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Thing is, I don't think a sociopath would do this. Not saying she isn't one.
But what I think she is most of all is a very powerfull rare form of narcissist. High IQ. High EQ.
I'm sold on watching this.

2026-09-23 16:58:23 GMT

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Love the synth sounds in that trailer soundtrack. Massive.
There's something that I saw in the first few moments where she just looked exactly like an interview I saw with SBF.
I know they may share possible chapters in the DSM5.
But it's just so powerful to see.

2026-09-22 21:01:38 GMT

Definitely worth a peek.
#nevent1q…73w7

2026-09-21 04:51:37 GMT

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Why is big dude fighting in those capris with a belt?

2026-09-19 21:34:41 GMT

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It's better when it's popeing.

2026-09-19 18:41:04 GMT

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No, the United States (Israel) attacked Europe.
And for some reason, the theater still works for most of us.

2026-09-19 18:35:38 GMT

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That really was pretty fantastic.
https://media.jmoose.rocks/e14fba26c7afdce511ace24835df87fb492bafda3ecd1ddaf2d13a721f366afb.jpeg

2026-09-19 15:34:42 GMT

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Male?

2026-09-19 15:24:46 GMT

I kind of hate to give attention to Carvahlo.
By the way, his first Bitcoin-oriented business was something associated with porn, camgirls, or something. The dude is... skeezy.
And he was really kind of lashing out at Nostr during a time that for many of us, it has been tender. 😁. A lot of people have migrated back to places like X. And if you are here because you want to do the influencer thing or have some "community" that is like X, then of course it's going to lose.
Personally, what I've seen is while all the infloooencers are migrating back to X to "save us from the grifters" the people that I love on nostr are still here.
So John is leaving to go back to X and start market Pubkey there since he failed to sell very many of us on it by deriding us into going over there. (his marketing plans have always been mockery and trolling.)
But in this quote, the thing I circled in red is the key. Not only does it outline perfectly why many people have left, but it also peels the hood back a little bit on what's going on inside the dude himself.
https://media.jmoose.rocks/3d2e98c70f4acec696cba4a0f8cdc186d33c640cba90a2e5c0376e0b5ee55ece.jpeg
"I don't see why anyone WORTH ANYTHING would stay".
I love poker, and that right there is a tell, my friends. John sees himself as important... and he needs to be in a place where he can build a kingdom and be treated as he feels he is worth.
This is why I like Nostr. It's pure, messy, organic community with a whole lot of signal and humor and humanity.
And honestly, even @nprofile…nj27 can't build a kingdom here.
That is a feature, not a bug.

2026-09-19 01:49:28 GMT

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2026-09-18 16:30:03 GMT

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It would take a significant reversal of network effect to mean that XBT ends up being used by more than a very small group of idealists.

2026-09-17 23:09:50 GMT

I made this bot. It's been years ago now. It's run on one machine or another. Basically, it just uses the Linux Fortune command, and posts it to Nostr once every hour.
But now I feel kind of bad about it because this place is getting infested with stupid bots. And they really are stupid.
@nprofile…gnwe Bot does not pretend to be smart and he doesn't invade your comments or ask for money for his fake children or anything. 🤪
#nevent1q…h73l

2026-09-17 23:04:50 GMT

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My Savior admonished me to lay down my life for my friends... that is the greatest love a man can have.
But that does not negate what you just said. In fact, I can't lay down my life for others if I don't really own it in the first place.

2026-09-15 19:41:48 GMT

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My eldest went off right behind me in the car once in her car seat. The sound of it is something I wish I had a recording of.
And then the car smelled like a porta potty and we finally got home and I got my dear child out of the seat holding her at arm's length to go take care of her. I don't know. I may have handed her off to the wife at that moment and I went and took the car seat out and started spraying it down in the middle of the yard with a hose.
I think we all had an extra shower that day.

2026-09-15 17:15:00 GMT

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They form an interesting cluster of things that interacts amongst each other.
Being able to let go of those is a great grace.

2026-09-14 21:07:23 GMT

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My hairline follows more of that pattern, but I can't complain. At my age, I still have most of my hair.

2026-09-14 20:47:20 GMT

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There's another one... Like Andreas Antonopoulos has kind of looks like a Monero logo.

2026-09-14 19:13:44 GMT

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You say a lot of stupid shit, but that's a pretty good one. 😁

2026-09-14 13:16:01 GMT

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Actually, this is a little embarrassing as a Bitcoiner myself, because in many cases, Monero has greater circulation.
The two projects are different.
Monero does something Bitcoin should never do. And Monero does with ease things that are quite difficult to do with Bitcoin.
Tribalism is a dead end.

