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Uh?
MSTR lended money, yeah.
MSTR BI tools are pretty shitty, yeah.
How can you consider MSTR corn holdings as "not affecting him?" He has a ton of MSTR shares probably, he is still involved in the board probably, he is the founder of that thing.
He has skin in the game, definitely

2025-05-19 22:32:22 UTC

I'm not a Saylor fan nor a MRST trader nor I like his takes on FOSS development and protocol ossification
BUT you know the guy has big balls when you see that he's been buying since 2020 as a savage, despite the downs, despite the huge drowdown, despite the critics and despite the fact that he IS using investor's money to buy the corn.
The man has some huge balls.

2025-05-19 18:41:20 UTC

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you've a point here

2025-05-19 18:35:18 UTC

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someone out there is willing to die for 70 virgins, that makes roughtly 140 nipples
imagine 100'000'000 nipples

2025-05-19 18:34:16 UTC

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shitcoiners and bitcoiners are natural enemies
like twitters and zappers
or cool zappers and nerdy zappers
or poor zappers and rich zappers
or rich nerdy zappers and other rich nerdy zappers
damn zappers, they ruined #Nostr

2025-05-19 18:23:33 UTC

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nowadays "hate" has been banalizes by the recurrent use of improper terms, like "haters"
we throw about too easily cursewords, dense words. I agree with you

2025-05-19 18:13:59 UTC

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feel u mate

2025-05-16 23:15:31 UTC

Shooting out there a question about #Keychat for the Official @nprofile…trej
How does the ecash tokens backup work in keychat?
Are they somehow deterministically generated? Can you point to resources about it for keychat?
Thanks for what you do

2025-05-16 22:55:35 UTC

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Currently I'm using keychat with amber thus it's with the main key. That's a bit of an issue for privacy I suppose but Works fine

2025-05-16 22:21:00 UTC

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that is literally it

2025-05-15 19:42:38 UTC

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See, there are several ways to implement outpricing. Outpricing spammers is fine as a strategy, I agree. You can let the market decide, fair enough, we're big fans of the free market. We're so in deep the economic theory we sometimes forget that the market can stay irrational longer than you being solvent. Or you can decide to actively pushback and increase the cost of spamming by filtering more aggressively. In fact an active filtering policy does not exclude the "free market outpricing theory" at all.
Do not forget that WITHIN the bitcoin ecosystem the free market and incentives work, but Bitcoin is not in a vacuum. Out there we see actors that have the power to literally create trillions out of thin air to carry on their dirty tricks. And people with money and time to waste can choose to break the toy just because they can.
Yes, the incentives are out there, but time is a finite resource, money is a finite resource, blockspace is a finite resource.
So I don't buy the naive proposal of "let them play with it, as long as they pay we're fine". In your shows you sometimes (correctly) remind us that bitcoin has not won, there's much else to do. I agree.
I'm okay with paying fees, so much fees these idiots are outpriced. But at what end? This is a game that ruins the experience for everyone, makes everyone not able to use the monetary tool and removes focus from the real challenges we have in bitcoin, such as the privacy battle we're losing.
Or you may be right, by not bothering with them spammers eventually stop. But will that market get rational before we going insolvent?

2025-05-15 19:33:17 UTC

Consider an immaginary universe where the following episode happens:
You're in a swimming pool and an idiot comes over trying to poop in it.
You try to stop him, because...you know why, that's not a proper use of the swimming pool. Plus it ruins your experience, plus makes the day bad for everyone just because the fella couldn't bother going to the public toilet.
The guy argues "oh you'r gatekeeping unfairly the swimming pool, I've paid the entrance ticket too."
Yes, you idiot paid the ticket, but a swimming pool is not made for pooping in it.
I may be struggling to decide if playing with a football in a swimming pool is appropriate or not, but I can definitely say that's not for pooping.

