just need apples  to ripen so it can be tested.  #gardening #apples #juice #cider
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"The Arrogance Of The Supra-Statist, Globalist, Woke Regime Knows No Bounds..."
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/arrogance-supra-statist-globalist-woke-regime-knows-no-bounds


How to Become a Farmer 🧑🌾

00. Learn Python
01. Write code day and night
02. Become a senior developer
03. Burn out solving problems
04. Finally had enough of this. Quit.
05. Become a farmer. Work with trees and animals and grow crops.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.


While you were busy making fun of the UK for criminalizing free speech, the UN finalized its Cybercrime Convention which will overrule bank secrecy and criminalize hacking, whistleblowing, and security research.

The convention, which was finalized last friday, drastically expands government surveillance powers and enables the widespread sharing of personal data between UN member states.

The convention mandates the identification, tracing, confiscation and seizure of "proceeds of crime, property, equipment or other instrumentalities" and the collection of real-time traffic and content data on behalf of requesting member states.

It further mandates member states to establish criminal offences for "the concealment or disguise of the true nature, source, location, disposition, movement or ownership of or rights with respect to property" and  "the conversion or transfer of property [...] for the purpose of concealing or disguising the illicit origin of the property" when committed intentionally.

As the Electronic Frontier Foundation explains, the convention includes "documents saved on personal computers or notes stored on digital devices. In essence, this means that private unshared thoughts and information are no longer safe. Authorities can compel the preservation, production, or seizure of any electronic data, potentially turning personal devices into spy vectors regardless of whether the information has been communicated".

While the treaty defers most articles to the governance of local laws, it states that states "shall not decline to act [...] on the ground of bank secrecy".

Full story:

https://www.therage.co/un-cybercrime-convention-bank-secrecy/


Winter is coming.. the birds are moving south 🥺 https://image.nostr.build/4b5a19630f616e08ae615ef34ef2e42f2a0405dc08705e97dbaf5a8295f11741.jpg


We have a lot of pears and apples this year, wondering if it's the warm weather we had in May that caused it? 🍏🍐 #gardening #permaculture https://image.nostr.build/ebd36298d156f30e09ec0855d0037d87c36672343767c6787c4a15bcf49ba27a.jpg https://image.nostr.build/b2e3b74855ddbc64914d9ea3756a82fe7cfda11e2511e23ea280d9073dbcad06.jpg


I hope you get a fight against Brækhus, but I guess I'll have to cheer for her since she's from my hometown.  💪🇳🇴


Proton Pass adds identity management:

Name
Email address
Phone number
Birth date
Gender
Address
Identity details (Social Security number, passport number, license number)
Personal details (personal website, social media profiles)
Work details (occupation, company, job title)

If you have a paid Proton Pass subscription, you’ll also have access to custom fields and custom sections. All fields in your vault are searchable, so all the information you need is safely stored and easily accessible at any time.

Paying customers could easily add a custom field here to store their Nostr private key. However, I feel there's a better way for all.

Now that Proton Pass has "identity management" to manage your online identity, I feel that now is the PERFECT time for Proton to add Nostr key management and signing to Proton Pass.  Can we make this happen  nostr:npub18s4zkd0wjq5gkthz4paw2704ty4s354wcp2krvxy0sewz3g9z2cs73ydrt?

https://proton.me/blog/proton-pass-identities-biometric-authentication


NORWAY IS GOING TO BAN BITCOIN MINING WITHOUT PUBLIC CONSULTATIONS -
WE NEED TO ACT NOW

Norway's Ministry of Digitalisation and Public Administration responded to @ODFoundation that it "has no plans to conduct a public consultation" on a ban on cryptocurrency mining.

There is no doubt that the ban designed to target #Bitcoin mining. Unfortunately, that's a stance of the @Stortinget and the Norwegian government.
https://www.stortinget.no/no/Saker-og-publikasjoner/Publikasjoner/Innstillinger/Stortinget/2023-2024/inns-202324-383s?all=true#m2

🔴 Why we should protect our #freedomtech Bitcoin in #Norway NOW:

(1) Norway is fully integrated in the European Single Market throught the European Economic Area (EEA) and Schengen Agreement. It means Norway can provide its legilsative approach as an input for new legislation for the EU/EEA both:
- during the preparatory phase, when the @EU_Commission is developing proposals;
- during work of expert groups and committees of the European Commission;
- submitting proposals and comments to European Free Trade Association on upcoming legislation.

(2) As a co-founder of the @OECD , Norway sets an example of regulation worldwide and provides its legislative recommedations for global standards.

(3) Norway has historically been a place to meet, share experiences and educate human rights defenders and bitcoiners from around the world.

Norwegian goverment will present its investigation a ban on cryptocurrency mining by the end of 2024.

🔴 What we should do together to prevent Bitcoin mining ban:

(1) Repost this post and join our #BTC Coalition to educate local communities and media about social benefits of Bitcoin mining in Norway and worldwide;

(2) Help us pool resources and best practices to convince Norwegian politicians and media to explore the social benefits of Bitcoin to prevent this repressive regulation;

(3) If you are a Norwegian citizen: write a letter to your legislator and government asking for public consultation and providing arguments about the social benefits of Bitcoin mining for Norway.

🧡 https://video.nostr.build/8c4d22ba81461b980e8de30b0b4d90831eba257efd45e501408fdd26836ee9f0.mp4


🙋🏼♂🇳🇴 #norgstr


#camping #firestr nostr:note1tj2hn6keka7n6e2geq53uws28apnuhul2m0sf4nafxg68q2wd0csvkh5ja


No , cant say i have had any problem with parsnips and sunlight ☀ never heard of that problem 🤷🏼♂


nostr:npub18q57qr3t07qljnapzqldaqa7ru2qwfpfnjdrwvhk327n3sc82f0qqwrs6f, maker of nostr:npub1mea2vwcu06qf7e4x00wd902vj54qnn2jacq76ldntrgfhtvhlpqqrvqane, is launching a #Bitcoin wallet - Proton Wallet - that will make sending #bitcoin as easy as sending an email.

This is huge, as the Proton has more than 100 million users.

More in my latest for nostr:npub1t8a7uumfmam38kal4xaakzyjccht4y5jxfs4cmlj0p768pxtwu8skh56yu.

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/protonmail-maker-proton-is-launching-its-own-bitcoin-wallet


The apple tree needed a little support.  🍏✂ Might have to prune it a bit better. #gardening #permaculture https://image.nostr.build/8a8f9330e81db91f54c46711ad2bf80b5341a2ac2f6455b92126bbd3b72c649c.jpg


Due to the carrot fly, I have stopped growing carrots and instead tested out parsnips. It seems to have worked out well, and I'm going to grow a lot more parsnips next year. #gardening #permaculture  😎 https://image.nostr.build/12e580452007580ac6fed0ddbb238b9d04154ac1f5f3198857df93d67746c1b9.jpg


this year's seed-potatos vs this year's crop. In addition, there are approximately 15 kilograms of damaged potatoes used for potato mash and vegetable soup. #gardening #permaculture https://image.nostr.build/ec1b99852b4cf4a16bd647202fb9ba0f014ad8f789c158071d800f4dc2de8c11.jpg https://image.nostr.build/50c506568da8e03f42f9e2a9163fea4989d5d4d3deb578772bf32d27bf159a4a.jpg


My garden in July ! 🥦🥔 #gardening #permaculture https://image.nostr.build/518102ada3492b76b1278b3ba05a3f7638ce9a248438156245ba60accac1b40d.jpg


Someone just tried to assassinate Trump https://v.nostr.build/XFjm51ddiwu5bT2r.mp4


Planted a cherry tree in the garden 5 years ago, but due to the fact that the tree 'bled', it hasn't grown much and hasn't produced any yield until this year when I got a whole 10 cherries. 😳🍒 #gardening #permaculture https://image.nostr.build/2d96a910eb572b26383ee7d7a222e53314b25fc9af45f1eeb3f72bcd91134b4f.jpg


Want to improve your Norwegian AND learn more about Bitcoin history? New episode of the Norwegian podcast Bitcoinsnakk, telling the story about nostr:npub1cjw49ftnxene9wdxujz3tp7zspp0kf862cjud4nm3j2usag6eg2smwj2rh  released today.

