miketwenty1
Tidwell

Conference: TABConf,
Podcast: Blocktime,
Company: ZBD,
Nostr Game LN Project: Satoshi Settlers

Public Key

npub128a25achgxk429gwuwy7tgrwh44z5s42js2260cxdstk7tpxv9ds497erh

NIP-05 Address

Profile Code

nprofile1qqs9r742wut5rt24z58w8z095pht6632g24fg99d8urxc9m09snxzkcprfmhxue69uhhgetnw3ex2mrp0yhxummnw3erztnrdaksz9nhwden5te0wfjkccte9ec8y6tdv9kzumn9wshq9gfp

Publishing to

testrelay.nostr1.com

relay.primal.net

Author Public Key

npub128a25achgxk429gwuwy7tgrwh44z5s42js2260cxdstk7tpxv9ds497erh

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Last Notes

2025-10-22 19:12:16 UTC

Thank you to everyone who came to @nprofile…4q0e 7 and made it wonderful this year!
4 days of: cordial debates, technical workshops, talks and panels, interactivities, meshtastic devices, hardware hacking, the CTB puzzle. So much fun.
7 Things I would like to share from TABConf 7.
1. Huge sponsor love for enabling our grants and supporting the conf: lclhostresearch @nprofile…rzcm, SetDevBTC, BitcoinTutorials @nprofile…xv7m FulgurVentures unchained jintekc @nprofile…3uh5 @andurobtc CleanSpark_Inc lightspark, DCD
2. So many new faces inspired to build on Bitcoin. Special love to the Brazilian crew who also hit the Rust Bitcoin Summit at @nprofile…wds9 . Shout to @nprofile…wx7f on the great work with vintenum and @nprofile…5lnq (Nov 7).
3. Thanks for personalized education and attention from so many talented folks especially some core contributors like @nprofile…mzvs and achow101. And those encouraging technical education with a carrot 🥕 via CTB donors, you rock!: jintekc fedibtc @nprofile…km3m Anchor Watch, TaprootWizards.
4. Adhoc and satellite events and activities were a blast: @nprofile…qdk5 @nprofile…weg2 👷🧑‍🏭💃 @nprofile…j0t7 @nprofile…w9ut Afterparties 🥳 @npub1337xxyne0pw52zgd984xqqs2q7qhqpt7phhn7xp6t9yt406vrvescdpkdt Mario Kart Double Sats 🚗 @nprofile…upw4 Bitcoin at work-shop. The chess tournament crew: jondomedia @nprofile…jejq bitcoinburnbabe. ♟️
5. Massive thanks to @nprofile…eq6x @nprofile…uxte @nprofile…aedw Brandon @nprofile…zjnt @nprofile…d0zz and all volunteers for setup and breakdown in record time.
lclhostresearch crushed the Socratic BitDevs village as always. Hardcore trivia was amazing and super efficient.
6. Debate panels drew big crowds again. Year 2 of the format and going strong. Thanks Paul Sztorc and @nprofile…0g64 for setting context and involving the audience.
7. The warnet hosted by Zipkin was awesome. Big shout to chaincode for supporting it the last 2 years. Hacking LN ⚡️⚠️ nodes was a blast. Our evening WoT with @nprofile…ua6t 🔐workshop sparked ideas for recurring web of trust events at TAB.
I cannot wait to see you all next year for TABConf 8. Tickets are on sale now at early prices. Support the conference and grab yours today! Save the date: TABConf 8 is Oct 12-15, 2026. Mark your calendars! 🗓️

2025-10-11 00:47:47 UTC

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> I also think that without filters, monetary txs can displace jpgs, which doesn't look like it is the case in this graph.
I would generally agree. The minimum demand/value of a monetary tx/usecase would need to be higher than the highest demand/value of a "jpeg" tx in order to have zero spam/jpegs in the next block. This isn't intuitively represented I suppose for the graph (based on the x axis as you point out), but it's how I intended this to be interpreted.

2025-10-09 18:01:48 UTC

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@nprofile…h36r, I'm curious if you agree with the chart.
~85% is generous imo. You could push it more aggressively to 95–99%, but I figured 85% would serve as a starting point, since I didn't want the whole discussion to revolve around the arbitrary majority needed for a filter to be noticed.

