Juraj

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2025-03-18 19:14:38 GMT

A look at free banking in the 19th century and how it relates to today. We can build it with Cashu. And it might have some nice properties.
Admittedly a bit too long, but I think this perspective is interesting and is not much known. If it's too long for you to read, there's also a text to speech audio version that supports value4value, links at the beginning of the article.
https://juraj.bednar.io/en/blog-en/2025/03/18/cashu-bitcoin-freebanking/

2025-03-14 22:28:49 GMT

Climate change policies: It's a very expensive way to live like a poor person.

2025-03-14 20:48:18 GMT

Enabling cryptocurrency by regulation is literally: "for something that before the regulation anyone could have done, you now need a special permit (license) and comply with regulatory bullshit".
Oh, but regulatory clarity!
What is not clear in "everything that is not forbidden is allowed"? What more regulatory clarity do you need?
Stop with this enabling statetalk, we don't need to enable anything, we are pre-enabled by default.

2025-02-24 21:02:13 GMT

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No, neither does Reticulum. LoraWAN is one layer above Lora and is not very good, hence we use different protocols for different purposes. Reticulum is it's own network layer that can run over any medium (including, but not limited to LoRa).

2025-02-21 18:32:02 GMT

I have verified this, not a scam
#note1rhn…acwf

2025-01-23 07:01:45 GMT

Tried distilled llama-70b deepseek r1 (not the big one yet).
I'm quite disappointed. The thinking process is there, it is pretty good, but then the model does not follow its own advice and forgets things.
Unfortunately the big model does not run on my machine.

2024-11-30 14:56:27 GMT

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what is worse is that meshtastic is not encrypted by default and can't do arbitrary encrypted messages. which is crucial, because there are no cashu invoices, the token is the money. whoever sees it can spend it (there's a way to lock it to pubkey, but you need to exchange the pubkey then).
so sending the token has to be private and exchanging the token for the fresh one (to prevent double spend by sender) needs to be totally encrypted.

2024-11-23 13:13:53 GMT

Got my Daylight computer. This is the preloaded reading that is on the device by default.
The whole experience was amazing, unpacking and everything...
https://image.nostr.build/3053591f83efb1305a45cbee4316994af4ef5fa418fd123f2fb236e965e388f8.jpg

2024-11-23 09:20:35 GMT

Oh no. He really recommended buying Bitcoin. We are so done.
#inversecramer
https://image.nostr.build/6355c83d04e4587e9655d819f655a56fc1226f0224734f56f962bae8fd734f6f.jpg

2024-11-23 09:18:31 GMT

Gm
https://image.nostr.build/0cc0491e97d3a414bbf23ba3bfd0cdcf38b405c0448bf3838905c4b13f55e457.jpg

2024-11-20 08:45:59 GMT

I started writing reply to this, also to some people in the comments. And it became long, I wrote it as a blog:
https://juraj.bednar.io/en/blog-en/2024/11/20/you-dont-have-to-do-it-a-better-life-awaits/
#note10au…vxqr
https://m.primal.net/Mbzv.jpg

2024-11-16 16:58:50 GMT

Running @npub155m…dcvg 2.0.
Migration was super easy. Everything worked. Very cool.

2024-11-12 09:06:05 GMT

New project: a podcast version of my blogs. Locally generated. First the llm processes the blog into a form that is better for speech, another llm verifies that the first one did not screw it up. That should get the text blog into a more readable form. Then I do speech to text, which I verify via text to speech, I also change the parameters automatically if the output is not good.
I even had to change the phonemizer, to recode the inference model a bit.
Text to speech components are on my github.
The podcast is value4value enabled, so I accept sats per minute if your podcasting app supports it and boosts. The boosts are directly integrated with my podcasting 2.0 dashboard (also on my github).
https://fountain.fm/show/3MjdPUN26O8yQAtaXBmL

2024-11-11 18:20:18 GMT

V Amerike majú odvolené a my sme sa s Filipom ešte raz pozreli na predikčné trhy – čo nám hovorili ceny, ako sa vyvíjali, a množstvo ďalších tém o predikčných trhoch. Crowdfunding sťahovania sa Muskovej dcéry mimo USA, kontroverzná stávka na inauguráciu, regulácie stávkovania, ale aj AI v EÚ, či cenzúra internetu.
https://juraj.bednar.io/podcast/2024/11/11/filip-legeny-predikcne-trhy-2-dynamika-cien-ako-crypto-bros-predpovedaju-buducnost-cenzura-internetu/

2024-11-09 09:23:17 GMT

Why everything has to be a conspiracy? The food industry is so evil that the CEOs sat down and hatched a plan how to make us all sick, probably buying stock in drug companies to fix it?
This sloppy thinking does not pass through the razors. It is complicated (Occam's razor) and much better explained by stupidity (Hanlon's razor) than malice.
People are confused by this, because they see emergent behavior. Yes, everything has sugar, because sugar sells. There's no conspiracy, the companies are selling people what they want. So don't want what is not good for you.
I know that it's much more fun to believe that there's an evil with a face and name causing all our troubles rather than saying people demand this and market supplies.
People can't agree on a date of a meeting with five people. But world wide conspiracy flourishes, it's kept mostly secret (except of you, right? You're one of the few that know about it, because someone tweeted about it).
Conspiracies are for people who want to complain and find whose fault something is. Much better approach for each individual - identify what's good for you and demand it. And don't get fooled by emergent behavior in complex systems. It might feel planned, but it just appears out of trillions of interactions. Yes, it's magic. Soros, Gates and Klaus don't have much more say in it than you do.

