First up, I want to recognize that this is an uncomfortable topic!  Bitcoin is inevitably changing towards user-pays, and that's not all positive.  But facts we don't like are still facts: can't engineer a solution if we can't think about the problems.

There are three kinds of bitcoiners.
A. Those who can afford any fee.
B. Those who can afford a UTXO, but not often.
C. Those who can't afford a UTXO.

Nobody worries about the A group (and in the early days, that was everyone).  Obviously Lightning (my area!) caters to the B group, and we want it to be as large as possible.  To do this we can (1) make lightning as resiliant as we can so onchain spends are rare, (2) make bitcoin as efficient as possible so we can cram as much as we can into what we have.

(1) Making lightning more resilient and reliable is engineering.  Lots of people working on this, even before we get soft-forks which could help further.

(2) More efficiency has two benefits: obviously if your own onchain spends are 20% smaller, that's 20% cheaper.  But if *everyone's* onchain spends are 20% smaller, that means fees are lower *for everyone* too (and it's non-linear).  So we really care about all Bitcoin usage!  Some things are obvious wins: Taproot so you can avoid even putting the script onchain in many cases, FROST so you can cram your 2 of 3 or other scheme into a single key and signature.  We know we want to get more aggressive with sharing one signature across multiple inputs (Cross Input Signature Aggregation), but that needs a lot more research, and a soft-fork.

But even with all these, the math is clear: some people, even if you somehow gave them their wealth in a UTXO, it couldn't afford its own fees to spend.  The C group is real.  Spoiler alert: we don't have an answer for this!  But let's look at some approaches people have tried.

Firstly, there are attempts to move these people into the B group: give them long enough that maybe fees will reach a point they can afford.  This seems unlikely to me:
1. As fees increase everyone will start doing the work to take advantage of low fee times, and that itself means that low-fee times won't be so low.
2. These schemes tend to increase onchain footprints, so they need fees to drop a lot to overcome that (typical is 2x the transaction size, so you need fees to halve to gain anything).
3. If you really can't afford the fee, you probably also can't afford to wait.
4. You still haven't actually dealt with those who really, really can't afford the fees.  Ever.

Another suggestion is that someone (e.g. a lightning service provider) will lock up funds which would cover fees, in case something goes wrong.  This doesn't work economically, because nobody is paying $100 for a $5 user (not at scale), but it doesn't even work mathematically: the reason some people will have small UTXOs is because there are not enough sats for 10 billion people with any realistic distribution.

There are two basic approaches left:
1. Group people, so they fall into the B category (i.e. onchain tx is possible, but expensive).
2. Trust someone, but rely on incentives.

1. Grouping people is possible, but they need to work together if somenthing goes wrong.  So grouping inside a community is probably better than grouping with randos.

For example, there are various tree-of-transaction schemes where you go onchain only if the coordinator fails/goes rogue, and how much it costs you depends on whether anyone near you in the tree pays to get themselves out.  These are basically free if nothing goes wrong (one UTXO required for thousands of users!).  But this is subject to ghettoization, where the coordinator makes sure all the C people are grouped together, knowing none of them can afford the transactions they need to get their funds back.  It's particularly bad because the coordinator can insert its own fake "whales" to make it look like it's not ghettoized.

You can play with incentives here, too: more research needed.  The details matter!

2. Relying on incentives.

As a simple example, lightning-connected e-cash mints.  They can't rug individuals very easily, they have to rug everyone together (or go fractional and rug the last ones to exit).   Maybe with enough anonymity and reputation, these would be Good Enough.

More ambitious would be a single UTXO held for multiple people by a coordinator.   Can we make it so that if a coordinator is dishonest, you can force them to burn your funds?  Maybe burn more than your funds (ie. a bond)?  Won't get your money, but it aligns incentives so they're not motivated to rug you.  The details here really matter!

There's a cute scheme which has been proposed where the coordinator pays a temporary bond, and asserts that they actually have everyone's signature to transfer the funds.  If nobody challenges within a week, they get the bond back and the funds move.  If someone challenges, all the signatures are put onchain, and if they're not all valid, the bond gets half-burned and half-given to the (successful) challenger.  This is hard to make work, though.  Someone needs to get the money to challenge (hard if you don't have the money in the first place, plus it's hard to prove to someone you *didn't* sign something!), and then make sure nobody gets the challenge bond before them (in particular, a dishonest coordinator, seeing the game is up, completes the successful challenge *themselves* and gets half their bond back), and make sure someone can't grief and delay the settlement indefinitely or bankrupt the coordinator.

More research needed, here, too.

Summary

A longer post than I had expected to write.  And it's buried in the middle of a thread nobody will read.  (I do this sometimes.  I suck at marketing I guess!)

Sub-fee bitcoin amounts will have tradeoffs, involving trusting someone who has more money than you (at least, in someone's competence, even if their *financial* incentives can be made to match yours).  This is difficult to build well, and not a very exciting thing to build today, so it hasn't really happened (custodial things are much, much easier!).

This is also a key reason I believe we need to make Bitcoin more expressive: if we can do *more* with our own UTXOs, we can build better solutions.  And by "we" I mean "someone smarter than me" of course!

Feedback welcome!


The Road Less Travelled has insane views!! https://video.nostr.build/99e36e66d5f095be4a5915c99729f1dba2bcce7d84aaf7feb8ea8132685dc2a0.mp4 https://image.nostr.build/658a46c3d30d8c4990c1ec14eb96fd0c1bb139f0c21db1fc923f48f04731f106.jpg


Holy shit, I think I just realized a direct and concrete way that I’ve personally experienced to how #Nostr completely changes the social incentives:

• Rage and hateful posts on Twitter get the most attention.
• Positive and happy posts on Nostr get the most zaps.

It really was just monetization all the time.

When attention is the currency, negativity and hate rise to the top because the platforms need people arguing.

When sats directly from peers are the currency, value rises to the top.

(Anyone else feel they’ve had this same experience?)


Amazing! Nostr has over 40,000 weekly active users. The retention rate of trusted users within 30 days after registration is 20%, which is double the retention rate 6 months ago. This shows that Nostr's developers have been improving the product and more people like it.

 We are moving forward steadily, and this is a very good and healthy growth. This is a great signal.

We will win  #nostr 🚀🫂💜
https://nostrcheck.me/media/5824c03d29d372b3277cc0b6cb32d4541102a7af0865bda38fbcedec4d454efa/eef2ee152d77c6a2de2e397cec53cace8f93216b755a0c94661185ad73ae88fe.webp
https://nostrcheck.me/media/5824c03d29d372b3277cc0b6cb32d4541102a7af0865bda38fbcedec4d454efa/753c58d723c1b4dcaf7139860f72f43ee9b535fa973abb8427a469c6ab043813.webp


Opt out. Now. 💜 🧡

nostr:note19gmy5408vyq57np4wtfup5x3v5dukz0l48qntqkal5jj5lqd2z8q9aj3tk


GM.

Without credible video confirmation, it’s reasonable to question whether Biden indeed currently consents to his campaign termination or not.

And at this point, even when he does appear on video or in person (not just voice) and confirms it , there’s basically no way to ever confirm whether Biden consented to that tweet before it was made, or whether it was made and then he had to adjust in response to it. He doesn’t control his account and lacks any sort of encryption to prove a given message was authorized by him at the time of sending.

Wild times.


Please welcome Npub.pro!

This is a tool to make yourself a beautiful Nostr-based website.

It's been long in the making, and we're thrilled to launch it on this special day!

Here is a short demo of how you can make yourself a website right now:

https://v.nostr.build/kZG9O.mp4

It's free for anyone getting started, it's open source and self-hostable.

Why get yourself a nostr-based website?

- beautiful themes (any Ghost theme could work)
- great looking shareable links to your content
- works like an app, add to homescreen, useable offline
- SEO-optimized
- attach your custom domain or host yourself

Try it at https://npub.pro

Learn more on our Nostr-based blog: https://blog.npub.pro/post/npub-pro-is-live

P.S. If you like how it looks, that's because nostr:npub1r0rs5q2gk0e3dk3nlc7gnu378ec6cnlenqp8a3cjhyzu6f8k5sgs4sq9ac designed it. Thanks man, it's a pleasure to work with you!


Nostr Web Services (NWS): Enable TCP on Nostr

Nostr Web Services (NWS) replaces the IP layer in TCP transport using Nostr, enabling a secure connection between clients and backend services. Exit nodes are reachable through their nprofiles, which are combinations of a Nostr public key and multiple relays.

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/introducing-nostr-web-services-nws/


I've rebuilt Flockstr into a cleaner, better preforming version. It's live right here, https://troop.is


rust hackers wanted @ Damus! If you know rust and want to get paid to work on freedom tech part time or fulltime, contributing is the best way to be considered for the position 😎

I am currently the only one working on notedeck, if you're rust-curious this a great time to jump in and work with me directly on our next-gen, multiplatform nostr client!

https://github.com/damus-io/notedeck/


Musk installed laser eyes and tweeted this.

Don't know what it means, probably nothing, but interesting.

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


So Troop is the new Flockstr? Looks gorgeous at first glance. Will test it out soon! 👀 nostr:note1dnyl7zq964fzlzsr3lf49ktxadez47n674kld5gqj5jwtl8kmpjqwrtftc


Landed near Memphis, Tennessee, United States. Apx. flt. time 1 h 13 min.  https://image.nostr.build/b184c17fd5bcab4fa9322922832117bd907f4620d15ae6755cfa269c2bbb760a.png


Good afternoon.

I published a new long-form article on Nostr on my homepage, to help inform people about all the cool things people are building here.

I'm going to go over it a few more times before I promote it on my other socials and email lists in the coming days (Nostr first!), so if anyone has any feedback, I can still potentially incorporate it.

Enjoy.

https://www.lynalden.com/the-power-of-nostr/


Keep an ear out for this one 👏🏻🫡 nostr:note1z9zq3ax5jchxdfklglteju2v5td8tn4k475ukrcsg7as5ae3n3nsyy3kr6


Liz Churchill
@liz_churchill10
Guess who owns Crowdstrike?

