phaedrus
Phaedrus

https://bitcoinpolis.gitlab.io/

Bitcoin, privacy

Public Key

npub1u65jmzmvyppx779m4pgsenw88h63y2q55wavr42n4h46ceaf9vnsznp0lk

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nprofile1qqswd2fd3dkzqsn00za6s5gvehrnmagj9q228wkp64f6m6avv75jkfcpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfdum4xtp9

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npub1u65jmzmvyppx779m4pgsenw88h63y2q55wavr42n4h46ceaf9vnsznp0lk

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2026-07-27 19:58:51 UTC

Interesting to see: most of the responses to @npub1sg6…f63m tweet are Indian people telling him to fuck off (ie wanting India to block bitchat)
https://x.com/jack/status/2080565084586135773

2026-07-23 08:23:37 UTC

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What was their official reason?

2026-07-22 11:50:29 UTC

I see the need for curation and ranking, ie helping the reader to filter through the content noise. This sounds promising…
#nevent1q…8a97

2026-07-22 09:30:50 UTC

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Amazing!

2026-07-21 12:21:09 UTC

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What did he do? (Genuine question, I don’t follow the news much)

2026-07-20 19:35:38 UTC

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Thanks! We appreciate the effort.

2026-07-19 16:35:45 UTC

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Yeah, that one is good 😊

2026-07-19 16:34:54 UTC

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Have you been able to convince anyone with this? Like after this they bought bitcoin or started to accept it for theirs services?

2026-07-19 16:28:46 UTC

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Question about the first case in the article: dual citizen leaving US to Germany on a round-trip: when leaving the US and wanna show Us passport at the counter — what is the counter? Isn’t that the airline and the article said you should give the airline the destination (Germany passport)?
Ie when exactly is the US border control marking you? Isn’t that the check before the security? (Maybe that’s what the article means by “counter”?)
Then at the gate, that’s the airline again, right?

2026-07-17 10:54:16 UTC

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I’m a big fan of NOSTR but it will require people to really decentralize (eg build many clients and run many relays). Otherwise EU can go and sue Damus/Amethys and Apple to remove it from AppStore.

2026-07-17 10:35:19 UTC

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Very cool!

2026-07-17 10:34:23 UTC

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I tend to agree with this. What are some better explanations?

2026-07-15 12:52:51 UTC

Europe is really going nuts.
Can you use VPN and create non-EU account?
#nevent1q…segp

2026-07-14 11:00:10 UTC

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What harness do you use to easily switch?

2026-07-12 17:58:48 UTC

Can’t wait to play with this
#nevent1q…tdcq

2026-07-10 19:41:51 UTC

Finally some good use of vibe coding
#nevent1q…qspd

2026-07-09 22:50:26 UTC

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Why?

2026-07-08 01:38:08 UTC

What’s up with all the BCH posts in global feed?
I would love to see more non-Bitcoin topics here but didn’t mean Bitcoin cash😂

2026-07-08 01:35:00 UTC

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What’s their reasoning?

2026-07-07 20:02:57 UTC

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Warning: It de-registers your actual Signal app. I don’t think you can use them both at the same time (under the same phone number)

2026-07-07 20:01:57 UTC

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This is awesome!

2026-07-07 14:34:53 UTC

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This makes sense. Thank you for the explanation!

2026-07-07 14:22:38 UTC

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Always!

2026-07-07 04:12:13 UTC

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Thank you.
First paragraph makes sense - just running a readonly full node makes very little difference (it can decide which transactions to forward and which drop/censor but there can always be another node that will broadcast a transaction).
Second paragraph. Yes, people sending transactions (I think technically it’s the sender who creates the transaction, not the receiver who just generates the address), but that’s still people running full nodes. If someone sends bitcoin using Coinbase then it’s Coinbase running the node and deciding.
So I still think in 2017 it was the full nodes that voted, but primarily the ones sending transactions, not any running node.
Please correct anything I’m not understanding. I genuinely want to understand how bitcoin works in practice.

2026-07-07 03:16:25 UTC

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@npub1exc…n72a might be able to shed more light on this

2026-07-07 03:14:14 UTC

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Can you provide more facts about segwit and UASF? Like you are saying that it wasn’t the full nodes that decided which path Bitcoin went? I only vaguely watched it back then and mostly remember it through Blocksize wars book, and based on my memory you are wrong.
Note: I don’t care about knots/BIP110, I’m only interested in what happened around 2017

2026-07-06 17:41:01 UTC

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Czechia 🇨🇿 is more bitcoin friendly and has cheaper beer

2026-07-06 17:38:12 UTC

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So cute!!! 🥰

2026-07-06 17:36:47 UTC

Great incentives for people to gamble
#nevent1q…9egc

2026-07-04 20:00:53 UTC

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Where did you grow up?

