*note: this is not finished*

[Stack Sats](https://habla.news/u/bloggingbitcoin@nostrplebs.com/stack-sats)

[Code Is Speech, Cypherpunks Write Code](#)

[Crypto Means Cryptography](#)

[Get On Nostr To Get Sats](https://habla.news/u/bloggingbitcoin@nostrplebs.com/get-on-nostr-to-get-sats)

[RoboSats](#)

[Mutiny](#)

[Aqua Wallet](#)

[Sparrow Wallet](#)

[Run Your Own Node](#)

[Stainless Steel Is The New Precious Metal](#)

[ColdCard](#)

[KeyStone](#)

[Seed Signer](#)

[Specter DIY](#)

[Seed Picker on Tails](#)

[MultiSig](#)

[Colloborative Custody](#)

[Seed Hammer](#)

[Sell Hash](#)

[Build A Community](#)

Without Going Through A Financial Institution-A Bitcoin User Handbook

TL,DR I'm building a guide that teaches people how to use bitcoin in case the debt based fiat cash system "is on the brink" again.

This is a long form article, you can read it in https://habla.news/a/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzqadlydf3460e333fjkaqwxg7fz82636ew5m36c7hml2xhhsml2y4qpz4w6t5dphh2apdgahkjmn8942xsun0w4nkst2p94rxjmnpde3kjctv94ykuum5d9682arfdahz6sfdgf5hgcm0d9hz64tnv4ez6jrpdejxymm0dvnety48


#Nostr is what all those shitcoins during the ICO boom pretended to do, but without all the cryptographic securities fraud attached.

Docstr didn't need "docstr coin," or a blockchain to exist. That's why scams lilke filecoin are worthless. You need is #bitcoin and a little public key cryptography.

https://i.nostr.build/gZ7lG.png


Blogstack is back!

https://blogstack.io/


# Test

`print(Hello world!")`

Lorem **ipsum** dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing *elit*, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut sem nulla pharetra diam sit amet nisl. Sed risus ultricies tristique nulla aliquet enim tortor. Est ante in nibh mauris cursus mattis molestie a. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipiscing elit pellentesque habitant. Ullamcorper dignissim cras tincidunt lobortis. Vulputate sapien nec sagittis aliquam malesuada bibendum. Tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis. Morbi blandit cursus risus at. Dolor sit amet consectetur adipiscing elit pellentesque habitant morbi tristique. Dignissim cras tincidunt lobortis feugiat vivamus at. Parturient montes nascetur ridiculus mus <u>mauris</u> vitae. In ante metus dictum at tempor.

Tellus integer feugiat scelerisque varius. Eu tincidunt tortor aliquam nulla facilisi cras fermentum odio. Et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas integer eget. Semper auctor neque vitae tempus quam pellentesque nec. Dui sapien eget mi proin sed libero enim sed faucibus. Porttitor eget dolor morbi non arcu risus quis varius. Sagittis vitae et leo duis ut diam quam. Nec ullamcorper sit amet risus nullam eget felis eget nunc. Aliquet eget sit amet tellus. Feugiat nibh sed pulvinar proin gravida. Felis donec et odio pellentesque diam. Aliquam sem et tortor consequat id porta. Consectetur adipiscing elit pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et. Vitae et leo duis ut diam quam. Sit amet nisl suscipit adipiscing bibendum est. Nulla pharetra diam sit amet nisl. Sit amet purus gravida quis.

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## Test 2

Venenatis urna cursus eget nunc scelerisque viverra mauris. Egestas egestas fringilla phasellus faucibus scelerisque eleifend. Feugiat pretium nibh ipsum consequat nisl. Elit duis tristique sollicitudin nibh sit amet commodo nulla facilisi. Pharetra convallis posuere morbi leo. Nulla pellentesque dignissim enim sit amet. In nulla posuere sollicitudin aliquam ultrices. Lobortis mattis aliquam faucibus purus in massa tempor nec. Bibendum at varius vel pharetra vel turpis. Integer vitae justo eget magna fermentum iaculis. Adipiscing bibendum est ultricies integer quis auctor elit sed. Nulla facilisi morbi tempus iaculis urna id volutpat lacus. Arcu ac tortor dignissim convallis. Malesuada fames ac turpis egestas sed tempus urna et pharetra. Non nisi est sit amet facilisis. Vitae semper quis lectus nulla at volutpat diam ut venenatis. Adipiscing at in tellus integer feugiat scelerisque varius morbi enim. Morbi enim nunc faucibus a. Viverra ipsum nunc aliquet bibendum enim facilisis gravida neque convallis.

### Test 3

Erat imperdiet sed euismod nisi porta lorem mollis. Turpis massa tincidunt dui ut. Pellentesque adipiscing commodo elit at imperdiet dui accumsan. Nibh ipsum consequat nisl vel pretium lectus quam. Quis varius quam quisque id. Eu non diam phasellus vestibulum lorem sed. Fringilla phasellus faucibus scelerisque eleifend donec pretium vulputate. Ipsum a arcu cursus vitae congue mauris. Eget aliquet nibh praesent tristique magna sit amet purus gravida. Volutpat commodo sed egestas egestas fringilla. Aliquam ut porttitor leo a. Sed enim ut sem viverra aliquet. Sit amet venenatis urna cursus eget nunc scelerisque viverra mauris. Nulla malesuada pellentesque elit eget gravida cum sociis natoque penatibus. In ornare quam viverra orci sagittis. Amet massa vitae tortor condimentum. Vitae purus faucibus ornare suspendisse sed nisi. In ornare quam viverra orci. Eget mi proin sed libero enim sed faucibus turpis. Elementum tempus egestas sed sed risus pretium.

#### Test 4

Habitasse platea dictumst quisque sagittis. Ac turpis egestas sed tempus urna. Neque aliquam vestibulum morbi blandit cursus risus at ultrices mi. Faucibus turpis in eu mi bibendum neque. Ut ornare lectus sit amet est placerat in. Leo vel orci porta non. Sed egestas egestas fringilla phasellus faucibus scelerisque eleifend donec pretium. Pharetra et ultrices neque ornare aenean. Nulla porttitor massa id neque aliquam vestibulum morbi blandit. Aliquam id diam maecenas ultricies mi. Facilisi etiam dignissim diam quis enim.


Yeah. Too bad.


Great story. Can't wait to hear more people taking the purple pill gateway to bitcoin. 😀


This was spectacular.


It's been a few months since I've looked at this. 👀


I like current for neophytes because it  has no KYC and a 12 word backup. Just be up front with the risk of custodial wallets.


I did. 🤙


Do you happen to know the SatsMobiiBot endpoint by any chance?


1⃣0⃣0⃣


What could you possibly post that might get you banned?


Does Mutiny Wallrt have an API? #asknostr


Thank you sir. 🫡


That could work too, but yalls dot org has a paywalled email they call hashcash inbox. That could work on nostr DM's too.


Hashcash DMs!


Thanks. I'll switch my address.


Are you any good at poker?


It feels like people just talk here. Twitter is more like the the 2 minutes of hate in 1984, except they try to waste as much of your time as possible.


This WOT algo is interesting. 🤔

https://habla.news/a/naddr1qqxnzdes8q6rwv3hxs6rjvpeqgs98k45ww24g26dl8yatvefx3qrkaglp2yzu6dm3hv2vcxl822lqtgrqsqqqa28kn8wur


Good mornin'


"The most important feature of the Truth is that it has to be shareable."


Exactly. We also need to give corporations our credit card keys to pay subscriptions. The corporations raise their fees whenever they feel like it and their information gets hacked all the time. You can't download movies. You must pay them rent like a serf.


It took years for me to understand this.


Nobody believes the CPI anymore.


I've been thinking about this episode a lot lately, but it's something I've felt for a few years now.


Testing TPOS in sats  https://lnbits.blogging-bitcoin.com/tpos/EDw9ocnsCFhtEXXVDgNK9s


Testing TPoS priced i fiat. Testing TPOS priced in fiat  https://lnbits.blogging-bitcoin.com/tpos/EDw9ocnsCFhtEXXVDgNK9s


It's really neat. 😀


I meant micro. 😏


Find a wife that will buy you a Blockclock Mini for Father's Day.  https://i.nostr.build/aQV0B.png


Pretty.


It's like trying to read a book with fireworks in the background.


We need to make it cool to send PGP encrypted messages over Signal.


I use Signal. I like what she says, but how do we know she's not a spook?


Even walks work.


I read Bob Stupak's book about craps. Craps is the game where the casino has the lowest edge. It's like a country with the lowest tax rate. Sure, the taxes are low, but it's still a tax.


"Buy Sirius XM because Howard Stern is a radio legend."


I run Vault Warden on the clearnet using Umbtel and Cloudflare tunnel. It has a database of pwned passwords. It will give you a report. Try searching "blink182".


Have you thought about adding this to the nostr marketplace?

https://shopstr.store/npub1pt5ach6zl673r3wgjkc27za6h0szyc2erv8jfmh7ytqdnj5dq2rquawufz


This was a great podcast about anarcho-capatalism from a non-bitcoin podcast.

https://fountain.fm/episode/RlNwrFij7st5FC88oLat


Agreed. The fiat price maxis will not come to nostr. We must bring it to them in a sly, round-a-bout way.


Noice!


Think of anything you can do on the Internet: social media, eBay, Venmo, sharing pictures, etc.

Nostr let's you do all of this, but it's not owned or manipulated by any corporation.


Henhouse is an interesting use of cryptoanarchy.


I thought about it, but I've reached the "Sorry, I don't have time to explain it to you" phase of my bitcoin journey.


Today, at Wal-Mart, the people in front of me were complaining about inflation.

They're talking about the dollar crashing, not bitcoin.


Cool!


Got it.


#nsfw SPOILER ALERT!!!

...Bitcoin dies in the novel. How wild is that?


Sure, but Lionel Shriver, author of The Mandibles, got a whole coin.


# Get Sats With Nostr

This is not another orange pill, there are no more orange pill books to be written. Like Satoshi said, "If you don't believe me or don't get it, I'm sorry, bur I don't have time to convince you." This is a guide designed to teach you how to use bitcoin as peer to peer electronic cash and store your wealth for seven generations.