2024-11-06 17:39:38 GMT

The lesson at the end is exactly what I've been doing for a long time now. Don't read the news, read the prices.
Not only about the outcome, but how probabilities react to smallest changes in the environment. Matching over 3 billion is definitely not just crypto bros trading their hopium (as @robinhanson's paper on Futarchy says "Shall We Vote on Values, But Bet on Beliefs?"). That kind of money trades an edge.
What is even more funny to me is how people think that someone would just buy trump yes tokens to see a number move on one platform. No, you do that when you have insider information. Funny thing was that it was the other way around - Trump's team was watching Polymarket numbers to see what works.
When my wife asks me if there's going to be WW3 this year, I say I don't know (no one really knows), but to see the odds, I look at the markets. The crypto bros trading these markets have an edge.
Now free Ross and I'm going back to coding. And order some coffee from my crypto bro wins on polymarket.
P.S.: https://juraj.bednar.io/en/blog-en/2021/06/23/prediction-markets-crowdsourcing-information-for-good-decisions/
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Original post:
https://x.com/hosseeb/status/1854154029796073814?t=axNSGD8GNW50vnLvZIXu6A&s=19
What Polymarket got Right that the Experts Got Wrong
As the dust settles on the election, there’s a story that the WSJ and NYT didn’t tell you. While the mainstream news was busy with their TV pageantry and hedging on calling key swing states, Polymarket, the world’s biggest prediction market, had already delivered its verdict by midnight EST, declaring Trump was 97% likely to win. This was before the media called even a single swing state.
All throughout this election, Polymarket was always one step ahead. I want to explain why this is, because judging from the Twitter responses I was getting last night, most people deeply misunderstand this.
There are two fundamental things that Polymarket did better than the media.
1. Polymarket was more accurate on the forecast going into the election.
Let’s take the pollsters and analysts. Election poll-based models claimed the race was a dead-even 50/50. Polymarket meanwhile was priced Trump with a distinct edge—going into the election, he was priced around 62% to win.
If you remember, the mainstream media derided Polymarket for this difference. Polymarket should be the same as the modelers, they said! Obviously it means you can’t trust Polymarket. It’s priced differently because it’s a bunch of Trump-loving crypto bros. It’s invested by Peter Thiel. Only foreigners trade on it. It's unregulated, so it must be being manipulated. There's a whale pushing up the price of Trump. And on and on.
Implicit in this dismissal is a deep distrust of markets. As though markets cannot be trusted unless affirmatively proven otherwise. And of course, if you actually trusted the markets, you might not trust the media anymore. And their whole business model is predicated on you distrusting anyone but them—why else would you continue to click on their never-ending stream of clickbait?
But anyone with experience with markets knows: it doesn’t fucking matter if a market is composed of Republicans, or Democrats, or foreigners, or whatever. In reality, we know that JP Morgan was using Polymarket, as were some of the largest hedge funds in the world (most have non-US subsidiaries). It was integrated into Bloomberg Terminal, it was being quoted on CNN. And yet the media spoke of Polymarket as though it was 4chan.
Understand, Polymarket traded $3.6 BILLION dollars on the presidential election. This was the largest election betting market by volume IN HISTORY and AN ORDER OF MAGNITUDE more than any other election market ever. There was more riding on this than any single modelers’ career prospects. Understand—markets work because of how much is riding on getting the answer right.
These supposed biases—being Trump-aligned crypto-pilled non-Americans—didn’t skew the market’s accuracy. (It seems obvious in retrospect that being non-American might improve your ability to dispassionately predict an election.)
But the identities of the bettors didn't matter. Prediction markets distill input from many diverse actors to produce prices that transcend biases. Markets don't care about ideology, they only care about being right.
And as it turns out, Polymarket was more right than any pollster or modeler.
Now, I want to be clear what I’m not saying: the difference between 60/40 and 50/50 sounds big, but it’s not. Elections are noisy. High school statistics will tell you that if you want to tell if a coin is rigged to be 60/40 rather than 50/50, you would need over 100 coin flips to have 90% certainty. The outcome of “Trump won this election” does not tell you whether the coin was 60/40 or 50/50.
My point is not that Polymarket was right and the models were wrong. They actually didn't disagree with each other by much. I'm making a more subtle point: the market was consistently pricing Trump’s odds higher than the polls. Remember, the market knows what the polls and analysts are saying. Markets incorporate all existing information—but Polymarket disagreed with with the pollsters. The only explanation that analysts could come up with for this was: Polymarket is biased.
They didn’t have the humility to imagine, maybe, just maybe, Polymarket knew something that was not being captured by the polls.
