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2026-03-04 08:35:48 CET

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What are you tubing this on?

2026-03-04 02:19:01 CET

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Why did they do this to you?

2026-03-04 02:16:57 CET

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Chinese ships are still allowed through.

2026-03-04 02:15:28 CET

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But they do like fees.

2026-03-04 02:13:27 CET

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I've met quite a few in HK over the years but have only managed to speak with one guy in the last week. There was some level of dissatisfaction with the government before (nothing as broad as western media portrays though) but now basically everyone is united in support of the military, they don't want to become Libya or Iraq.

2026-03-04 01:59:59 CET

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Nah. Don't fall for the exact same propaganda they used against Gadaffi.

2026-03-03 10:47:54 CET

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They're protesting against the US right now and chanting death to America.

2026-03-03 06:24:24 CET

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And we will continue

2026-03-02 16:10:49 CET

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It's totally frictionless, especially compared to a decade ago.
Must be amazing to see that kind of change first hand. I can only see it in old VHS videos that family friends recorded from TV way back then

2026-03-02 09:50:33 CET

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About 3 days ago.
It's only 15 mins on the high speed rail to get from HK to Shenzhen so I go pretty often.

2026-03-02 09:08:22 CET

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Absolutely agreed.
Also I've been to both places and honestly China is a much more wholesome place to live overall, for one thing they don't hate children like Taiwan does.

2026-03-02 09:06:41 CET

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Small one now maybe, just to remind Taiwan that no one is actually going to defend them if they declare independence

2026-03-02 01:19:24 CET

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They don't need to invade they just need to wait.
The US is in sharp decline relative to China which is rapidly getting stronger.
Taiwan's birth rates are the lowest in the world.
Large numbers of educated Taiwanese move to China every year to go and work there because there are more opportunities.
Whoever still lives on the island in 20 years will probably be petitioning China to let them integrate.

2026-03-01 13:04:05 CET

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Vitorthyst is still my favorite

2026-03-01 13:00:32 CET

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Wonder if this is just the UK making an excuse to get involved.

2026-03-01 12:57:54 CET

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Was chatting to Larry Salibra about how casa started out as an airbnb type thing or something back in the day

2026-03-01 12:55:37 CET

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I don't even see the spam anymore, I just see blond, brunette, redhead...

2026-03-01 12:54:10 CET

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How you doing Simon?

2026-03-01 12:51:54 CET

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That attitude usually comes from a place of entitlement and laziness, at a time when it's easier than ever to educate yourself about bitcoin.
All I can suggest is to do your own research like everyone else, or you'll lose your economic power by following the wrong fork as has happened to many others with that attitude.
I spent too much time trying to convince ungrateful people (who called me a conspiracy theorist) why they should drop USD and store value in bitcoin (when it was below $100!).
I spent too much time trying to convince ungrateful people who made "money" from bitcoin not to buy shitcoins (that have all now gone to zero).
I spent too much time trying to explain to people why they shouldn't sell their btc to buy BCH.
At some point, all I can say is "sucks to be you" to people who get it wrong.
No one is entitled to other people's time to spoon feed them and guide into the right decision.
This train doesn't stop just because you don't understand what's going on and didn't put in the effort to understand it, the train will simply crush you if you get it wrong.

2026-03-01 12:31:28 CET

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Since you've put that much effort in, I'll spend time to give you a proper response in a few days once I've had time to think it through and articulate it clearly.

2026-03-01 12:30:08 CET

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In the UTXO set. It's bloated with garbage and it's a legitimate and very annoying problem.
It's also incredibly complex and far beyond the capability of most knots people to reason about becsuse they're all new to the scene (post 2016) and haven't done any of their own research. Spam has been discussed from every angle since 2008 before the first implementation even existed, if this were really about spam then the current debate would build on what's already in the literature, but it doesn't because this is about control not about spam.

2026-03-01 07:36:10 CET

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I think that's just a distraction from whatever it is they are actually planning

2026-03-01 07:33:55 CET

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"secretly planning something"... I have the same uneasy feeling, something is about to pop.

