Big Barry Bitcoin

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Big Barry Bitcoin - Bitcoiner, pleb, developer, enthusiast, 👎💩coins

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Public Key

npub1pktmatjk0l8vn3jhfuwxaasjd65kn4ye9sce3egup7k993f8fg2q5tpxa6

NIP-05 Address

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Profile Code

nprofile1qqsqm9a74et8lnkfcet578rw7cfxa2tf6jvjcvvcu5wqltzjc5n559qpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduqs6amnwvaz7tmwdaejumr0dsxskyf9

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nos.lol

Author Public Key

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2025-05-10 21:12:49 GMT

GN.
It took me quite a few days, even while trying different AIs to help me, just to make this view. (First time ever developing an android app)
I started off hoping to vibe code this but couldn't find a suitable AI product (tried the firebase one but it wasn't coding for me, just printing out code and telling me to copy paste and I was missing a lot of context about where files should go etc.)
In the end, I used ChatGPT to iterate on designs but I also had to skim a bunch of tutorials, read pages of documentation and ask ChatGPT questions to figure out how to get started as an Android developer.
Still pretty cool, and I have already learned a lot and have learned that there is a lot more to learn.
https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/0d97beae567fcec9c6574f1c6ef6126ea969d4992c3198e51c0fac52c5274a14/d1ef8fa7951e89bd4c401225aff63322e3057de9b845fc1b18cadd0cf8c4933b.webp

2025-05-10 19:57:46 GMT

GM @npub18va…7nzf!

2025-05-06 10:09:43 GMT

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There's theory and there's practicallity.
Theoretically Libre relay makes the filter useless.
Practically, this is either not fully known or understood by everyone... and this is why they are using out of band methods which hurts decentralization.
And by hurting decentralization, I mean only allowing well known miners and pools to capitalize on high fee paying non standard transactions, giving those miners an economic advantage... Theoretically.

2025-04-29 13:25:07 GMT

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The earliest wallets were baked into the Bitcoin core software. It would generate private and public key pairs and save them in a file called Wallet.dat
I think this file could be password protected.
There were no seed words. Those were developed and standardised after.

2025-04-27 22:50:55 GMT

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AFAIK, the perspective I have heard, specifically from Gloria, is that the changes they make are typically towards reducing load on bitcoin node hardware.
If a node can more closely predict what txs will go into the next few blocks, then it can avoid spending resources validating txs that are unlikely to be mined, and when a block comes in, it takes much less time and resources to validate because idle time was used very effectively.
Now of course, that gives an argument for setting defaults, but I do agree that optionality should exist and potentially there could be a collection of common configurations to pick from to promote individualism.
I get that configurability breeds complexity, but for bitcoin, I think optionality is more important. At the same time, it might not be the responsibility for the core team to maintain optionality, as long as they don't block it.

2025-04-20 13:21:44 GMT

Frostr fixes this.
Also, nostriches are like vegans 🤣 I can kind of see his point though.
Also I don't really agree that frostr fixes this, but it is an improvement.
Let's just say, if you lose a key for your BITCOIN wallet, even if it were FROST based, I wouldn't rely on key rotation, I would create a new wallet and move funds.
The two are not the same. FROSTR requires that you can reliably DESTROY your remaining keys if any one is leaked. Otherwise, no amount of rotation can stop your account from being taken over if someone discovered 2 of your keys.
https://fountain.fm/clip/ByyDVEYLZ82RrP4ZgZaf

2025-04-16 10:31:49 GMT

@nprofile…pyug, a feature request: can you add a URL to the list that your app opens?
I saw fountain does that for example.
Maybe for njump.me?
https://image.nostr.build/c687121e1cc1ad2614a925ef7bf144068d7c4cc657c617f590314308931eb0cc.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/3260bffc4588a6aeaaf503ac0ed95b7097f7fa7f6c04136e11a6389d7e6c17b5.jpg
ZAP THIS POST IF YOU WANT TO SUPPORT THIS FEATURE. ZAPS GO TO @nprofile…pyug.

