El_monty

Therefore, send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee.

https://github.com/monty888 https://nostree.me/npub1t39l8e2gdq7kr7mjhe053skl7r84ryqmnhvca6xmz780u53wxf0swj0fey

Public Key

npub1t39l8e2gdq7kr7mjhe053skl7r84ryqmnhvca6xmz780u53wxf0swj0fey

NIP-05 Address

monty888.com

Profile Code

nprofile1qqs9cjlnu4yxs0tpldetuh6gct0lpn63jqdemkvward30rh72ghryhcprpmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuumwdae8gtnnda3kjctvqyxhwumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmvqywhwumn8ghj7mn0wd68yttsw43zuam9d3kx7unyv4ezumn9wsujkqdc

Publishing to

relay.snort.social

nos.lol

nostr-pub.wellorder.net

Author Public Key

npub1t39l8e2gdq7kr7mjhe053skl7r84ryqmnhvca6xmz780u53wxf0swj0fey

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Last Notes

2025-09-07 09:56:57 UTC

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Feels deserved, it is deserved!

2025-08-02 12:07:12 UTC

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Not electron(mobile anyway) or sparrow wallet and looks like core is still WIP https://github.com/bitcoin-core/secp256k1/pull/1698

2025-07-30 12:12:17 UTC

So the Tea hack includes ident verification photos that according to their own privacy policy should have been deleted immediately, something for the UK gov to think about...Nevermind free identity protection all around!

2025-07-30 07:55:54 UTC

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”and outline both immediate mitigation steps and best practices for cryptographically sound design. By revealing these cracks in a widely touted "censorship-resistant" system” - nice, constrictive criticism

2025-07-28 13:42:51 UTC

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"The app was downloaded from the Play Store (thus requiring a Google account)" - Thought they were against app store monopolies...Left ass cheek doesn't know what the right ones doing.

2025-07-10 10:29:41 UTC

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'AI' is good, it's also retarded. Would love to see the chat thread of my mum and the AI sycopant as she tries to vibe code an app though, would be glorious!

2025-06-05 11:58:20 UTC

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lol just tried asking...."Sorry, that's beyond my current scope. Let’s talk about something else." Then I asked it about how HK had changed since 1997 and it actually wrote a whole block of text and then that was replaced with the same "Sorry, that's beyond my current scope. Let’s talk about something else." message!

2025-05-29 11:05:33 UTC

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odd I only here shitcoin

2025-05-15 13:39:23 UTC

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What is coinbase self custody wallet?! This reminds me of the screen I get depositing btc to kraken where they have a ton of different shitcoin ways to deposit 'bitcoin'... I sure hope they convert that directly to real btc or are happy to suck up the counter party risk when inevitable fuckup happens

2025-05-10 09:33:10 UTC

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'Authorities highlight that even withdrawals of €800 or €900, if repeated and unexplained, may attract scrutiny.' - WTF++
'Additionally, financial institutions are now obligated to report any suspicious activity to the authorities, including frequent smaller withdrawals that fall just under the threshold, particularly when there is no clear justification for such patterns.'
https://fintechnews.ch/fintechspain/spain-strict-cash-withdrawal-rules-fines/76051/

2025-05-06 11:19:53 UTC

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Yeah I ended up doing a day tour with some taxi driver after being picked up from the blue mosque. It was actually really good but sometimes looking around in the car you are thinking where the fuck we going now..! Also had the obligatory stop at some random shop and then at the end I didn't have quite enough cash on me and the cash point we went do didn't work... Awkward!

2025-05-03 12:06:25 UTC

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Crazy traffic in Cairo, get clocked as a tourist for hesitating to walk out into 6 lanes of chaotic traffic, next thing you'll be being helped across the road and into their friends shop trying to come up for excuses not to buy a load papyrus and perfume!