Audio mastering by myself.

https://fountain.fm/episode/dCzo53q7es8kUoUJCbt9


How it startet vs how it's going 5 years later #gardening #permaculture https://m.primal.net/JHyy.png https://m.primal.net/JHyz.png


Julian’s first birthday in freedom in fourteen years. https://image.nostr.build/fbe6bb8fade32607000b35a0595ccf65236935ca4e54c0823eeb5d8fd2593ad0.jpg


Harvested some garlic today, maybe a bit early but I wanted to plant a few more of one of my favorites, beets, before it's too late this year. #gardening #permaculture https://image.nostr.build/84283e0658597c42ed02a9a563024a461e3651a6a4ae1780a29b6725347f68c5.jpg


what a turnaround !!!


A friend called me last night while he was watching the debate and said: I think you’re right, It’s all theatre designed to keep us in it.
He’d already taken his first steps down the rabbit hole but that sure helped pushed him a level deeper.
#Bitcoin


Blueberry season has begun. And I must say, it's great to pick wild blueberries on my own property. 🫐 #gardening #permaculture https://image.nostr.build/cb33b0f6259260307861b215d77859b1a26e5dc8b74e697f3b59c7bacb47d77b.jpg


hello football fans 👀


Denmark🇩🇰 vs England🏴 #euro2024 live on nostr in less than 10 min
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https://zap.stream/naddr1qq9rzde38qurqvfnxcuqyg8h8r5mgmlc9elywqyqe9drc4tss8jtvk3cjua9d0z837gv6txuscpsgqqqwensnz7ve3


stream is ok here


i am here and  glued to the stream ⚽


The stream is perfect for me 👍 no problem


Bitcoin Veterans


Annual Viking market in my hometown today. No sight of the bitcoin Viking, but lot of nice craftsmanship.
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👀👀👀
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U.S.-Saudi Petrodollar Pact Ends after 50 Years.

“With the expiration of a 50-year-old pact with Saudi Arabia, the U.S. dollar’s strength may have lost one of its most powerful tailwinds.”

https://www.tipranks.com/news/u-s-saudi-petrodollar-pact-ends-after-50-years


Politics is the only profession where you can lie, cheat, and steal, and still be respected.
Mark Twain https://image.nostr.build/3f268fee330337af9ce3a30af1f8489d7be26d43817f1c197073bba4737900f0.jpg


Paid Aleksej Navalnyj's funeral in Bitcoin.
This article is in Norwegian
https://e24.no/internasjonal-oekonomi/i/JbEJ3P/navalnyjs-finansdirektoer-vi-betalte-for-begravelsen-i-bitcoin


My garden in June  #gardening #permaculture https://image.nostr.build/dc69507f8222ddde6cd33050234fd1910459ef0c1ce96fe444c7c710dba8ae2a.jpg


Today, I was published in a Norwegian news outlet discussing the Norwegian parliament's initiative to ban Bitcoin mining in Norway. The hypocrisy is unreal, considering that Equinor, a Norwegian oil and gas giant with the state as the majority shareholder, is mining Bitcoin on an oil field in Argentina.

#notinmybackyard

Thanks to the team at Subjekt it got published just in time for the Oslo Freedom Forum. I hope our politicians join the Financial Freedom Track next week, I sure will.

 nostr:npub1trr5r2nrpsk6xkjk5a7p6pfcryyt6yzsflwjmz6r7uj7lfkjxxtq78hdpu  nostr:npub1q0al05h2uvtj0fp8ww7etl0pdjnkum638ynz9tmku3e522fyvlmqjq04mt  nostr:npub1cf3zeytdnwgwzz5pk2ax0vvmmlzad03xcft4d50ejrfhsh8pxcdsefx7gk  nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx  nostr:npub1rxysxnjkhrmqd3ey73dp9n5y5yvyzcs64acc9g0k2epcpwwyya4spvhnp8

https://subjekt.no/2024/05/30/bitcoin-mining-kan-vaere-bra-for-klimaet/

Unfortunately in Norwegian, but you can use your preferred AI to translate it.


Read this article anon.

https://mullvad.net/en/why-privacy-matters/going-dark


Matt Taibbi's take on MMT

https://www.racket.news/p/magic-monetary-theory-goes-primetime?r=iwun9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web


Nice short piece about FATF by nostr:npub1mznweuxrjm423au6gjtlaxmhmjthvv69ru72t335ugyxtygkv3as8q6mak

https://www.therage.co/meet-fatf-the-financial-bullies-memberclub/

This is one of the most undemocratic imperial forces in the world. I'm hopeful that one day a group of countries decide to defy them and render their influence irrelevant, but that seems too optimistic.

In the meantime, best to just mock them and contribute to and use open source tools that cannot be controlled or surveiled.


17 May is Constitution Day in Norway so I wish all Norwegians a great and fun day, and please don't drink too much  🇧🇻  🍷


Inflation is making berry picking cool again.

I made like $16 this morning https://image.nostr.build/fa4b291671011a23962874c95933bcbbea6afbb576f6eb2587e6be19b8277aac.jpg


Looks like the bees are doing their job today on the apple-tree 🐝🐝🐝 #gardening #permaculture https://image.nostr.build/f7570e7dd5e39cf9c0e04937b22307c019ba6e7311c12e55bad0e35295fdcd88.jpg


Cashu for the future 😎


GM! Follow us, repost this, and drop a reply below to get zapped! ⚡

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#Zapathon #zaps #GetZapped ⚡🎉


The garden centers sells "bee -friendly" flowers full of poison that kills the bees. The article is in Norwegian: #gardening #permaculture  https://www.nrk.no/ytring/hagebloffen-1.16867927


“I’m not convinced we live in a democracy really. I think it’s just a facade of a democracy and especially when you understand lobby groups exist that’s just paying for influence.” - nostr:npub1hwgw0uznr49t4gullpgfz4m5xnakl5a0l88m3k382xv7ys0tfmlsd503sg

It’s grim, but we’re combating misinformation with data and great stories 🧡

This and more in our latest #tpbpod, out now wherever you get your podcasts (link in bio)

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


Im using Geraniumoil and lavenderoil mixed with water and sprayed on my clothes when working in the garden to avoid ticks. #gardening https://image.nostr.build/9e280b1241555eba20bf41c7ed466d9050285bae19269dc59167269ae59ca86d.jpg


After a cold April, it looks like summer has finally arrived Norway #gardening  #permaculture https://image.nostr.build/2d1c877ccac0b3d309a0d6942040189b2c73fbfc85352a4a60b08929824ffc18.jpg


If I'm lucky, there could be a lot of pears this year. 🍐 #gardening #permaculture https://image.nostr.build/65bad221dc849f8d9c84bd65e11edae92b515c32143694330632d2c703aa2245.jpg


It breaks my heart as a former solider as to how true this is.

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

#grownostr


zksnacks is now prohibiting US citizens from using its coinjoin coordinator.

https://blog.wasabiwallet.io/zksnacks-now-blocking-u-s-residents-and-citizens/


anybody giving ACINQ any shit whatsoever can kindly go fuck themselves 👍

nostr:note1dvh8qaxfaawnau68qle3thxvz3vx5jsyttuzxnd4279an7ykk3vqxhv4ph


Some essential characteristics of Mutiny Wallet.

Non-custodial:
- You are in control of your keys
- The node runs on your device
- Any critical data that exists is saved on your device and encrypted remotely for backups

Not an LSP:
- We do not run a node or LSP, we interface with others
- You may open channels to any node
- We never process any lightning channel, payments, on-chain txs, UTXOs, etc.
- Our lightning address server is built with blinded auth, and we can't link payments to your node

Open-source:
- MIT
- The web app is available in case app stores go down
- Self-hostable, already bundled with start9

We strongly believe in building software that gives users the most control and least dependence upon us. It's not easy; centralization brings a much better user experience. However, for the longevity of ourselves, our product, and our users, this is what we believe is the correct path to take.