2025-04-15 20:06:57 GMT

#AskNostr
I've been trying to figure out a visual exercise to help really seal in the "will someone find my private key if they keep guessing" problem.
Obviously, the 3brown1blue video about SHA256 is amazing. The best I've seen yet, but I have an add-on:
I want you to imagine a large piece of paper:
```
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```
It is wide and long.
There is that small dot, that is the cumulative size of all of the private keys that will ever be created in a million years.
Of course, our private keys are RANDOM, and random sounds cool, but it is cooler than you can imagine.
Random means that our keys are spread across the whole page, each individually so small, that the page just looks blank. Individual keys are so small that they don't show as dots, even if you used a magnifying glass.
No single key is even a physical inch from another in that space.
If we started from a single point and tried to do a spacial search for the next closest key, it would be outside the observable universe... By that, I mean that we would waste an infinite amount of time exploring in precision, discovering blank after blank and never discovering a used key.
If we tried to use a random method, we would also hit blank after blank.
Random has this interesting property where it treats every location it could ever hit as an equal chance.
We just established that every key that anyone might ever create (including random guesses trying to find existing keys) in a million years is barely a visible dot. The chance that any single guess would hit a BLANK space is just so high, it is basically guaranteed EVERY-SINGLE-TIME.
This extraordinary mathematical phenomenon is used in many places for many things, not just bitcoin, and we have never observed a collision for a 128 bit number space and it is theorised that it would take hundreds of millions of years of constant guessing to EVER discover a single key twice (and even then, it would probably just be a rediscovery of one of your guesses, an unused key, so it would be a useless discovery).
Let me know if that analogy helps. 🚀

2025-04-12 10:33:06 GMT

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That's not how L2 works.
Thats fake L2, Lightning for example is real L2.
But yeah, it's a credible threat, and we should build tools, educational resources and things that help to reduce the chance of that future.
But just because you can think up a scenario, doesn't mean that's the fate.

2025-04-10 15:48:39 GMT

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Awesome... But also I really felt for that sheep. He really wanted that feed there and then, must've been hungry.

2025-04-04 23:16:50 GMT

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The typical response is usually going to be "well not really, it is on a blockchain, your smartphone has keys", but the spirit and soul of the question is: "If something happens to my smartphone, it is all gone?"
To which the answer is probably yes. But if you back up 12 words, then it becomes less scary because now it is like a paper cash note.
But amazingly, it is in your hands and not at the bank, not gatekept by middlemen and government agencies, just your money in your hands.

2025-04-04 22:02:46 GMT

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Installed Pokey. I had it installed before but it didn't work for some reason.
It works now.

2025-04-04 21:52:21 GMT

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Oooooh shit!
This is cool. Big up @nprofile…7edf

2025-04-04 21:50:57 GMT

Testing. Gm someone please reply to me. I wanna see if I get a notification.

2025-04-04 11:36:04 GMT

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Don't spam.

2025-04-03 22:17:55 GMT

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To think your nostr data is not already AI feed is retarded.
Also, I hope AI learns from our open unapolagetic words and becomes a "bigot".

2025-04-03 20:06:34 GMT

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Allahdeen.

2025-04-03 19:43:56 GMT

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Why is it dead?
"Because I don't hear anyone talking about it on Xitter anymore"
Oh, so because you're out of touch?

2025-04-03 19:42:57 GMT

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All I know is that I've prepared myself to wait another 4 years to see another bull market.

2025-04-03 19:38:43 GMT

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I hold evil keys. Not only is it haram 24 times, but any money you put in will immediately be stolen.
🥓🥓🥓🥓🥓🥓🥓🥓🥓🥓🥓🥓🥓🥓🥓🥓🥓🥓🥓🥓🥓🥓🥓🥓

2025-04-03 19:37:26 GMT

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https://i.nostr.build/NXZD0C2w7hO7RYZ5.gif

2025-04-03 19:36:30 GMT

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Phoenix has bolt 12, we need to make zaps work for it.

2025-04-03 19:34:35 GMT

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Do it.

2025-04-03 14:25:29 GMT

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Still, nostr is supposed to be unfiltered unbounded content, yet I feel like I see one perspective and it can quickly feel like that must be the correct perspective.
Nostr reached its potential yet in the public square game.

