Stack sats like the US Goverment will say every US citizen owe's a million dollars in 30 years.

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Most bullish case for bitcoin ever.


If only we could use public key cryptography to verify people are who they say they are and did not need to rely on a corporation known for selling people's information  to the highest bidder to vet these things.


Doubt it. I perused the libertarian party canidate's website last night. I don't the libertarian party has figured much out over the last decade.

This new guy likes to promote himself on Facebook. You can donate $5.00 with a credit card if you fill out the KYC pre-paywall.


I like this wallet. I'd like the L-BTC to automatically convert to main-chain bitcoin after a certain threshold is met. When do you plan to FOSS it?


Lol. I voted for him in 2012 too.


Did anyone else donate bitcoin to Gary Johnson in 2016, or was I the only one?


Jerome Powell said "Integrity is priceless."

21 million.

What does that say about #bitcoin's integrity?

The #bitcoin network is priceless.


Jerome Powell went on 60 minutes and said:

"You know...I would just say this: Integrity is priceless, and at the end that's all you have and we plan on keeping ours."

#Bitcoin is priceless. We all say 21 million, but that's not really true.

There will never be more than 20.99999898 bitcoin. There is a little less spendable bitcoin and maybe some idiot will make a little more unspendable bitcoin in the future, but nobody can make more.

That's real integrity. Nothing else comes close.

We also do not plan on eroding this integrity, but the thing that makes it so beautiful is that we can't erode this integrity.

As soon as someone forks the code to make such a change, they create another shitcoin, but that's not #bitcoin.

Ethereum does not have this integrity.

Dogecon does not have this integrity.

Monero does not have this integrity.

The US dollar does not have this integrity and don't waste your time finding it on video games on a blockchain or whatever.

This is not a plan. It's set on stone.

Less than 21 million forever or fork off.


Welcome.


We just need to add nostr relays to gittea.


We should only talk to no-coiners on Twitter and shun  Bitcoiners on Twitter. Maybe Parker Lewis will join us.


I inherited my son’s old Alienware gaming PC. It has an NVidia GTX 1070 (6GB). What generative AI model(s) should I run on it first? #asknostr


We're all in the same boat and you know what that means.


Lightning needs to get easier before it can be decentralized. We need more uncle jims and less censorship based on geolocation.

I think this problem is solveable, but it needs work. The lightning liquididty is too hard to balamce and plug in play nodes need a simple way to create RAID backups.


If it's not bitcoin, it's a number two coin.


I'm not a veteran, but all that stuff sounds interesting.


I wonder how he fooled Gavin.


This makes it really easy to self-host websites on Umbrel.  https://github.com/Radiokot/umbrel-cloudflared


We're all "shipcoiners" since we lost our #bitcoin in a boating accident.


Agreed. Does it contain any seed oil Alex?


That's cool.


Eric Hughes used it in the Cypherpunk Manifesto. That's why use it at the end of my blogs.

https://nakamotoinstitute.org/cypherpunk-manifesto/


My wife saved coffee grounds and Vita-Mixed egg shells for roses, so my practice bio char plans were foiled.

https://i.nostr.build/7R0V.jpg


Oh that makes sense.


Thank you. Bitrefill offered bill pay service in 2022 and it was awesome, but they discontinued it. 😥


What's the best way to pay credit card and utility bills with bitcoin?(Preferably with lightning)

#asknostr


Xwitter has become a gambling game.

Pay $8.00-$16.00 to watch ads and buy a chance to win more money than you paid.


I don't know. They're okay, but not my favorite band.


Are you hosting it on TOR?


Agreed. Children have not yet aquired the brain development that is necessary for freedom. It's one of the things I think Rothbard got wrong.


What term would you use to describe technology that is not controlled by a government/corporate partership?


I don't regret any of my tattoos, even the stupid ones, but I was an adult when I got them.


What do you think of AI Lyn, and have you heard nostr:npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev's episode of AI Unchained where he cloned your voice for educational purposes?


Right? This sounds fake, even for the clown world.


That's the site that inspired me to create a meetup.


The Orange Pill App works best for me so far, but as the price gets higher, I expect that to change. Shitcoiners are starting to show up and ask me about crypto ponzi schemes.

I do my best to teach them video games on a blockchain are a scam, but they don't want to hear that.😥


I can't wait to see what you come up with.


It looks more facist to me. I also think most people have been brainwashed to believe that means one dictator like Hitler, but our system is one where people are expected to vote for either the blue facist or the red facist.

They don't even pretend anymore. The debates are totally divorced from the choices nowadays.

Trump did not participate on Republican debates and Biden refused to debate Kennedy.

In my opinion, the Republic fell in 2015, when the Obama was not permitted to choose a Supreme court judge. That was the first time I  realized our form of government does not work how I was taught it worked at least.


I don't want zaps to turn into Hare Krishna flowers.


I use Liquid-BTC. There are trade offs. I accept those trade-offs.


I listened to the audiobook. I think about it quite a bit.


Might need to try this.


How have the vote for better money sticker done so far?


My wife started saving coffee grounds about a month ago. I want to make bio char out of it now.


I tried coconut water once at the 2010 LA Marathon, but didn't like it.

When you say fresh, do you mean like a straw in a coconut?


I don't know much about coconut water, but would be happy to answer questions about bitcoin.


The fans are quiet though.


Try this instead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csmHvuzUECU&t=4398


This is the way.


True. To be honest, I plan on trying a mostly whole foods plant based diet, but I'll eat steak once a week for sexy time. ☺


It's wonderful.


Have you seen "You Are What You Eat" on Netflix?

I watched it last week and am begining to think seed oils and too many carbs are the real problem.

The Carnivore diet eliminates both of those problems, but I'm not convinced high cholesterol is a good idea.


Thanks. I just listened to it. How do you pay your bills with bitcoin Jack? I miss Bitrefill's service.


yep.


Great quote. Where was this from?


welcome


I was just talking about this with someone today and how I'm old enough to remember looking for work in a newspaper.


Why the blue check?

I seek to understand, not argue.


You're my favorite person to disagree with because you challenge my own thinking and force me to clarify my own opinions.


They mention it in the article, but the 13th amendment didn't actually outlaw slavery.


Lovely.


where can I buy a 43¢ walmart gift card?


never, but I want the option to delete.


Peter got screwed and 6102'd.

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Who's going to build the roads?

You will.

Private roads are often better made and maintained than government made roads.

And we will use roundabouts not stupid red lights.


Most people only care about dollars. Some of us want to exit the dollar ponzi scheme.

Set up a ligjtning wallet and I'll zap you some sats.


Agreed.


Why? ETF's?


That reminds me, my subscription expires tomorrow. How do I renew?


FEAR. Is the weapon of control.


False Evidence Appearing Real = War


v0.1.12 - Chat mode UX improvements:

- When starting a new chat, you now get to choose between Regular Chat, Nostr Chat and Chat with Data modes.
- We've added a mode indicator at the top of the chat window. You also get a popup notification when we've finished processing your data source (useful for larger Git repos and files!)
- To change the mode you need to start a new chat.

https://image.nostr.build/1cb454d60cc95f324a9ff4ffb369523bded84ff301d86b0bd613692a52cb04c0.jpg
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Last year, I bought all the squares because I did not know how this worked. 🤣.

How much is each square?


They do, they just don't know it yet.


The mainstream won't join us until kim kardashian makes an npub.


We really are "so early."


Blogging Bitcoin's Nostr Store

Buy Blogging Bitcoin Merch here.


Stall 'Blogging Bitcoin's Nostr Store' deleted


Product 'Bitcoin Supply Schedule Sticker' deleted


Did I just accidently watch some sotra kinky porn?


That's true.


I set up LNbits and BTCpayServer on Umbrel using the cloudflare tunnel app without a hosting service.

LNbits has a nostr marketplace too, but you must install the nostr client before it will work. It's not clear without using the documentation.

What's wrong with WordPress?


We don't fight. We have respectful debates.


Nostr is nice.


Agreed.


Tax dollars at work.


RIP blogstack. 😥


earn sats, spend sats, stack sats.


I bet only bitcoiners stacked every single one of these stickers.

https://i.nostr.build/O690.jpg


I don't like the word tip, so i changed it.

https://lnbits.bloggingbitcoins.xyz/tipjar/2


After all the covid hysteria, it looks like our next election will be between two old dudes. One did not participate in the Republican debate. The other did not allow a Democratic party debate.

And I can't imagine what if feels like to be a Canadian with a bank account these days.


I need to use this more.


This is the first time I ever saw TFW.


Thank You !

![logo](https://logosmarcas.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Bitcoin-Logo.png)

I'm using this for a webhook on LNbits and BTCpayServer.  It's not done yet. I'm not sure what I want to do with it yet.

This is a long form article, you can read it in https://habla.news/a/naddr1qqyhg6rpde4j67t0w5pzqadlydf3460e333fjkaqwxg7fz82636ew5m36c7hml2xhhsml2y4qvzqqqr4gujj2gtf


I have this bad habit of typing on my phone without my reading glasses.


There's anonymity in crowds.

This is like a coinjoin for leaked nude photos.


This web of trust thing is a great idea, 10X better than the blue check.


They should hold the debate at Bitcoin Park.


What's the feature?


I can't believe this flat earth thing is not a joke...like hunting for snipes.


Ok, what the hack. Ok, Jack why do you boosts Fiatjaf's comment? Could we please know what the bounty was about or at least how community consent could be measured? I'm super excited about the interoperability layer stuff (and websites that build on top of that to look like GitHub) and if not that, what is it you see so important to throw tons of money at it?