2025-10-09 17:57:24 UTC

I'm wearing the @nprofile…nuy5 hoodie today in a coffee shop, a girl there knows my name is mike. She asks me.. "Are you Mike from tunestr". Holy crap.. small world, and too many Mikes.

2025-10-01 22:09:14 UTC

🚨 @nprofile…4q0e
tickets are $121, going to ⬆️ $256 on Friday!
🎟️ Your ticket includes:
🍳 Breakfast & lunch for 4 days
🎉 Afterparty on a rooftop w/ carnival games + open bar
🛠️ Free hardware swag
Don't miss it 👉 http://tabconf.com
#Bitcoin #TABConf
Maybe written with LLM 🤖

2025-10-01 19:55:57 UTC

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@nprofile…x7wj Based on popular demand.

2025-10-01 19:51:37 UTC

Can we objectively measure (point in time) relay filter effectiveness?
We can by looking at the friction a Tx/usecase faces getting into a block.
Filtering on datacarrier (preventing OP_RETURNs from exceeding 83 bytes) lives in the [pink box]
Sharing this as a discussion point.
https://blossom.primal.net/d2ee7271a7c8ae12d1bdabd41b7923c84964d91402c077a87e74431ece164f49.png

2025-09-28 19:32:31 UTC

@nprofile…gc5h
Hey Rusty. Just planting the seed that I'd love for you to make it to @nprofile…4q0e this year Oct 13-16. Happy to give you space to talk about GSR.

2025-09-21 00:25:18 UTC

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@nprofile…4sty note, Oct 13-16 in ATL we are going to have bunch of meshtastic hacking going on at @nprofile…4q0e
#nevent1q…xgff

2025-09-19 17:21:01 UTC

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Well not sure all of what MSM does, but specifically for TV late night that is also available over the airways (FCC stuff). We probably won't have to, streaming services and internet content will kill these things naturally. The question will be what will be the purported reason. Easy to blame externalities that are out of the hand of the decision maker.

2025-09-19 17:03:16 UTC

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@nprofile…x7wj if you wanted me to use Nostr more, you should have just sent me this. Best marketing for Nostr I've seen to date.

2025-09-19 16:55:09 UTC

Is it possible to think that late-night shows in general are on their way out? Ratings are tough because of competing platforms, these shows are expensive to produce, and the FCC shouldn't be used as a political arm to censor speech, the FCC very likely overstepped here.
AND
There was a nonzero chance this was used as a convenient excuse to suspend a late-night host as a way to bring publicity and help promote the next person who would replace this host.
Asking for a friend, because apparently whenever this is asked, the first thing that comes up are analogies comparing this supposedly "gross" question to something about Charlie Kirk's murder. Smh. We are so cooked in terms of being able to debate stuff.

2025-09-18 21:03:23 UTC

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We do. Bitcoin Knobs
https:://bitcoinknobs.org

2025-09-18 20:32:17 UTC

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It seems common place to compound stupidity in quick secession when terrible events happen. I'm hoping this doesn't backfire.

2025-09-10 14:48:38 UTC

New PR @nprofile…fm4n
https://blossom.primal.net/bbbc56223fe857b5dbcde5d809be3de91a6d261df9bc81e33b6cd3bb8efa965c.jpg

2025-09-09 22:27:06 UTC

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Looks Cool! Are you coming to @nprofile…4q0e ?

2025-09-09 22:24:01 UTC

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ngl it's happened a few times.

2025-09-07 16:21:24 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/df6c652f3915578344a262fc2a11e6b00c36b3d92b97217bd053752e2575a41a.jpg

2025-09-07 16:20:28 UTC

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@nprofile…fm4n
https://blossom.primal.net/df6c652f3915578344a262fc2a11e6b00c36b3d92b97217bd053752e2575a41a.jpg

2025-09-07 14:38:22 UTC

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check out @npub17yq…5269 we are having a whole hacker space for meshtastic this year

2025-09-07 14:36:52 UTC

@npub1rtl…jtfs proof of grip 141.6
on you now to beat my new PR.
https://image.nostr.build/f9dd6787d3c0f896d64eaab924248b65f84cbd8f988c7c76f6f4bbfefdc8f20e.jpg

2025-06-21 18:34:49 UTC

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Promise I'm working on it. I don't plan to ever abandon this idea. Thanks for sticking with me.