2025-04-03 14:19:37 GMT

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Nice to see some anti-trump stuff on #Nostr. Was worried this was an only right leaning community.

2025-04-03 10:13:12 GMT

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Zoooom 🚀

2025-04-02 22:47:23 GMT

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https://i.nostr.build/RmVa5.gif

2025-04-01 13:36:14 GMT

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Apparently... You did.

2025-04-01 12:57:57 GMT

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https://image.nostr.build/4a2bb0cd08d1e9384d992ecc3e72c8fa05c31a32008e468c75d4fb332392abd7.gif

2025-03-29 16:31:50 GMT

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WTF.

2025-03-27 09:58:26 GMT

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#Amethyst.
https://image.nostr.build/486056dd9bc336b2d203c671637c323ed6d3cc4463593651cc24791b4b6d9713.jpg

2025-03-24 00:21:15 GMT

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@npub18zj…z5tz holding down the fort over on X. ❤️

2025-03-20 22:17:12 GMT

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I don't understand. How do you send funds to a fraudulent address thinking it was your own?

2025-03-17 18:12:02 GMT

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Eh? This makes no sense to me.

2025-03-17 18:06:56 GMT

@nprofile…20wr @nprofile…sqe0 @nprofile…a2ah
Can you help me out? I wanna connect with some bitcoiners in Japan, I am planning to visit in November, do you have any advice?
#nevent1q…9096

2025-03-16 11:18:22 GMT

Paging any #bitcoin ers in Japan (Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto) #asknostr
I'm looking to visit around November and would love to see some Bitcoin culture around there too. ❤️

2025-03-13 14:56:24 GMT

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Not inclusive enough... Fiatcoins.

2025-03-11 10:08:15 GMT

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He says things that feel good and sound correct, but his anti-bitcoin bs quickly snaps any bitcoiner out of any trance and validates that he is not for the people.
- He doesn't and hasn't ever listened to his audience.
- He never grows, he is just selling a story.
- His persona is "the normal lad with a conscience who has seen the other side and came back to share his experiences".
- He is arrogant.
- He is pining for influence and it's associated power.
- He thinks he is better than you.
- He is here to teach, not to learn.
His story is exotic and compelling, but he himself is a closed book. Being a finance bro on your side sounds too good to be true, especially when it is clear that people are starved of financial education and the financial system is complicated, but he does not diverge from the script. That's how we know he is just a puppet on strings.
To be clear, he doesn't have to like Bitcoin, but when you speak about it, you will get feedback. If you don't grow even a little, your hand is shown.

2025-03-10 17:49:15 GMT

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Cyber attacks against #Nostr are a good thing. Cyber attacks against X are a distraction.

2025-03-10 12:48:01 GMT

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Why?
Start anew on nostr. No one cares about historical posts.

2025-03-04 12:32:19 GMT

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Identity (NIP-05) is different to your lightning address (https://lightningaddress.com/#providers).
NIP-05 is how we give people unique names. There could be 100 accounts with the name Barry and there is no central server to decide which one is the official one. Our npubs are unique, but difficult to read and share.
NIP-05 gives us a user friendly username and allows us to use the centralised nature of domain names to have a unique AND friendly username that no one else could possibly have.
NIP-05 providers own a domain name and offer you a username and promise to reserve that for you on a first come first serve basis. They may also charge for the service.
But if you have your own, then you are relying on the first come first serve nature of domain name registration. No one will be able to control your domain name for as long as you pay for it because a centralised system of authorities make it so.
This way users get usernames that are friendly AND unique, while nostr remains decentralised as it just works via npubs and NIP-05 is a nice-to-have addon feature, not core to nostr.
A unique and user friendly username is good for discovering and differentiating users online. That is all
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Zaps are completely different. You don't need a NIP-05 to receive zaps, and you don't need to be able to receive zaps to have a NIP-05.
Zaps work by you getting a lightning address and posting it on your profile.
Setting up lightning payments can be quite an involved process, so there are a range of products and services that try to help.
First you need a wallet to receive sats to:
1. Custodial.
Most people starting out don't run a Bitcoin node or Lightning node of their own. If you use a self custodial wallet like phoenix.acinq.co , unfortunately these wallets don't provide lightning addresss functionality because lightning addresses require extra infrastructure such as a domain name and public access to the lightning node that receives the funds.
