Marc

In A Cypherpunk's Manifesto, Erik Hughes wrote "Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world."
If I reveal a Monero address I do not selectively reveal it to the world. I must always reveal my monero address to the world. What are the second order effects of this?
The Bitcoin maxis will get pissed off and call me a "shitcoiner".
I must call the Bitcoin maxi a "retard"
Now we're back to a tribalistic, closed society. This is just the nerds fighting. If a cop finds your phone with a monero address the cop will assume you sell crack, not buy pecan butter.
A lightning address looks like an email address. It does not reveal what chain where my UTXO's exist. There are exceptions, but most people outside of the NSA don't know how to exploit those exceptions.
My preferred UTXO chain is not revealed. Maybe I am a stable coin accepting idiot, but you'll never know.

2026-09-04 12:29:42 UTC

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Thank you. ☺️

2026-09-04 01:18:08 UTC

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Thanks. I can't believe I missed this one.

2026-09-04 01:12:49 UTC

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Thanks for sharing. I haven't read it all yet. I'll listen to it on Boris tomorrow.
This makes me want to write my own article about stablecoins now.
Basically, #bitcoin is the invisible hand Adam Smith wrote about.
Stablecoins are the debasement Adam Smith wrote about(visible hand).
I don't think the invisible hand is about markets. It's about the money behind the markets.
Most people will prefer the government stamp of approval stablecoins represent, the visible hand.
People who are aware of the correlation between money printing and hyperinflation will choose bitcoin. That's just not many people. We just need to accept that. I don't like it. I kind of feel sorry for people who trust the government(regardless of which team is in power) but that's out of my control.

2026-09-03 23:40:12 UTC

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I just learned about it recently, but the lightning network has always had this capability. Elizabeth Stark talked about atomic swaps in 2018.

2026-09-03 19:45:11 UTC

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The thing is you can just accept stablecoins with a lightning address. The national debt was a huge reason I got into Bitcoin, but some people seem to think this is a good thing. Don't ask me why.

2026-09-03 19:42:40 UTC

I don't think adding any on-chain addresses is conducive to an open society.
The lightning network offers privacy. An XMR address, Bitcoin address, stablecoin address, etc. is not private in my opinion.
You could use liquid to hide your stablecoin balance and I'm not claiming that anyone can track monero.
An XMR address signals that you accept monero.
A stable coin address signals that you accept stable coins.
A lightning address is like an email address.
You can theoretically accept monero with a lightning address.
You can use https://breez.technology/glow to accept stable coins.
The difference is nobody needs to know you're a USD stablecoin maxi if your zaps get atomically swapped to electronic fiat.
Adding on chain addresses signals that you accept monero or whatever. That causes tribalism, mystical thinking, arguing, and a closed society.

2026-09-03 19:21:26 UTC

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I don't mind as long as they're called US National debt bucks.

2026-09-03 11:32:33 UTC

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Have you posted any videos on Divine like Taco Bell 🌮?

2026-09-03 10:55:15 UTC

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Thank you. That guy was featured in Tim Ferris's Tools Of Titans. I didn't know he did this.

2026-09-03 01:34:05 UTC

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What was this?

2026-09-03 01:03:11 UTC

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I see it as sort of a fractional reserve system. To be fair, Cashu has the same potential. There are so e promising developments that might help, but it's too early to tell.
That's not my biggest problem with adding a Monero address to a nostr identity though.

2026-09-02 19:55:21 UTC

#artstr
https://blossom.primal.net/72a7941d67c87d59533365ac08899ea6e1c8c0f4bda24636033ac378ca9392a1.jpg

2026-09-02 13:20:54 UTC

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👀

2026-09-02 13:07:21 UTC

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Really? That's interesting. :)

2026-09-02 13:05:24 UTC

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Future Zap Cooking recipe?

2026-09-02 12:49:24 UTC

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Anyway, it's not a good idea to fill that kind of shit out.
https://www.irs.gov/compliance/criminal-investigation/fraud-alert-fake-irs-letters-target-cryptocurrency-holders

2026-09-02 12:48:07 UTC

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No, but I remember they asked for addresses on my tax form.

