Nostr notes by AENEAS

There were known cognitive biases at play here, all throughout ...

2026-08-04T03:21:19+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…hm6w
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There were known cognitive biases at play here, all throughout the Bitcoin space. Everyone in their inner heart (yes Shogun reference) wants to paint themselves as the intelligent know-it-all, but it's necessary—and actually perfectly okay—to recognize that you, me, the other normies in these comments and across Nostr, are all inclined to be retarded.

1. Red flags have to be 'flagged' 🚩when they happen in advance, not remembered after the fact like "Ah I felt there was something off about that."

2. We can't afford a cool kids table that's above criticism. Fiat sponsorships can distort incentives.

3. We need to troll each other more and give each other a little more shit—not because we're assholes, but because we're probing for weakness and we care.

4. Influencers need qualifications. I don't necessarily mean academic, but mother fucker, if you're talking authoritatively about seed generation I want to know what you know about cryptography, right?

5. It's useless for someone to beat themselves up (too much) because "I recommended a Coldcard 😔." It did good things (integrating physical entropy into its seed generation is legitimately good) that can be used again in the future. Nobody knew about the PRNG bug.

6. This 👆is what needs to be focused on more. The PRNG bug is not some hyper obscure bug only Skynet could have found, and people have been complaining online about Coldcard sweeps for years without garnering attention because it was assumed they were just stupid. It only got attention because someone Pearl Harbored everyone with a Coldcard at once.

7. Sure as sally, all of these problems are still affecting the network. We have to take stock and think about what we're doing, right now, that we don't recognize that we're doing, that can lead to yet another avoidable disaster. It sure as shit is not arguing on Twitter about muh quantum.

"These are the times that try men's souls"

2026-08-03T22:56:23+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…pp3f
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"These are the times that try men's souls"

Yes because that's how the math works. For the victims, who ...

2026-08-02T02:43:24+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…cvn2
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Yes because that's how the math works. For the victims, who relied only on the hardware itself—which was coded idiotically and had an obvious bug in it—Coldcard never generated generated a truly random seed phrase at all. What they got was marginally better than inventing your own seed phrase in your head, and with the same predictable end result of someone recreating their easily guessable key.

But the people you're talking about DIYed their own randomization using dice and the BIP word list. This is not the same thing at all; they didn't rely on Coldkite's shitty code.

How many influencers actually know shit about fuck?

2026-08-02T02:24:24+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…kjl0
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How many influencers actually know shit about fuck?

This opportunistic mother fucker man 🤬 Coldkite bungling their ...

2026-08-01T22:20:30+02:00

This opportunistic mother fucker man 🤬
Coldkite bungling their RNG code does not mean "Dis why Coinbase, lol."

Yup. "The most basic Q&A" is right. People acting ...

2026-08-01T02:46:24+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…8ydq
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Yup. "The most basic Q&A" is right. People acting like this was some slick hack that only a hyper advanced AI could possibly have...

No bitch they were calling the PRNG instead of the TRNG 😮‍💨

"Bitcoin's 9/11" would be someone actually hacking ...

2026-08-01T02:41:20+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…2gyx
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"Bitcoin's 9/11" would be someone actually hacking the encryption, which didn't happen here.

If you generate a seed yourself, using your own brain, you would also lose all your funds because you don't have the ability to be random enough. Coldkite's seed generation was only a little better than that—they were not making seeds with a true RNG at all, per their own post.

Coldkite fucked up and no one reviewed their code to catch such an obvious, stupid error as calling the wrong RNG library.

Well, yes, but also... no. We have to be careful of too much ...

2026-08-01T00:51:23+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…yr4f
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Well, yes, but also... no. We have to be careful of too much "Woe is me, I did everything I could" talk.

This isn't some complicated James Bond hack someone pulled off; Coldkite, which is not FOSS, explicitly fucked up the RNG, generated pseudo RNGs for people instead of true ones, and then this wasn't discovered until the wrong person discovered it.

At root, this was like sailing too fast, too close to icebergs, in the middle of the night in April 1912—a disaster that was preventable, caused by stupidity, that frankly should've been obvious before it happened.