2025-05-29 15:30:50 UTC

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this isn't a website it's a distributed ball of twine

2025-05-13 01:52:03 UTC

Yo @nprofile…x7wj what's up my love

2025-04-27 18:38:20 UTC

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what do you think about @nprofile…mdf3
https://primal.net/new ?

2025-04-27 15:47:48 UTC

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i decided to use https://nstart.me thoughts?

2025-04-23 17:21:16 UTC

I'm working on the relaunch of my website and server backend, one thing I'm wondering if someone stumbles upon my game and wants to register with Nostr but doesn't have an account. Where should I point them?
https://nostr.com/ ?
I don't really want them to generate the keys on my website if I can help it because I want them to be responsible for not losing their nsec. Any ideas from what others have done?

2025-04-21 13:38:46 UTC

@nprofile…gre4 forgot to tell you, I won a tunestr hat at BBB.
https://m.primal.net/QYNw.jpg

2025-02-17 19:48:33 UTC

Check this out
https://m.primal.net/PAjw.png @nprofile…g733 Made some pretty cool art on @nprofile…sx69

2025-01-29 03:20:17 UTC

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aww nice, i see what you did, please don’t exploit anymore until i put a fix in lol. i need to refactor my server code

2025-01-29 03:07:56 UTC

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wtf

2025-01-22 16:25:35 UTC

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My new favorite block on Satoshi Settlers is block 880300.
https://m.primal.net/NuuC.png
#nevent1q…0xtd

2024-12-19 15:33:13 UTC

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still at zbd, using bevy v0.15 (latest)

2024-12-07 18:27:13 UTC

One of the most interesting talks at TABConf 6 this year.
@npub1uh8…9y4m Tadhe Dryja.
goes over the: The Ethereumization of Bitcoin.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=rJcWeLSltsA
"The reasons Bitcoiners don't like ETH no longer apply"
@npub1rtl…jtfs
make sure to update your notes.

2024-12-05 15:10:28 UTC

Your life is short. Build something positive that will outlive you.
Remember to also celebrate progress in reference to scale and privacy.

2024-12-03 17:11:27 UTC

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https://m.primal.net/Mmwi.png

2024-11-25 16:31:20 UTC

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Miniscript for taproot just now becoming usable imo 3 years after activation. You could argue it took LN 4+ years to become “usable” after segwit activation. some would argue it’s still not usable. As long as we aren’t worried about quantum issues, i hope we see big adoption with taproot over the next couple years.

2024-11-25 04:09:45 UTC

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why would you say this?

2024-11-17 21:56:01 UTC

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epic
https://m.primal.net/MZTS.png

2024-11-13 01:21:17 UTC

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taro is taproot assets, already in use and on my list, i consider this one of the first,
everything else you mentioned is still in the works? or are you naming off things that have usage?

2024-11-13 01:08:30 UTC

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@npub1wz8…4qjt is using bevy

2024-11-12 17:33:46 UTC

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Ark when ready will be one of the first "real" usecases for taproot i think?

2024-11-11 22:14:36 UTC

Besides @Wizardsardine (Liana) Lightning Labs (TapAss) @TaprootWizards (NFTs)
Who else is doing something with taproot outside of just simple sends? I'm looking for something in production.

2024-11-10 03:15:31 UTC

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https://satoshisettlers.com/info/about

2024-11-09 04:02:07 UTC

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just got 720s im coming after you

2024-11-09 04:01:04 UTC

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https://m.primal.net/LxQU.png

2024-11-08 06:00:52 UTC

Someone just put #FreeRossDayOne on @nprofile…x59a
https://image.nostr.build/97be8778ffef85ce22c39c06c5a3a9f95d50683f14d067c22194d86f4eda4873.jpg

