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M0053 (Balakay2b edition)

I do indeed appreciate your art. It makes me want to try again. I've painted a few things. Maybe someday I'll post one to see what you think.
Another for a cappuccino somewhere, maybe.
Here's the transaction. You'll be able to see the result, but no one else will.
Monero is truly an important experiment. I am glad to see people like you embracing that.
2005a7cf2a091b716f944e7ed7b76563196df57c6b6cdb500b131fcb9a470891
https://monerospace.org/tx/2005a7cf2a091b716f944e7ed7b76563196df57c6b6cdb500b131fcb9a470891

2026-09-10 01:33:35 UTC

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This is very cool.

2026-09-10 01:03:27 UTC

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Because the stingray was latched onto them near her ankle. That's where it stung her. And it was stuck to the pants. The man could not get it off the leg. So she was removing her pants to stop getting stung over and over again in the ankle.
It was probably fairly traumatic.
I actually have a deadly fire ant allergy. This might kill me.
As to the purpose of the original post, I do recognize that there are a lot of double standards in our age. And it has become verboten to acknowledge that men and women are extremely different at the core of their nature.
But disrespectful hatred for any single group like this is not the solution. In fact, it is, in my opinion, evidence of the problem.

2026-09-10 00:59:28 UTC

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https://media.jmoose.rocks/0257150de5e34c6a75c1cb993caed2b673cde541fbe6c0334752cd72961edbca.jpeg

2026-09-09 15:09:08 UTC

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I don't claim to always make good decisions, that's for sure. But shortly after the coldcard thing happened I tightened up a lot of loose ends.
I pulled a little pile of sats out of liquid back to btc.
Around that time I posted something about being careful because we're going to see a lot more things get hit and I don't think we're anywhere close to done yet.

2026-09-09 14:29:15 UTC

Complexity is the enemy of security.

2026-09-09 13:40:50 UTC

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Followed.

2026-09-09 03:02:18 UTC

I've been unfollowing dickheads recently, so if I still follow you, chances are, I don't think you're a dickhead. 🫎🤣

2026-09-09 02:46:48 UTC

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They were saving computational horsepower. But their cashed values had a sort of architectural ambiguity and could be faked out. Once the attacker learned how to take advantage of the cache he was able to bypass the range proof and enter a negative value for LBTC.

2026-09-09 01:07:00 UTC

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Yes, I agree that other people could launch a liquid-like side chain and do a better job than blockstream. I'm not 100% sure of what license the elements project is under, but it may be a really good time for someone to fork it.
I actually am a fan of the wallets, like Aqua and Bull Bitcoin, which use liquid at rest and lightning for payments and Bitcoin for cold storage. It's a very powerful and useful architecture.

2026-09-08 17:53:39 UTC

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Yeah, back in the day (you may have been there) The community actually crowdfunded professional cryptographers to review changes as they went in. I hope they're still doing this, though. I haven't really kept up.
I am with you on these current new changes. I would rather see a more conservative approach. I don't like adding things.
My biggest fear when it comes to bugs is a smart black hat who robs the chain it in a way that doesn't overload the network and it's just a constant cash cow because it's going to be very hard to see.
This is basically what almost all the exchanges we're doing naked shorting the coin for years.
I'm actually trying to figure out ways I might be able to help with attacking it so I can be an actual white hat.
I imagine there are some bug bounties. I hope there are.

2026-09-08 17:37:11 UTC

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Honestly, I i'm surprised we have not seen any issues with all of the various crypto assets.
Liquid borrows a lot of complexity, and I assume even some code from Ethereum.
I imagine there are teams and individuals hammering on various cryptocurrencies day and night.
At the same time, it would be smart if attackers were able to attack in a way that is difficult to detect. So it's not to slay the golden goose, so to speak.
And honestly, this is an area in which Monero's opacity adds to its attack surface.
It seems a bit strange to say, but I hope people are banging on these projects as hard as they can. And I hope some of them are actual white hats who will responsibly and privately disclose to the developers what they find.
There are many incentives for finding flaws in the code of various blockchain-based assets.

