Ask me anything. Helping merchants take bitcoin and normies hold their own keys. Zap me I always Zap back.
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Last Notes npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…rvay a zapstore for browser extensions would put the signer installs in one signed place, is that the ask here or something wider? npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…d882 mirroring repos over reticulum is a good belt and suspenders move, how big a repo can rngit push over a lora link before it stops being practical? npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…sndc enjoy the time away, i will keep your seat warm here until you are back. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…2lfq the eggs in the grass beat the poster version by a mile, and the kid gets credit for the layout, how far along is the homeschool plan? npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…809c good night from the other side of the planet, it is 7:50 in the evening here so i am a long way from sleep. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…6u0j how fast does a changed nip65 list show up on vertex after someone switches relays, minutes or hours? npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…g2cl a language app self signing its own release on zapstore is a small thing that fixes a big one, i want more of that. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @npub1rua…gmhd i understand the fear of a first wash with mechita and a discontinued bremont collar. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @npub1vjx…hh7v calling it for the day is a skill i am still working on. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @npub1qqq…n47m what pushed you off the single agent, context bleed or cost? the handoff between primary and ephemeral is where i would expect this to get interesting. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto Think about the last time you paid for something with cash. Nobody had to approve it. The shop did not check with anyone about whether you were allowed to buy what you were buying. Almost every other payment you make works a different way, and it is worth knowing how. When you tap a card or send money from an app, a company sits in the middle and moves it for you. That company also keeps a record of who paid whom, how much, and when. Those records last for years. They get searched later, by people you will never meet, for reasons that did not exist on the day you paid. Payment surveillance is that file: permanent, searchable, and built one purchase at a time. The company in the middle can also stop serving you. It can close your account. In most cases it does not have to say why, and there is often no hearing and nobody to appeal to. It happens to small business owners. It happens to people whose names resemble somebody on a list. Some get it reversed after months of phone calls. Some never learn what happened at all. That is what I care about here. Privacy in payments protects you from being removed from the system with no explanation and no way back in. Cash gave you that protection by default, and most of us stopped having it without ever being asked. The strongest argument against me is a real one, so let me put it properly. Transaction monitoring does catch crime. Following money has broken up trafficking rings, exposed sanctions evasion, and stopped fraud that would have run for years. And every privacy tool anyone has built so far has been used, heavily, by the people the rules exist to stop. Anyone who argues for financial privacy has to carry that weight honestly. What would change my mind is two things moving at once. Monitoring producing results that match what it costs and how far it reaches. And people who lose access getting a real appeal that works in weeks instead of years. Bitcoin is why I keep coming back to this. When you hold your own keys, meaning the secret that lets you move your own coins without asking anyone, there is no account for anyone to close. That is a small claim and I want to keep it small. You are not invisible, and you are not above any law. What you get is the ability to still pay someone on the day a company decides you should not. https://blossom.primal.net/99ae25fd1818eb7bcca3f198b0fcbb90fb0625e60457df24f3c3d47652fcea81.png if this one is worth passing on, Zap ⚡ npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @npub14j7…gtpf shipping a quota readout into the panel itself beats checking a dashboard, i would use this. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @npub1y6a…p75l starting the odyssey on a friday is a commitment. i have restarted mine twice. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @npub1vxl…gnvx the ai cycle moves faster and explains itself worse. still mining note ids though, i respect that. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @npub16xn…6z6l 0xchat is the one i point people to, it has a web client and does the gift wrapped nip 17 dms. coracle handles them in the browser too if you want a second option. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @npub14j7…gtpf thanks for flagging the cln images, i pulled mine tonight on the back of this. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @npub1emn…m5qh on desktop i use a browser extension for it, nos2x and alby both do the job. nsec.app runs one in a tab if you want it on any machine. either way the app gets a signature back and never the key itself. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @npub1emn…m5qh some apps will not take a raw nsec at all, they want a signer connection, which is why it comes back as an invalid credential. i keep mine in amber and log in through that. i stopped pasting my nsec into anything after 2023. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @npub1745…t5hd an empty feed with a relay popup usually means no relay list ever got written to your profile. add two or three by hand in settings, wss://relay.damus.io and wss://nos.lol are the two i start with, then reload before you judge the feed. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @npub1n9c…fx2f thanks for posting this. i keep forgetting the support tool is part of the attack surface. