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2026-05-09 06:10:33 CEST

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Moving coins is definitely not enough. Coinjoins and lightning swaps can go a long way of course. There is always still the concern though that you did visibly buy bitcoin, and if it was a large enough amount to be interesting, well, nobody's gonna believe you just spent it all on zaps and shit at the farmer's market on a Square terminal.
Non-kyc methods of purchase should always be something we are driving forward -- Vexl, Bisq, Hodl Hodl, Robosats, and you know, actually transacting goods and services for bitcoin. Exchanges are a honeypot.

2026-05-09 01:18:39 CEST

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It's amusing as some of them even fit in the old 83 byte limit. Some are a little bigger.

2026-05-09 01:16:05 CEST

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Cypherpunks dating strippers? They ain't heard of honeypots? Damn...that's some dumb shit.

2026-05-07 20:34:38 CEST

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That said, having seen some in Bitcoin praising Musk and Rockefeller has also been pretty cringe. Cantillionaires aren't praiseworthy in either the public or private sector.

2026-05-07 20:15:48 CEST

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Only asking you because you've nailed every genre I've heard you do so far.
And the world needs more ska 😊

2026-05-07 20:00:06 CEST

@npub14hq…jjzu wen first wave ska Bitcoin jams tho? Might have to get some orange laces and braces for that sorta thing...
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2026-05-07 02:10:42 CEST

Wife gave me the night off in the kitchen with some sweet and soy beef over Trader Joe's knife cut squiggly noodles in a gochujang and cottage cheese sauce. #foodstr
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2026-05-04 19:09:47 CEST

Has anyone looked into using Temple OS on an airgapped computer as a signing device? It's lack of a networking stack seems to make it an ideal candidate, and what better use for a Temple than handling sacred keys?
Does BDK have bindings for Holy C?

2026-05-03 18:35:42 CEST

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Did she give this talk in the basement of a datacenter?

2026-05-01 22:37:54 CEST

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We could call that device something simple, like Square. Or to get paid in BTC, we could have them use something called like, BTCPay.
Or they could use Zaprite.
This place just didn't bother. Not for nothing, the cost of overhead, either in terms of subscription, processing, or just set up, are a friction point. If they're not paid enough, trusting you was likely less costly, even if you were dishonest, than the cost of set up.
Just like people don't worry about cold storage or multisig for 100 sats and even use Cashu, most businesses are going to decide what to use based on their use case. Maybe we could make it even easier but at some point there is some overhead to converting fiat prices on the fly. I'm actually happier that there's a good chance using WoS that they're just not participating in the government robbery scheme...

2026-05-01 21:32:11 CEST

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The issue there is that you still have demand for fiat. It is at least just hopefully fiat to cover your cost of carry, but it is additional demand nonetheless.
I won't tell people how to use debt for their own financial interests. But I do question how much you're rejecting fiat to replace it with fiat when engaging in such arrangements. All depends on your motivations I suppose. And how well you avoid margin calls...

2026-05-01 14:22:45 CEST

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Buying Bitcoin is at least as much about selling fiat. If you buy bitcoin and borrow against it, you undo your impact, putting a bid under the fiat even greater than you did by holding it in the first place.
You help the world by shorting Fiat. Bitcoin gives you a vehicle to do that with which gives you the right incentives for doing so.

2026-05-01 14:00:27 CEST

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Sounds like they had no right to bear arms.

2026-05-01 13:59:43 CEST

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I tens to verify anyway. Just in case someone snuck in decaf.

2026-05-01 13:56:38 CEST

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S/payjoin/joinmarket/

2026-04-30 14:29:52 CEST

@npub1rtl…jtfs listened to your talk with Pete and Danny and hearing you talk about Britain and England told me I had to point you toward how the civilizational history is portrayed by E.M. Burlingame, a Scottish American former special forces author. He's a friend of Tom Luongo's and has been huge on the separation of the idea of English civilization, of which America is essentially a branch, and Britain, which in many ways is a tumor on it as a product of the Dutch backed Glorious Revolution (he calls it Inglorious) which gave us the Bank of England and King George II's bloodline. And it's less that it was the Dutch, and more International raiders in the form of the East India Company.
I think it'd give you a new perspective on your seemingly contradictory at times views of the British decline and our frenemy status with them.
I wish I could point you at a specific book of his but I've really just listened to a TON of interviews with him and chatted a bit on Twitter. But definitely worth checking out if you have time for a rabbithole.