For all those 'mericans that are in "panic mode" using Phoenix, here is what you should do:

1. Save you phoenix seed.
2. Uninstall from app store (because is linked to your account)
3. Install app from their github, without any fucking app store
https://github.com/ACINQ/phoenix/releases
4. Restore from seed.
Done, be happy and ignore all the shit.

If you still use an apple shit, drop it now and take an android, de-googled and do those steps.
If you still want to use your fancy apple crap... sorry but you have been warned.


Self-custody is a hill to die on.

But so is self-hosting.

Intermediaries: you will deputized, or you will be destroyed. Maybe not today, but they're coming for you.


Why on the earth we should allow to ban self-custody or use of self-hosted wallets? We don’t unite and defend our rights?


What has happened since BlackRock applied for their ETF?

🚩 BitcoinTalk bans mixers

🚩🚩 Both Michael Saylor and Peter Todd say we should use Monero for privacy

🚩🚩 Monero is removed from exchanges

🚩🚩🚩 People finally started admitting Lightning was WAY overhyped and now they say Bitcoin shouldn’t be a currency

🚩🚩🚩 The US government raids Samourai and destroys confidence in the only real privacy tools we have

The government isn’t trying to stop Bitcoin from existing. They are trying to control it.

The easiest and most secure way to add privacy to #Bitcoin is to activate BIP300. Monero and zcash are not being raided by the feds. We will steal their code; and because it’s Bitcoin, it will offer true privacy and censorship resistance.

https://www.truthcoin.info/blog/zside-meltcast/


The entire developed world tax apparatus that was built in the 20th century and extends into the 21st century depends on ubiquitous financial surveillance.

They are not going to give that up without a fight. I have been saying at a number of conferences and podcasts that privacy is the main battleground for the next decade.

Back in the 19th century and before, money was mostly private. There were plenty of dictators but there was no major method of surveilling all transactions. Therefore things like broad income taxes were untenable to enforce.

But in the 20th century as money increasingly moved around at the speed of light, people needed bank accounts to keep up. It wasn’t all forced on them; they chose it. And those bank accounts were centralized, surveillable, and ruggable.

This allowed authorities to switch to income taxes, which require ubiquitous financial surveillance to work. And ultimately it allowed them to switch to fiat currency altogether.

Now in the 21st century, Bitcoin and its various layers allow people to hold and move around money globally without permissioned banks. They can do so peer to peer, or they can do so with custodians and open layers, etc. Unlike the base layer of fiat, the base layer of bitcoin is permissionless.

But this represents a threat to the entire current system of taxation and financial control. If bitcoin and particularly various private methods on top of it were to be adopted at massive scale, the entire tax structure and other things would need to reshape themselves around that reality. And so they won’t make it easy; they will try to criminalize financial privacy as much as possible while the network is still pretty small.

The only solutions are to 1) make privacy tech so ubiquitous that it can’t be isolated and can spread organically in a distributed way and 2) to apply legal pressure when possible so that governments sort of have to operate within the bounds of their own law, like the 1st and 4th amendments.


The indictment against the alleged Samourai Wallet (SW) operators was unsealed today. A few friends have been asking for my opinion on it and my channels are blowing up. I used to serve in law enforcement as a detective that specialized in cybercrime and blockchain analysis. The following information may be useful or interesting to some.

Reading through the Department of Justice’s press release and the indictment itself, here are my initial thoughts:

There are plenty of examples of past investigations resulting in arrests/convictions related to the operation of custodial mixing services, with Bitcoin Fog being the one in recent news. With a service taking custody of funds and moving funds between other people/users, they are likely going to be considered a money service business. And if a money service business doesn’t block Americans from using the service, the US Department of Treasury will require the operators of that service to register with them and follow their compliance regulations. Many foreigners have been arrested in foreign jurisdictions in order to be prosecuted in the US with an American judge and jury for allegedly violating federal American laws (read that sentence twice).

With these sorts of cases, you are typically dealing with the idea that a service didn’t register correctly and follow compliance regulations. And then the other idea is that the operator of the service knew and allowed funds to move through it that would be considered “illicit” or “sanctioned.”

Examples of illicit funds may be proceeds from illegal drug sales or funds stolen from someone. The sanction piece can involve entities, such as particular Bitcoin addresses, individuals, companies, or countries, using the service or receiving from the service. The US federal government maintains a sanction list.

The above summary has been an on-going fight on privacy, censorship, and regulatory overreach for a while. It isn’t new (and Roman Sterlingov should be free). SW’s indictment is different from the situation I summarized above though.

SW was a non-custodial service. This means that users controlled (their private keys to) their funds themselves and the service provider (SW) allowed the coordination between users through its infrastructure, such as the app, the server, the continued development, etc. This makes this case much more interesting and more concerning to me.

Regarding the first count against the men: Conspiracy to Commit Money Laundering. The SW indictment alleges that SW was a service that provided “large-scale money laundering and sanctions evasion.” So we are talking about users using illicit funds with the service and sanctioned entities using or receiving from the service. And we are talking about the SW coordinators “conspiring” with the relevant users to do this.

The indictment is constantly referring to SW as an “application” that is conducting or facilitating the mixing through a “centralized coordinator server.” Who controls the application and server? Allegedly the two men named in the indictment.

When it comes to SW’s Whirlpool service: Through their server, their application is selecting the inputs. Their application is communicating information between all users necessary for the mixing to occur. Their application is using the private keys on behalf of the users. Their application is broadcasting the mixing transactions to the Bitcoin network. The picture the indictment is painting is that the application and server are essentially doing the money laundering, as opposed to the users using the service. Similar verbiage and logic are used to describe SW’s Ricochet service too (adding hops to a send you intend to do).

The above summary is the most shocking piece of the indictment, in my opinion. The implications of this reach beyond Bitcoin-related apps and services. Think of the apps and services, just in general, that a user could use to engage in criminal behavior. Now think of arresting the developers/creators for what the user did.

Regarding the second indictment against the men: Conspiracy to Operate an Unlicensed Money Transmitting Business. The indictment says the SW operators were “involved in the transportation and transmission of funds intended to be used to promote and support unlawful activity.” There isn’t any mention or consideration of custody of funds in this. The logic of the indictment: Some users may have used SW’s application and server for “unlawful activity” and therefore, SW was involved in the unlawful activity. Again, this is a scary precedent. Think of the applications and servers out there right now that users may be using for unlawful activity.

There are many mentions apparently from the coordinators themselves that address the knowledge and intent element (important for a criminal trial). The SW operators were obviously passionate about financial privacy and resisting compliance regulations. Their messages (especially with their style of messaging) will be easy to spin/take literally, even if the coordinators were just trying to be edgy with their marketing/brand. The SW coordinators did not help themselves in this regard.

I think the government will focus a lot on the coordinator’s knowledge and intent of the service being used for illegal activity. I believe this is how the government will “limit” the scope of the precedence and how it will try to differentiate the SW service from others.

Regarding the illicit funds/sanctions piece: The blockchain analysis showing funds from Dark Web markets that sell illegal drugs flowing into SW’s Whirlpool will be easy for the prosecution. The same goes with sanctioned entities sending to or receiving from SW’s Whirlpool. It will also be easy to show funds flowing from known hacks, exploits, and/or thefts flowing into SW’s Whirlpool. The government will need to prove the men knew this was happening and that they facilitated it by providing the SW application and server. Their mouths may be their downfall on this one, but I think it is pretty clear that the SW operators’ intent was to provide a neutral financial privacy tool that didn’t control user funds, leaving the responsibility of the use of those funds on the users themselves.

With the logic in this case, I wonder if it will be argued that blockchain analysis companies are also culpable since they surely had their own funds being mixed in SW’s Whirlpool to collect data points. Were their funds facilitating illegal activity? Or were their funds facilitating financial privacy in general? (Maybe facilitating privacy was just the byproduct of having the chance to trace through exclusions.)

Overall, the case leads to some interesting questions.

Is a wallet software and developer a money service business now? How about a full node? These both facilitate the transmission of funds too. The implications of this case are not good for privacy or code. I’m ready to donate to the defense.


Good morning!
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Pretty cool to hear nostr:npub14mcddvsjsflnhgw7vxykz0ndfqj0rq04v7cjq5nnc95ftld0pv3shcfrlx interviewed on Norwegian national radio.

