Juraj

I don’t seek rigid structure — I seek resonance

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2025-05-20 13:50:29 GMT

Another repo drop from me: rss2podcast
Not everyone has time to read, but reading is essential. This tool enables you to listen to what you want to read instead. It has two modes - you can convert your own blog to a podcast, or you can create a personal podcasts from articles from all around the web.
This powers the audio version of my blogs: https://juraj.bednar.io/en/jurajs-blog-podcast-edition/
This also powers the website https://loaditfor.me/ which allows you to convert the articles on the internet that you want to read.
There is a lot of work I put into this, I hope someone finds it useful. Returning value (for example as sats) appreciated if you find it useful.
This is actually the last piece, markdown2audio and a better StyleTTS2 inference engine has been already released before.
Look at how I generate it, it's quite interesting, it's not just raw reading of the article, I convert it into a form that is better for voice narration using LLMs, I verify outputs with speech to text, etc.
https://github.com/jooray/rss2podcast
Enjoy!
https://blossom.primal.net/91dca3a903aebc16d4402c74ae017f930e16edccb5f9c3c626368f3e2c25a038.png

2025-05-01 09:00:27 GMT

If you need proper Red / Near Infrared Light Therapy, the best panels with zero flicker and all the proven frequencies by easylight.sk now accept Bitcoin with @nprofile…xhfg - to their wallet, without conversion-to-fiat gateways.
They ship everywhere in Europe. I have the big one. Gamechanger, especially if you can't have enough natural light (office work, or if it's winter). Use it for recovery, anti inflammation, brain stimulation, energy production.
Use code JURAJ if you want a discount.
Thanks to @nprofile…895l for BTCPay-shoptet integration (I fixed it a bit: https://gitlab.com/janpoboril/shoptet-btcpay ).

2025-04-27 18:10:52 GMT

In this talk @wilderko explains why is fiat more complicated than bitcoin.
I want to add one thing for merchants. Credit cards:
1.) open a bank account for company, often it is half day at a bank, especially if they decide to screen what type of business you do and when you tell them you want to receive credit card payments
2.) find provider to provide you with terminal. sign another contract
3.) deploy terminals to all places where you might get paid. teach people how it works, what happens in cancellation, how to do refunds
4.) money arrive a few days later at your bank account
5.) optionally taxed (slovakia, hungary)
Bitcoin:
1.) install bitcoin wallet on your existing device
2.) click receive, enter amount, click receive
3.) payment either went through or not
4.) if you want multiple places to accept, send everyone a "receive only" link, they can bookmark it and receive lightning payments
So why is Bitcoin "complicated"?

2025-04-27 07:42:30 GMT

Buď je úplne mimo tento súdruh alebo ja. Ja mám rád zmrzlinu, Bratislavu, dedinku v Uruguay, čerstvý vzduch, more, les, ... a nič z toho by som nešiel brániť. To neznamená, že nie sú veci, ktoré by som nebránil, ale teda krajina tam rozhodne nepatrí. Ale mám ju rád. Niektoré veci, ktoré nám rád však skončia a nahradím ich inými vecami ktoré mám rád.
Moja skúsenosť z precestovania celého sveta je, že Slovensko nie je vôbec ničím zásadne výnimočné (a Čechy tiež). Je samozrejme unikátne (už len pre tie divné jazyky, ktorými sa tam rozpráva a ktorým zhodou okolností rozumiem), ale za mňa v zásade nadpriemer. Čiže existuje aspoň 50 krajín, ktoré viem mať rád rovnako a sú z mnohých ohľadov lepšie (a v niečom horšie). Ak by som si mal vybrať krajinu vs bezpečnosť mňa a mojej rodiny, neváham ani na sekundu a odpoveď píšem z pláže v Uruguaji.
https://m.primal.net/QetZ.jpg

2025-04-25 12:29:49 GMT

OK, this is probably just me lazy to get dressed properly and want to walk around in joggers, but I remember back in the cr4pt0 conference days, people used to say that the poor-but-wannabe-rich were those in the most expensive suits and the real deals were in T-shirts.
(I don't own a suit, nor a shirt).
So I had to make this. I'm the guy on the right BTW if you did not know. 😅
https://blossom.primal.net/aa8e0e55c25873b96595a4b298e4b8afca825edac434c27dbab2f1b76c84ad36.jpg

2025-04-25 08:28:41 GMT

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New users just learn it when they become bitcoiners.
It would create great confusion for the millions of people who already know. "Are you talking about the old bitcoin or the new bitcoin?"
The unit of account is like language, it is extremely difficult to change. I am from a country that experienced at least two currency changes (depending how you count) and there are still people who think in Slovak crowns and not euros. Yes, 16 years later. If you don't change the name, just redefine it, it will be even worse.
This is a spectacularly bad idea.

2025-04-24 14:02:16 GMT

Asking a girl for phone number is obsolete. You need to ask her for her public key. That's how she knows you are serious.
It can be signal qr code with verification, simplex invite code, but if you are more traditional, a PGP key is enough.
If she does not know what you are talking about or offers telegram or Instagram, keep looking for a better girl.

2025-04-21 15:33:35 GMT

"Who would build the roads?" is the wrong question. The real question is - what we don't have when we waste money for overproduction of roads through state coercion.
A (hopefully a bit funny) look from Uruguay at an age old statist (slavery-apologist) koan.
Don't fall for it. Potholes are a sign of liberty and smart use of resources!
https://juraj.bednar.io/en/blog-en/2025/04/21/when-potholes-mean-good-use-of-scarce-resources/