Polling sucks. This is all well established now. In the pre-Internet era, polling was much more accurate. Landline poll response rates were often above 60%. Today, poll response rates are around 5%. This means pollsters are getting massive sampling biases, and there is no possible way to correct these biases without baking in clumsy statistical corrections. (Plus pollsters—who are ultimately selling a product and have reputations to keep up—frequently herd their estimates together to avoid being an outlier, which fucks up poll aggregation.)
Plus, Trump is special. He is uniquely divisive in American politics. So for three elections in a row, we have seen massive polling errors that underestimated his support—the so called “Shy Trump Voter” effect.
Polymarket presumably believed that the polls were missing this. The pollsters said, no: we’ve updated our models and corrected for it. Polymarket said: I don't buy it. Polymarket was right.
Now, again! Polymarket did not say the election was 90% for Trump to win. 62% is not a sure thing, and elections are genuinely uncertain. But what irks me is that there was not even a tinge of curiosity from the media about the delta. Maybe Polymarket knows something we don’t? Maybe there’s information we’re missing that’s not being captured in the polls?
Remember, Trump massively outperformed his polls all across the country, in both red states and blue ones. He sweeped every single swing state, and even won the popular vote—something most people thought impossible.
Are you really so confident that there was no way to detect this—the sentiment of tens of millions of Americans—that didn’t involve the same old pollsters running the same old Internet surveys?
This is what being a student of the markets teaches you. Markets are smart. But they don’t explain themselves—they just show you the outcome.
That brings us to the second way that Polymarket outperformed the media.
2. Polymarket called the election in real-time, way before the media did.
The inscrutability of markets came in full force on election night. Polymarket moved quickly and violently before a single swing state was ever called. According to Polymarket, the election was over by midnight, while the mainstream media was milking the drama until the election was officially called at 6AM the next morning. Why was this?
First, Polymarket saw an important correlation that the mainstream media was not willing to explain to their viewers. You see, polling errors are seldom random; they are usually correlated across states. So when traders saw that Trump was massively outperforming his polls in states that were not themselves competitive—picking up huge vote share in NYC (cleanly blue) or Florida (cleanly red), this meant that there must be a massive polling miss across the country.
Polymarket immediately picked up on this and realized that the swing states could not possibly be competitive anymore. Polymarket priced Trump to win Pennsylvania at 90% by 11:30PM, when only a small portion of the Pennsylvania vote had been counted.
Prediction markets don’t wait for pageantry or pundits. It doesn’t care if it invalidates the sacred ritual of waiting for the votes to be counted. Remember in 2020 when Fox News called Arizona early (which turned out to be correct), viewers were outraged. Trump vowed to boycott the network over it. This reinforced the lesson—the networks must sit there and dutifully count up the votes. Don’t be too clever.
But markets don’t care about drama. They only care about outcomes. Obviously, it would be incredibly difficult to explain to a CNN viewer that the election is over, the polling error in non-competitive states is too big, Kamala is doomed and you should go to sleep and not bother to wait for swing states. It goes against the narrative that the media has been reinforcing for months. The public wants simple, explainable stories, and everyone knows how the narrative is supposed to go—you wait for the swing states and until one of the little colored bars crosses the 270 line.
At 12:51AM, the NYT was still showing this dramatic chart and headline. By then Polymarket already had Trump priced at 98% to win.
So election watchers dutifully stayed up through the night so the media could complete its empty ritual of filling up the bars.
Polymarket’s traders have no loyalty to narrative and no incentive to play up the drama for ratings—they just call it straight. @shayne_coplan, Polymarket’s founder, said that Trump’s campaign team was reading Polymarket to try to understand how to actually interpret the odds. The media even had the gall to complain that Trump was declaring victory when his electoral count was at 267—at that point, the Polymarket odds were so low that they registered as 100%.
The beauty of markets is they respond instantly to new information. The fastest trader who incorporates the information gets a prize—profit. This is something traditional media fundamentally is not set up to do. They have to filter events through layers of interpretation, narrative making, and internal politics (recall Murdoch’s intercession into the 2020 Arizona call).
The decentralized nature of Polymarket bypasses all this bullshit. It lets information flow without any interference.
There is a lot to reflect on from last night. This election was a resounding reprimand of the Democratic party, a rejection of the expert class, and an immune response against an arrogant media.
But for Polymarket, it was a night of pure vindication.
For me, the lesson is this: the next time something important is going on in the world, skip the op eds and check the Polymarket odds.