Congrats to Real Bedford! I would definitely seen a match if I had a slight interest in football.
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Very good show by nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy 👍 https://fountain.fm/episode/XsYzZWcdEa4YdVHVydKH


Just one thing to say about our Norwegian government, they are totally shit💩 💩


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GOOD MORNING. 🫡

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HFSP NORWAY

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Bedford was a pleasant surprise. A smaller event in a small town is always preferable to just another large conference where you only briefly see people and then never again.

In Bedford everything is walkable. You congregate around certain pubs and get to have longer conversations with the people you meet. And I had a number of good conversions with everyday Brit Bitcoiners to some of the big names in the space.

It’s a good town for walks and exploring. The river and rowing is quaint and calm.

Mostly, I loved the one day event followed by a day to just hang out and watch a soccer game. These events are best spent in conversation, and while it’s important to have sessions of great content, I feel like that gives us the excuse to be there but the real meat is in the conversations we have and the connections we make.

Good job nostr:npub14mcddvsjsflnhgw7vxykz0ndfqj0rq04v7cjq5nnc95ftld0pv3shcfrlx and nostr:npub16le69k9hwapnjfhz89wnzkvf96z8n6r34qqwgq0sglas3tgh7v4sp9ffxj - Cheatcode 2024 was fantastic. https://image.nostr.build/8b0f947605c0b9102cadba53737edb98037cf3c2c587690066655dd28b2f9360.jpg https://image.nostr.build/bdeeed823dadaf3f9919768e79352f3904a786df94c844ebdb6e35f13dd19d65.jpg https://video.nostr.build/19deae32880b8f04b6780fb62d4020514115e127b0bc6611703f41f8a13e2175.mp4


The U.S. government will tell you spying on law-abiding American citizens without a warrant—violating their constitutional rights and paying for it WITH THEIR OWN TAX DOLLARS—is a matter of national security, but securing our southern border to stop millions of migrants illegally entering the U.S. isn’t a big deal.


I want to #zap you 2,100 Sats!

Good morning #nostr! It has been about a month since I joined and I'm loving "Self-Soverign Social".

My challenge has been connecting with like minded folks, which is surprising because if we are both here on nostr we likley share at least an interest in decentralization and #bitcoin.

So I want to try a little experiment this morning. I have just under 500,000 sats or about $350 in my  nostr:npub1flm9yc3vhc3dj036pn3ysl5xwd4f5gyhyjnn9rzehs5mqe9y9ynq6qrg9q account, I want you to help me empty it!

Please follow me (if you are not already) and share this post and I'll zap you 2,100 sats until I run out or have to leave the office. It's about 8:45AM EDT, and I'll be zappin' until at least 3PM (or until I'm broke).

In theory this should yield about 235 paid engaugements, which will hopefully amplify my presance here and help me connect with some like minded folks.

Lets see how it works out, I'll share my results!

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


The blocksize war wasn't so much about the blocksize (or, even, scaling Bitcoin). It was really about who controls the consensus rules and how we upgrade the protocol.

For context, a bunch of startups raised tons of money between 2013 and 2016 based on ridiculous user sign-up projections and then we had a long and painful bear market and they were looking for scapegoats (the developpers that were "throttling the network") to justify the lack of growth. I am thinking here specifically of Coinbase, Bitpay and Blockchain.info.

The vibe I got is that they thought of Bitcoin itself as a corporation, that they were the equivalent of Bitcoin's board of directors because they represented the interest of VC investors, and thus they were entitled to decision making power over the network.

I don't doubt that a few people were genuine about scaling p2p e-cash (e.g. Roger Ver) but I suspect what really motivated them is that they believed control of the Bitcoin network would be an asset to their business interests, and lack of control was being used as an excuse to why their interests weren't being satisfied.

There was also a bunch of developers that I believe may have been afraid of losing their relevance (Gavin and Garzik specifically). Regardless of their intentions or psychology, it seemed clear to me that the consortium of vc-backed startups (particularly Bitpay, Coinbase, blockchain(.)info and Roger) had picked a team of developers they thought they could control and wanted to appoint them as a technical management team whicn would execute their strategy, and these guys were willing to step up for that role.

I was physically in the room when the CEO of Blockchain.info (with the very obvious support of Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong) announced that Bitcoin Core devs were being fired and would be replaced. This was after a couple days of failed discussions with other industry people. This was the moment when I realized what was really going on.

And finally, you had a Bitcoin mining giant (Bitmain) controlling both asic production and mining pools with a vested interest in promoting the idea that Bitcoin was a democracy and the way to vote was to buy hashing power. The main ideology being pushed here was that a formal governance mechanism of the protocol needed to be established and that hashrate was the only objective measure of who makes decisions.

The underlying big blocker ideology was that the chaos of spontaneous consensus of nodes is unpredictable, flimsy, bad for business. The absence of a formal governance process was seen as the root cause of the issue.

These companies really believed they could control the protocol, and controlling development of the protocol was seen as a very valuable asset to your company. I imagine they thought of themselves as the founders of a new consortium that would solidify itself into a permanent institution. The business interests would pay developers and set the goals, and the mining interests would ratify their decisions with hash power voting. That was their plan.

This became blatantly obvious when Bitmain used its refusal to activate segwit as leverage to get what it wanted (a blocksize increase and recognition of its hashpower as a vote mecanism) even though Bitmain iself acknowledged it was not really opposed segwit.

It was classic traditional politics: I'll give you segwit if you give me something in return.

This is the language the VC suits, investors and tech startup people understand and they were very happy to "negotiate" and find "consensus".

This eventually materialized into the New York Agreement, negotiated literally as a backroom deal during theConsensuss shitcoin conference. I was there and I refused to attend.

This (private) meeting consecrated the alliance of startups/investors and bitcoin mining interests in their appointment of a technical management committee. If you think this sounds like Jekyll Island, you're not alone.

They packaged segwit with a blocksize increase (Segwit2x) and decided to force a hard fork as a condition to "allow" us to have Segwit.

We know the rest of the story: we ended up activating anyway via UASF (or more precisely, the miners activated Segwit after they New York Agreement signatories became scared UASF would lead to a chain split which they were going to lose). And the blocksize increase was also abandoned shortly after when they realized their hard fork would cause a chain split and that they would not be able to claim that their new shitcoin is the real bitcoin.

All these people were subsequently were very pissed off they couldn't control the network, which they thought they were entitled to. Some ragequit, others created a bunch of shitcoins out of spite, Roger went on to spearhead BCH as the real Bitcoin, all these fools realized they might as well make some money off of it, everyone went all-in on the shitcoin casinos after that. The "small blockers" eventually went on to evolve into the Bitcoin Maximalists and cypherpunks that today tell you to run your own node and own your own keys.


#TheyCannotStopFreedom https://i.nostr.build/2RdDq.jpg


There are some serious rumors that the Supreme Court is discussing making it illegal to run a VPN in Brazil. Insane.


Also got my seed-potatos and onions today but still to cold to start planting  here in Norway #gardening #permaculture https://image.nostr.build/0fd828ce0a93d0d2905f7d0ce40621a37afaa5f65281666c4ac43d4839a3de1a.jpg


Bruker en som heter Fryd


My garden-plan for 2024 is complete #gardening  #permaculture https://image.nostr.build/a528c1f848c930b6806a9775202403648a898cbdf67107ce5a14eb2a25cae3e4.jpg


77543 $


Good morning from Norway  🍻


God morgen ☕


#NostrFirst sneak peek of my chat with nostr:npub1clfjjuhrnr2dyrxknvdgg5v4dnq55t5svkk34r76rpwzqf5cjdas7rk28k on nostr:npub10qrssqjsydd38j8mv7h27dq0ynpns3djgu88mhr7cr2qcqrgyezspkxqj8 🤙

Subscribe to get notified when it drops.

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is it btcpay.no ? last update 6 months ago  https://amboss.space/node/025104175dea50fd0a74f04a1a52cca6b1de356220f5647fc3d5bcf57012f0e0c2


I have an embarrassing story I don't really want to share, but I don't know what else to do.

ALL MY BITCOIN have been stolen/lost.

