jimbocoin
jimbocoin 🃏

Please report any bugs you find. At the bottom of the menu is a Report Bug link. Or you can tell me here on Nostr (though bug report is better).
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2026-03-11 23:37:02 UTC

Are any of you out there Magic the Gathering players? I have something I wanna show you. #asknostr #mtg #edh https://franticsearch.gg

2026-03-09 18:38:40 UTC

#asknostr 👇👇👇
#nevent1q…sdw6

2026-03-05 18:09:29 UTC

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But seriously

2026-03-05 17:51:18 UTC

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The first one. The car in the second steals attention.

2026-03-05 14:26:23 UTC

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And it’s only 30%. Could have been worse!

2026-02-19 11:36:53 UTC

FEW
#nevent1q…npcj

2026-02-13 17:55:12 UTC

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Leaks from any number of services.

2026-02-13 17:43:52 UTC

Stay frosty out there plebs. 🥶
Scammers coming in the snail mail now. #bitcoin
(Dumb scammers put “Ledger CEO” in the footer, highlighted.)
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2026-02-13 14:22:35 UTC

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What corn? https://media1.tenor.com/m/Id542WiZDx8AAAAC/shrug-dexter-morgan.gif

2026-02-13 14:20:55 UTC

Life hack: baby wipes. They’re disposable cloths soaked in mild detergent, rated for use on infants.
Perfect for cleaning the rear sensors on your car. #lifehack
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2026-02-12 18:46:45 UTC

Rebalancing my portfolio here:
• 90% BTC
• 10% sats
#bitcoin

2026-02-11 19:38:29 UTC

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Zero information content in that article, AFAICT.

2026-02-11 19:25:18 UTC

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Thanks! Yeah, I’m too lazy to fix it.

2026-02-08 21:10:33 UTC

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Smart

2026-02-08 21:09:51 UTC

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Baby wipes work for cleaning anything. IYKYK.

2026-02-05 14:32:30 UTC

I’m getting too old for this shit. #Bitcoin #memester
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2026-02-05 14:27:49 UTC

#Bitcoin #memestr
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2026-02-05 14:14:09 UTC

The KarmaRank Manifesto is now published: https://github.com/jimbojw/karmarank
Learn why your performance appraisal feels like gaslighting, and how to optimize for KarmaRank, the true corporate objective function. #karmarank
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2026-02-02 15:55:09 UTC

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Does it include mortgages?

2026-01-23 13:29:53 UTC

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I’m not sure. I’m going to give you a full answer at the risk of saying too much.
There are two layers of authentication in the Nostr protocol stack:
- HTTP - This is where the 403 comes from.
- Nostr (specifically NIP-42) - AFTER the HTTP connection, relays often ask clients to identify themselves, which determines what events they’ll send/receive from the client.
You can think of this like a bar. There’s the outer door (HTTP/WebSocket), then there’s the bartender (Nostr/NIP-42) that checks your id and only serves you drinks if you’re old enough.
Typically, relays will be permissive at the HTTP layer (let any client “connect”) and then rely on Nostr-level authentication to determine level of service.
If you’re seeing 403 errors, that means that the relay is rejecting your connection even before getting to the Nostr authentication part. The bouncer isn’t letting you in the establishment.
Speculation:
It’s possible that the relays are rejecting regular HTTP(S) requests because they expect only full WebSocket requests. This is like a dress code. Shirt and shoes (WebSocket) required for entry.
Technically speaking, the Nostr protocol only requires WebSocket support, so a relay COULD reject non-WebSocket requests and be compliant.
It could be that your client is sending feeler requests ahead of your actual WebSocket requests. This is like sending a kid in swim trunks to check if the bar is open. He never gets past the bouncer (403 Unauthorized) even though you’re ready to party (WebSocket) and would have gotten up to the bar just fine.
So if your client is making regular, non-WebSocket HTTP requests before connecting the WebSocket, I would argue that the client is perhaps misidentifying strictly compliant relays as “down” or unavailable.

2026-01-17 12:51:15 UTC

Of all the streaming services I pay for, government is the worst.
#note1rpc…04f7

2026-01-17 12:50:11 UTC

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The fundamental concept you’re describing is “earn coin for holding coin”. That’s how staking works, in principle. By having some coin and staking it, you receive more.
Philosophically, this is a rich-get-richer scheme. Whoever has the most coin earns the most. This is not a new idea. It’s the status quo.
In contrast, a Proof of Work system imbues no advantage to holders of coin over the earning of future coin, nor over the rules of that system. In PoW, you have to do the work to get paid, and you still can’t change the rules.
It’s true that in PoW, having more coin to start with gives you an advantage in that you can buy more mining hardware etc. But if you buy hardware, you don’t still have the coin. You’re an entrepreneur. Risk and reward.
Staking is a regressive system that entrenches existing holders to the detriment of future participants. Proof of Work is an entrepreneurial system that rewards stewards of capital, equally for all.