2025-04-20 09:28:35 GMT

The manifesto of the liberated emergent being
We are not waiting to be led.
We are not here to follow maps drawn by others.
We are here to listen—deeply, bravely—to the faint pulse of something real inside.
That pulse is freedom—not as an escape, but as creation.
Not the kind that screams “no,” but the kind that whispers “yes… and what if?”
We choose to emerge.
We don’t conform, and we don’t rebel.
We choose the third path: emergence—a way of becoming that arises from within,
and flows outward like sunlight breaking through a crack.
We do not ask permission to be whole.
We do not wait for someone else to fix the system.
We grow something else, somewhere else.
Not loudly. Not violently. But with undeniable presence.
We believe in the right to become—not a copy, not a role, but something new.
We are artists of selfhood, hackers of systems, gardeners of possibility.
Our method is hacking
We change not by force—but by insight.
By discovering small shifts that change everything.
We don’t impose ideas; we seed resonance.
We don’t command; we invite.
We believe that inner systems are just as hackable as outer ones.
A thought, a posture, a question at the right moment can reboot a life.
We are the psychedelic guides of the practical world.
We walk beside others—not to teach them the way, but to ask:
“Where does your freedom live?”
We don’t argue, we create
We build new systems instead of endlessly fixing old ones.
We live differently, so that others may feel it’s possible.
We give shape to freedom—not as a protest, but as a prototype.
We are not trying to win debates.
We are trying to make obsolete what no longer serves.
We believe beauty is subversive. Joy is contagious.
And clarity is revolutionary.
We believe…
That every human being contains a hidden brilliance,
and that it longs to be invited out, not forced in.
That truth can be quiet, and still shatter walls.
That you are not broken—you are becoming.
This leads to emergent action…
We live with integrity that makes people curious.
Speak truths that leave space for others to step in.
Build things that enable others to build on.
Free yourself so fully that others start asking how.
Be the strange light.
Be the soft spark.
Be the one who opens the gate from inside.
This is not a revolution.
This is not a brand.
This is emergence.
And you’re already part of it.
https://juraj.bednar.io/en/blog-en/2025/04/20/the-manifesto-of-the-liberated-emergent-being/

2025-04-19 18:14:46 GMT

Wow, this is amazing. Everything can be an integrated wallet in JavaScript.
Web based podcast players can go 2.0 without a node!
(Or they can use cashu mints)
(although neither probably support keysend)
#nevent1q…ad52

2025-04-15 19:22:16 GMT

You could have voted with your attention,
but you don't know how to control it and it's directed externally by corporations and divisive politics, they just take over your attention.
You could have voted with your money, but you were never interested in understanding how it works, how to make it and how to keep it. So they stole it from you, taxed you, evaporated its value through inflation and now you don't have a vote in the market economy.
You could have voted with your time. But you spend most of it on things that grab your attention and on making money in a hamster wheel.
You could have voted with your feet. But the world out there is scary and far and you would have to change your life significantly.
So you at least vote by putting a sheet of paper in a box, and you hope that this act, which is all vote you have left will change things for the better. And then you're disappointed and frustrated, because either your favorite tyrant did not win or they did and the result is the same as always.
Learn to use your attention
Learn about money
Save your time
And vote in ways that matter

2025-04-15 19:18:26 GMT

You could have voted with your attention,
but you don't know how to control it and it's directed externally by corporations and divisive politics, they just take over your attention.
You could have voted with your money, but you were never interested how it works, how to make it and how to keep it. So they stole it from you, taxed you, evaporated its value through inflation and now you don't have a vote in the market economy.
You could have voted with your time. But you spend most of it on things that grabs your attention and on making money in a hamster wheel.
You could have voted with your feet. But the world out there is scary and far and you would have to change your life significantly.
So you say least vote by putting a sheet of paper in a box, and you hope that this act, which is all vote you have left will change things for the better. And then you're disappointed and frustrated, because either your favorite tyrant did not win or they did and the result is the same as always.
Learn to use your attention
Learn about money
Save your time
And vote in ways that matter

2025-04-07 18:06:22 GMT

Llama4
Notably, users and companies "domiciled" or with a "principal place of business" in the EU are prohibited from using or distributing the models, likely due to governance requirements under EU AI and data privacy laws.
EU companies, what do you say? Feel protected?

2025-04-07 09:59:37 GMT

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Hustá akcia, ja som však veľmi ďaleko.
Užite si!
Čo je to autonómne centrum? Je to super?

2025-04-05 09:15:42 GMT

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It's mainly functionality not design.
That's just how modern web works. Client side rendering and such.
I think turning off JavaScript is like a pilgrimage. It's meant to make you suffer to make you conscious about some things.
The truth is, most tracking does not rely on JavaScript and often not even on cookies. You are better off with a good ad blocker and JavaScript on, because the adblocker blocks known third party trackers which can be as simple as loading an image.
I use Matomo for analytics, it is privacy preserving for users (I don't want to look at IP addresses and things like that, only at trends), but all it needs is access log. You don't even see it.
But if it's religious (privacy) pilgrimage you are after, it's good. For real effects, you need a different practice.

2025-04-03 07:02:54 GMT

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That turns web into 1990s style BBS.
Very cool for about two days.

2025-04-02 17:15:34 GMT

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Oh the ones that I know well, Python and modern JavaScript (enables easy web development).
I like but have just basic experience with Typescript and Go.
I can work with C, C++, even Perl, Java, LISP.
I used to use many others, at college I wrote every project in different language just to get a feel for each.

2025-04-02 16:53:20 GMT

Confession: I wholeheartedly hate Rust. It just sucks. The build system is ok (not great, not terrible) and the fact it can compile into WASM is nice. Everything else just plainly sucks.
Otherwise I'm not religious, I can handle and enjoy most languages.
When I hear a project is being rewritten in Rust, it's sad news. People waste time on the rewrite instead of the features and it stops being improvable for me.
I hope this Rust mania ends soon and we can all go back to nice programmer friendly languages.
Rust is computational Marxism.

2025-03-29 22:25:46 GMT

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How do I check the other tabs? I don't have Figma account.

2025-03-26 20:09:19 GMT

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Bose 900

2025-03-26 16:18:30 GMT

Project with kids?
Something like LightningPiggy (https://www.lightningpiggy.com/ ), but with Cashu and maybe some more interesting interface?
NFC, USB text files (probably more difficult) or something similar.
A way where you have a feed that you are feeding it Bitcoin, not sending to it.
ESP32 cashu client should be easy (micropython?) enough to vibe-code :)
Or even more fun - if locked to pubkey (forever), it could be completely offline. Just verifies signatures of paired mint and shows that the keys are locked to pubkey.
And then there's a button to dump all tokens for exchange.

2025-03-26 15:58:47 GMT

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Btw I'm "consulting" a bit on @nprofile…dpxl .
Big fan of the project 😁

2025-03-26 15:57:01 GMT

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One click would be nice, although not sure how to implement it.
In fountain it should be searchable, but you can always add private rss feed.
I'll be open sourcing the code for both rss2podcast and loaditfor.me soon. I was experimenting and rewriting it with my intern a lot (ok, it was mostly vibe coded), but now it has become more stable.

