Bryan

Public Key

npub17p77cc8yps8s66a0n20333xwhgnxyeh6f7swxgkpjf2f3jef8smqgq6s02

NIP-57 Address

Profile Code

nprofile1qqs0ql0vvrjqcrcddwhe48cccn8t5fnzvmaylg8rytqey4ycev5ncdspz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduqs6amnwvaz7tmwdaejumr0dsrs5mx6

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relay.damus.io

nos.lol

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npub17p77cc8yps8s66a0n20333xwhgnxyeh6f7swxgkpjf2f3jef8smqgq6s02

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Last Notes

2024-08-30 14:46:12

Finally finished Broken Money. Thanks @npub1a2c…w83a for the awesome book and @npub1h8n…rpev for the reading of it.
I got stalled out in the first section of the book dealing with the history of money. I guess I can only take so much talk about sea shells and stones. And it likely didn’t help that I listened to a bunch of podcasts that Lyn did talking about those topics before listening to the book.
But once it got to the talking about gold, central banks and speed of settlement, it was great.

2024-08-20 21:43:41

Is my watch telling me I slept walked? Don’t remember getting up… https://image.nostr.build/ad76a8b43e93a3667bd3688108d83d65cb260f478b78376c489243f4dbdc4c97.jpg

2024-08-17 23:27:58

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BUT ONLY IN ALL CAPS

2024-08-17 23:26:50

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Too much.

2024-08-13 17:52:30

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If I understand this right, the relay would be able to see the public IP of every client and correlate that to the group IDs that they are downloading? In the worst case of a note being published to a single malicious relay, that relay would know the public IP of every client that downloaded the note and know that they where a member of the group (or at least have high confidence of it)?

2024-08-06 02:25:40

It’s a sad day… #note1mny…3fy8

2024-08-03 17:38:37

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Nice try fed :) https://image.nostr.build/ca9dec7eed71df6ce388a4ec02d48d106aadbb1cc36c0f7ae32825de304f30e7.jpg

2024-08-01 22:15:55

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Is it on chain vs lightning? And the different lightning types?
I would assume that on chain payments are pretty straightforward.

2024-07-29 04:47:55

Freedom go up >> number go up
Number go up will happen with adoption. But we need to hold to the core freedom values of Bitcoin.

2024-07-27 01:06:25

Man I feel old. Walking into a restaurant today and there was a newspaper stand outside. My 10 year old sees it and says “is that a newspaper? I’ve heard about those! Can we get one?!”
The world has changed. Sometimes you forget how much.

2024-07-26 14:37:14

100% correct. #note1ett…rz6n

2024-07-26 00:17:48

Enjoying a nature walk. https://image.nostr.build/0c71f2f86ee0b9ea353b2508be29f46ced6b162470a1c132ba0514fef802c1a5.jpg

2024-07-24 13:26:01

Go outside. Touch grass. Smoke meat. https://image.nostr.build/8fb92843fde78c8e624dfc0d14f8e10186adfe74f708b622682797d3762f8f8d.jpg

2024-07-24 03:16:27

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Coinjoin it or sell it all back and then buy non-KYC?

2024-07-24 01:27:19

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We are still separating the state from control of the money. The state is one of the biggest users of money, so we can’t keep them out forever.

2024-07-22 23:35:23

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Prediction: lots of cringe

2024-07-22 23:05:07

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I chose to go with a BSD to give the bitcoin network a little bit more diversity of operating systems. Bitcoin is likely a heavily Linux leaning install base. But that might be hard mode with ordinals software. Don’t know how well they run on non-Linux.

2024-07-21 02:42:32

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But when will then be now?

2024-07-21 02:32:29

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What did you not like about bisq2? I’m not a huge fan of how they do the order book, but once I understood the process it was easy to use.

2024-07-15 01:37:50

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I need to try it out. Have been testing using Bisq2 for non-kyc sats, but that’s on chain only right now.

2024-07-15 01:35:30

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I saw your incident report on GitHub. Thank you for the continued work on this. But in all honesty I’m a bit cautious about upgrading versions right now. I’m not planning on doing any coinjoins in the near feature so existing wallet features work for me.

2024-07-14 04:21:49

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I don’t think people realize how hard it would be to have a grazing wound vs a clean miss vs headshot.
It doesn’t make any sense to have a planned grazing.

