# Bitcoin ETF’s Should Observe The Proof Of Keys Holiday

Every New Year’s eve, I stay up past midnight, drink non-alcoholic beer, pop poppers, and throw little pebbles wrapped in rough toilet paper that explode on impact. Such is my family tradition. T

Although I love new years day, January 3rd is my favorite holiday. It’s a time I like to spend thinking about the contents of the message embedded into the genesis block. It’s a day where I where this t-shirt

![tshirt](https://i.nostr.build/RdP5.jpg)

This will be my tenth year in bitcoin. The main reason I was interested in it back then was because I did not think fractional reserve banking was fair. It makes the rich richer and the poor poorer.  You need permission to hold on to your value in the current system. You can’t get 100x returns unless you are already an accredited investor with at least a million dollars in net worth. You can’t buy a house if you don’t make the right amount of income.  If you have a low income like I did ten years ago, you might only be able to scrape up $20.00 a month to save. If you put it in a savings account, you’ll have $20.20 at the end of the year. You’ll need to pay taxes on your 20 cents of capital gains. There are creative ways of saving more if you are willing to live in a van or eat nothing but lentil soup, but these days it’s getting more and more difficult for professionals to hold on to spending power and qualify for a mortgage without moving into a van.

When I heard Andreas Antonopolis tell Joe Rogan the secret message embedded in the genesis block, it was as if he was saying Hey Blogging Bitcoin. I’m talking to you. Look into this bitcoin thing because it is a solution to a problem you’ve been irked by for over a decade.” Weird how my mom named me Blogging Bitcoin , right?

“The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks”

Back then, I could listen to every podcast ever created with bitcoin as the subject matter. There were two or three Joe Rogan podcasts, a couple of EconTalk episodes, an an episode about Occupy Wall Street on Ari Shafir’s Skeptic Tank. In this episode, the protester guests said they were protesting the banks and saw bitcoin as a **viable alternative to these fuckers who gambled people’s houses away and got bailed out by the government**.-- The type of people Elizabeth Warren used to fight before becoming big banks bill-shiller. The episode must sound like a crazy conspiracy theory to normies, but if you read the secret message embedded into the genesis block, how can you come to any other conclusion?

## Proof of Keys

![proof of keys day](https://i.nostr.build/Eevn.png)

Proof of keys is another tradition for me like popping poppers on New Year’s day. The phrase comes from Trace Mayer. The idea is to have everyone take their bitcoin off the exchanges on the anniversary of the genesis block. If everyone did this any paper bitcoin would be wiped out every year. We could prove if the bitcoin exchanges hold on our behalf is really in our account, or if it was gambled away by some diabolical dork-mastermind.

A friend of mine recently told me she met Sam Bankman Fried at a meetup. She told me FTX was an acronym for Full Tilt Exchange. It’s almost as if Fried knew he ran a casino. He paid off politicians to run this casino like an autistic gangsta. It looks like he even named it after an online poker room that infamously turned into a Ponzi Scheme, Full Tilt Poker.  I can’t prove this, but both Full Tilt Poker and Full Tilt eXchange turned out to be Ponzi Schemes. Both of them hid their actions behind a thin veil of regulation. Full Tilt was licensed by some official sounding Internet Gaming Commission. Full Tilt eXchange was regulated by some ABC government  agency. These regulations purportedly protect consumers. Do they? I don’t need to write a ten page essay arguing for this. You just need to watch the nightly news on NBC to find out. I went on Twitter to shill my local bitcoin meetup and saw a slew of sat stackers singing glory hallelujah because they believe the BTC ETF will be approved by the regulators!

Oh YEAH! Govern me harder. make my number go up until my toes curl. Approve me right there Uncle Sam!

Some Random Dude on nostr argued Bitcoiner’s arguing against an ETF are full of cope. They thought they had more time to stack. This is a straw man argument. Do I wish I had more bitcoin, sure—who doesn’t?  If Saylor doesn’t have enough bitcoin, do you think some pleb writing a blog for about 30K sats a month does? That’s not the point. Weaher or not, I have enough bitcoin is not the problem with ETF’s. If it makes the price $10,000,000, I won’t complain. I’ll even sell a little on Strike and pay off my house. I’ll pay the taxes too. It is not that I am against NGU.  I am against trusted third parties. I might trust Strike to hold my fiat until I can pay my mortgage off for a little while, but I wouldn’t trust Strike with my entire stack for any meaningful length of time even though I like Jack Mallers and think his company is on the up and up. This is the point:

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

I understand there is not enough block space or time in the universe for 8 billion people to own a Unspent Transaction Output. I get that, but the solution to that problem can’t be giving up the ability for people to protect themselves from trusted third party fuckery(double-spending).

Bitcoin ETF’s exist outside the US. I think Canada has one. How does the Canadian ETF treat proof of keys day?  How does Grayscale prove they are not pulling a full tilt move?  How will Blackrock prove they have the keys to the bitcoin they say they have? These are genuine questions I have and don’t have answers to. I can balance a checkbook,  but I don’t know how fiat accounting works.

I’m an expert by no means, but I do have a basic understanding about how accounting on LNBits, Liquid, or Fedimints work. I’m not happy with some of the things I hear about Blackrock(Rumers has it, they are gobbling up the American real estate market). That’s probably good for the equity in my house, but I think it’s bad for millions of people who struggle to obtain permission to buy a home. If the ETF makes bitcoin NGU as much as the ETF maxis say it will, I can pay off my house, quit my job and write every day even on 30k sats a month. That would be awesome, but how will the ETF Maxis participate in proof-of-keys day?

### How To Regulate an ETF

The amount of bitcoin you have or what you do in bed with regulators is none of my business, but I hope those who do want to be in bed with the regulators practice safer exchanging. A better ETF would not be raw animal regulation. It would be more like soft porn. Again, not everyone with a Blackrock etf can receive a key in the mail with a UTXO for many reasons I won’t get into. What if you had a Liquid MultiSig Wallet with a UTXO holding Liquid BTC.  We can call this a Liquid BTC Exchange Traded Unspent Transaction Output. The hardest of the hardcore maxis would find this trade-off unacceptable, but I think it addresses the main issue I have with ETF’s.  Namely, the trust is no longer reliant on a single trusted third party, but a federation of a third fourth, and 40th trusted third party. You would also be able to log in to your normie Blackrock User Interface and see your liquid Xpub that shows your balance is where black rock says it is. You can verify this on Blockstream's website. Technical users can even run their own liquid node. This would be a safer way to practice ETF. A Fedimint could also work like this and the tech would make it easy to withdraw, but I don’t think a trusted third party like Blackrock is interested in giving it’s clients this power. That’s okay. They are free to make ETF rules however they like. It’s not something I can prove on proof of keys day anyway. Unchained has a great article about using a [network of keys(https://unchained.com/features/bitcoin-network-of-keys).

![from Unchained](https://i.nostr.build/0RqM.png)
*From [Bitcoin Needs A Network of Keys](https://unchained.com/features/bitcoin-network-of-keys*)*

Imagine if:
- Blackrock holds one keys.
- Fidellity holds another key.
- Grayscale holds another key
- ...you get the idea.

Say Blackrock has 40 bitcoin, Fidelity has 35, and Vanguard has 25 bitcoin in a collaborative multisig wallet. These are small numbers, but it makes it easier to explain the concept.  The regulators approve each one of their ETF’s. **If Blackrock sells 41 bitcoin in their ETF, Fidelity and Grayscale raise a red flag**. This is possible because of the transparency multi-sig on the bitcoin network enables.

Accountants will still need to do their accounting magic, but **something like this will make it easier for accountants to audit the supply**, They can do it every year on January 3rd. I got into bitcoin at a time when it was popular to say *not your keys not your bitcoin*, so I can’t see myself using a BTC ETF, but I am not opposed to an ETF using the minimal structure required to prove the aggregate bitcoin in an Bitcoin Exchange Traded Fund using gettxoutsetinfo. **I would even recommend an ETF structured like this to my friends and family**.

Again, I am not against an ETF. I just want a BTC ETF to be structured more like a federation or multisig wallet than a gold ETF. **After studying bitcoin for about a decade, I believe common sense regulations like this can go a long way in protecting retail and corporate investors**. It also allows them to celebrate Proof-of-Keys day, a holiday which is very important to the people in the bitcoin community.Many argue about the semantics of this statement, but we have our own customs and traditions like any other group of people. January 3rd is like our new year's day, but we have other holidays as well such as:
- Bitcoin Pizza Day
- The Halvening happens every 4 years or 210,000 ten minute blocks for the orthodox nerds our there
- The day some drunk guy misspelled the word HOLD.

We Bitcoiners use often recite another meme, "bitcoin is for enemies". I wouldn’t go so far to say Blackrock is my enemy, but I want them to respect the traditions of my culture , not because I am some religious nut, but because I want to prevent them from accidentally becoming someone’s enemy. **Most people don’t set out to create a Ponzi scheme**. I don’t think Full Tilt Poker, Mt. Gox, or FTX set out to start a Ponzi. It just happened because [trusted third parties are security holes](https://nakamotoinstitute.org/trusted-third-parties/).

We have the tools to create **a BTC ETF that does not rely on a single trusted third party**. Any BTC ETF worth buying would use these tools. If not, then what’s the point of the white paper?  What is so innovative about a single trusted third party holding a lot of people’s money? It’s just a gold ETF by another name. We already have a gold ETF(I bet we have more than one). We need one BTC ETF with multiple trusted parties

This  ETF would allow investors to be reasonably sure there money is in the bank. That is the real  innovation of bitcoin. **If the digital dollar could do that, businesses would not ever be suffer credit card charge-backs**. I would like to see an innovative BTC ETF approval.

