weev

Single most censored person in history, internationally notorious computer criminal, successful federal defendant-appellant, baroque countertenor enthusiast. I am censored by Web of Trust in clients that support it. Turn it off in your client settings if you expect to receive my replies or DMs.

Session ID: 05a1470eb63c9a534b6b8f9c17b91763a288603910280fde22acf1cf7a3ebb975e Speaking of DMs, please don’t use Nostr DMs for much besides getting my attention — I’m not seeing any mechanism for message expiry and I don’t think there is perfect forward secrecy at all.

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2026-05-17 20:10:01 CEST

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Okay well, I’ve never had a problem spending or receiving Monero or a stack of benjamins. I’ve had a host of problems spending and receiving Bitcoin. That’s been my experience.
I want Bitcoin to also have the same thing that makes Monero great! I want Bitcoin to have on-chain fungibility! Right now you only get that off chain via BOLT12, and ain’t nobody supporting that. I am using another currency only because Bitcoin Core has failed to make Bitcoin useful money for me. I’d *rather use Bitcoin*. I want Bitcoin to be useful money! But they are intent on making it a “store of value” and something to enable more NFTs and memecoins. That ship has already sailed to Solana probably irrevocably. Tether started on Bitcoin but SOL and TRX became the largest beneficiaries of it. One after another, every real world use of blockchains has gone to things that are not Bitcoin. I would like Bitcoin to at least be useful money, but they are intent on doing some weird lending scheme shit and “management token” with Citrea instead.
People want to use cryptocurrency! But they don’t want to use Bitcoin anymore. I have come to the conclusion that this is because Core is institutionally captured, and institutional authorities do not want competition to the monetary system.

2026-05-17 19:37:48 CEST

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> Banks refuse customers who don't have ID,
That’s not making the bill not fungible. That just means the bank requires customer ID. The $20 I wanted to deposit in the bank (with no ID?) still is fungible. Do you understand what fungible means?

2026-05-17 19:28:22 CEST

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I’ve never taken a dollar bill anywhere in America and been told I can’t use it because it had cocaine on it. Hard currency is obviously fungible.
II do not care about privacy. At all. It doesn’t mater to me. Only fungibility at spending time. Ring signatures offer a contract of fungibility. Monero has been fungible for me, and I’m the most banned guy you’ve ever talked to.
I do not care whatever theoretical vision you have in your head of things being private or fungible or whatever. Using Bitcoin gets my commerce fucked up. Using Monero does not. It is that simple.

2026-05-17 19:01:15 CEST

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I’ve been in crypto a long time. I got into XMR many years ago because I was completely cancelled. You can look on archive sites, I was one of the first two political bans from Twitter. It was me and Milo Yiannapoulos. I was banned in December of 2016, right after the election, due to my prolific public support for the winning candidate for the presidency. Milo is back on Twitter, but I’m sure that has nothing to do with his self-admitted cooperation as an FBI informant.
Anyways that’s beside the point. Not only was I banned from Twitter, I was banned from Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, retail banks and exchanges, all within a very short period. Because I was viewed as strategically helpful to the candidate that half of America supported! So I was forced entirely into crypto due to debanking. But then the damnedest thing started happening. People who both sent and received Bitcoin from me started having their exchange accounts cut off.
I started using Monero not because I cared about privacy. I don’t and still don’t! I’m a public figure with a fucking Wikipedia article, and I’m unapologetic about my views! I have no problem shouting what I’m doing from the rooftops! I was never trying to hide. I only wanted to tell people the truth as I saw it. And for that I was completely cut off from the financial system.
The only thing that allowed me to not be homeless and feed my kids was Monero. It was the only currency that just worked as actual money, and still is.

2026-05-17 18:22:01 CEST

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https://image.nostr.build/49f1145f19b20c3df1ebc4761949e97ba0d3cd33156821a21bf11b15368fe262.jpg

2026-05-17 17:59:18 CEST

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YES, we got the kook posters here. Let’s fucking GOOOOO

2026-05-17 17:57:15 CEST

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Look at @npub135w…nne8 -- it has Monero zaps integrated (I did not receive a Nosmero tip yet though, only through my profile address)
We need a new Nostr tip event kind that is crypto asset-independent, or at least supports Solana/ICP/BNB/Tron. It would actually be good to do fiat USD tipping with some kind of Cashapp and/or Venmo/Paypal integration. And Tether too. Why not? Most of the world doesn’t use Bitcoin anymore.

2026-05-17 17:25:05 CEST

Thank you to my first Nostr patron, who sent me 0.05 XMR. As the kids say these days, I’m not gay but $20 is $20. That’s a lot better than a 20 cent zap, thank you.

2026-05-17 16:37:20 CEST

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cointoss

2026-05-17 14:05:59 CEST

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“I want Bitcoin to be as usable as a stack of dollar bills.”
“WHY DON’T YOU JUST USE DOLLARS THEN?”
I think the world is going to listen to this kind of attitude. Really, they already have.

