They’re great, but also make sure the UX allows you to copy the data directly.


The kids will be alright


On further thought, the entries in the bloom filter probably also have to be salted and re-hashed. That way an attacker has to salt and hash every phone number and test it against the filter even to get the 10k bogus ones.

Otherwise, there’s little value in putting it in a bloom filter aside from space saving and computation. Salting and rehashing makes the attacker’s job harder.


Problem statement: you have a friend’s phone number. You want to find your friend’s npub in such a way that the number is never revealed to anyone who doesn’t already know it. That is phone->npub, but NOT npub->phone.

One approach is to treat it as a two-step process. The first step is to find candidate npubs who credibly could have the number. The second step is to challenge candidates to prove it.

Step 1. Find candidates. Suppose each npub publishes a Bloom filter which has been fed their phone number AND other random  garbage. By fetching these filters, you can test them to see if any at least credibly claim to have the number.

Step 2. Challenge candidates. For each candidate, send a DM which has a random payload symmetrically encrypted with a key containing their phone number and a nonce. Tell them the nonce and encryption scheme in the DM. If they have the phone number, they can decrypt the random payload and return it as proof. If they don’t, they’ll have to search. But they can’t have pre-computed the rainbow table because your nonce was random, and also you control the encryption scheme.

If a candidate doesn’t respond in a timely manner, this could be because they didn’t receive the DM, or they’re trying to crack the number. So you’ll have to use some judgement, perhaps starting a DM conversation first, then issuing the challenge.

Note: Because the search space of phone numbers is so small, the Bloom filters must contain a bunch of random phone numbers as false positives to prevent an attacker from determining an npub’s number by brute force tests. A few tens of thousands ought to be enough.

There are probably holes in this approach, I just thought it up now in response to your query.


Zap to skip ads.


But boat fuel can’t melt steel beams.


“Why should I change? He’s the one who sucks.” —Michael Bolton https://youtu.be/ADgS_vMGgzY


Expert level


Doesn’t even take a majority. Some splitzters make up bullshit words as they go.


Looks like they tried turning it off and back on again.


People commenting on the bridge collapse probs


WTF happened in 1971?


It’s a fun game. When you press a cell, it and all adjacent cells toggle. Your objective in each level is to flip all the lights off (hence the name “Lights Out”).

Has 100 levels pre-programmed.


Haha, not that kind of problem. I think mainly I fear two things:

1. Inadequate marketing. To get people to buy things, it takes advertising/marketing/sales, which I’m not naturally good at and don’t enjoy. So even if I make something that I like, it could whither on the vine.

2. Legal intervention. If successful—say I build out a business of some kind—I fear being contacted by and having to deal with legal issues.


Yeah, I’m thinking of adopting a mantra of some kind. “What would you do if you knew you’d succeed?” or something like that.


I think the biggest thing holding me back is fear of failure. How does one overcome this? #asknostr


Worth reading? What’s the gist?


Pump that shit straight into my veins


Coinbase is the next Mt. Gox.

This will be the greatest buying opportunity of our lifetimes. #Bitcoin


#100pushups a day until #Bitcoin $100k.

Day 005: 2024-03-26 - 20, 20, 20, 15, 15, 10

Intermixed with bench. Chest day. 💪


“Don’t stop til you get enough.” —Michael Jackson on #Bitcoin


We are moving towards a renaissance of philosophy. As abundance washes over us, the question remains, “what does it mean to live a good life?”

Study philosophy. We’ll need it.


Weird


> A request to devs who knows Nostr stuff, and are willing to spread the word trough writing.

What are you looking for exactly?


I have never been so offended by something I 100% agree with.


Frfr


100 PUSHUPS A DAY UNTIL #BITCOIN $100K #100pushups

Day 004: 2024-03-25 - 25, 20, 15, 10, 10, 10 (regular), 10 (deficit)

In between squats and Romanian deadlifts. Leg day. 🦵


Just the tip


#meme #StarTrek https://image.nostr.build/285666d37dcfa932795e0456f7f319bbaeb35ad14fda968e67c67c3d4acf5431.jpg


GM


Classic https://youtu.be/t4A-Ml8YHyM


DCA is for money you don’t have yet. Smash is for money you have now.

Always smash. #Bitcoin


Weird how that happens


Yes! It’s a fun story https://youtu.be/YOg-V4OBZc0


Always smash.

Or if you’re still on the fence, smash half, then half again, then half again and so on.


The U.K. once had a window tax, where property taxes were determined by the number of windows—something assessors could easily count outside.

To save buyers money, builders would rough in holes where windows could be placed but leave them filled. The tax policy incentivized domiciles to have fewer windows, leading to inescapable rooms during fires and poor airflow causing asphyxiation.

Dominic Frisby’s book “Daylight Robbery” describes this and other atrocities brought on by taxation. https://www.amazon.com/Daylight-Robbery-Title-Dominic-Frisby/dp/0241360838


#100pushups

Day 003: 2024-03-24 - 20, 20, 10, 20, 20, 10


The main UI/UX challenge I have with Damus is maintaining scroll location when coming back to the home feed.

Sadly the technology to do so may never be discovered in our lifetimes.


Bro, you are too big for your little sister’s princess bed 🐶☀☕ #dogstr https://image.nostr.build/01fd332755fcc464b7f20a37b83003500902561f54676727d7a720b6d41b4c74.jpg


Does the code run in a browser (like a webpage) or does it run on the server?

If it’s running in the browser, you’re probably launching a server of some kind and then accessing it via Chrome/Firefox etc.


#100pushups

Day 02: 2024-03-23 - 10, 10, 20, 20, 10, 20, 10


Is this browser code, or Node.js (backend) code?


It looks like you’re using ESM modules. Is your package.json configured for this? IIRC, it requires “type”:”module” in there, but I could be mis-remembering.


Remember scroll position when coming back to home feed. #nostrdesign


Where can I download that for my iPhone?


Imagine if you will… a Nostr client that remembers your scroll position when you come back to the home feed. http://cbsnews1.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/2014/06/19/e14ca45f-9364-4df5-9c84-9ab86bbe8e8d/rod-serling-opening.jpg


I thought this was just a Damus thing.


🚨 Warning to users about npub1earna05hx6ax38r33h3atmecjzdu547m8suw87w70aw6mlyga4hsqcja5j🚨: Risk of losing your sats!

I want to report a serious issue I had with ZBD. I was having problems with my LN node, so, as a temporary alternative, I turned to ZBD as a backup, integrating their streaming service to receive donations in sats through a QR Code displayed on the screen while my system was not working.

However, when I tried to access the ZBD app last Saturday to transfer the sats, I discovered I was blocked. I opened a support ticket, and after a long wait and opening a second ticket, the only response I got was a promise to "escalate" the problem. With no further responses, I continued opening tickets and demonstrating their lack of support live, as a real test of customer service.

Since the beginning of the Morning Crypto program in 2021, I have been recommending ZBD to our community as a good wallet option for beginners on the Lightning Network, but always warned about the risks of custodial wallets. Now, this experience reinforces the problem and serves as a great practical example: a custodial wallet can confiscate your sats without any explanation.

During the livestreams this week, I received numerous testimonies from users with similar issues on ZBD, reporting account locks without explanations and lack of support.
Therefore, I have removed ZBD from my recommendations and advise everyone: avoid using this wallet, due to the risk of losing your sats.

Spread this information among your contacts and acquaintances who may be using ZBD.

The suspicious situation ZBD finds itself in is unacceptable in a market that demands reliability and transparency.


Done ✅


What does it mean to “sell” a channel?


Agreed 🤝


I’m doing my part


Progress is what’s important, celebrate your victories and get back to it 💪


I make no promises about how I’ll break them up, or how much rest I’ll take between, but they’ll get done. 💪


Alright, alright, you’ve inspired me! Starting right now with day #1.

2024-03-22 - (100) 3x10, 2x20, 2x10, 2x5, elbows tucked

#100pushups


On schedule. According to plan.


Someday


Doing the lords work


d’oh!


Dis me


They look cornfortable


Good night ✌🧡

https://i.nostr.build/4ooK4.jpg


Depends on how cheap you can get your electricity


I’m impatient tho 😅


But what about speed?


There are a bunch of options, but it doesn’t say what any of them mean. https://image.nostr.build/522a254ac6aee5697564dc3a18150b085e0912f0c1f030da9b027ca50ee6e79c.jpg


I don’t know who that guy is in the picture but it looks like what a visual dictionary would show for the word “wanker”


What model of printer should I get?


Fair


What CAD software do you recommend? Is there anything open source that runs on Linux?


I don’t know what this means, but I will remember 😅


Thinking about getting into 3D printing at home. Whats the #1 most important thing you’d wish you’d known before you started? #asknostr


What happened at the last FOMC meeting? Seems things pumped after.


Idea: GM Relay

Only accepts and broadcasts GMs


Sometimes, I make a post, but it doesn’t show up anywhere. How can I debug this? Client is #Damus


Maybe it’s a client problem? Have you tried different clients?


Same energy


#Bitcoin #meme https://image.nostr.build/af82b80a1b257e092a0da3f8c1bad25b8c9b0920518ac566b11d173521d3aa20.jpg


S U P E R C Y C L E nostr:note1qzfgjuqe97e437xv3jwgdyrgznhr4t6mfn6uh4v34pvfplnfwjvqy0ez7j


This is one of the main arguments, IMO, for covenants such as OP_CTV. By introducing spending conditions, multiple parties can “share” a UTXO, giving more people your-keys-your-coins status on-chain.


Mt. Gox 2.0

The sooner it blows up, the better. nostr:note1kh9wmefk45u7xz9kjrz7hv0aerzyyavctpuuxtu2qdk2hvuh7l3qj3g2kr


Hitting her with the negs right out the gate


Words matter #meme https://image.nostr.build/94558c60ab00d2442746e6d04c60ed02c3aca7cb0483f475619931a4e3e34a0e.jpg


Poor again 🤝


Correct


Key management is hard. But it’s the only way to be sovereign. 🤝


I would bring my SeedPicker Playing Cards. https://image.nostr.build/f47f31c4d150df0be00e1a708ca594fd8ba32f16cded8c4f35c480fd93fc4ff4.jpg https://image.nostr.build/85d2fe9dff2bbc62f334491d88ebeca27b8435b81ece821bb18d536ec0ba8357.jpg


I stack two sats in the mornin.
I stack two sats at night.

I stack two sats in the afternoon.
Cause #Bitcoin is alright.


No need. Your readers will do it for free.


Suppose you’re a government employee. You love your country and believe in the State. You’re worried about #Bitcoin unseating the dollar.

You work your ass off trying to stop Bitcoin. But you’re not sure it can be stopped, despite your best efforts.

What do you do? You get some, just in case. You HATE-buy Bitcoin as insurance.

Over time, as number goes up, it’s a bigger and bigger part of your holdings. Now you’re conflicted. If you win, you lose. Your heart’s not in it anymore.

This is how Bitcoin wins.


S U S P E R C Y C L E nostr:note17lh2h4gkzuhak5304hv6hdv7lq5l68wlck05yc332lqnemcmu49sp9jf2d


sus


HEY HEY HEYYYYYYYY


Not even then.

Goldbugs tout the era of the “gold standard”. But even then, gold had already failed as money. Had gold worked, there would have been no need for a standard—people would have just used the metal directly.

Goldbugs have been wrong about gold for over a century.


Fiat diversification: portfolio of stonks, bonds and real estate.

#Bitcoin diversification: multisig of ColdCard, BitBox and SeedSigner.


The Goldbugs were right about everything… except gold. #Bitcoin


It’s only “gaslighting” if they’re trying to convince you that you’re crazy. Otherwise it’s just sparkling dishonesty.


Vibes


We don’t need no education.
We don’t need no thought control.


His loss


What is it?


