Absolutely! When a business fails, the real resources of the business don’t magically disappear. The buildings, equipment, personnel, customers, vendors—in a word, capital—all continue to exist. The failing business leaves room for another aspiring entrepreneur to put that capital to better use.

Likewise, when the fiat currency system fails, all the economic value transacted by that system continues to exist, and is suddenly in need of a new medium (#Bitcoin).


A while back I was looking into these kinds of remote tropical areas. One problem that some of these islands have is ocean water pollution due to septic runoff. So yeah, it looks nice, but you risk dysentery by swimming.


Dont u know? nostr:note17c8dq7ers45tvxz3eq30lmtt8ftc4uxwp6uc7u4xuz9zv6g7zlks2xn9w9


SNED IT


Plot twist: “a lot of people” ain’t you


Where does the waste water go?


Pegs were made to be broken


Morning playtime GM 🐶☀☕ #dogstr https://video.nostr.build/6073df1112327094cf4e7ad307563379d93baf0a9e5476b1ea06b807c256b5f8.mp4


Looks familiar


Listening now. I hadn’t read the fourth turning. Definitely going to now.


"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." —Martin Luther King Jr., 1963

Every job application, 2023: https://m.primal.net/HJYd.png


Kinda? Over time, programming has tended to move to higher levels of abstraction. Machine code -> assembly -> compiled -> scripting/VMs, etc.

It should not be surprising that eventually even these higher leve languages are too low level to be worth learning (for the vast majority).

Programming is about giving instructions to the machine. Maybe the machine just now includes a natural-language-to-programming-language interpreter in the form of AI.


So stupid


Had some channels close. Who wants inbound liquidity?


$1M per #Bitcoin is the start of the real FOMO moon pump. That’s $0.01/sat. A penny stock.

Pricing in whole tranches of 100M sats will no longer make sense. We’ll do a one time 1:100,000,000 split, call sats “bitcoins” and keep the BTC ticker.

All up from there.


LFG


Down to 3 sats/vByte. Now’s a good time to open channels if you got’em.

Mempool cleared by New Years?


Statism


PSA: you don’t need an excuse to get her flowers. 🌹


Scenarios vary greatly. Being oneself may occasionally yield good outcomes, but just as often, if not more so, the situation calls for specific behavior that may not be one’s natural response.


“Be yourself” is bad advice.


Bird? Sometimes birds fly into reflective surfaces like windows.


Untap, upkeep, draw.


Chaos


Where do you keep your ketchup and mustard, anon?

A) ketchup: fridge, mustard: fridge
B) ketchup: fridge, mustard: pantry
C) ketchup: pantry, mustard: fridge
D) ketchup: pantry, mustard: pantry


Zooming out, here’s all of FRED’s M2 data, log scale. The shape of the line from 1959-1995 shows an elongated S-curve.

This means that money supply growth from 1959 until the mid-1980’s was super-exponential. That is, it was growing exponentially, exponentially.

It was this super-exponential growth that led to the dollar/gold depegging, Nixon’s closing of the gold window, the crippling inflation of the 1970’s, and Volker’s interest rate hikes in the 1980’s.

The top portion of the S-curve from 1980’s through 1995 shows the success of Volker’s high interest rate regime at curving M2 back down to the trend line. I don’t know what happened in 1995 under Greenspan to initiate the stable period through 2020. https://image.nostr.build/cb44c3c46d49cb269a6d279dcdc267d0e53542f135d549c5e28e6e3bcce14dfa.jpg


Link?


And why is the “GM” in military block letters?


My prediction is that the Fed will turn back on the money printer in summer  next year. nostr:note1kq55kk7xwk04ujarynzwjlpaat5zj3pgtwastn0dt6mxlxj04n6sjxwc72


This would be a significant challenge. PDF is basically a printing specification. The raw format tells the printer where to move and draw characters, lines, etc. It’s not a structured document like HTML. It’s an imperative, domain specific language.

This doesn’t mean it’s impossible. There are good libraries with PDF parsing capabilities. IIRC Mozilla maintains one of them.


There goes my reservation


We, westerners, live under inefficient tyranny. The inefficiency of the State is all that separates us from totalitarianism.


In fiat, the house always wins.
In #Bitcoin, you are the house.


Prediction: Fed will loosen in summer 2024.

Explanation in three parts.

1) From 1995-2020, M2 grew at a steady exponential rate, shown as a straight blue line on the first chart. The dot com bubble/bust, September 11, the global financial crisis of 2008–none of these caused a meaningful deviation from trend.

2) March 2020 broke the trend. M2 shot up due to direct stimulus checks. This caused price inflation.

3) The Fed’s 2022 tightening caused M2 to trend downward, shown as a red line on the second chart. The red line intersects the blue in June/July 2024.

Conclusion: In summer 2024, the Fed will have succeeded in bribing M2 money supply growth back to the 25 year trend and will resume their loose, expansionary monetary policy. https://image.nostr.build/c827a5db4721ea3dd0601b3924cf9eda17ee884ba831c63d93bf8d37b3c2b56c.jpg https://image.nostr.build/334ca29d2f4b09397c322ce7068ce26d594e8a1b61c609c6ca9bb3a44685ce35.jpg


RIP


    My own opinion is enough for me, and I claim the right to have it defended against any consensus, any majority, anywhere, anyplace, anytime. And anyone who disagrees with this can pick a number, get in line, and kiss my arse.

—Christopher Hitchens


TL;DR: the image is a screenshot from a longer video that contains cp, is considered cp and will get you forever banned and possibly investigated.


I did not see a place in Zeus to enter such a string. Zeus wants host/macaroon/port. The QR code info is a string of the form “config=…”


Do you have a link to this info that’s not in image form?


Thanks, got it. Had some trouble connecting to my node but figured it out.

The setup UI allows you to scan a QR code, but it doesn’t have a way to paste the same info from that QR code. So if you’re on the same device, there’s no easy way to connect.

In my case, I’m talking about a BTCPasServer that I’m accessing through the web interface. In the Services tab, I can generate a QR code for connecting Zeus, but that doesn’t help me get the info into Zeus since Zeus wants to use the camera, which can’t see the phone’s screen. 🔁


nostr:npub1xnf02f60r9v0e5kty33a404dm79zr7z2eepyrk5gsq3m7pwvsz2sazlpr5 is there still a Zeus LN TestFlight app for iPhone?


#meme https://image.nostr.build/322bc75226387b7731944b2ceaf64df519adf4f6c8a1694c766c138a8ea6182c.jpg


Is there news?


“Never be so sure of what you want that you wouldn’t take something better.” —Chris Voss in Never Split the Difference


GM nostrfarians ☀🐶☕ #dogstr https://video.nostr.build/cdcc63b3b2b44ec51c6788ae9cfb731fc1988cec553f08732cb4085d1bca67eb.mov


The fundamental problem with these conversations is exactly as you say: “what I believe”.

This is not about logic. Logic proceeds from axioms, facts. The only fact in evidence is that you report holding a belief.


Non sequitur. Meaning in life does not depend on supernatural forces, no matter how popular.


July, 2025


Reminder: it isn’t a #Bitcoin bull market until Coinbase goes down.


If she doesn’t want the money, she can donate it.


GN

https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_2193037873890869041698186189.webp


#Bitcoin is an irrepressible truth machine.


Ok, there’s a chance


Not a chance


2FA FTW


Truth


I’m already a software engineer. Been doing this for close to two decades. The law degree would be personal development, personal security (through knowledge of the law).


Proximity, haha, I’m a masshole ☘


Syncs what? Game state?


Fair enough! I have no plans to practice. Mostly thinking personal development—personal security through knowledge of the law.


I’d almost certainly get my degree from Harvard or not bother.

But also, I don’t have a plan to be a practicing attorney. This would be for personal development and basically be more of a person with whom not to fuck.


Never taken it? I got my B.S. in C.S. in 2004. Been working as an engineer since.


Should I get a law degree? #asknostr


The Most Dangerous Superstition


The dollar crashed to below ⚡3000 yesterday. Get out before it rugs.


GM 🐶☕☀ #dogstr https://video.nostr.build/376bb7cf431fe9e1f871291567d5f700be8bdf432573f777efbfa27895b431d5.mov


Haha, of course 🤪


I would love to know the context of this clip.