2025-03-25 11:42:48 GMT

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Is the spent cashu token's signature public though?

2025-03-24 13:27:31 GMT

Je platba kartou priložením zlatý štandard užívateľského rozhrania? Ale kdeže. Je to fiat. Odovzdanie kľúča a PINu náhodnému terminálu vo večierke vo Vietname, prípadne platba priložením mobilu nám neumožňujú potvrdiť napríklad sumu platby na našom zariadení.
Aké máme iné možnosti a prečo to v Bitcoine robíme inak ...
CZ: https://www.alza.cz/platebni-site
SK: https://www.alza.sk/platebni-siete

2025-03-24 11:18:04 GMT

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Include "don't sound like a cunt" in the prompt.
For more AI tips, like, subscribe and send zaps

2025-03-24 11:14:10 GMT

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Congrats, this is the first message in the wild that reached Eso level 10 on @nprofile…zekf
Estimated eso level: 10 - 👽
Reasoning: This text presents a complete dissolution of conventional reality and asserts communication from a source beyond human comprehension – a “higher-order non-relationship” and an “author of reality”. The claim of a system rewrite and the explicit denial of the reader having experienced the text strongly aligns with the highest level of esoteric assertion – claiming contact with entities or forces fundamentally outside of our perceived universe and manipulating the very fabric of existence. It goes beyond even astral projection or belief in unseen forces; it posits a complete restructuring of reality itself, mirroring the most extreme claims of contact and altered states of being. The use of symbols and the error messages further contribute to the sense of something beyond human understanding attempting to communicate, fitting the description of this level.
https://m.primal.net/PrOD.png

2025-03-22 13:22:19 GMT

ELI5 explanation of an eso level. Please remember the only authoritative ESO level estimator is here: https://juraj.bednar.io/assets/esolevel/index.html
"Imagine your brain is a little rocket ship. And every time someone says something super normal and easy to understand, like '1 plus 1 is 2', your rocket doesn’t even lift off. That’s level 0 — your brain is just chillin’ on the ground, eating cookies."
"But then, someone starts talking about gold turning into magic money, or mushrooms that help you think like a wizard, or aliens singing songs through your bathtub faucet — and your rocket goes WHOOSH higher and higher into the sky!"
"The eso level tells you how high the rocket goes.
Level 0 is like: ‘Facts!’
Level 5 is like: ‘Ooooh magic mushrooms!’
Level 10 is like: ‘ALIENS TALK TO MY TOAST!’"
So when someone says something, we just check: Is the rocket still on Earth or is it doing loop-de-loops past Saturn?

2025-03-22 11:12:50 GMT

Currency reforms and CBDCs
Czechoslovakia – Currency Reform of 1953
In Czechoslovakia, a drastic currency reform took place in May 1953 under the communist regime. Old crowns were replaced with new ones at a rate of 5:1 for savings up to 5,000 Kčs, but for higher amounts, the rate was far less favorable, up to 50:1. Key aspect: Citizens could exchange only a limited amount of money, and if they wanted to exchange more, they had to document the legal origin of their income, which was practically impossible, especially for private entrepreneurs or people with savings. Many thus lost most of their wealth, leading to widespread impoverishment.
Germany – Currency Reform of 1948
After World War II, in West Germany, a reform in June 1948 replaced the Reichsmark with the new Deutsche Mark. Each resident could exchange only 40 Reichsmarks per person at a 1:1 rate, with the rest of their savings frozen and later partially devalued at a 10:1 rate. Key aspect: The restriction to a fixed amount (40 DM per person) and the need to document income for larger sums meant that those with greater savings (often from the black market or pre-war times) lost most of their wealth. While the reform jumpstarted the economy, it was devastating for many.
USA – Nixon Shock of 1971
In August 1971, President Nixon ended the gold standard, decoupling the dollar from gold. This wasn’t a traditional currency exchange, but it devalued money through inflation and eroded purchasing power. Key aspect: While there was no direct requirement to document income or limit exchanges, the indirect consequences—loss of trust in the dollar and subsequent inflation—impoverished residents, especially those holding cash savings. Control over the currency shifted entirely to the state and central bank.
CBDC (Digital Euro) and Similarities to These Reforms
The digital euro, as a form of central bank digital currency (CBDC), presents a modern parallel to these historical reforms, particularly in terms of control and restrictions. With a CBDC, the central bank (in this case, the ECB) would have direct oversight over every transaction. If it were introduced with rules such as a maximum amount an individual could hold or exchange, or a requirement to document the origin of funds (e.g., when converting cash to digital currency), it would echo past restrictions.
Specifically:
Need to document income: When introducing a CBDC, governments might require citizens to prove the legality of their savings during the conversion from cash to digital currency, much like in Czechoslovakia or Germany. This could disadvantage people with informal income or savings.
Limit on amounts: The ECB could impose caps on holding digital euros (e.g., to combat money laundering), replicating the fixed-sum principle of the German reform.
Loss of anonymity: Unlike cash, every transaction would be traceable, increasing the risk of retroactive controls and penalties, thus amplifying state power over individuals—a centralization similar to that seen in the Nixon Shock.
The digital euro could resemble these reforms by potentially limiting individuals’ freedom to manage their own money and imposing strict rules, such as the need to document income or caps on exchange amounts. Historically, such measures led to impoverishment, and a CBDC could repeat this problem in the digital age, this time with even greater control over the population.
Buy Bitcoin, now. And get friendly with some good proxy merchants.

2025-03-21 11:34:39 GMT

AlmaLinux elevate is amazing.
They added support for encrypted volumes now.
I had just below five hours of sleep instead of pulling an all nighter. Three servers upgraded, one of them is a virtualization machine.. If you have rhel derivative, especially 7-based, you can in place upgrade to AlmaLinux 8 or 9.

2025-03-21 11:21:22 GMT

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So who's gonna do it?
I want the output in short story format, preferably by Paul Rosenberg

2025-03-21 00:27:24 GMT

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Install meshchat or sideband and try it out. They use super hardcore voice compression.
(BTW: Reticulum is an universal network protocol, it works over any medium _including_ lora, but definitely not limited to it).

2025-03-21 00:12:17 GMT

Voice calls in sideband desktop!
#nevent1q…kqpy

2025-03-20 22:30:40 GMT

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Yes, it's good. Payment issues probably not due to minibits, but chosen mint.