Yeah! With two strings, you can do stunts. The Beetle is a good beginner kite for this. https://store.kittyhawk.com/products/beetle-stunt-kite


A+


Is such a thing even possible?
Yes it is.


That sounds like three things. No need to cram “and wait” into page 1. Spread it out a little.


Single string or multi-string?


This has made links to tweets significantly less useful. Lots of no-context one-liners floating around.


Don’t rebalance your lightning channels.
Let them be.
Fuck your channel balance.
Life is too short to worry about such things. #Bitcoin #Lightning https://www.ftmedien.ch/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/self-help-singh-k-1140x630.jpg


I never rebalance. If I need more liquidity in either direction I just go join swaps.


Wife just had an issue sending Apple Cash via debit card (sender and recipient both in U.S.). Could be unrelated, but suspicious timing.


#asknostr nostr:note1tzn7al9avqlhjqejhtkaf8xw740zq2vf27zsqc20qsh90tyrxn0qg3jfc5


STAY ON TARGET #Bitcoin #meme https://image.nostr.build/f577a0c2905953700375503d24d54be244ec093029fa4fa8a009a21f890325ae.jpg  nostr:note18lrdw8fhys3fuh78pn59e6uln7gsg7hds7lnrsgejfjg8aqhdghssrmh8s


Romanian deadlifts?


Fixed it #meme #NewEngland https://image.nostr.build/e08d55adc23b32c8a6b28be7d905a8e8370ef6d07d171890eea658c3c7659f7c.jpg


500% ROI! Amazing returns


Np. I used it a bit. Personally what I’d like to find is a model I can run on a server in my house that the fam can connect to. Especially one that can do code suggestions.


merde


In #Bitcoin, knowledge is ownership. You either know the keys, or you don’t.

The more you know, the more you own. nostr:note18gmvde33k5ezvk45gfpclmagv0qnqygy7pezepc3e86xasjcktlqsfgdx3


Afternoon nap time. 😴 🐶 #dogstr https://video.nostr.build/a064bb70d985749a71b207e0b2c4428d07b17deab119eda3d718a78114cab709.mp4


That’s normal. Everyone is ignorant on every topic until they learn.


Fixed it


Yeah, but what relays tho?


Quiet quitting? More like “quiet retired” amirite?


What relay(s) are the TikTok refugees using? I’m not seeing many new faces in Universe. #asknostr


How so?


Continuing on their inexorable march to complete irrelevance.


Every couple of years, or whenever I try to sign something and it fails.


Good ol’ Rug Pal


#Bitcoin #meme https://image.nostr.build/606c9209ad7cdb4b2359a8ab190c30d9929ab55af22e158056e1853544c87e13.jpg


No, same supply. Just moving the decimal 8 places. Thinking about it as a stock split is just a helpful frame for people who don’t understand Bitcoin’s divisibility

BTC price becomes sat price.


At $1M per whole coin, a sat costs $0.01. It no longer makes sense to bundle, and we do a one-time 1:100,000,000 split, keeping the BTC ticker.

Overnight, #Bitcoin goes from $1M to $0.01. A penny stock. That’s when the real FOMO moon pump starts.


Who is that? Someone famous?


Do you have any idea what happens when #Bitcoin surpasses $1M per whole coin?

I’ll give you a hint: “stock split”


Rebalancing my portfolio here:

- 85% BTC
- 15% sats

This is financial advice. #Bitcoin


Original Content 😂


I zap OC. Sorry not sorry.


Bullish


Haha thanks. I’ll get back to it eventually.

I was also interested in exploring protocol upgrades such as CBOR encoding (instead of JSON) to send binary data. This would enable, for example, notes containing images, audio or video rather than just raw text.

I got the basic idea implemented—that is, sending regular Nostr notes encoded in CBOR. More work would be needed to create a truly binary format. https://github.com/jimbojw/memorelay/tree/main/src/contrib/cbor


These are the kinds of things I had wanted to implement in memorelay. My goal was extensibility.

I’m behind on it. Ever since they retconned NIP-01, memorelay is no longer compliant. Need to implement replaceable events and refactor the code, then I could look into using external storage such as ES. https://github.com/jimbojw/memorelay


IIRC, ElasticSearch’s native protocol is restful JSON over HTTP, so there’d be no need to implement an API to use it in a web app. Probably just make sure your CORS headers are permissive.

But I would think that using the Nostr protocol (an ElasticSearch-backed relay with NIP-50 support) would be more useful because existing clients could connect and use it without having to write custom client code.


#Bitcoin #meme https://image.nostr.build/fd6c76f8c22784c3688cbc262ab5dfefaf16649c99e81b37eb76ca1138c742fa.jpg


I mean, sure. One could use ES to store and index content. The question then is, what is the API for querying it? One could query directly, or one could put a WebSocket in front and implement NIP-50 search (or just regular REQ subscriptions).

Maybe what you want is a Nostr relay that uses ES as its backing store? Perhaps also with a mirror feature so that this relay can slurp up notes from other relays.


Unbothered. Moisturized. Happy.


One sleepy girlie. ☀☕🐶#dogstr https://image.nostr.build/7408710de9ec6bd6ae8e31c75ad05525e98bdbce94e3ef1004a51e519279e7d2.jpg


How so? In what way?


Bro, I’m trying to work here. ☀☕🐶 #dogstr https://image.nostr.build/0ccfc9334eaf7815a8f24c53c43374a20d585064970d62c24b3b6383cf00ff36.jpg


#asknostr nostr:note1gaxrrxh5c9hr5m80jqscc0u7az54hr0x78v9lxq9lqzu8se8pgds5qyt5f


Where is the image data stored?


Nothing stops this train


May be a skill to cultivate. Sensitivity to small details is useful in design work.


Centralized systems turn on you.
Decentralized systems turn you on.


Dude has always been a sociopath.


When centralized systems turn you off, we’re here to turn you on. Welcome. #nostr


HUMILITY IS FOR BEAR MARKETS. WE BULL NOW. #Bitcoin nostr:note14dcqxnpgkrqutsxetv7ly7w4qgxkf65kzys2r3r65dcafx57zpgqzqrp5p


Welcome to #nostr. There is no algorithm to tell you who to follow, so get out there and find your kindred spirits. #meme https://image.nostr.build/0159721da7a085e6f9247bb98f0172fd3efa1b1ab9d47b67506f9a3515d5a595.jpg


Well ackahually… there is a NIP that relays can support that enables note deletion. BUT:

- It is up to relays to implement the NIP.
- It is up to relays to honor each deletion request.
- It is up to clients to provide a delete UX.
-  Even if everything goes perfectly, clients may have already received the deleted note and fail to retrieve the deletion event.

https://nostr-nips.com/nip-09


Of the decentralized alternatives to mainstream social media, I think Nostr has a good shot. But it will take time.

Welcome! Glad to have you. 🙏


Welcome! If you have questions, use the #asknostr hashtag and someone will hopefully help out. 🙏


That kinda day?


Welcome to law


Anon, how is your wallet recovery process doing? Now would be an ideal time to check in on it. #Bitcoin


You get what you incentivize


“Miners enforcing OFAC is censorship!”

“We need to censor NFT spam!”

—same people


Ugh bitcoin is so boring we haven't had an all-time high for hours now.


Trying to relax
Up in the capsule
“Send me up a drink”
Jokes Major Tom
#Bitcoin


Thank you for the PSA! Does this apply to 503-c nonprofits?


Real shit?


Context?


Analog money (fiat) stands no chance against digital. It is only a matter of time. #Bitcoin


Fair


Damn, I better get some extra cheese on my Whopper.


fog?


Poor again, back to the mines 🍟


Getting there


All that glitters is gold


Get your game on


Welcome back


Fucked around, found out 🤝


If anyone argues “you can’t eat the #Bitcoin” or “you can’t live in the Bitcoin” show them this clip. https://youtu.be/dgct3Jn8pFA


Last night I had a dream I was arguing with a banker about whether collateralized loans changed the money supply. Then I woke up. GM


I, on the other hand, am surprised daily that #Bitcoin isn’t already measured in the millions of dollars per.


#Bitcoin price movement is a stochastic, pain-maximizing process. nostr:note1ve3ulzdk9yrq3ml5khca3m5krp64j22tzc5qa8mghmafeyyxw6ssmu4c6l


HOPE


Thoughts?


Stainless


In #Bitcoin, knowledge is ownership.

Wealth is knowledge applied.


This guy gets it


New #Bitcoin travel wallet just dropped. https://image.nostr.build/789c7ee48e3b8adeb1b62c9ecab483419d2f75e3d0414b04b74d52dca56ed4b4.jpg


What’s poking out of her backpack?


Sparrow wallet is THE FUCKING BEST


Looking back at previous #Bitcoin post-bear ATH breakouts:

2017:
- first test: March 3
- last break: May 1
- duration: ~2 months

2020:
- first test: November 24
- last break: December 16
- duration: ~3 weeks

2023:
- first test: March 4
- last break: ?
- duration: ?


Feels good man


Where’s Half-Life 3?


He’s a keeper


At the data level, a kind is just a number. Regular text notes like this one have kind=1. A note that deletes a note has kind=5. A reaction to a note is also a note, but with kind=7.

The space of numbers is divided such that different ranges are treated a bit differently:

- 1000 <= n < 10000 = regular notes, stored by relays
- 10000 <= n < 20000 = replaceable notes. A relay should keep only the last for a given pubkey/n combo.
- 20000 <= n < 30000 = ephemeral notes that relays should NOT store (just relay to any currently connected, subscribed clients).
- 30000 <= n < 40000 = parameterized replaceable. Relays should keep only the last pubkey/n/d-tag combo, where the d-tag is a special string. This would be for, say, long-form blog entries so the author can post updates/edits.

So to develop your own kind, you first need to determine which range makes sense for you. Should relays store these notes? If so, should they be replaceable?

Once you’ve picked a range, next you’ll want to find a number that other people aren’t already using. This may take some research. Various nips and applications have already claimed some numbers.

After you’ve selected a kind number, the next thing to do is to write up how it is to be used. This document will help to avoid conflicts such as someone else picking the same number. Whether this document should be an actual NIP depends on how likely it is that relay and client implementers will want/need to know about it.

Then lastly, with a kind number and specification, you’ll be ready to write software that uses the kind.


#Bitcoin at $0.069M just feels right.

Sadly, $0.069M will be transitory…


It takes the median consumer 6 exposures to a product before making their first purchase.

Do not be discouraged if people you talk to about #Bitcoin seem not to get it. You may just be one of their 6 contact points. Every contact counts.


I memorized the original Turbo encabulator spiel. It’s perfect for when young children decide to mimic you by repeating whatever you say. Two lines of this dialogue and they give up.


Is there a meme generator for these?


nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6 We need a NIP versioning system. That way there’s no confusion about which edition of which NIPs clients and relays implement. #nostr


It’s bullshit. By changing existing NIPs, it makes liars out of relays and clients that were once compliant. One would need a NIP versioning system to ensure that when you say you implement a NIP, everyone knows what you mean.


There used to be several separate NIPs that got rolled into NIP-01:

- NIP-16 - Event treatment.
- NIP-33 - Ephemeral/Replaceable kind ranges.
- NIP-20 - OK response messages.

These used to all be separate features, but now to be NIP-01 compliant you have to implement them all.


I wish they’d stop changing existing NIPs. Just make new NIPs.


Few!


Haha jk


That’s all you need


$10M BY HALVING STILL IN PLAY nostr:note1lek84pasy9kagknskgh8545nmqpallv86qsdklc0c5cl7kedu3pq3gtyl7


Does lesbian porn count?


🌽 nostr:note1hr2ul2fqmgku3zg63fhlptkptxhyutf8k6k8j5a6gth4tr6s8sws3j3j22


This video is like a compilation of grocities cites.


I heard this recently also. Best guess it was either Lyn Alden or Luke Gromen (sp?) on either Livera or TFTC.


