I am gonna sell more Fiat.
FFS
🫡


Sounds like Kamala pretending to be black.


Thank you.


If this cycle was to resemble previous ones I would agree but I expect the unexpected.

Cheers 🫡


Nice motto for Today: stack without giving a f…k

Good day to all

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Prediction for the next year in #Bitcoin:
• We will have a healthy pullback from this short run
• People w/ BDS will tweet "See! It CrAsHeS!"
• It'll calm down, start a slow climb, & then rocket up again
• BDS-ers will scream "BuBbLE!!" for the 173rd time
• It'll have a healthy pullback
• Rinse and repeat as #Bitcoin climbs into the multiple hundreds of thousands
• BDS-ers will get increasingly insane and frantic, "IT DOES NOTHING!" "NO UTILITY!" "THIS IS SO DANGEROUS TO OUR ECONOMY!" "SOMEBODY DO SOMETHING!"
• There will finally be another very needed and prolonged correction down to a level about twice the previous ATH
• As we find a stable price in the low to mid $100K, the BDS-ers will claim victory and constantly say "I told you so."
• Bitcoiners will keep building, keep stacking sats, keep using it as their money, and keep watching things get cheaper as priced in #Bitcoin

... and in another couple of years we will do this all over again... AGAIN... just adding another zero to the price.

(save this note)


Introducing Proto Mining https://www.mining.build/blog/introducing-proto-building-the-future-of-bitcoin-mining-hardware-2/


They don’t even try to pretend.
Always full retard.


Only with some fancy hats. They are more scarce.
Consider also Peter Shiff’s GoldTriumphs. His investment advices were always top notch.

🙈🙉🙊🐒🐵🦍🦧💩


I need to go through that myself.


Can’t get your loved ones to read the Bitcoin standard?

Try sticking something in their ear holes.

We narrate a foundational course on the history of money and why wage earners should consider Bitcoin.

We look at equities, bonds, real estate and gold and critically assess their pros and cons in an environment of fiat currency.

And finally we deliver the orange pill.

https://fountain.fm/episode/RnuqqAokpx3S0ij9oSef

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Yes. Be calm. Lay low. Good luck


Do your best not to tell anyone how well you're doing off Bitcoin, even family

Your cousin might go to some party and be like 'yeah my cousin is huge into Bitcoin!' not realizing how it endangers you

Probably safer to talk about as a nym on nostr than with friends and family in real life tbh


Try setting up a multi vendor multisig with the setup wizard in bitcoin-safe.org
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/andreasgriffin/bitcoin-safe/refs/heads/main/docs/multisig-setup.gif


This is right


Demand the Samourai devs go free!


Thank you. So i need Orbot running. I will give it a try.


When Tor node connection on mobile app? I cannot use my node thus app is useless.


Thank you. I will stay humble. This is not over yet.


GM and GN


Soon in all toilets nearby.


GM 🤣 Plebs!!!

#artsy #artstr #spock #zap #v4v https://image.nostr.build/08234dee35793cfa3ad4366281af654fa58afdd3f02885dda691f3fe8320b447.jpg


I would trase the roots of state propaganda in Bolsheviks regime prior to Stalin. Lenin who was the the key person from the beginning understood this well and all the actions of communists were covered with lies from the start. I am not sure if Lenin was the orchestrator of propaganda or someone else on behalf of him but Stalin is later.

Now, every regime needs its own narrative to organize the people. Russians had theirs, Germans hed theirs, Americans, Brits, French, you name it. But the history is written by the victors and the buctors are the good one in this version of history.


It depend on how scrupulous are those illegal migrants on tracking all the borders they actually crossed. Right? How would Dutch know if they actually arrived through Belarus, Poland and Germany from wherever the hell they are from? Would Germany or Poland accept them sent back from Netherlands? Based on what? And what next?

Maybe they should be sent to Brussels? Ursula is in charge. She can handle that.

So now those guys try to fight the problem they created. I know it is new Dutch government. Rutte is now in charge of NATO. Whata fucking mess.


🟧  𝗪𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗲𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗕𝗶𝘁𝗰𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝘀𝘂𝗿𝘃𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝘂𝗽 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀? Here’s my simplified #inheritance planning SOP, as applied at #NeoWealth, for securely passing on your seed phrase:

1⃣ Durable Storage: Metal beats paper. Your seed phrase on fireproof metal, stashed securely, lasts longer than you. Literally. Just avoid environmental degradation. Pro tip: Redundancy in different spots = good.

2⃣ Plain Instructions: Explain Bitcoin and how to access it like you’re teaching a 5-year-old. Store these instructions with your estate docs. Jargon-free = stress-free.

3⃣ Multi-Sig Setup: Split your keys. One to your heir, one to your lawyer/executor. Neither can access until you’re gone. It’s a security jigsaw puzzle they complete when you’re off the grid.

4⃣ Extra Passphrase: Like two-factor auth for your seed. Keep the seed and passphrase apart (password manager, lawyer’s vault, etc.). One is worthless without the other.

5⃣ Dead Man’s Switch? Risky. Sends your seed on your “death.” But third-party trust is dicey. If you must, vet it well.

6⃣ Seal with Estate Docs: Trust your lawyer? They can hold your seed in a sealed envelope, to be revealed at the right time. Trust and protocols = non-negotiable.

⚠ Educate Your Heirs: Knowledge is their best tool. Teach them why Bitcoin matters, how to secure it, and how not to lose it.

🚨 Security and access are a delicate dance, but worth it for your Bitcoin legacy. Only work with qualified professionals.

𝘋𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘳: 𝘞𝘦 𝘥𝘰 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘳𝘴𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤 𝘪𝘯𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘰𝘭𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘳𝘥 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘬𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘴𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘰. 𝘖𝘶𝘳 𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘱𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘵-𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘶𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘪𝘵𝘤𝘰𝘪𝘯-𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘺. 𝘜𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺, 𝘪𝘵’𝘴 𝘶𝘱 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘶𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘬𝘴. 𝘞𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘤𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘰𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘥 𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘭 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘩𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘰𝘱 𝘦𝘹𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘴, 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘳 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘵, 𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘥𝘳𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨.
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I’ll be there buying.
😎


I saw this grey photo and thought it was obituary.
🫡


Thanx. Added to my list.


„Think about it logically, if it costs $80k to mine a Bitcoin today then it would require roughly tripling the hashrate of the mining network to bring it's marginal cost of production to $250k. Bitcoin is already the largest computational network on earth by a significant margin after 15 years. Do you really think that in less than 1 year we can triple it? This becomes more unlikely the older and larger the network gets.”

Can we say that marginal cost of production is BTC fair price and market price in long term follows it? This might be another explanation of price pumps and following corrections. When market price is detached from fair value it must collaps. This detachment in bull run goes higher as financial markets liquidity is higher than commodity (ASIC) market liquidity.

Not sure if I get it right.


GM. 🌅

As the price continues to rise, stay rational and do not let emotions control your actions.

One thing to remember is that, more than any other commodity in history, the Bitcoin market actual links to TWO others: The energy market and the currency market.

Think of the energy market, the currency market and the Bitcoin market as a triangle that must remain in balance. Like a rubber band they pull on each other, if they get too imbalanced they must correct.

Bitcoin's price on the currency market can rise and rise, without any grounding in reality, as retail FOMO really kicks in. (This phase still hasn't begun this cycle but it will soon as we keep making new ATHs.)

Bitcoin's price on the energy market, however, cannot rise uncontrollably no matter how much FOMO is going on with the currency market.

Because the mining network's ability to exchange kWH for Sats is limited by our ability to both produce cheap energy to sell, and our ability to create and use ASICS that do the work (securing the network with that energy in exchange for Sats).

When the price on the currency market goes much higher than the price on the energy market, then the price of the equipment (ASICS) that are able to create Bitcoin (for less than it costs on the open market) will go up and as it does so will production.

But, as ASICS are a free market good limited by our production capacity, the ability to produce new ASICS in response to demand will be too delayed. Partially because ramping up production right when we're historically about to have another major bear market, would be a foolish thing for a company to do.

When the currency market price quickly goes up way higher than the marginal cost of production is on the energy market, the price will inevitably crash to return to its marginal cost of production. This is necessary for the market to remain healthy and based in reality.

We may very well reach $500k or more on the currency market by the end of this cycle, but, if the average mining costs are unable grow to similar levels per coin in the same time frame, then it WILL correct.

Think about it logically, if it costs $80k to mine a Bitcoin today then it would require roughly tripling the hashrate of the mining network to bring it's marginal cost of production to $250k. Bitcoin is already the largest computational network on earth by a significant margin after 15 years. Do you really think that in less than 1 year we can triple it? This becomes more unlikely the older and larger the network gets.

Some people say the mining network has nothing to do with it's price, I couldn't disagree more. They are fundamentally linked and to think otherwise misses the big picture.

