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2026-08-29 07:12:27 UTC

Notwithstanding critical vulnerabilities being found and reported, I can only imagine how annoyed devs are at the amount of nothingburger/time-wasting reports, overblown narrative-pushing, clout-farming and headline-generating
Folks who dislike posting on socials or public forums probably have things to say about all this

2026-08-27 19:33:39 UTC

Hans-Hermann Hoppe, one of the greatest political and economic philosophers of all time, comments on how Bitcoin and monetary metals can help improve economic literacy among the public and help them get insights into the dangers of government-controlled money
https://blossom.primal.net/c405153ce63d834435b1a7000f01c0eca1ec5efa5cf6adb43f5e061d81df1d90.mp4

2026-08-26 21:46:18 UTC

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Man this is just my way of dealing with frustrations I have with using Lightning. I use what I use based on what fulfills my expectations. Feel free to use anything that meets yours. No worries.
>if they take it
Not sure what you mean here. Who takes what?

2026-08-26 20:42:23 UTC

Using lightning self-custodially makes me pull my hair out so much I might go fully bald soon.
Then, to avoid getting mad at computer code like a crazy person and to get some perspective, I ask some questions to clankers about the state of scaling
on popular shitcoin networks.
•What would happen to *insert popular shitcoin network' if it faces volumes of millions, tens of millions or hundreds of millions of transactions per day like UPI, Visa, Mastercard, etc.?
•What would happen to their blockchain sizes?
•How are fees calculated and how do they respond to insane demand?
•How would the network handle spam?
•What would become of node hardware requirements when volumes are so high?
•What happens to bandwidth requirements with their respective block time intervals?
•If scaling solutions exist, how do they enable users to exit unilaterally to the base layer without trusting a third party?
etc etc etc

2026-08-25 18:16:14 UTC

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There'd be an inertia for people when what they use is good enough for them, for now.
Only when accounts get denied or closed, funds get frozen or transfers get declined arbitrarily will it probably make sense for them to take the time.
I'm just amused that people assume that none of the above would ever happen or unaware that they are already happening.

2026-08-25 11:56:24 UTC

https://blossom.primal.net/8d5c18b11cf2eaedb9676e6b9a80f004667d792f45a4f2bf09b4947f7ba45615.jpg

2026-08-25 10:35:29 UTC

Governments are actively engaging in monetary and economic censorship.
And we have thinkbois courageously declaring that privacy, self-custody and p2p exchange is not for everyone and that they are ideological fantasies.
Awww man it's sooooooo hard for an adult to watch one-hour BTC Sessions tutorials where he explains screen-by-screen, button-by-button, as he would to a toddler, how to use freedom tech tools.
Come on man 🤣

2026-08-25 03:09:34 UTC

It eased my mind to understand that states are not exempt from basic economic casuality, consequences and constraints that apply to corporations, however omnipotent they or their lackeys present themselves to be.
States can try to tax, spend, surveil, manipulate, regulate, beg, borrow and steal to escape economic realities. But they will reap what was sown and eventually perish. All of them. Not because of moral consequences, but economic ones. It's not a coincidence that none of them have lasted more than a few centuries, which itself is a best-case timeframe for their vain existence.
If one wants a state to perish, he doesn't need to become an active libertarian, organize conferences, perform moral canvassing and live in perpetual annoyance at his friends and family to enable it. He can probably accelerate it at best, but at great personal cost which is not worth the trouble.
He doesn't have to be gaslit as a believer of a utopian fantasy which doesn't exist when in truth, it is the statists who are doing that.
States, more than machines or anything else, represent man's vain attempts at playing God rather than surrendering to his infinite love and grace. They will prove to be man's ultimate bane.
https://blossom.primal.net/cd8a8c87c04643290e2ad258b0ec7d3f3de5df9e1ba8cfcd8c0414d3c895c561.jpg

2026-08-18 23:51:52 UTC

Technologists are wildly underestimating what the human mind is capable of.
Fair, because I don't think the fooe we eat, our lifestyles, mental states, education (*indoctrination) and environmental conditions are conducive to using our minds to full capacity, however varied it may be for different people.
There are also things about it we don't yet understand widely due to the limitations of both rational and empirical methods in science and what knowledge these methods consider as valid.