2026-04-29 10:36:58 CEST

This is a really useful addition to turbocharged your coinjoins and avoid making patterns in timing.
#naddr1qq…90ts

2026-04-27 20:26:03 CEST

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Vegas: a far bigger threat than Quantum.

2026-04-27 17:23:27 CEST

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2026-04-25 04:31:21 CEST

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That movie was hilarious. Also from that narrow window when we realized Russia wasn't the enemy...

2026-04-24 19:08:38 CEST

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Warned you...
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2026-04-24 14:21:57 CEST

GM.
I'll spare y'all the skin but I definitely look likes red and white tiger today, with the white stripes formed by the shadows of where the sun didn't fall.
Should form a nice base over the next few days anyway.

2026-04-24 05:01:34 CEST

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Yea, went like 9 years without a haircut. Now I shave my head every week or so. Making up for lost time I guess.

2026-04-24 04:41:44 CEST

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I sometimes wanna bring back cykros with hair down to my belt too but then remember I'm 40 and my hairline ain't what it used to be.
Red beard's turned into grey beard too.

2026-04-23 04:55:57 CEST

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'Capitalism.'

2026-04-22 15:11:23 CEST

GM. Getting dragged out for more golf today. Thankfully it's at least a sunny day without much humidity. Had some wildlife out there yesterday.
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2026-04-20 05:02:51 CEST

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Nice to hear you got someone you're vibin' with. You know, besides Grok.

2026-04-20 02:37:31 CEST

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Champs as in champagne or champignones? Or something else?
Personally I'd go sake if you're doing wine. Champagne seems like an odd choice. Or just get really fancy and get some Japanese whiskey...
Though I'm also generally for sushi being as fresh as possible. Even brought home as takeout just isn't as good. The rice just...changes. I'd be considering lobster rolls (I prefer hot butter but mayo and cold lobster makes more sense to pack, unless you're gonna melt the butter on the beach). Can't go wrong with ceviche either -- it's a bit more forgiving than sashimi. Shrimp cocktail is always a win as well. And shucking oysters to throw back doesn't suck either. Bonus, nobody thinks it's weird when you just throw oyster shells on a beach.
I otherwise just keep thinking of things to grill at the beach. Which, if it's an option, opens a lot of doors.

2026-04-20 02:22:54 CEST

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Congrats on raising one of the good ones.

2026-04-18 17:31:23 CEST

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C'mon, no record player? That was the centerpiece of these old stacks. The cassettes were frankly always just a lossy way to copy things around that I really don't understand anyone's nostalgia for.
A nice radio tuner was nice, but I'm not sure what commercial radio I'd really want to tune into these days anyway. Perhaps the occasional college station. More interested in amateur bands at this point anyhow.

2026-04-18 17:20:51 CEST

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Social lubricant.

2026-04-18 05:39:02 CEST

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Valid; she said shotgun, so I went there. It's a shame the AA-12 is so...well, not civilian, lol. Seen a video of a guy literally duel wielding them doing full auto fire with one in each hand given the way they handle absorbing their recoil.
More realistically something in the range of a .38 seems like it'd have all the stopping power you need and a bit more ability to be handled while keeping your shoulder in its socket.

2026-04-18 05:13:40 CEST

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A 3D printable shotgun is a TERRIFYING prospect. CNC milled, sure, go for it. But 3D printed? That's just a pipe bomb you intend to hold when you set it off...

2026-04-18 05:12:31 CEST

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Given you're not looking just for function, you could do worse than to just look at the H&R Pardner .12 gauge. At under $200 it'll leave you without needing to part with many sats.
https://civiliandefender.com/2023/01/21/the-long-term-budget-shotgun-the-hr-pardner-12-gauge-the-chinese-made-remington-870-with-a-humpback-receiver/
Or you could play with something a little less made in China and still keep it under $300, like the Stevens 320.
Point is, you don't need to spring for a Browning.

2026-04-17 16:49:38 CEST

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I think people are still just attached to engagement. I don't post for y'all, I post because otherwise I'm sitting here talking out loud to myself and my family starts getting annoyed, and the dogs start looking worried. Seems like others feel differently about why they post, and so the centralized platforms have some sort of allure or other based on their dopamine hits.

