Congratulations!


That seems to be the problem I have. Can't seem to get it working using an IP address either...


I've been trying to do this with an LG TV but no success so far...


The 1 day per week intermittent fasting group appears the most interesting to me as overall caloric intake was maintained but body weight slightly reduced (possible improvement in body composition?) and some measured health benefits.

To me the loss of lean mass (and probable hunger) experienced by the 40% and 20% caloric restriction groups (if applicable to humans) would considerably reduce quality of life while increasing the risk of hospitalisation and early death from falling injuries in later life.

Each to their own I suppose. My preference would be to live an averagely long life with a high capacity over a long life with compromised capacity.


Thanks, will do.


"Some mice were placed on calorie-limited diets, another group followed intermittent fasting regimens, and others were allowed to eat freely."

Sounds like only some of the mice were fasted intermittently, others had calories restricted.

I'm certainly open to the benefits of intermittent fasting and have experimented with it myself.

Having practiced (natural) bodybuilding for years in the past I was never able to maintain muscle mass whilst restricting calories. This may just speak to my lack of talent as a bodybuilder. Pros are typically still using some sort of exogenous testosterone derivative while dieting for competition so I don't think that's a good example.

As a competitive weightlifter in multiple weight classes for over 15 years I feel I have a good understanding of how my body reacts to various dietary interventions and in my experience anything but brief caloric restriction leads to loss of both fat and muscle (not to mention strength).

BTW the Cambridge Dictionary's definition of frail seems to cover both our usages.

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What a cool idea!


A lifelong caloric deficit makes retention let alone growth of muscle essentially impossible. Frailty is the inevitable result.


Old but frail? No thanks.


First time I've seen one of these round here!

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Sounds like you're doubting yourself.

Don't!


Love the cameo appearance by Ben nostr:npub1rxysxnjkhrmqd3ey73dp9n5y5yvyzcs64acc9g0k2epcpwwyya4spvhnp8


Surely there would be an opportunity to do something other than burn the coins? But what...?


Are there any viable options for moving a wordpress.com blog to a self-hosted site?


Heidegger apparently thought that mechanical writing (using a machine, in this case the typewriter) interferes with the "authentically handling hand", thereby concealing character, making " everyone look the same".

What would Heidegger think of our use of machines to not only write nostr notes but sign them with our unique private keys, thereby placing their authenticity beyond doubt?


Good luck. Any plans for alcohol moderation or not required?


Is it possible to set up a nostr:npub126ntw5mnermmj0znhjhgdk8lh2af72sm8qfzq48umdlnhaj9kuns3le9ll server to provide S3 compatible storage?


Does it allow you to assess how much visceral (as opposed to subcutaneous) fat you have?


An Atari ST? I had one of those when I was at university. I learned to write 68000 assembly on it.


Same. Makes for an interesting experience and you get to meet some locals as well as get access to barbells, squat racks and sometimes lifting platforms.


As a comp sci grad that ended up working in trad fi I have no grounding in philosophy whatsoever.

I want to thank you Erik for your writings and opening up a new world to me. I hope to thank you in person one day.


Thanks for the link!


Would love an article on this subject and your experiences.


Start9 is great.


Compounding pharmacy for the enclomiphene citrate?


Looks to me that enclomiphene citrate was shown to decrease serum cholesterol in at least one study, whereas zuchlomiphene caused an increase. But DYOR, I may have this wrong...


I mostly dislike the over-use.

Thinking about it, these are two different characters. I'm more prepared to buy the ex-military person as hero than the ex-spook.

Could be subverted by having the character be dishonourably discharged (anti-hero) or having left voluntarily due to conflict of ideology or conscience, but these too are probably well-trodden ground.


The ex-special forces/CIA operative hero.


The cool young edgy 'tech' person who can hack into anything.


Had dinner with my mother-in-law last night. The conversation turned to the history of money, fractional reserve banking, inflation and the role of bitcoin.

I continually fail to engage my peers in conversations on these topics.


As Lyn says, nothing stops this train.


I love the discipline of training for the sport of weightlifting (as opposed to the tedium of just lifting weights).

In my 6th decade and as strong as ever.


I loved my ZX Spectrum, writing my own games in Basic and Z80. And playing Manic Miner!


If this guy was on nostr I'd mega-zap him...


Nice summary.