I didn't even know this was an app.


http://lnbits.bloggingbitcoins.xyz/

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I made a typo on a domain I bought.

I kinda like it.


Testing Primal PWA


Test


Congratulations. Fuck that guy.


Not sure what broke it, but they disapeared from all my clients. I added them back.


Lost all my relays for some reason.🫠


At least it's multisig, but it looks like it has 4 keys. Why in the world did they do that?

https://i.nostr.build/46lG.png


I heard this episode and was like:

BRING UP NOSTR!

And he did. 😁


Why?
I know nothing about her.


I've been thinking about this a lot these days. I know more about bitcoin than the average person, but I know very little about ETF's. I also don't think I've used legacy addresses since 2018(aside from buying stuff on the CoinKite store).

Why do ETF use addresses start with a 1?


Interesting. I quit smoking cigarettes a decade ago, but I learned nicotene is a natural pesticide. That's why it makes sense. Pretty cool.


Volunteer, or is this a real position? Also..What's with the legacy addresses?


![hayek quote](https://i.nostr.build/6ol2.png)

# Bitcoin IOU's
There are many ways to stack sats. The easiest way is to sell fiat on a KYC regulated exchange. Most exchanges differ from an ETF because they will usually, but not always, send you the bitcoin you buy. Here is how one would go about selling fiat on an exchange in the US:
    • Sign Up for an account by providing your email, password, and phone number.
    • Send them A picture of your driver’s license.
    • Take a mug shot of your face. Some places require you to include a picture of your ID with the mug shot.
    • Give them Your Social Credit Score Number(A.K.A. your Social Security Number).
    • Provide them your phone numbers
    • If someone wanted to steal your bitcoin, where can they find you? This question is often phrased like this: "What is your home address?"
    • According to Guy Swann, you're also must send “a picture of your butt-hole”. That’s not actually true, but it's hilarious.

![peer to peer](https://i.nostr.build/nEjM.png)

I’m not going to get sanctimonious about this. I believe it makes sense to have a little KYC stack, say a million sats to pay off your mortgage. Why so bearish? Because I won’t teach you how to stack sats without even if you don’t have an ID issued by the government. What if you didn’t have bitcoin, but had to flee? What if your Identity did not give you permission to the financial system around you?  I want you to get as many non-KYC free bitcoin as possible, even if you already have bitcoin. Here’s why:
**KYC free sats have the smallest attack surface**. Thieves can't steal your bitcoin if they don't know where to find it. **What about the IRS?**  *Thieves can't steal your bitcoin if they don’t know where to find it*. Punative taxes or a 6102 style executive order are not the only threats. If you get sued, would you prefer to have peer-to-peer bitcoin or bitcoin that HODLs your mug shot? How effective will your boating accident alibi work in such a situation?
This is not to say there is absolutely no place for KYC'd sats. For a while, I was able to pay my water bill with bitcoin. It doesn't make sense to spend KYC free sats to pay your waterbill. They know my government name and where I live. It does make sense to make the sats I pay my waterbill with private. What if my non-private bitcoin I use to pay my waterbill shows people at the water plant I have a million sats—Enough to buy a three bedroom house with a food forrest.? Privacy matters. Maybe I don’t want my bitcoin to be like Venmo.

You shouldn’t need to give anyone an ID to try using bitcoin. You did not learn about money by opening a bank account with a fraction of cash in the vault. Your dad gave you cash for the ice cream truck. You bought tokens to play games at Chuck E Cheese. You bought chips at the liquor store with cash. You did not buy chips at the Belagio and begin betting on black. Money is something someone gives to you, something you earn, something you pay others with—something you save. This is not investment advice because this is not an investment. It is a new electronic cash system.

## Your First Wallet

In a perfect world, you would have learned how to count hexadecimals in grade school and bitcoin would make perfect sense. This is not a perfect world we live in however. Most of the 8 billion people in the world don't know about hexadecimals. This is understandable since most of them are born with 10 fingers. If we had 15 fingers, things might be different, but we don't.
I wish this wasn't so, but it's unrealistic to think everyone can start off using self sovereign bitcoin. It was easier a decade ago. You only needed to write down 12 words. Each block reward was 25 bitcoin and only a handful of nerds used it. The fees were so low, I never noticed them until around 2017.
It no longer makes sense to buy $20.00 worth of bitcoin onchain. This is especially true if you don't know what the fuck you are doing. That's okay. Unless you were hanging out on the Cypherpunk mailing list prior to 2009, we've all been there. Fees are a market. If you don't know how they work, you could spend all your sats on fees. There’s a learning curve.
The first axiom is: **You must be cautious and careful when making significant bitcoin transactions on the main chain**.
If you lose twenty bucks worth of sats, it will suck, but it's not the end of the world. **If you lose an amount of value greater than anything you have ever imagined, it will be the end of the world as you know it**.
Therefore, it makes sense to use a noncustodial wallet at first, but keep that first principle in mind. We already If $20 is a significant amount of money for you, treat it with extreme caution. If you make $25 an hour, getting rug-pulled by a shady wallet will still suck, but you'll feel better after yelling a few F-bombs.
Your Sats on A Custodial Wallet Are At Risk
It's not likely that a custodial wallet will steal your sats. You are more likely to see a custodial wallet pull out of your market. Xapo closed it's doors to US customers due to regulatory concerns ages ago. A few weeks ago, wallet of Satoshi did the same. I had 27 sats on my wallet of satoshi and was able to withdraw them. If I dropped my phone in the toilet, those sats could be gone forever, (although I could just change the location of my phone using a VPN). The point is to use custodial wallets wisely.
 Remember the golden rule of bitcoin ”Not your keys, not your bitcoin."
A custodial bitcoin wallet is not your bitcoin. This is important. If you can't remember this, tattoo this the front of your neck:
ИIOƆTIᙠ YM TOИ ƧI TƎ⅃⅃AW ⅃AIᗡOTƧUƆ A ИI ИIOƆTIᙠ
This wallet I am showing you is also an IOU. Keep this in mind. **We are not creating our first wallet to build generational wealth**. We are using it as an educational tool. The Padawan wallet taught us how to crawl. The custodial lightning wallet on the current nostr app will be our first baby step. It also let's us into a decentralized communications protocol. We will cover this later.
Current Tutorial
    1. Download the current app on google play or The App store.
    2. Create a new identity.
    3. Write down the 12 words.
    4. Customize your profile
    5. Get a lightning address.
    6. Follow people
    7. Talk to people
    8. Get zapped.
### Video Tutorial

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This article is part of a series that aims to teach people how to use bitcoin.

This is a long form article, you can read it in https://habla.news/a/naddr1qqxxy6t5vdhkjm3dd9hh2uczyp6m7g6nrt5lnrrzn9d6quv3ujyw44r4jafhr43a0h75d00ph75f2qcyqqq823c0p0uf6


This video is part of a bitcoin guide  I'm making for beginners. Note: Custodial wallets are not your bitcoin because it is a wallet in which you do not own the keys. Don't put more sats on them than you are wiling to lose.

This is a video event and can be viewed at https://www.flare.pub/w/naddr1qqrkyjejvav4xugzyp6m7g6nrt5lnrrzn9d6quv3ujyw44r4jafhr43a0h75d00ph75f2qcyqqqgtwc58aefr


What's this about?


Makes perfect sense. Where do you get tobacco seeds?


I don't care much about politics these days, but I heard Vivek drpped out. Did he ever talk about bitcoin on the debate stage?

Did Donald Trump bring up Ordonals? Did he even debate?


I loved it.

This is my favorite part.

"Most Wall Street analysts and retail investors haven’t actually used a bitcoin wallet, taken self-custody of the asset, sent it to others, and/or used it in various ecosystems, and yet doing so is very helpful for fundamental research."

That's exactly the kind of stuff I write about.


What happened nowm


I don't know. They should do a better job and use some kind of multi-institutional custody.


I wish more influencers would shill RoboSats. It's an amazing experience.


Yeah, have no-coiners ever sent a bank wire to buy a house?

It's much more expensive than bitcoin transacrions in a high fee environment.


Love this song.


I like 92%. Any more than that is too much for me.


Yeah. It's like the suicide bombers smartened up.


I tried a 95% last month. I won't do that again.


NEW LNBITS SCHEDULER EXTENSION IS OUT!

- AUTOMATE LIGHTNING PAYMENTS
- AUTOMATE ANYTHING FROM LNBITS

https://video.nostr.build/60661c6ccc112a61a91096bdc862be58e9ef8fede8b9b3c20a9836c5c427aaf9.mp4


Somebody needs to replace the json text with something cooler on nostr.com


Zaps are 1000x more awesome than ChangeTip ever was.


It's my favorite.


Me too.


The government is waiting on any form of uprising so they can squash it out and declare marshal law. Thick back to how fast covid laws took place basically.

Any act of violence in response to there's, will be our own defeat.

Bitcoin stands as a silent revolution that transcends demographic boundaries, offering a common ground for people with diverse backgrounds and aspirations. Whether you're trans, black, white, or any other group, the desire for a fair and just system unites everyone. Bitcoin provides a solution to the universal quest for a more equitable society.

Imagine a world where, through Bitcoin, every individual's voice is not only heard but verifiably accounted for. Online platforms could allow users to track their votes on an immutable blockchain, ensuring transparency and integrity in the electoral process. This digital paradigm shifts the power dynamics by enabling individuals to actively participate in creating a fairer system.

