takinbrrrr

👨🏾‍💻Bitcoin Developer and Evangelist

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2024-09-10 21:56:41

I do not understand how Bitcoin companies that intend to stay true to the Bitcoin ethos of self-sovereignty, self-custody and decentralization do not plan to be profitable from day one.
Why would an investor put money in your startup and not buy bitcoins with their capital? Investing in your company comes with the opportunity cost of buying bitcoin. Self-sovereignty, decentralization and self-custody are not sexy enough for the typical investor who’s really courting the next investor. Next time you intend to start a bitcoin company and you intend to get investment, you should think about the game the investor is playing. Maybe you just have the wrong investors.

2024-07-10 07:43:58

Recently noticed that #Damus shows notes on my feed from accounts that I do not follow. Initially I thought this might be coming from a relay but then I compared my feed on Damus with that on Primal using the same relays. The unwanted notes appear in Damus but not on Primal. Is this a feature and is there a way to disable it? @jb55

2024-07-08 21:42:35

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Because then you cannot claim you didn’t see the message?

2024-07-05 18:42:45

You’re all in on #Bitcoin and you envy those with fiat because you cannot buy more but on the flip side, you become their envy when the price appreciates significantly. Fascinating.

2024-07-02 23:46:06

Citing bank closures of Nigeria's End SARS activists, a Ugandan human rights lawyer, Alexei Navalnys' opposition campaign, a Guatemalan journalist, a religious activist group in the Phillipines, a business man in Egypt, and a journalist from India, the RUSI report states that:
"These are just a handful of the victims/survivors from around the world who have had their organisations closed, colleagues imprisoned, or bank accounts indefinitely frozen because of their pro-accountability and pro-transparency
work as members of civil society. All of these incidents, and countless more,
arise from a perversion of tools and powers stemming from anti-money laundering
and counterterrorist financing (AML/CTF) measures within the global anti- financial crime regime."
https://www.therage.co/weaponization-of-fatf-standards-rusi/

2024-05-03 08:36:34

The fact that the software you produce is open source, is not an excuse for shitty customer service.

2024-04-13 10:56:55

Based. What’s with the cassava though? https://youtu.be/RNHi8Qj2KrY

2023-12-16 00:10:40

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I thought it made sense too until I realized that there aren’t that many nodes running Knots; so what’s the potential harm that could arise from one of your many peers being a Knots node?

2023-12-03 14:42:02

This is the most privacy-invasive feature to be added to the major cab hailing apps of recent. I don’t understand how that is supposed to make me safe.
Be careful what you say in cabs; it just might be getting recorded.
#privacy https://image.nostr.build/9b49457b17693f6b8fe05b9a488c900a88de37af28e6c349f7c1fd405acd256f.jpg

2023-11-30 11:31:40

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No Lightning‽ 😢

2023-11-30 11:28:13

If you use a hardware wallet that uses Bluetooth, you should be mindful of these new attacks:
“BLUFFS is a series of exploits targeting Bluetooth, aiming to break Bluetooth sessions' forward and future secrecy, compromising the confidentiality of past and future communications between devices.”
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-bluffs-attack-lets-attackers-hijack-bluetooth-connections/

2023-09-12 04:38:49

https://twitter.com/ghostofwhitman/status/1701318064749400385
"basically risk-free”

2023-08-24 05:37:44

Very impressive. Same scene, different characters, probably different times of the day.
#diablo4 #diabloiv https://cdn.nostr.build/i/69441251bacce5836eed00e9a4e1be9caf695d5bb78771c76ee25dd1443bc372.png https://cdn.nostr.build/i/603528272d4eb9283f7bbfa45fb44677a8d1c606077eacee45f6a05f32137d7d.png

2023-08-24 05:06:23

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Every “upgradable” smart contract has a back door that allows the author to change the code. So it’s a fair assessment to claim that they did have control.

2023-08-24 04:41:50

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The “third party” doesn’t have access to your password and they can’t gain access to your account with just the 2FA! If for some reason you don’t like yubikeys, there are several open source U2F devices you can also use on https://www.crowdsupply.com/.

2023-08-24 04:30:18

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I’ve got a gut feeling, you’re right!

2023-08-22 06:31:10

#TIL: Shuudan Koudou - the Japanese art of precision walking
https://youtu.be/LU6dsVpZCSc

2023-08-22 00:18:58

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You can’t mask the location of your bank 🤷🏾

2023-08-17 12:21:34

😅 https://cdn.nostr.build/i/ff7b90c0a9b48011ac84c66c38ca98dc89ca5d5897d44a85cdb80f022fe7f894.jpg

2023-08-17 06:23:48

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Not enough privacy with one?

2023-08-17 06:19:39

I know. #Zapping can be addictive. #note1tz3…s2sa

2023-08-17 05:44:19

“You can’t change politically, that which exists culturally.”
— Olavo de Carvalho

2023-08-13 11:46:56

How to escape Worldcoin
https://open.substack.com/pub/insanelyfree/p/how-to-escape-worldcoin

2023-08-10 22:05:02

Imagine that your online banking application was written by third parties with no relationship with your bank; how would you scrutinize it? That’s precisely how you should treat your bitcoin wallets.
Any application that handles or (worse) generates key material should be scrutinized to the highest degree possible.

2023-08-07 03:26:36

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Welcome to #nostr Fadil. You should update your profile with your Lightning address so you can receive #zaps!

2023-07-25 09:55:53

I just realized that DMs on #nostr are not as private as some people think they are. When you send a DM to someone on nostr, you signal to the entire flock and anyone (with the right tooling) can see who you’re communicating with and the frequency with which you communicate with that account.

2023-07-22 15:47:11

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That must be torturous - your stupidity forever preserved 😝. I thought those things were called “block erupters”?