2026-07-04 18:18:36 UTC

100%
#nevent1q…df53

2026-07-04 17:47:16 UTC

Re-reading this marvelous text and can’t help to see the parallels with Bitcoin:
constitution ≈ protocol (consensus rules)
executive ≈ miners
judiciary (court) ≈ full nodes
legislators (congress) ≈ developers
Most importantly it’s practical (not theoretical) and procedural (ie. how to do it, constructive not just complaining)
https://image.nostr.build/77d285f72d61a44d0a89a65019958cae6fc330a2914ad5f534789316fc756e6f.jpg

2026-07-03 23:27:57 UTC

Tell your agent to add those into its reasoning context🤙
#nevent1q…22jg

2026-07-03 20:45:09 UTC

Is there a hosting that can be paid with Lightning/Cashu? Like Cloudflare workers or Vercel.

2026-07-03 20:44:25 UTC

I just vibe coded a simple cronjob that posts inspiring quotes from my Obsidian notes. CoinOS wallet over NWC so it accepts zaps. No KYC and I can easily swap for a different wallet. Any Nostr client can read it. It took less than hour.
Open protocols are the best!

2026-07-03 20:34:19 UTC

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😂

2026-07-03 17:15:13 UTC

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Agree

2026-07-03 17:14:50 UTC

Not your keys, not your coins. Take your bitcoin off exchanges!
#nevent1q…vpz3

2026-07-03 17:09:25 UTC

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What are the signals pointing to that future? It seems like we have enough productivity to feed all humans so I assume it’s something else.

2026-07-02 19:33:35 UTC

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How about: Fuck traditional investors!

2026-07-02 19:32:46 UTC

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Congrats on the jump! Keep reinventing yourself @npub1aft…dcke it’s inspiring to watch your journey. All the best!

2026-06-30 14:50:04 UTC

Inspiring story
#nevent1q…g9dy

2026-06-30 14:13:13 UTC

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Maybe it doesn’t become reality but it still means consequences. What if majority people decide you should be executed? It’s not true, you didn’t do anything bad, but you still dead.

2026-06-29 19:37:16 UTC

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Million unique visitors a day doesn’t sound realistic. I would love to believe that. Any proofs for that? @npub1c87…8avm (I would love that to happen obviously)

2026-06-29 04:21:09 UTC

When WikiLeaks became a problem for the US government, their donations got frozen. Bitcoin worked. Nobody could stop it.
Those are the empirical cases demonstrating how unstoppable this thing is. Just like when China cut off electricity from miners and yet the network didn’t break.

2026-06-28 17:31:32 UTC

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Anthropic’s revenue and their investors. He is right!

2026-06-28 17:30:56 UTC

Yes, open source is very dangerous for Anthropic’s revenue. Dario is right.
#nevent1q…pe6n

2026-06-28 03:11:12 UTC

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Super fun and great to see everyone.
Whoever gave me this cool bitcoin hat, thank you so much!!!
https://image.nostr.build/a82ae657191e59cd09c0500bfb5633e36c7dba5935b7317c86ff6fdbde06d1c2.jpg

2026-06-27 00:34:14 UTC

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Amazing!

2026-06-26 18:43:35 UTC

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Interesting. Any ideas why are they doing that?

2026-06-26 18:36:59 UTC

Great to see stratum v2 getting adoption!
#nevent1q…mahq

2026-06-26 16:57:37 UTC

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Watch party in Santa Cruz, CA: https://luma.com/i7r6fiko

2026-06-24 20:25:19 UTC

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@npub1khj…2vsj we paid and still not getting any info. I have 30 people signed for the screening and I’m not sure how to screen it. Can you give me email or some contact so we can figure out?

2026-06-23 01:17:39 UTC

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Sorry this happened. Texted my friend who is still at Apple 🤞

2026-06-23 00:40:28 UTC

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Ridiculous, but I’m not shocked. Texted my friend who is still at Apple 🤞

2026-06-22 15:25:51 UTC

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I do

2026-06-21 01:17:45 UTC

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Awesome. That’s new UI where the customer can select bitcoin! (So far I always had to tell the seller to select it)

2026-06-18 22:56:22 UTC

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Interesting! What’s the practical implication of this?

2026-06-18 02:21:23 UTC

Not surprised by this at all. I expect Anthropic is not much different.
#nevent1q…jgjh

2026-06-08 18:46:48 UTC

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Sry, don’t understand. What are you referring to?

2026-06-08 13:56:40 UTC

I wonder if we need two different prices for bitcoin?
It seems like the current price (I assume mostly from Coinbase, etc) is mostly from the big money trading, ETFs etc, basically the same old system.
Individuals selling each other non-KYC self-custody bitcoin would probably not sell for that price but that volume is much smaller.
It almost seems like two different assets combined in one. Do we have a precedent for this? Any explanation or what should individuals do besides hodling and ignoring the price?
Maybe @npub1s05…eyhe or @npub1a2c…w83a know?

