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2026-03-02 18:12:33 CET

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WKUK! Truly a gem...RIP Trevor Moore

2026-03-02 17:58:24 CET

https://mempool.space/tx/0d872cd3364a5f86a472c2a459a9f53dfcd5d4adeb8ee81ef197b269f18fc5d5
That seems like an expensive fee...and by expensive I mean greater than fees paid by all transactions combined in the previous 10 blocks. Lucky Foundry

2026-03-02 17:55:11 CET

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👍

2026-02-28 16:20:24 CET

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Making a distinction between the 3 main CJ implementations might clear this up a bit.
The CJ txns in question are samourai/ashigaru tx0 transactions, not JM or wasabi txns. The latter two don't depend on op_return.
For the first two, the initial transaction, known as tx0, uses op_return in a size that AFAIK exceeds said filtering attempt. Tx0 gets UTXO's into uniform pre-determined sizes, and initiates coordination with other collaborators.

2026-02-22 20:20:25 CET

1. Decentralization of mining pools is a good idea and worthy of promotion
2. Pushing for BIP-110 is a good idea and worthy of promotion
These two have become conflated, IMO, and it's lamentable. They're two separate topics...it's possible for someone to have the opinion that one is a good idea and the other isn't.
Reminds me of 2016-17 when Roger Ver would conflate reddit "censorship" with his frustrations regarding the lack of consensus for a hard fork to increase base block size.
Being out of consensus becomes quite costly, in a hurry. A lot of people learned that the hard way in 2017-18. Seems like some people are gonna learn that later this year.

2026-02-06 03:38:38 CET

https://nostr.download/f1304a4d64d50533086901e4021ef98285b6f3b94c5acf56a69e75b1f7c220b7.jpg https://nostr.download/fb3bd5650656860abe2540801cef540cf96a3a7f3f67743b7ef219ae31a413ec.jpg

2026-02-05 14:54:28 CET

"Bail out bitcoin" 🤣
#nevent1q…sf87

2026-02-03 15:57:31 CET

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TIL...imperial boomerang 🪃

2026-01-22 19:55:10 CET

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Cash for Clunkers program...#neverforget

2025-12-19 02:05:09 CET

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https://word5.otherstuff.ai

2025-12-15 21:57:40 CET

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Negative outcomes resultant from quantum FUD >>> negative outcomes resultant from quantum

2025-12-15 13:17:48 CET

Anyone else notice how every time a solo miner has found a block this year, an article is written about how impossible solo mining is? It's always framed that way.
Go play roulette with 37 other people, and have each person bet on one number. Then every spin, when someone wins, write an article about how there was a 97.4% chance of that not happening.
https://bitbo.io/news/solo-miner-wins-block/

2025-12-11 18:58:42 CET

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A no for me

2025-12-11 17:46:25 CET

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He had to make the choice every day, for ~5,000 days, to keep hodling. Simple, not easy.
Hopefully those ~500 coins exist as UTXOs and not as Mt Gox claims...lots of people made the right decision pre-2014, but ended up getting Goxxed.

2025-12-10 21:02:28 CET

Powpow & friends dropped the price of dollars again today...When are we set to hear from the orange council of elders on what the bitcoin monetary policy changes will be?

2025-12-09 23:24:51 CET

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Remember a year or two ago when JPow was asked "why 2% inflation target?" in a congressional hearing, and he danced around, saying how getting people to think it's gonna be 2% makes it more likely to trend toward 2% via self-fulfilling prophecy, and never answered the question of why 2% is beneficial for people?
It's the rate of theft they think they can get away with...that sweet spot of max theft coupled with low enough risk of people catching on.
People fight accepting this fact so hard...

2025-12-09 23:18:26 CET

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I haven't heard the "I have nothing to hide" logic from someone in a while...I like to ask if they have curtains on their windows, and if they like to close the door when they're relieving themselves in a bathroom.

