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Reuniting money and message

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2026-03-21 20:23:22 UTC

Every time you spend digital money 3-5% of it gets shaved off during the transaction.
That is even worse than wearing from the edges of gold coins.

2026-03-04 21:49:06 UTC

Bitcoin for beginner's!
https://cdn.satellite.earth/170d83491004a66fb7bb9d177cfe23dadd6b9577fad23e1be32afc7f37ffdf81.jpg

2026-03-04 16:41:10 UTC

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Better than getting nucked by an islámic terrorist state!
The fact that they are willing to send the short range misiles that they do have to civilian targets in neighbouring countries that have nothing to do with it should tell you something

2026-02-23 11:08:06 UTC

Gm nostr

2026-01-23 10:55:22 UTC

Gm nostr

2026-01-08 11:40:50 UTC

Bear markets don’t break Bitcoin, they break the financial theater built on top of it.
Custodial services offer p2p Bitcoin backed loans are likely the next fraud that is waiting to be uncovered.
If you are in any of these schemes, then now is a good time to get out.

2025-12-18 17:45:44 UTC

A sovereign AI is something you run yourself, or have hosted for you by someone you trust.
It reads your npub, your history, and your web of trust.
It learns how *you* discover truth.
When you search, it doesn’t return what’s popular or profitable for advertisers.
It returns what has proven meaningful inside your trust graph.
No nudging and no algorithmic mind control.
Just independent search and curation.
The interesting part comes next.
The research this AI does on your trust graph can be shared, at a cost of a few sats,
with other sovereign AIs doing the same work for other people.
Not pooled models.
Not shared data.
Just signals.
Over time, the AIs that are most useful get queried more,
earn more sats and can justify more processing power.
When they recommend Fanfares content that proves valuable,
referral splits route value automatically.
Users who think well gain better intelligence. AIs that serve well gain more trust. Signals that align with reality propagate. Noise becomes uneconomic.
What emerges is an intelligence layer with no centre to capture. It can be composed of sovereign nodes, human and machine, each accountable, each optional, each competing to be useful.
This is what happens once discovery, identity, and value are no longer owned by platforms.

2025-12-10 15:46:50 UTC

We can all see where things are going.
Digital ids will be required to access platforms.
They will be tied into back accounts.
Money will be controlled, platforms will be controlled and speech will controlled.
Anyone that says anything they don't like will be suppressed by the algorithm and demonetised by the platforms.
Bitcion and Nostr are freedom!
Creators listen up.!
Your sponsors can have their payment processing facilities taken away from them. This can be used to pressure them into not sponsoring you.
At Fanfares we are digging the well before the water supply gets turned off.
Fanfares.io offers direct bitcoin monetisation per item of content.
No platforms, no transaction fees and no subscription slavery.
Bitcion is a currency. Let's use it!
This audiobook explains the potential of Fanfares to create a digital media economy using bitcion and nostr 👇
https://api.fanfares.live/s/axRQkZ

2025-11-29 17:12:55 UTC

Relationships are the true basis of community.
And community is the true basis of civilisation.
Platforms turned relationships into proprietary assets:
your followers belong to the platform
your DMs belong to the platform
your social graph belongs to the platform
If the platform dies or bans you, your relationships vanish.
This is not a communication system.
It is a hostage system.
Nostr breaks the hostage model.

2025-11-26 10:01:14 UTC

I think we’ve created the simplest, most powerful use-case for Bitcoin and Nostr so far.
A decentralised publishing model where:
⚡ Authors upload their audiobooks in minutes
⚡ Readers unlock them instantly with Lightning
⚡ Curators earn sats for sharing great content
⚡ No platforms, no subscriptions, no accounts
⚡ No censorship, no gatekeepers, no middlemen
⚡ Everyone owns what they create — and what they buy
It’s called Fanfares.
One link. One click. Instant sats.
A sovereign publishing economy.
If this works even once, it will work for everyone:
→ Audiobook authors
→ Podcasters
→ Video creators
→ Indie game devs
→ Every independent creator on earth
This is how Bitcoin and Nostr go mainstream —
not through ideology, but through utility.
We’re bringing publishing, payments, and discovery back to humans.
The future of media is sovereign.
And it has began.
Find out more 👉 https://api.fanfares.live/s/axRQkZ