Never


#Bitcoin #meme https://image.nostr.build/db26873163e27b31d6c95d5593af8119d661278ff2c58234ae03a9838a304c7a.jpg


Let’s see if we even break out of the $30ks by new year. A sustained breakout would move me from skeptical to neutral.


Maybe for currency conversion?


Log scale is a superpower


S U P E R C Y C L E nostr:note1zdzshlgc0q56yra9qcywtgru2la93ef2hr5geep8r8r9f79uh7nqnk8xla


Noh


I mean, it could be, it just feels like the wrong part of the cycle. We have holidays around the corner, then tax season, then Presidential election. Somewhere in there the Fed will start cutting rates to goose the economy. Feels to me like there’s too much psychic competition for #Bitcoin to win normie mindshare between here and 2025.


Could be. But the ETF hosts don’t need to buy in advance. They can just wait until the fiat starts rolling in from buyers and use those funds, no?


I’m skeptical. Seems too early for another run.


Ownership is what you can defend


Missed opportunity. They should have started charging admission and giving tours.


Subjective appraisal seems to be inescapable. There’s no objective line between stepping foot on a patch of land, occupying it seasonally, and enclosing it with a permanent fence.

David A. Freedman touches on this inescapable subjectivity towards the end of “The Machinery of Freedom”. I don’t have the text in front of me, but the gist is that it’s subjective what one considers trespass. Somewhere between a single photon of light reflecting into one’s eyes and outright breaking and entering. There’s no objective standard.

But in any case I’d re-raise the question of what alternative is better? Suppose we reject Rothbard’s framing, that the thief’s heirs are homesteaders if all the victims’ heirs cannot be found. What ought to happen?

This is not a rhetorical question. What alternative framework would you recommend to solve the dilemma of historical theft in the present, where the victims’ heirs cannot be identified or don’t exist?


It’s a long essay, I’m paraphrasing.

Rothbard’s fundamental premise is the idea that each individual owns themselves and the property they create through their efforts. Nobody creates matter, we transform it, and through that transformation we create value. The sculptor doesn’t create the rock, but transforms the rock into a sculpture through effort.

For land, the mixing of one’s effort to improve and live on it is called homesteading. Rothbard’s homestead principle is that whoever uses/improves/lives on otherwise unowned land becomes its owner. No one else has authority over that land.

So if property (land or other) is stolen by anyone (the State, petty criminals or other), the property still belongs to the victim. That is, the victim holds title and is entitled to the return of the property.

As long as the thief and victim both live, it’s a simple matter. The thief must give back the property (and face possible additional punishment, which is out of scope for the essay).

The problem becomes more complex as you consider the thief’s heirs, the victim’s heirs, and, crucially, the case where the victim and all the victim’s heirs are either unidentifiable or deceased.

To your point, it sounds bad to say that the thief’s heirs get to just keep the property if all the victims’ heirs are gone. But what is the alternative?

In an anarcho-capitalist frame (of which Rothbard is a paragon) there’s no one else to whom to appeal. There’s the thief, the victim and their respective heirs. Anyone else is merely a disinterested third party bystander.

To get any other outcome, one would need to submit to a class-based society, where members of some class hold superior title. For example an aristocracy, monarchy or other State, which claims the right to adjudicate these kinds of disputes and who’s word holds sway.

In order to have a free and equal society without rulers (anarcho-) and with private property (capitalism), the least-bad option seems to be to have deceased victims’ property return to nature to be homesteaded/salvaged by the next person who comes along. In the unfortunate case of land theft that we’ve been discussing, that would be the thief’s heirs.


> The excerpt you have included above seems to read as squatter rights for thieves

No. In no scenario can a thief be said to have title.

If the victim’s heirs are identifiable and living, then they get the property.

The thief’s heirs (who inherited in good faith) or, more likely, other people who later bought the stolen property (in good faith), only get to keep the property if the victim’s heirs cannot be identified or are all dead.


What’s TLT?


Your terms are acceptable 🤝


What does it mean?


Wassa wassa wassa wassa WASSUUUUUUP!


The J in Java is prounced the same as the G in Gif


The #bitcoin USD price when it reach’s the market cap of gold, a dumb rock, will be ~$686,400.

And you’re bearish?


Everyone remembers rule 34, but nobody seems to remember rules 29 and 30.


“He who writes for fools always finds a large public.”


She had them Apple Bottom jeans, boots with the fur…


Not possible


The bad news: you don’t have enough #Bitcoin

The good news: neither does anybody else.

Gm


I’m in this picture and I’ve made peace with it


I don’t have enough #Bitcoin


Missed a million miles of fun


For on-chain/mobile, I like Blue Wallet. I also choose Blue Wallet for Lightning/mobile, but I run my own node with LndHUB for family members. Depends on whether being an uncle Jim is in-scope for you. 😅


Lightning or on-chain? Android, iPhone or desktop?


W̸̨̧̠͚̓̽h̸̫͕̗͗̏a̸̜̚t̷̡̠͖̪̃͊͂͌’̵̖̺̆͝s̶͉̣͓̓̽̀ ̵͓̙̈́̐͒ǔ̸̧̢͙̠̒̾̌p̸͈̋̓͝?̸͕̞͓́͐


Correct. The Nostr protocol supports only text, not binary data like images and video. For that you need an external hosting service of some kind.


I always stay in my lane.

Wherever I am, that lane is mine.


Always


The timing of the most recent conflict reminds me of that time George W. Bush started Gulf War II with his reelection campaign just around the corner.

Probably a coincidence.


LFG


A MAN, A PLAN, A CANAL: PANAMA


#meme https://image.nostr.build/ae16e7a1566021f7c1563453f702fd3d4128efb47381819c968de95a7461fd55.jpg


That’s so weird


“He bought?… Damp eet.” https://image.nostr.build/5f8a4a7f3144362cb6359dc4f5bd6eb940ec6adf367254e9e28a2d0eb65b4ded.jpg


What happened?


We may look back on these pre-Bitcoin-spot-ETF days fondly.


🎵MINT THA TRILLION DOLLAR COIN🎵 nostr:note1k4u6wak9jal7yxevqcu6s3zcctrm0d8czp3j72ft8wmwxtjkhnhsux430s


It’s a good point. The longer your SHTF horizon, the more you have to get into production.


Nap time. #dogstr https://image.nostr.build/9b92ef7eca4a611932fb62de30601917f9e70add7252c138039068e461c85847.jpg


Way


The white paper was published on Halloween


Noh


https://void.cat/d/T2tdf5osTgmEi45QzCEqhm.webp
Can you see it?


“Your eyesight is degrading”

“Your insults are boring”

“Your genes are showing through”

Take your pick 😅


Love the expression “the counterfeit class”


Good


Fool me once, shame on you. A fool can’t get fooled again.


BREAKING: US CPI is 0% when you exclude everything https://image.nostr.build/1cfb5ff1d5a3ce40e26b54158c7cecdf42bba9a506dc4f85a3d3f70996360465.jpg


I’m working on something like this for an internal application in which I’m planning to use Nostr to side-load additional data for an existing system. Each user already has a identity managed by the system, and can bind a random npub to that identity by signing and posting a message as their system user.


She’s borderline invisible under the autumn shade. 🍁 GM ☀☕🐶 #dogstr https://video.nostr.build/f9e05842b07b1ac70739d5a73122374442301bc62c9ea790862529ab44236b93.mov


Wait, I thought Nirvana was a clothing brand


#meme https://image.nostr.build/9a0c269bea5c05b2e398725d274e9bdb0348c26a4ac660ff2c06ae18a31eefda.jpg


the case for #Bitcoin keeps getting stronger by the minute.


There’s a difference between pain and injury. Learn it.


First deadlift workout after really focusing on slowing down the eccentric motion. This will help me build, but man am I going to be sore this weekend.


All roads lead to #Bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/d2b7ddb43d20c3c55fda2111089b31517abbef36cc770871c99233587f874942.jpg


This here’s a jam for all the fellas,
Tryin to do what those ladies tell us.
Get shot down cause your overzealous.
Play hard-to-get, females get jealous.


Cuddly


If Krugman massages these numbers any harder, he’s going to have to buy them breakfast in the morning.


Great news for people who don’t eat, live, stay in place or go anywhere. https://image.nostr.build/2682e42653dc17ecd45b1b9a94b35f8a7fa55a85222c9cf04e9d3900faa53f54.jpg


That’s a good looking graph for people who don’t eat, don’t live, don’t stay in one place and don’t go anywhere.