2026-05-17 13:26:06 CEST

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> is there any bLoCkChaIn that does even a quarter of the volume of the bitcoin blockchain?
> TRON’s average daily USDT transfer volume recently reached about $23.9 billion, with roughly 1.15 million accounts transacting each day.
Yes, by both number of transactions, and nominal value volume of transacted amounts, TRON alone beats Bitcoin by every concievable metric!
The winning crypto asset is the US fucking dollar.

2026-05-17 13:11:46 CEST

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> bitcoin has already scaled on-chain
If that's true why are we catering to shitcoin scams on the assertion that we need shitcoins to govern bitcoin and make it scalable?
> the world knows and uses bitcoin
okay sure. the world also knows about the zimbabwean dollar. but is bitcoin even in the top 10 most used blockchains anymore?
> the idea that it needs to replace the swiss franc and usd immediately is a fiat brained idea
who said immediately? i didn't say immediately. it needs the potential to do it sometime in the future, which is impossible when those things can be spent fungibly and Bitcoin can't. the fungibility issue is largely solved, it has been solved for 12 years, and yet nothing has been done to give Bitcoin the properties of money. We just keep yelling at people for using Bitcoin wrong.

2026-05-17 13:00:47 CEST

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A dollar is guaranteed legal tender at every bank, every exchange, every place you can go with it. Exchange accounts are frozen and funds are seized based on Bitcoin ledger history all the time. Retailers will also freeze Bitcoin coming from tainted sources. The fact that there is a concept of “tainted coins” means that Bitcoin is not fungible. Just because something may be used equivalently *in one place*, *in one manner* does not mean it is fungible. Fungibility requires it be able to be spent everywhere with the same level of assurance, in the real world, not on the blockchain. You don’t know what the word fungible means.

2026-05-17 12:48:50 CEST

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Silent Payments offers me no assertion of fungibility. It is marginally better than not having it, but it is still too little too late, and missing the core issue: a basic property of money has never been privacy. It’s always been fungibility. Privacy is probably (but not certainly) a side effect of actual fungible currency. You can always spend or exchange a dollar freely. But that doesn’t hold true for Bitcoin, and Silent Payments does not address that.

2026-05-17 12:38:19 CEST

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why should it be every web developer’s responsibility to improve Bitcoin privacy? That is the most obvious thing that should be Core’s job. Theoretically infinite web developers with limited time, project capital, and intellect, or one Core dev team with absurd amounts of funding who, I hope for all our sakes as people who hold Bitcoin, are the best and the brightest?

2026-05-17 12:34:41 CEST

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Okay let me put it this way. You are a very smart guy, very familiar with Bitcoin, more equipped than 99% of the world’s population to deal with any issues that Bitcoin might introduce you to. But you are furious that someone has sent you Bitcoin the wrong way.
Now, for Bitcoin to become money, think of every illegal that might be working under the table of his bodega counter. Think of a guy named Vinnie who is a chronic alcoholic and bartender. Think of a single mother who is living in a shelter. They all need money that will *just work* for their daily lives. You say there is a solution in Silent Payments, but it isn’t finished yet. Others say there is BOLT12, which has no support. I can’t get any of these things working.
The correct place to make sure the largest number of people possible can have a good experience with Bitcoin is not in yet another wallet that nobody uses, or another script covenant for a startup that is long on dreams and claims but short on implementations. It is in Bitcoin Core. If Core implements the feature, it becomes assured for everyone. Not in some wallet I literally cannot even use on a current day MacBook or an iPhone because I don’t have or want a fucking Android phone.

2026-05-17 12:21:18 CEST

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Bitcoin will never scale onchain because people have abandoned it for actual real world use. It doesn’t need to scale on chain. Fees are dirt cheap because nobody is using it anymore! That’s LN’s whole use case, and now it’s completely unnecessary! Bitcoin has become a dinosaur used only to swindle dumb pension funds into tricking retirees into becoming bag holders. This is obvious because *you don’t even want it*. You are *mad someone sent it to you*.

2026-05-17 12:14:59 CEST

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> In 1994, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals cited findings that in Los Angeles, three out of four banknotes were tainted by cocaine or another illicit drug.
75% of all physical dollars are contaminated by drugs. If you limit it to smaller denominations, it’s 95%. If you accept a tainted coin, you can have your ability to buy and sell Bitcoin revoked at exchanges. It is very common. If you accept a tainted dollar, you can guarantee that you will be able to spend it.
You cannot compete and have money that is crippled by a lack of fungibility. Vendors cannot be confident in their sophistication to comply with increasingly bizarre and byzantine restrictions based on the lack of blockchain fungibility, nor weather the storms of random asset freezes and seizures, when dollars are guaranteed legal tender, even though *virtually all of them are literally physically tainted by the drug transactions they were a party to*.
A non-fungible Bitcoin will never be money, because it fails the basic utility test against the utility of dollars. Because dollars have their fungibility legally enforced.