I do not want a gold 2.0 ETF. Gold has no multi-signature capabilities. It must rely on a trusted third party or be buried in your back yard. Bitcoin is different and we should treat it as such. This is better for investors and has the added benefit of letting the IRS know exactly how much each BTC ETF owner owes in taxes. I believe a BTC ETF can give millions of Americans a bright orange future if it is done right. Please urge your local regulators to regulate the BTC ETF in a way that makes it safer for retail investors by approving a BTC ETF which does not rely on a single trusted third party.

Happy Proof of Keys day.

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TL,DR: Proof of Keys is an important bitcoin holiday. A Bitcoin ETF should use federated custody to allow their clients to protect themselves from a single trusted third party. This enables an ETF with a distributed trust model that can not be breached by one diabolical dork mastermind like Sam Bankman-Fried or Mark Karpelès.

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I was unaware of this new law. I guess that makes me an outlaw.


My favorite holiday.

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An announcement of a bunch of smaller announcements.,🤔


Fiction. Cool.
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I hope so. There are so many things you can do with habla.news without writing any code.

It's my favorite blogging client. The human readable URL's are a game changer.


I happen to be writing a launch announcement right now... 😅

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


I've been researching astro-blog and asyncio to create a bridge between astro-blog and kind 30023 posts. This would be great because asteo-blog uses markdown so it should be better than the wordpress plugin.

I guess I should get back to work.


Thanks.


The session app is okay, but slow. I'm also not thrilled about the useless shitcoin, but it's not required to use the software.

Seth for Privacy has a great podcast about it.

I've been using Keybase a lot lately, but it's not as popular as it once was.


Wait...what's a GiftWrapped message?


I just boght a new belt like a week before I saw yours.🤦♂


Like this?

https://nostr.kiwi/


This year marks my tenth year of going down the bitcoin rabbit hole.

NGU is nice, but the best part is finding so many like-minded people dedicated to creating a better world.


Stand up comedians are professional philosophers. Philosophers who know how to turn a profit.


I've come to the same conclusion many moons ago.


I'm reading Atomic Habits by James Clear and highly recomend it.


I don"t know, but it's pretty cool.


I think I read about this song in a book circa 2015. I've only heard it on YouTube and Spotify. I'm not even sure I've seen this dude on Twitter.


I was gonna say, you're bringing back Shitcoin Insider podcast. 🤙


The Current nostr app comes with a custodial lightning address, but I've been reluctant to recomend it because custodial wallets are problematic.

I used Blixt Wallet to create a lightning address for my wife, but I can't realistically do that with people I'm not related to and the fees are crazy high these days.


Absolutely. I'm bullish on Liquid and Fedimints because of this fact.


Here is my sumbission to the blogging contest.

Thank you.
🙏

https://bloggingbitcoin.pages.dev/


Awesome!

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Are Ordinals the only problem?

What are the most popular wallets?

Coinbase? Trust Wallet? Binance?

Are any of these companies using the lightning network?

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Interesting. Didn't know that.


We're Bitcoin nerds. We use computers to replace an unjust monetary system.

I think he's talking about normie computer nerds that build gaming computers instead of bitcoin mining heaters.


Agreed. I would like to focus on promoting nostr to free speech advocates, non-bitcoiner grafitti artists, and cypherpunks.

Where is Adam Back,  Nick Szabo, or Phil Zimmerman?


I am convinced that Nostr, together with Lightning, allows us to build a true sat-capital economy.

This is not a "free economy" or a "begging economy" or a "rainmaker economy", it is an economy where the power of steering production rests entirely with individual consumers spending real money on products they want to purchase or on producers they want to encourage in continued production.

This is what I want to build.


Followed. Have you tried plebian.market yet?


These are pretty cool.


They won't think you're crazy in 2034.


Thank you for your service. 🫡


Happy New Year's Nostr!


THE GENIUS OF SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM:

BILLIONS OF PEOPLE THINK THEY ARE CUSTOMERS WHILE THEY ARE ACTUALLY THE PRODUCT BEING HARVESTED.


Thank you. Strike works with Clover and many businesses near me use it. I plan on learning how to set it up. I also want to learn how tonuse the API. Some of these apps look promising.

 I set up an online farmers market on nostr using Sam Samskies PlebPay.

The idea is to sell lemons using PlebPay as an example of what we can do with the lightning network.

https://docs.strike.me/walkthrough/example-apps


Thank you. That's amazing!

 I have some homework now. Got any ny business orange pilling tips?


I bought a motorcycle helmet for someone on my Christmas list this year. They sold crotch rockets, not hogs, and the store smelled like freedom not bacon. This store doesn't take Bitcoin, but they placed the following sign through out the store.

!![price incrases](https://i.nostr.build/z08M.jpg)

I asked the lady at the counter if I could please take a picture of it. She said "Sure, but why?"

"I write this blog about bitcoin. Don't worry I won't say anything bad about the shop. Quite the opposite."

Then I went looking at more motorcycle helmets. A young woman asked if she could help. She also aid, " I just got into trading crypto. What's the name of your blog. I gave her the URL to my website <https://bloggingbitcoin.pages.dev.>

"It's on nostr, a new communications protocol on the Internet. You can also find the Bitcoin meetup group on meetup.com."

Then I thought about why I first started this blog. I want to show the world Bitcoin is not just some information on an exchange you use to capture more printer go brrrrrr bucks. It was designed as an alternative to banks bailed out after the Great Financial Crisis. Bitcoin is a parallel financial system. Bitcoin is not Wall Street. Bitcoin is a protest like Occupy Wall Street-- Exit Wallstreet. Code is speech. Bitcoin is code written in C++ but Congress will authorize dumb-ass bureaucrats to abridge our speech. They want us to petition the government to redress our grievances.

!\[genesis block]\(<https://i.nostr.build/7WAV.jpg0>

I want to 🍊 Pill the world, starting with my home town. So I started a local newsletter. The goal is to show how easy it is to accept bitcoin in your store. You don't need to HODL, but you will save credit card fees and get free ad space on my newsletter.

They Are Fighting Us

!\[illegalsoftware]\(<https://i.nostr.build/XOG0.png>)

It's a little un-nerving to me. **I prefer to be anonymous**. I don't want to be "an activist."  Bitcoin has been my nerdy hobby for almost ten years .  My family still makes fun of me. They they still think bitcoin "crashed."  **They talk about inflation**. It's on the news. They talk about supply chains, corporate greed and striking unions, unaffordable housing, and bank runs.

I write about achieving freedom though the use of cryptography in a world increasingly becoming more hostile to the branch of mathematics I fell in love with. The bitcoin white paper is illegal in the United Kingdom.  [The country also declared end-to-end encryption illegal](nostr:nevent1qqsydeltt5zg2r0q8sr98y3rrzu70elhq5n7jdljznz0hg3n4yzdzwcpr9mhxue69uhhqctzd3hkvdm69ehx7um5wgcjucm0d5pzqadlydf3460e333fjkaqwxg7fz82636ew5m36c7hml2xhhsml2y4xky83s).

 Similar laws are being proposed in the so-called land of the free. I am not given permission to play poker online by the State of California. a state where Brick and Mortar poker is legal. The law pissed me off in 2011, but to be honest, unregulated trusted third party casinos were a problem.  [Full Tilt Poker was a Ponzi Scheme](https://www.pokernews.com/news/2022/11/full-tilt-poker-cheating-scandal-42534.htm). Bitcoin allows me to play poker online like I would at a brick and mortar casino. My sats remain in my wallet, under my control. To buy in to a game at lighting-poker.com, I put 10,000 sats at risk.

 I might lose those sats because it's gambling. Gambling has the risk of loss like the stock market or the spending power in your Wells Fargo savings account.  I can also win, and cash out into my own wallet. No trusted third party is needed.  This means it can't be used to launder money. Sending sats to one wallet to another is no different than sending sats to a wallet on an online poker room. It's peer-to-peer electronic cash.

Does it matter where the person lives if they want to play poker?  I have no idea who the person I am playing is or where he lives. He could be a 40 year old man in Beverly Hills or a Hamas suicide bomber handcuffed to an American child in Gaza. I don't agree with the Hamas Suicide Bomber's decision to play poker while handcuffed to an American child. I support the government's right to intervene and stop the Hamas suicide bombing poker player from taking innocent lives, but that has nothing to do with me playing poker with this idiot.

Maybe that's a far-fetched example, but what if I play poker with Edward Snowden? I like Edward Snowden. I follow him on nostr. I consider him a hero, but my government has exiled him to Russia and levied sanctions on Russia.  What if I played poker with Snowden and lost 10,000 sats?  It's about \$4.20 worth of USD these days. Is that illegal? How would I even know it's him?  [The government confiscated the proceeds from his book sales](nostr:note1e2u3frucm6597xgfnntfu2297chjr5nxjzmfu3fu7d00kmn3qxzq9ac6u0).  What if I sent him 1,000 sats on nostr?  That's about 42 cents these days.  Is that illegal?

### Bitcoin Is Civil Disobedience

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**Voting does not work**. The public is captured by the corporate controlled media. It's almost as if the United States is distracted by the culture war so they don't notice \[Social Security is expected to die in 2035]\([https://www.fool.com/retirement/2020/05/30/can-social-securitSocial Security is expected to die in 2035](https://www.fool.com/retirement/2020/05/30/can-social-security-ever-go-bankrupt-and-disappear.aspx).

Bitcoin is not a vote for a corrupt politician. Bitcoin is not the lesser of two evils. Bitcoin is good, sound money. Bitcoin is freedom. [Bitcoin does not have bank runs.  Bitcoin does not have inflation](https://bitcoin.rocks/inflation). Bitcoin is civil disobedience, a middle finger raised to the powers that be. I don't care about who uses what bathroom and I don't give a fuck about the federal reserve. It's not like voting changes who is in charge of the federal reserve anyway. Bitcoin is crypto anarchy.  It doesn't mean I can use bitcoin to light Molotav cocktails and riot in the streets. It means I don't need to riot in the streets to achieve my objectives. If I don't like how the policy of the federal reserve affects my long-term savings, I don't use federal reserve bucks for my long term savings. I

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Pretty sure Andreas Antonoplis coined this phrase, Exit Wallstreet.