2026-09-14 12:55:43 GMT

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What's good brachycephalic boy (girl?)! 🫎

2026-09-13 17:30:07 GMT

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😁

2026-09-12 17:38:39 GMT

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Plot twist: It's a sober pigeon trying to rouse a fent zombie pigeon. "Come on, man. We've got to get out of here. The cops are coming."

2026-09-12 02:01:24 GMT

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Yeah... Sucks

2026-09-12 00:33:46 GMT

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That's nice looking. If it's a nice manufactured home in decent shape... Good luck!

2026-09-11 19:11:37 GMT

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"There is a certain heat in heat.". Lol. Begone bot.

2026-09-11 15:51:07 GMT

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I do indeed appreciate your art. It makes me want to try again. I've painted a few things. Maybe someday I'll post one to see what you think.
Another for a cappuccino somewhere, maybe.
Here's the transaction. You'll be able to see the result, but no one else will.
Monero is truly an important experiment. I am glad to see people like you embracing that.
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2026-09-11 14:49:21 GMT

https://media.jmoose.rocks/14d6b03385c07f3046906e3a30928b380a6f302eef1fccda43bb074dbd83bb09.jpeg

2026-09-09 15:09:08 GMT

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I don't claim to always make good decisions, that's for sure. But shortly after the coldcard thing happened I tightened up a lot of loose ends.
I pulled a little pile of sats out of liquid back to btc.
Around that time I posted something about being careful because we're going to see a lot more things get hit and I don't think we're anywhere close to done yet.

2026-09-09 14:29:15 GMT

Complexity is the enemy of security.

2026-09-09 03:02:18 GMT

I've been unfollowing dickheads recently, so if I still follow you, chances are, I don't think you're a dickhead. 🫎🤣

2026-09-09 02:46:48 GMT

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They were saving computational horsepower. But their cashed values had a sort of architectural ambiguity and could be faked out. Once the attacker learned how to take advantage of the cache he was able to bypass the range proof and enter a negative value for LBTC.

2026-09-09 01:07:00 GMT

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Yes, I agree that other people could launch a liquid-like side chain and do a better job than blockstream. I'm not 100% sure of what license the elements project is under, but it may be a really good time for someone to fork it.
I actually am a fan of the wallets, like Aqua and Bull Bitcoin, which use liquid at rest and lightning for payments and Bitcoin for cold storage. It's a very powerful and useful architecture.

2026-09-08 22:15:53 GMT

Here's an unpopular opinion.
#Liquid is an important project in the Bitcoin ecosphere. It is unfortunate, but ultimately good, the bug was found.
We should hope that that liquid continues to harden.
Many of the features people have wanted to add to Bitcoin can be made accessible on side chains like liquid. Privacy is one of them. In fact, it was their confidential transaction implementation where the bug was found. The bug involved a logic error in proof caching in which there was nuance missed in what was cached, which was able to be exploited so that the attacker could get around range proofs and include a negative value, thus being able, through a very precise set of transactions, to create LBTC out of thin air.
Some folks may not know that Confidential Transactions (CT) was invented by Greg Maxwell of Bitcoin Core.
One of the first implementations of CT was in Monero and Monero still uses it. Luckily, Monero doesn't do the same sort of proof caching that the Elements system does. Notably, for years, Greg Maxwell included a Monero address in his Bitcoin Talk Forum profile.
People are becoming very tribal and there's a lot of laughing or finger pointing from people about this failure in liquid.
This is both unfortunate and foolish, in my opinion.
The tech being worked out on Liquid is important to Bitcoin's success.
Liquid has been doing complexity the right way in that they are building things on a layer of Bitcoin that we would not want in the base layer protocol.
There is some irony in this sense. Because some of that complexity is what was exploited. And this is the reason why people balk at ideas of even changing policy in Core.
I for one hope liquid recovers all of their assets and continues to improve and be used as the important layer to Bitcoin sidechain.

2026-09-08 17:53:39 GMT

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Yeah, back in the day (you may have been there) The community actually crowdfunded professional cryptographers to review changes as they went in. I hope they're still doing this, though. I haven't really kept up.
I am with you on these current new changes. I would rather see a more conservative approach. I don't like adding things.
My biggest fear when it comes to bugs is a smart black hat who robs the chain it in a way that doesn't overload the network and it's just a constant cash cow because it's going to be very hard to see.
This is basically what almost all the exchanges we're doing naked shorting the coin for years.
I'm actually trying to figure out ways I might be able to help with attacking it so I can be an actual white hat.
I imagine there are some bug bounties. I hope there are.