2025-05-01 09:57:09 UTC

Never realised CryptoCobain co launched maxcoin shitcoin, if this is correct https://wikitia.com/wiki/CryptoCobain

2025-04-17 11:57:17 UTC

LOL Bank of England digital pound using BIP32 style HD wallets https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/17/boe_cbdc_offline_payments/ wonder how many of those developing this got themselves some BTC to play with?

2025-04-17 11:48:54 UTC

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c39jj9vkr34o cool

2025-04-09 19:09:49 UTC

So is nostrudel gone then?

2025-04-09 18:56:12 UTC

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No Shit... Though today idiot in chief actually 'truthed' a heads up to buy so everyone could get in on the inside action!

2025-03-17 18:24:11 UTC

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Just tried testing both firefox and librewolf on my system. Firefox - Your browser has a nearly-unique fingerprint.. Librewolf - Partial protection.

2025-03-07 11:36:02 UTC

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And the first reply to this is some bullshit fucking scam!

2025-03-07 11:12:47 UTC

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Lol Saylor won't be getting out of the Whitehouse!

2025-01-23 12:12:24 UTC

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Must only be bad when China implement such laws not when we copying then a few years later.

2025-01-21 09:43:14 UTC

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wBTC, they're actually retarded.

2025-01-20 22:20:35 UTC

So is Ross free yet?

2025-01-03 19:37:13 UTC

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Its actually a pretty easy read its just that a lot of the characters from different generations have the same name.. Like which Jose arcadio is this?! Maybe try a book of his short stories 1st if you haven't already?

2025-01-03 09:57:46 UTC

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Aiming to read some Gabriel Garcia Marquez in the original Spanish before end of year but I'm reading 100 years of solitude required in English again at the moment and even then its hard to keep track of all the characters!

2025-01-03 09:46:55 UTC

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Lol watched untouchables last night and just thinking how getting Capone based on his taxes had been start of the government turning the financial system into a mass surveillance system.

2024-12-10 08:15:29 UTC

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Really good chill music, bought one of their albums after hearing a tune in some eastern European/scandy crime series on Netflix I never finished.

2024-11-22 13:50:10 UTC

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Was just watching a video about how those old gas tanks were all disappearing the other day.

2024-10-20 10:23:19 UTC

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Should five percent appear too small
Be thankful, I don't take it all
Cause I'm the taxman
Yeah, I'm the taxman
George Harrisons estate going to be raking it in assuming they moved it out of the uk!

2024-10-19 11:50:50 UTC

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What they worrying about they said it has zero value in feb... https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/blog/date/2024/html/ecb.blog20240222~0929f86e23.en.html

2024-09-17 10:49:58 UTC

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Creepy, also I know it's only a patent application and so companies just put any old shit in and see what sticks but come on...If the patent office is underfunded maybe they should be able to just put fines on large firms when string together obvious shit in the hope of getting a patented.

2024-09-04 08:32:21 UTC

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If I'm looking at my phone then I'm bored.

2024-08-28 11:15:26 UTC

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Signals shitcoin makes use of SGX wonder how this effects it. Also I remember Prof Emin suggested some 2nd layer for BTC that would rely on SGX as an alternative to lightning, luckily it was a non-starter introducing a dependency on a single vendors proprietary tech.

2024-08-08 21:30:37 UTC

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Scammers going to scam.

2024-07-26 19:59:56 UTC

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You should point your nip5 to protonmail domain else this could be anyone...

2024-07-14 18:18:17 UTC

Come on then England!!

2024-07-11 14:54:28 UTC

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Me too also amethyst..

2024-07-03 11:26:27 UTC

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If you have a credit card, they already know everything about you,” said Dan Berg, 53. - For fucks sake some people have zero imagination, or maybe Dan doesn't actually go out any more and these streams are how he gets his kicks.

2024-06-30 20:26:30 UTC

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Come on England you useless pricks!