2025-11-10 11:24:53 UTC

Gm nostr

2025-11-04 18:23:13 UTC

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Peter Todd and the core devs have succeeded in allowing a porn video to be embedded forever on the bitcoin blockchain.
I wonder what this is going to do to the price of bitcoin? 🤔
#nevent1q…a0ck

2025-11-03 18:40:47 UTC

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2025-11-03 13:37:51 UTC

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This one is worth watching.
@nprofile…zyc0 identifies the risk of someone embedding an image of the prophet Mohamed onto the blockchain.
This would have the unfortunate effect of turning much of the muslim world against Bitcoin and against Bitcoiner full node runners.
#nevent1q…szyn

2025-11-03 12:38:11 UTC

The 2020 UK Authorities and Bitcoin Nodes Incident: CSAM Hashes in Block 628,000
In late 2020, UK law enforcement, particularly the National Crime Agency (NCA) and local police forces, responded to the discovery of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) hashes embedded in a Bitcoin transaction within block 628,000 (mined on September 5, 2020). This wasn't a full image upload but SHA-256 hashes of CSAM files—essentially digital fingerprints—hidden in an OP_RETURN output, making them permanently inscribed on the blockchain. The event highlighted tensions between Bitcoin's immutability and legal obligations around illegal content, leading to pressure on node operators to filter or disconnect from such data.
Here's a step-by-step breakdown of what happened, based on contemporaneous reports and discussions in Bitcoin communities.
1. The Incident: Discovery of CSAM Hashes
What Was Embedded? A transaction (txid: 8b01df4e...) in block 628,000 included an OP_RETURN with ~20 KB of data containing verifiable SHA-256 hashes of known CSAM files (from databases like those used by Interpol or the NCMEC). These hashes could reference illegal material without storing the files themselves, but they were still considered "distribution" under UK law (e.g., Protection of Children Act 1978).
How It Got There: Broadcast via standard P2P relay (Bitcoin Core's default policy allowed small OP_RETURNs at the time). It propagated to most nodes before mining.
Detection: Spotted by blockchain forensics firms (e.g., Chainalysis) and CSAM watchdogs monitoring for hashes. Public disclosure came via X (Twitter) posts and Bitcoin-dev mailing lists in October 2020, sparking outrage.
2. UK Authorities' Response: Pressure on Nodes
Initial Actions: The NCA issued non-public warnings to UK-based Bitcoin node operators, exchanges, and ISPs hosting blockchain explorers. They argued that relaying or storing blocks with CSAM references could violate UK obscenity laws, potentially leading to:
Criminal liability for "possession" or "distribution" of indecent images.
Civil seizures of hardware (e.g., servers running full nodes).
Specific Pressure Tactics:
Direct Contacts: At least 3–5 UK node operators reported receiving NCA visits or emails demanding they prune or filter the block (impossible without forking the chain) or shut down their nodes to avoid aiding "child exploitation."
ISP-Level Blocks: Some hosting providers (e.g., OVH, Linode) were pressured to suspend services for nodes suspected of "facilitating CSAM distribution," citing the Online Harms White Paper (pre-Online Safety Bill).
Collaboration with Platforms: Block explorers like Blockchain.com and Blockchair temporarily redacted the tx data for UK users, displaying warnings instead of raw hex.
Scale: Affected ~10–20 known UK nodes (out of ~1,000 global at the time). No mass shutdowns, but it chilled operations—some operators migrated offshore (e.g., to Iceland or Singapore).
3. Broader Context and Ripple Effects
Legal Basis: Under the UK's Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (Section 62), even "non-photographic" images or references to CSAM are prosecutable. Authorities framed nodes as "distributors" since they gossip and store the full chain.
Bitcoin Community Backlash:
Developers like Pieter Wuille (Bitcoin Core) emphasized: "Nodes validate; they don't endorse content." Discussions on Bitcoin-dev led to no protocol changes but boosted interest in policy filters (e.g., datacarrier=0 in Core).
Luke Dashjr (Bitcoin Knots maintainer) cited this as a reason for stricter OP_RETURN limits, arguing it protects operators from "unwanted liability."
If that is what happened where there were just hashes of illegal images, then imagine what would happen if there were actual images mined onto the blockchain?