This is not about reading charts or looking for dildos that would make a great pattern for an ugly Christmas sweater. I offer no price predictions because in 150 years, your great, great, great, great, great, great grandchildren will read about the fractional reserve fiat ponzi scheme in history books written by large language models. Meanwhile, fiat is an endangered species.

The purpose of this guide is not to teach you how to make a million fiat bucks with bitcoin. The purpose is to teach you how to use bitcoin in case a million fiat bucks doesn't buy more than a bag of groceries. It is not financial advice. It's a drill. In the first chapter, I showed you the secret message Satoshi left in the genesis block, "Chancellor on the brink of second bailout for banks." In the second chapter, I wrote about why the Cypherpunks wanted private, electronic cash in the first place.

Covid taught us the collective tend towards authoritarianism during times of crisis(perceived or otherwise). If there is a crisis, expect the fiat price of bitcoin to crash hard, but resist buying fiat with your bitcoin. Buy gift cards for groceries with your bitcoin instead. Even the hodliest of hodlers needs to eat.

## The Social Bitcoin Payment Layer

Nostr has become the de-facto, social bitcoin payment layer. Most people still think of it as a boring alternative to addictive social media like Twitter, but it is much more than this. This guide is published on habla.news a website that allows anyone with an npub to publish long-form content. People can send me sats for this content and I can send sats to content creators and developers.

Nostr has a marketplace similar to what you might find on Zuck's face tracking book. It has YouTube like video and twitter spaces like audio. To use these tools, you will first need to create a public/private key pair. Your public key, npub, can be shared with anyone. Your private key, nsec, must remain a secret. If your nsec is compromised, your identity is compromised and we can no longer trust your notes are from you. That would suck, but it's good practice for storing bitcoin keys. If your identity gets compromised, you could spin up a new one. If you lose the keys to your life savings, it won't be so easy to get it back.

### Current, A KYC Free Custodial Bitcoin Social Wallet

## Current Tutorial
1. [Nostr](https://nostr.how) is a decentralized communications protocol that stands for notes and other stuff transmitted by relay

- Available on Google Play and The App Store.
- Available in the jurisdiction with the most draconian anti-privacy laws.
- Uses a 12 word backup
- Gives you a nostr key pair.that can be used with all nostr services.
- A way to get a free custodial lightning address.

Keep in mind that this is a custodial wallet so **not your keys not your bitcoin applies**. This is a beginner wallet that allows anyone on the nostr network to send you sats, but you don't want to use this for your life savings. The wallet also has cutting edge features like Data Vending Machines that allow you to pay for AI generated images and chats. You can even use AI to turn text to voice, but we will not cover these advanced features

1. Download the App at https://app.getcurrent.io
2. [Current has an excellent Guide here](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NLb9XvSZiIjng-OTtzEi_3KXjBUZdTc8/view)

### Video Tutorial
https://flare.pub/w/naddr1qqrkcn28fdn5j5qzyp6m7g6nrt5lnrrzn9d6quv3ujyw44r4jafhr43a0h75d00ph75f2qcyqqqgtwcefdcdw


How many sats?


This is super interesting.


Thanks for sharing. 🫡


Interesting idea and cool story. Can't wait 'till the site is live.


# Get On Nostr To Get Sats

![nostr](https://i.nostr.build/dwE03.png)

This is not another orange pill. There are no more orange pill books  to be written. Like Satoshi said, "If you don't believe me or don't get  it, I'm sorry, bur I don't have time to convince you."

This is not about reading charts or looking for dildos that would  make a great pattern for an ugly Christmas sweater. I offer no price  predictions because in 150 years, your great, great, great, great,  great, great grandchildren will read about the fractional reserve fiat  ponzi scheme in history books written by large language models.  Meanwhile, fiat is an endangered species. I understand **most people come to bitcoin for the fiat gains**. I suspect my blog would be more popular if I wrote things like bitcoin will reach $1,000,000 in 48-72 hours according to my scribbles transcribed over a price chart. Sorry, I can't tell you what the fiat price of bitcoin will be within 72 hours or 72 years. I don't have a crystal ball. I don't know how to measure the scarcest asset in the world against this:
 ![money printer go brrrrrr](https://i.nostr.build/Aa7zG.gif)

This is a guide  designed to teach you how to use bitcoin as peer to peer electronic cash and store your wealth for seven generations. I would like to turn it into a book and sell more books than the woman who wrote Harry Potter, but I also think it is important to keep this information free for anyone who cannot afford it. The amount of money printing is making me more and more concerned about fiscal stability of the global financial system. This is not financial advice. It is a life jacket. Think of it as a seat cushion in an airplane. I hope you never need this flotation device, but I want it available, just in case. I hope our great senile leaders can fix this, but I wouldn't hold my breath, so I want to teach people how to use bitcoin before it's too late. But first, let's pop the purple pill..=

![purple pill](https://i.nostr.build/4oG9W.png)

In the first chapter, I showed  you the secret message Satoshi left in the genesis block, "Chancellor  on the brink of second bailout for banks." In the second chapter, I  wrote about why the Cypherpunks wanted private, electronic cash in the  first place. The purpose of this chapter is to teach you how to use a custodial bitcoin wallet on a corner of the Internet where people use bitcoin for electronic payments. Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer electronic cash system that does not require a corporation or government. Nostr is The Internet without any corporations or government required to operate. If you sell stuff on Amazon, you must pay fees to Amazon. Therefore, Amazon is your master. If you sell stuff on a nostr powered marketplace like [Shopstr](https://shopstr.store/), you have no master.

Covid taught us the collective tend towards authoritarianism during times of crisis(perceived or otherwise). The [Twitter Files](https://twitterfiles.substack.com/p/1-thread-the-twitter-files) taught us there is a partnership with legacy social media and agents of the United States Government. If a legacy social media company in the United States is not controlled by a U.S. corporation, expect them to [ban it](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/23/technology/bytedance-tiktok-ban-bill.html) unless it can be sold to an US corporation. If the government trending towards a "closed society" [cuts off your bank account](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/how-bitcoin-fueled-canada-trucker-convoy) for protesting forced vaccinations, these communication networks become important. Nostr makes sending payments to bitcioners as easy as Venmo without any government imposed red tape.

## The Social Bitcoin Payment Layer

![payments](https://i.nostr.build/8GMag.png)

Nostr has become the de-facto, social bitcoin payment layer. Most  people still think of it as a boring alternative to addictive social  media like Twitter, but it is much more than this. This guide is  published on habla.news a website that allows anyone with an npub to  publish long-form content. People can send me sats for this content and I  can send sats to content creators and developers.

Nostr has a marketplace similar to what you might find on Zuck's face  tracking book. It has YouTube like video and twitter spaces like audio.  To use these tools, you will first need to create a public/private key  pair. Your public key, npub, can be shared with anyone. Your private  key, nsec, must remain a secret. If your nsec is compromised, your  identity is compromised and we can no longer trust your notes are from  you. That would suck, but it's good practice for storing bitcoin keys.  If your identity gets compromised, you could spin up a new one. If you  lose the keys to your life savings, it won't be so easy to get it back.
### Current, A KYC Free Custodial Bitcoin Social Wallet

![Current](https://i.nostr.build/GeL5k.png)

#### Current Tutorial

Nostr is a decentralized communications protocol that stands for notes and other stuff transmitted by relay

- Available on Google Play and The App Store.

- Available in the jurisdiction with the most draconian anti-privacy laws.

- Uses a 12 word backup

- Gives you a nostr key pair.that can be used with all nostr services.

- Includes a free custodial lightning address.

Keep in mind that this is a custodial wallet so **not your keys not your bitcoin** applies.  This is a beginner wallet that allows anyone on the nostr network to  send you sats, but you don't want to use this for your life savings. The  wallet also has cutting edge features like [data vending machines](https://www.data-vending-machines.org/intro/?ref=blog.mutinywallet.com) that  allow you to pay for AI generated images and chats. You can even use AI  to turn text to voice, but we will not cover these advanced features in this guide.

To get started, download the App at https://app.getcurrent.io

Current has an excellent [Guide here](https://getcurrent.gitbook.io/basics-how-to-start-with-the-current-app).

### Video Tutorial

nostr:naddr1qqrkcn28fdn5j5qzyp6m7g6nrt5lnrrzn9d6quv3ujyw44r4jafhr43a0h75d00ph75f2qcyqqqgtwcefdcdw

₿logging ₿itcoin
[848,231](https://timechaincalendar.com/en/block/848231 )
[debtclock](https://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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📻 [Stream sats on Fountain](https://fountain.fm/show/Y1kKCn4gk9sReVP8hwPt)
🎉[Send a Boostagram](https://fountain.fm/show/Y1kKCn4gk9sReVP8hwPt)
🛒[Shop The Elliptic Curve Economy](https://habla.news/u/bloggingbitcoin@iris.to/shop-the-bitcoin-circular-economy)

TL;DR

Nostr is a decentralized communications protocol. It is important because as societies become less open, they become more authoritarian. Bitcoin addresses can be censored on legacy social media so we need an alternative when government/corporate freedom becomes scarce. This is a quick guide on how to get started with nostr and earning sats.

This is a long form article, you can read it in https://habla.news/a/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzqadlydf3460e333fjkaqwxg7fz82636ew5m36c7hml2xhhsml2y4qqvxwet594hkuttwdaehgu3dw3hj6em9wskhxct5wvflr4la


No problem. You'll need one of these.

https://lightningaddress.com/


I understand. I look forward to reading it one day. Hopefully I'll find your new nym oh habla.news and  highlighter.com


She has a chart.

https://bitcoinfinancialadvisorsnetwork.com/does-bitcoin-make-retirement-planning-obsolete/


Do you mean something like unleashed.chat?


If you spend 2% of your stack per year, it will last 50 years. How much does 2% of your stack need to be worth to take a year off? Times that number by 50. If you think you'll live longer than 50 years, adjust accordingly.

It's Morgen Rochard's idea, but I agree.


Congratulations! Where do you write?


I was onboarded to bitcoin ten years ago on Twitter. If not for ChangeTip, I never would have bought any.