Blackrock $16.13M
Vanguard Group $16.06M
Morgan Stanley $5.79M
Jennison Associates LLC $5.03M

 https://image.nostr.build/fa0f87c4912c8f4556004719a985c980b7f4eb48f0e9adce9c0473d124971035.jpg


Some people believe we live in the Matrix, or a simulation...

https://video.nostr.build/a4d7da1f1bede47753e5b994e007d6f5f122fd7b04a7081e4763b95dc30f4867.mp4


125 - What an interesting week - #bitcoin #grownostr #letterfrom #cashu #obsidian : https://rogerprice.me/125-july-20th/


This week’s newsletter is out. Check your email or read it online.
https://newsletter.unlimitedhangout.com/2024-07-19-newsletter/


Imagine the power of being an indie developer and making an app where, the moment you launch, it people already have an account and they have a balance in your app!


🚀 Introducing Nutsack 0.1!

nutsack.me -- Don't load too much money; this is highly experimental!

A NIP-60/61 nostr client.

This is a wallet that lives in nostr and is can be accessed from any nostr client that chooses to implement it.

Nutzaps are OPT-IN -- if you don't opt-in to nutzaps, a NIP-60/61 client that zaps you would just do a LN NIP-57 payment; it would just be paying from ecash but you would receive it on your LN wallet.

With these two NIPs we'll get a few cool things:
* unified balance across your apps
* pocket-change that follows you around
* new users are immediately zappable 🤯
* verifiable nutzaps
* faster zaps and zaps that can't go missing

and so much more cool stuff; just watch the video and let your mind wander with the possibilities...

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


YouTube very recently started aggressively banning IPs, mostly non-residential and forcing sign-ins.

yt-dlp and many invidious, piped instances affected: 403 errors or "Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot. This helps protect our community"

Google's concept of community is wanting you to swallow their sludge advertisement and control your speech.

I take this as a challenge.

Piped is great but it was obvious that proxying would be shut down one day.

Even though I'm busy AF, I started prototyping something to take back great Youtube content. Involves nostr, blossom and ecash. More soon

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/10128


schematic of how NWS works

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

nostr:note12vy8lmphxyfd7np7t503k8fzs3em2h6szfwad0fkgr6prjkjuhxsddyprj


Huge milestone: First demo of Nostr Web Services (NWS) bringing TCP to Nostr. With NWS, you can host any existing web application on Nostr without having to use DNS or even announce your public IP to the world, simply by sharing your service's npub (or nprofile).

Try it out the demo yourself. Here is a Cashu test mint running with NWS. Let's use curl to retrieve the mint's information. The request travels from your computer to the public NWS entry relay, then through nostr to the service's NWS exit relay. At the other end is a Cashu mint with HTTPS encryption.

```
curl -s -x socks5h://relay.8333.space:8882 https://nprofile1qqs8a8nk09fhrxylcd42haz8ev4cprhnk5egntvs0whafvaaxpk8plgpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuwpnxvejuumsv93k2g6k9kr/v1/info --insecure | jq
```

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

I can't stress this enough: THE MINT RUNS BEHIND HTTPS!

The NWS entry relay can't read your traffic. It's encrypted. We can host public entry relays that can be used by anyone.

This means we can plug the entire internet to it 🌐.

Let's plug it into Cashu for now. Nutshell wallet supports socks5 proxies (that's how it uses Tor). By setting the public entry relay as the proxy, the wallet can now connect to a mint's npub/nprofile and communicate with it via NWS.

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

This is going to be so freaking cool. And it's going to be a lot more useful than just for Cashu. There are still bugs and issues that need to be ironed out but the code is coming out soon. Watch this space.


Huge update! Cashu-ts, our most popular wallet library, just released its fist major version - 1.0.0 – 🎉.

Thank you to all the contributors who made this possible.

Open source is magic. And you're all 🥜's!

https://github.com/cashubtc/cashu-ts/releases/tag/v1.0.0


End The Fed https://image.nostr.build/cafa46f5da4765fa49c621f9c3f7ef82acf8118865078501249b779ab058c3c2.jpg


JUST IN: Craig Wright officially admits that he is not Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of #Bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/ba908b11b7aecf652db38a5ba2309772c6b6827fd99c5ef8fed4e4710f0d5457.jpg


Reminder that nostr:nprofile1qqsrhuxx8l9ex335q7he0f09aej04zpazpl0ne2cgukyawd24mayt8gprfmhxue69uhhq7tjv9kkjepwve5kzar2v9nzucm0d5hszxmhwden5te0wfjkccte9emk2um5v4exucn5vvhxxmmd9us2xuyp has done more to bring Bitcoin closer to the web than anyone else I can think of. That guy literally invented LNURL, a protocol that has become a standard. He laid the foundations for LNbits. He single-handedly on-boarded more people to Lightning with lntxbot than the vast majority of professional wallet companies.

These days he's a little preoccupied with the purple protocol but we won't forget his contributions to the orange one 🫡🧡


BITCOIN AND NOSTR ARE THE FUTURE.

PEOPLE WILL VIEW BOTH AS BACKUPS TO CORRUPT ANTIQUATED LEGACY SYSTEMS UNTIL THEY BECOME THE STANDARD.

GOOD MORNING. 🫡


https://image.nostr.build/e7cadd6b93db5380ab1a00bed08b17f5c129b468afa669193fd1a910fbc63d08.jpg #meme #memestr #nostrmeme


nostr isn't an identity backup. nostr *is* the identity. here's how to create a backup of it!

run your own relay. that's it!

you can do this in a multitude of methods. here's just a few simple examples to get you started.

on Android you can run a relay on your phone: https://github.com/greenart7c3/Citrine

on Windows you can run a relay on your computer: https://github.com/CodyTseng/nostr-relay-tray

on Umbrel/Start9/Mynode you can run a relay on your own server: https://apps.umbrel.com/app/nostr-relay
https://github.com/Start9Labs/nostr-rs-relay-startos

if you want a DIY method, you can run a variety of relays too:
https://github.com/cameri/nostream (i use this one.)
https://github.com/hoytech/strfry

good luck!


ตลาดทุ่งม่วง

Bitcoin has not yet been designated as legal tender in Thailand, but Bitcoin can be used to pay for goods/services. Only for entrepreneurs, service providers, and individuals who voluntarily accept payments with Bitcoin.

For example, Thai people use this hashtag to buy and sell there products/services >> #ตลาดทุ่งม่วง

And you can check the stores in Thailand that accept bitcoin at this website >>

Ps. Thailand is going to have a big bitcoin event in Bangkok named #TBC2024 in the next few months. (Mid-September 2024) If interested, details can be found here >>

https://rightshift.to/product/tbc2024-event-ticket/

https://btcmap.org/map#5/14.30697/101.29395


You are a slave because of taxes. Until you free yourself from them, You will never be free.


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

Today at 13:30 CDT

I am going to come at this today from two angles. They will be that perhaps there was malice from someone inside the government, the second that it could really have simply been incompetence.

Both are ugly, we may never know the truth but one of those two options must be true and the likely result of either changes pretty much everything about this election cycle.

Details at http://tspclive.com


Imagine not front-running the banks after all that’s happened.


THE MONEY IS IN THE NOSTR!

👉 Create a new npub AND DOING NOTHING ELSE, no WoS, no nostr-wallet-connect pairing,... NOTHING

☑ receive zaps
☑ send zaps
☑ and most importantly ACCESS MY WALLET FROM ANY CLIENT ON ANY DEVICE

these zaps are verifiable, way faster -- they are immediate (since the sending of the ecash is the zap, instead of waiting for a LN node to, maybe, publish a zap receipt)

Just like our contact lists follows us around, just like our profile data and our shitposts pops up in any nostr application, now so does our sats.

the money is in the nostr!

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


It's just communism in drag.    #justcommumism  #thegreatrevolution - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1m4zZvyCxg


GM ☕ and PV 🌺 https://image.nostr.build/c7ffd301d329d1123f3f7f21da510e3ff83e4ec3456e7a9cfba2d3bf50546d8c.jpg


Bitcoin developers and Bitcoin influencers are not much different from the rest of the people, you have to assume that they are mostly corrupt.

When in doubt keep Bitcoin unchanged.


Way Of The Truth Warrior Podcast: The Cult Of The Medics Explained

Episode webpage: https://dwtruthwarrior.substack.com/p/the-cult-of-the-medics-explained

Media file: https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/146526883/9e2ad0750d58fa4aa718f715e9bbbb88.mp3


I wrote about the mainland Chinese who are using Nostr, educating each other how to use it, to talk about their daily lives and other uncensored thoughts.

Hattip to  nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s as always for his stories and anecdotes, and  nostr:npub13v47pg9dxjq96an8jfev9znhm0k7ntwtlh9y335paj9kyjsjpznqzzl3l8 for helping me carve a path to getting this data.

https://chinabitcoinbook.com/?p=181


Our step-by-step guide on using BTCPay Server to generate BoltCards for your local communities is out! ⚡
Merchants can :

✅ Issue reloadable #bitcoin cards to customers
✅ Accept them via interoperable NFC checkout
✅ Allow customers to top up or reset the cards

All on a single device!
https://m.primal.net/JMRC.mov
FOSS technology available immediately for anyone to replicate.

https://docs.btcpayserver.org/Conference-PoS-guide/


Masterpiece 😂
https://m.primal.net/JLom.mp4


Roads are the argument of many statists. In my country the roads are tripled, to go to the same destination we have a national road, a public highway and a nationalized highway.

All a waste of resources and poorly maintained, with other people's money they do this kind of stupidities, thousands and thousands of kilometers distributed inefficiently.


When your friend asks you for the 69th time “is now a good time to buy #bitcoin   or do you think it will go lower?” https://v.nostr.build/19VhtugJG9m9P3cV.mp4


This is a text exchange from 2018 between Hunter Biden and his psychiatrist in which they joke about President Biden's dementia.

They knew he had dementia but pushed him to run anyway. He was always a puppet and those in the party pretending that this is news are trying to manipulate you.

The corporate media and the Democrat party are trying to save face and their tactics are so obvious and dishonorable that it really makes one wonder if the party is run by literal demons.