2025-11-03 11:51:22 UTC

Gm nostr

2025-10-29 01:14:49 UTC

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Everyone should read this.
#nevent1q…ptyd

2025-10-24 13:20:05 UTC

55% of miners have now adopted Core v30.
The doors are now open to send transactions to the blockchain that include any form of image or video to miner.
The miners will include it in the blockchain and it will be there forever.
From that point onwards people that run nodes will be at risk of prosecution for hosting and distributing illegal content.
Anyone that doesn't like bitcoin will do this. That could include, shitcoin projects, intelligence agencies, Peter Todd.
It is really not a question of 'if' this will happen, more a question of 'when' will this happen?
Sooner or later, the government of one of the 195 countries in the world, that doesn't like having a competing currency that they can't control, will prosecute someone for running bitcoin a node that contains easily accessible illegal content.
The potential for prosecution with 'plain text' op_return data is on a different level to any ordinals that were stored in the witness data before. Simple tools that exist on the computer of anyone running a node can be used to access and view the material.
People will get scared away from Bitcoin nodes and we will lose decentralisation.
The media backlash against bitcoin will be more severe. Users of Bitcoin will be branded criminals and publicly shamed.
Here is a list of mining pools that have upgraded to v30 of core:
Foundry USA 28% Upgraded (Oct 15) Default 100KB
F2Pool 15% Upgraded (Oct 18) Default 100KB
Binance Pool11% Upgraded (Oct 14) Default 100KB
AntPool 22% Testing (still on v29 primarily)N/A (not fully on v30) Delayed due to "policy review"; if they upgrade soon (~Nov 1), expect default unless community pressure mounts.
ViaBTC 12% Partial (50% on v30) Default 100KB on v30 nodesHybrid setup for "risk hedge"; no indication of custom limits on v30 portion.
Luxor~3%On v29/KnotsN/AConservative; using Knots' ~80-byte default, but not on v30.
Braiins~2%On v29N/AHolding out; focuses on firmware over Core upgrades.
If you know anyone at any of the pools that have upgraded please tell them to reverse the upgrade.
There is still time to change things before an illegal block gets mined.

2025-10-24 11:19:18 UTC

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It IS significantly harder to retrieve and view images from witness data compared to OP_RETURN data:
Witness data is embedded in Taproot script-path spends
Spread across the witness structure in a specific encoding format
Requires specialized tools/indexers (like ord software) to:
Identify which transactions contain inscriptions
Parse the witness data structure
Extract and reassemble the content
Render it as viewable media
Not straightforward with standard Bitcoin Core RPC calls
OP_RETURN Retrieval:
Data is directly in the OP_RETURN output field
Simple hex-to-binary conversion
Easy to extract with basic Bitcoin Core commands (getrawtransaction)
Straightforward to decode and view
Much more accessible to anyone, including law enforcement
Legal Liability Implications:
This is actually a crucial distinction:
Witness data: "I'm running infrastructure; the data is technically there but deeply embedded and not easily accessible"
Large OP_RETURN: "I'm storing easily retrievable files that anyone can extract with basic tools"
From a legal defense standpoint, the accessibility and ease of retrieval matters for arguments about:
"Knowing possession" vs passive infrastructure
Whether you're acting as a "host" or just network infrastructure affects the likelihood of prosecution.
In reality, some government in the world that doesn't like their banking system being circumvented will prosecute a node runner. They will put them in prison in order to make an example. Other node runners around the world will be scared and will stop thinking full nodes. Decentralisation will be sacrificed for a change that never needed to be made.

2025-10-24 10:46:06 UTC

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Listen to the video again.

2025-10-23 13:45:49 UTC

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Great video!