Hanshan

idk man
seems like there's not a lot to say about Bitcoin as freedom money these days.
something something many factors, you can just do things, stay humble
the last ten years have been pretty bad for Bitcoin as freedom money *because of* moar purchasing power.

2026-05-05 01:01:54 CEST

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idealists seldom make good presidents, or even good decisions
but they're also sometimes not war criminals so...

2026-05-05 00:41:23 CEST

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lol 😂

2026-05-05 00:40:47 CEST

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I just know what words mean 🤷‍♂

2026-05-04 23:33:52 CEST

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Also, did you even read the damn site you're linking?
because they don't agree with you either.

2026-05-04 23:32:05 CEST

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They are, if they're saying "using money is a public act."
next time please try to avoid the appeal to random youtube videos, lets discuss from facts we can both observe.
for example, when I buy something, the purchase and the terms of the purchase aren't "public information."
Except maybe according to some narrow definition you just made up.

2026-05-04 22:52:38 CEST

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so you're just using the word "public" in the wrong way for some reason.
sure man.

2026-05-04 22:51:22 CEST

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You're literally like "the shop can just NOT tie personal information to the transaction"

2026-05-04 17:13:32 CEST

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but on that subject
how do you pay for your subscription? it looks like you have to do shit with stripe to pay with BTC???

2026-05-04 15:33:30 CEST

it's helpful if we all understand why things got the way they are.
there's always a bigger group of thugs who will come take your shit if you catch their attention.
#nevent1q…4f4u

2026-05-04 14:53:46 CEST

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So you're whole thesis here is we should trust our transaction counterparties to not tie personal information to transaction information.
great.

2026-05-04 14:48:15 CEST

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I did have a service running on a VPS that generated an invoice from my LN node over Tor.
But it was so slow that it didn't work for many nostr clients.
and it didn't produce zap receipts so they didn't know it worked when it did.
so.

2026-05-04 14:46:00 CEST

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I haven't used them yet.
So far nothing beats the amount of inference you can get on a NanoGPT subscription.

2026-05-04 14:42:49 CEST

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when I make a transaction, my transaction counterparty knows I need what he is selling and have money to pay for it.
that is the data I am "allowing to be known by untrusted parties."
so your study for the day is to look up the word "public."
because that isn't what it means.
using money is a PRIVATE intercourse. I decide who I interact with and what data to reveal in the process.
your attitude that is *public by nature* is modern state-sponsored disinformation.

2026-05-04 04:19:15 CEST

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the last president who wasn't a war criminal?

2026-05-04 04:17:14 CEST

I'm sorry @npub10hp…dxkr
$18 for 20000 *permonth* is not going to cut it

2026-05-04 02:40:19 CEST

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I now have a separate VPS that runs OpenClaw and my robot slave does sysadmin for all of the above as well.
they didn't tell me the future would look like this

2026-05-04 02:37:49 CEST

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hey this is my stack

2026-05-04 02:35:58 CEST

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you were on acid at the first Lollapalooza??
fucking legend

2026-05-04 02:33:17 CEST

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holy shit
who was charging you $100/mo for a phone number? with unlimited data?

2026-05-04 02:32:22 CEST

stop normalizing lack of privacy.
making a transaction is not "a public act" and your transactions SHOULD NOT be public.
#nevent1q…paes

2026-05-04 00:02:37 CEST

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no. a transaction is between me and my counterparty.
it isnt "a public act" unless you broadcast it to a transparent chain that anyone with Internet access can audit.
there's never going to be a time where Authority just decides to NOT surveil everyone's transparent and publicly recorded transactions.
it doesn't depend on the existence of fiat either, they're still coming for their taxes.
even if you live completely off their radar, on a transparent chain it only takes ONE merchant doxxing you to reveal your utxo cluster.
we are obviously living in an age of increasing surveillance and the normalization of a state of no-privacy. it's not debatable.
they're going to map the entire utxo set. Bitcoin pseudonymity only *decreases* with time.