2024-11-03 20:06:49 UTC

can't believe they still accept usd for this.
https://m.primal.net/Lrgv.jpg

2024-10-30 20:17:20 UTC

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https://image.nostr.build/02439703020fcdcc3671cae838076d80a9ae4c4765390e32c195aebbcb8e9be0.jpg

2024-10-30 20:16:22 UTC

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https://image.nostr.build/158b2c896004e3281dced24b4aedbffedb62e9d56fce3203d3c7cb8b347a56c6.jpg

2024-10-30 20:14:48 UTC

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https://image.nostr.build/8cbcdfcd0b23161feebc9aa215ae84f9ab1edcca620064900b376bd08da4c542.jpg

2024-10-29 23:24:38 UTC

Here is a personalized Nostr recap of TABConf 6 here.
I really do believe we made another historical event as a top 20 bitcoin conference of all time. No price discussion. No political discussion besides a bit of freerossing. Big focus on tech and steps towards progress. We experimented with some really cool ideas that worked out this year which we will be expanding on next year. Some examples were an emphasis on hardware, rotating debate panels, and rapid explainer game show.
Really looking forward to having TABConf also have a minor focus on meshtastic and doing long range mesh networking. Perhaps we will even connect @npub1cst…gekj to @npub1the…4dha in the future.
The first ever TAB awards (Tabbies) happened this year. I think for a first pass it went pretty well.
Looking forward to having more Nostr involvement next year, perhaps people reading this may feel inclined to run a Nostr specific room or do an entire Nostr day at the same venue next year. Let me know if you want to plan this!
I believe TABConf is the only truly open source conference that is organized, and I hope we can keep expanding and improving the uX to make people feel comfortable getting involved.
We are selling tickets for next years conference already (Oct 13-16, 2025) mark your calendars. Tickets are all inclusive, there is no class of tickets and you aren't marked like cattle with an unremovable wristband.
Hope you consider coming out and building next year with us.
If you feel like you aren't technical enough, you are missing the point. There is something at @npub17yq…5269 for everyone.
https://m.primal.net/LmVi.mp4
Enjoy this video of me walking around talking to a few awesome people at TABConf 6 this year in the general hacker space.

2024-10-26 13:53:13 UTC

Very happy so far with @npub17yq…5269 this year. It's making me incredibly bullish. The amount of hard work going into learning so much in such little time is truly inspiring.

2024-10-24 00:41:03 UTC

I arrested @npub1ej4…ndrm on stage today at @npub17yq…5269. We got em' boys!
Got him on 35 counts of unlicensed RBF.

2024-10-23 02:56:53 UTC

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are you going to be at tabconf this week?.. maybe we buy 1 wheel of each and we figure this out the old fasion way

2024-10-22 15:42:21 UTC

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I'm not sure if you understand what I'm saying, it's just moving the ots proof and creating an additional layer of abstraction so that uX would be better imo. right now I believe your proposal means if someone gets compromised they have a minimum of x amount of time before you could migrate.
The suggestion I'm saying is to bake that in ahead of time and make migration fast if compromised.
also in the case your new key were to get compromised before migraine, this would help with that, since you aren't pegged to a specific new keypair

2024-10-22 03:52:13 UTC

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also note, you could flexible choose your security model and do 1/1 threshold with your own back up.. but then you still get the better uX of timeliness in case you need to migrate.

2024-10-22 03:49:12 UTC

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the idea I pitched is using a threshold of signatures from whitelist group (including potentially some of your own backup keys), and then the new key is flexible and defined when needed.
this idea from @npub1l2v…ajft and ( you and @npub1az9…m8y8 are authors?)
this idea of y'all's doesn't require a web of trust or multsig threshold idea, you just lock in ahead of time a new key pair using ots timestamps as a source of truth to migrate away from a compromised account and used in case of migration attackers with earliest timestamp winning.
I think instead of relying on timestamps, it would be interesting to use real connections + backups as part of the recovery protocol where you have said "these threshold of keys can vouch for me" and then there is no time delay for the migration itself. it seems nip47 has a migration delay in case an attacker gets access to your account, you'd still need to wait or the time where people think your account is really you.
instead you can have better uX by punting the time delay of the change and using ots on the whitelist of the new threshold script. then if an attacker wants to change your script you can just migrate instantly to your new keypair of your choice and you don't need to lock in ahead of time.
let me know your thoughts. maybe I'll draft a nip or something if you think it's a good idea.