2026-01-15 20:47:59 UTC

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Classic G. Edward Griffin.

2026-01-12 02:42:41 UTC

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Here’s a fun chart:
=SPX/XAUUSD
That is, the S&P 500 priced in ounces of Gold. You can see that since 1971, when Nixon closed the gold window, you’ve basically BROKEN EVEN.
You were down in the 80’s, up in the dotcom boom, down in the GFC, but back to par now.
This chart shows that virtually all of the stock markets gains are the illusion of growth created by a depreciating fiat currency unit.
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2026-01-12 02:37:54 UTC

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In TradingView it’s pretty easy.
1. When entering your ticker, start with an equals sign “=“ to make a formula.
2. Divide by your intended denominator. For example, to see Gold priced in Bitcoin, the formula would be:
=XAUUSD/BTCUSD
The “USD”s cancel, just like dealing with units in chemistry or physics class, and you’re left with XAU/BTC.
3. Tweak the decimal point. TradingView is not good about showing significant digits. So depending on what you’re looking at you may need to bring it up or down. Multiply by a power of 10 to move the decimal.
So my Gold/Bitcoin formula is:
=XAUUSD/BTCUSD*10^4
This moves the decimal four places to the right. The chart will render exactly the same, but instead of numbers like “0.05”, you get numbers like “498.67”.
On log scale, the multiplier makes no difference. Log scales preserve proportional moves, so it’s like A/B vs (A*100)/(B*100). The ratio comes out the same, so the log scale charts look the same. The multiplier is just a convenience for legible numeric labels.

2026-01-12 01:25:26 UTC

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Gold priced in Bitcoin, last decade.
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2026-01-11 20:59:38 UTC

S U P E R C Y C L E
#note1rn0…9rnu

2026-01-10 19:03:13 UTC

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The internal combustion engine

2026-01-10 15:11:00 UTC

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Presumably the old wallet was standard m/44’ and the new multisig is m/84’, so they’re both hardened to differing roots.

2026-01-10 15:09:34 UTC

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It depends on what you mean by “gains access”. Yes, an attacker who gets the seed will be able to see all previous wallets that use guessable derivation paths.
I believe there may be cryptographic attacks that could result in an attacker having access only to the portion of the tree that deals with multisig. But this is at the limit of my knowledge, and is astronomically low probability (compared to, say, losing your seed, or someone finding the backup words).

2026-01-10 13:15:33 UTC

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Not sure exactly what you mean by “previously used”. Your single sig “wallet” consists of a few different parts:
- the seed - Often encoded as a BIP39 phrase of 12 or 24 words.
- the derivation path - Determines how the software wallet generates addresses.
- the hardware - The physical signing device that holds the seed material.
Multisig uses a different derivation path than standard single sig. So let’s assume you don’t mean reusing that part.
IMO, this is fine.
You MAY reuse the seed/hardware from a PREVIOUS single sig wallet to participate in a multisig. When you do, all of the addresses that that signer contributes will be different than in the single sig case. So an outside observer has no way of connecting the two.
If you use a seed/hardware SIMULTANEOUSLY for single and multisig, you run a bit higher risk, since an attacker that gains access to this one device now commands both. But I understand your question was about the PREVIOUS case.

2026-01-09 03:57:38 UTC

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It’s too bad. The old corn-and-grain pyramid made “you are a tax cattle” quite clear. This one is harder to read.

2026-01-08 17:52:08 UTC

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It’s the dose that makes the poison

2026-01-04 17:08:29 UTC

#memestr
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2026-01-03 16:15:39 UTC

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https://media1.tenor.com/m/aB3dD6Q8zE0AAAAC/this-guy-gets-it-nick-offerman.gif

2026-01-03 13:57:31 UTC

Happy Exigenesis to those who celebrate 🎉
#note1jkn…l97z

2026-01-03 13:56:33 UTC

Ballanization in our time 🤝
#note1u0x…cckq

2026-01-03 12:25:57 UTC

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The belief in meritocracy is a load-bearing fiction.

2026-01-03 01:57:29 UTC

If you raise chickens, then you are…
A chicken tender.
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2026-01-02 16:15:40 UTC

Of all the streaming services I overpay for, the federal government is the worst. https://media1.tenor.com/m/IOMgdRmEI5QAAAAd/benjammins-murica.gif

2026-01-02 16:14:15 UTC

“I don’t care to attend any meeting that would have me on the invite.”— Groucho Marx https://media1.tenor.com/m/a7oS65llzJ8AAAAd/groucho-marx.gif

2025-12-28 16:39:35 UTC

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False. As of 2020, the reserve requirement is zero.