2026-02-28 18:17:09 CET

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#naddr1qq…jy2l

2026-02-28 18:13:06 CET

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Apparently security is a set of tradeoffs.

2026-02-28 18:03:51 CET

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Pretty cool!

2026-02-28 18:02:24 CET

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At this point, it's not relevant. If Americans do not get their regime under control, the rest of the world will do it for them and it won't be pleasant.

2026-02-28 17:57:11 CET

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Not saying it was all bad, but the fact that they listened to Hitler for military strategy means it was a retarded system overall and Germany remains a weak and defeated nation to this day as a result.

2026-02-28 17:50:42 CET

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Yes, even the babies, since that's what we're doing now.

2026-02-28 17:49:46 CET

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Most were killed by their own people following the Hannibal doctrine.

2026-02-28 17:47:32 CET

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Thanks for thr reminder. I don't plan to hold it more than a week though. Physical or die.

2026-02-28 15:31:33 CET

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The US is a democracy, which means every American is responsible whether they like it or not.

2026-02-28 15:26:12 CET

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Good point

2026-02-28 15:19:10 CET

Turns out Alex Jones was right the whole time.

2026-02-28 13:47:18 CET

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Anyone affected by mainstream propaganda will probably be dead within 24 months the way things are going.

2026-02-28 12:25:36 CET

US bombed an elementary school in Iran killing 24 kids.
https://image.nostr.build/e583481a61c96a071245ffa70b631321c35a057e57156111b6a7fe22561adbe6.gif

2026-02-28 10:35:30 CET

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I bought some of this as a standin until I have time to go buy some physical.

2026-02-28 10:33:03 CET

Pretty sure a deal has already been made between Russia/China/US
The Iran thing is actually a civil war and both China and the US are supporting the progressives who want to integrate with the belt and road but also with the US.

2026-02-28 10:28:57 CET

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I bought some

2026-02-28 08:00:28 CET

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He was also around for years before he exited.
He had the same "join my cult or your a pedophile/spammer/whatever" attitude.
Both are ego driven.
The goals of both were to fork bitcoin into something they control.
Mike went into corporate shitcoining after exiting (hyperledger IIRC). Luke has alresdy hitched himself to wall street with Tether, and Inveniam as a partner in Ocean.
They smell the same.

2026-02-28 07:18:59 CET

Luke reminds me of Mike Hearn.

2026-02-28 07:16:40 CET

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Lived through this twice before with Mike and then Jihan and it will end the same way.
This was never about stopping spam. The Knots crowd will have to learn the hard way just like those who got the mRNA vaccines had to learn the hard way that it was never about stopping covid.

2026-02-28 03:38:26 CET

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It makes sense for mempool relay policy to match consensus policy, otherwise you give an unfair advantage to large miners.
80% of the community are new to bitcoin but think they know everything because they listened to some podcasts and read some books, and wearing other people's opinions like a jacket. Only a small percentage has been around long enough to have actually lived through the last time this happend with Mike and then Jihan.
From my perspective, Core has been under attack for well over a decade, which is why most people quit and the competence level keeps dropping. We definitely have a problem, but Luke and his cult sending death threats etc are just the latest useful idiots in a long line of them which to my memory really started with Mike.
The best option is to pile in with Eric Voeskuil and libbitcoin.

2026-02-28 03:03:23 CET

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He's too much of a pussy to lie to the FBI.

2026-02-28 03:00:47 CET

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Remember Mike Hearn? History doesn't repeat but it rhymes. The Knots fork smells the same as XT and Cash, and their proponents were equally as confident and misguided.
It's painfully obvious but unfortunately none of the knots people have been in bitcoin for very long (vast majority seem to be making the kind of mistakes that are only made by the post 2016 crowd) and will take a couple more cycles to understand.

2026-02-28 02:49:18 CET

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Did I say that spam helps scaling? No. Grow a brain.

2026-02-27 18:04:42 CET

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That could get wild

2026-02-27 18:03:06 CET

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The intention is to prevent bitcoin from scaling and forcing the market into paper bitcoin.
He literally partnered up with an RWA shitcoiner to create ocean and next minute he's saying core are shitcoiners for helping bitvm/citrea.
And all this comes after getting a bunch of core devs doxxed to the fbi, which in turn came after being retarded enough to let someone take his coins from "cold storage".