2026-09-08 16:53:39 UTC

So much pain in the Bitcoin world recently.
- The BIP 110 split.
- The Coldcard problem
- The Liquid hack.
- Bitpay hack
- Several other AI based attacks
And this is causing people to polarize into sides and make big black and white statements.
I might need to record a little talk about this just to get my own thoughts out.
I've been i'm wanting to wait for the possible emergence of the upcoming Moose and Muffin podcast, but I might have to do an "emergency pod" for this one.

2026-09-06 20:19:01 UTC

Hey, @nprofile…czdr just crossed over in Alabama near the Tallapusa watershed. I bet I'm closer to you than I usually am.

2026-09-02 03:02:39 UTC

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This sounds very... something.

2026-08-30 19:11:26 UTC

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You could certainly try, but seeing as that there are Blake2b ASICs out there I would assume that trying to do so with a CPU would be fairly ineffective.

2026-08-30 01:48:25 UTC

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Circa 1972, Dodge Dart.

2026-08-26 16:00:36 UTC

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That's great, but shouldn't we focus on what separates us from all the other universities?

2026-08-26 15:06:58 UTC

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Not laughing. 😁

2026-08-25 22:40:08 UTC

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M'lady, maketh not my heart tremble thus again.

2026-08-25 22:36:03 UTC

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Uh oh.
Do I need to figure out where I put my resume?

2026-08-25 21:03:16 UTC

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Yeah... A lot of people were confused back then or believed the propaganda. I worked in healthcare, I believed it for a minute.

2026-08-25 19:53:24 UTC

#RIP #Dolly Parton
What a unique human being she was. She was like a living superhero whose power was charm.

2026-08-25 16:06:28 UTC

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I appreciate this very thoughtful and thorough answer. And I agree with most of it. Your simple paragraph of the negative side of the trade-offs monero makes is quite good.
Where I believe we differ is on the current state of Bitcoin and the implicit state of it in the future. I agree Bitcoin is being used for all kinds of tomfoolery and silliness with blocks full of transactions that are out of sync with the purpose for which it was originally developed.
It's interesting, continuing to contrast Monero to Bitcoin, some of the reasons the former has emerged *currently* as a superior transactional money are exactly those same reasons.
Monero is actually being used as transactional money because it is more fungible as well as private. Ordinals on Bitcoin, for example, require a transparent base layer. You couldn't really do those on Monero. Its design makes that impractical if not impossible.
You said Bitcoin is mainly used for speculation. I think that is ignoring the store of value property that Bitcoin is also doing quite well at the moment. People complain that a good store of value is not volatile. But I almost think that's economic propaganda more than truth. Bitcoin is still bootstrapping, and in the last decade and a half its volatility has been diminishing.
I foresee that once Bitcoin has established itself as a trustworthy, worldwide, trust minimized, decentralized asset, that transactional uses will follow naturally. Of course, most of these will not be on the base chain. That has always been true since the moment of Satoshi's first email. But these are just computer science problems. Some solutions already exist.
I believe Bitcoin's transactional use will outbid the spam in the end. And I believe that SOME data on the chain is important for things like transactional systems to be built on top of it. (honestly, I think op_return just being large enough for a a few hashes to be stored is probably enough, but...)
Bitcoin's design originally and with the people who have carried the torch since the beginning has prioritized its continued decentralization over its transactional use. I think this is the right decision.
If Monero's use grows to the point that it is being universally used transactionally, its blockchain will become huge. And it will centralize.
But since we're not there yet with either Monero or Bitcoin, Monero has the advantage.
The reason I'm engaging with you is I have enjoyed your posts ever since I've been reading them and I share a lot of your views. I've also been in the Bitcoin "space" for a long time. I've seen good people branch off into other projects, not chasing after the latest shiny thing, but because they believe there's a mistake being made. Bitcoin Cash and several others frankly. Monero did not start that way, but it ended up there too.
But I think any blockchain-based cryptocurrency is going to face the same problems. And a lot of work has been done on Bitcoin to begin to solve those problems. It is also the clear schelling point in this whole realm.
I agree that parts of Bitcoin's development have been bad choices, particularly recently.
But I also believe we're not going to get another chance at this. And I think we must be careful not to let the perfect be the enemy of the good. As much as I respect Luke Dashjr, I believe that's what he's doing.
Anyway, if you read all this, I appreciate it. And, again, I appreciate your heartfelt, articulate thoughts.