Fair


Imagine if Coinbase could actually run a website


More like “keep going” job, amirite?


I think it’s a Hedgehog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedgehog


Never mind, I don’t think it’s that. Those are indigenous to New Zealand / Australia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echidna


English. I don’t know any other name for them.


Echidna


Live view of Coinbase engineers responding to demand https://www.bookofthrees.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/img_1144.jpg


S U P E R S O M E T H I N G nostr:note1lmyc2gvf3e9zqj8dl2y45wch8qfhhfh68y9ryskuq8mjlt6akcjs9ednav


Politicians are shitcoins


Who keeps selling?


ATH? Damp eet. https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/826/056/771.jpg


$0.069M is sooooo boooring #Bitcoin


S U P E R C Y C L E nostr:note1ef4j6686vnlpnyp2mj2n8hwde0arz2f3e069sq72rlkgmx68kpwsswvz05


Chris Vickery was the dude that made the connection. I’d pull up the actual tweet, but I’m blocked, probably from trolling him. https://twitter.com/VickerySec


Ok, so it was the March 25, 2021
House Hearing on Combating Online Misinformation and Disinformation. Here’s a screenshot of Jack at 1:02:05 with the Block Clock showing 1952. #Bitcoin price $51.2k.

https://www.youtube.com/live/JKqaHVX4O08 https://image.nostr.build/2f01e3dc3903085ebde57a1f10cdeca57210165d78866bfbf9b832a835b4ec57.jpg


You can see Jack and the block clock behind him in this clip. https://youtu.be/ckJ0ofYpIRg


NVK talks about it starting around 29:50 in this episode of the Bitcoin Matrix podcast. The meeting that Jack took was testifying before Congress.

https://fountain.fm/episode/zEmDlNOTpoqwBwm7Yig5


Moscow time started back when Jack was still at Twitter during COVID. One time he took a meeting from his home with a block clock mini in the background. It was showing the #Bitcoin price in sats per dollar.

Some dude on Twitter thought it was a literal clock and observed that the number was quite similar to the 24hr clock time in Moscow at the time of the meeting. This dude inferred that Jack supported Russia, and that the clock was a dog whistle.

Bitcoiners on Twitter tried to disabuse him of his ignorance, but he just doubled-down. So in Bitcoiner fashion, we adopted the term “Moscow time” to mean the price of a dollar in sats. It’s now an inside joke to ask a Bitcoiner if they happen to have the time in Moscow.

https://blockclockmini.com


Is this left-to-right, or right-to-left?


A couple I’ve thought of:

- Testing - when you’re developing a client/feature and you want a temporary relay for ephemeral data.

- Private chats - setup a relay, invite participants. One participant is a “broadcast” bot. Everyone DMs the broadcast bot, which broadcasts incoming DMs back out to everyone as DMs. The ephemeral relay would have the metadata, but all message content would be end-to-end encrypted, viewable only to members.

- Gaming - use a temporary relay for game state. May also include player comments.

But I’m more interested in what other people might use such a service for.


Idea: Temporary Private Nostr Relays. You pay a lightning invoice and get a private relay for a fixed time lease. You can invite additional npubs to post/subscribe.

What do you think? #asknostr


Bitcoin CEO


How did your friend feel about the 70% premine?


You seem to have zaps enabled, so whatever provider you’re using is already making invoices for you.


I read the DLCVM paper today. What a troll.


Correct. Why does anyone believe the game will be less rigged after 4 more years of prep time?


That’s every president bro


Unfortunately I can’t make it, but maybe next time


Bitcoin has a better shelf life


THE PONZI IS OVER 💀 https://youtu.be/KTf5j9LDObk


I’m laughing entirely too hard at this laugh🤣


Visioneers here https://youtu.be/V3xhMOXT1Z8


4 more months


#Bitcoin #meme https://image.nostr.build/6bb5879388d9b6ce7448939c6c6168477412cbe9e0b164714e8814a8b6e41037.jpg


You wanted $10k daily candles anon? #Bitcoin https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vLOAoksNY1Q/URFUvHAoV6I/AAAAAAAAJXE/ebJVVqBVqKE/s1600/not-like-this.gif


Tony Robbins talks about this. Attaining your goals will yield fleeting satisfaction. Success is a science, but fulfillment is an art. He recommends cultivating gratitude in the moment. https://youtu.be/JoLGGflREXM


Why, I didn’t see a pump until I was already a man. https://image.nostr.build/234f966f328ab2d1c1ce5f96e677d5124d4635b003ae72d52d178c2aef015798.jpg


What happened to the ATH you ask? Simple. He bought. https://youtu.be/61Q6wWu5ziY


Every fuckin time


Erhm, Acktchually…


This was a pump by the people, for the people


Not my proudest ATH


Worst ATH ever lol 😂


Welp, poor again. Back to flipping burgers 🍔 🍟


IT’S AFRAID nostr:note1h78yra598ke6f58qgus6a8tv4mqfgwaj62jg308ru90jq9q6m7gqtahqkh


Pack it up bois


What’s nestjs?

I’m good at Node/Typescript. May be interested in a collab.


This is relevant to my interests


Start the shit you want to see in the world 🤝


BULLISH


#Bitcoin #meme https://image.nostr.build/a34e12f5f287e90d2bd759971fce60d758a50ee7c1f31fd470a30e763a4107e7.jpg


S U P E R C Y C L E nostr:note1q7vh5yy4ag2fs7stkd90g6l9yrsyw23f5mqsfcqeezk53a6y750qduusew


Does anyone have that Kermit meme about saying “you watch your mouth” to your boss?


How is the Mexican peso doing so well?


It emulates Switch elsewhere (like on a PC)? Or it’s software for Switch that emulates something else?


She’s welcome on nostr


What was yuzu?


The problem with fiat isn’t that they print it. It’s that you don’t have any choice.

Let the free market decide which is the best money. (It’s #Bitcoin)


But still same 👇


I’m here for it


It’ll be ok 👌


In the Bitcoin protocol itself, there are only sats. The bundling into tranches of 100M sats is purely a client thing.


There’s plenty of room on the bell curve for everyone. 🤝


Right now, #Bitcoin price is crossing a wide chasm. $67k is too much for most people to spend on crazy internet money. But sats are too small to reason about—it takes 1400 to make a dollar.

At $1M per whole coin, those problems go away. A sat costs $0.01. That’s when we do a one-time 1:100,000,000 split, keeping the BTC ticker. Overnight, what was once a $1M asset is suddenly a penny stock.


#Bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/3b5536f00a7792914b2bc67b4449f7cb4278032b0ff68a717e574b110ad43298.jpg


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Seems that way


I don’t make the rules https://image.nostr.build/7fabaa6f900ae68f793b571f4f10695d91ee5450e35251a3039ec69300fa1ab9.jpg


Never


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Can’t listen to Woods. Blind to #Bitcoin - inexcusable after all these years.


Does “quiet quitting” count? Cause I’ve been “quiet retired” for months.


3-4 months left before they turn on the money printer


Have to give it to $58k gang. Taking down Coinbase to slow the pump is next level. #Bitcoin


Silver: The Original Shitcoin


“There are years where nothing happens and weeks where Coinbase goes down” —Lenin


Noh


We’ve all been there


STATUS: 🟢
My full node is experiencing no signs of latency.


Coinbase is so embarrassing. They had nothing but time to build up their infrastructure, and at the first whiff of traffic they fall over. Shame.


False


This guy gets it


ATH BY END OF DAY


How am I supposed to work under these conditions?


Ol’ Paper hand Portnoy


I love my country. It’s the government that’s got to go.


Or if you really want to drive the point home, price the shitcoin in DOGE. Dogecoin is the king of shitcoins. If you can’t beat Doge, what are you even doing? https://image.nostr.build/b3ff6c7d46b2e98fe1c66985ef034194226ee3e4cfbc449685c439890533969d.jpg


Whenever you consider buying something, the cost is whatever else you would have held instead.

In the case of shitcoins, that other thing is #Bitcoin. So the chart to look at in this case is XRPBTC.

Putting aside the centralization, pre-mine and missing block history… does this chart instill confidence? Is this something you want to hold? https://image.nostr.build/dbf2f35a1986511270a84a80cb93f56a0b0aa893fa7c30fb5f63c4b30782d82e.jpg


Waiting for USD #Bitcoin ATH must be like what Californians feel on New Year’s Eve.

You know it’s coming, but three hours behind.


When do I get my invitation to the $100k party?


What happened?


Gm

https://video.nostr.build/65d5595bea360bfceb6aee01d3a18041f3699bf095699cf04e2b9762353ea1ad.mp4


This year’s top Olympic sports:

1. Moving the goalposts
2. The 100-yard backpedal


LFG


All your models are destroyed


Well, to be fair, “I Know Better Than You™” is kinda the whole legacy fiat business model.


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We also RUN THE NUMBERS


The future tax rate is zero if you out-HODL the nation-state enterprise.


Not worth it, IMO. The time horizon is too far out to have any confidence in the future tax rate. Better to get your coins in self-custody, revealing as little as possible to one’s potential future adversaries.

It’s not just the State you’re revealing to (although that’s reason enough). It’s anyone who hacks the State’s databases, now or at any time in the next several decades.


Counterargument:

- Roth IRA contributions are post-tax. You’ve already paid income taxes.
- You have to register your holdings with the State.

Is the lack of long-term capital gains tax (15%) worth revealing your stack? The future tax rate is unpredictable, but you can’t un-reveal your position.


UP ONLY


S U P P L Y 🤝 D E M A N D nostr:note1td88p03z3a9mw9xxtwem5pznfdnvyx24l30uae2j0pdnvnusuy5su02dav


Noh


CREED WILL NEVER BE MY PUMP SONG I WILL DIE ON THIS HILL


So what does this thing do then?


Different wallet? There must be a way.


There’s always CPFP


Happy #Bitcoin    to Gold Parity Day!

On this day in 2007, 1 bitcoin surpassed the price of 1 oz of gold for the first time.


This is why there will be no long-lasting, wide-scale internet outage.

When everyone’s interests align in fixing a problem, people get it done. nostr:note1jjlvmm6uv46jumyvryhy4w9yvjh5am05rtm424dvt68l4w8n6ydq4gzw35


My #1 request for nostr:npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq955


#Bitcoin price movement is a stochastic, pain-maximizing process. nostr:note12yg25gypm4s6y5nnkmx5k66gytk8nesktugsa3zj3hfyc8n3p4csjh4e69


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When prepping goes from something you do to something that defines you.


I’m sure exchanges hold some Bitcoin


100% of all #Bitcoin is in self-custody.


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I think I contracted diabetes just looking at it


All my memes go here now. Haven’t been on Xitter in months, probably close to a year now.


I see what you did there


#Bitcoin #meme https://image.nostr.build/02d0281c1c6f65e37e707eaa0ae5cdc99a5bb27fe2d964282142909bbc8a859f.jpg


It’s about time


Like any definitional argument, it depends on how you define the term.


Good time to be opening some channels


They hold both views because to admit the truth would invalidate their entire industry.


#Bitcoin #meme https://image.nostr.build/5076637a9019d95c7f3585c983c26e839cc0ed32cab981037010d7ce099b66c9.jpg


Inflows to where?


Worth it. Best documentary about central banking.


HAHDOOOOO-KEN


The Matrix


And now back to your regularly scheduled shitposting.


We’ve all been there


We had a good run 🤝


#Wendys #meme https://image.nostr.build/9cda76e9ff55b308fd1997fd3fce605b9332319236aa52328efba4deb30e8b5c.jpg


#Bitcoin #meme https://image.nostr.build/3f1449f609a1bcf792263c09693842c6a65c94c65effe83a46c27bb1934d848c.jpg


675? What is that, a credit score for ants?