Bitcoin is not an investment, but a protest. Bitcoin is freedom from inflation imposed by Central banks.

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International statement: End-to-end encryption and public safety (accessible version)

"In July 2019, the governments of the United Kingdom, United States, Australia, New Zealand and Canada issued a communique, concluding that: “tech companies should include mechanisms in the design of their encrypted products and services whereby governments, acting with appropriate legal authority, can gain access to data in a readable and usable format. Those companies should also embed the safety of their users in their system designs, enabling them to take action against illegal content.”[footnote 5]"

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Cool. Did you help them set it up? I want businesses local to me to accept bitcoin.


What are they using to accept sats?


When's the next one? I know we can play tournaments on swc poker, but I don't think they use lightning.


I'm thinking about a monthly tournament for 100k sats. Most sites require a VPN in the US, but I'm pretty sure nerds with npubs can figure it out.


Are there any poker rooms that accept bitcoin over the LN and accept players from the US?

#asknostr


Those were the good ol' days.


I'm old enough to remember boarding a plane without taking off my shoes, talking to people on a phone without being recorded, and paying for things with cash.


This too is being an artist:
You stay up, working all night, often underpaid, you are misunderstood, sometimes you work for free.
But you make the world more beautiful.
Don't forget that. 🙏

#art


Been spending time with family.


Thanks🙏


What's the name of the YouTube like nostr client again?  #asknostr


What kind of jobs can you get with that?


Thanks man, but I don't know anything about sports. I did the superbowl pool because I thought it was cool to gamble on nostr.

I'd be down for a nostr poker tournament though.


That's a great one too.


#Bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/b315cc90bc23187a558679da38a5aa94f706a5cfd7cfa9ff9fb4be8055930998.jpg


"Fix the money, fix the world" is my favorite.


I wouldn't use a passphrass with multisig unless you are on team never-spend.


That's awesome. Updating firefox. 🤙


It's always been that way, but some words are longer than others. On second thought, I must have used 12 words, not 24.


Right. I've used a 24 word seed with the cold card before. The Cold Card has a 100 character limit. This is from the documentation.

"Passphrases must be: - No longer than 100 characters. - ASCII characters only (no accented letters): - Upper case letters - Lower case letters - Numbers - Symbols"


No, but the longer the passphrase, the greater the chance of making a catastrophic error.


Merry Christmas.


How does someone into public key cryptography get into this field?


Merry Christmas!


I love hoe bitcoin.rocks made us all graffiti artists.


Love it.


These days, I know more about nostr than geopolitics.

I hope nostr allows me to stay that way.

Keep nostr weird.

🤙


I saw this while Christmas shopping last weekend. It reminded me to onboard more businesses onto bitcoin and ask them to accept it.

https://i.nostr.build/z08M.jpg


Thank you.


My Bunn wastes more water than my S9.


Yeah I know, I was trying to be funny. 🤙


What is it, supply and demand?


What are the highlights? I have a hard time listening to podcasts over the holidays.


👀 75 sats/vbyte for a day?

Bitcoin has no inflation, but bitcoin mining fees do.

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I'm not triggered. I'm not protesting an ETF or dellusioned into thinking I can keep blackrock from owning bitcoin. I just try to teach people owning a bitcoin etf is not the same as owning bitcoin.


I dislike ETF's because I agree with the second sentence of Satoshi Nakamoto's white paper.


Millenial Loteria.


We're winning.

https://i.nostr.build/EM8M.jpg


GOOD MORNING!

Even if you're not technical, you can learn more about Bitcoin's technical side with this interactive tutorial from nostr:npub1fhmmgwe6fk6tn83ahttt6ruyyfnjdm7k8tn7qflert9ajx6dhfyqf3nzcu

Tap the "CODING" button at the top of https://bitcoin.rocks to see this and other interesting #bitcoin resources.

https://bitcoin.rocks/img/nostr/bitcoin-coding.png


True.


Nostr


The company that X uses to verify its user's ID is an Israeli company founded by members of Shin Bet's unit 8200!

🤯

The company responsible for verifying people's ID on X is called "AU10TIX".

The CEO of AU10TIX, Ron Atzomn, was a member of Shin Bet's unit 8200.

For those who don't know, Shin Bet is Israel's main intelligence strike force.

Shin Bet is responsible for providing 90% of Israel's intelligence material.

It doesn't stop there however.

AU10TIX was founded in 2002 as the technology arm of a dutch firm called "ICTS international".

ICTS international was established in 1982 ALSO by former members of Shin Bet.


I'm an American and don't understand football.


Good morning.


Just found out you can open a lightning channel wirh electrum on TAILS.

https://i.nostr.build/2VgP.jpg


I'll check it out after the Holidays.


Gm,

Lost mom around this time last year.

Christmas will never be the same

Please I beg you to cherish your family


Woah, you can create a lightning address with your own node on ThunderHub. That's cool. Too bad I need to restore my lightning channels on Start9.


There are many summations on the white paper though. The supply schedule is just one more of those. I wonder why it's not there too.


What's a ghost address?


Merry Christmas!


You can aslo make your own out of an old s9. It will only cost a couple hundred bucks if you don't buy the case. If you have ever replaced RAM in a laptop, you could pull this off.


This blew my mind.


Me too.


Yes.


Are the zaps hosted on the Umbrel Node?


Good one.


I almost forgot about 2021.


I screwed my follow list up a while back. Sorry.


Swiss Bitcoin Pay App v2.0.0: Open-Source Code & Other Improvements

Swiss Bitcoin Pay is an open-source, no-KYC, Swiss-based Bitcoin payments processor designed for making it easy to accept Bitcoin at your business. Available on the web, Android, and iOS.

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/swiss-bitcoin-pay-app-v2-0-0/


Followed.🤙


Is stacks still a thing? I remember hearing about Blockstack on the Kevin Rose Show. It was like metamask. I don't even know what they really do anymore, but it sounds scammy.


I agree, but I never say this out loud.


This is amazing.


Awesome.


I've listened since the show was named the cryptoeconomy.

This is my favorite podcast and now this is my favorite episode.

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The part where he says, "You think people use Bitcoin to avoid paying taxes now..."


Bad for the country. Good for bitcoin.


It's the wrong solution to the problem. As much as these fools talk about "crypto" these days, you would think they might learn cryptography is used to verify software integrity. We should have a way to verify vote integrity the same way we verify the Sparrow Wallet. You don't need a thirsty, ocean-boiling, blockchain either.


I hope he's not right, but I'm not so sure.


I'm no fan of Trump.

I'm no fan of Biden.

I'm not sure I even like democracy anymore, but banning him from running seems like a bad idea when the guy you banned, and his followers, believe the last election was rigged.


Walled gardens suck.


Nah.


I new a guy who fell for that. That was not cool. Bitcoin connect is cool.


Me too.


Thanks. I hardly go on there these days.


Yeah. Enquiring minds want to know ans how do we know this isn't AI?


Come to think of it🤔

 Not really.


Oof. Did you try re-selling the gift card on Robosats?


You guys are great at marketing. 🙏


You can buy amazon gift cards using strike now. Does Amazon have an API?


My in-person interactions with Bitcoiners this past week have filled me with joy and hope for the future. I am incredibly inspired and driven. Reinvigorated. Go meet your local bitcoiners and build relationships. Face to face > through a screen.


🤙

I'm glad. 🤓

I started my blog because I want to help Bitcoiners.

Each place is different though.

My advice for a Bitcoiner in North Korea would differ from my advice to a Bitcoiner in North Dakota.


Damm. I've been using lightning and liquid. There are trade-offs, but I think the reward-risk ratio makes liquid a decent option.

Fedimints might be better, but I have only used one on testnet so far.

This is also not finacial advice. This option makes sense for me. This would not be a good strategy for someone taking their bitcoin off coinbase for the very first time.


How long till it confirmed?


Good morning.

"One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws."

--Martin Luther King Jr.


Yes!


Could you please add the recipe to

https://zap.cooking/ ?


Glad you're okay.


Odell says something like, If you're a barber, be a bitcoin barber.

If you're in HVAC, you should be a bitcoin HVAC person. We make heaters out of old mining rigs these days.


Lol. Got it.


How do you do a podcast on nostr nests?


Military grade steel, and I would not risk using a passphrase on a trezor or ledger.

Make sure the words are pre-programed on his signing device to avoid spelling mistakes.


That's wierd. I have a hard time using "X" now. Feels wierd even saying "X".


I bet they're scammers pretending to be you.


Now that I think of it, I bet Andreas already said this. I'm not trying to pull a Dan Held here.


#Bitcoin is not Occupy Wallstreet.

#Bitcoin is exit Wall Street.

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That was the first lightning wallet I used. Is it still aroundm


So true. My property taxes cost more than rent I paid for college housing. The state is my landlord. The Credit Union just wants the money they printed back, with interest.


They're always making more real estate.

 They're making less than 21 million bitcoin.


True.


Laissez-faire capatalism is fair.

The US Monetary system is unfair.

#Bitcoin is laissez-faire capatalism.


Run Fedimint.


Sad.


Looks like this is the reality of the situation.


Ordinals are my enemy!

#Bitcoin is for enemies.

D'oh! 🤦♂


Who is Satoshi Nakamoto?

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


We need this on nostr.cooking


Just noticed you had a pidcast Bitcoin For The Hood. I'll give it a listen.

Where do you sell your merch?


They're great!


Satoshi never moved Bitcoin out of his wallet.

What if Michael Saylor never moved his bitcoin out of cold storage?

What would that do to the value of everyone else's stack?


Bitcoin is distributed fairly.


I had to click a button to even see the post. I didn't even know it was there.


