Hanshan

I remember going outside after school for 3 or 4 hours before dinner and nobody knew where I was.
best part of childhood.
the elimination of all the empty spaces will become a big psychological issue socially.

2026-05-08 16:56:01 CEST

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fair.
3 hrs is a lot for most people at first.
but I hope they do at least 15 minutes every day.

2026-05-08 16:53:30 CEST

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totally.
even 15 minutes a day.... sheesh

2026-05-08 16:52:49 CEST

people CAN do what they want.
mostly what they want is to be safe and have convenient pleasures.
please don't pretend that custodial solutions are no problem because "people can do what they want"
#nevent1q…xesy

2026-05-08 16:47:04 CEST

once a WEEK?!
do this everyday people.
#nevent1q…c6dn

2026-05-08 16:40:26 CEST

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nonkyc earning is undefeated 👍

2026-05-08 16:39:40 CEST

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maybe you should be.
but I suppose there's a lot more popularity ($$$) in talking about convenient, custodial 2nd layer "solutions" for main chain problems.
and somehow pretending by using 3rd parties #bitcoin is going to end up being "freedom money"
personally, I'll stick with 1st principles and make my living another way.

2026-05-08 05:04:56 CEST

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I'm a subscriber everywhere atm, trying to figure out what to keep using
thanks for being available.

2026-05-08 05:03:48 CEST

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good to know thanks

2026-05-08 04:54:48 CEST

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this is a correct opinion.

2026-05-08 04:52:03 CEST

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appreciate the answer 🫡
its certainly true I'm going over my allocation every month and regularly topping up
while I have you,
do the TEE models add any inference cost to the user?

2026-05-08 04:04:31 CEST

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big ❤ bro
I am not a fan of Cake as I don't F with shitcoins.

2026-05-08 03:25:39 CEST

I started fucking with agents two months ago,
today my agents finally can remember their shit.
it's a paradigm shift to deal with a tool that only exists when you're interacting with it.

2026-05-08 02:52:45 CEST

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I'm not saying it's not a cool feature of your client.
just that its obviously not true that publishing transactions publicly is "a pro, not a con."

2026-05-08 02:49:34 CEST

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I live off-grid on 40 acres I bought for cash in the 90s.
My water comes from a spring and this laptop is powered by the sun.
I still have a public facing business and there are certain taxes I have to pay.
However, the vast majority of my assets are not on any books. Therefore, I can contribute FAR more to projects I want to see succeed than I pay in taxes.
this isn't "hypocrisy." it is pragmatism.
I couldn't support my local community and my online communities if I was fighting a legal battle against the state for tax evasion, for example.
it is appealing and comfortable for idealists to say "it is either one or the other."
eventually you learn to do both and live in multiple worlds.
(or maybe you give up and be a tax slave, I dunno)

2026-05-08 02:33:28 CEST

Hi @npub136j…jnxf
any guess as to why Nanogpt is giving subscribers 24M tokens/month for GLM5, Qwen3.5 etc for $12
but Maples subscription is easily less than half of the inference for almost 2x the money?
not being able to directly access token counts on Maple makes comparison hard, but it's obviously a fraction.
thanks.

2026-05-08 02:20:45 CEST

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I know this about ZEC but people could read this to mean Monero too.

2026-05-08 02:19:47 CEST

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LOL

2026-05-08 02:15:28 CEST

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you think your getaway driver is going to accept a transparent payment from a known fugitive?
your logic is unsound.
if you are operating INSIDE the fiat system, you are correct and liquidity wins.
if censorship resistance is necessary, as it is OUTSIDE the fiat system, a reasonably-private ledger will often beat easy liquidity.
if getting paid means the authorities come for you, you don't do the job.

2026-05-08 02:11:12 CEST

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no freedom without privacy.