NOSTR ONLY 🫡


https://i.nostr.build/lgjB.jpg  nostr:note1yh0crlk6r5lh3qpgcxyts70d5uwmjmu8u86wyrf48spxfggtvzxq74hqm7


The best time to get your #Bitcoin off the exchange was when you bought it. The second best time is RIGHT THE FUCK NOW.


IT’S GETTING EARLIER IN MOSCOW nostr:note1vsfrvufzq77vuxk4s2qvg59f6sz0lh89a3v53dr45gy60nl2wjas5r2gj3


Solid advice


Rate my setup


Now I have an urge to build a #Bitcoin phone just to spite the man.


I won’t be telling anyone “I told you so” but there will be signs. #Bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/c4742c3285f2fe0ff05a5dca86503e308aeefee14e4b7267d71277de5feb0580.gif


WHEN #BITCOIN GOES TO $1M BEFORE HALVING I WILL BUY THE DIP.


https://image.nostr.build/6a5e6e744fb7b689b0e7108e516560089612a0f0ad1c7a3c3e7366a371224c67.jpg  nostr:note1ufpztfs8zulezuf6me4c82d0heuws5eq06u96lnvn6s7cks6qznswc0gan


#Bitcoin #meme https://image.nostr.build/77414fedf7dffd3a4b4995ee8c735cb2b8a5e80340e6c385e2960f1e228477ed.jpg


You love to see it


#Bitcoin #meme  https://image.nostr.build/ab570c60b5085c3f362789fff0d4fc5204bafd740d25ed67cdf7db3e7bd77f45.jpg


$10M BY HALVING STILL IN PLAY nostr:note1zlk7a058msg63h53ra7cdzn3gkltzy6ulyjgt6tlgkf96fp3y9yqx04z55


Supply and demand


Dumb Money: “We’ll beat them at their own game!”

Bitcoiners: “We’ll beat them at our own game.”


Food for thought


As a general principle, keeping it simple is a good one. Another good general principle is optionality. In this case they’re in tension.

Yes, OP_CAT opens the design space—as did SegWit and Taproot to an even greater degree. Having more programmability does mean that some people may use it in ways we don’t like. The question is what harm can they do by it?

To me, it’s crucial that we keep the cost of running a node down. More validating nodes makes a stronger, decentralized network.

It’s also crucial that we keep mining decentralized. Having participatory mining and node operation are both important.

So if OP_CAT would lead to miner centralization, or substantially increase the cost of running a node, those would be compelling reasons to oppose it, IMO. I haven’t heard anyone make this argument though.

The argument I’ve heard so far is as you say “it’s harder to predict what can be done with it”. Yes, and also that affords creativity in the face of our adversaries.


A review of some of the literature that led me to “get lucky” on #Bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/5589078915136aaac372dbd0054ccd938b1a64fb5d0ca3226582c5a215b642aa.jpg https://image.nostr.build/3eac38de328e9d1536c62b1fb348d6ee9368ccfab2aab761478e09df873ca3dc.jpg https://image.nostr.build/1c9ba98d875cec260ed6b6d54da094ae11e5effa01d7be50c3d64383521e2a0d.jpg https://image.nostr.build/f1fb75cfb43f4413646c70ea9f730d80df56d424ac3c130a1d84673f9df79521.jpg https://image.nostr.build/9c65c72cd8b5501a197fcb2496954a0b1011ed5706843f62257cf8c907473d81.jpg


I watched this, but he didn’t say much about the risks of OP_CAT. His reasons to oppose were hand-wavey, IMO. If he has a specific risk in mind, I’d like to hear it.


Thinking about buying some belts. How do the sizes work? I want to get the right size. Is there a guide to measuring?


Same same


Link? This is relevant to my interests.


PUNP IT


GM nostr:note1yz22uj6sa9y9nrne6h363gvsw7nfny0fnlmlmavlqldxs7tdl4pszny6n9


I WILL NOW PLAY FOR YOU THE SONG OF MY PEOPLE https://youtu.be/k001JX-D-dA


It do be like that tho


Haha, well, the model hasn’t changed. All the assumptions and methodology are spelled out step-by-step.

It’s as valid as it ever was I guess 🤷♀


$58K IS IMMANENT, PEOPLE. THIS IS THE MOMENT YOU’VE BEEN TRAINING FOR ALL YESTERDAY AFTERNOON.


YES


#Bitcoin #meme https://image.nostr.build/0c815ff6851403a9d2d5e0ca1deb73ac668378c5535ead4201692cbf71af5917.jpg


Only


SNED IT


The masculine urge to run another node. #Bitcoin


$10M by halving still on schedule. #Bitcoin


Does anyone have the time in Moscow?


If you have the funds up front, lump sum up front. If you don’t, then lump sum when you do.


Link?


Can someone outline the specific arguments against OP_CAT? #Bitcoin #asknostr


Blocked and reported


https://image.nostr.build/e8c64a7d5db1837e8d533122b7401a735cf7b544db6c205388b7b9bc3d5473e0.jpg

#meme #memestr #nostrmemes #memes 832,018 🤙💜


#Bitcoin #meme https://image.nostr.build/f6fefaf9160dccadd609baca3bf8c6286d2575c616a047534f05e5455f24d03d.jpg


1. Have them install Blue Wallet and create a wallet.
2. Send them some #Bitcoin.
3. Show them how to spend it, for example using BitRefill for store credit.

The wallet will always show them the current value of what they spent. Seeing what they lost is the best motivator to save.


Makes sense thanks


So nsfw is more than just a tag? How is it different from other tags?


That’s it, thanks!


Been a while since I’ve opened Lightning channels. What was that site that coordinates rings?


Listening now


Not yet, no


Same


Anyone who thinks the machines are going to keep score with analog, manipulable, fiat currency is delusional. #Bitcoin


> I know some folks are really excited because Trump is talking about bitcoin, but I would advise caution before jubilation…

💯 Don’t get your hopes up.


PSA: TS ESM modules are a PITA.


Vibes


“Like the road not taken, it was the fucks not given that made all the difference.” —Mark Manson


#Bitcoin price movement is a stochastic, pain-maximizing process. Whatever is most painful, so it shall be.


‘Tis better to have been bullish and been wrong, than to never have been bullshit at all. #Bitcoin


Needs log scale


Best conversation I’ve ever had.


I haven’t heard of 44h paths. Where can I read about it?


AT&T has wide scale outages. #Bitcoin never has outages. https://image.nostr.build/d42e9a433eaa49c6231861d12f1aa06204b1e3323aa10ef950e1dcf295a462c2.jpg


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If you want to find new, good ideas, you have to be willing to face a great many bad ideas. It is only there, in the wilderness of thought, that new value can be found.


Haters gonna hate


It is not my argument that the IRS won’t “want” their cut. It is my argument that they won’t enforce getting it, at scale. The cost/reward to attempt broad enforcement isn’t there for them to try.


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“Enforcing”? Probably never at scale would be my guess.


Good


And I said, “what about ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’?”

She said, “I think I remember the film, and as I recall, I think, we both kinda liked it.”


Seems to be working


It takes several contact points for someone to finally take the initiative to learn #Bitcoin. Being someone’s first, second, or third contact point is still important, building toward that critical mass.


Everyone needs their pizza day moment. It’s part of the learning process.


It’s the incentives talking. That’s all it is.

This “advisor” is incentivized to grow his assets under management.  Helping people withdraw runs directly counter to that.


Sold


Anyone who can’t spell “Bitcoin” has no business giving financial advice.


My counterargument is “who benefits?” That is, under what circumstances and to whose benefit would a 6102 occur?

A regular individual would benefit from stealing Bitcoin because they would then have money they otherwise wouldn’t. The State doesn’t have this problem. It can print currency in any quantity.


I’m getting so tired of $0.05M/BTC


If the U.S. government ever tries to 6102 people’s #Bitcoin, it will be the biggest indictment of the USD system the world has ever seen.

It would be proof of the U.S.’s total bankruptcy, and pump Bitcoin price to infinity overnight.


Unpopular opinion: there will be no 6102 for #Bitcoin or anything else. The State doesn’t need money—it prints currency in any volume.

The 1933 executive order made sense at the time only because the Fed was statutorily required to maintain a 40% gold-to-fiat ratio, and overprinting had put it behind. The Fed has no such mandate today for gold, let alone Bitcoin.


Sorry about that


HOW IS YOUR TRADE GOING?


OOF


That’s good! You can lay yourself off, declare financial hardship, withdraw 401k, then rehire yourself after conditions improve.


#Bitcoin only


Are you satisfied with your gains? #memes
https://m.primal.net/Hdke.jpg


#asknostr nostr:note1dvgn68lktuns9vl94yeayg8fajegcqgjh9200sqdpqxtf4ylmzlsdtv8ls


> I told them i had a hardship. Both gave me my money, but i was no longer working.

Right. They won’t give it to you while still employed. I had hoped you knew something I didn’t.


My beef with the nips is the unnecessary consolidation of 9, 20, and 16 into NIP-01. Those were fine separate. It made liars out of NIP-11 implementations that said they supported those now defunct others.


How did you convince them to let you have your own money? I tried this some years ago and couldn’t.


Do you mean a vanity npub?


Incentives


You wouldn’t believe it


I run a promiscuous #Bitcoin node on both clearnet and ToR, with no peer limit. Connected peers today: 587

This is an ATH for my node. What could it mean?


Best hardware wallet concealer for public transport


#Bitcoin is the most unique asset on our planet!

https://image.nostr.build/2c78cb3bd1719870edcee70f67cf4f819323d40c2023a85fe00ba2c8cc2f13c8.jpg


Truth


“Knowing is not enough. You have to act.”

- Tony Robbins


That’s the spirit


Nah


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And yet somehow they’re still valuable.


Any video with Tony Robbins


Then moon


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I was having some issues where my notes weren’t posting. Not sure what was going on. 🤷♀


#Bitcoin #meme https://image.nostr.build/f1e61989dc848312e9e93140df82d67b203500fbbfc573b0fa07f6f63d48914a.jpg


Does anyone have that video meme where Interstellar guy is watching Saylor explain “there is no second best”? #asknostr


Have we found a price paper hands can stomach?


#Bitcoin 🦀 $0.052M https://image.nostr.build/a106f85067c108c907938e4df45f6136cc83dcfab26ca539984ab66742bb27d3.jpg


Testing testing. Is this thing on?


Haha, “top” economist. I see what you did there.


Before Gutenberg’s movable-type printing press, every book was a masterpiece. Only great books could afford to be hand-copied by scribes.

After the printing press we got flyers, advertisements, pornography, journals, newspapers, theses, novels, etc. etc. Quantity skyrocketed, but average quality tanked.

Such is the nature of improvements to communication technology.


It is ok to be ignorant. We all start out ignorant before we learn.


No-coiner tellin' me that #Bitcoin self-custody is too complicated for the masses.

"Bro, nobody's born knowing how to drive a car, but they learn."


Is it just me, or does this guy look suspiciously similar to RFK jr?


Weird


S


What’s the context? I’m guessing there was a police shooting instigated by an acorn falling?


If you have a link to a genuine admission, I’ll give it a listen. 🙏


#Bitcoin #meme https://image.nostr.build/b47318dbd3fa33cc7c56437a6e92544c569cb5904937651a1b7838363093cde2.jpg


Yeah, I’ve seen pics of the signature and walls of text. I’m withholding judgement until I see video of Warren explaining her rationale. I await the interview footage.


I want to see video footage of her explaining her rationale. Until then, I’m skeptical that this is fake news.


I’ve seen too much fake news to fall for this at face value. Need more corroborating evidence.


As all Politicians Do.


Did he admit it? I watched his “taking the L” video. It was sarcasm through and through. AFAIK, he never genuinely admitted that he was wrong. (Unless he made a later, genuine mea culpa)

Too much pride wrapped up in his predictive ability to admit that he got the greatest psyop of our time wrong.


Is this real, or satire?