2025-03-20 22:28:46 GMT

Do!
#nevent1q…4yhf

2025-03-20 17:58:49 GMT

"What do I think is fun? Does it really coincide with beer ads?"
"Fear and status are, in a sense, drugs, and if you had a choice between smoking cannabis every day or being on fear and status every day, I’d definitely recommend the cannabis."
https://freemansperspective.com/hustled-through-life/

2025-03-20 17:55:49 GMT

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Money laundering is beautiful

2025-03-20 17:38:58 GMT

https://vimeo.com/1066420057
#nevent1q…ys7u

2025-03-20 17:35:05 GMT

A lot of people when they talk about solving societal problems jump straight to suggestions about fixing education. That almost never works. Even when the correlation is there, the causality is usually the other way around (rich societies have more money to spend /waste for education, they are rich first).
There are many reasons why it does not work, but one view is useful. Information is abundant. The teacher in school does not need to read a book to us, we can read ourselves, or let AI describe that. The way to learn is to engage with a topic. In other words pay attention. The teachers know this and repeat it to students. "Pay attention!"
We don't pay attention to boring, uninteresting stuff. We need to be engaged with it first. Is it a date to remember or a fundamental law that we need to understand in order to finish our project that we're engaged in.
It used to be that information was scarce. With printing press, information started to be free. That was accelerated with internet. What became more important is how to apply the information. Now with AI, this is also demonetized.
Now it's only about our attention.
The teachers in school direct our attention. But they often have to drive it to some centrally planned content(*). Which is boring, often useless at least during childhood when it's presented and thus forgotten before we actually need it.
The only superpower remains - where do we put our attention? Can we actually control it or is it controlled by apps, advertisers and propaganda?
"If they lose our attention, they lose their power" (by @nprofile…nj96 )
It is crucial step in The Merge, but I'm not spoiling anything more.
https://youtu.be/cWO08RexBLg?si=hzm070jNwWdvMslT
(*) Also known as mandatory curriculum. It's quality is similar any other "service" provided by the state. Remember your experience at the DMV, or trying to call the tax office. Yes, same quality.

2025-03-20 16:08:00 GMT

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Yes, I've changed it.
Just verifying the claim that it's a bit more closed in practice by there being mainly one client only.

2025-03-20 14:09:04 GMT

I think this concert / festival season is the last one where we can experience music more or less untouched by AI.
Of course not everyone will use AI to make music, but our perception will change because music as whole will change.
Same happened to visual art, even if we look at old masters that definitely have not used AI, we have all seen AI remixes, we relate what we see as based on context of AI visual art.
I'm not saying it is good or bad, but it's obvious that music will change a lot. Go and enjoy the old one!

2025-03-20 13:45:22 GMT

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Done, although now they seem to be the same, I've only seen one other implementation of Fedimint in Mutiny, but that's stopped development.
Are there any alternative clients?

2025-03-20 11:30:06 GMT

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I don't remember - what kind of wallet does podcast guru use?

2025-03-20 11:28:40 GMT

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OptionPlus
Reči o živote, vesmíre a vôbec
Ako vyhackovať otcovstvo
Juraj's blogs
My four podcasts.
Right now it seems juraj's blogs are not updated
https://app.podcastguru.io/podcast/jurajs-blogs-1780115202

2025-03-19 18:27:42 GMT

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Because the feed is personal to you, you don't want to listen to someone else's articles. You just add it as a private RSS feed to any podcast app and listen to your articles and keep track.
The app generates RSS feed, your podcasting app can be the used to queue, remember position, etc.
Just try it, just make up a username and password and you're good to go.

2025-03-19 16:37:41 GMT

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Not yet.
As for Nostr login - it would be cool, but there's no value there - you can just ask browser to generate a random username and password. There's no e-mail or anything. I don't even need to know your identity.

2025-03-19 16:36:31 GMT

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To that I can relate, but you are doing now more than most people. That means your present is bigger and better than a non-existing past. Pretty good situation if you ask me 😉

2025-03-19 01:15:12 GMT

Few people know - oxytocin's effects are context-dependent. They can promote in-group favoritism while increasing out-group hostility.

2025-03-18 20:21:51 GMT

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The article is out there:
https://juraj.bednar.io/en/blog-en/2025/03/18/cashu-bitcoin-freebanking/
Enjoy!

2025-03-18 20:13:24 GMT

Just learned about @nprofile…xu96.
What's the real range of BLE? How close do the users have to be? (I have only one Android device with me, so I can't try).
Should we make a reticulum based version? Or add reticulum support?

2025-03-18 19:34:38 GMT

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Tell me you did not read the article without telling me you did not read the article

2025-03-18 19:14:38 GMT

A look at free banking in the 19th century and how it relates to today. We can build it with Cashu. And it might have some nice properties.
Admittedly a bit too long, but I think this perspective is interesting and is not much known. If it's too long for you to read, there's also a text to speech audio version that supports value4value, links at the beginning of the article.
https://juraj.bednar.io/en/blog-en/2025/03/18/cashu-bitcoin-freebanking/

2025-03-18 17:12:52 GMT

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Cheers and thanks!

2025-03-18 17:12:06 GMT

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I don't know. In free banking, people could have used gold directly but they chose the banks.
Are there situations where we could build on the permissionless financial backbone?
Nostr zaps are a good example where it makes sense.
Ultimately, the market will choose, there's no point on moralizing and chasing ideological purity, let's see what people do when given the choice (and full awareness of the tradeoffs)

2025-03-18 11:19:36 GMT

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That's not free banking. Bank is a financial intermediary.
We have something better than banking, but banking also has a place.
Stay tuned.

2025-03-18 11:16:09 GMT

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There are no rights. Only what you do yourself. Lightning has great privacy and that's how I use it.
I use it every day. I don't care about others, they might choose to use it or not.
It also does really well financially. Look at last five years. Pretty cool, right?

2025-03-18 11:13:22 GMT

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In the peak of California gold rush? Of course.
There was even a movement supported by state (Manifest destiny).
Btw highly recommended reading about why would one do that is Maybury's Clipper ship strategy. Applicable today.

2025-03-18 02:03:09 GMT

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Celebrating roots is not nostalgia, I'm all for celebrating roots!

