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2025-09-26 05:47:33 GMT

I've had smart friend ask me by email about the #1 shitcoin. I have asked him to paste the prompt below into his AI tool ChatGPT. I know it's a leading prompt but I've told him that he can then ask any question after that. I'll let you know the result. Interested to see what any of you get if you put in a similar prompt? Too much information??? What do you think?
ChatGPT Prompt:
"Give me a full timeline of all Ethereum network upgrades starting from genesis (30 July 2015). Present it as a table with columns: Date, Fork/Codename, Fork Type (hard or soft), Consensus Effect, Approximate ETH Supply at that time, and Premine Share (%) assuming a fixed premine of 72 million ETH.
Also clearly define what a “premine” is, and contrast it with Bitcoin’s launch (no premine, coins mined from zero with work). Show that a premine can be created instantly without work and allocated to insiders.
In the explanation, also highlight the significance of soft forks vs hard forks — why Ethereum’s reliance on hard forks forces everyone to upgrade and gives centralised power to those proposing forks, while Bitcoin’s soft-fork model is backwards-compatible and doesn’t allow developers to dictate consensus in the same way."

2025-09-25 04:21:07 GMT

In regards to Charlie Kirk's assassination, has anyone thought about crowdsourcing the videos people took at the scene to triangulate the shooter's location based on measurable delays in the audio?
If phone videos from different spots were gathered, they could be synced and the delays in when each mic hears the gunshot (sound travels only ~343 m/s) could be measured.
With as few as 3 - 4 video clips from varied locations (but better accuracy with 10+ video clips), the shot’s origin can be triangulated to within 10 metres. No need to wait for authorities who seem to be playing games or at best plain incompetent. The community could analyse and map this for ourselves.
It’s a little sophisticated but absolutely doable.

2025-09-19 05:30:13 GMT

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This is a must read article showing why sunlight is one of the most powerful and overlooked factors in health... not just about Vitamin D either, it affects nearly every aspect of health, happiness and even how long you live.
https://www.swanbitcoin.com/opinion/the-sunshine-manifesto/
#nevent1q…gwn8

2025-09-19 05:23:47 GMT

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Cocoa is very high in Oxylates unfortunately.
Read Toxic Superfoods by Sally Norton.

2025-09-19 05:01:41 GMT

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Yeah I wanted to try this on an old trezor, but gave up when I couldn't find a suitably cheap glitching solution.
https://voidstarsec.com/blog/replicant-part-1
Looks like the cost will be closer to $1000 and more likely to work with firmware 1.5.1 or older.
That's as far as I got... Keen to find out more though.

2025-09-16 04:43:24 GMT

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Calling Bitcoin “... unnecessarily redundant and paranoid” is arrogant & shows hubris... cause no one knows future attacks or what the state will try.
Slow and ponderous? Exactly right. That’s the feature.
Also, I would shy away from the term “blockchain” cause shitcoins often rewrite their BS chains at will. All that matters is Bitcoin’s immutable slow and ponderous immutable distributed database.

2025-08-27 06:26:24 GMT

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Definitely possible. @nprofile…w75y throw this on our local Telegram chat. Would be terrific if a buyer showed up there!

2025-08-27 06:25:11 GMT

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Definitely possible. @nprofile…w75y throw this on our local Telegram chat. Would be terrific if a buyer showed up there!

2025-07-26 02:01:17 GMT

Just watched an absolutely fascinating talk by @nprofile…z299 about his new product, Beacon.
It’s a wonderful example of using your opponent’s strength against them. Beacon brings Bitcoin Cashu wallets, AI tools, uncensored news, and more, all through a simple text box inside WhatsApp.
In countries like Myanmar, where WhatsApp is often the only reliable form of communication, this approach is brilliant!!!

2025-03-11 22:11:43 GMT

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Calcitriol

2025-02-10 03:59:00 GMT

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I have printed and stuck on my fridge.
#note1p3m…ejfm

2024-12-22 06:24:38 GMT

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I'll add to this and say that hierarchies will naturally happen as people organize themselves around skills, expertise, or leadership qualities. The key difference in an anarchist framework is that these hierarchies are voluntary, and not enforced through a coercive authority.
#note1klj…amf6