I would rather onboard precoiners onto nostr than say "Buy bitcoin." You should not "invest" in things you don't understand.

Nostr is like Galt's Gulch on the Internet.  We use #bitcoin. This is not an asset you send your fiat to a financial institution in the hopes of getting more fiat. It is peer-to-peer electronic cash. You might want to get some in case the money printer go brrrrrr breaks the economy, but do what you want


No problem. I like poetry.

I wrote a blog about this a few months ago.

https://bloggingbitcoin.substack.com/p/stacking-sats-on-substack


I started using substack and add zapper links and lnbits paywalls. I haven't made much, but it's early. Try adding this to your website.

https://zapper.nostrapps.org/zap?id=npub16jad3sjdf0hynxhmpzpsuuwazqlxrcq824kjpw3w7wr8ldt3xm0q0zq4nn


War is obscene.


Welcome. Cool photo.


Yes!


The miniPC's are great. I got a couple Bosgame's for $400 a piece. I'm also too old for old PC's.


Thanks for sharing.


Is this what you're talking about?

 https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/how-to-set-up-your-own-private-rtmp-server-using-nginx.50/


I need to research this more.


🤮

Crypto means cryptography. Finding pretty girls to market fiat-scam ponzi coins is not crypto, nor a radical shift in anything. It's good ol' fashioned fraud.


Could be, or maybe Covid was made to cull the herd.

I'm just speculating. Could be both the disease and the vax.


This is awesome!

nostr:nevent1qqsy3lat2vn2jkw4vk8fd4vdpz6qqwp8ple2vyy9r3q927d5uc8mhrqpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgtczyrz5l8rq99x2pqr2sm6t2sgf3ulmm75nu0l6t6jh4qr92smuxsjf5qcyqqqqqqg085qwd


I think it's both, but I can't stand the anti-payment propoganda.


This is the way. 🤙


I just listened to WBD this morning myself, but I don't kniw what registering with fincen even means.

I like the stuff about Zapright and Mutiny.


When words do not come, it helps if I take a walk.


Shamir secret sharing sucks. 😉


# Fiat Subscriptions Suck

Yes, but we can win a major battle in the arms race and gain a new territory of freedom for several years.

Governments are good at cutting off the heads of a centrally controlled networks like Napster, but pure P2P networks like Gnutella and Tor seem to be holding their own.

-- [Satoshi](nostr:note1u4sqlh9vyz5tvk4vhq9uw3efhcmpqc659ca7unrwms60hmhfnu6qgevgtn)

I was a big Napster nerd back in the day. until the drummer from Metallica got his leather panties in a bunch so I  began to use p2p alternatives like Gnutella, Lime Wire, and BitTorrent. BitTorrent was, and still is glorious, but the intellectual property police disagree. Therefore I no longer download copyrighted material using BitTorrent.

I still use it to download books and software in the public domain. I still pay for Spotify to listen to music, but it kinda sucks for them. It's easier than using BitTorrent for me, but I would prefer to pay the artist directly while downloading their music. Aside from maybe Taylor Swift and Beyonce, most musicians don't make that much money off these subscriptions. For example, according to the Spotify website, a musician who has 10,000 monthly listens and owns 100% of royalties can expect to earn $23.80. A musician like [Ainsley Costello](nostr:npub13qrrw2h4z52m7jh0spefrwtysl4psfkfv6j4j672se5hkhvtyw7qu0almy) gets 654 listeners a month for a whopping royalty check of $1.56. That's barely enough money to buy a single thing at the Dollar Tree!

A thousand sats was about 70 cents. that means my one 1,000 sat zap was worth as much as 407 ears. In other words, each listen earns $0.002. The people paying money to support musicians instead of downloading the music for free on BitTorrent allow the artist to earn 1/5 of a penny. Therefore most musicians would be better off using podcasts like Fountain
I bet Lars would make more money too.

## My Blog's Business Plan

I don't know what a successful Medium writer makes, but I guess it's similar to the way Spotify pays musicians. I hear Substack can be lucrative, but I don't want to earn fiat. I want to write about bitcoin and get paid...I don't know..." without going through a financial institution," as Satoshi described in the white paper.

**This blog is written under the Creative Commons Licence**, using the Value 4 Value model. I publish all my articles on GitHub. It's a free and open source blog. You are free to use it however you want. All I ask is for attribution. I also publish these blogs on nostr. Therefore, they can be read here

https://highlighter.com/bloggingbitcoin@nostrplebs.com/posts

and here

https://habla.news/u/bloggingbitcoin@nostrplebs.com/

I write about a blog a week. I will send out one of these blogs every Monday with a short synopsis and a paywall.

### What if I'm a cheapskate and don't want to pay 500 sats?

You can still read the article on highligher.com, habla.news,  or GitHub. I also publish it on Ghost over TOR.

http://4l2l6ts6mjiybalowepplgfc3df4hahz3vwavi6vnhsidhchmffiw6yd.onion

You can zap me at the end or zap me next time.  I don't want anyone who can't afford less than two bucks a month to miss out on any of my articles. Just do me a big favor. **Share it on legacy social media to help me grow my audience**. You might have noticed I suck at graphic design so if you can help me make a better banner--That would be awesome too!

**What if I want to send more?**
Of course, you can! Each article has a [a link that lets you zap me any amount](https://nosl.ink/tadiqmv-). **10% goes to OpenSats**.

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I'm sending my nostr blogs out on Substack using a paywall. The blog is still free for anyone to read, but I'm trying this to start earning some sats.

This is a long form article, you can read it in https://habla.news/a/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzqadlydf3460e333fjkaqwxg7fz82636ew5m36c7hml2xhhsml2y4qqtkv6tpwskhxatzwd3hy6tsw35k7mnn94eh2cmt37m0wj


>[Lengthy exposition of vulnerability of a systm to use-of-force>monopolies ellided.]>>You will not find a solution to political problems in cryptography. Yes, but we can win a major battle in the arms race and gain a new territory of freedom for several years. Governments are good at cutting off the heads of a centrally controlled networks like Napster, but pure P2P networks like Gnutella and Tor seem to be holding their own. Satoshi

This is a highlight created in https://highlighter.com


Many of us don't understand social hierarchies, myself included.

Why do people think somwone is more important, smart, distinguished ot whatever because they're wearing uncomfortable clothes?


This is why I hate cars. I know you're really into them, but my dream car is no car. I just want to bike and Uber everywhere.


I second that motion. 🙋


True, but some writer's like Gigi encourage people to translate his work to other languages. AI just makes it easier.


Damn! That's cool.


Dollars feel great, but look they like Monopoly money.


I'm a sucker for spending sats on hats. I would buy this one.


This is so gross.🤮


Yes. I think about this often.


I'v been Experimenting with LNbits paywalls.  What do you think of something like this?

https://lnbits.blogging-bitcoin.com/paywall/FVh6gJDQsWwaLpmcXB6hze


This is pretty cool. I've been looking at these.
 https://docs.start9.com/0.3.5.x/developer-docs/packaging#choosing-software

But I don't totally understand all of this yet. Making it into a Docker container is the first step though, right?


It's very Orwellian.

"Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia."

Kinda vibe.


Thank you! 🫡


Same concept. All flags matter.


I can't seem to get NIP88 subscriptions to work on highlighter.com. Get alby says I'm connected. There are sats in my wallet. It says payments are authorized, but the zaps don't happen. What am I doing wrong? #asknostr


The last thing these devs want to do is write software documentation. But documentation is actually one of their most important forms of marketing to new users and documentation writing and maintenance often inadvertently uncovers bugs and workflows that need to be redesigned.The simple solution is to have their most-enthusiastic users writing the documentation for them, which is now simple to do, with the wikis that are being built. Simply find your favorite apps and begin documenting things you typically do with those apps, or write an overview page showcasing your favorite features, including screenshots.


This blog is supported using the value for value model. All my blogposts are licensed under the Creative Commons license because I just can't see writing about FOSS like bitcoin and nostr behind a paywall or asking people for dirty fiat.  Don't like any of the options you see?  check out my [pay me whatever you want paywall](http://lnbits.blogging-bitcoin.com/paywall/eVUUT3yCvGL6QPnNWYeSoR).

What kind of perks would you like? I'm not sure what to put here.


Awesome!


I think about this all the time when I hear non-bitcoiners talk about inflation. It's been around 13% where I live.


Damn. I needed those sats. :)


👀
nostr:nevent1qqsfkqr257rllmsdv7h4srpupat32pt6ft277fz6peeclsha5mwldyqpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgtczyrafsj7hmweg9ur7zmn6apajdg48hxuskujx53rhrux0ttjcqx84yqcyqqqqqqg2jwjn3


Agreed. We need payments to keep bitcoin decentralized. That won't happen if people become blackrock btc etf maxis.


Financially illiterate masses are easy to control.


Oh, no wonder I didn't notice. I don't give a damn about these people are told to say.


Get this, some people still use savings accounts that pay 0.01% interest.😱


This are just some of the things I read on normie news today. I obviously disagree.


That's what I suspect.


Happy unbirthday.


I still find it hard to believe people running for president, too old to understand email, have opinions about #bitcoin.


What's this about?


Trump reportedly met with bitcoin miners at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday. The meeting, which included leaders from bitcoin mining firm CleanSpark Inc. and Riot Platforms, is his latest overture to the crypto sector — and the tech sector as a whole — as he strives to establish cryptocurrency as a dividing line between him and his rival Biden as they vie for second terms in the White House. He reportedly told attendees he loves and understands cryptocurrencies, according to Bloomberg, citing CleanSpark chair Matthew Schultz. Schultz told Bloomberg Trump vowed to be an advocate for bitcoin miners in the White House at the meeting and said miners could help stabilize energy supply from the grid.