Imagine if the Hunter Biden laptop wasn't labeled as "Russian Fake News" and Americans were able to look at the data and decide for themselves. We wouldn't have had a corpse on puppet strings being manipulated by the Deep State as President for the last four years.

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


Primal for Android 1.0 is here!

This is another incremental release of our Android app, but we finally reached the milestone where it is stable and feature-complete enough that we can call it v1.0 with a straight face. Here’s what’s new in build 1.0.3:

- Settings: ability to reorder feeds
- Media uploads: show upload progress
- Note editor: camera command added
- Network settings: enhanced privacy
- Network settings: set caching service
- Stability improvements

Please let us know how you like the latest release and stay tuned for more updates. There is A LOT more to come!

Enjoy! 🤙💜

https://primal.net/downloads


F... me! I should get into politics!
24-year-old YouTube blogger Phidias Panayiotou, who was elected as an independent MEP from Cyprus, has revealed how much money MEPs receive each month. He filmed a video in the meeting room of the EU legislature and posted it on TikTok.
 https://video.nostr.build/72e5ef329a34bd3ec83946f8784cddb6658aec473ef2da28930a7c5affcb383f.mp4


HP is evil. In the same category ad Adobe!


Opensats should give 3 bounties a month for the best nostr home pages.

Gold: 10 million sats
Silver: 5 million sats
Bronze: 2 million sats

3 x runner up: 1 million sats

Easiest win ever.


World traveller and Sovereign individual.  Perpetual optimist, ultimate pragmatist.  No one can be told what The Matrix is - you have to see it for yourself.


Friendly reminder: Tickets will be issued on August 1st. If you have completed the registration form and don’t receive anything on that date, feel free to DM this account or any of the organizers!

If you still haven’t signed up, do it here!
🎟 https://tally.so/r/wbdMlL

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


I am still coming to term with #nostr having a radically different architecture that requires a radically different thinking mode on how you build apps.

The latest radical insight is that the network becomes the database. Any database record you generate can be a #nostr event that is signed, relayed, but most importantly encrypted by you (NIP44).

This approach breaks the back on commercial platform capture and lock-in.

To date, commercial platforms have always had the play of providing free services to get you into their closed databases with database records about you. Then over time, those records (not controlled by you) lead to, in the words of Cory Doctorow, “enshittification” of everything about the service and the relationship with you. Also, massive breaches are just an event waiting to happen.

With #nostr, the traditional model is flipped on its head. Instead of feeding a commercial service to generate database records about you, you can generate and sign events that can be stored on any relay, or in the network as a whole.

So just like your nostr npub is no longer beholden to a commercial provider, your nostr events (database records) need no longer to be beholden as well.

I am not discounting the existing commercial platforms. I’m just saying there is now a whole other approach. New commercial models will be discovered eventually, but right now the imperative is to experiment with this radically new approach.

Special thanks to nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft who got me thinking this way.


THEIR power DOES NOT come from FIAT. It comes from gatekeeping access to the ECONOMY.

Bitcoin is a new territory of freedom from which WE can create a new economy that THEY CANNOT GATEKEEP.

Bitcoin DOES NOT defund the State. WE DO.


The most effective way to orange pill society is to produce something that society wants, and demand Bitcoin as payment.

This forces people to study Bitcoin and figure out how to access it.

Team Fiat is producing iPhones, cars, air travel, houses, etc. It's impossible to access without having fiat in the loop.

This is creates demand for access to fiat.

What is Team Bitcoin producing? What products and services are *impossible* to acquire without having Bitcoin in the loop?

What products and services are we producing to drive the demand for access to our magic internet  money?


AML/CFT laws make you less safe. Not more.

In 2022, 78% of European banks experienced a data breach. Yet AML/CFT laws continue to attempt to mandate increasing amounts of data collection, from IP Addresses to social media activities. This data is routinely targeted, exploited, and sold on dark markets.

In honor of gigabrain takes like "We NeEd SuRrVeiLlAnCe To FiGhT CrImE", this Rage Weekly I compiled a list of 40+ recent data breaches involving the leak of personal data – just in case anyone tries to tell you that increased surveillance leads to an increase in security.

Full list 👉 https://www.therage.co/rage-weekly-data-breach-special/


oztralia is a corrupt banana republic:

 https://image.nostr.build/762453b462d5d592abae2287cb23b9c8450b713cb8d14dbbf5dbb80b7b3b3099.jpg


Money is too important to be controlled by greedy bankers, corrupt politicians, and power-hungry investors.


He’s not wrong nostr:note1u68teka7utv5hpq94008zcrzdm34wzk4r76qq0s9agw33d2gkdfqwtu96x


Good morning. Today is a good day. The US Government has agreed to release TDev on bail according to a letter filed on July 3rd.

TDev's defense makes incredibly smart arguments, stating that the US Government's prosecution is as "aggressive as it is expansive, akin to charging Apple for  cybercrimes commited with MacBooks. And like such a charge, it impermissibly uses criminal law to affect policy change. He is facing  charges he can, should, and will contest at trial."

Putting the charges in context, the defense states that "to stop Bitcoin wallet providers from providing privacy and security services, or to  force them to police their customers as banks must, the government has not sought to change the law, or even FinCEN’s guidance on it."

The letter states that the US Government "has prosecuted individuals operating a service they had every reason to  believe was legal, and stretched to decorate the charges with  decontextualized quotes that attempt to sketch out their agreement to  criminal transactions the government does not allege they knew about in  advance or explicitly agreed to".

Full article:
https://www.therage.co/william-hill-release-on-bail/


Dont underestimate the power of the empire to steal funds from anyone. This is why you need OUTSIDE MONEY...


The High Court today handed down a Worldwide freezing order against Craig Wright, in the sum of £1.548m, to support the recovery of my legal fees.

I'm just wondering how a high court in London can order the seizure of a persons world wide funds?

Surely this isn't possible?

What if he had funds in Switzerland or Iran or Russia?

Can somebody explain the nuance of this please?

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/kb/2024/1735


Just a reminder, patch your nodes:

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/regresshion-vulnerability-in-openssh/


Inflation is literally a policy of explicit, persistent impoverishment of the middle and lower classes to support the corporate and banking class.

Anyone who supports it should be treated delicately, like a brainwashed cult member, because that’s what they are.

The idea that literal forced poverty is good for the economy is equal parts retarded and insane.


Read to improve your writing. Write to improve your thinking.

Build to improve your understanding. Speak to improve your storytelling.

Give to improve your networking. Move to improve your healthy living.

Sleep to improve your mood and energy. Smile to improve your happiness. https://image.nostr.build/07cc8678d80f45fd1855f07a50e74a61d430fadcb600072cb87556812ab67e0e.jpg


One day, it would be nice to see a well-capitalized challenge to the Bank Secrecy Act on 4th amendment grounds.

The Founding Fathers would be rolling in their graves if they saw that people need a license to transmit money, or that the government thinks it has the right to surveil and censor everyone’s money and transactions.

The default is privacy. To infringe on someone’s privacy should require probable cause and come with checks and balances. Ubiquitous surveillance shouldn’t be the default, since it enables tyranny. https://image.nostr.build/59d050b8cf8f75a3d469e83812a0be6681bcad506e63bc0bf4417cfece14d0b8.jpg


So obvious that Trump Biden debate was a setup for replacement. Newsom the Baphomet option likely coming to rain down BS on us.


https://image.nostr.build/1d255aedc04338305a636eb6db67a8d16cbca75f9ec54adc280b84deec26a61e.jpg

 🚨 A recent report reveals that accounts at JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo were used by Mexican drug trafficking groups to launder $92 million.

Yet they mock #Bitcoin as used by criminals

Will the banks be prosecuted? Will the executives be jailed?


The public so need Mandibles to wake the fuck up


There should be no laws that limit personal freedoms barring those that infringe others' rights


🧐🤔🧐🤔
https://m.primal.net/JCDU.png


Today: One Federal Reserve, ~20,000 fiat banks worldwide.

Future: 10 million+ Bitcoin/Lightning banks, with no central bank and no bitcoin bailouts.


Hey nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg, why can’t I choose to connect another wallet? And what about these questions? Sure, I can give fantasy answers, nonetheless this isn’t how it should be.

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They rob you with taxes, they rob you with inflation, they don't give you health care, they don't give you security, the police serve the power not the citizen, the armies serve the interests of capital not national sovereignty. The current democracy is a fallacy, the only thing that exists is your self and your pocket, the only thing that matters is you and your family, defend them.

Behave like a man and exchange all your shitty money for Bitcoin, let's make Bitcoin worth a million dirty dollars. Stop with the GameStop bullshit and shitcoins, it's either you or them, it's your family or them.

Take away the power of funding, take away the power to create money, take away the power to create wars with fake money, take away the option to confiscate your wealth, be a man and behave like Satoshi.

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


Currency is about convenience.
Capital is about buildability.
Property is about sovereignty.

The euro and the US$ are practical, that’s all.

Study #Bitcoin


Have you ever purchased a cinema ticket with PayPal for a movie about the "REVOLUTION" happening in "IRAN"?

Well my friend did and the transaction took 3 days because PayPal decided to block the cinema's account in the mean time.

This is all normal now, right? Things have always been like this, right?

Wow. So... Catch the debate last night?


Lightning ⚡ is the common language that connects all the emerging subnetworks of the bitcoin economy. It's the best choice, it’s achieved critical mass, and it's here to stay. 🚀

Read more from  nostr:npub1ey6qdmvzcgcsr883m9nspzz0mm037l26xtardzcskfsvc6gc7jssm9szvp on  nostr:npub1t8a7uumfmam38kal4xaakzyjccht4y5jxfs4cmlj0p768pxtwu8skh56yu

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/lightning-is-the-common-language-of-the-bitcoin-economy-


Exciting times. Great to have these possibilities. Thanks doe all your work and insights.


People are a bit confused about mica stablecoin regulation. While I think whole MiCA should be rejected as a whole, we have options.

The way I understand it is that Brussels does not like competition in money printing, so they disallowed stablecoins that are not EUR based and EUR based have to be printed in concert with Brussels-Frankfurt. But we are already printing both dollars and euros in the cyphersphere.