Whoever controls the domain name, controls where the funds go (and so the wallet maker would now be an intermediary instead of just a tool). And if your wallet is self custodial, then the receiving node is on your phone, so making it publicly accessible and online 24/7 without training you on how to actively secure your device is a recipe for disaster.
The exception here is @nprofile…5fk2 who uses a lesser known technology to provide a sort of intermediary service for your incoming payments. I think they charge a fee per incoming payment as part of the service and I don't remember what other technical tradeoffs there were. If you want a self custodial solution, you ideally want to have to trust no one. This is not it, but it might be the least trust based solution that does not take weeks of work to set up.
That said, custodial solutions can be cheaper and more user friendly.
2. Run your own node
If you do run your own node and a lightning node, then you likely have it running on a computer/server running and connected to the internet 24/7. If not, it will be hard to receive payments as they won't queue up, they just fail if your server is down or inaccessible.
To have it accept payments via a Lightning address, it needs extra software which will expose it to the world wide web. A lightning node can interact with the lightning network and send and receive payments without your server becoming a public website, but lightning addresses must be discovered, so:
- you need a domain name
- that domain name must point to your server
- this now advertises your IP to hackers around the world and associates it publicly to bitcoin
- you now have an open port exposed to the internet that a hacker might use to try to force their way in.
- Depending on how securely you have your server and network set up, other devices and services on your network are now also more vulnerable than they were before.
It is now 100x more important to monitor and keep your network, your server and all of your software up to date. This is often too much for non-professionals.
One thing that is recommended here is using a cloud based server to host your bitcoin and lightning node. This way your home network and your home IP address is kept separate and protected. The downside is that your money is on someone else's servers. An example is something like https://www.voltage.cloud/ . it is a bit like a custodial wallet, but you have more control over it.
Either way, another thing you need to start learning about is lightning channels and liquidity. It is just another thing to learn down the rabbit hole.
3. Bridge server
A bridge server allows you to use an intermediary service to protect your own server. You still need to run your own node, but you can avoid exposing it to the internet so dangerously.
You use their guide to point your domain to their server and configure your own node information as well as providing restricted access tokens that can be used to send you bitcoin, but not to take from your node.
The most powerful feature here is that it can accept your node's tor address. A tor address is a unique web-address that if someone visits, they will be able to access a your server on a specific port. But unlike a typical web address, I can't then scan for more open ports on your network. It means that your personal network is kept secure from the internet.
Just know that a bridge server is an intermediary and so they can redirect funds elsewhere if they ever become malicious. The good news is that they are just an intermediary: once payment is complete, the only risk is whether they steal your next payment.
You can actually also run your own bridge server on the cloud. There are a few open source solutions for that.
4. Lightning address providers
For those without a domain, this is basically a bridge plus a domain so that they can register a name to a communal domain like sats.me and get something like [email protected]
5. Conclusion
Honestly, the easiest solution is custodial wallets. These other options provide slightly better guarantees that your money is yours but they come at the cost of extra work and increased vulnerability of your funds and possibly other things you own to the world wide web. If you host on the cloud, your risks are mitigated, but your money is still at risk so a good rule of thumb is to keep that wallet's balance low. This is the same for custodial wallets too.
Ultimately the difference between a self custodial wallet and a custodial one, is the time it takes for the money to go through an intermediary. If you imagine emptying your custodial wallet daily, then your funds are with an intermediary for at most 24 hours. While with the other solutions, we are talking seconds.
Is it really worth the effort to save 24hrs or risk and some manual labour of withdrawing your funds to a self custodial wallet daily/weekly etc. Especially if you only get pennies per day on average?
Get something like Wallet of Satoshi or even a cashu wallet like @nprofile…u0xq (this is what I use) and withdraw to a self custodial wallet like Phoenix wallet when you have more than $50 in it.