Is this satire?


I have a hard time listening to Adams. I learned a lot from him about persuasion in the early Trump years (2015-2017). But he was dead wrong on Covid, and has never put in the effort to grok Bitcoin. Hard to take him seriously anymore.


The longer your time horizon, the more you have to shift focus to production—that is, putting together plans and systems for acquiring goods over time.


I have, using the validateEvent() and verifySignature() methods of nostr-tools. https://github.com/jimbojw/memorelay/blob/main/src/nips/nip-0001-basic-protocol/lib/verify-event.ts


I’ll allow it


SPSF is the real market price


S O O N


#Bitcoin - Is it pumping too much? To little? Or just the right amount?


Nah


Artwork is optional but strongly encouraged


CORRECT


Upcoming #Bitcoin milestones:

- $58k - memes
- $69k - ATH, memes
- $100k - big round number
- $200k - big round number
- $300k - half-way to $1M (log scale)
- $500k - half-way to $1M (linear)
- $0.01 - one time split, FOMO
- $0.10 - FOMO intensifies
- April 20, 2024 - the halvening


$10M BY HALVING STILL IN PLAY nostr:note1rdnkxzqvl5qg6qac7rg3cezr3uapdc78w2mqag3n5s7d54nqjsfq0h3f3l


This is my jam


He’s similar to Bill Maher. Politically left-of-center, but opposed to the illiberal, authoritarian Left. I like him, personally. https://youtu.be/EdTc61kLirY


D I V E R S I F I C A T I O N


Steven Pinker’s book “The Sense of Style” has a great section on punctuation and its appropriate usage. It’s a good read, and worth it.


S U P E R C Y C L E nostr:note1gtuej3ryswt3u04jcntd0pn4wjc27pzvtlngn0898kvp950kscaqn4nq5l


Thank you for this


PER SAT nostr:note1jmzvkzhx4svg94tsljgz260r6gy32e5udr9rcgtdmn537s6ejvqqnlj4q2


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If you force out the farmer, you get the farm.

If you force out the Bitcoiner, you get nothing. #Bitcoin nostr:note1cvfw7skur3qj46p9uwpmltxs2cc6htfywrxy5n9sq2wgr67ztzgscea0y0


What’s the NATO Funding hoax?


To trust means to make oneself willingly vulnerable to another.

Don’t trust. Verify. #Bitcoin


What will you do when #Bitcoin frees you from the yoke of the fiat treadmill? #asknostr


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Looks like it doubles every 10 years, a growth rate of 7-8% per year. Exactly the same rate as growth of the money supply. Weird.


Correct


Haven’t tried it yet


YOU ARE TBE CARBON THEY WANT TO REDUCE nostr:note1rdraqd33ueq2ntd9lss86qvern89rrk45ekcx6jl7uk9cy8e33qq70suus


Plot twist: they’re right. 78% of institutional traders will be out of work in 5 years thanks to #Bitcoin making their jobs unnecessarily.


You love to see it


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#Bitcoin #meme https://image.nostr.build/fc9a58fad5bada2fcebe68cb10eb1023bcfa842d489ff4829da71c70501ed296.jpg


#Bitcoin #meme https://image.nostr.build/c2a7f506d8a8979e409ad29361a2e3808b71c6e3a256143f428c435ce297a7c9.jpg


What does “Maui” mean in this context?


By what metric?


Oof


Switching from Delmonico to strip steak today. Let’s see how it goes. 🥩


#Bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/ef029f26303d68b4dbc1c4fc84766dd44083055ff43d7d4a6d20bc4c8a779891.jpg


Makes me wish Damus had playback controls.


Then take up a new vocation. Go back to school and get another degree. Take an improv comedy class.


Life is long and getting longer. Lower your time preference.


SNED IT


That would be substantially more open and transparent than current manipulation schemes.


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What happens then?


Rekt


The ponzi is over


I get it


What are you talking about? The API is signed JSON over WebSockets.


What’s the gist?


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BITCOIN 🙌
#meme #bitcoin #nostr
https://m.primal.net/HbUI.jpg


Anything good?


Cobain ripoff


$10M BY HALVING STILL IN PLAY nostr:note1xyy3fm4d5ltd7u6ak0mrv3cpw09709fr6sypwzhnnvmtvndlv2kq64u228


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Which end of the ASIC does the CO2 come out of? #Bitcoin #asknostr


Yeah, multi-charger. One came with my poi. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B005HZ8A0U


There’s a lot of competition in the JavaScript build space, no doubt. That’s also the source of its innovation and robustness, much like Nostr or Bitcoin.


Plating media makes for good optics


We’ve all been there


“Super easy” is contextual. I have installed GrapheneOS, and I’ll agree that for a technical person, the installation is well documented. Following the step-by-step instructions will yield a successful install.

BUT, I would not all this “super easy” for Joe Sixpack. You have to put your Pixel in dev mode and experience several scary looking reboots and warnings. It doesn’t “just work” in the same way that an iPhone does.


Love to see it


Government is simply the most powerful gang of all the gangs.


HELL YEAH BROTHER 💪


To quarterly from what prior cadence?


I don’t get it. The data’s the same, right?


What does it do? Link?


I inherited my son’s old Alienware gaming PC. It has an NVidia GTX 1070 (6GB). What generative AI model(s) should I run on it first? #asknostr


Baller


I understood that reference


WHAT?!


One of my fave episodes


#Bitcoin is more than just money.
It is money, and it is just.


Mood


First the one, then the other


🟦 Also propaganda, but in blue


Everyone talks about going back to the Constitution and I’m just sitting here waiting for the Declaration of Independence.


Testing repost nostr:note1jhe3kklkr7u6aft5akthf59mytcetxyye6chnw4kn74s80ke02es7qq55v


Testing testing


Got my wife “just because” flowers delivered to her workplace today. The other ladies’ husbands are going to be in trouble, but that’s their problem, not mine.


Somebody get me in contact with these guys. I need to go on and defend the laser eye meme. https://fountain.fm/episode/bbyUyODnS1RmOxLnr6hX


Did it?


Gosling is Kenough


Conscripting an unwilling population will yield poor soldiers. Therefore, expect unrelenting propaganda and/or false flags to drum up popular support.


I do have a bad habit of thinking in paragraphs.


Harari’s view, IIRC, is couched in a scarcity frame. Something like: resources are finite, therefore humanity must be downsized to fit. Then, motivated by this morality, he advocates technological means of carrying it out. Technological means of limitation, control, and in a word, death.

My moral view and baseline assumptions are opposite. Resources are incomprehensibly vast. We’ve only scratched the surface of what this world can provide, let alone the rest of the solar system. We should be doing all we can to increase the number of people and increase their quality of life. History shows that capitalism (private property, consensual exchange) is the engine which brings this about.

Technology is the natural extension of our biological bodies into the environment. We invent and use tools to become more than we were. Whether those tools pierce the body envelope, and whether they are merely rehabilitative vs cosmetic vs enhancements isn’t a crucial moral issue (to me).

The moral issue is whether such technologies are chosen. That is, that participants self-select by informed consent. Coercion and scarcity are the enemies, not technology.


I guess my interpretation of hubris is different. To me, hubris is over-evaluating one’s abilities. Overconfidence. Someone who is crushed by an opponent because they over-extended their resources foolishly I would call “brought down by hubris”.

Striving to improve I would not call hubris. It’s like working out. You work out to improve—to get stronger, to feel better in your body. It’s not hubris to think that improvement is possible or desirable (IMO).


I’m no fan of Harari either. To me, he’s not transhumanist so much as anti-humanist.


Let’s take the example of brain chips. By this I presume you mean neural implants that either communicate with the outside world, or enhance cognition in some way. (If you mean something else, correct me as it’s not my intent to straw man).

Glasses or contact lenses are external aids that enhance perception. Hearing aids are even better examples because they have an internal/surgical component.

We don’t think of these things as transhumanist, but I suspect that’s because they’ve existed for a long time (familiarity) and they’re considered assistive rather than excessive. That is, they bring the user up to par, rather than putting them ahead.

There are technologies to increase kinds of cognition. Calculators aid in arithmetic. A person with a calculator far outperforms a person without. But we don’t think of this as transhumanist because the device resides outside of the body envelope.

My position is that the body envelope is not the special case people seem to think it is. As soon as the enhancement in question is to alleviate a disability or illness, we’re OK with considering internal remedies. We’re even OK considering internal remedies for cosmetic effect (breast augmentation, liposuction, etc.)

It seems odd to me that people are OK with cognitive enhancements that are technological and external (calculators), pharmaceutical and internal (caffeine), but not technological and internal (brain chips).

Note: I’m not saying I personally would volunteer for a brain chip. Just that I have no problem with other people doing so with informed consent. To me it’s not categorically different from other internal/external cognitive/adaptive/cosmetic interventions.


It’s possible that I don’t understand what people mean by “transhumanism”. Often people attach different meanings to words.

I tend to think people mean the act of augmenting the body by technological means. Does it mean something else?


Highly regarded


Unpopular opinion: overcoming our biological limitations is a distinguishing feature of humanity. Ever since our hominid ancestors first carved hand axes, tamed fire, and worn animal skins, we have been transforming our natural environment and ourselves in a virtuous cycle of improvement.

Transhumanism is humanism.


Raccoon is my guess 🦝


nostr:npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq955 feature request: Don’t notify me of @ mentions for accounts I have muted.


And what will change as a result?


I have not, but you don’t need to have your nips merged to make progress.


Covenants, allegedly


Are we talking joker in general? Or specifically Heath Ledger’s interpretation?


It is open


Oof


It was fun while it lasted. 🤝


Maybe you’re logged in? https://image.nostr.build/158e2506296be321d70028ab5e494ddaf29a493854f411748184d298f73bc0f2.jpg


Girth is important


TAXES DO NOT FUND PROGRAMS. THE STATE PRINTS CURRENCY IN ANY VOLUME IT CHOOSES.

TAXES CAUSE PRINTED MONEY TO DISAPPEAR. GOVERNMENT CREATES MONEY FROM NOTHING. TAX PAYMENTS RETURN MONEY TO THE VOID.


Sounds interesting, is there a non-paywall’d link?


My star will continue to rise 💫


FUD


#nostr #meme https://image.nostr.build/666f451877726ebdd9abf910b7072c257e1c6e466b2a482ef7db94aeecd7ebef.jpg


Sounds similar to the GFC. The Fed/Treasury required major banks to take bailout loans, even if they didn’t need it to obscure which banks were actually on the verge of collapse.


nostr:npub1m4ny6hjqzepn4rxknuq94c2gpqzr29ufkkw7ttcxyak7v43n6vvsajc2jl 👆


Agreed. It also shows how ridiculously fragile the whole game is. That deviation in 2020 hs put the system at risk.


Noice. This shows the 2020 deviation and subsequent reversal in context.

If you draw a trend line from 1995-2020 and beyond, and another line from the peak in 2022 to present, you’ll see those lines cross in a few months (July 2024).

I predict that that’s when the Fed will resume pre-COVID policy. Money printer go BRRR. https://image.nostr.build/334ca29d2f4b09397c322ce7068ce26d594e8a1b61c609c6ca9bb3a44685ce35.jpg


Needs log scale


Sometimes there’s nothing to say.


What is the objective here?


“Anti-intellectualism, after all, is the final form of intellectualism; reverse snobbery the most perfect form of snobbery.”


“Proclaiming allegiance to absurd beliefs provides a stronger signal of group loyalty than acknowledging the truth. Anyone can do the latter; only a true partisan is willing to do the former. Those who refuse to repeat the lies are easily identified and ostracized.”

This explains so much. https://www.jsanilac.com/good-taste/


“I AIN’T EATING BUGS! YOU CAN EAT DEEZ NUTS!”