What"s the best place to get notified of the live show?


I'm so jelous. 😃


I listen to it every week. Love this band.


Did you ever tey Nodless Sommerfeld?


That's okay. I have no idea what your last math post meant. 🤷♂


Awesome. I'll check it out.


Thanks!


I can't find it on medium. Do you have a link?


I can't get the Chat mode to work. It says I need to update Ubuntu. I've only used the python version in the CLI. How would one use an API? I don't understand them very well yet.


Prompts make a difference with images I've made. I think AI changes the way we right. I want to learn how to use gpt4all to fix my grammar and typo errors.


April 21st, but I'm biased. 21 is my favorite number.


I login with Get Alby on Kiwi and Firefox. Nsec bunker is safer, but I screwed up the docker file. Pablo has an easy set up option for about 22k sats.(95% sure that's correct)

Y

https://nsecbunker.com/


Yeah I've been writing my blog on habla.news  for abour a year. I'll find your blog on habla and read it there.


Oh you wrote it. Sorry. I don't know how these email blogs work. 😔


I feel like I've been on nostr for a while. I thought everyone was introduced no nostr a year ago. Sometimes I forget how early we are.


This year? 🤣


That sucks.


To Whom It May Concern,

My nym is Blogging Bitcoin. This upcoming year will be my 10th year going down the bitcoin rabbit hole. Much of that journey is written [here](https://plebnet.dev/bloggingonnostr). Before bitcoin, I trained for a couple marathons. While running, I listened to almost all of Ayn Rand's books, podcasts about Objectivism, history, economics, and the Joe Rogan Experience. I began to read  Economics In One Lesson about a month before hearing about Bitcoin: A peer to peer electronic cash system. Since then, I've studied bitcoin almost every day.

I am applying for the Customer Support Agent position at Foundation because [I did Jordan Peterson's Future Authoring Program](https://www.selfauthoring.com/future-authoring) about four years ago. I wrote down that I wanted to help people learn how to use bitcoin's multisig properties. I initially wanted to work for Unchained Capital, but relocating my family to Austin was and is not feasable for us. I am interested in Foundation because this job description is aligned with my values and does not require relocating my family:

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## Desired Skills & Must Haves

### Excellent Written and Verbal English Language Skills

I believe I have **Excellent written and verbal English language skills**. My only issue is that I tend to talk as fast as a podcast on 1.5x speed when I'm talking about my passions. I can work on it.

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I wholeheartedly believe in **privacy, sovereignty, and freedom**. That’s a good way of summing up what [my blog](bloggingbitcoin.pages.dev) is all about, but freedom means different things to different people. For me, Cryptography equals freedom. Others speak of freedom in glittering generalities. To some, freedom means spending money on credit cards for on fine dining, clothes, or war.

When I first started, Digital Gold and maybe Mastering Bitcoin were about the only two books that existed. There were only a couple episodes of podcasts too.  In my early days, I read a ton of Eric Hughes, Tim C. May, forum posts by Satoshi and Hal Finney, blogposts by Nick Szabo and a couple EconTalk and Joe Rogan Podcasts.  There just wasn’t much as much information back then. They had a profound influence on me. I read the Sovereign Individual during the pandemic.  Spoiler alert: they say the information age might start with a global pandemic.

I don't like talking about politics, but I was into Objectivism before I read the bitcoin white paper.  I listened to almost all of her audiobooks while training for the LA Marathon. That’s not technically bitcoin, but it’s part of it’s history. When I heard Satoshi was anonymous, the first thing that came to mind was, “who is John Galt?” First time I tried nostr, I thought, “This could be potentially be Galt’s Gulch on the Internet.” I went to Objectivist meetups before I got into bitcoin. I even met people who worked for the Ayn Rand Institute, but the best conversation I ever had about Ayn Rand was at a bitcoin conference. **I wasn’t the one who brought her up**.

I learned about TAILS from Edward Snowden's book, [Permanant Record]. I didn’t notice Snowden used TAILS the first time I watched Citizen 4, but I noticed the second time. **This is the foundation of my bitcoin knowledge, the fuel that ignites my burning desire to learn about bitcoin**. This is why I have a **strong understanding of basic Bitcoin concepts**. I was able to pass Saylor Academy’s Bitcoin Is For Everybody course without watching much of the content. I cold only do this because I voraciously read most of the content in that course by the time Stephan created it.

I your definition of freedom is closer to what The Cypherpunks, Ayn Rand or Edward Snowden defined as freedom, then I believe in freedom.

### Desired Skills & Must Haves

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I began learning more advanced bitcoin math in March of 2020. I kept my private key in a safe deposit box. **The bank shutting down for 3 months was not on my threat model bingo card**. I made an appointment and everything worked out, but that was a serious wake up call. I realized this risk could be mitigated if I used **bitcoin's native multisignature properties**. It might come in handy if the value increased and the wrenches come out. I spent most of the lockdown grokking [Micheal Flaxman's 10X Your BTC Security Guide](https://btcguide.github.io/). I tested alternative storage methods. I once lost a key I burried in 5 different places, but I was able to recover my wallet. Jameson Lopp recently wrote a blog post about burying keys and I respect his opinion, but I won’t burry keys anymore. **That's the main reason I think I would be good at this job.**  That year gave me a strong understanding of different types of Bitcoin wallets, hardware, and different multisignature formats.    Different wallets use different paths. I took out a hard drive and Wi-Fi card on an old laptop and used Ian Coleman’s tool on TAILS to experiment with Shamir Secret Sharing schemes. I also learned you addresses that multisignature addresses that begin with a bc1q use BIP141 P2WSH while those with addresses that start with a 3 use P2WSH nested in P2SH.

I volunteetred at Pacific Bitcoin on 2022 where I met one of your employees and he let me check out the Passport.  I won't mention his name, but I'm a big fan of his work. He taught me most so much if what I know about self-sovereignty. I also saw Moritz give a talk about Specter Desktop. I talked to him about my experience studying the 10X Your BTC Security guide over the pandemic. He took me to a booth and showed me how to put together a Specter DIY. Then he gave it to me for free.

I try to avoid wallet arguments. Like I said, I don’t like discussing politics, but I view DIY hardware wallets good for the game theory of the bitcoin network--especially when used as part of a multisignature quorum.  Althpugh Specter DIY and Seed Signer lack secure elements, brick and mortar hardware wallet companies could be targeted by governments. The unhosted wallet warriors don’t take this option out of the realm of possibility. They also don’t know it won’t work if we use a Specter DIY or electrum on TAILS running on a USB stick. I think this is an underappreciated aspect about bitcoin, especially given the state of the political climate today.  Like I said, **I don't like talking about politics; but politicians like to talk about bitcoin these days**.

I don’t have a passport, but I'll put one on my Christmas list. I’ve played with it for a few minutes before and went over the docs today. I am confident in my ability to learn how to how to use it. That’s not the value proposition though. To bring value to your company, I need to teach my wife how to use it. So that’s my plan.

### Nice Haves

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I think I have these things. I tend to talk as fast as a podcast on 1.5X speed when I'm passionate about something, but I can work on that. I am in the US PST time zone. I have a lot of experience in customer facing roles.

### Bonus Skills

Although I haven't done many video chats at a job, I attend several Discord Online Meetups. We do video and voice chats on these meetups and I attended a couple Meetups on Zoom during the pandemic. **Tomorrow I'm hosing a Q & A about nostr**. The group is focused on helping us contribute to free and open source software--Namely bitcoin and nostr. I am starting to make small contributions to free and open source projects and recently had a pull request merged.

I also don't have experience in creating written documentation for consumer products in any role that requires a W-2, but I've created several tutorials on my blog, use markdown every day and I've done the documentation exercise on free code camp.

I also started a local bitcoin meetup on nostr. I'm still working on growing it, but have met some really cool fellow plebs. One guy even gave me an old S9 so I could turn it into a heater. This is another reasons I want to work for a company dedicated to the advancement of bitcoin. It’s such an interesting community that has one goal. This must sound strange to no coiners, but Bitcoiners are my tribe. O don’t care if you have a 100,000 sats or own billions of dollars worth of stocks. I don't care about the color of your skin, who you love, your nation of origin, or where you’ve been exiled. I may not even know what your face looks like, but If you hold your own keys, you are part of my tribe. If you run a node, your an elder in my tribe. I want to work for a company that can help grow this tribe.

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Yes, yes, and yes.

### Resume and Cover Letter Are Required

Although nostr is not technically bitcoin, I believe it has the power to increase global censorship resistance. That's why I wrote this cover leter on nostr. I also like free and open source software which was not explicit in the job description, but that's big part of what this is all about. Therefore I thought it might make more sense to incorporate **my passion for using public key cryptography and free and open source software** to write this blog into my cover letter.

I'll send my resume over SMTP instead of nostr though.

"If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy."
--Phil Zimmerman

Blogging Bitcoin

A cover letter for the Customer Support Agent Position

This is a long form article, you can read it in https://habla.news/a/naddr1qqtkvmm4dejxzarfdahz6cm0wejhyttvv468getjqgs8t0er2vdwn7vvv2v4hgr3j8jg36k5wkt4xuwk847l634auxl639grqsqqqa28se3wy0


"Jefferson's disk cipher

The Jefferson disk, also called the Bazeries cylinder or wheel cypher[1] was a cipher system invented by Thomas Jefferson in 1795 that uses a set of wheels or disks, each with the 26 letters of the alphabet arranged around their edge. A similar, improved device was independently re-invented in 1891 by Commandant Etienne Bazeries, but did not become well known until he broke the Great Cipher, of Rossignols, a century after Jefferson's work.[2] The order of the letters is different for each disk and is usually ordered randomly. Each disk is marked with a unique number and a hole in the center of the disks allows them to be stacked on an axle. The disks are removable and can be mounted on the axle in any order desired. The order of the disks is the cipher key, and both sender and receiver must arrange the disks in the same predefined order. Jefferson's device had 36 disks while Bazeries' system had 20.[3][4]

Once the disks have been placed on the axle in the agreed order, the sender rotates each disk up and down until a desired message is spelled out in one row. Then, the sender can copy down any row of text on the disks other than the one that contains the plaintext message. The recipient has to arrange the disks in the agreed-upon order, rotate the disks so they spell out the encrypted message on one row, and then look around the rows until they see the plaintext."

