kukks

www.kukks.org

Building in the shadows for a better future.

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npub1y24gz5gwucl79vtv4ctwpysl0r5m4xyzu2rgulnr44ks3t5mt92q4nz2ad

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nprofile1qqsz925p2y8wv0lzk9k2u9hqjg0h36d6nzpw9p5w0e366mgg46d4j4qpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgqgkwaehxw309aex2mrp0yhxummnw3ezucnpdejqz9rhwden5te0wfjkccte9ejxzmt4wvhxjmcpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejsz8rhwden5te0dehhxarj9e3xjarrda5kuetj9eek7cmfv9kqz8thwden5te0dehhxarj94c82c3wwajkcmr0wfjx2u3wdejhgcl76qd

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nostr.bitcoiner.social

nostr-pub.wellorder.net

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2026-05-21 07:13:52 GMT

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the online currency for corn

2026-05-20 17:35:28 GMT

I'm verifying myself on og-zkp
https://og-zkp.com/proof/9bfed8d93381fc70bac6e9b305f6de9d

2026-02-20 15:02:42 GMT

Announcing my new @nprofile…kqrk
plugin: Stripe support!
https://image.nostr.build/b1e0c8144817b1afb88a2706ccb01b97e31f35c4d356460049c75c405fe40a09.jpg
Try it out now on your instance:
Plugins -> Stripe -> Install
or by downloading from the directory at https://plugin-builder.btcpayserver.org/public/plugins/stripe-payments https://image.nostr.build/92ff461623c8867e8aaa61ecbd79c26370dd0bdb873f9f0e46a2d942d9981702.jpg

2026-02-13 12:02:56 GMT

Friday vibes.
Please test out and leave a review for my latest @nprofile…kqrk plugin: MCP support
Now you can connect BTCPay Server to your AI chatbot/coder and let you control it through natural language.
"Is my server working fine?"
"Are there any active invoices?"
"How's my cashflow looking this week?"
"Create a new store for me"
https://plugin-builder.btcpayserver.org/public/plugins/mcp-server

2026-02-06 18:51:16 GMT

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The arkade sdks should have almost everything you need minus the web server for lnurl which is dead simple to build up. You don't set up your own arkd, you just implement a lightweight wallet and done! No api key needed.
Or you can use Arkade btcpay plugin and have btcpay give you ln address out of the box :)

2026-02-04 06:48:07 GMT

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I'd say beta or even ready to use entirely. Been trying it without issue for a while.

2026-02-03 21:10:51 GMT

https://plugin-builder.btcpayserver.org/public/plugins/stripe-payments
FiatPay Server.
Ready for feedback and please leave a review and dm me with any issues encountered. 🫡

2025-12-31 12:47:08 GMT

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Feature is under development but a bit slow on this front. Stay tuned

2025-09-05 20:59:07 GMT

Join us at @npub1hf5…dp8n in our pursuit for programmable money. No bullshit, just #bitcoin.
https://bitcoinerjobs.com/job/1830981-software-engineer-go-rust-typescript-ark-labs

2025-08-23 05:38:41 GMT

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This has always been the way. Hyping up "nostr" because "nostr" can only go so far.
It's the products that elevate any protocol beyond the nerd gaze

2025-08-09 11:18:25 GMT

Now™️ #note1sm2…86hj

2025-08-05 08:39:50 GMT

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If it's monetary transactions that are the "problem", maybe the degen were right. How about pepe tokens pegged to 1 sat

2025-08-01 11:58:56 GMT

Soon™️

2025-06-14 16:37:02 GMT

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Maybe I'll bring my copy and beg for an autograph🥺