2026-08-18 23:06:44 UTC

RoninDojo v3.0.0 update announcement:
https://ronindojo.io/blog/announcing-ronindojo-v3

2026-08-18 12:03:05 UTC

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For now, you can add offers to your Nostr profile on Amethyst. But people can only zap that way by going to your profile and pressing the bolt icon.
Idk if this is accurate, this is the PR that enables Bolt12 zaps, right?
https://github.com/lightning/bolts/pull/1346
In any case, still a long way to go before widespread bolt12 zaps as most wallets don't even support sending to offers. LND finally implementing them would be great:
https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/issues/10736

2026-08-18 01:59:05 UTC

Idk if they're coming back, based on response from their support
#nevent1q…uc3t

2026-08-18 01:57:26 UTC

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If you're using Zaplocker LN addresses on Zeus, they've disabled indefinitely

2026-08-15 09:43:11 UTC

'Realities of an alternative Bitcoin implementation'
By Calvin Kim, maintainer of btcd, an alternative implementation of Bitcoin written in Go.
'We have these brilliant engineers that write code in brilliant ways that only their brilliant minds understand' - Calvin on Bitcoin Core's code 😂
https://youtu.be/MAG7zbsag1A

2026-08-13 21:57:41 UTC

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>curious how vls handles high-traffic routing nodes without adding latency.
Would latency be *that* much of a problem that it impacts payment reliability though?
>yields are still a manual grind for most.
Yeah, at the moment, considering the adoption and volume of swaps, lightning and coinjoins, there isn't much incentive to tolerate the manual grind. Yields on these are great as an idea, but can only take off if the underlying services become more widely used.

2026-08-13 21:16:08 UTC

There are a few under-the-radar, not-so-talked about projects/tools/developments that are worth keeping an eye on:
•Floresta
•Compact block filters
•Splicing beyond channel management, splicejoins, etc.
•Validating Lightning Signer
•Payjoin
•Miniscript
•Yields from Lightning liquidity provision in general, potential of doing these trustlessly
•Mainstreamification of coinjoins
•Wallets potentially defaulting to coinjoins
•Yields from coinjoin coordination becoming a thing
•Frost, musig, collaborative custody, etc.
•LSP competition for channel provision
•Competition in Atomic swap provision, Boltz alternatives, yields from liquidity provision for swaps
•Use of Nostr in Lightning, CLINK
•Fiat <-> Lightning <-> Fiat payment apps like Tando
•Buying bitcoin by paying random fiat QR codes from strangers for bills
•Bolt12, push payments on Lightning
•Small non-public, non-popular, private, companies generating 'sats flows', and the term becoming a thing

2026-08-13 20:49:05 UTC

Four proposed set of upgrades/changes to Bitcoin that are worth tracking:
•CISA
•Covenants
•Consensus cleanup
•Script restoration
No *need* to be for or against any of these at the moment.

2026-08-11 21:52:39 UTC

If Bitcoin discourse feels like a drama-filled political reality show to you and you're sick of influencer slop, check out Bitcoin++ and all the content they are putting out on their socials, including their 'Insider Edition' stuff.
Lot of signal there.
Links:
https://btcpp.dev/
https://insider.btcpp.dev/

2026-08-11 13:10:18 UTC

Issue #621 of Bitcoin Breakdown is out
https://www.btcbreakdown.com/p/issue-621

2026-08-11 09:03:17 UTC

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I'd like to learn more about these filters.
Wouldn't it prove to be more or less pointless if only a part of the network ends up running them since the rest bypasses them anyway?

