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2026-02-23 22:01:23 CET

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I find it hard to keep using NOSTR because it's performance is shite, 2-10x longer load times than X and worse UI. I keep coming back because I believe in it, but as a user it's 🫠

2026-02-21 19:46:13 CET

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Trying to dig up dirt on others instead of engaging with the idea. You're clearly compromised.
What happened to bitcoin maximalism? Gotta keep the business stakeholders happy right? So defend the affinity scams at all costs (even if it costs your your dignity)

2026-02-21 19:43:29 CET

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Another one who's going to lose money if bip110 actives, so is out in full force spamming as many personal insults as possible.
Gross

2025-11-26 10:27:10 CET

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It was an autocorrect; 'Tomer' isn't a real word don't you know 😅

2025-11-25 22:25:49 CET

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@nprofile…f8t8 I meant

2025-11-25 22:25:09 CET

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I'm about to read your bitcoin is time article after Timer references it in a podcast. Just came here to say thank you in advance

2025-11-13 19:24:56 CET

I have a theory that a lot of what's driving the shitcoinery at Bitcoin Core is simply the "low impact death spiral" - adding small things that are seemingly low risk and clear/assured value, but small. These pileup and the product becomes a mess, core mission diluted. Failing.
Allowing other use cases and catering to people who ask for "small" change, is an easy way to deliver "value".
Where, for people wanting to make an impact within bitcoin L1, there isn't really any easy, risk-free value to add - so why risk it? Why do the hard thing?
It's a lot less sexy and rewarding to just be a maintainer. Most people want to build, make an impact, deliver change, be recognised for doing something great, put it on their CV and wear it with honour.
Working with affinity scam projects, is a way to do that:
A lot of people genuinely think those DeFi use cases are valuable, and for early-stage bitcoin maximalist, the idea of moving everything onto bitcoin to beat all the other alt coins is an AMAZING idea! "Yeah, let's put it all on bitcoin cos then alts go away and bitcoin wins!"
So, if you can help make that a reality, why wouldn't you? It's an easy way to deliver value and LOADS of people will applaud you for it.
It takes work to understand why this isn't a good thing, and people don't like doing work
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Money is broken, we need to stay laser-focused on fixing it, and not getting distracted by sparkly things along the way

2025-10-31 08:40:57 CET

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Did you know looking down on a pie is a pie chart of how much pie is remaining? 🤯

2025-10-29 19:29:07 CET

How you know bitcoin is severely under-adopted: a highly contentions soft fork is actively being considered and searching 'bitcoin' on YouTube yeilds only cringe-face, click-bait, "crypto" price predictions

2025-10-28 21:01:36 CET

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She lost me at "the system"

2025-10-22 19:01:49 CEST

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Mmm custardy
https://blossom.primal.net/48297a868ccfe6e179b21f12aee7bbb2d73e2211f8453e1672fe5f149ff5ae80.jpg

2025-10-21 16:05:10 CEST

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Please don't fat shame my wife 😅

2025-10-20 09:53:09 CEST

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What about just being your authentic self instead of trying to farm for Zaps?
If all we do is farm for Zaps, we become the exact same dull, attention-seeking crap we see on X etc. Just instead of the platform paying creators to do it, we are.

2025-10-20 09:16:15 CEST

Gold has _already_ failed— that's why fiat exists. If gold was so good, we'd still be transacting in it...
https://blossom.primal.net/a6b06dd30f6aefda7c8509360db3bfd1d2f957c7a31f9feda7bf78da996ed099.jpg

2025-10-17 22:14:54 CEST

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"Inflation is supply and demand" is a semantic distraction. Printing money is the only root cause of inflation and pointing to things that slow or speed up the impact is a way to hide the crime.

2025-10-17 08:49:36 CEST

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Awesome

2025-10-16 15:20:20 CEST

When Small Modular Reactor Mining?
https://youtu.be/cxDd3Whl_9s?si=Z2sSAQeZnyo6EadB

2025-10-15 22:37:30 CEST

Do yourself a favour and get lost in the world of alternative keyboard layouts: https://layouts.wiki/guides/start/intro/
#runningDusk-WP on ZSA Voyager

2025-10-14 22:15:30 CEST

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Are you in Exeter too @nprofile…s3pe ?

2025-10-13 22:49:07 CEST

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What audiobooks? I'm about to read Impact First Product Teams. I like physical books though, read in bed without a screen is nice

2025-10-13 15:24:17 CEST

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Agree, don't fix what ain't broke

2025-10-13 12:54:33 CEST

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Dig how? It's all granite

2025-10-13 09:41:46 CEST

@nprofile…8d4j by decentralised health do you mean FHIR on NOSTR where people own and custody their own health data, and it's interoperable with legacy systems due to utilising the FHIR data standard?

2025-10-13 09:37:27 CEST

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"The newfound thermostat does not protect humans living now from the effects of global warming, said study co-author Dominik Hülse, a mathematician and biogeochemical modeler at the University of Bremen in Germany. "It's not to say that we will be safe from global warming in the next 100 or even 1,000 years," he told Live Science."
So, effectively we can ignore this as a solution

2025-10-12 12:21:56 CEST

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Link? Keen to read more

2025-10-11 12:01:53 CEST

Just finished intro to Linux course by The Linux Foundation. Using Fedora workstation, feels so good
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2025-10-11 11:58:58 CEST

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[email protected]
@Rizful.com

2025-10-09 22:50:49 CEST

Bitcoin has the best qualities of the Dollar (but better) AND the best qualities of GOLD (but better).
Low adoption isn't a reflection of a flaw in bitcoin, but of a flaw in human recognition.

2025-10-07 18:55:41 CEST

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Everything else is has more risk, I'm just being conservative

2025-10-07 18:12:44 CEST

How on earth were they going to lift that 1000 tonne granite slab out of the ground?
Unfinished Obelisk 🤯
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2025-10-06 20:37:27 CEST

@nprofile…m2qq great work on the Nostr logo— I think this is the best out there by far
https://blossom.primal.net/cd74f5f11c80526f224af29da08b8a7e7d14cdabeb6a22448153e8584b4faa7e.jpg

2025-10-06 18:40:27 CEST

What is your definition of a bitcoin maximalist?
Someone on X was claiming it means wanting everything on bitcoin, I replied:
Disagree—A bitcoin maximalist is someone who believes in peer-to-peer electronic cash, not defi, trading, NFTs, or other shitcoinery. "Maximalism" means being all in on bitcoin and the promise of bitcoin (the problem it solves: broken money), as opposed to having anything to do with alts.
They said "No, that's minimalism"
Which, in a sense is correct, but is also nonsensical as a descriptor.
To be precise you could say bitcoin "as a inflationless electronic cash system" maximalist
Because what they are saying is more like bitcoin "as an immutable database for anything you want" maximalist

2025-10-05 21:37:11 CEST

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God awful dark patterns being spammed out there these days. I hate it too.

2025-10-03 23:00:43 CEST

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I designed the Bitcoin Knots logo. DM me if you have other bitcoin brand work for me https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsp3sk4qr3flucdnu5rv3gmylpty0h8mzp98rnfnq9jvfxqdp0y3gc69c7e9