The reasoning behind several key assertions in Trump’s post — namely that bitcoin will defend against a central digital currency, that mining will help the U.S. become “energy dominant” and that embracing bitcoin will help the U.S. against its domestic and foreign enemies — is unclear. It is unclear how embracing cryptocurrency would deter the Fed from establishing a digital U.S. currency and it’s possible widespread uptake of cryptocurrencies in the U.S. could even encourage it to move quicker on the issue. By energy dominance, it’s possible Trump is not referring to the energy used up when mining cryptocurrency but the regulations in place governing where that energy comes from. Bitcoin mining is notoriously energy intensive and was estimated to account for as much as 2.3% of national electricity consumption in 2023. In recent years its hefty environmental footprint has come under heavy scrutiny. Biden’s proposed budget for 2025 has suggested ways to mitigate mining’s environmental impact, such as a 30% tax on miners’ total energy costs. This would be in line with his other criticism of Biden’s environmental policies. Trump’s national security angle is harder to parse, especially given bitcoin’s well-documented potential to aid illicit activity, terrorism and sanctions dodging. It is possible Trump is raising the speculative privacy concerns surrounding a central bank issuing its own assets in a sector renowned for its anonymity and privacy.


“We want all the remaining Bitcoin to be MADE IN THE USA!!!,” Trump said in a late night post to his social media platform Truth Social.


I'd bet 10,000 sats they did not use nostr.


She explains it well on this episode of blue collar bitcoin. It probably helps to havw some background knowledge of the 4% rule.

https://fountain.fm/episode/vNWi6NUY1Sz0ohOu9qMp


Check your DM's. I sent you a link to a self-destructing message that can be accessed over TOR using this software.

https://github.com/Start9Labs/burn-after-reading


That was going to be my next suggestion.


I'm thinking about doing a tutorial because so many people asked, but keet is probably best for something like this.


Conscription sucks.


Me too. This framing makes perfect sense.


This is the best blog I've read about bitcoin retirement.

https://bitcoinfinancialadvisorsnetwork.com/does-bitcoin-make-retirement-planning-obsolete/


For retirement planning with bitcoin, traditional methodologies face a paradigm shift due to the unique characteristics of the asset. The conventional compounding principles and safe withdrawal rates are rendered obsolete, necessitating a shift towards an actuarial approach. By estimating life expectancy and determining withdrawal rates based on retirement age, individuals can calculate the amount of bitcoin needed for retirement. However, the integration of fiat currency introduces complexities, requiring projections of anticipated expenses with inflation rates. Additionally, the timing of retirement in relation to market conditions, especially considering bear vs. bull market years, becomes crucial to avoid potential income shocks due to bitcoin’s volatility. This prompts the consideration of converting a portion of holdings back to fiat for stability during turbulent times. In this intricate landscape, careful planning and an adaptable strategy are essential for those seeking to navigate retirement with a concentration in bitcoin holdings.


As an illustration, if an individual aims to retire at 55, his withdrawal rate would be 2.22%. Should this individual calculate his anticipated retirement expenses to be 1 bitcoin annually, basic arithmetic would reveal that saving 45 bitcoins would enable him to spend 1 bitcoin each year for the ensuing 45 years of retirement.


Instead, we must project anticipated retirement expenses, accounting for inflation, and employ an expected rate of return for bitcoin to estimate the future value needed. In this scenario, the conventional safe withdrawal rates don’t apply to the bitcoin segment of the portfolio. Rather, the same actuarial table presented in this article becomes the tool for navigating bitcoin and the Trinity Study withdrawal rates for any remaining fiat.


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Without Going Through A Financial Institution-A Bitcoin User Handbook


My friend's dad is a gold bug and I haven't seen him in a few years until last week.

He said, "I heard about that big bitcoin crash. Sorry about that."


Are your groceries still getting more expensive?


Happy birthday.


Thanks for sharing.


Fast food prices are insane these days.


"If we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them."

-Karl Popper, The Open Society And Its Enemies

In the last chapter, Satoshi Nakamoto embedded a secret message into the bitcoin genesis block, "Chancellor on the Brink of a second bailout. 15 years earlier, Eric Hughes wrote A Cypherpunk's Manifesto. This document marks the beginning of the Cypherpunk movement and the quest for private e-cash. It is a short essay and I encourage you to read it. It is only 12 paragraphs. You can also listen to [Guy Swann read it on Bitcoin Audible](https://bitcoinaudible.com/a-cypherpunks-manifesto/).

"Privacy is necessary for an **open society** in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn't want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn't want anybody to know. Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world."

This is a strange concept in today's world because we are now in the electronic age. At this point in history, the open society might be all but gone. People often take the attitude, "I am not doing anything wrong, so I have nothing to hide," but that's not the main problem. Doing something wrong might not be the only reason you want to hide. You might want to stop getting ads for things Google hears you say or baby clothes from Facebook because your cousin just had a baby.

What if your identity becomes a reason for suspicion? Yesterday, you were an average law-abiding citizen, Today, you are ordered to report to a nearby horse racing track. You and told your family will stay there until further notice. Your property is confiscated. This is not the conjuring of a paranoid fictitious story, this is what happened to people of Japanese descent after the government of Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. History is full of examples like this. Peaceful countries go to war, they become totalitarian. One day you live in a fun, free open society. The next day, you are put on a no-fly list, sent to Auschwitz, or become an illegal alien because you left a country dealing with hyperinflation. Maybe this will never happen in your country again, but you can bet bitcoin something like this will happen somewhere, sometime, someplace. What if one day you and some man with a gun and uniform tap your shoulder and say, "Papers please?"

What will you tell him?

**I'm not doing anything wrong**."

Hughes also writes about financial privacy in this essay. Many Cypherpunks have argued financial privacy is even more important than e-mail privacy. Financial privacy is not just about your bank selling your information to advertisers. The surveillance system gives governments and corporations super-villain powers. Centralized payment systems can be weaponized so they will and have been weaponized. Examples of financial weaponization include [Executive order 6102O]9https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102) [Operation Chokepoint(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Choke_Point), [Canadian Trucker Protest](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/freedom-convoy-cryptocurrency-asset-seizure-1.6389601).

Cypherpunks like Hughes were ahead of their time. In A Cypherpunk Manifesto, Hughes writes, "Since we desire privacy, we must ensure that each party to a transaction know only of that which is directly necessary for that transaction. Since any information can be spoken of, we must ensure that we reveal as little as possible. In most cases, personal identity is not salient. When I purchase a magazine at a store and hand cash to the clerk, there is no need to know who I am. When I ask my electronic mail provider to send and receive messages, my provider need not know to whom I am speaking what I am saying, or what others are saying to me; my provider only needs to know how to get the message there and how much I owe them in fees. When my identity is revealed by the underlying mechanism of the transaction, I have no privacy. I cannot here selectively reveal myself."

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Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tlzx0CYmtn0

Since most digital tools such as email and financial transactions are not private, there appears to be a government-corporate partnership between email, and all financial transactions. Many places no longer accept cash. The government is becoming more intrusive. Governments censor Twitter, shut down social media controlled by China, and many places no longer accept cash. Bitcoin is not 100% private, but we can achieve relatively decent privacy even though the government does not want to lose the power of surveillance.

Bitcoin was not created by what disenfranchised normies call "capitalism," the rigged Wall Street system, that allows hedge funds to short assets they don't have but turn off the buy button when the little guy figures out how to beat them at their own game. Traditional finance is a system where the central bank can just print money out of thin air, loan it to the banks, and allow the banks to print more money to pay back the loan. This system is a far cry from the "invisible hand" Adam Smith wrote about in 1776. There is a hand, but it is not invisible. This is not the laissez-faire capitalism that Ayn Rand wrote about in *Capitalism, The Unknown Ideal*. It's a mixed economy, with parts taken from dead economic systems like capitalism, communism, socialism, and fascism. It is all of these, yet none of these, a Frankenstein like amalgamation of various economic ideologies. The Federal Reserve is modeled after the fifth plank of the Communist Manifesto:

"**Centralization of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly."**

Financial surveillance we are subject to is a fascist wet dream that was technologically infeasible to achieve 80 years ago. In the dystopian novel 1984, Orwell couldn't conceive of a world where people paid for surveillance tools with their own hard-earned, easy money. No, this is not capitalism, fascism, or communism. Governments around the world have created something some French economists are calling [Dirigisme](https://www.britannica.com/money/dirigisme), an approach to economic development emphasizing the positive role of state intervention. [H/T Natalie Smolenski](https://x.com/NSmolenski/status/1786129515359371284) **Bitcoin fixes this**.

### Centralized Electronic Cash

Bitcoin was not the first attempt at electronic cash. There have been many predecessors. [Hashcash](http://hashcash.org/) is more akin to a digital postage stamp than cash, but the underlying mathematics behind this stamping system is the backbone of the [bitcoin time-chain](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitcoins-blockchain-is-the-timechain).

Before bitcoin, there was:

[DigiCash](https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/digicash.asp)

[https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/digicash.asp]

[b-money](http://www.weidai.com/bmoney.txt)

[bitgold](https://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2005/12/bit-gold.html)

[RPow(Reuasable Proof of Work](https://nakamotoinstitute.org/finney/rpow/index.html)

### Bitcoin: A Peer-To-Peer Electronic Cash System

The Bitcoin [white paper](https://nakamotoinstitute.org/library/bitcoin/) was sent to the Cypherpuink's mailing list on October 31, 2008. It is only nine pages long and has a lot of math. When I first read it, I did not understand much of the math, but I could tell this was a historical document because of its significance. You get the feeling you're reading something like the Rosetta Stone. In the calculations portion of the paper, Satoshi even translates math to c code like the Rosetta Stone translates Greek to Egyptian Hieroglyphics.

![convert to c code](https://i.nostr.build/q62Kn.png)

Don't worry, you will not need to learn any of this math to use bitcoin. This guide is only concerned with the first few sentences of the Abstract,

"A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another **without going through a financial institution**. Digital signatures provide part of the solution, but the main benefits are lost if a trusted third party is still required to prevent double-spending. **We propose a solution to the double-spending problem using a peer-to-peer network**."

Contrary to what much of mainstream media will tell you, bitcoin is not useless. It allows one party to send payments to another party without going through a financial institution. Despite all the financial surveillance, almost nobody saw the Great Financial Crisis coming. Nobody was arrested. You might think Bernie Madoff was arrested, but his Ponzi scheme had nothing to do with the Great Financial Crisis. He probably would have gotten away with it for much longer except people panicked and when they panic they want their money. Nobody noticed Bernie Madoff never had any of their money until the panic set in.

