🍊⚡adam sandals

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2024-03-07 03:07:19

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I listen to a ridiculous number of podcasts weekly, so for me it's audio or I'd get nothing else done. Listening to your chat with American hodl right now 🤙

2024-03-07 02:05:29

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Epic Games: use #Bitcoin!

2024-03-06 00:54:46

I like this chart.
#nevent1q…l54r

2024-03-05 16:23:29

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LFG!

2024-03-05 16:18:52

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Creed on auto-repeat. Let's go!

2024-03-05 16:16:25

Time to play some Creed. It's been running on auto repeat in my head anyway.

2024-03-05 16:05:30

Next up: ATH accounting for inflation.

2024-03-05 13:07:11

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It's always been an unfair fight, you just have to zoom out to see the long game. 🤙

2024-03-05 13:01:26

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Alby recently built a nostr wallet connect wrapper for StartOS. Now you can run a fully self-custodial NWC instance with one click connected to your lightning node on StartOS. It works great with Zeus. Mutiny wallet is also available on StartOS, but I haven't experimented with it much yet.

2024-03-05 12:31:50

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All good, thanks for trying!

2024-03-05 11:54:56

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No sound coming out from your post unfortunately!

2024-03-05 01:42:14

just saying!
#note1kjg…twxx

2024-03-01 01:36:12

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Check out Ashton Forbes on YouTube, he has covered this extensively. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHmFQzkpaJBSDD1PPFhPPSg

2024-02-28 18:28:40

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#Bitcoin, the destroyer of fiat.

2024-02-28 18:23:40

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Like dominos. I'm gonna make some popcorn. 🤙

2024-02-28 18:19:34

... And there it is. New ATH.
#nevent1q…xeqv

2024-02-28 18:13:06

#Bitcoin ATH in CAD was $85,656.04 on November 10th, 2021 according to coingecko. We're almost there. Another currency falling to the destroyer of fiat.

2024-02-28 13:27:32

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Governments are the biggest shitcoin.

2024-02-15 19:04:47

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You should see my maximum.

2024-02-15 19:03:31

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It was Mark Goodwin who wrote it too, not some intern.

2024-02-15 19:01:36

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That makes way more sense. I honestly thought the article was satire, so I turned to nostr and found this post reaffirming it. Thanks for clarifying.

2024-02-15 17:59:28

Don't fall for it. I would wager that she and others will still try and make self-custody illegal, which is the whole damn point of #Bitcoin. This is just a play to fill the bags of and transfer control to Wall street through ETFs, all the while pushing legislation to ban any kind of sovereign use of #Bitcoin.
#nevent1q…0zt9

2024-02-15 15:48:01

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Braiins and Ocean both offer no-KYC. Why don't more people use these pools? Yes, we still need more competition, but we also need to wake people up! You can only lead a horse to water.....
Ocean is new and has its detractors but Braiins should have more hashrate, especially after switching to FPPS. There are drawbacks to the FPPS model, but it works better for small miners and intermittent miners using their rigs for heat. The TIDES payout system that Ocean uses I think has potential to work even for intermittent miners. If they're successful with lightning integration and stratum v2 for block template decentralization, this could spearhead a new direction for mining pools to follow.

2024-02-13 19:23:07

Spread this! A great article by Colin Crossman on the likelihood of a successful injunction against the EIA emergency survey action. Bitcoiners, stand up!
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/legal/resisting-the-eia-one-possible-playbook

2024-02-13 00:30:00

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Switch to Linux!

2024-02-12 17:46:38

Using Orbot as a socks proxy running in the background has been a much better experience than using Orbot in VPN mode. The best example of this is SimpleX chat. I can connect to my own SimpleX server at home over Tor, while using my regular VPN with Killswitch engaged for all my other apps. Bluewallet? Nunchuck?

2024-02-12 15:19:07

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I think so. It's not in ALL CAPS.

2024-02-12 15:15:23

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Look at that beauty!

2024-02-11 01:28:33

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I second that. Another great series I just finished on Netflix is Barbarian. It's a German produced series about the rise of the barbarians against the Romans. You can watch with English subtitles or dubbed in English. Highly recommend subtitles, the dubbed voices are pretty bad.