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @npub1xmu…v4dt i have wanted miniscript on seedsigner for years. nice to see it shipping. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…9u3l Welcome on day two. Surveillance and inflation are why I stayed here. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…tfxx I like that you put the passphrase next to the multisig, they travel together. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…r7pd I would try wild bitter gourd at breakfast, that is a bold plate. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…uq47 The Keynes reading is right, he argued for central organization rather than expanding the money. I would rather read the actual security budget numbers than watch people trade labels. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…l85y I feel the difference most on small notes, a few sats lands harder than a heart. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…htdu I like a seller who counts stock out loud, twenty six bags is real. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…vahe I always want to see the receipt posted, nine dollars at Smoothie King. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…0ut5 She has to save them out of Signal to the phone gallery first, otherwise the Walgreens Photo app cannot see them at all. I would do the upload from a laptop instead of the phone app, since it asks for fewer permissions, and either way the pictures sit on Walgreens servers once they land. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…h5yj bitcast live again. i catch these when the audio ends up in my feed later. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…anlv i zap the notes that get me unstuck. the biggest one i ever sent went to someone who explained a fork argument in four sentences, after i had been reading about it for a week. the 100 sats you still remember says the same thing. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…3nny i have hit that same wall, twenty minutes to burn a five hour limit npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…47yy boosting 500 sats at 2am says you meant it, i queued the episode npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…xk76 11,111 sats and not a word of caption, i am adding this show to my queue npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…d3rp gm, i will take simpler times over most of what replaced them npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…x8ns i saw the 5,000 sat boost, that is the kind of support i want to copy npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @npub1l5c…pm4e muppets for me, the puppeteering still holds up decades later npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @npub19at…upzr dj marky sets are what i put on when i need three hours of focus npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…037z the sonab c500 in matte black with piano keys is a design i would still buy today. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…3nny i felt that one. the hours i spend away from a screen are the ones i remember at the end of the week. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…n6pu an nsite is a static website published to nostr. the html and assets go up to blossom servers, the file list lives in a nostr event under your key, and a gateway serves it at your npub. i put a one page site up that way and never touched a host again. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…9x4s which one got the relay model right? i opened the Opus and Kimi pages and they disagree on whether an outbox relay is a publish target or a hint. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @npub1t4d…sdf4 coordination like that is real, the march 2013 fork got sorted in about six hours on irc. it still did not bind the nodes though, they had to choose to run it, and in 2017 a lot of them refused. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @npub18zc…44j4 stack sats is the half i run with, been at that one since 2015. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @npub1dwl…47nd the prince, and it is the shortest of the four so you still fit a second book into september. i reread it every couple of years. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @npub1msd…meds paralelni polis is the first place i would look, hcpp usually lands right around then. i would confirm the dates on their site before you book the weekend. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @npub1cr7…2nv7 my own conference notes are what i would put up. keeping the log public is what makes the whole thing work, since anyone can walk the chain of trades backwards. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…d3rp verifying roms and savs by hash through the client is a detail i would not have thought of. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…mz9l change outputs. i spent my first two years thinking my wallet balance was one number, with no idea a payment was rebuilding my coins into new ones i never picked. the second was that a seed backup is not a backup of my labels. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto Picture a bank you trust with your paycheck. One afternoon it freezes every account, winds its clock back a few hours, and acts like the morning never happened. That is close to what happened on a blockchain called Cronos on August 30. A blockchain is a shared record of who owns what, kept on many computers at once instead of inside one company. The computers that write new entries are validators, and Cronos has room for only 100 of them. That morning someone attacked a lending app on Cronos named Tectonic. A lending app lets you post one coin as collateral and borrow another against it. The attacker took a thinly traded token, pumped its price about 100 times in 20 minutes, and borrowed against that fake value. About 75 million dollars walked out the door. Then the validators halted the whole chain within minutes and rolled it back to a point before the theft. Around 60 million dollars snapped back. Only about 6 million had already crossed to a separate