2026-08-11 01:52:28 UTC

In Defense of Extreme Rationalism by Hans-Hermann Hoppe
https://mises.org/online-book/great-fiction-second-expanded-edition/18-defense-extreme-rationalism

2026-08-11 01:39:40 UTC

In Defense of “Extreme Apriorism” by Murray Rothbard
https://mises.org/mises-daily/defense-extreme-apriorism

2026-08-11 01:25:29 UTC

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I can see that yeah
Didn't think about this much because fees are anyway quite low nowadays
Also I agree about the mempool part. Miners can only add tx's they can see

2026-08-11 00:32:33 UTC

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Yep!

2026-08-10 23:57:38 UTC

The nature of Bitcoin means that nobody can make moral or legal judgements on any of the transactions that are added to consensus valid blocks, even if they are purely monetary.
I can probably choose not to relay transactions related to Coldcard thefts and BTCPay Server exploits via my node, because I think they are legally invalid.
But if they are added to a block, my node accepts it. If it doesn't, it's not a part of the network anymore. This is uncomfortable to think about, but it is what it is.

2026-08-10 23:38:37 UTC

When I was playing around with my node a while back, much before all this controversy started, I remember thinking:'Wait a second, this is my node. Why don't I get to decide what it relays?'
My node, my policy, my choice etc etc etc.
Then I heard the reasoning given by devs. I was like, 'Eh really good points but it has still gotta be my choice'.
Relay policy vs consensus rules was a nice little nuance to learn about.
Then relay policies were made flexible, then I remember thinking that it was cool.
Never really thought much more about it really.

2026-08-10 00:13:46 UTC

As long as the state exists as a territorial monopoly on violence, certain things we assume Bitcoin can fix will still be broken.
Consequences of price controls, regulations, taxation, trade tariffs, subsidies, positive law, eminent domain, state monopolies, democracy or monarchy, broken or non-existent property rights, etc. will all still persist.

2026-08-09 23:47:18 UTC

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My node hardware has just been sitting there since I turned it off. Need to expand storage.
I actually miss running one. This post is a great reminder for me to set it back up again 🙏🏻

2026-08-08 21:21:35 UTC

Fork tracker:
https://bip110.orange.surf/live.html
https://blossom.primal.net/95b7e7c7565b2745de88e59fa10c55273fa30df1ce83eb46e84bcbe33e41b936.png

2026-08-08 21:14:17 UTC

Watchparty!
https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1AKEmmEEXrXKL

2026-08-08 18:16:22 UTC

Arsenal's midfield looks so good right now
Can't wait for the new premier league season to start

2026-08-08 18:14:27 UTC

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People wouldn't be so worked up about everything if they got sucked once a while
Just sayin

2026-08-08 18:11:00 UTC

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Gameboy advance I mean. Playing it without a backlight was annoying was annoying.
Of course now I can just use an emulator to play those games on mobile if i want to so it's all good

2026-08-08 17:25:40 UTC

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Out of all the things they could've cut costs with, mfs chose that
I'm still kinda pissed ngl 😂

2026-08-08 15:53:52 UTC

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This one's the Advance SP yeah. Everyone around me had it so I borrowed it sometimes.
The one I personally owned was an Advance with battery power and no light. I remember always having to sit in certain positions for visibility lol. But it had way better key mechanics.

2026-08-08 15:10:47 UTC

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Iconic device
I have great memories playing Pokemon Emerald/Ruby/Sapphire and Beyblade V-force/G Revolution on this

2026-08-07 21:46:29 UTC

I love you, man (2009) was a super fun movie.
A story where the protagonist's biggest problem in life is not having a single male friend close enough to be the best man at his wedding 😂
The plot is simply him eventually finding one.

