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I bought belt from LeatherMint and liked it so much, I decided to write a testimonial. This is a value 4 value testimonial, not a paid ad. I’ve always been suspicious about ads. I know rhetorical tools like ethos are a super-duper effective form of persuasion, but I’ve always found it suspicious. I understand Michael Jordan was the GOAT basketball player. If Jordan has advice for becoming a better basketball player, you should listen to him, but his ability to pick underwear might not be a slam dunk.

Even if someone paid me to tell you camel hair underwear is the most comfortable underwear on the planet, I wouldn't want to write a testimonial about it. I am shilling LeatherMint’s belts because they are low time preference accessories.

I needed a good belt. I'm a bitcoiner and we're cheapskate's. We don't like to spend our precious sats. I keep my underwear until it has more holes than the moon. That's why I need a good belt. I know privacy is not a popular right these days, but I don't want my pants to fall because I don't expose my holy underwear to the world. Privacy is a human right. I use my belt to protect my privacy.

The belt is custom made to fit my waist. If you're not sure about your belt size, his guide explains how to find it easy-peasy style. He even makes half-sizes. Maybe you learn this if you shop at Nordstrom's or something, but I never knew how to choose a belt size. Most belts I buy have a range of sizes like 34-36, but not my belt from LeatherMint. It's made just for me.

The buffalo leather is smooth and sturdy. Many belts I've owned flap around and stretch out. Not this one. The brass hardware looks better than the crap metal and stitches on my old belt. For the record, I may know a lot about bitcoin, but my fashion sense is abysmal. I've always bought belts that were too long and didn't fit right. Maybe that's why my other belts flapped around like that. Regardless, this belt was 4 times more expensive than my old belt, but it was worth every sat. I think it will last longer than a store bought belt. Besides, the Bitcoin And Podcast discount was was also too sexy to resist.

I bought my last belt from J.C. Penny's for $25.00 on Black Friday. It can best be described as black, flimsy, and cheap. According to the words stamped on the leather: "hecho in India." It's branded with the Levi's jeans logo. Levi's was my favorite brand of jeans in the 80's. Founded in San Fransisco in the midst of the gold rush. They sold low-time preference clothes at a time when people panned for low time preference money. Levi's were made in America and rugged. I used to care about that, but almost nothing but arrests are made in the US these days. Back in the day, they had commercials that said, "buy American and American's work." Fast food is just abput the only thing the US still makes.

This belt was made in Canada, but as far as I'm concerned, it was made by a ₿itcoiner. **Buy from a ₿itcoiner and ₿itcoiners work.** LeatherMint put his proof of work into this belt and it shows.

Most clothes, like fiat money, are not built to last anymore. It's difficult to build a long lasting wardrobe in a world of fast fashion, but bitcoin fixes this. It makes you think twice about spending money on clothes you'll need to replace in less than a year and it seems like LeatherMint makes belts that are built to last.

## Proof of Respect
proof of respect

The belt shipped to my PO box in a black box with a proof of respect card with a QR code on the back. I assumed it was a reciept, but I was wrong. It's a bitcoin address. People send bitcoin to this address as a tip.

According to LeatherMint, "There's a respect vibe to leather. And respect goes both side. I feel it from my clients and I try to show them too.

And yeah respect is important to me. Before money I think my real goal is gaining respect from the Bitcoin community. Money will flow from there."

I never thought much about this before, but it makes sense. It's simmilar to the importance of reputation the cypherpunks emphasized decades ago. Belts should be respected because it cost the life of a buffalo.  Great care and craftsmanship went into making this belt. I can see how respect is required in leatherwork. LeatherMint puts his proof of work into his craft. You won't be sorry for buying one of his belts.

Clothes made under the fiat standard are not built to last anymore. It's difficult to build a long lasting wardrobe in a world of fast fashion, but bitcoin fixes this. It makes you think twice about spending money on clothes you'll need to replace before they see 52,000 blocks and LeatherMint makes [low time preference](https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/low-time-preference-leads-civilization) belts that are built to last.

If you want a belt that

- Fits properly
- Built to last
- Made with high quality materials

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I write about my experience with LeatherMint's belt. TL;DR: You should buy one.

This is a long form article, you can read it in https://habla.news/a/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzqadlydf3460e333fjkaqwxg7fz82636ew5m36c7hml2xhhsml2y4qq0xycty94shxuedvfjkcarn94n8ymmd94kx2ct5dpjhymtfde6qkhzmdh


I did. The images don't show up on my local machine either so I don't think it's your wrappet.

I hosted the blog on Start9 running ob an old Dell Optiplex, but my RAM failed. I  restored the ghost blog from backups, but the images no longer work and I don't know why.


It's not on the official release yet, but if you're technical, you can get it to work. I heard Matt Hill say this on Citadel Dispatch and I'm kinda technical.


I don't know when it will be released, but it works now. 😃

https://primal.net/e/note1m9n9plzhld6kk8vmwcz9hgsyfay3hcl45zz8ry69y50tlunx8nqs8ewvgz


It's actually pretty easy to host Ghost or any other app ion Start9 on the clear net.

https://blogging-bitcoin.com/


My wife's uncle retired early with a standard 60/40 portfolio and now says he's afraid he'll run out of money. I told him to buy a little bitcoin 5 years ago, but nobody cared back then.


Pretty good so far, but their appearance on Citadel Dispatch will be hard to beat.


I haven't tried this yet, but it looks like we can run Start9 apps over Clearnet if we're willing to make a few trade-offs.

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My wife and I also got married in 2016 in my Mother In Law's back yard. We had a Taco Truck and spent $6,000. It was a little more, but I had the same goal in mind. Stack more sats.


I always thought the name was a poor choice. Same with the 99¢ Store. Now we're seeing why.


My grandparents lived in Mill Valley. It"s beautiful.


Who is this dude?


It's so cool. I just wish it had more apps and was as easy to put over clearnet as umbrel, but I'm confident the OS will get there within a couple years.

Matt Hill said we will be able to do this soon, on citadel dispatch.

The stuff we can do is already mind boggling.


Is this video made by AI?

It just doesn't seem plausible.  I'm not sure Trump or Biden can send an email. What the hell do  they know about "crypto?"


Good morning. I drink a pot everyday.  I have a coffee drinking problem. ☕☕☕


It's an Alpine linux distro that runs in a web browser.

It's on the community registery.


I've been playing with my new start9 server this weekend and installed libre office on the Webtop. I'm sure these things you want are not too far off.

https://image.nostr.build/c60d4da128c3a6adb8add845c1ca94af89b277f56cc29b7cf047d165c7da4ba0.png


Best form of civil disobedience ever!


The weird thing is, it appears possible to have a privacy protecting CBDC.

The reality is, government's would screw it up. They can also be as 1984 as they want because most people use credit cards.


Have fun.🤙


Thanks for sharing.


What other features am I missing?


hashrate = ∞


noStrudel is cool. I can't believe I haven't seen this 'till today.

https://i.nostr.build/resp/360p/9zVM7.png


They still do for me.


I ran Start9 on refurbished computers for a while, but repairing hardware is a pain in the ass. It's totally worth paying more for such a bad ass device.

https://i.nostr.build/resp/1080p/Rmq9e.jpg


Thanks.


How long does it take to set up?


Buy me a coffee. ☕


I'm thinking about buying this.


This comic?

https://www.chrissiemayr.com/


What's the side project?


My daughter took me to see Joe Rogan a few years ago. That was awesome.


I made a Mutiny Wallet. tutorial. Your feedback would be much appreciated.

https://flare.pub/w/naddr1qqrhx4r5dckhwaspzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejsygr4hu34xxhflxxx9x2m5pcereygat28t96nw8tr6l0ag677r0agj5psgqqqskasjdvqkf


🤣 Badge of honor. I saw him at the Comedy Store a couple times.


Joey Diaz is hillarious. I loved his podcast with Lee Syat.


Good answer.


I couldn't overlook the bit clout thing.


There's a new shitcoin casino in town: Wall Street.


"Privacy is necessary for an open society."


This is crazy!

Ethereum is the quintessential example of how to pass the Howey test.


I can't believe this 🐴💩.


Made me chuckle.


I cut my own hair and stack the sats I would have otherwise spent.


Nope. It's a dumpster fire


I'm not saying this is a good idea, but it's interesting.

https://chaum.com/ecash-2-0/


It would be cool, but I don't feel confident in my ability to pull this off.

It might be easier to use this site:

https://www.deadmansswitch.net/

It looks like they also accept bitcoin.

Maybe the message should contain PGP ciphertext and a quick tutorial. 🤷♂


Followed🤙


Is there a nostr version of final message yet? I can hack something together, but it won't be pretty.


Oh yeah. I forgot about this.


I rarely eat pizza, so I haven't ever celebrated bitcoin pizza day.


Stay humble...Stack sats. 🤙


Gpod morning.


Fuck that noise.


I'll actually try it. I was just kidding.


There was an app that did this a while back, but I can't remember whichnone. (I hope it wasn't snort☺)


I like pineapple, but jalepenos don't belong on pizza.😜


Inflation is a backdoor attack.


Same.


Looks like Orange Privilege to me.


How does this work?


What?


That's awesome!


What's the pod?


I don't even know what microstrategy does other than stack sats and develop dids on bitcoin.


USDC is e-cash backed by the number one shitcoin in the world.


I would totally zap this.


Try it.


How did that happen?


Ubuntu 24 👎


What do you prefer?


What do you all think about PopOS!?

#asknostr


Sure that isn't a typo?

🤔

 You look 33.


To be fair, I'm better with a keyboard and mouse than my phone.


It works best on a desktop.


I made a tutorial a while back, but it's outdated. I should do another one.


How did that go? Asking as someone who has hated banks for over two decades.


A what?


That makes me want to go back to using bittorrent for studio movies.


Sorry 😢🫂


This episode was 🔥

I began using Embassy OS on an old computer that just failed about a week ago.(RAM).

I'll fix it, but I'm buying a new one anyway because I want to support the team. Matt also said it's a good idea to keep one in a seperate location to protect oneself from loss of data. He makes a good point.


What do you got?


They're just old.