2024-11-22 05:58:35 GMT

So I wanted to deep dive on the old NONCE attack on hardware wallets, specifically whether the COLDCARD Mk4 leverages each of it's True Random Number Generators (TRNG) on both secure elements to generate random numbers and combine them using XOR.
Checking out this blog post... and HOLY SHIT, my respect for COLDCARD's security just skyrocketed. They don’t just use both secure elements but they also throw in the Microprocessor’s TRNG and XOR them together, with all of them chatting over a few millimeters of copper via encrypted comms. And that’s just scratching the surface!
No wonder @npub1az9…m8y8 loses his mind when people use Raspberry Pis as hardware wallets.
This is the blog post:
https://blog.coinkite.com/understanding-mk4-security-model
It's worth a read if you want a wow moment 🙂

2024-07-27 22:14:39 GMT

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1 day of bitaxe mining = 50,000+ years of nerdminer mining

2024-05-09 00:06:43 GMT

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A lot of people died as a direct result of being given Midazolam.
COVID killed far fewer people than we thought (though still significant) and Midazolam killed far more people.
Dr John Campbell did an outstanding video presenting the peer reviewed paper.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3cqo9V2MzM

2024-05-07 00:09:09 GMT

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Just for a different perspective, watch this Dr John Campbell video regarding use of Midazolam in aged care facilities during initial covid outbreak because it might just raise a bit of doubt before swallowing what you have been told.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3cqo9V2MzM
This hits very close to home for me personally.

2024-05-06 23:29:41 GMT

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That is a conjecture not a fact.
Anecdotally, from the small group of unvaccinated people I know... those of us who eat meat daily and get regular sunshine, caught covid once and it barely felt like a cold.
Yet my vaccinated, boosted & sun and meat phobic friends and colleagues have had covid many times, and EVERY TIME they were bedridden for days!
I knew three fit middle aged people who have "died suddenly" and one fit person who got turbo cancer leaving a young family behind. Tragic.
Open your eyes.

2024-03-21 07:17:34 GMT

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This is an absolute must watch film It was pivotal to my understanding of government/mafia/hitmen. Even the setup was incredible. I had no idea that US companies were funding both sides of the war.
History is written by the victors.

2024-02-25 21:28:06 GMT

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Done

2023-11-22 00:56:53 GMT

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I love this!

2023-10-26 06:42:27 GMT

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Go eat a bag of dicks. Leave Bitcoin alone! Do your shitcoining somewhere else.

2023-10-25 01:21:17 GMT

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The only way to "bring more freedom" is to reduce the size of government.
#nevent1q…ypjm

2023-10-25 01:17:04 GMT

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Spot on!
#nevent1q…c2fs

2023-09-07 00:15:07 GMT

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Set your lockscreen and wallpaper to plain old boring black to reduce tracking and increase privacy.
Good video which explains it here https://youtu.be/cwLRiadmfaQ?si=9QlgwS2wiMmUA5WO

2023-07-26 05:03:56 GMT

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Nice. Have added this to my list of red pill resources.

2023-07-25 05:27:29 GMT

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The final archvillain is every single government around the world.

2023-07-11 02:19:27 GMT

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Absolute stunner. Strong sensible mind. Traditional values. 1 in a million woman!

2023-07-09 22:50:05 GMT

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Spot on!

2023-06-28 00:41:42 GMT

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I bet that saylors personal stack of roughly 20k btc will be self custody by him.
His MicroStrategy stack will either have regulatory restrictions on how he can hold it or he has purposely said things publicly to obfuscate for his operational security.

2023-06-27 23:53:37 GMT

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Does MicroStrategy take custody of their own keys? Or are they rightfully playing cards close to their chest and not being specific?

2023-06-23 21:57:09 GMT

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Beautiful images.

2023-06-23 21:48:59 GMT

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Appreciate the regular updates.

2023-06-03 12:28:17 GMT

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Loved the episode. Listening a second time now. V keen to hear more on this topic.
With existing mulitsig, we have to keep a copy of the redeem script or all the xpubs in case one of the keys are lost.
If one of the keys of say a 2 of 3 Frost multisig private key is lost, is it possible to have access to spend funds if only have 2 of the private keys and no redeem script or xpub of lost key?
Sounds like you can as there is no redeem script? Is that correct?

2023-05-23 20:31:29 GMT

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2023-05-23 20:26:23 GMT

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You need your government's permission to use your fiat. Bitcoin requires no permission.

2023-05-22 01:17:36 GMT

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Imagine a fiat planet running into the bitcoin black hole as an analogy. One will eat the other.

2023-05-18 04:14:22 GMT

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Spot on thank you Jimmy

2023-05-05 23:35:18 GMT

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His attitude to life is tops. Although he had farsightedness, he was humble to the end. Thank you for this story.