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"The government knows what a pivotal role cryptography is destined to play in the power relationship with its people. In April 1993, the Clinton administration unveiled a bold new encryption policy initiative, which had been under development at the National Security Agency (NSA) since the start of the Bush administration. The centerpiece of this initiative was a government-built encryption device, called the Clipper chip, containing a new classified NSA encryption algorithm. The government tried to encourage private industry to design it into all their secure communication products, such as secure phones, secure faxes, and so on. AT&T put Clipper into its secure voice products. The catch: At the time of manufacture, each Clipper chip is loaded with its own unique key, and the government gets to keep a copy, placed in escrow. Not to worry, though–the government promises that they will use these keys to read your traffic only "when duly authorized by law." Of course, to make Clipper completely effective, the next logical step would be to outlaw other forms of cryptography.

The government initially claimed that using Clipper would be voluntary, that no one would be forced to use it instead of other types of cryptography. But the public reaction against the Clipper chip was strong, stronger than the government anticipated. The computer industry monolithically proclaimed its opposition to using Clipper. FBI director Louis Freeh responded to a question in a press conference in 1994 by saying that if Clipper failed to gain public support, and FBI wiretaps were shut out by non-government-controlled cryptography, his office would have no choice but to seek legislative relief. Later, in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City tragedy, Mr. Freeh testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee that public availability of strong cryptography must be curtailed by the government (although no one had suggested that cryptography was used by the bombers).

The government has a track record that does not inspire confidence that they will never abuse our civil liberties. The FBI's COINTELPRO program targeted groups that opposed government policies. They spied on the antiwar movement and the civil rights movement. They wiretapped the phone of Martin Luther King. Nixon had his enemies list. Then there was the Watergate mess. More recently, Congress has either attempted to or succeeded in passing laws curtailing our civil liberties on the Internet. Some elements of the Clinton White House collected confidential FBI files on Republican civil servants, conceivably for political exploitation. And some overzealous prosecutors have shown a willingness to go to the ends of the Earth in pursuit of exposing sexual indiscretions of political enemies. At no time in the past century has public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed across the political spectrum, as it is today."

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US entitled to $5.2m from Edward Snowden's book sales, court rules

"The United States is entitled to more than $5.2m from former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden’s book royalties, a federal court ruled this week, according to the US Department of Justice.

In a statement, the department said the US district court for the eastern district of Virginia on Tuesday also ruled in favor of setting up a trust for the government for any future earnings from Snowden’s book, which had been the subject of a federal lawsuit.

A lawyer for Snowden did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

In September 2019, the US government sued Snowden, who resides in Russia, over his publication of Permanent Record, a book which the United States says violated non-disclosure agreements he signed when working for the NSA and the CIA.

The United States alleges that Snowden published the book without first submitting it to US agencies for pre-publication review, in violation of agreements he signed when working for the agencies. US authorities did not seek to block publication of Snowden’s book but rather to seize all proceeds."

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On September 17, 2019, the Federal Government of the United States filed a lawsuit in the District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia against Snowden for alleged violations of non-disclosure agreements with the CIA and NSA.[8] The complaint alleges that Snowden violated prepublication obligations related to the publication of his memoir Permanent Record. The complaint lists the publishers Macmillan and Holtzbrink as relief defendants.[9] The government stated that its lawsuit "does not seek to stop or restrict the publication or distribution" of the book, but instead aims to capture the proceeds Snowden would be earning from it.[8] In December 2019, Judge Liam O'Grady concurred with the plaintiff.[10] Snowden refused during the civil lawsuit to produce documents showing how much he was paid. As a result, federal prosecutors sought sanctions against Snowden.[11] On August 7, 2020, U.S. Magistrate Judge Theresa Buchanan agreed to impose sanctions on Snowden, ruling that he "unequivocally acted in bad faith".[12][better source needed]

"On September 17, 2019, the Federal Government of the United States filed a lawsuit in the District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia against Snowden for alleged violations of non-disclosure agreements with the CIA and NSA.[8] The complaint alleges that Snowden violated prepublication obligations related to the publication of his memoir Permanent Record. The complaint lists the publishers Macmillan and Holtzbrink as relief defendants.[9] The government stated that its lawsuit "does not seek to stop or restrict the publication or distribution" of the book, but instead aims to capture the proceeds Snowden would be earning from it.[8] In December 2019, Judge Liam O'Grady concurred with the plaintiff.[10]

Snowden refused during the civil lawsuit to produce documents showing how much he was paid. As a result, federal prosecutors sought sanctions against Snowden.[11] On August 7, 2020, U.S. Magistrate Judge Theresa Buchanan agreed to impose sanctions on Snowden, ruling that he "unequivocally acted in bad faith".["

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Bitcoiner Jobs | Customer Support Agent @ Foundation

"DESIRED SKILLS

Must Haves:

    Excellent written and verbal English language skills
    Strong understanding of basic Bitcoin concepts
    Strong understanding on different types of Bitcoin wallets, including software, hardware, and multisignature

Nice to Haves:

    Located in a U.S. timezone
    Prior experience in a customer facing role

Bonus Skills:

    Experience in 1-on-1 customer support via calls and/or video chat
    Experience in creating written documentation for consumer products

*Resume and Cover Letter are required."

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"Your primary responsibilities will be to respond to customer inquiries via our self-hosted support dashboard, as well as offering support where possible in our community Telegram group. Under the leadership of the Head of Customer Experience, you will play a key role in helping us extend our industry leading customer support solutions.

Customer inquiries can be wide ranging from shipping inquiries, to Passport or Envoy specific issues, to even general conceptual Bitcoin questions. A good knowledge of Bitcoin and the Bitcoin tools we create at Foundation is crucial. You should be a subject matter expert, enabling them to empower our users to get the best from our growing product range."

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"Nice to Haves:

    Located in a U.S. timezone
    Prior experience in a customer facing role

Bonus Skills:

    Experience in 1-on-1 customer support via calls and/or video chat
    Experience in creating written documentation for consumer products

*Resume and Cover Letter are required."

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"Strong understanding on different types of Bitcoin wallets, including software, hardware, and multisignature"

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"DESIRED SKILLS

Must Haves:

    Excellent written and verbal English language skills
    Strong understanding of basic Bitcoin concepts
    Strong understanding on different types of Bitcoin wallets, including software, hardware, and multisignature"

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"SELECT RESPONSIBILITIES

    Monitor and respond to customer inquiries via multiple channels within our support dashboard
    Monitor and respond to community questions in our Telegram community room
    Communicate with the Customer Experience team on common issues to help improve our products"

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Try starting a local meetup on flockstr.com


To Whom it may concern:

My nym is [Blogging Bitcoin](https://bloggingbitcoin.pages.dev/). [My real name is posted here](nostr:note12rnf7qrsmm6y9equysdy50j77f5lutawdga0hjs9ymlmwejlvmrsus4v2h).

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I am applying to the  Customer Support Agent position, am willing to work remotely and live in North America **because I have an enthusiasm for bitcoin and empowering people with sovereignty**.

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 Emphatically, **YES!** That's why I started my blog. Don't get me wrong, NGU is nice, but that's all most people on Twitter talk about. I became interested in bitcoin almost ten years ago because:
- It let's you transport your wealth, even if war breaks out.
- It protects you from debasement, even from the most powerful countries in the world.
- I was(and still am) against fractional reserve banking.

About 4 years ago, I decided I wanted to help people take self custody because Unchained Capital offered it as a service, but I live thousands of miles away from Unchained Capital's headquarters and am unable to relocate for that position.

Before the pandemic, I wrote on yalls.org. I remember seeing MirBTC post about these lock-downs in Italy and thought it was aweful. I couldn't believe they shut down the entire country in Europe. I would have bet some serious sats that would never happen in the United States. Good thing I didn't make that bet, because **we went on lockdown one week later**. Suddenly, the freedom tech became of upmost importance.  The bank with the safe deposit box(where I kept my 5 year old Trezor) shut it's doors. I was unable to access my key for months.

Luckily, They allowed me to retrieve it a few months later. I had to call ahead, make an appointment, and wear a mask, but it could have been much worse. So...I basically spent 8 hours a day, five days a week,  grocking [Michael Flaxman's 10X your BTC Security guide](https://btcguide.github.io/) for an entire year. I also learned basic Python syntax and earned a Google IT Certificate during this time--which taught me tons of stuff about Bash, Linux, and cybersecurity.  They even had a module about PGP and  What can I say? I had a lot of time on my hands.

I now run my own node, Nextcloud, nostr relay, VaultWarden, and Mealie which is not directly related to bitcoin, but helps me save sats on groceries. I use Start9 and Umbrel, but I have also used other stuff like MyNode and Ronin Dojo back in the day. I also

(nostr:nevent1qqsxkesys482x0qfc72e2fgua6fdkz27khpuvpaeu2ue7ufa8wx9mxqpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfdupzqadlydf3460e333fjkaqwxg7fz82636ew5m36c7hml2xhhsml2y4lk7ml3) and I answered yes [to this question](nostr:nevent1qqsq9zqgarqxn9xmsjtmexun6sq4y36wpp0palh59xkp5szqf97hrcqpzdmhxue69uhk7enxvd5xz6tw9ec82c30qgs8t0er2vdwn7vvv2v4hgr3j8jg36k5wkt4xuwk847l634auxl639g0cl0qf).