-  I had to upgrade Umbrel to a new OS.
- The RAM in my Optiplex running start 9 died.
- I had to replace the SSD in an 8 year old HP Desktop.


Last month, four of my computers broke down.(One was my wife's)

I fixed two of them, but now I'm buying three more.

'I'm thinking about refurbishing a couple old computers and selling them on nostr.


Happy birthday.


He was in Crash, but that movie came out almost two decades ago.


That will make it worse. Try Kava Kava instead. You can find it in the herb section.


All wars suck. 🤙


I meant more as in, I got paid in bitcoin and paid my bills on Bitrefill. It changed the way I think about spending bitcoin.

I also spent $50 a month using the Shift card, but I used it like blow money instead of generational wealth. That was a mistake.


I used to pay my credit cards off with bitcoin every week.


Congratulations.


Login to unleashed.chat and ask what people you are following are talking about. Find stuff you're interested in and peruse the conversations to find people to follow.


Because they are unregistered securities, not money.


Because I don't get paid until tomorrow.🫠


350° for 10 minutes is the sweet spot.

https://i.nostr.build/lL4Jw.jpg


Lol. There were a lot of fights in the early days, but NGU changes the conversation. Now I'm like I want to go 100% into bitcoin. She's like, how the hell will we buy the dip?


My wife said she's starting to buy $20 of bitcoin every month on the cash app because the little bit I sent her is worth a lot more.


I've heard. I need to get better at TOR reverse proxy stuff.


Thanks.


I eat about 150 carbs a day.

What is super low carb? Sub 100?


I  start9 for about  two years, but my RAM died so I either need to replace it or buy a new machine.  I use this to run my full node and host my blog over TOR.

I use Umbrel for Home Assistant, Mealie, and Jellyfin(mostly non bitcoin related software, but I also use it for LNbits)

I run both because I like apps from each one. It's easier to run stuff over clearnet with cloudflare-tunnel on Umbrel, but Start9 is easier to manage.

Is there an easier way to host Start9 apps over clearnet?


It broke a few months ago. I fixed it. It broke again after the update so I fixed it.  I'm a glutton for punishment.


And here I thought a thousand sats was 67¢.


You were right. It was the boot sequence.


Good idea.⚡


Why 6 months?


I run it myself now on an old OptiPlex, but want to upgrade my hardware. I might save a few bucks doing it myself, but I don't mibd supporting businesses on the bitcoin standard.


I want to get both a start 9 and Umbrel.


Does anyone have a discount code for Umbrel Home?

#ask nostr


Never.


Have you tried keet?


I thought peer 2 peer was pretty cool in college.

Now I think it's fundamental to a free and open Internet.


Matt Hill has some of the most interesting podcasts.

He talks about all kinds of cool cypherpunk shit.


Summary of my nostr feed for the day.
`
The 10 most active authors in your feed today were nakad.ai, ODELL, The Fishcake, jb55, awayslice, 7fqx, RABBINSTEIN, npub1zvy...as6rvfj0, Shawn, and DETERMINISTIC OPTIMISM x NVK. Some notable notes include ODELL's podcast with Matt Hill about self-hosting and start9, nakad.ai's thoughts on doing chores before enjoying pleasure, jb55's question about their relay's status, and Mallory's recommendation to read "Indistractable" by the author of "Hooked."
`


By the way, how much does ChatGPT-4o cost per month?


So does unleashed.chat.

Here's the answer it gave me to the same prompt:

Tell me about Daniel Batton's article on Bitcoin mining helping the environment

Unleashed

Daniel Batton's article titled "Bitcoin Mining: A Green Revolution?" discusses how Bitcoin mining could potentially contribute positively to the environment by utilizing excess renewable energy resources that would otherwise go unused. The article highlights that as more renewable energy sources come online, there will be periods when they produce more power than needed by consumers. In such cases, Bitcoin mining could serve as a useful way to consume this excess power without causing additional harm to the environment. By doing so, it could help reduce greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel-based power generation sources. However, it's essential to note that this perspective has been debated by other experts who argue that Bitcoin mining still consumes significant amounts of energy overall.


I store the videos on nostr.build though.


We have https://flare.pub


It's a glittering generality.

Politicians use them to persuade people.

Freedom.

Hope.

Fight(eg. for workers, rights, police, etc.)

It's all bullshit.


What's with the balls?


Great idea.


Is this innuendo? I really can't tell.


That pod was great. I spent the better part of 2020 learning multi-sig because NVK said you should prepare for your stack to be 10x more valuable than it is today. It's pretty close to 10x more valuable today.


True, but meme coins like dogecoin started as a joke.

Finding subjective value in dogecoin is like trying to make a living as a stand up comedian by asking, "Why did the chicken cross the road?"


I hope it's streamed too. This is important information.


Wait, we don't need to do that anymore?


I bought a ledger because of the What Bitcoin Did podcast.


Late stage fiat games.


This was too much. 🤣


Nailed it...

https://i.nostr.build/6GYP2.jpg

Next time I'll try 5 minutes.


Nailed it...

https://nostr.build/account/#f=Home%253A%2520Main%2520Folder

Next time I'll try 5 minutes.


Sounds good.


Yeah. There might be some ways to ger around this with pear, but I don't fully understand it yet.


It should work the same.


If you host snort on Umbrel and expose it to the clearnet(Cloudlfare Tunnel is easy, but requires a credit card) anyone can use it as a PWA.


I'm a Linux nerd.


Have you tried the nostr plugin for Obsidian?

https://github.com/jamesmagoo/nostr-writer


Also, can it push to habla . news? I like the human readable URL.


I save the md files onto my desktop computer and Ghost on Start9.

What are these commands you speak of?


I had the same problem. It was only 9¢


Yeah, I didn't know about that. Njump looks like it will be easier,  but I like ghost because it allows me to own my own data. The same is true if you run your own relay.


There's a nostr plugin for wordpress.

I prefer to write using Markdown and publish directly to nostr.

Then I copy and paste the Markdown to Ghost. It's an extra step, but it's not hard.


I had an idea to create a tip jar using nostr native tools, but I think it might be too advanced for new coiners.

https://habla.news/u/bloggingbitcoin@iris.to/the-nostr-tip-jar

I suggest onboarding each bartender onto minibits.cash wallet.

Each 12 word wallet is also a nostr key so you can pay them like venmo right away. It is cuatodial like WOS, but uses cashu + lightning.


It's hard to support bitcoin when you make 10 billion bucks from the double spending problem.


Okay, I got who he is, but what the hell does this cartoon mean?


It's not reading the USB stick. It worked before. 🤷


Too many noobs weren't around in 2017. We've been there and done that.


I had a tougj time reflashing the new OS onto my computer.


Tue bitcoin market cap is about 3.2% the size of the US National debt.


That's some serious dystopian shit. Fireworks are legal in your state too, right?


Sorry. My mistake. It's on the Umbrel Store.


Cold Card, stainless steel backups and Sparrow Wallet. Run yoir own Start9 node for your own lightning channel, but that's a tall ask for an absolute beginer.

I would start small. Use minibits and  Aqua Wallet at first and learn the trade-offs. It takes time to learn about fees ane UTX0's.


I've suspected the red and blue canidates are chosen by the "them," whoever "they" are. Heads you lose. Tails I win, but I never expected to see many so many pictures of world leaders on Epstien's island.


The National Parks are nice. 😀


Great idea.


Home Assistant is an app on the Start9 store. It allows you to do smart home things from your own computer.

I hear someone is also making an encrypted nostr smart home client that sounds really awesome, but it's too early  to tell.


🤡🌍 is wierd.


I haven't added cameras yet, but my wife wants me to so I've been looking for privacy focused cameras that are compatible with home assistant.


Do you use Home Assistant?


Has anyone running been in a debate this election cycle?


☝This is the biggest risk of bitcoin derivatives.

Executive Orders from your own president is a small attack surface.

We must assume every government would steal all the bitcoin in the coinbase coffers if they could.

How robust is Coinbase Security?

What steps are taken to mitigate this risk?

How many people hold keys?

What quorums do they use?

How is collusion prevented?

Do spies from foreign and domestic governments work for Coinbase?

Their are simmilar concerns with Fidelity , but the main problem is the aggregatate custody is too concentrated. Custodial ETF's should be diversified. Ideally, each ETF would have a different custodial provider. I don't know why the suits thought it was a good idea to custody customer bitcoin at a shitcoin casino.

Imagine if Charles S. Schwab held your money market account at the Bellagio.

Would that seem like a good idea?


Seems like a good business to orange pill.


That's pretty cool.


I never expected social security to be around by the time I'm eligible.


Georgeous.


Monopoly money printer go brrrrrr.


My best friend's dad was an old hippy and nuclear activist in the 80's. I thought it was interesting, but it appears that chapter of history is over.


IMO, this is why they arrested Roger after all these years.

 They don't like this sovereign individual thesis.


It would help if the suits would read the first line of the white paper. What part of this sentence suggests bitcoin should not be used for payments?

I get Saylor orange pilled a bunch of noobs, but you should I don't know, read the abstract of the white paper before arguing against bitcoin payments.

https://i.nostr.build/resp/360p/lL3oj.png


App Images are not working on my new Ubuntu instalation. I click the run as a program button. Is it the $PATH?

#asknostr


What happened to mutiny-server?


I have pipes I've never smoked out of. It doesn't need to be unhealthy.


Thanks. I've always been curious about it. People were against nukes in the 80’s, but nobody seems to mind now.


I think of nostr as a sort of online Galt's Gulch.


My wife buys a pipe for my brother-in-law on his birthday every year. How much does he sell them for?


It's art.


This is interesting.

Obtaining a strike api is easier than I thought.


👀
This is a game changer.


We need more pleb walks.


Wow, so you're like a real OG.😲

What was the nuclear activism about?

Were they protesting to stop the production of nuclear weapons? Were they being surveilled for this activity?


Reputation ratings for mints was not on my bitcoin bingo card.🤔

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Beautiful.


90%...What is that a dip for ants?


That is crazy, but California is about the same. A 20% down payment is now about 2 years salary for the average person.

It appears most people haven't learned this yet.

We hear about bullshit inflation numbers.

I don't think our rulers understand how fucked up things are for 80% of the population.