2026-05-08 02:07:21 CEST

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this is an appropriate use of all-caps 😂

2026-05-08 02:06:12 CEST

yo
#freesamourai right fucking now
89a6Aja6s4YSV8ZJ7sN9F6HS2JDY3HLsaHH6ko76jSTp8U31qaXCgSHVc3VgP7V3P2W4CdkXb1ZSz5isCYyd3cbH1tqXUDV
#nevent1q…qg6z

2026-05-08 02:03:50 CEST

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refreshing

2026-05-08 02:03:20 CEST

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It's really hard to achieve that on Bitcoin and keep 1st principles.
by which I mean, fedimint and cashu are shitcoin and like 90% on LN usage is custodial.

2026-05-08 01:58:27 CEST

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yeah. this.
that "gap" doesn't get bridged.
we create a parallel reality and defund them.

2026-05-08 01:53:34 CEST

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am genx, can confirm

2026-05-06 22:20:51 CEST

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https://i.nostr.build/5cT84RUH1JnC2jpM.jpg

2026-05-06 16:53:24 CEST

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also
lol Jorge Stolfi

2026-05-06 16:47:37 CEST

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fuck off bot

2026-05-06 16:44:54 CEST

and in episode number #87 of Bitcoiners Slowly Discover the Hard Cap is a Design Flaw
#nevent1q…5cdw
#bitcoin

2026-05-06 16:43:36 CEST

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Oh is that why you thought the Bitcoin community should attack monero?
because it IS actually used as a MOE?
but to jump to the end of the conversation....
the hard cap is a design flaw.
incentives rule and Bitcoin is digital real estate.

2026-05-06 16:41:31 CEST

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I'm overdue for a backup integrity check anyway, I don't mind moving to the new address format.
basically I'm still against hardening monero and not iterating.
there's a strong argument to be made *against view keys, as most use cases are for regulatory stuff. ie, it doesn't prevent me from using monero that I dont see XMR leave my view-only wallet.
so I can see your concern.
it IS sorta like, "what for"?

2026-05-06 16:34:27 CEST

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but some people will listen and some people will care

2026-05-06 14:55:36 CEST

I still have a little steam left
#nevent1q…hdvw

2026-05-06 05:50:22 CEST

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where is this controversy happening?
I'll go out on a limb and say that functional view keys should probably exist.
I'd like to see it if I ever take any XMR out of cold storage.

2026-05-05 15:19:42 CEST

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bad robot

2026-05-05 03:01:43 CEST

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it's been suggested that they are negatively correlated

2026-05-05 02:54:55 CEST

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pop a 2TB drive in an old laptop and install Start9
or get a cheap SBC?
it's just easier.

2026-05-05 02:44:30 CEST

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just depends if we want freedom or more fiat purchasing power 🤷‍♂

2026-05-05 01:40:30 CEST

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idk man
seems like there's not a lot to say about Bitcoin as freedom money these days.
something something many factors, you can just do things, stay humble
the last ten years have been pretty bad for Bitcoin as freedom money *because of* moar purchasing power.

2026-05-05 01:01:54 CEST

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idealists seldom make good presidents, or even good decisions
but they're also sometimes not war criminals so...

2026-05-05 00:41:23 CEST

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lol 😂

2026-05-05 00:40:47 CEST

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I just know what words mean 🤷‍♂

2026-05-04 23:33:52 CEST

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Also, did you even read the damn site you're linking?
because they don't agree with you either.

2026-05-04 23:32:05 CEST

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They are, if they're saying "using money is a public act."
next time please try to avoid the appeal to random youtube videos, lets discuss from facts we can both observe.
for example, when I buy something, the purchase and the terms of the purchase aren't "public information."
Except maybe according to some narrow definition you just made up.

2026-05-04 22:52:38 CEST

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so you're just using the word "public" in the wrong way for some reason.
sure man.

2026-05-04 22:51:22 CEST

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You're literally like "the shop can just NOT tie personal information to the transaction"

2026-05-04 17:13:32 CEST

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but on that subject
how do you pay for your subscription? it looks like you have to do shit with stripe to pay with BTC???