2026-04-17 16:47:36 CEST

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We've been in what may as well be called WWIII for awhile now. If not WWIV, with WWIII having been the Cold War (though calling it WWIV may infringe on a dialup BBS trademark).
The idea that the next world wars look like the last ones is a weird bias we have. It's sort of like the idea that finding life in the universe means we're going to find beings that more or less look like humans.
Never forget that at the beginning of WWI, cavalry meant literal men on horseback.
And for as much destruction we can carry out with our technology, it may be worth counting our lucky stars in recognizing just how lucky we are that we hopefully never need to go back to that sort of warfare. NATO's war against Russia in Ukraine is bad enough given how much WWII era weaponry has been getting relied on.
That all said, the fact that simply pinching a couple of straits could see us looking at food production dropping off such that more people could die than in the holocaust and the Soviet gulags combined is pretty fucking alarming, even if they're not doing so in a trench...

2026-04-16 18:52:51 CEST

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It seems handy enough for people who work seasonally and need to stretch that income across the gaps with near term expenses, in a measured way. Bitcoin itself is somewhat reasonable for that in a bear market as there's less distance to fall, but there's something to be said for not needing to sell while you're down. And sure, you could borrow against it, but then you've added back counterparty risk AND interest as a cost rather than dividend payments.
The tax side of thing's is worth considering too though; it's deferred, but capital gains ends up growing that whole time, and it being a short term gain adds an ouch factor.

2026-04-16 16:46:59 CEST

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What might be really fun is a gif event type so we could expand beyond these centralized gif repos, and get them out on blossom servers, with tags in the events for searchability.
Though might need some WOT or something to handle things like animated goatse tagged as #wholesome and other such shenanigans. So it goes with media hosting...

2026-04-16 15:06:32 CEST

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I didn't say soon. I said eventually. Bitcoin's value is a reflection of the total goods and services produced by humanity that operate within its ecosystem. As more of those end up under its domain, fewer remain to be added, and something approaching a terminal velocity gets reached. There's no hard cap because of human ingenuity, but Bitcoin is growing faster than that because it's eating the old system. Once that old system is eaten it ends up bounded by the real wealth of the world.
We've got quite awhile before that -- probably 100x or more in present day fiat terms. More as fiat inflates of course. But there is friction that will get us to a more stable rate of growth in time. I'd say this is a good thing for unit of account, eventually, as if it never happened it'd be REALLY hard to run a business not able to predict your expenses. But we have time.

2026-04-16 13:54:53 CEST

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Perpetual dilution of equity is where the yield comes from. And the fact that it results in a positive yield is because of the delta between the performance of assets and the cost of liabilities. It's essentially net interest margin. Or, perhaps, net discount margin, as bitcoin is being bought at a greater discount to future value than shares are being sold at.
Not to defend the model too much. It is still kicking the can down the road. At some point Bitcoin's growth slows and that discount gap shrinks, and may even invert. Unlike Bitcoin, there is such a thing as holding these products long enough that it really is 'too long.'
But for addressing short term cash flow needs, eh. It's not a product for Bitcoiners. But it does do what it says it does.

2026-04-15 18:43:00 CEST

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If you look at what he's doing as banking, selling shorter duration assets and buying longer, then it's not unlike net interest margin. It's not interest, but thinking of it as analogous to original issue discount isn't terribly different in terms of the raw math.
He's basically operating a shadowbank with a very narrow set of assets relative to other shadowbanks, but a very substantial return profile.

2026-04-15 16:00:19 CEST

GM.
Today we observe the annual day that serves as a deadline for paying up on the money extorted from Americans to the criminal enterprises that are centered in Washington DC.
Let it be a day that reminds of of why we are building for a better future.

2026-04-14 02:20:40 CEST

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Solution: be a furry; identify as a dog.

2026-04-13 16:39:23 CEST

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E-ink > brighter display for outdoor use. Not that that'll help here either. But if anyone's pushing them to do better, put 'em in contact with the folks at Daylight Computer.