2025-12-04 21:17:34 CET

Do you frequent a business that uses Square POS and want to give them a nudge to enable bitcoin payments? Here's an email template for you:
****Subject: Accepting Bitcoin at Square Terminals
****Mods to make (blanks to fill in): 8, first two paragraphs & signature
{Business/contact name}, my name is {name} and I've been a customer and fan of {business} for a few years. I've been to the {location} location several times and especially enjoy the {unique item} there.
I know that {business} uses Square terminals for your POS system. Early in November, Square made it so that any merchant can very easily accept bitcoin payments. They even put up the website btcmap.org and list business that accept bitcoin payments:
https://btcmap.org/
To accept bitcoin payments, there is a change to your Square settings that has to be made and it's really easy. Here's a how-to from Square:
https://my.squareup.com/help/us/en/article/8554-accept-bitcoin-payments-with-square-alpha
It's up to merchants if they want bitcoin payments to be received into their account as bitcoin, get converted to USD instantly, or some custom split (ie 50/50). If you like, you can stick with the default of having 100% of the payments to come in as USD.
As local bitcoin enthusiasts who also support local businesses, we'd be really excited to be able to pay at our favorite places in bitcoin!
I'd be happy to answer any questions that you might have about this.
Thanks,
{name}
{organization}

2025-11-09 20:15:01 CET

Coffee meetup on the East Shore! Two weeks from today.
#nevent1q…pytx

2025-11-09 19:47:38 CET

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State run grocery stores went really well in USSR though...people lined up around the corners for that!

2025-10-31 23:07:40 CET

Greetings Bitcoiners! Happy White Paper Day!
What's white paper day, you might ask? On Halloween 2008, 17 years ago today, Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin white paper on a cryptography mailing list. He/she/they had made references about working on a novel peer to peer money and payments system in this very specific corner of the internet, and October 31st, 2008 is when it was actually released. I don't know about you all...cryptography mailing lists were not one of the places I was hanging out in 2008. Suffice it to say, Bitcoin was not on the radar of many at that time.
In it, Satoshi describes a new network of nodes that allows for peer to peer transactions, in contrast to transactions that necessitate trusting a third party, as is the case for banks, credit cards, and modern fiat payment apps. All of the parts that Satoshi put together were existing technologies. The novel idea was how Satoshi combined digital signatures, peer to peer networking, game theory, economics, and proof-of-work (PoW) to create Bitcoin.
There's a memorable scene in the movie Flash of Genius, which is a biographical drama about Robert Kearns, the inventor of the intermittent windshield wiper. Ford more or less stole his invention, and Kearns sued them over it. In the courtroom scene, Ford's lawyers argued that the components of the intermittent wiper motor were all standard electronic components that anyone could freely purchase from RadioShack and assemble themselves, therefore Kearns' argument shouldn't hold water, since he only devised a certain way to string them together. Kearns (played by Greg Kinnear) pulled out a copy of A Tale of Two Cities, and read the first sentence..."It was the best of times, it was the worst of times". He argued, did Dickens invent the word "it"? No. Did he invent the word "was"? No, and so forth. Kearns argued, it's how Dickens strung them together that's meaningful in this circumstance, he argued, and this "flash of genius" moment is what distinguishes a novel idea.
Satoshi incorporated various existing technologies in such a way in the white paper. Each component was an existing technology, however, no one ever had the idea or gumption to string them all together in such a way as to make something so profound. A critical component is PoW, invented by Adam Back. Through PoW and digital signatures, Satoshi invented, some say discovered, digital scarcity. Until then, anything digital was infinitely copyable, which made digital cash impossible. Payments relied on trusted third parties to be the arbiters of truth. This is an incredible power that financial intermediaries alone possessed. Like Prometheus stealing fire from the gods and giving it to man, Satoshi released a knowledge onto the world that could never be undone. If you're familiar with that portion of Greek mythology, and what the fate of Prometheus was for this action, it's unsurprising that Satoshi wanted to stay pseudonymous, eventually disappearing completely in late 2010.
The white paper is only 8 pages long, 9 pages including references. The first 2 pages are pretty easy to grok, and then it goes further under the hood. Page 3 brings up proof-of-work (PoW). Today happens to be the best day of the year to check it out if you never have before.
Don't miss an upcoming hiking and lunch event, at 9am on Sat, Nov 8th! Details below.
Happy White Paper Day everyone!
Proof of Hike, 9am, Sat Nov 8th
Peters Mountain Appalachian Trail
2300 Peters Mountain Rd
Halifax, PA 17032
40°24'43.1"N 76°55'48.6"W
What3words: enchanting.endearing.keys
Lunch afterwards:
Boro Bar & Grille
4425 N Front St
Harrisburg, PA 17110

2025-09-28 23:15:10 CEST

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Standard 22LR or subsonic?

2025-09-19 13:38:26 CEST

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Can't spell crypto without C-R-Y

2025-08-28 18:07:47 CEST

Which wallets are people using to build <1 sat/vbyte transactions?

2025-08-27 20:33:38 CEST

Welcome to Nostr @nprofile…80mx !