2025-06-14 16:20:14 GMT

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No, this doesn't refer to the typical tps measurement used by blockchains.
I refer to the pragmatic upper bound for creation of new vtxos within a single onchain tx.
This bound is mostly defined by interactivity rounds between participants to construct the covenant. Since we do not have introspection covenants, we use a a series of n-of-n musig transactions. More vtxos = more interactivity.
We've had a functional ark for bitcoin for almost a year now, and since then we've optimized heavily along with plans to go even further. We have methods to achieve the above in concurrency, so that even with a single onchain transaction, we can create higher vtxo counts, without increasing interactivity for each VTXO owner.
In terms of "tps", I would say it is similar to lightning in that we have offchain instant transactions, but with actual transaction composability -- just craft a bitcoin transaction, sign, and submit.
There is of course no free lunch: one must swap their existing vtxos for new ones that are created with the commitment transaction (covenant session) described above, a trustless swap through connector outputs, for two reasons:
Batch expiries: these covenants have an expiry that allow the ark operator to reclaim its initial liquidity.
Switching from preconfirmation security (previous owner + ark operator collusion risk) to bitcoin finality (fully under your control). This also prunes the unilateral exit to a minimum tx set for broadcasting to.covnert vtxos to utxos.

2025-05-20 04:53:23 GMT

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Maybe stop listening to professional wiener gobblers. Sounds unhealthy.

2025-05-13 19:21:47 GMT

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This whole spectacle that Ark is "gimped" without a covenant is way over the top.
Yes, Ark can be better with covenants. In fact, at @npub1hf5…dp8n we have both variants developed and concluded that a covenantless variant today is not only viable, but can exceed expectations through the right optimizations and engineering. We have a path for multiple hundreds of vtxo creation in a single commitment transaction while keeping the interactivity at an acceptable level.
We also have paths of varying methods to mitigate the approaching expiry dilemma.
Ark does not need covenants. It is FUD to state otherwise. You'll see soon enough though!

2025-05-13 19:04:47 GMT

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We will release something exactly as you described very soon!

2025-05-13 13:12:32 GMT

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Unsure what you mean by "remixing".
If you're referring to the need to batch swap vtxos because of the expiration, then yes. Especially because you said you have a server?

2025-05-12 17:52:58 GMT

ICYMI @npub1hf5…dp8n launched a new deep dive section about Ark for an intermediate grokking session.
And for the balls' deep session, a litepaper https://docs.arklabs.xyz/ark.pdf 🔥
You'll also find integration docs for our (early) SDKs: notice how simple using Ark is! https://docs.arklabs.xyz/integrate/sdk

2025-05-01 07:10:09 GMT

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#nevent1q…jxmm

2025-04-17 06:20:15 GMT

Welcome 👑
#note1qrr…9fzv

2025-04-16 07:33:56 GMT

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There's a reporting section that lets you export invoices and the payments at the rate received

2025-04-14 18:56:52 GMT

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Whare arr you trying to do and where are you getting stuck?

2025-04-10 19:51:13 GMT

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I simply do not have time to maintain and refactor everything anymore. Wasabi codebase has gotten so much better, but my codebase is stuck with too much glue with the old code, and bugs.
Maybe when kompaktor/Wasabi 3.0 can converge..

2025-04-10 19:48:41 GMT

Really enjoyed this one, hit home with so many topics but especially burnout and sustainability in open source.
Not gonna lie, 2024 was probably one of my lowest points. Everything felt like an uphill battle.
Grateful for the shift in 2025 so far.
Also excited to be going to my first btc++ in Riga this year ❤️ #note1fs4…v76m

2025-03-31 07:45:52 GMT

#naddr1qv…5dxk

2025-03-14 16:38:55 GMT

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How'd it go?

2025-03-08 11:29:10 GMT

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Iirc it uses a different curve secp256r1

2025-03-06 21:43:23 GMT

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You'd be surprised, shorter than you think!

2025-03-06 15:44:12 GMT

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Wait till we show you the power of ark... 💪

2025-03-01 12:41:26 GMT

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Amazing work!