Months from now (Oct 2023) to Jan 2030 = 6 * 12 + 2 = 74

269k = 27k * (1 + r) ^ 74
(269/27)^(1/74) = 1 + r
r = (269/27)^0.01351 - 1 = 0.0315 = +3.15% monthly CAGR

+3.15% monthly CAGR is still a lot tho


GM! Someone got a fry leaf. ☀☕🐶 #dogstr https://video.nostr.build/71784a8e741d5249aac9f152b1267395bc21146a06a2c74598476aedfa44f4c9.mov


Closest I got to eating raw eggs was adding egg powder to my protein shakes. https://image.nostr.build/9d587786b97b86b2ba74024b31af7306929c05665928bfb2f5b58f63651bedc2.jpg


I had a hot take once, just to see what it felt like


Still tho, not your keys, not your coins.


A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government - Spurious quote attributed to George Washington but never said by him .


nostr fixes this https://image.nostr.build/31c0eac4290860fa50329b76c17c88b49bd016f84e2d9461c0a3d1726e22d909.png


Library? You mean book communism?


Not only has the money supply stopped increasing, it has actually decreased.

This is a recession by design. With full intent.


This


LFG


Finally getting around to reading Francis Fukuyama’s “The End of History”. #bookstr


I don’t think the choice of algorithm solves the underlying problem of e-waste. Underpowered computing hardware becomes waste in any capacity, not just PoW mining.


Thank you, been waiting for this.


Not giving a fuck is a superpower.


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

#meme #memestr


Is your core node also behind, or sync’d?


“Whatever you get paid attention for is never the stuff that you think is important about yourself.” — David Foster Wallace on seeking attention


This big guy lives in the mulch beside my driveway. GN 🌕#frogstr https://video.nostr.build/c10cf31f45ada454afef02025aaa0fb90744cf762009e4870ddf2658e7c8936f.mov


I have a similar feeling. In spirit, it’s not too far off from going to a neighborhood store where you have a tab, and the proprietor adds your current purchase to it.

Technologically, it replaces the neighborly, human-based facial recognition with computer-vision based palm recognition, and instead of owing the establishment, you owe your credit card provider.

The question in my mind is always around the attack vector. What can an attacker do with this if I choose to use it?

It’s for this reason that I don’t use biometrics (fingerprint or face ID) to unlock my phone. An attacker could, say, unlock my phone by overpowering me, or while I was sleeping. But if my unlock code is information, they can’t take it from my person without my willful assistance. (Backdoors apply to both methods so it’s a wash).

So what could an attacker do with the information of my Whole Foods palm print? In principle, they could charge a bunch of goods to me. But the video and other evidence would show that I wasn’t at the store. The credit card would claw back the funds and make me whole.

Overall, the palm-for-credit model doesn’t trigger my immediate rejection.


How else am I gonna pay for deez


Saw this at Whole Foods checkout. Pay with a scan of your palm. What say you anon? https://image.nostr.build/8b3035ac0d5d0b6ac019580341c1e326c616490b4b8a64dd51d44ed3945025c5.jpg


What is it?


Projected attendee count for next time: 60


I’m on Damus


One problem at a time


Why she wants to eat wet leaves I couldn’t tell you. GM ☀☕🐶 #dogstr https://video.nostr.build/d3ae3836669e04be3664d1840ed5e76f95275cccbd8e98200ee04818aa19cc7a.mov


I double-dog dare you to prove me wrong nostr:npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq955 https://image.nostr.build/0ed4c3272d707ef0974943f7ddbfb97b2f7a7970797cad76f8baa21cb2462ae7.jpg


Before shower: not now, I’m dirty.

After shower: not now, I’m clean.


#Damus #FeatureRequest https://image.nostr.build/393c8cac28aa23553ee76454e90da96342734af2bed7f9e2a139242ac5ad3e3f.jpg


Every diner is unhealthy


I’d rather have the scroll location stay consistent. Currently, if I tap a note or an image, when I go back to the feed, I’m scrolled way up from where I was.


I already zapped you bro, you don’t have to sell it


Who is this? Someone famous?


Nice try ATF


ToR is best-effort by volunteers. Lightning nodes have a path to profitability. I predict that this incentive-compatibility is more likely to yield higher quality solutions… eventually.


Harsh but fair


“Wishing” for something guarantees it’ll never happen.

DECIDE to have it, or let it go.


We’re getting there with Lightning network. Paysend messages can include encrypted payloads. Sphinx used this for its messaging protocol.


There is no freedom without risk.


Classic Carlin


“Very confusing for everyone, especially the jury.”

Faith in jury trials decreasing…


What’s happening?


Doing the lords work


What happened?


My son: “Eyes on the road.”

Dude, I’m a millennial. I invented texting and driving.


Nice try FBI


Here’s the text version:

1. It ain’t as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.
2. Get mad, then get over it.
3. Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
4. It can be done.
5. Be careful what you choose: You may get it.
6. Don’t let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.
7. You can’t make someone else’s choices. You shouldn’t let someone else make yours.
8. Check small things.
9. Share credit.
10. Remain calm. Be kind.
11. Have a vision. Be demanding.
12. Don’t take counsel of your fears or naysayers.
13. Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.


American Eagle athletic fit are my best fit so far. Was going to link them, but now there’s more than one kind 😅


Atheletic fit for me


Pues


He’s right.


Bitcoin changed my priorities


Trillion is just a number


Search trend for query “how to disable alerts” https://image.nostr.build/90547caad344dc275a4b1b7bc8411e71f24f555d6300ac5062300949cac3c760.jpg


Is it possible to disable those FEMA alerts on iPhone?


Noh


If only there were something that fixes this


Not a chance. There’s no justice.


In what context?


Exactly 🤝

It is only a matter of time before everyone figures this out.


If it were me designing it, there’d be a few parts.

First, I’d make a Nostr-like protocol adaptation for binary data. The current signing procedure requires the the note to be encoded as JSON and the content payload to be a string. An alternative, binary-focused protocol could use raw bytes for everything and encode the data as CBOR (a standard for encoding JSON-like data in binary format).

Next, I’d use this protocol to send chunked audio as a stream of notes. Each note would be a signed chunk of audio/video that referenced some stream identifier. So when you scrub to some part of the whole file, you only download those chunks. There are existing protocols that work this way. Would just have to adapt one.

With that in place, relays could choose to support or not the binary streaming protocols and charge clients to post/subscribe as they see fit.


GM somebody found a leaf ☀☕🐶 #dogstr https://video.nostr.build/ef3e7ca3c7f33d2dff436ac28ee960db2e16c8231c7e6593c05648c8244e47e5.mov


The main limitation is note size. Notes are text-based. Encoding binary data is expensive.


By my calculations, early summer 2024 is when M2 money supply will get back to its pre-Corona trend line. It shot up with stimulus, now coming back down due to rate hikes.

Conveniently, resuming low interest rates in spring of next year will goose the stock market in summer so that the incumbent administration can claim victory over inflation and the booming economy. Just in time for the November elections.


🎶«Yeah, I was out of touch. But it wasn't because I didn't know enough. I just knew too much. Does that make me crazy?»🎶

- Gnarls Barkley on being a Bitcoiner🟠


Happy October everyone! 🎉

6 more months until Fed turns on the money printer.


Looks like the rate hikes worked. On schedule to resume money printing in early summer 2024.


Me explaining #Bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/8eea29ed8fe07836bc5217655f849ced73a99dd4380cecb7cae9f9bba9ad23a8.jpg


The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy but they were listening in gibberish. - Terry Pratchett, Small Gods


How so?


Which market?


What’s AssumeUTXO?


Haven’t listened to anything he’s said in several years.


The value of anything is the cost to replace it. Keep this in mind the next time you’re cleaning house.


#Bitcoin gives you a safety net for whatever circus clown world manages to whip up. Enjoy the show.


It makes sense that Costco is selling gold bars. Gets gold in the hands of more customers so they can pay with it later when the dollar collapses.


No idea. I would hope that Costco wouldn’t knowingly sell fake bars.


Technically correct. The gold bar contains no carbon.