2024-07-14 04:17:54

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I get the symbolism but I don’t think that was a mortal wound. And half the country and most of the world still hates him.

2024-07-14 02:21:34

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Not currently. But with a reasonable ramp up nostr will find a way.

2024-07-14 02:05:33

Maybe telling your base that it’s the end of democracy if the other guy is elected isn’t healthy for democracy. Stuff like this seems acceptable if that is the alternative.

2024-07-11 01:08:49

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A Chromebook? 😁

2024-07-10 17:57:05

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https://image.nostr.build/7d777d1f82488cb222fe61403fcf72fc4c13044bfe8c07a5ca95ba729b8e84b4.jpg

2024-07-10 13:02:27

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This for wasabi wallet? Did you get any additional info or logs about what happened?

2024-07-08 02:27:58

Can someone zap me 1 or 2 sats? Testing a new LNURL address.

2024-07-06 13:10:27

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Forgot that they have different block template options available now. But they still charge higher fees if you use the core template?

2024-07-05 01:25:58

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I don’t love oceans view of spam but am willing to overlook for every thing else that they are doing.

2024-07-04 04:10:56

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Welcome to the madness:)

2024-07-03 01:51:25

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Definitely have a higher variance in outcomes. I’m not sure if that is a good thing. I think what it would result in is more power in staffers and executive agencies who would provide “advice” to the new guy.

2024-07-02 01:09:36

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This has been a long time coming. Going to see a lot of interesting litigation over the next few years. The best part of the Trump presidency may be the judges he put in.

2024-06-30 13:32:30

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The rest of this year should be interesting.

2024-06-29 17:37:52

Does any know why all the zaps I send using Damus and mutiny wallet show as unknown recipient in mutiny wallet? When I click on the friend’s view I can see those zaps correctly, so I think my nostr key is in there right.
#zap #asknostr #mutinywallet #damus https://image.nostr.build/088ecc25c93210cec351e735c44b18e5b225b3d314ae05963ff3843b9e70e726.jpg

2024-06-22 03:24:44

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Agreed. I wish we had started earlier.

2024-06-19 03:03:09

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Is there a minimum stack size you see needing before moving from hardware wallet to multisig? I feel like sub one bitcoin it may not be worth it.

2024-06-14 14:45:07

@npub1mut…23vg
Are there any other URLs besides the main wallet app URL that need to be excluded from lockdown mode in IOS to make the wallet load?
Haven’t been able to make the PWA load since going into lockdown mode. https://image.nostr.build/202f8dfa970354ad4636033a1415cbdfddd3fda951b105bb79fc7060cbc43d2c.jpg

2024-06-02 03:04:39

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That’s the quietest data center type environment I’ve ever seen. That’s awesome.

2024-06-02 02:53:16

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What about a personal driver?

2024-06-02 02:40:31

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Nice!

2024-06-01 15:02:49

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It does have inflation. The block reward is inflation. It’s just predictable and scheduled inflation.

2024-06-01 14:29:09

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I’ll agree that there are some costs that aren’t always clear with opening the channels. Hopefully these wallets will continue to improve that experience. Federations and ecash might help as well if the user is ok with the trade offs in custody. But I guess that feeds into your argument that they are too complicated if you are having to understand that.

2024-06-01 01:54:41

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I think there’s a difference between running LND and running something like Mutiny Wallet. I don’t think the average user should be running LND. But something like Zeus or Mutiny for everyone is awesome. My understanding is that both Zeus and Mutiny run a node in their wallet software.

2024-05-15 15:04:34

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Is the thought to eventually extend this to broadcast full blocks?

2024-05-12 03:00:38

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No one likes every position of the politicians they vote for. There is a hierarchy of cares for the voters and this may be lower than other pro-freedom positions that they feel trump has. I’m not really pro trump, but I’m going to hold my nose and vote for him as the least worse option.

2024-05-10 02:41:21

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The UI does feel more responsive.

2024-05-09 02:43:04

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I’m not saying it’s a good thing, but the average home is also almost triple the size it was then.

2024-05-08 23:56:11

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Agreed. Sounds like cope.

2024-05-08 23:54:56

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Firefox + ublock origin

2024-05-08 17:43:30

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I’ll take the free energy, but I also don’t think it would break bitcoins security model. Instead of being bound by electricity costs, we would just move the bottle neck to manufacturing. But this assumes that the free energy tech is widely available.