2025-03-03 22:03:17 GMT

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You have a website.
IMO. Your best option is to link your identity to your own domain. This way everyone knows that you are THAT teddy and no one else can claim otherwise (unless they compromise your website).
The other nostr identity services are for people who just want a check but they have no specific website to their name.
You can see how to set that up here: https://nostr.how/en/guides/get-verified#self-hosted (see Self hosted verification)
Also don't forget to use the hex version of your public key (details in the docs above).

2025-02-28 17:31:04 GMT

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Will be size.

2025-02-25 00:55:14 GMT

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So no revocation then? You just need the original master key to rotate.

2025-02-24 23:26:00 GMT

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Oh, and I'm looking forward to learning about the ROTATABLE aspect of this too.

2025-02-24 23:25:31 GMT

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This is super cool.
Do you have any ideas around where users might store their keys? I think for a good UX, it would be cool to label the keys I.E.:
1. This is your client key,
2. This is your igloo key,
3. This is your recovery key.
But honestly, this feels like nsec bunker but where the bunker can't sign for you by itself which I guess is where you are going with this.

2025-02-23 23:55:20 GMT

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I believe he has recently become popular. The issue is that he understands so much of the problem and he is right about a lot of things, but he shuts himself off when it comes to Bitcoin.
He has some allergic reaction to it and at this point I think he has been told many times to look at it seriously and he just won't. It's clear that he thinks he knows all that he needs to. He even made a hit piece about it where not a single thing was correct.
It feels stupid to us: this guy cries about the issue and wants to fight against it through politics and financial literacy: socialism and running faster up an avalanche.
We just see the opt out button, so it feels so obvious to us that this is the way, but he is so stuck on his treadmill that he won't entertain the idea that he could try to learn why smart people are pro Bitcoin despite his personal beliefs.
Gotta be ego.

2025-02-21 18:02:40 GMT

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So they still adhere to the Kensian lies that the PEOPLE cause inflation?

2025-02-21 12:14:54 GMT

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I am just surprised because so many, including myself have celebrated the fact that the public key is protected behind a hash. I'm surprised that this decision didn't cause controversy in the space in itself.

2025-02-21 03:49:39 GMT

Wait what?
> It should be noted that Taproot outputs are vulnerable in that they encode a 32-byte x-only public key, from which a full public key can be reconstructed.
#nevent1q…9hp7

2025-02-18 17:52:23 GMT

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It's back, no cache clearing. 🤷‍♂️

2025-02-18 17:34:48 GMT

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Geyser is down. @nprofile…f2t4 down bad. I tried flying from USA to Poland. No difference.
https://image.nostr.build/86583f88ed7480781e331b2cb89d390f9c9b4c784e0c6f6570f9491280a668f0.jpg

2025-02-17 21:15:16 GMT

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In case a relay was offline, or maybe you were offline, or for whatever reason, if your note did not reach a relay you wanted it to, then you can force a rebroadcast to all of your relays with this button.
Another scenario is that you see a post that you like and you just want to help it reach. Reposting is OKAY, but it just signs a note that you "approve of" another note. It doesn't physically help the note reach.
In some cases, you might see a quote post for example but the embedded note is unreachable. By rebroadcasting, you take a note that you have received from maybe 1 relay, and push it forward to all of your other relays.
It helps people searching hashtags and global feeds see the note mostly, but if you engage with it, it also helps your followers too.

2025-02-17 15:36:34 GMT

GM. Accounts are the problem. Accounts take what people think of as "technologies" and turn them into products and services where you are the puppet.
Yes. You.
Muppet.
https://image.nostr.build/4653c8e41fa087203a859af76944434129fd6be5f75503a91e1cc411655dcc9c.gif

2025-02-16 03:21:29 GMT

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No. I just use #Amethyst
Also I was joking in case it wasn't clear. There is no CEO of Nostr. But it is a running joke because he used to (possibly still does) own the nostr.com domain and he helped it develop from the very beginning.

2025-02-16 03:11:03 GMT

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The CEO of Nostr @nprofile…48yt calls it "no-star" or more specifically "nost R"

2025-02-16 03:07:53 GMT

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There will never be 21 million or more bitcoin.

