DireMunchkin

I mostly care because I still talk to my family in the EU over Signal, and they're normies so getting them to switch to something non backdoor will be hard. 😔

2024-06-17 11:41:10

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Mostly not at all, it only targets commercial actors. Primal might need to do something like geoblock EU. FOSS is a great way to bypass this bad legislation if it does come to pass. SimpleX will also be unaffected.
Also worth noting the vote June 19 is just the council of ministers vote - It won't be law until negotiated with parliament, which is broadly against chat control.

2024-06-08 15:59:29

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I looked into this myself. This is not possible AFAIK, as the VPN apps want to proxy all your traffic, so they fight each other.
But I found a quite nice workaround, which is to do this:
1. Run just Tailscale on my phone.
2. Run Tailscale on my home server.
3. Set my router to use Mullvad as Wireguard proxy.
4. Set the phone to use the home server as exit node.
That way you can VPN back to your home server, but you also get IP privacy to the phone at the same time.

2024-05-27 10:42:46

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Are you conservative about changes, or do you want to eff with the block size limit? I have a lot of sympathy for ossification, but if you believe that you should keep the current block size. Because we know Bitcoin works today, and you shouldn't fix what isn't broken. All updates to consensus code are risky, and should be avoided as long as possible.
I'm not a core dev, so take it for what it's worth, but altering the block size feels 10x more reckless than even the most risky soft forks being talked about now (I.E drivechains, OP_CAT et cetera). That alters the entire economics around using L1 for miners, hodlers and everyone else. Nobody could possibly predict all the consequences of doing that ahead of time. Which IMO means you shouldn't do it.

2024-05-23 23:31:03

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Just don't visit their site with a VPN on or you'll get captcha'd immediately 🤡
https://image.nostr.build/898c628936aabb55ff2745d022c043f74014eb8b1bf01f3bab6cf5610c385818.jpg

2024-05-21 10:58:25

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According to https://bitcointreasuries.net/ all the ETFs including the HK ones have a bit more than 1 m BTC.

2024-05-03 08:56:41

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shitcoin magazine

2024-04-13 12:32:00

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And FreeTube is also good: https://freetubeapp.io/

2024-03-18 12:09:11

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Outflows will continue until Grayscale cuts fees I'd expect - No reason to use GBTC 1.5% fee when IBIT has 0.2%.

2024-03-14 14:57:01

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Congratulations @npub1cjw…j2rh! Finally that creep will not harass you again. 🤙

2024-03-12 16:26:34

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Well it's web, so I think you can run it in a mobile browser as well. Haven't tried it.

2024-03-12 16:24:05

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On noStrudel you can just toggle this button. Also Coracle won't even show reposts at all, you can't even change the setting.
https://image.nostr.build/6370049c42442e12835aef506d658412a74b92fcd03cced0c56339b126a4be16.jpg

2024-03-09 14:35:37

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#nevent1q…h29w

2024-03-09 14:28:47

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Me personally I'm a threads hater... It's basically just a blog post split into > 20 different chunks. The reading experience on Twitter was terrible unless you used TwitLonger to turn it back into a continuous text again.
Nostr has long form content which obviates the need to do this in the first place. Having the thread as a single article in markdown with headlines and such is about 1000x more pleasant to read IMHO.

2024-03-04 11:24:26

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Checked Kraken just now, order books looks liquid. This is probably fake.
https://image.nostr.build/1ebf4593584122857271e7f3d530f68359057f122240274c4e62ee5e6ffbc883.jpg

2024-03-03 15:13:58

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'MORNIN

2024-03-03 15:11:49

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Nope, still at it.
#nevent1q…kmge

2024-03-03 15:02:34

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Right after Solana and Filecoin. 🤡

2024-02-24 18:09:17

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Every current topic really has been discussed in Bitcoin Talk before! 😆

2024-02-19 17:34:22

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Sure, let's store private medical data on a public append-only ledger. Brilliant. Inspired. 🙄

2024-02-16 17:49:17

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🤝
#nevent1q…5h57

2024-02-07 11:27:48

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I remember seeing this at the time and going "OK so the Empire is holding a Nuremberg rally, that's pretty blunt but OK." Now it's just even less subtle than before. 😂