2023-07-02 21:25:55

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🙏 I knew that. How do I signal that I value a particular note? I figure I have to use a different client?

2023-07-02 21:19:53

How does one use #nostr without #zaps? 😔

2023-04-28 23:50:54

Spent the afternoon grokking Stable Diffusion. Here’s one of my first AI generated images. https://nostr.build/i/5087a466711aea692759c43659386df66b1fe854e1bba11550d05fd00f373df2.jpg

2023-04-19 12:20:53

The original P2P trading platform
https://bitcoin-otc.com

2023-03-17 01:24:41

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Also: No! It doesn’t mean you’re poor. You just don’t have any need for anything on display at that moment.

2023-03-17 01:19:24

Too big to fail

2023-03-09 11:05:45

Stray Kids - CASE 143 - Japanese ver. - / THE FIRST TAKE
My wife is the K-pop aficionado but I’ve had this song on repeat for a while now. My first introduction to Stray Kids was with MANIAC.
https://youtu.be/g8h2KMnRQDo

2023-03-03 21:08:21

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BTW, your lightning address isn’t configured right. Can’t zap you!

2023-03-03 21:04:52

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PV #[1]

2023-02-27 08:17:26

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Censorship-resistance is the ability to say what you want to say or transact with whomever you want to transact with and not have anyone able to prevent you from doing so.
With #Bitcoin, censorship-resistance is accomplished with an alignment of incentives: miners are rewarded for allowing transaction freedom; proof of work makes it incredibly difficult to be exclusive of anyone using the protocol.
With #Nostr, a relay operator can decide not to store or transmit your messages; there's no mechanism to prevent that from happening but you don't care because another relay will probably store and transmit your messages for you and nothing stops you from hosting your own relay as well.

2023-02-27 01:53:55

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Naturally. The issue with Bittorrent (and why I didn’t suggest using it) is that it requires more tooling for it to work. Although both (Bittorrent and IPFS) use DHTs for locating content, IPFS (in my experience) is faster in locating content. You would need a tracker to be able to do so with Bittorrent. There’s also the need to have a HTTP interface for accessing media files. This comes bundled with the IPFS daemon. In general, IPFS is probably better for storing and serving many small files and Bittorrent for larger files.

2023-02-26 10:57:26

I’ve been musing over the best strategy for uploading media to #nostr. Most people can already host a relay but I doubt they’ll want to host their own media, not to mention doing it for others.
Services like nostr.build allow you to upload and will serve your media but I get nervous about it going away one day and losing access to all my uploaded media.
This is where a protocol like #ipfs might be useful. Without doing much in the sense of a media server, you can run the ipfs daemon and pin files you intend to share and use the url of a public ipfs gateway to serve your files.
I’m going to experiment with hosting future media content on ipfs and see how it goes.

2023-02-23 19:32:08

BlueWallet is sunsetting their custodial Lightning service: remove funds ASAP
This would always be the end result of every custodial-lightning service.
https://bluewallet.io/sunsetting-lndhub/

2023-02-22 23:32:41

#nostr may not be censorship-resistant but it is censorship-agnostic.

2023-02-21 18:31:48

Did #[0] silently deploy NIP-57 support or do I have to sacrifice my firstborn in order to join the whitelist?

2023-02-21 18:23:23

Do you recognize that orange glow you feel inside of you when you zap a post? 🧡💜

2023-02-19 10:45:04

Is there a standard (or NIP) for media hosting services? I imagine that in the not so distant future, you can upload media directly from a Nostr client to your preferred media hosting service.

2023-02-18 09:26:22

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Agreed. There are so many people whose access to the Internet involves the use of NAT and shared IPs. It would be a shame for them to be blocked from using certain relays because someone else abused it.

2023-02-18 01:19:44

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I used it once with nostr.directory

2023-02-17 13:25:53

WTF is this? And it’s enabled by default?
https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_d1f28993bba4b4ed82edff3cdfc80140d4ec1d1050424fa5615607a0fbaf3b42.jpeg

2023-02-13 15:48:31

It would be nice to have some kind of indicator to let you know when you’ve already zapped a note. It certainly shouldn’t prevent additional zapping of the same note.
https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_c6631325ef6211e84786f62f5c48d35718f06e7895855a89ae04945296d8a6c2.jpeg

2023-02-13 08:56:02

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I know what you mean. I love npub136ljffk35zaknaauukrrlmpgdle6p6a0mlcw383w6gvas0epjguqc8mumr but it’s a bit too chatty and fills up my timeline

2023-02-12 01:41:09

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Ray, is there a reason you don’t have a lightning address to receive tips/zaps?

2023-02-11 10:45:57

Zapping is great but have you tried paid relays?

2023-02-11 10:12:25

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Yes. TestFlight (at the moment) only.

2023-02-10 23:09:43

Someone called the EarnwithBM (Bitcoin Magazine’s Earn) program Earn with Bowel Movement and now I can’t get it out of my head 😂

2023-02-10 15:20:26

Totally forgot that BTCPay Server has support for Lightning Addresses. Updated the Lightning Address on my nostr profile to reflect that!

2023-02-10 10:20:42

Have I mentioned that The Path to Bitcoin by #[0] is one of the best Bitcoin podcasts available right now? It literally has infinite SNR! https://thepathtobitcoin.com

2023-02-07 07:15:25

Curious; are the timestamps on notes displayed correctly by Damus? I’m seeing earlier notes having later timestamps than later notes. #[0]

2023-02-04 06:35:24

Implemented NIP-05 verification on nostri.ng using CloudFlare Workers. It looked like a perfect use case for CF Workers and a good first project using the technology

2023-01-28 08:23:35

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I wonder how you respond to those calling it Lightening Network 😄