2025-02-15 15:17:57 GMT

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Yeah, well here's the thing. If you want to support Ukraine, you should be allowed ro.
If you want to force a policy to make me and everyone in my country support Ukraine at cost? At the very least, I should be seeing how much of my tax money and new money is going towards it, and at most, fuck you. 🫡

2025-02-15 15:11:13 GMT

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Most can.
Phoenix Wallet can.
Wallet of Satoshi can.
Blue wallet can.
@nprofile…u0xq can not?

2025-02-14 22:43:02 GMT

Straight up Gotham vibes.
#nevent1q…ujng

2025-02-14 22:17:58 GMT

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P. P. S. You had me excited that there was already a release by having a "get it on obtainium" badge.
Now I am sad. https://i.nostr.build/VBh2nG43381yNA7G.gif

2025-02-14 22:13:41 GMT

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Okay collecting notes:
1. I thought samiz was one of the people at first. Not realizing it was the name of the app. 🤦‍♂️
2. So just having the app allows anyone else with the app to synchronise? Hmm. Can this be abused?
Side note. How can this work but covid apps had to use a Google and Apple sponsored technology to use BLE?
3. Oh the posts go to the relay of the person who eventually connects to the internet? How does this mess with the outbox model?

2025-02-14 18:23:15 GMT

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Fuck you and GM.

2025-02-14 18:17:40 GMT

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Okay, thanks for giving me that thought. 👍

2025-02-14 18:17:08 GMT

If there's one thing @nprofile…vu4p is good at, it's getting domains.
Second best is his hardware wallets.
#nevent1q…70wc

2025-02-14 18:15:31 GMT

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Wtf?
https://image.nostr.build/e43e0cf7adb00003c5ab0054b90ea7e67f54e9a925b6593e16d6bdf4c8229476.webp

2025-02-14 18:12:40 GMT

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Just bitcoin going sideways.

2025-02-14 18:09:12 GMT

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Why don't we have it here on Nostr?
What would it take? A DVM? Or something else?

2025-02-14 18:06:36 GMT

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Yup, bitcoin is always in one of two states:
- not spent
- spent
While a transaction is pending, it is still "not spent".
Wallets handle this in a few ways:
- some might keep track of it and rebroadcast an unconfirmed transaction from time to time.
- they often don't let you spend from a utxo that is in a pending payment... Although technically you can always create follow-up transactions or replacement transactions, it would be very hard to provide these features to users without confusing them. Easier to just tell them to wait.
- some just don't care. If the transaction disappears from the node you are asking about pending transactions to, your wallet might pretend that the transaction never existed. 👻

2025-02-14 17:41:10 GMT

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Fuck all the news channels that play "gotcha games"... You can't present impartial news if you're trying to get people, but I guess it makes people feel good when they can laugh with the news anchors about how right they were, regardless of the facts.

2025-02-14 17:38:00 GMT

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Actually I've seen full blocks and 2 sats per vbyte.
So it isn't JUST many transactions in the backlog, but also many URGENT transactions.
What do I mean by that? Transactions that send money from yourself to yourself, and maybe even lightning channel opens are not so urgent, so you keep the fee low. You don't care to compete because you expect that it will eventually get mined and you have no time limits.
So it will be transactions at stores, transactions made as a demonstration that need to settle quickly and exchange withdrawals and deposits. Those are the transactions that are competing... Now who are they competing with?
In the past there have been a series of exchange transactions where a particular exchange is consolidating utxos and migrating to new addresses (eg. Legacy to segwit). They not only filled a bunch of blocks at a time, but they set ridiculously high fees. It honestly feels like a waste of money and disruptive to others.
Like deciding to piss across all urinals in a public bathroom so no one else can piss until you are done.
Also there were degens trying to put NFTs on the blockchain. They too didn't care about high fees because they thought these NFTs would make them rich for being first.
In the future, there will be people who wish to piss away their money. That is who we are really competing with for high fees.
I suppose one last one will be new users trying to get their first bitcoin. They certainly won't have low time preference, they won't yet understand the certainties that bitcoin provides, and in some cases they just need to get bitcoin into their control before they can move on.
Once you are a bitcoiner, you start to understand low time preference. You look to have your transaction confirm in hours, days or weeks to save sats. That will still raise the fees naturally over time, but so far it hasn't been the factor that pumped fees.