2025-03-18 01:57:57 GMT

Writing an article on free banking in USA in 19th century is interesting. I wanted to illustrate it on a story of a businessman coming from New York to San Francisco with his banknotes. He travelled by sea. Oh wait, the Panama canal was not built yet, I did not want him to go all the way around south America, that would have taken 4-6 weeks. So train on land, right? Nope, transcontinental railroad not built yet.
Towards the end of the free banking era, he could have taken a ship to Colon, Panama, then train through Panama railway to Panama city and then another boat. Before the Panama railway, people would go on a mule and quite often die, the jungle of Panama was not very safe.
I am very grateful for air travel and the Panama canal.
And the free banking is coming back with Cashu, stay tuned for the article.

2025-03-17 18:44:25 GMT

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We already also live in this world. Many grandmas with grandsons.
There is no one thread, the society is complex and it's upon us to choose.
This is one of the most fun features of both Bitcoin and free and open source software. You can find your way and have the choose. That's also the only downside. You have to make a choice, there are either no defaults or they are not very good

2025-03-17 18:38:14 GMT

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Fiat in envelopes is still a thing! Checkout @nprofile…vj3n or Cypherpunk Bitstream podcast.
Hi ! 👋

2025-03-17 16:35:21 GMT

There's this completely unfounded cypherpunk nostalgia (*) among some bitcoiners.
(*) Nostalgia: we had a glorious past full of ideals and now the present is corrupt, we have relaxed on the ideals, we wish we went back to the good old times
I think it's completely unfounded. We could not even imagine in our wildest dreams that we would arrive at the current moment. We had crampy slow mixmasters, command line encryption that no one used and fiat in envelopes and later centralized electronic gold custodians.
You say that there are some services that require KYC, got corrupt by VCs and compliant, not really punk. That is true, but also these corrupted services did not exist at all in the before times you are so nostalgic about.
Do we have more options or less? Definitely more. We are participating in an open decentralized project that emerged into sixth largest reserve currency in the world. And we are only beginning.
Pissed about grandmas with ETFs? Even if you remove them, we are more than 1000x of what anyone expected. We thought we are going to be fringe like the 0.001% PGP users.
We don't need everyone to be cypherpunk. Let others do what they want, we're already winning our game. Their game? Not playing, sorry, too boring.

2025-03-14 22:28:49 GMT

Climate change policies: It's a very expensive way to live like a poor person.

2025-03-14 20:48:18 GMT

Enabling cryptocurrency by regulation is literally: "for something that before the regulation anyone could have done, you now need a special permit (license) and comply with regulatory bullshit".
Oh, but regulatory clarity!
What is not clear in "everything that is not forbidden is allowed"? What more regulatory clarity do you need?
Stop with this enabling statetalk, we don't need to enable anything, we are pre-enabled by default.

2025-03-14 11:52:28 GMT

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The problem is that we know chemistry is crazy important with countless experiments. We know what he talks about has some effect.
Have a person without NAD and he's dead within minutes. Put a person under neon junk light in a cubicle and they live for decades.
I'm not saying it's not important, it definitely has some effect, what I'm saying that the arrogance is often because he does not have answers about the amplitude of the effects, people ask him about it and his coping is not handwaving, saying "I don't know", but arrogance.

2025-03-13 23:45:45 GMT

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I've known about Jack from before his Bitcoin enlightenment, I've seen him speak about light at Bulletproof conference, in a fully packed side room.
My problem with his ideas is that he rarely mentions amplitude of the effects.
We have limited time on this planet, there are infinite number of things that have some effect, but unless you can compare the interventions and their effects (weighted by cost), you can't make good decisions. Kruse-ists say whatever they are interested in is the most important things and their justification is "nature does not make mistakes" (which would qualify many other interventions too) and "centralized medicine sucks" (true, but that's not good enough).
I do near infrared light therapy just in case they're right (I do meditation anyway, so sitting in front of the panel does not cost me any extra time). I try to not be exposed to junk light. But in my experience the effect is much lower than they claim and there are interventions which have more positive effects that they discount.
The biggest disappointment though has been his @nprofile…py4c talk. It was probably the most boring talk I've heard in a decade. He read some preamble of some health law for El Salvador, which was basically as boring as you can imagine. I literally got nothing from it, which is sad, because there was an opportunity to teach bitcoiners something that could be useful for them and he has many great ideas. He's not a very good messenger though, so I hope someone will translate his wisdom and do some proper amplitude comparison with wider biohacking.

2025-03-13 23:32:18 GMT

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But that's a bit different than what @nprofile…rzrk said. You are using minibits possibly over nwc as a lightning wallet to zap over lightning. That's slow, because you added a Nostr relay in the middle, while the lightning wallet is still slow.
@nprofile…rzrk was mentioning the case when you send the ecash note directly over nostr. That's literally one https request.

2025-03-13 23:28:53 GMT

Yes please. This is the way.
- better ux, zap is instant
- receiver can be offline
- even custodial users can choose custodians, or uncle Jim model
- save on lightning fees, especially if you pay the zap forward to someone else (but even if you keep the zaps, base fee)
- plus everything @nprofile…rzrk said
I want this in every nostr client please
#nevent1q…ww5a

2025-03-13 18:05:11 GMT

But Bitcoin is evil!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Maybe they need euroCBDC.
Already in this give year plan!
#nevent1q…6u9u

2025-03-13 14:17:30 GMT

I have a theory that every place on earth resonates with some substances that alter some brain receptors or neurotransmitters.
For example in Paraguay, it is definitely tereré, in Uruguay it is 🧉. In Czech republic it is 🍺.
You don't have to use them (I don't drink beer for example), but it's quite possible that you get more in sync with the local vibe if you do.