2025-05-15 19:10:34 UTC

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Up far in the north they are truly socialists. They do it in the purest way I would say

2025-05-14 23:05:10 UTC

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I'll refer to "you" but this is not aimed at someone specifically:
filtering what your node will relay to others is not censorship. You're enforcing your right to run free software that does not diverge on the consensus level. And since Censorship happens only when someone succeeds in imposing their view on others, I don't think I would consider a client-level policy as a censorship activity. You'll get spam relayed to you through someone else or, eventually, through a mined block.
Also, if 99.999% nodes would run aggressive filters, then a spam non standard transaction could still go through via an off-band communication with a miner.
If you care so much about using the timechain for non monetary purposes, then at least take the burden of paying a lot more for the spammy transaction by contacting a miner. That's how filters work by the way, they increase the cost of spamming...and since the increase is only by a few Xes (3x, 4x or so) then I'd say that's even cheap spam.
And yes, not making bitcoin more private and fungible is an issue.

2025-05-14 19:03:30 UTC

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Sadly, Europe was a young beautiful girl that let hefself die without too much care.

2025-05-12 20:02:23 UTC

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Yes! That is insanely cool, although I don't know how that behaves with regards to privacy...isn't that less private because you propagate private messages with your own main identity?

2025-05-12 20:01:04 UTC

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That is the condition of almost every western european country, excluding southern europe and Germany, maybe

2025-05-11 19:28:35 UTC

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Oh god, EternityWall is back

2025-05-11 13:22:32 UTC

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If Ireland does that and becames the "European Bitcoin country", than it'll be definitely a place to settle in. Irish people and culture are wonderful.

2025-05-11 10:26:40 UTC

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So you own bitcoin but you never used it to buy anything?

2025-05-11 10:18:35 UTC

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100% agreed on that

2025-05-10 14:47:53 UTC

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Yeeep, it was that simple indeed

2025-05-04 12:33:46 UTC

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Language

2025-05-04 12:32:43 UTC

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To be fair, I don't know. I still have to sit down and go through all of this. I will for sure, I feel (and hope) Vlad challenged Vitalik during the interview, looking forward to it.

2025-05-03 12:50:00 UTC

Quality agruments and elaboration as always. Thanks sir
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15biQH1H140

2025-05-03 12:02:09 UTC

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Just to point this out: Dell XPS15 is in the range of $1'000 - $1'500, which is not "consumer level" by any means.

2025-05-02 17:53:21 UTC

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Whaaaat? Dude, just saw the video now lol. Thanks for bringing that up for me

2025-04-05 17:04:45 UTC

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The process for dishes is quite different though. TP is made of ... paper, you know what paper does when touches water.

2025-04-05 15:17:56 UTC

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Fuckin' hell, I cannot imagine people going about shitting and then mixturing water with shit in their shithole lol.
Do as educated europeans, do: wipe your ass with toilet paper AND THEN wash it with water. The order matters A LOT.
Apparently, bidet is the forefront of civilization...if you don't have those over there, just make your bathroom suited to have one and install it yourself.
Thank me later.

2025-04-05 15:11:08 UTC

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That hits hard LOL

2025-03-31 22:49:30 UTC

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jeah, when then tradition eats these practices, there's no way to stop them as long as that traditional group keeps going XD

2025-03-31 22:46:40 UTC

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The fact that you learned it doesn't mean that someone at some point didn't know it

2025-03-31 22:42:24 UTC

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I think that developed as a medical procedure for a matter or health in some specific zones of the planet, specifically hot and dry places. I may be wrong, but the medical part comes after the cultural and traditional element in such situations.

