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2026-03-15 08:54:21 UTC

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Isn't that an argument to have a new/different/replacement for the reference client though, as opposed to a consensus policy change?
Like wouldn't we be better off with a new Core, rather than a new Bitcoin?

2026-03-15 08:51:46 UTC

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But now you're doing it. You said BIP110 isn't changing Bitcoin, but that is literally what it's doing, changing the consensus rules.
The thing that comes closest to the statement of defending what Bitcoin was is running Knots.

2026-03-14 07:06:01 UTC

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Sorry forgot to reply. Basically the original argument was that Core fundamentally changed Bitcoin when they changed the op return limit. As in, they had changed the way Bitcoin worked at a network level. That also means not just for nodes running that software, but for everyone on the network.
But when BIP110 was first introduced, it was framed as 'Core have changed Bitcoin, we want to change it back.' That message may have changed now, but that was certainly the original framing.
Then as time went on the community level of understanding about the difference between relay policy and consensus policy deepened. I had no idea about any of this before this whole drama, and neither did most people.
But now it's quite apparent that Core didn't change the consensus rules, they just changed the default policy to match consensus.
And quite the opposite, it's BIP110 which is actually a change to Bitcoin, and not just for the people running it, but for everyone else too.
That's the only sometimes dishonest feeling thing about the framing, just that it keeps shifting

2026-03-11 08:57:00 UTC

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One way I like to think about it is: Your node allows you to control YOUR experience of using Bitcoin, but it doesn't give any control over the network.
So the reason to run a node is really to verify your own transactions, not other people's.
But that cuts both ways. A node run by an exchange or a miner can't determine your experience of using or verifying Bitcoin either.
However all nodes agree to the consensus rules, so only changes to the consensus rules matter. Otherwise you can just run another client or an old version.
And to be honest I'm on the fence about BIP 110 because I feel like a lot of the time it's either framed dishonestly or a lot of supporters don't understand it. But it's BIP 110 which is actually changing OTHER people's experience of Bitcoin, i.e consensus rules, not the other way round.

2026-03-08 07:51:23 UTC

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I'm genuinely confused, what exactly are you referring to?

2026-03-01 23:19:49 UTC

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I don't know whether to be more amused or more depressed about this, or maybe both 😂

2026-02-28 07:55:20 UTC

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That is crazy. Luckily it will never happen. I think it's so important to remember though that Bitcoin wasn't hacked, it was an exchange that was hacked, and that's not the fault of Bitcoin.
On the Bitcoin Talk thread though someone did make an interesting point that instead of doing this, it would be more fair to fork for victims of kidnapping and torture who had their Bitcoin stolen.

2026-02-28 07:31:55 UTC

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Yeah I think unfortunately most ancaps are really just conservatives when push comes to shove.

2026-02-28 07:30:23 UTC

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Good point, they're not complaining about OpenAI, or Google.

2026-02-28 07:26:11 UTC

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I'm so ready, best opportunity in years.

2026-02-28 07:24:55 UTC

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That's me screwed then

2026-02-28 07:23:06 UTC

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2026-02-21 02:17:06 UTC

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That's so scary!

2026-02-07 08:07:59 UTC

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GM 🐎

2025-03-23 07:43:56 UTC

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Good insight. Men should always strive to be so good that it's intimidating. That's being respectable.
Lesser men can't be respectable, so they can only be scary.
And of course women should be able to tell the difference, respect a good man, and stay away from the scary ones.
But you can flip that round. A good woman should be strong and graceful, and men should respect that. A weak woman will wield sex as a weapon, and men should know to stay away.

2025-02-14 10:01:43 UTC

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Thank you!

2025-02-13 04:31:21 UTC

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2025-02-13 04:30:13 UTC

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2025-02-12 08:39:56 UTC

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To be honest I don't even know what the documents were (only heard about this in the UK through the usual propaganda slop factories). But as a thought exercise, let's say he did have the documents at his place. What's your take on that? and does the recent revelation change your opinion? I'm just curious to know because of the way you asked the question in response to the news.