The crucial step of buying Bitcoin and moving it to self-custody amplifies your voice on a global scale. Unlike keeping it on centralized platforms like Cash App, self-custody empowers you with control over your wealth and influence. As you make this move, your action resonates through Bitcoin's blockchain, a public ledger that broadcasts your commitment to a decentralized, transparent, and inclusive future. In this way, Bitcoin becomes a tool not only for financial empowerment but also for making your voice heard in the ongoing quest for a just and fair society.


Stoic philosophy is helpful.


It's good, but you misspoke and said "12 letter seed phrase." I know you meant 12 words. The rest is great. I just don't want noobs to get confused.


It’s a wet day in Rain City. ☔🌧💧

Let’s pretend the flowers still exist during these frozen winter days. 🥶 ❄

#flowerstr #photostr #nature #photography https://image.nostr.build/bceb496838489b4fa8319e21443d3a86633685622e13b0a2eb9b1ec3b31ea411.jpg


Good analogy to explain nostr to non-technical folks?


Lynn Alden compared it to email for social because you can send email from Gmail to Yahoo like you can see notes on primal or damus.


ngu is nice
but this is not financial advice

bitcoin is a protest
against central banks we detest

a way for people in every nation
to protect themselves from inflation:

a peer to peer electronic cash system
that works without any corporation
absolute mathmatical scarcity
competing with fiat mediocrity

let them say bitcoin is dead
and fear it might end the fed.

#poetry


Fiat has no bottom. That's the bitcoin top.


Great advice.


Wow.
That's cool.


So there's this progression. First you see something like Cashu when you say, "Oh, it's a custodial lightning wallet with better privacy for users and no accounts." And then you realize, "Oh, I can use this to pay someone who is offline. I just send them a string and that’s the ecash note.” And then you realize, "Oh, this works over long range radio with very low bandwidth. And then you realize, oh, if we trust the same mint, we can actually use it to route  lightning payments without open channels to the mint (the channel is the trust). And we can use it as a lightning wallet for ourselves. And then you can say, oh, we can create these community mints for “islands” that are not connected to the internet.

And then you realize, "Oh, there can be more than one Uncle Jim, and we don't have to trust this one person. We can have shared custody, and this thing has better privacy." And suddenly you realize you are were not expecting anything like this at all when you first saw it, when it began. It has completely different implications than what I was expecting previously.

It's the same with Nostr. It's like, "Oh, this is not a very good protocol. It depends on a few relays and you can’t even store images on it and who would use it." And it's cumbersome. Now there are blogging platforms and communities and marketplaces and AI communicating over it. And there's this innovation that no one was expecting when they first started. It was like thinking about the protocol and trying to judge it by its design, but its use (and implications) is discovered, not designed. Same way you can send a calendar invite over email, or do encrypted group chats over it (DeltaChat).

It’s interesting to see, how we use technologies that in theory should not have worked, but in practice, they do. Bitcoin is one of them. The probability of its success was very low.

A friend of mine said in a podcast with me that Bitcoin’s risk adjusted value is actually better than a decade ago. Yes, you could have bought cheap Bitcoin. But its success back then was very improbable. Now you are buying the asset of the parallel financial system, back then, it was a membership card in a club of geeks. After several that have failed…


This is excellent.


Oh that kind of black powder. I wasn't sure if it's some new form of art. 😅


How do you use black powder?


It's funny that inflation is now a mainstream topic. I tend to talk to normies more about the price of food these days more than bitcoin.

Lead the horse to water, wait ’till it's thirsty.


This is much better than it was last year.  Has it even been a year?


Inflation, war, and national debt are scary.

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👀
 BitcoinRocks makes Spanish stickers now?


This os great.


Do you think fedimints can mitigate the custodial risk enough to make a difference Peter?


You're right.  Do you really not have shoes?


If your shoes don't have holes in them, you're short #bitcoin.

https://i.nostr.build/Aq8G.jpg


It's come a long way these past few months.


IDK, but this entire election has turned into a big scam.

No plan for the $34,000,000,000,000 national debt, but we are expected to vote between two people in their 80's

One of these old fucks wants you to believe you will get rich by buying jpegs.

The other old fuck wants you to believe you will get rich if you elect him because he will pardon your indentured servitide.

This is peak fiat.


Oddly enough, I really like Zach though.


Fiat maxis playing stupid fiat games.


Even if "drugs" are listed as the cause of death on a death certificate, it's often a second order effect.

My friend was a veteran. He served in both the Marine Corps and the Army. He was shipped to Afganistan and Iraq.

He drank heavily and smoked a little weed every now and then, but this was a second order effect.

The bombs didn't kill him.

The bullets didn't kill him.

The booze may have been the kill shot, but he died for his government.


Sorry for your loss. One of my friends from high school died a couple days ago. It sucks.


Weak men make straw man arguments.


Marcus Aurelius: The Man Who Solved the Universe [video]

Comments ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39056862 )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tv6W0Nv5ev0


I read Meditations once a year.


Subscribed.🤙


I didn't realize you were so famous. Great work.


I love when I find random #bitcoin wallets I forgot about.


Socialism is not for everybody, only businesses that took PPP loans and 0.05% of students.


If it's not payday, dips don't matter.


followed #plebchain


I've only used Strike on-chain a couple times to gift open dimes. I prefer RoboSats + Strike these days.

My family uses the Cash App for fiat stuff.


Agreed. Back when I tried Orange Pilling people at my local farmer's market, only one guy said, "Yes, I accept bitcoin."

He sold pokemon cards for ten bucks to raise funds for his cat shelter.

He used the Trust Wallet.(Which I've never heard of before).

I should try purple pilling that guy.


Welcome.


That's not a bad idea. A couple years ago,  I met a guy who runs a cat shelter who might be interested.


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Yes. Bitrefill had a bill pay service I used to pay my water bill, groceries and just about everything else except my mortgage. Unfortunately, they discontinued the service, but this would allow me to do it again. In 2015, Coinbase had the Shift Card that was like a bitcoin debit card. Although I would be richer if I did not use this to buy Diet Mt. Dew and random crap at Best Buy, I still want to live on bitcoin and something like the Shift card would make it easier to do so. By the way.


"You know, I recently began living on bitcoin. I now own no dollars. It has been incredible. I think we can start a Boston Tea Party type movement there if the UX is great. Would you all be interested in Strike+ where you pay monthly for a full-featured live on bitcoin premium experience? Bill pay, waived fees, direct deposit, and more. Nowadays, I think I would."

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I am interested in using Strike to pay for goods and services in my community with my own lightning wallet. I am willing to help onboard businesses to make this happen.


"Let us know what interests you most about Strike, we’d love to share more with you."

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"Some of our top countries by total users:

    Australia
    South Korea
    Mexico"

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👏 👏 👏


"We improved our on-chain wallet by building on-chain tiers. We wanted to ensure that when the mempool gets tough, our users don’t get hurt. With Strike, you can manage on-chain fees on your terms. When a user initiates an on-chain payment with Strike, they are given three options for both fees and speed of settlement: Priority, Standard, and Flexible:

    Priority is the most expensive but also the fastest option
    Standard is fairly quick and less expensive
    Flexible is free but may take a while if you’re willing to wait.

We’ve seen a lot of growth in our wallet usage as Strike has become an incredible way to manage your bitcoin. I’m very proud to be able to offer the ability for our customers to purchase as much bitcoin as they’d like and then withdraw it to self-custody for free, using our own infrastructure!"

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I was trying to make a joke, not get in a debate.


I'm pro freedom, but carbs and cocaine kill. 😊


Twitter is so boring now.


Cocaine is not healthy. You should not use cocaine or any white powder such as sugar, but cocaine should not be illegal.


Where?


What are the best strategies you've used to build the meetup?

Does giving away satscards work?

Do you do anything else?


I wish I bought a house before I paid off my bachelor's degree.


That's great.


The temporary Fedimint custody idea is genius.


That's a good idea. How many people do you typically get to show up at this meetup?


Hear me out:

Sell mining machines for bitcoin, a peer-to-peer electronic cash system.


Breaking: Pet rocks used to facilitate illegal activity like gambling, buying marijuana, and getting rich without state permission.


$10k with no bombs attached.


I started doing atomic swaps from lightning to L-BTC on Aqua Wallet. The fees are about 12 cents. What are the fees on this atomic swap?


That's hilarious.🤣


I watched a documentary about Cartels destroying the environment to mine gold for money laundering on Netflix. Funny how Schiff never mentions this.


₿logging ₿itcoin


That seems about right.


Check out my flare pub channel

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![aquaWallet](https://i.nostr.build/OZ2Q.png)

I've anticipated the release of  the Aqua Wallet like a kid waiting for Christmas. It's finally here! How does it work, "Accordingly to Caps Odell, Aqua Wallet uses the same model as Muun wallet(Muun with two u's). Fun fact: Vacuum is the only other word in the English Language that has two u's adjacent to each other. Like Muun, Aqua is not an actual lightning wallet.  **Lightning transactions are atomically swapped.** The difference is Aqua swaps to L-BTC  while Muun swaps from the lightning network to the main bitcoin timechain.

L-BTC is bitcoin which is wrapped on the Liquid Blockchain. The main advantages of this model are

*   Lower mining fees

*   1 minute confirmations.

Liquid is a blockchain created by Blockstream, but consists of multiple key holders. **Liquid is a Blockchain with no native shitcoin or token**. Bitcoin or tokens must be added onto the Liquid Blockchain. **L-BTC is Bitcoin added to the Liquid Blockchain**. Other examples include:

*   Liquid Tether, a USD stable coin.