The double spending problem is not one you hear of often, but maybe it is more accurate to describe it as counterfeiting. If I spend a hundred dollar bill for a bicycle, it is a fair transaction because it is only spent once and received the bicycle. Maybe you use the money to buy a scooter, but it's the same money being circulated into the economy. If I print a copy of my hundred-dollar bill, I can buy the bicycle and the scooter. If I print more copies, I never need to spend the original hundred dollar bill and can buy all the two-wheeled vehicles in town. The problem is you can no longer buy the scooter for $100.00 Now you need to buy a scooter that will cost $200 because I reduced the available supply of scooters in the economy and the laws of supply and demand explain the rising prices. Printed money allows privileged people the ability to purchase more property and who has more privilege than the money printers?

If you replace the word bicycle with a single-family home and the counterfeiter with a bank using fractional reserve--You have the same dynamic on a larger scale. The Bitcoin Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash system is a 100% reserve system. Nobody can create more bitcoin than is pre-programmed to be released. In other words, the bitcoin on the bitcoin system cannot be double spent. If you keep your bitcoin in another system like FTX or an ETF, "the main benefits are lost" because a "trusted third party is still required to prevent double-spending."

It's not that I am afraid of Wall Street changing the rules of bitcoin. I don't believe they will ever make bitcoin increase the supply on the network. I don't even necessarily think they will sell paper Bitcoin. I think they might be able to play games like this for a little while, but will eventually get caught by people watching the network.

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https://bitcoin.org/en/bitcoin-paper

Privacy Is Necessary For An Open Society In The Electronic Age

This is an article that explains some of the motivation behind the quest for anonymous digital cash that began with Eric Hughes'  Cypherpunk's Manifesto published March 9, 1993.

This is a long form article, you can read it in https://habla.news/a/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzqadlydf3460e333fjkaqwxg7fz82636ew5m36c7hml2xhhsml2y4qql8qunfweskx7fdd9ej6mn9vdjhxumpwfuj6en0wgkkzm3ddacx2m3dwdhkx6t9w3uj66tw946xsefdv4kx2cm5wfhku6tr94skwegux9qgg


Welcome.


Glad to see this. I would love to read your thoughts here:

https://habla.news/p/npub1n3sjlzmhpu8rl56umtptc4lua6zkretq2p82yhytnmlcuq639vlqd0te5l


https://keet.io is also pretty easy. People can be as anonymois as they want to be.


Nah.


They have so many bitcoin audiobooks.🫠


What if we just upload the videos to https://keet.io and paste the link to a broadcast only room ?


I remember seeing Penn Jillette say this would happen in a vlog about a dozen years ago. Looks like this day finally came.😢


"If we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them."

Karl Popper, *The Open Society and Its Enemies*.


I use the nostr.build paid subscription. You can also host your own videos using something like peertube or immich.


👀

Well...This is interesting.


At the very least, they should have some sort of proof-of-reserve.


I don't drink anymore, but I liked scotch and mineral water back in tbe day.


PGP


What do you mean by UTXO bank?

Do you mean a Fedimint  + ecash like Mutiny wallet?


You can also use oaknode on Umbrel, but you need your own lightning channel.


Check out the backstage pass on highlighter.com


What is this?


The rulers make the rules. This is why we can't have free market capatalism in a Republic.


I like the greeen tea from Costco that has matchta inside. https://i.nostr.build/O4r3A.jpg


Is that the powdered green tea stuff?


If you're technical, use an anonymous remailer.

https://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/index.html

If you're less technical, use https://github.com/Start9Labs/cups-messenger on Star9.

You can run somethibg like this on an old computer, even a raspberry pi if it's all you're running.


Yeah it is.


I've been thinking about this quote from Eric Hughes lately.

"Privacy is necessary for an open society."

I never delved into the term "open society" until recently.

It looks like the term comes from Karl Popper.

https://fountain.fm/episode/RIL2W39LtR1VM0Xpqbgp


I was being a little tongue & cheeck, but money isn't the only value. Sometimes, it's easy for bitcoiners to forget this because we spend so much of our time thinking about money. ☺


Current is open source nostr client that gives you a custodial lighting address. This means anyone on nostr can send you bitcoin as easy as common corporate walled payment gardens. It also lets you back up your nostr identity by writing down 12 words. This makes it good practice for backing up cold storage wallets.
 https://app.getcurrent.io/

This is a video event and can be viewed at https://www.flare.pub/w/naddr1qqrkcn28fdn5j5qzyp6m7g6nrt5lnrrzn9d6quv3ujyw44r4jafhr43a0h75d00ph75f2qcyqqqgtwcefdcdw


In eight years, I suspect you're net worth would be more if you rent than buy.

I compared my parent"s house in southern California to gold in 1989(the year they bought) Gold would have done better, so renting + stacking the difference is a better bet if your net worth is your only value.

If you live in a van and stack sats, your net worth will be even higher.

If you live in a tent and stack sats, you'll be super rich.

If you live under a bridge and stack sats, you will become as rich as you can possibly be.

Money isn't the only value though. Maybe living under a bridge means you're worth 100 million in 8 years, but owning a house means your worth 50 million. I would choose the house, because of the marginal theory of return, but value is subjective. If I was single, I would live in a van.


This is the way.


Welcome.


Don't zap this. This is a throw away account I created for a tutorial.


I swear. Everyrime I plan on doig it, this hsooens. 😢


Guess I won't open up a lightning channel today. https://i.nostr.build/9z5QQ.jpg


I've never tried berry bread, but it looks pretty good.


Thanks.


What was the blog?


They're so out of touch.


I used a coffee grinder and scale to measure 1 gram of grinded mushrooms. Then I tried 2 grams. That was the sweet spot for me.


I've done it. It feels like meditation.


What's tge URL?


"Privacy is necessary for an open society."


I love Yubikey.


Fix The Money, Fix The Music

!zap](https://i.nostr.build/5GxXg.png)

Bitcoin is not my first rodeo with peer -to-peer technology. In college, I was a big Napster nerd which makes me old enough to remember downloading Metalica songs over the telephone line. Each song took about 34 minutes to download until we got high speed Internet a few year later. Suddenly, the music industry lost it's walled garden. Lars, the drummer for Metallica, was pissed because anyone with an Internet connection could just download their music via file sharing. The record labels were scared so they used the long arm of the law to sue kids downloading stuff on their computers. They did not understand that [information wants to be free](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_wants_to_be_free).

Napster was shut down, but the cypherpunks created [BitTorrent](https://www.bittorrent.com/) in reaction to this news. BitTorrrent downloads pieces of each song using distributed hash tables and other nerdy cryptographic stuff. At one point, [Bittorrent accounted for about 35% of Internet traffic](https://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-is-still-the-king-of-upstream-internet-traffic-but-for-how-long-220304/) This made the record companies change tactics and introduce streaming services, also known as subscription hell. These services require the listener to pay a monthly fee to stream any music they want. Nowadays, it's easier to just pay the $16.00 a month or whatever the music service ransomware fee is these days, to listen to any song you want.

The trouble is, the lion's share of the money goes to the suits, while the artists get pennies, if anything.  This gives power, and most of the money to corporations, while simultaneously screwing the artists. There are other alternatives like Tidal who promise to give more of the money to the musicians. but nostr now gives us another way to support our favorite musicians with something called value for value...Ugh..I'm not sure what the hell this is called--But it's freaking awesome! **It allows us to pay musicians in interesting ways without going through a recording Industry institution**

For example, while listening to The Bitcoin And Podcast, Nunya Bidness said the following(transcript from [fountain](https://www.fountain.fm/)):

![zap splits](https://i.nostr.build/Ledam.png)

![podcasting 2.0](https://i.nostr.build/q6z2M.png)

This is not the first ime Nunya Bidness has done this, but this was the first time I heard him play an artist I've seen on nostr. Come to think of it, I've also seen her on BlueSky and I know she held some zapstream concert a while back. The combination of these things made something in my brain click so I boosted this part of the show. Then I went on Twitter to ask Ansley if she got the zap. She happened to be on some Twitter Spaces or something, but was kind enough to reply back to me.

![she says she got the zap](https://i.nostr.build/5GxXg.png)

Nostr Gives Power Back To The People

To recap, I was dong chores while listening to The Bitcon And Podcast. The host of the show, Nunya Bidness told us about [Wavlake's](nostr:npub1yfg0d955c2jrj2080ew7pa4xrtj7x7s7umt28wh0zurwmxgpyj9shwv6vg) new nostr alternative to TicketSlaveMaster(nostr:note1dqhyujc8hd3mvqxcymvemawfelz022mjvec2a5xqhxmt2c3jfqfqj93pnn) named TicketBot. Here's a quote from WavLake's blogpost.

"The potential here is great. Imagine an artist having the ability to  sell tickets to preferred individuals at scale, using prior engagement  as a way to filter out the true fans from the resellers. Tickets could  be verifiable using cryptography. Once sales open to the public, the  availability of tickets could be transparent for all to see. And any  secondary market sellers would not have to be locked into a specific  website.

All of this is possible."

This means, nostr can fix scalping. The tickets can go to the fans willing to pay sats to the artist before being released to the rent-seeking ticket scalpers. No exclusive credit card benifits that let people with good social credit scores buy tickets first. It gives power to see concerts to the true fans instead of the people with VIP credit scores that cane game the system. In other words, it removes the [Cantillon effect](https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/the-cantillion-effect) ticket scalpers enjoy, but I digress.

Nunya Bidnes set up zap splits on his podcast 2.0. Podcasting 2.0 apps like Fountain.fm allow you to send stream or boost sats to your favorite content creator. Nunya Bidness is on the cutting edge of this technology. He set up his podcast to automatically forward boosts sent during the music plying portion of the show to the artist. Thus, when I sent a thousand sats to is podcast, fountain.fm forwarded those thousand sats to [Ainsley Costello](nostr:npub13qrrw2h4z52m7jh0spefrwtysl4psfkfv6j4j672se5hkhvtyw7qu0almy). This is what we can do with programmable money. It doesn't need to stop there. In the future, we can use this technology to:

Pay bills

Use Smart Home technology without surveillance.