2025-02-11 21:01:32 UTC

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Ah that's interesting. I've been generally ok, but what I did do was I installed regular old Ubuntu (BTRFS by the way, ZFS also too much hassle), then I installed the KDE full (meta package) on top, and just reconfigured to start with SDDM display manager and launch into KDE. So effectively Kubuntu but starting from an Ubuntu base. And then sometimes I'll randomly decide to switch back to Gnome for a bit and sometimes I prefer KDE. But the great thing is that I have everything available and any possible dependencies. Weirdly that's been super solid, although during one upgrade it made me uninstall KDE but not during the next upgrade. But yeah, I like it, and then whenever I try out other distros I just seem to be cursed entirely (Fedora for some reason is utterly cursed for me, just bizarre problems straight out of the gate on VMs or bare metal), or I end up spending months messing about with something and then saying what's the point in this even existing.
On the ZFS point, if you read what people say on the internet, ZFS is soooo much better than BTRFS and it's clearly the only sensible choice. But in reality it's just so much hassle, so many bugs, and you've got to worry about your RAM and your exact settings for it and all this nonsense. And these are the people with the gall to say that BTRFS is unreliable, despite the fact that you can have a 12 bay Synology NAS with BTRFS and pull the power cord out all day long with no corruption whatsoever, and then with ZFS it's make sure you do this and make sure you change that.
So at this point I'm very jaded on what anyone in the usual forums says about Linux, and I'm down to saying Ubuntu because as much as I like to tinker, I have so much else to be doing with my time, and it's so annoying with especially Arch based things to have them break things and then expect you to read release notes before you press the update button. I also went down the non-systemd distro rabbit hole, and again what a waste of time. Hours trying to do basic things and stuff just not working.
Also be really wary of using LLMs to help you with tinkering. I find they just leave out vital details, and if you go back and question them they say 'oh yeah, you're absolutely right, i did leave out xyz really important info, let me do that again for you', meanwhile you've already bricked your system.
By the way on the packaging front have you tried messing around in Distrobox? It's a really nice really easy way to install any app from any distro on any distro. Super quick and easy, export apps to your desktop so you can run them as if it's native, but they're running in little VM style containers of the target distro, but still with access to your user's home folder etc. So if you need a version of an app which is only available on another distro, you can use Distrobox to install just that app and have multiple versions and manage them all side by side. Totally negates the need for distro hopping. Of course this assumes that the stable base is working well enough for you, which to be fair it sounds like for you it isn't.
But for me all I'm worried about with the distro is a stable base, good drivers and default settings to save me time, and the kernel version, and timely security updates. Then everything else can be Distrobox or whatever other package formats.

2025-02-11 20:47:07 UTC

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I will say I don't think most people need that tech to bypass firewalls and censorship though, or at least not Mullvad's primary user base. So it's not really a threat to them. Whereas Obscura is going to be targeting a slightly different customer base, and yet they're still effectively funneling customers to Mullvad, so I'm sure this is a win for both companies. Obscura gets access to a lot more infrastructure than they could offer and they can just focus on their tech, Mullvad gets lots of new customers effectively through Obscura.
Also, I'm not sure at all on the details of Obscura or how it works or who's behind it or anything (the website seems to be down anyway so maybe they can't handle the traffic of this sudden spike in interest). So take this with a massive pinch of salt, but Mullvad's primary customer base are people who want the best level of privacy from their VPN provider, they allow anonymous sign ups with no account details, pay in lots of different ways etc. And a potential problem with using a service like Obscura which goes through two different services (Obscura and then Mullvad) is that you're increasing your exposure to different parties, so maybe you're increasing your exposure to correlation attacks which could de-anonymise you for example, or maybe to supply chain attacks.
That's why I was saying they're probably different audiences, because it seems like Obscura's main benefit is this tech to bypass firewalls by obfuscating traffic. But that's not really Mullvad's use case. And if you want better obfuscation with Mullvad then you've got their DAITA system anyway which makes every packet the same size/timing to avoid traffic analysis.

2025-02-11 20:37:20 UTC

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Out of interest what problems have you run into? I've had Ubuntu 23.10, then updated to 24.04, then updated to 24.10 and it's been rock solid even with lots of messing about.
By the way if you're looking at Debian then you might want to look at Spiral Linux. It's not a separate distro, it's just a configuration for Debian but still uses all standard repos etc. But basically it's just Debian with BTRFS encrypted, Snapper (snapshots) with grub integration, backports and flatpaks enabled by default etc etc. It's just exactly what you might want to do if you were setting up a Debian desktop, but all done for you, and without the risk of anything happening to the distro or it's maintainer because they're not actually separate.
On the broader point I really wouldn't recommend Arch or Nix, just soooo much messing about for no real world benefit that I can see. Even if you like to tinker, after several months all I can say is save your sanity and don't let it eat away at your time.
So other than that maybe look at Fedora, maybe OpenSuse, or even OpenMandriva?