2023-04-27 10:22:37 GMT

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This will be a fake account. Guessing it's an old guy ripping off her videos for zaps.

2023-04-24 06:52:09 GMT

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Bitcoin is backed by the same thing that backs gold, silver or any hard money... It's backed by the strength of it's monetary properties.
That is why #Bitcoin is the most perfect form of money ever discovered.

2023-04-24 05:57:27 GMT

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A thing must be desired AND scarce to command a high price or value.
Of course there are many items that are important to our survival that are free. Fresh air & water for most of us in the rich countries is an example. Another example is the childcare worker who is paid low, yet their role to look after children is extremely important - arguably more so than being a plumber. Yet the plumber is often paid 3 times more than the childcare worker. Prices hence value are set by supply and demand.
The honest billionaires (that don't steal) have figured this out and specialize in offering value.
Therefore, billionaires are not taking a large share of the cake and making other people have to go with less. Billionaires are making the cake much larger for everyone.
Capitalism (small business & billionaires) have driven down prices drastically over the last 200 years. And this is why poverty is less than a tenth of what it was then.
***Making profit by offering value (not stealing) is one of the most ethical things one can do***
Also, since you were talking about ideas and reading books, let me start with some recommendations that say it much better than I can.
"The Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith
"Economics in One Lesson" by Henry Hazlitt.
"An Introduction to Value Theory" https://mises.org/library/introduction-value-theory (Mises Institute).

2023-04-23 11:05:47 GMT

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Not only does being a billionaire make sense but it is highly ethical to be one.
If someone has earned a billion dollars in assets by providing value to others (not by stealing), then by definition he or she has contributed a billion dollars more value to the world than what they have consumed.
If someone has more liabilities than assets then this person is not just broke or insolvent, but they have consumed more than they have produced.
Who is more moral? Who is more ethical?

2023-04-20 11:37:45 GMT

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True true

2023-04-20 11:30:37 GMT

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Shitcoin

2023-04-20 11:30:23 GMT

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Shitcoin

2023-04-20 11:29:47 GMT

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Remember that the state is incompetent. Eg. The most oppressive powerful country on the planet, China, banned mining a few years ago. Yet China still has very significant hash rate.
The state, even the mighty US, cannot afford to control enough hash rate to censor transactions at scale for any significant length of time.
Bitcoin mining is the most competitive business Vs the State which is the most wasteful organisation on the planet. Difficult for them to win that one.

2023-04-20 10:33:44 GMT

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Tough question and my answer is pure speculation. I think the next war won't have anything to do with the bitcoin protocol itself.
Some soft fork proposals and methods of activation will continue to be contentious but not a biggie in the overall scheme of things. Also not widely known but there is at least one hard fork in bitcoin's distant future (block number 5101541 in 86 years) which I won't get to see unfortuantely... but that is another story.
The next attack IMO will be from the state or through their proxies. Such as:
- closing or restricting on-ramps to #Bitcoin using FTX & other scams as an excuse to introduce legislation to "protect" us.
- increasing electricity prices for miners
- attempting to censor transactions
- legislation targeting Bitcoin hodlers to disclose their stack addresses
- legislation targeting Bitcoin hodlers with unrealized capital gains tax consequences
- psychological attacks such as writing more articles describing ppl who hodl #Bitcoin as "Impulsive psychopaths are drawn to Bitcoin and other crypto"
- low probability 6102 attack but perhaps some countries will try
- CBDCs are more of a #Bitcoin promotion and getting normies used to the idea of digital wallets
Many of the above are highly highly speculative. But ultimately any or all of these attacks will make #Bitcoin stronger and if anything accelerate #Bitcoin use and adoption. The mining ban in China was a perfect example.
What are your thoughts? Where do you speculate that the next attack will come from?

2023-04-20 07:30:05 GMT

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Yeah that is really neat I agree.

2023-04-20 07:18:44 GMT

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The fact that #Bitcoin can be used by your enemies and truly evil people as well as freedom loving hard working people is truly liberating. Here's why.
First of all #Bitcoin gives you the irrevocable right to your money. It is a neutral tech, & doesn't care how moral or heinous you are.
Would you critize the gold asset class because it was effectively used by the Nazis? Of course not. Gold was the best tech to store value across time in the 1940s.
Today, #Bitcoin is used by truly monstrous evil people as well as honest hard working mums and dads because it is the most effective tool to store and transmit wealth that has ever existed.
But here's the silver lining--in a society where strong private property rights are enforced for all, freedom is far more powerful and productive than tyranny. And #Bitcoin is the trojan horse that allows normal plebs like me to enforce our private property rights.
States that remain on a centrally controlled fiat money standard will flounder and fail like North Korea.
But groups of people who use a truly sound money to store and trade will flourish and thrive and outcompete their fiat money Neanderthal cousins.

