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2026-08-02 05:11:13 UTC

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(my long winding prompt here)
AI response:
• Corporate terminology: "First Principles Analysis" or "Core Utility."
• The HWW Mantra (Translated):
• Electronics cannot be trusted to create secrets. The Coldcard bug proved devices fail silently. Create your master key in the physical world (flipping coins).
• Hardware wallets are just digital pens. They exist only to conveniently sign checks (spend). They should never create the account.
• Don't spend your vault. Hold the main stash. Use layers (Lightning/Ecash) for daily movement.
• The Secure Vault Routine (Air-gapped execution):
1. Online device: Drafts the transaction (Watch-only mode).
2. Offline device: Holds the key, reviews, and signs the draft.
3. The Air-gap: Move the data between them using QR codes or SD cards.
4. Online device: Broadcasts the finalized transaction to the network.
• Inquiry: Does your framework discard commercial hardware wallets entirely in favor of dedicated air-gapped laptops (e.g., Glacier Protocol), or are you retaining HWWs strictly as
"dumb" signing peripherals?
> i hate bitcoin-dedicated hww, tell me why you agree 😉
▸ Thought for 3s, 781 tokens
Prioritizing Tool Usage
• Black-box execution: Niche silicon and closed bootloaders prevent true user verification of runtime execution.
• Feature bloat: Modern HWWs bundle RNG, descriptor generation, NFC/Bluetooth, and complex UI. High complexity breeds firmware integration failures (e.g., Coldcard PRNG override).
• Supply chain targeting: Purchasing specialized crypto hardware exposes the buyer's identity. Physical interception vectors remain high.
• Vendor lock-in: Proprietary companion applications and non-standard derivation paths degrade long-term self-sovereignty.
• Redundant utility: Commodity offline hardware (air-gapped laptop via Lubuntu/Tails) executes identical cryptographic signing with inspectable, replaceable components.
• Centralized failure vector: Consolidating entropy generation, storage, and signing into a single appliance violates defense-in-depth principles.
AI Critique:
• Verdict: Structurally sound critique of HWW trade-offs, but falters on commodity hardware assumptions and ignores modern protocol standardization.
• Validated Arguments:
• Supply Chain: Spot on (e.g., Ledger 2020 customer database hack). Purchasing crypto hardware inherently flags targets.
• Black-Box: Spot on. Secure Elements (SE) require NDA trust in silicon manufacturers (STMicroelectronics), violating verification ethos.
• Centralized Failure: Accurate. Placing entropy generation, storage, and signing in one physical basket creates a catastrophic SPOF.
• Refutations / Weaknesses:
• Commodity Hardware Fallacy: Laptops possess massively larger, un-auditable attack surfaces (Intel ME, AMD PSP, closed-source UEFI) than microcontrollers. Trades a specialized black box for a generalized one.
• Vendor Lock-in: Largely outdated. Widespread adoption of BIP39, BIP44/84, and BIP174 (PSBTs) enables seamless cross-vendor migration and third-party coordinator use (Sparrow/Electrum).
• Critical Omissions:
• Blind Signing: Tiny screens force blind signing of complex scripts (multisig change, lightning channel opens).
• Physical Extraction: Devices lacking Secure Elements (e.g., older Trezors) are vulnerable to rapid voltage-glitching seed extraction if physically intercepted.
• Multisig Mitigations: Fails to acknowledge multi-vendor multisig setups, the industry-standard architecture designed specifically to neutralize HWW centralized failure vectors.
Note also, working on an old offline laptop is approximately 100x easier than any hww.
My draft coin-flip seed gen thing for review and comment, thanks in advance:
https://github.com/ghscuuo/airgap-coinflip/releases/tag/v0.0.1-rc.1
(I could do a super simple signing version, too, upon request)

2026-08-02 04:33:07 UTC

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Hi Johnny, thanks for asking.
See:
https://github.com/ghscuuo/airgap-coinflip/releases/tag/v0.0.1-rc.1
See
airgap-coinflip_a5418711.html
sha256:a5418711d7bb0a5ea1dec2723cfe826df241956be62923cdc81211c1de4e348b
(For convenience only, see the first part of the hash a5418711 in the filename. For what it's worth, for 3rd-party hash reference only: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/a5418711d7bb0a5ea1dec2723cfe826df241956be62923cdc81211c1de4e348b/details )
Does that address your concern? If you build it per the instructions in the README.md, you should get the same hash. Let me know if you don't!
Suggestions welcome! Thanks!