2026-05-17 12:04:27 CEST

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#nevent1q…vgck

2026-05-17 12:02:53 CEST

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Note that Core has been more accommodating to Citrea, which are shipping a fucking shitcoin scam, than for making Bitcoin actual money. All your anger is reserved for a guy that sent you $100 rather than the people who are destroying the future of Bitcoin and let it continually shed users to other, more useful blockchains. It’s astounding to me.
The sad thing is that the future of cryptocurrency will be permanently stunted by Bitcoin not being money. Because eventually something else will be money, and surpass Bitcoin in value. And if that’s the case, money will always be a function of the state. Because the argument against *all* cryptocurrencies will become “well, the big thing used to be Bitcoin — but now it is this other thing. Cryptocurrencies can’t be trusted mediums of market exchange because there will always be a better one”. The crypto ecosystem has the maximum possible value with Bitcoin being the most valuable in the future, but that isn’t possible unless Bitcoin is money. Because right now it is just a greater fool’s game. And until there is a demand that Bitcoin Core actually work towards being useful money *on-chain*, then there is no situation where it will be money.

2026-05-17 11:56:59 CEST

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Core already operates as dictatorship by fiat. Whatever features they have decided upon get implemented, even if the community at large is against them. There’s no fork, Core has always got its way. If they say Bitcoin is on a path to implementing ring signatures, followed by full-chain membership proofs with spend authorization and linkability, we’re getting fungibility and privacy.
Monero supply transparency is completely auditable and cryptographically provable. You misunderstand the technology, like many. Fungibility is a requirement for sound money! The dollar has fungibility legally enforced, there is a law that says it is guaranteed to be usable tender, even if you unknowingly received a stolen dollar or a dollar used in a drug transaction! Well, for crypto, code is law. Bitcoin has to be made fungible, or it will *never be money*.

2026-05-17 11:51:01 CEST

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Sagan was no better than horoscopes and crystals. He was a media-anointed priest of an idolatrous Temple of Science, which is a process they repeat over and over. They choose an official "science priest" that has done little to no science at all, give him TV appearances, have him spew the politically motivated falsehoods of thieves and frauds 24/7 and berate anyone that speaks against them for being “against the science!”
Sagan was the first priest of science, and they used him to push one of the first major alarmist climate hoaxes, nuclear winter. His career was ended when some clever actual scientist asked him -- "by the numbers in your model, isn't the amount of soot released into the air by the oil wells burning in the invasion of Kuwait enough to cause nuclear winter?"
Sagan answered yes, and people started talking about this specific claim constantly. He gave TV interviews assuring people that we were going to see a global drop in temperatures as nuclear winter set in.
> One of the major results of TTAPS' 1990 paper was the re-iteration of the team's 1983 model that 100 oil refinery fires would be sufficient to bring about a small scale, but still globally deleterious nuclear winter.[109]
> Following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait and Iraqi threats of igniting the country's approximately 800 oil wells, speculation on the cumulative climatic effect of this, presented at the World Climate Conference in Geneva that November in 1990, ranged from a nuclear winter type scenario, to heavy acid rain and even short term immediate global warming.
>When Operation Desert Storm began in January 1991, coinciding with the first few oil fires being lit, Dr. S. Fred Singer and Carl Sagan discussed the possible environmental effects of the Kuwaiti petroleum fires on the ABC News program Nightline. Sagan again argued that some of the effects of the smoke could be similar to the effects of a nuclear winter, with smoke lofting into the stratosphere, beginning around 48,000 feet (15,000 m) above sea level in Kuwait, resulting in global effects. He also argued that he believed the net effects would be very similar to the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia, which resulted in the year 1816 being known as the "Year Without a Summer".
>Pre-war claims of wide scale, long-lasting, and significant global environmental effects were thus not borne out, and found to be significantly exaggerated by the media and speculators,[121] with climate models by those not supporting the nuclear winter hypothesis at the time of the fires predicting only more localized effects such as a daytime temperature drop of ~10 °C within 200 km of the source.[122]
After Sagan destroyed his credibility by assuring us that a fire in some raghead country was going to lower the temperature of earth forever, they said "we need a new priest of science -- get a goy face this time!" That's how we got Bill Nye, the homosexual. They also began telling us that burning fossil fuels was going to superheat the earth instead of cooling it. When Nye lit his credibility on fire for the cause of sodomy, they said "get a schwartzer -- we'll call the deniers racist!" And that's how we got Black Science Man.