2025-02-02 15:17:17 UTC

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2025-02-02 15:13:47 UTC

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I'm just outside Valencia now and you can really see the destructive force of the floods even far away from the worst affected areas. There's also an impression that a lot of emergency work was done at the very start, and now things have really slowed down whilst people are waiting for resources and money to be allocated to start rebuilding. It's still a lovely area to visit though as the people are really nice.
Also very strange walking through the now completely drive river beds (best place to walk the dogs) and seeing how high the water must have been!
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2025-02-02 02:51:17 UTC

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Spend and replace

2025-02-01 22:33:24 UTC

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Damn makes me realise how out of touch I am. Ihafd never even heard of the words Bellingcat, Navalny, or Pegasus workshop.
But for sure I can see the logic in what you're saying, especially because i have heard of hrf which sort of proves the point.

2025-02-01 18:02:17 UTC

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Also wasn't Epstein's whole thing compromising people? I don't know much about it. But for the two to be similar wouldn't there have to be a similar situation with blackmail etc?

2025-02-01 18:00:45 UTC

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How so?

2025-02-01 08:52:53 UTC

@npub1kqr…e5xu @npub1z9h…858n
Hey, please could you tell me what's the song at the end of episode 57 (What is A Day)? I love the podcast by the way, most sane and rational Bitcoin podcast around without any hyperbole or influencer speak. Keep up the amazing work.

2025-01-22 19:52:55 UTC

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Hey just to say I think the part of your site where you have the track listing has been down for a while, is this the right URL?
https://tracklisting.mxtthxw.art/inpc/
Keep up the amazing work. You've basically become my music guru/guide by the way, and I thought I knew about a lot of cool music before! 😅

2025-01-18 13:27:51 UTC

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I'm torn from what i've seen. I like the aesthetic, and some of the systems look very clever and even fun, but it doesn't look like it has the charm or simple addictive loop of civ4.
That game just felt so cozy starting in the stone age, and the mechanicsmight not be balanced but it's so fun.
I'll definitely give 7 a good chance though as i basically didn't play 6 at all.

2025-01-18 13:18:47 UTC

#memes #memestr https://i.nostr.build/fIVSXJ8uBWr8EX9l.jpg

2025-01-17 23:07:40 UTC

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Shouldn't you look like a cross between your daughter and your mom?
Now I'm confused.

2025-01-05 20:57:31 UTC

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I totally agree, and I know it's frustrating when you feel like most people don't understand / don't want to understand. But on the bright side, I think you'll find that most people are just pragmatic and will use whatever the best tool is that's put in front of them. So I do think most people would use Monero for day to day transactions that they want to be private, and it's short term enough that they're not worried about losing purchasing power in the meantime.
I don't agree with your house example though, because really there's no way to 'own' a house anonymously, so there's sort of no point in buying it anonymously either. Surely?
Also about using Bitcoin privately, I think coin joining and mixing etc are becoming easier all the time. And I think if there's a push for that sort of thing (or other privacy preserving techniques) to just become the norm in wallets then it will all be mixed together enough to stop really mattering anyway. Unless you're trying to preserve anonymity for a very specific opsec reason, but that's different.

2024-12-30 09:29:01 UTC

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I'm confused, can you summarise what the content of the message was? I have no idea who David Icke is or any of these people, clicking on the link only gives the text in the OP, not any of the actual content.
And specifically, what's the truth that someone apparently cannot handle?

2024-12-26 20:58:04 UTC

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I like it, but then the question is, how can we make sure that clever ideas are attributed to their original creator and not someone who just reposted to a much larger audience and ran away with all the zaps?

2024-12-26 20:54:56 UTC

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I disagree, I've only just recently tried LLMs and honestly for me as a small business owner, the only two that are really incredible and a real game changer are Claude and to a lesser extent GPT.
All the others are such junk and such a waste of time that if I'd only tried those I would've said that the entire AI/LLM thing is a complete gimmick, complete waste of time. But Claude and GPT are so good that they're actually useful to me.
I'd been putting off rewriting my website text for ages, with Claude, bang it's done. It's not as good as I would do it, but that doesn't matter because the website just needs to be online as a business card. And frankly it doesn't matter how good I would've theoretically done it if I hadn't actually gotten round to it in years.
Using it for things like that has increased my output massively, and it's not in any way harmed my core business. Quite the opposite, it gives me time to focus on my core business and what I should be doing.
And even going a step further, Claude and GPT are actually good enough to build into products to enhance my core business, whereas the others are all so laughably bad (looking at you Copilot and Amazon Q) that they should just delete them from the internet.