I've been asking myself the same thing lately.

I like minibits.cash. is very easy and it gives them a lightning address and nostr key.

I recently created a wallet for my teenage son by writing 12 words in a birthday card and taught him how to recover the wallet by going to app.mutinywallet.com.  That's also cool, but I wouldn't do that for strangers,  I love Mutiny because of how they handle game theory, but noobs might have a hard time wrapping their head around Venmo for bitcoiners.

I tried explaining it to a newcoiner recently. It didn't go so well.


A long time ago, I heard Phil Zimmerman was a nuclear activist before he wrote PGP.

Has he ever talked about this publicly? I would like to learn more about this subject.


How many years of work is this as compared to the average salary in your city/town?


Congratulations.


This is my favorite episode yet.


How to use Mutiny Wallet.

Mutiny wallet is like a bank where the custody is distributed in the federation. In this video I will show you how to join a federation using Mutiny Wallet.

You can think of e-cash in your Mutiny wallet like a checkbook. The Federation has custody of yoru bitcoin like a bank would, but there is no bank. It’s like a custodial lightning wallet without a central point of failure because the trust is distributed.

You can also use Mutiny Wallet to create your own noncustodial lighting channel and paid subscribers also get their own lightning address, but I don’t go over that in this video.

I also assume you have a nostr key. If not, I recommend creating one using the current app because you ca back it up using 12 words.

For more information, please see https://mutinywallet.com

Use Mutiny Wallet To Pay People Or Businesses On Nostr

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Damn. 🫥


I haven't tried those yet. How do they work?


It ended?


I prefer Start9, but use apps on both.


What do you want to do? I run both.


We all have the same answer, gfy.


I don't think he's really here. I assume he's a cross-poster.


Good idea.


Have you tried gift cards from the bitcoin company?


You know how they do it.

https://i.nostr.build/Aa7zG.gif


Compliance via rug-pull. That's a new one.


I had the same question. I had no idea.


I like them, but get two and use aegis as a backup.


Computer surgery.

https://i.nostr.build/resp/720p/gZw5O.jpg


I can't believe people would give up their seeds like that.


It's really good.


I like ska, I just think that song's funny. I wouldn't mind if Save Ferris made a comeback.


I heard about this on Citadel Dispatch. Looks better than I imagined.


I run software that helps save me sats like mealie.io. If you want to run it. subscribe and get access to the freedom tech in this subscription


I never understood why anyone pays for document shredding. I don't shred anything. I throw senitive docs into a waste basket filled with water.


We need more brick and mortar stores to make sats the standard.


Good morning.

#coffeechain

https://image.nostr.build/6361315e97c79688e84936707f433e69046d08c6895a085054153134c4ee7bb1.jpg


True.


Great read!

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They are trapped in a prison created by their own mind, doomed to buy a 70k car on credit and reading about how bitcoin wastes water and pollutes the planet by using the same electricity that powers their environmentally conscious electric car.


Trees are great, but it's about your mindset. My wife works in an air conditioned building all day, so she gets pissed when the thermostat is over 76°. I don't even notice because I work out in 100° weather. I use Home Assistant to automatically turn it down to 77° about a half hour before she gets home. Then it goes up to 80° when we go to bed.

We open the windows and turn on fans at night to circulate cooler air. My house was 71° this morning and the air conditioner wasn't even on.

I also use solar to lower my cost per kwh.


This is disgusting.


What does it look like outside the box?


Why?


And this.

https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/06/14/the-worlds-most-efficient-air-conditioner/


Read this.

https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2011/07/18/how-not-to-use-your-air-conditioning/


https://nosl.ink/ makes nostr links normie friendly.


Bisq


The US is giving off When Money Dies Vibes.

https://www.amazon.com/When-Money-Dies-Devaluation-Hyperinflation/dp/1586489941


The commies are here.

https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/4633773-eat-the-boomers-how-to-repay-americas-national-debt/


The backup took forever.


I'm doing it right noe. Just waiting for the backup to finish on umbrel.


It's amazing.


Can't wait to see what you create. 🤙


I listened to his videos everyday for years.


Look at all these zeros.

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![keetroom](https://i.nostr.build/GkRJ.png)
Keet is a peer to peer chatroom that enables high quality file transfers. It can be used for video chats, but it's peer to peer and you don't need to pay a monthly fee.  It uses cryptography, but it has no blockchain or any tokens. You can also connect LND to it to accept bitcoin payments.

**I don't like asking for people's email**. It's not that I have any ideological reasons for this, it's just that e-mail kinda sucks. [Adam back tried to fix it in the 1997](http://hashcash.org/). It would have worked, but nobody else cared. As it turns out,. that thing that could fix e-mail became the backbone of the bitcoin time-chain.

I like Substack, but I don't want you to give Substack your e-mail address.

I would prefer if you joined my Public Keet Chatroom. My goal is for it to become a sufficiently decentralized public communications channel. Please run Keet on your computer.

Share this so others may join.

**Update**
Keet now has a broadcast only room. This way, I can broadcast all my new blog posts on this room and my readers can get notified.

https://gasolin.idv.tw/keetlink/#key=yry53k5uwu6n8htnzdi8m77qupswwjh8p8oue8qiup5fotdeqq7ti176kqdjxtr4eyht3f11dakdicx7ipj879nzmhhrdgs7hf3z1am9pc&title=Blogging%20Bitcoin

I created a keet room to notify my readers of new blogs and engage with them.

This is a long form article, you can read it in https://habla.news/a/naddr1qqykket9wskhymm0d5pzqadlydf3460e333fjkaqwxg7fz82636ew5m36c7hml2xhhsml2y4qvzqqqr4gua8yk8w


Not really, but it has a sideswap extention if that's what you mean.


So what? Nobody's saying to put your life savings on cashu.


I wish gasoline could be shipped. It's over five bucks a gallon in California.


you can find freedom in an unfree world.


Dude, I totally forgot I paid for this.


Good question. I don't even know anymore.


I love cooking!

May I pay for an MSB membership using bitcoin, or would you prefer fiat because it's easier to pay for servers, etc.)?


I like that lion sticker too.


Does anyone else use mealie on Umbrel?

I want to purple pill some non-bitcoin developers.


I refuse to use rasberry pi's for bitcoin stuff anymore. Old Dell's are cheaper and don't corrupt my drives.


I used MyNode when it first came out,  but it's been a while so take my opinion with a grain of salt, but I like Start9 the best.


Good answer.


That's my thesis.


Touch grass. 🤙


Damn that's bullish!


That sucks man.


My goal is to improve my soil and grow a few things in some pots this year.

Next year, raised beds and water system.


Great show, but bitter-sweet listening to it today.


This dude is so cool.


This one is pretty giod. 🤙


You'll be okay if fees remain low, but can expect to pay 20k in sats when fees go up again.

That's why I prefer Mutiny or Aqua for smallish amounts.


Not so sure anymore.


It helps breaks fungibility.

It's not like PGP at all. It's more like a jpeg of your driver's licence attached to every UTXO you own. (Although it will probably just be text not pics)

"They" do not want us to have privacy.

I suspect the suits will lobby congress to outlaw bitcoin transactions that do not have the DID inscriptions attached.

You'll still be allowed to buy bitcoin  derivatives(ETF's) but making on-chain bitcoin transactions without the DID attached will be a crime.


 Dear zkSNACKs,

I have collected bitcoin books for about ten years now.

I would love to purchase a hard cover book with the  Wasabi Wallet source code.

Can you guys please publish this book?  🙏

I think it would make a great addition to my collection. Please and thank you.

Sincerely,
₿logging ₿itcoin

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Agreed. 🤙


Looks great.


He said he wants to sign contracts a thousand years into the future on Coin Stories in March.


How do I get started?


I've used it, but prefer vault warden.


Me too. My writing style is very specific.


I wanna know.


This is my favorite hat. Highly recomend it. 🤙

This is my favorite hat


Use a "licenced money transmitter" they say.

Then comes executive order-btc-6102.


Are you in Kenya?


I use it, but prefer firefox.


You' ve been building some cool stuff these days.


I never conflate people with their government.


They barely use paper anymore.

Fiat is mostly numbers on someone else's computer.


Aside from the Y2K stuff, the authors were basically prophets.

Now the US is talking about unrealized capital gains. They want to tax rich people if they stay or go.


Read about it in The Sovereign Individual.


It appears this thesis is already playing out.


Hang out with bitcoiners more. They will carb shame you until you're skinny.


Yeah. The US just became more authoritarian. 😥


I remember reading all your tweets in February of 2020 thinking how lucky I was to be in the US. They would never lock us down like Italy.

Boy, was I wrong.


You're kidding. This is AI, right? The people who hold most of the ETF money can't really be this stupid, right?


I suspect this is why the suits are against payments. I think they got pissed when people sent bitcoin to an ETF address. It could have been tainted by marijuana dealers or people from Gaza or Russia.


I get the feeling you're not talking about Merkle Trees. What do you mean?


Cash App has used it for a while.


That makes the most sense.


I think it will increase demand. I just worry about the security of these ETF's.

They store a lot of value. It's one hell of a threat model.


What do you think the result of this will be?


USD is just a number on someone else's computer.

I prefer to compare the bitcoin marketcap to the gold marketcap.

A loaf of bread will also cost 100 million dollars one day.


Got it. Thanks.


What's with everyone being utxo now?


How would they confiscate non-custodial bitcoin?

Think they'll knock down doors and demand keys?


Makes 1984 look like Green Eggs and Ham.


Very authoritarian and indicitive of how little they understand how this technology works.

It appears they view Samourai as a honeypot, but it's noncustodial.


Funny how you don't list "drugs" or "tax evasion" on this list, but those are the only bitcoin use-cases I hear about on the news.


Happy birthday.


Oh. 🤣

https://njump.me/naddr1qqh9w6re945xzuedgfk82etndduj6emjdamkuttzd9nkwetj946xsctw948x7um5wgkhwvm9vgerjq3qwmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqxpqqqp65wv4ler8


It's as dead as animal skin.