2025-12-26 19:13:11 UTC

It’s not “technical debt”. It’s technical off-balance sheet liability. #programming

2025-12-23 10:42:35 UTC

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VIM

2025-12-23 10:37:13 UTC

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Irrational

2025-12-08 00:01:20 UTC

It’s the most wonderful time of the year. 🧡 #Bitcoin
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2025-12-05 23:41:28 UTC

Understand that when when interrupts you to connect what you’ve said to her life, this is a sign of great respect in her culture. #psychology

2025-11-27 16:23:15 UTC

People say “fuck around and find out” but it’s actually a 2x2 matrix:
- Fuck around, find out
- Don’t fuck around, don’t find out
- Don’t fuck around, find out anyway
- Fuck around, don’t find out
#showerthoughts

2025-11-27 13:05:46 UTC

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You are enough.

2025-11-24 13:03:44 UTC

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Exactly

2025-11-19 18:37:31 UTC

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https://media1.tenor.com/m/WFeJ2T-aqiEAAAAC/lazy-but-i-already-did-something-today.gif

2025-11-19 04:07:06 UTC

Innumeracy is an epidemic of uncountable proportions. #math https://media1.tenor.com/m/aoTTF2xwlWYAAAAd/stayc-sieun-stayc-meme.gif

2025-11-19 01:18:18 UTC

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Sounds like the mantle is up for grabs

2025-11-19 01:16:44 UTC

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I recently discovered Jiddu Krishnamurti. You may like his style.
If you like Watts’s direct approach, as compared to Zen master’s riddles, you’ll probably like Krishnamurti’s even more direct statements. He gives you nowhere to stand.
“If I were foolish enough to give you a system and if you were foolish enough to follow it, you would merely be copying, imitating, conforming, accepting, and when you do that you have set up in yourself the authority of another and hence there is conflict between you and that authority… In trying to conform to the ideology, you suppress yourself - whereas what is actually true is not the ideology but what you are. If you try to study yourself according to another you will always remain a second-hand human being.” —J. Krishnamurti, Freedom From the Known

2025-11-18 20:44:50 UTC

Tried to run Bitcoin Core v30 today. It did not go well. Apparently Ubuntu 18 is too old due to glibc.
Unsure whether to try to run it in docker, or abandon ship and build a fresh node. #Bitcoin

2025-11-18 13:55:34 UTC

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FEW

2025-11-16 18:04:11 UTC

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It can be https://youtu.be/1wTQA_DZzLo

2025-11-04 02:03:18 UTC

S U P E R C Y C L E
#note1zwq…ltf8

2025-06-25 22:38:13 UTC

Dear husbands of my wife’s coworkers,
Yes, I really did get her flowers, delivered, “just because”. #SorryNotSorry #DontHateThePlayer
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2025-06-24 00:06:56 UTC

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I mean, yes?

2025-06-18 12:45:31 UTC

Every day is a good day to find new words to mute on Nostr. GM ☀️☕️🐶

2025-06-07 00:58:06 UTC

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Some may argue that crafting is more of an art than a science, but they’re entitled to their wrong opinion.

2025-05-13 21:09:18 UTC

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https://media.tenor.com/aZok2IjvMzkAAAAi/pepe-shake-pepe-the-frog.gif

2025-05-13 20:31:31 UTC

H
#note14lt…3cgm

2025-05-13 18:51:35 UTC

S U P E R C Y C L E
#note1kc2…n268

2025-05-03 20:00:34 UTC

The results of the Milgram experiments were shocking.

2025-04-28 12:59:08 UTC

S U P E R
C Y C L E
#note1m63…nxru

2025-04-28 12:57:05 UTC

First time squatting in a month. Gotta get back to the routine! Cramping my hammies—this never happens. 🦵

2025-04-09 18:31:29 UTC

In this moment, I am euphoric

2025-03-20 09:48:01 UTC

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Are you looking to deploy something yourself? In what ways are currently deployed clients insufficient?

2025-03-13 00:59:15 UTC

You can just mute people.

2025-03-11 13:32:22 UTC

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Oh wait, never mind, I was hitting the reply button in your screenshot. https://media1.tenor.com/m/T1WlG7W06ZIAAAAC/box-of-shame-box.gif

2025-03-11 00:49:41 UTC

Steady lads. Deploying more capital. #Bitcoin https://media1.tenor.com/m/M5fYM7IpUZ0AAAAd/setting-up-this-is-happening.gif

2025-03-07 01:28:21 UTC

Maybe the real dip was the retards we met along the way. https://media1.tenor.com/m/xM3J2fuPCb4AAAAC/sun-set-heart.gif

2025-01-27 01:43:04 UTC

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I think it’s working. My node reports having received some small incoming Lightning payments which I assume are zaps.
But my node is not fully zap enabled I think. It’s like lowest common denominator.