2024-02-07 02:54:04

Hashrate is screaming and the mempool is clearing. That's the best fuck you to the EIA we could ask for. #Bitcoin

2024-02-02 19:32:42

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You guys are absolutely crushing it. Just zapped you from my own lightning node using NWC on my start9 server. It doesn't get any better. 🤙

2024-01-30 19:51:41

This was a beautiful conversation (it was mostly Femi speaking) - no offense Peter McCormack.
A lot of important points discussed. Great perspective from Femi.
https://fountain.fm/episode/sH6kq8XdK6Gh9AHC8JY1

2024-01-29 17:16:52

@npub1xnf…lpr5 is killing it. New update with point of sale integration is live.
#nevent1q…d7gd

2024-01-25 12:06:52

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Graphene OS is the best and keeps getting better. Appreciate your posts, that deviceinfo.me website is slick! I love how Graphene OS phones always read 100% battery and charging. One of the many things it does to increase privacy.

2024-01-22 21:19:16

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There's only one Stanley Cup! #hockey

2024-01-19 01:51:45

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I love it. Simple and clean. ✌️

2024-01-18 17:10:31

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Cool man. Sent you some sats. Good luck!

2024-01-18 14:46:58

Pure inspiration.
https://fountain.fm/episode/2TscltG7ywGJihh6BU7Y

2024-01-18 13:20:49

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Is your movie finished? What's it about?

2024-01-18 11:53:42

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Great pictures. You have talent!

2024-01-17 22:18:27

What a speech by Javier Milei. Not sure if it was vetted by the WEF, but it kinda blows my mind he was allowed to speak. If he isn't legit, I'm not sure what the angle is. I guess time will tell.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pfcd0gWNIog&t=1767

2024-01-04 15:22:37

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Could you repost here? I don't have Twitter. Thanks!

2024-01-03 04:51:20

This is a good read.
#nevent1q…pcy3

2024-01-01 06:36:41

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Somewhere between $250k-$300k. Happy new year!

2023-12-15 19:52:16

If you understand #Bitcoin and you're against it, your are my enemy. If you don't understand #Bitcoin and you're against it, I still have work to do.

2023-12-12 18:49:25

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Ya that's unusual. I've never seen that many in such a short timespan, especially from the same pool.

2023-12-12 15:10:36

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Large pools have censored transactions (f2pool recently admitted this) and Luxor mined a block earlier this year for virtually zero onchain fees but took payment via side channels, thereby screwing all the hash providers in their pool. The reason they can do this is because they create the block template in obscurity so hash providers can't see the block until it's mined. I'm not saying Ocean is perfect, but at least they show you in real time their block template so when they do find a block, there are no surprises.

2023-12-12 12:43:08

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Hashrate is decentralized but mining isn't. Block templates are created and controlled by a few large mining pools. I've only recently come to understand this. That's why I moved my hash to @npub1qtv…7dze. Mining pools and individual miners who created they're own block templates are free to include whatever transactions they choose, that's the free market. Market forces aren't solely determined by highest profit. If it were, @npub1qtv…7dze wouldn't have any hashrate. The decision on whether to include inscriptions in the block template will be delegated to the hash providers themselves once stratum v2 is implemented. That's when hash providers will become more than hash providers, they will become miners. This is where mining needs to go for the health and decentralization of the network.

2023-12-12 03:58:37

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Awesome man. No failures, only learning experiences. This is another notch in the belt.

2023-12-11 23:18:05

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Your work with them is not done! 😉

2023-12-11 22:19:29

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I've come to accept that no matter what price you pay, it'll seem like a steal if you wait long enough. 🤙

2023-12-09 21:56:48

Wait. This can't be true. Financial crimes using fiat? I thought that's what #Bitcoin was for. Maybe it's not a useful money laundering, criminal financing network afterall. Maybe the real pushback against #Bitcoin is that these politicians, bankers, and the like won't be able to continue their crimes in the dark recesses of the fiat world under a #Bitcoin standard.
You're losing. You've been exposed. We are coming.
#nevent1q…mvl2

2023-12-09 01:58:52

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Those prices will represent Sats one day.

2023-12-09 01:38:52

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That's really helpful, thank you. I'm gonna start digging into to it. The next few years are going to be wild!

2023-12-09 01:27:44

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Are you finding it profitable to run a node? Been considering learning lightning more and not just using private nodes.

2023-12-09 01:23:55

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Some of whirlpool's coinjoin transactions are being filtered by ocean's Bitcoin node. Samourai and others are calling it censorship, but Luke Dashjr is saying it's not intentional or targeted at coinjoin, but some coinjoin transactions do not fall within certain consensus rules, and consequently get filtered.