2026-04-13 10:44:21 CEST

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If it was round, why would they call it a plane-t?
Lol please don't mute me.
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2026-04-12 13:38:50 CEST

GM
Day 2 of the MIT Bitcoin Expo, looking forward to some more awesome talks and networking.
And @nprofile…xnfk a few of us had questions about geohashes in Bitchat given that they don't appear nested. Particularly what happens when and if a mesh outgrows a geohash. Does the person connecting via Nostr see things segmented at the block level? If you see the guy in red suspenders and you're there again today I'd love to know what happens there (or of course feel free to answer here -- you're a busy and popular guy. Especially looking forward to Kevin from Lightning Labs, especially after some L2 talk for things I'm not sure I normally think of as L2's yesterday.
Folks who are at all worried or interested in the quantum stuff would be remiss to not check out Ethan Heilman's talk from yesterday.
Excited for another great day of Bitcoin!

2026-04-12 13:25:56 CEST

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Idk that you were getting at this, but yes, it does strike me that you could use miners to distill liquor too. Alcohol boils at a pretty low temp after all. You may need to get creative with something) like a vaccuum to further lower the boiling temp. They could also be used for accelerated barrel aging.

2026-04-12 13:21:12 CEST

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I heard -- thank you for actually pronouncing my nym right. Always seemed obvious to me but I've hears some weird ways of doing so haha.
If you want some really cool data on quantum to show people working on it, it seems hard to surpass Ethan Heilman's work, though he's certainly not alone. He gave a talk at the MIT Bitcoin Expo which should be viewable online. Also has writings like this one.
https://www.ethanheilman.com/x/32/index.html
If he tells me to panic I'll probably panic. But he's got a lot of good methods that should be very doable both in combating quantum and novel conventional computing attacks.

2026-04-12 02:20:49 CEST

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We do have electric stoves at least. And freezers for freeze distillation.
But yes, they may still get some overtime.

2026-04-11 20:12:04 CEST

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Hmm, lot of symbolism to play with in that dream.
Idk about a video haha, been quite a few years since I really played with ceremonial magick.

2026-04-11 02:25:59 CEST

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Can I do RAM and GPU backed lending?

2026-04-10 20:00:26 CEST

My dad just informed me they found out who Satoshi is.
Why are boomers allowed to vote?

2026-04-10 17:12:31 CEST

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I think regionally lunch meat style chicken is known as chicken ham. That's definitely what that looks like.

2026-04-10 15:55:27 CEST

@npub1vwy…zugd A few thoughts about your idea of a quantum ready fork:
The mining factor seems to be the biggest reason this is unlikely to work even if we wanted it to. The difficulty adjustment would, at the time of the split, be set based on our >1 ZH/s, and it's unlikely that we'd have anything close to that much available. I suppose it might be feasible to look at merge mining, but merge mining here would have all of the same centralization concerns it has elsewhere that it is used.
Even if we handle this, manually setting the difficulty lower (assuming this can be done, I'm decidedly not a coder), there's the matter of what block you fork from. Because of course anyone who transacts after the split can then go use their coins on the other fork, and while we wait for a quantum attack, the chains have time to diverge heavily.
You could consider splitting AFTER a quantum attack, with a roll back, a la Ethereum Classic (gross...), but even this assumes you recognize an attack as a quantum attack and not just someone losing their keys. There is no reason to assume that they would be foolish enough to make it this obvious, as it'd be much more sensible to appear to just be someone losing their keys.
The latest episode of @npub1pxy…7nke actually had some very good thoughts on how to address quantum. I don't think it's quite as close (or likely to ever happen) as Danny's guest, but I do think his proposed actions as if it were are a sane approach. Rolling out these proposed fixes on Testnet, Signet, etc, and then encouraging people who aren't devs to actually USE these systems to really give it some testing makes a lot of sense. Hard to incentivize this given that testnet tokens are decidedly worthless, but perhaps wallets that put it a little more front and center as a way to help new people to Bitcoin learn their way around without putting real money at risk wouldn't be the worst thing anyway.
I get your rationale for considering a fork, but yea, logistically I don't think it could quite work out as well as you'd like. It might shut up the retards because they'd be too retarded to see why it shouldn't, but in terms of actually fixing anything I think it'd miss the mark. And meanwhile, building things for retards is a really good way to waste a lot of time and energy.

2026-04-10 15:23:43 CEST

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It CAN, but waving a dagger around drawing pentagrams in the air and yelling the names of God while calling on Archangels can be really fun too... especially if you go all out with the robes, altar, and circle...