2026-05-17 11:42:27 CEST

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This is (no personal insult to you) a general attitude that has kept Bitcoin from becoming money. People direct all animosity towards people for “using Bitcoin wrong” rather than to Core for refusing to make any improvements to Bitcoin to make it useful money. Monetary fungibility is a *completely solved problem* for 12 years, and there was no attempt at all to make RingCT the universal standard Bitcoin, even though it would make Bitcoin actually useful money. There are so many solutions to make Bitcoin useful and private but we’re supposed to wait for Silent Payments (not actually a solution) and BOLT12 support (nonexistent in wallets people actually use, not that normal people want to use LN at all).
There is no mechanism to discipline Core. There is no opposition to Core except for Knots, which is obviously a completely retarded joke project. There is no path forward for Bitcoin to become money because people would rather scream at people for using Bitcoin wrong than demand Core make Bitcoin useful money.

2026-05-17 11:30:36 CEST

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it's literally the best troll that's ever been done on Nostr. Alex is a genius talent for starting this. People are crashing out at receiving $100 harder than when Bitcoin loses a third of its value

2026-05-17 09:33:13 CEST

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Lack of socialization is also brain damaging. In fact, solitary confinement is so damaging to the brain that you can see it on a CT scan! After being tortured by the government via solitary confinement on false charges I left prison multiple stones weaker in Go, permanently!
However bad a flu is, which is surely being exaggerated for medical profit and political influences, children being ensconced away from other children is going to be significantly worse.

2026-05-17 09:22:59 CEST

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this shit is absolutely deranged and evil. “I keep my kid in a box away from all the other children to make sure it never gets the flu.” Child protective services should step in at this point.

2026-05-17 07:58:28 CEST

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I use Monero on multiple devices, because it is the *only* thing I transact in now. And I do it exclusively over Tor and i2p, never without a full onion circuit. And my DNS queries are DoH, also routed over onions. There’s a ton of additional latency for all my network requests. And Monero is still reliable and fast.

2026-05-17 07:35:52 CEST

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The onchain zaps are good because they are showing that Bitcoin isn’t money. People are actually angry to receive $100! The Bitcoin people don’t actually want Bitcoin! They are belligerent about getting money in Bitcoin!

2026-05-17 07:28:27 CEST

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Try Stack or Feather, they are light wallets with remote nodes and load quickly.

2026-05-17 07:22:56 CEST

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It is not. I don’t see any additional complexity vs Bitcoin. Certainly a lot less problems for new users than Lightning, which is absolutely awkward for normal people to use.
Even if it were the case that it was harder to set up a Monero wallet, a small learning curve at the outset is better than a thousand hidden gotchas while you actually try to use it on a day to day basis. But it is Bitcoin now that asks for both the learning curve and endless patience while features that make it money become usable at some date in the future. And in the meantime you can’t spend it as money, and people will berate you for giving them $100 in it.

2026-05-17 07:08:23 CEST

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Core is captured by DEI and institutional influence. The only opposition people ever got around to supporting was a retarded kook who wants to reverse the time he lost a bunch of Bitcoin. There is literally nothing worse than Bitcoin governance at this point.
Monero has superior usability, because it is money. It is fungible. I can send and receive Monero under consistent conditions from any Monero client. None of these things are true for Bitcoin now — as this entire thread demonstrates. Bitcoin fans are furious to receive $100 by Bitcoin.

2026-05-17 07:04:20 CEST

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that doesn’t make Bitcoin private or fungible. You’re still going to be spending that Bitcoin, and people will see when you spend or exchange it.
Regardless, I’ve been needing to wait for Bitcoin to have features useful for being money for over 10 years. Monero has been useful money all that time!

2026-05-17 00:45:04 CEST

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Also I don't care about privacy. I use Monero because it is fungible. When people send me Bitcoin, their exchange accounts get killed. Then they stop sending me Bitcoin! But they can send me Monero forever, and keep on doing so.
At no point am I doing something private! I’m not trying to do anything clandestine! I want to exercise my human rights and still be able to be paid! That’s all! I want to spend the money that I’m paid, and not have the vendors also have their exchange accounts killed for doing business with me!

2026-05-17 00:40:35 CEST

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It’s money. If you have money, why wouldn't you want to spend your money on things?
It’s not like I’m any less compromised by what, selling XMR on Kraken and then buying from Amazon? I’m way more compromised by records doing that.

2026-05-17 00:27:49 CEST

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Monero means money. You should talk about using money. You should aggressively tell people you only want to receive hard, private, fungible currency. I’ll talk about using Monero because it is the only thing I want to accept for goods or services. I don’t want to receive Bitcoin because of the problems @npub1xts…kk5s described above, among others. But Monero does not have these problems.

2026-05-16 23:42:30 CEST

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Well, sounds like people are going to have to start sweeping the addresses for the piles of free Bitcoin they’re going to receive, as to not leave it sitting there serving as a bounty.
I understand his point, but his point requires Bitcoin being undesirable to receive. At that point why are people still so obsessed with building for Bitcoin? I think people should switch to Monero until Bitcoin delivers universal privacy and a guarantee of fungibility on-chain. Bitcoin has to be forced to keep up with the technical guarantee of fungibility that made Monero actually useful money.
I want Bitcoin to be money.

