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I had very similar experience with ChatGPT working and refining on a project over several month adjusting and formulating protocols and wording including failure and degradation checks until it all collapsed and regressed again with another model upgrade. We included long meta discussions about how to prevent these situations and make it stick to the protocol. Even though all communication was available to me it wasn’t really accessible to learn from by itself. I finally gave up because the tool demanded too much effort and didn’t work as intended and the frustration went too high. Felt like quantum stochastic programming. With success and failure occurring stochastically. Are they all based on the same underlying architecture? I suspect so.

2026-08-09 12:11:42 GMT

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Snotklap is a 100% spot on though. What is your aim except venting frustration and lamenting? Don’t steal peoples’ positive energy to built and create. —— Waiting now be berated as a clueless dim wit who likely was bought off by the government …. 😅

2026-08-06 12:56:52 GMT

Love seeing that the community is gearing up and also researching the shenanigans behind the COLDCARD exploit. It seems the full picture has not yet surfaced. I have a feeling and hope that after the initial shock the coincite affair is going to be a cathartic event for the bitcoin community and will harden bitcoin. There is more to consider and at stake to be wasting countless hours debating Saylor Strategy good or bad, number go up and four year cycle or not ….. ❗️❗️❗️
#nevent1q…jzm3

2026-08-03 18:53:50 GMT

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Looking at the published failure analysis it seems to me no LLM is needed to spot this egregious mistake in the python to c interfacing for their seed génération. One Hour with a good coffee would have sufficed. This crucial code was never audited. It is tempting to assume malice but stupidity is the most plausible assumption. Convoluted macro flag settings and unverified call sequences made sure that the supplied trng interface was not even called instead a Software library function of insufficient entropy did the job.

2026-07-10 11:11:50 GMT

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Sure it is strikes fault. They claim to adhere to the values of bitcoin and say they want to help enable your life on bitcoin. They don’t talk much about the compliance nightmare they will impose on their users.

2026-07-10 11:04:08 GMT

I also experienced their overzealous compliance attitude. It’s disheartening and a fiat bank feels like a privacy respecting entity compared to what they are up to. Would like to see Jack Mallers who chose to be a very public person discuss and address these issues honestly and if he is actually aware of this. The regulated control system turns licensed companies into state enforcement pawns bullying their customers into giving up their financial privacy while they are proud of their bureaucratic compliance badge and helping to enforce the Orwellian state. Did anyone in Uk or Europe try to withdraw their strike bitcoin to a self hosted wallet? I fear they will refuse that also unless you “prove” it is your wallet. It’s so sad.
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2026-07-09 19:29:05 GMT

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Who is “the world”?

2026-07-06 17:39:07 GMT

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Fundamentally true ❗️

2026-06-02 16:55:20 GMT

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Welcome Oleksy and PhoenixMacro on nostr. Looking forward to learn from you.

2026-04-10 13:38:00 GMT

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There is a crucial nuance and a positive change for Japanese tax payer abiding to their laws and willing to hold bitcoin:
If enacted, Japan would move from taxing realized gains in yen to a better category from:
“crypto = highly taxed miscellaneous income (up to 55%)”
to:
“crypto = financial asset with ~20% capital-markets-style taxation”
The law will make it more attractive for average Japanese to hold or use bitcoin. First think then shout !

2025-07-14 08:24:16 GMT

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„I will guarantee it. So the central bank will be behind it.“ That’s why the Euro CBDC will have underlying value.

2025-05-19 13:28:07 GMT

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It is magnificent. But where are the gods?

2025-05-06 10:43:23 GMT

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It seems very important to understand for everyone contributing to this topic that the op-return issue is NOT about the consensus rules enforced by the bitcoin protocol and the network. They are not getting changed in any way.
Instead it is about policy rules enforced by the bitcoin core software for its users.

2025-04-14 12:15:55 GMT

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Spot on. 👍

2025-03-07 17:04:33 GMT

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Bitcoin ist ein finanzielles Inertialsystem.

2025-01-24 12:12:09 GMT

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I agree. This is part of reality. But it in „crypto“ it is not all about altcoins and value store and speculation. Tether has an important use case for millions of people right now all over the world. Important and powerful trends pursued by the financial industry are tokenization of assets and smart contracts. Second and third layer bitcoin applications are part of this. There are no flexible smart contracts on bitcoin, and rightfully so. Bitcoin is a stable bedrock. And the ultimate store of value if you believe Michael Saylor. It is a reality with many facets. As always.

2025-01-24 10:30:08 GMT

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Why is zero crypto holdings too much crypto? Bitcoin is part of a striving crypto technology eco system. Reality needs to be acknowledged in order to deal with it.

2025-01-22 07:33:35 GMT

Free Europe. #note1dvw…x2w6

2025-01-21 16:28:36 GMT

I wonder if this topic is of any relevance to any one of you: celebrity impersonators on nostr, substack and other platforms, all connected to invest frauds and crypto scamming, usually operating with direct messages on one platform and invitation to telegram conversations. How do you verify legitimacy of an account on nostr ?

2025-01-19 18:00:17 GMT

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Remember: Don't be evil.

2024-12-17 15:56:40 GMT

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Wake up call for the EU parliament and the EU people. Who is going to listen? Are the bureaucrats and the entrenched nomenklatura of the EU going to laugh her off?