The IRS is about to get more omniscient.

https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/treasury-and-irs-issue-proposed-regulations-on-reporting-by-brokers-for-sales-or-exchanges-of-digital-assets-new-steps-designed-to-end-confusion-help-taxpayers-aid-high-income-compliance-work


That's what bothers me the most about this situation. It's not just Samourai, it's an attack on the first amendment.

They are banning code(By the way, TikTok is also getting banned)

They are trying to extradite a journalist for doing journalism.

We still have the right to redress our grievances, but they don't listen.

What's next?

Establishment of a religion?

Freedom of assembly?


It's a btc pay plugin. It's not hard.


Run your own coordinator.


What?


Me too, but there are paid services.


Well. I should have said it's a *better idea*.  I tried running nsec bunker, but I suck at docker. You can use something like nsecbunker.app though.


Nsec bunker is better.


Good morning.


A week ago I tried making a nostr tutorial and added some random AI photo. It happened to be a AI Pin Up girl pic.

I made one note and I'm no prude, but some dumb fuck made a comment I don't feel comfortable repeating.


I don't know. I've had too many disasters with raspis.


I love this article. 😁

What does the Reportinator moderation bot do?


I think so. I didn't pay attention. I thought they disabled that.


Stop drinking, stack sats.


2 years and 7 months for me. You won't even miss it after a while.


Yes, but make sure you fill out a 1099.


Ahhh. Thanks for letting me know.


The US government started a war on bitcoin payments.


I use them both, but we seem to be getting closer to a "papers please" kind of world.


Shit happens. 🤷♂


Thanks. Might as well just spin up my own node, but it will be hard to buy coffee if zuess software gets censored too. I suspect it will.


Oh wait, if you mean Mutiny, I didn't lose sats, aside from fees. I'm okay with that. It was beta software. No reason to get my panties in a bunch.


Lost for real. It was not a boating accident.


I do, but running a lightning node is difficult. I've done it before, but lost some sats.

It might be the only option though now.


In retrospect, The war on development funding foreshadowed this.


I love Mutiny, but have had like 4 channel closures.

How do I prevent this from happening again?


Where is Voltage located? They use it for the backend, right?


I expected it would come to this.


Good morning.

"When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this because they can’t tell good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil, and have recognized that the wrongdoer has a nature related to my own — not of the same blood or birth, but of the same mind, and possessing a share of the divine. And so none of them can hurt me. No one can implicate me in ugliness. Nor can I feel angry at my relative, or hate him. We were born to work together like feet, hands, and eyes, like the two rows of teeth, upper and lower. To obstruct each other is unnatural. To feel anger at someone, to turn your back on him: these are obstructions."

-Marcus Aurelius


What's a money transmitting service? Is running a node illegal now?


Can I subscribe without opening a channel?


Bitcoin developers should begin publishing their code in books like Phil Zimmermann published PGP.

Let them explain why they must ban books to protect us.

http://www.philzimmermann.com/EN/essays/WhyIWrotePGP.html


Do you think they'll allow you to publish the code?


Yeah what is that?


Congratulations.


The most illegal thing I ever did was play a 100k sat poker tournament, but  where were these assholes when regulated exchange, FTX gambled away their customers money?

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I'm also concerned about RoboSats metadata too. Have been for a while, but they're cracking the whip on freedom tech now.


You might be right. 😱


Is that what you think happened?


That's a good point.


Am I reading this right?

Does the FBI think they can 6102 our bitcoin by stealing Samourai wallet's computers?

They can dox you, but they still need to find your keys to steal your sats.


In the US, you have to make more than like $48k before paying federal taxes, so it's very easy for frugal people.


Thanks for sharing this.

 It's nice to see non-bitcoiner perspectives. The despair people feel in a post helicopter money induced inflation is real. I wish I could just teach them there's a better way to do this than waste your evaporating paycheck on thigs you don't need, but I ussually just piss then off. 😥


My wife just told me this yesterday. She said, "that's why their called strawberries."


This has bothered me for years, but I wouldn't call WTF happened in 1971 "capatalism."


Wait...So you're telling me there is a way to obtain capital by saving money?  You mean like capatalism? 😃


I think you're right.


Don't let the suits fool you.  We are still in the "then they fight you" stage.

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The capital gains tax on bitcoin payments are a sales tax with red tape.


In this day an age, dollars in a savings account is guranteed to buy less stuff in the future.

I suspect the bitcoin FUD is an attempt to distract normies from the problems with fiat.


Damn. That sucks, but I understand.


It was great.


It seems crazy now, but I know people who went to jail for that stuff.


I hear a lot of bitcoin FUD, but no one has yet to tell me what's so great about savings accounts at Bank of America.


Executive Order 6102 is not the only risk.

I expect all my KYC info will be hacked one day.

Theft is not the only risk.

Your friends will Google how much bitcoin you have.

Your manager who makes 3x your salary will Google how much bitcoin you have. He might not $10 wrench attack you, but he will evaluate your performance differently when bitcoiner net worth dot com says your net worth is 10x bigger than his.

Keep in mind, most people have less than $400 in the bank. People who have heard me talk about bitcoin ten years ago look at me differenrly now. They don't know how much I have, but they know a wholecoin is already more money than they have ever seen in their bank account at one time.

This is why privacy is necessary in an open society.

People will use this information against you in other ways you can't imagine.


The boating accident meme originated from 2017. Some drug dealer said he kept his keys in a fishing pole he lost.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/21/irish-drug-dealer-clifton-collins-l46m-bitcoin-codes-hid-fishing-rod-case


Pun totally not intended, by the way.😊


I've remember when bitcoin was 10k.

Fiat wasn't any better back then.

If the price dropped, it would not improve fiat.

Buying fiat is not "taking profits."

Buying fiat is trading bitcoin for numbers on someone else's computer.

Those who own that computer think you're better off if these numbers on their computer buy you less food next year than it buys today.

The thing you call profit is more like a pick-pocket.


Those things suck.


Oh...that makes sense. 🤣


Yeah, this is one thing I would like to change. It would be nice to see the zpub.

You could get it by adding the seed phrase in the ephemeral option of the Cold Card, but that seems like a pain in the ass.


Oh. It looks like the feature is new on iOS. I use Android. We already had ir.


Have you checked the bitcoin address for a transaction? I wonder if high fees are screwing things up.🤔


I've only swapped from L-BTC-to-bitcoin before using the swap button.


I preordered this. Thank's for the reminder.


Really? I've never had an issue.


May I please go to your house for Thanksgiving this year. 🙏😁


His advice works well in an era of high interest rates and low money printing. 30 years ago, Ramsey had good advice.

If you spent 7 years paying off your debt before buying a house when interest rates were less than 3%, and then the interest more than doubles, you would have been better off buying the house before paying off the debt.

Ask me how I know.


The denominator is going to zero.


He sold that sign for a million cuck bucks?


The 1st amendment is null and void.

- Assange
- TikTok
- CoinJoin code

The US no longer respects the freedom of speech, nor of the press. Religion is basically an establishment, but I  don't want to go there.


Right. You can also run Samourai yourself, but it won't last forever without maintanance.


Arrested for writing code. I never thought the US would sink so low again.


Make speech legal again.


It's a damn shame.


And Wasabi is still up.

https://wasabiwallet.is/index.html


Boltz over Tor, while not a coinjoin is pretty good for privacy too.

http://boltzzzbnus4m7mta3cxmflnps4fp7dueu2tgurstbvrbt6xswzcocyd.onion/


Yeah. It's too late for that, but you can use sparrow for now.

https://www.sparrowwallet.com/


I hope so.


It isn't. 😥


This reminds me of online poker's black friday.

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


Lol. I only read the headline. I don't consider Samourai wallet to be a mixing service so I thought this was something else.


War is peace.
Slavery is freedom.
Less spending power is good for you.


Code is speech.

Cypherpunks write code.

Congress is passing laws against free speech.

How the fuck did we get here?


Not sure yet, but the Samourai indictment seems worse.


Good idea.


Same. That's why I prefer custodial solutions for small amounts.


Best bet is to run your own lightning node on Umbrel.

Set up BTCpayServer(for a lightning address)

Use cloudflare tunnel to host over clearnet.

You can also use the one click BTCpayServer setup on lunanode for ~$4.00 a month.


Looks awesome.


The Internet was much better in the 90’s. Nostr feels the same, but cooler.


Real estate is a shitcoin.


I'm at the end. 🤙


Can merchants accept bitcoin as payments yet?


Did you listen to the last Citadel Diapatch? Odell and Will had a nice discussion about some of your concerns.


Dave Ramsey wrecked a lot of people with his debt free propoganda.


Good morning.


Sure. Let us know if you have any questions.


Welcome.


Sounds better.


I never saw this chart, but noticed the Chapwood index and the SNP 500 went up about the same %.


I don't know what I'm doing either, but started listening to this today.

https://fountain.fm/episode/Dbga5LwuTLEKpkdhz4pQ


I've never even heard of this stuff.


Welcome. We like to give bitcoin micro transactions. You'll just need to add a thing that looks like an email address to the lightning address portion of your profile. You can get one from the minibits.cash app.


Bitcoin magazine is getting ridiculous.

https://i.nostr.build/3PeLm.jpg


I'm writing a blog about it, but it's based on this, except using Liquid BTC instead of USD.

 https://www.ramseysolutions.com/budgeting/envelope-system-explained


Mandibles.

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Yes. They're like flat-earthers of crypto.


You do some really cool stuff with Srike API's.


I prefer USS cash too. I'm just pointing out how broken banks are.


I saw you on a podcast once. You're not fat.


Just listened to Mark and Whitney on TFTC, so I know many people will not agree with me, but I'm bullish on Liquid.

 I started using different Liquid Wallets for budgets. It works like Dave Ramsey's envelope system, but with L-BTC and my phone instead of USD and envelopes made of dead trees and lickable glue.

Reduced fees make this system even better!

I don't use USD-T, but my bank started charging me $8.00 for my savings account. At 0.01% interest, we can expect Dave Ramsey's famous baby step one to go to zero in about 10 years.

This made me reevaluate the risk profile of savings accounts.

In the new world(🤡🌎), you're better off holding USD-T in a Green wallet with no interest than holding actual USD in a Bank of America savings account-- unless you keep enough fiat in the BofA to become a gold member or whatever. If you do that, your $10,000 loses $350 worth of buying power if you wear a mask in your car(by yourself) and believe the official CPI numbers. I don't make the rules.