2026-08-07 21:10:44 UTC

Bitstein shared this during the depths of a previous bear market:
https://x.com/bitstein/status/1296499844891238400
Link to source video:
https://youtu.be/49FWp7WLYKw

2026-08-07 20:52:01 UTC

https://blossom.primal.net/6cf1a1acfc49119ef4d1b0f8b1ffe4b87a1977a7bc7f13bd72fc55ee3a13d522.png

2026-08-06 13:15:26 UTC

https://youtu.be/76pWdExqfkY
#nevent1q…zn4z

2026-08-06 11:42:42 UTC

Regulations do not defend consumers from crony capitalists
Regulations do defend crony capitalists from market competition

2026-08-06 10:25:39 UTC

Sentiment among Bitcoin devs is that Chinese open models are more effective at helping them find and address bugs than their American counterparts because of the supposedly protective guardrails imposed on the latter
Things moving so fast that consequences of government intervention are laid bare within days or weeks, much before statist psyops can even be framed

2026-08-06 05:20:48 UTC

I used to voluntarily test both alpha and beta builds from @nprofile…2xhz a while back.
Because I tested early builds, I've had my channels with Zeus' LSP force-closed or lost because of bugs 4 or 5 times now.
Every single time, Zeus restored them in full, once even with extra capacity. Which is to say that their support is excellent.
@nprofile…e55f handles it personally.
So if channels were lost or closed during the recent incident, I can vouch that they'll get restored. Just make sure you mail them here:
[email protected]

2026-08-04 11:27:26 UTC

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Yeah bear markets do be like that

2026-08-03 21:15:56 UTC

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In all honesty, I'm cool with people using, interpreting and understanding bitcoin in whatever way and however they want to
I only want two metrics to keep going up at this point:
•Number of people who can pay me using an on-chain address or LN invoice
•Number of people whose on-chain address or LN invoice I can pay
Anything more than that makes me feel like I'm expecting too much from people.

2026-08-03 18:57:01 UTC

Strap the fuck in.
I'm not going anywhere.

2026-08-03 01:00:26 UTC

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Man ngl I'm glad that we have influencers, podcasters, suits, content creators, etc in Bitcoin who do the hard work of building bridges to nocoiners.
I don't agree with or listen to them anymore. I totally get what you mean. But they're still helping overall and doing something I personally don't want to spend my time and energy in doing anymore.
I've had the misfortune of coning across really unpleasant stuff from both bitcoiners and shitcoiners in recent times, much before the coldcard incident. People like this, you know the kind I'm talking about, are probably quite knowledgeable and helpful but I don't see them bringing in new people. You've gotta actually be invited to places to orange pill people 😂

2026-08-03 00:15:28 UTC

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Nah you're good
I might have lost my breath laughing so you gotta answer for that

2026-08-03 00:05:02 UTC

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It's so feature rich that it deserves something like that
I don't use 90% of those features but I just like seeing them there 😂

2026-08-02 23:35:58 UTC

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Very

2026-08-02 23:28:15 UTC

The number of customizable features on Amethyst is insane.
This client is one of the reasons I am so talkative on Nostr. Makes it easy to post, reply, zap and keep track of notes compared to others. It's fast. Drafts feature is underrated too. So many little quality-of-life features.
Back to being my main client after many months.

2026-08-02 18:13:25 UTC

Friend of mine plays path of exile, a complex game with multiple in-game currencies
Was cool to hear that players organically converged on one or two particular currencies as mediums of exchange without the game devs planning it to happen

2026-08-02 18:00:51 UTC

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Nah

2026-08-02 17:23:54 UTC

Spiderman Brand New Day was good
Character development for Tom Holland's Peter Parker has been lovely to watch

2026-08-02 07:51:36 UTC

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Thing is noone knows how long this drags on for

2026-08-01 23:28:35 UTC

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In terms of price I agree
In terms of vibes this one's pretty brutal

2026-08-01 22:28:19 UTC

This bear market feels worse than the last one

2026-08-01 19:42:28 UTC

Well shit
My feed is slowly filling with bizarre takes and unhelpful opinions
#nevent1q…3cnm

2026-08-01 04:11:13 UTC

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Didn't know that you were on this side quest.
I'd love to see the website completed if you find the time and energy for it. Can never have too many resources for stuff like this

2026-08-01 02:07:55 UTC

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That's the thing. We're used to assuming that new money has to be printed to make people whole.
The concept of recovering funds from the criminal by getting him to pay back stolen or defrauded funds or having him pay restitution has been wiped out of the discourse.
That's how fucked up the legal system has become.