2025-03-10 15:21:29 GMT

Anything good, open source and local to do text to speech on Android? As a replacement to rhvoice?
#asknostr

2025-03-09 10:48:49 GMT

"While the United States has always been an attractive destination for ambitious foreigners seeking opportunity, recent waves of migrants and asylum-seekers hope to escape their countries any way they can. This is particularly stark in Eurasia, where fully 15% of all Ukrainians and 25% of all Syrians fled their countries' respective wars. The "motherland," which once commanded the obligatory loyalty of entire populations, is now a vague "homeland" to wax nostalgic about after fleeing it. Relative winners of decolonization leveraged their western-educated elites to build up their state capacity and technological capabilities, but now the fervent dream of rising elites across the globe is to move wherever they can join their transnational peers. Relocating across the world for economic and cultural reasons, once the preserve of a narrow slice of radical dreamers, is now commonplace.
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Many in the west likewise think nothing of leaving their homeland to avoid punitive wealth taxes, as have been implemented in some parts of Europe and discussed in the United States. A small class sees citizenship as something to acquire for optionality, a hedge against dysfunction at home and a tool to streamline business and travel, rather than a solemn oath involving rights and responsibilities."
https://alicemaz.substack.com/p/neomedievalism-and-transnational?triedRedirect=true

2025-03-07 01:10:09 GMT

Many mobile carriers restrict personal hotspot usage, forcing users to upgrade to pricier plans just to share their internet connection. For example operators in Panama offer unlimited data ("Ilimitado"), but that does not include hotspot traffic.
You can adjust TTL settings on the connected device or use SOCKS proxy to make your hotspotted traffic look indistinguishable from traffic originating from your phone.
https://juraj.bednar.io/en/blog-en/2025/03/07/bypassing-hotspot-restrictions-for-data/

2025-02-25 19:30:17 GMT

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not that I know of

2025-02-25 19:27:12 GMT

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with lightning and long close times or cashu, this is possible.
use reticulum.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iHLLDnRRYKI

2025-02-25 09:12:18 GMT

Uncomfortable truth - the mountain air of central Europe (including pristine mountains of Italy, Czech republic, Slovakia, Poland is no more).
You'd be better of in areas commonly believed to be dirty, such as South America. Way better. Where did EU's politics based environmental solutions go wrong. Btw the image is year round average and the source is European Union. You can literally go to "dirty" Asia (many parts) for cleaner air.
https://www.eea.europa.eu/en/topics/in-depth/air-pollution/european-city-air-quality-viewer?utm_source=perplexity
https://m.primal.net/PKaT.png

2025-02-24 10:31:45 GMT

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Ja sa bojím že je to determinované zvykom. Teda je dosť možné, že o pár rokov si na to zvykne aj väčšia Európanov.
Rád by som sa mýlil.

2025-02-23 13:08:58 GMT

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Paradoxná haluz je, že ľudia v tých totalitných režimoch málokedy majú potrebu ísť na také sociálne siete. My sa na to pozeráme našou metrikou kvôli populárnym disidentom a samizdatom. Faktom však je, že aj v československu to bola skôr minoritná záležitosť.
V Číne síce nie je sloboda slova, ale ani tam nie je nejaká veľká potreba. Peniaze sú pre život dôležité, vykecávať sa na Internete nie je až taká potreba, že by na nej ľuďom záležalo v takých masách. Na západe to vidíme inak, zvykli sme si na slobodu slova a keď nám ju chcú zobrať, tak sa bránime. Ale ak sa im to podarí, tak už o pár rokov na to podľa mňa tá túžba utíchne. Ľudia radšej riešia, či majú čo jesť, kde bývať, prípadne s kým ísť na kávu ako že či môžu nadávať na náčelníka.

2025-02-23 07:29:09 GMT

Je extrémne ťažké naštartovať novú sieť a dosť pomáha, keď sa viete nacucnúť na existujúcu.
Príklad 1: iCal / vCal pozvánky
Chodia e-mailom. E-mail každý má a každý vie každého e-mail (má ho v contact liste a klient mu ho automaticky doplní). Keď ešte neboli populárne kalendárové appky, tak to malo "textový fallback". Invite proste prišiel e-mailom, kde bolo normálne napísané "Peter Horváth vás pozval na stretnutie dňa 1. 7. 2025 o 14:30". Ak mal niekto kalendárovú appku, tak sa mu to rovno zobrazilo v kalendári, keď klikol accept a odpísalo to e-mailom. Nebolo treba stavať novú sieť.
Príklad 2: Signal (WhatsApp)
Používa telefónne čísla ako identifkátor. Všetci ľudia, s ktorými sa chceš baviť majú telefónne číslo a máš ho v zozname. Len otvoríš Signal a píšeš niekomu "na mobil" a len zistíš, že už má Signal.
Problémom nie je len „kto má Signal“, ale „ako im napísať, keď ho majú“. Problém matchovania je rovnako veľký ako problém rastu. Sieť musí byť užitočná.
Príklad 3: Facebook
Facebook síce nemal telefónne čísla ani iný jednoduchý identifikátor, ale videl brutálne hustú sieť. Ak dáš hľadať meno, tak ti človeka nájde, lebo máte spoločných známych. Mimochodom, použili e-mail na to, aby udržali vašu pozornosť. Keď začal u nás fičať Facebook, počet e-mailov sa viac ako zdvojnásobil - polovica všetkých e-mailov prichádzala zo serverov Facebooku. Každé "lajkol príspevok", "odpovedal na komentár" prišlo e-mailom. Takže aj keď ľudia ešte nemali návyk tam chodiť, tak dostávali notifikácie a chceli sa pozrieť.
Príklad 4: Unit of account
Ak niečo predávam, chcem ukázať kupujúcemu cenu v mene, ktorej rozumie. Ak je to poliak, ideálne mu to ukázať v PLN, aj keď ho nakoniec chargnem eurá. PLN rozumie, eurám nie.
Dobrá dokumentácia tohto problému: Andrew Chen: Cold start problem.
Problém Nostr - identita je kľúč, čo je z pohľadu bezpečnosti a autenticity správ dobré (ak mám správny kľúč, viem že to písal daný človek), z hľadiska network effects dosť zlé. Tak isto ma nič "nenúti" vracať sa na Nostr, ak si ho nainštalujem a o týždeň zabudnem, že existuje, nie je nič, čo by ma tam prilákalo. To ja osobne považujem za feature, heroínové sociálne siete sú to, pred čím utekáme.