2024-10-22 02:34:15 UTC

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that pablo guy is likable, i’ll include him in my web of trust, which nip is it?

2024-10-21 17:15:34 UTC

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web of trust solution would be interesting in combination of a master key rotation. Say, I have fiatjaf as one of my homies.. if I ever did a key rotation, I could presign early the method of which a valid key rotation could happen by requiring some signature threshold of trustees and other keys I may own to make this go from an absolute joke, into a relative joke. Bonus points for using a family relative.
The trustees wouldn't have access to initiate a key rotation, only verify the legitimacy of it. If the account in question and the threshold get compromised then it becomes a run away joke.. if account gets compromised you can still use compromised keys to successfully speak off band with trustees to rotate the key in public.
I'll take NIP 69420 unless this idea already exist.

2024-10-21 14:56:09 UTC

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what do we call people with a bunch of tether?

2024-10-20 01:24:36 UTC

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https://primal.net/e/note1x2w9kadw7yp89xqtn59qtnm6urq2gccd0xdt9kawf4xpenljpkms8muzlf
I make a point, you trivialize it, you can't come up with a better point.
Checkmate. We can still be friends.

2024-10-20 00:48:34 UTC

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I pointed out a specific difference between the candidates. Feel free to point out a more significant comparison between the candidates, otherwise you are off topic. 1-upping on bad situations just to diminish Ross is not the way.

2024-10-19 12:49:17 UTC

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which of the candidates is better for the things you mentioned?

2024-10-16 18:25:06 UTC

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New ATH 221M
https://m.primal.net/LXnl.png

2024-10-16 17:26:37 UTC

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@npub17yq…5269
Oct 23-26 Atlanta GA,
https://tabconf.com
Open source Bitcoin conference organized on github
https://github.com/orgs/TABConf/projects/1

2024-10-16 16:02:35 UTC

it’s about get that special kind of bitcoin nerdy spooky https://image.nostr.build/829cf453f99e5917e441e72d0d091d4c4f09970740c7bf56fdde098448a88452.jpg

2024-10-16 15:01:29 UTC

So so so so many things I'm looking forward to next week at tabconf:
Some random things off the top of my head but not limited to:
- The hacker badges working with infrared to send and receive sats and make a game of laser tag. (good luck @npub1c87…8avm)
- Understanding malleability for public key reuse, and hash only encumbrance within taptree and transactions.
- Hacking old versions of Bitcoin core via Warnet workshop.
- Doing the codex32 workshop and actually understand what I'm doing.
- Getting meshtastic conference network going, and people building on top of it.
- Trying to mine a Bitcoin with all the bitaxe's we are getting.
- Seeing people learn deeper stuff with bip32, bip39, and tapscript via the CTB puzzle.
- Seeing friends.
- and ofc playing chess with @npub1fuk…mzly

2024-10-15 16:31:01 UTC

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"Crazy to think" huh?

2024-10-14 00:25:21 UTC

I've been spending the last several weeks learning about Bitcoin, specifically deep things and nuance with bip32, how apps have implemented this, and combinations with bip39. It amazes me how little I know whenever I do a dive like this..
@npub1rtl…jtfs gave me some words of motivation the other day, I think I want to start doing technical content again soon through Blocktime podcast. After @npub17yq…5269 I'll plan to knock a few videos and see if it gets some traction.

2024-10-13 02:56:31 UTC

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here we go https://image.nostr.build/5a3c2d800af886056dce21afbbb38ddca5ac37bd4da924faebb185a1697a19ff.jpg

2024-10-10 03:23:43 UTC

For those of you running a Bitaxe, what's your best difficulty so far?
After a few hours I got a 6.52M.
https://m.primal.net/LQie.png

2024-10-09 21:27:33 UTC

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I was wondering why they called you Cooking Kukks

2024-10-09 20:50:08 UTC

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would you be open to helping organize the locations and venues?

2024-10-09 20:27:06 UTC

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This approach may be completely missed and overshadowed by saying PT is satoshi.. Not sure how many bitcoiners will read into the nuance you are explaining.