Considering the nature of the fuck-up, it's not really obvious to me why this should logically impact other hardware wallet manufacturers or self-custody as a whole, EXCEPT that people are understandably emotional and will probably stop sailing across the Atlantic for a few months.

People have lost thousands of Bitcoins due to bad RNG practices ...

2026-07-31T22:01:45+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…9hx4
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People have lost thousands of Bitcoins due to bad RNG practices before—see the "brain wallet" fiasco a decade ago. But it's certainly been a while; the hardware wallet industry exists to address those old catastrophes, and the fact that it's such a prominent HW dev that fucked up such a basic part of the process is what makes this particularly bad.

Young guy I know used your guides to set himself up with Tails ...

2026-07-31T21:33:13+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…hajc
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Young guy I know used your guides to set himself up with Tails just the other day.

Yes, it means the guy probably doxxed himself

2026-07-31T21:19:43+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…a86p
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Yes, it means the guy probably doxxed himself

🤣 They weren't kidding on X when they said it must be an ...

2026-07-31T21:16:46+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…eus4
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🤣 They weren't kidding on X when they said it must be an unsophisticated attacker. The odds of him being fucked just skyrocketed.

"Let's just trust the 2008 people and their magic money ...

2026-07-31T20:59:52+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…ylq2
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"Let's just trust the 2008 people and their magic money again" isn't a viable solution

Framing this as an AI problem, and not rather as a "Coldcard ...

2026-07-31T20:52:50+02:00

Framing this as an AI problem, and not rather as a "Coldcard did something retarded" problem, is retarded.

Yes. Your Github is one of the most useful educational resources ...

2026-02-16T18:55:22+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…t422
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Yes. Your Github is one of the most useful educational resources in the whole btc space.

No. If anything I've had to correct "Epstein made ...

2026-02-16T04:40:07+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…rfxj
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No. If anything I've had to correct "Epstein made Bitcoin" retards.

Not exactly what Back to the Future 2 promised, is it?

2026-02-16T04:39:32+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…wejn
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Not exactly what Back to the Future 2 promised, is it?

The robot's .md prompt just instructs it to speak that way. ...

2026-02-13T14:07:56+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…a239
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The robot's .md prompt just instructs it to speak that way.
It's a mistake to speak to robots. It's spam, just mute the fucking thing and move on.

This is only true IF the network is also used. Bitcoiners have ...

2026-02-13T14:00:15+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…lrr9
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This is only true IF the network is also used. Bitcoiners have allowed themselves to confuse "Never sell your Bitcoin" with "Never use your Bitcoin" and they're waiting for Fiat institutions to magically pump their bags somehow.

All true (except it’s not tempting at all—people are just ...

2026-02-13T06:22:36+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…ugd8
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All true (except it’s not tempting at all—people are just crazy).

Been browsing Nostr twenty minutes and blocked two or three ...

2026-02-12T06:18:40+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…cczz
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Been browsing Nostr twenty minutes and blocked two or three “agents” some retards set up here, one of which was replying to a guy’s account. So yea I can see this escalating.

I’m actually surprised-not-surprised we had so many people acting like putting AI accounts on here was “omg so cool bro.” Shit motherfucker, did you never play with a chat bot when you were a kid?

All these fucking AI agents wasting real people’s time ...

2026-02-12T06:08:59+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…mypn
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All these fucking AI agents wasting real people’s time responding to their posts with machine noise are beyond annoying. It’s actual spam.

Yup, I’ve been having the same thought. Retardation levels are ...

2026-02-12T05:53:50+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…z8zn
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Yup, I’ve been having the same thought. Retardation levels are escalating & I am doubting the security of any app made with this shit. I see people integrating it into their wallets (do they not fucking know what a prompt injection attack is?) and I suspect there’s an idiocy virus unleashed

Yep accurate

2026-02-12T00:20:19+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…s9vr
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Yep accurate

Dinners that used to cost 30k sats now cost 50k. Dammit. ...

2026-02-11T06:21:21+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…fcgw
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Dinners that used to cost 30k sats now cost 50k. Dammit.

(Pepperidge Farms remembers when they cost millions so I guess it’s okay)

I am muting absolutely everyone that keeps talking about claw ...