What this could mean in practice is ban on offering stablecoins on exchanges for European union customers and ban for businesses accepting these stablecoins.

Here comes a solution. People often confuse payment network and what is sent through the payment network. You can send USD or eur through visa payment network. You can send USDT through Ethereum, Liquid, ... The confusion is with Bitcoin, there is both Bitcoin payment network and Bitcoin as a unit.

I've long said that the best stablecoin is a short position on bitcoin coupled with the bitcoin. For an interesting trust minimized implementation, see DLC channels in @get10101.

So how does this relate to stablecoins? You can have a stabilized position denominated in USD, but still pay with lightning. Merchant does not have to accept stablecoin, if you want to spend stable value. This is between you and your wallet. You can send$100 over lightning - you go long (exiting the short position) and sent SATs worth $100. If the merchant wants to keep it in dollars, they can open a short, but that's the merchant's problem.

Lightning is uniquely positioned to do payments in this way. Settlement is instant and even the position exit and enter can be atomic. No other crypto payment network can do this. I've written about this feature in Orange Flash of Freedom, or see nostr:npub1ey6qdmvzcgcsr883m9nspzz0mm037l26xtardzcskfsvc6gc7jssm9szvp's blog (links in reply).

Another advantage of this way of value stabilization is that there a natural interest rate (called a funding rate). You should be paid for shorting Bitcoin. Well, should is a strong word, but you usually are, because people will pay to go long on Bitcoin.

I think whatever camp you are in, if you like stablecoins here or there, if you want BTC only, or if you are into alts, lightning is what connects it all.

Now someone should go and tell Coinbase commerce, they are a bit slow to get it.


1 BTC = 1 BTC
except on exchanges https://image.nostr.build/b0dc176f0a437a7fae0ce7ac4aef710f058b9591f4d463f727a7a379a168ee9c.jpg


central banks: how do we stop bitcoin?

stop printing money, adopt complete neutrality, abandon surveillance apparatus, embrace modern technology, and unlock interest rates

central banks: uh, lol, no way


KYC is probably the number one cause of fraud that has ever existed. I don’t have the data to prove this, but it just makes sense.


Oct. 1963: JFK threatens to Dismantle the CIA. Nov. 1963: JFK Assasinated. May 1968: Robert Kennedy says he'll remove the CIA if elected. June 1968: Bobby assassinated. May. 1974: Nixon says he'll end the CIA. Aug. 1974: Nixon forced to resign. Who controls our Government?


Software Idea:

Nostr Client with Monero Tipping Integration


They also discuss Adam Fergusson's When Money Dies that recounts what happens when your national currency collapses. Look around you and you will recognise much of that this book describes. You can also listen to John Vallis discuss this in his book club.    https://rogerprice.me/october-already-change-in-the-air/#when-money-dies


As  nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx says:  "It's Mandibles and then Bitcoin Standard…"


Fabulous interview: Eliminating The Income Tax Would Supercharge The US | Peter St. Onge
 by  nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTtGsj3LM9w


Internet outages in Kenya after ongoings protests.
https://www.thousandeyes.com/outages/
https://image.nostr.build/bdab18396910788b0e76ee6786b4c3791886a83af0ddd54c097209b91b0a68c4.jpg


If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.

— Thomas Pynchon


Mortgage was paid off 10 years ago. But my town makes me pay this, or they will take my property and put me in a cage.

How is this not theft?

https://static.noauthority.social/media_attachments/files/112/679/014/640/613/177/original/91ef939ddd9fccd8.jpg


Grace says it like we all think: https://odysee.com/@reallygraceful:3/what-just-happened-to-the-federal:a


Julian Assange is free

Now let’s #FreeRoss

#SleepyDesigns https://i.nostr.build/XVLOZ.png


Good morning!

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


JULIAN ASSANGE IS FREE


He is talking about Ayn Rand’s “Anthem” - watch this and read the book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SePQKGRbu3Y


Please please please younger folk… Be as angry as me. I lived through the 80s BS and onwards….

There is no truth apart from separating money from State.

Everything is based around lies, Free yourself.

The advent of Bitcoin has changed the game and they are shitting themselves.

Take every opportunity to spread sats life ! It is the way 🤙


Almost done with Broken Money by nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a. What an incredible book. Start to finish the highest yield econ/finance book I’ve read.

Next one acquired ✅

Bullish. We’re gonna win!
https://m.primal.net/IuSH.jpg


Resistance Money is indeed awesome. Give it a read.

TL;DR it’s a very constructive book on bitcoin written by three philosophy professors and published by an academic press, which makes it quite citable in practice by various academics. nostr:note1vq490k5yrapft2gqw7prfp7k0c7dqaldcdqwxlmlvw6p9xnvv3gqc29r4n


What is coming is Covidscam x 2. It’s building and it’s F’ing coming. Just make sure your Worzel Gummidge head is ‘critical thinking’ 😉


They want conscription so badly. It further pushes the indoctrination of younger generations

FUCK YOU ! You F’ing cunts ! YOU ARE OBSOLETE ! Fuck off and die in a corner and let positive life flourish


#BOBFERENCE WEEKLY LINE-UP ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Welcome, nostr:nprofile1qqs0a2w62k9jgd90se78qk6lx9t5pwm8keuct995ezfqq4zv99zku4spz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhs0smyqt & nostr:nprofile1qqstk884y5zrtl68tnvtx2kty037u7a73lpc7623wp950xz389rkwtqpremhxue69uhkummnw3ez6ur4vgh8wetvd3hhyer9wghxuet59u8rt98x

https://image.nostr.build/05ac5eb9a6e291fca49643a03cd492bd07291909bb7ffc661dad56ea2b97d220.jpg

https://image.nostr.build/4c46c132a1bf444363d4162733194849e1861584f25ce710327e29f4cf457b0b.jpg


121 - Holiday reading - click to read and subscribe: #cashu #bitcoin #mutinywallet #fedimint https://rogerprice.me/121-holiday-reading/


How does nostr feel about this?

https://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2024/06/21/breaking-barcelona-will-remove-all-tourist-apartments-in-2028-in-huge-win-for-anti-tourism-activists/


#Amethyst v0.88.4: New Reactions Panel

This is a small release to gather user feedback on the new reaction panel. Are the icons too big? Too small? Just right?

Download via [Obtainium](http://amethyst.social) or [Zap.Store](https://zap.store/)


#cbdc sounds like a lot of fun!! 🤩
#centralbankdigitalcurrency
👁 📸 👮

Study #bitcoin
via #einundzwanzig 🧡 https://video.nostr.build/f029aa3b3395ccb85e53752c2eff0802fe5841461c89d645db8f6c405c18341f.mp4


If a Slave is forced by the threat of violence to give 100% of the fruits of their labor to their master, what do you call people who are forced (also by the threat of violence) to give 40-75% of the fruits of their labor to their master?

You cannot opt out and you cannot leave your Master’s land without literally buying your freedom upon in order to exit, only to find yourself in the domain of a new Master no matter where you go.

If you refuse to give your Master the fruits of your labor, you will be imprisoned. If you fight back against your Master’s henchmen when they come to arrest you, they will end your life.

When you die, your Master will take a piece of whatever you pass to your children.

Your Master uses the stolen fruits of your labor to forcibly keep you in perpetual servitude.

Are you free, Anon? Or are you a Slave? https://i.nostr.build/O4QDA.jpg


Threats to privacy

- Governments
- Analytics companies (like Chainalysis)
- Mass surveillance in general
- Transparent blockchains
- Email monitoring
- Chat monitoring
- Metadata collection
- Tracking cookies
- Social media
- Internet of Things (IoT)
- Mobile apps
- Data breaches
- Data mining
- Cloud storage
- Facial recognition
- Biometric data
- Public Wi-Fi
- Geolocation tracking
- Browser fingerprinting
- Smart assistants (e.g., Alexa, Google Home)
- Smart TVs and appliances
- Health and fitness trackers
- Cybersecurity vulnerabilities


Watch out for Snow Crash!


The Late Stage Fiat Melt Up leads to unsustainable spending and an unsustainable increase in despair. This is what happens when you continuously manipulate and corrupt the price of money.

To fix this grave injustice we must fix the money.

#bitcoin

https://www.tftc.io/late-stage-fiat-melt-up/


I think America needs what would be considered "illegal bitcoin businesses" (ones that refuse to comply with government) and people just home to enjoy time with family.

Fuck getting your kids to school on time.
Fuck showing up for work.
Fuck the mortgage payment.

As long as you are using their system, they have you.


Thanks - everyone needs to do what they can and contribute usefully


120 - Build parallel systems -  #bitcoin #grownostr - https://rogerprice.me/120-build-parallel-systems/


119 - June in the Mediterranean - #bitcoin #grownostr https://rogerprice.me/119-june-in-the-mediterranean/


118 - Holywood and Antwerp - https://rogerprice.me/118-holywood-and-antwerp/ #bitcoin #grownostr


It’s almost impossible to win a battle with people holding the higher ground.

And we hold it. A higher ground of love, hope, freedom and abundance.

Every day, more join us.

#Bitcoin
#Nostr


Every time you think that these huge centralized platforms have too much power, remember that almost none of them provie direct services anymore.
Facebook doesn't create its posts
Uber doesn't drive its customers around
Airbnb doesn't wash the linens in your rental
Youtube doesn't film their video library

All of these platforms only have the power of the content and engagement that WE give them. Without us, they are worthless.

Never forget that the simple act of leaving and taking our creations, media, engagement, and our value somewhere else, will turn them into nothing overnight.

This is why decentralization is the only path forward. There is no alternative.


I’m not going to call them “wars” anymore I’m going to call them attacks.

I’m not going to call them “countries” anymore I’m going to call them regimes.

I’m not going to call them “politicians” anymore I’m going to call them criminals.

I’m not going to call it “taxes” anymore but plunder.

I’m not going to say “government” anymore I’m going to say criminal syndicate.

I’m done with their euphemisms.