*   Vouchers for products sold by Blockstream. For example, I once bought a voucher for a Jade wallet. **I redeemed this voucher for a jade wallet.**

Other assets could be added to the Liquid Blockchain, say L-Ford , L-General Electric, or L-VTSAX. Although this is possible, no corporation has done this yet. I suspect this is because almost nobody had heard of it and the SEC can't even keep a Twitter password safe.  I suppose we could also add other L-Shitcoins, but in my opinion, that would waste of time.

By the way, **Liquid Tether USD is a shitcoin, but a useful shitcoin**.  The USD in your bank account is also a shitcoin. The US dollar is a paper currency that is not even backed by paper. IT has lost % of it's value in about 50 years. It's not secure. Banks are like a safe where both you and the government have access to. If you don't pay your taxes or child support or something, they can  take the digital paper bucks out of your bank account with a push of a button. If you want to spend your USD online with a debit card, you must give each merchant your private key. **The US Dollar is a shitcoin.**  I still have to use it. I know Liquid Tether is not as secure as bitcoin, but it's still useful and I don't see it as being much riskier than keeping your USD shitcoins in a bank, Some nerd will argue it isn't FDIC'd, but that insurance is bullshit.

Some may also argue L-BTC is a shitcoin, but I disagree. L-BTC is not self-custodial Bitcoin. It's not as secure as Bitcoin left on the native Bitcoin time chain, but it has decent enough trade offs.

I'm not an ETF expert, butsome ETF experts say an ETF is like a locker with bitcoin. For more information, check out this episode of [Coin Stories](https://fountain.fm/episode/zo7v2UO0iMl3maRj9yDH).

L-BTC is like an ETF, but the locker is built with merkle trees and other cryptography of which I have a vague understanding. I don't know it well enough to explained it to a five year old anyway. Just like an ETF might be a locker of Gold, Nickel, or Google shares, so too is Liquid, but instead of getting an email as proof of your share, you use 12 words to claim your Liquid assets. Again, I am not an ETF expert. I don't know what ETF company's give their clients as proof of ownership, or what their security looks like, but I look at Liquid as a defacto Cryptographic ETF-eque instrument.

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## How Aqua Wallet Works.

You hold 12 words like any old regular,128 bit, Bitcoin wallet. If you don't know what that means, check out this blog(PENCIL)This wallet gives you the option to hold:

*   Bitcoin on the Bitcoin time chain

*   Bitcoin on the lightning network

*   L-BTC

*   L-Tether USD

You can do an Atomic Swap on and out of any of these assets at any time. For example, you might get paid in Bitcoin on Strike's Lightning Wallet, swap your retirement savings to Liquid-BTC, and swap your monthly grocery expenses budget to Liquid USD. When fees on the Bitcoin time chain are cheap, you swap your L-BTC to on chain Bitcoin. Eventually, you'll be able to pay your Fiat bills with Liquid USD or Bitcoin. **When that happens. you won't need a bank anymore**. In case I haven' t mentioned this lately, **banks suck**.

### Is Liquid Tether a Shitcoin?
![shitcoin](https://i.nostr.build/yog5.jpg)

Yes, but **it's a useful shitcoin** just like USD you might keep at Bank of Fargo. It is not as secure as bitcoin. It will bleed value as compared to Bitcoin. Liquid USD has all the risk associated with dollars, but like it or not, USD is the *defacto* unit of account. Can Tether backdoor steal tether USD? Yes. Can Tether fail? Yes, but so can any bank. Is USD-T insured up to $250,000? No, but if you have  $250,000 in a bank account or Liquid Tether you're a fucking idiot. If you need a thousand bucks to cover groceries this month, it might be worth the trade off.

We are not advocating anyone to HODL liquid tether longer than you need to pay your bills. Aqua will give you the ability to live free in a world full of shitcoins.

If you don't like Tether USD, and don't trust banks, you don't need to use L-BTC. You can just buy gift cards on bit refill for your groceries. Are Gift cards shitcoins? Yeah, but we all need to eat. Bit refill used to offer bill pay, but discontinued the service. This was great because I used to get paid in bitcoin on the lightning network and I would buy gift cards as soon as I got paid to protect myself from volatility.

### Learn To Use Aqua

Aqua is one of the easiest wallets I've used. It's more expensive than Wallet of Satoshi, but I can't use Wallet of Satoshi anymore. I only wish it had a lightning address. If you are interested in learning more about Aqua Wallet, check out my tutorial on flare.pub.

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🤣 followed. 🤙


Post a Geyser Fund and A GoFund Me.

Say it's an experiment on Greshem's law.


Exactly.


I remember this.


That's so bad ass!


If it was possible to vote your way out of slavery we wouldn't need Bitcoin.

Freedom is taken not given.


I've used it. The problem is very few others are willing to pay for it.


This is way more interesting than those  ETFs.


The update fixes this!


About a week before the halving.


Wait. There's an update. Maybe I should try that before I try making a pull request. 🤣


We need to update the package and make a pull request.


Can you use the wallet to get zapped on nostr yet? How would this work? With something like wallet connect?


Whatever you do, don't trust myplate-dot-gov.


How do I add the Primal API to Mutiny wallet on Start9?

#asknostr


It was clever.


Good. I need to open a couple lightning channels.


Fiat maxis play fiat games.


Glad you're here. Let me know if you have any questions.


It"s true. 🤣


Thank you.


How did we go from #DeleteCoinbase because of b-cash fuckery in 2017 to cheering Coinbase Custodial ETF's in 2024?


I saw this on Github. It's pretty cool.


Ah we are talking about different things. I want asynchronous comms on nostr:

To me it’s just a particular kind of client that has an inbox where I can tag/archive/delete content and works offline. Encrypted threaded convos. Public threaded mailing list convos. Email bridge.


What gripes do you have?


Do any of them use something other than Coinbase?

Why is there no MultiSig BTC-ETF?


Sell fiat.


It's helpful. If the words are wrong after I enter the prefix, I start over.

If I put the whole PIN in, it would count as 1-of-13  chances I have before the device bricks.

It doesn't count against me when I start over.


Dude, only libertarians use the word "voluntaryist."


I meant to write "when", but thank you.


You should get an account at Strike.me

Go to the settings and have the sats automatically convert to your local fiat currency.

Add your lightningaddress@strike.me to your nostr profile and I will zap this note because bitcoin is for enemies.


Cool. Does Mutiny have a lightning address yet?


Yeah. I'm trying to donate ten percent of my zaps to Open Sats, but I don't quite have it figured out yet.


test


Zap Blogging Bitcoin


apparently 100% goes to open sats on this note.


How would I add open sats to my zap nsplits/zap pool?


I do too, but I don't have time to convince them.


Strike is actually very interesting too. I want to shill it to normies. That bitcoin to USD atomic swap is pretty cool.

What normie wouldn't want to get zapped if it automatically transformed to USD?

It's better than the blue check.


Mutiny and Aqua wallet are  interesting.


I've always looked at bitcoin as a Boston Tea Party type of movement. We throw our fiat overboard to protest debasement. Why do you think we have so many boating accidents?


Wait, Yemen...Why?


How did the Boston Tea Party "handle the taxes?"


been living on sats for a little bit now. it's incredible.

bitcoin is the best expression of fiat debasement. why doesnt everyone do this?

if we build a good enough experience to enable living on bitcoin, can we spark a Boston Tea Party type movement?


The initial Bitcoin logo was introduced in 2009 and stayed in use for a few months. It was a friend’s gold coin with the “BC” lettering on it. Simple and even naive design. Two capitals were executed in a traditional bold sans-serif typeface with clean contours and straight cuts. The gold and yellow color palette of the badge made the logo resemble a real metal coin.

2010

After a few months, the logo was redesigned and this is when the iconic “B” symbol was first created. The letter “B” with two vertical lines was now placed on a cleaned and refined gradient gold circle, just like the one from the previous version, but with more gloss and distinction. The new signifier made the currency look like a real one, equal to the US dollar, Euro, or any other.

2010 - Present

At the end of 2010, the Bitcoin logo was redesigned again — the “B” was now white and placed diagonally in a plain orange coin. The design became completely flat and all the gradients were gone. The new color orange and the white color palette is a representation of energy and growth, of progress and motion. The white serif “B” with two vertical strokes crossing it looks solid and evokes a sense of loyalty and professionalism.


You are all a bunch of autistic libertarian idiots and I love all of you for it.


Try posting this on Twitter...or whatever it's called.

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Try posting this on Twitter

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We can fix this!

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Thank you. I couldn't find him either. 🤣


Great idea.


How does this work?
 Is there an lnurl, lightning address or something else?


It's not that I am for or against them. It's an off chain, second layer solution that is audited by humans.

The problem is they all rely on a single trusted third party. I read they all use Coinbase custodial services. Fuck Coinbase. I didn't forget about the bcash bullshit.

If I was king of the SEC, I would require  multi-institution collaborative custody ETF or a Liquid BTC ETF that uses multisig.

That being said, if I had a job that offered a 401k match, I would consider  using it because the match, and tax shelter, is worth the custodial risk to me.

There are other tax advantaged things that might make it worth while, but these Bitcoinn ETF's are not as secure as on Chain Bitcoin, nor can they be used to buy coffee.

Since I don't have a 401k, I donct see myself investing in a BTC ETF, but I would if I had some sort of match, but under no circumstances would I sell my actual bitcoin for a BTC ETF.


I'm excited about bill the bill pa feature.


I have. I also wrote a rough draft for a blog post, but it makes more sense to make a video tutorial about this one. I plan to finish it next week.


I went down the Agorism rabbit hole. I was also heavily influenced by the book "Your Money or Your Life."