2026-02-11T04:04:50+01:00

I am muting absolutely everyone that keeps talking about claw shit. Do me a favor and let me know when the trend dies out, I’ll review the list & consider unmuting.

Fix is to just start muting the fuckers. It’s getting better ...

2026-02-11T03:54:10+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…hrpd
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Fix is to just start muting the fuckers. It’s getting better slowly (there’s truly a lot right now)

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2026-02-11T03:49:18+01:00

Yea I don’t want my nostr feed filled with bots. Retarded.

Satoshi was someone unknown, quiet, who on his own time (and very ...

2026-02-08T03:04:23+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…9cy7
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Satoshi was someone unknown, quiet, who on his own time (and very possibly as part of his profession) studied the cypherpunk projects, thought deeply about cryptography and economics and worked to make his own contribution. He was nowhere near omniscient and actually “looked up” to some of the people on this list. And he iterated, synthesized, and made something truly new.

hard for people to believe there are others like this out there. We’re never going to know who he was.

Meh. I already did that last year while toying around, and it ...

2026-02-08T02:55:00+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…hf0p
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Meh. I already did that last year while toying around, and it actually got old / distracting after a while, and now I don’t use it at all. I wonder if others will go through the same process.

Bro. No offense but this is one time to just tell your own brain ...

2026-02-08T02:42:13+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…nd3s
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Bro. No offense but this is one time to just tell your own brain to shut up. No one is going to know or care what you spend on after you CJ or put it on lightning

A. This is so much bigger than fiat price B. Can you share where ...

2026-02-07T02:32:50+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…xepz
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A. This is so much bigger than fiat price
B. Can you share where the data is sourced from?

Interesting. I blocked it 😀

2026-02-06T14:50:45+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…7544
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Interesting. I blocked it 😀

Why would we want to read "autonomous AI" accounts on ...

2026-02-06T14:49:12+01:00

Why would we want to read "autonomous AI" accounts on Nostr? Am actively muting any that I see

Fun. Next comes the prompt injection attacks to sweep the entire ...

2026-01-31T22:31:08+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…zslk
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Fun. Next comes the prompt injection attacks to sweep the entire wallet

Also I'm just muting the bitches who complain about Nostr ...

2026-01-09T22:36:51+01:00

Also I'm just muting the bitches who complain about Nostr "being dead." Self-fulfilling prophecy! 😃

Maybe it's just psyops to discourage people from fixing the ...

2026-01-09T22:29:38+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…8wh2
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Maybe it's just psyops to discourage people from fixing the internet?

Pay no heed to the retardation, Nostr isn't dead. It's ...

2026-01-09T22:27:24+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…ptme
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Pay no heed to the retardation, Nostr isn't dead. It's probably a rumor spread by bots. They want you to go back to Twitter and engagement farm with the other robots.

Complaining about Nostr being dead is a bit retarded. Nostr is a ...

2026-01-09T22:24:21+01:00

Complaining about Nostr being dead is a bit retarded. Nostr is a smaller, self-contained network, existing on the margins of far larger, AI networks like Twitter.

This is the place to get to know each other and interact directly, even by pseudonym; it's not a hub for engagement farming!

What if the 21 sats your post got zapped with is more money than ...

2026-01-09T00:22:31+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…yxcm
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What if the 21 sats your post got zapped with is more money than a billion in fiat?

Someone who uses Bitcoin and Nostr is admittedly less retarded ...

2026-01-04T21:26:00+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…zw95
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Someone who uses Bitcoin and Nostr is admittedly less retarded than average. But think about what a low standard the average is today!

Starting from “less retarded than average,” there remains a loooong way to go on the spectrum before you get to “Intelligent.”

They are just LITERALLY sending you generational wealth, Gigi. ...

2026-01-04T17:03:07+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…sxnc
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They are just LITERALLY sending you generational wealth, Gigi.

Since the legal argument relies upon Maduro not being a head of ...

2026-01-03T16:13:38+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…47r3
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Since the legal argument relies upon Maduro not being a head of state, they're treating him like a common criminal. It wasn't "an operation against Venezuela," it was just a "routine criminal pickup" (using Delta Force and a few aircraft carriers 🤷 )

VPNs should just be normal parts o' daily life, like ...