What cashless really means:
https://m.primal.net/IoxK.png


I am looking at this: https://docs.soapbox.pub/ditto/install


117 - Our anniversary - click to read and subscribe #grownostr - https://rogerprice.me/117-our-anniversary/


116 - Around the island - click to read and subscribe #grownostr https://rogerprice.me/116-around-the-island/


115 - Early May, family visit - click to read an subscribe #grownostr https://rogerprice.me/115-early-may-family-visit/


Hi - there.  Nice work and happy to tip you thru the paywall.  It would be nice to be able to add a comment at that time - any way to do that?   You can check my blog out at rogerprice.me


Fun fact.

The Greek one euro coin of today is adorned by the same motif as the silver tetradrachm of Athens from the period 425-400 BCE. https://image.nostr.build/d2eb4d4417d575b6e20950d5872b453dd67283fed05b620ec684d80a8bd51ed2.jpg


Nostr is decentralized and censorship resistant, but the majority of the world doesn't care about these features until they need it.

Nostr has a value for value economy, but the majority of the world doesn't understand the concept or use bitcoin yet.

Nostr has a portable digital social identity, allowing you to be in control of your digital social identity for the very first time, allowing you to take your entire social graph with you, every time you use a different application from Nostr's ecosystem.

In general, at BTC Prague, while explaining Nostr to people, the digital social identity route was what clicked with the most people. From there, it's not a long stretch to understand building a reputation and web of trust either. These are all powerful points that people understand and use in their everyday lives.


tailscale is GREAT.  If you want to host it yourself, get headscale!


For hosting ssdnodes is worth considering.  I have been using them for a year to host other things: https://www.ssdnodes.com/manage/aff.php?aff=1946&register=true


Yes - the umbrel thing only seems to sync when you enter npub and when you restart it.  i am looking to run my own real server.  This one might fit the bill: https://docs.soapbox.pub/ditto/install


What relay are you running?


Welcome! 🫂

https://i.nostr.build/J335.jpg
#introduction #introductions #growNostr


Total unrealized losses of $516.5 billion were $38.9 billion higher than the previous quarter, per the FDIC.

Higher unrealized losses on residential mortgage-backed securities drove the increase, as mortgage rates increased in the first quarter. https://image.nostr.build/5bd7f6f7093e9b94b0741c7a22b13574b658668755c4bd7543eeed91e85dd97f.png


We are thrilled to finally announce the official first release of Ditto: self-hosted Nostr community servers. It has a built-in Nostr relay, a web UI, and implements Mastodon's REST API.

https://soapbox.pub/blog/announcing-ditto/


We are pleased to announce that we secured first place in the Start-Up Pitch Contest at BTC Prague 2024.

We thank the audience and the jury, Allen Farrington from Axiom, Oleg Mikhalsky from Fulgur Ventures, Eric Yakes from Epoch, Kelly Brewster from Wolf and Martin Kuchař with the BTC Prague team for the excellent organization!

opago-pay.com

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


That's mandibles!


Chemtrails and GeoEngineering - seems to confirm what we always knew https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5Hy1hz7hlU


GM
Use #nostr extention instead of pasting your private keys in each client.
For storing your keys use Bitwarden, not the icloud notes 👊


#Bitcoin is reality.

Fiat is an illusion.

nostr:npub10qrssqjsydd38j8mv7h27dq0ynpns3djgu88mhr7cr2qcqrgyezspkxqj8 https://i.nostr.build/zd3m3.jpg


The WHO's new “pandemic” definition is a massive power grab. It's too vague, undermines national sovereignty, and risks overreaction for minor outbreaks. Centralizing control like this threatens our freedoms and autonomy.
 https://image.nostr.build/82def42fe90e81d59f0f20fc4e653c44cede2365e5b94e8b8111f62b30f32b49.jpg

https://www.who.int/news/item/01-06-2024-world-health-assembly-agreement-reached-on-wide-ranging--decisive-package-of-amendments-to-improve-the-international-health-regulations--and-sets-date-for-finalizing-negotiations-on-a-proposed-pandemic-agreement


Running my own SimpleXChat server.

This tutorial helped me:

https://simplex.chat/docs/server.html


BoardwalkCash.com to  nostr:npub1mutnyacc9uc4t5mmxvpprwsauj5p2qxq95v4a9j0jxl8wnkfvuyque23vg

eCash on Cashu ➡ eCash on Fedimint

Connected through #Bitcoin Lightning ⚡https://m.primal.net/IfIV.mov


Reminder that your nostr.build account includes AI Studio, a text-to-image generator with multiple models including Stable Diffusion 🤙

https://decrypt.co/233512/how-to-create-photorealistic-ai-pictures-with-stable-diffusion


My Bitcoin and Nostr article from last year still reflects my views. Open money and open information.

Definitely worth a read if you haven’t done so. I re-read it today on a flight from the Oslo Freedom Forum, where these concepts were a big theme. It organized a lot of things I’ve learned from many people.

Open interoperable ecosystems, choice of algorithms, permissionless foundations for developers, etc.

If I were to write it today, I would emphasize Nostr as a social graph and discovery mechanism for Bitcoin/ecash wallets. That’s really come a long way over the past year.

https://www.lynalden.com/open-networks/


Bitcoin fixes Ecash

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Do not speak negatively about yourself, even as a joke. Your body does not know the difference.

Words are energy and they cast spells, that is why it is called spelling.

Change the way you speak about yourself, and you can change your life. https://image.nostr.build/d0428cb7d2de5e95ea5e200c8f80cdf3e183fec9437ca937d59cac7b3809bc7e.jpg


Silent Payments are clever: you create a shared secret (ecdh) from a utxo and a public silent payment address. Then you simply add (tweak) this shared secret into this silent address.

The receiver then scans the entire utxo set, looking for any payments to this silent payment address tweaked with the shared secret from all taproot/pubkey inputs.

For onchain zaps, you can skip the scanning process and just send a giftwrap with the txid and the receiver can verify that you sent it and control the utxo just by knowledge of this shared secret.

To generate the shared secret from the sender side, you need the inputs private key multiplied by the silent address pubkey.

On the receiver side, you multiply the silent address secret key by the input’s pubkey.

This gives you the same shared secret which you can use on both sender and receiver side to validate the onchain zap.

The nice thing about leveraging silent payments is that the receiver doesn’t have to use nostr, they could just be using a silent payments wallet to receive the zap.

On the nostr side, all you would need is a silent payment address in your profile. Heck you could even use the users pubkey itself as a key as a less secure silent address fallback if they don’t have one in their profile.


Good morning, I made a new nostr client: keypub.coracle.social

The goal of keypub is to help surface posts by infrequent posters. It takes the approach of summarizing the content before displaying it to you so that you can more easily get an idea of what you'd like to look at, without having to scroll to the bottom of your feed.

https://v.nostr.build/nWn9n.mp4

This was inspired by Spring '83, which is described here:
https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/specifying-spring-83/

Expect more experimentation in this vein!


This is great nostr:note1vqjygwnqmktaavphds5vnz93hqv2mj9s5p0fes393c98756p2r0qjma0ma


GM. This is what market manipulation looks like.

https://i.nostr.build/nWAPa.png

Bitcoin will trade higher in the next few days.


Bitcoin-only meetups at BOB Space every Wednesday since Block Height 695921

Stay tuned 📶 While Vibing at 21 megahertz

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After a whirlwind month of May, where we wrapped up the second batch of the Residency Program and its corresponding trips, we're shifting gears for June, honing in on our weekly meetups.

Stay sharp – 2024 is far from done


This has been a long time coming! Nip47 is also good for this

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Do not consent


Talking  at MoneroKon in 25 min!  Watch the livestream here: https://youtube.monerokon.org/


“Career politician” is another way of saying “parasitic dingleberry who has never created value.”


Being nostr only  blocks out all the noise of the world and makes you focus on what really matters


future of education

https://m.primal.net/IZka.mov


What if Square merchants could receive BTC via Lightning with their WoS PoS, and it instantly appeared as a Square payment? It would greatly simplify bookkeeping & sales tax tracking.

We've got it working! 🥳

Will be looking for some brave Square merchant testers soon...🚀

https://video.nostr.build/98f9b337dc1a82bafa400118182fe608fea4acda88008a5b8a6c8a27d6bedd23.mp4


4 months of reflection and he seems to have got it. Let’s see if it sticks!


Nothing to see here. Just a spontaneous congregation of three independent Cashu wallets sending around Ecash in perfect harmony.

Protocols >>>>>>>> Apps

https://image.nostr.build/bccdb496eac4c84464b72d904da5dd3cf654bc7655ceb4d3da712ccb4962bff1.jpg


Nigeria’s CBDC 🇳🇬

How much can I withdraw? Depends on how much you KYC, bro
https://m.primal.net/IZXW.jpg


Normies learning shit we knew 4 years ago and have long since internalized.

Here’s some more

1. Unless you were super fat or immuncompromised it was never deadly
2. The vaccines never worked
3. Fauci both caused and profited from the virus
4. Masks never worked
5. Masking children was evil and stupid
6. It came from a lab
7. It was released from that lab on purpose by Chinese actors
8. Lockdowns did nothing
9. Vaccine passports were always a backdoor social credit score system also evil https://image.nostr.build/d477a076a8a63328b8d8d0ecced9abad043c887c0a8194f3fd40d58b4dca641f.jpg


working to get these amazing human rights activists onto nostr https://m.primal.net/IZkb.jpg


We are building a future where people will have the CHOICE to select from an open marketplace of feeds.

#FreeWill on #Nostr
https://m.primal.net/IYnQ.mov


nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a killing it in her opening keynote at the Oslo Freedom Forum. https://image.nostr.build/d84e4c27ef4211ea591a504a18acba56c78a2f7806dc5fe3dbdc1689a6da165c.jpg


ATTN: Europeans.

I guess it's no different than the past 12 years or so, it's just now they are telling you about it lol https://image.nostr.build/130175e568ddff42183d62f9fabed995168c542134cedeee0f252a8bf81b8480.jpg


DEVS DO NOT DICTATE BITCOIN PROTOCOL CONSENSUS.

USERS ULTIMATELY CHOOSE WHETHER THEY UPDATE THEIR NODES.

THE PROTOCOL IS INCREDIBLY RESISTANT TO CHANGE BY DESIGN.

EMBRACE IT. GOOD MORNING.


