Francis Mars

You mentioned that vibecoding can lead to loss of funds and mentioned the Chain Duel hack as an example of how vibecoding led to a real hack but that wasn't the case. there wasn't any component associated with chain duel that was vibe coded, and the hack wasn't related to the game. It was caused by alby hub being enabled on my umbrel without the instalation being finished, which allows anyone full access without authentication.
The timing was suspicious as it was on the day we released pubpay live and sent an article I wrote about it to my contact list and 1 hour later my node was breached.

2026-03-05 20:16:10 CET

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Funny how some men forgetful words are other man death sentence...

2026-03-05 19:19:23 CET

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Thank you for your words and I don't think you did it with bad intentions but what you said was factually incorrect and was seen by thousands of people, many of each came to ask me if your version of the story was true and is not correct or fair, it would be helpful if you would correct this mistake 💜

2026-03-05 18:32:52 CET

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You have the chance to retract and apologize to @nprofile…c70s for your comments last time on how our bad practices led us to be hacked 🙌

2026-03-04 20:03:24 CET

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No use arguing with bumi. He blamed me for the alby hub exploit that was used to hack me and accused me of being ignorant, and then blamed Ben Arc and Lnbits, when it was them that made bad architectural choices that make their users lose their funds. i was most likely hacked my some alby internal. Bumi doesn't have the capacity to apologize or to accept blame, which is normal on this industry that is so hard to get funding.

2026-02-27 23:09:53 CET

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I'm not sure, I relate more to the left side

2026-02-27 23:09:11 CET

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@grok explain this

2026-02-27 22:34:42 CET

This post was sponsored by BetterHelp
https://blossom.primal.net/d71b26e06a4e697c7e3ffbf7c5202e121725ab78789b7308bd6c9ffe518ea9dc.jpg

2026-02-27 20:27:11 CET

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"Now that we're all carpenters, who's gonna build the roads?"

2026-02-27 12:43:43 CET

Came to my old university to get my masters diploma.
I know it's seen as cooler to drop out but there's something really inspiring about watching young people trying to improve, believing in education and in themselves.

2026-02-27 10:49:51 CET

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you guys should do @nprofile…86kc for some fun times 🎉

2026-02-27 10:27:02 CET

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If you're still building digital, you’ll likely be irrelevant in a few years max.

2026-02-27 02:44:16 CET

Nothing to see here,
just a sub-agent testing a videogame it's buildinghttps://blossom.primal.net/529c419ae1c5bef80726fb18773d7359fb1c4bd5e024a61f1f98eb8dd0213a27.png

2026-02-26 18:26:27 CET

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I'm not sure which swings you're talking about, Bitcoin has been a stable coin for nearly 6 years

2026-02-26 17:58:50 CET

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Something is really worrying about mainstream media giving this kind of advice to normies

2026-02-26 16:34:57 CET

As seen on mainstream social media.
God save us all
https://blossom.primal.net/c502768ee4ed8e06a9cb8c6c75db3a83a0570fe6d7985a04015adde45600c543.jpg

2026-02-26 03:21:31 CET

you need music to vibe

2026-02-26 02:02:31 CET

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cowboy bebop 💌

2026-02-25 21:31:24 CET

https://blossom.primal.net/a589daba44b30beaad8e13a8abd3c2ab5ae983823981b5b611396b7aadf5e656.png

2026-02-25 13:31:49 CET

Sometimes I dream of a World where is not needed https://blossom.primal.net/f56b0de67bb19d03647221c86f3b3d7fdc989403b951f33b4a7ea352af219098.png

2026-02-25 03:03:59 CET

join my server
https://blossom.primal.net/a052392ebf0f490bacb103323c6609851793c7eff1e67bb44109043a729353d1.mp4

2026-02-25 01:36:53 CET

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Do you mean kind?

2026-02-25 00:41:45 CET

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Passed https://blossom.primal.net/9928067c763d941e16ec750f5a00c1a8ece371fa47582d138e857a6e9149b2e4.png

2026-02-24 21:44:45 CET

I have no clue where I'm going but I'm having fun
https://blossom.primal.net/e53d2a3d32a67c78257bb4f637dd4bc4e9db307f445d5ca8afcf5887e3619e6d.jpg

2026-02-24 17:56:56 CET

The wife will be happy today
https://blossom.primal.net/5326df4a5a6a2b26ddcd36e4573a21e794b54e85d9d97fe6da1544d6a72e74d0.jpg