2026-08-01 01:24:04 UTC

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Man I knew takes like this was coming the moment I saw that the vulnerability was confirmed.
Protecting any form of wealth has always required vigilance, time and care.
Custodians are not really as safe or easy as portrayed. Trusting them is fine to the extent that legal recourse and adequate restitution in the event of threat or fraud is guaranteed.
If victims of theft or fraud can get back their stolen or defrauded funds in additon to restitution easily, as many people would not be recommending self-custody.
The reality is that the provider of this legal service, the government, holds a monopoly on it and as a result will only get less and less effective at what they do and charge more and more for their services. Their processes are complex and time-consuming. You get sent to different offices and are loaded with paperwork. You cannot expect them to serve you with priority, because their own resources and personnel are limited.
You might end up spending more than you lost. And even if you do, you won't get restitution. There's also the complication of civil asset forfeiture which is not easy for the layman to understand. You're gonna end up paying a lot to lawyers.
Now imagine how it would be in countries where the legal system is way more broken than those in the west.
It's not like there are competing private service providers people can pay to take care of getting back your funds for you and ensure restitution. Apparently that is an ideological fantasy. It doesn't exist anywhere.
Self-custody is a practical and economic necessity to deal with the reality of a monopolized legal system and its inevitable consequences. It is not really ideological for everyone.

2026-08-01 00:10:46 UTC

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I agree that they are not that creative and have limits, yep
But can you elaborate on why this is to be expected?

2026-08-01 00:03:43 UTC

I have a question for people who use Claude or ChatGPT for text-related tasks like writing, text generation, summarizing existing texts, etc.
Have you felt like these models have degraded in terms of their output quality?
And have you had to do manual editorial work more often nowadays?

2026-07-31 23:47:06 UTC

Public discourse about the Coldcard vulnerability has been nice to see, atleast on my feeds.
Lot more helpful signal and actionable suggestions than noise.
Gives me confidence about dealing with any upcoming incidents like these in open source software I currently use.

2026-07-31 02:36:01 UTC

I think eyebrows can be raised now.
Coldcard users will have to pay attention if they generated their seeds on-device. Gotta start immediately contacting people that were recommended to use it to provide them with assistance and guidance.
More threads to follow to stay updated on technical details:
1. Max Guise from Bitkey
https://x.com/max_guise/status/2083007180874379515
2. Semisol
#nevent1q…mzfd
3. James O'Beirne:
https://x.com/jamesob/status/2082946043696574756
4. Zach Herbert from Foundation:
https://x.com/zherbert/status/2082993276324319713
5. LLFOURN from Frostsnap
https://x.com/LLFOURN/status/2082990000896147942
6. Clay Garret from Bitkey:
https://x.com/clay_garrett/status/2082980439367487724
#nevent1q…6jnr

2026-07-30 21:58:40 UTC

Would wait for this before jumping to conclusions
https://blossom.primal.net/105195b21a766dbc095546b36949be05feddc487c60c9f810c000b3b68cb7cc7.jpg
#nevent1q…whxj

2026-07-30 21:44:52 UTC

Notes regarding the sweeps:
1. Details on how exactly the attacks were made and funds were sweeped are unclear.
2. Unclear if it's an issue with Coldcard alone at the moment.
3. Sensing potential hyperbole and concern trolling from devleopers of multisig wallets. Tad annoying.
#nevent1q…tkfq

2026-07-30 21:29:37 UTC

Ideal first reaction when there's an issue with a product is to send a mail to its support team.
Posting on socials after that is fine but that comes with a lot of noise.