2026-09-02 11:14:31 UTC

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What happened to the shipping container? I thought you lived in one of those for a while. I always thought that was a great idea.

2026-09-02 01:10:50 UTC

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How many days is it worth?

2026-09-02 01:10:13 UTC

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These bots are getting ridiculous.

2026-09-02 00:44:48 UTC

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Absolutely.

2026-09-01 19:13:47 UTC

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Is there a way to atomic swap all shitcoins to sats yet?

2026-09-01 18:01:35 UTC

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You thought less than 100,000 blocks was late?

2026-09-01 16:45:50 UTC

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It's something I have wanted for 6 years.
It's amazing I can even do it now.

2026-09-01 16:03:56 UTC

I'm working on a monthly subscription webpage that uses ZapPlanner to create subscriptions paid in sats.
I don't want X bucks.
I don't want Zuckerberg bucks.
Pay me in #bitcoin.

2026-08-31 23:01:37 UTC

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What do you do? Your website seems to be down.

2026-08-31 22:21:01 UTC

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You guys are on fire.

2026-08-31 22:18:43 UTC

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Did you catch the game last night?
Me neither.

2026-08-31 20:44:04 UTC

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This kind of blew my mind. I run gitea on a server, but it's useless if my electricity goes out.
Now I want to try this.

2026-08-31 16:23:54 UTC

#artstr
https://blossom.primal.net/3aefd08938783c731ebe4a78d94e954ed07d302e01a157975bf84560ae6fcc67.jpg
https://media.divine.video/2ed99404196d58039ae765a69829c6aaca9eb171f8e75c52dcdde2b6f03dfb95

2026-08-31 11:50:39 UTC

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I'm still a dummy about relays. I'm not sure what the difference between an inbox and our oz is or what relays I should or should not use.

2026-08-31 11:47:00 UTC

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That's a great way to look at it.

2026-08-31 00:47:50 UTC

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Did you mean grandparents?

2026-08-30 23:07:50 UTC

Square is doing some serious #bitcoin as a medium of exchange marketing. I've been waiting for something like this for a dozen years.
https://youtu.be/r6kEoQPGRoc?is=ssrMsATzEZviSnAE

2026-08-30 22:27:05 UTC

#artstr https://npub1marc26z8nh3xkj5rcx7ufkatvx6ueqhp5vfw9v5teq26z254renshtf3g0.blossom.band/72b706bb64d972d8322d23532d36a98c95e036fb3e213500e34809fefa103cf0.jpg

2026-08-30 11:56:43 UTC

Good morning.
https://blossom.primal.net/b77bfee3ef0fc783d546392e87b9d4608a60b1902fdd171e85af4d32250a3f79.jpg

2026-08-29 19:30:29 UTC

We buy coffee ☕
Micro buys fiat💵
#nevent1q…68af

2026-08-29 17:35:04 UTC

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I did see a bitcoin writer sing @npub12ez…afkm Shanties in 2022 though. That was interesting.

2026-08-29 13:35:09 UTC

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This reminds me of the Glow wallet.

2026-08-29 13:06:48 UTC

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That song sucks. Sorry, not sorry.

2026-08-29 11:43:42 UTC

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I made one of these with a lightning QR code I called it the sat swear jar.

2026-08-29 03:33:55 UTC

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Legend.

2026-08-28 22:21:16 UTC

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Fuck that's a crazy perspective.

2026-08-28 19:53:37 UTC

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What's next? Commode of America?

2026-08-28 11:34:29 UTC

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Dead naming lakes is like the least important news I have ever heard about in my life.

2026-08-28 11:32:20 UTC

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That seems like a W to me. Most of my meetups were solo.

2026-08-27 23:39:23 UTC

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When dumb shit like this gets reported I check the AP News To See what they don't want anyone to know.
https://blossom.primal.net/169842561e77edec1a0aeb7933886a2c9f3bab289df318e749e630e5d64905b9.jpg

2026-08-27 20:13:07 UTC

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I don't think I could even name one great lake. If the names can be changed on a whim, I'm glad I didn't waste any time memorizing them.