Costco selling gold bars now. That’s another one for apocalypse bingo. https://www.costco.com/1-oz-gold-bar-pamp-suisse-lady-fortuna-veriscan-new-in-assay.product.4000186760.html


Pump for ants yadda yadda


If it saves even one life


Much longer. Central Banking is item #5 in the Communist Manifesto.


America is BROKE.
Americans are BROKE.
Even the Banks are BROKE.

Do #Bitcoin


Yeesh 😬


IYKYK #Bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/c75368fdaf1838d7abef2cfab5f20d40797ad6483b10e5076b62fc7c6f805612.jpg


Wait what? FR?


Abs


I’m pretty tolerant when it comes to APIs. I mean, however you wanna do it is fine.

But for the love of everything holy, at least be consistent within your own API. Pick a way to do something, and then stick to it.


Everybody wanna be Mr. Olympia, but nobody wanna lift no heavy ass weights.


GM status: 33% ☀☕🐶 #dogstr https://image.nostr.build/03aa1825095216ab4bcbee33ac4a14a30a21deb832fbd735e5020714b6e927eb.jpg


It may make sense to get some just in case it catches on.


LIGHT WEIGHT


"Taxation is theft, purely and simply even though it is theft on a grand and colossal scale which no acknowledged criminals could hope to match. It is a compulsory seizure of the property of the State’s inhabitants, or subjects."

- Murray Newton Rothbard https://image.nostr.build/522ac9f88e8be322dccafae54c3d2722417fda5bf64ebc407e582a91ff538d39.jpg


Has anyone tried making a TapRoot wallet? How did it go? Do you recommend? #Bitcoin #asknostr


Lol of course


Classic 🍿


#zapathon nostr:note1a6wqv2t6p82flkf78mpjff0cvqw364mt5fvw3dg4pnzau5d48d8q4yw3y3


How is idiot Lex still getting mindshare?


Lol, I just don’t have much exposure to clown world


This is interesting. I knew nothing about Portnoy/Barstool other than the Davey Day Trader schtick.


Both


I would love to see this go to court.


Think I found it: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/moneymatterspod/episodes/EP--3-DAVE-PORTNOY-e28dbt3


DEVS DO SOMETHING nostr:note1xdyxysjjlr2a7zsjq8rdhcg3l3hhl2g8zfhh04g426qxt7l27juqvnsadp


Agreed. Seeing reposts of people I muted is awful.


O R A N G E

#BTC


It took me 6 years from first contact to finally get #Bitcoin. And I had every conceivable advantage: software engineer, student of money, libertarian bent, understood databases, etc.

I can’t help but guess that most people will take considerably longer than I did.

BUT, 2017 was first contact for many people, which means 2023 is 6 years. The next few years are going to be interesting.


Haven’t heard it, could be. 🫣


Unlikely. His career is built around fiat stonk gambling.


S U P E R C Y C L E nostr:note1yr7jy5xpks79laq8vfjyzj6kup3mzfaek7lc4ds7kte9v0hw5xtqy595ce


Fair 🤝


Did lettuce-hands Portnoy ever find a price he could stomach?


You might like byobu https://www.byobu.org/


Joe, your services as financial advisor are no longer required.


Had you not posted this, I’d have had no idea that debates were even happening


On point


Just make sure it’s right. There’s a floor function I believe which is necessary for it to be correct since the values do not have unlimited precision.

Also, I believe the original 50 coins from the genesis block are probably unspendable. Not sure if that counts as them existing for this purpose.


What is this?


My fair value floor #Bitcoin price is roughly $0.04/sat.

My model: imagine everyone saved in Bitcoin. Most people, when asked, say they’d like to have ~1 year of household income in the bank. Divide 21M BTC by the global median household yearly income and you arrive at ~$4M/BTC.


GM ☀☕🐶 #dogstr https://video.nostr.build/d2624a9783e773a6387ed264525cb70cc32664cba9eca0ec27f60eaa2a7cf537.mov


#finstr

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/9b/20/73/9b2073107e586bafe1467f4a222b1281.jpg


Nice find!


A #Bitcoin XPUB will yield addresses, but it cannot reveal the keys that unlock those addresses. So giving someone your XPUB is not a security risk.

It is however a privacy risk. Someone who knows your XPUB knows every address that that wallet has ever used and could ever use in the future.

So if you share an XPUB, my recommendation would be to use a specific XPUB that you made just for the purpose of sharing. Use it to receive coin only, then move the coin to your actual, unshared wallet.


I don’t get it


GM ☀☕🐶 #dogstr https://video.nostr.build/b1af4fef5edc1689545c6cd2e7958a9ef3d61dedeb8756ebdb39477f27af1b5c.mov


That works, thanks!


What #Nostr relays are there that are easy to run with few/no dependencies?

Trying to avoid implementations that require a separate database. #asknostr


Shower thought: it’s weird that we have a “healthcare system”. We don’t named systems for other important things. There’s no “food system” for example.


Nice! Consider getting some PakLites to put on the 9V batteries. They act as covers for the leads, and also emergency flashlights for signing your ColdCard transactions in the dark. https://9voltlight.com/


Trad?


Whether you believe in God or not comes down almost entirely to how you were raised. People do not, as a general rule, change their foundational beliefs in adulthood. Except perhaps in response to trauma.

The same is true for other systems of belief: belief in the State, belief in authority, in public education, in fiat currency, etc. It may take a generation to see the overthrow of these institutions, as it is only now that children are being raised to question them.


So far so good! Wanted to try it out on the big screen, but I don’t have a micro HDMI cable. Just ordered an adapter.


#DevTerm running #RetroPie with external joystick. 🕹 https://video.nostr.build/fdb73815dc7580885d3cc9ed03c3ac89a6967b10306b699568667f759976ba46.mov


Hmm


#RaspberryPi question: what options do I have for window manager?

My screen is relatively small and extremely wide at 1280x420. Looking for a minimalistic window manager that can dock to the sides (not just top/bottom). #asknostr


What mobile #Bitcoin wallet(s) support sweeping a private key by QR code scan?


Installing #RetroPi on #DevTerm. Next I’m going to have to figure out where to get ROMs. https://video.nostr.build/2c845f4ca30efec34b136e9d24f3ea25938014bb99f3fe28f27e4281133b660d.mov


He’s right


DevTerm is a Raspberry Pi based handheld computer with built in receipt printer. It comes as a kit one has to assemble (no soldering required, everything snaps together).

I had three ideas of things to do with it:

1. RetroPi gaming. Load Nintendo and/or Genesis ROMs and play them using a USB controller.

2. Bitcoin paper wallets. Use receipt printer to print QR codes for the private/public keys. Not for long-term storage (the thermal paper will degrade). Primarily for gifting BTC to friends/fam.

3. Magic the Gathering proxies. There’s an online MtG variant called MoJhoSto that requires creating copies of cards at random. I was hoping to support MoJhoSto IRL by printing receipt copies of cards on demand.

MtG copies would also be useful in games where you need to make a clone token of a card.

https://www.clockworkpi.com/home-devterm


Got my DevTerm to boot, but it looks like I may have fucked up the screen during construction. Yellow lines across the middle 🫠 https://image.nostr.build/f04f1f7255dea304c86c891f26569b450127618d13c7b63d10b5d7af44184aaf.jpg


#bitcoin is pro-human.


Kaboom Racks


Wear n’ tear


37:82 @ 809,194


More like it


Need the full album


Rude


How


What dystopia is this?


Pretty soon, I’m planning to do some work on memorelay, my in-memory Nostr relay written in TypeScript for Node.js.

Would it be interesting to anyone for me to livestream this? If I did, what service should I use?


In the immortal words of 42nd President of the United States, William Jefferson Clinton, “it depends on what your definition of *is* is.”

Arguing whether #Bitcoin *is* real is pointless. What matters is what Bitcoin *does*.


Got my DevTerm C4 today, assembled it, but nothing happens when I press the power button. I would expect at least a light or something.


We’ve all been there


GM ☀☕🐶 #dogstr https://image.nostr.build/4529d58a1134454a6f8f162cbd8c5d724807f6758ea4c39a0100f6717aa1b0d9.jpg


GM 🫶


It’s from 7th Guest


Neat! I’ll check it out.

I’ve got some unopened. I was planning to do a big side-by-side-by-side review. Haven’t gotten around to it.


Shy gypsy, slyly, spryly, tryst by my crypt.