2025-08-26 15:11:24 CEST

"Record high difficulty discourages miners".
Reminds me of the Yogi Berra quote..."nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded".
#nevent1q…pk32

2025-08-20 18:42:53 CEST

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Don't just do something...stand there!

2025-08-20 13:47:22 CEST

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Since the majority of bitcoin exists in self-custody wallets, the BIS is proposing that the majority of bitcoin should be considered "bad" bitcoin.
Why stop at bitcoin? They should be able to say which cars, houses, pieces of art, or gold coins are "bad" too!
To them, value isn't subjective and determined my market participants...it's whatever the hell they say it is.
#nevent1q…6eyj

2025-08-15 15:56:11 CEST

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TIL that FHE = fully homomorphic encryption
Interesting

2025-08-15 14:12:50 CEST

Happy Nixon Shock anniversary!
On this date 54 years ago, the US "temporarily" went off the gold standard.
Median income in 1971 was $10k/yr, and gold was $35/oz. Yearly earnings paid in gold was 286 oz.
How about 2025? Median income is $62k/year, and is gold $3.3k/oz.
Yearly earnings paid in gold is 19 oz.
Our median earnings, the average of what our scarce time is worth, dropped 93% in those "temporary" years. Cheers! 🍻
https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/

2025-08-14 22:57:14 CEST

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https://nostr.download/1f6b942e4cea912ffeba43e27ad37389088f674429797922d10017f701fd8a3b.jpg
#nevent1q…x3gy

2025-08-13 23:55:51 CEST

Whether the play store hammer is actually coming down or not, it is a great mental fire drill of what your phone wallets becoming inaccessible would mean.
Some people I've orange pilled (well, up to the point of stacking at least some sats, anyway) have everything on a phone wallet. Gonna reach out to them and tell them to check on their seed word backups...make sure they still have them, and they're legible.

2025-08-13 23:03:11 CEST

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Just did fresh blue wallet install, worked as usual

2025-08-13 23:00:53 CEST

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The few self custody wallet apps I checked are still available on the play store...wondering the likelihood of this actually going into effect.

2025-08-11 02:50:32 CEST

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https://nostr.download/773789d83256ce5b0d6f256869eb7a639bb4b13410b3ceb596bb0a458d478a3c.jpg

2025-08-10 03:41:12 CEST

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🙏

2025-08-10 02:00:37 CEST

Yikes...searched for ashigaru wallet on DDG, top search result link (and only one on first page of results that looks like the site itself and not an article on it) goes to what seems like ashigaru's website on first glance. However, if you click anything under "menu" it asks you which shitcoin wallet you use, and please enter seed phrase to connect. Aye yi yi

2025-08-08 23:22:07 CEST

Heard a great Mark Twain quote this week...
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one."

2025-07-29 13:06:33 CEST

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Watch out for those deep cross-collars...

2025-07-29 13:03:45 CEST

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There have been past instances of some company claiming they're now accepting bitcoin/crypto, and when going through the PoS process, you had to either log into coinbase and pay through them, or connect your crypto wallet via some metamask BS...no option to just show an invoice address and amount (or lightning invoice) and pay via wallet of our choice like we're all used to.
Theres the interoperable/sovereign way to do it, and there's the KYC/cucked way to do it.

2025-07-29 11:48:07 CEST

https://bitbo.io/news/paypal-bitcoin-merchant-payments/
"To complete a payment, buyers connect their existing bitcoin wallets to the PayPal checkout.
The digital assets are then exchanged on platforms such as Coinbase or Uniswap, converted to PayPal’s stablecoin (PYUSD), and finally settled in U.S. dollars for the merchant."
Doesn't sound like bitcoin payments to me...sounds like hooking up one's Coinbase account to another's PayPal account. When paying bitcoin at a PoS, "connecting my wallet" has never been a step.

2025-07-28 23:54:04 CEST

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Is there that much to be lost in CC sales to new/existing seedsigner users? I guess he thinks so to employ such treacherous tactics

2025-07-28 23:50:57 CEST

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Agree

2025-07-10 15:32:01 CEST

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TY sir!