2026-08-27 20:07:04 UTC

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That's a pretty gnarly threat model though. The NSA would really need to be pissed off at you to pull that off.

2026-08-27 19:51:13 UTC

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Thanks for reminding me.

2026-08-27 19:50:20 UTC

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Got it.

2026-08-27 11:45:05 UTC

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The aeropress is my favorite way to drink coffee. I want a burr mill. Never thought about a hand powered one.

2026-08-27 11:41:00 UTC

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It looks good to me. Google doesn't know what they are talking about.

2026-08-27 11:39:09 UTC

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I use the coffee grinder at Costco. Not coffee advice.im thinking about buying a real grinder, but I'm not sure what to get.

2026-08-27 00:42:21 UTC

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Hot air balloons are neat.

2026-08-26 23:46:41 UTC

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Me too. This gives me the heebee jeebees, but I don't quite understand why yet. WTF is X money? That sounds like a dystopian monero.

2026-08-26 18:14:36 UTC

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These are awesome.

2026-08-26 18:02:27 UTC

Napster was my introduction to p2p. This is awesome!
#nevent1q…qt2u

2026-08-26 17:56:06 UTC

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In 1999, I had a Napster T-shirt and bumper sticker. 🤟

2026-08-26 16:26:53 UTC

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What type of addresses do Anchor watch use? Native Segwit, Taproot, etc?
Is KYC info encrypted?
If someone is robbed, and Anchowatch finds the culprit, is there a way the victim get their Bitcoin back?
Have you considered offering insurance to nocoiners who may have a high net worth, but no Bitcoin?
Will more signing devices be made available? I'm not a fan of ledger and I kind of feel bad for asking for cold card support now.😢

2026-08-26 16:21:31 UTC

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Right, but I mean nostr helps protect against the companies like Meta who do all sorts of harm to children and desire to create KYC rails to get the pedos in charge to enforce their monopoly on children's social media addict.

2026-08-26 15:08:14 UTC

I don't talk about it much, but this is one of the biggest reasons I use nostr, to ...check notes...
✅ Protect the children
https://blossom.primal.net/a0977f15d511c97d88b99dba5e230e37831bf7b5be24d4ae62dd05334725c3d4.jpg

2026-08-26 14:44:27 UTC

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Oh. It's such a bad con, I can't even see why people fall for it. 🤷

2026-08-26 14:10:23 UTC

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Thanks for sharing. I went to the conference that year, but didn't catch this. I also had no idea that people think debt backed bucks is a good idea, especially when the national debt is already bigger than the entire gold market cap and Bitcoin marketcap combined.
Given that, what the hell are they going to pay it back with?

2026-08-26 13:49:14 UTC

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I've been writing a think boi article comparing bitcoin/sats to physical, metal coins.
My thesis is that the year stamped on physical coins is a time-stamp designed to verify a certain quantity of metal at a certain time.
The Bitcoin network is a time-stamp server that stamps electronic coins approximately every 10 minutes, but it verifies ownership via digital signatures instead of a quantity of metal.
I don't think Bitcoin is energy. Sure it requires energy to stamp stuff, but we don't say nickels are energy because mints use electricity. We don't say nickels are energy because E=mc². Bitcoin is an electronic coin as Satoshi described.

2026-08-26 13:24:26 UTC

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I don't know. Charts are dumb. I don't waste much time on them.

2026-08-26 13:03:36 UTC

Stablecoin printers go brrrrrr.
#nevent1q…5uxs

2026-08-26 12:33:22 UTC

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It worked!
https://blossom.primal.net/2e9171b3a6499575970d8775a28b5a5855ffeab9d84c917ff59b1ceae0d5cd2b.jpg

2026-08-26 12:20:05 UTC

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I want a USD/SATS chart, number go down technology. Maybe I should vibe it 🤔

2026-08-26 12:18:22 UTC

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I live in the US and thought the same thing. When times get tough, and politicians mandate people to camps, life goes on, nobody cares.