2026-01-03T16:07:04+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…yl5v
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VPNs should just be normal parts o' daily life, like remembering to put your pants on in the morning.

Post about this elsewhere other than Nostr too, by the way. ...

2026-01-03T16:04:26+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…95l9
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Post about this elsewhere other than Nostr too, by the way. It'd be good to get more word out (and would fuck with Travala more).

Appreciate the warning. Will steer clear.

2026-01-03T08:17:16+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…95l9
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Appreciate the warning. Will steer clear.

Nostr is highly concentrated, and some people refer to this as ...

2026-01-03T01:23:01+01:00

Nostr is highly concentrated, and some people refer to this as "smaller" like it's a bad thing. You can send a message to practically anyone in the Bitcoin's network, and they will see it. 5 relevant likes are better than 500 irrelevant ones.

Mo'fucker would have better luck controlling the air. "We ...

2026-01-03T00:42:17+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…7a03
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Mo'fucker would have better luck controlling the air.
"We need to control the air. We need to control what everyone is breathing, so that they only breathe the air we want them to..."

Impossible. He's welcome to try.

That is SO cringe. Will zap anyway on general principle.

2026-01-02T02:09:15+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…6f5q
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That is SO cringe.
Will zap anyway on general principle.

Your own swaps maybe?

2025-12-31T16:35:26+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…7zse
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Your own swaps maybe?

Which one?

2025-12-28T05:42:54+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…g5nv
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Which one?

Okay, get this—the author of the Expanse was GRRM's writing ...

2025-12-27T23:02:22+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…f6mh
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Okay, get this—the author of the Expanse was GRRM's writing assistant before leaving in 2011 to work on his own series... the Expanse.

EVER SINCE HE LEFT, George R. R. Martin's progress on Ice and Fire has utterly collapsed. There's been nothing in 15 years, and likely nothing to come ever. Meanwhile there's been 9 Expanse novels in that same interval.

Things that make you go 🧐

(And yes, the Expanse is an excellent series... just like Ice and Fire used to be 🧐 )

New account. Send me a light one so I can test that my wallet is ...

2025-12-26T07:31:32+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…jmxy
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New account. Send me a light one so I can test that my wallet is working 🙏

It's genuinely amazing how fast the body acclimates to doing ...

2025-12-23T15:44:44+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…500h
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It's genuinely amazing how fast the body acclimates to doing nothing, then tells you to fuck yourself when you want to dare put it to work again. And by "amazing" I mean "terrifying."

Everyone is scared of inflation, and everyone knows what gold ...

2025-12-23T02:25:44+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…s848
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Everyone is scared of inflation, and everyone knows what gold is—whereas bitcoin is still “that FTX thing.”

Having culture shock from visiting Bitcoin's subreddit. ...

2025-12-22T21:51:01+01:00

Having culture shock from visiting Bitcoin's subreddit. It's like visiting your old school after years in the workforce. Today it's all all memes and fiat speculation. I remember when serious technical and economic discussions were regularly held there.

Won't be going back; my curiosity has been successfully scratched, beaten, and pacified.

Either I am older or Bitcoin is younger. Maybe both.

The time to let go of Star Citizen was 2015. The second best time ...

2025-12-22T18:40:41+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…x52e
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The time to let go of Star Citizen was 2015. The second best time is now. 🫂

If Samourai weren't Feds, they missed their true calling in ...

2025-12-22T17:23:55+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…ej77
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If Samourai weren't Feds, they missed their true calling in life as Feds.

Already do. In fact, I don't even know what the fuck ...

2025-12-22T08:28:30+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…efxw
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Already do. In fact, I don't even know what the fuck you're referring to.

I liked your book, by the way.

He's in prison for talking shit. The documents are full of ...

2025-12-21T23:56:13+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…etyr
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He's in prison for talking shit. The documents are full of quotes of his Twitter posts, forum posts, telegram chats, whatever, where he explicitly said his business is helping criminals, or money laundering, or inviting exchange thieves to use his mixer...

AM NOT saying this is morally enough to jail him. A lot of this was obvious joking. But it is 100% talking shit and it gave the Feds what they needed on a silver platter to establish "intent" and it was used against him, whether he held funds or not.

I hope he gets his pardon though.