Not all heroes wear capes. 🦹♂ nostr:note1tkusp6uxftpxvlfgpzsyhxfelefalnhvgj7erpjerythslvljhnqkxxjjq


“Never forget that the rich fell for modern art. Wealthy status-seekers lack memetic sovereignty.”

Stay sovereign out there, meme lords. https://www.jsanilac.com/dispelling-beauty-lies/


“Beauty isn't a game with rules. But if it were, "cheat to win" would be good advice. Anything less is an unforced surrender to genetic luck.”


S U P E R C Y C L E nostr:note15pk0cakylwfvaxk0xne7u4p4nfms0rxkv237r8g3m93e5c2q27zswf8ac8


“Men's beauty advice is sometimes hard to distinguish from sabotage.”

That’s because men want to be a source of good feelings and will try (often unsuccessfully) to say what they think will make you feel good.

It’s hard enough to make a woman happy without bringing the truth into it.


Would be nice to see stats broken down by number of shots received.


Another generalizable gem:

“Maximizing your attractiveness is now a moral imperative, regardless of the means employed.”

This is well established advice in industrial as well as user experience design. Beautiful products work better. People are willing to forgive a lot of buggy behavior from their Apple products because they’re pretty.


“Just be yourself” is some of the worst advice, and yet so often parroted.

If you want something from someone, be the person they want to give it up to.


> It's very difficult to figure out what men find attractive because men are always hedging their bets when you ask their opinion directly. So, her method of judging by what men do, rather than what they say,  seems sound.

Correct. Consider another observation she made earlier in the article: that men will generally be rejected, so they should approach many women. Speaking as a man who was rejected many times, I can assure you that men seek every conceivable advantage to improve the odds. Speaking uncomfortable truths may be what she asked for, but that’s not the most prudent approach (any man will learn quickly).

Communication is always about persuasion. The blue jay chirping in the tree isn’t making a truth claim. He’s warning other jays not to approach—persuading them to steer clear. Communication MAY be about sharing truth—that is, knowledge the speaker believes to be true. But it is ALWAYS with the intent to persuade.

In the context of men answering women’s questions about beauty, do not expect truthfulness, especially when there’s a romantic potential between them.

> She's just like: Ignore them. They're lying.

She’s right.


This is a long article. Still not done, but here’s another generalizable observation:

“A beauty ideal actually needs to be unattainable. If it were attainable, it wouldn't be useful for discriminating between the best potential mates, since all of them would have attained it.”

I think this applies to many virtues in many contexts, not just beauty/mating. For example, consider freedom. That is, freedom from coercion by others. Modern Western civilization is perhaps the freest in history. Yet I and others desire even more freedom. Even less coercion.

It’s perhaps comforting to realize that the ideal is approachable but unattainable. Believing the ideal is attainable leads to suffering—since every outcome will fall short. Believing the ideal is approachable leads to effort, improvement and (hopefully) satisfaction.


So automated, and yet they have people doing it by hand. Seems like a mechanical problem solvable with a ramp/arm.


Here’s another piece of generally useful advice from the article:

“Whenever some men care about a trait others are indifferent to, the most valuable trait isn't the one that matches the median taste. It's the one that satisfies those who care.”

Taleb (disgraced as he has become in the Bitcoin community) pointed this out with respect to kosher foods. All Coke products are kosher, not because the average consumer cares, but because a few care a whole lot and everyone else is indifferent.

I think this also explains some of the prevalence of woke elements of modern cinema. Lots of people are indifferent (live and let live) but a few care a whole lot. It also happens that the few that care are over-represented in the arts.

The general lesson is that you can’t draw conclusions about median taste from the traits of goods on offer alone. Coke is kosher everywhere, but it would be a mistake to conclude that the median Coke drinker keeps kosher.


This piece of advice from the article applies to everyone:

“Empowerment is about being able to get what you want. The more beauty you have, the easier it is to get what you want. And the better you understand beauty, the easier it is to obtain it. It's that simple.”

Absolutely. And consider that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. That is, does your counterpart like what they see?

While there are  general principles that apply, having a pleasing appearance is often context specific. Doctor wearing a lab coat for example.

Use visual cues to influence your counterpart.


Nice! 😊


Sounds to me like a client-side problem. If it’s a bad experience to dump long-form content into the feed, then clients should stop doing it, or at least give the user the choice via a setting.

Segregating notes to different relays by type feels like the wrong layer of the architecture. Clients that present data wrongly will happily continue doing so connecting to more relays rather than fewer.


I don’t know why people are throwing you shade for this remark. It’s true.

Even way back in 2020, we knew that Coronaviruses mutate quickly and so even an effective shot would be unlikely to remain effective, putting aside the significant risks of side-effects given the rushed job.

Nonetheless, Trump plowed ahead. In fact, before the 2020 election steal, blue team was using the fact of Trump’s involvement as a reason NOT to get the shots. It wasn’t until Trump’s ouster that blue team changed course in 2021 and flipped.


❗What was that noise?!


nmap 🫶


IIUC, when someone “makes a market” they make a credible offer to buy or sell something, presumably more than once.

So in The Big Short, when Jared says to Vinny, “you want me to make you a market?” what he’s asking is whether Vinny wants to buy what Jared is trying to sell for the first time (credit default swaps).

In an exchange context, when you place a limit order to buy or sell, you’re called the market “maker”. Your counterpart, who fills the order, is the market “taker”.


CORRECT


The World Economic Forum meets every year in Davos, on schedule.

If there’s a shortage of escorts, that’s a failure of planning and missed entrepreneurial opportunity.


A question I ask people to gauge their financial literacy:

“Would you rather receive $10k with no strings attached, or $100k but owe $90k back?”


Civilized, but Dangerous https://youtu.be/p8ePDKlF6T0


I saw a study on this once, but can’t find it now. They took a bunch of guys and had women rate their attractiveness on looks alone first. Then they made up profiles for them, giving the least attractive ones great jobs and salary, and the most attractive shitty jobs and salary.

Then they took these profiles to women and had them rate the guys attractiveness. Participants were instructed just to rate the attractiveness, even though the profile info was right there on the page.

The women found the high-income guys the most attractive, irrespective of the earlier, pre-profile ratings.


Incredibly bearish


Ripping logs https://i.pinimg.com/originals/19/4b/5f/194b5f3563bdde01c2a1ce422b5536cb.gif


Few


I don’t have a Switch. The last gaming device I got was an XBox 360.


Should I get a Steam Deck? I’ve been waffling for a while, but I’d like to play Inscryption. #asknostr


What happened?


IF ONLY THERE WAS A SOLUTION


#Bitcoin #meme https://image.nostr.build/693663a90243b8a5dcc5e4d639ac0db220acadaab881d8f9a4f56efa9289e9d3.jpg


Accurate


From what I’ve heard so far, I’m liking TXHASH (which can be thought of as a superset of APO and CTV). Not finished listening to the episode though.


1 BTC = 100,000,000 BTC


S U P E R C Y C L E nostr:note1f84cxpgjnaemh0q59q7pw200k2vcgzzeq36l4mqpxse8umdrkdgq3676qa


Something like this:

sed -e ‘s/^0*//‘

The ^0* matches any number of leading zeros. That is then replaced (s) by nothing (//).


Just the first leading zero? Or all leading zeros?


You made me curious, so I watched this. 20 minutes well spent. https://youtu.be/rJKmc4PVdh4


I’ve never used one, but I think I could figure it out.


Pack it up bois. We’re done here


This link seems to work for me. https://legislature.idaho.gov/sessioninfo/2024/legislation/h0391/


Thanks, but the page just says “Error establishing a database connection” for me. Will keep trying.


Link to bill?


Time to fry


Didn’t know there was one


I’m in this photo, and I’m ok with it


Complete desensitization. That’s what happens with years of 24/7 no circuit breakers


Hilariously, #Bitcoin crab sideways is more entertaining than anything I
in TradFi. +5%? -5%? What is this, action for ants?


Yee haw


Nice! I’ve been using IndexedDB lately for other work and was just thinking that it would make sense to have some kind of Nostr note storage. Glad to see someone else thought the same and went ahead and made one.


There is never a bad time to buy #Bitcoin. There is never a good time to sell.


I got older


Yeah, what I read was that the professional bags are made of the same material, so there’s no practical difference. 🤷♀


BULLISH ENGAGEMENT POST GM


A prophet who’s always wrong is just as good as a prophet who’s always right.


Yeah, I did no drying at all, just straight from the bag, dripping, into a pot at high heat. 😅 Next time I’ll dry it out first.


I made a boneless rib roast the other day. I thought it turned out pretty good, but next time I’ll go even lower temperature (think I was at 131°F last time). Finished by pan searing. That was messy. Should maybe pan-sear first.

Yesterday I made pulled pork from shoulder, 165°F for 24 hrs, then finished in the oven for 20 min at 450°F. It was good, but I need to make my own BBQ sauce.


Morning Nostr fam. Tried sous vide last couple of weeks and I’m hooked. Good for slow-cooking meat and gently reheating leftovers. Regular ziplock bags work fine, no need to buy special ones.

Recommend getting a dedicated container too. Not strictly necessary, but worth it IMO so you don’t tie up other containers. https://image.nostr.build/887ff4282aae29fd79f787f6369cf60fc692c3e1bd504c4f0fe9b3a8bd7eaf00.jpg https://image.nostr.build/d062b4e816874c79c407af3f95d8399d31b73fceb23aeda8cc95cafae12ec63c.jpg


Yeah, when #Bitcoin crashes from $0.10/sat back to $0.03/sat, it’s going to be wild.


Smart people know to avoid sounding clever. It can come off as smug, undermining the message.


TL;DR:

- Victim left ~$100k in #Bitcoin and shitcoins on Coinbase.
- Attacker SIM-swapped to gain access.
- Attacker drained funds to a REUSED Bitcoin address already implicated in a federal case.
- Court granted petition to use OP_RETURN to send notice.
- Victim sent ~$100 to the attacker’s address with OP_RETURN: “OSERVICE – SUMMONS, COMPLAINT U.S. Dist. E.D. Cal. LINK: t.ly/123cv01408_service”

Lessons:

- Not your keys, not your coins.
- SMS is insecure.
- Use 2FA (app or security key).
- Don’t reuse Bitcoin addresses.
- Learn to coin join. nostr:note1u297q8479233c7qqvqg7mx29l82y3t5jsduy3tk5wtp77grpe76q4qncsp


Oof


But why tho


Philosophy question: Why do we crave knowledge? What evolutionary purpose does this serve?


I made this notebook to help with this kind of prediction. It depends on your desired annual drawdown (in present day dollars). https://observablehq.com/@jimbojw/wen-moon

Using that model, with 2.69 BTC, in 2035 one could retire, drawing down an equivalent of $300k annually in today’s dollars. https://image.nostr.build/268310eb7941ae7926abdcbf12801efe011ab0d48f4e5a7b4a0e213b424c1ab4.jpg


This looks fun!


In clown world, Tragedy = Comedy + Time


That’s my favorite magic trick


1 BTC = 100,000,000 BTC nostr:note1d4n58x82nz7gttm9qd3dv773hxyfth79ls7nrp727qe90762eazqe8gph9


#Bitcoin please go to moon. Stop going sideways now.


#Bitcoin #meme https://image.nostr.build/9b4e834f8cdb24c4f80d3c5e16a6e33a4d161013c362a31e80ae474fb573d799.jpg


Money does not “flow into” assets. Money is exchanged for assets. But for every buyer, there’s a seller. Neither money nor assets are created nor destroyed in the exchange.

The only thing determining price is relative demand. And this is unbounded. #Bitcoin


One would think that nostr searchers would be users of Duck Duck Go.


No


Buying a #Bitcoin ETF is like buying fire insurance on a house, and then leaving the contract inside. When the house burns, so goes the contract.


Putting price action aside, #Bitcoin is insurance against legacy system financial collapse. To see what that looks like, consider previous financial collapses like the Weimar Republic, or more recent crises like the Cypress bail-in of 2013.