I made a major mistake organizing Northern Lightning last year, by allowing 0.1+ BTC (exact amount unknown) to stay on the node we used for nostr:npub155m2k8ml8sqn8w4dhh689vdv0t2twa8dgvkpnzfggxf4wfughjsq2cdcvg.

That node is controlled by a well-known bitcoiner in Norway that has since vanished.

At the time, I still had some Bitcoin elsewhere, and I trusted the node owner (I'm an idiot), but after huge unexpected costs and taxes on the conference, it's the only Bitcoin I have left.

These were the few million sats that would at least offer my kids a future after all these years of stacking and orange pilling.

Now they are also gone, unless said node owner reappears and is willing to return the sats.

It's devastating and unfair, but I will not reveal who this person is yet. I want to give him one last chance to make things right after this post.

Though I am not very hopeful 😢

Ps' If you want to help us restack some of what's lost, we are not beyond receiving pity anymore: kongeriket@getalby.com


THE TIKTOK BAN BILL GOING THROUGH CONGRESS RIGHT NOW WILL GIVE GOVERNMENT INSANE POWER TO RESTRICT SPEECH.

AT THE SAME TIME SECTION 230 PROTECTIONS ARE ABOUT TO BE NEUTERED BY THE SUPREME COURT WHICH WILL ADD AN INSANE AMOUNT OF LIABILITY TO CENTRALIZED PLATFORMS - INEVITABLY INCREASING CENSORSHIP.

RESTRICTING FREE SPEECH IN AMERICA HAS BIPARTISAN SUPPORT AMONG OUR CORRUPT POLITICAL CLASS.

NOSTR IS ABOUT TO HAVE ITS MOMENT TO SHINE. WE NEED TO BE READY FOR BILLIONS OF NEW USERS.


Soon to be food 🥦  and this room is heatet with a s9 so growing food and earning bitcoin at the same time 💪 #gardening #permaculture https://image.nostr.build/de01d8ce8f8cab32f5a9961a229fb7e028ed743fccbf4d6ffd2baea9f8d13f5c.jpg


just waiting for spring to come here in Norway
#gardening  #permaculture
https://m.primal.net/Hjlc.mp4


When I listened to this episode of Joe Rogan with Andreas Antonopolous in 2016 it made sense because I was new to #Bitcoin

But now in 2024 we all can see that Andreas was 100% right. This is exactly what's happening in our society right now.

https://m.primal.net/HXtk.mp4


Norsk bitcoinhistorie i 3 deler. https://fountain.fm/episode/OzMRgHz1dlZfTFVUm20E


God morgen 🚀


Same same, but different 🙂 https://image.nostr.build/3d24523b7c509401966c8cb10fe5bfcbf7c6507f6a15d073a669e8aa7166cc59.jpg


👁 𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗴𝗹𝗲 𝗞𝗻𝗼𝘄𝘀 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗬𝗼𝘂

Every single Google software/service is just an excuse to gather a shit ton of information about you. It's basically all spyware. They use:

🔸 Gmail to scan your emails.
🔸 Gboard to keylog everything you type on your phone.
🔸 Google Chrome to track all your browsing history.
🔸 Google Ads to track you accross the web.
🔸 Google Cloud to scan and spy on all your files.
🔸 Google Photos to scan and spy on all your photos.
🔸 Google Pay to track your purchase history.
🔸 Google AI's to track all your prompts.
🔸 Their earch engine to track your searchs.
🔸 Youtube to track your interests and watch history.

Various apps like Calendar, Notes, and Tasks are all collecting data about you aswell. A single company knows all your life. Google controls your life, because you let them.

They are in bed with the government as well, so everything about you will be shared when SHTF. Don't wait any longer, delete your Google account, stop using their services, take control of your data, your privacy and your life.

Exit Google.


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invasion of privacy with mass collection and selling of intimate data is gov sponsored rape and exploitation.

#cybersecgirl #privacytecpro


God morgen 😀


This year i am also planting a lot of lavender , too keep the ticks away…hopefully 🪳#permaculture  #gardening https://image.nostr.build/19e48ed10d474e9f045e4d51c73be1f7626a529198fad87d9f8bc32e98575509.jpg


Watch nostr:npub1yxp7j36cfqws7yj0hkfu2mx25308u4zua6ud22zglxp98ayhh96s8c399s give a Cashu workshop at Casa21 in which he teaches you how to build our own Cashu wallet.

Super Testnut, Super fun!

Watch the recording on his YouTube channel: youtu.be/xfYmwc-gnK8

https://image.nostr.build/762011708129856ec08c92660c9418172a2a96ad7bb4d4f5048a1c60975697e6.jpg


European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen commented on the wave of farmers' protests that have broken out in several EU countries.

 "they feel cornered" by "the effects of climate change" as well as by the Russian military operation in Ukraine.

😂 Fucking psychopaths

https://m.primal.net/HbIp.mp4


Årets avling allerede på vei, og først ut er purre #permaculture https://image.nostr.build/543889a298deeef95909655d40bf1cba738e28379d4f22544d20dcc4dacf0a49.jpg


🚀 Announcing Nostr Wallet Connect (NWC) for StartOS!

🛠 Built by the incredible team at nostr:npub1getal6ykt05fsz5nqu4uld09nfj3y3qxmv8crys4aeut53unfvlqr80nfm

📦 Packaged for StartOS by nostr:npub100000uujnrw90xtvndadczxmrm40qgsggda6qxl5e03w3st6w2js58dej0

🔌 Connect your favorite Nostr client and ⚡ away.

https://nwc.dev/
Source code: https://github.com/Start9Labs/nostr-wallet-connect-startos/releases/tag/v0.4.2


stacking sats and growing food


Viktig å støtte frihetsteknologi ✌ https://image.nostr.build/10801ecb7ddec6d681d0f88337caf118f8f10f6d11e98ff3b48464c7f0c6788d.jpg


The state of free speech on X. nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424 shared one of my memes over there and it got flagged with a “graphic content” warning. Here’s the meme: https://image.nostr.build/12046184ea38e5e3931a207244ca33e047158657423ea45c1c9bf10786aa6119.jpg  nostr:note1k38sawpp38ve94cktrgnmmdn59w8ezl5wwp0jcs9c35meap6h7pqcu2k6n


So there's this progression. First you see something like Cashu when you say, "Oh, it's a custodial lightning wallet with better privacy for users and no accounts." And then you realize, "Oh, I can use this to pay someone who is offline. I just send them a string and that’s the ecash note.” And then you realize, "Oh, this works over long range radio with very low bandwidth. And then you realize, oh, if we trust the same mint, we can actually use it to route  lightning payments without open channels to the mint (the channel is the trust). And we can use it as a lightning wallet for ourselves. And then you can say, oh, we can create these community mints for “islands” that are not connected to the internet.

And then you realize, "Oh, there can be more than one Uncle Jim, and we don't have to trust this one person. We can have shared custody, and this thing has better privacy." And suddenly you realize you are were not expecting anything like this at all when you first saw it, when it began. It has completely different implications than what I was expecting previously.

It's the same with Nostr. It's like, "Oh, this is not a very good protocol. It depends on a few relays and you can’t even store images on it and who would use it." And it's cumbersome. Now there are blogging platforms and communities and marketplaces and AI communicating over it. And there's this innovation that no one was expecting when they first started. It was like thinking about the protocol and trying to judge it by its design, but its use (and implications) is discovered, not designed. Same way you can send a calendar invite over email, or do encrypted group chats over it (DeltaChat).

It’s interesting to see, how we use technologies that in theory should not have worked, but in practice, they do. Bitcoin is one of them. The probability of its success was very low.