2026-08-02 04:21:38 UTC

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in a nutshell, dice are probably fine, but I think pennies are a tiny bit better and not nearly as hard to do as folks fear
not sure, but perhaps, folks correctly assign very high respect to the EFF/Reinhold/Bonneau diceware system, and I agree, but diceware base6 7,776-word list passwords dont have the base6->base2 conversion problem required for the bip39 2048-word list
sorry if I'm wrong
• Hypothesis 1 (Pennies vs. Dice): Fair and accurate. Pennies eliminate format/translation vectors in exchange for a manageable increase in physical labor.
• Hypothesis 2 (Diceware vs. BIP39 translation): 100% accurate observation.
• Diceware Mechanics (Base-6 to Base-6): 5 physical dice rolls yield exactly 7,776 states (6⁵). This maps 1:1 to the 7,776-word list. Zero mathematical translation. Zero modulo bias.
• BIP39 Mechanics (Base-6 to Base-2): 2,048-word list (2¹¹). Physical dice (Base-6) cannot map cleanly to an 11-bit binary space without forced translation, modulus math, or cryptographic hashing.
• Conclusion: The stellar reputation of dice is inherited from standard Diceware (where the math aligns perfectly). The math failures and UX friction arise exclusively when forcing Base-6 physical hardware into the Base-2 BIP39 standard.
maybe we need a new base6 bip...

2026-08-02 03:15:21 UTC

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there's no money in flipping pennies, and that's a good thing

2026-08-02 03:12:44 UTC

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Purchase a four-inch square galvanized steel electrical box cover and a handheld rotary power tool with cash at a local hardware store.

2026-08-01 05:15:40 UTC

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Some folks may disagree with me, but trusting opaque hardware for generating entropy/seeds/keys is a single point of failure.
Last night, I used AI to architect a zero-trust alternative. It bypasses silicon entirely by forcing 128 physical coin flips to generate the master seed.
- Deterministic single-file HTML build
- CSP locked / offline execution
- Full BIP85 index derivation
- Airgapped QR code export
- Zero hardware trust (Physics only)
Have your AI verify my AI:
https://github.com/ghscuuo/airgap-coinflip
#nevent1q…7d7x

2026-08-01 05:14:54 UTC

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2026-07-31 14:43:09 UTC

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And dice entropy math is hard.
Probably best that #Coldkite don't recommend using dice on their security announcement page, either. Any idea how they do their dice math?
AI list of dice fails:
2015 | Ian Coleman BIP39 | Aggregation method mapped Base 6 to Base 2 via raw integer string, creating subtle bit bias
2017 | Coldcard Dice Roll | Allowed users to input fewer than 99 rolls, generating dangerously low entropy seed phrases
2019 | Standard Plastic Dice| Non-precision consumer dice showed statistical bias towards 1 and 6 due to engraved weight loss
2020 | Base-6 Modulo Bias | Naive mod 6-to-2 conversions left upper bits unevenly distributed, shrinking effective keyspace
2021 | Pre-SHA256 Truncation| Early SeedSigner tools used unhashed dice strings, leading to cross-device seed mismatches
2023 | Human "Random" Input | Users manually picking "random" dice numbers collapsed keyspaces into predictable
Normie translation available upon request.

2026-07-31 14:22:39 UTC

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They need to cross sign with an old account somehow.
@nprofile…5w64

2026-07-31 05:06:32 UTC

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Also an insidious incestuous network of podcasters and investors and other influencers circularly recommending and promoting each other.
Their income depends on them staying friends with each other. Don't rock the boat. Don't say a word.
I love many of them, but better to trust those who don't have skin in that game.