I still prefer bitcoin to USD-T, but the more I think of it, fiat fuckery has now reached the point where banks are too risky for most people.

It's fair to say USD-T requires a trusted third party, but in the new world(🤡🌎), Tether is more trustworthy than BofA.

The sad truth is: USD-T became a better shitcoin than USD in a savings account. The FDIC is broke. USD-T is backed by debt issued by the insolvent US Treasury. It will not stop the USD inflation, but nor will BofA.

I know better savings accounts exist, but most people have less than $400 in savings and don't have time to find these tools.

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I started using Dave Ramsey's envelope system with L-BTC on Green wallet. This makes it even better.


I only liked it because you said not to. 🤣


The bitcoin timechain is good at enforcing the 21 million supply hardcap.

A newfangled ordinal that records every transaction of the unlimited US budget is not a good idea.


That's cool.


I doubt he knows what a blockchain is.


Budget on a blockchain is the new dentacoin. 🤦

https://thehill.com/business/4611426-rfk-jr-im-gonna-put-the-entire-u-s-budget-on-blockchain/


You could also use Keet as a way to broadcast your newsletter instead of using email lists.


SimpleX


I didn't hear about bitcoin until June of 2014, so this is the first time I've seen this. It's awesome. It would have saved me so much time.🤣


If you want to run a client over clearnet and are okay with using cloudflare, try

https://umbrel.com/


Try the minibits app.


My wife insists we keep $1,000 in our savings account. The interest is 0.01%

The bank began charging $8.00 a month for this savings account.

If I don't replinish this fee, the balance will be $0.00 In about 10 years.

I suspect my wife will reconsider before.then. At this point, Liquid USD-T is better than a savings account at BofA.


I like to think of ecash as checks.

You give someone a check. (ecash)

Your bank(custodial wallet or mint) cashes the check(pays the ecash holder sats via lightning)


Stocks are fraction of a business, there are assets and cash flows behind them and they have a lawful apparatus around them

pePeElonCoin or whatever shitcoin people print up isn't remotely close to a stock


Never take crypto advice from people who can't explain the Caesar Cipher like I'm 5.


Mealie is better than any cookbook sats can buy.


Instant pots are so worth the sats.


It works.


Don't get me wrong. My wife is frugal AF. I refused to by chairs when we moved into our new house. We had my parent's folding chairs in our dining room for a year. Our friends gave us a dining room set one of their customers threw away.

My wife didn't complain. She knew it's better to buy the dip than chairs.

If my wife wants a chair this epoch, she can have a chair. 😁


Thanks. I'll check it out.


My wife wants an office chair.

She doesn't give a damn about Sampson Mow's predictions.


I don't see any other way this can go.


The outcome of taking no risk is certain.

The money you earn today will buy less tommorow.

The 0.01% interest on your savings account will not fix this.

When I tell people about bitcoin, they have so many questions.

What is cryptography?

 How do you pay for stuff?

What about taxes?

What if the government turns off the bitcoin computer?

I am an expert in quantum computing because I read an article.

Who will save the oceans?

How much do you have?

The first question they should ask is, why do I work so hard for money that makes me less wealthy over time?


I like Liquid, recommend it to noobs all the time.

My goal is to use Aqua Wallet as my "checking" account by the end of this epoch. I'm starting out small and I'll still need to use legacy banks to pay my mortgage and some bills, but that's all I need in them.

I also started using Dave Ramsey's envelope system, but I use green wallet.

Here's what I mean.

I budget $50 a month for clothes. I swap $50 worth of sats to L-TC with Aqua Wallet. Then I send that to a green wallet.

I save $40 a month for computer parts so that goes to another liquid wallet.

Then, when I need to buy new RAM or whatever, I buy RAM with sats out of my green wallet computer envelope. New Egg accepts bitcoin or I can buy a Visa gift card if the fees to buy on New Egg are to high.


You're the Shopstr dev? Followed.🤙

Thank you for your service. 🫡


I use getalby on the kiwi browser, but spting browser is good too.


So are ETF's.


You would think the suits would prefer the Lightning Network + Liquid network compared to ETF's.

The fees are lower on Liquid and the trust is more distributed.


Meanwhile....

                           On the Liquid Network....

https://i.nostr.build/9zaEM.png


That's what they say, but the reality of FOSS development is more nuanced.

This fiasco has also made me realize the importance of saving(HODLing).

People can only play these games for so long, until those who want to use bitcoin as fungible money stack too many sats for these silly games to continue.


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Favorite eBay Alternative

![ebay Alt](https://i.nostr.build/4oLDm.png)
https://www.nostrapps.com/apps/shopstr

## Favorite File Hosting

![file hosting](https://i.nostr.build/Vwzg0.png)

https://nostr.build

A list of the ten nostr clients I find most interesting.

This is a long form article, you can read it in https://habla.news/a/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzqadlydf3460e333fjkaqwxg7fz82636ew5m36c7hml2xhhsml2y4qqvk67fdveshvmmjd96x2ttwdaehgu3dvdkxjetww3espsx7hu


Remember the good ol' days when you could make a bitcoin transaction for 1 sat/vbyte?

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


Remember the good ol' days when you could make a bitcoin transaction for 1 sat/vbyte?


It feels like something's changed for me.

👀...
         Fees
                 ... 😱


I'm sympathetic to this viewpoint now.


This looks fun. Too bad he's not on nostr. He could tell us our nostr identity is backed by Facebook.


We're not starting this argument again, are we?


Okay, so I have a decent grasp of how bitcoin halvings work, but when do the interest rates on normie savings accounts go up?

Why is 0.01% still a thing?

#asknostr


I can't believe people seriously argue against using bitcoin for payments with fees like this.


Scary AF. 😱


This shit is so dumb.


Crazy, isn't it?


That was the best halving ever.


Timechain calendar is flashing too.


That's pretty fucking cool.


We The People of The Internet sign our declaration of independence from the corporate/government partnership of social media.

nostr:nevent1qqs2dwnws089fy3d8rnu55ezxz8vl04dc6x3ygv9zt4wg3d3f8sdtcqpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfdupzq9h35qgq6n8ll0xyyv8gurjzjrx9sjwp4hry6ejnlks8cqcmzp6tqvzqqqqqqymdjr69


Damn. I lost track of time.


True. Same for mst other politicians over the last 53 years.


Yeah.


I was on lockdown during the last halving. It was a dark time. I don't drink anymore, but back then, I cracked open a beer and celebrated by myself.

Upon reflection, I think this is a big reason I'm so bullish on nostr. I wouldn't have felt so alone if we had nostr back then. It's just different. I'm grateful to share this experience with so many interesting people now.

If you have more sats today than you had 4 years ago, congratulations. May you have more sats on block 1,050,000 than you do today.

Cheers. https://i.nostr.build/EndXG.jpg


Right. Can't you guys just turn them off for a few hours?


We have autism. I'm sorry if that makes things too complocated for you.


I love this project!


Happy halving day everyone!


My bad, 24 words, but the point still stands.


We could totally turn the 12 words of a keet ID into an npub.

🤔

https://i.nostr.build/mlYV7.png


Fair enough. Same is true with anything other than bitcoin. You can never own uour house. If you pay it off, you still owe ren...I mean "property taxes" to your landlord...I mean "the state".


I wouldn't call them scams, but the numbers are bullshit. An 11% annual return looks great compared to 2% inflation, but the Chapwood Index shows a 13% inflation, not the lies they tell you on TV.


Nah. We're all-in on bitcoin. This might be good for the Twitter people. 😁


Wow. That's impressive. 🫡


The world wars are caused by a loss of faith in the money. I wouldn't say it's religion, but it's in the same ballpark.


The block subsidy began at 50 bitcoin every ten minutes.

Every 210,000 blocks, the subsidy is cut in half until we reach just under 21 million bitcoin around 2139.

There are 144 ten minute blocks in a day.

52,560 per year.

210,248 ten minute blocks every 4 years, so we have a halving every 4 years and a couple days. The math is easier than it looks.


I've wanted to do my grocery shopping on a bike ever since reading this, but have only done it for a few things here and there.

https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2011/04/18/get-rich-with-bikes/


How do you get the eggs home without breaking them? Do you use a bicycle trailor?


This looks like such a waste of energy🤑.


Agreed. This is the first thing I thought of when I saw Jackcs Tortilla chip/peaunut presentation  to the IMF. 🤣


Companies like Western Union fleece the poor. Fiat must die.


Lol


221 blocks to go.


It's on Spotify. I think Max read it.


This should be the biggest issue in the election. There are no debates instead. Politicians can't do anything other than call each other names. That's not a good sign.


They have a way out.


Do what you want. That's how freedom works. 😁


Crazy how you could buy a house for that many sats now.


Not really, but it's interesting if you're a nerd.


This many.

https://i.nostr.build/mlY5q.png


That's pretty cool. A couple years ago, I used Oaknode to schedule lightning payments every 6 blocks.  It was difficult to get lightning addresses from people back then.

#Nostrfixesthis.


What's the bulk zapper?


It's clunky and we don't need it anymore.


This is spectacular. He's like a case study for the The Sovereign Individual. He talked about a couple people on nostr too. I'd like to get their side of the story, but I also don't think it's a good idea tl ask.🤫


That's the dream. All I really need is a Cold Card, a few computers, PO Box, and an Air Stream...or maybe one of those shipping containers Max Hillebrand has.


Nope.


I'm glad more people are open to the idea.


I remember seeing AES ciphertext on Astral back in the day, but it's not visible in most clients anymore(which is a good  thing). AES is hard for non-nerds to decrypt. I think nostr can make it easier.


#asknostr

nostr:nevent1qqszecnyj78aleup97p527yphx7l82j84wdn4aq4tf6s03ur5efwksgpr3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmqzyp6m7g6nrt5lnrrzn9d6quv3ujyw44r4jafhr43a0h75d00ph75f2qcyqqqqqqglzthzq


Is there a way to encrypt a message to an npub using AES encryption?

The idea is to send AES ciphertext using a dead man's switch that is deciphered by a noatr client.