2025-06-20 15:43:41 CEST

Greetings Central PA Bitcoiners!
We've got our monthly meeting scheduled for this upcoming Sunday, June 22nd, at 1pm at Denim Coffee in Mechanicsburg.
Some news items...
US Department of Labor no longer discouraging holding bitcoin in retirement plans: Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer said in a statement, “We’re rolling back this overreach and making it clear that investment decisions should be made by fiduciaries, not DC bureaucrats.” I'd take that a step further and say decisions should be made by sovereign individuals, however it's good to see that the DOL is taking their thumb off the scale in this regard. A few short years ago, among most fiduciary or financial advisor circles, it was disallowed or considered a faux pas to even bring up the subject of bitcoin to clients, let alone recommend an allocation to it. Now, the tide is shifting, and the opposite is becoming true...it is becoming a faux pas to not have a portion of clients' portfolios in bitcoin. Self custody is always preferred, however, financial advisors aren't going to recommend things that aren't in their wheelhouse (or, being cynical, don't make them money). If a car salesmen knows that a specific Chevy model is the best fit for you, and he happens to work for a Ford dealership, a Ford is going to be what he recommends. People being able to purchase ETF shares in their legacy retirement accounts, and being encouraged to do so by financial professionals, is a step in bitcoin's path from 0.2% of global assets (where it sits now) to 2% (parity with gold) and beyond.
TFTC launches "Opportunity Cost" browser extension: This new browser extension from Mary Bent, host of Tales From the Crypt and Rabbit Hole Recap podcasts, senses when the fiat price of an item is displayed in your browser, and displays the value in sats along side. This is reminiscent of a site that came out a few years ago that shows the bitcoin value of certain items over the years (warning, potentially NSFW).
Bitcoin Core removes -datacarrier option from their node software: As the "spam wars" continue, the Bitcoin Core team is taking another step towards removing user options for how they relay transactions. See the newsletter from May 21st regarding the op-return debate...this is another facet of this mess. If you run a node and aren't a fan of these changes that Core is implementing, you can exercise your freedom of choice by either running an older version of Bitcoin Core, or by running a non-Core implementation such as Bitcoin Knots. Not your keys...not your coins. Not your node...not your rules.
Solo miner mines a block: a solo miner found a block two weeks ago and was paid 309 million sats by the network. Usually when a story pops up that a solo miner found a block, which currently happens every few months, the presumption is that it was someone who's running a single machine at their house. In this case, however, it was someone who had rented a large amount of hashrate (mining power) to the tune of 260 petahashes/second. How much mining power is that? Well, the beefiest machines that a home miner would be running these days is in the ballpark of 200 terahashes/second. That means this person was running over 1000 machines when he found this block. How much would that cost to run? Well, if you have typical PA residential power costs, about $13k/day. The solo mining pool they used, soloCK pool, suspects that they were renting the hashrate. Although this person found a block, it's doesn't quite have the same panache as when someone running one machine at their house finds a block. Interesting nevertheless.
Don't understand what bitcoin nodes are, or why people run them? Don't understand how bitcoin mining works? Coming to a meetup and chatting with bitcoiners is a great way to learn these potentially intimidating topics. And, we have things to learn from you too! Every bitcoiner's path is unique, and every bitcoiner started out as a humble nocoiner.
Hope to see you on Sunday!
~Lonelypumpkins
Central PA Bitcoiners
@nprofile…np0t

2025-05-29 18:28:21 CEST

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Fiatcoin is a better term, I've come to think...stablecoin has a marketing aspect to its name that makes it seem like there's less risk.
When money supply doubles every 10 years, stable isn't the term that comes to mind.

2025-05-29 16:55:33 CEST

2010-13...Bitcoin Savings & Trust...don't worry, we have the BTC (was a ponzi)
2013-14...Mt Gox, Cryptopia...don't worry, we are bigger bitcoin companies than ever before, more regulated, and have the BTC (ran a fractional reserve exchange; got hacked)
2015-21...Bitfinex, Quadriga CX......don't worry, we are bigger bitcoin companies than ever before, more regulated, and have the BTC (got hacked for 120k BTC, paid for via bail-in from customers, which was a 36% haircut on balance; one man held all the keys and died under bizarre circumstances)
2022...FTX, Blockfi, Celsius...don't worry, we are bigger bitcoin crypto companies than ever before, more regulated, and have the BTC/shitcoins (bought sponsorships and Bermuda real estate with customer fiat rather than BTC/shitcoins; ran fractional reserves)
2023-2026...???, ???, ???...don't worry, we are bigger companies than ever before, more regulated, cozy with politicians, and have the BTC. Also, proof of reserves are bad because then people can attack us for the bitcoin that we say we own.

