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nostr is not about the relays, or the websockets, or the caching, or the discoverability. these are all implementation details
nostr is a cryptographically verifiable social and content graph. and that's huge
don't midcurve this

2024-06-22 17:05:27

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but then Jevons paradox..

2024-06-16 19:26:38

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only bitcoin can regulate AI
iykyk

2024-06-10 19:41:22

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who's calling to abandon voting?

2024-06-09 22:33:31

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like?

2024-06-09 15:45:23

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fedi app for fedimints

2024-06-09 00:19:49

you will interactively sign your yearly provisioned LN channel in a timeout tree, through your always connected home node, and you will be happy
regardless of any soft forks, life finds a way

2024-06-08 00:22:19

cryptography can never truly replace trust. what it can do is push it as far to the edges as possible, and that's huge. because trust at the edges is truly practical

2024-06-08 00:16:28

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that's a different issue, but for this you'll have to have visibility into the code that your counterparty runs, and that's impractical
you can use tor or vpn, and provide as little information as possible to the process that runs on your machine, but you can never validate what information your counterparty keeps and how it uses it

2024-06-07 22:35:32

is it even possible to log back into your ubuntu after a few days without it insisting that you must restart or the world will end?

2024-06-07 18:13:36

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since fedi is practically just keeping pieces of strings for you (no cryptography as an ecash end user), i guess it’s tolerable. fountain is also an LN custodian with no client side cryptography afaik. as for keet i never used it so don’t know
open source is mostly critical for applications that implement cryptographic protocols, to be able to verify they are not backdoored

2024-06-04 23:52:17

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he’s a funny dude

2024-06-04 22:44:22

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censoring on open protocols is impractical

2024-06-03 21:16:38

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magic happens

2024-06-03 21:06:07

who will take this?
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

2024-06-03 21:03:07

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bitcoin can be traded p2p. centralized exchanges are a convenient, not a necessity

2024-06-03 19:50:32

i met a real life person today who knows about nostr

2024-06-03 16:37:06

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"two way peg" is a fallacy

2024-06-02 21:01:28

PWAs are cool

2024-06-01 20:19:30

AI isn't boosting productivity unless it creates people more time and leverage to solve issues in the real world, like energy. it might lead to that but it's not the productivity gain by itself
helping people build faster saas products is marginal at best
printing books also wasn't a direct productivity boost but it did accelerated industrialization, so AI is still promising in this regard, but writing faster code to handle saas isn't what leads humanity forward and won't be visible in GDP any time soon
the actual breakthroughs are still pending

2024-06-01 19:45:23

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it's only OK for public discussion. whatever you consider private don't do there
(including obfuscating your identity)

2024-06-01 19:42:59

there’s no “trade-off” between sound money and personal sovereignty. don’t be gaslit

2024-06-01 18:25:27

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modern chargers are 100-240v. you just need a few pieces of plastic for most devices

2024-06-01 17:24:52

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without the grounding its basically 2-3 types

2024-06-01 15:11:32

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a federation can join this ring signature scheme?

2024-06-01 01:42:52

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real value is in real wealth, not money. the value of money is the percent of liquid capital a market values as a medium of exchange

2024-05-31 20:22:25

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isn't fedimints specifically that?

2024-05-31 20:03:21

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I don't know anything else

2024-05-31 14:33:45

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took me a while figuring out you're not talking about those runes

2024-05-31 14:26:26

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highest ROI possible for individuals

2024-05-26 00:14:12

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give me an invitation

2024-05-25 23:34:30

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nothing

2024-05-25 23:32:19

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why i can’t receive directly to my channel anymore? only fedimint

2024-05-25 01:10:05

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these are cashu mints

2024-05-25 00:19:12

where do i find fedimint mints?

2024-05-24 20:02:36

shill me ecash stuff. fedi, cashu, wallets, mint explorers, nostr integration.
whatever can be played with mainnet right now

2024-05-24 16:02:47

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it shouldn't be this expensive

2024-05-19 13:10:54

because of variable rates and adjusting to CPI with Israeli mortgages (aint nobody stupid enough to lend fixed shekels) some people find themselves pay a full year and still owe the same nominal total
everything is so over extended

2024-05-19 10:10:29

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what is emoji reactions?