A friend of mine said in a podcast with me that Bitcoin’s risk adjusted value is actually better than a decade ago. Yes, you could have bought cheap Bitcoin. But its success back then was very improbable. Now you are buying the asset of the parallel financial system, back then, it was a membership card in a club of geeks. After several that have failed…


Cashu tokens have been
1) send to space and back to earth, and
2) sent over mesh network radio
3) sent offline from phone to phone

Are we in a cypherpunk's dream?

https://void.cat/d/XNkUnyLicY7tfNEWyN8cRX.webp


#Bitcoin is the future and that’s why I use the platform being a professional fighter gives me to promote #BTC adoption https://video.nostr.build/dedb051c44d35e3df147306667f1563c13db22c210e431313f9fd24b76854dd4.mp4


getting my seeds ready for the 2024 harvest #permaculture #gardening

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


ingen lyd


Gofd morgen 😀


Don’t know, don’t care https://image.nostr.build/0fcdd444bea191e253b4713f3196fabb6b869ab7a1ccfd3f4a8c1a5c4b1141f9.jpg


What an absolute honour it was to interview Fran Finney, the wife of legendary #bitcoin  OG Hal Finney.

Hal wrote the first ever #bitcoin  Tweet, the famous "Running Bitcoin", which we have on the back of our Real Bedford shirts.

Support Fran in everything she does!

https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/running-bitcoin-with-fran-finney


Leave The Fiat World Behind and Build a New One (with Freedom Tools like #Bitcoin)

New interview with Whitney Webb to close out 2023:

https://youtu.be/uVUZZ5xSR5w?si=GwS_66dAwa-fkucC


Introducing Mempool Goggles!

Have you ever wished you had x-ray specs to see exactly what's inside the mempool?

No, me neither, but we built you a pair anyway.

https://image.nostr.build/6dfffff690ae12803d3646886ba448f2dfb1b9a1e4d3be35963bee0afdc9d8ec.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=893x900&blurhash=%7CAGjj%3D%2BwDgE01OKHD%7D-%40%238o%5Df-sFr%3ASJa*xGX8NFD4S%5Eb%24gRT3rY%255Z%7CO%3FrxwHJNKR%24%2BfzJ7nNxcOtWHg9nJj9TKi%5DW%3DV%40nMbuxwnNNHe%3AoHkCWS5ts*xlR%3Az%3FajT0bvS%24ktNHnLt7NZw%40R%3BT1w%5EJENem*XUPD%23%7Es%2BnOr%3F&x=a1f1c72026d28ee865cc29a3c2a0da3bfe676f5f3ad35374b9f1898f27a17e02

Click on the Mempool Goggles icon at the top left of the mempool block visualization to reveal the new filter menu.

There are 25 different categories to explore, or mix-and-match to narrow down your focus even further.

https://image.nostr.build/989f42be01721cedfac90f517c83d3dd0791bd0699b7ab62e6a13586c5fca1ae.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=669x680&blurhash=%7C29ZWg*JS6XR9_In0zRO0f-%3AoM%251kWkXs%2CR.w%5BIV9EMdtlWYbHxao%23xtj%5E%25Ms%3Bt7V%40kCoeRjt6R-9ERPoyV%40tlt7ogxaa%23VrM%7Bg3bIR*oLbct7o2EhV%40ofogf5ofV%40o0ofIAR%25R%2BaKWBflj%3FW%3DxtGbs%3ARPWVZ%7ER*slR-t6&x=78b74823e7a3f02cefef36ed5c2f7eb2ef596bae239446ff995de73ec8efd13a

Want to see how much of the mempool is occupied by monkey jpegs? Try the "Inscription" filter.

Curious how many transactions use both RBF and CPFP to bump fees? Hit the "Replacement" and "Pays for parent" filters.

https://image.nostr.build/faf9fcc03e238f6dcdfc9a6db242521816f4aca3e6b43c7fd83a0bd07bb1ff69.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=669x680&blurhash=%7C29PQd%5Ek1PNZ0%7CaIEfNGxHtTx%5ExuoIacRhRiaeo3Bqkr%252oIjDngngniWXOtT1X9sls8ngr%3DWBS4BWXAxaj%3Fn%23nhWAaxWXs%3BShoLxFS1axf5S2WWE%25WBjYa%7Ds%3Aofs%3AW%3BS2V%3FV%3FjEWXSis%3Bs%3BofWoM%7BV%3DnhS5S%24bdogs%3AoJ&x=81cf8255ab24c9456ed933da5f475b24f76334c8d3e20637aad3420af5f108f7

From simple mempool analysis to advanced technical insights, Mempool Goggles has something for everyone.

Check it out now on the mempool block page
https://mempool.space/mempool-block/0


Block Inc rolling out a lightning point of sale system that integrates seamlessly with Square would be a HUGE game changer for merchant adoption!

Somebody who has nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m's ear needs to browbeat him over this idea until he makes it happen!

Everybody who boosts this will share in the zap split in 12 hours!


Liquid isn't a long-term scaling solution on its own (that's obvious), but federations can and will be part of the solution.

Many federations (both off-chain like Fedimint and on-chain like Liquid) will scale #Bitcoin alongside Lightning, which will play a key role as the connective tissue between different protocols.

There will be no 'one size fits all' scaling solution but rather a range of complementary protocols that cater to specific use cases and markets, each addressing different challenges with a unique set of trade-offs.

In July, I wrote about this and the importance interoperability will play within second layers and think it's even more relevant today with the discussions happening over the past week. Give it a read if you like.

https://blog.blockstream.com/increasing-interoperability-between-bitcoins-second-layer-protocols/


1 år siden jeg startet å bruke Damus og brukes ennå daglig.vell hvert en markering🍻🎂


Test for å se om det er noen Bitcoin'ere på Bømlo  Gi beskjed på simplex.chat om du kan komme   https://simplex.chat/contact#/?v=1-4&smp=smp%3A%2F%2FUkMFNAXLXeAAe0beCa4w6X_zp18PwxSaSjY17BKUGXQ%3D%40smp12.simplex.im%2FgrjYMtlkCMU1C5xPxL6a_MhoQMm__mmv%23%2F%3Fv%3D1-2%26dh%3DMCowBQYDK2VuAyEAN9u7hzM18xYM7jZcR95WViyEsWCePWq0FvNDSzeHeWg%253D%26srv%3Die42b5weq7zdkghocs3mgxdjeuycheeqqmksntj57rmejagmg4eor5yd.onion&data=%7B%22type%22%3A%22group%22%2C%22groupLinkId%22%3A%22zC3MWlqmEJUjgAVSg_lhzA%3D%3D%22%7D

Joker Finnås, Kanalvegen 3, 5437 Finnås, Norge


Losing 4 BTC :(

All people who like to tinker with lightning need to read this front to back

https://stacker.news/items/347361


Everyone here already knows this, but feel free to share with your friends not on Nostr.

Everyone on Facebook, Linkedin, TikTok, etc., have noticed....someone....was forcing these companies to censor various topics.  Whether it was COVID, politics, money, religion, etc...
Everyone has seen something that just doesn't add-up.

So if...someone...is censoring speech, who, why and how are they doing it? More importantly, what could be a solution to this problem?

Here's something I wrote to answer all those questions.  Enjoy.

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/preston-pysh-how-to-actually-get-free-speech


Just fiat things ✨ https://image.nostr.build/3a803385d23cd2c1b33d5a786c7d25ee8218378bc2f7ed16745ee0cc933e5161.jpg https://image.nostr.build/ff19b6c73e3d1ca9323f9752da01438cb3942a9ded677441b714ea71f255b7fc.jpg https://image.nostr.build/76e89d3a4488d15404222cfb2c26ebdd937a472a891075e54d921e75b9d5888b.jpg https://image.nostr.build/3c1c6e8903fefad34b3a2bc6b0eb2ebe5d81dda31ce73847fd1a81bd7978fbde.jpg


On Ocean Mining Pool, Inscriptions and Luke
———————————————

There's been a pretty big flare up in the Bitcoin community about Ocean Mining's two recent blocks. Namely, that they didn't include certain transactions designed to use the block space for something other than its monetary transactional uses. Indeed, many influencers, especially those that are pro-BRC20 and Ordinals, are condemning this course of action as censorship.

In a sense, this is exactly what all pools do. They create a block template for everyone else to mine. In that sense, each miner to a pool is really renting the pool hash rate and the pool does the work of using that hash rate to create blocks, whatever they may be. But it's a bit disingenuous to complain specifically about Ocean, since lots of pools have made blocks that didn't create the optimal profit-driven block.