2025-05-20 18:28:51 CEST

https://bitbo.io/news/jpmorgan-bitcoin-etf-access/
"We are going to *allow you* to buy bitcoin."
That says it all, folks

2025-05-14 23:55:02 CEST

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Those numbers add up to zero basically...so where did the ~75k newly mined coins go?

2025-05-14 20:11:26 CEST

Rediscovering Opeth, spending some time digesting albums outside my past history of Deliverance/Ghost Reveries/Watershed.
Working on Heritage now...taking a few listens, and it's definitely growing on me.

2025-05-14 19:56:05 CEST

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Optionality is what you're buying when you forego spending

2025-04-22 20:33:46 CEST

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https://video.nostr.build/819dfa703be2724b287e1c7c3f26c3934bb93610e37864fd5972f9115ab68858.mp4

2025-04-22 20:32:42 CEST

https://bitbo.io/news/eth-btc-low-whale-selling/

2025-03-26 18:22:47 CET

https://image.nostr.build/dec5df6fcc0fb1f39cfbad628fd73643380b26274e531be249ebdebc330e51c3.jpg

2025-03-04 11:26:18 CET

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Don't they stack with Coinbase or some other nonsense like that? I was under the impression they didn't hold their own keys.

2025-02-01 23:39:50 CET

https://image.nostr.build/0a4d2d2623d8c36b171c78fa82dd2cfbb228e491190c5a8e935db00a1cea6035.jpg

2025-01-31 23:43:46 CET

Prediction...in response to fiat price of eggs going crazy d/t monetary inflation and poor incentives, current administration is gonna take a page out of 1970's play book and put out some fake news saying eggs are bad for us again.

2025-01-31 23:36:48 CET

https://image.nostr.build/12cb34c0e694b412518de2a7f6b678a6017a595e0ce06bf034d8f05b8f27b089.jpg

2025-01-18 01:00:26 CET

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Leaving Las Vegas (1995)

2025-01-09 19:04:49 CET

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fluffypony was a fan of luxury watches, or "timepieces" as he called them...mark another point in the shitcoin column.
PS I wonder how the gulag is treating him these days...

2025-01-09 19:01:30 CET

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also, good quote, wealth earned property walks in silence

2025-01-09 19:00:01 CET

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the guy in the article first popped on my radar today, reading this article in bitbo...didn't realize he's known in the space, via douchbaggery or otherwise

2025-01-09 18:56:12 CET

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is this "loaded" or someone else? I didn't realize the guy in the bitbo article was known elsewhere

2025-01-09 18:45:56 CET

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wait a sec...I remember him saying bananas were more valuable/useful than bitcoin

2025-01-03 22:04:16 CET

Greetings Central PA Bitcoiners!
Happy Genesis Block Day!
Sixteen years ago today, Satoshi mined the first bitcoin block, known as the genesis block. When a miner finds a block, there's a small text field in which they can put whatever message in it they want. Modern mining pools usually use the name of their pool. Satoshi chose the following for block #0:
The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks
There are two reasons for this. By including that day's headline from a major newspaper (London's The Times), Satoshi timestamped the block that he cast. This proved that he/she/they hadn't been mining on their own, keeping the mined blocks a secret, and preventing others from competing to mine for those new bitcoin. The crux of this reason is that it shows that it was launched fairly and on the date that he broadcast it to the network. The second reason is more symbolic: the 2008 financial crisis, and the government bailout interventions that followed, represented a breach of trust and alienated many, including Satoshi:
"The root problem with conventional currency is all the trust that’s required to make it work. The central bank must be trusted not to debase the currency, but the history of fiat currencies is full of breaches of that trust.”
The white paper laid out the framework for bitcoin: a new digital asset and decentralized payment network that doesn't rely on having to trust entities that have repeatedly proven themselves untrustworthy.
Several years ago, bitcoin educator and podcaster Trace Mayer first proposed and promoted Proof of Keys Day, corresponding with the anniversary of the genesis block. The idea is that whoever has bitcoin on exchanges should withdraw them on January 3rd every year, and in doing so, force exchanges who might be running a fractional reserve to be exposed.
IMHO, Proof of Keys Day is a great idea, and every bitcoiner should know the difference of what it means to hold their own wealth vs some exchange's IOU for bitcoin. However, bitcoiners who know this important distinction very likely don't keep sats on an exchange in the first place. If you do happen to have bitcoin on an exchange and want to celebrate Proof of Keys Day by making the exchange prove that they have the bitcoin they say they do, and you are comfortable and familiar with your self-custody setup, by all means please celebrate and withdraw! I do wonder about how many people realistically (1) have a bitcoin balance on an exchange, (2) are comfortable with self-custody and have software or hardware wallet, and (3) have Proof of Keys Day on their radar. Cheers nonetheless!
Remember, friends...treat bitcoin exchanges like you treat public bathrooms. Walk in, do your business, wash your hands, and walk right back out.
Happy Genesis Block Day and Happy Proof of Keys Day!