2026-05-03 23:08:37 CEST

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I wanted to mess around with this and I don't think Opencode is an option
https://github.com/danielmiessler/Personal_AI_Infrastructure

2026-05-03 22:56:16 CEST

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holy shit
I had no idea it was so bad

2026-05-03 22:48:48 CEST

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me and my pop did the Saturn 5, it took like 7 of the fat engines
some of the best memories ever

2026-05-03 22:43:05 CEST

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MY TIME HAS COME
https://i.nostr.build/MhtJSSmwRa9cbz1f.jpg

2026-05-03 22:40:36 CEST

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big love man
you got this.

2026-05-03 22:38:55 CEST

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Not in a highly surveilled society. Your root premise is incorrect.
If digital surveillance is the norm, adopting a non-private digital ledger to transact ensures lack of privacy for as long as that money is used.
Computers make surveilling the entire society trivial. It doesn't matter if the set of users is 1000 people or 100 million.
In some ways it gets WORSE with mass adoption.

2026-05-03 13:50:23 CEST

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wow
thanks for the correction!

2026-05-03 03:36:02 CEST

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cloaked is great. but $25/mo is pretty steep.

2026-05-03 03:32:50 CEST

https://i.nostr.build/ZaTMctPV7IBR7KQU.jpg
#nevent1q…phqh

2026-05-03 03:31:13 CEST

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I'm going to meet the meat early next week

2026-05-03 03:07:19 CEST

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My understanding is that ppq and routstr do not pass the special anthropic headers through
and only foundry, vertex and bedrock are supported alternated providers.

2026-05-03 03:04:13 CEST

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yeah, I get it. and it IS cool.
but it's just too convenient to use nanogpt or ppq and pay directly with xmr

2026-05-03 03:02:00 CEST

real talk for a minute
is anyone using Claude Code *without* a KYCed API key?

2026-05-03 00:39:33 CEST

nOBodY CAres aBoUT Monero
#nevent1q…khl5

2026-05-02 19:50:50 CEST

Turns out my local heavy equipment guy is raising bison.
He'll sell me a quarter beef for $6/lb 😎

2026-05-02 19:49:03 CEST

this is one of the most relevant and interesting podcasts for Bitcoiners ever recorded.
no anon, you DON'T understand #Bitcoin.
#nevent1q…rdyh

2026-05-02 19:46:21 CEST

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Would love to experiment with @npub1fet…jzfa,
but I want to pay in #monero.
it's just better UX.

2026-05-02 15:23:30 CEST

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I gotchu
https://i.nostr.build/nsxZV9tnw5NnfNoi.jpg

2026-05-02 00:12:32 CEST

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We alienated the people interested in the problems of grassroots Bitcoin adoption in 2016

2026-05-02 00:07:13 CEST

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almost like eliminating zero-conf and doing RBF was a mistake

2026-05-01 23:30:38 CEST

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wow
the revolution is here

2026-05-01 23:06:38 CEST

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thats some serious Zen shit there

2026-05-01 22:57:11 CEST

Having lost funds in an earlier Bisq exploit, this is extremely nostalgic for me
(this time I didn't have any open offers however)
#nevent1q…kwtz

2026-04-29 16:19:40 CEST

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"some rando on the internet can't identify my utxos, therefore bitcoin is private"
come on man

2026-04-29 16:19:00 CEST

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a lot of hopium in this post.
and you aren't using it permissionlessly if you kyced yourself when you bought.

2026-04-28 16:13:20 CEST

there has always been a bigger group of thugs who might come and take your shit.
kinda like a earthquake or a flood or your children getting the plague.
preparing for these things is good and bitcoin doesn't fix this.
(except that it makes it easier to hide your stuff)
#nevent1q…h6cn

2026-04-28 16:09:36 CEST

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"Bitcoin ethos will always be Bitcoin ethos"
no, it wont. the social context these things exist in are always changing and are NEVER static.
how much of your bitcoin was bought through a KYC on-ramp?

2026-04-28 03:04:57 CEST

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what is Start Tunnel?

2026-04-28 03:03:52 CEST

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yes.
I think we get extra credit for doing everything through ssh

2026-04-28 01:13:24 CEST

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I do too
but I've had a couple people just laugh recently

2026-04-28 00:36:32 CEST

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something something censorship resistance

2026-04-28 00:32:22 CEST

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okay?