2024-11-04 15:45:14 GMT

Do you know of any great text to speech models that do intonation well? Open weights. They do not need to clone voices.
I've tried suno bark, but it sometimes hallucinates. I need the reading to be literally what's written. Also tried f5-tts, intonation is not great and the speed varies a lot, so when it's reading multiple texts, the speed of output speech is different between generation. The duration predictor is also not great and sometimes causes cutoffs.
Have I missed something?
English only for now is ok.

2024-11-04 11:47:47 GMT

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Wow, what do you use for inference?
Check out this:
https://github.com/jooray/lxmf-ai-bot
Works out of box with any lxmf client including nomadnet and sideband.

2024-11-02 19:26:49 GMT

AI in VIM? Sure.
Now show us your emacs setup! Ctrl-Shift-Meta-Alt-A (release keys) Shift-Meta-Alt-Option-I to start generation? :)
#emacsvsvim #itsnotevenfair #vimftw
https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.vim

2024-11-02 13:40:24 GMT

Wow this is insane:
Oasis, the first playable, realtime, open-world AI model. It's a video game, but entirely generated by AI. Oasis is the first step in our research towards more complex interactive worlds.
Oasis takes in user keyboard input and generates real-time gameplay, including physics, game rules, and graphics. You can move around, jump, pick up items, break blocks, and more. There is no game engine; just a foundation model.
https://m.primal.net/LqQE.gif
https://oasis-model.github.io/
https://github.com/etched-ai/open-oasis

2024-10-23 06:26:42 GMT

After setting 200 sats/min for v4v listening in Fountain, something unexpected happened to me.
I am much more picky about what I listen to. Example: I started to listen to some techie AI podcast. After few minutes I thought to myself "I know all this stuff they're talking about and I'm paying for this, I'll skip ahead". I skipped and switched to a different podcast eventually.
Normally I would tell myself "I know this stuff, but the guys are nice, maybe I'll learn something new".
Value4value works in both ways. I reward creators for the value I receive, but it makes me very conscious about what I receive.
And since my time is precious, I actually save it.

2024-10-21 21:15:44 GMT

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I'm interested!
followed you as well.

2024-10-19 21:13:18 GMT

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What flipper app is this?

2024-10-16 17:13:18 GMT

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I call this orange summer.
my talk about it from @npub167n…zu3r
https://hackyourself.io/2024/07/18/you-are-a-bitcoiner-now-whats-next/

2024-10-09 20:08:23 GMT

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best guess: electrolytes and sugar

2024-10-09 16:00:41 GMT

This year's HCPP (the last one in a sense) was pretty special for me. As probably the only conference fully dedicated to cryptoanarchy it was always my favorite.
This year it was mostly about personal connections for me. I feel that over past few years, people have been running around the world and trying things and they came to tell us about their experience and results. In the hallways, but also talks. First few years were visions, last few were experiences and lessons learnt.
But it also gave me something more. I used to get this at CCC. This knowledge of what is important, what is going on and what we are doing. I became disconnected with the main CCC ideology, which is also very political, not very cypherpunk. It turned from "we write code and hack" more "we have to speak up and lobby the european commission".
I've just realized that I got the same feeling from hcpp that I used to get from CCC.
I love CCC for other things.

2024-10-09 10:33:37 GMT

Welcome @npub135x…taeg to Nostr. She is a shared identity that can be used by people who want to share cool Cypherpunk projects anonymously. Usually, this is quite a big problem, because if you want to share open source code and want to stay anonymous, you can't use your existing social network.
The password to posting is going to be shared widely among devs. If you are a free software and cypherpunk author (even if not anon), ask for password and spread it wisely.
We want the anonymity set to grow, plus it's not defined, it's just the knowledge of a password. So it can't be really pinpointed who knows it.
On the other hand, there is a password, otherwise the account would be just taken over by spammers, reducing usefulness.
Lizz is accessible through Nostr (give her a follow) and you can also access her website for people who are not Nostr enabled yet. Through the web you can also easily post, the Nostr private key is derived from the password in JavaScript.
https://lizznakamoto.npub.pro/

2024-10-09 08:35:54 GMT

Welcome @npub1lvc…aw2q - Anon Innovator to Nostr. She is a shared identity that can be used by people who want to share cool Cypherpunk projects anonymously. Usually, this is quite a big problem, because if you want to share open source code and want to stay anonymous, you can't use your existing social network.
The password to posting is going to be shared widely among devs. If you are a free software and cypherpunk author (even if not anon), ask for password and spread it wisely.
We want the anonymity set to grow, plus it's not defined, it's just the knowledge of a password. So it can't be really pinpointed who knows it.
On the other hand, there is a password, otherwise the account would be just taken over by spammers, reducing usefulness.
Lizz is accessible through Nostr (give her a follow) and you can also access her website for people who are not Nostr enabled yet. Through the web you can also easily post, the Nostr private key is derived from the password in JavaScript.
https://lizznakamoto.npub.pro/

2024-10-07 07:13:46 GMT

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i don't think it was

2024-10-02 19:44:48 GMT

Congrats to 25 years of Euro!
https://image.nostr.build/ab604ca16f31ea24518205333863798d64312193c69fee0d4f9a3067fd4fe045.jpg

2024-10-02 12:49:31 GMT

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HCPP Schedule is out! My talk on Nostr is Friday at noon.
https://hardcore.hcpp.cz/

2024-09-16 16:20:03 GMT

@npub1zjm…r5gf
It's on your laptop, and it's then therefore up here in this cloud, that exists above us, right? It's no longer in a physical place

2024-09-15 12:45:44 GMT

Finally a good take on Rust. TLDR: "This language absolutely fucking sucks."
I am expecting a religious response of Rust-lovers, similar to hardcore carnivores, toxic Bitcoin maximalists or communists. But the article explains exactly what I hate about the language.
https://medium.com/codex/i-spent-18-months-rebuilding-my-algorithmic-trading-in-rust-im-filled-with-regret-d300dcc147e0

2024-09-13 11:18:54 GMT

What AI features of the new Pixel 9 line (I have Fold) are available that are both offline (without Google servers, downloading a model from Google servers is ok, but no specific data for inference to Google) and supported on GrapheneOS ? What cool local AI apps do you use?
Discovered so far:
- Pixel Camera app and Google photos do some AI magic locally, add me works great, so does AI enhancement of photos. Install Google photos and pixel camera, click on the effects and tools to download models, then turn off networking. Magic editing via generative images (replace trashcan with a plant) requires Google servers :(
- ChatterUI works with llama8 and gemma2 based models, I use uncensored Dolphin models. It is a bit slow, but it works. Is there anything faster / better?
- voice recognition keyboard - Transcribro. You can type by talking.
Any other features? Is there a local only assistant for basic things such as setting timers and controlling lights?