2025-03-31 18:23:20 UTC

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Ciao Marco,
grazie per aver messo nero su bianco quello che troppo spesso bisbigliamo di bocca in orecchio a porte chiuse. La mia sensazione è che, come sempre, i pochi facciano molta confusione ed intorbidiscano le acque. Bitcoin è uno strumento, non una religione...per alcuni è diventata questione religiosa, e quando i dogmi bussano alla porta non è mai un buon segno.
Personalmente credo che sia indispensabile avere uno "zoccolo duro" di idealisti, è indispensabile per mantenere un barlume di direzione in un progetto che altrimenti è evidentemente destinato ad essere dispersivo. Fino a quando ciò non è permeante e rappresenta un ostacolo alla diversità, penso che sia un bene.
Il problema nasce nel momento in cui l'idealismo diventa mainstream, viene "annacquato" da orde di seguaci che digeriscono e rigurgitano dictat sentiti in podcast e mai veramente compresi profondamente, ne nel merito tecnico ne idealista ne politico ne filosofico ne pragmatico ne pratico.
Mi piacerebbe che si tornasse a vedere bitcoin come uno strumento...uno strumento che rappresenta una soluzione pratica ad un problema teoricamente irrisolvibile. Tutto il resto sono protagonismi di chi ha trovato i suoi 15 minuti di gloria in questo piccolo - e quasi irrilevante - settore.

2025-03-31 18:10:38 UTC

Quick question for the @nprofile…trej guys: do you suggest using keychat with the main Nostr identity? I saw that the Amber login is available, that makes really quick and simple to use the main nsec as Keychat identity too.
Are there privacy concerns associated to it?

2025-03-31 18:02:39 UTC

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Sylvia was and still is a precious gift to Humanity. She was really talented.
All women are a gift to humanity.

2025-03-31 18:00:24 UTC

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Lol, you can't avoid scams at a system level...you can only educate people to not being scammed.

2025-03-29 08:27:48 UTC

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Only french people could ideate a thing as such XD

2025-03-27 23:48:19 UTC

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Will likely be flooded by ascii porn in 5 sec

2025-03-27 23:47:23 UTC

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YES

2025-03-27 23:47:01 UTC

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it always is

2025-03-25 21:43:02 UTC

Just learn how to speak with computers, just learn Vim
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkbjvbjLAug

2025-03-25 20:43:54 UTC

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You can do FE while hating it lol

2025-03-25 20:43:32 UTC

What's all that data in oc transactions?

2025-03-25 20:32:23 UTC

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Looks great!

2025-03-23 20:46:40 UTC

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yes, although I'd say that inter planetary money shall not be exclusively generated in one planet. Bitcoin blocks are hashable from everywhere, bit the lag occurring in blocks trasmission would definitely put all the planets' out of sync wih the Earth's timechain. That would create planetary forks. Probably the best bet is some sort of trustless swap between the Mars Bitcoin and the Earth Bitcoin and so on.

2025-03-23 20:38:08 UTC

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that's the trap yes ahaha
good luck with that and remember that bitcoin is a mean, not the goal

2025-03-23 11:28:48 UTC

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DNS server is like air and oxigen, you get its value when you lose it.

2025-03-22 19:56:18 UTC

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You'r doing a brilliant work. Thanks for the effort

2025-03-22 19:52:37 UTC

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YES. well sad Dave

2025-03-20 23:33:44 UTC

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"we" already do it
why don't you?

2025-03-20 19:14:04 UTC

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They have some papers and POCs about an ecash based system. If you're interested in it, look for taler.net and GNU Taler. That's a chaumian ecash payment system build w
on top of legacy financial rails.

2025-03-20 19:12:15 UTC

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I agree. Overall the issue is always there though: one single information control everything else

2025-03-20 05:17:41 UTC

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Okay that is clear to me. Overall, that's a bigger security issue innit? All the power is focused on one single key instead of distributing it across different auth methods
Am I missing something?

2025-03-19 22:05:35 UTC

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why is that?