2024-06-20 11:11:36 UTC

Despite all the hype around AI, got to say that using chatgpt just now to help with some issues I was having with async python and qt was much quicker than searching the web or rooting through stackoverflow.

2024-06-18 13:10:08 UTC

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'saying that it had already been used to send 183,000 suspected cases of abuse to the National' - So how many of those were false positives?.. Also if it's flagging up pictures for manual review I wonder how many people have access to view those supposedly private pictures, and when then there's an inevitable leak I wonder how many more people will find their pictures online? Why is it that the default now is to always assume everyone is guilty of a crime rather than do some actual police work?

2024-06-16 16:03:54 UTC

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Looking forward to England at 8.

2024-05-28 08:26:59 UTC

So the gox coins finally seem to be on the move.

2024-05-13 14:14:59 UTC

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Test

2024-05-13 14:14:51 UTC

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Test

2024-05-13 14:13:24 UTC

Test

2024-05-10 14:59:00 UTC

Think I'd rather Pycharms didn't come up with suggestions rather than making shit up. Must be some AI bullshit, especailly when it doesn't seem to be able give auto completes that it should easily be able to work out!

2024-05-10 08:07:21 UTC

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Looks like its from here https://bioedge.org/beginning-of-life-issues/ivf/american-ivf-clinics-are-happily-offering-sex-selection/
Last quote in the article is comedy gold -
A psychologist – who chose the sex of her third child – told Slate that sex selection could be dangerous. The parents have ordered an ideal child – and they might feel cheated if their offspring doesn’t follow the script. “She has also seen seemingly open-minded parents who—after investing time, money, and pain into selecting their child’s sex—are devastated after their kid comes out as trans.”

2024-05-08 08:13:06 UTC

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Yeah but also seems like he was lying a lot or contradicting himself at least, maybe on purpose to cover tracks (if clever) or just boasting?... Was making 10K a day at one point then not even a millionaire next, works alone but then it actually sounds like he's just bottom of the tree.
Anyway it sounds like the kid and his friends/associates aren't going to be hard to find. Like the guys in Goodfellas when they just made the big score then they all start driving around in flash cars or buying their girlfriends expensive jewelry etc!

2024-05-04 09:56:01 UTC

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Wonder if they'll start wondering why they keep getting request for their nostr nip5 json!

2024-05-02 19:06:52 UTC

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You given nostrudel a try?

2024-05-02 10:59:40 UTC

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I just took a look at the https://tumblr.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4417356885527-Tipping page on how to set up tips.
Min tip $1
You need to set up a KYC'd account with Stripe (so probably geo restricted, at least to only places where stripe operates) and anyway how is it normal that to use a service you have to open an account with their banking partner?
You don't get the tips till they reach $25
You need to be 18+yrs to use?!
Depending where you live >1% cut is taken from each tip
Hopefully we can do better!
For example it should be possible to tip a nostr account without a nostr account and with any bitcoin wallet support lightning payments.... Though I just tried tipping your post not signed in via nostrudel but couldn't get the payment request to come up.

2024-05-02 08:37:03 UTC

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Tumblr still exists?!

2024-04-29 14:40:29 UTC

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Sounds good, definitely better if US companies/citizens stepped up. Especially as when/if the US gov drags anyone to court,they might argue that none of those protections apply to non US citizens, pretty sure they already do that in the case of surveillance.

2024-04-27 06:47:35 UTC

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Especially seems once you cross the line into running a business/making profit you really want to listening to those lawyers, even if they're telling you things you don't want to hear. Wasabi devs might have got some shit but at least they're not on a plane to the states... Many of those mouthing off probably aren't really taking any personal risks themselves.

2024-04-26 16:07:15 UTC

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Seems an overreaction but can't blame people not wanting to get extradited to US then spending years fighting a possible lengthy jail sentence for writing some software.

2024-04-26 14:06:37 UTC

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Udi tried guess he just couldn't get enough engagement. Sad!