2026-02-23 23:23:45 CET

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that's what she said

2026-02-23 22:50:43 CET

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It was! I saw it like 5 times ahaha

2026-02-23 22:29:50 CET

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You know that kind of guy who does nothing but bad things and then wonder why his life sucks? Well that guy was me.
I'm just trying to be a better person

2026-02-23 14:03:26 CET

Feeling cute,
might release later https://blossom.primal.net/8a8238b118b6eba9db3d2c1500114bbc1207ad2bcd956f85a4f1c4e505674670.png

2026-02-23 03:51:15 CET

Updated the map to group events
https://www.francismars.com/events/#map
https://blossom.primal.net/caf9dee1943d515d39c7b1b98480b4edc066fbdeb213c191b3eafb1a8a13c9bc.png

2026-02-22 17:46:19 CET

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I doomscrolled my way here

2026-02-21 14:29:50 CET

Few things give me more pleasure
than sitting under the sun
on a winter day
GM

2026-02-20 17:17:23 CET

I have nearly 20 people confirmed for the meetup tomorrow 👀

2026-02-20 16:16:55 CET

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Itn says mentioned event not found

2026-02-18 12:58:52 CET

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Looking forward for rush hour

2026-02-17 23:38:30 CET

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Being a romantic is a choice,
That you won't let the world break you,
But fix it instead

2026-02-17 20:08:45 CET

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You do realize you need to be constantly breathing for the rest of your life, being aware of that is not recommended

2026-02-15 14:41:38 CET

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One of the biggest tortures for a living being
is being aware of its breathing

2026-01-15 16:40:28 CET

2PAC or BIG?
https://blossom.primal.net/9e12da7756aa02f97b45c5b5375847e8e99939474ab016d6296016b1b7930515.jpg

2026-01-13 15:42:55 CET

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🤘
https://media3.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExMm1hdWhhaGY4djY5c2VlNDBzdnZhNGtlajJkMXQ5ZGMwemZpZngwdiZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/nEyNjuFxECZQ4/giphy.gif

2026-01-12 14:40:14 CET

Ogimi
https://blossom.primal.net/02d81b3f61277bb47b4ac4551dccd460466bb6548b72048344e394549befbe90.png

2026-01-11 15:13:52 CET

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I agree, grant chasing skews incentives in OSS, humans naturally respond to these incentives. And while survivor bias is real, it’s great that some of them actually make it.

2026-01-11 14:32:11 CET

Open source is often romanticized as a space where developers collaborate freely, driven by passion rather than profit. In this story, contributors are usually imagined as well-paid engineers hacking on side projects after work, generously donating their time to the commons. Sometimes that image is true. But increasingly, it is incomplete and dangerously misleading.
A significant amount of open-source software is built and maintained by people who are not financially secure. Unemployed developers, students, contributors from low-income regions, or individuals without a safety net routinely spend months or years maintaining infrastructure that others depend on. Their work powers startups, corporations, and entire ecosystems. The value they create is immense. The compensation they receive is often zero.
This asymmetry exists across the software world, but it becomes especially troubling in Bitcoin.
Bitcoin presents itself as an ethical response to a broken financial system. It promises sovereignty and an escape from extractive intermediaries. And yet, much of Bitcoin’s open infrastructure is built on the same old pattern: unpaid or underpaid labor at the base, capital accumulation at the top. The irony is hard to ignore. Poor contributors are, quite literally, helping rich people become richer.
This is not usually framed as exploitation. Contributors are told they are earning reputation, experience, or optionality. But these currencies only work if you can already afford to wait. You cannot pay rent with GitHub stars. Long-term upside is meaningless if short-term survival is not guaranteed.
Open source claims to be open to everyone. Technically, this is true. Socially and economically, it is not. The system rewards those who can afford to work for free. Time, stable housing, healthcare, and emotional safety are invisible prerequisites. What looks like meritocracy is often just privilege with good branding.
This is not a moral failure of individual contributors. Most are acting rationally. Open source is one of the few domains where barriers to entry are low, credentials are optional, and participation is global. For many, contributing is an act of hope. That hope, however, is routinely captured and monetized by actors with more capital, more stability, and more leverage.
The real failure is structural. Open source has no default mechanisms to sustain the people who maintain it. It relies on altruism to prop up systems that generate enormous economic value. When maintainers burn out, disappear, or collapse under financial pressure, the ecosystem reacts with surprise, despite having depended on their unpaid labor all along.
Bitcoin solved a profound problem in monetary design. It did not solve the problem of funding public goods. It did not eliminate power asymmetries. And it did not magically align incentives for human labor. If anything, it exposed how deeply those problems run.
And the uncomfortable truth will remain: the people building the tools of escape are often the least able to use them.