2025-03-19 00:06:31 UTC

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that'd pretty straightforward the reason why: to receive LN you need a LN node, which has a unique Public Key, with is associated with a unique identity. Is that something "piracy oriented websites" would like to avoid?
I guess so

2025-03-16 13:57:52 UTC

#AskNostr do you have experience with the migration of #phoenixd between two servers? If so, is it (?) as simple as:
- shutting down the phoenixd systemd service
- Moving the folder containing logs etc
- Setting up the systemd service and start it
- You're done
?
If some of you have insights about this, hit me up here!

2025-03-15 08:09:48 UTC

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a friend of mine works at the ecb. He said to me once "dude, all my colleagues and managers say that bitcoin is a scam and too dangerous, they say to not invest in it". Amd that's it, here you go an another dude that will never do his own research because of some bias.

2025-03-15 08:02:43 UTC

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LI'd like to suggest a reading about this...long reading, but it explains exactly why you are right. As a man in my twenties, I can 100% say that the world of relationships without dating apps would be a gazillion times better.
Males in dating apps are cows to milk for money, girls can even be inexistent in a dating app...all you need is few bots acting like girls. That's enought to make boys pay for the service.
That's mental.
https://blog.luap.info/what-really-happens-inside-a-dating-app.html

2025-03-15 07:58:21 UTC

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You choose your partner every day, consolidating your marriage. I'd argue that's exacly how bitcoin confirmations work XD

2025-03-15 07:55:20 UTC

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Forrest Gump

2025-03-14 01:50:31 UTC

writing software is so painful sometimes. You sit ages never having big breakthroughs, sometimes it feels you're wasting time...sometimes you feel like you didn't do anything at all.
When things work the problem vanishes and suddenly the product is working.
Hell, that's a rollercoaster for sure

2025-03-13 06:25:14 UTC

Little reminder that "Europe" does not exist. Americans are so used to think about their country in unified terms that they forget itm Europe is a puzzle, there's no political entity that has a voice as of now. Theybtried to do the "unified currency" idea but it didn't turn out well at all.
Europe is only a bunch of little states with big mouths, small armies, no nuclear weapons and, most importantly, a consolidated perception of "war" as an outdated idea.
What's happening is black smoke, there's no meat beneath it.

2025-03-10 23:03:28 UTC

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Veey smooth, well designed. The only thing that seems at odd with people is the idea of a PWA itself...normies are used to "installed stuff". Probably PWAs are still a good idea, especially for ecash, especially for orange pilling...no installation needed seems a brilliant compromise to embrace

2025-03-10 23:01:13 UTC

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CrapGPT is actually a good name. Let's market an LLM that purposefully does bad predictions about next words and whatever....
oh, you say they already do that? Mmm

2025-03-10 22:59:10 UTC

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If you got that, they'r doing some serious gourmeg targetized campaigns I guess XD

2025-03-10 22:58:09 UTC

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Yes, they definitely do. Lots of them.

2025-03-10 22:23:14 UTC

Don't y'all see a flooding of "Susan is a prominent investor" notes in here?
I guess that it's either Susan The Prominent investor being a bit exasperated for the corn market price....
or simply some #GourmetShitScammers in here

2025-03-10 22:07:15 UTC

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that looks so smooth, well done!

2025-03-09 22:06:35 UTC

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Really that is the opposite. The first one loses.

2025-03-09 21:53:59 UTC

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GenAI will - and already is - completely changing how we value online content.

2025-03-09 21:49:32 UTC

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ur a special dude. Enjoy your loved ones!

2025-03-09 21:08:48 UTC

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They say that every time you repeat something, you actually say that differently. That is, you say a different thing.

