MiddleWay

Googled it for the first time in 2016. Learned about blockchain, wallets, first altcoins, exchange APIs, node.js, TypeScript and AWS. Built co-located high frequency market making relative value trading bot fleet before hedge funds came into play. Made a fortune. Now a bitcoin maxi and lightning dev.

2024-09-12 12:12:08 CEST

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My condolences! I lost a good friend like that ((( Awful.

2024-09-10 14:34:16 CEST

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Because northern people should not go to Spain, Italy and Greece on vacations to grill in the sun!

2024-08-25 16:49:48 CEST

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Anything that uses the Internet can be blocked.
https://www.reddit.com/r/nostr/comments/12bc801/almost_every_polular_relay_gets_banned_in_china/

2024-08-25 16:19:34 CEST

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Now they will likely proceed.
https://www.dw.com/en/spain-judge-halts-blocking-of-telegram-pending-probe/a-68653620#:~:text=A%20Spanish%20court%20has%20reversed,of%20intellectual%20property%20rights%20violations.&text=Judge%20Santiago%20Pedraz%20of%20Spain%27s,suspend%20the%20Telegram%20messaging%20app.

2024-07-24 21:11:50 CEST

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Hopefully later. says "Bitcoin and Lightning" here: https://github.com/ProtonWallet

2024-07-24 15:03:55 CEST

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is proton email address becoming lightning address? not clear if that is blockchain only...

2024-07-24 11:44:13 CEST

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Bitcoin vs Fiat slavery is one level of the Matrix. There is a much deeper quest for knowledge.
https://medium.com/@goryachev/free-will-determinism-957f8b12fb8b

2024-07-23 13:15:04 CEST

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yes

2024-07-14 12:59:12 CEST

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And if someone does not have the ability to make children? Are you trying to make them depressed? Because:
Life is not worth living.
There is no meaning to life.
No inspiration for planning and care about the future.
Decreased joy.
Life is neither novel nor exciting.
No one is innovative, surprising and imaginative.
No one shapes us into better versions of ourselves.
You won't be increasingly surrounded by life as you grow old.
You will be surrounded by death as everyone you know slowly dies.
You will certainly regret not having kids.
You are not honoring the sacrifice and suffering your ancestors had to endure by passing the torch forward.
You are dishonoring them by wasting your life on the meaningless pursuit of your own pleasure.

2024-07-14 00:01:29 CEST

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Sure, I don't use custodial wallets except SN (to lightning address), and I auto withdraw to my node. But at least Wos, Alby, etc are large centralized entities. A mint can be spun up easily by anyone, and they are mostly anonymous.

2024-07-13 14:41:30 CEST

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yes. shitcoinery

2024-07-13 14:13:51 CEST

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A cashu mint can create sats without locking actual Bitcoin (Fake Wallet https://github.com/cashubtc/nutshell/blob/f32099bce7ecca54338ebc1a551883fbdb883af2/cashu/lightning/fake.py#L31). So the zaps you receive may or may not be real, i.e. convertible to Lightning sats. So you should either zap those sats onwards, or withdraw to a real wallet asap (claim from the mint).
It this thing takes on and there will be lots and lots of such (potentially fake) sats on Nostr, this will inflate Bitcoin supply and damage it's reputation when many sats turn out unclaimable.
TLDR I hate this shitcoinery.

2024-07-11 01:45:12 CEST

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Cool. For the 0.01% node runners. The rest 99.99% will have no clue what this is about. 🤣

2024-07-08 22:35:47 CEST

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by Jeff Strand or Lionel Shriver? 🙃

2024-07-08 22:21:52 CEST

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I was resuscitated with cardiac massage at the age of 3 after not waking up from narcosis on an operation table. My rib cage is deformed since.