2024-04-26 09:51:05 UTC

https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/25/samourai_wallet_laundering_charges/
'Again, this service is typically sought by people who don't want the police to know what their tokens are being used for, or what they did to acquire them.' - Odd, don't think The Register would go with the same angle if this was a tool for private messaging.

2024-04-26 08:08:17 UTC

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The way that is written really sounds as if they're implying that using any cryptocurrency using software that doesn't KYC means you're immediately doing something suspicious or near illegal.

2024-04-26 07:47:50 UTC

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Nice fees are low so there's money to spend again

2024-04-24 20:00:42 UTC

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Now I'll have to look up what the actual definition is for a honeypot is!

2024-04-24 19:56:40 UTC

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Guess they weren't a honeypot after all.

2024-04-21 10:13:24 UTC

Lol still over £200 in lighting channels my side but 0 to spend, guess that's those high base fees.

2024-04-19 16:35:26 UTC

Basically got NIP44 encryption working in python https://github.com/monty888/monstr so think I'll quit whilst I'm ahead for today.

2024-04-19 16:32:55 UTC

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Glad you decided to hang around on nostr for a little longer! lol

2024-04-18 12:41:47 UTC

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Sounds like the problem isn't the adverts, they could have a subscription with no adds and free with adds. It's the spying and selling user data on and making that the choice for the free version. I'm cool with them being told to go fuck themselves!

2024-04-18 12:35:19 UTC

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What about Tor relays? They don't require a .com but maybe would be better with specific low data/text only clients?

2024-04-15 15:10:47 UTC

doing something dumb... Anyone any clue why the following python code isn't coming out to match the keys as NIP44 at https://github.com/paulmillr/nip44/blob/main/nip44.vectors.json
from cryptography.hazmat.primitives.hashes import SHA256
from cryptography.hazmat.primitives.kdf.hkdf import HKDF
import secp256k1
def get_conversion_key(priv_k:str, pub_k:str):
the_priv: secp256k1.PrivateKey = secp256k1.PrivateKey(privkey=bytes.fromhex(priv_k))
print(f'using priv: {the_priv.private_key.hex()}')
the_pub: secp256k1.PublicKey = secp256k1.PublicKey(pubkey=bytes.fromhex('02'+pub_k), raw=True)
print(f'using pub_k: {the_pub.serialize().hex()}')
tweaked_key: secp256k1.PublicKey = the_pub.tweak_mul(the_priv.private_key)
print(f'tweaked {tweaked_key.serialize().hex()}')
h = HKDF(algorithm=SHA256(),
length=32,
salt=b'nip44-v2',
info=None)
con_key = h.derive(key_material=tweaked_key.serialize()[1:])
print(f'conversion k: {con_key.hex()}')
get_conversion_key(priv_k='315e59ff51cb9209768cf7da80791ddcaae56ac9775eb25b6dee1234bc5d2268',
pub_k='c2f9d9948dc8c7c38321e4b85c8558872eafa0641cd269db76848a6073e69133')

2024-04-12 15:34:29 UTC

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Prick should have bought BSV then. Just another degenerate gambler, probably one day we'll all be buying up his sats cheap...

2024-04-12 08:10:05 UTC

Started trying to implement NIP44 in python, shouldn't be too tricky but like always I'm getting different key values generated to start with, obvs doing something stupid...

2024-04-12 07:57:51 UTC

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Morning here, but still good to help get going! lol

2024-04-10 09:50:57 UTC

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Nice. Done on GrapheneOS. First time I searched for it I accidentally typed unobtainable and stumbled across an old shitcoin!

2024-04-04 14:16:18 UTC

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Keanus brain storage is not big!