2024-05-08 15:17:28

@npub1l2v…ajft
@npub1xts…kk5s
Wondering if either of you would chime in on this? #note12u7…z43w

2024-05-08 02:51:05

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Ocean doesn’t include them in the blocks that they mine, but other miners do. Once in the blockchain you have to have them or the crypto hashes break because the block has been modified. You can run a pruned node to reduce the amount of data stored.

2024-05-08 02:48:00

Now that lightning implementations are starting to support Bolt 12 does anyone know if #zaps will natively support Bolt 12 invoices or if there has to be changes to the NIP?
#bitcoin #zaps #lightningnetwork

2024-05-07 14:58:20

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Not really. Once they are included in a block they are part of the blockchain and can’t be removed.
You can run knots instead of core which will filter the transactions out of the mempool. But that doesn’t stop miners from including the transactions within blocks.
Remember that they are still valid bitcoin transactions. Part of having a permission less network is allowing stuff you don’t like but still follows the consensus rules.

2024-05-03 05:48:20

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That is a really interesting idea, I might implement that.

2024-05-03 03:07:30

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Use this to see if the computer is compromised?

2024-05-03 01:01:31

https://blog.wasabiwallet.io/zksnacks-is-discontinuing-its-coinjoin-coordination-service-1st-of-june/
Another one bites the dust…not good.

2024-04-24 15:20:00

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Strong disagree.
Question: if you had to interact with the IRS due to a problem or an audit, do you want the person to be competent?
Alternate proposal: take the job at the IRS. Be fantastic at your job. Change the culture of the organization from within.

2024-04-20 19:10:41

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I mean they were always valid bitcoin transactions. There wasn’t a change to the bitcoin protocol yesterday.

2024-04-20 19:05:26

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I think only the Brains pool has it deployed right now. It’s still early in development.

2024-04-20 05:55:24

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It’s not great. Best hope it stratum v2.

2024-04-20 05:53:40

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It’s a valid bitcoin transaction. Spam is a value judgement. This will pass. They will eventually get priced out. Until then they are paying the miners.

2024-03-16 23:56:25

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OTC desks for the ETFs?

2024-03-15 04:50:16

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🤷 ok

2024-02-15 20:14:58

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Wouldn’t she know right away from the green message bubbles?

2024-02-14 02:33:02

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Yep.

2024-02-13 16:16:30

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Not looking good there. But if you never try to restore you won’t know the answer to your Schrödinger’s backup paradox.

2024-01-09 22:36:00

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2FA is hard.

2023-12-01 23:55:11

Using #zaps for the #zapathon will avoid destroying swimming pools with those nasty bitcoin transactions.

2023-10-24 02:00:49

I’ve been looking at the documentation for the newly released taproot assets. The documentation and marketing seems to either talk at a really high level about how awesome the protocol is or go really deep about the daemon and APIs. There doesn’t seem to be anything in the middle. Can anyone take a stab at these questions:
1. It appears from the documentation that the entirety of an issued asset exists within a single bitcoin UTXO. Does this mean that only the issuer of the asset can update balances? IE it’s completely custodial?
2. Does that mean that the issuer is able to censor any transactions that they wish when posting updates to the underlying UTXO?
#lightningnetwork #bitcoin #questions #taproot

2023-10-23 05:06:02

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What’s been really hard to understand about taproot assets is the security model from the end user perspective. Can the issuer of the asset censor transactions? Do end users custody their own assets? Is it permissionless to use? IE what are the compromises from the Bitcoin ethos.

2023-10-21 01:18:27

#zapathon https://image.nostr.build/6ec221cdd3db6247e1a23ea761a092099af29806f21c5a13cbe9e1308f3c7aee.jpg

2023-10-09 02:16:05

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A five dollar wrench
To you they will beat
Till you give your keys
And transfer your sats

2023-10-04 14:13:29

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This is really cool. One request would be to clear up the UI when the gift is already claimed. Having it report back that it either timed out or was already claimed are very different possible problems.

2023-09-19 15:48:04

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🫡

2023-09-01 04:10:49

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I thought I could be a better routing node. I was wrong.

2023-08-24 20:32:23

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I’m out of the loop. What is the problem with status links?