2024-07-08 21:52:53 CEST

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my wife hates that I don't care

2024-07-06 17:04:28 CEST

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crab person

2024-07-04 21:04:39 CEST

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made my day 🤣 https://m.primal.net/JIHo.png

2024-07-04 16:57:05 CEST

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Those are US/Canadian correspondent banks that freeze the payments, and charge ridiculous fees for their service to press a button. I was a head of international payments and documentary business at a global bank some 15 years ago. I know this kitchen very well...

2024-07-04 03:43:09 CEST

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Huh? North Korea, Russia, Iran, Afganistan, Turkey, Cuba, Venesuela, the list goes on. The state's law enforcement is just too strong and squashes any dissent at source. There is no balance. Most other countries are ruled by an illusion of freedom. What universal law? God? Been to islamic states? That's even worse. Laws is invented by state to oppress.

2024-07-03 18:08:45 CEST

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how so? laws are written by the ruling class to legitimize their oppression of the citizens.

2024-07-03 16:23:58 CEST

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My wife is a yacht broker in Europe. Every large payment from a buyer in EU to a seller in US is a nightmare recently. Correspondent banks just freeze the amounts ($0.5m or more) "to check for AML/sanctions evasion". I believe they just patch their balance sheets and earn interest, not even responding back to the sender until investigated. It takes weeks to get the necessary information to them via the sender's bank, because the whole system is crazily inefficient. They hire the dumbest employees in payments departments. I hope the rich guys will get fed up with this bullshit soon and start using Bitcoin.

2024-07-03 14:48:49 CEST

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plus, it filters through traffic to go from A to B even faster

2024-07-03 14:47:16 CEST

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exactly

2024-07-03 14:41:41 CEST

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how will you prevent radicals/fascists from applying?

2024-07-03 14:15:24 CEST

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Reminded the classichttps://m.primal.net/JGhk.jpg

2024-07-03 14:12:19 CEST

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unfortunately, state IS law

2024-07-03 12:44:00 CEST

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2024-06-29 18:02:10 CEST

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Tricolorian

2024-06-29 17:04:13 CEST

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Nothing. Hide from his sight for not to do anything differently.

2024-06-29 16:31:53 CEST

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Same thing happened to me and Revolut UK. All centralized services are traps.

2024-06-29 01:22:20 CEST

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https://m.primal.net/JBYR.png

2024-06-29 01:19:11 CEST

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Good question. Nothing good lately, except the desire to live and witness how this shit ends in 5-10 years time. Due to economy, war, AI or climate. I am 50 and retired for15 years. I hate work, taxes and material possessions. I love bitcoin do some FOSS coding for fun.

2024-06-29 00:26:37 CEST

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KYC/AML/HMRC? No, thanks.

2024-06-25 00:29:57 CEST

https://medium.com/@goryachev/the-art-of-routing-sats-e678a5c66323

2024-06-13 17:28:32 CEST

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Yes. Don't have a desk, use a sofa in front of 65'' screen, and the mouse does not track well on the sofa.

2024-06-13 01:16:21 CEST

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Oh, and an expensive canon lens with 3$ part from Ali Express. But it died again in 3 years )

2024-06-13 01:14:36 CEST

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Also fixed a dishwasher with 7€ part.

2024-06-13 01:13:09 CEST

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Hah. Fixed a dead €5000 plasma TV once by doing diagnostic and buying a high voltage block for €50 in some garage in Russia. It was out of warranty and the part impossible to find in Europe.

2024-06-08 14:09:45 CEST

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being a Bitcoin dev is me resisting

2024-01-23 12:13:20 CET

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What is driving L-BTC volume? PeerSwap adoption.

2023-11-12 02:09:57 CET

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Yes, nice feature! Prevented me from requesting a pool while the same peer has joined my triangle. Thanks for keeping up the good work!

2023-11-11 19:51:44 CET

One very educational story for a Lightning node operator:
https://medium.com/@goryachev/bitcoin-node-security-case-study-e1ca00a378b5

2023-10-08 02:25:07 CEST

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I guess more than half of those in the blue categories in fact died of old age.

2023-07-30 11:53:42 CEST

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Ditched laptop 4 years ago