2024-03-30 11:33:51 UTC

Let the hate flow flow though you Molly!
https://www.theguardian.com/global/commentisfree/2024/mar/28/sam-bankman-fried-prison-crypto-regulation
Admittedly it's a shame that coinbase became a complete casino with a facade of legitimacy whereas it used to be a pretty safe place to recommend for new people. Anyone that was wiring cash to MtGox though should have known the risk, and anyone with a ounce of sense shouldn't have trusted FTX and Sam especially so the regulators and politicions (Looking at you Bill and Blair... Bet that was a nice paycheck!)

2024-03-29 19:53:38 UTC

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Mans been busy, going to need to check their commit history...

2024-03-29 09:12:03 UTC

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Wonder if its cause it works under some conditions and there is no indication that there is a paywall, for example I can see it.
Any way https://web.archive.org/web/20240329025608/https://www.wired.com/story/deaths-of-effective-altruism/

2024-03-28 12:48:31 UTC

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UK should send him home.

2024-03-28 09:42:26 UTC

Just ordered this book https://hackaday.com/2022/08/05/books-you-should-read-the-hardware-hackers-handbook/ Feel like it'd be good to get an understanding of hardware that I've always avoided. Interestingly in the comments I see this book makes an example of extracting the key from a trezor one (Though maybe this won't work any longer...)
Also this site seems to be really useful too.

2024-03-26 11:11:52 UTC

Off to watch Dune 2 on Imax later

2024-03-26 11:10:25 UTC

Why does anyone use LinkedIn?

2024-03-26 11:03:28 UTC

Just looked at cointelegraph for the first time in years... Easy to see why people hate crypto.

2024-03-26 07:57:47 UTC

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Clementine on the computer, Poweramp on android, and music player on graphene.

2024-03-24 08:43:59 UTC

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The bits about compliance lol

2024-03-19 09:41:40 UTC

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Thanks, back and already planning next trip there!

2024-03-19 09:38:33 UTC

Just tried to renew domain, they use coinbase commerce, yuk. You get the option to use coinbase account, nope or some weird thing they call self custody but still seems to involve downloading some shitty coinbase app. Just used debit card in the end.

2024-03-19 09:30:57 UTC

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developer punk3700 - guaranteed idiot just going by the nym.

2024-02-23 19:48:07 UTC

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’could care less’ sad he's definitely not English!

2024-02-22 20:48:15 UTC

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Good work. For those who don't have twitter this nitter instance worked for me today...Maybe it'll still be working tomorrow...
https://nitter.esmailelbob.xyz/CryptoDevil

2024-02-20 21:13:53 UTC

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Try this https://proton.me/support/pay-with-bitcoin

2024-02-20 21:12:58 UTC

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I dont think you do it in quite the same way. You add credit then convert that into the subscription.

2024-02-20 20:44:04 UTC

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You can already pay for proton mail with btc. I always do.

2024-02-20 19:14:29 UTC

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Sounds like it, and if someone is using the old version of the app they'll still be able to find you so backend hasn't changed at all.

2024-02-18 20:34:22 UTC

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Ninja suit 🤣 Why sign anything when you have evidence like that?!

2024-02-17 11:34:32 UTC

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Lol, so like having to open a bank account with the same bank as each shop you ever want to use! Such vision.

2024-02-17 10:20:26 UTC

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What's this mean? The only way for a merchant to accept payment is if customer also has coinbase account?!

2024-02-17 08:26:20 UTC

Heading to Japan for a few weeks. Looks like BTC already at ATH against the yen 😃

2024-02-15 16:00:36 UTC

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Justin still around, thought they'd rounded up most of the twats from last bull market. Shame.

2024-02-14 22:39:37 UTC

CSW bad with both code and words it seems. Also faces and names! 🤣

2024-02-14 18:16:38 UTC

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And the odds of being passed on to the CPS just got that little bit better!

2024-02-09 22:30:33 UTC

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Yeah way too much of craigs nonsense in there. Also 'But because COPA is the plaintiff, it must demonstrate that Wright is not who he claims to be' - wrong, as usual another journalist completely out of their depth.