2023-04-20 04:55:04 GMT

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Instead of left vs right it should be
Freedom vs tyranny
Both the left and the right are bumping up against the tyrannical end of the scale.
Ultimately
More government=tyranny
Less government=freedom

2023-04-20 04:48:00 GMT

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A more accurate meme would represent crypto as a parasitic worm hanging onto the log instead of a smaller version of dog.

2023-04-20 02:42:16 GMT

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Agree. Yes how did Satoshi get Bitcoin so right? Even after he combined so many existing discoveries like proof of work & linked chain of database blocks, he added in the difficulty adjustment. On top of that the numbers he chose were near perfect, including blocks targeting 600 sec, 1mb block limit, 2016 block difficulty adjustment period, 210,000 block halving leading to 21 M bitcoin total.
Changing any of these numbers would be similar to changing the charge of an electron, or the strength of gravity. Our universe would drastically change forever.
Thankfully these numbers cannot changed.
Although there is one hard fork in the distant future for bitcoin, but that is for another time.

2023-04-20 01:50:37 GMT

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Fantastic article. It's spot on!
The only shocking thing are the many replies to #[1] s post saying meh or no big deal.
I'd take a bet that most of these ppl have never read Orwell, Mises or Rothbard.

2023-04-18 03:27:01 GMT

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A society with Strong Private Property rights at it's foundation is where I want to live. This is why I keep all of my wealth in Cold Storage Bitcoin because it is truly mine.

2023-04-17 00:12:23 GMT

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Try putting your question to the GrapheneOS off topic telegram group. Someone might be able to give you the name of a good hardware repair person.
And yes the inbuilt GrapheneOS backup works very well. I use it along with the brilliant opensource "syncthing" to sync in realtime my photos and Keepass over my private tailscale network.
https://t.me/GrapheneOS_offtopic

2023-04-13 21:10:14 GMT

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Thank you Paul really appreciate my first zap you are too kind. I have zapped you back 500 sats.
Unfortunately I have stuffed up somewhere with my setup because your zap hasn't turned up in my wallet. I will do some homework on the weekend and figure out where I went wrong.
It's people like you who really help newbies like me that will make nostr and bitcoin successful. Thank you v much.

2023-04-13 09:26:43 GMT

This Saturday at the Sydney Bitcoin Alive conference will be my first time meeting a group of Bitcoin-only people & I honestly can't wait.
Any conference do and don't tips you can give?
I'm keen to make connections and start a Bitcoin-only group in Cairns.

2023-04-13 02:44:35 GMT

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welcome.nostr.wine

2023-04-05 22:20:29 GMT

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Thank Paul, I'll set up an lnurl this weekend cheers

2023-04-05 01:59:46 GMT

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This is such an interesting question.
If the alien civilization published a single block (at the leading tip of the chain) with 100 leading zero bits, it demonstrates they channeled more than 2^20 times or roughly 1 million times the amount of energy in the entire bitcoin hashing network into that block or roughly 1000 times the total electricity output of humanity (assuming bitcoin consumes 0.1% of total world electricity).
It also shows that the aliens want us to know how powerful they are and that they exist since they could have simply mined a winning block with not as many leading zeros. More interestingly it demonstrates that they mined that block within close proximity to us; at most, 5 - 10 light minutes away.
I would start by waiting to see if they published more similar blocks and hence try to adjust the difficulty upwards by a lot.
If not, I would put a message in one of the subsequent blocks asking to establish trade and communication with the aliens. Any race that can channel this much energy into this calculation must have invented their own version of sound money that can't be fucked with. This answer hasn't begun to scratch the surface of the consequence of an event like this happening though.

2023-04-04 10:53:46 GMT

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Fantastic content. Name change welcome too. I never understood why it had trader in the name because his videos are top tier.

2023-04-03 04:10:19 GMT

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Not open source and runs on Windows but I run Blue Iris + DeepStack AI on a VLAN that is completely separated from my secure network. I like that I can self host and functionality is superior to existing open source alternatives.
A compromise that I have decided to live with for now until open source alternative solutions catch up.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nLH9GEcdb9

2023-04-01 05:11:11 GMT

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Subscribed

2023-03-30 02:22:43 GMT

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#[0]

2023-03-28 00:57:25 GMT

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My first nostr post - a Satoshi Quote
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