Make charitable donations

The future is bright orange.

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This is a little story about how I was able to send zap a musician by sending a boost to a podcast while her song was playing on the fountain.fm podcasting 2.0 app.

This is a long form article, you can read it in https://habla.news/a/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzqadlydf3460e333fjkaqwxg7fz82636ew5m36c7hml2xhhsml2y4qqdkv6tc946xsefdd4hkuete94nxj7pdw35x2ttdw4ekjcc04z953


This is a big deal. How do we get normies to switch?


Could be. They're talking about the old Chaumian central mint stuff, but maybe only because that was the only thing available. Maybe they would be interested in going in a new direction. A lot of people automatically dismiss e-currency as a lost cause because of all the companies that failed since the 1990's. I hope it's obvious it was only the centrally controlled nature of those systems that doomed them. I think this is the first time we're trying a decentralized, non-trust-based system.

This is a highlight created in https://highlighter.com


Great job. 🤝


Damn that's cool.


I see the classic 'stay humble, stack sats" pattern.


Got it. Thanks. 🤙


👀
port 5000...Is that LNBits?


what's fw?


Great idea. Creed sucks. 🤣


Hell yes!

nostr:nevent1qqsx0e5xjq9fvtzfl2jqthp9fmd4r2dyhj9ce67sgzphfgzqn7qxj3qpzdmhxue69uhk7enxvd5xz6tw9ec82c30qgsreyrqgt5gnuypvx2c3xqteu0tef49gscz9ttdmqs94w3xj4mjz2crqsqqqqqpy2g0q5


That's so cool🔥


I don't even look at my home as an investment. My garden is an investment, but my home does nothing but cost me sats.


I grew up in Whittier, CA. It wasn't as nice. We had gangs. 🤣


I'm not from there, but I visited as a kid. My grandfather was a commercial fisherman. He caught crab and salmon out of the San Fransisco Bay. They lived in a Duplex. My great grandmother lived downstairs. She always gave me Toll House cookies and milk, but it always smelled like there was some sort of natural gas leak.

My grandfather and step-grandmother lived upstairs. It was the coolest house ever.

Mill valley is magical, like a town you would see in a movie.
🤙🫂


My grandparents and great grandmother lived in Mill Valley. It's my favorite place on the planet.


I'm not sure. Maybe like a month ago.


My niece was on America's Got Talent.

https://i.nostr.build/XVjeR.jpg


Fascinating.


Nsec confirmed. I see it on amethyst.


Videos are available on nostr build premium.

You can always host your own video with something like peertube or immich.(this one is on umbrel)


Nostrudel is interesting.


Pretty.


There are so many better options to talk to people these days. It's a shame most people use phone numbers like it's 1924.


I see what you did there.


It's pretty insane already. The episode you did with Knut was 🔥. I love how you mentioned backstage passes on Highlighter and long-form content.


At times, I feel like I'm wasting my time writing about and testing all of this stuff.

Whenever I begin to feel this way, I read this quote from A Cypherpunk Manifesto.

”Cypherpunks write code. We know that someone has to write software to defend privacy, and since we can't get privacy unless we all do, we're going to write it. We publish our code so that our fellow Cypherpunks may practice and play with it. Our code is free for all to use, worldwide. We don't much care if you don't approve of the software we write. We know that software can't be destroyed and that a widely dispersed system can't be shut down."

Then I remember why I'm here and I write a little more or try new software.


It's great.


What's the mint?


Ah man. That sucks.


If only we had lightning. 😠


The Federal Reserve runs the world. The uniparty appoints the people to run the Federal Reserve.


It's different for plebs who are all in than it is for pensions.  https://blogging-bitcoin.com/pensions-vs-plebs/


You're not the first person I've heard say this. Even no-coiners sense something is wrong.

Just stack as hard as you can. It will be enough eventually.


"Trusted third parties are security holes."

--Nick Szabo.

nostr:nevent1qqsty05ucevugxkaj3sehtwguvhmuu235qnmtddqxg07gmlpvz27l7qpr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmp0qgszdxct9q9enerjfkh4wx9xerjp93vjd8xyw2nsk3etrt8smmy3hjsrqsqqqqqpuku0nc


What is this?


It's already interesting.


npub.cash is another good option.


Aqua wallet is easy so is minibits.cash, but I think it's Android only.


It's Guy Swann's new podcast about Holepunch stuff.


https://fountain.fm/episode/MyIucEf5hVoN3xsQmhbg

😀


I'm running Nostrudel using a docker container on PopOS! I am posting this note from my laptop connected to that computer using holesail.  Check out Guy Swann's The Pear Report to learn more.

https://fountain.fm/episode/MyIucEf5hVoN3xsQmhbg

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


I can no longer add github repos. I'm not sure why.


🤔 good question, but the reason I like unchained chat is because I can do amazing stuff for pennies worth of sats instead of paying $5,000 for a bad ass AI machine.


SAME WITH MY WIFE! 🤣 She puts a random episode of friends on when we go to bed every night.


Thanks. That's good to know. I use Jellyfin because my wife always said, "I wish Netflix had a random button."

She wanted to click a button that would play a random episode of Friends.

Jellyfin fixes this. 🤣


I never got into Plex. What do you like about Jellyfin better?


BTCSessions has an Umbrel video, and I highly recommend his YouTube channel, but I haven't watched it.

I use Umbrel for my non-bitcoin software. Do you want a tutorial that teaches you how to use Jellyfin with Umbrel?

https://umbrel.com/


Check out this podcast to learn more.

https://fountain.fm/episode/MyIucEf5hVoN3xsQmhbg


I'm still learning, but it's peer to peer computer networking.

Reverse TOR proxy's make me want to pull my hair out. This makes a website you run on your desktop or Start9 available to other computers using public key cryptography.

In other words, you can launch a Minecraft server with three lines of code.

 Or....An LNbits instance with a TPOS  and a Jukebox at a brewery that accepts bitcoin. 😁


The fact that I can run a website on my Intranet and still broadcast notes, send ⚡zaps⚡ will never cease to amaze me.


Roger Ver had one of these poloshirts before becomming a bcasher.

I always thought it was a nice way to present the bitcoin logo.


Thanks for sharing this.


What polo shirt printing service do you recommend?


I like the idea, but it makes me a little uncomfortable.


yeah, actually 3 of them lol, but I'm trying to run this one using wholesail, but I don't underatand it very well yet.


Testing nostrudel on docker image running on popOS!


Yeah. I just run this on an Umbrel. It's not that hard.


This answered my question, but it's just seems to good to be true. 😉 https://highlighter.com/e/note1vxtd7w99g3p2cy7kjv7u9vp6pq8xa6cztslj7efjgfepgku8wa6s0502y8


Holesail Liveports

Join our Discord Support Server

Features

Instantly share your localhost website with anyone in the world and see what your friends are building.

    Expose your localhost on the internet
    Connect to anyone's localhost through a connection Key


I know who you are. 😊 Thanks for building holesail.

Does the website broadcast to keet from VSCode with the extention?


Nationalism always made me a little uneasy, but I like much of the writing from the Enlightment Age.


This is the first I've ever heard of rtsp, but you might be on to something.


In a perfect world, the film makers would get zap splits.


Jellyfin is pretty cool.

We should onboard more FOSS projects onto nostr so we can zap them.

#grownostr

https://i.nostr.build/6GjLR.jpg


This is awesome. Thank you. 🤙


What are the Keet Rooms you speak of? May I please get an invite? I have some questions about this.

https://i.nostr.build/yqBz5.png


Wow. This takes censorship resistance to a whole new level. Is it just photos or video and audio too?


Is the Libertarian National Convention available online yet?

#asknostr


I love the nostr integration. It's like Venmo for Bitcoiners.


How many sats to rent a house?


It's about 11k sats for a cup of coffee in California. It's insane.


Stay home. Stack sats.


The bitbox is the only signing device I haven't used.

What's the best feature it ships?


I read *I Will Teach You To Be Rich* to get a normie finance perspective. He literally said bonds are a great investment because the government can just print the money.🙄


Agreed. There are some good financial advisors, but they ussually charge a fee.

The people shilling a traditional "60/40 "well diversified portfolio" are mindless corporate drones selling bad debt for a commission. I don't know how anyone selling bonds can sleep at night, but I auspect they have no idea what they're doing.

In the future(well in the present actually) , people will still need help setting up multisig, use passphrases, and run nodes. That's the only advice worth the sats.


That's what I'm thinking.


Holy shit!

I don't vote, but I'm grabbing some popcorn this election.

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia1.giphy.com%2Fmedia%2F2UvAUplPi4ESnKa3W0%2Fsource.gif&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=41a881fd8a6695e5a31ab16a95bb3a3cb913e499daabd549ebbd7d42b7d32bef&ipo=images


## Value 4 Value

https://v.nostr.build/0jg59.mp4

## Suporters

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nostr:nprofile1qqst9kvvpampwsd4rkjgjdnk6jxwmh7ekc99geqaz7h8vfyn98hq7scrgu7hn

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I like minibits.


I'm a zapsteam noob. I can see the chat, but the video froze. Is that normal?


great idea. I want to leave the house without my phone more often.


I made it


![stay humble, stack sats](https://i.nostr.build/lLnlA.png)
### Stay Humble,  Stack Sats

"Stay humble, stack sats" is a term used by Matt Odell that summarizes the investment thesis of every Bitcoiner. Staying humble is the art of accepting that we do not know what the price of bitcoin will be in the short term. A "crash" is one China ban or unscrupulous exchange rug-pull away.  Those who were rug-pulled think bitcoin is a scam, but the people who understand how the protocol works and take self-custody of their wealth will have an opportunity to stack more sats.  Be the latter group, not the former.

In other words, sats flow from those who do not understand bitcoin to those whom understand bitcoin. The bitcoiners who take self custody of their bitcoin are un-ruggable because they hold their own keys. The SBF's of the world cannot gamble away our sats because they do not own our sats.

A common trope among pre-coiners is, "don't invest in things you don't understand."  This is good advice, but bitcoin is not an investment. It is money built on a decentralized computer network. It is created by laws of mathematics not government.

📸 study bitcoin.