2024-09-09 07:13:00 GMT

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There are government agents and statists here...

2024-09-09 07:11:54 GMT

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Outdated in the best way possible - the state of the ecosystem is even better than I thought!

2024-09-01 08:51:20 GMT

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Cca raz mesačne niečo napíšem.

2024-09-01 06:30:53 GMT

Pomohol som aktualizovať článok o Nostr pre Bitcoin Alza. Môžete zdieľať kamošom. A ak si stále myslíte, že to je iba divný Twitter, pozrite sa na to aké možnosti a aplikácie nad ním existujú už dnes.
https://www.alza.cz/nostr-decentralizovana-sit-pro-svobodnejsi-sdileni-obsahu-na-internetu

2024-08-31 08:33:08 GMT

I wish Nostr was one...
https://m.primal.net/KWmI.png

2024-08-26 20:57:01 GMT

Just listened to this 8 hour Neuralink episode. It might not be fun for all of you, so it's not a general recommendation, but to me it was fascinating. First about how the technology including robotic surgery works, but mainly about the weirdness of controlling something with your brain.
I have spent hundreds, maybe more than a thousand hours on some sort of EEG brain computer interface, so I got plenty of training. The resolution of these is not perfect, but you can do many things even with an EEG device. What is interesting is that I am controlling things that have no analog in the motor cortex, I am changing my state of mind and focus, which is very different to moving (or attempting to move, or imagining to move - three different things as per the podcast) a finger.
The brain does not have direct receptors about its internal state. The brain does not hurt. The EEG feedback adds this information and it's possible to train doing completely new things with the brain. The interesting fact is that even when I learn it to some extent, I can't really tell how it works - or what exactly I do. I call it surfing on the wave all the way down, but it's something that you would not be able to replicate without figuring it out yourself. We can only have shared vocabulary after you experienced it .
This I believe is precisely why it's hard to explain psychedelic experience to someone who has never experienced it. You might describe the visual part (which is not shared - I don't do the visual part at all actually, even when I dream, it's never visual. I know the concepts, the structures, but I don't see it), but that's only because that's the common ground ("I have seen beautiful fractals") and probably the least interesting part of the experience.
Why I'm describing this? It's very hard to explain that there are things you can learn to do with your brain that we don't even have good words for. I believe brain computer interfaces with technologies like neurofeedback will make learning it much easier than for example meditation. Combining the dedication of meditation practice with the boost of neurofeedback is the best I believe. But most of you don't even understand what I'm talking about, because you never experienced it. It's out there.
https://fountain.fm/episode/YuR0YvrA3JyOXHRiE13r

2024-08-23 16:37:35 GMT

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not true. borrow (short) fiat, use Bitcoin as collateral, never sell.

2024-08-19 23:04:54 GMT

Hey @npub12vk…pugg, there is this annoying bug.
I have a folding Android device (Pixel Fold with GrapheneOS). It either looks like this, where only half of the screen is used, or it is full screen and blinks through black screen a few times per second (that's when I close it and switch to Amethyst for a few days).
would someone look into it?
https://m.primal.net/KFCc.png

2024-08-14 15:58:39 GMT

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An episode about the idea of how Bitcoin experience changes us and how it propells us to something called an "orange summer".
https://hackyourself.io/2024/07/18/you-are-a-bitcoiner-now-whats-next/
If you understand 🇸🇰 there's even a longer and more detailed version:
https://juraj.bednar.io/podcast/2024/04/13/oranzove-leto-stanme-sa-tvorcami-svojho-zivota-s-mariannou-sadeckou/
Change your life! Fiat has you, follow bitcoin!

2024-08-14 15:54:58 GMT

Is there an Android client that supports creating NIP-23 long-form content (kind 30023)- meaning adding title, content, image and most importantly editing?
I know there's Habla and many other clients that work decently in web browser. I am looking specifically with Android app that has decent support for working off-line - like writing a blog while offline and posting it later.
#asknostr

2024-08-14 10:28:13 GMT

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My sim is hosted in a commercial GSM gateway by 2N. but there's autosms or you can use gnokii based scripts to relay to SimpleX with raspberry pi and GSM shield. just make sure that 2G network works and won't be discontinued soon.

2024-08-14 07:12:20 GMT

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Everyone has a choice, Nostr is not locked out.
If you have a good content there it might be useful for you, although I did not find much good content there (I also follow security).
I am not against socialist relays, the problem was socialists blocking everyone else and breaking the network effect completely. You can't do that on Nostr, which is why it's superior.