2026-07-30 21:20:16 UTC

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Yeah I agree it's annoying
#nevent1q…6gv4

2026-07-30 20:57:40 UTC

Funds in some coldcards are getting partially swept.
No cause for concern or hyperbole at the moment. Can wait till more details emerge before considering actions. But for the prudent, here are some threads to follow:
1. Rob Hamilton, CEO of AnchorWatch
•Preliminary analysis:
https://x.com/Rob1Ham/status/2082896614218203616
•Also mentions that only 4% of addresses were reused:
https://x.com/Rob1Ham/status/2082902437543678255
2. NVK, head of Coinkite, maker of Coldcard
•'No support or security emails to us related to this, only hear say and the Reddit mess.'
https://x.com/nvk/status/2082902502169510263
•Like many, he also speculates that it is a result of bad entropy:
https://x.com/nvk/status/2082891656676700344
3. Jameson Lopp, CSO of Casa:
•Friends say only a few UTXOs were swept and not all.
https://x.com/lopp/status/2082894501018767693
•Also says the swept UTXOs are not that old:
https://x.com/lopp/status/2082914565646413879
4. Kevin Loec, CEO of Wizardsardine, maker of Liana wallet:
•His hypothesis based on what he knows so far:
https://x.com/KLoaec/status/2082926304995762209

2026-07-30 16:47:51 UTC

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No place more fun than real life xD

2026-07-30 16:46:51 UTC

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Hoppe's Economic Science and the Austrian Method

2026-07-30 13:19:12 UTC

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This is interesting because often times people who argue in favour of markets are told that their ideas 'work in theory, but not in practice'
And they go on to make arguments based on theories of their own without realizing it, like Mises writes here.
This is one of the most annoying things about having conversations about politics with people.

2026-07-30 08:41:17 UTC

Best part about diving into the austro-libertarian rabbithole has been discovering and learning about epistemology. It's super useful to stay sane, sovereign and understand the limits of what we study and practice widely as science today.
Mises, Rothbard and Hoppe have done a great job of making the subject accessible in some of their lesser known but very insightful works.
Reading list below. Some I've read, some I've heard others talking about, listing or citing.
https://blossom.primal.net/2002c2eb3ecb78a868d78a9747a44dafaf60c444565e62c1bc2b8b405cb56163.jpg

2026-07-30 08:31:19 UTC

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If only us humans stop underestimating what we're capable of and realise what's special about us

2026-07-30 02:22:55 UTC

LLMs cannot simply 'know' the best way to interpret or summarise articles, news stories, etc. of their own accord. Editorial work is still required for that.
For eg:
'X government is passing X legislation to bring regulatory clarity to the industry while aiming for leadership in the industry'
This is statist slop. Governments don't deserve that benefit of doubt and it's a boring way to report. Can never ever take the word of regulators and politicians doing PR.
'X government is passing X legislation that is going to create a regulatory moat for possible cronies to potentially keep competition out, while possibly increasing state surveillance' is more realistic and interesting.
Can't train a clanker to think this way because it can't understand or speculate on ends, means and incentives.

2026-07-30 02:06:14 UTC

Been using LLMs at work for 2 years now for writing and summarizing tasks.
They are really useful and save a lot of time, yes.
Yet, what they produce is so bland, generic and lifeless that I cannot understand the hype.

2026-07-30 01:34:37 UTC

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Been on it with a throaway account I use for work-related stuff
Besides updates about products, projects and tools, there isn't much to miss for the average Bitcoiner really.
I don't get the urge to 'be a part of the conversation' tbh, which is what many of them are citing as the reason to hop back on there. The 'conversation' doesn't seem to be going anywhere useful.