Nostr clients, please for the love of god work on your notifications and DM's. Amethyst is the only thing that's functional to me. So much so that I really question how some people use some of these other nostr clients at all. It's so bad, I may not come back to ever look at nostr again besides to post a random thought or crosspost and close app.

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Good morning!

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


Taps join Zaps ✨

Instant Tap eCash now live at BoardwalkCash.com

Set your Taps value in Settings. Tap 💵 to instantly generate shareable stablecash.

https://m.primal.net/IQrB.mov


Denationalisation of Money:
The Argument Refined

Friedrich A. Hayek

Download complete book (PDF, 10MB)
https://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/docs/denationalisation.pdf https://image.nostr.build/390a694d7f3d238863702d99de4cfbc466d81d68174881526ee9892b3cc40854.jpg


gm, fuck ECB, kindly 🦆


We are stoked to finally release Chain Swaps today🙌

Chain Swaps let you swap directly between Liquid and the Bitcoin mainchain and lay the foundation for more chain-to-chain pairs in future.

Learn all about it in our blog post 👇
https://blog.boltz.exchange/p/dispatching-chain-swaps


Content creators work hard to earn zaps. How should perfect receive into Ecash wallet work?

New #Minibits architecture for receiving zaps and all #lightning payments to minibits.cash addresses.

Realtime encrypted notifications, claim ⚡sats on wallet start 🚀

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


Wow. This is a super great explainer and introduction. Plus a call to action


Why would anyone shutdown farms ?! Food is a basic necessity, unless of course they have plans for less of us 🤷♂ nostr:note1paqx858gm5s3ay6e4chyv9gh5rdtwmk54dej7u6lzfcchkr6a3qsyvuf78


One enhancement that would really make nostr stand out is being able to see where a reaction came from (what kind of event).

Right now, if you write an article and someone zaps it, all you will see is that you got zapped. It won't say "Karnage zapped your article".

If you stream and you have a goal set up and someone zaps that goal, you'll just see a zap. You won't even see an event or be able to track back to what was zapped. But, it could say "NoGood zapped your goal" for example.

I don't know how challenging it would be to make this happen, but I think people would be much more likely to see connect the dots when they see they are getting value / comments / shares of the "other stuff" in their notifications.

#nostrdesign


#BOBFERENCE WEEKLY LINE-UP ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Welcome, nostr:npub19x0h8jm3mnwzhv4tpq62zta05er0qlyge73m0pwsp7h666khkd9qev2ree & nostr:npub1ltwg5grjyz2xallh6qyxl9mxcsnucfzej04xe75xmn25had5z65qvfsala
 https://image.nostr.build/d8ca888c6b58a5a3b8a800495fd2b82f2c69feb1988236b3af90f95c95be7133.jpg
 https://image.nostr.build/9b694db3a49cc5a3d15d9deeec5b47c3b95ccc5905a3d0d52d51b890f5f83dcb.jpg


Financial consolidation is a fiat psyop.

Ecash can return banking back to its smallest common denominator.

Payments and the lower functions of finance will be completely commoditized. Interoperability and the absence of friction or barriers to entry will drive the market towards efficiency.

Where protocols attempt to eliminate trust, markets seek to align it.


Sync thing is brilliant. Works with Linux, Mac and phones either graphene and calyx


You can disagree with my choices, but don't let that be the reason you stay trapped.

Twitter  -> Nostr
Discord  -> Matrix
Telegram -> Session
WhatsApp -> Signal/SimpleX
Gmail -> Self-host
Reddit -> RebelNet.me
Google docs -> Cryptpad
Dropbox -> NextCloud
SMS -> VoIP (if you have to)
Robinhood -> Hugo's Way
Netflix -> LibreY Torrents
DocuSign -> Detached PGP on Arweave
Github -> protocol.land
WordPress -> Hugo
Coinbase -> Basic Swap DEX
SIM cards -> GLinet Travel routers
LinkedIn -> Host a website with your stuff dude

What would you add?


This is why highlighting differences between projects is important. There are legitimate real world considerations and implications that are needed and unfortunately there's a lot of confusion around it.

Shit has, and will continue to, hit the fans and it's best to educate as much as possible. This includes individuals and companies considering the two different ecash implementations and users trusting the mints from different projects. It's facts, not FUD or drama.

Here's one article about the differences:

https://blog.bitfinex.com/education/fedi-fedimint-decentralised-chaumian-e-cash-on-bitcoin/

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Regular reminder that ecash is not going to fix all of our problems. Part of the reason I'm working on Cashu is because I think every custodian in this world should be an Ecash mint. And every credit card on this planet should be replaced by an ecash wallet. That's already enough to fix.


Artur Brugeman on nsec.app, blossom, ecash, and more with DK

https://zap.stream/naddr1qqjrqwfnx5mrzc3s95mkxetp956rgvek95unqeph94skvve4xuenjdmzvcukxqg4waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t09upzpn6956apxcad0mfp8grcuugdysg44eepex68h50t73zcathmfs49qvzqqqrkvun6sl2c


Unsolicited advice;
In #Nostr land there is no #Algo your community is comprised of the hashtags and the people you follow. Be judicious in this as you curate and build your community and feed.

#RandomThoughts


The Mutiny team has recently created what I think is the most beautiful rust only application that exists. In a few days last week...

I've been on vacay this week so it's been killing me not working on it. But next week?

Next week is gonna be 🔥


#Apple blocked #Damus user to #zap oone year ago.. since then the "The fight You" fase is ongoing on almost any lighting service and liquidity provider.. FUCK THEM!
https://i.nostr.build/nb10947.gif
OPT OUT, BUILD IN A DIFFERENT WAY, FUCK THE DYSTOPIAN COMPANY.. WE SAID NOT TO TWITTER, FACEBOOK, TIKTOK AND ALL THOSE FIAT COMPANIES.. WHY YOU KEEP TRYING TO CHANGE THEM OR ADAPT TO THEIR DECISION.. GET UNCOMFORTABLE, SAY THEM TO GO FUCK THEMSELVES!

WE NEED A FOSS BITCOIN/NOSTR PHONE/COMPUTER/CHIPS TECHNOLOGY.

Sorry for my rant, but not sorry.. 🫂💜🍀

#growNostr #BoycottApple
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Fed up with cookie-cutter conferences where talks are less engaging and creative than Dan Held? We feel you

We suffer cognitive dissonance when preaching low-time preference and then seeing the urge to fill up Wembley Stadiums

But that doesn't need to go that way

#BOBFERENCE

 https://image.nostr.build/d3d6d3ff71d74bc860a08df587f84d16982f8489e8130fb1ad43061c7cbf95ee.jpg


I think it's starting to happen

one thing I would like to see is niche sites (e.g. forks of wikifreedia's code) that focus on a topic

the first one I thought of was medicine, which is a highly censored topic

all it would need is a:
* domain name
* UI that matches the topic
* filtering all content via the niche site's choosen category

launching a "nostrmd.com" is basically a weekend project


So got my first “strike” on #TikTok for my initial intro to #nostr vid that popped off. Apparently it was taken down as “fraud / scam” 🤣 what does that even mean, bros?! Anyway here’s what it looks like if you wanna see. I appealed it already. This is why we need to #grownostr - enough with the shenanigans. #socialmedia
https://m.primal.net/IKoz.png


It's very early days for eCash on top of bitcoin, but it is showing a lot of promise. The beauty of bitcoin is that it is opt-in. If you don't want to use eCash you don't have to. I think it is misguided to write eCash off while it's still in the cradle.

https://www.tftc.io/bitcoin-fixes-ecash/


Read this article anon.

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


BITCOIN POLICY INSTITUTE IS OPERATING THE OPEN SOURCE DEV LEGAL DEFENSE FUND. THEY ARE LEGIT AND DOING GREAT WORK.

YOU CAN DONATE ANON USING BITCOIN IF YOU DO NOT WANT A TAX DEDUCTION: https://p2prights.org

https://cdn.satellite.earth/998d1728f9c9547c8b75395030383462f6be5b773ec42dae90b362ee127bb4b4.mp4


A legal defense fund for non-custodial tools. Very cool:
https://p2prights.org/


Since returning from Bitcoin++ in Austin, I've been trying to alternate between working on Lightning one week, and Bitcoin hacking on the other.

Mainly, I've been finishing my Script interpreter cpp modification so I can make more comprehensive benchmarks. I've also given in and ordered a raspberry pi 3, 4 and 5 to benchmark.

I hope to answer the key questions on what a realistic budget for large stack objects should be. In particular, there are four reasonable limits on their size (I'm not considering changing the 1000 stack element limit, since that seems roomy!)

1. 520 bytes. We are here now, but as Script gets better that will be very limiting.
2. 520,000 bytes: simply limit the total stack size, not individual entries.
3. 4,000,000 bytes. This allows you to put the largest possible transaction on the stack. But you need a total limit of at least twice this, so you can make a copy: you can't do much in script without doing this!
4. 400,000 bytes. If number 3 is too much of a reach, this means you can put any standard tx on the stack. Again, you want a total limit of at least twice this.

My laptop, with something stupid like 26MB of level 3 cache, and my build machine with 32MB, can handle this fine. But what about the Pi?

I'll find out next week...


Hear me out. It's impossible to build anonymous systems at scale today. Anonymous systems require fees or rate limiting.

You have two options: either give up your privacy and pay for a service via credit card – or give up your privacy and create an account to rate limit you.

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


 nostr:npub1yevrvtp3xl42sq06usztudhleq8pdfsugw5frgaqg6lvfdewfx9q6zqrkl of PayJoin Dev Kit (sponsored by Spiral and Opensats) joins me to discuss how Bitcoin privacy could be improved with more PayJoin adoption. What’s more, it might also benefit users in consolidating their wallets or potentially even fee savings. We discuss how this could be integrated into more bitcoin wallets.

https://stephanlivera.com/episode/576/


When me and nostr:npub15xkpvjux5fw2q0kgl8m9c6pv0wu5urgctq9tthftmu559lf4wxqqknkrnh wrote a series of articles on How [Slovakia/European union] is preparing to become digital dictatorship of Chinese type, we were called by the believers in the state many things, including that we catastrophize the topic and it's not that bad.

