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2026-03-11 10:13:12 CET

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You CAN zap them beer money on Nostr though.

2026-02-28 00:38:21 CET

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https://image.nostr.build/c80a9e4dd93bb6fd0587fe2a685473f796e581afc51671b6ed78d76d08c0180a.gif

2026-02-28 00:37:43 CET

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Hopefully after the microwave.

2026-02-28 00:25:20 CET

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In reality it's all just <blink> text, we're just collectively in the midst of a seizure it induced 25 years ago and having some weird hallucinations.

2026-02-28 00:24:13 CET

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The temporary part isn't why a reorg is threatened. A reorg is threatened because if in August 110 has 30% hash power and then in December it surges to 60+% hash power, you're looking at a potential for 3+ months of transactions to be reorged out when the 110 chain potentially becomes the heaviest chain. What is known as a flippening.
If you thought CSAM had the potential to kill Bitcoin, see what happens when the presumption of transaction immutability goes out the window.

2026-02-28 00:15:33 CET

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It's really more like digital Rai Stones than gold anyway.
It's just that only Bitcoiners and the occasional anthropologist knows wtf a Rai Stone is.

2026-02-28 00:13:38 CET

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Taking the rest of the day off for BSD, huh?

2026-02-28 00:12:49 CET

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This is why you translate to another language, and then back to English using another tool, so as to cover your mannerisms and writing style. Obviously using either offline tools or while behind 7 proxies.

2026-02-28 00:11:26 CET

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California too? Yesterday it was Colorado.
As much as I am happy to laugh about the absurdity of this, it does make me worry about what happens when they realize this only works if they OEM lock all computing devices (as if they were all Verizon phones).
I'll see y'all on AmigaNet if that happens.

2026-02-28 00:09:49 CET

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Only if your locale is set to English language. If Spanish, they let you be so as not to tip of ICE.

2026-02-27 21:39:08 CET

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The Marxists over on X are losing their minds over this lol.

2026-02-27 21:38:34 CET

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Filters work to make a lot of spam disincentivized, such as those involving fraud proofs that rely on being able to predictably get included in blocks in a timely manner. Nothing works against a dedicated attacker pushing arbitrary data onto the chain, however, it can be disincentivized by taking measures to push it into op_return (and thus, away from the witness discount), fixing the broken incentives that the witness discount introduced, making spam 4x more economical to include.
Throwing a tantrum and potentially blowing up bitcoin because Core's a bunch of meanie heads solves nothing, but hey, at least the jpg's will have gaps in them that will require a few lines of code to reassemble automatically. It also has ensured that anyone who wasn't on board with filters won't be likely coming over anytime soon, as this whole campaign has seen a rhetorical conflation of Knots with BIP-110. An own-goal and a half.
How we push more onto op_return and away from the more harmful fields (more harmful in terms of utxo bloat) is a bigger issue of course. And one that does seem like we all should be interested in addressing. And hey, it just so happens, even most of the core crowd agrees.
Anyway...for those whose heads are spinning, probably don't panic too much, but maybe look into how replay attack works and how to protect yourself against them, because August marks the beginning of a potentially very perilous period for transaction immutability for Bitcoin. Hopefully it is short lived.

2026-02-27 21:29:15 CET

"You discovered something tricky! If hashrate starts out *one way* in early August, but then *changes* to be *the other way* (this is called a "flippening"), we could see a significant wipeout of much blockchain history."
Neat! Millions of dollars of transactions get reversed in the blink of an eye, and nobody can be expected to take responsibility for it. Bitcoin's immutability becomes thought of as something only gullible children would have believed in like the tooth fairy, and we can all look forward to our children using CBDC's forever as the boot stomps on a human head forever.
Even the worst FUD put forth to justify this shitty crusade doesn't justify this possibility. Thankfully, it doesn't seem like many miners are likely to take the bait. #nevent1q…xgfl