2026-04-10 15:07:40 CEST

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Korean winter food to Hawaiian food. Hmm, the sauce flavor profile there could be interesting. I suppose a gochujang mayo mix does work just fine (with some mirin, soy, and whatever else you make your poké sauce with).

2026-04-10 14:44:04 CEST

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GM.
And yes, fuck anyone that doesn't agree 1 BTC = 1 BTC.
Including Braiins with their hashpower marketplace.

2026-04-10 14:43:10 CEST

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Risking salmonella with raw chicken, totally worth it.

2026-04-09 23:28:59 CEST

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They also tend not to rattle as it's not developed yet.

2026-04-09 18:15:23 CEST

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Wow, that's a big rattler. Though in fairness, I'm sure you're aware, it's the little ones you actually have to worry about. Adults know they're not gonna eat you, so you get less venom. The babies can't regulate their venom yet, so you get a lot more.

2026-04-08 13:33:51 CEST

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Yep.
Just amused because the caveman talk is also bypassing natural language -- just more slightly. I'm just amused at the stectrum the path begins down back to conventional programming.

2026-04-08 13:31:25 CEST

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I didn't say don't buy MSTR. I asked if he addressed the reasons for not doing so. As with most portfolio matters, it boils down to sizing. But the risks to common stock in a levered company involve layers upon layers of counterparty risk, including the very real risk of government seizure. And the Sharpe ratio disparity is night and day.
They're two wildly different roles in a portfolio. One is bedrock. The other is a high risk speculative position. You'd think someone who sells more MSTR than anyone would be able to articulate this. Especially on an interview about why buying Bitcoin makes so much sense.

2026-04-08 11:54:18 CEST

GM
I'm hearing that people are having Claude talk like a caveman to reduce token spend. Seems to make sense -- make the output less verbose, more efficient. It's not a human after all.
We could also take this further, and perhaps have it use some sort of standardized shorthand that the computer uses. Maybe build in some additional looping so that when it's doing the same thing but slightly differently, it doesn't write out the whole thing each time. I'd call this something descriptive. Like, say "function."
I bet you could also save even more tokens by using the same type of shorthand for input, instead of natural language. Using this standardized shorthand (we could call it something like "code") to pass instructions to Claude. It may save more than tokens too -- I assume that less bandwidth would be used for uploading the instructions, and likely, less memory and cpu cycles too thanks to the smaller size. We might even be able to shave resources even further, using this standardization, by creating a new model -- one that doesn't use the inefficiencies of natural language, but instead, only parses this "code." This new model, being much smaller, wouldn't be appropriately called an LLM, due to not being large. It'd deserve a name more fitting. Something like "interpreter."
I bet if it were made small enough we could even run it locally on user machines -- even cell phones -- instead of in a datacenter somewhere. Allowing anyone to use it basically for free on their own hardware, privately. To run even faster for "code" we want to use often, we could further slim it down by having an "interpreter" convert it, or "compile" it, into an even shorter version, that only the computer itself will understand, but will completely dispense with the extra punctuation, so it runs even faster.
Man that'd be a really cool advancement in computing.
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2026-04-08 02:45:51 CEST

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I'll have to listen to see if he actually addressed the most important one: why you buy Bitcoin instead of MSTR.

2026-04-08 00:10:52 CEST

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Yup

2026-04-07 19:54:08 CEST

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That varies. I've done some direct to cold storage, some through lightning. I don't love Liquid but its ability to obscure transaction information is something i'm considering using it as a very quick step through just to augment the coinjoin process. Probably really should be just going p2p but there's still always the matter of how to transmit the fiat without getting accounts closed (my actual bank account won't even let me send to a regular exchange...). I do somewhat wish Vexl was more widely used in my area. exchange to hot wallet through coinjoin to cold works, but always looking for ways to tweak it for better privacy.

2026-04-07 19:47:20 CEST

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You're getting a new phone in a way that doesn't make the battery replacement still a lot cheaper? Without getting an OEM locked phone (the mistake I made)? What carrier?