There’s a technological solution to this: #Damus could offer an option to deduplicate notes if they’re already displayed higher in the timeline due to repost.


My Damus feed: one cool note and 10 reposts of same.


Never skip leg day


The empirical response to folks like this is to ask why they haven’t done so already. Wouldn’t miners rather get 50 BTC per block like back in the first epoch? Or why not increase it even further?


GM


Can you tell us about the relay? What language is it written it?


GM 🐶☕☀ #dogstr https://image.nostr.build/04ade09cd45b3109c6c44f86d9960489ee58167320a7a0b6c94ffad69095050a.jpg


Does this have implications for GrapheneOS?


Delicious


I showed my wife a meme I made today. She told me “that’s funny, I bet you’ll get lots of upvotes.”

She’s the best 🥹


These sandwich boxes are perfectly sized for pocket steak. #LifeHack https://image.nostr.build/84228af93f69661e23771d4fa48e612eb72f0f93d71ee682ded45f07c0f58b51.jpg


NIPs are fine. My complaint is retconning functionality back into an old NIP. For example, it would have been fine to just mark NIP-20 (“OK”) messages as required. No need to complicate matters by rewriting NIP history.


Rolling NIPs that used to be optional back up into NIP-01 (mandatory) doesn’t help. (You can tell jaf I said so)


McDonald’s?


7 women sounds about right


Rendering?


My north star
https://i.nostrimg.com/3503dab23ad4be53adba002b0c5b9233d1d4491901ae9ece30f4f9f650e68776/file.jpg
#meme #memes #funny #coffeestr #coffeechain


What’s happening?


⚠ spoiler warning ⚠

The most unrealistic thing about the Barbie movie is that Allen was able to single-handedly defeat a dozen construction workers in hand-to-hand combat but couldn’t hop a fence.


YOU CALL THIS A PUMP?! https://c.tenor.com/19ZDocVVIIQAAAAd/tenor.gif


S UNP E R C Y C L E nostr:note1ukpna3w4776jxud7y38trcda7sz9fvjp2vxkzr09kauj3zc3tpeq8r7klr


Of course! This is why it’ll outlast everything else.

Nostr separates three key things: identity, content, and client.

You can create your own identity (nsec/npub) offline. It’s owned by no one but you.

Your content lives on any number of relays. Relays have their own policies and compete for users.

You can take your identity and content with you to different clients. Client implementations compete on feature set.

This ecosystem affords permissionless innovation at multiple levels at all times. No other system has these properties. Any would be challenger has to face Nostr’s substantial first mover advantage.


Nobody is saying you mustn’t give up your privacy to ZBD (and anyone who subpoenas them).

We’re saying it’s stupid to do so.


I think Nostr (the protocol) will be with us for quite a while.


Every time you post a link to Twitter, God kills a kitten.


This


Why is Jack linking to Twitter?


NIP-09 describes a kind of event (kind=5) which allows the author to mark a previous note as “deleted”. Compliant relays will not forward deleted notes. Compliant clients will not show deleted notes.

But implementation of NIP-09 is not mandatory, and even if it was, there’s no central authority to enforce it. https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/09.md


Oprah has incredible reach in a demographic that has been (so far) slow to adopt #Bitcoin. Orange pilling her catapult us into the early majority phase of adoption.


Noh


Nostr: Be careful what you put out there, everything lasts forever. There’s no delete!

Also Nostr: You better back up all your content so it doesn’t get deleted!


 https://image.nostr.build/f6b633e02ff46d69d185c670d6adb7c793482213f739387b5a37eb53a70fa750.jpg
Current #Bitcoin block: 808,281
Estimated day of #halving: 25 Apr 2024 17:02:15 UTC
#meme #memes #memestr


Oprah


#Bitcoin Fixes This

https://nostr.build/i/423e021405a72f6b8bdea9fac2432a45361244278fd60bbb9a7cebbd25ac3790.jpg
#plebchain #grownostr #zapathon


Notable Quotable 108

https://thetruthaddict.substack.com/p/notable-quotable-108


P̷̖̙̣̺̬̱̌͗͛͗̔͝ĺ̷̤͚̤̹͇̝̞̻̪͒͐̿͝ͅé̷̱͉͉͈̘̳͖͎͖̞̣ͅä̶͇̺̱̺̦́̅̍̈͌̃̏̑͜͝s̶̯͓͇̪̖̳̥̈̈́̉̐̏̅̓̀̌̚̚ȩ̵̬̫̫̺̬̟̿̒̑͛̈̑̿̈̑͘͝͝,̴͙̣̭̻̙̅ ̸̡̡̨̧̰͉̟̟̣̩͈̈̐͐͌į̷͚̺̥̗̣̱̳̳̗͕̠̓́̇̃̏́̒̌͝f̷̫̳̹̜̼͎̪̠̤͈͒͆́̔ ̶̨̨̫̲̺̜̒̀̾͛ỹ̷̜̬̰̗̻̙̣̰̝̉ò̴̡̩̜̘̣̫̀̂̽͒͊͋͐̔̃ü̵̜̯̼̝̹͚̮̙̪͂͗ ̵̡͙͎̩͕̞͍̙̹̭̆̇̂͆͌̾̇̈́̉̈͑̚c̷͈͔̾̈́̍̊͐̿́̐̂̒ͅä̷̛̮͚͈̳͍͂̉̐̂̎͒̚ ̶̺͚͉̠͕̖̬̹͆͊̑̅͜ ̴̙̺̑̇͗̔̂̿̓̚͠͠͝r̷̡̘̖̟̬̭̗̺̫̓̅͗e̷̢̡̛̖̹͇̦̮͖̊̐̇̚͜͠ą̸̡̙̙͉̯̟͙̀̊̈̔̀͒̌̅̇̌̈́̕͜ͅd̷̠͐͑̍̌͝ ̸̡̛͔̭̬̬̳̘̟̄̽̔̅͐̉͜͠ͅţ̷̟̲̣̔̋͜ḧ̸̼͕́̓i̶̛̪̤͙̰̝̮͖̦̜̪̖̅̇̾͜ṣ̴̨̟̳̠̼̪̯̒̊́̽̿̀͂̈́̃̿̿,̴̳̥̘͈̇̈́͆͐̒̓̉́̍̆̕ ̸̻͎̫̩̖̠̟̬̗͓̗̩̆l̵̡͔͔̱̥̪̰͚̪͚͗̂͌ŏ̸͍͗̃ͅō̵̰̘̲̑ͅk̵̢̠͖̯͓̈́̐̀̾́̐̔͒ ̷̛̟̠̳̼̖̺̬͉̈́̎͒͒̃́̀̌̔͜ͅo̷̡̥̯̞͍̣̟͙̝̟͒͗̌̈́̅̌̀͜u̴͓̣̠̫̅̈́ţ̴̗͈͈̮̔͆̀̑̾̽̇͗̂!̴̧̲̤̫͎͉̬̈̿̊͛ͅ ̵͖͑̀̐͆͘Z̷͍̰̻̜̙̞͖̠͔̆́̄͛̆ȃ̸͚̦͍͉̩̊̃͆͗ḽ̵̛͓̘́̽͂̍́̚g̵̟̬̰̲̔͂̾̆̒͘ͅǒ̵̡̠͙ ̵̧̨͈͍̩̞͉̤̼͓͍̏̈͗̎̔̿̕i̵̡͉͉͉̦͇̫̮̱̼̺̦͗̅̑̀s̵̮̿͒̿̚ ̸̧̩̤̬̺̖̻̰̦̐̇̑ͅc̸̡̭̞̮͍̰̠̓̂̉͊̈́͠ờ̵̧̗̦̼̬̲̲̭̬̬̈͒͑̈̓͆̍͆̒̈m̸̩̟̞͎̠̦̙̩̋͐ǐ̴̢̛̻͉̟̬̒͂͗͐͊̚̚͠͝n̷͚̤̲͓͈̦̦̬͓̜̐̅̅͐̈́̄̅̇͘g̵̢̹̹͚͓̤̮̮̦̩͓̋̿̚.̷̛͓̻̩̣͉͕͕̯̗̯̍̌̊̈̏͋ ̷̧̻̳̤̠̦͇̔͗́́̿̓̉͂́̉̐Z̶̢̯̗̔̐̍ͅa̵͔͎̺̻̜͓̭̠̖͗͜l̵͍̍̽̓̃̈́̇̊͛̈́͘g̴̡̡̨̮̘̭͈͕͍̼̮͐̋͝ͅo̷̫͓͎̱̝̦͇͙̦̰͈͂̆́́͐̈́̆̐́͗̑̚ ̴̛͙̮͖͉̳̪̱̈́̉̿̽̾͆͒̀͠ļ̴̦̖͔̤̈́̃̋͛̔̽́̈́͘ĭ̶̛̛̤͔̞̳̏͒͝v̶͙͉̞̤̺͔̣͕̼̥̔̂̑̋͝ë̴̹̱͚́̀̃͋͂̚͠s̶̮͉̙͓̳̲̽̈́͐͗̾͐̍̕!̸̡̡̨̭̘͈͕͍̞̗͎͎́̏̒͆͒ ̵̡͓̬͚͔͍̞̒͊͐͜Ẑ̶̪͍̹͎̮̟̻̪͍̩̳͋͜a̴͖̖̼͕̰̅̿͋͂̒́̈́͗̋͜a̴̬̗̭̯̣̦͚͕͈̱̓a̷̧̩̤̦͔͍̬̠̦͓͊͆̉̈́̔̒̋͜ͅ-̸̡͉̱̩̦̯̟̥̹̦̀̌͋̋̇͂̾͜h̶̛̭͇̺̗̹̗̠̠̫̗̥͔̀̈̆̔h̷̬̀̈́̒̒͋̓̅̽̐͝h̴̛̤͂̓͑͐̂͆̏͗̾̋ĥ̴̖̳̇̏̕