2024-12-26 20:46:37 UTC

I think every man will agree that this is the most relatable meme in the world
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#memes #memestr

2024-12-25 08:39:22 UTC

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Merry Christmas! 🎄

2024-12-25 07:53:35 UTC

Merry Christmas #nostr
I hope you all have a lovely day

2024-12-20 08:56:45 UTC

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GM
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2024-12-19 08:20:58 UTC

#gm
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2024-12-16 23:03:43 UTC

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Received this earlier from @nprofile…zn02 #legend
#nevent1q…a50m

2024-12-15 21:11:53 UTC

Deventer Chrismas Market & Charles Dickens Festival #Netherlands #travel #christmas
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2024-12-15 21:07:21 UTC

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I have no idea what any of that means but it sounds worrying!

2024-12-15 21:02:55 UTC

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Looks cool, but some quite off putting arbitrary restrictions in the community edition.
I always think the way it should work is this, if it claims to be open source, there must be exact feature parity with open source code for all features. And then of course if the company wants to offer hosting and support, that's amazing.
But by actually changing the feature set (e.g. no AD syncing for example), it's really stretching the definition of open source, because I can't compile with that feature apparently.
I understand that they want to stop big companies from just using it for free, but I think for that a newer license model like Bruce Paren's proposed "post open" model is going to be the way forward.

2024-12-14 21:23:29 UTC

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2024-12-14 12:57:07 UTC

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Such a misnomer anyway to call it inflation. Maybe CPI has been roughly those numbers, but the only inflation is the M1 / Mwhatever supply, and I'm sure they're quite happy to publish those numbers, and that nobody pays attention to them, and that they're a lot higher than 2%

2024-12-13 18:11:05 UTC

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I completely agree, and I find it so cringe whenever I hear people talk about psychedelics on podcasts.
It's like they're so oblivious to the fact that yes obviously doing drugs makes you feel something very intensely, but so what? That's nothing new. And yet they go on and on about metaphysical effects as if it's actually real, rather than just as you say, putting their body through something very unnatural and coming out the other side with a bit of a reset perspective.
But to be fair, I do subscribe to the idea that every plant on the planet is the exact right medicine for something, it's just a question of knowing which medicine to use for a particular illness. And obviously you don't take medicine every day, or when you don't need it, or a for a disease that you don't have.
So I will say fair play to them, if you've found the right medicine to take for a particular condition and it helps, amazing. But I think too many people self prescribe that medicine to themselves just to feel good, and that is simply drug abuse, nothing more.
Like weed, yes it stimulates your dopamine receptors like crazy, and that is definitely the required treatment (in tiny moderation) for something. But it's not a healthy lifestyle, as you'll just burn out your dopamine receptors and they'll be harder and harder to activate (literally hardened). And then you'll never ever more extreme stimulation to feel anything.
But people who are addicted will get angry when you tell them that, because they are literally dependent on the substance to boost their dopamine levels, so they get angry if they feel their dependency might be taken away from them.
Anyway bit of rant, but hopefully you see what I mean. Yes it's all useful and medicinal for something, but that doesn't mean that everyone should just be self prescribing dopamine hits to themselves as if that's a healthy way to go through life.

2024-12-12 14:56:05 UTC

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I completely agree. It's so frustrating when people refer to some event or rmeme and I have no clue what they're on about. They never say the context!

2024-12-11 20:55:41 UTC

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I hope everyone donates!

2024-12-10 21:13:47 UTC

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Thank you so much that's amazing 👍

2024-12-10 20:55:57 UTC

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Thank you, and yes I was a bit confused about the location when I looked on the map!

2024-12-10 20:43:03 UTC

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I'm in the Netherlands visiting family so I'll be there! 👍

2024-12-08 20:00:28 UTC

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As far as I know only Google Pixel phones are supported: https://grapheneos.org/faq#device-support

2024-12-08 05:51:10 UTC

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Not sure what you're using but it takes ages for zaps to go through to you specifically.