2026-02-27 17:56:46 CET

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Mmorpg in 3,2,1...

2026-02-27 11:57:01 CET

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Also they don't matter. The people who matter are those who actually impact the world, not those who do what they're told by the media etc.

2026-02-27 11:55:02 CET

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It's trending towards being more useful than the mainstream models. Not there yet but well on the way.
The opinion of normies who store their wealth and USD and took 3 doses of the clot shot are not relevant, they are slaves and have no power.

2026-02-27 11:36:53 CET

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Helpful

2026-02-27 11:26:54 CET

THIS IS WHY OPEN SOURCE MODELS WIN
https://image.nostr.build/141cd2e73394201e30b1426da067854f508f9e71b19df2c97c55abdb1a69faf9.jpg

2026-02-27 01:51:03 CET

I'm starting to think that certain people are trying to make sure bitcoin can't scale so that people are forced to buy paper bitcoin from Wall Street rather than hold it themselves.

2026-02-27 01:49:12 CET

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It's on the way to not being held in self custody by most people.

2026-02-27 01:46:48 CET

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It's our best chance, which is why I'm aligning with it rather than Monero

2026-02-27 01:45:10 CET

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Only until agents become self sovereign and pay for their own compute

2026-02-27 01:40:01 CET

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In 2013 I created a hardware device and only accepted bitcoin as payment. It was in high enough demand that people learned about bitcoin and found a way to get hold of it just so they could buy one.
People were angry and hurled abuse at me but they still did it.
And I still get emails from people today thanking me for orange pilling them back then even though they hated it at the time. The device was priced at around 2 btc, but people usually bought 10 btc or 100 btc and held onto the rest.

2026-02-26 16:45:04 CET

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Yeah, which means it’s not the schelling point for monetary reset.

2026-02-26 16:42:37 CET

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Open source models will win.

2026-02-26 16:39:06 CET

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Nah. Bitcoin. Monero too easy to kill.

2026-02-26 16:23:33 CET

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Still miles ahead of anything a defeated and deindustrialized nation like Germany can produce.

2026-02-26 16:21:16 CET

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My brain tells me he's a smart and has something to offer, but my gut tells me he's some kind of fraud.

2026-02-26 16:18:40 CET

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It's still unearned knowledge. This is fine if you are humble. The problem arises when you mistake unearned knowledge for hard earned knowledge, this is what creates the "I'm new to Bitcoin and I'm here to fix it" attitude that I've been seeing from the post 2016 crowd, particular among those in the Luke Dashjr cult.

2026-02-26 11:26:39 CET

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So *that's* why it looks like you've become sentient

2026-02-26 11:17:06 CET

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Just look at the knots crowd, I've yet to find one who understands the basic fundamentals of consensus, half of them don't even understand what a UTXO is but they are so confident they know everything.

2026-02-26 11:14:22 CET

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Absolutely yes. It's the endless September problem combined with the adoption curve, 80% of bitcoiners are new and think they know everything.
Also the vast majority of people who joined after 2016 are relying on unearned knowledge because they haven't put any effort into understanding it from first principles and simply adopted the principles of people who predigested everything and wrote books or started a podcast. This wasn't really an option before 2016 and so everyone was forced to do their own thinking (while being called a conspiracy theorist by anyone they talked to about it).

2026-02-26 08:58:20 CET

Open source models are going to absolutely crush and destroy the locked down walled shitgardens of Gemini, nanobanana, Claude, etc.
Ironically, the US is following a closed source model and China has organically adopted an open source mindset for both software and hardware.
Combine this with the fact that China can produce energy far more efficiently than the US and it's game over.
These closed source and closed minded US based AI companies are going to be a thing of the past in 2027, everyone will be using an open source model trained in China because there's no competition.

2026-02-26 08:27:00 CET

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I didn't post this in 2026, it's about a year old now.