**The purpose of this guide is to teach you how to stack sats without going through a financial institution**".  History is filled with examples of breaches of trust, monetary debasement and currency death, the result is double-spending.

This is a counter-culture created by  bitcoiners who run nodes, mine bitcoin, write code or create bitcoin art like paintings, books, and music. Each bitcoin wallet has an identity, like a fingerprint that cannot be changed. It is binary in a non-binary world, freedom in an unfree world. "Stay Humble, stack sats," is a great tagline. The alliteration is phenomenal, but the way I see it, the goal is to **earn sats, spend sats, and save sats**.

Take your time. It won't happen over night. There is much to learn. Most people have heard the advice, "don't invest in things you don't understand." This is great advice. If you do not understand bitcoin, you will almost certainly lose money. Some scammer will call you and give a scary story or tell you you they will give you more bitcoin if you deposit some with them first. Some of these are akin to Nigerian prince emails. Other times, famous people on Twitter get hacked and say they will send 2 bitcoin for every one bitcoin you send them.  This one time, a company bought ad space on the biggest bitcoin podcast and told everyone they would pay a 7% yield on bitcoin deposits. The most recent heist was pulled off by some vegan pervert who claimed to be an autistic genius and effective altruist. The  plain fact is, solving the double spending problem means there is no way to recover your bitcoin if it gets stolen or swindled. You must be vigilant. One whole bitcoin might be worth 10 million dollars in ten years, but if your bitcoin gets stolen or lost, you and your posterity will be unable to spend it.

To protect ourselves, we must:

**NEVER GIVE ANYONE YOUR 12 OR 24 WORD SEED PHRASE**

**REMAIN AS PRIVATE AS POSSIBLE**

**STAY HUMBLE**

Staying humble is not as easy as it sounds, but it is necessary. If you get too over-confident, you might make mistakes. Mistakes can be disastrous. We have all heard stories of people combing through landfills hoping to find laptops worth hundreds of millions of dollars. You don't want to be that guy. The goal of this guide is to teach you how to use bitcoin as it was meant to be used--as [peer-to-peer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer-to-peer) electronic cash.

## What Is Bitcoin?

![bitcoin logo](https://i.nostr.build/resp/360p/wGDmL.png)

"*Writing a description for this thing for general audiences is bloody hard. There's nothing to relate it to.*"--Satoshi Nakamoto

**Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer electronic cash system**. This is a simple sentence composed of nine words to describe a new monetary system [Satoshi explained in nine pages](https://nakamotoinstitute.org/library/bitcoin/). It contains a lot of math most people don't understand and that's just the calculus. The white paper doesn't have any cryptography because much of the cryptography behind the bitcoin timechain comes from Adam Back's [HashCash](http://hashcash.org/). Therefore, bitcoin is difficult to explain to a general audience because it is a synthesis of many different components very few people are familiar with. Understanding the intricacies of bitcoin requires background knowledge in distributed computer networking, public key cryptography, Austrian economics, computer science, game theory, calculus, probability, and the history of money.

Most people  receive very little( if any) education about these subjects in public school and only a small percentage of college graduates learn anything about these subjects. This makes the bitcoin white paper a work of art very few people can appreciate. I had no idea what most of the White Paper meant when I first read it because I knew almost nothing about these subjects back then. I never heard of cryptography and failed Algebra II in high school and I never took calculus either. I was obsessed with low-stakes, limit hold 'em before studying bitcoin, but that gave me just enough background knowledge to understand this was a serious project.

![gambler's ruin](https://i.nostr.build/zdoRd.png)

Satoshi Nakamoto was a brilliant mathematician. He made me realize math is a language like C++ or English. He often translated the code into math, math into code, and code into plain English. In many ways, the bitcoin white paper is like the Rosetta Stone, but one can argue it's historical significance is greater than the Rosetta Stone. This may sound like a bold statement to the uninitiated, but I consider it to be a work of art. I believe anyone with an average IQ can comprehend the bitcoin white paper given enough time, and I encourage you to read it. Then study bitcion more. Read it again. Rinse and repeat.

For the purpose of this guide, however, we will only focus on a the first few sentences.

![whitepaper](https://i.nostr.build/oM0LW.png)

*A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution. Digital Signatures provide part of the solution, but the main benefits are lost if a trusted third party is still required to prevent double-spending. We propose a solution to the double-spending problem using a peer-to-peer network.

The purpose of this guide is to teach you how to use bitcoin the way it was meant to be used-- without going through a financial institution.

### Explain It To Me Like I'm 5

A decade ago, bitcoin was difficult to learn, but now we have cartoons. This guide aims to make bitcoin easily understandable by anyone with a high school education. If you want to know the gist of why bitcoin is important, watch this three minute clip of the first bitcoin cartoon. You don't need need to learn much about math to use bitcoin if you don't want to. You just need the basic idea behind what the math accomplishes. Here is a three minute explanation from the Tuttle Twins.

![tuttleTwins](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BL5vUVQvmX4)

## This Is Not Financial Advice

Bitcoin is math. This guide is written from the perspective of a dad teaching his kids how to use that math to save bitcoin **without going through a financial institution**. This is education not financial advice. The point of this guide is to teach you how to stack sats. A million sats is a million sats. I can't predict when a million sats will buy $10,000 and even if I could...Who knows what $10,000 will buy. This guide is bitcoin only and is not concerned with measuring this peer-to-peer electronic system to the money printer go brrrrrr fiat system.

There are no guarantees and it is written with no warranty. **If you lose your keys**, no one can help you spend your bitcoin. As Satoshi said, it becomes a donation to everyone on the network. Therefore it is important for you to remember the following:

**NEVER TYPE YOUR KEYS INTO A COMPUTER CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET**

**NEVER GIVE YOUR KEYS TO SOMEONE ASKING FOR THEM.**

**NEVER SEND BITCOIN TO SOMEONE WHO CLAIMS HE WILL GIVE YOU MORE BITCOIN IN RETURN**

## Financial Institutions Are The Double Spending Problem

![bailout](https://i.nostr.build/resp/360p/YgRZP.jpg)

The bitcoin white paper was released on October 31st, 2008. The software went live on January 3rd, 2009. The day the genesis block was born using an obscure branch of mathematics known as cryptography. Crypto means secret and graph means writing.  Therefore, cryptography is a type of secret writing that has existed for thousands of years.  Satoshi left a secret message in the scriptsig(hex) of this block. I said is not necessary to learn much about math if you want to use bitcoin, but the math in the first block is one exception. To the uninitiated, this is just a random string of letters and numbers, but it is actually a huge insight into why bitcoin is important and what solving the double-spending problem achieves

**scriptsig(hex)**
04ffff001d0104455468652054696d65732030332f4a616e2f32303039204368616e63656c6c6f72206f6e206272696e6b206f66207365636f6e64206261696c6f757420666f722062616e6b73

### Challenge 1

**Decrypt the secret message Satoshi left in the genesis block.**

[Video Tutorial](nostr:naddr1qqrkuw2gwdaxj7qzyp6m7g6nrt5lnrrzn9d6quv3ujyw44r4jafhr43a0h75d00ph75f2qcyqqqgtwc23zmhl)

**Why do you think Satoshi left this message in the bitcoin genesis block?**

![stay humble, stack sats](https://i.nostr.build/lLnlA.png)
### Stay Humble,  Stack Sats

"Stay humble, stack sats" is a term used by Matt Odell that summarizes the investment thesis of every Bitcoiner. Staying humble is the art of accepting that we do not know what the price of bitcoin will be in the short term. A "crash" is one China ban or unscrupulous exchange rug-pull away.  Those who were rug-pulled think bitcoin is a scam, but the people who understand how the protocol works and take self-custody of their wealth will have an opportunity to stack more sats.  Be the latter group, not the former.

In other words, sats flow from those who do not understand bitcoin to those whom understand bitcoin. The bitcoiners who take self custody of their bitcoin are un-ruggable because they hold their own keys. The SBF's of the world cannot gamble away our sats because they do not own our sats.

A common trope among pre-coiners is, "don't invest in things you don't understand."  This is good advice, but bitcoin is not an investment. It is money built on a decentralized computer network. It is created by laws of mathematics not government.

📸 study bitcoin.

**The purpose of this guide is to teach you how to stack sats without going through a financial institution**".  History is filled with examples of breaches of trust, monetary debasement and currency death, the result is double-spending.

This is a counter-culture created by  bitcoiners who run nodes, mine bitcoin, write code or create bitcoin art like paintings, books, and music. Each bitcoin wallet has an identity, like a fingerprint that cannot be changed. It is binary in a non-binary world, freedom in an unfree world. "Stay Humble, stack sats," is a great tagline. The alliteration is phenomenal, but the way I see it, the goal is to **earn sats, spend sats, and save sats**.

Take your time. It won't happen over night. There is much to learn. Most people have heard the advice, "don't invest in things you don't understand." This is great advice. If you do not understand bitcoin, you will almost certainly lose money. Some scammer will call you and give a scary story or tell you you they will give you more bitcoin if you deposit some with them first. Some of these are akin to Nigerian prince emails. Other times, famous people on Twitter get hacked and say they will send 2 bitcoin for every one bitcoin you send them.  This one time, a company bought ad space on the biggest bitcoin podcast and told everyone they would pay a 7% yield on bitcoin deposits. The most recent heist was pulled off by some vegan pervert who claimed to be an autistic genius and effective altruist. The  plain fact is, solving the double spending problem means there is no way to recover your bitcoin if it gets stolen or swindled. You must be vigilant. One whole bitcoin might be worth 10 million dollars in ten years, but if your bitcoin gets stolen or lost, you and your posterity will be unable to spend it.

To protect ourselves, we must:

**NEVER GIVE ANYONE YOUR 12 OR 24 WORD SEED PHRASE**

**REMAIN AS PRIVATE AS POSSIBLE**

**STAY HUMBLE**

Staying humble is not as easy as it sounds, but it is necessary. If you get too over-confident, you might make mistakes. Mistakes can be disastrous. We have all heard stories of people combing through landfills hoping to find laptops worth hundreds of millions of dollars. You don't want to be that guy. The goal of this guide is to teach you how to use bitcoin as it was meant to be used--as [peer-to-peer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer-to-peer) electronic cash.