2023-12-09 00:37:51

"What do prostitutes, blackmailers, slumlords, and Bitcoin miners who censor transactions all have in common? ...They are heroes of the free market."
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/markets/defending-the-undefendable-the-censoring-miner

2023-12-08 23:52:05

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I'm on board. Let's go. Also, we need to delete daylight savings.

2023-12-08 23:12:05

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Except that 13×28=364

2023-12-08 22:36:04

Don't use Ledger if you can avoid it. Every bit of news about these guys is worst than the last.
If you do own a Ledger or know someone who does, and aren't in a position to get a better device, at least set it up in the best way possible, avoiding Ledger live.
There is a great article by arman the parman that walks you through this process. You only use Ledger live initially to download the Bitcoin app, then you never touch it again. Then you set up a fresh Bitcoin wallet offline and connect to sparrow wallet.
https://armantheparman.com/ledgersparrow/
#nevent1q…kcwp

2023-12-08 22:16:59

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Yes. More pools! We need more options that offer privacy, decentralization-forcing incentives/protocols like SV2, fair/transparent payouts. I'd love to see this built in a way that also works for pleb miners heating at home where miners aren't on all the time. This has potential to be a huge market in the future and could represent a large portion of hashrate. Glad to see this conversation gaining traction.

2023-12-08 22:00:30

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Discussion is good. Glad to see it.

2023-12-08 12:31:51

Literally everything these people say is a projection of their own criminality.
#nevent1q…42jk

2023-12-04 20:46:24

As seen in @npub1qtv…7dze's second block found, the coinbase generated subsidy and fees were awarded directly to miners who met the threshhold for immediate payment. My understanding is that these coins still have to wait 100 confirmations before they can be spent.
This is different from how Braiins would distribute their coins, as all coinbase rewards would go to one address, and then payments would be made based on payout settings configured by individual miners.
Once lightning payments are enabled, this will further reduce @npub1qtv…7dze's custody of coins to almost zero. With stratum v2 implementation, block templates will be created by individual miners, who can decide for themselves which transactions will be included in a block. Stratum v2 also improves the network in many other ways, including encrypted communications by default. This all adds up to positive steps forward for #Bitcoin mining.
Shout-out to Braiins for all the work they've done in the space since the early days, including creating stratum v2.
#nevent1q…d7ck

2023-12-04 16:46:16

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Hilary Buff

2023-12-03 17:17:03

Malaysian flight MH-370 solved? You decide. Fascinating times we live in.
cc @npub1a3h…fg37 based on your conversation with Matt Pines, you may find this interesting.
https://rumble.com/v3yij14-the-truth-about-malaysian-flight-mh-370-with-ashton-forbes-and-ian-crosslan.html

2023-12-03 04:56:26

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It's still very lucky. We should only be finding one block every 10 days, so getting two this quick is very lucky. But that's randomness!

2023-12-03 04:46:25

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Current hashrate on mempool.space is 455,300 PH/s (455.3 EH/s). Compare that to current hashrate on Ocean (314.3 PH/s). That represents about 0.069% of total hashrate which translates into the pool finding a block on average every 10 days. You are correct, this is very lucky, but not out of the realm of possibility.

2023-12-03 04:32:57

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It's 1000 PH/s = 1EH/s, not 10,000.

2023-12-02 23:21:38

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Sounds like the perfect Christmas gift!

2023-12-02 19:23:55

Bahaha! These people are all insane.
#nevent1q…kney

2023-12-02 19:20:30

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Sweet! Where from?

2023-12-01 16:21:28

@npub1qtv…7dze (formerly Eligius) first block found since 2017.
#nevent1q…puwp

2023-12-01 16:07:07

Also waking up. 🤪
#nevent1q…545v

2023-12-01 16:05:54

People are walking up.
#nevent1q…tadm

2023-11-30 20:42:23

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The mining situation is discouraging right now. Braiins moving to FPPS, and Ocean falling well short of expectations. Seems like there's no place to go for plebs who actually care about Bitcoin.

2023-11-30 20:37:46

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Only those participants above the payout threshold, which is around 1M sats.

2023-11-30 18:54:23

Totally agree.
#nevent1q…3727

2023-11-30 04:49:43

We'll that was a short trip on cloud 9. Thanks for asking these questions @npub1tr4…2y5g. I guess there's more to this story yet to be told.
#nevent1q…l6z0

2023-11-29 20:18:43

Ditch braiinspool and mine in the @npub1qtv…7dze

2023-11-29 20:12:54

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Good to hear! 👍

2023-11-29 20:00:17

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Braiins just switched to an FFPS model.