2024-12-07 22:44:23 UTC

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One of my border collies does it to me when he doesn't want me to stop playing. I say "last one" and then he lasers me as if he's trying to scare me into doing what he wants.
But then sometimes he also has his ears back trying to be all cute, and he forgets whether he's trying to scare me or be cute and does both at the same time in desperation.
But the laser eyes are very impressive.
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2024-12-04 06:38:17 UTC

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Honestly I think you're getting much better looking as you age. You look amazing for 44

2024-12-04 06:29:49 UTC

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Welcome! It's amazing to have more creative minds on board!

2024-12-02 08:56:24 UTC

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Come check out @npub1q33…mqu0 stream on zap.stream! https://zap.stream/naddr1qq9rzdenxvcrwvp5xqcszrnhwden5te0dehhxtnvdakz7q3qq33jywkl8r0e5g48lvrenxnr3lw59kzrw4e7p0cecslqzwc56eesxpqqqpmxwezn89q

2024-12-02 08:36:04 UTC

Remember #bitcoin is only worth something if you hold it and use it directly. They can still print dollars for free to buy paper Bitcoin, whereas you have to work for dollars to buy it.
That also means they can use printed dollars to short it and play around with the market in other ways. People say 'oh they wouldn't do that because then they'd get rekt'. Well, they can, they have, and they will, because there's no consequences for doing so.

2024-11-30 03:54:55 UTC

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For real?

2024-11-30 03:54:22 UTC

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Beautiful

2024-11-30 03:30:45 UTC

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To a certain extent I agree as in life you get out what you put in. However, something about your post hasan feeling of giving up, on the idea of more adoption and of more upside.
That worries me as for Bitcoin to succeed we must still by definition be so early that there is still a huge amount of upside left, even for every 4 year cycle of this century. Otherwise what is there to first attract people?
And even worse, for adoption, if they will miss the new things that Bitcoin enables, then extremely few people will be using those things and they'll struggle to survive (business model, contributors, network effect etc).
Also I like you, but I only got in to Bitcoin in 2020. Since then I've been non stop buying, and even harder on every single dip (and with glee on the very lowest days). But although I've made good gains now, for a long time I wasn't even in the green. And your post is hard for me to swallow, getting in as apparently late as I did. I can't even imagine how I'd feel reading your post if I had just got in now, or even in 4 years' time. Probably like a fool who had been duped.
There can't be spite in Bitcoin, unless our success is so complete, our dominance over other forms of wealth so absolute, that we can just afford to say fuck you, and then even if that drives people away, still fuck em anyway because we're unassailable. But whilst that might be true even now from a tech and sovereignty perspective, it's certainly not true financially, and so it's way too early to be pulling up the proverbial ladder behind us.
And honestly, if you're feeling like that, you should maybe chill, enjoy your gains, take a moment to get a fresh perspective, and come back with a new angle. Because being harsh, what you said contributes nothing, and being kinder, it makes it sound like you need something to refresh your mind.

2024-11-28 20:08:33 UTC

Just reading The Count of Monte Cristo, easily my favourite book of all time. I'd really recommend it if you haven't read it.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7126.The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo

2024-11-28 03:06:18 UTC

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That is impressive

2024-11-28 03:00:45 UTC

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You joke but honestly, give it 30 years and I can see that happening.

2024-11-28 02:27:23 UTC

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I agree with most of that, only with the exception that most colonialists were religious, and many acted in the name of religion (bringing religion to the savages).
Also mentioning fiat food is slightly irrelevant because it's not explicitly incompatible with religion.
But on the whole I take your point.

2024-11-26 21:56:33 UTC

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So what's it called?
Also just wondering what GUI are you using there for Ollama? Thanks

2024-11-25 21:46:27 UTC

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48 too apparently. I'm actually 37 but very grumpy, so I'm OK with that result.

2024-11-21 09:26:57 UTC

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As the proud owner of a real Jag, I couldn't be more disappointed.
When I was 8 years old, my granddad whp was my hero had one of these, when they were brand new and the coolest thing ever. I always said I'd get one in honour of him, and 10 years ago, I did.
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2024-11-19 08:13:39 UTC

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One ring to rule them all...

2024-11-18 08:28:52 UTC

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I've seen a few people say this and I'm worried, what is insecure about the ColdCard mk4? And what's a good alternative?

2024-11-18 08:24:39 UTC

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100%, fuck patents, fuck intellectual property, fuck copyright.
You can't copy Bitcoin. You can copy other information, end of.