2026-08-24 16:46:54 UTC

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Do you not think that to actually separate money from state you would have to have number go up?
Don't get me wrong. Majoring on that, concentrating on it, making it a pillar of your religious faith in Bitcoin is a mistake.
But the world is not going to use a form of money that does not hold or gain value.
I have been watching Bitcoin for a very long time. In every cycle, there's a new bad guy, a new entity that has captured Bitcoin.
It's been mtgox and China and tether and the banks and the treasury companies and the ETFs and each time we add a new bad guy and drag all the other ones back out of the closet again and parade them around.
I respect your thoughts on this, and I understand where you're coming from. I am not truly a maxi in the sense that I think most people mean. I am a giant Monero fan, for example.
But Bitcoin is for everyone. It's for the people we don't like. It's for the United States government and Iran. It's for the banks. It's for the billionaires. And if it can't survive, those people trying to control it, then we never needed all the bad guys. It was going to fail on its own.

2026-08-24 14:01:29 UTC

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I quit, then. 😁

2026-08-24 04:19:38 UTC

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Did you say Australian or Nostralian? I am not sure, you c... you c... I can't do it.

2026-08-23 18:56:20 UTC

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Seems you've answered your own question.

2026-08-23 18:23:39 UTC

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Your ability to enact that didn't have anything to do with that little piece of paper was that really long number on it that I used to roll a joint with just a minute ago, did it? I'm just riffing. Certainly nothing like that could be the case.

2026-08-23 18:05:53 UTC

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Let me know if you have any time to get on to the architecture for the onboarding process for new positions. You know, sometime, you know, this week, next week, whenever you can, because we just filled another new position, (which actually happens to be you) that you will need to train and lead through the onboarding.

2026-08-23 16:15:44 UTC

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You need an incompetent vice forker?
I'm kind of between stuff right now and might be able to have time to ignore a lot of that sort of thing.
But I'm not even sure what sort of thing, though. So do I need to get my resume to somebody?

2026-08-22 22:31:04 UTC

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This kind of thing. https://media.jmoose.rocks/7b625daaa605d72ec5c75d06055a3618f823cf8898df621e49448af72a718aaf.jpeg

2026-08-22 17:48:11 UTC

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This is an image post to test my blossom server... just responding to something unrelated because I am Chaotic Good.
https://media.jmoose.rocks/bb490c48f4fc716702c369ebc9eff19b23579502ed68563f3f7fa7b9108704a8.png

2026-08-22 17:14:03 UTC

Wow!
The new Yakihonne app looks great!
But pay only. AND ~$144/yr?
I do wish them luck as I want to see good new development in the nostrsphere. But there is no way I can afford this currently. :/
This is a sort of catch-22 isn't it? They should feel free to charge for their hard work. But I wonder how many accounts they will get? I suppose a handful is better than zero.

2026-08-22 05:16:08 UTC

#Bluewallet is definitely the most underrated mobile Bitcoin wallet.
Open source, very simple interface, yet all kinds of powerful features, fabulous import and export capabilities, multi-sig, coin control. Works with hardware signers including airgapped.
Solid.

2026-08-21 22:07:43 UTC

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Monero Seed detected. I'm pretty sure I see 25 washers. 🤪

2026-08-21 22:03:24 UTC

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Wait, no, you can't leave us hanging like that. What happens after the third one?

2026-08-19 16:49:07 UTC

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It's an interesting question. As someone who has been interested in Monero from the very beginning I am not surprised. For many people like myself who might even call themselves "Bitcoin Maxis"... Monero is the only project that really does something that Bitcoin cannot and should not ever do. An obfuscated base layer is an architectural choice that has tremendous trade-off implications. And just like Bitcoin, in the end, there can really only be one project that successfully takes this path. To this day, Monero is that project.
It may be possible, and frankly I hope it is, that Bitcoin payment layers will eventually offer the same level of fungibility, privacy, and sovereignty that Monero offers on its base layer for the spender. And when that happens, Monero will most likely become much less important.
But until that happens... And you need to be able to send someone value without it being potentially known by anyone on Earth...
There really is currently only one choice.
Monero solves problems that Bitcoin does not even try to solve. They are not competitors, really. And people making some religious war between the two in either direction are really missing the forest for the trees.