2025-02-28 14:00:20 GMT

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUHkQ9vP_lA
video seems relevant

2025-02-26 21:29:29 GMT

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Saylor has always been the usual greed based statist. He doesn't give a shit why we're all here, why we've been at this for far longer, and why we will outlast his degeneracey. He is pure noise.
We've got one chance to fix the money. Maybe it won't fix the world outright, but it's the next best thing many of us can work on.
#nevent1q…7dtt

2025-02-25 08:47:42 GMT

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The random person: @nprofile…xnfk

2025-02-24 21:34:18 GMT

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Dust amount - minimum amount a bitcoin transaction output is allowed through current policy. Since ark has unilateral exit, we currently enforce it. Although you can always go to a miner out of band and get it included in a block but thats more of a cheat code than pragmatic.
However we know that at that amount, perhaps it's not enforceability that matters, but rather the claim, and collecting a sum of claims higher than dust should allow you to go to enforceability again. Work in progress and just the rationale right now, but it's in our considerations

2025-02-17 12:56:39 GMT

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CTV is so optional at this point that I don't even think about it in an Ark context anymore. 😉

2025-02-14 16:15:07 GMT

Happy to announce I've joined @npub1hf5…dp8n!
After falling down a rabbit hole last year, I'm convinced that Ark is the only realistic, shippable concept that can power the next generation of Bitcoin services.
You have no idea what's coming 🔥

2025-01-25 13:43:35 GMT

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400k is average? What do you guys do over there?

2025-01-15 22:13:32 GMT

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It's probably just legal status..

2025-01-13 17:46:41 GMT

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https://njump.me/nevent1qqs26ggd36h3ls4xltk4u0uat59hdt52hq9qtkkc4ftxf8w97spgd8qpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7q3qy24gz5gwucl79vtv4ctwpysl0r5m4xyzu2rgulnr44ks3t5mt92qxpqqqqqqzuxnzfk

2024-12-30 20:29:45 GMT

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I also find consistency in routine to be my best protip. I sleep a solid 8+ hours every day, fall asleep deeply within 5 minutes and dream. No weird supplements, no self medication with weed or alternatives.

2024-12-20 22:19:02 GMT

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I don't want to waste my time. He spends too much energy with vague, overreaching statements and fuds other people's work constantly.

2024-12-20 22:11:39 GMT

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That comparison chart is completely nonsensical and obviously written with full bias

2024-11-24 20:22:36 GMT

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Ego is the worst detractor to productivity.

2024-11-16 15:16:32 GMT

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Easily still one of the best bitcoin product
ads ever made to me. The delivery of the ad was amazing, the delivery of the full product still needs to ship 😂

2024-11-15 20:23:21 GMT

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I'm sorry Gigi, take care of yourself.

2024-11-06 21:23:28 GMT

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If not quake, maybe doom?

2024-11-02 10:17:23 GMT

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It's my fault for the lack of awareness. I don't promote my work much because I feel my time is best spent researching and building the tech. I rely on people to discover, understand and help promote it, which hasn't been very effective so maybe this is where I should change. I’m better with code than with words though, as the quote goes. 😁
This plugin is something I took on myself to develop but it was only the first step in the grand scheme of things. Zksnacks supported me immensely and we were going to take over the world, where every spend was actually a coinjoin, until the samourai situation unfolded.
There's still hope, but it will have to execute differently now. The tech is sound and is agnostic of use, whether it is privacy, scaling, or both.
Just need to get the message across to get the right resources and connections.

2024-11-02 06:39:11 GMT

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Everyone was too busy focusing on postmix tools to realize you don't need a postmix tool if everything can happen in a mix!
PSA: @nprofile…kvl9 with the coinjoin plugin has been able to handle payment batching in coinjoin directly since day one of its release.
And a (not so) secret project that I have been working on for years will soon transform coinjoins into one of the best payment protocols out there with massive cost savings and privacy gains for everyone involved
#nevent1q…pw9p
Previous mentions about this: https://twitter.com/MrKukks/status/1619294492854747138

2024-10-25 05:09:53 GMT

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Link? It's zerolink, so there should be at least different identities for each output + one for all inputs iirc

2024-10-24 03:51:36 GMT

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A little part of me dies at every upstream merge, but your code quality has gotten orders of magnitude better lately! I just had to hack around the old stuff so much that it is now a much harder job maintaining it.

2024-10-22 19:19:59 GMT

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It was a well known address. Ricochet was a very sloppy mess that relied heavily on exchanges also being sloppy and too slow to detect the very clear heuristic. Ricochet should have used paynyms, but also made each hop a more realistic tx pattern.