2026-01-09 12:44:21 CET

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That's precisely my idea for Bringing Bitcoin that I've been trying to get off the ground for 3 years! More recently, @nprofile…2jjt has been pushing a similar concept called Sats4Sounds

2026-01-08 22:09:37 CET

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I’ve been attending Bitcoin conferences for the last 3 years with @nprofile…86kc , putting Lightning in front of people and letting them use it. I’ve personally seen thousands of first-time Lightning payments happen.
From that perspective, the world is more ready than we think

2026-01-08 18:22:56 CET

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Thank bro 🤲🤲

2026-01-08 18:14:10 CET

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The good ones stay and you can still zap from home 😎

2026-01-08 14:50:19 CET

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ahahah sure, but there are alternatives! for people that don't want to use the QR code, just use nostr to navigate to the post and zap it directly 🤲

2026-01-08 14:37:21 CET

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Will do! https://blossom.primal.net/2a8233618fac8622dc3a5f44dc5bb686f9b70f59b1cb13cf934953c064329482.png

2026-01-08 14:27:24 CET

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Ahah cool story bro 🥂 but in this case, you're just scanning a nostr event on your own nostr client, not a random link to a website 😎

2026-01-08 14:09:32 CET

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PubPay uses kind1s for zaps, not kind 0s (yet!)
#nevent1q…jyv5

2026-01-08 14:04:23 CET

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Got it. Now what? 👀

2026-01-08 13:30:41 CET

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You clearly weren't on @nprofile…z7vd 😎
#nevent1q…z9af

2026-01-08 13:07:27 CET

Imagine this: You're on stage. A QR code appears on the screen behind you. Someone in the audience scans it and zaps you 100,000 sats. The screen explodes with an animation: their name, their avatar, spinning letters spelling "TOP ZAP." The audience sees it. More zaps come in.

2026-01-08 13:03:37 CET

@nprofile…dyk5 utilizes kind: 1 events (text notes) to represent payment requests, making them part of the social fabric of Nostr.
PubPay uses specific tags to define payment parameters, such as the amount, payer, and payment conditions. These tags make the payment request machine-readable and interoperable with other Nostr-based applications. Any client that understands these tags can display and process payment requests correctly.
This transparency ensures accountability and allows for public verification of payments through kind: 9735 events (zap receipts) linked to the original payment request.

2026-01-05 19:00:06 CET

Using NWC to zap my friend @nprofile…e5aa and help him complete his fundraiser on @nprofile…dyk5
https://blossom.primal.net/91a976adb639ed778147d05e6b6ec6f1b49e82105cef5b2571215361594c7426.mp4

2026-01-05 12:41:11 CET

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Finally someone got it 😭

2026-01-04 18:57:39 CET

The majority of Americans can't identify Venezuela on this map
https://blossom.primal.net/d8554fcf474121fa8a6c245cf24d5fb79f4f6c109d8430de44acda141f86d459.jpg

2026-01-02 12:33:59 CET

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True that is not good to be connected to nodes that won't provide you that reliability and liquidity you need.
Maybe your node is optimized to the fullest and you have nothing else to learn? If that's the case it makes no sense for you to open random channels, but that's not my situation.
> LN is not Facebook.
😂 not disagreeing but funny statement.
> "I want to help the network"
I didn't say I want to help the network.
> doing more harm than good to the whole network
I'm not sure I agree with your statement and I'm not worried about the fragility of a distributed permissionless network tbh

2026-01-01 15:21:07 CET

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inside? I'm not sure, sounds like torture to me 😅

2026-01-01 14:24:08 CET

Going to the gym on January 1st is non negotiable.

2025-12-28 21:19:34 CET

People overwhelmingly assume society is in decline even when the data suggests the opposite.

2025-12-09 23:00:48 CET

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¡Gracias por reportarlo! El problema era que el HTML no se estaba renderizando correctamente. Ya está corregido; las imágenes y videos deberían funcionar ahora. Si puedes, prueba de nuevo y avísame si sigue pasando.
https://blossom.primal.net/562bbbe35a6cfe5ac6ddbcd12610ec37d031b616cfaf3b14e9a0717ab1863b6b.png

2025-11-19 06:15:59 CET

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🤣🤣🤣

2025-11-12 22:13:32 CET

I spent my last 3 years immersed in Bitcoin culture, educating people about permissionless technologies in practical ways though @nprofile…86kc and @nprofile…dyk5.
Now, I'll share with you what I learned about Adoption.

