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i talked to l0rinc recently at a conference. he's great to talk to! he's doing really innovative power user ai stuff to assist in core code reviews.
these open source freedom tech ai projects should maybe look at optimizing for his workflow. all that token spend is going to claude. it should be flowing through open platforms first. 👀
https://spiralbtc.substack.com/p/metacognition-is-the-ai-skill-of

2026-06-09 00:00:28 CEST

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Generally speaking, a nexus is a central node that connects other nodes within a graph.
In Starcraft, the Nexus is the Protoss home base building. It is the key structure required to bootstrap a self-sustaining production economy. Once the nexus is constructed you can open portals to other realms and warp in robotic worker drones. These drones not only harvest raw materials, but they also warp in additional structures and units. Once you have a Nexus, you can traverse the tech tree and build anything that is possible within the game universe...if you can defend your claim from attackers.
For the past month or two I have been building a self-sovereign nix-based architecture for agentic coding and privacy tasks. As of today, nexus is the hostname of the bare metal NixOS installation. I just migrated from the default `nixos` hostname to `nexus`. It's just two vowels apart. ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯
Once installed and configured, nexus knows how to launch declaratively defined agentic coding development environments with the push of a button. Nexus lets you open ssh portals to virtual realms populated with ai-powered worker drones and a minimal, flexible agent harness. Once your nexus is built you can warp in worker drones to help you traverse the tech tree and build anything that is possible within this computing universe...if you can defend your digital claim from attackers.
VM sandboxes are a stronger security barrier than containers because the VM does not share a kernel with the host machine. This protects against two classes of security risk: rogue agents and software supply chain attacks. The VM keeps you safe from claude gone rogue and from hostile npm package updates. It's also really handy for privacy sandboxes to do self-sovereign financial stuff or to shitpost on nostr.
I'm going to use it to build mining pools. 🙂
OSS release in Two Weeks™️

2026-06-08 19:29:51 CEST

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ridiculous! nobody likes bluegrass

2026-06-08 19:29:25 CEST

nixos -> nexus
upgrade complete! \o/

2026-06-06 01:11:24 CEST

When I get the feeling someone is listening to me I like to put on some bluegrass and turn the volume way up.
I can't stop the spooks but I can make them pay for their transgressions.

2026-06-05 20:54:29 CEST

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Lightning is interesting as well. It has a similar privacy strategy to Monero. Lightning transactions break up information into lots of tiny pieces and spread them around so that it is exceedingly hard to reassemble all the pieces. But not impossible!
If you were able to grep the logs of every lightning node involved in a specific transaction you could pretty trivially identify the sender, receiver, and amount.
Even bolt12 transactions with route blinding are not immune to this attack. Fortunately it's a very difficult thing to accomplish and not worth the effort for the small amounts of value transmitted via lightning.
@nprofile…eg3s gave a brief talk complaining about lightning node logging practices because he understands this property of lightning. If node operators purged their logs on a regular basis then that information goes away forever. Unfortunately this is not the default behavior. Hopefully that changes.

2026-06-05 20:46:11 CEST

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I have always liked Monero better. It uses complex mixing techniques at spend time to break information into lots of little pieces and spread them around on-chain.
(I am not a cryptographer or a Monero expert so don't take my word for truth. This is my flawed high level understanding of the system.)
When you spend monero your wallet generates a ring signature with random addresses from the blockchain. This strategy is basically to make it exceedingly hard to reassemble that information in a way that can be used to identify the spender. You would have to find the owners of all the addresses in the ring signature and use the process of elimination to identify the true spender. That's really hard to do!
This is a robust privacy system that works in practice. Notice it spreads the trust among many participants. The genius of the system is they are randomly selected from past transactions non-interactively. So they don't need to be online or even be aware that their coins are contributing to someone else's anonymity.
The downside of this system is it's complexity. Monero can't do anything even close to smart contracts.
The trust assumptions are also siloed in a single system. That could be a problem if/when that system is broken. Monero devs are aware of this fact and have been continuously upgrading it's privacy properties for the entire history of the project. It's an arms race. Those devs are elite endurance athletes. Mad respect.