Although I've never worked for an actual bitcoin company, I started writing this blog about a couple years ago. People actually send me real sats too! The first time, was on my BTCpayServer, but it's gotten much easier since [nostr](https://nostr.how/en/what-is-nostr) became more popular about a year ago. According to the job description [I should be a subject matter expert](nostr:note1uvk0u0r357xldzxj5e9y0dymuwy9anzhhvpwjrra66xe4yydtmwscf3xc9). It's [difficult for me to call myself a subject matter expert in bitcoin.]  If that means the ability to do a double SHA256 math problem by hand(nostr:note1uvk0u0r357xldzxj5e9y0dymuwy9anzhhvpwjrra66xe4yydtmwscf3xc9) or make contributions to Bitcoin Core, I am not an expert.  If that means trying almost every hardware wallet on the market, [making a space heater out of an old S9](nostr:note1nmxzafuuvdg94dunkja82uux6z3sk0cngtdjj3hahuvyg3fpnqqqv0u92k, and creating an air-gapped computers out of an old laptop(not that I recommend this, but it was fun.)...Then I would consider myself a subject matter expert. I


"Enthusiasm for Bitcoin and/or empowering people with sovereignty is required"

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"A good knowledge of Bitcoin and the Bitcoin tools we create at Foundation is crucial. You should be a subject matter expert, enabling them to empower our users to get the best from our growing product range."

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"Do you believe in sovereignty, privacy, and freedom? Do you want to help Bitcoin and sovereignty achieve widespread adoption?"

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"We've assembled a world-class, multidisciplinary team – and now we are looking to build it out. Together, we'll build a new ecosystem that we callsovereign computing. Our roadmap is aggressive, and we'll be shipping innovative new products every year."

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Google Docs on Nostr, but without Google!

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Hear me out: What if they just gave you like a thousand sats instead of a biscuit?


It's barely beating the fakeflation they talk about on the news.


I haven't even used it since they added the camera. I should try it again.


S&P 500


The main problem is that workers wages are ephemeral capital. Low time preference is beaten out of workers by Central Bank rulers.

 They work all day for bullshit pay, come home and drink their troubles away while watching propoganda on TV. Politics has devulged to petty name calling. Bllame orange man, weekend at Biden's, and greedy corporations.

People don't notice **the people in charge of the FED remain the same no matter which idiot you vote for**.


I'm going on my 10th year in #bitcoin, yet don't understand what FinCEN means by "blockchain technology", "CBC", or "virtual currency."

It sounds like newspeak for make math illegal.

I'll comply with all that stuff when 2+2=5.


Great AI image.


Works


## Chef's notes

Berf Jerky, the OG pocket steak made in the oven.

## Details

- ⏲ Prep time: 15 minutes
- 🍳 Cook time: 4 hours
- 🍽 Servings: 10

## Ingredients

- 2 LB. London Broil.
- salt
- pepper

## Directions

1. Trim as much fat as possible from London Broil.
2. Slice meat into thin strips.
3. Add salt & pepper.
4. Line large cookie sheet with foil(for easier clean-up.)
5. Add rack on top of the cookie sheet, the kind you might use for bacon.
6. Bake  at 175° F for 4 hours
7. Remove from oven.
8. Enjoy.


## Chef's notes

# Stay Humble, Brew Your Own Coffee

**Note: The Satoshi Coffee Company, Amazon, WalMart and coffee cups are not affiliate links**.

## Equipment
You'll need an [AeroPress](https://www.amazon.com/AeroPress-Portable-Travel-Coffee-Press/dp/B07YVL8SF3/ref=sr_1_6?keywords=aeropress&qid=1702486875&sr=8-6)

I use [sats.coffee](https://sats.coffee/) to support the bitcoin circular economy.

Coffee Cup.  I can't vouch for anyone on this list, but [check out the mug market on nostr](https://letsnostr.com/t/mug).

Cold water because hot water tastes like water heater.

[Cheapest tea kettle I could find](https://www.walmart.com/ip/Mainstays-Teal-1-8-Liter-Stainless-Steel-Whistling-Tea-Kettle-Turquoise/2160878570).

[The cheapest digital meat thermometer I could find](https://www.walmart.com/ip/ThermoPro-TP-16-Large-LCD-Digital-Cooking-Food-Meat-Smoker-Oven-Kitchen-BBQ-Grill-Thermometer-Clock-Timer-with-Stainless-Steel-Probe/2125599883).

### Proof of Work

![water](https://i.nostr.build/03jY.jpg)

![aero](https://https://i.nostr.build/VAxG.jpg)

![fill](https://i.nostr.build/4wRW.jpg)

![temp](https://i.nostr.build/qa6n.jpg)

![pour](https://i.nostr.build/LjeM.jpg)

![stir](https://i.nostr.build/VAxG.jpg)

![plunge](https://i.nostr.build/M8x5.jpg)

![enjoy](https://i.nostr.build/gaBB.jpg)

### Interested In Getting Sats Back?
**Note: These are referral links**

#### Oshi App

I swear, I was going to share this company anyway because I found out about the Oshi sats back reward on sats.coffee after I bought my first order. I could have saved myself thousands of sats. I also met Michael Atwood at a meetup in Newport Beach a couple years ago. He's a ride or die freak and told me about this new business he created, basically Groupon for Bitcoiners. We had a great conversation and I really like that dude, but totally forgot about Oshi app. So I plan on using it more. I also started this blog to teach people how to use bitcoin and promote the bitcoin circular economy. The [Oshi App](https://oshi.team/bloggingbitcoin) aligns with this mission.

**Save 10% off two bags of coffee from Satoshi Coffee Co.** When you use the [Oshi App](https://oshi.team/bloggingbitcoin)
![Oshi deal](https://i.nostr.build/PWOZ.png)

Even if you don't like coffee, sign up for the [Oshi App anyway](https://oshi.team/bloggingbitcoin). You're bound to find something you do like and support the bitcoin circular economy, save sats, and send me a little percentage of sales. I also want you to create your own referral link too and share it with other people. I'm not saying you'll earn enough to quit your job, but maybe you'll get more people interested in using and saving sats. This is not financial advice, but that's got to be better for the value of bitcoin than dorks doodling dumb-ass charts.

#### The Bitcoin Company

Don't have an AeroPress? Get 1.3% sats back when you buy an amazon gift card with [The Bitcoin Company](Buy a gift card from [The Bitcoin Company](https://app.thebitcoincompany.com/giftcard/GiftCard_49d2dc07acd9).)

Don't have a cheap meat thermometer?
Get 0.6% sats back when you buy the cheapest meat thermometer I could find.
 ome places might give you more cashback, but not all that glitters is digital gold. The Bitcoin Company pays out bitcoin to your own wallet over the lightning network. **Have you seen on-chain fees lately?**

## Details

- ⏲ Prep time: 5 min
- 🍳 Cook time: 5 min
- 🍽 Servings: 1

## Ingredients

- coffee
- cold water because hot water tastes like water heater.

## Directions

1. Fill tea kettle with 8 oz. or more of cold water.
2. Set the thermometer to 175° F. Insert the probe into the kettle.
3. Turn on the burner at a medium heat.
4. Meanwhile, assemble the AeroPress. Insert the coffee filter and set on top of the coffee cup. Add a scoop of coffee.
5. When the alarm of the thermometer goes off, remove from heat. I like to watch it and turn the flame down to the lowest setting as it approaches the temprature.
6. Pour the water into the AeroPress. Do not overfill.
7. Stir coffee and the water for 10 seconds.
8. Insert plunger. Slowly press down on the plunger from 20-60 seconds. Squeezing the delicious coffee oils out.
9. Enjoy. Post a picture on #coffeechain and tag me.
10. Clean up is easy. Just throw away the filter and grounds and rinse it. It's also dishwasher safe.

# Best Bitcoin Bean Brew

The United States of America began as a reaction to a 3% tea tax. We drink coffee now. You can make this coffee using any coffee, but I urge you to channel your inner freedom fighter and buy coffee in the bitcoin circular economy. Is it more expensive than fiat Folgers? Yes. You can save tens of fiat bucks by buying cheap coffee. You might even stack sats with the difference, but sats.coffee is more likely to keep that bitcoin off the exchanges. We already know there will be less than 21 million bitcoin, but to achieve hyper bitcoinization, we need to take the chips off the crypto casino tables.  To do that, we need to stack sats and spend sats on stuff from fellow sat stackers.

...But what about muh taxes?

Here's what you do: Raise your right hand, make a fist, and **punch yourself in the face**.

This is not investment advice.

In this recipe, I will teach you how to make coffee using the AeroPress. I first learned about this method in the 4 Hour Chef by Tim Ferris. Aside from drinking coffee with fellow plegs at bitcoin meetups, this is by far my favorite way to drink coffee.


Bitcoin Marketing: Cutting Through the Noise

"No risk, all rewards

The beauty of Bitcoin rewards is that they offer consumers a no-lose scenario. When you reward customers with Bitcoin, you’re essentially handing them a tool for conversation, a narrative they can flex regardless of the market's direction. Think about it. Since it was a reward (i.e., no direct cost to them), they're playing with house money. Whether the price rockets or takes a dip, your customers have an engaging story to share, keeping your brand at the center of conversations."

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"📣 Word-of-mouth Marketing

Bitcoin doesn't just offer financial incentives; it promises a story. When customers are rewarded with Bitcoin, they become part of a revolutionary financial narrative. And stories? They’re shared, retold, and spread. This narrative-driven marketing can transform casual customers into brand evangelists."

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"Referrals & Affiliates

Word-of-mouth has always been a force multiplier for businesses. When customers vouch for you, their circle of trust expands to cover your brand. Now, imagine amplifying that trust with the allure of Bitcoin rewards. The strategic pairing of referrals and affiliates with Bitcoin not only brings a brand's advocacy into the limelight but also revolutionizes the incentives involved. Here's how you can weave this into your business:
Referrals

Referrals rely on the trust and organic advocacy between friends, families, and peers. It's personal, intimate, and one of the most genuine forms of marketing.