Not every pool makes the maximal amount of fees for a block, whether because they have bad software, certain policies or just because the block was found before a block template could be constructed. The optimum is an ideal and though the modern economic assumption of idealized homo economicus would create these blocks each time, we don't have a steady-state mining economy so not everyone mines the theoretic optimum.

In a sense, the analysis of pools and the block templates these critics make is flawed because they assume some optimized economy. Given ideal conditions, of course, there is an optimal set of transactions you accept to increase fees. Over a long enough time period, those should result in more profit which get spread over the participants which should make the pool more popular, making those that don't perform the optimum lose profit and eventually bankrupt. But that's a very narrow analysis based purely on monetary incentives.

We don't live in under ideal conditions and situations change all the time. Basic things, like getting a block template ready quickly after a block is found is an optimization that's difficult and still not completely solved. But there's also the opinions of the miners themselves. Are they all strictly profit driven?

Think about normal businesses. Why do they offer fair trade coffee? From a purely monetary perspective, fair trade coffee doesn't make any sense. They're more expensive for the same good. From a profit-maximizing analysis that MBAs are so fond of, the non-fair trade coffee would put the fair trade coffee out of business. But yet, in the real world, they do not because people care more than just the good itself, but what it took to make the good. In other words, the homo economicus analysis of economic situations rarely is the optimum for the real world. There are other considerations other than profit that go into any business.

And that's really at the heart of what's being argued here. Luke believes that inscriptions are a waste of block space, a public nuisance and that even if his pool participants have to take a loss, that it's worthwhile because of the public good that it does. In other words, he sees these inscriptions as *immoral* and that the price he's willing to pay is fees that he would otherwise have gotten.

People are acting like this is some sort of affront to market forces or game theory and that the only consideration he should have is like that of homo economicus, whether he makes more profit or less. But this is a very fiat/Keynesian way of looking at the whole picture. People are more than just profit-maximalization machines and mining pool participants are no different.

Indeed, that's the impression I got from the Ocean Mining Pool summit I went to a few weeks ago. They are that response to the many mining pools that are doing unethical things like not paying out their participants for fees that come in off band.

The calculation that Luke has made is that being moral, that is not polluting blocks, is worth the 1% loss in fees. Given what I know about Luke, even a 90% loss in fees is unlikely to sway him. Morals have a place in any ecosystem because they, too, have value. A mining pool that doesn't burdens nodes with extra data that they have to persist has positive communal value. A mining pool that does the opposite has detrimental communal value. And from Luke's perspective, not burdening nodes is important enough that he chooses not to include them in his block templates.

This moral reasoning is not something that is welcomed by a lot of people and it's hard to miss that many of the critics are creating ordinals, BRC-20 and so on. They want to run this centralized scheme over Bitcoin and make money. In other words, they have a strong economic interest in getting their transactions included and shout censorship whenever they're not.

But we must be careful, because this is not the same as, say, the OFAC prohibition list. And this is where things become a little harder to explain because most people have no sense of the difference between centralized rules being enforced under threat of violence and bottom-up moral behavior slowly adopted. But what Luke is doing is very much bottom up. He's specifically doing something out of moral conviction. Whether you agree with him or not, you can understand why he's doing it, particularly  the moral reasoning. This is different than a centralized mandate with threats of violence against those that don't comply.

I believe that what Luke is doing is a good thing. He's showing his convictions and reasoning about why inscriptions are bad through these templates. The participants are free to move if they disagree. I suspect, though, that there are many that agree with him and they'll vote with their hash rate.

For homo economicus, something like fair trade coffee does not make sense. Yet people gladly pay a little more for it because they believe that it ultimately helps those people produce and live a better life. I believe what Luke and Ocean are doing is similar. They're offering less-bloated blocks even at the cost of some fees.


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Okay folks the next cycle is beginning.  Expect a new "rise of influencers", I predict a lot of women (easy to look at) this time, tons of guys who look like Wall Street investors, lots of British accents.

Just remember neither tits, nor suits, nor tone makes one an expert.  All you really need to know is avoid shit coins, stack sats, stay humble, ignore noise, focus on signal.

#bitcoin #7thgeneration


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The risk of NOT having a position if a sovereign player enters the market...

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“According to the report, Wyden's letter said a "tip" was the source of the information about the surveillance. A source familiar with the matter confirmed that both foreign and U.S. government agencies have been asking Apple and Google for metadata related to push notifications. The data is said to have been used to attempt to tie anonymous users of messaging apps to specific Apple or Google accounts.”

https://www.macrumors.com/2023/12/06/apple-governments-surveil-push-notifications/


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Mornings 🚀


Graph reveals political scandal in Norway

My friend Gregard Mikkelborg produces some amazing graphs. He sent me this one yesterday.

Take a close look at it and read my comments below if you want to understand its significance.

The short version of my comment is the following:

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The Norwegian pension fund squanders its capital and indirectly drives up price inflation in Norway. This is the opposite of what the politicians and economists told us that they wanted to achieve by establishing the fund. We were most likely gaslighted.
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For thousands of years, rulers used to save in gold
The reason was that gold is hard to dig out of the ground, so its inflation rate is low, less than 2% on average per year.

This means that gold has stored value better than any other assets over time.
When society’s productivity goes up, for instance due to population growth and innovation, this in fact causes gold to increase in value as time goes by.

Furthermore, gold doesn’t go bankrupt.

Companies, on the other hand, rarely persist very long, so investing in stocks always involves a great deal of risk.

Lending out savings to companies at an interest, or giving companies access to savings as equity, must result in a profit that compensates for the risk.

This is very hard to achieve in a competitive market, and it’s a whole lot of trust involved in this game.

For this reason, when kings and emperors invested instead of saving in gold, they preferred investing in companies that they at the same time gave a protected status, typically with exclusive rights to trade with the colonies.

The East Indian Company is a good example of this.

Jackpot!
In the 1960s huge oil and gas reserves were discovered on the Norwegian continental shelf.

When these enormously valuable resources much later started to pay off, Norwegian politicians didn't at all like the idea of saving in gold.

They wanted to take risk instead.

They wanted to turn a profit.

You see, our politicians despised gold.

That’s probably why they in 2004 let Norges Bank, which is our central bank, sell all of Norway's gold reserves.

Turning Norway into a gargantuan hedge fund
Our politicians decided to establish an investment fund owned by the state.
The fund is named “The Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global.”

The fund’s official objective is to ensure:

"responsible and long-term management of revenue from Norway’s oil and gas resources, so that this wealth benefits both current and future generations."

When oil and gas companies pay taxes to Norway, the revenue is slushed into the fund.

Today it has almost USD 1.5 T of investment capital at its disposal.

This makes it the largest Sovereign Wealth Fund in the world.

Gaslighting on steroids
Before the fund was established, the politicians and their economists communicated their reasoning to the Norwegian people.

They argued that allowing the fund to invest in Norway would cause "overheating" of our economy.

And they said that this "overheating" would result in high price inflation in Norway.
However, the effect of investing capital is that it causes productivity gains, provided that it is invested wisely.

Productivity gains make it cheaper to create products and services.

When it becomes cheaper to produce goods and services, prices for the end users go down.

By other words - investing the capital in Norway instead of abroad would have provided us with the invaluable gift of price deflation, not price inflation.

This wasn’t at all included in the analysis and deliberations that were fed to the Norwegian people.

It was an exercise in gaslighting.

And it made it easy for the politicians to decide that the fund should invest in foreign, publicly traded bonds and stocks.

The last few years it has also been allowed to make some investment in foreign real estate.

The effect of giving away capital
What our politicians effectively do, is that they supply multinational corporations and foreign governments with capital in the form of loans and equity.

This increases the productivity of foreign corporations and other nations.

One of the effects is that it makes foreign corporations able to outcompete Norwegian companies.

At the same time, higher productivity abroad gives foreigners the benefit of relatively lower prices.

Perverse incentives
Our politicians are allowed to spend the fund’s expected net returns.

This is called "the budgetary rule."

Right now, they expect that the fund shall turn a net return of 3%.

Therefore, the government reallocates 3% of the fund back to the public budget.
It spends the money on all kinds of crazy projects in Norway.

In recent years, this has become an important driver for ESG friendly investments, so-called sustainable investment.

This drives all kinds of spending on “green” and “climate change” initiatives.