Institutions, over-leveraged and strapped, seize assets custodied by centralized institutions. Sometimes those pay out the victims later, but in the old currency units that have been hyperinflated to worthlessness.

Buying a #Bitcoin ETF is like buying fire insurance on a house, and then leaving the contract inside. When the house burns, so goes the contract.


I’m also generally of the opinion that insecure coins should remain as a bounty. For the rest of us, it’s a tripwire that signals when it’s time to upgrade security.


Good point, there it is. 0.00089340 https://image.nostr.build/b2823116e53cdab904fac034f77eb490e67589d51a58f16006a69cfee9441857.jpg


I’ve been thinking along the same lines. But I keep coming back to the question of security overhead.

Everything that has a boundary must maintain that boundary. Maintaining boundaries takes energy.

So for example, if you have a yard that abuts wild space, you have to maintain the line between yard and weeds, or the weeds will take over (eventually). Every cell of every living thing must maintain its lipid outer layer, or succumb to apoptosis, etc.

Taxation is theft. But even if we succeed in abolishing it, one must still outlay for security. I would love to find out what the expected cost of security is, in general, and whether this cost scales up or down with entity size. Do nations spend more or less on security than cities? Cities more or less than tribes? Bodies more or less than cells? Etc. etc.

All of this is putting aside the moral question that you posed, which has to do with what happens to the tax money once you’ve lost it to the State. The answer is, ironically, nothing.

A currency-producing State doesn’t need tax revenue to fund operations. It manifests currency in any volume it pleases. Taxation is the means by which the State forces its subjects to need its otherwise worthless currency units.

So I guess from my perspective, paying taxes or not has little impact on the actions of the currency producing State apparatus. It only affects those smaller government bureaus that lack a money printer. (And even those can take on debt, which is a kind of printing since those debt obligations are dematerialized, bundled and traded).


What is the formula for computing the degree of GBTC discount/premium?

I had been using GBTC/BTCUSD/0.00096847 because that constant represented the ratio of Grayscale held Bitcoin to shares outstanding (or something).

Is the same formula still valid post-ETF approval? #asknostr


Ouch my feelings


Pack it up, Bitcoin ded


I want to go to both the $100k party and the $1M party, but two epic parties in a week may be a bit much. #Bitcoin


There is no limit on the value of Bitcoin.


Thank goodness for #Bitcoin


I’ve given this some thought. It could be done with a soft fork.

A fair way to do it would be to have a rolling block-height before which UTXOs become unspendable. A simple implementation would be something like MAX_BLOCK_AGE=900000, which would mean that any UTXO from more than 900000 blocks ago would be invalid. This implementation would move the wall forward at a rate of 1 block per block mined. That is, a window of 900000 blocks would always be valid.

But you could have the wall move forward more slowly, like at a rate of one block per every X blocks mined. This would create a lengthening window.

In any case, such a soft fork would be incredibly contentions because it violates the your-keys-your-coins doctrine. It may be more popular with the community to simply have old abandoned coins act as bounty for quantum pirates.


Cousin (in high school): I took a class called “Life Prep” but all they talked about was the government.

Me: The purpose of school is not to educate you. It’s to create obedient workers for the State.

Cousin: 👁👄👁


#meme https://image.nostr.build/37eefb474288e03b2dea58a0d2bfc0a38d40996a8340a1ed03b9be6f99606633.jpg


Satoshi’s coins represent the biggest bounty for quantum pirates—researchers using advances in quantum cryptography to crack ECDSA keys.

Satoshi’s coins moving would mean that it’s time to upgrade your UTXOs to a quantum-resistant signature scheme.

Will this happen? It’s hard to put a probability number on it. My current estimate would be maybe 3% chance of it happening within the next 10 years and 70% chance of it happening sometime in the next 100 years.


Exactly


“BTCO” because it’s the first one that starts with “BTC”


You could try myNode. I haven’t.

I have in the past stitched together my own Bitcoin core node with ElectrumX. Just getting these two components to integrate was not trivial. So my guess is that creating a unified package is quite difficult.

May be easier to work with BTCPayServer or myNode and implement an alternative UI that connects to it.


BTCPayServer is pretty good


You mean like a Linux distro?


Vote for None of the Above https://youtu.be/hCFzYcLVNk0


Markets only open during business hours. #Bitcoin open 24/7.

Bitcoin has traded more hours than NASDAQ.


Since #Bitcoin price movement is a painmaximizing process, I predict that the ETF approval will be a nothing burger. That way both bulls and bears will suffer together.


“Today, the Commission approved the listing and trading of a number of spot bitcoin exchange-traded product (ETP) shares.” —Chair Gary Gensler

https://www.sec.gov/news/statement/gensler-statement-spot-bitcoin-011023


So how about that $100k party?


Applying my selfish filter, today, I don’t need covenants. And I personally don’t expect to need them for a long time (if ever). BUT, they allow increased density at the UTXO layer, which (hopefully) means lower fees for me, whether I use them or not.

I think of it kind of like a chartered bus. If a bus line decides to operate, it makes denser use of the shared road than if the bus didn’t exist. So either more people get to travel, or there’s less congestion (than if those passengers were all in cars), or potentially both. The existence of busses makes the road more valuable and my drive less congested whether I ride the bus or not.

It’s not a perfect analogy (nothing ever is), but that’s how I justify it to myself.

The alternative to densification is either different tradeoffs (like Lightning) or, more likely, trust-based intermediaries. The value of Bitcoin derives from its censorship resistance, so staving off centralized third parties is in my interest (even if I don’t personally use those features).

Final note: arguments of this sort have been made about Drivechains—that they increase the value by making denser use of mainchain block space whether mainchainers use sidechains or not. But this argument doesn’t apply because of the increased incentives for miner centralization. Covenants do not have this changes-the-incentives drawback.


Happiness is the difference between expectations and reality.

If you’re unhappy, lower your expectations, change your reality, or learn to live with dissatisfaction.


I’ve heard good things about GitHub’s copilot. But is there an open source alternative that one can run locally? I don’t want to leak my private repo content to the cloud. #asknostr


lol, someone should make a 2x leverage BTC ETF called RPS


I’m not sure. I don’t really keep up with it day-to-day.

When there’s outrage on social media, that’s when I look into it, usually by reading the source material. 😅


I’m a selfish #Bitcoin soft-fork supporter. I only support soft-forks that benefit me personally.

I supported SegWit because it improved scalability and privacy. Not just increasing block space, but denser use of block space—especially enabling Lightning.

I supported Taproot because it further improves density and also privacy. Taproot spending transactions reveal only the branch, not the whole script, which also enables vastly more complex scripts.

I OPPOSE Drivechains. No one has made a pitch that benefits me personally, and the risks of introducing a hash-based ownership model creates a new and possibly powerful mining centralization incentive.

I intend to support some from of covenant soft-fork because they will further densify use of block space. I just don’t know which of the competing proposals has the best risk/reward profile for me yet.


You monster


All mine, that’s for sure


Does anyone remember that game Drug Wars? I’m tempted to write a game with the same basic premise but instead of buying and selling drugs, you trade shitcoins. https://cdn.mobygames.com/screenshots/192565-drug-wars-a-game-based-on-the-new-york-drug-market-dos-game-inst.png


The money printer will be turned back on in July.


What happens when ETF price action trips the exchange circuit breakers? Serious question.


After reading the #Bitcoin OP_CAT BIP draft, I’m leaning in support of it. Though I don’t think it enables the same functionality as OP_CTV. Need to reread that one to be sure.

Of note, OP_CAT would enable Post-Quantum Lamport Signatures in Bitcoin transactions. We don’t need these today, but it would be nice to know that if quantum computers approach cracking ECDSA, there’s a path for HODLers to migrate. That is, we won’t be trying to fumble in a post-quantum signature scheme at the last minute.

https://github.com/EthanHeilman/op_cat_draft/blob/main/cat.mediawiki


#Bitcoin #meme https://image.nostr.build/ba2901ceb46f266a2d8e72073ec8d4f2ccc77224a9937789e703ee3e0d6ce05b.jpg


Big if true


Is there a particular time of day tied to this January 10 SEC deadline? Is it end of business? 11:59 PM Eastern?


I could do it tomorrow. About to go to bed right now though. Are there any requirements?


5 D
C H E S S
C O N F I R M E D


They don’t call it clown world for nothing


There is no top


How dare you mock my pain


Good ol’ Rug Pal


S U P E R C Y C L E nostr:note1z3r643vmddr9jr86sxe5f6ju2fmz37zfzzxjp4ftyxva8udnf5kqn8a207


July 2024 is when the Fed will have brought M2 back to its historical, exponential trend line. https://image.nostr.build/334ca29d2f4b09397c322ce7068ce26d594e8a1b61c609c6ca9bb3a44685ce35.jpg


Love to see it.


Proposal: let’s switch New Year’s resolutions for “Birthday” resolutions. That way the gym isn’t so crowded every January.


Nerd shit


People will choose comfortable lies. But when even the lies are uncomfortable, they’ll give the truth a chance.


What is an “encounter” for the purpose of this chart?


What’s the second best?


Classic


Where did you get this picture? 😂


That’s where firearms come in


#Bitcoin is the biggest change to human organization since the dawn of agriculture.


For 10,000 years, violence has worked. If you kill the farmer, you get the farm. The farmer can flee, but can’t take the farm with them.

Now, with #Bitcoin, the script is flipped. If you kill the Bitcoiner you get nothing. The Bitcoiner can flee and take everything with them.

The minds of many are not ready for the change. And it’s already upon us.


The best revenge would be if we gap up from 57k directly to 59k and never look back.


58k GANG!!!!!! nostr:npub1ayhdtt89alap5r4qvw2qzp6ccmfsamvz3wz7ncyctj53nzcvxl7qxy8s89


I will now play for you the song of my people


Right. Bitcoin already has OP codes for complex operations like checking signatures and simpler programming concepts like checking for equality or branching (if-this-then-that).

Currently, a few of Bitcoin’s OP codes allow scripts to make decisions based on the spending transaction. For example CheckSequenceVerify was enabled by softfork in 2016. This OP lets the locking script depend on the relative block height. (Used by Lightning to keep channels open indefinitely).

AFAIK, there aren’t currently OPs that let you make decisions based on the recipient address(es). IIUC, this is what some of the covenant proposals are supposed to do. Like CheckTemplateVerify (CTV), which lets the locking script make demands about the recipients.

The claim seems to be that OP_CAT would also unlock these kinds of covenants, but I don’t understand how. It doesn’t make sense to how the concatenation operation would imbue the locking script with the ability to look at fields of the spending transaction.

This is why I need more info. 😅


It’s OK to be ignorant. We all start out ignorant on all topics until we learn.

This is why it’s important to be humble. Being confidently ignorant is what’ll get you in trouble.


I don’t know who Ian Major is.


In programming generally, “cat” is short for “concatenate”. It combines lists of things, like strings, which are lists of characters.

For example, if you concatenate the strings “abc” and “def” you get the string “abcdef”. If you concatenate the list [2, 3, 4] with [7, 7], you get [2, 3, 4, 7, 7]. So as you can see, the operation itself is not complex. You just jam two list’s elements together into one longer list.

I’m not super familiar with the Bitcoin script language’s treatment of strings and arrays. This is why I’d like to read more about it—to see how it combines with other Bitcoin script features to unlock new behaviors. This is where the complexity arises.


Bitcoin price movement is a stochastic, pain-maximizing process. Apparently shorters are in the crosshairs.


$0.046M nostr:note13vl9kp7tcnkvwvdmaktqmqymw4xajm42y6tg0l776gpgqkd4thjqn2gveg


I’m in this photo and I don’t like it.


That Fred guy is a tool


Diffie-Hellman 🤝


What happened?