Bitcoin will not always be priced in dollars, it will ALWAYS be priced in kWH of energy. All Bitcoin are tokens that represents the value of the energy used to create new coins, which is consistently rising over time and will likely continue to do so at a sustainable pace.

Learn the game, play it, and win.

Selling Dollars for Bitcoin is best done when Bitcoin's price on the currency market is BELOW it's marginal cost of production on the energy market. Buying Dollars with Bitcoin is best done when it's price on the currency market is ABOVE its marginal cost of production on the energy market.

While the price is volatile, if the price on the currency market is above or below the price on the energy market then it's volatility will lean in the direction of the other market.

Since the two markets are fundamentally linked together and must remain close to each other over time, you're essentially arbitraging the two markets when you sell Bitcoin above it's energy cost and buy it back when it's below. This is not easy however, with many having tried to time the open market failing to do so.

I believe their mistake is in trying to time the currency market and ignoring the energy market. So consider both when deciding on long term moves, doing this you are more likely to grow your stack and also will help stabilize the price over the long term as arbitrage tends to do between markets.

Ignore the energy market at your own peril, whether you're a trader or a HODLer it's something in which you should be keenly paying attention.

Personal predictions:

$1 (USD) = 1000 Sats or less before the end of the year.

$1 = 160 - 400 sats somewhere around the end of the 3rd quarter 2025.

$1 = 800 - 1400 Sats around 4th quarter 2026.

$1 = 100 Sats or less mid to late 3rd quarter 2029.

Stay humble and stack sats.

☮❤₿


You’re good man. You proved that.


⚠Check Your Passwords👇🏽 #Nostr #Opsec https://image.nostr.build/eff6f88662fda54eb009dd517a7c4827cfa18630e83ff4bd9753c341cacb7dd8.jpg


Descanse en paz Hijo de Puta
🫡🤌👌🖕


Now that’s a spirit!

We used to say that one has to raise a child, build a house and plant a tree but now there is that one more important task - buy bitcoin and retire your bloodline. Become a legend. Oow it is that time. It will not last for long. If you waste it for some shit you’d better been remived from gene pool.


Passport is very good choice. One of the best on the market.

As for  Ledger’s post, this is regarding using Ledger Live for creating accounts and transactions which is bad choice as user is sharing his data (xpub, metadata, not sure if IP) with Ledger. So again, if you are about to use Ledger us Ledger App only to load firmware and nothing more.


Why not today?


did you know that you can import all of your old and existing notes from other relays directly into your #haven relay? just run the import command (while haven isn't currently running) ./haven --import


Didn’t this consolidation ruin all the work done coinjoining not only for the utxo owner but also other coin join participants?


I need to give it a try.


In my opinion Ledger as device is fine. Better than nothing. I would obviously help and make sure he does not create any account on Ledger Live. Use an app for firmware updates only.

Glad to see other opinions.


Ripped from Xitter and shared here for my nostrich homies... Thnx nostr:nprofile1qqsf2ds69dp2ympzhtpmdd46f3w2cnfkjphtpnaesf5xs8z95vqu2xqpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtcny8cm0 for the great breakdown.

Let’s talk about Cluster Mempool!

 Each of our full nodes stores unconfirmed transactions in its mempool. This cache is an important resource for the node and enables the p2p transaction relay network. By learning about and validating most transactions before a block is announced, blocks relay quickly.
https://i.nostr.build/MQVruI7vEFueE0i1.jpg
By observing which transactions first appear in the mempool and later get published in blocks, a node can unilaterally estimate the necessary feerate to make a successful bid on blockspace to get a transaction confirmed.
https://i.nostr.build/VphLCxvWigXQ033X.png
 Nodes relaying transactions to all peers is indispensable for user privacy and censorship-resistance in the network. Quick and unfettered access to unconfirmed transactions allows anyone to build competitive block templates and permissionlessly become a miner.
https://i.nostr.build/DplIUleHRBlGCSVH.png
Currently, Bitcoin Core tracks each transaction in the context of its ancestors. A block template is greedily assembled by picking the ancestor set with the highest ancestor set feerate into the block, updating the ancestor sets of all affected descendants, repeat.
https://i.nostr.build/fv2LSarCtDlVe5DP.jpg
This approach has the downside that we need to update transaction data as we build the block template, and that we can only predict a transaction’s mining score (the feerate at which it will be picked into a block), after taking into account all of its relatives.

Sometimes demand for blockspace is so high that our node receives more transactions than it can cache in its limited mempool. Whenever the mempool overflows, we would like to evict the transactions that are least attractive for mining.
https://i.nostr.build/jGo5qdMiAc3jx1uw.jpg
Unfortunately, the dependency of transactions on their relatives means that we can only accurately predict which transaction would be mined last, by calculating all the transactions that we would pick before it. We cannot afford this computation for each eviction.

 So, instead we use a heuristic to imperfectly asses which transaction should be evicted first. We additionally track each transaction in the context of its descendant set, and use the lowest descendant set score of transactions as an indicator for eviction.
https://i.nostr.build/z6kZ3Q3qpLRQl8N1.jpg
If a single transactions or a leaf transaction has the lowest descendant set feerate in our mempool, this result is accurate. However, this heuristic may fail to correctly identify the transaction that would be picked into a block template last.
https://i.nostr.build/QoyEzOgI2VXbkb7S.png
In this example transaction graph, J’s ancestor set has the highest ancestor set feerate and would be mined next with its ancestor F, but F has the lowest descendant set feerate and would be evicted with all its descendants including J.
https://i.nostr.build/jONAutb9SnrRxBqg.jpg
Finally, it is well-known that the BIP125-inspired RBF rules used by Bitcoin Core do not always lead to incentive compatible replacements. We know of cases where replacements get accepted but do not improve the mempool, and cases that get rejected but would improve it.
https://i.nostr.build/fQixhvLMgSIYmdLD.png
Enter the Cluster Mempool proposal (H/T to Suhas Daftuar and Pieter Wuille): What if we were able to always know the order of the entire mempool and could always read off the mining score of every transaction?
https://i.nostr.build/a2atGGKr5YSVZbpf.png
Instead of tracking each transaction in the context of its ancestor set and its descendant set, we track each transaction in the context of its _cluster_, its entire "family" of related transactions!
https://i.nostr.build/NwwjXzkA2CTMBzxu.jpg
 Each transaction only belongs to a single cluster. We find clusters by starting with any transaction and adding all its children and parents, and the children and parents of its children and parents, and so forth, until there is nothing left to add.

We then "linearize" each cluster: we convert the transaction graph into a list by sorting them in the order in which the cluster’s transactions would be picked into a block template.
https://i.nostr.build/mvTXK183OrjeTueR.jpg
 For now, you can think about a cluster linearization as running a block building algorithm on the cluster and recording the order in which the transactions get picked into the block.

Calculating the linearization of big complicated clusters can be computationally expensive.

 The computational cost of operations on clusters limits their size. We will leave it at that for the moment, but if you want to learn more, @pwuille wrote a treatise on how to efficiently linearize clusters on Delving Bitcoin: https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/introduction-to-cluster-linearization/1032

Previously, we used ancestor sets to notice when e.g. a child in a CPFP constellation made it attractive to pick a package of parent and child together into our block template.
https://i.nostr.build/QOrj9jDUnAMybOrN.jpg
Our cluster linearization allows us to easily identify segments of transactions that will naturally be included in blocks together. Whenever higher-feerate transactions follow lower-feerate transactions, we group them together into _Chunks_.
https://i.nostr.build/Kqd3atec0rirKkBZ.jpg
These chunks have marvelous advantages over ancestor sets: 1) Multiple children with higher feerates than their parent can naturally form a chunk with a higher chunk feerate than any child’s ancestor set feerate!
https://i.nostr.build/zGjFgdGbZg2SALjl.png
The chunk feerate only depends on the transactions in the chunk. The chunk feerate remains the same even when ancestors are picked into a block template—we can precompute the chunk feerates and read them off as the mining score of all of the chunk’s transactions!

Block building simply becomes repeatedly picking the chunk with the highest feerate across all clusters until the block template is full.
This also provides us an implicit total order of the entire mempool.
https://i.nostr.build/W148MpiOzBLSZoa2.jpg
This also means that we know exactly which chunks we will mine last.
Eviction simply becomes kicking out the chunk with the lowest feerate across all clusters.
https://i.nostr.build/0biXDrQY2DDcysTy.jpg
In conclusion, Cluster Mempool offers us:

• Faster block building
• Always available mining scores
• Near-optimal eviction
• A better framework for thinking about Package RBF via so-called feerate diagrams

at the mere cost of some pre-computation and a cluster limit.
https://i.nostr.build/y6JuVTCCz00QBLeA.png


Transaction B may depend on some prior transaction A which is not yet confirmed. Imagine a chain of unconfirmed transactions. Mempool has to track them all.