2026-02-27 20:42:01 CET

I downloaded the vbulletin emoji set in a fit of nostalgia. We'll see what happens from here.
https://image.nostr.build/94a2349a09df2fc3e73324217605828cd7c1713b7b696fd4efd1fb875cf64c14.gif
https://image.nostr.build/b67294933c118e5c1014cc55f8c5d2487e5bdbcf4c21dd8a5d3ed0ae2f0e4889.jpg

2026-02-27 14:29:58 CET

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It's not really capitalism (an economic organizational method wherein the interests of capital direct the economic activity), but rather, moneyprinterism.
Between regulatory moats and uneven access to the cantillon effect, I'm not sure what can really still justify the idea that we currently have anything like capitalism.
Kleptocracy usually means something a little different but it's probably the closest existing word I can think of to describe our situation.

2026-02-27 14:18:15 CET

GM.
Just found information on the process of making bullysticks.
The Bitcoin miners would be the easy part -- there's a fairly messy cleaning process involved.
So, I decided that as I really haven't the interest in getting the whole process going, I did just pitch it as an idea to the producer of bullysticks that provided the how-it's-made information in the interest of rewarding a bit of transparency on their part. Maybe it sparks a conversation ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
Anyway, if you're curious what I meant by the messy cleaning/prep process, see it for yourself here: https://blog.bullybundles.com/the-5-fascinating-steps-to-making-a-bully-stick/
And it just keeps going, because otherwise you've got mining heat going unused...forgive me for wanting to outsource the work to people who've already chosen to do it...

2026-02-27 13:47:53 CET

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I mean, in fairness, she's already associated with the Rothschild family. Epstein did a lot of heinous shit recently, but they've been doing heinous shit for centuries.

2026-02-27 13:46:44 CET

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The "It's a Wonderful Life" reference is perfect.

2026-02-27 12:55:46 CET

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I mean, it could have been an eggplant or a peach costume...

2026-02-27 12:52:42 CET

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I presume less health code overhead too as it's not for human consumption.
Not sure where one sources a bunch of bull penises though. Might need to talk to Texas Slim over at beef.com. Wonder if @npub1vwy…zugd would have thoughts about this. If only Cathedral were functional; it'd have rawhide and bully sticks than every dog in the country could go through...

2026-02-27 01:18:13 CET

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Oof. That's like a football score.

2026-02-26 23:53:38 CET

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Oh absolutely. Jews were always just convenient deputies because they were otherwise downtrodden in Europe and could be bribed more easily to comply by the power brokers. It also helped that during the era of the strictest usury laws, Christians couldn't lend at interest, but as they demanded credit, Jews became a convenient source of it.
Meanwhile, power brokers typically don't like to do their dirty work themselves. It wasn't a bunch of white guys from Langley that sold crack in the ghettoes in the 80s, after all.
The founders of the Bank of England weren't Jewish, nor those who owned and ran the Dutch East India Company before it (RIGHT before it was founded, incidentally, being when the Dutch effectively took power over the British Throne with the Glorious Revolution).
That said, the Warburg family, which did come through the Netherlands, does go back to the Venetian banking era (or at least, that's what they themselves claim -- that they had changed their family name from "del Banco"). I don't think this indicates much other than the fact that they've been convenient hired goons for a particularly long time, but they do at least go back well before the era of real British power on the global stage.

2026-02-26 23:42:26 CET

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I understand it in previous cycles. But I'd think that with some of the more mature collateralized lending solutions out there to avoid cap gains there'd be less of it at this point.
Especially because whatever else you're buying at this point is going to be kyc'ed with counterparty risk anyway, so most of the arguments against it are pretty much moot. The only caveat is that while selling your bitcoin and paying the taxes will leave you with ~80% of the value, borrowing against it will usually only leave you able to access 50% (+future upside).
But whatever, it's their money to do with what they want. And spreading coins to a broader base is probably good. I'd just hope it's actually going broader, rather than just into institutional coffers...