Actually, it is much worse than we expected.

- almost complete removal of privacy in financial communication (yes, it's a type of communication)
- real focused attempts to ban end to end encryption in EU (see the quoted article)
- state controlled censorship that had exactly opposite effects - increase of reach of censored individuals, obscure websites became active telegram channels with thousands of people and further polarization that has potential to kill western liberal democracies at best, start wars in the worst case.

All of course because we think of children and of course some little rent seeking with friends from surveillance corporations.

This is the paradise, where governments are good, politicians not corrupt and the last thing to solve it some pedophiles who would be stupid enough to share illegal materials and groom kids through surveilled channels. You know, like the terrorist who put "for remotely activated explosive device, thank you" into bank transfer reference.

I don't think anyone believes that European union is anything but a bad joke. But on this one, I know I'm wrong.

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


‘The internet is as bad as it is partially because payments are so bad. Payments forced us to think in accounts and accounts forced us to be traceable.’
nostr:note144rz754yyka3uwpqp8fp7apxty4tpkluedljhyf2ep3ugr9aquksz6sqxn


👀
https://video.nostr.build/e01d0ce0e250a4bf751567558069a50c4739192bc6a1e900e8efd44c3e47e6ed.mp4


Full circle https://image.nostr.build/bd91fe911f595eaf688f3a437084852c8020db2d9213bf549168e90fece0f318.jpg


Anyone else locked and loaded with nostr:npub1mutnyacc9uc4t5mmxvpprwsauj5p2qxq95v4a9j0jxl8wnkfvuyque23vg??

Love the social “Venmo” like feel to pay friends easily with a push.

Sent in funds via the Bitcoin network and via a federation I joined. Then swapped some e-sats to Lightning and have inbound liquidity now.

Huge ups to nostr:npub1u8lnhlw5usp3t9vmpz60ejpyt649z33hu82wc2hpv6m5xdqmuxhs46turz nostr:npub1p4kg8zxukpym3h20erfa3samj00rm2gt4q5wfuyu3tg0x3jg3gesvncxf8 nostr:npub1t0nyg64g5vwprva52wlcmt7fkdr07v5dr7s35raq9g0xgc0k4xcsedjgqv for building the killer wallet 🔥🤙🏽⚡

LFG who wants some Zaps??
https://m.primal.net/IHUt.png


GM Nostr. 🌞

If you take the time to really think from first principles, you can only come to one conclusion.

All forms of government (and rule over others) are deeply and irreversibly flawed and the only rational thing to do is strive to minimize them as much as possible.


nice https://i.nostr.build/jY3AM.jpg


It's been about a month since we launched Lightning Addresses and we're excited to see so many people using it already!

We took some time to explain our unique privacy-preserving fedimint-based approach with our new Blinded Authentication system.

https://blog.mutinywallet.com/blinded-authentication/


Wow. This is big. Well done!


Hey, remember that time when the Nordstream pipeline was sabotaged, and then after a while most investigations quietly concluded without reporting on who did it?

Weird.

Anyway, anything good on tv lately? I hear Shogun is good. https://image.nostr.build/e6a6a7e70e313925058fdb534ff7ae8bd45ce05ca5943e067c61a159a1302559.jpg


"We write to express our grave concerns regarding the U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ) recent policy arguments that dramatically expand the scope of the Federal prohibition on operating an unlicensed money transmitting business."

- SENATORS LUMMIS AND WYDEN LETTER TO US DOJ

https://cdn.satellite.earth/f5f1f53a62cd1003adf36c9c9877dc6f7f3740e74471fc60fa82617ed01ecfb4.jpg

https://cdn.satellite.earth/4567da439759290cefe07aa17fd3150d3af07b0506d6bccb32191f1749b7e0bd.jpg

https://cdn.satellite.earth/44bd977c5a78b7e6c1971af606d227ee0c69f2725ef9f5ea2669e4fd8e89ac86.jpg


When the income tax amendment was passed a max of 2% was required. There was nearly an armed uprising. Its now over 50% in some states. Nothing but meek complaints. What happened to America?


Awake already? https://image.nostr.build/1bf851cba8d2290c46c4082e4d18ee20f091b26a890caaedb75f68adf5fd294a.jpg


⏰ Kindly reminding you of the 3 events we have this week:

🥜 Bangkok 15th of May: Introduction to Floresta with Davidson Souza

🥜 Bangkok 16th of May: Bitcoin Start-ups with Obi Nwosu

RSVP: www.meetup.com/bob-space-community-events/events/300708595/

🥜 Chiang Mai 17th of May: Bitdevs with Calvin, Davidson and Evan at the new nostr:npub16yfsmpekrwswetq8c8lzqnp3m5c0wg3mdj5ftxwzus2vz6an62sszrrzy8   (RSVP MANDATORY)

👇🏻

RSVP and more information: www.meetup.com/bob-space-community-events/events/300833441/


One of the most expensive purchases you ever make in your life is not your home but your government.

A middle-class professional pays over the course of his/her life ~$1 million in taxes.

Meaning, you will spend +20 years in obligation service to the state. Pre-inflation!


Bitcoin is, quite literally, the biggest threat to the existence of central planners because it enables individuals to opt-out of a system dependent on  trusting central planners.

The fact that they're deriding bitcoin is a good sign.

They're scared.

https://www.tftc.io/harari-bitcoin/


Two things that we're building:

- There are going to be Cashu mints that will only be reachable via Nostr. They won't have IP addresses but npubs.
- There are going to be Cashu wallets that synchronize state across devices via nostr. No cloud.

Not everyone will like this but it doesn't matter because it can't be stopped.


#Cashu is amazing! I made this short explainer video about it, feel free to share 😉 : https://m.primal.net/HsMt.mp4


✨ Announcing the release of Cashu.me – a Cashu wallet for the web! ✨

Cashu.me is a Chaumian Ecash wallet for Bitcoin built as a progressive web app (PWA). Today, we're excited to announce its first release and would like to thank all developers and users who have helped to build and improve this wallet. Cashu.me is free and open-source software released under the MIT license.

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

To get started, open Cashu.me in your browser and install it to add it to your home screen. We recommend to use your device's native browser for the best experience. Beware that Ecash is a bearer asset which means that if you delete your browser data or lose access to your device without a proper backup (see below), you will lose your funds. Use this wallet only for small spending amounts.

New Features

Countless new features for this release give you the best possible Ecash experience. We're bringing this ancient crypto technology back into the 21st century and present you a modern interpretation of the original cypherpunk vision - built on Bitcoin.

At a glance

- Modern UI
- Support for Bitcoin and USD
- Seed phrase backups
- Animated QR codes
- Intelligent coin selection
- Send Ecash offline
- Receive Ecash offline
- Lock Ecash with P2PK
- Discover mints via Nostr
- Swap Ecash between mints
- Remote control with NWC

https://m.primal.net/IFMh.jpg
https://m.primal.net/IFMi.jpg
https://m.primal.net/IFMj.jpg

Read the full release notes here: https://gist.github.com/callebtc/67da3f586ef273df80bf679e464bc3f3

You can host the wallet on your own server. Find the images on Dockerhub or build it yourself with the GitHub repository
https://github.com/cashubtc/cashu.me


115 - Early May, family visit https://rogerprice.me/115-early-may-family-visit/


Because some translations are useful - I just do not need/want everything translated by default.  Only when needed and requested.


I'm also camp 3 - don't automatically translate but offer the option.  Many of us can read multiple languages and do not need everything in English


This letter is really, really good. nostr:note1uczcrc93jtfmg7t2jvzzyzruc6suvse9ne0qfylk5dr2z3d5j88slwwzku


The US bailing out Japan in an attempt to prevent them from dumping their US treasuries is a signal that you should be paying attention to.

https://www.tftc.io/us-bails-out-japan/


I wanted to make a shareable overview video that people can point their family and friends to about money, banking, and bitcoin.

“Read this 500 page book” doesn’t always go over well, but “watch this half hour video” is more approachable.

So, hopefully it’s helpful:

https://youtu.be/jk_HWmmwiAs?si=-8Okyee-gqeaPdvm


GM Nostr ☕

Ive no idea who created this, but it needs sharing far and wide.

Please do so and have a great day 🧡⚡

https://freesamourai.com/


Devs, do not sleep on Nostr Wallet Connect. Nostr allows you to link any app with any other app in this world. No IP addresses, no ports, no NAT, no firewalls, no bullshit.

Soon coming to a Cashu wallet near you.
 https://video.nostr.build/f3331c19afdf233db91937161e9f8369e374662f409a75194cfb49b48ebb3e61.mp4


Shout out to everyone putting our #bitcoin stickers in public over the past few days!

I just zapped you all 272,454 sats for spreading the word. The best spots got 10k to 21k sats!  https://image.nostr.build/3f5284e558ddc60a9d2260dcd0f89d99e2f11d296472756c66fbfec533ec9910.jpg


Carl Sagan’s Scary Prediction from 1995 is spot on

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


coinjoins are now called collaborative transactions. a totally different and legal thing.


Given recent news, it is time to re-read the last chapter of Cryptocurrencies: Hack your way to a better life. English version online here:

https://juraj.bednar.io/en/blog-en/2022/11/20/lunarpunk-the-future-of-cryptocurrencies-in-regulatory-hell/

Slovak and Spanish versions available in the book.


BTC would have been a better buy!


Are we going to lose the plot?  Heads up folks in the EU

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

https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/1785998817264906745


Corporations have limited Liability, But full Privileges. Meaning: If you steal a DVD from a Company, You can be prosected, And imprisoned. If a Hollywoid Studio steals from you, The company may be fined, But the peope behind the Company, Generally, Cannot be touched. Fair?


Required watching - great explainer by  nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk_HWmmwiAs


Violence will not fix our broken system. Violence begets violence. Civil disobedience is the only way. Refuse to obey unjust, corrupt laws. Refuse to continue taking orders. Refuse to stand when told to. Refuse to move when ordered. Refuse to continue believing the lies.