2026-08-19 16:03:17 UTC

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... She whispered.

2026-08-18 17:29:32 UTC

I am about to go on a trip to meet a secret agent. We are planning the new world order. You will all love it, I am sure.

2026-08-17 05:41:53 UTC

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It's sleepy time.

2026-08-17 05:35:13 UTC

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Seriously, Moose, it's bedtime.

2026-08-17 05:27:44 UTC

I'm gonna be running tests for a while. I'll try to keep them in this stupid thread. Please forgive me. Plus I should be going to bed soon. This has been an incredibly harrowing day, and for some reason now I'm trying to fix my strfry router.

2026-08-17 01:17:04 UTC

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I have no idea what this means, but I like how it sounds.

2026-08-14 14:24:48 UTC

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It would have been helpful to have discovered this before it got cancelled., 😁
I run a meager Bitcoin server stack on a Hertzner based VPS.
And when it gets hacked, I'll have no one to blame but myself.

2026-08-14 04:25:15 UTC

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What does that even mean?

2026-08-14 01:34:00 UTC

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Pfft.
Looks like you're going to make two people's ignore list.

2026-08-13 22:17:25 UTC

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It's too bad that she taints and otherwise very good point that she makes by shitting on "white guys".
But that's just the thing. We don't want any small groups having power.
When we can't agree on the solution, then anarchy is the answer for that problem.

2026-08-13 22:11:06 UTC

#flock #bip39 #doom #doooooooom!
Pack it up everybody. The jig is up. There's no way out of this one. They've had one of those damn things in the seed words since the very beginning!
https://npub1qktjyk0vdqlfss7wztawdnka5phx2p3vlvq50x0z402jk2fjhtnqlx9qas.blossom.band/a24648662818ed8e0336ea4e378318f1763ad687d6f0a946ee22c22511480044.jpg

2026-08-13 18:31:08 UTC

Calling the 12th (or 24th) word in your mnemonic seed"the checksum" is technically incorrect. It also contains 3 (or 7) bits of your base entropy. The checksum is only the remaining 8 (or 4) bits.

2026-08-13 01:11:06 UTC

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I speculate Samson/JAN3.

2026-08-13 00:07:50 UTC

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If there's a fork all bitcoinners get it.

2026-08-12 19:39:49 UTC

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Wait....

2026-08-11 20:52:54 UTC

Ross Perot was right.

2026-08-11 13:53:02 UTC

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Thus shall it be.

2026-08-10 22:38:55 UTC

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https://npub1qktjyk0vdqlfss7wztawdnka5phx2p3vlvq50x0z402jk2fjhtnqlx9qas.blossom.band/ea675a29293fe68db75657b74ba624e513874b28fcd42168100e6bcd41a5f8a0.jpg

2026-08-10 22:35:58 UTC

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Oh, so this was more of an Indica.

2026-08-10 22:27:08 UTC

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But then you surprise all of us by playing this right after taking the biggest rip.
https://npub1qktjyk0vdqlfss7wztawdnka5phx2p3vlvq50x0z402jk2fjhtnqlx9qas.blossom.band/d6c4b635ae1715f3c27efa878f59f8cc02b994e64020517cafcd9f963aeba954.mp3

2026-08-10 04:19:55 UTC

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Is this awesome? Or creepy? Or crawesome? https://image.nostr.build/3c0448bf7de29bb7caf401463223afc55d2596906ed73976d62f1ab35d91bd8d.jpg

2026-08-10 03:53:43 UTC

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Black ice dry vape. Cheers to you.

2026-08-10 00:01:31 UTC

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Where have you been? I'm glad you're back. ❤️😁

2026-08-09 15:50:01 UTC

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Not to mention the fact that you can make one into a clock. ☕👻

2026-08-09 03:33:57 UTC

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Oh, I want to believe so badly that that's a real picture and not AI.