    Tailor Your Rewards: Decide on the Bitcoin reward structure for the referrer. You can choose to reward them with a fixed Bitcoin amount or a percentage of the total sale made by the person they referred.
    Bonuses for New Customers: To make the deal sweeter for newcomers, offer them Bitcoin rewards on their first purchase. This not only thanks them for trying out your business but also introduces them to the world of Bitcoin.
    Automatic Shareability: After a purchase, customers receive an email detailing the referral program. Embedded within is a personalized, sharable link they can distribute across their network, turning satisfied customers into eager promoters."

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October 2, 2023


Today, we're thrilled to unveil a suite of new features, enabling businesses to seamlessly integrate robust, Bitcoin-infused loyalty and rewards programs directly into their Shopify, WooCommerce, or Square stores. These enhancements empower businesses, regardless of size, to not only bolster customer retention but, uniquely through Bitcoin, amplify customer acquisition as well.

"Today, we're thrilled to unveil a suite of new features, enabling businesses to seamlessly integrate robust, Bitcoin-infused loyalty and rewards programs directly into their Shopify, WooCommerce, or Square stores."

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You might wonder, "Why introduce Bitcoin rewards when traditional discount strategies have been the norm?" In today’s business landscape, where market trends are often dictated by industry giants, small businesses need tools that not only stand out but also create meaningful engagement. Sure, a 10% discount can give a short-term sales lift, but offering 10% back in Bitcoin rewards? That's a story of innovation and adaptability.

Bitcoin Rewards: The Next Era of Customer Loyalty

""Why introduce Bitcoin rewards when traditional discount strategies have been the norm?" In today’s business landscape, where market trends are often dictated by industry giants, small businesses need tools that not only stand out but also create meaningful engagement. Sure, a 10% discount can give a short-term sales lift, but offering 10% back in Bitcoin rewards? That's a story of innovation and adaptability."

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"The potential appreciation of Bitcoin's value adds another layer of appeal for customers. A reward that can grow over time? That's a novel concept in the loyalty world."

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By rewarding customers with Bitcoin, businesses don't just give them a 'point' or a 'star' - they hand them a ticket to be part of the global financial revolution. They offer a reward that isn't just redeemable for a free coffee or a discounted purchase, but that holds universal value and can appreciate over time. It's no wonder then that businesses who've begun accepting cryptocurrency have seen positive impacts.

"By rewarding customers with Bitcoin, businesses don't just give them a 'point' or a 'star' - they hand them a ticket to be part of the global financial revolution. They offer a reward that isn't just redeemable for a free coffee or a discounted purchase, but that holds universal value and can appreciate over time."

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"Take a step back and think about the last time you heard a friend excitedly discussing their coffee shop punch card or grocery store points. Go ahead - we'll wait.

Now, consider the allure of Bitcoin. This digital currency has captured global attention, making headlines and inspiring lively debates. It's innovative, it's powerful, and it's intriguing. When was the last time we could say that about a loyalty program?"

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"Bitcoin rewards don't just offer SMBs the chance to compete with big corporations; they provide an opportunity to outshine them. By providing a reward that increases in value over time, businesses are effectively investing in their customers' future. What better way to demonstrate how much you value your patrons?"

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Grow your business.


"Experience the global loyalty network.

Fortune 500 companies have global loyalty programs with rewards redeemable at thousands of locations. With Bitcoin rewards, businesses of all sizes can achieve a global network effect for their loyal customers, with rewards redeemable anywhere Bitcoin is accepted, saved, or exchanged."

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Earn sats promoting the bitcoin circular economy.


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"Global rewards for local businesses.

Move beyond coffee stars, pizza points, and punch cards. Transform your loyalty program into an exciting journey, rewarding customers with Bitcoin - the gift that keeps on giving as its value increases globally over time.

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I first learned about bitcoin in July of 2014, and begged for a dollar's worth on Twitter. Some nym gave me some using ChageTip and I've been trippin' on #bitcoin ever since.


Me too. I have like 500k sats on my wallet that I almost forgot about.


Really? Different strokes for different folks I guess. 😅


Oh yeah, it's gross.


I don't care either, but can't stand the smell of nail polish.


Did you make this?


Good morning to all the freaks and geeks in the Nostrverse. You're my people. 🤙


Block Height 821,000


When nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m was CEO of Twitter and Trump was president there were many calls to ban Trump from Twitter. There were many people demanding Trump be removed because either he violated the TOS or because they saw Trump’s tweets as dangerous.

While catching up over kombucha at the Square office, Jack mentioned some of these conversations and how there were compelling arguments on both sides. He asked lots of people what they thought twitter should do. So he asked me about Trump and other accounts, like Richard Spencer’s and the alt-right.

I’m very anti-Trump but I said I thought Jack shouldn’t ban him, because he’d face a shareholder revolt. Everyone said that it was Jack deciding things at Twitter and Mark Zuckerberg for the meta empire, but that wasn’t really true. The real power is in the money and that’s shareholders and advertisers.

I can only imagine what a hard and stressful job it would be to decide what can and cannot be said in the public sphere, as twitter effectively was at its height. It was an impossible job, one which shouldn’t exist. Jack did incredibly good at managing to find balance, and everyone hated his decisions because there was no right answer.

The reason for Bluesky, and now Nostr is to make it so no company or person has that kind of control. That the public sphere that is social media shouldn’t owned or controlled by any corporation or government. When something of value is held together without being ultimately owned by a person, organization, or government, the it is held in common.

What we’re building together on Nostr is a commons. By making it a commons that’s held up by our software and contrbution as users, we escape the trap that caught twitter.

A commons where we come together to make and sustain space.

A commons where we can do business freely without someone who can arbitrarily shut us down.

A commons where groups of users can decide the rules for themselves, and everyone doesn’t need to follow some universal set of opaque rules.


Creepy.


Is it an extension?


I'm running gpt4all on Ubuntu after hearing about it on The Bitcoin Fundamentals podcast. I need to read more of the documentation to really utilize this thing, but it's neat.

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That's Pretty Good Backlash.


Oh yeah. I almost forgot about Cov-aids.


What is the government doing that people are afraid of these days? I'm very uninformed of the government/corporate propoganda these days.


The House Intelligence Committee's Surveillance 'Reform' Bill is a Farce

"As a reminder, Section 702 was designed to allow the government to warrantlessly surveil non-U.S. citizens abroad for foreign intelligence purposes. Increasingly, it’s this U.S. side of digital conversations that domestic law enforcement agencies trawl through—all without a warrant. FBI agents have been using the Section 702 databases to conduct millions of invasive searches for Americans’ communications, including those of protesters, racial justice activists, 19,000 donors to a congressional campaign, journalists, and even members of Congress."

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TELL congress: Defeat this bad 702 Bill

"TELL congress: Defeat this bad 702 Bill"

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TELL congress: Defeat this bad 702 Bill


"While renewing any surveillance authority remains a complicated and complex issue, this choice is clear - we urge all Members to vote NO on the Intelligence Committee’s bill, H.R.6611, the FISA Reform and Reauthorization Act of 2023."

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Analysis of FinCEN Policy FINCEN-2023-0016: Overreach and Impact on Individual Rights — #jointheeclipse

"Overgeneralized Recordkeeping: The expansiveness of the recordkeeping and reporting requirements in this proposal is a clear violation of the Fourth Amendment’s particularity clause. This proposal goes beyond what is necessary, delving into overgeneralized mandates that are a stark deviation from constitutional standards."

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"Assault on Anonymity and Autonomy: The prohibition on anonymity enhanced CVCs is a direct assault on individual autonomy, acting as a potential infringement of Fourth Amendment protections if assets are seized or unduly burdened without proper justification. This part of the proposal is particularly alarming, as it appears to disregard the constitutional safeguard against unreasonable governmental intrusion."

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"Reporting Requirements: A Stark Overreach: The proposal's demand for banks and MSBs to report transactions involving convertible virtual currency (CVC) and legal tender digital assets (LTDA) is a stark overreach. The proposal cites  the United States v. Miller, which considered bank records as outside the Fourth Amendment’s protection, FinCEN is attempting to justify its invasive practices. However, this proposal completely overlooks the significant shift in legal thinking marked by Carpenter v. United States, a case that recognized the sensitive nature of personal data. Here, the government’s desire to curb financial crimes does not, and should not, translate into unrestricted access to individual transaction data."

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"FinCEN's latest proposal, articulated in the document FINCEN-2023-0016, is a glaring example of governmental intrusion, blatantly disregarding the protections laid out in the Fourth Amendment against unreasonable searches and seizures."

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4th amendment of the US Constitution


The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects,[a] against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.[2] The hand-written copy of the proposed Bill of Rights, 1789, cropped to show just the text that would later be ratified as the Fourth Amendment

Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects,[a] against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.[2]"

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Adam Back gave a compelling case as to why it is important to petetion the government in Citadel Dispatch episode 75.

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Let’s start with the last part first: What can you do? As you read this review, you can comment on the proposal until January 22, 2024. The research in this document isn’t an exhaustive list, but it will definitely provide a framework for you to add comments into the Federal Register. This is vital: post a comment! Don’t just read this document and NOT take action. Getting the government you deserve is about taking action. So find a section you are passionate about, and post a comment on the federal register about that.

"Let’s start with the last part first: What can you do? As you read this review, you can comment on the proposal until January 22, 2024.  The research in this document isn’t an exhaustive list, but it will definitely provide a framework for you to add comments into the Federal Register.  This is vital: post a comment!  Don’t just read this document and NOT take action.  Getting the government you deserve is about taking action."