2026-02-26 23:32:58 CET

I was just talking with my wife about the cost of bully sticks and rawhides for dogs, and then was speculating about what the costs could possibly be, given that all the beef we eat should certainly result in a whole bunch of bull penises to be dried out (yea, that's what bully sticks actually are), and surely drying them out can't take that much...
Then it occurred to me that this seems like yet another cost that could offset the energy for bitcoin mining, much like @npub1hl9…7ygv Wish I could say I have the startup capital or connections to make this happen, but c'mon, who doesn't want to be able to buy dog chew toys with bitcoin, from bitcoiners, in a way that strengthens the network and assists in mining decentralization?
Whoever does it, consider the name "Tooth of Work Chew Toys," that's all I ask.

2026-02-26 22:35:17 CET

LFG.
#nevent1q…k3pn

2026-02-26 18:26:37 CET

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Oh, the Fed has a LOT more control now than just a few years ago. That's what the whole move from LIBOR was all about -- restoring sovereignty to dollar monetary policy to the US. SOFR admittedly isn't arbitrarily set by the Fed or even a purely US market (being based on Repo), but it is targeted, and more importantly, ISN'T set arbitrarily by a cabal of primarily City of London banks as LIBOR had been for decades (which in turn steered the markets for variable rate loans all across the dollar system).
If you (rhetorical you) haven't heard Tom Luongo pound the table about this over the past 3 years I can only assume you haven't heard him speak at all.
That all said, there's a lot of wealth and power to claw back, and doing so has been and will continue to cause more turbulent after decades of America having been steered and looted by London. The ship doesn't turn around on a dime. Though it is striking how fast it's been happening considering that.
Actually looking at this playing out is where it's handy to follow the work of Michael Howell and Nik Bhatia.

2026-02-26 18:19:33 CET

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What's weird is when it happens here then. Although I suppose some of them get zapped.
If you ever need to warm up, let your blood boil at the thought of AI bots being zapped while your posts aren't...

2026-02-26 16:00:42 CET

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They didn't even need wheat. Just the expectation that they could source wheat in the future.
It does help too to understand that in the Eurodollar universe, rather than demand deposits, most work with time deposits, which are a bit more like those wheat traders would have used. Eurobonds, and SOFR (formerly Eurodollar) futures all reflect this, and the structure does trickle through, as it's a lot easier to balance your books with a little time to plan. It also means there's no risk of a SVB style bank run.

2026-02-26 15:55:07 CET

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It is, though I was more pointing out that the Eurodollar system made the dollar LESS centralized, in addressing Triffin's dilemma. When you can make more dollars by printing pounds and doing a forex swap, it matters a heck of a lot less what the Fed does. Just like wheat traders in Sumeria didn't rely on anyone to mint currency in order to have their system of ledger money.

2026-02-26 15:48:27 CET

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Does that say 44-15? 👀

2026-02-26 15:47:32 CET

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Did it die in a boating accident?

2026-02-26 02:59:39 CET

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They already dumped a bunch of Bitcoin and bought a bunch of Eth; what more do you want them to do in the way of self flagellation?

2026-02-26 02:37:28 CET

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https://youtu.be/NV35_iOeyMA

2026-02-26 02:28:57 CET

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You've clearly never been to a blue state.

2026-02-26 02:26:25 CET

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Wait people are doing multisig but keeping them in one place?
What's the point? Just finding ways to use all the signing devices that you had shilled at you by podcasters?

2026-02-26 01:51:15 CET

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So Claude will do it?

2026-02-26 01:50:49 CET

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We don't need coders. We need people who understand systems and logic.
The LLM's can do the clerical work of handling syntax, in large part.
And I'm not so much talking about vibe coding so much as AI assisted research of libraries. Humans are definitely needed to really chew on the logic.