2024-02-02 19:30:35

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No BS Bitcoin is the GOAT 💯

2024-02-02 14:22:51

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Michael Diamant was on @npub1gdu…6nak's podcast once, one of my favorite episodes.
https://saifedean.com/podcast/162-fiat-architecture-with-michael-diamant

2024-01-29 12:34:54

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https://image.nostr.build/7cd89bccffa64f24dd606322609af6e52a28ad1b56b51f6fb040637f474a64a7.jpg

2024-01-29 12:30:12

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Interesting! Of course any privacy guarantee from fiat eCash would have to be verified. Because frankly I don't trust those people further than I can throw them. Let's just say I strongly doubt Augustin Carsten suddenly turned into a financial privacy advocate. 🤔

2024-01-29 11:06:33

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There's a uBlock filter you can use to remove cookie banners FYI.

2024-01-22 14:23:24

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What's the difference between "de-platformed" and "silenced at will"?

2024-01-11 18:12:41

My thinking on the ETFs are: They're not made for me or people like me, but people who are unable to self custody for whatever reason. The way I'd like to take the ETF discourse is like: Yes, you should self custody but if you can't yet what's the least harmful set of training wheels you can put on?
I've thought about this for a bit, and I think the most important aspect is that you get a ETF with direct withdrawal on chain: So that when you do learn to self custody, you can do so without selling and re-buying your stack, and potentially giving away 20-30% of it as capital gains tax. You can also withdraw in an emergency to "run the bank".
I think odds are pretty good that if we get one ETF to add direct deposit/withdrawal all of them will have to. ETFs list on the same stock exchanges and are very competitive, they just can't afford to be behind their competitors in features.
#nevent1q…4m0p

2024-01-08 16:44:46

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HFSP

2023-12-22 11:19:53

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I've two pieces of feedback:
- It's annoying when you go into replies in the feed, and then back, the position in the feed is not kept. This makes it annoying to read through the feed.
- Have you considered adding web of trust the way Coracle does it? I honestly find it hard to use any other web client these days as comments are otherwise full of airdrop spam.

2023-12-06 21:48:20

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Looks pretty! But I think the sidebars in pic 2 and 3 seem like they take a bit too much space. Maybe if they where narrower, or just one sidebar with a tree?

2023-12-06 20:20:22

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You can always use Lightning remittance to get funds, and then exchange it for local fiat out of band over RoboSats, Bisq or other p2p methods of exchange.
Having an exchange is more convenient for sure, but DEXes are universally available and don't obey capital controls. Important as most of the hyper-inflating fiats try to close the escapes.

2023-11-29 22:26:26

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I'd recommend listening to the latest @nprofile…vvvv pod, they went over the business model / fee rate in some depth.
https://stephanlivera.com/episode/528/

2023-11-20 16:00:18

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- https://www.nobsbitcoin.com - Low clickbait Bitcoin / Privacy news
- https://bitcoinops.org - Very high signal for following technical discussions on Bitcoin

2023-11-19 02:32:20

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I've yet to hear any good reason for why stables need to be on Lightning rails specifically though: I mean, if you're trusting i.e. Tether, you may as well transfer your Tether over Binance Pay. It'll be easier and faster to use the centralized service, and you can get rugged by Tether even if you're using Lightning-Tether so you're not really taking that much more risk either way.

2023-11-18 19:04:25

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From my end things look pretty alright on RoboSats? I just had a look at the 24 h mean premium: It's 3.06%, that's pretty normal in my experience, it's usually in the 2-3% range.
My main pain point right now is I'd like to swap out, but my effective fee rate to do that is like 1.5%, so I'm waiting until I stack some more sats first. 🙂
https://image.nostr.build/0fb2a9d1f14345b7cd560844cfb86d45681b58c6b8c5e4a1f439f6d1227d4351.jpg

2023-11-10 10:12:14

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https://image.nostr.build/7a907f46e71b43c61d4edb342c4f78e4c47c4218c4f76e3541f6b6aaea4248ed.gif

2023-10-26 22:31:53

Has anybody tried Mutiny Wallet with Robosats yet? Does it work?
#asknostr / Ask @nprofile…jmx5

2023-10-21 16:51:20

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Web of trust would work: You can make any number of npubs, but if nobody you follows followed them, you can hide them.
This is implemented in Coracle as of a few days ago, works great to get rid of shitcoin spam. It's just as effective against any form of throwaway account though: If the new key has no following it won't be seen.