## What Is Bitcoin?

![bitcoin logo](https://i.nostr.build/resp/360p/wGDmL.png)

"*Writing a description for this thing for general audiences is bloody hard. There's nothing to relate it to.*"--Satoshi Nakamoto

**Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer electronic cash system**. This is a simple sentence composed of nine words to describe a new monetary system [Satoshi explained in nine pages](https://nakamotoinstitute.org/library/bitcoin/). It contains a lot of math most people don't understand and that's just the calculus. The white paper doesn't have any cryptography because much of the cryptography behind the bitcoin timechain comes from Adam Back's [HashCash](http://hashcash.org/). Therefore, bitcoin is difficult to explain to a general audience because it is a synthesis of many different components very few people are familiar with. Understanding the intricacies of bitcoin requires background knowledge in distributed computer networking, public key cryptography, Austrian economics, computer science, game theory, calculus, probability, and the history of money.

Most people  receive very little( if any) education about these subjects in public school and only a small percentage of college graduates learn anything about these subjects. This makes the bitcoin white paper a work of art very few people can appreciate. I had no idea what most of the White Paper meant when I first read it because I knew almost nothing about these subjects back then. I never heard of cryptography and failed Algebra II in high school and I never took calculus either. I was obsessed with low-stakes, limit hold 'em before studying bitcoin, but that gave me just enough background knowledge to understand this was a serious project.

![gambler's ruin](https://i.nostr.build/zdoRd.png)

Satoshi Nakamoto was a brilliant mathematician. He made me realize math is a language like C++ or English. He often translated the code into math, math into code, and code into plain English. In many ways, the bitcoin white paper is like the Rosetta Stone, but one can argue it's historical significance is greater than the Rosetta Stone. This may sound like a bold statement to the uninitiated, but I consider it to be a work of art. I believe anyone with an average IQ can comprehend the bitcoin white paper given enough time, and I encourage you to read it. Then study bitcion more. Read it again. Rinse and repeat.

For the purpose of this guide, however, we will only focus on a the first few sentences.

![whitepaper](https://i.nostr.build/oM0LW.png)

*A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution. Digital Signatures provide part of the solution, but the main benefits are lost if a trusted third party is still required to prevent double-spending. We propose a solution to the double-spending problem using a peer-to-peer network.

The purpose of this guide is to teach you how to use bitcoin the way it was meant to be used-- without going through a financial institution.

### Explain It To Me Like I'm 5

A decade ago, bitcoin was difficult to learn, but now we have cartoons. This guide aims to make bitcoin easily understandable by anyone with a high school education. If you want to know the gist of why bitcoin is important, watch this three minute clip of the first bitcoin cartoon. You don't need need to learn much about math to use bitcoin if you don't want to. You just need the basic idea behind what the math accomplishes. Here is a three minute explanation from the Tuttle Twins.

![tuttleTwins](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BL5vUVQvmX4)

## This Is Not Financial Advice

Bitcoin is math. This guide is written from the perspective of a dad teaching his kids how to use that math to save bitcoin **without going through a financial institution**. This is education not financial advice. The point of this guide is to teach you how to stack sats. A million sats is a million sats. I can't predict when a million sats will buy $10,000 and even if I could...Who knows what $10,000 will buy. This guide is bitcoin only and is not concerned with measuring this peer-to-peer electronic system to the money printer go brrrrrr fiat system.

There are no guarantees and it is written with no warranty. **If you lose your keys**, no one can help you spend your bitcoin. As Satoshi said, it becomes a donation to everyone on the network. Therefore it is important for you to remember the following:

**NEVER TYPE YOUR KEYS INTO A COMPUTER CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET**

**NEVER GIVE YOUR KEYS TO SOMEONE ASKING FOR THEM.**

**NEVER SEND BITCOIN TO SOMEONE WHO CLAIMS HE WILL GIVE YOU MORE BITCOIN IN RETURN**

## Financial Institutions Are The Double Spending Problem

![bailout](https://i.nostr.build/resp/360p/YgRZP.jpg)

The bitcoin white paper was released on October 31st, 2008. The software went live on January 3rd, 2009. The day the genesis block was born using an obscure branch of mathematics known as cryptography. Crypto means secret and graph means writing.  Therefore, cryptography is a type of secret writing that has existed for thousands of years.  Satoshi left a secret message in the scriptsig(hex) of this block. I said is not necessary to learn much about math if you want to use bitcoin, but the math in the first block is one exception. To the uninitiated, this is just a random string of letters and numbers, but it is actually a huge insight into why bitcoin is important and what solving the double-spending problem achieves

**scriptsig(hex)**
04ffff001d0104455468652054696d65732030332f4a616e2f32303039204368616e63656c6c6f72206f6e206272696e6b206f66207365636f6e64206261696c6f757420666f722062616e6b73

### Challenge 1

**Decrypt the secret message Satoshi left in the genesis block.**

nostr:naddr1qqrkuw2gwdaxj7qzyp6m7g6nrt5lnrrzn9d6quv3ujyw44r4jafhr43a0h75d00ph75f2qcyqqqgtwc23zmhl

**Why do you think Satoshi left this message in the bitcoin genesis block?**

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The secret message Satoshi left. Why did Satoshi include this in the genesis block?

This is a video event and can be viewed at https://www.flare.pub/w/naddr1qqrkuw2gwdaxj7qzyp6m7g6nrt5lnrrzn9d6quv3ujyw44r4jafhr43a0h75d00ph75f2qcyqqqgtwc23zmhl


You can do it!


Reminder? That's all we think about.


Did you put these there, or did somwone else?

I love seeing these in the wild when I'm not the one who stuck them.


What wad icky about it?


Weeds kinda suck.


I use it to save on chain fees


I wrote a guide that teaches you how to run Ghost self hosted on a Start9 server onto the Clearnet using the [cloudflared-startos app on github.](https://github.com/remcoros/cloudflared-startos). You may also adapt these to host any other app on your Start9 server to the clearnet(i.e. LNBits, VaultWarden, or Jellyfin) Before you begin, read the warning message:

```
----- WARNING -----

This is for advanced users who know what they are doing.

Exposing your server on the internet brings a lot of responsibility and can expose your server/service to all kind of attacks.

Don't be reckless!

----- WARNING -----
```
**Be careful**. Make sure you don't expose something private or secret. For example, it is possible to expose your LND instance to the whole world, but doing so would also expose your private keys. That's obviously a bad idea so be careful.

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## How To Host Start9 Services On Clearnet

### Step 1

Download the latest release of Cloudflare Tunnel under the releases tab as shown on the bottom right hand corner of this picture.

![releases Tab](https://github.com/BrutusBondBTC/cloudflared-startos/blob/main/releases.png?raw=true)

### Step 2

Under the System Tab of the Start9 operating system, click on "Sideload a Service."

![sideload service](https://github.com/BrutusBondBTC/cloudflared-startos/blob/main/sideload.png?raw=true)

### Step 3

In Cloudflare: Navigagte to Networks > Tunnels. Then click create a tunnel. Click next.

![create tunnel](https://github.com/BrutusBondBTC/cloudflared-startos/blob/main/tunnel.png?raw=true)

### Step 4

Click on your tunnel name.(eg. start9)

![click name](https://github.com/BrutusBondBTC/cloudflared-startos/blob/main/clickTunnel.png?raw=true)

### Step 5

Click "Edit"

![edit](https://github.com/BrutusBondBTC/cloudflared-startos/blob/main/edit.png?raw=true

### Step 6

copy the string of letters and numbers after word "install".  In this example, we would copy"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.fMihDAKKp2FLS-qit4DN7s5818FWt3dc0u" but your characters will be different.

![RadioKot's Photo](https://github.com/BrutusBondBTC/cloudflared-startos/blob/main/radioKotPhoto.png?raw=true)

⚠ Handle this command carefully. It includes a sensitive token that allows the connector to run. Anyone with access to this token will be able to run the tunnel.

### Step 7

Paste this token into the token field of the Config "Customize Cloudflare Tunnel" tab. Then click SAVE and Start the service

### Step 8

Navigate back to the tunnels page on Cloudflare. Click the public hostname button.

![public hostname](https://github.com/BrutusBondBTC/cloudflared-startos/blob/main/publichostname.png?raw=true)

### Step 9

Click "add a public host name."

![add public host name](https://github.com/BrutusBondBTC/cloudflared-startos/blob/main/service.png?raw=true)

### Step 10

On the Public Hostname Page add a domain. You can also add a subdomain in the subdomain section(eg. ghost for the ghost app)

Under type, enter HTTP

**The URL will depend on the service you are adding.

![public hostmname](https://github.com/BrutusBondBTC/cloudflared-startos/blob/main/publiicHostPage.png?raw=true)

Say you want to add Ghost. Search for Ghost repository under https://github.com/orgs/Start9Labs/repositories

It can be found here: https://github.com/Start9Labs/ghost-startos

Next, click on the manifest.yaml file use the id for the program, in this example it is "ghost". It would be "btcpayserver" if we were exposing the btcpayserver app, but the ID is ghost in this example so we will intere "ghost.embassy:2368 in the URL field of the Public Hostname Page back on Cloudflare.

![ghost](https://github.com/BrutusBondBTC/cloudflared-startos/blob/main/ghost1.png?raw=true)

The number "2368" is the port number and I found it under the port-mapping. In this case on line 53

![port](https://github.com/BrutusBondBTC/cloudflared-startos/blob/main/port.png?raw=true)

So our Public Hostname Page should look something like this:

![final homepage](https://github.com/BrutusBondBTC/cloudflared-startos/blob/main/template.png?raw=true)

Your domain will be different of course but it will look follow this format:

*Type* HTTP

*URL* id.embassy:port_number

Then click save hostname.

After a few minutes you can access your website on the clearnet.

If you want to add LNBits, it would look like this: http://lnbits.embassy:5000.

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How To Host Start9 Services On The Clearnet

A guide that teaches you how to host your Start9 services over clearnet using the cloudflareed-startos service. NOTE: Use at your own risk. Exposing your ports may expose you to attacks and you don't want to accidentally expose bitcoin keys.

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