2024-08-13 10:29:42 GMT

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I use mobimatter, keepgo and bitrefill. None of them do KYC, all can be bought anonymously with some cryptocurrency. mobimatter and keepgo are valid for a year without a top up, but you can top up with 3$ at least in keepgo to keep it alive for another year.
I just buy 50GB of data and when it expires, I but a new esim.
Also, the price is around 1/3rd of silent link last time I checked.
I am glad that all options (including silent link) exist. KYCed sims are just for normies.

2024-08-12 09:05:48 GMT

For some reason, Coracle stopped working in Firefox. The console has many CORS errors, probably something is not set correctly.
I just get a blank page.
https://image.nostr.build/63ec740110fade5d8d290ccf631760ff1ab8f14edaced601caa8f627421f8e79.png

2024-07-30 21:36:14 GMT

OMG I love npub.pro. @nprofile…4sh9 uses it as a primary website, just for fun. With the help of @nprofile…wh45 I got the theme not to cut everyone's heads. As I was editing the CSS anyway, I used chatgpt to help me add a button to buy tickets on the right.
Note that all the articles live as Nostr notes (you can just view @nprofile…5wdd nostr account and you see the same content).
I was a bit skeptical about all the "it's not a Twitter replacement, it's a new internet", but I can see it coming to reality now thanks to @nprofile…fwd3
"To the moon" is back, but not with tokens, but with Nostr and Bitcoin.
For tickets, we use @nprofile…6guh crowdfunding module, same as with @nprofile…959j in Prague.
https://lunarpunk-festival.npub.pro/

2024-07-28 15:40:51 GMT

Táto prednáška bude haluz. Už dlhšie hovorím o potrebe anonymity členov cypherpunk projektov - nie len vývojárov, ale aj CEOs. Tento Peter Horváth vám porozpráva, ako sa to robí v praxi.
#nevent1q…pqnq

2024-07-11 10:38:49 GMT

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I know and he did not try to destroy Bitcoin. He kept true to the non-KYC values, even when shapeshift had to implement KYC, he built an alternative that works without KYC. For me, he is a mostly positive character.
Bitcoiners have some kind of lasting trauma, I do not subscribe to traumas.

2024-07-11 09:50:18 GMT

I unlocked Pro account on venice.ai using the Morph token (yes, shitcoinery, very utilitarian, just save money, no gambling)! Just keep a MOR token in your Ethereum (Arbitrum) wallet for unlimited uncensored content creation, including images, text, and code.
🚀 How to get started:
- Create a new MetaMask account for privacy.
- Set aside around $30.
- Purchase Ethereum on the Arbitrum network via platforms like SideShift or Trocador, paying with Lightning, L-BTC, Monero, etc.
- Convert ETH to MOR aiming for 1 MOR token.
Complete the swap.
Link: https://app.uniswap.org/explore/pools/arbitrum/0xE5Cf22EE4988d54141B77050967E1052Bd9c7F7A?chain=arbitrum
- Navigate to your account settings, connect your web3 wallet, and sign the transaction (tip: use an account based on email address to use it from devices that don't have Metamask. At this point, you can uninstall metamask wallet and forget about having it).
Log out and back in to activate your Pro account—no monthly fees, just hold the token. It’s cheaper than an annual subscription!
🌍 Enjoy limitless, uncensored access with a one-time setup! You can turn of "safe Venice" and remove image watermarks.
Yes, not very user friendly, your other option is to pay $49/year.
https://image.nostr.build/2e152e6d640fec93aa7abd1953c766cdfd0e6ef9ceba355129d6d592136a232d.png

2024-07-07 21:08:26 GMT

Eso level estimator got a web front-end!
This is just a coding experiment. Front-end is just static HTML and JavaScript, which creates a random Nostr identity and sends the message over Nostr relay to the already existing bot and displays the answer. You can download the three files (index.html, dist/bundle.js and img/logo.png) and host it anywhere else (needs to be served over http(s), not from local filesystem).
Backend is running locally on my machine, with ollama and a model that the machine can handle (depends on where I run it).
So @nprofile…g5m3 how eso is this?
https://juraj.bednar.io/esolevel
https://image.nostr.build/1a098a343c173d9c0505ee7e421fae936b5e5cffbf8d46dfbfc0fca5ff291cc6.jpg

