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2026-08-16 21:50:35 CEST

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Good list...admittedly I'm not the brightest on the handyman stuff. May I suggest:
6. Difference between a person income statement and a personal balance sheet
7. What a mortgage is
8. Why carrying credit card balances is generally a bad idea

2026-08-12 22:28:15 CEST

https://nostr.download/244ef6fec08e880e7ec5a4f767c7e0c4849d31962135b0f80888c337c83b6742.jpg https://nostr.download/88fc679c9aed7c5f1e5d26136b704df28edceb3dc34cf1dbcbd6cf530a95cbf6.jpg
These two people have had a few days to live with and digest an outcome that was unfavorable to them.
They each chose to handle their response a little differently.

2026-08-12 22:12:29 CEST

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7 EH ~ 0.8% of network hash
0.8% of 450 coins/day ~ 3.6 coins/day opportunity cost
Ironically, miner centralization was a primary concern, and now one pool is mining 100% of the blocks...so far, anyway. 4 blocks isn't a great data set.

2026-08-12 00:56:28 CEST

Anyone who thought 2026 was gonna be a boring year learned different the past 2 weeks...
Excited to have some new hardware for the first time in a long time, and first experiment is to learn which HW signers will import your own seed words and give you choices for a valid 12th/24th word.
Upward and onward!

2026-08-10 13:37:03 CEST

The headline is misleading.
You can say that there are 27m minority fork sats of fee on the minority side, however, it's not possible to say it's valued at $17,400. That presumes that the USD exchange rate is at parity across both chains. The info that can be gleaned from the minority fork block subsidy and/or txn fees can only be denominated in minority fork tokens currently.
There have to be people exchanging bitcoin or dollars for the minority chain token in order to be able to denominate in USD.
Used to seeing better info from this npub.
#nevent1q…q3mv

2026-08-09 19:54:31 CEST

There was a great Livera pod with Michael Flaxman some years ago about using multiple key sources for multisig, SLP215. Another good one was SLP97.
One could make a 2 of 2 out of a HW device and a hot wallet on sparrow/electrum, back up the hot wallet super well and even in usually unrecommended ways (seed on post-it on monitor, or on the fridge) and it is more secure than the HW device alone. HW device could be 100% pwned... no dice for attacker though.
Adding another signer can never decrease security...at worst, keeps same security as the first signer alone. With any multisig, be sure to keep copies of that wallet file (aka output descriptors) accessible.
#nevent1q…8ama

2026-08-09 19:05:46 CEST

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(3.125 btc/block) x (2014 blocks) ~~ 6,300 btc
That would be the opportunity cost of continuing to mine on roughneck's chain tip until the next difficulty adjustment. Didn't take fees into acct, btw.
https://bip110.ocean.xyz/dashboard
275 PH is pointing towards that chain now...absent a hard fork, that means 1 block every 25 days, until the difficulty adjusts in 138 years. Hash rate subject to change, ofc.

2026-08-08 20:57:01 CEST

🍿

2026-08-05 19:31:48 CEST

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Wouldn't they be sending back to addresses whose privkeys are now becoming public knowledge?

2026-08-02 17:44:09 CEST

https://nostr.download/9babb16e8d6132ce059fac12f5502edb8ce3f3d0233815d4b352400b060dc737.jpg

2026-07-30 17:52:39 CEST

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✋️

2026-07-30 17:43:40 CEST

Matt Hill from @nprofile…89r8 was a great listen on @nprofile…r2ms pod yesterday...love the insight, explanations, and nuance

2026-07-20 19:07:34 CEST

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🍻

2026-07-16 21:25:05 CEST

https://magicinternetmath.com/blog-op-if-tapscript.html

2026-07-12 00:38:41 CEST

Hey @nprofile…sxh8
Fan of your content, appreciate your educational videos.
Been following your soft fork signaling tool on your website, however it looks like it's been down since the 6th
Appreciate your signal...keep up the good work!

2026-07-12 00:28:05 CEST

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Scratch that...just took a minute to load

2026-07-12 00:27:31 CEST

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Hmm...using Amethyst and not seeing it either

2026-06-23 17:07:05 CEST

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Yeah, when installing new versions, mac gives a warning that I'm running something downloaded from the dirty internet and not their clean app store, however it always installs after clicking through. If this were to pass, it'd be different?
OFC I'd want updates, nevertheless.
Craig's signature on the manifest is more valuable than Apple's.

2026-06-11 23:53:32 CEST

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What kind of coffee does it prefer to drink?

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

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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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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 !

2025-08-13 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.

2025-08-10 03:41:12 CEST

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🙏

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.

2025-05-29 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.

2025-05-14 23:55:02 CEST

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

2025-04-22 20:32:42 CEST

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

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.

2025-02-02 19:42:56 CET

Favorite passage in "Bitcoin: 1/🤡🌎" so far...
"Many battles, verbal and physical, are fought over fruitless causes. Make sure the hill you're prepared to die on has a valley worth living in beneath it. Finding something worth fighting for is what makes living worth dying for."
h/t @nprofile…nevq @nprofile…gfjm

2025-01-03 23:21:09 CET

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🔥

2024-12-27 14:30:50 CET

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awesome! this has been a long time coming! (3.5 years)
looking forward to tinkering
#note1t74…qy34

2024-12-26 20:55:47 CET

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

2024-12-24 15:50:55 CET

Million Sat Bacon:
1 pound thick-cut bacon
1/3 cup packed brown sugar
1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper (optional)
1/4 cup pure maple syrup
Preheat oven to 350°F
Cover baking sheet with aluminum foil, place wire rack on top of foil. Lay out bacon on a single layer on rack.
Mix dry ingredients, rub mixture on top of bacon. Drizzle top with maple syrup.
Bake 40 minutes until carmelizes, or until desired crispiness.

2024-12-21 00:28:56 CET

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I think this happens pretty regularly in the global south...IIRC, 2/3 of US printed $100 bills are held outside the US, not because they're transacted with, but because it's a way for people to store value in a way that's better than their lousy local gov't paper.

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

2024-12-17 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.

2024-12-12 19:19:50 CET

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I can make a glowing testimonial to this recommendation

2024-12-05 15:47:06 CET

A thought about framing...$100,000 sounds expensive...2.4x median US income.
Another way to frame it is in the context of $900T of global assets. That number is ofc kind of augmented d/t all kinds of BS debt shenanigans, however it's a reference point.
Current BTC market cap...$2T
Current global assets...$900T
BTC currently makes up 0.22% of global assets. Gold is about 9x that (~2%). Is it reasonable for BTC value to reach that of gold, 2% of global assets? 5%? 10%?

2024-11-08 11:12:04 CET

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Dr. Toboggan...Mantis Toboggan

2024-11-01 02:59:22 CET

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1pm both dates
Simpson Library on Sat Nov 9th
Denim Coffee Mechanicsburg on Sun Nov 24th