2026-02-26 01:47:08 CET

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High schools are great I guess but harder to responsibly cross pollinate, frankly for good reason. You almost have to first that the teachers and let them do the work.
If Bitcoiners adults are otherwise seen to be trying to elbow into the circles of minors, especially amid all the Epstein noise, it'd not be a good look. Perhaps with a caveat that finding ways to HIRE kids for summer work in Bitcoin (mining? Electricity generation? Get creative) could be a sensible approach. A kid that learns financial independence early carries it far, and turns heads.
As for getting teachers though, that can depend. They have a lot of Marxist groupthink going on, but if you can find a way to make them able to survive on their salary they can be valuable agents. Definitely get the robotics team coaches first.

2026-02-26 01:39:31 CET

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Make Bitdevs meetups more young people friendly.
You can do all you want online but expecting to be on the same wavelength as the kids is just not likely gonna happen.
Find Bitcoin, or even Blockchain student clubs, and get them to sponsor Bitdevs providing meetup spaces. They feel included -- as leaders even -- and it attracts the older developers in the region to meet in meatspace and cross pollinate ideas.
I see a good few younger folks at the ones hosted at MIT. Yea, it's MIT, so it's a bit easier, but still it gets us all in the same place so the veterans can share experience, we non-devs can share our take on philosophy, economics, etc (and learn a thing or two), and the kids can share their understanding of some new innovative ideas and some fast moving developments that can be hard to keep up with when you're working full time with a family.
Bonus, doing it with blockchain clubs can convert them from the inside as the real differences are laid bare to be seen for all.

2026-02-25 19:20:07 CET

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Designers rekt the web. I'm sure they'll come and do the same here in due time, but for now perhaps we can sit back and enjoy the duct tape and spit that everything is held together by. It gives the place more character.

2026-02-25 18:05:22 CET

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I mean, you could use it for cloud based file storage, a calendar service, a cloud based office suite (a la Google Docs), etc.
It of course can be social, but it's not entirely required that use cases all have to be. Sometimes you just want something to be easily available by more than one of your own machines from different locations. Or just to have off site backups.

2026-02-25 11:24:28 CET

GM.
I'm beginning to think legalizing marijuana may actually not have been the best idea.
Not that banning it ever worked much better than this half baked idea has any hope of.
It is bullish for the better distros out there though.
https://youtu.be/TNdOuhO5bEg

2026-02-25 02:35:22 CET

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Damn that must be an old pic for 420 BTC to be $0.27...

2026-02-25 02:33:40 CET

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Use a signer. Nos2x as a browser extension and amber as a mobile app. Manages signing permissions for you across clients.

2026-02-24 23:41:52 CET

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Not gonna lie though, they sound like big shoes to fill. But I promise I get fewer ladies and look after dogs better.

2026-02-24 23:37:39 CET

@npub1cn4…3vle I'd like to provide my indication of interest for the new opening for the role of Dylan at Strike.

2026-02-24 23:31:37 CET

Koda's home!
Still haven't figured out how we're gonna make her pay for her surgery, but glad she's back 🥰.
https://image.nostr.build/87ea72966ec8a3b5967efab339a649bc55ade3a345efed0db0b4a7ff313c4bd4.jpg

2026-02-24 13:35:21 CET

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Do people really have an answer for why they happen to be wearing a particular shirt on any given day? :-D
I'd made it myself. It may also be worth remembering that it was Ross that got me to finally buy Bitcoin too haha.
That shirt came in handy when a buddy of mine had gotten himself in some hot water with a would-be gangbanger that had people prowling around for him with knives too (he was afraid of guns -- perhaps foresaw how he'd go out a few years later...).
Life's a bit calmer and more boring these days.

2026-02-24 12:24:13 CET

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Is there a way to make it go full screen? That was the difficulty I ran into on mobile.