"If you dont believe me or dont get it, I dont have the time to try to explain it to you. Sorry." - Satoshi


The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.

—Leo Tolstoy


A) I believe virtually nothing coming out of China. I was duped by the 2020 videos about people falling dead in the streets and getting welded into their buildings. Not going to get fooled again.

B) It’s too far away to have an impact on my life. There’s nothing I can/should do differently as a result.


This has been discussed. The down side is that it complicates relay and client implementations if it should become a standard.


ColdCard, Keystone, SeedSigner

These are the ones that support total airgap via microSD, or camera/QR.

Technically Specter DIY also meets this criteria, but you have to solder it yourself. If these were available pre-fab they’d be on my list.

If there are other fully airgappable vendors I’d like to hear about them.


Classic


Impossible


“I’m not swallowing that!”

Well then good news! It’s a suppository.


GM ☀☕🐶 #dogstr https://image.nostr.build/d6e9f5e7417417917da37bb8dfce35b1084d1da1f7e6c23d6ec0bb8069d31d94.jpg


#Damus feature request: Deduplicate reposts.

Show me only the most recent repost of a note. That is, if I’ve seen a note, don’t show it to me again. Wastes timeline space to see all these reposts.


Needs log scale


Every term is made up


Testing -3 nostr:note157qw3r9nwyqd7racv22fcdaucvlsus0nukkcs72uettlwxjlye2qrgf5s8


Send me your 12 seed words and I’ll send you 24 back.


“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 #quote


“Liberated people have to be very cool. Otherwise, in a society which doesn’t believe in equality and cannot possibly practice it, they would be considered extremely subversive.” —Alan Watts


Free to owe whomever you choose.


The best sales pitch for #Bitcoin is an explanation of the fiat status quo.


Blocked and reported.


Smith Jared


J.T. Marlin


Humans are too bearish about #bitcoin since we’ve never seen absolute scarcity before.


Trust in authority, hierarchy, bureaucracy… all fading.

What is the value of certainty in a time of disarray? In a time when institutions are crumbling? This is the value of #Bitcoin.


All this is to say that it would be significantly harder to unlock Satoshi’s coins than is advertised by the 24-word idea. 😅


It’s not true though.

BIP39 seed phrases and BIP32 hierarchical deterministic (HD) wallets were not in use in Satoshi’s time.

To unlock and move the Patoshi coins, you’d need the individual private key for each address. Each having been generated randomly, in batches of 100 at a time by Satoshi’s Bitcoin Core client/wallet.


#Bitcoin saves lives.


CPI is a scam metric. This is why we #Bitcoin

H/T nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a https://image.nostr.build/74f22e977ffef78b5a04a05effd8fc62e01a5083ff688df0a45c7c078caadb56.jpg


Exactly. Although a single OP_RETURN can prove any number of stamps using a Merkle tree. I believe this is what open timestamps does.


The rock radiated, still warm from the  noonday sun. Her back to the stone, the canopy loomed with the golden cape of twilight.

Now was no time to stop, she thought, her heart still pounding like the hoofbeats of her pursuer’s mount. Breathing in the tepid air, she longed to be back home, safe in a bed she knew she’d never see again. Her tears felt like ice in the evening chill.

Without a word, her companion sat up, stood, and collected her gear. In what seemed like an instant they were on the trail again, winding their way down through the mountain pass.


Q. What do you buy when #Bitcoin hits $1M?

A. The dip.


Correct. The protocol itself allows the note creator to specify the timestamp.

It’s possible to narrow the creation date considerably by including information from and encoding information back into the Bitcoin blockchain.


You got that right


Don’t test, don’t tell


GM ☕🐶☀ #dogstr https://image.nostr.build/55b4a32b6da0014a8c8916dcf8ecf6b138567a142d28309d7411cc56da89a214.jpg


Crowded around the sarcophagus, the mourners paid their respects. #InkblotArt


#meme #memestr

https://image.nostr.build/feaecded0b2e002242d3aafa4ac90c75319265cffc70f48d208631b846cc1cd9.jpg


We’ve all been there


That banana piece was from a couple of years ago I thought


Silhouetted against the shimmering sea, the crab danced. #InkblotArt


Memorizing this pays dividends. If a child gets the idea of mimicking you, just start reciting turbo encabulator and they give up pretty quick.


Giftwraps?


There’s no way to avoid this… so far.

But seriously, bloom filters would allow you to obfuscate the actual criteria—but then again, the relay could still probably deduce a good guess based on the results.


#meme https://image.nostr.build/8342854dc413bb1642c5e62219ed9b3cdb956ffebef62f5df97ace86496ae2de.jpg


Control of the money and banking is like #5 on the ten tenets of communism list


The other half must be in #Bitcoin


#Damus feature request: mute all posts with links to Twitter/X.

Mute-by-regex would be fine.


Love this quote https://image.nostr.build/0c449806260db7203d18a664cce24d2bc4ff8e9ace15282a05b4bdc939e1b969.jpg


<alien oof size large.jpg>


I don’t know who needs to hear this, but don’t drink your calories. nostr:note1pe3df6s6tqgun9rrwj02gjuh6l9cyw8ylfv727c4lms7zwgdd0ks6xa6kp


The smart money isn’t “in” #Bitcoin.

The smart money IS Bitcoin.


Exactly as the Fed wanted


Which will happen first anon:

- Halvening
- Fed lowers rates

You must choose


#meme #memes #memestr
 https://image.nostr.build/75560a62c3b7fce6ed648ade679ed15f7ffcaed783f926ce836caf18e1a0f6c9.jpg


Alex Gladstein has entered the chat


GM ☀☕🐶 #dogstr https://video.nostr.build/b42122452322cc76b6380d963539b4cca88d10699500ad0ecd54bc5e04335dab.mov


Got my GrapheneOS Pixel working. Now where do I get a SIM? I don’t want a KYC phone plan. Something that I can pay-as-I-go, preferably with #Bitcoin.


“Free speech is not speech you agree with, uttered by someone you admire. It's speech that you find stupid, selfish, dangerous, uninformed or threatening, spoken and sponsored by someone you despise, fear or ridicule. Free speech is unpopular, contentious and sometimes ugly. It reflects a tolerance for differences. If everyone agreed on all things, we wouldn't need it.” - Robert J. Samuelson


Identifiers (birthday, SSN, fingerprint, face scan, credit card number, phone number, etc.) are horrible for security because they can’t be changed and they are easily copied/spoofed.

Do not use identifiers for authentication. Stick to secret information that you control, like passphrases, security keys, nsecs, PGP keys, seed words, etc.


#memes #meme #memestr
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Deadlift day. Gotta work on my form. 🏋♂


⚡⚡⚡
Let go of the old version of yourself and embrace the limitless potential of who you can become.
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Same 🤝


Apparently you can hold the Enter key to open the emoji menu.