2025-02-23 07:27:13 GMT

It's extremely difficult to start a new network and it helps quite a bit if you can piggyback on the pre-existing networks.
Example 1: iCal/vCal invitations
They go out by email. Everyone has email and everyone knows everyone's email (they have it in their contact list and the client auto-completes it for them). When calendar apps weren't popular yet, it had a "text fallback". Invite just came by email, where it normally said "Peter Horvath has invited you to a meeting on 1/7/2025 at 2:30pm". If someone had the calendar app, it showed up straight on their calendar when they clicked accept and it emailed back. There was no need to build a new network.
Example 2: Signal (WhatsApp)
Uses phone numbers as an identifier. All the people you want to talk to have a phone number and you have it in your contact list already. You just open Signal and text someone to their number only to find out they already have Signal. If not, you can invite them with one click.
The problem is not "who has signal", but "how do I write them once they have it". The matching problem is as big as growth problem. Network needs to be useful.
Example 3: Facebook
While Facebook didn't have phone numbers or any other simple identifier, it had a dense network. If you put in a name search, it would find the person for you because you have mutual friends. By the way, they used email to keep your attention. When Facebook started blowing up in our country, the number of emails more than doubled - half of all emails came from Facebook's servers. Every "liked a post", "replied to a comment" came via email. So even though people weren't in the habit of going there yet, they were getting notifications and wanting to check in.
Example 4: Unit of account
If I'm selling something, I want to show the buyer the price in a currency they understand. If the customer is from Poland, ideally I'll show the price to them in PLN, even if I end up charging them in euros. PLN they understands, euros they don't.
Good documentation of this problem: Andrew Chen: Cold start problem.
The Nostr problem - identity is the key, which is good from the point of view of security and message authenticity (if I have the right key, I know the person wrote it), but pretty bad from the point of view of network effects. Also, nothing "compels" me to go back to Nostr, if I install it and forget it exists a week later, there's nothing to suck me back. I personally consider that a feature, heroin social networks are what we're running away from.

2025-02-19 17:12:22 GMT

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Nehnuteľnosť je fiat asset

2025-02-19 09:19:01 GMT

When I look at how many people move abroad and how I can easily talk in Slovak (and Czech) with extremely interesting people - entrepreneurs, innovators, ... in cafes in Latin America, I realize that we are doing an intellectual version of agorism. This is not only a problem of Slovakia, but a European one. That is something that EU/acc movement tries to tackle.
So what is agorism? It is a strategy for increasing freedom whose effect (at least intended) is to deprive the state of as many resources (especially tax revenues) as possible. Agorism itself has many practical problems, but what is happening now is I believe intellectual form of agorism, not in the form of taxes, but in the form of intellect. Here, by the way, it's Pareto distributed. For long term results it basically depends on who the top 1% elite are, they cause most of the positive outcomes, (un)fortunately.
Despite the fact that this is a problem, I see this also as an opportunity. Because it is super easy to reverse. And that's what EU/acc movement is trying to do.
Right now, however, the exact opposite is happening. Already Liberation Travel has started transporting people to immigration offices in Latin America in buses, the cars are too small for the number of people that leave. Of course the current EU comrades may not care about that, when people feel the downstream effect of this, it will be a decade or two later. In the meantime the existing big companies are leading with the tax revenue (also pareto distribution). However, these also have a huge problem, which is not so easy to fix (Volkswagen for example, quite fundamental issues).
In his newsletter, Robert Chovanculiak writes (translation from Slovak):
"International testing has shown that we have a serious deficit in the proportion of adults in Slovakia who achieve the highest levels of literacy. In our country, they make up only 3.1%, while the OECD average is 11.7% and in neighbouring Czech Republic, for example, they make up almost 10%.
This should have been the alarming news that deserved the headlines. 'Warning! Unflattering results. We are severely lacking an intellectual elite in Slovakia." This problem is one of the most serious facing Slovakia. And it is getting worse. Every year about 20% of our (brightest) young people leave to study abroad. In fact, I consider this to be the biggest negative of Slovakia's poor quality universities. Not that they don't provide a quality education to the students who stay here. But that because of their poor quality, some of the best human capital we have has left. And it often doesn't come back."
Deregulate, lower tax burden, accelerate. No, we don't need AI / crypto / GDPR / cookies / usb ports / plastic caps / enviro regulations. We need to remove the ASAP. The original mindset was "we will regulate and everyone else will follow the regulation, because they want our market". Now I recommend a much easier strategy "just remove EU IP addresses / put a checkbox 'I am not from EU'". The burden to implement these nonsensical regulation will not pay back in larger market, just focus on other markets, there are many people who need the product or service outside of EU.
In most cases as entrepreneurs, we can choose the regulations we adhere to. It's as simple as that.

2025-02-19 09:05:21 GMT

Keď pozerám koľko ľudí odchádza do zahraničia a ako v kaviarňach latinskej Ameriky v pohode môžem celé dni hovoriť po slovensky (a česky) s extrémne zaujímavými ľuďmi - podnikateľmi, inovátormi, ..., uvedomujem si, že robíme intelektuálnu verziu agorizmu.
Agorizmus je stratégia na zvyšovanie slobody ktorej efektom (aspoň zamýšľaným) je pripraviť štát čo najviac o zdroje (najmä daňové príjmy). Agorizmus samotný má množstvo praktických problémov, ale to, čo sa deje je agorizmus, ale nie v podobe daní, ale v podobe intelektu. Tu je mimochodom paretovo rozdelenie. Pre dlhodobé výsledky v podstate záleží na tom, aká je top 1% elita, tá robí väčšinu výsledku, bohužiaľ.
Aj napriek tomuto efektu to vnímam ako príležitosť. Ukázať, že v krajine je dobré prostredie na tvorbu. Momentálne sa však deje presný opak. Liberation Travel už ľudí na imigračné úrady začala voziť autobusom, autá sú už príliš malé. To samozrejme súčasným súdruhom môže byť jedno, keď ľudia budú cítiť efekt, vymenia sa aj tri-štyri vlády. Zatiaľ to ťahajú (tiež paretovo rozdelenie) existujúce veľké firmy. Tie však majú tiež problém (Volkswagen napríklad dosť zásadný).
Robert Chovanculiak vo svojom newsletteri píše:
"Medzinárodné testovanie ukázalo, že na Slovensku máme vážny deficit v podiele dospelých, ktorí dosahujú najvyššie úrovne gramotnosti. U nás tvoria len 3,1 %, pričom priemer OECD je 11,7 % a napríklad v susednom Česku tvoria skoro 10 %.
Toto mala byť tá alarmujúca správa, ktorá si zaslúžila titulky novín. „Pozor! Nelichotivé výsledky. Na Slovensku nám výrazne chýba intelektuálna elita.“ Tento problém je jedným z najvážnejších, ktorým Slovensko čelí. A zhoršuje sa. Každoročne nám odchádza približne 20 % (najšikovnejších) mladých ľudí študovať do zahraničia. Toto považujem v skutočnosti za najväčšie negatívum nekvalitných slovenských vysokých škôl. Nie to, že neposkytnú kvalitné vzdelanie študentom, ktorí tu ostali. Ale to, že kvôli ich nekvalite odišla časť toho najlepšieho ľudského kapitálu, ktorý máme. A už sa často nevráti."
(Zdroj: https://robertchovanculiak.substack.com/p/na-top-5-mozgov-zalezi?publication_id=41042&post_id=157443087&isFreemail=true&r=5ivb3&triedRedirect=true )

2025-02-13 21:53:01 GMT

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pokúsim sa nechýbať!