Quantum of Solace has a kind of gritty, slow burn feel to it. Some nice cinematography in places too if I recall correctly.


Can be useful during periods of heavy training to aid recovery IMO.


The Creator


NymVPN Alpha is apparently live.

Does anyone have contacts at Nym? Seems a shame for them to have no Nostr presence.


Most of the first $10 goes on bottling, distribution, retail margin etc. so when you pay $20 you're spending twice as much on the wine itself as when you pay $15. After that the returns diminish rapidly IMHO.


Lyn's use of the word 'timeline' has me thinking that she's been watching The Umbrella Academy...


I seem to recall that Erik's book describes the origin of 'crypto' as being the ancient Greek for 'hidden'.

So 'crypto' means 'hidden' and 'cryptography' means something like 'hidden writing'.


Don't wait to be told.


Can Casa multi-sig be used with two keys stored in offline hardware devices or is the mobile key compulsory?


CalyxOS also worthy of your consideration.


Mattcoin


On Friday the Chinese Bitcoin ETFs alone had inflows exceeding the daily mining output.


WikiLeaks not on nostr?


Istanbul airport is amazingly calm, spacious and efficient.

There's also a lot of highly visible BtcTurk advertising on display.


40 Celsius on Paris yesterday!


Currently traveling but still training. in the last two weeks have used a 24hr gym in Singapore, a hotel gym in London, a modern commercial gym in Split, a park gym and an 80s style bodybuilding gym in a small town in Tuscany.


I can't zap you.


I have friends with PhDs and friends with bitcoin but no friends with both.


Got married on a local beach by a friend of the family (no cost). Put up a marquee in the garden and paid a caterer to feed the 40 guests. A friend handled the music. Cost about $5k. Instead of buying an expensive ring we spent months motorcycling in South America. No regrets!


A 'jobs to be done' board for freedom tech projects would be a great resource for devs looking for meaningful tasks that match their skill set and for the projects to attract contributions.


i'm a simple man, i design art and resist the state.

i smoke cigars lit with a dupont in the sun,

i wear a swiss watch telling the wrong time.

i eat fine steaks and travel the world to meet with other sophisticated simpletons,

i was early on the next global reserve currency.

i wasn't always like this, but i am now...

thank you, satoshi🏴☠⚡ https://image.nostr.build/c729a7558687676a3f2655ce2d3d84d112b365595bf73731cbe211ddbf2f22b0.jpg


Outstanding!


You win some, you lose some. It's all the same to me...


1BTC = 1BTC


primal


Lots of arrests lately...


PDG


"Publish on nostr, market it everywhere" should be standard operating procedure for all freedom-loving content creators.

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Viable strategies?

- all clients and nodes communicate via mixnet (e.g. Nym)
- all on-chain transactions (where possible) implemented as PayJoins


I'm not here on Nostr because I run away from Twitter. I'm here because I'm in search for an internet as it once used to be.

I'm a hacker who fucking hates that social media is in the hands of private companies. I remember using IRC and meeting likeminded anons online. I remember what the internet utopia felt like. People who didn't care what your name or status is, people who aren't interested in sharing their boring holiday pics with random strangers online. I'm not interested in what politicians and influencers have to say. I don't care about the latest mainstream trend that's going viral.

I want random weird interesting smart people around me who share their ideas in a free and open space that isn't controlled by anyone.

That's all I'm looking for. There aren't many such spaces on the internet.


How about:

- Blossom servers can optionally charge for file uploads by returning 402 plus a quote in sats for the requested upload

- Blossom clients resubmit the upload request with a Cashu token for the quoted amount in a specified header


Madness!


Updating fixed it for me.


A couple months ago I had a discussion with the head of digital assets at a multi-trillion AUM financial institution about the topic of whether bitcoin is a risk-on asset or a risk-off asset.

This wasn’t about what it is conceptually (i.e. globally portable finite bearer assets are conceptually good to own in a crisis, neither of us disagreed on this), but rather how its price would *actually* behave in a crisis currently and for the next several years.

Their view was that it could be marketed as a risk-off asset, meaning something that is likely to go up in a crisis, and that if marketed this way it would allow them to put bitcoin ETFs into more portfolios and weight it bigger.

My view was that while of course people should own bitcoin, it’s not yet a risk-off asset in practice in terms of price action, and that marketing it that way is likely to lead to disappointment for those that expect it to perform like that.