2025-11-04 03:59:47 CET

Testing @nprofile…wywf zapraiser

2025-10-26 15:00:03 CET

For the past three years, we have been developing @nprofile…86kc , an open-source educational game that teaches Bitcoin and Lightning through play.
Presented at nearly 30 Bitcoin conferences worldwide, it has educated thousands of people by turning Lightning payments into a fun, hands-on experience. The game’s design, infrastructure, and integrations have been refined through years of feedback from the Bitcoin community, resulting in a polished and reliable platform.
However, conferences only reach a limited audience. Millions of people, especially in regions with financial repression or no access to meetups, still lack opportunities to learn about Bitcoin and freedom technologies. Our goal is to bring this experience to them.
The next phase of Chain Duel will evolve it into a global online multiplayer platform built on NOSTR for identity and coordination, and on the Lightning Network for real-time, censorship-resistant microtransactions. It will combine gameplay, education, and open-source tools to make learning Bitcoin accessible to anyone with an internet connection.

2025-10-22 19:39:45 CEST

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Builders wanted!
We’re launching a 3-month Bitcoin residency in Portugal. Mentorship, meetups, & grants included. Make impact, meet Bitcoiners, and build the future.
More details 👇
#naddr1qv…alde

2025-02-20 15:57:15 CET

sup brothers
https://m.primal.net/PEOL.jpg

2025-02-16 14:14:27 CET

The days shrink, swallowed by gray,
The cold air whispers what I won’t say.
The sun, a stranger, too far to reach,
Leaves frost where warmth once preached.
Nights stretch long, heavy with thought,
Memories echo of battles once fought.
A lonely hush hums in the air,
Filling the spaces where laughter was fair.
Yet deep beneath this frozen ground,
Roots still stir, though they make no sound.
Spring is silent, waiting unseen,
Hope survives where the frost has been.
So hold on, though the wind may bite,
Though shadows dance in dimming light.
The weight of winter will lift in time,
And you will rise with the returning shine.

2025-01-17 19:32:20 CET

NOTICE:
Girlfriends delayed till $1M
https://m.primal.net/NlNm.png

2025-01-14 11:00:27 CET

GM
https://m.primal.net/NfyE.jpg

2025-01-05 20:24:19 CET

test 2

2024-11-27 14:28:42 CET

We are all human, shaped by the beauty and frailty of our nature. Each of us is prone to mistakes, imperfections, and moments of weakness. Sin—whether seen as moral failing, selfishness, or harm caused by our actions—is a part of this shared human condition. We stumble, sometimes intentionally, other times unknowingly, driven by our desires, fears, or ignorance. This is neither unique nor shameful—it is what makes us human.
Bitcoiners, perhaps more than most, are deeply familiar with this truth: humans will act in their self-interest. Bitcoin mining, as a system, brilliantly acknowledges this reality. Mining creates a set of incentives and rules that align the self-interest of participants with the broader health of the network. Miners follow the protocol not out of altruism, but because doing so aligns with their interests. Attempting to deviate from these rules—cheating or breaking consensus—comes with costs. Cooperation is the most rational path.
This system mirrors something profound about human nature: while we are prone to selfishness, we can build structures that encourage and reward better behavior. In the same way that mining incentivizes honesty and adherence to the protocol, religious teachings have long sought to guide people toward transcending their flaws, seeking forgiveness, and striving for love and compassion. Both systems acknowledge that humans are imperfect but capable of aligning their actions with higher principles when motivated appropriately.
The beauty of Bitcoin is not that it assumes people are perfect, but that it works because we are not. It aligns incentives in a way that mirrors life’s larger lesson: while we are inherently flawed, we are capable of choosing paths that lead to greater good. Whether through faith, systems like Bitcoin, or personal growth, this striving to transcend our limitations is a testament to the resilience and potential of the human spirit. It is in forgiveness that we find peace, in love that we glimpse the eternal, and in systems like Bitcoin that we see how imperfect humans can still create something profoundly just.

2024-10-30 11:04:29 CET

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Chain Duel House 2.0 🔜🔜
#nevent1q…u283

2024-10-16 13:32:30 CEST

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funny but that would be onchain vs ecash

2024-10-15 13:16:21 CEST

Italians after one too many Aperol Spritz
https://m.primal.net/LWdo.jpg

2024-10-15 00:41:10 CEST

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Olivença in our hearts and in our maps