2023-10-19 10:26:15

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This is already a solved problem, you just need to use a client with web of trust, like Coracle or Nostur. I haven't seen any spam since I started using the updated Coracle.

2023-10-18 17:19:52

Web of Trust on Coracle is really great, thanks @nprofile…8rcn ! Finally no more airdrop reply guys. Every client should implement this.

2023-10-18 14:00:42

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The Web of Trust thing is huge - I'll daily drive Coracle for this alone. No more reply airdrops!

2023-10-17 16:24:24

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No they don't. You can't keep up with reporting all the spam made by a bot manually.

2023-10-12 09:20:28

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Yes, it feels like a finally robust way to tackle spam.

2023-09-18 13:53:25

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Just FYI - They may be called "Bitcoin Suisse" but they're mostly shitcoiners. For example they're one of the largest Eth stakers in the world.

2023-09-10 18:57:07

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I hope communities can do something about this problem - Just letting you have some low-lift way of discovering other things you're interested in would be nice.

2023-08-14 12:42:37

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Whoogle could help maybe? It's a privacy proxy to Google, and doesn't ask if you're a robot every 30 seconds.

2023-08-09 15:08:04

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OK that's nice, but could I ask you to be a bit more active at GitHub? As far as I can tell nothing happens with issues or PRs from the community there.

2023-08-08 21:44:19

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KeePass is a fine way to store it IMO. I use KeePassXC and nos2x-fox on desktop, and KeePassDX on Android.

2023-08-07 08:40:11

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I haven't used CasaOS, but it looks to be pretty much the same thing as Tipi. I.E. uses a docker-compose "app store". Up to taste which you use IMHO.

2023-08-07 00:15:29

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You're welcome Gigi. 🤙

2023-08-07 00:06:53

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* Firefly III - Great auto personal budget app, use it all the time for both Bitcoin & Fiat accounting.
* Tipi - Great homelab option, Nicolas Meienberger who maintains it is a complete beast.
* The Starr Suite of apps, Sonarr / Radarr / Readarr to fetch media on the high seas.
* Synching - Great file synced, I use it on all my devices.

2023-08-04 12:46:27

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One thing I worry about is if Bitcoin completely takes over as a store of value it would work rather too well to transfer wealth across generations, to the point where it starts to lead to very long lived dynasties.
Let's assume hyperbitcoinization already happened - I can just hodl, and get a safe, boring 3% real return by my Bitcoin appreciating. As long as you can live on less than 3% of your net worth a year, you are now financially independent. Not only that, but so are your children, and their grandchildren.
In the current systems fortunes have to be invested to keep their purchasing power, so you face *some* risk of loss. But if you hodl, as long as you use a good vault for the storage, there's very little reason any value will be lost to the family stack almost at all.
Not only that, but a relatively small amount of people mostly in the western world have cornered 70% of the supply of Bitcoin. What about if we're correct and this hodler controlled supply is the future capital stock of humanity? Now you have less than 1m people globally who control 70% of the liquid wealth of the world, that's horribly in-egalitarian.
Now maybe we as early adopters of Bitcoin deserve to get filthy rich for launching a new monetary system. But what about your heirs 3 generations down, should they control 70% of all liquid capital in the world?
Fast forward a few generations and you could have a new neoreactionary "noded nobility" class, hoarding most of the wealth, unironically telling the rest of society to have fun staying poor.

2023-07-17 12:21:42

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Fair enough. I do like the idea of borrowing instead of selling on paper, just not with a 24/7 margin callable loan. 😰
Personally I would just eat the opportunity cost of selling instead. But I also live in a jurisdiction with no cap gains tax, so YMMV.

2023-07-16 16:27:43

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Looks like Iris does this. https://iris.to/settings/social_network

2023-07-03 17:08:52

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Replies from people that are more than two degrees of separation away from your social network that is.

2023-07-03 17:06:39

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Maybe a web of trust would be a good idea? I.E. hide replies that are not followed by anybody you're following.