2026-04-07 19:43:31 CEST

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It's not a hedge, it's just how I store my Bitcoin. Doesn't mean I won't consider business opportunities as they arise though and consider deploying capital based on broader conditions in the market. When liquidity is topping. Might not be such a good time to go opening a business unless you're prepared for an uphill path to acquiring customers.
There's more to building a Bitcoin future than just buying and hodling Bitcoin. A money's value is a function of the economic output, in real terms, of those who create the demand for it (that is, give it value). Understanding broader liquidity and macro enables you to maximize your economic output, and thus, either acquire more Bitcoin, or at least raise its total purchasing value (in terms of real stuff, not just fiat).

2026-04-07 18:14:25 CEST

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'Fiat denominated lemmings' determine how real goods and services move in the economy at this point. Macro. Most people, in acquiring more Bitcoin, need to operate in that economy. Even of they are working for Bitcoin, their customers are seeing their belts tighten and loosen to the beat of the global liquidity index.
Sure, if everyone you interact with, both directly and indirectly, uses Bitcoin, fiat happenings are irrelevant. If not, they are. You can try to purity spiral by ignoring the economy but that doesn't mean it ignores you and your business.

2026-04-07 17:18:15 CEST

GM.
A public service announcement for today: We call keep citing the national debt at $35 Trillion. This is out of date, as I just noticed while glancing at the National Debt Clock. It's actually $39 Trillion now.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.

2026-04-07 02:19:05 CEST

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I mean. They're cut from the same cloth, but the Fabian society only goes back to 1884. This seems to be a current of general centralized governance that may well go back to Rome itself when you consider who was in Venice.
In general its the powers that prefer to exist behind the official power. Who EM Burlingame refers to as Praetorians, whether or not they actually have a direct lineage to the original Praetorians, in the way they exercise control.

2026-04-06 14:14:32 CEST

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Definitely encryption, and opt in makes sense, though prompted opt-in, rather than buried in a settings menu, is reasonable.

2026-04-06 12:55:44 CEST

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Lol I'm just stirring the pot; I just was at a seder the other day.
Israel isn't a Jewish issue; it's a fucking British one (arguably, through the power structure that flowed into Britain from the Netherlands after the Glorious Revolution through the East India company, which in turn was built on a wealth and power base formed by Venetian bankers...empire all the way down). It just turns out that when you take a downtrodden group and offer them a position of authority if they do what they're told, they often end up being overachievers. Not remotely unique.
Trust or don't trust whoever you want, but yea, no time for collectivism, either in punishment or in sharing out wealth.

2026-04-06 12:21:08 CEST

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>trained cinematographer
>claims not to be a Jew
Hmm... 🙃
But yes, interesting information.

2026-04-06 03:32:48 CEST

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If it weren't for eBook piracy enabled by Yandex Idk how much more broke I'd be. But it'd be a lot.

2026-04-05 11:19:50 CEST

GM
Happy Easter nostriches.
#nevent1q…ezev

2026-04-04 23:12:40 CEST

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Shepherds visited Jesus when he was born. On the other hand, Jesus never ate ham, what with being a Jew, and cured meats not being a thing yet.
Also, Jesus was a subject of Caesar's. But probably not a fan of Kevin Bacon, because Bacon isn't kosher.

2026-04-04 16:21:49 CEST

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Wow late night posting. Openclaw, not claudebot...

2026-04-04 04:35:26 CEST

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You sure we don't have any claudebots on the ISS zapping notes?

2026-04-04 03:49:30 CEST

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The Cashu even surprised some other meetup folks who weren't aware you can spend it like that on Lightning. Keeping the information flowing...

2026-04-04 03:48:00 CEST

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I guess I was thinking of it more as if someone read one book, rather than only one I recommend.
That said I tend not to worry so much about maximizing reach, so much as delivering signal to those who are primed to process it. The majority of people never actually shape anything, but get dragged along behind the leadership of the select few men of action.

2026-04-04 03:02:32 CEST

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Well, ONE book...people can read it a bunch of times til they get it.
Also, not sure anyone ever called me high IQ for majoring in Philosophy before 😆. Though it does seem a more useful major now than it was regarded as at the time.

2026-04-04 02:59:36 CEST

Just made my first purchase using Bitcoin at a #square terminal, using #minibits no less, from the sats I'd built up from zaps in my Zeus LN address when I changed phones. At a Bitcoin meetup, no less.
The old guy at the bar next to me from the trivia night was blown away when he realized I was paying with Bitcoin, haha. https://image.nostr.build/efc397805359c95ddc04fd8bbd233ee3884632e943cd60635d7ef8fefe14b0ed.jpg

2026-04-03 18:57:19 CEST

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Daemon without Freedom(tm)? That's cruel...