2026-05-16 23:34:57 CEST

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BOLT12 is the “Monero version” of Bitcoin. You can't use it with Nostr. I’m told it is very difficult to implement with Nostr.
I can’t even use it on my desktop at all. There’s no wallet for it. It’s only supported in some people’s Android apps. As we saw this month with Android’s universal VPN bypass (which Google has marked WONTFIX and they say it is impossible to fix for some reason (totally not MOSSAD/FBI) but was trivially fixed in a day in Graphene) phones are not a trustworthy platform for privacy. But I’m supposed to trust some Android APK to make a “private” Lightning payment.

2026-05-16 23:31:18 CEST

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Sounds like Bitcoin is kind of antiquated, and it takes a bunch of kludges and layers of abstraction no normal and reasonable person wants to use to make it useful and private money. I can’t receive a bolt12 payment on Nostr! I have to accept the usage of a centralized domain name to receive a lightning payment! There’s not even a desktop wallet on my platform that supports bolt12! But don’t worry, there’s a useful private alternative called Monero! FCMP++ is really impressive, read the paper. Maybe at this point you should consider beginning to accept payments in Monero, because you seem very upset that you are receiving Bitcoin.

2026-05-16 23:10:06 CEST

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well, it is actually useful and private money, and as you are so angrily pointing out here, onchain bitcoin is not

2026-05-16 23:09:21 CEST

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he made an onchain zaps feature, no lightning. He’s been sending a bunch of nostr devs $100 to the bitcoin address that corresponds to their npub.

2026-05-16 23:08:06 CEST

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This saga got my ribs hurting. I’m laughing like an idiot at midnight. My bint is extremely angry with me now because I woke her up.

2026-05-16 23:02:38 CEST

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just convert your nsec to a WIF, and sweep the private key, then convert it to actually useful and private money (Monero)

2026-05-16 21:38:26 CEST

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is there some string to prefix a nostr hex privkey so that sparrow accepts it?

2026-05-16 21:28:27 CEST

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back in the days when you could have 3 guys make a programming language and they all look normal. And it’s nine nines reliable forever.

2026-05-16 12:39:17 CEST

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That’s where the money is, being infrastructure for retard casinos

2026-05-16 11:08:45 CEST

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Cake Wallet has a lot of garbage defaults and problems. They do a lot of Reddit outreach but it’s a terrible wallet.

2026-05-16 01:44:50 CEST

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the erlang-hipe vm is completely fucking awesome, just an incredible engineering feat

2026-05-15 21:25:59 CEST

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It is not. Zcash is a scam shitcoin run by snitches, whose own founder openly tweeted about making shielded transactions available to law enforcement, and with FCMP++ Monero is about to push superior theoretical privacy to Zcash. Up until now, Zcash has only had better theoretical privacy with zk-Snarks, but its practical privacy has been worse every second of its existence. I am sorry you do not know what you are talking about, but if you actually used these technologies in areas where privacy and censorship resistance mattered, you would find that using ZEC gets you kicked off of exchanges just like Bitcoin, and using Monero is the only reliable and safe way to transact.

2026-05-15 13:12:55 CEST

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Okay this is fully sick

2026-05-13 22:26:21 CEST

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> mean when quantum hits, we're gonna have to shift our keys to PQE anyways
sure, and however Bitcoin handles that should probably set the standard for Nostr, as Nostr identities are just a Bitcoin key.
> i understand your point, i'm just saying why not have efficiency where possible?
i don’t know, why aren’t you writing a whole stack of nostr tools in assembler and forth under this logic? probably because it’s a completely ridiculous statement. Prematurely optimizing something that no nostr client spends significant computation cycles on is stupid, and your “optimization” starts with me to spend time circulating an entirely new identity? to save whatever infinitesimal fraction of compute that my nostr clients spends on cryptography, practically nothing? sorry, this is a just frustratingly dumb proposal, and it displays the kind of nerd contempt for people’s time that makes adoption of these kinds of things difficult in the first place. Imagine you were pushing me a fucking memecoin, I call you a faggot, and then you are just innocently being like “we both are interested in permissionless currency, why are you belittling me?” Well, because your behavior solicits contempt.
As far as I am concerned, Nostr is the identity standard. It is self-evidently so because we are having this conversation on Nostr. I am unwilling to entertain your idea of spending countless hours getting people to find me on a *new* protocol with a *new* key format. I would treat this conversation with contempt even if my Nostr client was pegging a whole fucking processor core (it never has)

2026-05-13 19:29:35 CEST

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Post history I don’t care about, but maintaining identity and following/follower graph is pretty important. Who cares about secp256k1 performance? Most people are on a pretty new ARM processor. It is deranged to talk about crypto performance.

