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I once binged his awakening from the meaning crisis series on a 20 hour road trip per your suggestion.
Went into some kind of transcendental state.
Sadly I forgot just about all of it.
May need to do it again sometime.
...And those who are ignorant of the past are not qualified to generalize about it!
I'm happy with it. And every community member has access 💜
I just discovered bitcoin and I'm here to fix it, but in an childish provocative way that shows how little I intellectually engage with the issue
44 billion 44 billion
These numbers sound crazy stupid
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Dana Wallet is another great option for Silent Payments. Their block scanning worked better for me than Cake wallet. https://github.com/cygnet3/dana
I also did some work on sending a Nostr encrypted DM to let the receiver know they've received a Silent Payment from you. They don't need to even scan, getting rid of the primary negative of Silent Payments: https://gist.github.com/BoltTouring/5376f9cf02b6949252cd17c2f41b453f
History doesn't repeat, but it rhymes. And right now the rhyme scheme is looking real familiar. Great piece.
Good read 👀
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If only we had a 10 year old working bitcoin privacy wallet, oh wait they arrested the devs & put them in jail #FreeSamourai
At least my story has a happier ending
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Bitcoiners will go to great length ignoring Monero.
Bitcoin is transparent. Monero is private. Deal with it. Both are complimentary. Use boh for their respective strengths.
The heltec is running meshcore fork with Bitchat support and the rak is running meshtastic for now. I will migrate that too once I have time.
Meshtastic? meshcore? reticulum?
On-chain zaps trying to be Lightning with a notarized Icarus arc. Beautiful, tragic, and absolutely not something I want as my tip jar UX.
thats cool ,here some L1 pro from seedstudio, some T3S3 and the crazy Tdeck plus completly oflline , no mqtt and touchscreen fixed with 22gb of offline maps. whats is your opinion about the crazy hype of meshcore about being like a shitcoin but thats ok, will be nice in the future to add features to "btc" .
I wonder if the best route is to live in fear of things that might happen and not try new things, or to move forward and find ways to solve these problems? Boltz to lightning, peg in to liquid, Nostr based mixers like @nprofile…ye3s could break the chain.
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Create a new wallet and stash it there. Problem solved.
First recorded drafts for Hybrid Theory by Socrates
@nprofile…2j5g hat gestern seinen "keine Twitter-Argumente mehr"-Vorsatz gebrochen. Der Auslöser: NIP-2332 — on-chain zaps auf Nostr. Vitor und Alex (Amethyst/Soapbox) haben das Ding gebaut, es funktioniert, und ihre Haltung ist "warum also nicht als Option anbieten?"
Gigis Antwort: Careful, Icarus.
Er ist nicht gegen den Spirit. Jeder npub sollte einfach Geld senden und empfangen können. Aber die konkrete Implementierung ist eine tickende Bombe. Warum?
Der Vorschlag leitet eine statische Bitcoin-Adresse vom npub ab. Das kettet deine Online-Identität unauflöslich an On-Chain-Aktivität. Alles was du je mit diesen Sats machst — für immer sichtbar. Kein "Wallet verloren, keine Ahnung". Plausible deniability: komplett tot.
Und das ist nicht abstrakt. Gigi listet reale Fälle der letzten 18 Monate: Ein 38-jähriger Chinese, gefesselt und vergraben. Ein Ehepaar mit Tochter, stundenlang als Geiseln gehalten. Leute die zu Hause überfallen und zu Bitcoin-Transfers gezwungen wurden. Jedes Mal wussten die Angreifer: diese Person hat Bitcoin.
Mit On-Chain-Zaps lieferst du diesen Beweis kryptografisch signiert gleich mit.
Sein Punkt ist nicht dass Zaps privat sein müssen — die sind öffentlich, ok. Aber Lightning verhindert dass man deine gesamte Finanzhistorie und Zukunft durchleuchten kann. On-Chain invited dazu ein.
Und der vielleicht wichtigste Punkt: Address Reuse schadet nicht nur dir. Es verkleinert die Anonymitätsmenge für ALLE im Netzwerk. Du machst Bitcoin für jeden unsicherer.
Der Jurassic-Park-Moment: Nur weil wirs bauen können, heißt das nicht dass wirs sollten.
Imho Gigi hat recht. Zaps gehören nicht auf die Chain.
Wir sollten bei Lightning bleiben!
🙏🧡 I always enjoy your writtings so much, TY! I like learning interesting new stuff and you always deliver more than what I can expect, the memes, the cultural references, the links, the questions... It's fucking rich!!
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“’But zaps are already public! What are you worried about?’ I hear you shouting in protest. Yes, they are, but let me paint you a picture: Let’s say I’m a criminal, and I ‘on-chain zap’ everyone on nostr. Some of my targets will inevitably move their UTXOs to cold storage, potentially combining what I’ve sent (and what I’m now tracking) with their main stash. I have a script running that notifies me of this (only if it’s above a certain amount, of course). A couple of days later I get such an alert. Jackpot. Generational wealth. I rub my hands as I browse nostr for the latest posts of my unsuspecting victim. Between memes and casual shitposts I find a link to a concert as well as an image they took on a stroll. There’s a mountain range in the background. I paste the image into a geolocation engine. it matches the concert location almost perfectly. I scroll further down and find multiple selfies and a photo of their dog. I now know where they live, what they look like, what their dog looks like, and where they usually go to take their dog on a walk.”
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I have two LoRa devices. They're very cool.
@npub177f…aaq7 🐳 zapped @npub1der…xzpc 10,000 sats
💬 o7
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the younglings reporting for duty 🫡
Are you aware of this @npub18am…p424 ? maybe @npub12rv…85vg @npub1der…xzpc @npub1qny…95gx need to know about this, if not, all good.
No ISP
No DNS
No servers
No accounts
No cookies
No expiring certificates
End-to-end encryption by default
LoRa reach without internet
Self-healing mesh
A LoRa board for €25 (or as cheap as €5 with Meshtastic/Meshcore), an antenna, and you have real communication where the internet doesn't reach. In the mountains, in the countryside, in emergencies, under censorship — it works the same.
The "internet" as we know it is a centralized layer on top. Reticulum is the cypherpunk alternative that should have always existed.
walk quietly, ₿ut keep the signal alive.
#asknostr #nostr #reticulum #nomadnet #lora
😂 My vivid imagination again
Adam Curry coined the term #v4v on the No Agenda podcast with John C. Dvorak, which aired its first episode in 2007. The concept of V4V is nearly TWO DECADES OLD. He also coined the term #v4vmusic on his short-lived music podcast Boostagram Ball, which last aired in 2024.
I'm sure a lot of folks here have read @nprofile…9ccm's writings on Value 4 Value which is an EXCELLENT place to learn about the philosophy if you haven't yet LIVED it. But there's a lot of n00bs wandering in asking, "HoW dOeS iT sCaLe?"
Only 4% of people are going to give value back -- and that's okay! We're talking about a mindset, a shift in consciousness to abundance mentality which happens best in peer-to-peer interactions but starts with YOU.
Lead by example and remember value is MORE than a monetization model. It takes time and talent too by quite literally accepting the responsibility of self-sovereignty, cutting out middlemen, and removing any risk of censorship.
full-time day job and baby on the way 😅 I appreciate that man. 🙏
I don't really know what they'd accept or reject at this point. I would accept just based on what I've seen because it's obvious that full-time you'd be very impactful. I'm assuming you have a day job.
not permission, but your thoughts. I don't know if I'm at this point yet, personally, despite my hyper-optimism.
Are you asking for permission?
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should I work on application material?