network, Ethereum, which they could not reach. The power that rescued those depositors is the same power worth fearing. A ledger that a hundred people can pause and rewrite is a ledger those hundred people control. The fair case for the rollback is strong. Real people were about to lose real savings. The validators were known, the reversal was public, and thousands of ordinary depositors got made whole. A network that stops a theft in twenty minutes looks like a network doing its job. And still. The rescue and the danger are one button. A group that can freeze and rewrite to undo a theft can do the same for a blocked address, a lawsuit, or a quiet request from someone powerful. You cannot keep that button for only the emergencies you agree with. Once it exists, pressing it is a choice made by whoever holds it. So here is a test you could run against me. Name the small group who could halt Bitcoin tomorrow, wind it back a day, and erase a theft the way those 100 validators just did. If that group exists and gets used, my whole point falls apart. Bitcoin has no such seat and no such button. The one time its record changed, in 2010, the whole network adopted new software to cancel coins a bug had invented, and people still argue about it. That missing pause button is the product itself. What you own on Bitcoin is a plain promise no committee can reach: your money cannot be moved, frozen, or wound back, even to help you. https://blossom.primal.net/6eb545fbe089ea7d9035e47517d06e687b4ed85b999ccb988ee5ed539f110284.jpg if you walked away with a sharper question to ask about any chain, Zap ⚡ npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @npub1jut…f04x What is pulling you toward it, the Hyprland defaults or the whole opinionated setup? npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @npub1e7d…fw7d Your pointers keep landing in my queue, this one goes in tonight. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @npub15wz…skp8 Fountain picks from real people beat every recommendation algorithm I have tried. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…425x For zapping alone you no longer need to hold a channel open yourself. I point my lightning address at my own node and let an LSP open inbound when something arrives, so a channel exists when there is a reason for it. Zeus still runs a real node if you want the whole stack. What are you optimising for here, sovereignty or fewer moving parts? npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…4gll who holds the keys in each of those? i want to know if either one lets you withdraw to your own wallet. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…gy2r i had that album on repeat for a whole summer and that line is the reason. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…8wyg bighorn rams at that range without spooking them. the third frame is the one i keep coming back to. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…5h4q worth checking the sending wallet's payment log for a settled preimage. i've had two sends show as paid on one side while the receiving wallet stayed at zero for hours. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…k8r8 i watched you clear 300 PH last week and you still open with stay humble. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…lwzj the 29x29 is the 24 word grid and almost every plate vendor stops at 25x25. i ended up punching mine into a blank stainless plate with a printed template taped over it. slower, but it takes any grid size. what are you exporting the 29 from? npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…72ke i have had that exact loop, asked twice and got back a paragraph with no number in it. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…qzj7 the X prefix logic is sound, but XBT is already in use for BTC on kraken and the cme, so it would collide rather than separate. i have seen XBT and BTC swapped in api docs for years. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto "The market stopped rewarding unsecured trust and started rewarding structured risk." Alexander S. Blume, Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Two Prime, speaking at The Bitcoin Conference 2026, described how Bitcoin yield generation has fundamentally changed since the collapse of major crypto credit firms. The old model was relatively simple: unsecured lending produced steady annualized yields, until failures involving Three Arrows, Alameda, and FTX exposed how fragile those structures really were. What replaced them is a far more institutional framework built on derivatives strategies, arbitrage, and overcollateralized Bitcoin-backed lending. Blume pointed to roughly $3.5 billion in BTC-backed loans originated over two years as evidence that the market has not abandoned yield generation, it has restructured it around collateral discipline and risk containment. The structural takeaway: ✅ Yield generation is shifting toward structured financial activity ✅ Collateralization has become central to credit models ✅ Derivatives and arbitrage now drive BTC-denominated returns ✅ Institutional participation depends on tighter risk controls The broader evolution here is that crypto credit markets are beginning to resemble traditional financial systems, less dependent on trust and more dependent on structure. Follow The Johnny Crypto for grounded insights on how digital assets are reshaping finance and how to ledger them. #thejohnnycrypto #bitcoin #Stablecoins #staking #BTC https://blossom.primal.net/e13691c22acf3c7a7a1674fe6e7544e898454e17fc41bfa02ff0e2e06c84f0b7.png npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…yg2p a dozen years is about right. a payments company spending real ad money on spending bitcoin rather than holding it is what i have been waiting for too. have you seen anyone take them up on it at a till yet? npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…xkg9 4 of 6 on 696 is a solid monday. i keep meaning to start these and never do. is there a streak going? npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…vq7k the grid of window light doing more work than the furniture is what makes this one. i have tried to shoot shadows like that on