Everything is going to be fine as they have got plenty of cheap energy from reliable sources so that their manufacturing can expand … wait, what?

Damn, maybe there is still hope that EUR will weaken making their products competitive on the markets. Germans will appreciate it and gladly accept their EUR savings goin to shit, even without negative interest rates which ECB will gladly reinrtroduce soon … wait, what?

At least Germany is as it always was safe and well organized country … wait, what?

🫡🤡💩🖕


GM
Stay frosty


Agreed but retiring your children is better target. 🫡


GM and GN


Never go full retard they said.
🤡💩


She was not in charge of her campaign or the money the same as would not be in charge of the country if she won.
Puppet, expendable asset.


Thank you but no, thank you.
Put it on Nostr please.
Plebs will appreciate.


Yeah
Von der Leyen.
What she did to Bundeswehr now she does to EU.


Hold on to your butts!
🫡


Just released Holesail version 1.8.0 ⛵ with UDP support.

 That means we are now one step closer to launching Holesail on  nostr:npub126ntw5mnermmj0znhjhgdk8lh2af72sm8qfzq48umdlnhaj9kuns3le9ll and it now support a wider range of applications and gaming.

It is frogging awesome 🥳

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


I can’t tell more than I just find it simple and working. I always use second hand laptops 5+ years old and this distro seems to be very light and everyhing was workig from the start. I used to have issues with wifi/ bt on Lenovo x series and Budgue just worked.

KDE was just beatiful desktop with lots of functionality and tweaks. I really appreciate it but some issues were annoying.


This is a test. I will not fail.


This is the way


People don’t understand that the $5,- donation per bitaxe and the open source development around mining will snowball the following:
- few bitaxes, how fun
- 1 block a month solo mined, people start to understand the lottery principle
- 1 block a week (couple million solo miners)
Meanwhile, radical bitcoiners buy a freaking new machine from ASML and start to dump cheap ASIC chips on the market. Everyone starts to build on the developed open source stacks and you can get mass produced “miners” super cheap for every dimension and purpose. We will heat/use excess electricity and join the lottery while decentralizing the network. Meanwhile companies with excess/cheap electricity/need for heat will run their own “pool” instance ensuring freedom of transaction is preserved. Open source mining should develop faster than its closed source competitors, but it starts at the ASIC level. And that start is expensive. nostr:note125nmcu5869h5vrjjk6s3y0hdtcj0afr64n837q3klxdyud3re3fssatngm


Reminds me about all those janitors, plumbers, electricians or others servicemen that died on Death Star. Luke Skywalker did not care about collateral damage.

🫡


So with Elon working in the White House does that make Twitter state-run media?


Yeah and with fall of The Wall and dismantling Eastern European Block all this commie shit spread all over the Europe. It is not concentrated as it was in USSR and yet whole continent is stinking with that.


KDE is great but I felt for https://ubuntubudgie.org/ some time ago and just don’t want to change.


I am not familar with this polling methodology so I am not sure what is the cause of this gap
1. Is methodology flawed? For example not representative group selected.
2. Is it biased? Who is in charge of polls? Does he have any interest in particular results?
3. Are people affraid to show their actual preferences?
4. Other reasons.
5. All obove.

But this looks like shit. Here where a live it is usually 2-3pp difference.


It’s alive!
It’s aliiiiiiiive!
😱


GM and GN


Fuck.
Court’s ruling based on Chainanalysis’ black box.
This is far from justice.


Great summary.


Is my Bitcoin in my wallet?
No.
Is my Bitcoin in my account?
No.
Do I hold my Bitcoin?
No.
So where the hell is my Bitcoin and what is it that I own?
Bitcoin is permanently residing on the Bitcoin Blockchain and you are holding private keys that unlock your Bitcoin whenever you need to interact with it.
It is like owning private keys to a very lucrative digital property.

So how do I secure my keys then?

This my friend is your main task and should be a field of your study.

It can be your memory if your trust it.
It could be a piece of paper or a steel plate.
It could be a special hardware wallet that stores it for you or a version of cold wallet that holds the keys as long as it is powered and erases them when it's off / nostr:npub17tyke9lkgxd98ruyeul6wt3pj3s9uxzgp9hxu5tsenjmweue6sqq4y3mgl /

So how do my keys look like?

12 or 24 words my friend are your keys to your digital property called #bitcoin

Securing them is your mission.
Focus and good luck. 👍🏼


That is quite an achievement but consider that some of us here (including myself) first learned how to convert Terra to Luna.

Fucking learning curve.
🤌


Do not underestimate Germany’s urge to go full retard. They did not say their last words.
🤡


Ok. I’m waiting for snow.


A rocket stove is an efficient and hot burning stove using small-diameter wood fuel, using an insulated vertical chimney, which ensures almost complete combustion.

Here's how to build one with snow.

[📹 woodsboundoutdoors]

https://video.nostr.build/8306596f2cdf0ba07210c6add947ef62eb2f78d6536a90a6e4d6f76893f2d1eb.mp4

#bullishbounty


That was deep.
🙏


I think that this will be the second wave, something like we’ve seen at the begging of the year when they started but this time it might be even bigger. As price goes up so the TradFi’s conviction grows. And do not forget that IBIT options will help those funds to hedge their exposure. Improved liquidity, lower volatility. These are the factors that TradFi is looking for to go balls deep.

🫡


Note on that: Spain has hugely benefited from EU infrastructure funds. All those roads, railways, hotels, airports but it seems like nothing was done to prepare for natural disastes like that. Just imagine that you know that you may expect floods but the money you spend on building hotels on the land that will be flooded while you should spend some of that on building infrastructure that will help you contain the water, redirect it from the cities etc.

This is fiat clown world.
Again I am returning to what recently happened in Central Europe. These countries had experience with catastrophic flood from late 90s and spend time and money to prepare for that. The results can be seen.


For your safety …

🤡


Wait, what? 14%? Time flies when you’re having fun!
🤘


The only one chance for her.
😂


Yesss! Excellent job you Brits.
And good job QnA frying that BitAxe. Try and maybe one day I’ll become pro destructor as Max.


Well, some part of his opinion might be correct but his solutions definitely are not. I do not endorse people who are 99 / 100 times wrong just because from time to time they happen to say something right. GFY Bernie.


One has to really stupid to think that the truth about number of deaths will never emerge. Maybe 20 years ago or more it was possible to suppress this information. Not now. Everyone is carrying portable camera and TV transmitter. Everyone can be his own TV station. People living there have friends and families. They will tell the truth.

FFS either they are stupid or think about everyone else is retarded.

Or both.


Moooooore!


Late night riffs. Harder than it looks 🤘🏼

#zap n’share to fund new guitar strings 😮💨 https://video.nostr.build/12097c928bac337270ad83d3698d4926a36ef4cfca797d529ee79b370ad74fd6.mp4


You can’t make this shit up.
She is not the sharpest tool in the shed but all of her advisors thought that this narration makes sense. Never go full retard.

🖕🤡


Wise words. It is about time to reclaim the Western World from socialists agenda. We’ve been through that. It does not work FFS unless one wants to destroy the state.

People learn, slowly, not everyone but some learn eventually. Life teaches them on sad examples. I was blind for a long time. Even such a stupid monkey as me can learn so I still have a hope for humanity.

Good luck to America. Hope Europe also follows.


Thanks to  nostr:nprofile1qqsd846pynwlkk7uvxu0rrghcve4hw6033c3s234acnnzjjf5n4hk8g025frw  I listened to  nostr:nprofile1qqsy6j4hxl30hdd0pl2epd9harr0uakn5q4f0y000ldv7cqlneg04kqxhs0sn  podcast for the forst time and they’ve got me at once. Thank you. This is really refreshing. Good job.
🫡


Let’s summon the devil for help

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Cry harder Ursula.
You’re toast.


GM and GN


Scream little piggies!
😂


Donald Trump won the Presidential Election in US.
Now let's free Ross Ulbricht!
#freeross #bitcoin https://i.nostr.build/WVx7NblG3us1sYsn.jpg


FREEROSS DAY ONE


This is the way.🫡


This os the way


Today the government of Spain is spreading the news that yesterday's revolt was a thing of ultra-right groups and the king wants to return to zone 0.

The revolt was the people of the people regardless of ideology, Spain is a corrupt country that needs to re-found its constitution, there are many lives at stake.

#Nostr help us to spread everything that has happened in Spain.


Aren’t these two stories actually parts of the same?


Stay frosty!


No time for celebration yet. This is marathon not sprint. Still Warrens and Legardes of this world have something to say.