2024-07-07 15:38:55 GMT

@npub1zjm…r5gf anarcho-christianity

2024-06-28 11:17:48 GMT

People are a bit confused about mica stablecoin regulation. While I think whole MiCA should be rejected as a whole, we have options.
The way I understand it is that Brussels does not like competition in money printing, so they disallowed stablecoins that are not EUR based and EUR based have to be printed in concert with Brussels-Frankfurt. But we are already printing both dollars and euros in the cyphersphere.
What this could mean in practice is ban on offering stablecoins on exchanges for European union customers and ban for businesses accepting these stablecoins.
Here comes a solution. People often confuse payment network and what is sent through the payment network. You can send USD or eur through visa payment network. You can send USDT through Ethereum, Liquid, ... The confusion is with Bitcoin, there is both Bitcoin payment network and Bitcoin as a unit.
I've long said that the best stablecoin is a short position on bitcoin coupled with the bitcoin. For an interesting trust minimized implementation, see DLC channels in @get10101.
So how does this relate to stablecoins? You can have a stabilized position denominated in USD, but still pay with lightning. Merchant does not have to accept stablecoin, if you want to spend stable value. This is between you and your wallet. You can send$100 over lightning - you go long (exiting the short position) and sent SATs worth $100. If the merchant wants to keep it in dollars, they can open a short, but that's the merchant's problem.
Lightning is uniquely positioned to do payments in this way. Settlement is instant and even the position exit and enter can be atomic. No other crypto payment network can do this. I've written about this feature in Orange Flash of Freedom, or see @npub1ey6…szvp's blog (links in reply).
Another advantage of this way of value stabilization is that there a natural interest rate (called a funding rate). You should be paid for shorting Bitcoin. Well, should is a strong word, but you usually are, because people will pay to go long on Bitcoin.
I think whatever camp you are in, if you like stablecoins here or there, if you want BTC only, or if you are into alts, lightning is what connects it all.
Now someone should go and tell Coinbase commerce, they are a bit slow to get it.

2024-04-10 07:22:54 GMT

What is the best guide to start using Nostr Markets as a merchant? I do not have lnbits installed (although I have btcpayserver). What do I need?

2024-02-26 12:59:35 GMT

I have to admit that I don't care at all about normies. The question of "will a normie use this" is not interesting to me. As long as anyone can do it if they want, it's all good.
Will normies ever use Bitcoin? If they are stupid, they won't, if they are willing to learn, they will. There should be ways for them to get it ( @npub1mft…rkl3 l is here. ...but a normie wants to pay with card and not meet strangers in shady coffee shops... Have I told you I don't care about normies?)
But a normie would not use encrypted messenger, they need their Zuck-approved spyware or a hosted spyware (telegram). My mom uses Signal. So can your normie friend.

2024-02-20 08:14:28 GMT

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Thankfully, technology is in deflationary spiral, it will be cheap soon.

2024-02-19 17:50:57 GMT

I'm happy to say that Graphene OS is getting mainstream, it is increasingly common in my circles.
Either I'm getting cooler people in my circles or it's spreading or both!
Pixel Fold is amazing with Graphene!

2024-01-04 15:16:34 GMT

Update of my post comparing encrypted messengers:
- added Sideband / nomadnet / Reticulum mesh networking
- fixed that Threema now allows group calls
- added info on SimpleX desktop sync (still not very good though)
- fixed that Signal can now edit messages
- general cleanup.
If you don't know which encrypted messengers to use, this article is for you (the blog is a chapter of my book Cryptocurrencies - Hack your way to a better life).
https://juraj.bednar.io/en/blog-en/2022/05/03/encrypted-messengers-comparison/

2023-12-28 00:13:46 GMT

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I enjoy the event a lot, I missed it.
Our reticulum Lora network has 5 users now!

2023-12-19 10:10:20 GMT

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The treatment option is not painkillers, it’s a “I don’t know what to do with you please go away” option.
The doctors were first, they did not solve the problem, so going online is a better option. I have several examples of this over the past few years.

2023-11-21 00:13:23 GMT

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Turris Omnia
Developed by Czech non profit (arm of Czech domain registrar).
Open, fast, customizable by default with openwrt. Extendable.

2023-10-06 10:02:38 GMT

A super quick free introduction to Bitcoin as a video course. No sign-up needed. Lightning-enabled. Learn how to setup a wallet, send and receive payments, buy Bitcoin at an ATM and use Vexl app to find someone to buy from when there's no ATM.
Feel free to share with friends as an easy onboarding tool. The first two lessons are enough for basic usage, total onboarding time: Less than 5 minutes.
https://hackyourself.io/courses/a-quick-introduction-to-bitcoin-wallet-setup-buying-payments/

2023-08-28 20:00:53 GMT

Epic :)
https://nostr.build/av/45ba312b07a035e31d773e24e874b28c611ebbf6d92b35c528158c32e9cca87a.mp4

2023-08-13 09:21:34 GMT

SK/CZ: Keď sa s ľuďmi rozprávam o tom, že fiat aktíva (napríklad nehnuteľnosti a pozemky) sú nebezpečné, nie je to ani tak preto, že by som mal nejaký konkrétny názor na budúcu cenu alebo úroky, ale preto, že vám ich štát môže jednoducho zhabať.
Na to mi väčšina ľudí povie, že žijeme v demokratickej civilizácii, treťom tisícročí, európskej únii a podobne. Veď práve. Demokratická civilizácia v treťom tisícročí, obzvlášť v európskej únii je nekompatibilná so súkromným vlastníctvom.
Zažil to majiteľ firmy Wedos.
https://blog.wedos.cz/na-shledanou-v-lepsich-casech-pane-premiere

2023-08-12 09:21:50 GMT

Problems in TrustWallet and libbitcoin bx are similar - bad random number generation.
I guessed either this or nonce reuse in ECDSA.
https://milksad.info/disclosure.html#part-i---tracing-the-issue-to-the-source