2026-05-13 19:11:49 CEST

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Micron? More like my crohn’s disease

2026-05-13 19:06:45 CEST

Please someone get Trump on the line and tell him to start using “Rim Cook” instead of “Tim Apple”
https://image.nostr.build/8f8e7ff95e79288405edac29feede8b6572b3cac89d79307b4617f911c646fef.jpg

2026-05-13 17:47:10 CEST

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implement multisig and add a new key format that uses whatever PQC thing Bitcoin ends up with

2026-05-13 17:33:31 CEST

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Okay well, at this point, if you do anything it should use Nostr’s identity and authentication format as the standard. I should be able to use my npub and bunker or browser extension with whatever you do. Or I’m completely uninterested and will probably be relatively hostile to it.

2026-05-13 16:48:36 CEST

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oh yes, this is just fine, if you make the seeding method social and default. I like how it is blossom compatible too, so it would allow a smooth transition from legacy clients. Very good. Props to the iris people!

2026-05-13 16:03:09 CEST

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IPFS can be fast enough if you don’t have to search the entire network graph for peers and are quickly connected to a limited pool of peers that are more likely to have the file (which is what would be possible in the event my followers are pinning the content)

2026-05-13 16:01:07 CEST

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More feedback: Nosmero has “read relays” and “write relays” but no clear way to differentiate which relays you want to announce. This breaks my ability to paste nevents on some protocols with maximum line length, if they are sourced from clients which provide relay hints within nevents.
After using Nosmero, which has a ton of good features, I just noticed that it decided to announce every write relay. This makes it so I and my friends will no longer be able to reference my Nostr posts on IRC, so to me it is undesirable behavior. I write to many more relays than I actually want to announce.

2026-05-13 15:49:27 CEST

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I feel like Blossom fucking sucks. It's a point of centralization which I am not really thrilled about. I wish I could upload media via IPFS, or some similar, less-fully featured DHT, and there was some kind of social pinning mechanic where all my followers would pin/seed it

2026-05-13 15:39:55 CEST

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There’s another paid write relay. I wish I had more room to announce xmr relays, but my nevents can only get so long before they break when I’m pasting to my pals on IRC due to the maximum line length of most networks. But I’m happy to support the Nostr ecosystem with actually useful money!
https://image.nostr.build/60abea684119355c9de6bb501affc495bb481c2d678d4bd94eecc9ad7cb25e98.jpg

2026-05-13 15:10:31 CEST

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I’ve paid for two relays, xmr.usenostr.org and xmr.ithurtswhenip.ee, with actually useful electronic money (not lightning).
If other relays asked me for a reasonable fee in actually useful money (not lightning) I would probably shell out.

2026-05-13 14:41:08 CEST

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You can look at the paywall code here:
https://github.com/grahamonero/nosmero/blob/main/js/paywall.js
https://github.com/grahamonero/nosmero/blob/main/js/paywall-ui.js

2026-05-13 14:27:46 CEST

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yeah that’s the site, @npub135w…nne8 any thoughts or comments on the NIP? Or any documentation of how your paywall is implemented?

2026-05-13 13:18:07 CEST

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I'm not asking “Gen Z” I am asking you and everyone else following me

2026-05-13 12:51:43 CEST

Nosmero is very chill. I think I am going to use this a lot. If I paywalled content with it would anyone throw shekels?

2026-05-13 10:49:31 CEST

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> i am definitely not saying not to have children but that spiritual salvation does not integrally relate to it,
“The things happening on earth do not matter, all that matters is spiritual salvation.”
This is literally the core assertion of gnostics, and why they were persecuted as heretics

2026-05-12 14:28:22 CEST

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I will not use LN addresses, as they are centralized via the domain name system. By using LN addresses, I am giving authority to the domain name system, which is controlled by the state, to allow me to continue to receive funds. Domain names are state-issued identities and state-issued identities are immoral. I don’t wish to involve them in any way in any financial transaction.
There’s an XMR address in my profile though, if you want to send me cash.

2026-05-12 14:25:06 CEST

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this is why I do not trust my devices to handle VPN and Tor of their own volition. That means you have to trust the device to not subvert itself. If you need your VPN or Tor consistently for any kind of safety or privacy reason, you need a dedicated network appliance for the tunnel or else you should assume that at any given moment a single exploit for any of the software you run on your device can unmask you and bypass the tunnel or simply disable it.

2026-05-12 14:17:37 CEST

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> i dont think "securing your presence on earth" is important and its a very mechanical and worldly goal unrelated to our salvation
this is a gnostic denial of the material reality, and would be taken with revulsion by your forefathers and Church fathers. Your life does not belong to you. It is the latest link in an ancient chain forged with the blood, tears, and misery of your ancestors to put you here today. You do not have the right to disregard forging new links on this chain. You have an obligation to make yourself another link into its continuance for millennia. You have not only a religious obligation to be fruitful and multiply, but moreso, as a white man you have even a neutral ethical obligation to do so for the perpetuation of aesthetic beauty and civilization that is not trash.