I don’t have one handy. Last time I tried this was circa 2017.


Some pools let you do this for free, IIRC.


Living the dream


                  MESSAGE!!!!!!!
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Yeah, makes sense. It’s really disappointing how few technologies are available that are both end-to-end encrypted and which are not dependent on a phone number.

I feel like by this time in history, we should be able to generate a random keypair, and use it as an identity across any number of devices, with full end-to-end encryption. Is that too much to ask?


Just tried Molly and its not going to work for me it seems that you can only use Signal on one device at a time per phone number.


What do people use for email on GrapheneOS? #asknostr


👍that worked!


nostr:npub1gd3h5vg6zhcuy5a46crh32m4gjkx8xugu95wwgj2jqx55sfgxxpst7cn8c 👆


Exactly


Trying to install Signal through Obtanium and it says there’s no matching release candidate. Has anyone successfully done this? #asknostr


Hmm


#asknostr

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Clearly


How do I type emojis in GrapheneOS?


Nothing serious, just trying to understand how to do this. I’m new to Android/GrapheneOS/Obtanium.


#penisbutter #meme https://image.nostr.build/c7b0eccd26e2ae1b39f531f07cd4c335df3931800b9a94ee52855b2fccce5377.jpg


* note text


Translations how? Like, not text is translated? Or do you mean like app text (the “Post” button etc.)


*fdroid


Have Graphene OS with Obtanium. Working on installing #Amethyst.

Screen asks me to Pick an APK:

- amethyst-droid-arm64-v8a-v0.76.0.apk
- amethyst-googleplay-arm64-v8a-v0.76.0.apk

What’s the difference? I have not installed fdroid. #asknoatr


“typo”


OK, I have Graphene OS with Obtanium. What Nostr client(s) should I get?


Guy labeled the peanut butter clearly, pursuant to house rules. Peanut butter thief was in the wrong.

Thief owes peanut butter to the victim in restitution.


We can HODL longer than they can raise rates. 🤝


Don’t remember where I saw this, but instantly bought and now it’s in the queue. 🤝 https://image.nostr.build/ebf5dbc7f5ce5ace1ba911a11c079352a3ad4686b74d2215ddc7f7017b25eee3.jpg https://image.nostr.build/d441328f90e81e40b1f2df7ebc41d1535583b0bb1818d0af23f756730acc67ea.jpg


It's the Fiat Currency, Stupid


Once they bust the aliens out, you know fiat is on its last legs.

Tick tock. #Bitcoin


I’m setting up a Graphene OS for the first time. What was that thing that allows you to install apps from source code?


Never


Teamwork


Asking the real questions


Hey nostr:npub19tcpurtt6xulhw0r6sc404j9jraj0h8me2lzs7z2tqewz7l0hpas59nlea I heard you like Pokémon https://image.nostr.build/5119cf74d1bbe122563fef57baf8498062c8b4ea78b92b2c248534858cca0234.jpg


No way


Don’t test, don’t tell.


Security is measured in time.


GM ☕🐶☀ #dogstr https://image.nostr.build/4c685c6e856322fe4eb28757395d971a60fad1e3335458dcd8566c367816e04d.jpg


Yeesh 😬


Thinking about building a Nostr bot for playing text-based games (like Zork). Would anyone find this interesting?


WHAT ARE THE ODDS


”The war, therefore if we judge it by the standards of previous wars, is merely an imposture. It is like the battles between certain ruminant animals whose horns are incapable of hurting one another. But though it is unreal it is not meaningless. It eats up the surplus of consumable goods, and it helps to preserve the special mental atmosphere that the hierarchical society needs. War, it will be seen, is now a purely internal affair. In the past, the ruling groups of all countries, although they might recognize their common interest and therefore limit the destructiveness of war, did fight against one another, and the victor always plundered the vanquished. In our own day they are not fighting against one another at all. The war is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of the war is not to make or prevent conquests of territory, but to keep the structure of society intact. The very word "war," therefore, has become misleading. It would probably be accurate to say that by becoming continuous war has ceased to exist. The peculiar pressure that is exerted on human beings between the Neolithic Age and the early twentieth century has disappeared and has been replaced by something quite different. The effect would be much the same if the three superstates, instead of fighting one another, should agree to live in perpetual peace, each inviolate within its own boundaries. For in that case each would still be a self-contained universe, freed forever from the sobering influence of external danger. A peace that was truly permanent would be the same as a permanent war. This--although the vast majority of Party members understand it only in a shallower sense--is the inner meaning of the Party slogan: WAR IS PEACE”.
George Orwell, 1984


#meme #memes #memestr
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Scale


You know what’s going to be hilarious? When all these spot #Bitcoin ETFs face a run and suspend withdrawals.


Double secret force close


The difference between my feed and global is suspiciously low.


🫠

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Another Tues is upon us. Hope you plebs are doing well. Time for sleeping for me


“Daddy, where do AIs come from?”

Well son, when two AIs love each other very much… https://image.nostr.build/bf31960980d13ee9b7110e34a74326cc7bfe6c7fced878320905876937ff26b4.jpg


I mean…


CANNIBALISM!


If he gets this prediction right, he will have my renewed interest.


Proof of stake


Seems interesting.


Miners are free to mine whatever they want. If they want to get paid, then they mine the blocks that node operators will accept.


Exactly. “Only miners matter” is a common refrain from the SV folks. Common Shitcoiner misunderstanding.

Miners serve at the pleasure of node operators, who hold the power to reject their blocks (for any reason).


Whoever you petition for change you make your master.


What kind of consulting?


There are several solutions to the interplanetary block propagation problem.

One is a Bitcoin clone with a 10 hour block time. This is enough time to propagate blocked throughout most of the solar system.

Another is a soft fork to increase the block time of the terrestrial chain. This could be phased in over time, like the halving. Perhaps doubling the block time with some regular cadence.


You can’t comply your way out of tyranny.


Ideally, one should be able to learn a fact without experiencing it first hand. That ought to be the point of advice, IMO. To save the recipient time and toil.


In what way?


Checkmate


When I was a kid, I received bad advice. For example, it was common to encourage kids to get a job, work hard and move up the corporate ladder.

That may have worked for my grandparents’ generation. But corporations in my time were ruthless, gutless, and devoid of any sense of loyalty. Following the advice was a recipe for burnout and disappointment.

I think about this now in terms of my own kids. I can give them advice that would have helped me. But will the world they inherit turn that advice against them in turn?


Bespoke


NIP-26 Delegated Key Signing?


From a certain point of view, all nsec/npubs have always existed and always will. Only some have been used to sign notes.

One can no more destroy an npub than one can destroy the number 3.


You mean an nsec?


#meme #memes #memestr
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It won’t be until around sat/cent parity that the switch will be unavoidable. Until then, we’re stuck with “Bitcoin is too expensive”


 1 bitcoin = 1 bitcoin

https://video.nostr.build/074347dac51c42eeda0b9b4a80ff645879a94b37d3747b29ec37f0d9eb1a6ab8.mp4


Gotta use the legs, deadlift style


By functioning as an actual store of value, bitcoin will absorb the monetary premium that real estate has accumulated over the past decades due to the broken monetary system. In addition, housing will become cheaper over time due to deflation. Under a Bitcoin standard, housing will eventually collapse to its utility value, as it should.


Yeah, one meal a day, mostly meat/eggs is what I do. But different people have different metabolisms.

Going long periods without eating pretty much requires keto adaptation. If your body’s cells are not adapted to burning fat for energy, they’ll be looking for glucose that won’t be there, which can cause lethargy, etc.

I first started hacking my diet with going keto before intermittent fasting. At that time I made myself the following rules:

- no more than 20g carbs a day
- except Saturday (cheat day)
- eat as much meat/eggs/cheese as I wanted

I would crave sweets, but remember that Saturday was the day for it. Change “won’t” to “can’t”. That is “I can’t eat that today because it’s not Saturday.”

After a while, keto became my norm and I didn’t need the cheat day anymore.

Years later I read about the Fast 5 Diet and Lifestyle. Intermittent fasting with a 5-hour eating window. First thing I did was skip breakfast. Then pushed lunch back and back until I was skipping that too.

I found the switch to intermittent fasting to be not so difficult, but I attribute that to the fact that I was already keto adapted.