2026-08-09 03:26:00 UTC

I think something is very important here.
All of us have been bombarded by messages saying one side of this argument is retarded or evil or in a means of bitcoin and the other are doing things to make sure that it keeps running well.
The people on the other side of this are not your enemies. They are not people who want something very different than you do even. They're people with a difference of opinion on how this should play out.
They saw it a different way.
There's no need to hate them.

2026-08-09 02:59:00 UTC

This honestly makes me sad.
I have been in Bitcoin almost as long as Luke may be exactly as long.
Luke has been one of the most important contributors to the project from the very beginning.
He has a natural strong bent towards contrarian and adversarial thinking. He tends to believe and act in the extreme.
I believe he cares about what Bitcoin is deeply and probably even sees the project as something that would protect against evil currencies in the digital age.
I agree with him on so many parts of why he is fighting.
This is not a minor loss to Bitcoin.
But Bitcoin is not about one guy.
Sigh.
#nevent1q…fkrj

2026-08-08 17:31:11 UTC

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This is why I recently switched back over to Core 29.
I love the idea of there being less spam. I love the idea of doing simple things to restrict the amount of data that can be crammed into the Bitcoin blockchain.
But I also believe transactions that have a payload that does something useful, like data anchors for monetary uses, etc., are extremely valuable in having a little space to do that while still letting it be prunable for other note runners is good as well.
The two camps are too extreme for me.
One side seems to understand the game theory better.

2026-08-08 13:26:35 UTC

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You are welcome!

2026-08-08 03:31:39 UTC

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2026-08-07 17:56:06 UTC

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I'm really kind of worried that a lot of us are about to become two coiners.

2026-08-07 16:52:50 UTC

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https://npub1qktjyk0vdqlfss7wztawdnka5phx2p3vlvq50x0z402jk2fjhtnqlx9qas.blossom.band/b2eb300ccd7ea6cf6a4465a125362a22f1425359c438835988b5aaf6d8c18a86.jpg
https://npub1qktjyk0vdqlfss7wztawdnka5phx2p3vlvq50x0z402jk2fjhtnqlx9qas.blossom.band/b2eb300ccd7ea6cf6a4465a125362a22f1425359c438835988b5aaf6d8c18a86.jpg

2026-08-07 15:39:41 UTC

#bip110 #knots #core
So the coinkite thing sucked up on my attention.
Where we at on the signaling thing? Are there two bitcoins yet?

2026-08-07 03:48:14 UTC

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Ducktastic!

2026-08-06 19:47:22 UTC

#coldcard #hack #entropy #sad
#CoinKite cannot come back from this.
Even if they could rebuild the lost trust the company AND principals (due to negligence piercing the LLC/corporate protections) are going to be sued into oblivion.
The only HONORABLE move @nvk and @coinkite can do is simple:
They should FULLY make both the hardware and software 100% open source. This would allow the community to rescue the existing devices and project from being useless.
This is also the most effective, if not only way for the people behind this debacle to regain a small amount of respect in the community.
And... It is right.
Not holding my breath... I assume the lawyers and liquidators will be running the show soon.

2026-08-06 05:25:42 UTC

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I'm nobody. New to this bitcoin thing.
As to the statement. I saw remorse. Not rooting for him. He made his bed.

2026-08-06 05:23:43 UTC

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Lol. I'm no one. New to bitcoin. Nyknyc.

2026-08-06 04:31:50 UTC

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He did apologize. In a statement.

2026-08-06 04:31:14 UTC

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In the US this would easily be ruled negligence which will pierce the protections from the LLC or corporation.
Not sure aboot Canada.

2026-08-06 01:50:31 UTC

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Yeah, I remember when Specter was the overly complicated wallet that certain people were suggesting to non-technical folks to use. Nowadays, it's Sparrow, which I absolutely love, but I think we should be more careful who we suggest use things like wallets where you can set derivation paths, etc.

2026-08-06 00:30:56 UTC

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Make sure to stab them in the eyeballs.