2026-04-28 00:20:27 CEST

does anyone actually self-host a website anymore or do you just point your DNS to Github Pages?
#asknostr

2026-04-28 00:19:09 CEST

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maybe 5 or 10 years no?

2026-04-28 00:18:15 CEST

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"freedom" is am ongoing process.
not a condition that is achieved.
there are certainly people that are confined in the dark who are more "free" than some who walk in the light.

2026-04-28 00:02:17 CEST

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https://i.nostr.build/cxf5Wkg59tmMMUQ3.gif

2026-04-27 23:59:58 CEST

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appreciate that. but it's not correct.
Monero isn't going to be mass adopted.
and Bitcoin will only be mass adopted if the on/off ramps are totally kyced and surveiled.
which is why the phenomenon you are observing vis a vis the conference is happening.
so i'd guess that we disagree that freedom will EVER be something that is "mass adopted" and more that a niche interest of principled people.

2026-04-27 23:54:17 CEST

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I haven't paid any attention to the Bitcoin conference in years.

2026-04-27 23:47:17 CEST

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Simplifiedprivacy phone?

2026-04-27 23:44:21 CEST

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this happens to every project, everywhere, all the time.
you can't go mainstream without it happening and I'm tired of Bitcoiners being shocked about it.
if you give a shit about the Bitcoin ethos, just use Monero.

2026-04-26 05:47:13 CEST

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literally showed it to a friend the day before

2026-04-25 02:48:55 CEST

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I loled and then felt like I have to question my life choices

2026-04-25 02:32:31 CEST

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you have to explain to your agent.
I've spent some time making specific protocols for server tasks and image/audio analysis.
the agent is required to consult a protocol file and set a flag. they are unable to continue unless the flag condition is satisfied.

2026-04-25 02:11:34 CEST

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1. what
obviously nobody would ever pay taxes on a flat earth.
duh.

2026-04-25 02:04:03 CEST

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I keep different domains with mynymbox and njalla.
both good options 👍

2026-04-24 04:12:55 CEST

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I'm pleased to see that shaming you into making some effort was successful 👍

2026-04-23 17:38:49 CEST

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I dunno
I think there's a significant percentage of the population on the verge of retardation
and they need to see the conversation happen to make up their minds whether to go full retard or not

2026-04-23 16:41:04 CEST

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you've done nothing to show you understand ANYTHING
you just post video and run away from any real convo
and you retarded video doesn't explain AT ALL why different stars rotate in the opposite direction around a different pole
you're just at the level of sharing "refutations" that are totally unrelated to the point,
then LOL and run away.
but please continu. so everyone in the thread can see how this works.

2026-04-23 07:54:46 CEST

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my favorite is my guy mptf who says that gravity is upward motion of 9.8m/s 🤔
not acceleration mind you, just steady upward motion
theyre not sending their best

2026-04-23 07:48:42 CEST

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imagine being in it
but saying absolutely nothing of consequence 😱

2026-04-23 00:37:51 CEST

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it isnt an experiment AT ALL.
its an alternative explanation that claims atmospheric refraction doesn't exist and observed star position is the true position
and ties itself in knots trying to make a dome over a flat earth fit the observable data.
because the data shows that the observed occultation of star S over mountan A for two observers at different elevations and distances is NOT explained by simple trigonometry on a flat surface.
it matches what you'd expect to find on a curved surface.
and if theres no refraction or terrestrial curvature, what causes the difference?
apparently they think we should just adjust the dome geometry or something....
theyre understandably silent on this point and only provide single observer measurements.
anyway
its not an experiment that tests a hypothesis.
they just say "refraction doesn't exist and observed star positions are the true positions."

2026-04-22 13:26:38 CEST

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so this is a video of somebody just straight up lying. rather telling if you ask me....
anybody who's ever looked at the night sky knows that the apparent motion of the stars doesn't change if you look south instead of north.
are you going to try and explain anything yourself or just share stupid videos?

2026-04-22 13:22:24 CEST

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sorry bro
you're going to have to actually explain what I got wrong.
not just scream "wrong" and run away.
I did the work, try doing some yourself.