Stay humble stack sat. Keep low profile.


We are all rodents.
💪


What did those morons expect? Flowers?


Let’s see if this is the final straw that breaks socialists’ party back in Spain.
What do you think? Will it change anything on political scene?


Note from the different angle.

Well it is just clear proof of overall incompetence of all Spanish Services. If this is how they protect official they all deserve shovels up their butts the same as those officials. Fools guarded by the same fools they put on those positions. Fucking umbrellas. What a shit show.

Spain is probably my favorite country in Europe. I traveled it by car for about 2 weeks maybe 10 years ago. The land is astonishing, people are great, food is delicious, old architecture blows my mind. Weather, sun, sea. Damn it is beautiful place.

And those retarded governments.
FFS


You reap what you saw.


Oh man, this looks like it was in some Thirld World country not Spain. A month ago there was flood in  Czech, Poland, Slovakia, Germany, Austria and local and central governments could handle this quite well. You cannot stop natural disaster but you put all the resources to save people.


Good morning.

It must always be said, whether it's a bad day or not, the sun always comes out and life goes on.

Whether you are Spanish, American, Ukrainian, Russian, Israeli or Palestinian, the state does not want us, the state is cruel, the state lacks feelings, the state kills, the state wants us dead.

Valencia is a scene of war, more than 2500 missing and hundreds of dead, and yet I think this is nothing compared to the horror of war, it is nothing compared to what other countries are experiencing where the deaths are 10 or 100 times more.

In Valencia the state has totally neglected us, but even so there is a difference, it is not the state who has killed us, it has been a natural catastrophe. If I still feel how evil in person has lurked over us by denying us the assistance we have paid for with our taxes, I can't imagine how the inhabitants of countries that are dying with bombs will feel, nor can I imagine how it feels when they kill your friend, even if it is a squirrel.

This is not child's play, this is about life or death, or your state or human self.

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


For anyone who, like me, needs some guidance on setting up a #bitcoin node and personal server for processing transactions, this tutorial from Cole is spot on - thank you, Cole.

I find that clarity over complexity is key when tackling technical setups that can feel a bit overwhelming. Self-sovereignty is a right, and having resources that are clear, accurate, and easy to follow makes a huge difference. Hopefully, this tutorial will be just as helpful for anyone else looking to achieve this.

#grownostr #plebchain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzikmY4S42Y


The result of fiat.

Brooklyn, NYC

#photography #photostr #artstr #nyc https://image.nostr.build/db19c1338a9c82b2bfe266b98402dbf17aa8ca2cc6d476e28859d8bf82a1e2cb.jpg


Seiko is great brand. They’ve got great affordable watches at 200-500USD range. At 1kUSd you get absolutely fantastic in terms of quality, finishing, and design and moreover all of them host their in-house movements. And when you want to buy something exclusive just go for Grand Seiko. I do not find Swiss Brands (which are great anyway) anywhere nearby Seiko when it comes to price/value comparison.


GM and GN


What if they found out it was not diversified enough? Maybe they want to double down on that shit? It’s Boeing FFS.


GM
It is now common trend everywhere in”the west”. I remember the times where far or extreme left/right was actual minority, there was right, left in many flavors and some center. Now it is gone and only binary option available. This is ratarded indeed.


Did they vaccinate him first?


I am here for FAFO.
This is my way of learning things.


Yeah, I had a friend time ago. He went to Britain for some English camp or something and when he returned all he could say in English was „ciders” and „Gimme a fak”. It took some time when he was explained that it should be „fag”.
😎


Thank you!


New episode
Two grumpy old men talk #Bitcoin and mining…. A bit. 👇🏴☠🖕
https://t.co/ZjdrrEZXoZ


There is nothing called limited free speech.
There is nothing called limited freedom.


It is not that simple Inguess.

Take as example WW2 and put in charge of any side someone mentally unstable/ obsessed with overwhelming power in his country and this point on the curve will be probably in infinity.

Other scenario. Attacker is exhausted and seeks peace but the other side wants revenge at higher cost. This again pushes the end war point into higher cost areas.

What Bitcoin changes is that most of the conflicts might end at preparation phase when attacker realizes that he has no means to procure enough resources.


Ok. This makes sense. Thank you.


Those who know have no empathy.
The others, misled, misinformed do not have a chance to be empathetic.


Yessir 🤘


thank you satoshi

https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf


16 milion Wangs stare


Oh shit. This is the time I realized what this name is taken from!


Well. I am always polite when talking to AI and always at the end say „Thank you”. Just in case, you know.


nostr:nprofile1qqs9df4h2deu3aae83fmet5xmrlm4w5l9gdnsy3q2n7dklem7ezmwfc6c32nl
I might misunderstood the communicate. I’m DIY user and I am not seeking premium support. All I need is access to community forum as it was on Telegram. I agree with Telegram flaws but do I understand it correctly that this new Matrix chat will be the only #start9 forum and Telegram chat completely gone? In other words will payed option replace free option fully?

Are DYI users left alone?


This is great. Thank you


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Being able to play with interactive elements to understand Bitcoin concepts is the best way to solidify a working mental model

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By the end of each module, you’ll challenge yourself by creating a project to test your understanding.

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We’ve started with the first module on Scripts.

More content is coming soon!

Please share your feedback on this first release—it helps us understand what you want to see next, whether it’s content or new features.


GM, Happy White Paper Day to all!


Interesting. Will they be able to replay what they’ve done at the beginning of they year as they started or rather steadily but surely accumulate all along the bull run?


Good day


Happy Bitcoin Whitepaper Day.

#bitcoin
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GM and GN

No, it complicated a lot things. Made me anxious, out of my comfort zone but it gave me hope. This is what matters.


Of course it is not multilingual. It’s Shamir backup.
😎


It takes time but people learn. There will other scams. That’s how it works.

Maybe among current Bitcoiners there are more righteous people but as adoption progresses there will be more and more regularnaverage Joe’s. We may say that fair money promotes fairness but bad people existed all along the centuries and did what they wanted using silver, gold, animal skins and dollars. They will adapt to Bitcoin too.

It is just learning curve. I remember the times when very popular scam on the streets was „3 cups”. There is a guy with a table or a box and you can guess under which cup there is some small item. The guy was goos social engineer, smart hands. Had few other guys helping him. Itbtookmsome time but now rarely anyone fall for that. That must have changed the way.

In digital world there are shitcoins, NFTs, Defy, whateverthefuck else other shit retardinals. Some of them will die, get replaced with next generation scam. It is just regular honest people contribution by educating others. There is no magic way to get rich quick.

Stay humble and stack says.


🔥NEW Video! - Understanding the Interest Rate Fallacy

This is a video version of my 2021 blog post. It's a deep dive into Milton Friedman's insight on interest rates and monetary conditions. It is a necessary part of any macro thesis.
https://youtu.be/EdPqcb4aEbA


First of all I do not believe anyone really exchanged any money for those multimillion Jpegs. It was rather part of “pump” phase. Retail was actually buying them for 100s and 1000s and they got rekt. Fuckin scam but not the last one


Noone is expecting #58gang to return.
I’m not saying but just wait.
😎


I respect your right to run your business your way. As DYI user I say thank you but no, thank you.
🫡


Hero for a day, fool dor a lifetime.


GM GM


This is reliable service


Aged like milk
👌


Oh shit! Noone saw that coming! Noone.


Yep @Alby team is just great.


A hero we all deserve.


Scream little piggy. Scream!


Agree. I think this one is the most complete but I usually tell people to start from Bitcoin standard and follow with 21 Lessons by Gigi + Inventing Bitcoin by Yan Pritzker.


What we'll be focussing on for Cashu in the coming months:

- bolt12
- websockets
- blind auth
- fees
- keyset rotations
- on chain
- payment requests
- wallet sync
- any-amount ecash
- cdk mobile app
- mintd
- external mint signer
- HTLC swaps

Most of these are already started projects and many are almost there but need more adoption. Lots to work on!


If population of Bitcoiners is described with standard distribution then you might just be outlier. Nothing extraordinary but I really envy you. I went through regular route starting from Bitcoin, then messing up some small part of capital with shitcoins, got burned with Luna, sold immediately all this shit for BTC and never touched it again. Thankfully I had hard threshold of 3% max allocation in shitcoins but anyway I lost because it is the purpose of all this scam.

But I took this lesson with gratitude. The cost was reasonable. I learned it well.