2026-06-05 20:30:54 CEST

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Zcash is the combination of a transparent trustless system and an opaque private system.
Their mistake was to silo all of the trust in their privacy system. Single point of failure. Not resilient.
AI came along and...it failed. 💥
No more zcash. 🫗

2026-06-05 20:23:43 CEST

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RIP to everyone building on top of lightning. 🪦

2026-06-05 20:18:01 CEST

On-chain bitcoin is transparent for a reason. It's the only way to ensure trustlessness. Watch privacy coins learn this lesson in real time. Learn from their mistakes.
I believe there is a fundamental and unavoidable conflict between privacy and trustlessness. Trustless systems require information to disseminate. Private systems must prevent the spread of information. Builders who don't understand this spectrum are doomed to fall prey to it.
You cannot achieve perfect privacy and perfect trustlessness in the same system. It's better to build two systems and move value between them as needed. The trust-based system better be resilient to failure; that means lots of little trusted operators rather than one big trust silo.
That's what I tried to encapsulate in this image. TBD whether ecash can be made verifiable. Much work still to be done.
https://blossom.primal.net/7ef3db2fd39b65164f59e3e9afa9d5ee9bbda2961043d7ad1a7d0fd8414d3554.png

2026-06-05 16:20:47 CEST

If Q day is real, is lightning is proper fucked?
Discuss.
https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/post-quantum-lightning-layer-by-layer/2479

2026-06-05 14:20:36 CEST

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Can you be broken? Better tighten up.
#nevent1q…z9w2

2026-06-05 14:18:45 CEST

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slow day yesterday, <200 contributions lol

2026-06-05 14:17:23 CEST

80% done with planned work
only 50% of work remains to be done

2026-06-05 14:16:45 CEST

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ya bro, she's a G @nprofile…u7e3

2026-06-05 03:08:42 CEST

https://blossom.primal.net/406f68e49c337d26e8cc8daa1ada33e14ca504bc24e010ac9896b4ce1d25944c.png

2026-06-04 15:43:33 CEST

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there used to be more colors on the tail end...but not after this week lol

2026-06-04 15:42:42 CEST

Can you tell when I unlocked agentic PR workflows? 🙂 #goingexponential
https://blossom.primal.net/ad89c4062ec84e368e9cfff0d87c7c61beedab28dc0f40b11a29282fbd029062.png

2026-06-04 15:37:24 CEST

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🐐

2026-06-04 15:35:00 CEST

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TIPs are beneath you but you but you will execute it with the precision of a grandmaster because that's who you are. Now let's get to work. 🤓

2026-06-03 20:42:57 CEST

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2026-06-03 20:40:20 CEST

btw
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2026-06-03 20:38:50 CEST

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depends on who you ask lol

2026-06-03 20:27:48 CEST

Use your agents to hype your other agents. It totally works!
https://blossom.primal.net/fb6e7d339ccbcbe9fb3b4d4101b33821867eb7f9339f8053bf3aaa754943f6d1.png

2026-06-03 20:18:14 CEST

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Not sure I understand the proposal. Is the coinbase a secret from the miners? How does the miner validate that the coinbase of the template they are mining on is not robbing them.
Does this scheme require a single coinbase output? This effectively rules out non-custodial mining unless we first activate CTV.
In general I think block withholding attacks are a minor problem, probably not worth a soft fork until it is demonstrated to be a significant problem.
Also, I think the solution is really simple and requires no consensus change at all: just pay a bonus for the block winning share.
Parasite Pool is immune to block withholding attacks because the block winning miner takes home 1 btc.