2026-05-04 15:33:30 CEST

it's helpful if we all understand why things got the way they are.
there's always a bigger group of thugs who will come take your shit if you catch their attention.
#nevent1q…4f4u

2026-05-04 14:53:46 CEST

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So you're whole thesis here is we should trust our transaction counterparties to not tie personal information to transaction information.
great.

2026-05-04 14:48:15 CEST

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I did have a service running on a VPS that generated an invoice from my LN node over Tor.
But it was so slow that it didn't work for many nostr clients.
and it didn't produce zap receipts so they didn't know it worked when it did.
so.

2026-05-04 14:46:00 CEST

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I haven't used them yet.
So far nothing beats the amount of inference you can get on a NanoGPT subscription.

2026-05-04 14:42:49 CEST

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when I make a transaction, my transaction counterparty knows I need what he is selling and have money to pay for it.
that is the data I am "allowing to be known by untrusted parties."
so your study for the day is to look up the word "public."
because that isn't what it means.
using money is a PRIVATE intercourse. I decide who I interact with and what data to reveal in the process.
your attitude that is *public by nature* is modern state-sponsored disinformation.

2026-05-04 04:19:15 CEST

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the last president who wasn't a war criminal?

2026-05-04 04:17:14 CEST

I'm sorry @npub10hp…dxkr
$18 for 20000 *permonth* is not going to cut it

2026-05-04 02:40:19 CEST

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I now have a separate VPS that runs OpenClaw and my robot slave does sysadmin for all of the above as well.
they didn't tell me the future would look like this

2026-05-04 02:37:49 CEST

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hey this is my stack

2026-05-04 02:35:58 CEST

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you were on acid at the first Lollapalooza??
fucking legend

2026-05-04 02:33:17 CEST

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holy shit
who was charging you $100/mo for a phone number? with unlimited data?

2026-05-04 02:32:22 CEST

stop normalizing lack of privacy.
making a transaction is not "a public act" and your transactions SHOULD NOT be public.
#nevent1q…paes

2026-05-04 00:02:37 CEST

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no. a transaction is between me and my counterparty.
it isnt "a public act" unless you broadcast it to a transparent chain that anyone with Internet access can audit.
there's never going to be a time where Authority just decides to NOT surveil everyone's transparent and publicly recorded transactions.
it doesn't depend on the existence of fiat either, they're still coming for their taxes.
even if you live completely off their radar, on a transparent chain it only takes ONE merchant doxxing you to reveal your utxo cluster.
we are obviously living in an age of increasing surveillance and the normalization of a state of no-privacy. it's not debatable.
they're going to map the entire utxo set. Bitcoin pseudonymity only *decreases* with time.

2026-05-03 23:08:37 CEST

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I wanted to mess around with this and I don't think Opencode is an option
https://github.com/danielmiessler/Personal_AI_Infrastructure

2026-05-03 22:56:16 CEST

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holy shit
I had no idea it was so bad

2026-05-03 22:48:48 CEST

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me and my pop did the Saturn 5, it took like 7 of the fat engines
some of the best memories ever

2026-05-03 22:43:05 CEST

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MY TIME HAS COME
https://i.nostr.build/MhtJSSmwRa9cbz1f.jpg

2026-05-03 22:40:36 CEST

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big love man
you got this.

2026-05-03 22:38:55 CEST

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Not in a highly surveilled society. Your root premise is incorrect.
If digital surveillance is the norm, adopting a non-private digital ledger to transact ensures lack of privacy for as long as that money is used.
Computers make surveilling the entire society trivial. It doesn't matter if the set of users is 1000 people or 100 million.
In some ways it gets WORSE with mass adoption.

2026-05-03 13:50:23 CEST

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wow
thanks for the correction!

2026-05-03 03:36:02 CEST

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cloaked is great. but $25/mo is pretty steep.