2025-02-14 00:43:15 GMT

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Also bolt12 offers. Bolt12.org

2025-02-13 22:41:51 GMT

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Okay, I thought it was some Magic offline thing. Maybe finding clients by distance using bluetooth or something.

2025-02-13 17:38:23 GMT

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Eli5 negentrooy

2025-02-12 11:46:38 GMT

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They provide two wallets when you set up. One that can be paid by sending to your proton mail, and your main one is separate.
When you click around, you see a notice telling you that this was done for privacy reasons.
I still suspect that people will intermix their coins between these wallets and I don't think the point is clear enough to prevent this. Which of course would contaminate both wallets.
@nprofile…nk6j

2025-02-11 16:56:51 GMT

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I think you should reach out to them via email found on their website. It seems unusual to me.
https://phoenix.acinq.co/support
They do reply 👍

2025-02-11 13:43:43 GMT

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Does Mullvad have that tech to obscure traffic to bypass firewalls and censorship?
This reads like an ad for obscura more than Mullvad... Unless you need to buy both? Probably the latter.

2025-02-11 13:00:30 GMT

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😬
GrapheneOS
https://image.nostr.build/7743929ebde80a2e64275bc8bf9fbc199e73282992f22a36a576a530703202f6.jpg
Mauve at least load a landing page?

2025-02-10 18:57:41 GMT

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Sorry, can you rephrase the question? I can't figure out what you are asking for. Also, I've never seen that zzz icon on Phoenix before.

2025-02-10 15:16:02 GMT

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Well, let me reframe the question a little. But if you don't think you want to engage, then so be it.
Tether is a pretty useful token, especially in countries where people want something like the dollar but have difficulty accessing it.
Still Tether is a company, so the tokens don't really stand on their own feet, I wouldn't invest in the tokens, you can invest in the company. Also the technology is kind of irrelevant too in some regards, they moved from ETH to TRON and now are using Lightning (unless I'm getting my stable coins mixed up). The company uses whatever resources it can find to provide a product.
There is also the standard risks associated with a regulated company, but it is kind of like a VPN money where the company has limited information about its users so the risks are mitigated to a point.
I think it makes sense to be excited about a public technology like bitcoin or the web, because people can build on it just like companies can.
Tokens are not really technologies AFAIK, they are products, so unless they are technologies that people can either copy or build upon permissionlessly, I think they don't serve a purpose that I am interested about.
I love the idea of tools and technologies empowering developing countries, don't get me wrong, but I'm always skeptical of a product that establishes, whether directly or indirectly, whether known or unknown, a master client relationship where people are not relying on the technology only, but also the existence of some entity driving that technology.
So...
Is there a token or a token standard or a token technology that you can recommend that I read about or look into based on my perspective?

2025-02-10 12:27:14 GMT

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Preaching to the choir here. I want to hear the opposing arguments so I can further build on my conviction knowing that I ain't missing something that someone had the opportunity to tell me.

2025-02-10 10:21:23 GMT

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Please expand, because I don't see how these tokenisation projects do any of these things without critical compromises that reintroduces the trusted relationship between you and a service provider.
Especially less fraud.

2025-02-10 00:03:26 GMT

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My take is why even bother?
They seem to be a technology looking for a purpose. At best they are art, but they are also almost always misrepresented and sold disingenuously.
Most people don't buy these things because they are interesting or innovative, they buy and trade it because someone said it might be a way to make a quick buck.
Fiat tokens (stable coins) might provide some value, but just remember that they are private currencies that can be shut down and the value will be rugged involentarily.
Everything else on a blockchain is like putting aeroplane wings on anything and expecting everything to fly without the other things: an engine, propeller, aerodynamic shape, light weight material with sturdy structure...

2025-02-09 05:43:38 GMT

Just added "incest" to my list of blocked words. I suggest others do the same. 😡

2025-02-08 23:30:42 GMT

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Not on #Amethyst... Can you do it in Damus?

2025-02-08 23:06:11 GMT