2026-02-24 02:58:34 CET

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Heidegger or gtfo 😁
I'm still proud I out absurded my professor the day he demonstrated absurdity to the class full of half engineering students looking for a weird elective.
He was smoking a cigarette in the classroom and ashing on student notebooks and throwing chalk at people with dissheveled hair and clothes. Going around throwing personalized insults. I heard one girl ask if he was drunk lol. Woosh.
Anyway he got to me and I was wearing chainmail that I'd made and had a walking stick in hand. He wasn't so quick to come up with anything for me hahaha.
Definitely my favorite professor though.

2026-02-24 02:34:28 CET

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https://blossom.primal.net/b6010bfd7c304036d71d99dee2e572a8e4e5b76cb0456684a3307eee2de12aa2.gif

2026-02-24 02:28:49 CET

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https://blossom.primal.net/dbf069842122af6ed4c51e7f155ae533a255803ce159135b3c95fb2f360d51ff.jpg
What'm I doin wrong?

2026-02-24 01:06:51 CET

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Glad you guys managed to miss the brunt of it from the look of things 😁

2026-02-24 00:51:15 CET

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This is the moment that reminds me of being in college when a professor talked about how far games had come, mentioning pong, and them saying, as if he were up to date, 'have you all seen Doom?'
Naturally I pulled out the iPod Photo I'd installed Linux on and fired up Doom on it to full cook his noodle.

2026-02-24 00:48:18 CET

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6ubttMQ2r0
This is where he got the inspiration for the method from, though our meat mix is based on a recipe he got in cooking class.

2026-02-24 00:00:42 CET

There's a fence under there... #blizzard https://blossom.primal.net/05f49163b9f1facce16dba15f56e58db2f5d56942cc677f080daef0e512947c1.jpg

2026-02-23 23:00:21 CET

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Ding! Hard drive's done!
'what OS do you run primarily?'
'DBAN.'

2026-02-23 22:59:25 CET

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https://blossom.primal.net/ad3c57efd400970482684258902e316daf66fcb9e6615c459c280567203bcb81.gif

2026-02-23 22:44:01 CET

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Now I need to know what you were listening to and why it was wrong.
Not that there's any shortage of wrong content...

2026-02-23 22:42:56 CET

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I just cheaped out on a UPS but still left the raspi running 24/7.
It's a miracle it took over a year to get corrupted...

2026-02-23 22:41:09 CET

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My IBD weirdly got through 2023 quickly this time around. Which I was chalking up to a higher assumevalid block. And that may still be what it is.
But it is choking out in spring of 2024. Which, looking at a block explorer, doesn't seem as spam heavy, but is also about a year before my assumevalid block (in September 2025).
Color me confused.

2026-02-23 22:30:22 CET

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It wasn't too happy on my desktop. But admittedly said desktop is still using DDR3 ram and had 12 tabs open and is actively doing IBD on a node because my drive got corrupted.
May give it a go on my much newer windows laptop I barely use...

2026-02-23 21:06:56 CET

A 13-episode video series building elliptic curve cryptography from first principles — all the way to Bitcoin's digital signatures.
If you've always wanted to understand ECDSA and how it actually works but were daunted by it, this breaks it down very well.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaAxhhFb7OVElRJ8Su_C2Xu2uA7WiBKKz

2026-02-23 18:08:55 CET

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1,337 bitcoin tap to pay sounds extreme.

2026-02-23 17:31:19 CET

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Not for nothing Jimmy but with the cowboy hat and somewhat thin facial hair, the AI probably thought you WERE a latino. Especially as the native genetics are originally Asian in the first place (it's just been a few millenia)

2026-02-23 12:25:53 CET

GM.
Just saw that the address for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York is 33 Liberty Street.
Can't fucking make this shit up.
Hope the lodge is properly tiled...
https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/b/london-open-house-grand-lodge-mark-master-mason-ground-floor-building-divided-three-large-rooms-two-126953901.jpg

2026-02-23 00:24:52 CET

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That makes sense enough but when display names are cloned by spammers galore, it seems like every time I tag someone popular it's a spambot. Maybe worth chewing on.
Or at least being sure to show followed accounts first and notated as such when typing @...