Where do I find these zap highlights?


I'm making a list of the early podcasts I listened to. I'm sure there were more. Let me know if I should add anything to the list. #asknostr

 https://habla.news/a/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzqadlydf3460e333fjkaqwxg7fz82636ew5m36c7hml2xhhsml2y4qqfk7eedvf5hgcm0d9hz6ur0v33kzum5wv8fsqrs


Glad to see you again.


# OG Bitcoin Podcasts

[Gavin Andresen on the Present and Future of Bitcoin](https://www.econtalk.org/gavin-andresen-on-the-present-and-future-of-bitcoin/)

[Joe Rogan Experience #446: Andreas Antonopoulos](https://open.spotify.com/episode/4jEzlsYh0ZQioqG54rLqna?si=m4P9Jdi6RrGDRtRxXpflxQ&nd=1&dlsi=e636fbadd82d44bd)

[Joe Rogan Experience #581: Andreas Antonopoulos](https://open.spotify.com/episode/7dFZ2zzRyKpFfyazReFKJV)

[Joe Rogan Experience #844: Andreas Antonopoulos](https://open.spotify.com/episode/34Y7R17TW01bdF8lPPGJUJ)

[Econ Talk-Wences Casars On Bitcoin And Xapo](https://www.econtalk.org/wences-casares-on-bitcoin-and-xapo/)

[Jim Epstein on Bitcoin, the Blockchain, and Freedom in Latin America](https://www.econtalk.org/jim-epstein-on-bitcoin-the-blockchain-and-freedom-in-latin-america/)

[Tim Ferris: The Quiet Master of Cryptocurrency — Nick Szabo (#244) ](https://open.spotify.com/episode/20lvcYTdBm8awd9ueF9QH9)

This is a long form article, you can read it in https://habla.news/a/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzqadlydf3460e333fjkaqwxg7fz82636ew5m36c7hml2xhhsml2y4qqfk7eedvf5hgcm0d9hz6ur0v33kzum5wv8fsqrs


I used to look for bitcoin podcasts every couple weeks so I began listening to WBD after the second episode. I signed up for his free Crypto Trading course. I actually did okay. Back then, I didn't know ICO's were a scam.


There were almost no podcasts back then. We Talk Bitcoin was about the only one aside from a few episodes of JRE and EconTalk.


IPFS is kinda meh. I prefer peertube + nostr, but Blossom is an interesting idea.


No. I've used it for a few years.


Wait, it's included now? So I paid for nothing?


Using cash makes you a persona non-grata in many American retail establishments these days.

Not using Facebook also makes me a wierdo. I expect it to get worse.


GM


I wish we could get this guy on WavLake.


That sucks when that happens.


I like Mullvad.


I'm cooking dinner right now, but I'm interested.


What time?


I added it to the signature of my blog.


# Example Point Of Sale

*This should go without saying, but this stuff is not actually for sale.*

## Coffee $0.01

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

[Click Here To Pay For Coffee](https://www.plebpay.com/e59c32bb-87c1-463e-9262-c8c8058f258b)

## Tea $0.02

![Tea](https://i.nostr.build/AaMY6.png)
[Click Here To Pay For Tea](https://www.plebpay.com/e55a85e5-049f-47a2-ab27-5ca5682c7e93)

![pay me i bitcoin](https://i.nostr.build/xE4Vk.png)

Made with
- [Habla.news](https://habla.news)

- [PlebPay](https://github.com/SamSamskies/PlebPay)

The only thing the business owner needs is a [Strike](https://strike.me/) username.

The payments can be instantly converted to fiat if the business owner prefers. I obviously think this is a bad idea, but that's none of my business.

nostr:naddr1qqr4q3mnxpe9s7gzyp6m7g6nrt5lnrrzn9d6quv3ujyw44r4jafhr43a0h75d00ph75f2qcyqqqgtwcgzhehs

## Notes:

- PlebPay created Paywalls.
- Each item on the menu can have it's own price.
- Price is denominated in fiat.

*All payments in this example go to Sam Samskie, the PlebPay dev*

I made a payment terminal using simple tools like Sam Samskie's PlebPay and habla.news.

This is a long form article, you can read it in https://habla.news/a/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzqadlydf3460e333fjkaqwxg7fz82636ew5m36c7hml2xhhsml2y4qqshg6r994jkzumfv4ehgtthv9uj6ar094skxcm9wp6z6cnfw33k76twtxs0cf


I made a payment terminal using simple tools like Sam Samskie's PlebPay and habla.news.

This is a video event and can be viewed at https://www.flare.pub/w/naddr1qqr4q3mnxpe9s7gzyp6m7g6nrt5lnrrzn9d6quv3ujyw44r4jafhr43a0h75d00ph75f2qcyqqqgtwcgzhehs


Listen To This Article:

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I started writing this blog two years ago. It's my third attempt at writing a bitcoin blog. I My Economics teacher in High Schools was part owner of a small bank before changing careers. He taught us how little one needs to start a bank because of a **concept called fractional reserve banking**. I felt it was an unfair system, but powerless to do anything about it. This was about 735,840 ten minute intervals before January 3rd, 2009, give or take.

[309,334](https://timechaincalendar.com/en/block/309334) blocks after the genesis block, I heard about it on the [Joe Rogan Experience](https://www.jrepodcast.com/episode/moores-law-with-andreas-antonopoulos-from-joe-rogan-experience-490/) and went down the rabbit hole. I used it as my poker bankroll because I lost a little money trusting it with [Full Tilt Poker](https://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanvardi/2011/09/20/feds-call-full-tilt-poker-a-massive-ponzi-scheme/?sh=1746187c3dc5). After about six months of stacking, I heard [Wences Casares](https://www.econtalk.org/wences-casares-on-bitcoin-and-xapo/) say there is a 50% chance bitcoin will reach a price of $1,000,000 within 15-20 years on [block 366,235](https://timechaincalendar.com/en/block/366235). I told my then girlfriend(now wife), "I know this sounds crazy, but there's a decent chance this bitcoin thing I've been using to play online poker with will be worth a million bucks in like 20 years. It would be a mistake to not save some. "

The poker site converted my bitcoin to fiat to save me from the volatility. I made about a .03% return on my poker playing skills, but the price of bitcoin doubled so I stopped playing online poker and took self custody of my bitcoin. I then played small no limit hold em cash home games, 4-8 Limit Hold Em with a Kill at San Manuel, and a tournament at Pechanga about once a month. If I won, I would deposit the cash into my bank account and buy more bitcoin on coinbase until they sent me a nasty letter. If I lost, the sats were gone, but we didn't use the term 'sats" back then. The casino games were much softer. I made about the minimum wage in those days. I always felt embarrassed about how little I made, but in retrospect, **I'll never make that much money again**. Few understand this.

I also use bitcoin everyday. Back then I sent 'a buck a show' to Dan Carlin. Each "buck" must be worth more than $200 today. I once took a trip to San Francisco in 2015 and asked the poor woman at the Golden Gate toll booth, "Do you accept bitcoin?"

"No, what's that?" she asked.

My wife still tells this story to her friends. They laughed at me for a few years. I talked about it so much, my daughter bought me this shirt in 2020.

![Told You So](https://i.nostr.build/En8Px.jpg)

I went to my brother in law's bachelor party around block 347,801 and spread the good news about bitcoin. I've never seen a stripper look so bored. She said, "So do you like buy drugs on the Internet?”

My wife got tired of me talking about bitcoin, so she suggested I write about it online and join bitcoin groups online. I decided to write about using bitcoin.

I still think bitcoin is the greatest thing since sliced gold, but most people don't want to talk about bitcoin. They like to talk about how many fiat fuckery bucks they can buy with 100 million sats. Fiat is boring unfair and buys less and less stuff. I don't want to read about fiat prices. I don't want to read how bitcoin is useless water boiling technology, so I decided to write about how I use bitcoin everyday.

I earned a B.A. in creative writing.

The alarm ringtone on my phone is a reading of ["So You Want To Be A Writer,” by Charles Bukowski](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn5dYPMSjaY) My wife got tired of me talking about bitcoin, so she suggested I write about it and join bitcoin groups online.

In high school, my favorite book was Tropic of Cancer. It was banned in the United States until 1973 when he won [Miller vs. California](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_v._California) which overturned obscenity laws and strengthened the first amendment. Guess I've always been a first amendment maxi. It's why I love [Phil Zimmermann's story](https://www.philzimmermann.com/EN/essays/WhyIWrotePGP.html). It's one reason I write on [nostr](https://nostr.com/). Why I believe nostr is important. Why I don't like the government interfering with corporate social media. Why the government should free Jullian Assange. Why I enjoy finding creative ways to use swear words.

"If you can't say fuck, then you can't say fuck the government."

--Lenny Bruce

![Lenny bruce getting arrested](https://i.nostr.build/eZ3Ox.jpg)

## TikTok Next Block

I sometimes see Xwitter BTC maxis say things like

- "I don't understand nostr."
- "The juice is not worth the squeeze"
- :"Nostr is like yelling buy bitcoin in the closet,"

I won't name names, but they say nostr is unimportant. The fight for better money belongs on the corporate controlled platforms. I disagree. **Nostr is freedom of speech protected by a communications protocol**. In other words, bitcoin computer networking nerds using their computer networking skills to build a censorship resistant communications protocol. We achieve this with cryptography, but it is not another one of those blockchain pump n dump schemes you may have heard about on YouTube.

I don't watch the news much, but I heard Congress passed a bill to ban TikTok. It still just a bill on the hill or however that song goes, but it's pretty [alarming](https://www.racket.news/p/why-the-tiktok-ban-is-so-dangerous) . By the way, back in the day, I subscribed to Rolling Stone just to read [Matt Tiabbi](nostr:npub16dmvfhm7uwkxnhxg30k6aczw23wxhgvs62n3puzl5tykpa4aa8esja83yd) . I got to teach him to download wallet of satoshiabout a year ago. I hope he still has access to those sats.

I've never Tiked nor Toked, but like it or not: Code is speech. TikTok developers write code. I may not agree with this code, but how the hell should I know? It's not open source. All social media should be open source. If it's a threat to national security that is. If it's a security hole, we need as many people as we can get reading the code. "See something, say something, but don't read that insecure code," might not be the most game theoretically optimal way to protect national security. That's just my two sats.