2024-05-17 18:19:04

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just traded 58 sats to hype this

2024-05-11 22:56:45

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we've all been there

2024-05-10 23:21:42

the state exists precisely so that we will NOT have to trust every counterparty we come in contact with, delegating it to the rule of law. a superstate trustless apparatus like bitcoin is a civilizational upgrade in this context

2024-05-08 23:51:29

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identity

2024-05-08 22:34:31

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why don't you stay on twitter?

2024-05-06 21:38:44

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or just use NWC

2024-05-05 19:43:05

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i have a similar dream many times

2024-05-03 16:46:02

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thing is today there are even less excuses why not use LN for all payments. opening and splicing channels is dirt cheap

2024-05-03 16:10:41

onchain privacy (“i don’t want my employer to know blah blah blah..”) is as much larp as onchain payments are
both cannot serve more than a million people daily
both should and will move offchain, leveraging the benefits of not writing to a dumb inefficient replicated database

2024-05-02 21:06:30

its time to move everything off chain. LN, coin pools, state chains, ecash
you don't solve blockchains with more blockchains

2024-05-02 18:04:47

the divide in bitcoin should be very clear. some want to replace the dollar with bitcoin, others want to use bitcoin (and crypto in general) to expand the dollar
differentiating between both groups is super easy because it's not a technical question, but most technical questions are downstream from it
where do you stand?

2024-05-02 14:54:25

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the transistor is a cool invention

2024-05-01 17:08:17

is it possible to sign a backup key for rotation and timestamp it on bitcoin?

2024-05-01 00:32:50

humanity never had any kind of property that was:
1. liquid
2. could be kept entirely in one’s head
please don’t fuck this up

2024-04-30 19:17:47

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select all -> mark as read

2024-04-30 16:56:55

why is so much interest obsessed with tokenizing stuff on btc when you got such amazing technology like solana? with native support for freeze, rewind, kyc/aml functionality, a global state and sub second blocks

2024-04-30 14:34:06

you will own nothing but tokenized liabilities and you will be happy

2024-04-29 23:10:18

you'll own nothing but counter-parties' liabilities and you'll be happy

2024-04-29 21:03:33

wallet of satoshi, phoenix, alby, all self cucked for transmitting pennies in zaps
meanwhile you can practically move millions in USDT between solana, tron, eth on something like exodus wallet without giving even a private name, from inside the U.S, on all app stores
👀

2024-04-29 02:18:15

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were you using an unlicensed heat transmitter?

2024-04-28 23:42:52

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testing reply from client #3

2024-04-28 23:31:08

can you see this? what client are you using?

2024-04-28 20:56:33

I actually worked at a unicorn where some of the CI/CD automation worked on someone's Mac mini at the office
#nevent1q…59zv

2024-04-28 18:53:21

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NO REGRETS

2024-04-27 01:16:20

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running on electron

2024-04-26 15:12:44

bitcoin NEEDS to be challenged to get stronger
1000s of faceless coin mixers instead of one whirlpool
1000s of local LSPs instead of one phoenix
1000s of local P2P trading venues instead of one coinbase
1000s of micro miners instead of one marathon
if consolidation of service providers wasn’t a problem the federal reserve would have been just fine
bitcoin itself, and the way people use it MUST adapt to be able to route around single points of failure. the samurai case couldn’t be a better wake up call
it’s all about the ROI on violence. if the state cannot jail 10000 “unlicensed money transmitter” it will give up

2024-04-25 22:29:24

bitcoin doesn’t eliminate the need for trust
what it does is push trust to the periphery, instead of pulling it into the center
the answer for secrets management is trusting your family and friends with shards and social recovery
the answer for scaling will come from dunbar number uncle jim operations of LN routing, mints and local pools
the answer for trading is p2p cash on a personal level
the answer for mining is more localized distributed mining
unlike the nation state, which is financially incentivized to centralize power and decision making, bitcoin is designed to be a trustless structure that enables all kinds of models of trust at the edges
yes, organized power can come first for the exchanges, the big mixers and liquidity providers, the public miners, the payment processors, but as more and more of these operations migrate to the periphery, the return on violence to come after them is reducing

2024-04-23 02:38:24

the world could have been perfect if it wasn't for mosquitoes. it was really that close

2024-04-22 14:01:56

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when are we gonna see hashrate reduces?