2023-06-20 13:19:42

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The Ruble almost certainly does not make it out of the post-soviet collapse. It would have been replaced by Bitcoin. As a result in the early 2000s Russia would be exporting Oil for Bitcoin. Maybe sparking off other OPEC nations to do the same?
It's interesting to think about what would have happened if Bitcoin had been mature during the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997. Lots of Emerging Market currencies like the Thai Baht got devalued by 30-40% or more, they'd probably have been demonetized if flight to Bitcoin was an option.

2023-05-29 23:35:51

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Nah how it works is that there's a 75% chance per round after the required ones are done that it sends to the other wallet. So going some extra rounds are expected. Here's the relevant documentation:
https://www.sparrowwallet.com/docs/mixing-whirlpool.html#mixing-to-cold-storage

2023-04-11 12:16:26

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I've seen you make this argument before Lyn and I'm always perplexed by it. In my opinion while Bitcoin is a politically neutral tool it enforces several political outcomes that are pretty right wing if it succeeds. Small government, sound money, less political intervention in the marketplace to name a few. If you advocate for any of the latter you're by definition not of the left wing as most people think of it so I don't really see how Left leaning Bitcoiner would be a congruent position to take.
TL;DR: Bitcoin == Libertarianism

2023-03-23 19:37:33

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Just FYI allen you can post blog posts to nostr with https://habla.news for instance, no need for a hell note. 🙂

2023-03-11 12:32:18

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Not to my knowledge - It's basically just a nostr client that lets you post a long "blog post" message, formatted as markdown. It has the same Value for Value and censorship resistance properties as nostr at large though.

2023-03-10 20:43:05

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As one of your regular listeners I'd certainly be interested in that! But why not on nostr long form such as with https://habla.news?

2023-02-10 21:37:29

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Thanks Ordinals!

2023-02-10 20:01:16

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Agreed! I deleted my Twitter account early on just because I appreciate the sovereignty of nostr more. I thought I'd need to sacrifice some quality in the content from Twitter to do that, but there was no tradeoff, only win! 🤙 💜

2023-02-10 16:31:27

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The main purpose of an inscription is to upload data in the witness. In order to do that they don't need to move more than 1 sat in the UTXO set. So they're at the very least a whole lot less financial than other transactions, and if they're financial it's in a way that's unrelated to Bitcoin the asset (moving a "valuable" NFT for instance).
Putting block space to that use does not help Bitcoin as a monetary asset - It's at best a distraction and at worst a liability. If NFT:s crowd out Bitcoin on chain or lightning it'll be to our detriment.
The fee market is healthy enough already - Hash power is at all time highs even in a bear market.
There's greater concerns around scalability. The best way to scale in layers and use data efficiently. Inscriptions directly compete with Lightning for block space and spends data on monkey pictures.

2023-02-10 15:58:13

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Yes they are crowding out financial transactions - If the block is full and you pay a higher fee than somebody else you crowd them out per definition. That's what the fee market is, it's an auction of block space to the highest bidder.
But they're not only crowding out a few Bitcoin transactions, but many. Inscriptions have been 15-25% of block space the last week. Put another way it's been reducing the transaction throughput of Bitcoin to as little as 3/4 of what it was! The mempool is about to hit full for the first time in 3 months, and it's largely caused by this nonsense.
If inscriptions continue to crowd out financial transactions like Lightning it could harm Bitcoins value in the long run. The actual monetary uses of Bitcoin are now competing for transaction throughput with people that are just using the witness data in the blocks as an image board. This makes Bitcoin less scalable and less useful as money.
Using the limited block space for apes is potentially harmful to Bitcoin, which is much more morally offensive than doing it on a random shitcoin that'll be dead in two years anyway. This might be the only shot we have at sound money for the foreseeable future, choose carefully!
I agree there's no need to act hastily though - We can wait and see if just shaming inscribers is enough to put a stop to it. If not we can contemplate more drastic measures.

2023-02-05 13:39:09

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That'd be nice! You kind of have to use Iris in "Authorize forever" mode with your extension now otherwise it's too naggy.

2023-02-03 09:46:13

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Android VPN's route all the traffic from the phone - For example I had to stop using Mullvad because I wanted to use TailScale to tunnel to my home server from my phone.
So basically no it's not possible. It's not ideal. 😕

2023-01-26 17:37:47

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I think #[3] was working on Coinswap coordination on nostr