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A one time stealth address as far as I can tell is just using a unique address each time... Something bitcoiners should be doing already, that wallets already push for.
Breaking the tx graph is done with the ring signatures, but even that is not perfect as shown in the video. It's pretty damn good to be clear, but it does leave breadcrumbs.

2025-02-08 20:03:18 GMT

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That's the damn same as Bitcoin. Monero is pseudonymous.

2025-02-07 11:37:51 GMT

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But at the same time, They are surveillance houses that track what applications you are installing, when you run them, where you run them and these operations bypass whatever VPN you have.

2025-02-06 18:14:45 GMT

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@nprofile…n6q3 you're being ludacris!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imaXxDJqOpw
Keep giving good Derek lovin'.

2025-02-05 11:35:10 GMT

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This article is nonsense.
1. Quantum is thrown around like it were magic.
2. There are specific things that quantum might or might not be able to do, and in Bitcoin there is actually layers of security that it would need to pass.
3. Quantum computers are the next Buzz word. They are no where near ready to do anything remotely useful.
4. One does not simply "take down Bitcoin" it isn't run by a bunch of developers in a private chat group, it is run by EVERYONE. It is a massive snowball that cannot be shut down, it can only move forward.
5. The way Bitcoin upgrades (so far) is that a new type of bitcoin address is released with quantum resistant properties. Bitcoin is always backward compatible, so you and everyone else would need to transfer your bitcoin to yourself using the new format.
6. Satoshi's coins and people who don't move their money are POTENTIALLY at risk, but honestly, probably not.
7. People throw around how it will affect Bitcoin, but it's like saying how the Neuclear bomb will eradicate flies. Sure, but it can do a lot worse too. Guess what happened to that? It caused a stale mate around the world.
8. These articles are cope. Wishful thinking. At best it is confirmation bias and lack of any critical thinking. Even the comparison to gold is ridiculous... If you own gold, you at least have gold, but if you own bitcoin you have... Nothing? YOU HAVE BITCOIN BITCH. Its fundamental properties don't disappear for anything, it had them even when the thing had no market price.
9. Oh and another one: cash is used everywhere, bitcoin is not. IF THAT IS HOW YOU EVALUATE THE PROSPECTS OF A NEW BUSINESS POSED TO COMPETE IN THE MARKET, HOW ARE YOU NOT ALWAYS BUYING THE TOP OF EVERY MARKET AND SELLING THR BOTTOM?!?!

2025-02-04 14:27:48 GMT

Now give it #cashu ecash and see if it can do it without an API key 🔥
@nprofile…xnfk 👀
Actually would be cool if it could shop around, find a good deal, register on our behalf, and get its own API Key but maybe that's too much 😅.
#nevent1q…gmn6

2025-02-03 17:22:56 GMT

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It's a bit of a double edged sword.
I gave WhatsApp a storage scope but I found that I would cross post images and I found a fair workaround: you can share an image from the filesystem and GIVE WhatsApp the file from outside its storage scope.
I think there might have been more points of friction, but whatever.

2025-02-03 17:19:52 GMT

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What do you need?

2025-02-03 02:26:33 GMT

In hindsight, maxis are kinda toxic but I love it 😅
https://image.nostr.build/b8bc56f15323490d3bc4d8bd01d6585f8c07b5b64d529638946d76d1f66b1556.jpg

2025-02-03 00:55:22 GMT

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Same, maybe I used the wrong words.
So you're saying we can build from source and use that as firmware on the cold card? If so, cool, thanks for informing me, I haven't had the time and motivation to verify yet.

2025-02-03 00:27:22 GMT

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AFAIK, it doesn't have the verifiable builds. Am I wrong?

2025-02-02 00:24:01 GMT

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Context is Apple are evil overlords and Damus is not allowed to have zaps turned on because Apple wants their cut.
Somehow this workaround works and Apple haven't clocked on or doesn't care.

2025-02-02 00:12:00 GMT

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https://nostrscript.suhailsaqan.com/

2025-02-01 17:37:25 GMT

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So then just get those relays to gatekeep your data from Jack Dorsey... Whats the problem?

2025-02-01 17:28:11 GMT

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Oh the paradox. Do you allow a company to keep your metadata and public notes private (which is an oxymoron in itself) or do you keep it all public and fair so there is at least no imbalance of power but now anyone can use your data?
Because the opposite, to have everything private, is not a social or interconnected system and therefore is not useful to its users.
So what is the solution? Tell people not to look? Yeah that'll work.