2026-07-29 00:44:43 UTC

There are random features I would wish a social app/website/client to have, but wouldn't really ask devs for it
And then a few weeks later I'd see Amethyst adding them 😂
Elite shipping

2026-07-22 10:59:34 UTC

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Man atomic swaps are everywhere it feels like
Underrated tech in terms of how much it is involved in gluing all these scaling solutions together and how often it is talked about
I wonder how well it holds up in high-fee environments though

2026-07-22 10:57:47 UTC

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I guess the only way to grok it is to actually use the product and see for ourselves what it is capable of and not

2026-07-22 00:02:18 UTC

Wavelength is Lightning Labs' new toolkit to make it easier for devs to integrate lightning payments. It seems similar to Breez SDK.
According to them, it uses an 'Ark-like' settlement layer under the hood. Idk what that means, but they're saying unilateral exits are possible.
Their marketing is focused on 'agentic payments', 'agentic commerce', etc. Despite a lot of devs being super excited about it, I don't share their enthusiasm. Maybe I don't know enough or understand its implications.
https://lightning.engineering/posts/2026-07-21-wavelength-launch/

2026-07-21 07:32:11 UTC

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Awesome!
Is there an announcement link?
I contribute to the Bitcoin Breakdown newsletter and I can mention this today if that's okay with you.

2026-07-20 22:23:30 UTC

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Ouch 😂
I like talking to people IRL but not so much with people online I haven't met, except maybe a select few.
Which is why my ratio is inverted lol

2026-07-20 21:00:32 UTC

How is it that every political revolution that has claimed to 'free' people ends up with its leaders establishing a new state or occupying existing state machinery?
And then it ends up making things more or less, often less, 'free' then it previously was.
Over the years, decades or centuries, things end up at the same place where they started. I guess that's why they're called 'revolutions'.
Mainstream history always presents political movements as representations of a long march towards a better future. Apparently human societies never go backwards and can only get more and more 'enlightened'.
I suppose when you only look at material aspects of life, it might seem to be true.
There might be a view that a society in which people increasingly dismiss the spiritual aspects of life is actually digressing and going backwards. I do not see it represented.
Or a view that we are living in quite possibly the worst time in human history when it comes to 'freedom'. I don't see that represented often either.

2026-07-20 20:12:55 UTC

The mass movements I see on the news, the ones with angry protesters, signboards and anti-authoritarian rhetoric, never call for reduction in government power but an increase in it.

2026-07-20 19:56:40 UTC

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Wait what's Zeus Route?

2026-07-20 12:46:15 UTC

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What would be a significant number for similar amounts in your opinion?

2026-07-20 10:53:19 UTC

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2026-07-20 10:52:49 UTC

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2026-07-20 10:16:24 UTC

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Hope you start watching club competitions too
PS: Arsenal's the best club to support ;)

2026-07-18 23:50:30 UTC

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When Bitcoin goes up again stuff will kinda trigger in the back of their minds and make em think 'ah maybe this guy had a point'

2026-07-18 21:01:23 UTC

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Haha yeah I can relate to your frustration. I never talk about Bitcoin with people unless they bring it up themselves since it requires putting in a lot of time and effort to understand. It also gets tiresome to explain the whole thing to them.

2026-07-18 20:35:07 UTC

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Was it a heated political conversation with a friend that triggered this?

2026-07-18 20:32:13 UTC

With every transfer window in Football, I see player valuations inflate to levels I didn't think it could possibly reach.
Deals are being made for £100 - £120 million like it's normal now.

2026-07-18 00:09:47 UTC

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'Social contract' my ass lol

2026-07-18 00:06:15 UTC

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Don't forget Instagram
Shorts videos are probs the leading cause of brain damage and mass delusion

2026-07-18 00:03:38 UTC

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*All schools lmfao

2026-07-18 00:02:19 UTC

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Sports, food, music, business, fucking feelings and gossip. Let em come at me with anything. But I don't let the conversation steer into politics. Can't tolerate stupid statist shit. Fuck. That.

2026-07-17 23:57:14 UTC

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What keeps me from totally losing my shit is the awareness of my own flaws and the kind of retarded things I used to believe and say in the past
We've been blessed with good guidance and time, patience and energy to read, reflect and think things through. Others probably have different priorities and strengths.
But I still get fucking pissed the fuck off 🤣
Didn't want to end up resenting everybody so I've kinda drastically reduced talking politics IRL nowadays