I noticed many people with higher paying jobs are broke because that income gets  taxed at a higher rate, and they often pay more for housing.

Then, their savings is taxed via inflation and they end up working 12 hours a day for credit card debt and stuff that will end up in a landfill within 5 years.

It's getting harder to live on a lower income these days, however. The government redistributed too much wealth for those of us with lower incomes to sustain ourselves so I'm brainstorming different business models.

Your story is an inspiration.


Businesses are being built on the lightning network. Unleashed.chat charges a certain amount of sats per second to do nostr research, edit your blog, or do a gazillion other things.

Meanwhile, people in traditional investment news say bitcoin has no underlying value. Yet, here we are, using bitcoin as a MOE.


I read between the lines and concluded, the halfing is not priced in.

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Nostr is the beginning of hyperbitcoinization, but the BTC ETF Maxi's can't see it.

They don't know what a DVM is.


He mentioned it.


That's wicked cool.


Spot Bitcoin ETFs Are Here. Should You Invest?

"Bitcoin Is Difficult to Value

Bitcoin is a speculative investment. There is no fundamental reason why it is priced where it is today. It is at the whims of supply and demand, making future prices hard to predict.

My colleague, Madeline Hume, took a look at four valuation methodologies for pricing bitcoin. Her conclusion? Each is flawed in its own way, and there doesn’t seem to be much appetite for improving them. Investors must understand that bitcoin prices, and therefore these ETFs, are untethered from a fundamental value. Don’t buy these ETFs if that makes you uneasy."

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Great conversation.


Who is this dude?


I might pay five bucks a mintj if it cross posts to nostr nip26, kind 30023, Medium, and Substack though.


Have you tried habla.news or blogstack.io?


We're doing great!


I’m old enough to remember when Xwitter tried to ban nostr.


To be fair, I'm pretty sure Tesla didn't use lightning, but BTCpayServer is the OG Lightning wallet for me.


Or bitcoin magazine....

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/tesla-submits-disclosure-to-btcpay-server-leading-to-new-security-release


Oh wait, I forgot about taxes.


IOU 12 sats worth of fiat.


The government is a joke.

Now that the ETF is approved, let's stop taking these idiots seriously.


Okay, I'll buy a Bitcoin ETF at that price.


Those fees are crazy.


thanks -- I want to start using Nostrocket a whole lot more and start transitioning away from Github entirely


Right.


Here's my submission:

https://habla.news/u/bloggingbitcoin@iris.to/dear-fincen


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What's nuts about it?


## Protecting Privacy as a Human Right

**Privacy is a fundamental human right**, enshrined in the [Fourth Amendment.](nostr:nevent1qqsxcnt4aaxsq2ut5w3w4uxxeur584qnejvszz7hh3wed469qujfw6qpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtczyp6m7g6nrt5lnrrzn9d6quv3ujyw44r4jafhr43a0h75d00ph75f20jczlg) However, revelations by whistleblowers like [Edward Snowden](nostr:npub1sn0wdenkukak0d9dfczzeacvhkrgz92ak56egt7vdgzn8pv2wfqqhrjdv9) have shown that governments often violate this right in pursuit of national security objectives. To safeguard our privacy, we must take steps to ensure that our communications remain secure from prying eyes.

Bitcoin offers a unique solution to this problem. Its decentralized nature allows users to transact privately without relying on intermediaries like banks or payment processors. Moreover, **its underlying technology(math) ensures that transaction data remains immutable and transparent**, making it nearly impossible for third parties to manipulate or censor information.

## Outlawing Private Bitcoin Transactions: A Slippery Slope

Some argue that allowing complete anonymity in Bitcoin transactions would facilitate criminal activity, such as drug trafficking or terrorism financing, or tax evasion. While it is true that some criminals may exploit these features, **outright banning private transactions would not solve the problem**. Instead, it would create a chilling effect on legitimate uses of Bitcoin, stifling innovation and undermining individual freedoms.

Moreover, **attempting to regulate or control Bitcoin would likely prove futile due to its inherently decentralized nature**. Even if authorities were able to trace a portion of transactions, they could never fully eliminate the possibility of anonymous transactions being conducted via alternative methods (such as offline trading, using different cryptographic protocols, or **writing 12 words on a piece of paper, stuffing an envelope, and licking a stamp**).

## Conclusion

In conclusion, **protecting privacy through the use of Bitcoin is essential for maintaining democratic values and upholding civil liberties**. By embracing innovative technologies like bitcoin, we can foster greater economic freedom and empower individuals to assert their rights against overreaching governments. It is crucial that policymakers recognize the importance of preserving privacy in the digital age and refrain from implementing measures that infringe upon this **fundamental human right**.

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In this letter, I argue that private bitcoin payments are protected by the fourth amendment of the bill of rights.

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I think you just did #built4life


# Build A Payment Button With Zapper

I  started cross-posting my blog on Substack again to widen my audience and build an email list.  I also learned of a neat little micro app called zapper.  Zapper is a microapp that uses the nostr protocol to create a link that allows anyone with a public nostr key and lighting address to get zapped. This means I can create a payment link like this:

[Zap Me!](nostr:nevent1qqsgyphs0ys2ahhx2rxy6xfwqlvhlzt603vuuhez4scrzh6a9zdzxasppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qgs8t0er2vdwn7vvv2v4hgr3j8jg36k5wkt4xuwk847l634auxl639grqsqqqqqpa6etnt)

## Zapper Works On Any Webpage

The best part is you could use this on any webpage, You can create a link on a plain old website written in nothing but html, GitHub, or create a button on Substack or Wordpress.   Anyone with access to bitcoin can pay you.  I added a link to a Substack Button that looks like this? ✏

 This creates some interesting use cases. I see so many bitcoiners on Substack trying to earn fiat.  They ask their readrs to sign up for their premium fiat substack newsletter. **Pay me in fiat to get more interesting content**. **Why not just add a button and get paid in bitcoin?**

### Grow Nostr, Grow Bitcoin

#### Mommy Bloggers

**Mommy bloggers who don't give a damn about bitcoin could sign up with Strike to get a lightning address.**  They can add this address to their nostr profile and get zapped. **Strike can auto-magically convert that bitcoin to fiat.** Someone can send her 21 sats and it will show up as a penny in her Strike account. Am I wrong?   Maybe I'm wrong. *Maybe mommy bloggers don't want money.*

#### Developers

This could also be useful for all the developers on Github  that leave a legacy address on their page for donations. I first started using bitcoin to play \[poker and send donations to Dan Carlin. He still has a bitcoin address on his Webpage. It was fine when fees were less than a penny on chain, but nowadays it makes more sense to use lightning. A lot of Bitcoiners on nostr like SimpleX chat. I like it. Check out the donations they accept:

!![legacy bitcoin,and shitcoins](https://i.nostr.build/m7AQ.png)

I did not post this screenshot to dunk on them or pick a fight with shitcoiners. Insted, let's try to look at it from their perspective to gain a glimpse into the way most technical people think about "crypto."It's just a way to "raise more funds." The person who wrote this is indifferent to:-

*   centralization

*   anonymity

*   the fee difference between legacy or segwit transactions

*   I don't know what to say about b-trash other than, I can't believe it's still a thing.

*   POW vs. POS

I have never heard of BNB smart Chain, but I assume it's a USDT token on Ethereum. I want to know why they need to include this address twice. If someone has BNB Smart whatever, are they not smart enough to see it's the same address as Ethereum?  I'm not saying this to be a dick, I bet the answer is yes. We are literally using money created using a branch of mathematics in which most people have not yet learned how to count to 11. I bet plenty of BNB Smart Chainers have no idea how any of this stuff works. They don't have time to learn. They don't run Ethereum nodes. Why would they?  It's POS? They probably get to "raise more funds" because the BNB Smart Chainers think it is validation that their BNB Smart Chain Squigly lines and Bolinger Bonobos are right... or whatever it is those people do.

**So why do they not have a lighting address?**

**Why don't they have a lighting address with Strike?**

I assume they want their local currency. We can rant and rave about fiat all day long.  We can look at today's inflation and say we told you so, but most people in the world are fiat maxis. They pay their bills in fiat. They pay the credit cards they use to buy coffee with fiat.  I could come up with a hundred different examples of simmilar donation pages on github, but it's difficult to find any of these people who have a lightning address.

If they had a lightning address with Strike, they could add it to a nostr profile. If they had a nostr address, they could have a payment portal to fiat by writing markdown code like this:

!![markdown for zapper](https://i.nostr.build/yWBA.png)

They don't have these things because we have not taught them this is possible. Why not give them what they want? Fiat. But we'll do it with bitcoin

This blog was edited by Unleashed.chat and published on Substack.


The SEC needs a nostr key.


While everyone on Xwitter talks about ETF permission, we're watching hyperbitcoinization unfold on nostr.

It's so much more fun here.


I disagree, sort of. I mean, it's harder to start an analog business, get a business bank account and get some of those PPP loan forgiveness bucks, but you could start an agorist food truck.

We also have the Internet, a censorship resistant comminications protocol. We have eBay on Nostr. You could sell a webinar on nostr nests.

You can start a business with 12 words and a laptop.


Looks interesting. I read the blog, but haven't listened to the episode yet.

It kinda reminds be of the book, How I Found Freedom In An Unfree World by Harry Browne.


Thanks.


Does coffee count?


What adjustments donI need to make and is it the same for Plebeian marketm


Yeah sure, but I've seen people make sraw man arguments that people who don't like ETF's are upset they don't have enough sats.