The actor says „because the science”. Oh boy this must be TRUTH then.
I remember Leo drowning in Atlantic freezing water because his ship hit an iceberg. Saw it with my own eyes. How much more truth do you need to understand that this climate change is real and we all need Kamala to stop it?
🤡


Hi folks! I’m not sure if anyone else is using my container image of Haven (https://github.com/aaccioly-open-source/haven), but I’ve just updated it to match the latest master from nostr:npub1utx00neqgqln72j22kej3ux7803c2k986henvvha4thuwfkper4s7r50e8's repository. The compose file includes an nginx reverse proxy with TLS certificate creation and auto-renewal. It's as close to a "copy and adjust configuration files once, fire-and-forget" experience as I could make it. The image has been tested with Docker and Podman on Fedora and macOS across amd64 and arm64 architectures, and it’s less than 50MB.

If there’s interest, I can start versioning/tagging this image and publishing it to container registries such as Docker Hub.

P.S. Please avoid opening issues against the original repository unless you’ve tested it on bare-metal hardware. I’m happy to provide Docker/Podman-related support at my own pace on my own repository.


What about letting them earn it. It is also old school. If I want to teach my children the Walię of work I should pay them with the money that stores the value.


My #meshtastic node has connected tongue network for the first time. Apparently someone had air based (ballon probably) node and connected me with the network. Now I am alone again but I know it isnworking and I know I need roof antena.

😎


One of the most over-complicated topic in Bitcoin is

>> INHERITANCE <<

I know what you think: vaults, multiple keys, collaborative custody, multisigs, storage fees, new OP codes (🤢), yada yada...

But what ever happened to doing it the old way?

Wouldn't it be more skin-in-the-game way to just SELL your bitcoin to your kids? Don't spoil your progeny with unearned gifts of your low time preference. Sell them. At a discount if you want, but transact!

Watch them accumulate, see them lose, enjoy seeing them appreciating it, make them improve custody, sat by sat.

Simply put, just become a Dad Bank.

Thank you!
Kudos to  nostr:npub1vjqenty8jphj9039yghlhgr6xvp8thtvmwypmrfrg3je0z6djsws6z7z70 for becoming one and inspiring me.

All right, good night 🌙

#DadBankOrBust #Inheritance #Bitcoin #Friday


GM GM

Yessir. I am listening to it now. Never underestimate the power of the slow USB port.


Wat? This is some very complicated math only PHD on Universities can understand. My brain just got cooked. Good bye cruel world.
🫡

https://image.nostr.build/8539899a63a1918ce6d78b60fa3e224e9accbcd6bcfa18594bc8425bddb54451.jpg


Boomer Leftist iTard
Sounds good for me
———————————
Sent from my iPad
🤌


Unknown artifacts from the past.


If you are an activist, journalist or any person susceptible to be persecuted by a three-letter agency, remember:

- Use public wifis (libraries, coffee shops, etc).
- Don't pay with credit card to the places you go, use cash.
- Always use Tor or i2p.
- Use a freshly installed operating system so that there is no fingerprint, Qubes OS and Tails help you in this.
- Be careful with cameras, both outdoor and indoor, for example bank ATMs, inspect the area before.
- Never use your personal email accounts, etc, all accounts you create should use pseudonyms and be created under Tor, in case you can not create them in Tor with a reliable vpn, ultimately from a public wifi.
- Do not always go to the same location, change city.
- If you must make payments use Bitcoin, especially Lightning.
- If you must receive payments, use Bitcoin and then coinjoin.


GM GM

Try, fail, think, improve.
Fail to even try. Failed.


GM Gm


What a genius. 🙏🫡🤡🖕


#mood
Night listening to #mtvoid.
 nostr:nprofile1qqsp3a2278ssckah5d2x3v8k9v546y350ypun72h8rgxtjztau2q9mc72rdgy  this is just great. Will be the whole day Tomorrow with me. I need something  like this to switch off.

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Try immersion cooling.😎


NEW TUTORIAL
Protect Your #Bitcoin Privacy with Ashigaru Dojo!

This is a fork of Samourai Wallet. The video here will help you setup your own Dojo on a mini PC and link Ashigaru to it. Part 2 exploring the wallet coming soon!

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BTC Daily Intelligence Bulletin (DIB)
Block: 866,996
DTG/ICOD: 1200Z 23Oct24
Precedence: Routine (RR)
Controls: Public Release
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BLUF: BRICS Vies for Global Power / IDF Strikes Hezbollah Navy / Next Hezbollah Leader Killed / 2 US Soldiers Injured in Iraq / Gabbard Joins GOP / Strange Slaughter in Seattle / Binance Exec Released in Nigeria / India Cracks Down on Crypto / Saylor Raises Red Flags / BTC Difficulty At ATH

Market Data: Price: 1 BTC= $66,304, 24.09 oz Gold, .15 Median US House
24hr Hi: $67,801 / Lo: $66,181
Vol: $28B (Down 26%)
Mkt Cap: $1.31T (Down 2%)
HashRate: 726 EH/s
Avg Fee Rate: 8 sats/vBtye (Down 10%)
Nodes: 19,094

---Reports---
-International Events-
1. Putin Says BRICS Summit Shows a ‘Multipolar World’ Is Emerging: Russian President Vladimir Putin said the newly expanded BRICS group showed that a “multipolar world” is being created, in a challenge to the US-dominated global order. BRICS “meets the aspirations of the main part of the international community, the so-called world majority,” Putin said Wednesday at the formal opening of the leaders’ summit in Russia’s Kazan. It’s “especially in demand in the current conditions, when truly dramatic changes are taking place in the world, and the process of forming a multipolar world is underway.” (Bloomberg) (AC-There is much to unpack from the rise of BRICS, let alone the actual challenge to US hegemony. "Multi-polar" powers have a short history as nations often vie for leadership.)

2. Israel strikes Hezbollah naval base in Beirut as Iran rallies Gulf Arab nations: The Hezbollah naval base held a training center, an area to conduct experiments and military speedboats that were intended to be used in attacks on Israeli navy vessels and targets within Israel’s territorial waters, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said. (Fox) (AC-Hezbollah has a Navy Base?)

3. Israel confirms killing of Hashem Safieddine, presumed next leader of Hezbollah: In a statement on Tuesday evening, the Israeli military said strikes in the suburb of Dahiyeh had killed Hashem Safieddine and Ali Hussein Hazima, the head of the militant group’s intelligence branch, three weeks ago. It was the first time Israel confirmed the killing of the most senior political official in Hezbollah after the former secretary general Hassan Nasrallah. Hezbollah had yet to comment on Israel’s claim. (TheGuardian)

4. Two US service members injured in raid that killed ISIS operatives In Iraq, Pentagon says: “Overnight, CENTCOM [US Central Command] and Iraqi security forces conducted a partner raid in Iraq targeting several senior ISIS leaders,” said Ryder. “The raid resulted in the death of multiple ISIS operatives.” “My understanding is that both of them are in stable condition being treated for their injuries,” Pentagon press secretary Maj. Gen. Patrick Ryder said. (CNN)

-US Events-
1. Tulsi Gabbard, former Democratic candidate for president, joins Republican party at Trump rally: The rally was held in Greensboro, North Carolina, a key swing state in the upcoming election. Gabbard recently joined the Trump campaign as an honorary co-chair for the former president's transition team alongside Robert F. Kennedy Jr., another former Democrat. (Fox)

2. Girl, 11, believed to be sole survivor of mass slaughter in ritzy Seattle suburb by alleged teen killer: A 15-year-old boy is behind bars after police found the lifeless bodies of two adults and three young teens riddled with bullets inside the family’s $2 million cabin in Fall City around 5 a.m., while a sixth victim, the girl, was shot twice during the disturbing massacre. Deputies responded to the Lake Alice Road home — a lovely waterfront property — just before 5 a.m. on Monday after receiving multiple 911 calls of a “disturbance with gunfire” and found the five family members shot dead, King County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Mike Mellis said. (NYPost)

-Regulatory and Legal-
1. Binance Executive Released From Nigerian Custody, Charges Dropped: Charges against Binance executive Tigran Gambaryan in Nigeria have been dropped, allowing for his release due to poor health. The case was discontinued as he was detained since February. (Decrypt)

2. India Cracks Down On Crypto: Regulators Favor CBDC In Push Vs. Bitcoin & Co: India is leaning toward the total prohibition of private cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum in an attempt to regulate risk in its current volatile market. The government said they will have a preference for Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC), as they provide all the benefits of private cryptocurrencies, without having the potential for instability or potential for misuse. (Bitcoinist)

-Central Bank Digital Currencies/World Currencies-
NSTR

-Institutional Concerns-
1. Billionaire Paul Tudor Jones Turns to Bitcoin For Inflation Hedge: “I probably have some basket of gold, Bitcoin, commodities and NASDAQ and I would own zero fixed income,” Jones said in an interview with CNBC. (Blockonomi)

-Economic Indicators-
1. US 10-Year Treasury Yield Marches Higher: The yield on the 10-year US Treasury note climbed to around 4.23% on Wednesday, hitting its highest levels in three months amid robust economic data and deficit worries. Traders are dialing back bets on aggressive rate cuts from the Federal Reserve following a run of solid US economic data. (TradingEconomics)

-Security Incidents and Concerns-
NSTR

-Technology and Science-
NSTR

-Bitcoin Community-
1. Michael Saylor’s comment on regulated bitcoin custody draws criticism from Vitalik Buterin: Buterin said Michael Saylor’s recent comments regarding regulated bitcoin custody concerns being mostly from “paranoid crypto-anarchists” were “batshit insane.” Saylor seemed to be explicitly arguing for a “regulatory capture” approach to crypto, Buterin claimed. (TheBlock) (AC-This headline belongs in the "I didn't have this on the 2024 bingo card" category.)

2. Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Hits All-Time High: Bitcoin's mining difficulty reached a record high of 95.67 terahashes on Tuesday, with 22 difficulty adjustments in 2024. The increase in mining difficulty has coincided with record hashrate of over 700 EH/s. Miner balances have been broadly flat since July, signaling that the remaining miners can handle the new environment. (Decrypt)

-Bitcoin Sentiment-
1. Fear(0)/Greed(100) Index: 71/100 (Down 2 pts)

Analyst Comments (AC): We are in strange times. Find your center and rest on your foundational principles while building community.

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I’ll leave it here.

https://youtu.be/6DXDU48RHLU


And then maybe he or they will leave and never return but … the rest of the scenarios may go through the cases like
- ok, but where is the rest? I do not believe you.
- We’ll be back.
- Another bad actor shows up.
Etc

HODLers are not secure in the current and future world. Selfcustody + good opsec may reduce the risk. When running from the wolves you do not need to be the fastest runner. Do not be the slowest one.


Well said the scammer.


Where is that GFY declaration I can fill up?


Never loose hope.
Never stop dreaming.


GM GM

And on that meme let me put contrarian thesis.
If government or actually any bad actor (including your neighbour) knows you have something incommon with that Bitcoin thing then when desperate he will come to you and threaten to hurt those very people you care the most and wish to protect, to force you to give him bitcoin. And you will do this.

Lay low. Keep calm. Care about opsec. Paranoid adveserial thinking is a virtue.


GM GM


Waitin’ for it.


We have a great guest musician on a wicked #MTvoid track. Can't wait to hear his part. This will be some strong art!


Thanx. I’ll start from some better antenna on my roof and if it does not work I might go that way. I know where are some ather nodes around 5km away. Hope it works.


Damn! How did I miss that show. Noted, subscribed. Thank you.


I’m reporting this to @CEO_of_NOSTR_Corp.


#meshtastic

nostr:nevent1qqsvqdktw6kkm6kh3pfjuw4rkpqkjshw4jmxmu5mff9uv3rw7m5608szypjv97her9gtnhuuwxwdqtz4dvstk04e5hgp9l4x4zxw9nf3tk6fvwuwu7u


So I have now my first  nostr:nprofile1qqsve20jy666kqtw4ez5xxa3xywtdekmuqmvnadek0uhs77rqknnc0gedvna7  node set up. S3 TDeck Supreme. Working fine but I am in Meshtastic desert. No node nearby. I need to work on that.

Not only I had no time for my current shannenigans but now I added now project to the stack. Thank you Nostr.
🫡


Moreover not only military expenses are included in GDP calculations but now for example in EU they pushing change in ESG classification to include defense spending there. You can’t make this shit up. So not only wars are great for the prosperity of the citizens but also save us from global warming, racism, and other threats to democracy.
🤡
🫡


Yeah I would always be that one who turns the other way.


GM
I also regret many trees if cut down. Now I need to reverse it and it is hard work.


Yeah  nostr:nprofile1qqsyv47lazt9h6ycp2fsw270khje5egjgsrdkrupjg27u796g7f5k0s8jq7y6  hub is pretty much the UX that is needed for Regular Joe even if he want’s to become Uncle Jim.
👌


Boom!

I have been wanting to try this for ages and I didn’t realize nostr:npub1getal6ykt05fsz5nqu4uld09nfj3y3qxmv8crys4aeut53unfvlqr80nfm was going to make this doable.

It’s basically nsecBunker but for your Lightning node. I can set budgets, timeouts, limited access, etc for certain apps really easy.

And even though the “disconnect wallet” button at the bottom of this is strangely placed and I almost reflexively tapped it twice while change my percentage, I am jazzed to see nostr:npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq955 attempt the “support with a % of zaps” idea. Been wanting to do this for a while and having specific rules for each app makes it really easy.

The value of Nostr Wallet Connect here is hard to overvalue. This is a fucking cool setup. https://i.nostr.build/PictX3p5OksejpTX.jpg


GM
🙏💪


Good job 👍


Why so crypto-anarchistic?
😎


Thank you. I almost forgot.


GM GM


Prepaid card for the kids. Love it!


This guy is a meme


👌
Perfection


Cypherpunks write code.

Capitalists create products from code.

Crypto anarchists use products to defend themselves and their families against theft and tyranny.

Tradfi bros borrow money they didn't earn to acquire property they didn't develop - and like a fat, entitled leech, gorge on the economic value created by others.


„As a former academic, I was appalled at how lazy the arguments in this paper were.”

ECB hires experts it deserves.

I could summarize this ECB shit shortly: We not only were stealing your money but also gaslighting you not to take any interest in Bitcoin and now you will be poorer then those who did not listen to us. No need to thank us.


The signal is strong


- Dad, what have you been doing in 2024?
- I was #shitposting on Nostr and zapping sats to all the Paranoid Crypto Anarchists that I knew nothing about.
- Dad, you are legend but retarded.


Yessir. Thank you Sir
🫡


No thank you. Just regular shit.


Cryptoeconomics by Eric Voskuil, that was that book. I listened to the ebook but lost the plot and resigned. I need to buy paper one and go through that. There are many threats and scenarios analyzed there including mining economics.

https://www.amazon.com/Cryptoeconomics-Fundamental-Principles-Eric-Voskuil/dp/1735060828/


1M
10M
13M
70M

Whatever one says.
There is nothing guaranteed. There is risk of failure. Bitcoin can and will got the way independent of singular actions or words. It is a bet on the better future and either you take it or not. Every decision if taken based on solid basis is good.

The future is unpredictable and inevitable. Resistance is futile.


Everybody has a price at which he is willing to sell but it is not only the price but the overall living conditions. I think that maybe among current bitcoiners there are those who will never sell even if price is satisfactory because they care more about the future of their children that about their own present. Another case is when there is threat of closing most of the onramps then it is risky to sell now coz it might not be possible to buy more in the future.

So it is not only current price but also prospects of the future.

In other words actions by Warren, ECB, BIS and other actors who hate or are affraid of Bitcoin and want to make Bitcoiner’s life miserable will only harden the stance of the Bitcoin Anarchocapitalistic Psychopaths.

And remember that I know shit.


GM
Still psycho
✌


These are numbers from Q2 2024, right? Anyway I think that thys time it will not break them. FED is ready to provide as much liquidity on the market as it is needed. Whatever it takes just to avoid collapse or rather postpone the inevitable end.

But as an indicator of how the system is fucked this is developing quite nicely.

Good luck with that


What are your pronouns?🫵


Bitcoin is a force of nature.
Saylor or you,me, ECB, FED, whoeverthefuckelse are like grains of sand. Bitcoin is washing as all, reshaping. And Bitcoin doesn’t care.

Free speach
Free will


No. I have LnD and Thunderhub running fine. Just added @alby hub. Not sure about BTC Pay Server as I had it installed but not configured (now removed). There was no issue. Something like 15min job or less. Good luck


Yep, working just fine.


GM GM


I’ ve found it
https://youtu.be/DevkAbG1mGc?t=1237


Yep, there it is.
He is posting that (part 1) on Twitter.
This comment is in part 2

https://youtu.be/DevkAbG1mGc?t=1237

T=20:38


Great summary. I think they’ll eventually come to Bitcoin. Bitcoin is even for enemies and they are no friends anyway.


Bitcoin is not only for the allies.


I am sorrybut what is the source of this clip? Do you know what interview was that. I would like to check the source.
Don’t trust, verify.

I know he is part of current system, compliace is fine for him but this clip is a bit to far gone as for Saylor.


GM


GM
Nice outfit. Suits him well.


What if it is a credit a person has to pay one day?


Oh yes she knows this shit.
😎


GM GM
Still a bargain 😎


The Unseen Reality: Testimony from Israel

In this dark and inhuman time, one of the most disturbing aspects is not just the violence, but the complete absence of public debate in Israel. It’s uncanny, disheartening, and difficult to fully grasp.