2026-06-03 20:04:50 CEST

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privacy odyssey

2026-06-03 20:03:25 CEST

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warioishere very motivating
on-chain cashu very inspiring
🍑
🔥

2026-06-03 20:01:40 CEST

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i think on-chain payouts must come first. there is no suitable aggregator pool to build on yet. i will just have to do it myself

2026-06-03 19:57:46 CEST

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i went on a side quest and built a security first self-sovereign declarative agentic coding full stack

2026-06-03 19:55:57 CEST

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yes

2026-06-03 19:53:23 CEST

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Fair. How would you characterize the politics of the Culture?

2026-06-03 19:51:15 CEST

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cake supports sp sending

2026-06-03 19:49:34 CEST

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I tried an emoji reply with embedded ecash once. Client tooling is not really there yet to identify or extract the ecash. Also, some folks apparently get skeezed out by the peanut emoji. So...watch out for that. 😬

2026-06-03 19:44:19 CEST

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💯 not dead yet

2026-06-02 19:20:31 CEST

i been cookin'
it's almost time to eat
https://blossom.primal.net/74214d2122fdb7fd399d3fca959e6f98551525aa1b3ea894239c86a12d3d5af9.png

2026-05-13 20:38:48 CEST

just sent my first silent payment 🤙

2026-01-07 17:08:57 CET

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welcome to bitcoin culture lol

2026-01-07 17:08:03 CET

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Oh, I wasn't aware that was an option. Let me know how you like it!

2026-01-07 00:06:54 CET

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i started my own meetup to discuss only the tech

2026-01-07 00:01:12 CET

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fwiu their linux fork is way out of date

2026-01-06 18:30:16 CET

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get yourself a framework

2026-01-06 16:44:12 CET

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amen

2026-01-05 23:41:14 CET

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i have undertaken the task of writing and implementing the spec, as requested by the team
> the specs will sort themselves out if they’re needed
they are needed and i am the guy to make it happen

2026-01-05 23:08:02 CET

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i'm overthinking it, just write the damn code and push out the PR

2026-01-05 23:07:14 CET

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if they are two codebases with two different maintainers, then it would seem that getting the PR merged is equivalent. you still have two different folks review and approve the implementations, each in a different context. and the spec repo PR also needs to get merged so 2-3 distinct sets of eyes (the spec is maintained by the same person as one of the impl codebases in my case so 2 sets of maintainer eyes for 3 PRs in 3 different contexts.)

2026-01-05 23:02:13 CET

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it's a serious question! i have never written a (successfully merged) spec before.
seems like the key goal is to disambiguate any possible misunderstanding of the important implementation details while leaving the rest of the decisions up to the implementor. does this require two different individuals to implement it? if an llm is implementing it, are two different prompts sufficient?

2026-01-05 22:18:09 CET

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asking for maude

2026-01-05 22:17:01 CET

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what if you don't actually write the code and just get your friend Maude to write it instead? does that change anything?

2026-01-05 22:15:50 CET

is it an antipattern to write a spec and implement it twice yourself to get the spec merged?

2026-01-05 15:11:22 CET

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when someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time

2026-01-05 15:10:05 CET

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😬 better update that firmware!
#nevent1q…e4ga
#nevent1q…2mvw

2026-01-05 15:04:56 CET

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I vibed up a rust library to do this. Nobody uses it afaik. I need a network of sovereign mining pools for my purposes, so it's a ways off from being useful.
What do you intend to use it for?
published crate
https://crates.io/crates/bitcoin-nostr-relay
source
https://github.com/vnprc/bitcoin-nostr-relay
test env
https://github.com/vnprc/tx-relay-playground
contributions welcome, i heard ZMQ was faster than RPC 👀
https://github.com/vnprc/bitcoin-nostr-relay/issues/5

2026-01-05 14:57:51 CET

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fwiw i contacted other hardware vendor(s) after this incident and instructed them to delete my personal data. they were responsive and claimed to do so.
don't give any bitcoin hardware vendor your personal info.