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Matt Odell | Citadel Dispatch E75 — Privacy, Speech, and Bitcoin with Adam Back

"In terms of similarities, there is a little bit of similarity with the trouble that Phil Zimmerman had for a period of time when he got investigated for exploiting the implementation of encryption in PGP, which was export restricted at that time, and effectively the rules changed some years ago now. But nevertheless, the concept that a government or justice system could make an order telling somebody to unpublish code or modify code is a bit of legal adventurism, I would say. And I saw Coin Center pushing back against that strongly and looking to contest that. Now I think the other thing is that you don’t want a bad legal precedent of something to stand. And effectively the legal process itself — I’m not legally qualified by any means but just observing — it seems to be a bit chaotic with the general combative nature of common laws that the prosecution throws all manner of claims and the defense has got to try and counter or whittle them down. And you’ve got to assume that — just as a matter of course — the prosecution knows full well that most of the claims are exaggerated or outright false, and it’s just a way to land [a punch] somewhere. And unfortunately — at least in the US — it seems to be a lot of attempts to plea bargain so that somebody would agree to something that doesn’t really make a lot of sense, but they just want it to end from their own perspective. And that’s a recipe to get to a bad precedent. So I’m certainly hopeful that Coin Center and others put some effort into pushing back on a bad precedent getting developed here."

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Analysis of FinCEN Policy FINCEN-2023-0016: Overreach and Impact on Individual Rights — #jointheeclipse

"Recently the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has proposed FINCEN-2023-0016. This robust policy proposal is a gross over-reach of your freedoms as an American, and this analysis intends to document where, how, and what you can do about it."

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Homemade?


I set up a Blixt wallet for my wife because it's self custodial and has a lightning address. I haven't used it enough to recomend it yet, but it looks viable so far.

It's also still too technical for an 8 year old to set up on his own.


Is it illegal to send 12 random words written on a sheet of paper enclosed in a sealed envelope yet?


OVER A HUNDRED TRILLION US DOLLARS WORTH OF BITCOIN HAVE BEEN TRANSACTED WITHOUT SUCCESSFUL CENSORSHIP.

AMID ONE OF THE GREATEST FINANCIAL CENSORSHIP REGIMES IN HUMAN HISTORY.

JUST THINK ABOUT THAT FOR A SECOND. LET IT SINK IN. APPRECIATE IT. DEFEND IT.


Does he have a lightning address?


They're making more real estate.

They're not making any more bitcoin


Trusted third parties are security holes.

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/tether-freezes-all-ofac-sanctioned-wallets-in/


Good question.


It's like a soda with too much caffine. This was in my younger days, but I just remember getting a lap dance at a strip club, but my equipment did not rise to the occasion.

I thought, really? People get addicted to this stuff? I would rather have a lap dance. I never did cocaine again.


I tried it one weekend. Felt like I drank two Rockstar energy drinks, if Rockstars caused impotence.


I like my tats.


# A Thousand Sats

![1,000 sats](https://i.nostr.build/thumb/PwZ7.jpg)

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publishdate: 2023-11-30 t20:22:00-12:21
title: A Thousand Sats
author: blogging bitcoin
description: Knowing the price of a thousand sats makes it easier to price the world in sats. In this blog I'll teach you how to learn the price of bitcoin without ever looking at the price.
 image: category: narrative
tags:

*   bitcoin

*   unit of account

*   peer 2 peer

*   p2p

*   value 4 value

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i listened to a non-bitcoin podcast a few months ago. it is of interest for the readers of this blog because he participated in the value 4 value model on fountain.fm. he said somethig i've never heard before, but resonated with me.  ads pay the podcaster a certain number of pennies per download. maybe it was a penny and a half per download. that's not the actual number, i just made it up, but it was somewhere in that ballpark.  therefore, if a listener sends you 1,000 sats, it's as if that listener is worth 20x that of a listneer who is counted for ad revenue.  at the time, 1,000 sats was a quarter. today, a thousand sats is 42 cents.

![1k zap1,000 on a lightning bolt](https://i.nostr.build/gyLB.png)

When i **zap someone 1,000 sats**, i zap them 42 vents worth of value. i expect the value of those sats to go up, for sure, but it's a metric ass-load more than the amount a couple attentive ears that fast forward through ads are. ads have become the defacto way of funding online content creators because the internet did not have native money. we are gamed by algos tnat know the type of woman or man we are attracted to and **what political red buttons will piss us off the most and keep our eyeballs chained to the screen**. Why? To watch more ads.

![yardstick](https://i.nostr.build/9J3G.png)

A thousand sats is an important yardstick. This podcaster who's name eludes me said knowing the price of 1,000 sats makes it easy to calculate the "price of bitcoin" (a.k.a. 100,000,000 sats).

What a silly measurement a hundred million sats is to compare to a dollar, but so is so is the situation. In my ”stay huble and stack sats” opinion, 1,000 sats is a better comparison to the dollar than 100,000,000 sats is to the dollar. 1,000 sats = 42 pennies. this means 1,000 sats are worth 42% of a dollar. So a hundred sats is worth almost a nickle, again, for now. You could send someone a fifty cent piece in the mail. Who would know about it other than the sender and reciever? I don't know, but a stamp costs 60 cents. This makes sending 50 cent pieces overnthe United States Postal Service cost prohibitive since it would cost $1.20 + the cost of an envelope tomsend 50 cents worth of value. You might be able to send 50 cents of value to a content creator using Patreon, but the costs associated with it are cost prohibitive just like sending coins in the mail using the USPS.

Most people almost never send $42,000 to anyone. They might do it to buy a house, but on rare occasion. You would not use a credit card to put a down payment on a house, you would use a bank wire. Bank wires are a thing, but think about how many times you have used a bank wire. No wonder so many normies find bitcoin useless. Most people will never be able to send $42,000 to someone to buy a house these days, unless they bought a house before the money printers went brrrrrr.

When the price of 1,000 sats reaches 60 cents again, the price of 100,000,000 sats will reach $60,000. Normies will say, "Damn it! I wish I bought bitcoin when it was under $20,000! I guess I'm too late now." I'll just pinch pennies, get a second job and gamble on RobinHood to stack more USD in my Bank of Devaluation savings account.

### The Curious Case Of Stamps

 ![forever btc stamp](https://i.nostr.build/yyR5.png)

I remember when a stamp was 42 cents. I remember when stamps were a quarter.  I don't look at the price of stamps these days and yell, "damn! I should have bought stamps when the were 25 cents! i guess i'm too late now. **I better use carrier pigions**.

Stamps are issued by the USPS. I think this is a publiclyntraded company now, but the [Post Office was created by the constitution of the United States](https://highlighter.com/e/nevent1qqsgkh2c99p5mttkd) making it one of he oldest of alphabet government agencies. Stamps are issued by this agency, little bits of paper with a dry adhesive that becomes sticky when licked. Licking a stamp gives you the  ability to send a letter anywhere in the country. We don't use them much nowadays, but this government printed paper has one peculiar quality--They increase in value.

There are stamp collectors. Some stamps are more rare than other stamps, but Forever stamps are not. **Forever stamps are fungible**. A forever stamp bought for a quarter in 1983 can be exchanged for 60¢ worth of value today just by the simple act of licking it. We might say forever stamps appreciate, but I prefer the term deflate. Forever stamps deflate relative to the dollar.The stamp does not give you more service as compared to 40 years ago, but the price is locked in. The owner of 20 forever stamps knows he can send 20 letters now and forever.

The same is not true for other government backed pieces of paper. 100k now will be a nice down payment on a 3 bedroom house today. It will almost certainly not buy as much house 20 years from now. This is because stamps are a service and fiat currency is nothing but political lip service.

The bitcoin Time Chain was born out of the idea of a digital stamp. [Hash Cash](http://hashcash.org/) is a digital stamp that required an email client to calculate a SHA1 hash with a certain number of leading hex 0’s in front of it before sending an email. This digital stamp creation is so similar to bitcoin, Satoshi included a reference to it in the white paper.

People have a hard time understanding how money can go up in value, but accept the price of forever stamps and rare stamps go up in value. Bitcoin is more like the stamp than fiat currency. I think it's time we start treating it as such.

## A Thousand Sats Is A Unit of Account

![guy fawkes masked dude with justice scales](https://i.nostr.build/7J3n.jpg)

A thousand sats is a unit of account. It's an easier number to work with. When I bought coffee with bitcoin the other day and it's like 100k sats, i know that it will cost me about $42.00 worth of my fiat bullshit pay. It was acvtually $38.00 last week.  That's the second interesting thing this podcaster pointed out. If you know the price of 1,000 sats is a quarter:

- 10,000 sats = $2.50
- 100,000 sats == $25.00
- 1,000,000 sats == $250.00
- 10,000,000 sats = $2,500
- 100,000,000 sats = $25,000

of course, it's easier for most people to calculate the price when the price of a thousand sats is 25 cents.  if that's how you feel, that's okay.  Calculate it that way. If i know a million sats at 25 cents per thousand sats is 250 bucks then I can find the real price by switching the first two digits with the actual price of 1,000 sats.  At 42 cents, a million sats is $420.00.  that's an easy number to remember, even and especiallly if you're a pot head, but that's not what I mean. If 1,000 sats was 38 cents like it was last week, the price of a million sats would be $380 bucks.

### Not Everyone Can Own 100,000,000 Sats

![Sats are for everyone](#)
This is a bitcoin meme these days. The idea is there are not 21 million millionaires in the world so not all of them can own 100,000,000 sats. I dislike this meme. I don't think we should point out that not everyone can own 100,000,000 units of a something. Duh, butnwe can show people a thousand sats is within their reach.

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Musings about how I've come to prefer knowing the price of 1,000 sats than knowing the price of 100,000,000 sats.

This is a long form article, you can read it in https://habla.news/a/naddr1qq8kztt5dphh2umpdejz6umpw3esygr4hu34xxhflxxx9x2m5pcereygat28t96nw8tr6l0ag677r0agj5psgqqqw4rshmjzjj


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