We then got into a discussion about how bitcoin went up in the March 2023 banking crisis. They suggested that this is evidence of emerging risk-off behavior, to their point.

I disagreed, and clarified that in my analysis the closest correlation to bitcoin price action is measures of global liquidity. Some types of crises are pro-liquidity and some are anti-liquidity, and will likely affect bitcoin’s price accordingly.

The March 2023 banking crisis was a pro-liquidity event because it was quickly apparent that the Fed/Treasury would bail banks out fast and slow their rate hikes. Therefore, bitcoin went up not because it was a risk-off asset per se, but rather because it behaved as a pro-liquidity asset as it frequently has.

The Iran/Israel event this weekend was an anti-liquidity crisis because it contributed to a flight-to-safety move toward the dollar (i.e. the unit of account for which the most debt is denominated in, and debt represents inflexible demand for that unit). A sharp move up in the dollar is bad for global liquidity because it hardens the debts of various foreign entities (sovereigns and corporations) relative to their cash flows (which are to varying degrees partially or completely denominated in fiat units other than the dollar). And so bitcoin behaved as it normally does: it went down amid falling global liquidity.

At this stage (with its relatively small size, high volatility, and poor understanding of most people for the asset), I continue to view bitcoin price action as likely to be pretty correlated with global liquidity for a while. Understanding that dynamic is helpful when communicating expectations to people and when determining which types of crises are likely to push its price up or down. Yes, bitcoin is a risk-off asset conceptually, but in practice in terms of macro price action it is still a pro-liquidity asset primarily.

When bitcoin price action starts to behave differently from that trend, I’d be happy to report on that observation.


The more you reinforce a system based on theft, the more it steals from you, divides you, and then controls you.

From that system, war is inevitable because it is a requirement that you believe it is someone else’s fault to retain its power over you.

With the chaos from the existing system bound to expand over the next number of years, it will be easy to get pulled back in.

The more you reinforce a system based on truth, the faster the world changes to hope and abundance. We are early, but our actions matter more than we realize. Every node (we) matters.

Keep the higher ground, and help others see it.

#Bitcoin
#Nostr
And soon….#Fedi


Did you attend in person or is this available online?


Great point.


The chase is over.


Hysterical.


In the second view when the user taps on a line showing the multi-mint total for a particular asset, an accordion could expand underneath showing the per-mint totals for that asset.


Showing balances across multiple mints, each potentially having multiple assets does sound challenging. Maybe you could allow toggling between one view that is ordered by mint and then by asset within the mint, and a second view that is just an aggregated total across all mints for each asset?


Fair enough. But words are important. Presenting something as stable may be accurate if the use case is short term holding but less so if held longer. That said, most people are unfamiliar with the term 'fiat' so that may just cause confusion.


Stable?


@miljan Feature request: can we have code snippet rendering?


If it was easy to send some nuts to a normie non-Bitcoiner, non-Nostr friend and make it trivial for them to discover a wallet and receive the nuts? I'm thinking via email, legacy social media DM, SMS etc.Theny can discover BTC and Nostr from there.


What might adoption by a company look like?


My thoughts precisely.


When #Bitcoin eats even some of real estate's monetary premium the world will be a better place.


Today, and for the first time this cycle, I received an email from a "normie" friend asking me about Bitcoin.

It's still so early.


Core tenet (please forgive my pedantry).


Bitcoin literally needs you.

We need more people writing code, experimenting with it, just having fun. You don't need to start a company. You don't need a brilliant idea. If you don't know how to start, read the code and submit bug fixes for the software you're already using.


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Cerra un poco los ojos
#negr0art
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Your work is much appreciated!


Much talk recently of future high #bitcoin transaction fees resulting in small UTXOs becoming unspendable.

If I were using DCA or otherwise buying small amounts via a combined wallet+exchange solution (such as @strike, #relai etc.) I would want the option to consolidate one or more of my existing UTXOs with the newly purchased amount via #payjoin, or possibly have this be default behaviour.


When will @strike launch in Australia and New Zealand?


#Bitcoin -related discussion, awareness and adoption  seem almost entirely absent in New Zealand despite persistent price inflation. #NZ


daneel

Developer and aspiring bicentennial with a low time preference.