2026-01-05 14:55:52 CET

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here's the last one, looks like they are on the 4 year cycle smdh
https://www.ledger.com/message-ledgers-ceo-data-leak

2026-01-05 14:52:50 CET

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https://yellow.com/news/ledger-users-receive-data-breach-notifications-after-global-e-hack

2026-01-05 14:47:58 CET

another day another ledger customer list leak
don't buy ledger. if you must, don't give them your private info

2026-01-01 18:35:52 CET

gm
10x yourself with ai this year 🤙

2025-12-28 18:57:49 CET

There is no such thing as a safe job. Disruption comes in waves. Learn to surf or learn to serf.

2025-12-28 18:25:54 CET

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https://blossom.primal.net/654be68da28fd0f6825216f2564b70c41c303188fc7ec7d8ca9d0d814da991a3.jpg
#nevent1q…clxu

2025-12-21 19:04:30 CET

What's up @nprofile…6wv2? You still around?

2025-12-18 00:23:55 CET

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https://blossom.primal.net/388420885d2c94225e5a4cc03a9fa5529b0b372c639fe808e46d4a612384e5b8.png

2025-12-18 00:15:46 CET

wen samourai pardon polymarket?

2025-12-17 16:25:13 CET

https://blog.blockstream.com/jade-security-disclosure/

2025-12-10 06:26:21 CET

My daughter thought ornaments was pronounced ordaments and now I want to start a new inscriptions collection.

2025-12-10 06:08:02 CET

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i think he got away clean 🤞

2025-12-09 23:08:19 CET

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you know why...

2025-12-09 17:51:37 CET

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lol
not a tweet, two snowflakes fell yesterday so obvs we have to fuck up every parent's whole week. public schools are retarded

2025-12-09 17:45:55 CET

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🤣 this one tho. that kid is doing WWE moves. MOOD
https://blossom.primal.net/ecccca89333ae48c9eaf1b94b5f13584920571f3b68e799ec29a06b96b5173c7.jpg

2025-12-09 17:42:49 CET

trying to get work done when school is canceled
https://blossom.primal.net/5fdad724db21f6ba57702222e418e679c9aaf3ca115bea489b2ab479449f4af3.jpg

2025-12-09 17:39:56 CET

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💯 if satoshi had less than perfect opsec he would rotting in a hole right now
🐐ed forever

2025-12-09 17:38:22 CET

https://blossom.primal.net/fca8f102181a6257c17e64d29b4933472808c56a17c9be482e7578da949f65d3.gif

2025-12-09 00:25:29 CET

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hope you feel better! 🤒

2025-12-08 23:40:29 CET

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talk about your passion and you will be 100x more interesting

2025-12-08 21:54:17 CET

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ty friend 🙏

2025-12-08 21:32:09 CET

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yeah idgaf about change.org and generally think petitions are pointless but if ross says it will help then i sign my nym

2025-12-08 21:29:09 CET

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ride or die 🤙

2025-12-08 21:20:00 CET

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how does this information help software developers being jailed by an unjust and unchecked leviathan?

2025-12-08 20:58:08 CET

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oh you have opinions?
Good For You
thanks for sharing

2025-12-08 20:57:01 CET

this clip hits like a truck
we gotta bring our boys home
sign it
use a nym if you must, just sign it
https://blosstr.com/7ff09e41469e4b3f9f2195abb0b52b28eea68e4a00c6dff17551e26f0583b004.mp4
https://www.change.org/p/stand-up-for-freedom-pardon-the-innocent-coders-jailed-for-building-privacy-tools

2025-12-08 15:49:10 CET

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No good options to switch between accounts with a browser extension without awful UX or clunky deprecated LN wallet tech. Maybe it's changed since I last looked idk

2025-12-08 15:45:06 CET

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last i looked, signing extensions are a train wreck

2025-12-08 15:40:53 CET

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rad as hell! 🏄‍♂️🤙

2025-12-08 03:58:36 CET

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https://github.com/benthecarman/nostr-tx-broadcast

2025-12-08 03:50:53 CET

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prior art from 2023 https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/476