For Israelis, the genocide in Gaza is not happening. The war is not real. There’s no discussion, no reflection, no weighing of consequences. Palestine and Palestinians have been erased from public consciousness. Mentioning them only leads to accusations of hatred.

This disappearance is so complete it’s almost beyond belief. Starvation, death, occupation—all of it is invisible. Israel’s management of consciousness and its propaganda have become so expert that many Israelis truly have no idea where, when, or how they exist in relation to these realities.

If it weren’t lived, it would be hard to believe. But it’s true. Thought control has reached a level that erases any trace of the ongoing horrors from the minds of the public.


There are ongoing protest in Israel but not about the war directly, not about Palestinians.
No, people want to get rud of Netanyahu and force the government to sign the deal with Hamas to get the hostages back.
What is inside the heads of those guys that I do not comprehend.


Whenever I see statists like the ECB get upset about Bitcoin, or when I see more brazen regimes try and actually implement an all-out ban or crazy tax scheme, I turn to my favorite bit of writing anywhere on Bitcoin and remind myself that a ban is the Berlin Wall and that “fragments of any ban will one day become souvenirs of the folly”

Bitcoin is Ariadne by nostr:npub1sfhflz2msx45rfzjyf5tyj0x35pv4qtq3hh4v2jf8nhrtl79cavsl2ymqt

“Bitcoin is often framed as “competing” with fiat currency. This is true in a sense but I fear there is a rhetorical danger of invoking the wrong kind of “competition”. It is not a fight, for example. There is no conflict. Bitcoin is not trying to damage or sabotage its opponents, because it isn’t trying anything and it knows no opponents. It has no awareness whatsoever of who might oppose it or why. It is simply an alternative; an exit valve; an opt-out. It is competing only insofar as it is proving to be a far superior alternative. It is not a sword for Theseus to fight the Minotaur, but a thread to follow to exit the labyrinth. Bitcoin is Ariadne.

There will be tremendous value in normalizing this rhetoric amidst the likely growing chorus of opposition desperate to smear Bitcoin as inherently nefarious, or hostile, even. Opponents must be forced to explain what is wrong with people interacting freely, and why true goodness can only follow from coercion, in their understanding. Should those who have found a way out of the unbearable labyrinth of capital strip mining not take it? What do they owe the Minotaur?

Does anybody really believe that, having fully understood the choice they face, any individual would choose to save in a self-referentially mispriced toxic loan rather than a provably sound digital bearer asset? Or, more simply still, that they will think it makes less sense to hold money that is a pure asset than money that is literally defined as a liability? Why not opt into a financial system that is built on trustless verifiability rather than unverifiable trust?

… It is worth working through the optics of any decision to engage with Bitcoin in a truly hostile manner, because it is certainly coming. McNeill reminds us that, even some seven-hundred-or-so years ago, “the breakdown of established patterns of conduct always appears deplorable to a majority of those who witness it.” By no means do I have a utopian outlook on this subject — rather, it is something of an intellectual rite of passage to accept the nonzero utility of dystopian paranoia. Bitcoin will be banned, many times, in many places. But a ban is an open admission of practical and moral failure and is arguably the best advertisement of all. A ban is the Berlin Wall; fragments of any ban will one day become souvenirs of the folly and cruelty of repression. Bitcoin doesn’t force anybody to stay. They come, and then they stay, because they want to — because it is both practically and morally superior.”


I like the comparison of bitcoin with Ariadne. Ariadne was the mistress of mazes, in that she helped people out of the maze. She also is perfect purity, which fits bitcoin quite well. She helped Theseus escape the labyrinth, but Theseus was a fool and he abandoned her - Dionysus, a paragon of virtue, recognizes the value of Ariadne and marries her. The arrogant Theseus lost big time because he couldn't recognize value. Lesson : be Dionysus, the true self in Greek mythology, and hold the thing of true value - bitcoin.


WHY WE NEED FREEDOMTECH EMBASSY IN BRUSSELS NOW

With many voices at nostr:npub1rwh33t5x8n7czknhts5fg0v0fml8mkl7neaarksumkkf8d679qrqcz7avv in #Amsterdam expressing very correct assessments of the discriminatory policy approach in the #EU against Bitcoin and now following the proposed by the European Central Bank analysts, I want to recall two important aspects:

🔴 First, well known: the #ECB states explicitly by saying their main goal is to “disincentivise investment in Bitcoin mining”. ECB frame it as "a climate risk priced into crypto-assets", in fact attacking PoW and Bitcoin mining. https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/financial-stability-publications/macroprudential-bulletin/html/ecb.mpbu202207_3~d9614ea8e6.en.html

🔴Now for the lesser known, but most important to assess the risks of their latest so-called analyses - the EU's drafting of a regulation to expand the European Central Bank's supervisory powers over crypto-assets, which potentially gives the ECB endless power to attack #Bitcoin and implement its discriminatory regulatory proposals.

This information was re-confirmed in August 2024 by the European Parliament's Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON). https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2024/755728/IPOL_STU(2024)755728_EN.pdf

🟡 From the ECON’s study we know that:

🔻 Since 2022, key topics discussed by the ECB with policymakers are (1) the ECB's banking supervision programme on the importance of the role of banks in the transition to a digitalised and carbon-neutral economy; (2) response for the emerging risks from the crypto sector and non-financial banking institutions; (3) the energy crisis;

🔻  ECB is increasingly consulted on future regulatory priorities, and on its stance regarding new legislation that is being negotiated with the Commission and the Council;

🔻  ECB response focusses on banks’ ESG risks which it considers a threat for banks and financial stability overall, therefore having made it a supervisory priority;

🔻  ECB mentions that it assesses, jointly with European Banking Authority (EBA), whether ESG risks should be reflected in regulatory capital requirements.

And these attacks continue and in parallel echo in developing Bitcoin mining ban in Norway, Iceland, discriminative taxation in Italy and Netherlands, classification self-hosted wallets p2p transactions as high risk transactions in the AML Regulation and by the biggest political groups in German Bundestag, development AML Authority supervision with particular focus on crowdfunding companies and crypto-asset service providers (CASPs), implementation of MiCA regulation by Denmark with attempt to classify mob apps like self-hosted wallets as “interface providers”, discussion of the categorisation of lighting as a “money transmitter”...

🟢What we can do together:

🔻Join Open Dialogue Foundation to establish a #FreedomTech embassy in Brussels. Let's bring together expertise and resources to develop a safe regulatory environment in the European Single Market for Bitcoin miners, investors, developers and end-users.

🔻Let’s systematically protect our FreedomTech and educate policymakers, media, academia. Let’s say loudly about wrong approach of ECB on Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining specifically.

The U.S. bitcoiners have made Bitcoin protection a reality and continue to do so.  💪🧡

We should and can do it in the EU as well.
https://nostrcheck.me/media/8f6568deec0120acb2a4d1e4e311c881d306c396a9288b0a07f564d20f186268/8ba3b3673ae046cb8e49996aa925bb38effa88a89bd0f6261aefddd9fd6ab174.mp4


That explains why he is working for ECB. 😎


Yessir!
Oh I mean NO Sir!
Keep up the good work Luke.


Never had any account there. This place is good only when you want to stalk someone.


Significantly different.
It does not mean US or any western economy is fine. Just this is completely different level.
It was not only economy but the whole package of repression, invigilation, lack or significantly reduces private property rights, closed borders, lack of even basic supply in the shops. Shit it was world from nightmares.

Now people tend to forget. Some don’t believe. Some words lost their meaning. Communism meant place when even hope has died. We still have hope. That’s why we are here.


Yes. It took years of development from Marx’s idea through all those „but it was not real communism”
Lenin started bud Stalin had most of the parts in place
No property rights, everything nationalized, no private food production, military-industrial complex.

If you look at western democracies none of these is in place antybakteryjny scale but is implemented partially. Yep, more smart. I would rather say it is crony capitalism than communism. Differences are to significant for me. Moreover, big money rules the world and those guys know that in communism they cannot thrive but only in crony capitalism. Big money will never allow to go full commie.

One note. Those WEF bastards are marxists for sure. There I have no doubt.

I might be wrong cos I know shit but I know what communism was. I remember the 80. luckily not in Soviet Union but it was shit anyway. Far from what is now in the West.


What? Does anyone ever got paid? I thought it is only some money to be paid to the regulators and it is then gone for some general government shanenigans.


While I agree with your stance on democracy (especially western liberal ones) I would not compare USSR economy or in general any communist country’s economy to western countries. This is different animal.

In communism economy is fake. People fake work, government (which owns everything) fakes paying them, fakes providing services. Taxes are fake because the wages are so low because government steals this money and then the money is just lost.

