Founder of Fanfares.io. Nostr is the next layer of the internet. Bitcoin is what stands between us and financial self destruction.
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Last Notes npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon This guy looks like CIA operative sent to discredit Tucker Carlson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOTgPEGYS2o&t=1777s npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon @npub1qqq…ctgs npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon You should stop and say hello to us in Asuncion Paraguay on your way through! npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon good question. If no-one ever believed in it, then it could never take off. If everyone in the world believed in it without even understanding it, then it would take off. Understanding is better than believing though. npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon It didn't kill us and it made us stronger npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon The Ordinals have left the room. Bitcoin base layer transaction fees seem to be even cheaper than lightning for anything under $1000 (approximately). npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon You don't know how ironic that really is. He has launched a shitcoin, it's called microstrategy 😉 npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon Web of trust, in action! https://image.nostr.build/dd7f3f5180cefbea08c044d8441650c3046c802164c6687f3bf27b4ac6ba226b.jpg npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon Sell the company pavel. The days of platforms are coming to an end. The authorities are helping to bring that about. Necessity is the mother of invention. npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon Bitcoiners that are not on nostr... Do you really understand bitcoin? npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon Or is 10k the new 58k? npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon Great video by Dom! https://www.frisbys.news/p/maybe-keir-starmers-worse-than-we?utm_source=podcast-email&publication_id=1077379&post_id=148399575&utm_campaign=email-play-on-substack&utm_content=watch_now_gif&r=1o55r7&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon Saylor is a spook! npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon Nice, how is that one funded? npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon You are thinking of an option there. An option give the owner of the option the right to buy or sell the price at a future specified date at future specified price. Forward futures contracts on indices and commodities are delivery date based also. When it comes to short selling of individual shares the facilitating broker borrows the shares and then lends them to the short seller to sell in the market. I should know, I have done it enough times. Yes, if you short sell without owning the asset, then you are naked short selling. It's not illegal in any jurastiction that I have ever heard of. They might put me in prison for my facebook posts, but i've been a naked short seller a lot of times I have never had the police come round to my house to ask me what I was thinking! npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon BOUNTY of 2,500,000 sats + tips available for Nostr DEV I want to build an open source LLM (Large Language Model) service on Nostr. Questions can be answered on a lightning gated pay-as-you-go basis. I need a developer to help me. As simple way to get something up and running, the objective is to have a nostr account that anyone can send DMs to as an LLM query and receive back an answer from the LLM once they have zapped the required amount of sats. I have installed llama on a VPS and got it working. The next stage is to write something that will pipe DMs from a nostr account into the LLM and pipe the response back out the same person. Once that is up and running, the objective is to have the Nostr account request a zap of a specified amount before the LLM automatically processes and delivers the answer. The Nostr integration is beyond my technical abilities, so I am willing to pay a Nostr enthusiast with the right skills 2,500,000 sats to help me build this. The motivation for the project is create an LLM service that is undoxed and unbiased as an alternative to the big subscription based services. They are proven to have political agendas built into their filters and we never know if they are spying on us and storing all of our questions. Even though they charge a subscription fee, it is still possible that they are marketing our data to advertising agencies that are using it to manipulate us. Worse still, they may be directly uploading everything to a government server. Currently the only way to get usefulness of an LLM without submitting to the surveillance/control system, is to install an open source LLM yourself. I am currently paying 65 euros a month in bitcoin for the anonymous VPS service that has enough enough disk space an CPU power. This level of cost is prohibitive for most people who might only use the service a few times a month. The plan is to charge 1500 sats per question, which amount so about 10 cents at current prices. The project should be able to break even on a margin basis if we can get 650 or more enquires a month. Please feel free to zap the hell out of this note as any donations will be added to the bounty paid for this development. Also, please repost in order that we have the best chance of getting this service built. npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon It is possible to switch the settings on your phone to be black and white npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon ticket purchased Looking forward to it! npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon This is an important film to watch https://youtu.be/Bv0TW2LF_dE?si=Vt6cuIFqPKs-uw8i npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon No doubt he will find a way out 😉 npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon If they shut down the entire web, then we would have much bigger problems than there being no Nostr! npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon GM layer 3! npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon I getting some dms claiming to be relays asking for money. If they were real they would say which relay they are. Don't pay npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon The government are in the process of trying to take control of the internet. We are fighting them by building a new decentralised layer that they can't control. #nostr npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon Gm Nostr! npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon @npub12rv…85vg npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon Great video from #Nostriga https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qD-Y0fq5KiA npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon I left twitter a month ago and am feeling better for it npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon I am trying to send ecash to a nostr account. I have used a mini bits wallet to send to send ecash to a nostr account, but so far all it does is send lightning to the lightning wallet address that is registered to that nostr id. What am it missing? @npub1l2v…ajft npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon We could have an ecash mint that holds base layer bitcoin and does a regular proof of reserves. That would be a bank that is resistent to fractional reserve. npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon Listen to the Prince! #note1u98…efss npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon GM npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon I'm not seeing it npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon Nice one mate! npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon Good point @npub1c87…8avm . The non-Bitcoiner people are struggling with the current density of Bitcoiners on Nostr. The way that things are going with governments trying to censor X, may mean that we are going to get a load of X-Twitter users on the platform in the near future. As they come on board, they will bring the diversity that Nostr needs to get to the next level. It's a chicken and egg problem, but the catalyst is happening externally of Nostr. npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon This is a really interesting film https://yellow.forum/t/stakeholder-communism-ep-1-dir-richard-jeffs/44 npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon Great job Oscar! npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon It's like hiding your money in one atom within the galaxy. Your security is the fact that no one else knows where it is. They could try every atom to find it, but it's just not worth the bother npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon Sometimes, I hate being right! npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon It's not how big it is, it's what you do with it that counts! npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon A very sad state of affairs in the UK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li2zifJG4No npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon I like the idea that Fedi and Cashu are planning to prove reserves by orchestrating bank runs on a regular basis. I have a question though. Do they rely upon every ecash owner within the mint moving their funds out on the same day? If so, then how will they get everyone to participate? If the mint iteself is able to force a bank run on their customers, then do the owners of the ecash tokens really have autonomy over their own funds? @npub1ark…h43w npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon Sad to see this guy talking so much rubbish. npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon It's a gusher! #note1u99…futt npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon Study for 10 mins - BTC is a scam 😂 (credit: @npub1an4…w7en) npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon They should pay sats to receive them 😉 @rleed npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon That is about 31 trillion tries in a year. So you can take 13 digits off the 70 and that is how many years it will take them to find your bitcoin a number of years that is 57 digits long npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon What is JtR, can you send me a link to that? npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon Can you try to delete this note? npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon I first bought gold coins when gold was at $1000. Just after Bear Sterns went down in 2008. Since then, we have gone from the western world being quite bankrupt, to being completely bankrupt. Our governments have spent enormous amounts of money that they don't have on stupid wars and on a re-branding of the flu vaccine. The BRICS countries who have been stockpiling gold for the last decade. Who can blame them? The average person has gone from not knowing why they would ever buy gold 16 years ago, to now seeing that gold is a way to preserve value in a terrible monetary situation. And during those 16 years, the price of gold has gone up by 2.45x. WTF??? The price of gold has not even kept up with inflation. Where would the price be if everyone that though they owned gold, bought the physical? Re-hypothication is real. All of the tools that the banks have been using to sell people fake gold can, and are, being used to sell people fake Bitcoin. Self custody is the only way to own Bitcoin. If we really want the price to go up, then we need to tell everyone we know, to get off the exchanges. Don't even think about the ETFs and don't belive the numbers on the screen that the brokerages sell to us. npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon When do they temporarily suspend the convertability of the dollar into Bitcoin? npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon That is a problem then. Are you going to propose the NIP? npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon doesn't a deletion need to be signed with the private key? npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon You can run your own relay! npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon You don't like it? npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon