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It's actually not too hard to set up an airgapped bitcoin core wallet with a watch online bitcoin core node. Checkout their doc/offline-signer.md guide.

2026-08-19 12:46:54 UTC

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Hate to sat it but, as the captain, you have to go down with the ship

2026-08-18 23:52:00 UTC

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#peatstr

2026-08-13 02:01:44 UTC

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"Bpedo" 😂
i love forks

2026-08-11 15:54:09 UTC

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Bitcoin is a tool the same way a sword is
Use it to destroy your enemies

2026-08-11 01:53:10 UTC

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where can I buy these beef balls?

2026-08-09 01:31:27 UTC

Forks are pretty fun

2026-08-07 22:36:38 UTC

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Not a bip110 fan but this is based

2026-08-07 13:16:23 UTC

"I like that people are doing something but they're just too dumb to do the right thing"
https://cahlen.org/flock-cameras/
Wise words from @nprofile…hhax
Basically how I feel about bip110

2026-07-26 23:41:40 UTC

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I think these guy would be dead weight. We should try to buy their fork coins if we can so we don't get stuck with them

2026-07-26 23:40:19 UTC

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Thanks vitor. Been using Amethyst for almost as long

2026-07-23 17:15:27 UTC

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Ironically, Ray always told people to avoid bananas because they have seretonin

2026-07-23 17:14:17 UTC

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#peatstr

2026-07-11 14:19:06 UTC

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@nprofile…5xc4 this u?

2026-07-01 00:08:28 UTC

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peep show is great

2026-06-28 13:54:18 UTC

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acktually
nostr supports bip300

2026-06-26 04:29:00 UTC

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Thank you for your service o7

2026-06-26 04:24:25 UTC

We could've used thsi humility four years ago when over confident maxis were making the case that "we don't need soft forks" that "Bitcoin will go up forver no matter what we do"
The truth is that Bitcoin is going against the most evil and most powerful forces on the planet and it's a miracle it has survived as long as it has.
If people like hodl ans odell had been a little more humble we'd already have zcash drivechains and a bitcoin hivemimd prediction market with Paul's solution to the oracle problem. Instead we're fighting over "spam".
Better late than never I guess
#nevent1q…29wj

2026-05-06 20:42:56 UTC

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based

2026-04-29 21:11:25 UTC

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This felt really apocryphal so I looked it up
It's actually an Oscar Wilde quote. Really fits him better too. You should read Plato, if you had this would have been obvious

2026-04-25 05:00:10 UTC

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Based.
Let's make this happen. He's said he'll go on *any* podcast, which implies he wont mind if you ask hard questions.

2026-04-24 19:00:44 UTC

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What makes you think miners serve the empire?

2026-04-24 16:34:05 UTC

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good point 😅

2026-04-24 16:28:47 UTC

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I think bitcoiners are Bitcoin's worst enemy rn. Did you miss the whole "spam" drama?

2026-04-24 16:27:59 UTC

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I think the argument that miner incentives make drivechains inevitable is basically true. Why wouldn't miners want to take the fee revenue from shitcoins?
Do you have a counter argument?

2026-04-24 16:22:11 UTC

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Yes, no doubt. And opensats funds many criticla self custody projects.
I also don't like reassigning Satoshi's stack.
You should still have Paul on, I'd be interested to hear you challenge him on that.

2026-04-24 15:19:10 UTC

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I'm not a hater. I have nothing butnrespect for what you do in this space. Just think your irrational hate for Paul is sad.
Also, no lies. You have a ton of custodial Bitcoin projects on your podcast and in your portfolio.

2026-04-24 14:26:05 UTC

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Invite him to Citadel Dispatch
would be a nice break from all the custodial Bitcoin people you have on

2026-04-24 13:12:40 UTC

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lmao at the name btw. it's so perfect. the only way to improve it would be to rename the thunder sidechain to cashu

2026-04-24 13:11:20 UTC

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it's a feature not a bug

2026-04-24 13:09:45 UTC

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I'm not sure you're right about that, he seems credible to me. Anyway, it's a good movie even if fiction.

2026-04-24 04:45:56 UTC

The Bob Lazar movie was worth the rental fee. Highly recommend.
It'll make you want to get back in the lab

2026-04-22 23:18:07 UTC

I think it would be cool if there were relays you could post to to just talk about the new topical thing. I'd want to pist about the missing scientists

2026-04-17 16:12:55 UTC

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I see what you mean now. Yes futarchy does have a "democratic" thing in it. It can be direct, I think that's better actually.
The main point is that the "democracy" is not in charge of making decisions about *how* to get to wellbeing. Just what to measure.
The *how* is determined by a conditional prediction market on the measure.
So instead of people voting for welfare they vote to measure their spending power and the market tells them that welfare is not the best way to acheive that.
And yes, good point. Bitcoin has powarchy now. Thank goodness or we might already have all kinds of dumb ideas in consensus.

2026-04-17 15:35:32 UTC

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I agree with your point on our current crop of miners, very sad that people with so much skin in the game don't take the time to learn more about Bitcoin.
So while maybe human node runners might be better than the current situation it would also be terrible.
Here's why: in a centralized world bad ceos get outcompeted by good ceos so we end up with the higher end of the bell curve in charge. This is pretty good and mostly works. If the decentralized world is doomed to follow the middle of the brll curve (because everyonr gets a vote) we'll lose. We need a decentralized way to weigh the capable members of the decentralized community higher than the average member.