2024-04-21 20:28:48

I don't trust people who don't cook

2024-04-14 11:34:22

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ark the scalability proposal?

2024-04-14 11:32:52

the only guarantee is that governments will keep increasing deficits and savers will keep getting fucked

2024-04-13 00:52:35

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it's all cached somewhere. what's the reasoning?

2024-04-05 17:02:53

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let's say he's CIA. now what?

2024-04-05 16:33:46

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he’s buying you time. he knows very well what bitcoin can do but will never paint a target on his back

2024-04-03 20:33:19

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what are the heuristics to find a good peer?

2024-04-03 20:27:52

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it's like the bitcoin of social media. will be a parallel alternative for a while and someday become the standard

2024-03-24 01:54:08

no lies detected
#nevent1q…49gk

2024-03-24 01:52:50

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is this a huge soup?

2024-03-12 11:19:05

bitcoin will let sovereigns reflate and reduce debt/gdp pressure without the guilt. everyone can save starting with 1$

2024-03-09 22:37:22

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green bell? I don't even know why they were invented

2024-02-17 19:53:47

home is where your mattress is

2024-02-17 02:33:22

after watching the sora demos i have a feeling NVDA will be half of the economy in a few years

2024-02-13 19:49:31

it's all memes
https://m.primal.net/Hcbd.png

2024-02-11 22:50:51

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n=2

2024-02-09 21:54:04

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normies were always destined to hold BTC through their pensions
unit bias is too strong with midwits

2024-02-09 20:57:22

tight monetary policy + loose fiscal policy basically says "fuck you if you're not part of the gov scam"

2024-02-02 22:44:04

what’s the meaning of orbot’s icon?
right answers only https://image.nostr.build/31e93e2019b963b816e2d80228fd2b0d1b63d4d47da773c2de22b63ebc6ae267.jpg

2024-02-01 02:45:02

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i get the concept but evidently as of now it still isn’t

2024-02-01 02:37:35

so tradfi markets gonna melt 3 months before a halving again? how convenient

2024-01-22 02:55:03

if bitcoin can die because of “uneconomical” fee paying activity, we better learn about it now before a nation state attempts this
i rather face reality sooner than later and go on with my life

2024-01-18 21:28:00

a dump below 40k will be super healthy here

2024-01-14 18:18:47

i can't believe degenerate gamblers hacked a motivation for them to dump excess fiat liquidity into bitcoin txn fees to smooth out the transition into a robust fee market, so that your coins are secured, AS DESIGNED FROM DAY ONE, and you chose to be a salty bitch

2024-01-12 16:38:27

Gary had to have the courts forcing him. vanguard are still reacting like toddlers.
Wall Street isn't a coordinated monolith with a plan for bitcoin, it's just a bunch of greedy humans letting the trojan horse into another layer, like the rest of us

2024-01-12 16:11:42

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there's a lot of legroom between here and there. many millions of productive people will still be able to afford the fee for a judgement txn if needed

2024-01-12 00:22:04

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it thats kept only for emergencies (enforce uncooperative coordinator) the fee you'd be willing to risk out of your total capital is much higher

2024-01-11 18:16:20

retail normies were never going to buy bitcoin for these prices, unit bias is too powerful over the NPC mind ("if I can't have 1 it's not worth it"). that's why they created ETFs - to bridge the gap from BTC to sats
eventually everyone will be using sats without knowing how they got there, like with all technological shifts
in the meanwhile, bitcoin got some more leeway to improve self custody - tools, payments infra, scale, protocol improvements. the ETFs help to cover up the current embarrassment

2024-01-09 21:56:10

if the state don’t protect your money, another mechanism have to. that’s why using bitcoin is expensive

2024-01-09 20:24:47

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0.1 is the minimum 👍

2024-01-09 00:36:29

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where do you buy that is taking a big margin?

2024-01-08 21:55:30

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set a zaps address