2026-06-07 02:15:07 UTC

Yep. Stay humble folks. Don’t sell. Hodl.
#nevent1q…ndkm

2026-06-01 22:19:58 UTC

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Gitlab seems quite similar to GitHub. I think there is a space for new product native to AI workflows, and ideally decentralized (eg on NOSTR)

2026-05-31 00:53:43 UTC

Exactly!
#nevent1q…vheu

2026-05-30 14:56:34 UTC

This is the way. Let’s go!
#nevent1q…zjkk

2026-05-29 22:45:08 UTC

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Depends on what you already know. So far nothing ground-breaking for me (I’m less than half way through), but much more details and very clearly explained how it actually works. For instance practical example on how things move between fed/treasury vs central banks vs commercial banks.
I would not be shocked if similar layers eventually ended up in Bitcoin world (Bitcoin main chain is the treasury, custodial LN is commercial banks), etc.

2026-05-28 03:08:29 UTC

Who is building the next Github?
I think it will be different given AI coding enabling way more people and projects…
Interesting read: https://x.com/olvrgln/status/2059312715836145698?s=46

2026-05-21 02:56:44 UTC

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@npub1khj…2vsj ?

2026-05-20 22:33:26 UTC

Does anyone know people behind this project? I emailed their support but so far no response.
#nevent1q…lrc8

2026-05-19 22:14:31 UTC

@npub1sg6…f63m Trying to donate to thesixbilliondollarman.com to organize local watch party but it’s failing — who should talk to?
https://image.nostr.build/51071d5ba6a51f765309fcd87b17c2de1378feb1afac9bb7a48066510e5649e6.jpg

2026-05-15 23:56:05 UTC

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Great book!

2026-05-09 19:40:50 UTC

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@npub12vk…pugg where are my sats?

2026-05-09 19:39:25 UTC

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Why would that lead into an extended bear market?

2026-05-09 03:41:57 UTC

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Interesting. You are saying that there are two assets: self-custody Bitcoin and institutional paper Bitcoin (the same old world, just wrapping Bitcoin instead say gold) and each of those can have different price and demand. And so far it looks like the second one is showing more demand.
Right? (Checking my understanding)

2026-05-07 00:27:39 UTC

Wtf Primal?
https://image.nostr.build/84e08ebf383dc21ab1fff4bb094877f66982ac794d9254cf3c0e9a6315f729d2.jpg

2026-05-07 00:23:47 UTC

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I put this sticker on Wells Fargo door but surprisingly it didn’t last there very long

2026-05-05 02:59:40 UTC

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Where did you get the 10T?
Some speaker at Stripe sessions said 300B of stable coins in circulation.

2026-04-30 21:25:31 UTC

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I wouldn’t call running something in a secure enclave “non-custodial”

2026-04-30 21:23:43 UTC

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Perfect

2026-04-25 19:10:12 UTC

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Had this experience two weeks ago. Almost missed the flight.

2026-03-18 01:51:35 UTC

Square enabling Bitcoin by default 3/30!!!
https://x.com/nickslaney/status/2033956369439609211?s=46

2026-03-07 23:49:31 UTC

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lol, so true!

2026-02-22 23:14:00 UTC

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Agree, pull ups are healthy

2026-02-22 22:59:33 UTC

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Love this!!!

2026-02-22 22:56:04 UTC

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Is it really healthier? One of the hardest things for me when switching to “work from home” has been setting up boundaries between work and family.
And I never believed in work/life balance. It’s all life to me, but still it has been challenging.

2026-02-22 22:53:50 UTC

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Any predictions on what these “impacts” will be?

2026-02-21 02:33:36 UTC

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This is deep

2026-02-21 02:28:13 UTC

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Is there a good summary what’s in Clarity Act?

2026-02-07 04:14:48 UTC

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Beautiful

2026-02-05 04:11:24 UTC

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I love ska

2026-01-17 04:24:50 UTC

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Visually this was the coolest car ever built.

2026-01-16 02:32:12 UTC

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🤣🤣🤣

2026-01-12 05:58:49 UTC

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@npub1guh…6hjy do you have good examples to prove the people who say “I think Austrian economics is better but empirically it seems like Keynes was right” wrong?
I agree with you myself but looking for ideally empirical arguments.

2026-01-11 05:23:38 UTC

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crazy, right?

2026-01-11 04:00:29 UTC

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Haha. So true

2026-01-08 00:13:56 UTC

https://stacker.news/items/1406456/r/phaedrus

2025-12-28 02:14:34 UTC

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@npub1lz8…h86s

2025-12-28 02:09:08 UTC

@scmeetuptopic
#note17dd…whcy

2025-12-20 21:48:41 UTC

This sounds very interesting: China experimenting with free-market: https://x.com/rnaudbertrand/status/2002054459644674550?s=46
Anyone local who confirm or provide more details?

2025-12-11 03:53:08 UTC

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I went back to iOS Podcast app (no zapping). Then i tried again Fountain which got much better and i used for a while but now its again driving me nuts because it resets time position when listening in the car (you pause and then start playing again and it jumps back 20min or whatever).
I hope someone can make simple app without all the stupid features, but you can actually play a podcast on it:-)