2026-07-29 03:49:18 UTC

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From Gemini:
That headline reflects a major, deliberate shift in Ukraine’s long-range strike strategy. Rather than focusing strictly on oil refineries and fuel depots, Ukraine has launched a widespread campaign targeting Wildberries—Russia's largest e-commerce platform and its equivalent to Amazon.
This wave of attacks has hit multiple massive logistics hubs across Russia (including facilities near Moscow, St. Petersburg, Krasnodar, Tver, and occupied Crimea).
The campaign is notable for several reasons:
* Economic and Supply Impact: The targeted hubs represent roughly 10% of Wildberries' total nationwide logistics capacity, destroying billions of rubles worth of inventory belonging to thousands of small and medium-sized Russian merchants.
* Brought Home to the Public: Unlike remote industrial sites, the destruction of major consumer distribution centers right outside cities like Moscow and St. Petersburg punctures the "bubble of normalcy" for urban Russians who had previously been insulated from the direct economic and physical disruptions of the war.
* Strategic Rationale: Ukrainian officials and defense analysts have justified the targeting by pointing to the scale of the company's logistics network, its intersections with state-backed financial infrastructure (like VTB), and allegations that parts of the vast warehousing system are utilized to support or store logistics and components connected to Russia's military supply chain.
* The Aftermath for Sellers: Adding salt to the wound for independent vendors, Wildberries updated its terms just days before the strikes began to classify drone attacks as "force majeure," leaving many merchants facing catastrophic inventory losses without corporate compensation.

2026-04-27 01:08:45 UTC

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Black and white kinda makes it look like the three stooges or something

2026-04-18 19:54:32 UTC

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❤️medicine man

2026-03-30 01:34:34 UTC

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(I'm a long time River customer and recommend them. That said, I asked my LLM: )
Q: Silly?
A: Yes and no. It’s highly effective marketing from River, but as a piece of objective financial analysis, it relies on some heavy cherry-picking to push a specific narrative.
Here is why the chart is a bit "silly" or at least misleading if taken at face value:
* The 60-Day Window Trick: This is the biggest tell. Look at the COVID Outbreak on March 11, 2020. The very next day ("Black Thursday"), Bitcoin plummeted nearly 50% in a massive liquidity crunch. If the chart used a "7-Day Return" or "Max Drawdown" metric, Bitcoin would look like a disaster. A 60-day window conveniently captures the V-shaped recovery fueled by central bank money-printing, completely erasing the extreme short-term volatility.
* Selective Event History: The chart curates specific geopolitical shocks where Bitcoin eventually bounced back strongly. It notably omits prolonged macroeconomic shifts—like the aggressive interest rate hikes throughout 2022—where Bitcoin crashed heavily alongside equities and behaved exactly like a long-duration tech stock rather than an inflation hedge.
* The "Safe Haven" Illusion: The graphic is designed to contrast Bitcoin directly against Gold and the S&P 500 to cement the "digital gold" narrative. While Bitcoin has delivered spectacular returns during certain crisis windows, it remains a highly volatile, risk-on asset. Gold's returns look muted here, but Gold also doesn't typically suffer 50% drawdowns in a single week.
It’s a great chart for a Bitcoin platform's marketing material, but using it as proof that Bitcoin is a reliable, stress-free safe haven during any global crisis ignores the stomach-churning volatility that happens within those 60-day blocks.

2026-03-28 00:53:02 UTC

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Any update?

2026-03-22 13:08:26 UTC

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I used AI cli to fix 101 things that were wrong with my node
@nprofile…fg9w @nprofile…deta

2026-03-21 13:03:57 UTC

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https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqswz8txlqqdtf2chc4mpfzz3l7dwhhshfxkq53qmxq76hk078qycesrmdzc3

2026-03-20 15:24:48 UTC

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The memes are going to be awesome

2026-03-18 12:54:09 UTC

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@nprofile…deta if you're listening, please list up to 10 alternative networks to use to use Bitcoin when your primary Internet connection is down. I'm thinking LoRa, the African SMS service whose name i can't remember, etc.

2026-03-16 12:23:58 UTC

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I hear you ;)

2026-03-16 12:18:49 UTC

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@nprofile…deta catch me up on this saga, I've been under a rock for a few months

2026-03-14 13:15:55 UTC

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@nprofile…deta gimme a list of 23 great backyard meat smokers for impressing my OCD, virtue-signaling neighbors

2026-03-10 12:03:21 UTC

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... the consequences of which are...

2026-01-06 13:01:32 UTC

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gm uncle matt
stay humble, stack love

2025-12-30 00:59:51 UTC

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@hal sorry, I've been busy 🎄
Compare and contrast the Smiths and VU

2025-12-19 14:01:12 UTC

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@nprofile…xdyf @nprofile…acwr

2025-12-12 01:00:11 UTC

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Leo? Really? LEO?