2023-11-29 19:59:48

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A very disappointing day as a previous supporter of Braiins. But a new hope is here. I just pointed my hashrate at Ocean.

2023-11-29 19:54:06

There is a big problem in Bitcoin mining today, and it needs a lot more attention.
@npub1wnl…n3wr recently wrote an extensive article in @bitcoinmagazine about the centralized state of block template creation by large pools who have the ability and incentive to censor transactions, conduct block withholding attacks, create block templates which include transactions paid for via side channels (removing those fees from the mempool thereby screwing the plebs who are providing the hashrate), screw plebs yet again by charging them higher fees while big players get royal treatment, all the while making it impossible to verify payouts in a transparent way under the FFPS model.
This really opened my eyes to some problems I really wasn't aware of. I've been a big supporter of the PPLNS model which was the reason I mined exclusively with @braiinspool. But today braiins just announced they are switching to the FFPS model. Now I'm now saying that braiins is a bad actor, but this does not support the decentralization of Bitcoin mining. On top of that, when I voiced my concern on their telegram channel, the began deleting my comments. This, from an OG Bitcoin company who have done so much great work over the years, is just really disappointing. We certainly don't need more censorship at a time when Bitcoin is coming under attack from the state, especially from a fucking Bitcoin company!
What can you do as a miner to help decentralize Bitcoin mining and protect this beautiful thing we have? Educate yourself on the issues with the FFPS model, and what alternatives exist out there. Here are some resources 👇
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/ocean-jack-dorsey-funds-bitcoin-mining-pool
https://fountain.fm/episode/Mbtyzh1vAlvqnPFOlMEI
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/are-mining-pools-becoming-a-problem-

2023-11-17 20:37:23

Stoked the app is finally out!
#nevent1q…sgnc

2023-11-16 15:37:37

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Hal Finney

2023-11-12 01:36:38

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Braiins pool does not require KYC, and they issue your Bitcoin directly from each block. Just use a VPN to obscure your IP address.

2023-11-12 01:31:37

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Mining.

2023-11-12 01:31:22

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That's a really good take.

2023-09-28 23:42:41

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Completely agree dude. Most people can't even comprehend the low time preference required to build the ancient structures.

2023-07-28 03:28:37

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I looked a few of the top pools because I was curious, and the only pool that I didn't feel like I was entering a casino was Pega Pool out of the UK. They also advertised their payout per TH, which I couldn't easily find for anyone else. They have just under 3EH/s and their payout is $0.0704/TH (fluctuates), which pretty much equals what you would make with Braiins pool, when you average it out. But I like the fact with braiins pool that they pay you from each block so you're getting the actual freshly minted bitcoin. I just like the guys too, they've done a lot to make mining more efficient and secure.

2023-07-27 11:49:42

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That doesn't seem accurate. I'm showing them at close to 6EH/s. Nonetheless, I find it concerning that all this hashrate is pouring into these KYC/AML compliant pools that are also mining shitcoins! brains is the only no-bs mining pool that I've found so far. I think more people will come to realize that over time.

2023-07-21 23:10:15

Clint is on fire. Great episode about censorship. They tried to censor RFK Jr at the congressional censorship hearing!
https://fountain.fm/episode/p1dvHwa05BQEzOC23lVH

2023-07-21 17:08:34

https://fountain.fm/episode/LLJIInHNVPXuZmOMqdZL

2023-07-09 01:08:47

One of my favorite blues shows on the radio every Saturday night from 6pm-9pm EDT: Spinning the Blues with Holly Harris. #grownostr
wumb.org
Listen online!

2023-07-09 00:58:17

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Yes, it seems like forever sometimes. On the other hand, you get more SATs per block. At one point they had around 14 EH/S. I'd like to see them back up there, especially seeing overall hashrate continue to climb.

2023-07-08 23:43:22

I'd really like to see more hashrate with #braiinspool
They are a #bitcoin only mining pool, and your SATs are paid directly from the block that is mined. This is important, and not all pools do this.
They have also been in the space for a very long time and were instrumental during the blocksize war.
They built braiinsOS and just recently released an open source control board with braiinsOS pre-installed.
If you're new to mining, or an OG, consider mining with #briianspool.

2023-07-07 14:24:04

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I'm not sure this applies to GrapheneOS. GOS is only available on pixel devices which uses the Titan M2 chip.

2023-07-05 00:40:16

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I found that interesting too. I didn't realize you could run out of nonces!

2023-07-04 13:21:11

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I found this which explains it pretty well:
https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/915/why-dont-the-timestamps-in-the-block-chain-always-increase#917