If bitcoin goes to 2 sats per dollar like they say it will, I won't be salty.


Independence Reimagined  by Knut Svanholm.


I've heard about this ETF for like 7 years. It literally changes nothing for me.


Your ETF
Blackrock's #bitcoin


The first Bitcoin And . . .  episode of 2024 will go LIVE at 10:45 am PST (about 30 minutes from now).

ZapStream: https://zap.stream/p/npub1vwymuey3u7mf860ndrkw3r7dz30s0srg6tqmhtjzg7umtm6rn5eq2qzugd

Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/nostr_bidness

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWh5AKQHuOkLWcZAyQ1UVrA


Just used it to edit my blog. Holy shit!


I tried Flare he other day. It's one of the most interesting projects on nostr.


Micro-apps that allow anyone with a nostr public key to accept payments on any website.

 Even fiat maxis can use a lightning address privided by Strike to instantly convert sats to their local currency.

They will regret this in ten years, but it's pretty cool.


This is cool. I love posting bitcoin stickers around town.


Too complicated. I think I'll just stay humble and stack sats.


Number go down technology.


Good analogy, but I really don't know how they work. How often would an ETF be audited?


Me too. Lol


Same for me.


How many sats does it cost to open up a lightning channel these days?

#asknostr


If I sent 1000 sats to your strike lightning address, can it convert to pesos?

Can it convert to USD(or a USD stablecoin)?


Got it.


Do you have Bit Refill integration in Mexico?


Andreas Antonopolis talked about M-PESA back in the day. I guess it's been a while.


Great interview! I loved when you went from black pill to white pill. Well done.


Welcome.


This episode was phenomenal!

I love the way Miljan presented this to a non-nostr audience.

I was also reminded of Facebook's failed Libra/Diem project as I watched the live zap demonstration.

I also loved Preston's rant and how he called us "The resistance.” It's funny to me because my wife jokes about me being part of "The Resistance" all the time.


Good morning sir.

Thank you for your service. 🫡


How does one add stuff on the amethyst marketplace?


Plebeian market is like eBay on nostr.

https://plebeian.market/


OMG, this is batshit crazy. 😱


I don't know what this note says, but I support Electronic Monkey's human right to say it.

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You're welcome and thank you for getting me interested in permaculture. Until I heard you on Bitcoin Rapid Fire, I thought permaculture was a synonym for gardening.


It's very creative.


Starred. This is the first I've heard about the Reticulum mesh network too. It's very interesting.


I listened to the one with The Self Sufficient Home dude. Now I want to paint my roof with waterproof white stuff and buy his book. I will definitely check this one out.


I just don't think that's a long term winning strategy with bitcoin.


On nostr, typos are forever, but how would she know? Did she pay someone off? It wouldn't even bother me if she did, just curious.


My bearish take is like 6 months.

What do you think most people are anticipating?


Strike Learn – Your complete guide to Bitcoin and the Lightning Network

"When you hit “Confirm”...

    Your cash is converted to bitcoin
    Bitcoin is sent to the third-party partner
    The partner converts the bitcoin to local currency
    Local currency is deposited into your recipient’s account

The whole process is automated and can be finalized in seconds. Neither you nor your recipient ever owns bitcoin, which lets you avoid any price volatility or tax headaches. It’s just a cash to foreign currency transaction, made through Bitcoin."

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I'm selling this AI generated ART I put on canvas with a QR code.  The QR Code has PGP CipherText, The passphrase to decrypt it is taped to the back of the canvas.

https://i.nostr.build/j9Kl.jpg

https://plebeian.market/product/003cbdb6-4c70-4d9c-b6a9-8cf0d82f95e1

How To Decrypt PGP CipherText With A Passphrase


#Artstr

https://i.nostr.build/M754.jpg

https://plebeian.market/product/003cbdb6-4c70-4d9c-b6a9-8cf0d82f95e1


A quick tutorial on how to decrypt PGP ciphertext that was encrypted with a passphrase.

This is a video event and can be viewed at https://www.flare.pub/w/naddr1qqrkwetd0ppkyjgzyp6m7g6nrt5lnrrzn9d6quv3ujyw44r4jafhr43a0h75d00ph75f2qcyqqqgtwc5y6fu4


# Bitcoin Is Not Digital Scarcity

["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."](nostr:note1lwcdtq8f9753ne4jgechwngr2atlr94xulcc9mttr3yhdqgzkljqu7k74k)

-Eric Hughes, The Cypherpunk Manifesto, March 9th , 1993
----

Bitcoin is software. Software can be copied ad infinitum. **Information on the Internet is not scarce**. Jpegs on the Internet are not scarce. **The bitcoin timechain is not scarce because thousands of people have copied it**. Many of these copies are on computers not much bigger than a credit card.

**To say bitcoin is "digital scarcity" is a misnomer**. There is no such thing as digital scarcity. Bitcoin is part of the Internet, an abundance of information. The Internet is the exact opposite of scarcity. **The Internet is abundance**. What **Satoshi discovered** was **absolute mathematical scarcity embedded in the infinite abundance of information the Internet** made possible.

What politicians call an "unhosted wallet," is just one very large number. The amount of possible "unhosted wallets" is about the same number as there are atoms in the universe.

This quote from Eric Hughes explains why **bitcoin cannot be shut down by any government**.

**"We know that software can't be destroyed and that a widely dispersed system can't be shut down."**

**Bitcoin is a widely dispersed peer-to-peer electronic cash system**, the discovery of absolute asthmatically scarcity hidden in the abundance of information of the Internet.

[Onward](nostr:note1368g8mqek46tg5qnfdsgyu59narx4w4t3zu59z8zzfxzea7nlt8s9qrufh) indeed.

[₿logging₿itcoin](https://nostree.me/blog@bloggingbitcoin.store/)
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This blog does not use paywalls because [information wants to be free](nostr:note1r4nhg45rquj2dcv9zd7vvmd269u7hl4ufczmy8mzr5pu4f9yfrvs65seu2). It is available free of charge. You have my permission to use it however you like as it is written using the [value for value model](https://medium.com/@get_Alby/the-case-for-value-4-value-7ed38d497a0d).

🧡Support my work by:

🧡 [Zapping](nostr:nevent1qqsgyphs0ys2ahhx2rxy6xfwqlvhlzt603vuuhez4scrzh6a9zdzxasppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qgs8t0er2vdwn7vvv2v4hgr3j8jg36k5wkt4xuwk847l634auxl639grqsqqqqqpa6etnt)

🧡 [Becoming a Faaan](https://getfaaans.com/blog@bloggingbitcoin.store)

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[Subscring to my free substack](https://substack.com/@bloggingbitcoin)
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Bitcoin is often described as the invention of digital scarcity. Bitcoin is absolute mathmatical digital scarcity hidden inside an abundant amount of information on the Internet written as software. According to Eric Hughes, "Software can't be destroyed [...and ...a widely dispersed system can't be shut down.]" Bitcoin is such a system.

This is a long form article, you can read it in https://habla.news/a/naddr1qq0ky6t5vdhkjm3dd9ej6mn0wskkg6t8d96xzmpdwd3kzunrd968jq3qwkljx5c6a8uccc5etws8ry0y3r4dgavh2dcav0tal4rtmcdl4z2sxpqqqp65wxkynpr


nostr:note1r4nhg45rquj2dcv9zd7vvmd269u7hl4ufczmy8mzr5pu4f9yfrvs65seu2
Stewart Brand


Information Wants To Be Free. Information also wants to be expensive. Information wants to be free because it has become so cheap to distribute, copy, and recombine—too cheap to meter.

Stewart Brand: “Information Wants to be Free. It Also Wants to be Expensive.” - Stewart Mader

"Information Wants To Be Free. Information also wants to be expensive."

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Thank You for Paying Me In Bitcoin!


Please ignore the comments in this thread.


test


nostr:note1lwcdtq8f9753ne4jgechwngr2atlr94xulcc9mttr3yhdqgzkljqu7k74k
Bitcoin is software. Software can be copied ad infinitum. Information on the Internet is not scarce. Jpegs on the Internet are not scarce. The bitcoin timechain is not scarce because thousands of people have copied it. Many of these copies are on computers not much bigger than a credit card.

Bitcoin Is Not Digital Scarcity

To say bitcoin is "digital scarcity" is a misnomer. There is no such thing as digital scarcity. Bitcoin is part of the Internet, an abundance of information. The Internet is the exact opposite of scarcity. The Internet is abundance. What Satoshi discovered was absolute mathematical scarcity embedded in the infinite abundance of information the Internet made possible.

What politicians call an "unhosted wallet," is just one very large number. The amount of possible "unhosted wallets" is about the same number as there are atoms in the universe.

This quote from Eric Hughes explains why bitcoin cannot be shut down by any government.

"We know that software can't be destroyed and that a widely dispersed system can't be shut down."

Bitcoin is a widely dispersed peer-to-peer electronic cash system, the discovery of absolute asthmatically scarcity hidden in the abundance of information of the Internet.

Onward indeed.


A Cypherpunk's Manifesto | Satoshi Nakamoto Institute

"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."

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"Since we desire privacy, we must ensure that each party to a transaction have knowledge 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 or what I am saying or what others are saying to me; my provider only need 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; I must always reveal myself."

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"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."

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You do the coolest stuff with heat. Oxymoron intended.


Good morning sir.


What do you think about BTC ETF's? I ask, because I think I saw you mention that you used grayscale's product at one time.

I would love to get your perspective.


Interesting.


It would work.