2026-05-03 03:32:50 CEST

https://i.nostr.build/ZaTMctPV7IBR7KQU.jpg
#nevent1q…phqh

2026-05-03 03:31:13 CEST

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I'm going to meet the meat early next week

2026-05-03 03:07:19 CEST

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My understanding is that ppq and routstr do not pass the special anthropic headers through
and only foundry, vertex and bedrock are supported alternated providers.

2026-05-03 03:04:13 CEST

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yeah, I get it. and it IS cool.
but it's just too convenient to use nanogpt or ppq and pay directly with xmr

2026-05-03 03:02:00 CEST

real talk for a minute
is anyone using Claude Code *without* a KYCed API key?

2026-05-03 00:39:33 CEST

nOBodY CAres aBoUT Monero
#nevent1q…khl5

2026-05-02 19:50:50 CEST

Turns out my local heavy equipment guy is raising bison.
He'll sell me a quarter beef for $6/lb 😎

2026-05-02 19:49:03 CEST

this is one of the most relevant and interesting podcasts for Bitcoiners ever recorded.
no anon, you DON'T understand #Bitcoin.
#nevent1q…rdyh

2026-05-02 19:46:21 CEST

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Would love to experiment with @npub1fet…jzfa,
but I want to pay in #monero.
it's just better UX.

2026-05-02 15:23:30 CEST

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I gotchu
https://i.nostr.build/nsxZV9tnw5NnfNoi.jpg

2026-05-02 00:12:32 CEST

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We alienated the people interested in the problems of grassroots Bitcoin adoption in 2016

2026-05-02 00:07:13 CEST

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almost like eliminating zero-conf and doing RBF was a mistake

2026-05-01 23:30:38 CEST

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wow
the revolution is here

2026-05-01 23:06:38 CEST

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thats some serious Zen shit there

2026-05-01 22:57:11 CEST

Having lost funds in an earlier Bisq exploit, this is extremely nostalgic for me
(this time I didn't have any open offers however)
#nevent1q…kwtz

2026-04-29 16:19:40 CEST

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"some rando on the internet can't identify my utxos, therefore bitcoin is private"
come on man

2026-04-29 16:19:00 CEST

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a lot of hopium in this post.
and you aren't using it permissionlessly if you kyced yourself when you bought.

2026-04-28 16:13:20 CEST

there has always been a bigger group of thugs who might come and take your shit.
kinda like a earthquake or a flood or your children getting the plague.
preparing for these things is good and bitcoin doesn't fix this.
(except that it makes it easier to hide your stuff)
#nevent1q…h6cn

2026-04-28 16:09:36 CEST

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"Bitcoin ethos will always be Bitcoin ethos"
no, it wont. the social context these things exist in are always changing and are NEVER static.
how much of your bitcoin was bought through a KYC on-ramp?

2026-04-28 03:04:57 CEST

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what is Start Tunnel?

2026-04-28 03:03:52 CEST

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yes.
I think we get extra credit for doing everything through ssh

2026-04-28 01:13:24 CEST

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I do too
but I've had a couple people just laugh recently

2026-04-28 00:36:32 CEST

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something something censorship resistance

2026-04-28 00:32:22 CEST

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okay?

2026-04-28 00:20:27 CEST

does anyone actually self-host a website anymore or do you just point your DNS to Github Pages?
#asknostr

2026-04-28 00:19:09 CEST

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maybe 5 or 10 years no?

2026-04-28 00:18:15 CEST

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"freedom" is am ongoing process.
not a condition that is achieved.
there are certainly people that are confined in the dark who are more "free" than some who walk in the light.

2026-04-28 00:02:17 CEST

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https://i.nostr.build/cxf5Wkg59tmMMUQ3.gif

2026-04-27 23:59:58 CEST

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appreciate that. but it's not correct.
Monero isn't going to be mass adopted.
and Bitcoin will only be mass adopted if the on/off ramps are totally kyced and surveiled.
which is why the phenomenon you are observing vis a vis the conference is happening.
so i'd guess that we disagree that freedom will EVER be something that is "mass adopted" and more that a niche interest of principled people.