2024-12-26 20:55:47 CET

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https://m.primal.net/NHaS.mp4

2024-12-23 11:18:22 CET

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I remember learning from him that sim swap attacks pose a risk to cold storage sats

2024-12-20 22:33:08 CET

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Slight tweak...ETH isn't worth 0.15 BTC anymore.
#note1fmm…zyqc

2024-12-20 18:14:40 CET

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IBIT expense ratio a little more than 12 basis points in that case...

2024-12-20 17:19:56 CET

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https://fountain.fm/clip/BYYgqSIjxqtBbv6Acysg

2024-12-20 17:16:35 CET

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No one who runs a node would ever want to HF to dilute themselves, and in the process, undermine the inflation schedule everyone's been opting into since 2009.
Unless, ofc, one expects to find it more profitable to spin off a shitcoin that one can exert undue influence over. S2X companies were in this position in 2017, had their own client and repository, and pulled out at the last minute b/c they realized that being out of consensus is gonna be more costly than they were expecting. Ver & crew tried it anyway, to their detriment.
If I were a betting man, which I am, I'd say it's realistic to expect Blackrock to try this at least once. Beauty of hodling your own sats is that you share in the outcome of both sides...bitcoin and cuckcoin/inflationcoin/happycoin/ESGcoin/Larrycoin

2024-12-20 16:58:50 CET

Shitcoins are one of the most frustrating things to me...such a destructive distraction.
Peddlers use false association with bitcoin to try to gain themselves credibility. Like a scam artist who goes to your church and swindles old people there.

2024-12-17 19:54:07 CET

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Palantir was the crystal ball type type thing that was comms between Saruman and Sauron...WTF a spyware company would want to name themselves after Sauron's ring doorbell is beyond me.
I mean, that's what they are obviously, but why they'd wanna evoke that metaphor is beyond me.

2024-12-17 19:15:41 CET

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that's an apt articulation

2024-12-17 18:19:51 CET

TIL: Nasdaq-100 is a stock index that holds the top 100 non-financial companies listed on Nasdaq. This index is tracked by many passive index funds, notably mega-ETF QQQ. Being in this list is a big deal for a publicly traded company, as it means that lots of funds will be buying their shares irrespective of price/PE/opinion, because they have to own what's in the index. The index is reassessed periodically (quarterly?) for who belongs and who doesn't, and they have 3 substitutions this month.
In: Microstrategy, Palantir, and Axon Enterprise
Most of you are familiar with MSTR. Palantir sells spyware, and Axon is a tech/weapons company whose best seller is the Taser.
Out: Illumina, Super Micro Computer, and Moderna.
Illumina develops genetic research products, SMCI makes AI hardware, and Moderna was one of two companies who brought COVID vaccines to market.
I'm getting a kick out of this info, for reasons I can't quite articulate.

2024-12-17 00:19:24 CET

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this info might be too late for today's visit...ask if the vet can write you a prescription for you to bring to a pharmacy of your choosing...you'll get charged way more for meds at a vet vs a pharmacy.
no hate on vets, a big chunk of their profits come from selling meds, and they're entitled to make revenue. that said, once you know you can get 100 caps of gabapentin from your pharmacy for $15 or the vet for $75, it's an easy choice, especially for maintenance meds.
also, metacam is brand name liquid vet form of meloxicam, and expensive. human meloxicam tabs are super cheap.
some vet drugs don't have an exact or close equivalent that pharmacies carry. most do though, so always ask.

2024-12-13 01:51:35 CET

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The block size war was indeed a case when the will of the majority of network participants won out over a few very powerful actors. If the magnificent 7 wanted to hard fork the internet, so to speak, and coordinated, it would happen. Bitcoin resisted such an attempt.
Economic nodes were a big part of winning the blocksize war. Sure, individual node runners ran and signaled UASF. The nail in the coffin for S2X was exchanges declaring the original fork is BTC, and listing futures markets for the fork tokens, which demonstrated the market valued BTC way more than S2X.
Holding BTC doesn't give one control over the network directly...fiat incentives can begin to exert negative influence over the network though. The economic nodes are a big part of how things have played out and will play out.
Worst case scenario...a new soft fork is built and disseminated to miners and exchanges (which are most of the economic nodes) that only permits paying to addresses on a KYC-ed and approved list kept and updated by some govt agency. Will that create a chain split? You bet. Each fork, bitcoin & cuckcoin, will have a different value. The network effect power will trend towards the economic value of each chain.
No one stayed with bcash after a few years...messy, but ultimately definitive. It'd be a much messier situation in the scenario above.