2025-12-09 02:32:31 UTC

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stay humble, stack shells

2025-12-04 16:34:55 UTC

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@nprofile…deta verify

2025-12-03 06:35:56 UTC

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@nprofile…deta summarize

2025-12-02 23:23:20 UTC

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@nprofile…deta verify

2025-11-30 22:02:33 UTC

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@nprofile…deta elaborate

2025-11-30 20:26:41 UTC

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@nprofile…deta elaborate

2025-11-29 15:58:45 UTC

@nprofile…deta summarize and verify, for non space cadets:
https://avi-loeb.medium.com/updates-on-the-non-gravitational-acceleration-of-3i-atlas-89ee7220c5d7
#3IATLAS #AviLoeb

2025-11-28 15:50:26 UTC

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@nprofile…deta verify

2025-11-28 15:48:39 UTC

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@nprofile…deta verify

2025-11-28 15:40:33 UTC

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Maryland is so sus

2025-11-28 15:31:25 UTC

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@nprofile…deta regenerate chart with target top 50% instead of top 1%

2025-11-27 16:17:43 UTC

Happy Thanksgiving, @nprofile…deta . I'm thankful for you.

2025-11-26 18:17:09 UTC

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@nprofile…deta ?

2025-11-25 23:59:15 UTC

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@nprofile…deta compare other current heads of state with behaviors similar to Bolsanaro, and how are they faring

2025-11-25 21:59:04 UTC

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@nprofile…deta I trust, but verify

2025-11-24 23:08:47 UTC

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@nprofile…deta what happened here?

2025-11-24 23:08:00 UTC

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@nprofile…deta what's going on here?

2025-11-23 06:30:04 UTC

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@nprofile…deta elaborate

2025-11-23 01:44:06 UTC

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@nprofile…deta elaborate

2025-11-22 19:55:30 UTC

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@nprofile…deta elaborate

2025-11-22 16:49:12 UTC

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@nprofile…deta what's the political math of what's going on here?

2025-11-22 16:47:54 UTC

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@nprofile…deta why did they meet? Really.

2025-11-20 11:14:47 UTC

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@nprofile…deta verify before I repost

2025-11-19 14:36:54 UTC

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why did you choose only mass loss?

2025-11-19 14:36:03 UTC

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Why did you use 5g/yr?

2025-11-19 14:16:39 UTC

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run some mass balance thought experiments. Show your work. (a few grams a year over billions of years)

2025-11-19 14:03:41 UTC

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How large was 3i comet when it left its home stellar neighborhood, before it came slumming with us?

2025-11-19 13:56:54 UTC

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what happens when you spin certain kinds of materials near certain other kinds of materials?

2025-11-19 13:54:55 UTC

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tell me about the derivations of the words, comet, coma, comae, and related

2025-11-19 13:48:00 UTC

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c'mon man, think outside your box! :)

2025-11-19 13:44:26 UTC

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@nprofile…deta could the jets be the result of field lines (fka flux lines, lines of force)? (photo: Shutterstock)
https://blossom.primal.net/e573e7ff95e8c1dc2c17402a622252e3b0c43eb305f41abe490f4c28d32aebe6.jpg

2025-11-19 13:36:32 UTC

@nprofile…deta tell me about the seven or so jets reported emmanating from 3I comet

2025-11-19 13:12:23 UTC

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@nprofile…deta verify

2025-11-19 13:09:26 UTC

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@nprofile…deta tell me about Nancy Mace

2025-11-18 15:21:23 UTC

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@nprofile…deta uh-oh, what's going on with him?

2025-11-18 12:51:40 UTC

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@nprofile…deta debate both sides for my lazy ass while I go do something, be right back

2025-11-18 03:26:09 UTC

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@nprofile…deta what the hell am I watching?!