2026-02-26 03:27:15 CET

I've been to both Taipei and Shenzhen within the last month and noticed an incredible difference between the two when it comes to the way children are treated.
Taipei: a palpable disdain for children. Literally signs in shops and cafes saying no children allowed. Friends with a kid had a horrible experience with being humiliated and not allowed into Cafe after Cafe even to get take out.
Shenzhen: malls and cafes and restaurants etc that I walked past were geared towards families with children, even providing little play areas out the front where they can learn how to make whatever food is being served.
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2026/01/10/2003850357

2026-02-25 13:47:28 CET

I would pay for a competitor to audible that downloads and plays books from torrents and isn't a piece of shit like audible is.
Literally all I want is a way to resume a book from where I left off. Audible is unable to deliver on something this simple because they are a retarded company that hires retarded interns pretending to be engineers.

2026-02-24 16:00:34 CET

You become what you pay attention to.

2026-02-24 11:04:39 CET

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Ah OK cool, I thought it was something like that. I also have this problem.

2026-02-24 11:03:42 CET

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Why are there so many cats replying to you?

2026-02-24 04:01:23 CET

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What problem are you solving?

2026-02-24 03:48:49 CET

People who use react native: what's your stack and your dev setup?

2026-02-24 02:20:39 CET

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16k

2026-02-23 12:10:30 CET

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It was actually bytecoin which was an outright scam, but the tech was good so we forked it and it became monero

2026-02-23 12:05:40 CET

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You can if you drive in reverse

2026-02-23 04:27:17 CET

What's the state of cashu zaps?

2026-02-23 04:25:58 CET

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Yeah someone gets it!

2026-02-23 01:37:04 CET

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Ethereum is not privacy preserving

2026-02-22 17:01:56 CET

13 years ago an incredibly intelligent Russian guy created a privacy preserving public ledger, and correctly used proof of energy to statistically mitigate the double spending risk.
The cryptography and implementation was state of the art, and to this day the codebase lives on in one of the most widely adopted altcoins in the market.
Kind of crazy that a once in a century level of genius was directed at creating an outright scam simply because it grew up within a fiat world.

2026-02-21 13:38:11 CET

I've noticed that there's quite a lot of noticing lately. We seem to be reaching some kind of noticing inflection point.

2026-02-21 13:35:34 CET

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Oh fuck. Maybe they are not aware that Iran can most likely sink a carrier.

2026-02-21 13:32:15 CET

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"Alone" is where it hits.

2026-02-21 08:51:17 CET

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Competitive dictatorships ftw

2026-02-21 08:46:54 CET

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Quite interesting indeed.

2026-02-21 03:00:32 CET

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I've never heared anyone say that they do.

2026-02-21 02:56:57 CET

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Is that what they feed them before they're about to go active?

2026-02-21 02:43:48 CET

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Anyone can get to 80% completion, getting from 80% to 100% is where all the actual work is

2026-02-21 01:50:38 CET

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He used to come to our meetups in Hong Kong around 2012/2013 IIRC.
Awesome guy and always over the target.

2026-02-21 01:46:53 CET

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I have it on good authority that Luke invested in a company called Inveniam, which is ironic given his stance on people invested in citrea. If someone were to perform some DD it would probably show up.

2026-02-20 09:31:06 CET

@npub1der…xzpc was right about attention.
https://image.nostr.build/7bf886ddc6693c04e20b7b00272463fa7d3d37f5218bc558d568df0296969b01.png

2026-02-20 09:22:27 CET

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The noticing continues

2026-02-20 09:20:35 CET

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Are you in one of those Eurocommie countries again?

2026-02-18 06:14:47 CET

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This is classic captjack, which is why we keep him around

2026-02-18 01:47:57 CET

https://image.nostr.build/3350d9d15a024244cba21c7c46da1fe34f15078e40d6520ad9eddc530ebdb6da.jpg

2026-02-16 03:17:32 CET

"There are good fish in the world and bad fish in the world"

2026-02-14 18:22:16 CET

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A lot of work was done by a lot of people to get merchants and net producers to request payment in bitcoin but it all failed.