2026-04-17 10:14:22 UTC

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That's decntralized in a bad way, like democracy, no coordination just the mass

2026-04-17 02:33:40 UTC

You can vibe code an coding agent
It's literally just the tool use, tool result loop. Codex is open source, pi is open source, claude is...
Just have one of those do it for you and make it do it just the way you like it.
Mine uses plan9port tools only, write raw tokens directly to a pty running rc, reads raw bytes from the pty, escape sequences and all. Somehow it works.

2026-04-12 15:47:34 UTC

2026-04-10 14:33:32 UTC

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No way to use it with a bot?

2026-04-08 04:39:13 UTC

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but that would probably scare the hoes, fine to hide it behind some poweruser toggle

2026-04-08 04:38:40 UTC

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Deal with unknown event kinds in some raw way

2026-04-07 20:01:25 UTC

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fwiw, I care

2026-03-30 17:41:16 UTC

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Best argument against bip300 imo

2026-03-03 20:58:57 UTC

When you're testing your vibe coded client with the 000..001, 000...002, etc keys and you automatically get funny profiles for your test users 😅
fr tho, careful with prompt injection boys

2026-02-28 23:33:26 UTC

You can vibe code a personal relay with fiatjaf.com/nostr/khatru and have it do whatever you want. Mine gets ots timestamps for every event I publish or interact with 😸

2026-02-24 03:18:51 UTC

Are you having fun anon?
#nevent1q…lfmw

2026-02-19 14:00:39 UTC

Is there any reason not to include the block height and hash in some additional tag for nip-03 attestations?
Would give a much nicer bound for events:
ots says: this event was created before ts
block hash says: this event was created after this block

2026-02-17 17:33:46 UTC

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yes, something like this is true for science as well

2026-02-01 03:17:51 UTC

The best form of tax evation is to make very little money but be paid in something that they can't tax
meaning
sorry uncle sam, all this meaning is mine

2026-01-16 05:57:42 UTC

idgi

2026-01-13 20:49:11 UTC

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A very provocative subject to ponder on

2026-01-13 20:42:11 UTC

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We'll need to start working on faster than light communication asap or block propagation is gonna get tricky 😅

2025-12-24 15:10:03 UTC

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It's damn good

2025-12-18 18:39:38 UTC

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test from damus android

2025-12-11 15:15:49 UTC

Running damus android

2025-09-18 16:00:26 UTC

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lmao, you're outing yourself as a normie
did you never use 4chan?

2025-09-16 23:44:10 UTC

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Oh, well I'm asking because Ray sometimes mentioned that not all stainless steel is the same, there are different grades and the kind that happens to be magnetic has less issues with leaching metals into acidic food

2025-08-04 22:01:04 UTC

At least you should ask for some pow before you let this happen
https://image.nostr.build/2c8872b88843ad7007c96311329a1f20768a251d51630cda24c1c81bbd220ca8.jpg

2025-08-04 20:54:09 UTC

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pow fixes this
make it expensive to dilute
#nevent1q…0aa3

2025-01-24 20:02:02 UTC

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I see, so like a handful of people and you assume the whole ecosystem is homogenous?
Sounds like narrative to me.
But it's silly to argue about this when someome could just check lol

2025-01-24 08:06:28 UTC

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ok please enlighten me about your actual first hand experience

2025-01-23 19:09:38 UTC

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Seems that your first habd knowledge is social media posts though.
Easy to figure out the truth from the lightning gossip but I don't have the time to do that rn.

2024-01-14 01:30:32 UTC

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wtf?

2023-10-24 19:00:44 UTC

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*the text is good, but the ethereum logo chained to a bitcoin is pure cancer

2023-10-24 19:00:09 UTC

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I hate this

2023-10-06 18:41:04 UTC

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Exactly my original point. You, a technically competent fedimint enthusiast, don't see any problems because you can deposit onchain or over ln, do your business and get out, doesn't matter who the custodian is because most of your meaningful transactions happen non-custodially.
As we've already agreed, some form of custody will be necessary for most people in thw future (impossible for billions of people to own their own utxos).
Thw question then becomes what does the ideal custodian look like? Is it your uncle Jim and neighbor Johnny or is it a sybill resistant, annonymous, dynamic collection of parties deeply invested in the succees of Bitcoin as a money?

2023-10-04 15:00:51 UTC

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Glad we agree on so much but you're missing the point.
Friends and family are bad custodians. Bitcoin miners are better custodians (dynamic and annonymous so very hard for governments to pressure, incentive aligned with Bitcoin, etc. )
Privacy on a chaumian mint is comparable to a zcash sidechain but the zcash sidechain also protects users from the custodians ibflating the supply. So the sidechain is strictly better.
We have millions of dollars and tons of smart young people (fedimint bros) working on a worse tool and telling their followers that an opt-in softfork that enables a zcash drivechain is "dangerous" because "shitcoins on bitcoin" or "changes incentives". This is a problem.
That being said, I don't think working on fedimints is bad or anything, we should have as many solutions as we possibly can and let the best one win.

2023-09-03 20:08:55 UTC

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Selling t-shirts and using excess heat to do something useful also changes the financial incentives for miners.

2023-02-19 04:42:54 UTC

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lmao