2024-10-17 19:51:18 GMT

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Savage but awesome!

2024-10-17 06:18:34 GMT

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I don't think it is just about a simple direct cost-per-enemy, but rather to spread hope of an alternative for Russians than dying in the frontline in a senseless war.

2024-10-11 21:23:34 GMT

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Hit the 69th minute on this note

2024-10-11 18:44:14 GMT

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I'm not saying it isnt, it obviously is. But it's not going to be the next firebase/parsley database with the same performance profile that you can get for free with the extra open protocol magic. You should definitely build your own proprietary, optimized backend but the point is that the "less optimal" nostr req is still there to not gatekeep data flows

2024-10-11 16:00:57 GMT

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The " other stuff" in nostr are just different constructs of notes. If you're using nostr as simply a database for your app then you're just not aiming for real usage. But being able to interop through a common format in a well defined communication layer is the golden goose.

2024-10-10 16:00:23 GMT

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Jealous of the event attendees, have fun! Guess I'll just play with some nuts at home..

2024-10-09 21:23:17 GMT

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Cell phone connections are probably correlated to the imei of the sim card, and nat only hides internal devices but still gets an ip as a collective?

2024-10-09 21:13:48 GMT

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Would have said yes few years back but got too much cooking in the shadows now 😁

2024-10-09 21:12:33 GMT

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Oh sure, i just perceived that the initial post was insinuating "just use a vpn" was the best choice.
And no debate over the whirlpool one 😅

2024-10-09 20:59:22 GMT

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You are overestimating the effectiveness of a vpn here. The reality here is that we are focusing on very sophisticated difficult to execute attack vectors. The vpn is your only shield for all identities pushing to the relay here. Sure, https/wss encrypts the content, but an attacker that has compromised a vpn operator will listen to events on nostr relays that the vpn has connections to by its users, and can artificially delay data transfer to do timing analysis on events to correlate which ip sent which events with which pubkeys.

2024-10-09 20:39:43 GMT

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I like the approach of fulmo and nostr unconfs, where they simply rotate across the globe. That way you can reach the widest diverse audience and speakers.

2024-10-09 20:34:02 GMT

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Correct me if I am wrong, but wouldn't using something like rise up vpn, a third party operated service, give each third party all the data needed to correlate everything?
A vpn operator knows every source ip and their every destination and action and the promise of no logging is just that, a promise.
This is literally why people use Tor, and generate separate tor circuits per required identity.
PS, regarding wabisabi, circuits are constructed in advanced to prevent delays around tor circuit execution (although I think this is overkill), but also input, output registrations and anonymous credential reissuances has randomized delays built into it by design to prevent such correlation. Happy to answer more if you want to know more.

2024-10-06 07:30:09 GMT

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Whole separate world of bitcoiners outside of US that will never get (American mainstream) spotlight because of this too

2024-10-02 11:39:50 GMT

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Just try? Theoretically supported but haven't tried.

2024-10-02 06:12:25 GMT

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Not exclusively ark related actually, but it does tie in very well!

2024-09-30 12:40:28 GMT

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Never left 😅

2024-09-27 21:03:38 GMT

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I did, seems like I got a case of mad bull disease🐂

2024-09-27 10:58:33 GMT

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https://image.nostr.build/8e55d4c7abb66f966567c397b8073626b9cbebec23c607d80f643f0b13183a3b.png

2024-09-26 21:09:24 GMT

A new era of bitcoin privacy and payments is coming. Fuck, I'm suddenly so bullish.