2024-10-09 18:39:21 UTC

I understand why one would do solomining with a bitaxe, If a Bitaxe costs about $150, and you can make about 2-3 cents of bitcoin per day. Than it would take about 14 years without difficulty change to make your money back (i.e. will never pay for itself). Vs.. lottery ticket + more decentralization + big pay day + fun.
Am I wrong?

2024-10-09 18:28:36 UTC

Crazy to think, if you had 1 bitaxe in it's current form in 2017, you'd of had more hashrate than the entire network at the time.

2024-10-09 03:34:46 UTC

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I just bought enough hardware today to build 60 devices, feel free to bring your own hardware stuff too! The more the merrier.

2024-10-08 17:14:03 UTC

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enlighten me

2024-10-08 17:12:58 UTC

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definitely would be a top contender for first place

2024-10-08 14:51:11 UTC

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Sent you a DM earlier (not sure if you see it). I want to buy a bunch of devices for the conference. But had some general questions that I wanted to cover, if you're available for a quick chat.

2024-10-08 13:34:37 UTC

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Silk is for clothes.

2024-10-08 13:32:01 UTC

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Only 1 of those candidates helps get Ross out of Prison. #freeross

2024-10-08 13:30:58 UTC

Anyone with good experience with meshtastic want to help @npub17yq…5269 have an amazing meshing time?

2024-10-08 13:15:55 UTC

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There is an inspired game being worked on right now "Satoshi Settlers" the hash of the block determines the type of land, the world map is the bitcoin blockchain, get's bigger every time a block is mined. Still a WIP, but also currently live. @npub1wz8…4qjt
Uses Nostr and LN.

2024-10-07 16:56:36 UTC

two of the primary food groups, parmesan cheese and brisket.
https://m.primal.net/LNwf.jpg

2024-10-06 19:31:03 UTC

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where would you say is ideal?

2024-10-06 19:29:55 UTC

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where would you say is ideal?

2024-10-05 22:39:05 UTC

https://m.primal.net/LMTw.jpg
pretty sure a major food group is parmesan cheese

2024-10-05 21:53:46 UTC

It is very concerning how hard it is for people to get travel visa's to come to @npub17yq…5269. It's also concerning how many non Americans I met that don't want to travel to the US even if they could get a travel visa because of safety and security. My eyes have been opened this year on just how bad this is. If this doesn't eventually get better I'm going to have rethink a few things about TABConf.

2024-10-05 15:55:11 UTC

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but then you come to @npub17yq…5269

2024-09-20 19:24:32 UTC

Parmesan is the best cheese.
https://m.primal.net/Kvxm.jpg

2024-09-19 16:45:38 UTC

We have 141 contributors to bitcoin core in roughly the last 12ish months for github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin going back to v24.1
I just realized I'm denoted as one of them on the 26 release. 😅 Many like me may only have trivial commits, but it's still pretty cool to be associated along some very talented people.
26 contributors are active on 3+ releases in the 12 months. I'm planning an award ceremony at @npub17yq…5269 this year to help bring to light some of the hard work done behind the scenes for Bitcoin and related projects. Starting the tradition this year.

2024-09-18 12:48:11 UTC

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my zap is failing

2024-09-18 12:47:32 UTC

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my software is failing to zap you

2024-09-18 02:34:20 UTC

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i zapped you, but it doesn't seem to be showing up on the ui

2024-09-18 02:33:28 UTC

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I'm failing to zap you

2024-09-18 01:11:52 UTC

Let's try to see if I can put Nostr to work:
I'll send sats to every valid suggestion.
If you were giving out 3 awards for bitcoin that were technical in nature, which categories would you come up with?
Bonus sats if you come up with 4 candidates for your proposed achievement categories.

2024-09-17 00:38:08 UTC

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For someone who constantly feels busy, what is the best source on Nostr to keep up with current news.#note1upy…9969
I'm the guy in the corner. But the good news is, with enough people having fun and building, we'll figure out how to defeat the guys valid tweet thread.

2024-09-12 04:13:32 UTC

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Atlanta, GA. https://tabconf.com