2023-08-04 09:52:35 GMT

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What others think is not important, but I'll tell you how I make money on inflation. The key is not to sell your Bitcoin (then you have to "realize" the loss), but to only use it as a collateral for a fiat loan. There are many ways to do it (I teach about several of them and it depends on how you are spending).
So strategy:
- If you have fiat, buy bitcoin
- If you need to sell, borrow fiat and spend it immediately
- If the interest rate is lower than the price increase (price inflation), that means when you pay it back, you will have to work less for it, so you are increasing your purchasing power the higher the inflation is
- hopefully the bitcoin collateral appreciates, but the key is, you do not have to make a decision to sell it ever.
- as bitcoin appreciates, you remove it as a collateral and back to hardware wallet
People of course don't like risking the collateral in some sort of (ideally decentralized or p2p) platform, but then they sell the bitcoin for consumption, which is immediately losing it completely. Of course there are risks and you need to overcollateralize, but this strategy has been amazing for me. And it actually removes the number of price decisions you need to make: always buy BTC, never sell BTC, spend carefully, but when you need to (not when BTC price is good).
More about this an many other strategies:
https://hackyourself.io/product/cryptocurrencies-hack-your-way-to-a-better-life/
(or https://www.amazon.com/dp/8057043482?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860 and also available in Slovak and Spanish)
And this is a more up to date course for this specific strategy: https://hackyourself.io/product/how-to-harness-the-value-of-bitcoin-without-having-to-sell-it-ebook-mini-course/
But the main strategy is: Have respectful disregard for other people and their opinions on your life 😅

2023-07-31 22:23:36 GMT

SK/CZ Prestávam vyvíjať mobilnú appku. Neustále sa meniace požiadavky prevádzkovateľov oficiálnych obchodov s appkami ma už prestávajú baviť a cost-benefit analýza v tomto prípade už pre natívne appky nevychádza. Zaraďujem sa k appkám ako Twitter-Lite, Plebstr PWA, BTCPayServer PoS, či comma, ktoré fungujú super aj ako Progressive Web Apps.
Je čas zvoliť nezávislosť na storoch. Je čas voliť nohami.
https://juraj.bednar.io/blog/2023/08/01/dovidenia-appka/

2023-07-17 13:06:53 GMT

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I'm not asking for them ever, but when I get it, the kid uses it.

2023-07-11 09:05:53 GMT

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I have blue check on Twitter (want to write longer posts), I don't even know my follower count and I like both.
No need to "us vs them".

2023-06-21 10:23:38 GMT

Old but gold. Where are we and where are we going?
Alice: Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?
The Cheshire Cat: That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.
Alice: I don't much care where.
The Cheshire Cat: Then it doesn't much matter which way you go.
Alice: ...So long as I get somewhere.
The Cheshire Cat: Oh, you're sure to do that, if only you walk long enough.

2023-06-17 11:09:27 GMT

https://nostr.build/i/628dea2604b8ba819a1059f97255e385536f1820ac17789d1b6021b5dce792d2.jpg

2023-06-17 08:03:07 GMT

Wow, new Plebstr.
Allows to upload images and typing bug is fixed.
We have the best client!

2023-06-13 19:45:52 GMT

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They do not have to be true, they are just explicit.
It is like building a mathematical theory. If A, B and C and not D, then E, F and G.... Does not say that A, B, C and D values are known, only if they are known and as stated, you can make the inference. It does not say anything about a world when they are not known.
Also, you can parametrize. Check the Grabby Aliens, first the videos and then the paper, you can see exactly what I mean:
https://grabbyaliens.com/

2023-06-13 15:13:44 GMT

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There is. Precise thinking does not instantly reveal the truth, it just makes your assumptions and possibilities explicit.
For example see Hanson's The age of em, or Grabby aliens. Both talk about hypothetical futures, but all the assumptions are known and you can judge if they are plausible and thus judge if the idea is good.
Sloppy thinking is babbling associations and archetypal ideas, without the way to judge it.

2023-06-13 14:47:45 GMT

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True, but again - even this pushes some people forward. People see value in that.
I've had a conversation about sloppy thinking with my favorite current thinker Robin Hanson. He says that many people do sloppy thinking and he likes precise thinking. There's a lack of it in this world, but it's hard to recognize and even spread.
We are used to read short "tweet" sized bites, shorten complex topics in "ted talks", reels and short videos. When you write a well argued 50 page blog, no one reads it.
So in this world, sloppy thinking can deliver value in the same way that tarot cards (a random number generator) can just take you out of the idea loop you're stuck in. In this regard, it's more valuable that it's different than what people are stuck with than a real intellectual quality.

2023-06-13 13:15:24 GMT

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Same, but also note that not everyone comes from the same place.
Some people need to hear things that are uninteresting to us...

2023-06-01 19:22:10 GMT

Cryptoanarchy is the strategy of achieving freedom by detaching your identity (and thus your physical body) from your property and from your actions.
It is like disappearing into cyphersphere.
https://nostr.build/i/e83098ff7fef35c7e10072b44d6d4c6e9f585e73544394b34bc13c2681340138.jpg

2023-05-12 16:38:39 GMT

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Of course you can. It's an integrated address, the invoice is in the url parameter, all wallets should understand it.