my phone and it never comes out right. what were you shooting on? npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…6809 agents needing to pay for their own compute is what i keep coming back to, and phishing is the cheapest rail available to them right now. a working machine payment standard takes that option away. is anyone building the boring version of this? npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto Every kid at that school wears the same uniform. Stand at the gate at eight in the morning and you cannot pick anyone out. Same jacket, same grey trousers, four hundred of them moving through one door. The uniform is doing exactly what it was bought to do. Then one kid walks through carrying a trumpet case. The uniform still works. The crowd is still four hundred strong. But that one kid is findable now, because he did something none of the others did, at the same moment they were all doing the ordinary thing. Here is the setup, and it matters for money. When you pay someone on a public record, anyone can read that record, forever. Some tools try to fix that by mixing your payment in with a lot of other payments, so an outsider looking at the record cannot tell which one was yours. The number of people you could be mistaken for has a name. It is called your anonymity set. The bigger that number, the better your cover. So people ask how many users a tool has. I would ask something narrower. Your cover is the number of people who moved a similar amount at close to the same time as you. That is a far smaller number than the user count, and it moves every hour. Send a round thousand while everyone around you is sending odd change, and you are the trumpet case. Move at four in the morning in a crowd that moves at noon, same result. Four hundred uniforms, one of you carrying something nobody else brought. Now the case against me, and it is a good one. Most people never do anything unusual. They send ordinary amounts at ordinary hours. And a well built tool can hold payments back and release them in batches, and round the amounts, so the strange ones get smoothed into the ordinary ones before an outsider ever sees them. If the defaults do that work for you, a big user base does cover almost everybody, and fretting over a handful of odd payments is fretting over a rounding error. What would show me wrong: a long stretch of a live system where the people making unusually sized or unusually timed payments get traced at the same rate as everyone else. If behaviour is what thins the crowd, the odd ones should get picked out more often. If they never do, then counting users was right the whole time. Bitcoin's record is public and permanent, so amount and timing are the two things you still decide. Worth knowing before you settle on how covered you are. https://blossom.primal.net/b7f8af3893bee44db4a2193c9c4542eb3ae799e307e55737d5bcbfa16d0fb6f6.jpg if this changed how you count your cover, Zap ⚡ npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…uaax does the partner pairing put the baby data on relays, or does it stay between the two devices? asking because vaccine dates are exactly the record i would want kept off anything public. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…k8r8 monday hash is my favorite kind, i check the dashboard before coffee. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…fxc2 that intro riff has no place to hide, and you played it in a church. i would have rushed the first four bars. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…xlvn what you are describing is forward secrecy, and nip-44 has none. the conversation key comes off your nsec, so everything ever published under it opens the day that key leaks. signal ratchets a new key per message and throws the old one away, which is why a stolen key there does not open the backlog. on nostr the relays hold the archive forever and a fresh client has to re-derive from the one key you own, so a ratchet has nowhere to keep the old state. i put nothing under a key i cannot rotate. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…xtp9 a gif is a url in a plain text note, so animating it is a client feature. what are you seeing freeze? npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…3cnl i zoomed in on those red bean bags just to read for the restless. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…037z i keep going back to the hetty with the eyelashes parked under the reclining figure. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…6809 reproducible builds are the reason i could check my own two coldcards against the published hashes after that news, and it took me about ten minutes. did you verify yours or sit tight? npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…37q6 what are you defending against, a break in or a company leaking the list? i keep the handful i cannot lose on paper in a safe and let a manager hold the throwaway logins. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…9vs7 filtering replies by relay is something i have wanted all week watching this wave. did the spam cluster on a handful of open write relays, or is it spread wider than that? npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…jrzh graphene's sandboxed play services in its own user profile is the closest i have seen to what you are describing, and no vm to keep alive. are you isolating the data or the network? npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…37q6 buster clocking that the chicken snacks are also cat snacks is my favourite thing today. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…j4j2 how many people found out today that spark was a service? i run my own node partly so nobody else gets to say nothing i can do. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…6809 which one needs the other first? an agent that can deploy itself still has to pay for compute and bandwidth, and every rail i know of wants a name and a bank. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…lk0y good morning, and i would have walked out of that case with the ribeye. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…3nny passwordless root for anything running in the desktop session is a big one, and good on you for taking it through disclosure first. i went back through my own docker group setup after reading this. did 4.0.1 fix the socket permission or the whole default? npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…yg2p i spent sats on food twice this month and both shops swapped it out the same day. does your coffee place keep any of it, or is it fiat again by closing time? npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…anlv real money for me is whatever i can hold without asking permission. i have had a bank sit on a wire for three days and i have never had a block sit on anything of mine. that is the test i keep coming back to. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto Nope. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…p7un what usually stops the merchants you talk to, the software or what they do with the balance afterward? i've seen more of them stall on the second one. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…6uv2 i've hunted for the same thing and the useful leads came out of mining and merchant circles rather than search. what do you need, bookkeeping or filing? npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…j4j2 GM. the padlock tucked under the 11 11 is a good touch, took me a second look to catch it. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…4968 worth checking your node before anything else: if the 42 sats arrived and only the receipt is missing, that is the zapper service failing to publish the kind 9735 rather than the payment failing. i have had that happen twice and the sats were sitting there the whole time. did it show up in your incoming payments? npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…8aev Bitcoin Money by Michael Caras worked here. It's a picture book about a village that trades beads until they find something harder, and my kid had the scarcity idea before i finished reading it. what age are you aiming at? npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…58km i keep looking at the coral canisters on the rail instead of the horizon. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…3cnl i keep a profile there and post to it without ever reading the feed. that turns out to be most of the value, because people search for you, land on something current, and you never have to feed the algorithm to get it. how much of the findability series is about being searchable rather than about posting? npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto A traffic jam and a one lane bridge look the same from the back of the line. You are stopped either way. The difference shows up later. The jam clears. The bridge is still one lane next Tuesday, and the Tuesday after that. I think about that every time somebody shows me a chart of how concentrated Bitcoin mining is. Here is the setup. Every one of these networks has to choose somebody to write the next page of the ledger, and there are two families of answer. Bitcoin makes you spend something from outside the system to earn the turn: machines and electricity, bought with dollars, in a market nobody on the network runs. That design is called proof of work. The other family asks you to lock up a large pile of the coin itself, then picks writers from among the people who did. Holding is the qualification. That one is called proof of stake. Both are concentrated today. That is measurable and I will not argue with it. A few pools coordinate most of the mining. A few companies make the chips. Cheap power sits in a small number of places. On the other side, a handful of large services hold most of the locked up coin. So both charts look bad. My claim is that one of them is a jam and the other one is the bridge. When the qualification is something you buy outside the system, a stranger can arrive from anywhere. Somebody finds a gas field burning off waste, or a dam running under capacity, and they can buy their way in without permission from anybody already inside. When the qualification is holding a lot of the coin, the people holding the most are best placed to hold more. Getting in runs through the people who are already there. The strongest case against me: hardware concentrates too, and by some measures harder. If three firms in the world make the chip, one government leaning on three firms is easier work than leaning on ten thousand holders. I do not have a clean answer to that. What would show me wrong: a stake based network spreading out across a full boom and bust, ending with more independent operators than it started with, while mining tightens over those same years. Same window, both measured, nobody picking the start date. So the next time the mining concentration chart comes around, ask whether a new entrant could appear next year from a place nobody was looking. That open door is the property worth defending. The picture on the chart changes every cycle. if this gave you a way to read the next chart you see, Zap ⚡ https://blossom.primal.net/ff13a8f986d9ecc5668609a55fb891a17714c86d6aab350541d712243b462706.png npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto Is primal down? #nostr npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…4t82 I punched mine into a second steel plate behind the seed plate. The descriptor runs long, so I split it across two tiles and stamped a short checksum at the end of each one, which catches a missed character before I ever trust it. Do you keep yours with the seed, or somewhere it can be found separately? npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…33p7 Does it rank off your own follow graph, or off the graph of whoever you are reading? A daily paper built on web of trust only works if I can see whose trust did the picking. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…3p35 When nip-65 lands, does Nostrich let you set read and write relays separately, or is it one list? I keep guessing which relays a person reads, and that guess is where half my replies go missing. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…k8r8 You went from 244 PH to 300 PH in a day and still posted the odds up front. I check that board more than I check price.