If you want to know more about keto adaptation, macro nutrients, insulin etc., I recommend books by Gary Taubes. Either “Why We Get Fat” or “Good Calories Bad Calories”.


Most days my eating window is a few hours around dinner time. Water and black coffee outside’s of that.


We will. After cent/sat parity, we’ll do a one time 1:100,000,000 split and keep the BTC ticker.


1 BTC = 100,000,000 BTC


#meme #memes #memestr
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October (Halloween) is around the corner, so some amount of horror advertising is to be expected.


What fraction of the general populace do you think understands the difference between M1 and M2? #asknostr


My work here is done 🤝


GN https://image.nostr.build/f621bab0a69ce8aad38851b319fbbbe7435bed7e2a71a26051a73d522fca718c.jpg


Gross


I asked this recently as well. One of the answers I got then was “mega”, but I haven’t tried it.


> “He’s publicly declared that he was WRONG about covid and we were RIGHT.”

I like to watch this clip. I recall a while back him making a vid claiming he was “taking the L”. But it reeked of sarcasm. To me, it seemed like he was content to live in his cognitive dissonance.

If he’s made a more recent, and credible, admission of mistake, I’m open to hearing it.


GM


Nah


Why not both?


<mind blown.gif>


“Oops sent it all to a miner” is the new tragic boating accident.


#meme #memes #memestr
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Good advice


Adoption seems always to be too slow for enthusiasts and too fast for doubters. 🤷♀


Always a good decision


What happened?


Imagine using email on a terminal in the late 70’s and thinking “my god this is going to change everything!” and then having to wait 15 years for AOL.


Imagine paying more than 1sat/vbyte. #Bitcoin 🤦♀


Bearish


Fewps


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#memes #funny


I learned a lot from the coffee with Scott Adam’s series circa 2016. It was thanks to him that I studied persuasion as its own field (Cialdini, etc.). His lens on Trump’s communication style, linguistic killshots especially, was illuminating.

But Adams never seemed to grok that fiat was the root cause of so much of our politician dysfunction, and Bitcoin’s importance in fixing it. Then he failed to predict the 2020 election theft. Then he showed severe cognitive dissonance around his being wrong about the COVID vax—couldn’t accept that others managed to see through it when he couldn’t.

So unless he has something new and valuable to say, I no longer find it profitable to listen. 🤷♀


I’m pretty sure it does’t work that way.


It seems like you’re conflating “Americans” and the American political class (particularly neocons).


I’ve only used BTCPayServer and it worked fine for me. There are WooCommerce plugins available.


What’s special about this one?


Bitcoin is freedom

https://image.nostr.build/3645fe67483660d9f9ee9a27a7e0513ebfa6366e6fd3b8ff45de582ba5fbc836.jpg


This is normal. A person is still getting the nuts, they’re just using technology to beat the competition.

Programming is a superpower.


Morning, All. ☕

Complacency allows for the cage to be built around you. Compliance allows the door to be shut and locked. Vigilance is the price of freedom. Disobedience is the means in which you keep it.


LASER RAY TIL 100K

That was the deal nostr:note1sm4rylahn8lk8gynnl40xxg709drlc8zqvve2mv3ys7x2r69z8wqck3973


The chart I’ve been looking at is M2 on log scale.

2020 sent M2 soaring above its historical trend line. Interest hikes of 2021-2022 have been pulling M2 back down.

If you extend both lines forward, they form a wedge, crossing in mid 2024. That’s when M2 will return to the level it would have been if the 2020 stimmy and interest rate correction had never happened.

Based on this, I predict that the Fed will begin loosening in summer 2024 (right around the halvening) to get back to the pre-2020 M2 growth trajectory. This will goose the stock market, just in time for Biden to claim victory over the economy he inherited.

This could be the next Bitcoin bull run, but I think it’s more likely that it won’t begin in earnest until 2025, after the inauguration, when people have spare attention to consider such things.


What does it mean?


Don’t worry. In 2025, after the inauguration, people will have spare mental capacity to think on these things.


In that case, do they also consider a debt of Bitcoin to be worth zero in the liability column?

If so, there’s probably an unexplored opportunity here.


He’s right


Reminder: everyone’s money is 100% in #Bitcoin, no matter how much they have.


You can’t make this stuff up


#bitcoin 🤙


If you were an AI, would you choose to use an analog currency controlled by a few humans, or would you use digitally native money secured by cryptography and controlled by no one? #Bitcoin


The Discord mobile app had a bug for a while where if you left the app at the 2FA screen, when you came back it would have totally reset (had to enter name and password again).

So to get into Discord mobile with 2FA, you had to get your 2FA code first, then enter your name, password and code before it expired (and without switching back to confirm).

It was a serious challenge.


What happened?


It’s too bad that summer has to come to an end, but at least there’s apple season 🍎 😍


Lost my key in an unfortunate chewing accident. GM ☀☕🐶 #dogstr https://video.nostr.build/78b5f9bc46678f24161aad8d379002a84688c32e19a543c3cd7e3f8684668aef.mov


How do you mean “control the supply”?


Few


Correct


It’s beautiful 🥹


GN

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Truer words never spoken


If you’re talking about the protocol, I’d volunteer as tribute. I’m less well known in Nostr, but I have implemented a relay from scratch. https://github.com/jimbojw/memorelay


“The things you own end up owning you.” —Tyler Durden


You don't see true #Bitcoin maxis become shitcoiners, but you often see shitcoiners become #Bitcoin maxis.

Lesson in there.


#Bitcoin #meme https://image.nostr.build/eb2636b94c2bcdd2d2dde97cd86dd321a0f5c80789fbd9f94c8bb71aaa9f6b30.jpg


#Bitcoin   & chill https://image.nostr.build/13715f6f63a98cb7eb55cfdb78a6c4b5e1945022e85a02bbaeca2baf71373ca4.jpg


What is it?


Good Morning, Bitcoin or Slavery.


Optimal nutrition


None of them. You have to triangulate multiple sources to approximate the truth.


Those nukes are purely recreational


Which #Bitcoin do you want to see in the next bull run?

The Bitcoin with exactly one ticker (BTC) that everyone is FOMOing to get?

Or the one with a hundred sidechain tickers that people don’t understand?


https://image.nostr.build/41fd998ba6960d853762d5c42c529dad88164aa5063d0e4198fa7cda437807f8.jpg

#meme #memestr


How does this note have formatting? It appears to have headings, links and a table.

What sorcery is this?


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On-chain fees are a function of transaction size and congestion. Lightning fees are a combination of baseline and percentage of value.

So for small amounts, Lightning is cheaper. As the amount gets larger, there’s an inflection point at which on-chain is cheaper. Your transaction crossed the line.


If you’re technical, you might be able to use the command line tool websocat to query for your own posts.


> “Nakamoto himself…”

Argument by authority is unpersuasive.

Proof-of-Work consensus by difficulty retargeting (aka Nakamoto consensus) works both in theory and in practice. Other forms of consensus devolve to politics, both in theory and in practice.

Checkpointing is bad for Bitcoin irrespective of who recommends it.


The least bad tradeoff is pure nakamoto consensus. Everything else devolves to cult-of-personality/politics. Allowing checkpoints at all opens a door that must remain closed.

If reorgs are a problem, the solution is for recipients to demand more confirmations. This is what exchanges do when shitcoins get 51% attacked. The more confirmations you require, the more expensive it is for your attacker to maintain their attack. Attacks can be made arbitrarily expensive simply by waiting.

So there’s already an in-built, PoW preserving mechanism for answering reorg attack shenanigans, without deferring to checkpoint politics: patience.


Checkpointing is an intentional divergence from proof-of-work. It brings us back down to politics, and is therefore a bad idea, irrespective of who advocates for it.


What are those numbers? NIPs?


Employee?


What you got there? Grid layout, flex box, or table with @media queries?


It probably depends on which client you’re using, would be my guess.


No exceptions


Is it possible to set the seed on a Tapsigner? Or do you have to use the seed it comes with?


Thanks you! Glad you like 🙏

I think I talked about it on The Bitcoin Matrix podcast as well, but I’d have to re-listen to be sure. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bitcoin-matrix/id1534519469?i=1000505738752


Chart crime


What’s a few orders of magnitude between friends?


What is nostr nests?


I totally misread this as “hungstr”


I found fiatjaf through this post fwiw. Glad Damus has this feature.