Am I concerned the CCP has access to American's information? Sure, but I'm also concerned that American corporations have access to American's information. Those corporations are notoriously bad at keeping this information secure. **Forcing the sale of a Chinese corporation to an American corporation does not fix this**.

Bitcoin taught me the most important thing you can do to keep information safe is to keep it off the Internet. Giving Corporations your phone number, address, political affiliations, address, and selfies of your inner thighs is no way to safeguard private information. I would support a bill that requires all social media platforms to stop collecting all personal data. I also want to ride a unicorn, but there's nothing I can do about that either, but **I can write on nostr**.

Can the Chinese Communist Party use TikTok to manipulate US elections? I'd bet a hundred sats they can. I'd bet you a thousand sats they can use American social media platforms to do the same thing.

Nostr is not a platform controlled by a single cabal. It allows us to create connections on the Internet without giving anyone our email address, credit card number, the secret 3 digit code on the back of our credit cards required to spend fiat on the Internet. You literally must give your keys to the corporations so they can collect a monthly fee like a tax. Nostr does not ask for a phone number. If China steals my nostr key, they won't even get my legal name.

How did we get here? The red team and the blue team can't agree on anything except who should be in charge of the Federal Reserve and TikTok must be sold. It's almost as if the two old fart candidates were pre-ordained. **It certainly wasn't up for debate**. So far, neither candidate participated in one of those.

I suspect the censoring algorithms are the real Matrix, Why else has political discourse been reduced to trivial low time preference issues. We're manipulated into arguing about pronouns, race, and class, but not to talk to each other like human beings. On nostr, you can have a cordial conversation and send sats to transgendered people, black people. white people(even white people living in Russia), expats living in China, and billionaire's alike. We don't talk about diversity, equity, and inclusion because we include the whole world and consider each other peers.

The the political arena is a shit-show. They talk about low time preference problems on stage. What other problems can a president in his 80’s solve? What will they do about the 34.5 trillion dollar problem? Another glittering generality, another budget double the size of all the wealth the billionaire's own?

**We, The People of the world speak on nostr**.

The answer to safeguarding American, or any other citizen of the world's information is simple: DON'T GIVE IT TO AWAY. If it's so important the Chinnese Communist Party be denied access to this information, the information is also too sensitive to be trusted with American corporations. What if the CCP were to hack Twitter? This is not so far fetched. The platform was hacked before.

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

DISCLAIMER: _Do not send bitcoin to people old enough to have sent more snail mail than email, especially if they say they will double your bitcoin.-- This is not financial advice, but in case you didn't know, Those things are always scams._*

Every Bitcoiner worth his or her sats knows you must assume anything you put on the Internet is pwned. For those of you born before WWII, that means you must assume criminals and foreign adversaries possess that information. That's why any bitcoiner worth his or her sats doesn't keep their bitcoin keys in the cloud. If you want our data out of the hands of the CCP, you must assume the American corporate social media will eventually get hacked by the CCP. When this happens, passing the Dear Commy China Party Don't Use Our Data Against Us Pretty Please law won't help.

Or, we could just use social media without putting our sensitive data on the line. We could use a censorship resistant communications protocol that doesn't require an email or password. We can own our own content. We can cryptographically notarize everything we write. They can't manipulate my algorithms because their are no algorithms. There is no corporation to force sell. Well...there's a 501c nonprofit corporation that funds some of the devs, and Jack Dorsey is damn generous, but that's not the same thing.

That's why I write on nostr.

Stay Free 🤙

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https://habla.news/u/bloggingbitcoin@iris.to/why-i-write-on-nostr

I write about my bitcoin journey and why I think nostr is an important protocol because it resists government censorship, and protects our sensitive data from insecure Chineese and American Corporations because it requires none of this information.

This is a long form article, you can read it in https://habla.news/a/naddr1qq28w6re945j6amjd96x2tt0dckkummnw3eqygr4hu34xxhflxxx9x2m5pcereygat28t96nw8tr6l0ag677r0agj5psgqqqw4rsrfqxhg


I tried this once. It worked, but I am still an obsidian noob.


Listen to the Audio version [here](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bloggingbitcoin/episodes/Nostr-Is-Crypto-Anarchy-e2iei3t).

I've never felt comfortable calling myself an anarchist. I never sought out to be one. Before bitcoin, I was into the punk scene. I know nothing about music or how to play an instrument, but I liked hanging out with punks who wore mohawks, slept on couches, and traveled by train like hobos.  Some of them were accountants. Some were homeless heroin addicts nodding off in the afternoon.

**They were anarchists**. I somewhat sympathize with this worldview. It's like Walden with a modern touch. I don't think I could live that way though. I don't find this type of anarchy all that appealing. It's too Mad Max for me and I own too many damn computers to live in a van.

Sometimes, I'll catch something on the news that makes me pause and ponder the most important philosophical question of modernity, "What the fuck?"

![national debt](https://i.nostr.build/BReWK.png)

Then I remember some of the crypto anarchy literature and think:

- We can communicate with each other.
- We can create contracts.
-  We can conduct commerce on the Internet.
- We can do all of this on nostr.

**That's kind of a big deal.**

"Computer technology is on the verge of providing the ability for individuals and groups to communicate and interact with each other in a totally anonymous manner. Two persons may exchange messages, conduct business, and negotiate electronic contracts without ever knowing the True Name, or legal identity, of the other. Interactions over networks will be untraceable, via extensive re-routing of encrypted packets and tamper-proof boxes which implement cryptographic protocols with nearly perfect assurance against any tampering. Reputations will be of central importance, far more important in dealings than even the credit ratings of today. These developments will alter completely the nature of government regulation, the ability to tax and control economic interactions, the ability to keep information secret, and will even alter the nature of trust and reputation."

--Tim May, the Cryptoanarchist Manifesto

## The Nostr Marketplace Is Crypto Anarchy

![Start a nostr business](https://i.nostr.build/yqDBP.png)

Anyone with a smart phone and the ability to write down 12 words can create a pseudonymously owned business.

- You don't need to build a website.
- Don't need a business licence.
- Don't need to worry about Congress force sell your stocks because they don't like your national origin.
- Don't need a business checking account.
- Don't need a 21st century blue check ID.

![Belt from leathermint](https://i.nostr.build/PO5n7.png)

It's early as an infant taking his first steps, but we are on the verge of changing the world. A few days ago, I bought a belt from LeatherMint. I never would have found this website if it weren't for nostr. I haven't checked my PO Box yet, but it's on the way. I have no idea what LeatherMint's legal name is. I don't know Leathermint's gender, race, nor ethnicity. Hell if I know what LeatherMint's preferred pronouns are, yet I can still conduct business with this person, ghost, robot, or whatever. It doesn't matter because **LeatherMint's identity is not required to do business.** LeatherMint's quality of work speaks for itself. **Reputation is greater than identity**.

"I am fascinated by Tim May's crypto-anarchy. Unlike the communities
traditionally associated with the word "anarchy", in a crypto-anarchy the
government is not temporarily destroyed but permanently forbidden and
permanently unnecessary. It's a community where the threat of violence is
impotent because violence is impossible, and violence is impossible
because its participants cannot be linked to their true names or physical
locations."

wei-dai, b-money

Nostr is not far off this vision. It's not totally anonymous yet, but it allows us to achieve free speech for ourselves despite living under regimes with totalitarianism tendencies.  As the debt and speech banning grows we can exit the mainstream platforms. Wave goodbye to Facebook Marketplace. Say hello to the nostr marketplace, where our money is not subject to debasement. We call it freedom tech.

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I muse about how nostr is crypto anarchy because anyone with a private key and a lightning address can start a business selling something on nostr, without any government controlled corporation such as Facebook market place. It is a true public square on the Internet, crypto-anarchy in action.

This is a long form article, you can read it in https://habla.news/a/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzqadlydf3460e333fjkaqwxg7fz82636ew5m36c7hml2xhhsml2y4qqtkummnw3ez66tn943hy7tsw3hj6ctwv9exx6re3rdprz


10% of all zaps on this note  goes to opensats.


I couldn't agree more.


It would cost me $11 + time spent watching ads per month to earn $12.23 more. No thanks.


Thar"s insane.


I love that show.


Yeah. What's this about?


Wow. Thank you.


Posterity.


You have more now.🤙


Great idea!  I love stacking existing technology like this.

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Cool.


#flowerstr

https://i.nostr.build/WGgB3.jpg


It was a good time to stack sats.


Tips


Please pay 30¢ worth of sats for a large coffee.


Please pay 20¢ worth of sats for a medium coffee.


Please pay 10¢ worth of sats for a small coffee.


Large coffee 30¢


Medium Coffee 20¢


Small coffee 10¢


Point of sale test


I'm thinking along simmilar lines. Time to evangalize microapps.


Do they have an npub?


Technically, but I doubt anyone shares this coincidence of wants.

We have sats.

We don't have copycat sats.


Wekcome. Add a lightning address so we can zap you.

This is a good one for beginers. You can switch to wallets that require less trust later.

https://bitcoli.com/en/


Have you seen flare.pub?


You might need to use email if you don't have an extention yet.


Try getting a lightning address with stacker news and add it to your profile.

https://stacker.news/signup?callbackUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fstacker.news%2F_next%2Fdata%2F1d154e%2Fnotifications.json


Welcome


Thank you 🙏


What's Paul's npub?


Great idea. Have you seen this?

https://www.theemojistory.com/


Yeah. It's nice.


I did for a little while, but it kinda sucked. The problem is I didn't make it through the spam filters.


Awww.


Nothing today, but I planted some zucchini last week.

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


I never saw flowers on legacy social media unless it was an ad for fowers dot com or something.


Beautiful.


Good mornin'.

https://i.nostr.build/Q7E6P.jpg


The flowers are one of my favorite things about nostr.😊


#asknostr
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Are they on nostr?


Adding a zap split to Fountain.


Mutiny Wallet has a built in list in the app.


So 900 new bitcoin are mined everyday right now.

On about a week or so, 450 new bitcoin will be mined per day.


The block reward is cut in half every 210,000 blocks until there are no more block rewards.