2024-12-12 18:18:25 CET

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sorry you two..."crypto couple" is already taken. continue the search for your brand please.

2024-12-12 13:45:38 CET

Roger is attempting to give himself the credibility he had in 2015, and totally ignoring that he was one of the architects of the bcash mess. He owns bitcoin dot com, and in 2017 started hawking bcash as if it were bitcoin. To this day, people are misled by this. The market speaks for itself regarding its value vs bitcoin, and anyone who was persuaded or misled by Roger has far less bitcoin now because of it.
He was big on yelling "censorship" in the 2016-2017 days. The r/bitcoin subreddit was where a lot of the discussions were happening, the admins of r/bitcoin didn't permit shitcoinery in their subreddit, and they considered implementations of bitcoin that weren't in consensus with the network to be shitcoins. Before there was bcash, there was bitcoin unlimited. Before BU, there was bitcoin classic. Ver promoted them all.
To say those in consensus (small blockers, if you like) censor big blockers (those that mine blocks greater than 1mb pre-segwit, 4m weight units now) is same as saying they're censoring txns that spend coins they don't have, sign for utxos they don't have the private keys for, or pay themselves 1000 btc in the coinbase txn. He's calling being out of consensus "censorship."
Bcashers spun up r/btc to have the discussions they wanted to have. Confusingly, the ticker for bitcoin is BTC, and bcash is BCH, or BCC on finex I think.
I was having a conversation with a precoiner this year who was on the cusp of becoming a newcoiner, and based on some of what he said, it was clear he's been misled by bcash rhetoric. Such a costly DDOS.

2024-12-02 15:59:53 CET

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https://m.primal.net/MmGj.jpg

2024-11-30 17:05:33 CET

Fun fact...inflation doesn't just happen naturally. It oscillated around zero throughout most American history.
https://m.primal.net/Mktp.jpg

2024-11-28 19:01:32 CET

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I wonder if that's ez-pass rate or not...it basically cuts tolls in half. would still be most expensive of these, anyway.
used to have the option to pay cash, now the choices are medium expensive doxx (ez-pass) or very expensive doxx (toll-by-plate)

2024-11-28 18:50:52 CET

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the sudden arrival and slow departure of the ordinals craze, and accompanying time of high fees

2024-11-25 13:27:03 CET

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success in this context is a process, not an endpoint. in 2000, could have said internet is succeeding even though majority of world has never been online.
what would be bitcoin's success to you?

2024-11-25 11:45:19 CET

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I say yes...does depend heavily upon definition of success though.
To me it's succeeding now as well, even though probably >99% of people have never sent or received actual sats, lightning or on-chain

2024-11-22 17:10:41 CET

https://m.primal.net/MeMo.jpg

2024-11-20 23:07:23 CET

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interesting pod...thanks for sharing!
kinda funny that he happened to shit on Unchained (your competitor) in the process of revealing his info source. They deserve it, they didn't keep their customer data safe...still funny though

2024-11-19 21:18:43 CET

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that could be...the 2of2 multisig of lightning channels is abstracted away from me, unlike wallets where I'm setting up the scripts and signing manually. I bet if your node software that's putting together your channel opens and closes used TR, they could make channel open/close txns indistinguishable from a single sig TR spend.

2024-11-19 15:50:44 CET

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All of the benefits of TR that were touted prior to its activation have not yet been realized AFAIC...unless talking about shitcoinery on BTC.
With segwit, it was activated in Aug 2017, and wallets had incorporated it before year end...first the "wrapped" segwit addresses, embedded in P2SH, then native segwit in early 2018.
TR is a different story. Activated mid 2021, certain wallets here and there began rolling it out, as single sig. The TR advantages of transactional privacy (CISA) and decaying multisig (ie starts as 3 of 5, then in a year becomes 2 of 5, then 1 of 5) to me have value only when applied to multisig scenarios, and have yet to be incorporated into wallets.
Single sig TR isn't much of an improvement over single sig P2WPKH...it was way more meaningful to update from legacy to segwit addresses, however TR, as it stands now, doesn't offer near the benefit to change one's setup.