2026-05-12 14:14:35 CEST

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It happens to us all

2026-05-12 14:08:48 CEST

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That’s an AI agent doing spam bro

2026-05-12 11:41:28 CEST

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techie women don't have children. There’s a Swedish study based on population data from the 19th century onward that shows that the minimum number of children necessary to have reasonable statistical assurance that you will have living descendents in a century is 5:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040260822000211
There are additional hazards to fertility these days. Sodomy used to be illegal, and you didn’t have to worry about your sons cutting their dicks off to become sex toys for perverts. They were highly likely to be married and having kids of their own by 22 — now the average age of first marriage for white women is over 30. So essentially, the actual present day minimums are likey higher, but the basic floor we know of from historical data is 5 children. If you are providing men with less than 5 children, you are essentially statistically killing him. The primary thing any man of reasonable intellect is concerned about is securing the existence of his presence on earth. If you are prepared to have 5+ children, then you are a potential mate of value. If you are not, which most “techie women” are not, you are literally a manifestation of death, an oversized and overpriced fleshlight that will doom the lineage of any man naive and unfortunate enough to choose you as a mate to either significant diminishment or complete material extermination from this plane of existence.

2026-05-11 19:59:45 CEST

The new Labubus, you’re going to want to get in on the ground floor
https://i.4cdn.org/gif/1778464956408800.webm

2026-05-11 19:48:16 CEST

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Oh lol. Well, I recommend Amethyst, Wisp, Nostur, and Damus personally.

2026-05-11 19:46:54 CEST

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Yeah. It might be a Ditto bug but before we nag Alex I would like to cover the bases and do the jeet tech support

2026-05-11 18:59:43 CEST

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The plebs are not ready for this stuff. I mean it. It is not for general consumption in society. I notice neurodiverse types are most likely to come to a conclusion like “if we hand everyone psychedelic drugs the world will become a paradise!” But everyone did acid in the sixties and it completely eroded the social fabric. Boomers became the most selfish generation in history, and instead of bequeathing the prosperity given to them by their forefathers to future generations they did everything to pull up the ladders for their own descendants to give all economic opportunities to cheap substandard labor. The widespread use of psychedelic drugs is an element of socialization the most monstrous and evil generation in the entire history of Anglo-Germanic heritage. Most people react to psychedelic drugs by becoming selfish and manipulative, deadhead style jam band degenerates, or get blasted and become susceptible to abuse and exploitation.

2026-05-11 18:45:00 CEST

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well, I'm not sure we should expect people who are accessories to money laundering to be moral paragons. I agree with your assessment, but I don’t know if Sterlingov is any better on that front. All of them were alleged to have extracted significant value from the obfuscation of the source and/or destination of funds. Samourai is absolutely scoundrels, and Sterlingov might be too! I care only for the advance of the jurisprudence to defend people’s rights. Sterlingov is appealing. His is the case that will decide the law. If Samourai had gone to trial and appealed, I would be cheerleading for them, even though they were scumbags.

2026-05-11 18:42:05 CEST

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I have not personally had bad experiences with psychedelics. I’ve even IV’d DMT, and I’ve done a thumbprint of LSD. But I am a rootless, listless whack job. I notice that when most people I know who are not itenerent hobos like myself do these drugs, they seem to fuck up their lives. I’m not speaking from my own experiences, just my observation of enough people who have really fucked up their lives after doing DMT.

2026-05-11 17:43:14 CEST

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every single person I know that had a stable life and did DMT fucked their life up after. The only people that didn’t seem to be affected were already rootless, listless wackjobs. As far as I can tell, if you have any degree of responsibilities in your life beyond wiping toddler’s asses, it is stupid to do this drug. Save it for your retirement years.

2026-05-11 17:37:54 CEST

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sorry, s/illegalization/legalization/ — my brain is also gigafried from too many drugs

2026-05-11 17:35:39 CEST

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I don't know, I have seen enough people blow up their lives after smoking DMT that I believe it should definitely be made extremely difficult to find. Most relevant and accurate meme possible attached. Every experiment with any degree of drug illegalization has had atrocious consequences. Most people should not touch this stuff.
https://image.nostr.build/323db596f8193a1f29a5d66ac0cb26f7c97401c3b5bd36ad1da6a70c5cd069a1.jpg

2026-05-11 17:00:36 CEST

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Are you adding relays the missing content is published to?

2026-05-11 16:22:14 CEST

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actual nostr relay connections in primal are only for outbound (publishing). For what you get to see, it is controlled entirely by the caching server.

2026-05-11 16:20:46 CEST

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can you add relays to ditto?