2025-03-09 21:05:45 UTC

I've just finished reading the article (from 2 months ago) that Nic Carter wrote for BMagazine. I have to digest it, but it's precious to understand the US financial position and incentives in place for this BSR, especially for me, an european dude profoundly ignorant about US markets.
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/politics/i-dont-support-a-strategic-bitcoin-reserve-and-neither-should-you
Overall, I feel that Nic's position is reasonable and it merges with a thought I had ages ago discussing about bitcoin with some random dude: if things fall apart around you, your golden castle will not help much.
If the US economy collapses, you'll not be fine, being you a bitcoin holder or not. If grocery stores will be empty, if micro-criminality raises sharply, you're not fine.
Apart from that, SBR seems like a pushy tryout of some lobbysts to gain some sort of traction within the US political ecosystem. Is it really relevant for the US to be holding bitcoin nowadays? It is for individuals, yes, but at the US nation state level, what's the point? I can get the reason why El Salvador did it, but El Salvador is not the monetary global market-maker. It's like if US were to admit their weaknesses and their inability to keep monetary policies stable.
We know they are not, but it's way different if the US itself speaks that out loud by institutionalizing bitcoin reserves.
I know, in reality the corn will not be bought but only "kept", the manouver will be "neutral". But that is still a clear message for global markets. You're shouting to the whole Planet "guys, I lost it, I'll move to a new set of rules that I know I cannot break...because I don't trust myself".
Good luck with that.
I like the enthusiasm I see, hear, read about these days. But don't let the excitement drive you crazy...NGU is NOT the ultimate goal.

2025-03-09 19:05:55 UTC

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*Unpopular opinion alert*
Bitcoin will have tail emission in the future. There's no other way, with the current system a point will come in which block reward will be irrelevant compared to fees. At that point, miners will be either:
1) State financed, thus they will not bother with profits anyways, or
2) will be gasping for money. There will be q serious incentive for block stealing instead of focusing on building the next block.

2025-03-09 17:17:34 UTC

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Looking forward to it

2025-03-09 15:32:53 UTC

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You rock!

2025-03-09 11:07:24 UTC

Sitting in a library. Dude in front of me literally demolishing his keyboard with his fingers.
And I don't mean he's rocking. I mean he presses keys like with a hammer.
That moment the ASRM sounding of keyboard turns into a medieval battle session.

2025-03-09 10:25:18 UTC

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Reality is not binary.

2025-03-09 10:24:32 UTC

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Feel u.
Overall, i feel like the industry has no clear direction other than "appreciation and NGU through insistutions and gov".
There's no clear debate about how we're going to do the next update both from the "governance" standpoint and from the technical standpoint. There is no clear technical direction, true bitcoin leaders are in the shadow and kind of forgotten about by the newcomers looking only for NGU (see Luke, Matt etc).
It seems that bitcoin is getting "good enough" for OGs to leave the debate and enjoy appreciation. But are we really done?

2025-03-09 10:13:09 UTC

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he is irrelevant. I suggest to not waste crucial brain RAM memory to think about him.

2025-03-09 10:12:06 UTC

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debatable

2025-03-09 09:10:20 UTC

I'm a bit scared about this US Bitcoin Reserve thing, honestly. Bitcoin is for enemies, but we're just letting in a stakeholder that literally could point guns to people in order to avoid this or that update to go through.
Yes, that could have happened in the past too, but now they have skin in the game and they can influence mass media into believing what bitcoin is or is not.

2025-03-09 00:13:02 UTC

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Good call. But I've no updates available as of now

2025-03-08 23:59:10 UTC

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Not on all android 15s I guess...not on Pixel 6A at least

2025-03-08 23:05:31 UTC

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he wipes his ass with shitcoins

2025-03-08 18:52:45 UTC

#AskNostr where can I find that very much celebrated Search function in Notedeck? I'm using the 0.3.1 intel linux version...is it that it's available only to purple users?

2025-03-08 18:34:35 UTC

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It always is

2025-03-08 18:06:15 UTC

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They'r basically the same thing at the end

2025-03-08 16:55:03 UTC

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I'd argue that thay daily seize shitcoins...with taxation.

2025-03-08 16:53:05 UTC

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Dammit! I've never runned into your Nostr npub Danny, you're doing a great job with WBD.
Keep up!

2025-03-08 12:38:19 UTC

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Test nuts are less fake than shitcoins honestly