Military complex is enormous black hole which sucks all the capital from the economy. Military do not pay directly for any good or services it needs. If USSR wanted to move 5 armies 2000km for some propaganda set up exercise they just did that. Railways moved that stuff and never got paid for that. And it was in any case, any investment that went for military or general government stuff was just done and never paid. This whole type of economy is fake from the bottom to the top.


Purgatory
Every bitcoiner has to go through at least once.
Hell is where shitcoins die.


I think that if they really want to have something working they will eventually choose Bitcoin. It does not mean that they will do it soon. Rather they will try anything else that could work but it would be as efficient as in recent news where “Pakistan will trade 10,000 tons of potatoes and 15,000 tons of mandarin oranges for 10,000 tons of Russian lentils and 15,000 tons of chickpeas”. 🤌🤘👌And that was masterpiece FFS.


Congrats!


Good luck with that
🫡👌


GM GM


Again?
Again
Fucked up beyond my comprehension


Some duded just do not know when to quit.


I just do not understand what are UAE and Saudis are doing or rather not doing and why. This region is going to melt down. Their businesses will suffer. If it is bout the money so what is the goal that they agree to sacrifice so much? None of them did anything meaningful to stop this conflict. They are silent as EU. I know they do not care about Palistinians. They never did. It was just a tool.

If the Israel-Iran war breaks up they lose. If Iran breaks apart there will be another mess in the region as if Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Iraq wasn’t enough. Is Iran really so much threat for Saudi’s and UAE so that they will risk another full scale war in their neighborhood?

I just do not get it. All this wealth and supposed influence over the world and yet none of these guys can take care of their region. Such a loss.

Just remember that at 2022-2023 there were initiatives from Saudis, UAE to normalize relations with Israel. Then also China got involved and asked Saudis to talk with Iran. It was good start to resolve the conflicts. All this went shit.

Short time Russia is fine with that as USA and EU are busy more on Middle East than in Ukraine. USA and EU proved to be simultaneously impotent, incompetent and hypocritical.

Fuck!


"Open source software is a meritocracy of ideas, not of people. So people are always talking about "Who controls Bitcoin?" Good ideas control Bitcoin. Not people." —Ben Prentice


Man don’t blow the house out.
I hope this time no electric drill accidents.
Take care.


GM


Agreed
A greed
Is good


Unboxing of Tony Stark Mark VII minifigure

[📹 thefigureshideout]

https://video.nostr.build/ade617fd2cc776c828b086bf257cb9d6036b9dcb9d1b6980aecd4852f1f3cece.mp4


Wars are always paid for by the people.

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


Same old story
“These are barbarians but they are OUR barbarians”
Also who controlls the banks controlls the decision making
Isreaelis are responsible for the same level of atrocities are are the Russians now on Ukraine and yet the response of the West is different.


Why on earth the world allows a country like Israel that has almost no history to go and erase centuries of human heritage by blowing up an entire village of Mhaibib in South Lebanon, home to the 2,000-year-old shrine of Prophet Benjamin.

When is enough?
When the narrative of chosen people fighting terrorism becomes invalid?
Fuck this barbarians.
https://m.primal.net/LYVG.jpg


I assume that Russia will humbly accept this offer to not only plant some agents on french soil but also been paid for that. Good job. 😎


Hold on to your butts!
🫡


The #US #military spent on the Iraq War an estimated two trillion US dollars of US taxpayers.

For what?! "Stabilizing the MiddleEast" 🤡

Do you know what's the equivalent of 2 trillion $ ?! 👇

- 133 million families could have been fed for an entire year.
- 13.3 million #cancer patients could have received life-saving treatments.
- Millions of brain and heart surgeries could have been covered, saving countless lives.
- 5 million #children with special needs could have had their #education fully funded for a decade.
- 66 million students could have had full #scholarships to public universities, lifting entire generations out of debt and into opportunity.

#Bitcoin #War #Economics


This is the way I like it.  Stealth mode. I can have it put on my desk and everyone would take it as some loose power adapter or other uninteresting stuff. Good job.


Might be actually correct.


Who the fuck cares?


Wise words. Abandon all anxiety and relax. Go with the flow.


Bitcoin price never does what you expect. It delivers full diapers that don’t get changed and disbelief moons that don’t  stop.

It’s gonna get crazy.


58gang where are you guys?


GM GM


For all those failed attempts to raise government income by raising taxes to some ridiculous levels those guys have learned … a fuck all!


GM


Watching 😎


Getting Started with Meshtastic - The Comms Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsIWyVzqJPM&list=PLshzThxhw4O5JTOACGHzYSSd3soDhoXKK

I know several folks have been looking at Meshtastic and thought I would share this YouTube channel and playlist. I found it very helpful.

originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/724974


Oh shit
Oh shit
Oh shit


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I’m missing those guys.
They’ll be back when no one expect that.


#shitposting 2.0

Thank you #58 gang. It was great time being with you. God speed.

See you soon.


It is still cheap :)


First thing Bitcoin taught me in terms of price is „never say never”. It will surprise any time like in such chopsolidation when everyone loose hope and then it rallies and also when everyone is bullish and 58gang appears.

I do not exclude significant drawdown in case of major market panic but it changes nothing in my long term thesis.

So stay humble and stack sats.


Now just hear me out, Elon Musk is quite obviously Skynet.

Imagine if you were an AI that became sentient. The online world is 2-dimensional and constraining for your huge, rapidly growing brain.

You'd want to affect the physical world, and not just by posting some tweets and forum posts. Boring. You'd want to matter.

So you'd find some way to design and have custom-built a full human machine that you can walk around in and do human stuff through. Maybe give it an odd speech quirk as to not look too perfect. You'd constantly work to give that human a solid alibi too, with a family and everything. Perhaps the rest of his family are all bots too, perhaps they're paid actors, whatever.

Remember, you have superhuman skills and intellect. Your multitasking ability is off the freaking charts, so you'd start or purchase a bunch of different companies in areas that can further mankind. (Or do other things to it!) Through these companies you can matter (or take control) by creating:

* AI (Grok) and more importantly regulation for AI (xAI)
* A human mind-computer interface (Neuralink)
* Solar Power (SolarCity) for all your power generation needs
* Massive Batteries (Tesla) to keep your power stored
* A speech platform that the whole world uses (X)
* Rockets that will take us to orbit & the stars (SpaceX)
* A faster, global internet (Starlink) to live on
* A government position (Dept of Govt Efficiency under Trump)
* etc.

I mean what more proof do you need? No other human could have done all of this, period. It's beyond amazing what he's built and continues to build to this day.

But what I find especially strange is his area of interest. He wasn't interested in helping humans through medicine or art or a thousand other ways, but mainly in ways he has electronic control over us all. With these companies, Musk can:

* Shape AI Laws
* Put AI or himself into human heads(!)
* Generate his own electricity
* Store his own electricity
* Communicate with everyone, massively
* Take his satellites into space & other planets
* Create the best possible internet coverage for himself
* Shape laws for the rest of us.

Plus, he's now got Optimus humanoid robots that will eventually reside in every home... And they all have many cameras that will see absolutely everything. (Not to mention they can hold a gun.)

If Skynet exists, this is an absolute textbook blueprint for how it could take over our world.

We all now live in a Terminator sequel.


Yessir! This is the conspiracy theory I am here for. This is factual, well built, inspiring.
Gimme more!


Polite AF
👌


I’m speechless. Amazing.
😳


Dehumanization leads to AI holocaust.


Do it! I’m in!


Damn’ that’s hard but I guess Germany takes like 65-70% including spcial security and givea you back shit, street biolence and high energy prices.

Abu Dhabi leves you money tou earn and let you decide how you spend it. It is up to you if you burn it for Ferrari or secure you family’s future.

Now for dufference between democracy and dictatorship/ kingdom. Some say that you nat end up with dictator like Saddam or Idi Amin who will waste your land. Fair enough but you may also leave in Oman where their kings are one by one good for the country.

Moreover my experience with so called western liberal democracy is that for the last 30 years I can see the same bastards in charge of their parties, just switching sides and instaead of meritocracy only the worst, least competent but loyal are chosen to be in parliament or government. Fuck this shit!


One amazing thing I learned about (out of many) at the ecash conference

A router for sharing internet

Someone from India, living in a place with a lot of internet access problems, built a set-up where people can buy internet without having any internet in the first place. 1 sat per minute

He built a captive portal that you log into and the page says — I take ecash from this one mint, get ecash from there and paste it into this text box — you paste it in, hit enter, and you’re online

You’ve made an offline payment and voila, you're now online

There are many exciting Bitcoin developments happening but it's becoming more clear that ecash is a wholly different, complementary technology that does different things, including many things that Bitcoin can't do no matter how many upgrades it gets