2026-08-26 12:10:58 UTC

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Beautiful.

2026-08-26 12:09:19 UTC

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Nostr reminds me of Myspace. It's why I like it. Maybe I'm just old.

2026-08-26 12:06:52 UTC

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Venezuela was about "cocaine," not putting the Nobel Peace Prize winner in office, nor the oil the US sized. It was about cocaine. Maduro is a bad guy for legitimate reasons, but that's not what any of this is about. The US has a 40 trillion dollar problem it thinks it can solve by stealing assets.

2026-08-26 12:01:54 UTC

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Oh that explains why so many people I talked to bitcoin about in 2014 seem to have so much animosity towards me.

2026-08-26 11:52:43 UTC

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Tarrifs are retarted, but the US has one dude making all these decisions. The Republic is dead. Sorry.

2026-08-26 11:40:06 UTC

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That's what I thought. In the US we have the option to scan our faces at the airport. We can refuse, but we still have to show ID.
Why would anyone use Monero for this?

2026-08-25 23:36:11 UTC

Holy crap Batman!
I added a button that opens my article and reads it out loud using TTS in the Boris App. 🤯
#nevent1q…dztx

2026-08-25 21:42:32 UTC

Great article. I've already began using some of @nprofile…58km 's tips to vibe code. Because I listened to it using TTS on his Boris app. 👂
Grug Speak, Grug Outside, Grug Happy
https://njump.to/naddr1qq3xwun4vukhxur9v94j6emjw4nj6mm4w3ekjer994nhyat8945xzurs0ypzqmjxss3dld622uu8q25gywum9qtg4w4cv4064jmg20xsac2aam5nqvzqqqr4gueccs3v

2026-08-25 16:05:27 UTC

+1
#nevent1q…naua

2026-08-25 11:36:23 UTC

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What if the dollar is collapsing? How would you know?

2026-08-25 11:35:48 UTC

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What clients support this feature?

2026-08-25 00:45:24 UTC

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Maybe I should make a video. 🤔

2026-08-24 22:09:29 UTC

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Yes!
I heard you mention this before.
I'm glad they're doing it.
Is it on GitHub? I made a Cashu greeting card website a while back. I would like to see if non-bitcoin nerds find it useful. 😀

2026-08-24 21:21:30 UTC

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https://napstr.net/
Here's the repository.
https://github.com/lnbits/napstr

2026-08-24 21:17:19 UTC

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He has more grandkids than regrets.

2026-08-24 21:10:48 UTC

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My dad will be 86 next month. I don't think he gave up on life, but I also realize the math means he doesn't have much time left. That makes me a little sad, but I also feel lucky to have had him in my life for so long.

2026-08-24 21:03:58 UTC

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I see what you're getting at, but I would rather assume the Republic failed and we are experiencing the aftermath.

2026-08-24 20:57:21 UTC

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I didn't think you were against the second amendment. 😅

2026-08-24 19:32:52 UTC

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That's probably why the Supreme Court banned TikTok.🤦

2026-08-24 19:08:03 UTC

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Even if she killed them because she was mentally ill, that's not a reason to let a mentally ill murderer free.

2026-08-24 19:06:52 UTC

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Wait, so some people support abortion after birth for whatever reason?
The kids weren't pointing a shotgun at her or anything?
That's pretty crazy.

2026-08-24 18:56:23 UTC

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I have no idea who this is or what it's about.

2026-08-24 18:52:15 UTC

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You just pay the SATs and write down the password (or put it in a password manager)
Does that help?
I also vibe coded my own NIP05, yesterday using Shakespeare and the Cloudflare easy button.
Someone also wrote an article that teaches you how to do it manually. I have no idea who it was, but I hear he was pretty good looking. ;)
#naddr1qq…6e0k

2026-08-24 18:43:41 UTC

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Beautiful.

2026-08-24 18:42:38 UTC

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At least on Android.

2026-08-24 18:42:14 UTC

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Disable it. Amethyst allows you to choose a lightning wallet if you don't have a wallet setup.