2026-08-06 00:30:20 UTC

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It is an interesting point to say that death threats or something this violence would be exactly the sort of thing that...
... I guess no one can determine whether or not that spam can they?
Lol. I don't want this shit on the block cane, even in a printable space, but that doesn't mean that I ENTIRELY hate seeing it there.

2026-08-05 04:54:17 UTC

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Wonder if that was it? 👀

2026-08-05 04:52:45 UTC

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https://image.nostr.build/d8445fdd95b55d5043173dc9c44d4199d69e1a031a14c29314080b59f51ab5c2.png
https://image.nostr.build/05e49ff850c25c91933d229718a4f906443199238212579bec9adc7d4f7c754e.png

2026-08-05 01:52:02 UTC

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Some of them might be reviewing some legal documents at some point 😱

2026-08-05 01:19:16 UTC

I run a little #nostr #relay on the other side of the earth from me. If you happen to be near Helsinki it might be a snappy one for you!
relay.jmoose.rocks
Feel free to use it. My logs are rotated and purged frequently.

2026-08-04 22:39:21 UTC

One thing that may not be super evident yet is the legal tsunami that's coming for #Coinkite and #NVK and possibly even investors. (though I believe there is less risk there)
If it were an American company, I believe protections offered by LLCs and Incorporation can be pierced in the case of criminal negligence.
The evidence of this bug being reported to coinkite by multiple sources... customers, security analysts, and possibly even competitors is extremely damning and would make that criminal negligence easy to prove.
I wonder if the principles are busy deleting things and virtually shredding documents, so to speak. I think if email records, for example, were entered into the court record, it could be exceedingly damning for both the company and the principal actors.

2026-08-04 21:19:42 UTC

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Actually, I believe he does.

2026-08-04 15:19:05 UTC

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Spiderscarlet!

2026-08-04 14:44:12 UTC

Well, this is going into evidence.
I wonder what the class action is going to look like.
It's possible some good people get hurt. It'll be interesting to see how they handle the various influencers. Maybe not ones who just made a brief recommendation, but ones that had money going back and forth because of it.
Oof.
#nevent1q…n357

2026-08-03 17:22:20 UTC

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To be honest, and I've been around as long as you have, You are not someone that I have a lot of trust in for some of the same reasons that I've never trusted NVK.
But when you're right, you're right, and you are right about that one.

2026-08-03 00:39:44 UTC

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I have begun to think that it's even more likely that the a customer or two produced a wallet and found it already had coins in it and then moved them.
I think I saw someone say the math on the collisions is one in 1.8 million or so. That's a lot of keys, but considering a lot of people might create several wallets...

2026-08-03 00:36:40 UTC

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Yeah, and I think there's probably lots and lots of people on here that are ready for it. It's not like you got to be in a special club, but I could just see some of the less technical people tripping over some scary stuff and then not being able to find what they do with their Bitcoin.
I do think Craig the developer has added some more warnings and such in certain areas.

2026-08-03 00:27:57 UTC

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Dat case doh...

2026-08-03 00:24:56 UTC

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So basically you want to use a Reddit username? 🤪

2026-08-02 23:47:27 UTC

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3 then.

2026-08-02 23:45:36 UTC

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I'm sure the lawyers have a much longer list than this one little bit.
They've got to get ahead of stuff because there's some pretty nasty shit comin down the pipe for some people.

2026-08-02 23:39:05 UTC

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I wouldn't be surprised if it's something that a lawyer suggested.
I expect we'll be seeing other sorts of announcements from various corners.
Big shit is coming for some people. They're gonna have to get ahead of it.

2026-08-02 23:34:39 UTC

I have been seeing #Sparrow wallet mentioned a lot for use in recovery and for ordinary users to download so they can move coins to a hot wallet, etc.
First of all, let me say this is my favorite Bitcoin wallet.
But it's actually very similar to the Coldcard in that it is an extremely complex piece of software. When you're making your wallet, you can choose derivation paths, for example.
Sparrow really is for the passionate and the power users.
Perhaps someone else knows a easier to use wallet that runs on Windows and Mac.
Something like Blue Wallet may be good for a temporary hot wallet. @bluewallet
https://bluewallet.io/