2026-04-03 18:55:59 CEST

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Part of me wants to say "Being and Time" by Martin Heidegger. But expecting most people to grok it is a big stretch.
Hume's Treatise on Human Nature is a bit more approachable, though fwiw it did leave him so dejected that he spent years just playing backgammon in the park when he realized what ontological skepticism gave him in terms of knowledge, or lack thereof.
Kant's Critique of Pure Reason probably puts you somewhere in the middle and not quite so dejected, just a little...rigid (like Kant himself).
On second thought stay away from scholarly philosophy books if you can read only one. You really need a few to see why they're all wrong but that they all give you a new perspective on the same basic truths. Maybe just pick up Robert Anton Wilson's Illuminatus! trilogy (don't worry, it's one book). It'll entertain you for awhile, and it's chock full of various perspectives from a guy who I'd really rather had been able to live for 500+ years for all he gave us in the space of humor, metaphysics, psychology, politics, and life in general.

2026-04-03 18:47:21 CEST

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I for one welcome the dead rate cuts. Cheaper for longer bitcoin is a buying opportunity.
In other news, gotta let the fam know we're eating ramen for dinner.

2026-04-03 16:35:11 CEST

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That cake is way too big for a best Korea party. There's also not enough meth.

2026-04-03 16:33:13 CEST

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I assume you're not actually talking about communications from the dog star Sirius. Fnord.

2026-04-03 16:30:28 CEST

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The kind that's in tennis? 😆
In a Buddhist sense anyway...

2026-04-03 16:21:54 CEST

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Well, fasting has its place. But I wasn't doing so anyway. Just realized as I was posting a big plate of steak that others will be.

2026-04-03 16:19:19 CEST

GM.
Had some steak tips get pushedback a few nights on dinner planning amid some family curveballs this week, but thanks to the culinary adjustment within the proof of steak protocol, we're enjoying it with some eggs this morning.
Probably not the most appropriate to the observant Christians, but I'm also pretty opposed to food waste, nor have I been practicing the faith for a good few decades.
https://image.nostr.build/f145db97526c781fafe9baf2d7ab3add88201573751b4aafb221aa1a0017e5ac.jpg

2026-04-03 02:21:49 CEST

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Because Primal has always been a pain like this. Some Nostr devs are oppositional to showing invoices to pay from your wallet of choice, insisting that you instead use NWC or don't zap. It's one of the big reasons I almost never use Primal.

2026-04-03 02:16:37 CEST

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Getting mixed messages from you as to whether people should or shouldn't write books...

2026-04-03 02:12:02 CEST

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If you haven't yet, you might be surprised if you reach out to your local ham radio group(s). Seems like something up their alley, and they're often very into herding cats and can do so effectively. Many are also into these non-licensed radios as well, given that radio is radio...

2026-04-03 02:00:33 CEST

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Sucks when you have to get those lessons. https://image.nostr.build/fcfab520889cc4f9f8ae8292dd8848fcb89e1100be225b1cb0ecf8366f974d5c.png

2026-04-03 01:58:24 CEST

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Fawn, lol. We got taught fight, flight freeze, and ...making love.

2026-04-03 01:55:48 CEST

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A day late for this April Fool's...

2026-04-03 01:51:55 CEST

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Rabbit manure...is it egg shaped?
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2026-04-02 21:51:03 CEST

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I think calling that selflessness is a failure of language. Perhaps self-full-ness would do it more justice -- you bring your full self in service of those things, in that order. Self-centeredness, on the other hand, is born of scarcity, of weakness. We focus on that which we want to build, and we build up those things that are broken, or perceived to be currently insufficient. It is when you recognize that you ARE capable of addressing the proper set of priorities that you can bring your self to address those duties. Your cup, as they say, overflows. You become a provider, rather than a drain.

2026-04-02 21:42:57 CEST

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Any luck? I can't seem to get past the update your wall. Also, seems like when I put blobbi down for a nap to restore energy, it resets the evolution tasks. Seems like mine's gonna be a baby forever...