2024-11-18 08:10:20 UTC

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Well there is one way around that, which is to sycophantically to those handful of npubs in the hope of being noticed.
In all seriousness though, reading replies to those top npubs is how I discover all the smaller accounts to follow. So you're acting as a sort of social coordinator.
Also though there various lists, hasjtags, and discovery services. Not tp mention other app types.

2024-11-17 10:15:47 UTC

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17/24, I think I could've done better.

2024-11-17 10:08:38 UTC

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I'm going through the same at the moment, and we're going to the Netherlands for a month. So I'm preparing for maximum darkness, rain, and downsizing 😬

2024-11-17 10:03:11 UTC

#gm #nostr from
Jessie (who is nearly 15!)
https://image.nostr.build/1f3083c66b4de60239aacfb5a810507c8c0d59386b7f5c3a7d895d8e4e0d7c54.jpg
and Blue (11 but thinks he's a puppy)
https://image.nostr.build/ed2203cce5cafa1b5277cb1c3ef1524361ff9c567f6141cda15426e7348888c0.jpg

2024-11-16 21:13:52 UTC

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Wow thanks! I had been meaning to start a Youtube channel for years, but I just couldn't work up the motivation. Now that I know there's these alternatives I'm much more excited to actually do it.

2024-11-16 20:37:10 UTC

What the world desperately needs is a Nostr based alternative to YouTube!

2024-11-15 20:28:29 UTC

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The BBC publish an alternative version of everything in Pidgin English, it's for people in the Caribbean, e.g Jamaica

2024-11-15 17:50:01 UTC

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Oh no, not the hard B!

2024-11-13 15:37:21 UTC

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Exactly, it didn't all work perfectly, it wasn't all instant, but all the people were real. And it felt like there was a real link between what happened online and what happened in the real world. You could actually meet a girl online *gasp*. And that's exactly what Nostr feels like, a link to the real world through the internet. Which is ironic because the accounts on here are just cryptographic keys, whereas fiat social media (sorry I know it's cringe to call everything fiat, but it really is fiat social media) feels so disconnected from the real world, even when people have their real identities on there!

2024-11-12 21:11:09 UTC

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Faulty data though. How do the makers of those lists know how much people in China or the Middle East have?

2024-11-11 20:07:30 UTC

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That is insane. Can other similar planes do similar maneuvers?

2024-11-11 17:35:44 UTC

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The UK left the EU for just that reason. It's so frustrating to have your 'leaders' not representing you, and then whenever they get called out they just say 'oh well we would've done the right thing, but the nasty EU wouldn't let us do it'. So it's good to take away that excuse at least. Although of course they have infinite other excuses.

2024-11-11 17:19:03 UTC

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I have those exact same plant pots!

2024-11-10 03:41:56 UTC

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I'm thinking we never left!

2024-11-09 09:41:10 UTC

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Yes, and really easy as well, takes seconds to make new addresses for your domain.

2024-11-09 02:16:55 UTC

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I use Tuta for email and generating aliases. Unlike Proton they actually have a reliable way of paying with crypto and no kyc.

2024-11-07 16:49:01 UTC

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Padme meme: right...?

2024-11-03 08:40:43 UTC

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I agree with this. But you're also doing it here,and I've replied. So we've fallen into the trap

2024-11-01 10:32:25 UTC

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Thanks I hate it

2024-10-29 20:14:12 UTC

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Bro not funny that's a real person getting seriously hurt.

2024-10-29 18:28:00 UTC

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9olaIio3l8

2024-10-29 18:24:52 UTC

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How does this compare to 0x chat?

2024-10-23 18:18:37 UTC

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Interested to know, right now if someone spends laundered money in a legitimate business, does that business no longer get to keep the money?
And if someone personally gives you money that was laundered etc to buy a car from you for example, do you have to forfeit the money?
If not, why should it be any different with Bitcoin? But if so, why are people not more wary of the money they're accepting? Should we have insurance for this sort of thing?

2024-10-23 18:11:07 UTC

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Good luck!

2024-10-16 15:54:01 UTC

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In answer to your 2nd question, because people who want to make successful clients understand the need to include features that the market demands!

2024-10-15 14:34:11 UTC

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Not a very relevant xy comparison though. It would be more informafive to see the top 2/3rds of countries by population size vs birthrate.
So the headline would end up being 'the top 2/3rds of the biggest countries in the world by population have a birthrate below replacement levels' for example. I suspect that's not the case as global pop is going up, but it would certaknly be more relevant.