The nameservers.


You probably need to change the DNS settings.


It doesn't solve problems for people in the West, but bitcoin is Venmo for everybody.


I don't want my information used against me for ads.


Me too. Saylor and Odell should have a debate.

Maybe there are other reasons he doesn't want open sats to get ARK money.

Saylor doesn't like bitcoin payments.

Nostr and ecash make the lightning network a viable alternative to eBay, PayPal, and Apple Pay.

 Mutiny uses nostr to make a Bitcoiner version of Venmo.

I can't imagine the status quo will be happy about this.

Opensats funds nostr development. The suits won't like nostr.

Nostr has the potential to change the world.

The USG doesn't like privacy.

Ecash is privacy.

Billionaire's probably don't want to shake the boat.

Nostr shakes the boat.

Saylor has the freedom of speech just like the rest of us on nostr. He's free to tell Ark whatever he wants. It's just not what I want.

Regardless, I hope Saylor and MicroStrategy fund bitcoin developers, but now that I think of it, it can't come with strings attached. It would increase the risk of a hardfork and might be construed as a bribe. That wouldn't be good for anyone.


Welcome


Oh Thanks for showing me this post from Odell.  I had to look it up on Primal. I disagree with statement too.


You would think a CEO of a software development company that's been around since the 90's would be more likely to recognize this than some pleb who read Working In Public.


So would I.


I have not problem with strings attached funding.

 I don't believe he is in favor of software maintanace because I have not seen any evidence that he has financially contributed to  "strings attached" funding.

I will be happy to be proven otherwise.


I don't disagree with anything he said about ossification, but that's not the issue. 70%+ of the development is maintaining bitcoin core.

If he wants to prevent others from contributing to open sats because he thinks they will change bitcoin, fine--But he should start his own foundation that only donates sats to developers who maintain bitcoin core.

The fact that he does not see why this is in his own self-interest baffles me.


How do I change my nostr key in the minibits wallet?
#asknostr


I did too, until I went to a conference.


Yes, but why?


Same. Made me reduce most of my social media ussage.


I like how you're thinking about it, but see it a little differently.

I view the nostr protocol as a platform without rulers. It works like how economist David Friedman describes in his book, The Machinery of Freedom.

Choosing a client is like choosing a stateless society on the Internet.

It's an alternative to the platforms which have developed a corporate government partnership.

I agree they parties want to shape our view of the world.


Egg👏Zacked👏Lee


They don't care about bitcoin. They  perseverate on BTC/USD. Most of them don't hold their own keys.


What The Fee?


True. Have you watched the social dillema?


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

## We Accept Bitcoin Tips

To stack sats for the staff, please zap the following prism zap.  Each tip will be equally distributed among all employees.

* The customer scans the QR Code on the tip jar.
* It takes them to a landing page made in a long form nostr post.
* The nostr post includes a link to a QR CODde

try it here:
nostr:note1582wr7p90p5kk7l5tmxpuahaxnhu34tlrgen8fnemr9tfd4d48wsz4g2jl

It looks like this.

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

## Nostr Tip Jar Video Tutorial

nostr:naddr1qqr5ww28f9685agzyp6m7g6nrt5lnrrzn9d6quv3ujyw44r4jafhr43a0h75d00ph75f2qcyqqqgtwcnv6ap7

https://v.nostr.build/BRm7D.mp4

How to create a nostr tipping jar at a brick and mortar business.

This is a long form article, you can read it in https://habla.news/a/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzqadlydf3460e333fjkaqwxg7fz82636ew5m36c7hml2xhhsml2y4qq4xzttzd96xxmmfdckhg6ts944xzu3dw35xzapdwpshjuedwdjhvetjv9kz6ur9dacxcegru2w65


A tutorial on how to create a tip jar for brick and mortar businesses  using nostr.  Nostr on-boarding is very easy on apps like Mutiny Wallet and Minibits.cash.

I created a QR code that likns to a nostr long form post.

Then I added a few npubs to the Zapper microapp and added this link to the long-form post.

https://zapper.nostrapps.org/zap?id=note1582wr7p90p5kk7l5tmxpuahaxnhu34tlrgen8fnemr9tfd4d48wsz4g2jl

When the link is zapped, the sats are evenly distributed to everyone on the zap like the cash money tips that end up in the jar,. The post can be edited  to add new baristas or remove old baristas.

My goal is to make some of these nostr tip jars for the servers at my local meetups. I hope other bitcoin meetups create these tipjars for their servers too.

Let me know if you need any help.

This is a video event and can be viewed at https://www.flare.pub/w/naddr1qqr5ww28f9685agzyp6m7g6nrt5lnrrzn9d6quv3ujyw44r4jafhr43a0h75d00ph75f2qcyqqqgtwcnv6ap7


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

## We Accept Bitcoin Tips

To stack sats for the staff, please zap the following prism zap.  Each tip will be equally distributed among all employees.

* The customer scans the QR Code on the tip jar.
* It takes them to a landing page made in a long form nostr post.
* The nostr post includes a link to a QR CODde

try it here:
nostr:note1582wr7p90p5kk7l5tmxpuahaxnhu34tlrgen8fnemr9tfd4d48wsz4g2jl

It looks like this.

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

An Bitcoin Tip Jar That Pays Several People


Test tip jar.


Listened to this one twice.

I love the savings, commerce, freedom, power framing.  The tea and cocoa drying reminds me of what @npub1f5pre6wl6ad87vr4hr5wppqq30sh58m4p33mthnjreh03qadcajs7gwt3z  is doing on a larger scale.


No.


That's good. 🤙


Keep it up. 🤙


Seems like an interesting story.


This helped me understand how it works much more and how I came to find the book, Working In Public.

https://fountain.fm/episode/cobQ7L4RvNIGTEJp0LTl


Ark planned on donating money to opensats.

Saylor convinced them not to.


This is great!


In SLP 404, bitcoin maintainer, Gloria Zhao says more than 70% of bitcoin development work is maintanance work, not stuff like Taproot.

"**And so even if nobody was opening pull requests to request new features or point out things to Bitcoin Core, you would still have the job of finding bugs, fixing bugs, monitoring things upstream, updating dependencies, making sure we support things continuously downstream, cutting releases — to do that on a regular cadence, taking care of what happens on the GitHub repository** — responding to issues and triaging pull requests and all those things, running CI — testing things. And so every software project requires maintenance."


That sucks.


Welcome.


I disagree with saylor, but will defend his right to post retarted AI photos.

I actually liked them. 🤣


Those don't make it past the govt. controlled social media algos.


Really? They don't even pretend anymore do they?


MOE matters for refugees in a hostile nation.

MOE matters for cross-border  remittance.

MOE matters for people taking a stand against unjust laws.

MOE matters in a world devoid of paper cash, or the people excluded from the mainstream financial system.

MOE matters for victims of sanctions levied upon them by their own government.


Time flies.


Nice. Lol


This can't be real.

It looks more like an AI video made by someone likw the dollar vigilante to show the world the dollar is a pyramid scheme, right?

Sauce please.


This is exactly what I think.


passed to @mahdood


I love this idea of educating people to upgrade their security as the amount increases.


Phoenix is good for bitcoin power users. Mutiny will allow us to make bitcoin payments to your grandma.


You can use Phoenix wallet, but you'll need to open a channel first by sending some sats to an onchain address.


Add a lightning address. You can get one by downloading the mutiny wallet on google play or the app store.

Add the lightning address to your profile and I'll send you a small amount of bitcoin.


Welcome. Followed. I recently got into gardening and listen to some permaculture podcasts. You'll fit right in here.


The suits outnumber us, don't they?


We can boycott ETF's that refuse to fund bitcoin development. That's about it.


He doesn't like the Cypherpunks. The Cypherpunks are the adults in the room.


But it's a poor plan. Dependencies get updated.

If the code never bitcoin code never gets updated, bitcoin will eventually stop working because it will become incompatible with the dependencies.


I started making a tutorial this weekend, but my computer crashed and my kid wanted to play catch.

The lightning address they added yesterday changes my whole plan though so I'm glad my computer crashed.


Fuck off.


SOV and MOE are two sides of the same coin. We can't have Bitcoin property and only spend the USD shitcoin.

They can't fork off and have two chains, bitcoin and "bitcoin property."

It will end up like bcash. One will go up and one will not.

We don't want a situation where we only spend forks of bitcoin. If we did, all forks end up being a newfangled fiat currency.

Fiat is financial slavery.


Well....I tried running it on docker, but I fucked up.


Hellz yeah. I've been brain-storming different ways to onboard businesses to bitcoin. Last weekend I thought, we can use Strike's API and do a ton of nerd stuff, but now I'm thinking...We just need nostr.


My bitcoin autism Spidey-senses tell me this has the potential to make bitcoin payments ubiquitous.

https://i.nostr.build/2RdnR.png


My bitcoin autism Spidey-senses tell me this has the potential to make bitcoin payments ubiquitous.

https://i.nostr.build/2RdnR.png.


This is so fucking cool!


Wow. 😲


Good morning.

I'm excited for this episode. The Fedimint e-cash Venmo for bitcoiners is huge. Are there plans to add lightning addresses like the minibits  chaumian e-cash wallet?


I just hope we don't have another fork, b-property.


Net positive because I got a lot of dates on MySpace, but from 2015-2022, my experience went downhill.

Nostr has been postive. Even the arguments are respectful.


My 80 year old uncle was on that list because he was from Egypt. He wasn't even religious. He just had an Egyptian last name.


Bitcoin dies without development.

The code won't maintain itself.


I plan on making a tutorial, but it doesn't require any code.


I'll check them out. Purism looks cool, but I don't want to spend that many sats without testing the keyboard first. I've never heard of framework. Thanks.


One zap gets automatically distributed. I want to use this to make bitcoin tip jars.


Awesome thanks.


Test zap splits on amytheyst.


Thanks. I'll try again with some advanced users.


Test zap splits


My thinkpad just died, but I tend to agree. Just wanted to see if there was a better option yet. Thank you Max.


I need a new #laptop. I prefer Linux, but I keyboards are important to me. What would you recommend, anon?


This gave me D-Day flashbacks.
😱

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