Classic


I liked the end of the talk when he proposed an ordering of complexity, where CTV was at the bottom.

I’d like to know about OP_CAT because I like that it’s a simple change that unlocks a large design space. It doesn’t especially bother me that this design space is hard to fully enumerate. Rather, I like that it could be a change that allows future enhancements without additional soft forks, since we seem to be approaching ossification.

But before I make a final judgement, I’d like to read more about how it works and what if any arguments against it detractors have lodged.


Haha that’s where I heard about it 😅


The only existential threat to #Bitcoin that I’ve been able to come up with is a zero-day fast crack of ECDSA signatures. If this happened, then there may not be time to soft-fork in a quantum-resistant signature scheme. Pirates would be able to spend a great deal of the existing coin, violating the “your keys, your coins” sacred rule.

A slow crack of ECDSA is more likely, where it’s possible but extremely costly (and slow) at first, but then speeds up over time. In this scenario, we’d expect to see Satoshi’s stash start to move first, since these are the largest bounties. That would be the bellwether signaling that we should soft-fork in an alternative signature scheme and start to migrate coins over.


Quantum resistant signature schemes exist and could be soft-forked into #Bitcoin for people who want to upgrade.

Old, unupgraded and lost coins may become bounties for future quantum pirates to claim as booty.


What’s a good resource to read about the OP_CAT proposal?


“If you think you have a lower self, or an ego, to get rid of, and then you fight against it, nothing strengthens the delusion more than that.” —Alan Watts


What happens on Wednesday?


#meme https://image.nostr.build/207adb4304f07b3df993493e73820cd4311829ae91cfc8b394a90809c8d26c5e.jpg


Today’s workout:

3 rounds
60 reps shovel snow

Focus on form. Don’t lose lower back.

Cool down: apply salt


I owe my soul to the company store ⛏


You load sixteen tons… what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt.


It’s a multisig address. Each participant has a key.


#Bitcoin, plz go to moon.
Stop going sideways now.


In what kinds of applications would the speed difference be noticeable?


Seems to be


What’s the difference between DDR4 and DDR5 RAM?


Can’t rule it out. July is approximately when M2 intersects the pre-2020 exponential trend line on its present course. The Fed could start cutting sooner to ease into it, but there’s a significant risk that as soon as they start the inflation rips.


Going at them how?


Five more months until Powell turns the printer back on. HODL strong, anon.


How much #Bitcoin is known to be unspendable dust UTXOs?


#Bitcoin #ETF #meme https://image.nostr.build/e9f27a07704931f310a3a26c50e5bc9aaeb04cb3be7c9370849934cfbe4788e0.jpg


No lies detected


Ugh, but Fridman is such a tool tho


It will heat an ugly space


The best thing the SEC could do for Americans would be to continue to reject and delay #Bitcoin ETFs. The longer we go without, the more people will self custody.


A #Bitcoin ETF makes about as much sense as a bread sandwich.


But why can’t the AI just prompt itself?


#Bitcoin price movement is a stochastic, pain-maximizing process.

Whatever is the most painful, that’s what it’ll do.


Needs log scale


A “#BITCOIN ELECTRONICALLY TRADED FUND” (BTC ETF) IS A TAUTOLOGY. BITCOIN IS DIGITALLY NATIVE. THERE’S NO OTHER WAY TO TRADE IT.


I’m in favor of a flat tax. Zero.


Math quiz: If you join a live stream X minutes late, rewind to the beginning, then watch at double speed, how long will it take to catch up to the present?


He’s on rumble now?


Tragedy equals comedy plus time.


#Bitcoin ETFs are unnecessary and inevitable. The whole point of an ETF is either to dematerialize something physical (such as GLD) or aggregate and discretize something already ephemeral (such as SPX or an MBS).

Bitcoin is digitally native and finely divisible. An ETF introduces an intermediary where none is needed.

Nonetheless, many people are not comfortable with taking responsibility. They would rather outsource custody to big asset managers. That’s why I say they are inevitable.


1981 label was missing: https://image.nostr.build/0e3e2a74fc9cdba4c89b3816fc9094b5c98031b6c914c20d0fdba7769c50bd87.jpg


Here’s a fun chart: Stonks v. Gold.

Despite all the noise, if you held either S&P or gold from the time Nixon closed the gold window until today, 50 years… you broke even.

It didn’t matter what you held, just as long as it wasn’t slave money (fiat). https://image.nostr.build/06ac738cd20ba716abbffc18698b813514b2c9ff62e5c04f44f8f2f534d2804f.jpg


So true


TIL


How to save a video you like on Damus:

1. Tap the menu in the top right corner of the note.
2. Select “Copy text”.
3. Open the Notes application.
4. Create a new note (or use an existing one).
5. Paste the Nostr note text into the Notes app note.
6. Triple-tap the URL to the video file.
7. Long-tap and choose Copy.
8. Open Safari.
9. Create a new tab.
10. Paste in the video URL and hit return.
11. Wait for the video to start playing.
12. Tap the video to reveal the controls.
13. Tap the X button in the top-left corner to stop playing.
14. In the bottom menu bar, tap the center “share” button 📤.
15. Scroll down and choose “Save to files” 📁.
16. In the top right corner, tap “Save”.

It’s that simple!


Marylin Manson getting weird


A person with a martyrdom complex lives to suffer on behalf of others. For such a person, if they’re not suffering, they’re miserable.


Nothing wrong with sumo, just curious. Ive heard that it tends to be preferred by tall people. I prefer conventional, myself 🤷♀


I can smell this through the Internet. Smells good man.


When moon comes, you’re going to be tempted to sell your #Bitcoin for things like real estate.

Be careful! Under a Bitcoin standard, housing is a depreciating asset. Against hard money, real estate will decrease in value over time.


What’s special about it?


Ah, well there you go then. Didn’t realize it wasn’t literal midgets.


Conventional or sumo? Whats your rep regimen?


Donnie, wake up.


Deadlifts?


As long as all participants were willing and of consenting age, that’s their business. 🤷♀


What this demonstrates is redundancy. You can take out one or two of their legs, and they’ll still be able to pursue you.


The free and open source option is the command line program ps, which supports a language called Ghostscript. It’s probably a one-liner to do this, but I’m not experienced with it enough to tell you what it is off hand.

Maybe one of those modern GPT models can tell you the command to resize a PDF using ps.


#Bitcoim price volatility should stabilize around the 1 sat per hotdog mark.


From what?


Got it, thanks, now to take a look


“Not your seed, not your keys”

This could be better, but it’s about generating your own entropy rather than trusting the wallet.


Links or it didn’t happen


Nah. ETA is always 10 minutes, no matter what happened in the past. (With the exception of dramatic sudden changes in hashrate)


10minutes on average


Correct


HAPPY BIRTHDAY BITCOIN !!!!!!!


My body is ready


God I hope not, gonna be a long shitty year of memes then 😋


Next time you’re at a friend’s house: “Alexa, play ‘Ten hours of silence occasionally broken by smoke alarm chirp’” https://youtu.be/bLvqxwhZvQ8


Scientists solved this problem long ago. 1e45, etc.


Used an OPENDIME for the first time today. Worked good. 💪


Is there another way?


We should switch to scientific notation at this point.

One = 1e0
Ten = 1e1
Hundred = 1e2
Thousand = 1e3
Ten thousand = 1e4
Hundred thousand = 1e5
Million = 1e6
Billion = 1e9
Trillion = 1e12
Quadrillion = 1e15
Quintillion = 1e18

Etc.

Also simplifies combinations. E.g. One hundred billion = One * Hundred * Billion = 1e0 * 1e2 * 1e9 = 1e(0+2+9) = 1e11


I’ve been waiting for this moment, for all my life…


Both are scams. But if you want to trade them, look at the chart denominated in BTC, log scale.


LASER RAY TIL $100K was the original agreement


But why didn’t they just call it “Famicom” worldwide?


You love to see it


LFG


GM status: 33% ☀☕🐶 #dogstr https://image.nostr.build/fc9708e695a192e9636e25cad5d20accf0ff2cfa384176c2182418001bf627ee.jpg


Update on 4 years of my #Bitcoin node’s peerinfo:

Still indexing, but I have some early results. Over the period, my peerinfo data contains ~1.74M peer connections. This DOES NOT mean unique nodes. That’s impossible to say.

Of the connections, roughly 59% appeared only once. That is, for 5 minutes or less. 12% appeared for an hour or more. Only 1.5% appeared for a day or more. https://image.nostr.build/e0c53c0191cda3177f6492be0b0682d788264082450f9f91f714bf5f1f00f79f.jpg


A bit of both. Some iTunes albums, mostly YouTube music. Others in the fam use paid Pandora.


Tried to turn off the smooth jazz holiday playlist, but I’m not ready.


People will often rather be comfortable than correct. But if events show that they’ll be uncomfortable either way, they’ll choose discomforting correctness over uncomfortable lies.


People seem to get that they’ve been lied to. The natural next question for them, subconsciously, is “if I can’t trust my old sources, how can I know what’s true?”

In their search, they find us. And despite how offbeat or disquieting our predictions sound, we tend to be proven right in retrospect.


One thing I’ve noticed lately. Growing up, and even into my adult life, people would laugh at things I said earnestly. They wouldn’t take my ideas and opinions seriously.

But suddenly, having been proven right by events—such as refusing the COVID shots and encouraging Bitcoin adoption—my family and friends are starting to heed my advice. They’re not laughing anymore.

I don’t know if this is happening to anyone else, but I take it as a good sign.


People who talk about “money flows” don’t get it. Money doesn’t flow. For every buyer, there’s a seller. Money is neither created nor destroyed in the course of a transaction. The only thing that determines price is supply and demand.

People like to say “everything / 21 million”. But that’s not bullish enough. The market cap of everything is not the limit of #Bitcoin’s value. There is no top.


I hope the ETFs never get approved


“Every one of us is a whirlpool in the tide of existence.” —Alan Watts


Highly regarded


“Freedom is not static, but dynamic. Not a vested interest, but a prize continually to be won. The moment man stops and resigns himself, he becomes subject to determinism. He is most enslaved when he thinks he is comfortably settled in freedom.” —Jacques Ellul


Don’t be hatin’ while I’m acceleratin’


Ouch, my feelings


SELL 👏 THE 👏 NEWS


My PDU is just basically wires in a box. There’s nothing in there to trip. Unless you mean the power supply, which I don’t know—that could be the problem.

I have two S19j Pros. One is running just fine right now. The other cuts off and shows a red blinking light after a short time of being on. That one definitely has a mechanical problem of some kind, but I haven’t cared enough to investigate.

Both refuse to stay on when the ambient temperature outside gets to about 85°F.


For the last 4 years, I’ve run a #Bitcoin node with max incoming peers set to 1000. It never got that high, ~500 was about the top.

Over that time, I’ve had a job running every 5 minutes that captures the output of bitcoin-cli’s getpeerinfo command.

Now I’m importing that 92GB of raw JSON into a database for further processing. Let’s see if there’s anything interesting in there… https://image.nostr.build/90bc7cf6c4bec2c7f9350f7d3fb220e2de20157c1dd03189782d271125c53324.jpg


There are two ways to speed up a #Bitcoin transaction:

1. For the sender: Replace By Fee (RBF). Broadcast a new transaction that replaces the previous one by paying a higher fee.

2. For the recipient: Child Pays For Parent (CPFP). Broadcast a transaction that spends the output of the unconfirmed (parent) transaction and pays a high fee. Miners that want this “child” transaction’s fee must include the parent for it to be valid.

Neither of these options require using a website. You do it from your supporting wallet software.


Are these pics real? I’m willing to believe that Walmart is selling gold, just curious if these images are actual photos or mock-ups for advertising.


Bill Hicks and Dave Chappell too.


#Bitcoin is a global game of musical chairs. 90% of people don’t have a seat. 90% of seats are already spoken for.


You monster