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2024-06-08 07:46:49

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I don't have a source handy, but my understanding is when money is put into the ETF, they do have to buy Bitcoin within "a certain amount of time" (not sure how much time, maybe daily or so).
Plus obviously holding any large portion in cash is a quick way to become insolvent given Bitcoin's volatility, and I don't think any of the ETF managers are *that* stupid, even if it was a legal option.

2024-06-05 02:45:10

This is the best description of LLMs I've heard yet.
Like a human dumba**, AI can do some work for you and accelerate your productivity, but you still have to verify the work, because you can't assume much of the quality or accuracy.
#nevent1q…lhj6

2024-05-28 08:42:23

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I like this idea, but lack of encrypted messaging (Signal/Matrix) makes this a no-go for me.
I second the recommendation of GrapheneOS to at least prevent some of the tracking.
Having a simpler phone would be great, but a good second choice is to limit what apps you install so you have less distractions available.
There have been several times where I've picked up my phone because I'm slightly bored, stared at the home screen for a few moments, and put it back down after nothing grabs me. After that happened a few times, I've started reaching for my phone less often.

2024-05-28 00:38:49

Hey @npub1a00…9q3h, any plans for a dumb display with this tech? I'd love to be able to plug something into my laptop so I can use it outside in the sun.

2024-05-26 10:02:50

This is why I've decided I want to minimize (and eventually eliminate) my USD debt, even if that might not make the most sense mathmatically.
(That and the whole "banks loan dollars into existence" thing; I have no desire to contribute to debasement/inflation by continuing to borrow money.)
Better to stay humble and stack sats.
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2024-05-11 07:59:20

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From what I've seen in the past, the primary chokepoint for GrapheneOS has not been funds, but developers. Relevant here because it seems they often don't have enough devs to maintain current releases, much less think about new ones.
If they refused to merge a PR adding support for a new device without a good reason, that'd be one thing, but I don't think that has happened. (Disclaimer: I haven't followed development super closely, so some of this could be inaccurate or out-of-date.)
I think many people also overestimate the competence of "bad guys" like Google (or the US federal government); sure they have a lot of power and can do many bad things, but they are not omnipotent. Obviously I can't *prove* that there isn't some kind of hardware "watcher" that runs even alongside GrapheneOS, but why would Google spend money and dev time on this when they already have control of the entire OS 99% of the time?
I'm much more concerned about the millions of normies using stock Android, which *definitely* sends tons of data to Google, or iOS, which probably isn't much better. Sure I'd love to have an entirely open, auditable hardware platform, but in the meantime I think anyone who switches from Android/iOS to Graphene is taking a step in the right direction.

2024-03-23 17:30:20

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Unspent Bitcoin is not useless:
1. My HODL'd Bitcoin prevents my long term savings from being debased.
2. My HODL'd Bitcoin decreases the reservation demand for the US Dollar, making it slightly less easy for them to get away with money printing.
3. My HODL'd Bitcoin means they can't steal *my* purchasing power to fund immoral things like wars, welfare, subsidies, the ATF, and much more.
As for actually spending sats, the main factor is Gresham's Law: I will always spend dollars before sats (even if I have someone like Strike instantly convert those dollars to sats to pay a Lightning invoice). If/when I can no longer convert dollars to sats, then I'll earn and spend sats directly.
As for when I'll spend my long-term savings (which would be the same question if the stack was instead gold, or real estate, or stocks, etc.), that is an open question. I'm not really a fan of "retirement", I don't intend to quit working, so the goal is to cashflow even most large purchases I might want to make. Otherwise maybe I'll come across something that I'm willing to trade a small portion of my stack for: a small business, a 2nd/3rd/4th house, or a private island lol. Anything left over I can give away or pass on to my future kids.

2024-03-21 23:57:27

Airbnb's KYC process is obnoxious. Every time I think I've finished, they throw another "just one more thing" at me. 🙄
Has anyone built a no-KYC (or minimal-KYC) alternative yet? Nostrbnb, perhaps? (Payments would be in sats over Lightning of course.)

2024-03-20 07:37:53

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I had the same question, but according to https://docs.ipfs.tech/concepts/content-addressing/ IPFS also uses SHA256 (at least "by default"), so *I think* you could use the same ID and let the client choose whether to get a file from a Blossom server or from IPFS. Would be great if OP can confirm though.

2024-02-17 17:11:11

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"The moon landing was faked."
Let's leave aside that you're assuming much more government competence than warranted (both in pulling this off originally and in keeping it secret for 50+ years).
The best argument against this comes from the excellent xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1074/

2024-02-10 17:15:48

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Not to mention it's not even good for "the economy" (inflation encourages bad investments, when what we need are *good* investments). 🙄

2024-01-28 08:42:02

https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/the-bullish-case-for-ordinals
I definitely don't agree with @npub1pre…eujk on everything, but he did a great job in this interview of explaining what is also my position on ordinals/inscriptions: I just don't care. No, they aren't an attack on #Bitcoin (because the transactions follow the consensus rules), and it'd be impossible to block them anyway (at best you could make it harder or more expensive). Neither are they a good, useful technology, so I won't be putting my time or money into them.
I understand Rizzo's argument that this will make it even more obvious that there is zero need for other craptocurrencies on other blockchains, but I still don't care. We are headed in that direction long-term anyway, so I'd rather focus on building for use-cases that are actually useful and productive (like stablecoins and privacy tech), rather than helping speculators (if not outright scammers).
1 sat is 1 sat, anyone who says otherwise can HFSP. I'm here because our money is broken. Anything else is a distraction. Fix the money, fix the world.

2023-12-08 17:14:09

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Thanks! It should be [email protected]. I can see it on my profile; you can't? Maybe I didn't set it up right somehow.

2023-12-05 16:21:35

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There are 5 memes in this post, two images and three in the text.

2023-11-21 07:31:09

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There's also the second-best option of exporting your notes to a local file so you can reload if they disappear. (With e.g. nostril-query --authors <pubkey> | nostcat wss://relay.example.com)
I do both, because "two is one, one is none."

2023-11-17 16:54:35

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How do you go about building mental resiliency? Besides obvious things like exposing oneself to new ideas, and accepting the possibility that things could go wrong (i.e. fighting normalcy bias).

2023-11-07 16:02:49

#Nostr turns 3 years old today.
#Bitcoin turns 15 years old in a couple months.
What a time to be alive.

2023-10-17 07:09:27

Now it's even better: good guys must collectively have more *hashpower* (i.e. SHA256 ASICs) than any single attacker.
If you're AWS or Azure (or have control of a botnet), you can acquire an enormous amount of CPU power. Hashpower is much more scarce (and most of it is already spoken for).
#nevent1q…ve3l

2023-09-13 07:29:35

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@npub1h8n…rpev This sounds like what you've been talking about. 😁

2023-09-01 01:44:10

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Don't make promises you can't keep. 😂