There's also a wordpress plugin that will post your blogs directly to nostr. I don't use wordpress because I'm a wierd Markdown lover.

nostr:npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 said it doesn't look very good either, but I haven't tried it.

https://github.com/pjv/nostrtium


I get it at Costco in Southern California.

11g and 10g of fiber, but I don't count net carbs.


This is the bread I use to make toast.

https://i.nostr.build/Ydo2.jpg


Yeah I use some inked keto bread.


Last time I talked to him we got in an argument over NFT's.


I don't have a 401k anyway. It's just what I heard. If those are the rules, then Bitcoin IRA's are dumb.


How come Choice lets you do self directes IRA's?


I've decided to publish my blog on Substack using microapps like zapper-dot-com and buttons to recreate the zap experience on the normie Blogging Platform.

I think the color scheme needs work, but I hope other sat stackers on substacker start using zaps on Substack instead of default paywalls.

https://bloggingbitcoin.substack.com/p/stacking-sats-on-substack?r=2a2wyv


I was gonna vote for you anyway.


Real estate is also much more expensive to maintain.  Most people pretend repairs don't exist or are that the cost of repairs increase much more than the official inflation numbers.


# Stacking Sats on Substack

I’ve been writing this blog for almost two years now. I fell down the nostr rabbit hole shortly after and began focusing much of my time and energy learning about all these cool new things we can do with this new protocol. I’ve also been trying to figure out how to use Asyncio and AstroBlog to cross post blogs on Astro Blog to Habla.news. I have a friend who is trying to help me, but the nostr has changed so much, it’s hard to keep up with it all. The advantage of this would be that it’s easier to optimize SEO, I think. I’m not really well versed in the keyword universe and all that.

I also talked to the developer of the Orange Pill App and asked him if he could integrate nostr more into the app. He told me to look at the stats. He doesn’t think there’s enough people to make it economically viable. I wanted to argue with him, but I ran the numbers. He’s not wrong. It felt like a slap to the face, but I needed that so I would like to thank him.

I asked myself, “Blog, how the hell do you expect anyone to read your blog when you are only visible to such a small subset of a small online community?” This is a problem, but problems are an opportunity. I also heard Whitney Web talk about how email lists are good to have because they are censorship resistant. That way if your twitter account get’s banned, you don’t lose your audience. So I decided to start posting my blog on Substack again, because Whitney makes a great point that I never thought about before. Here I am spending all this time posting NIP26, kind 30023 long-form posts on nostr, but I’m not using email.

## Stacking on Substack

![button format](https://i.nostr.build/8ZP4.png)

So I decided to use Substack again because it has a built in email subscribe button. They also have a fiat subscription service which means they market to people who are willing to pay for writers words. So I decided to sign up, give them my bank account information, fingerprints, and social security number.  Just kidding. I’m using the service to transmit my blog over simple mail transfer protocol again,. I still have some kinks to work out, but here are some of my ideas.

I also can create custom buttons on Substack. I will use this to grow nostr and add links to zaps, BTCpayServer and nostr store. You can do the same by following the example in the photo above.

The buttons look like this to the reader

![buttons](https://i.nostr.build/jd95.png)

To see how they work, hit the subscibe button and you'll get the email sent to your inbox

### My Substack Plan

Post a blog on nostr twice a week. Cross Post it to substack. I am also open to suggestions. I would prefer a platform that allows me to use markdown and an API, but I need to do more research.

On Substack:

Include a [zapping link](nostr:nevent1qqsgyphs0ys2ahhx2rxy6xfwqlvhlzt603vuuhez4scrzh6a9zdzxasppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qgs8t0er2vdwn7vvv2v4hgr3j8jg36k5wkt4xuwk847l634auxl639grqsqqqqqpa6etnt)

Include a [shopping link](https://plebeian.market/p/b9680763f7af15c7ee848a06cc32bd643c37e986529444f2697254b741dd87ad/stall/2e29901dea521baa35a2d93e5970f8ed72449a26df7978cb1c9234efbd0b02fa)

Include a link asking people to highlight their favorite part of the blog in[highlighter.com](https://highlighter.com).

Include A link to What I call [Value 4 Value Ads](https://habla.news/u/blog\@bloggingbitcoin.store/shop-the-bitcoin-circular-economy). These are not paid ads, but word of mouth ads designed to promote the bitcoin circular economy.

On Nostr:

Include a [Subscribe Link] on the nostr blog.

Let me know what youu think of the format and if you have any suggestions. This is a new frontier. It changes all the time and I’m learning as I go along.

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Support by [zapping](nostr:nevent1qqsgyphs0ys2ahhx2rxy6xfwqlvhlzt603vuuhez4scrzh6a9zdzxasppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qgs8t0er2vdwn7vvv2v4hgr3j8jg36k5wkt4xuwk847l634auxl639grqsqqqqqpa6etnt), sharing, [shopping](https://plebeian.market/p/b9680763f7af15c7ee848a06cc32bd643c37e986529444f2697254b741dd87ad/stall/2e29901dea521baa35a2d93e5970f8ed72449a26df7978cb1c9234efbd0b02fa), and [subscribe on substck](https://open.substack.com/pub/bloggingbitcoin?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android).

My plan on how to write on substack and use bitcoin and nostr for payment subscriptios instead of Stripe.

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The history of banking is in many ways the history of this dilution—as governments soon discovered that through mere legislation they could declare that everyone within their borders had to accept that this year’s coins were equal to last year’s coins, even if the new coins had less silver and more lead. In many countries, the penalties for casting doubt on this system, even for pointing out the adulteration, was asset-seizure at best, and at worst: hanging, beheading, death-by-fire. In Imperial Rome, this currency-degradation, which today might be described as a “financial innovation,” would go on to finance previously-unaffordable policies and forever wars, leading eventually to the Crisis of the Third Century and Diocletian’s Edict on Maximum Prices, which outlived the collapse of the Roman economy and the empire itself in an appropriately memorable way:

"The history of banking is in many ways the history of this dilution—as governments soon discovered that through mere legislation they could declare that everyone within their borders had to accept that this year’s coins were equal to last year’s coins, even if the new coins had less silver and more lead. In many countries, the penalties for casting doubt on this system, even for pointing out the adulteration, was asset-seizure at best, and at worst: hanging, beheading, death-by-fire.

In Imperial Rome, this currency-degradation, which today might be described as a “financial innovation,” would go on to finance previously-unaffordable policies and forever wars, leading eventually to the Crisis of the Third Century and Diocletian’s Edict on Maximum Prices, which outlived the collapse of the Roman economy and the empire itself in an appropriately memorable way"

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Rather, I will tell you what a CBDC is NOT—it is NOT, as Wikipedia might tell you, a digital dollar. After all, most dollars are already digital, existing not as something folded in your wallet, but as an entry in a bank’s database, faithfully requested and rendered beneath the glass of your phone. In every example, money cannot exist outside the knowledge of the Central Bank Neither is a Central Bank Digital Currency a State-level embrace of cryptocurrency—at least not of cryptocurrency as pretty much everyone in the world who uses it currently understands it. Instead, a CBDC is something closer to being a perversion of cryptocurrency, or at least of the founding principles and protocols of cryptocurrency—a cryptofascist currency, an evil twin entered into the ledgers on Opposite Day, expressly designed to deny its users the basic ownership of their money and to install the State at the mediating center of every transaction.

"I will tell you what a CBDC is NOT—it is NOT, as Wikipedia might tell you, a digital dollar. After all, most dollars are already digital, existing not as something folded in your wallet, but as an entry in a bank’s database, faithfully requested and rendered beneath the glass of your phone.
In every example, money cannot exist outside the knowledge of the Central Bank

Neither is a Central Bank Digital Currency a State-level embrace of cryptocurrency—at least not of cryptocurrency as pretty much everyone in the world who uses it currently understands it.

Instead, a CBDC is something closer to being a perversion of cryptocurrency, or at least of the founding principles and protocols of cryptocurrency—a cryptofascist currency, an evil twin entered into the ledgers on Opposite Day, expressly designed to deny its users the basic ownership of their money and to install the State at the mediating center of every transaction."

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"I agree with my friends (and lawyers) at the ACLU: the US government’s indictment of Assange amounts to the criminalization of investigative journalism. And I agree with myriad friends (and lawyers) throughout the world that at the core of this criminalization is a cruel and unsual paradox: namely, the fact that many of the activities that the US government would rather hush up are perpetrated in foreign countries, whose journalism will now be answerable to the US court system. And the precedent established here will be exploited by all manner of authoritarian leaders across the globe. What will be the State Department’s response when the Republic of Iran demands the extradition of New York Times reporters for violating Iran’s secrecy laws? How will the United Kingdom respond when Viktor Orban or Recep Erdogan seeks the extradition of Guardian reporters? The point is not that the U.S. or U.K would ever comply with those demands — of course they wouldn’t — but that they would lack any principled basis for their refusals."

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This Christmas may well be the last that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange will spend outside US custody. On December 10, the British High Court ruled in favor of extraditing Assange to the United States, where he will be prosecuted under the Espionage Act for publishing truthful information. It is clear to me that the charges against Assange are both baseless and dangerous, in unequal measure — baseless in Assange’s personal case, and dangerous to all. In seeking to prosecute Assange, the US government is purporting to extend its sovereignty to the global stage and hold foreign publishers accountable to US secrecy laws. By doing so, the US government will be establishing a precedent for prosecuting all news organization everywhere — all journalists in every country — who rely on classified documents to report on, for example, US war crimes, or the US drone program, or any other governmental or military or intelligence activity that the State Department, or the CIA, or the NSA, would rather keep locked away in the classified dark, far from public view, and even from Congressional oversight. As a measure of journalistic impact, the Pulitzer Prize holds significantly less prestige than the CIA plotting to murder you.