2024-12-07 13:29:29 GMT

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Wenn er sich die letzten Worte gespart hätte …… Angst vor der eigenen Courage?

2024-12-07 13:03:19 GMT

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Valar Morghulis.

2024-11-19 20:30:11 GMT

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Who thinks that a union despised by most of its citizens and governed by unelected and openly corrupt bureaucrats has any future at all in its present form?

2024-11-17 19:07:30 GMT

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That sums it up all for me. It seems considerable part of science and public discourse lost track of first principles. Unless though donors and fiat money government funding of science and journalism are the new first principles. I have no better explanation. 🤷‍♂️

2024-11-11 17:27:22 GMT

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Thank you. Well said. I do worry. Times are accelerating. As bitcoiners we naturally do hope for the best. But we should always also heed the warnings from the past.

2024-10-22 21:03:30 GMT

Autumn in the city. https://image.nostr.build/e40bb8be5671c487e765dbad534973d7c825ee8c80226b44fe77e6524f447d8c.jpg

2024-10-22 18:08:02 GMT

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Let us know where the beautiful shots were taken.

2024-10-17 09:25:01 GMT

Overwhelming natural beauty. #note1693…qfmp

2024-10-15 17:16:11 GMT

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Kurosawa Sensei on the set of Dreams. Thank you for this post. It made my day.

2024-10-13 19:54:59 GMT

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Yes Mike, I agree. Of course I know about his company. But nothing about his board and how they support his strategy in the long term. Also, To my defense, In his interviews he portrays the control of his company a lot like a one man show. And you are right it is the size that plasma role formten systemic risc. He announced that he is continuing his strategy aggressively. His stack and its valuation are expected to increase substantially.

2024-10-13 19:32:31 GMT

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Excellent post Mike, and an astonishing interview. Michael Sailor allegedly studied bitcoin deeply. Now he advertises his msrt stock by claiming that investors „trust“ him and that he will continue his strategy „forever“. What happens if he has a change of mind or heart attack? Doesn‘t his leveraged bitcoin strategy and coin amassment (remember Smaug’s treasure) on the level of black rock etfs create another single point of failure for bitcoin success ? Riskying market turmoil and a considerable throwback of bitcoin valuation and adoption, thereby crushing the hopes of many that are now saving in bitcoin? Yes I am worried about excessive and reckless financialisation strategies failing. Wasn’t it supposed to be „don‘t trust, verify“ for bitcoin? Just my five cents. Your comments and thoughts welcome.

2024-10-02 18:15:54 GMT

Andy Yen: “We are ensuring freedom through mathematics.” #note15eu…0ec6

2024-09-26 10:53:23 GMT

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Very interesting. I heard certain computer scientists claim that the field is in many respects more like a craft or an art than actual science. I recently started dabbling with the language Scheme (a concise and intriguing Lisp dialect) and the MIT school (the wizard book etc ….) it gave me many beautiful insights and ahas about computing concepts …. And about Scheme’s theoretical beauty and its ramifications and influence on more popular programming languages. I hope to become more proficient and maybe sometime use it as a tool in my research. However as a theoretical mathematician l’art pour l’art is also very satisfying for me.

2024-09-26 10:39:20 GMT

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I am a newby here myself. Since two days experimenting with nostr. Welcome. Love to hear about your gardening. Cheers.

2024-09-26 10:35:18 GMT

Expresses my motivation for learning about nostr. #note1qnz…0mvq

2024-09-25 10:08:07 GMT

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Think I am ready for zapping using wallet of Satoshi.

2024-09-25 08:48:12 GMT

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Thanks. So far I failed to connect wallet of Satoshi with Damus app. Which wallet works nicely here? Probably I did something wrong because so far I wasn’t particapting in Lightning. Wallet of Satoshi seemed pretty straightforward for giving it a try even it it is custodial. Alby put me in an invitation only waiting list. Feeling very much like a newby now. But hope to get zaps ready soon.

2024-09-25 08:39:54 GMT

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Glad we are on the same page. Don’t scold the topologists too much. I am teaching topology regularly. It might be there are a few people around that are a little too anal about their definitions. I was afraid your question will lead into trouble. If you puncture a sphere once it is topologically a plane or an open disc. Are you a mathematician or just fancying a little surface topology?

2024-09-24 22:04:00 GMT

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I kind of am. It’s a sphere with three holes, obviously. Thank you for welcome.

2024-09-24 20:57:50 GMT

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Three.

2024-09-24 20:41:10 GMT

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Thank you. I understand now 1) in retrospect. Contact and relay lists didn’t work for me. Used first aid out of frustration. Contacts started working. Then I read your note again.

2024-09-24 13:44:53 GMT

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About two years ago I started to study bitcoin … so inevitably I was hearing about nostr protocol here and there. Probably also via a Jack Dorsey presentation. I got hooked by the general idea of course. A bit afraid to waste more time online though.

2024-09-24 13:35:54 GMT

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Overwhelmed by warm welcome and helpful information. Thank you all. Excited about the nostr network and where it will go. Still learning for now.

2024-09-24 10:51:12 GMT

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Mike, thank you so much. Excited to learn more.

2024-09-24 10:47:40 GMT

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Thank you.

2024-09-24 09:02:08 GMT

I am a mathematician by education and this is my first social media post. Glad to learn about the idea of Nostr. I am interested in the concept of a decentralized world without censorship of money and information.
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