The result is, of course, an immensely harmful level of rent seeking activity.
Scandals are layered upon scandals.

The latest example is the government’s subsidization of Freyr, a company that promised to turn Norway into a leading battery producing nation.

While the company hasn’t been able to produce a single battery so far, a good portion of the subsidies have worked their way into the board members’ pockets and made the owners rich.

What’s even worse is that the budgetary rule incentivizes politicians to allow the Norwegian krone (NOK) to weaken.
And surprise - surprise, the NOK has performed absurdly bad over the last years.

For instance, compared with 2008 you must today pay twice as much NOK for USD.

The rapid debasement means that Norway imports inflation from other countries.

This comes on top of the relative price increases that we get from reallocating capital from our own country to foreign corporations and other countries.

Was it worth it?
Was it still wise to take the capital out of Norway and let the fund invest it abroad?

The answer is a resounding NO.

Measured in USD, the fund has had an average gross return on the capital of 6.2 % per year since the fund’s inception in 1998.

In comparison, the gold price measured in USD has increased on average 7.7 % per year.

By other words, the fund’s average return on its capital per year by investing in bonds and stocks abroad is 24 % below what it would have been if our government had saved in gold, as rulers used to do in the past.

(7.7 / 6.2 = 1.24)

Conclusion
Our politicians have given us a “Quintuple whammy, as operating the fund :

1.	Squanders the nation’s savings
2.	Subsidizes multinational corporations
3.	Drives up other nation’s competitiveness
4.	Allows the value of our currency to drop like a stone
5.	Causes price inflation in Norway

Many Norwegians no doubt trust politicians too much.

They believe it’s mainly foreign politicians that lie.

This is incorrect.

You see, Norwegian politicians are excellent liars.

And not only that.

As other politicians, they do the exact opposite of what they tell us that they will do, and at an enormously high cost to its citizens.

And they do it squarely for their own benefit.

Solution
In my opinion, there is only one solution to this problem.

We must take the fund and the income from oil and gas out of the hands of our politicians.

The revenue and the capital should instead be given to the people.

If we continue with the current system, the politicians will squander it all, shrink the private sector into something totally insignificant and pull it further down into misery.

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If you found this piece interesting, I appreciate that you push the like, share and follow buttons.

You may also want to check out the books I’ve made together with my partner, graphic designer wiz Mattis Storhaug on UNDOQO’s website.

Finally - a big brotherly hug goes to my favorite goldbug Gregard Mikkelborg for sending me this amazing graph.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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US banks now threatening to cut off Bitcoin exchange banking if they don't check incoming/outgoing transfers for coinjoin. Swan sent an email to it's customers giving the warning while also hinting you can add a hop to circumvent it.

This is just the first step the Legacy system will take. Lean how to obtain and use Bitcoin without KYC. Here are the videos I've done on this:

https://youtu.be/FmyYxrZM3Ms?si=HmqKaT4Ixbw8KcGE

https://youtu.be/XW_wzRz_BDI?si=Fx0AVWF9s7NBRR-I

https://youtu.be/4LyEKA5Iq9I?si=G6TdyxqmJNqUqrF6

https://youtu.be/UBRZKsIOpS8?si=I8wuqVy-67TtV2xw

Of course it is also great to hit your local meetups and do p2p exchange for cash and/or build out your local circular economy by offering your services for BTC and being VOCAL about it so other bitcoiners know.


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Elon Musk started PayPal and as a result of that and his first principles thinking, it is highly likely that he perfectly understands money.

Similar to how it is highly likely Elizabeth Warren perfectly understands money.

He also must understand that the natural state of the free market IS deflationary.

If both of these are true - then he also must know (as one of the top AI + robotics companies) that he is stealing the productivity gains that should flow to society in the form of lower prices by pretending he is solving planetary issues through a broken system that makes them worse.

In other words, Elon not advocating for #Bitcoin is not because he is stupid. It’s because he believes you are.


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🚨 BREAKING: Botev Plovdiv FC, Bulgaria's oldest football club, is now the first elite football team to embrace #Bitcoin! 🎉

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Block height: 814670

Starting today, fans can make Bitcoin payments at our fan shops and central stadium stands. ⚡ This monumental step coincides with the complete modernization of our official website.

A huge shoutout to our partners nostr:npub155m2k8ml8sqn8w4dhh689vdv0t2twa8dgvkpnzfggxf4wfughjsq2cdcvg & Bitcoinize for enabling a frictionless payment experience. Their dedication to promoting local Bitcoin adoption aligns perfectly with our vision for the future. 🤝

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Club President Anton Zingarevich: "We see Bitcoin, especially the Lightning network, becoming as ubiquitous as the internet. This move offers our fans unparalleled convenience and aligns with our forward-thinking vision." ⚡ #BotevPlovdivBitcoin

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For over a century, Botev Plovdiv has been a beacon of Bulgarian and European football. Today, we continue to innovate and set new benchmarks, not just in sports, but in embracing the future of finance and communication.

And this is just the beginning. Anticipate pioneering products and initiatives from us. Follow us to be the first to be in the know of our journey!

Join us! ⚽

🔗 https://botevplovdiv.bg/en/


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The fact that Elon Musk's title is "Technoking" and Jack Dorsey's title is "Block Head", speaks volumes.

One is about ego, and one is not. But more importantly we can see the difference in their actions more than titles from there.

Elon wants to build Twitter or the shitty name "X" into the next WeChat, with himself as the leader. He has literally said this. I used to be able to report bots on Twitter easily for many years, but now I have to show a drivers' ID to report someone that copies my persona even as a 600k following paid blue check, and so I don't bother anymore, and therefore bots proliferate. And if you don't pay for reach, you get devalued. Only in the past few months have I had to show my ID to report my countless bot copiers if I want to report them on Twitter/X. And so their rate of removal has decreased. If my Nym differs a bit from my name, well LET'S FILE SOME TPS REPORTS!!!! (which wasn't previously the case). And so as bots proliferate, and as Musk fails to contain bots as he promised he would and bragged about with memes, he will instead reference his own self-created bot problem as a reason to require even more ID requirements and try to build his US version of the Chinese Communist Party WeChat app. This is exactly what governments do. In my professional opinion, after careful consideration, Elon Musk can ::check notes::  politely go fuck himself, and those who worship him should reconsider what exactly they show blind obedience toward.

Meanwhile, nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m helps improve the Bitcoin network and the Nostr network and has put capital into them in various ways, and Bitcoin and Nostr have no leader. The fact that Bitcoin and Nostr have no leader, is specifically why Jack puts time and capital into them. He funds many different companies, and for bitcoin, Cash App has been among the networks to incorporate Lightning early. Yes, Cash App deals with domestic compliance issues. But they are trying, and they are early. Their network can connect to many others, like an email provider using SMTP to connect to many others. They're open, they're trying. And now they are making Bitkey, which helps with self custody. They're certainly not a directional enemy of freedom in the way that Twitter/X has been.

Companies that incorporate open networks with various levels of compliance trump companies that purposely don't adopt open networks and instead push new ID requirements, in my book.

+10 Jack
-10 Elon
Any day of the week.


Elon is turning X into the WeChat of the West.

The EU is planning to roll our their CBDC.

All within the next year.

The time to push Lightning to its limits is now. nostr:note1zvp2aymnzsw5jy6yzql0x64qv0nctk3rx0vvrvjhz0ad6jv5jadspc98ud


"Your parents were part of The Resistance. And now, it’s your turn."

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#comicstr


LBRY was the first decentralized social media platform for video creators. Even though it operated on its own token, it created a solution from the ever censoring YouTube platform.

Over the years, LBRY has gone head to head with the SEC, accrued millions in debt, and lost.

https://odysee.com/@lbry:3f/theendoflbryinc:d

If anything, it demonstrates clearly the need for free speech oriented platforms (and money) to be completely, in its totality, decentralized.

I wonder if NOSTR can pick up where LBRY left off…


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I have just published my latest film "Follow the Money Part 4 - Argentina's Inflation Crisis".  In this film, I travel to Buenos Aires to understand Argentina's economic crisis.

I want to say a massive thanks to Iris Energy for sponsoring this film.

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