2024-11-19 14:06:35 CET

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AFAIK:
uses Schnorr signatures instead of ECDSA
addresses start with bc1p, not bc1q like V0 segwit addresses
has more abilities regarding multisig...before TR, when spending from multisig as P2SH or P2WSH, had to include pubkeys of all signers, whereas TR only has to reveal aggregate pubkeys & signatures. this may or may not involve cross input signature aggregation, which I'm unsure of current use/availability.

2024-11-19 13:56:41 CET

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Dude is a scammer.
Dude says true things sometimes.
Both can be true...fair warning that he'll very likely try to cash out whatever social capital he's amassed eventually, and in the process, extract precious sats from those who believe him.

2024-11-18 20:48:26 CET

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Some info surfaced a while ago (2023?) about some of the promotions he was running, prior to the adoption of his current nym. See if you can find it.
IIRC, he was hawking get rich quick schemes.
There may be some signal in his videos currently, but I'd wager he'll eventually move to cash in his social capital in the space and exit scam in some way. Strong Richard Heart vibes...that dude put out legit content for years, then used his social capital to fleece people.

2024-11-08 11:12:04 CET

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Dr. Toboggan...Mantis Toboggan

2024-11-07 23:58:11 CET

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learn to swim...

2024-10-22 21:12:37 CEST

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ok, I'll take a look tonight

2024-10-22 17:47:54 CEST

Email just went out: (links turn to text, did include video titles in text)
Greetings Central PA Bitcoiners!
Our monthly coffee meetup is this Sunday, Oct 27th, at Denim Coffee in downtown Mechanicsburg. Come join us at 1pm!
This is the second time I've used "then they fight you" in the subject of an email. The first time was in April of this year, and it was referring to the arrest of the Samourai developers. There were some news items this week that evoke that same notion.
1. ECB economists publish a paper attacking bitcoin
2. Italy proposes plan to increase capital gains on bitcoin from 26% to 42%
3. Minneapolis Fed suggests banning or taxing bitcoin to sustain deficits
The hypocrisy is off the charts with these. In the first one, the argument is made that early bitcoin adopters are getting rich and capturing wealth from later adopters, in a zero-sum scenario. Of course, this is not zero-sum, and it's how holders of any capital asset are compensated for their risk and correct choices. People who bought AAPL at $1/share 20 years ago are able to realize profit due to the buyers that value it more than that now. Likewise, today's asset buyers will profit in the future if future buyers value it more than they do now.
A wonderful juxtaposition with these news items is a recent video which compares the current Bitcoin-focused pushback to pushback against past disruptive technologies, entited "Bitcoin and the Death of Energy Misinformation" on Swan's YouTube channel. There is a long history of instances where the old guard attempts to FUD the thing that's disrupting them. For example, the bicycle came to prominence in the 1890's, and disrupted several existing industries: horse and buggy, riding apparel, railway, and public transit. A newspaper article was written that claimed "the bicycle to be the most dangerous thing to life and property ever invented". The bicycle since has become the most ubiquitous means of mechanical transportation worldwide.
Lastly, I'll leave you with this gem of a video I recently came across called "Six reasons to withdraw your bitcoin from exchanges" by Arman The Parman. My favorite is reason #6: "Unless you take coins into your own custody, you will never fully appreciate how bitcoin works. If you don't appreciate it, you won't buy enough of it, and this you will regret." Reminds me of the saying "let your education drive your allocation".
Enjoy the rest of your week, friends. Hope to see you on Sunday!
~Lonelypumpkins
Central PA Bitcoiners

2024-08-07 13:17:03 CEST

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take solace in knowing your sats are immune to such chicanery

2024-07-28 13:58:04 CEST

4th year at bitcoin mag conf.
Love reconnecting with people I've met over the years and satellite events...unfortunately the signal:bullshit ratio has steadily declined to the point that TSA and secret service agents are screening those entering the big "Nakamoto" stage. Satoshi would be proud.
Got some signal from the Genesis stage...bitcoin veterans and bitcoin & psychedelics were cool panels.
Time to choose a different event to travel to next year...smaller, less theater, and higher signal.

2024-04-24 23:55:57 CEST

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the bitcoin is always in your custody, never the coordinator. they never have/had the ability to stand between you and your sats.

2024-01-22 18:56:59 CET

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