2024-09-14 10:07:30 GMT

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Without going into any of the expected books that are inevitably mentioned into these circles like 1984 (which also had a good impact on my resolve around my work focus), I think "the boy who was raised as a dog" left a profound mark on me. https://mindsplain.com/mindsplain-book-review-the-boy-who-was-raised-as-a-dog/

2024-09-09 19:18:09 GMT

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Xm3 is still just so good, and the last Gen of the folding design. Every newer model between Sony and bose ditched it to look more hip so they're even more likely to snap in your bag..
But for in-ear, I really love the jabra ones. Just make sure to not buy their oval shaped tip variants as you'll need to buy third party tips for superior noise cancelation

2024-09-06 19:38:47 GMT

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Lol wtf, freemasons is just a wannabe macho cigar club not a satanic cult 😂.
And hey, if we're going there, the true church of satan is probably the most bitcoin philosophically aligned organization ever.
https://www.churchofsatan.com
Just read their intro text and tell me I'm wrong.

2024-09-04 08:02:17 GMT

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But have you cooked every single of them?

2024-09-02 19:21:20 GMT

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https://youtu.be/TIy3n2b7V9k

2024-08-25 04:19:30 GMT

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I always find these scare tactics super silly. It's such a trivial tool to rebuild and execute in a million different ways. The endless legal hell can't be worth it

2024-08-23 15:56:58 GMT

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Everything always sucks eventually

2024-06-15 11:29:49 GMT

Dystopian resistant.
https://mempool.space/tx/f86a753247eb96405cc9b20845915e2f6fb52283d0705bd715ff292178d97871

2024-06-09 16:06:46 GMT

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Just send directly to the pubkey, maybe with a tweak with your pubkey and note id?

2024-06-06 20:13:25 GMT

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Thank you for this, fixed a bug in the nostr plugin for btcpay and released!

2024-06-06 09:44:48 GMT

I come bearing gifts.
Introducing DotNut - a C# library implementing the Cashu protocol
https://github.com/Kukks/DotNut
The best part about this is the naming opportunities honestly. 😂

2024-06-04 18:41:06 GMT

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Zksnacks was built through years of sweat and blood by @nopara73 with no funding. Everything had to be researched and built from scratch, with not even a fraction of available research, resources and tooling. The amount of work that has been put into it and over such a long span of time is incomprehensible unless you've seen it unfold in front of you leading to the giant zksnacks ended up being.
Mutiny's journey is still young but what they've built on a relatively small startup budget is insane.
Your coinjoin protocol is barely a protocol and is so basic and missing key aspects that nobody that's been in this long enough will take seriously. And if you want their level of resources commit to it and raise money like mutiny did.
Every post about coinjoin, you spam/hijack shilling your stuff. It's rude, and really annoying.

2024-06-04 06:01:55 GMT

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Grow up and stop being so salty.

2024-05-02 17:17:26 GMT

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Private comms over nostr is unsolvable (user and relay level) without bundling in tor or another privacy network

2024-04-19 16:38:07 GMT

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Glad I'm not the only depressed pessimist here

2024-04-13 09:37:21 GMT

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Amazing! Your website was so helpful to me way back

2024-04-12 07:10:05 GMT

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Just add a tag for content type and go nuts!

2024-04-10 08:37:25 GMT

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It's in our plans to create a bridge between the pos app and nostr markets but we're a bit overloaded for now

2024-04-10 07:34:54 GMT

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The dreaded jaf arrays will forever be your legacy

2024-04-09 12:48:16 GMT

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I'm shocked

2024-04-09 11:52:07 GMT

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I'm the best influencer ever is what you're saying.

2024-04-09 11:38:23 GMT

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It was way back when we were trying to come up with a similar deterministic backup and key derivation: https://t.me/nostr_protocol/6910

2024-04-08 18:57:46 GMT

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I'm simply a realist with all my dreams of perfect fungibility and freedom slowly drowning under the sands of time

2024-04-08 18:48:38 GMT

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As @npub1der…xzpc knows very well, I'm ready when you are to bring the pessimism back into your life

2024-04-08 17:58:48 GMT

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That one's my fault, sorry @fiatjaf 😂

2024-04-08 06:12:56 GMT

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It doesn't work in that direction

2024-04-05 05:14:08 GMT

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This is the only correct answer

2024-03-07 09:41:46 GMT

The state of the Bitcoin community in a bull market is such an embarrassment. Principles, and freedom tech all thrown out so that we can simp for the statists and their corrupt financial instruments, all for a few extra digits.
Do better