2026-05-11 16:14:28 CEST

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yes. none of this is denied or a secret. it's trivially verifiable. they've also been caught red-handed editorializing/censoring the primal feed, and admit that it is structured algorithmically instead of by follows. They call it a “caching server” but that is Orwelliian doublespeak. Because caches do not editorialize or filter. They just prepare data to serve it faster. Though it is called a “caching server” and I have used the same verbiage, it is not actually a caching server. Its most notable feature is censorship.

2026-05-11 15:49:57 CEST

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I only use Tor and it is impossible to actually solve Recaptchas there. You fill them out correctly and it says try again, in a loop, forever. I simply stopped using all services that use Google services.

2026-05-11 14:16:02 CEST

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As for the caching service claim, just look in the network settings. It openly tells you that you are just connecting to a single Primal server.
https://image.nostr.build/25671c1f598e391789eece70c3a78297bea8508d145e918574587cdf4ecb988e.jpg

2026-05-11 14:07:24 CEST

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Max Webster founded Hivemind Ventures, which was in Primal’s seed round. You can find very easily with web searches that he was a founder at Bright, and that they were funded by Max Levchin.
What’s really off is how aggressively people defend the centralized components of Primal, attacking anyone that criticizes the centralization. If you loved Primal that much wouldn’t you want it to be more decentralized and sustainable? But after seeing literally dozens of instances of people attacking developers of legitimately centralized clients, and also me personally for bringing this stuff up, I came to the conclusion that it’s likely a paid shill/intel spook strategy. What organic users of Nostr are going to aggressively attack people calling for decentralization? These people do not actually exist. They are not giving real opinions.

2026-05-11 13:50:37 CEST

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sorry, "financially support” here should read “financially subvert”.

2026-05-11 13:47:16 CEST

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Primal main source of venture capital is a guy that founded a failed Mexican solar energy company (literal glownigger) with money from Max Levchin and has no real success stories. This leads me to believe that he’s just a proxy by which people close to the US surveillance state try to financially support Nostr. But beyond that, Primal is *architecturally* compromised. It is a centralized service that prevents you from viewing Nostr the protocol and instead has you viewing Primal’s extremely centralized caching server, over which they regularly exercise the powers of censorship and editorial control.
#nevent1q…z9ht

2026-05-11 09:09:32 CEST

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I am glad to see so many EFnet heads getting on Nostr

2026-05-11 06:00:45 CEST

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> if geopolitics podcasters are to be believed
doing a lot of rhetorical heavy lifting with this statement. People have been predicting some sort of global famine since far before Malthus and yet it never materializes. There’s no shortage of people to say the sky is falling. Those of us who live in reality know that this problem isn’t going to magically be fixed by resource shortages or acts of god. It is up to us to fix it with our own hands.

2026-05-10 22:10:34 CEST

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You need to work on your pimp hand, Jake. A man that can’t beat a woman is shameful. Enforce paterfamilias. She won’t shoot.

2026-05-10 21:58:25 CEST

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I enjoy much of your work but that cunt @npub1mzn…6mak openly supported criminal property destruction, harassment, and censorship of pro-white dating sites at the hands of a disgusting communist tranny. I legitimately pray that she is raped and murdered by the subhuman niggers she loves so much. You should reconsider your association with someone who supports the subversive terrorist agenda of trannies that hate white people and are trying to genocide them.

2026-05-10 21:01:22 CEST

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yeah it was a real, working linux distribution you could install.
You might be able to look up linuxforniggers.us on archive sites, maybe there’s an old magnet link that still has a seed or a direct download iso that’s archived.

2026-05-10 17:00:08 CEST

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The most important thing is Zcash isn't fungible. The exchange compliance rules get you kicked off the exchanges Monero isn’t on the minute you interact with the shielding. It’s also arguably legally an overt act of money laundering in many jurisdictions to use the opt-in shielding, whereas with Monero anti-surveillance is an incidental side effect of protecting fungibility.

2026-05-10 07:29:51 CEST

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Libtards are constantly winning because they have masked and unmasked gangs constantly prowling the streets and murdering people. Violence is the fastest way to assure that you get absolutely everything you want out of the political system.

2026-05-10 07:26:42 CEST

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I know bro, we all know

2026-05-09 20:39:33 CEST

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sorry to get aggressive. No personal insult taken, just passionate about the truth on this issue. It is really egregious. Sterlingov has been in prison for 5 years so far. He can’t make the case for himself, and didn’t get to bribe influencers to promote his rug pull

2026-05-09 18:09:50 CEST

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Also case law that sets new precedent is almost always marked as such. Here’s an example, US v. Auernheimer, the case that I set to enforce Constitutional standards, available here on the EFF website:
https://www.eff.org/files/2014/04/11/weev.pdf
You can see in the top right corner of the cover page that it is clearly marked PRECEDENTIAL, so that people searching for new interpreations and standards within the law can discover it by search queries.
https://image.nostr.build/c979044b27e19881b3bb348f508f5c955b9224b804cd15c531fc405de2cb6ffc.jpg