2026-04-22 06:08:54 CEST

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this experiment assumes spherical geometry to calculate "real positions" of stars.
ie. It uses the Earth's radius, lat/long conversions to determine where a star "really is."
so you see when the star is observably occluded and calculate it's "true position" (based on spherical geometry)
and theres a difference between the two, which is traditionally explained by atmospheric refraction.
iow, they say the apparent position of a star is true on a flat earth but wrong if on a globe.
if you perform an experiment in this way
you've either baked spherical geometry into your reference point (the "real star position" that refraction is needed to explain)
or your using the apparent position as your reference and are assuming refraction doesn't exist.
either way the experiment doesnt prove ANYTHING AT ALL because its not independent of either model.
somebody doesn't understand logic and has too much time on their hands.

2026-04-22 03:00:29 CEST

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so go ahead and explain the phenomena he mentioned, why do observable constellations become inverted when you move from the northern to southern "hemisphere"?
because I can explain it in a few sentences if we start with a globe hypothesis.
ie the hypothesis matches the observations people have made for a few thousand years.
surely your explanation is even more simple and doesn't move the goalposts at all.

2026-04-20 01:05:37 CEST

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👍

2026-04-20 01:02:09 CEST

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fun fact
True Christians like Galileo and Newton saw scientific discovery as a way to glorify God.
they did not reject observation and understanding but tried to reconcile it with the Church.

2026-04-19 01:30:41 CEST

where is there a mfker who is buying monero on exchanges?!
"providing liquidity is everyone's responsibility"
-Hanshan
#nevent1q…pmx9

2026-04-19 01:28:26 CEST

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you literally only post memes son
and stay silent whenever challenged
anytime you try to say more, you show how completely lost you are
now be quiet, the adults are talking.

2026-04-18 21:14:43 CEST

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as with everything else,
you don't understand the conversation

2026-04-18 21:09:17 CEST

this guy gets it
#nevent1q…53k0

2026-04-18 18:24:43 CEST

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transient atmospheric conditions isnt adequate to explain why you cant hear the signals at all,
rather than simply having some interference sometimes.

2026-04-18 18:20:18 CEST

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flat earthers in shambles
👍

2026-04-18 18:18:20 CEST

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you're not wrong.
but we went over this 1000 yrs ago.
to assert the universe is Mind-only ALSO misses the point.
the truck still kills you if you don't get out of the way
and the earth is still round.
both objective and subjective worldviews exist simultaneously for everyone.
attempting to get rid of one and only live in the other is an abdication of your own human birthright.

2026-04-18 16:33:31 CEST

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clearly you're a CIA asset 🙄

2026-04-18 14:16:54 CEST

it isnt a matter of belief and your opinions don't change reality
put on your big boy pants and take a look at the world
#nevent1q…ru07

2026-04-18 14:14:15 CEST

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lack of critical thinking and inability to analyze basic data is currently biggest social problem we have in our hyperconnected and information rich society

2026-04-18 14:10:33 CEST

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i mean
the same stars are also inverted at different places on earth
and the sun pretty clearly does down below the horizon like the rest of the stuff up there, it doesn't scream off into the distance and gradually get dimmer
but yeah
flight times.

2026-04-17 22:25:32 CEST

Sarah makes great soap
and they will take Monero
(unlike other maxi soap makers I know 🤭)
#nevent1q…urxz

2026-04-17 22:07:41 CEST

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what project am I supporting?

2026-04-17 18:11:28 CEST

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as if 90% of any gains wouldn't be skimmed off by high Party members

2026-04-17 12:58:25 CEST

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its just funny that everytime some posts this its the same "people are saying" bullshit
no analysis of any data, no interest in the incentive structure, no plausible explanation of motive for the MASSIVE conspiracy required... just ignorant blackpill stuff
kinda sad actually tbh

2026-04-16 21:34:28 CEST

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its going to ultimately be militarized.
but it IS pretty cool.
#nevent1q…sf8f

2026-04-16 21:32:21 CEST

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"many people are saying"
very convincing 👍