"This Christmas may well be the last that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange will spend outside US custody. On December 10, the British High Court ruled in favor of extraditing Assange to the United States, where he will be prosecuted under the Espionage Act for publishing truthful information. It is clear to me that the charges against Assange are both baseless and dangerous, in unequal measure — baseless in Assange’s personal case, and dangerous to all. In seeking to prosecute Assange, the US government is purporting to extend its sovereignty to the global stage and hold foreign publishers accountable to US secrecy laws. By doing so, the US government will be establishing a precedent for prosecuting all news organization everywhere — all journalists in every country — who rely on classified documents to report on, for example, US war crimes, or the US drone program, or any other governmental or military or intelligence activity that the State Department, or the CIA, or the NSA, would rather keep locked away in the classified dark, far from public view, and even from Congressional oversight."

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Will the podcast just be about breakfast, or morning routines?


Two tamales. I usually eat eggs, avocado, and keto toast.


It makes sense to use it to save fees on stacking, not zapping.


If we build it, they will come.


Someone asked me if they could allocate part of their IRA into bitcoin so I researched Swann's  IRA.

I did not recomend the product because they don't allow a self-custodial option.

This is a red flag, not because I think they intentionally want to rug pull people, but because it is not aligned with the ethos they project. It's also a massive honeypot.


We need more stories that could inspire people!


Stay proud, sell sats.


Stay Proud, sell bitcoin for bullshit fiat when you expect a downturn.


Cool. I only had a couple bucks worth of bitcoin on a blockchain-dot-infoinfo wallet back then, so I never set up a paper wallet.


I'm not into politics, but immigration is a hot topic in the US these days. I wish we had less political  rhetoric and more stories like this in the news.


That's kind of cool, but doesn't seem very secure.


I started using Home Assistant on Umbrel about 3 months ago. I bought a bunch of wiz smart light bulbs from Costco for about 5 bucks a piece. So far:
 I change the color of the lights in my office and the living room to remind me to change the cat litter.

The TV in my bedroom turns off at 11 pm every night.

The Roomba turns off when I turn on the TV in my living room because my wife doesn't like the noise while she's watcvhing TV.

I got a sonar device too, but haven't set it up yet.

I want to get a water sensor that turns all the lights in the house blue and automatically shuts off the water if a sink starts to leak.


I'm surprised he hasn't submitted one.


If you post on habla.news, you can share a human readable URL.


Is that that liquid wallet on iPhones?


I grew up in a low-income family where we could barely afford basic necessities, until the 2014-2016 crisis in Venezuela hit and I had to drop out of university to work construction so we could have enough food to pass the month. Luckily, we never went hungry because everyone in my house worked.

One day, I got tired of working construction and saw an opportunity to sell bread outside my house because bread was scarce due to the crisis. The bread business was successful, and the flexible hours allowed me to have free time to research different ways to "make money online." I discovered a few forums that paid a little bit of sats for creating posts, and that's how I slowly started to get into the world of bitcoin. I began creating my first content to upload online and be rewarded for it. Unbeknownst to me, I had started to monetize my hobby of photography, which eventually became my way of surviving the crisis and even helping my poorest family members, who needed it most.

In the midst of all this crisis, many Venezuelans began to leave the country in search of a better future. Even all the people I grew up with in my home left, and today, I am the only one left in Venezuela from my family nucleus. My mom, dad, aunts, siblings, and cousins are all outside of Venezuela. I am the only one who stayed, and it is because of the power of bitcoin that I am still able to pay for my life in Venezuela. In some way, I am "living the dream" because I am living off of what I love to do, and that is thanks to bitcoin tecnology and all of you too.

https://image.nostr.build/3461abe74af3068118b857d95d6a41bba17d518a960cea18b68b7b281ccb521e.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=1000x1500&blurhash=%5E38W%2C2016A%7EBMw%25N0Koz%24eE2bFjZ02%3FH%3D%40RP%3FHE1oG%252IptQ9v%24zpKi%5Do%23a%7DROxv%5E%25E2I%3B-ow%5BEQrVajoHE2o%23-PI%3Bt8t7oI%25MIoEQslrrozIUai&x=01f3434e851782148387e0572c64009120157d2584dc186e54b052334eea1139

#bitcoin #birthday #venezuela #photostr #life #story #itchangedmylife


You are an inspiration.


I just happened to write about ETF's on my blog today. How feasible is it to hope for an ETF that uses some sort of federated custody model?  I'm sure it's a pipe dream, but who would I write a letter to to at least let the regulators know this is something bitcoin makes possible?

#asknostr


I'm not sure what pod you mentioned email lists on, but you convinced me I need one. I write a blog using habla.news. How would I go about building an email list?  I'm thinking of  publishing my nostr blog on Substack.  Is there a better way?


# Nostr Signed Art
## Hey, [฿logging฿itcoin]\(<https://bloggingbitcoin.pages.dev/), WTF is nostr signed art?

Nostr signed art is art signed on nostr.

## Okay, but what does that mean?

About seven years ago, I researched NFT's. I thought they were a good idea because it gave artists a way to earn residual income on art. I like that idea. As I studied more about bitcoin, I became more and more convinced by the bitcoin maxi crowd that Ethereum is a worthless shitcion ad infinitum. I still think this is true, but it's even worse now that Ethereum uses proof-of-stake.

For the sake of argument, however, let's pretend Etherum is ultra sound money or a world computer, or whatever bullshit eth heads spew these days. I don't believe any of that anymore so don't get your panties in a bunch, but say it was.

Now say I take a picture of a rock because I hear some people have made a lot of money selling rock jpegs. Here's my rock.

![rock art](https://i.nostr.build/ZYXl.png)

It's a masterpiece like the Mona Lisa. which took years to paint. Except, I did it in a few seconds by taking a screenshot of the Bitcoin Standard-- Masterpiece. The thing about those rocks on the island of Yap is that they were used as money. According to the book and other stuff written my Milton Friedman, the monetary rocks from the island of Yap were too big to move like our banks are two big to fail. Therefore, to transfer value, people on the island of yap exchanged ownership of the rocks by announcing the transfer to the small island. Everyone knew Jim used to own this rock until he announced he exchanged it for Jane's house. According to Saifaden, this is like a verbal version of the bitcoin timechain ledger. It's a beautiful analogy.

## Rocks On Yap Were Scarce, Rock Jpegs are Infinitely Abundant

The rocks on the island of Yap are different from images of rocks depicted as jpegs.  It seems silly that I need to say this, but so many people who are very smart in their respective fields have been duped by this bullshit NFT narrative, I think it needs to be emphasized. It's not their fault. These lies have become part of pop culture. The best example is former US President, Donald J. Trump. Love him or hate him and despite what [he's said in the past]()https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/donald-trump-trashes-cryptocurrencies-favors-strong-us-dollar-fiat-currency-2021-12?op=1, [the man sells NFT's](https://www.coindesk.com/web3/2023/04/19/trumps-second-nft-collection-sells-out-while-prices-on-first-collection-plunge/).

### The Anatomy of an NFT

An NFT is a jpeg hosted on a website, just like my rock jpeg is hosted on nostr.build.  I'm almost certain nostr.build is an AWS server. I'm not sure how Open Sea hosts it's images but the jpegs must be on a computer somewhere. Anybody else with right click skills and their grandmother can make a copy of those jpegs. This begs the question, who has the final say on who owns the jpeg if an infinite amount of copies of the jpeg can be distributed on zillions of computers?

People think because there is a transaction on the Ethereum POS chain that this somehow makes a claim to the jpeg, but these two things are unrelated. The transaction says the change of the NFT token was made, but the actual jpeg has nothing to do with this transaction. It does not include a hash of the image. It points to something called an anchor link in html.

If this still does not make sense, take the [NFT IQ](https://nftngmi.org/) test, but first answer the question without clicking on the link. Will the real slim shady NFT please stand up?

![nftiq](https://i.nostr.build/thumb/3EZZ.png)

#### Cryptography  Is Not Digital Scarcity

I created the following string by hashing my full legal name with a big random number.  You can dox me with the following, My full legal name + some big random number I generated. If you have those two things, the SHA256SUM of that information will produce the following result.

`7a8c703b95fd7f6af373380649b93b593184e494c926169cd1229ceb96d9b5ba`

These 64 characters are public. I could make a million copies of them, but you're unlikely to learn my real name without the big nonce I added to it. This means the output of the hash is not scarce.  The big random number is scarce. There is only one number that is exactly like it, out of an infinite amount of possible numbers. That is what is scarce in public key cryptography wheater we are talking about bitcoin or nostr.

![iq test]

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But Donald Trump doesn't seem to share the same excitement towards NFTs or cryptocurrencies, based on his interview with Fox News. "I never loved it [crypto] because I like to have the dollar. I think the currency should be the dollar, so I was never a big fan but it's building up bigger and bigger and nobody's doing anything about it. I want a currency called the dollar, I don't want to have all of these others," Trump said.

'I think it's a very dangerous thing': Trump trashes cryptocurrencies and says he favors a strong US dollar

"But Donald Trump doesn't seem to share the same excitement towards NFTs or cryptocurrencies, based on his interview with Fox News.

"I never loved it [crypto] because I like to have the dollar. I think the currency should be the dollar, so I was never a big fan but it's building up bigger and bigger and nobody's doing anything about it. I want a currency called the dollar, I don't want to have all of these others," Trump said"

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