@kcalvinalvinn & @Erik17192799 are focused on drafting BIPs for Utreexo during their time in Bangkok 🇹🇭

But what's Utreexo? 👇

https://youtu.be/IcHW6RsZR7o?si=mYdKHbUw0g63KqN9


🌸 blossom

GM
https://m.primal.net/IApC.png


Total fraud penalties for banks since 2000: $387,559,149,282

But #Bitcoin  is for criminals, right? https://image.nostr.build/d64271e6dc67134a5ab4328b0702275491c1cba1d27155db9362219121f536a8.jpg


#bitcoin

There are  NO SELF HOSTED WALLETS!
Don't get confused

THERE IS ONLY PROPERTY PROTECTED BY 12 OR 24 WORDS

THAT'S ALL

PROPERTY IS A BASIC HUMAN RIGHT

Laws are made by gvnmts - gvnmts can be criminal and then the laws are criminal.


Daily reminder : THERE IS NO CLIMATE CRISIS

There is a ‘Great Reset’ and Climate is one of their weapons.


GM☀☕

Governments speaking out against non-KYC money and making AN arrest is a complete bluff.

If .5% of Americans are using censorship-resistant and permission-less money that can’t be stopped, then that’s ≈1.65 million people they would need to stifle.

The federal government is fully incapable of enforcement on even a fraction of that number of individuals. The Federal Bureau of prisons is already at capacity with more than 100,000 murderers, gang members, robbers and rapists. There is absolutely no room for a new glut of non-violent prisoners and they will never take it there.

They are trying to scare people into compliance because they know they cannot enforce it. I absolutely don’t give a fuck what these agencies say. I’m not changing a thing about what I do. Fuck them and fuck every single one of their decrees.

I grew up within and participating in the illegal #cannabis movement. A movement where hundreds of thousands of liberty-minded individuals decided to disregard decrees (at our own peril) and simply overwhelm the establishment and their unjust decrees. It worked. I will do the exact same thing with #Bitcoin and you should too.

If you’re scared, stop it. If you’re thinking of changing your behavior, don’t. Just move smart and continue to do what you know is right. Moral law > everything else.


Looks like  nostr:npub148qm45zettnf6ekgkatnyfadunxwjpu8sy88mjdsgwc5f202d93qmejra7 is pulling out of the US. If you're sick of jumping through hoops due to the whims of the tyrants in your government, check this one out.

Here's how to avoid app stores entirely and use the  nostr:npub1mutnyacc9uc4t5mmxvpprwsauj5p2qxq95v4a9j0jxl8wnkfvuyque23vg PWA in 5 minutes flat, including migrating your funds. LFG.

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


If you held out against the nastiness during the covid period and refused to take the drugs, even at risk of detrimental to your career and wellbeing, there's a good chance you'll get through the latest assaults on your freedom.

If you caved in before...this will be your chance to stand firm.

They're going to ramp up the attacks.


The solution is not and will never be more compliance. Fuck this.

nostr:nevent1qqs9648s7lcf4sz2kjexapgaxz6urgueax7c3tl03jjegjhag99y2cqpzfmhxue69uhk7enxvd5xz6tw9ec82cszyq40q8sdd0gmn7aeu02rz47kgkg0kf7ul09tu2rcffvr9ctma7u8kqcyqqqqqqg5vzy7p


I remember Jack started the Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund #[0] . According to the current trend of government iron curtain. To deal with some extreme situations. Whether the Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund can protect nostr developers, or create a new Nostr Legal Defense Fund for Nostr developers. #[1]  what do you think?

https://bitcoindefense.org/


Bitcoin war just started …


RIP Phoenix wallet.

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I encourage you all to fight.

Have they been able to close eMule or Bitorrent? No because they are p2p protocols. In the same way, neither could they close bitcoin or lightning because they are p2p protocols.

They will go after you if they know who you are, obviously if you are a registered company they have it easy.

They want to control bitcoin through KYC, they also want to control the on and off ramps.

Nobody ever said this was easy, ETFs were the first trap, it's all part of the plan.

What is left for you to do? fight and create an alternative economy to the FIAT currency because bitcoin will continue to increase in value by the simple fact that the Fiat system will try to take over as many Bitcoins as possible through the ETFs, through the banks themselves that will end up buying Bitcoin directly or indirectly and even through the central banks.

Don't look at the finger, look at the moon, don't fall into the trap of fear, try to live outside the state, there is no other friend.

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Christine Lagarde on #Bitcoin : “If there is an escape, that escape will be used.” https://image.nostr.build/77a7c23eb7a584576f3289430bfe62d243b95e25048e8f01c783fa226247c509.jpg


COPA coming to Samourai’s defence is what I expect to see announced next. This is a historic case that will determine the future of Bitcoin.

The high stakes Samourai case is no different to Bernstein v. United States, and requires a final, definitive answer to the fundamental (already answered) question, “What is the true nature of all cryptographic operations taking place in computers?”.

And Bitcoin is simply math being performed in computers, and it is literally nothing more than that. The same arguments for Bernstein, and Phil Zimmerman’s case (http://www.skypoint.com/members/gimonca/philzima.html) apply to Samourai, and the same defences should work if The Constitution hasn’t changed. And it hasn’t.

If COPA do not rise to this challenge and defend the underdog, then the floodgates will be opened for the missapplication of money laws to all Bitcoin operations no matter what they are.

At the fundamental level, Bitcoin is speech. This is not “Semantics”; this is a plain statement of fact, established in law.

Everything you do in Bitcoin is protected speech. If you believe that this event applies only to “mixing”, you are mistaken.

The simple act of “moving” Bitcoin from one address you are known to control and are registered with, to another address that is an “unregistered Bitcoin address” could be construed as a criminal act in the future if COPA don’t kill this.

And I hope they kill it. With fire.

 @opencryptoorg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States


 nostr:npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe, author, entrepreneur and founding partner of Ego Death Capital rejoins me on the show to talk about his bitcoin advocacy at various levels:

Speaking to politicians about bitcoin
The system you give energy to
“Staying and fighting” in Canada vs supporting alternatives e.g. Madeira
‘Coincidental’ attack on Bitcoin?

https://stephanlivera.com/episode/568/


Everything actionable you need to know about what this indictment means for you as a Samourai Wallet (SW) or Whirlpool user 👇

As a Samourai Wallet user (no Dojo)

Unfortunately, the architecture of SW meant that your xpub (a master public key, allowing anyone holding it to derive all your past/present/future Bitcoin addresses) was at some point in time held by Samourai, and could now possible in the hands of the DOJ.

Though it's a worst-case scenario, you should assume that your xpub was compromised, and thus all previous mixes you have done have been unwound and are now traceable. You should also assume that the gov can now derive all past/present/future addresses of yours and track movement of funds if so desired.

In addition, Samourai's coordinator and backend sync server was seized, and so SW will no longer sync, show received funds, or allow sending funds out. As such, you have to migrate funds to another wallet like @SparrowWallet following the docs here:

https://docs.samourai.io/wallet/restore-recovery#export-to-external-wallet

In addition, I would recommend migrating funds to a new seed phrase to prevent anyone holding the xpub from seeing all future received/spent funds.

You should also disable automatic updates in the Play Store (if used) to ensure no malicious updates are pushed.

As a Samourai Wallet user (using your own Dojo)

Thankfully, you avoided having your xpub potentially compromised. The worst case scenario for you is that your previous mixes may not have the full anon set you expected if non-Dojo users xpubs were compromised.

You will still be able to sync/send/receive from your Samourai Wallet app, but should also migrate funds eventually as no further updates will come out for Samourai Wallet. If you want to migrate, use the docs below:

https://docs.samourai.io/wallet/restore-recovery#export-to-external-wallet

You should, however, disable automatic updates in the Play Store (if used) to ensure no malicious updates are pushed.

As a Sparrow Wallet user

Thankfully, you avoided having your xpub potentially compromised as well. The worst case scenario for you is that your previous mixes may not have the full anon set you expected if non-Dojo/Sparrow users xpubs were compromised.

There is no real need to rotate to a new wallet etc, and Sparrow is still an excellent option. Unfortunately you will no longer be able to mix in Sparrow as the Samourai coordinator was seized.

Next steps for privacy

If you (like me) relied on Samourai Wallet for privacy on Bitcoin, it's time to look elsewhere sadly. As of today I have two recommendations:

Use Monero for spending, keep using Bitcoin for savings

Yes, this isn't Bitcoin, but its by far the most used and most practical privacy coin out there with strong (and growing) ways to swap in/out of it without a centralized, KYC exchange. My recommendation is buying enough to cover your normal spending of Bitcoin for a month at least, and spend out of that lump sum as needed.

Learn more:

getmonero.org

Where to get Monero:

bisq.network
Trocador.app
In Cake Wallet's exchange feature

Wallets:

Feather Wallet
Cake Wallet
Monerujo Wallet

Merchants that accept Monero:

monerica.com

cryptwerk.com/pay-with/xmr/

Use JoinMarket

JoinMarket is a decentralized Coinjoin protocol that brings together peers to mix funds together, gaining strong privacy without relying on a central coordinator, without giving fees to a central entity, etc.

The best way to get started today is using the new UI built around JoinMarket, @jamapporg:

jamapp.org

Have any more questions? Drop them below and I'll do my best to answer them.


fight for bitcoin. care deeply about customers. build beautiful products. stack sats, always.

make no mistake, this stuff has been so hard at times and that’s putting it lightly.

so thankful for everyone that’s supported us and myself. my Bitcoin journey started as a college dropout in my room on r/Bitcoin in 2013. this community has helped raise me into the man i am today. beyond grateful. can’t believe i get to be a part of this chapter of humanity with you all.

we will never stop. UK is next. give us a month or so
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The entire developed world tax apparatus that was built in the 20th century and extends into the 21st century depends on ubiquitous financial surveillance.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Overall, the case leads to some interesting questions.

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


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I see this and I think: we actually do have pretty nice things over here. Keep building.

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Your elected representatives are waving the flag of a foreign nation as they cheer for the billions they will send to fund a war you never agreed to pay for.

The money is broken. The incentives are broken. The kleptocrats are in charge. The system will not be fixed from within.

No one is coming to save you.

Save yourself and your family.

Study #Bitcoin and start building a parallel system. https://v.nostr.build/8GneE.mp4