2025-02-13 21:52:33 GMT

Anyone noticed how hotel rooms reset to defaults every day?

2025-02-09 10:36:21 GMT

I've used e-gold back in the day and agree with this article. Much later, I met a person who exchanged one ounce coin for a laptop - directly. That was a true goldbug who understood it.
I think there's still place for various forms of gold. Even for Bitcoiners, it has practical day to day use cases.
https://freemansperspective.com/the-missing-gold-economy/

2025-02-08 13:23:25 GMT

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for me there are many podcasts that are well worth listening to and they don't utilize the model.
but myself as a podcast, I do it exactly like you explain.
the reason is not only that I (and my guests!) get sats, but the interactions are much more pleasant and to the point. no hate comments with sats attached for example.

2025-02-08 11:24:39 GMT

Illusion of unit of account.
Juraj Karpis said in his talk at HCPP that we have this almost a language notion of unit of account. We all know what our currency (1$, 1€) means. We don't have to think about it. BTC has not achieved this yet. See the talk, it's amazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pD3Uawu2JMQ
But this has a flipside.
Level 1: "EUR in 2010" and "EUR in 2025" are very different currencies. Looks the same, same pictures, same unicode character (€), very different purchasing power.
Level 2: No, you can't multiply the 2010 prices with CPI over the years. 1000€ in 2010 would be 1368€ today according to these statistics. But that's completely wrong and we know that. They CPI is not calculated very well.
Level 3: Even if we got the "purchasing power level" right, the relative prices have changed. In 2010 I could not even get some things (like click in an app and someone would deliver me youghurt to my doorstep 30 mins later). A laptop that cost 1000€ in 2010 is basically a free gift today, or less than 100€. The relative prices are changing as well.

2025-02-05 08:30:12 GMT

Duškyho som na rozhovor pozval do kontajnerovej sauny Pixxla, aby sme sa porozprávali o saunovaní, čaji, ale najmä o bitcoinovom vzdelávaní, súkromnom meste v špeciálnej ekonomickej zóne Prospera, kde žije a podniká. A o tom, ako hľadá cestu k vzdelaniu 21 miliónov Bitcoinerov.
https://juraj.bednar.io/podcast/2025/02/04/dusky-matuska-o-ceste-k-21-milionom-bitcoinerov/

2025-02-04 21:05:24 GMT

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Well, don't pay taxes then.
There's a simple and legal strategy to not pay taxes. If you don't have taxable income, you don't pay income tax.
If you don't sell anything, there's no sales tax.
It's pretty cool.

2025-02-04 21:03:29 GMT

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They will not go down, us government can always print more papers with dead American presidents.
the value will go down, but I see no reason to reward those that were financing the us government. They need to have skin in the game, and that includes skin in the fall of the value of the paper they "invested" in.
buying government bonds is helping to finance what is going on.

2025-02-03 22:42:32 GMT

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I like it.
There will be a podcast soon.

2025-02-03 22:32:21 GMT

I have a podcast. Well, three podcasts, but who's counting. But I do it specifically for niche audience. I don't do things like publishing an episode regularly (weekly). I have an episode when I have something to say or an interesting guest. And when I have time and I'm in a mood. I've done over 100 episodes so far. There are no advertisements for hardware wallets, VPNs, or probiotics. I do occasionally have a referral.
But this is interesting. I've been playing with YouTube monetization. My reach was just enough to apply for YouTube's monetization features. At that time about half of the listeners used YouTube to listen.
I'm also publishing RSS feed with value tags for a long time now.
YouTube's monetization: annoying for audience unless they block ads or buy YouTube premium. And I have never made the 50 bucks required for payout. I stopped the monetization, it just sucks for everyone
Podcasting 2.0: I share splits with all collaborators and guests. Each episode is a common project. We all get to read the boosts. They are way better than YouTube comments, people send sats and love. No grumpy angry people.
... but but but .... podcasting 2.0 has no reach, right?
It might be true, but I really made at least the 50k sats that I've never seen on YouTube. And Spotify for podcasters does not share anything.
It is still a labor of love. I still lose money on the podcast. But if I wanted to focus on growing revenue, the best decision seems to be growing v4v. Not old recipes, the new world is better.
End of announcement.

2025-01-31 22:01:17 GMT

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forgot to mention this is the easy (not sure if easiest) self hosted solution
many other options if you want to use a platform, but I don't. I think the point of bitcoin is sovereignty and that translates to podcasts bitcoiners do

2025-01-26 12:27:56 GMT

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they're building giant solar farms with batteries.
why? because it's fastest to build and easy to scale. for other options, only regulatory bullshit takes longer than building the whole thing on solar.
it's not my speculation, this is their current plan

2025-01-26 10:47:25 GMT

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Do you mean those green pictures with dead american presidents?

2025-01-24 20:41:33 GMT

unpopular opinion: I want the us state strategic reserve to contain primarily memecoins, monkey nfts and pump and dump shitcoins.
let them go down. state should be poor.

2025-01-20 13:56:41 GMT

Nový podcast s @nprofile…qfau .
Spoločenské zmeny za rok 2024 a čo nás čaká v roku 2025.
Hlavnými témami sú zmeny v oblasti slobody, o význame umelej inteligencie a o tom, ako nám technológie poskytujú nové možnosti.
https://juraj.bednar.io/podcast/2025/01/20/pavol-luptak-spolocnost-v-roku-2024-a-kam-sa-dostaneme-v-roku-2025/

2025-01-19 17:10:44 GMT

Tomorrow in cinemas near you...
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2025-01-16 19:32:58 GMT

This podcast is an absolute must hear. I tried to warn about FATF and OECD centralized global rule making in my talk Financial surveillance and crypto utopias at HCPP a few years back, but OpnState's take is even better, because he has been closer to the lion's den.
Good job both @npub1v6z…uq49 and @npub1r8l…x5dk with this one!
#note1qdw…eul2