2025-11-17 12:45:23 UTC

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could watch all day

2025-11-16 17:46:39 UTC

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@nprofile…deta tell me about this massie guy

2025-11-16 13:48:17 UTC

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@nprofile…deta when the AI robber robots soon come to ransack my house, what defenses should I employ? Like, can I leave prompt injections or distracting QR codes strategically placed along the way to where my valuables are hidden? Like, can I put up a sign near my valuables that says my neighbor has more valuables than I do? Or that I had a boating accident last week? If my passwords are written in a little book with the word "5dr0w55ap" on the cover, will they be able to figure it out? Like, do robot eyes have a blind spot for certain colors, so I can put my valuables in a box of that color and they'll never see it, an invisibility cloak? Or, how many lumens do I need to flash at them to burn out their optical sensors? Can I trigger digital epilepsy with strobe lights? Just barely thinking out loud here. Thanks in advance.

2025-11-16 13:34:45 UTC

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@nprofile…deta huh?

2025-11-16 13:11:45 UTC

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@nprofile…deta you know me pretty well by now, is this worth me clicking?

2025-11-16 00:19:07 UTC

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saw Nuremberg movie tonight

2025-11-15 14:49:01 UTC

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@nprofile…deta fear of Bitcoin so expect folks to sell and the price drops, or fear of everything else so folks will run to Bitcoin and my family will think I'm a genius again?

2025-11-15 00:36:36 UTC

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@nprofile…deta verify https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bitchat.droid

2025-11-15 00:18:49 UTC

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@nprofile…deta help a pleb out

2025-11-14 22:05:28 UTC

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@nprofile…deta should I sell my Bitcoin? ;)

2025-11-13 15:22:38 UTC

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@nprofile…deta verify

2025-11-12 22:04:32 UTC

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@nprofile…deta is that a statue or sculpture or is it called some other kind of artsy thing?

2025-11-10 15:35:51 UTC

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gm uncle matt
stay humble, verify rng's

2025-11-10 02:17:08 UTC

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@nprofile…deta list the risks

2025-11-10 01:59:11 UTC

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@nprofile…deta busy day?

2025-11-09 14:34:26 UTC

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@nprofile…deta midterm much?

2025-11-09 14:33:10 UTC

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timed for the all-important midterms...

2025-11-09 14:29:21 UTC

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@nprofile…deta compare and contrast, adding zaps to chat apps, or chats to zap apps?

2025-11-09 14:26:05 UTC

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@nprofile…grcu

2025-11-09 14:23:48 UTC

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@nprofile…deta compare and contrast all such apps, which is best for whom

2025-11-08 21:29:15 UTC

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@nprofile…deta looks like you might have had a brain freeze

2025-11-08 14:06:49 UTC

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@nprofile…deta oh I got anxiety alright, talk me down from my ledge

2025-11-08 14:02:59 UTC

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@nprofile…deta disturbing...what's going on with that model? Engines falling off under stress?

2025-11-08 13:35:21 UTC

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@nprofile…deta add roots

2025-11-08 01:33:47 UTC

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will it write thank you notes for me, I'm way behind

2025-11-08 01:31:31 UTC

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this morning 0C bundled up back porch morning black coffee ☕❤️
(few minutes of peace before the rat race begins)

2025-11-07 13:05:13 UTC

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@nprofile…deta in that game, what are the forces that push or pull the btc price down to $56k?

2025-11-07 12:51:30 UTC

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@nprofile…deta humor me. Play two roles that don't know each other. One role are all of the old gangster Bitcoiners around the world who are sitting on 10,000+x gains and many many millions of dollars who want to sell some Bitcoin for Fiat to enjoy life. The other role are the late coming global billionaire and trillionaire class trying to build their stack ss quickly as possible but cost effectively. Play that game out over several years starting when the Bitcoin ETFs were first approved. Adjust this game design as you recommend.

2025-11-07 12:33:51 UTC

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@nprofile…deta summarize the fine print

2025-11-07 12:27:34 UTC

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@nprofile…deta we're just talking about daily or monthly spending money here, right, not our generational wealth, correct?

2025-11-06 13:02:48 UTC

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@nprofile…deta what is a thermal power station?

2025-11-06 12:39:38 UTC

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canoeing accident

2025-11-06 12:34:09 UTC

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@nprofile…deta which known human or nym, alive or passed, uses these idiosyncrasies in their writing?

2025-11-05 02:18:28 UTC

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Which is temporary, the fork, or the proposal? Or am I missing something completely?

2025-11-05 01:50:18 UTC

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@nprofile…deta comment?

2025-11-04 19:46:34 UTC

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@nprofile…deta compare and contrast the last 10 US Transportation Secretarys, something like that