Your Nostr profile is your website Your Nostr id is your ip address A Nostr client is a web browser that agregates the content from multiple Nostr feeds into a single flow of information You curate the best of your feed and repost it to the people choose to include you in their feed The whole system creates an amazing web of trust where we all do the proof of work of distilling the fire hose of information into a flow of quality npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon Welcome to real world! npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon Paraguay npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon Disovery is real killer app of Nostr. People will pay to have their time wasted by the fire hose of information. npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon If only someone could figure out how to do pay for content?? npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon Yes I do it regularly when in London. At first it is overwhelming and I gasp for breath and then, after a while I build a resistence to the cold. I am sure that it is good for me both physically and psychologically. The winter there really doesn't feel that cold as a result. npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon A much needed service #note12p5…dqpk npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon I went to one in Paraguay on Sunday @rleed npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon How much would you pay to access a Bitcoin lightning gated podcast? npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon The number of possible combinations is so large that the time and compute power that is required to find someone elses bitcoin is not cost effective. The number is about 70 digits long. npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon 👀 #note1m3w…pey7 npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon Looking forward to this one! npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon It's now a sunk cost falicy for him. The more he talks it down in public, the more he will be biased against it. npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon It is sad to see. He is one of a number of older guys who are in denial. They just haven't done the work to understand it. They are like people driving a horse and cart 100 years ago, trying to tell us why the automobile it never going to take off! npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon Price controls effectively mean the start of food rationing. If you keep the price artificially low, then more will be demanded than it produced. In the soviet union they set the price of a loaf of bread to the be equivalent of 1 cent. The idea was that nobody would starve, the real world result was that people had to queue for 1 hour in order to get a loaf of bread. npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon There is a case for data encryption #note1w02…867d npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon So true! #note1s03…x0p0 npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon https://m.primal.net/Jyjm.jpg npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon Looks like a robotic dragon plane! npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon The future of entertainment! npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon Bitcoin is what Paypal wanted to be. Nostr is what Twitter wanted to be. Necessity is the mother of invention! npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon Bitcoin Citadels. Where is the best place in the world to go with your Bitcoin? npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon Their credit has been overextended beyond belief. At some point there will be a loss of faith. npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon This custody issue is something that really gives me hope for bitcoin. I started bought some physical gold back in 2008 and custody was never a comfortable situation. In a safety deposit box, it can be stolen by the administrators. Buried in the garden it can be found with a metal detector. Bitcoin is first time that we have really secure self custody storage. On top of that, the ability to have fast and cheap lightning notes on top in a decentralised way without rehypothication is a breakthrough. You are right though, ecash mints all have capacity to create more derivative notes than they have underlying bitcoin for. npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon Perhaps we need the penn and teller of politicians npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon Custody is difficult. People prefer to trust a custodian npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon If everyone that thinks they own gold, actually bought physical gold, then where would the price be? npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon https://m.primal.net/JyKx.jpg npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon Big brother is here #note1yhf…kn7h npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon Mara, like most other miners are not making any money right now. This move is to cover a shortfall. Price/hash rate is now lower than it was at the bottom of 2022 npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon Does anyone have a buy specific examples of posts that have been censored or accounts that have been deleted from x in the UK during the red debt troubles? Mainstream media are pushing this narrative, but it is possible that they are lying to us. npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon Many of us seem to be suffering from multiple postings right now. Here is a handy tool to clean up your feed if you need to: https://nostr-delete.vercel.app/ npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon We are hearing that censorship is taking place at present on x because of the current troubles on the streets. I have not seen specific examples. I would be interested to know if anyone else has npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortSimon Uruguay is nice in Jan and has amazing beaches. I hear that florinopolis is pretty amazing too. 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