2026-02-23 00:19:59 CET

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Also, wen nip-05 support?

2026-02-23 00:19:33 CET

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What us this sorcery and where can I destroy my sleep schedule with it?

2026-02-23 00:07:01 CET

Been seeing a lot of people ask for feature ideas on #Nostr lately. Also been seeing a few express frustration tagging the wrong npub.
How about autocomplete npub mentions using nip-05? I assume it'd have to be limited due to decentralization, but it seems like limiting it to one's follow list shouldn't be a huge ask.
I'd most like to see it in #Amethyst or #Yakihonne as they're my most used clients lately but it'd be a draw to another client too if implemented well.

2026-02-22 23:12:18 CET

Just got back from a visit with Koda. They successfully removed the fabric that was through her entire digestive system. Taking another day or two of inpatient care til she comes home. In as good spirits as can be expected though.
https://blossom.primal.net/4829b09426249521987605243f38e282b175cdab04a2596864be29482706c1c9.jpg

2026-02-22 15:15:43 CET

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Tried ZBD yet? You can earn sats playing mobile games or doing surveys. It's also a custodial lightning wallet but mind the jurisdictional headaches when traveling -- best to move the sats as you get them.

2026-02-22 15:12:02 CET

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It's okay, I still have $20 in Linden Dollars on Second Life I was going to buy Bitcoin with even earlier that year that I never bothered to figure out how to transfer. There was someone at the time doing BTC for linden dollar exchanges...

2026-02-22 01:25:09 CET

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Thanks for that Jack. Like I said, probably a last resort as I am pretty fond of keeping the BTC unencumbered and do have some other sources to explore first. But having options is always better than not, and y'all catch a lot of crap for just opening doors.
I guess we did want the masses to adopt Bitcoin, and with the masses come the reasoning abilities the masses exhibit...

2026-02-21 21:45:27 CET

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Just reminded me I've got a node syncing I started a week ago. Wonder if it's 40% in yet...

2026-02-21 21:44:19 CET

Back from my vacation, and one of my dogs had thrown up a sock. Not a first for her by any means, and we'd heard about it, but things got worse fast. Not keeping water down, or eating, and very weak. Wife took her to vet hospital and we're looking at a wild bill for surgery.
Mostly just thought I'd come on here and thank the much maligned folks like @nprofile…uh0e and Ledn for having built out options that make me even have the choices to think through options in addressing this very sudden need for liquidity. Definitely still a last resort option for me but just knowing it's there means I can act as quickly as is necessary.
And of course to the developers of the wallet tools we take for granted to move this magic internet money around on a daily basis to take advantage of such options.
Koda thanks you too.
https://blossom.primal.net/282f90d05dedb463ca721b3c4b6b83cbcf7838056fce78823ef3b18c833f9bae.jpg

2026-02-20 23:27:03 CET

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https://blossom.primal.net/79a74780839283de0f5009fda792cf6b9114f8cf31e6b79ca5dcb980f2444310.jpg Dinner last night on the beach.

2026-02-20 22:57:06 CET

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https://blossom.primal.net/81fd2dc425c091570d839b906e9124cac329e77c521270280542381c677218ee.mp4

2026-02-20 00:04:35 CET

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Though I guess being a real menace would have been changing my name to something that would have really had the potential to make someone question their grip on reality...

2026-02-19 23:39:25 CET

I may be a little bit of a menace @nprofile…9sr4
https://blossom.primal.net/bd694a755f03c0a77e6ce57a8777f08d46abaa1ba4b483ef45c5b736be4d5e09.jpg

2026-02-19 22:36:17 CET

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And that doesn't even count the ones who use a screenshot to steer clear of your leering back at the leerers with digital spellcasting...