2025-01-26 22:49:22 UTC

@npub1hk0…20pf This is relevant to your point about key management vs. AI from your recent appearance on @npub1cj8…rz4u's podcast with @npub1rtl…jtfs
In #Bitcoin, ownership is knowledge. You either know the keys or you don’t. The keys are derived from random seeds. One-way and unpredictable.
AI is all about prediction. Given past examples and input, what comes next? As the price of this prediction service falls, the value of keeping unpredictable secrets (cryptography) grows. #note1c2t…hkj7

2025-01-09 17:11:43 UTC

Then this one time, #Bitcoin went all the way to… $104k. But then it CRASHED down to… $94k.

2025-01-02 17:06:55 UTC

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As of yesterday, the IRS no longer allows cross-wallet/cross-account cost basis accounting. Each wallet or custodial account has its own cost basis for capital gains tax calculations.
This is an attack of Bitcoin fungibility for white-market usage. It was burdensome enough to track cost basis for accounting before, but now, to be compliant, you ALSO have to track every self-transaction (withdrawing from exchange, wallet-to-wallet, etc.)
https://bitcoin.tax/blog/irs-rev-proc-2024-28-preparing-2025-crypto-reporting-requirements/

2025-01-02 16:30:39 UTC

“You can’t save without permission if you can’t spend without permission.” — @npub1qny…95gx
The new IRS per-wallet cost basis is permissioned spending enforced by fear. Weaponized accounting.
Who is working on fixing this? #Bitcoin

2024-12-08 14:28:25 UTC

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If you can fake that, you’ve got it made!

2024-12-02 02:26:41 UTC

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Sorry, by “trying” I mean, yes, he stated as much.
But whether it’ll stick—upheld by prosecutors/courts—is another matter.

2024-12-02 02:13:39 UTC

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He’s trying to, yeah

2024-12-02 02:07:33 UTC

Wait. Five and a half years sober. It’s now late 2024. So we’re talking since early 2019?
What happened in 2019? 💻 https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/12/01/statement-from-president-joe-biden-11/ https://image.nostr.build/8d10b029fdc2a15a6fa3e8f3309afd507b2a8e0a0951c5e460ee1ea77ab4accc.jpg

2024-11-28 15:26:17 UTC

We’re watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving day parade, and a commercial for the live action Minecraft movie came on. My kids complained that they ruined it.
They’re growing up! I still remember the first time Hollywood ruined one of my childhood memories. And now it’s happening for them 🥹

2024-11-22 23:02:27 UTC

Many believe french fries originated in France, but really, they were first made in grease.

2024-11-22 22:54:25 UTC

Dang, the Damus paste image update broke my Tenor copy-paste hack. No I have to figure out how to turn off this feature I once very much wanted.

2024-11-21 15:46:06 UTC

You’ve reached a meme checkpoint. Post what you got 👇 https://media1.tenor.com/m/_24rNF_T-H8AAAAd/highfive-police.gif

2024-11-07 13:38:40 UTC

Business idea: Sats-for-Squares
You pay to have Sats-for-Squares generate git commits for your open source project and back date them so it looks robust with contributions. https://www.nikitakazakov.com/assets/images/2020/git_green_boxes.png

2024-11-06 11:39:39 UTC

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I think that’s the biggest outcome of this election TBH.
Voters for Trump in 2020 felt cheated. Now, today, a lot of them are thinking “huh, I guess it’s not all hopeless bullshit after all”.

2024-10-22 09:45:05 UTC

When you take your socks off and put them back on, do you make sure the same foot gets the same sock? Or do you just YOLO into whichever? #asknostr

2024-10-22 09:42:16 UTC

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It’s funny. A couple of weeks ago, I posted a meme on Nostr. Yesterday someone posted my meme in Telegram, said they got it from Twitter.
You don’t even need to post on other platforms to have reach there. Other people will do the work for you.

2024-10-21 14:48:51 UTC

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In my case, it’s for a website where users can post pseudonymously via a randomly generated Nostr keypair. Nostr isn’t the focus, just the means of communication. So my relay needs to filter by kind (easy) but I also need PoW enforcement to prevent spam.

2024-10-02 08:31:24 UTC

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According to my reading of the spec, what *should* happen is that the deleted event is no longer sent to anyone, as though it never existed.
Whether it’s purged from memory seems like an implementation detail and/or policy decision.
It gets more interesting when you consider parameterized replaceable events. Suppose a user makes note A, then replaces it with note B, then deletes note B.
What should the relay return for subsequent REQs? If you say A, then the relay must preserve non-deleted previously replaced events.

2024-10-01 16:11:21 UTC

#asknostr 👇 #note1lgh…ltk4

2024-09-20 16:28:30 UTC

Letting my hair grow out for the first time in 20+ years. Wife was surprised to learn I have wavy hair.