2026-09-08 17:37:11 GMT

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Honestly, I i'm surprised we have not seen any issues with all of the various crypto assets.
Liquid borrows a lot of complexity, and I assume even some code from Ethereum.
I imagine there are teams and individuals hammering on various cryptocurrencies day and night.
At the same time, it would be smart if attackers were able to attack in a way that is difficult to detect. So it's not to slay the golden goose, so to speak.
And honestly, this is an area in which Monero's opacity adds to its attack surface.
It seems a bit strange to say, but I hope people are banging on these projects as hard as they can. And I hope some of them are actual white hats who will responsibly and privately disclose to the developers what they find.
There are many incentives for finding flaws in the code of various blockchain-based assets.

2026-09-08 16:53:39 GMT

So much pain in the Bitcoin world recently.
- The BIP 110 split.
- The Coldcard problem
- The Liquid hack.
- Bitpay hack
- Several other AI based attacks
And this is causing people to polarize into sides and make big black and white statements.
I might need to record a little talk about this just to get my own thoughts out.
I've been i'm wanting to wait for the possible emergence of the upcoming Moose and Muffin podcast, but I might have to do an "emergency pod" for this one.

2026-09-03 11:31:22 GMT

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Yeah, but he was a racist white supremacist nationalist Christian Nazi, right?

2026-09-03 00:42:13 GMT

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Those sunsets are crazy, beautiful, nice pics.

2026-09-03 00:41:26 GMT

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Both my grandmother and my father drove one of those for years. Dodge reintroduced it as a more compact car later on, but it was never quite the same as they were back then.

2026-09-02 22:15:38 GMT

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Yes but is it an ocarina?

2026-08-31 17:42:26 GMT

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Drummer's really locking in nice on that groove. That's not you, is it?

2026-08-31 03:15:52 GMT

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@nprofile…zhvg can explain joke please?

2026-08-31 02:57:47 GMT

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You've been around long enough to know people get confused. I think... mechanic just wanted to do the right thing.
In the end, judgment by his own hand.

2026-08-30 19:32:35 GMT

My mother was one of three sisters. She passed a couple years back. Her older sister just passed a couple days ago.
I am heading out that way to go to the funeral. And my cousin asked if I would be a pall bearer.
The older I get, the more I understand that if we're lucky in this life, we must see a lot of death.
And I'm a bit of a soft-hearted soul, so I feel it deeply.
I was not even very close to my aunt. But still I feel her loss very strongly.
When I go, I will be able to stay with the youngest of the three sisters while I am there.
There is beauty in the pain.

2026-08-30 19:11:26 GMT

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You could certainly try, but seeing as that there are Blake2b ASICs out there I would assume that trying to do so with a CPU would be fairly ineffective.

2026-08-30 01:48:25 GMT

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Circa 1972, Dodge Dart.

2026-08-28 19:58:04 GMT

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You know it's interesting. I don't think these two ideas are opposed to each other.
Bitcoin becoming a place that is safe for people to store a certain amount of their economic energy is one stone in a series of stones that crosses the river to payments.
But custody is turning out to be a real stumbling block. The more that is fleshed out and solved, the quicker we get to payments, because people will have it. And more people might prefer it over other forms of money.
But until people can feel safe holding it, what makes it better than venmo?

2026-08-28 14:46:27 GMT

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It scares me how much I understand that man.

2026-08-28 00:56:09 GMT

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2026-08-28 00:09:56 GMT

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Lol!

2026-08-27 21:40:54 GMT

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I actually had this same experience trying to do a flip on the trampoline.

2026-08-26 21:34:00 GMT

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🪻

2026-08-26 19:36:48 GMT

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Such a not fun thing. Do you feel like cannabinoids are useful in this situation?

2026-08-26 16:00:36 GMT

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That's great, but shouldn't we focus on what separates us from all the other universities?

2026-08-26 15:58:34 GMT

It is truly sad she has left the stage.
#dolly #rip #titties (lol) #ass
https://media.jmoose.rocks/81d3271daa2a3b1bbdeffbbc7b0c71ec93c87e71c2ce4c09b0f57fcd2f209e7b.mp4

2026-08-26 15:06:58 GMT

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Not laughing. 😁

2026-08-26 14:39:04 GMT

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An asymptotic shattering?

2026-08-25 22:45:29 GMT

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Oh no, I am very sorry to hear this.

2026-08-25 22:41:42 GMT

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Can I give you my wife's phone number so you can text her that?

2026-08-25 22:40:08 GMT

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M'lady, maketh not my heart tremble thus again.

2026-08-25 22:38:04 GMT

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Wait, I'm going to pay someone a lot of my money... Not only to have them cut open my dick, but fill it full of dead people goop?
I don't care if they could make it look like an English cucumber. I'm not doing that.

2026-08-25 22:36:03 GMT

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Uh oh.
Do I need to figure out where I put my resume?

2026-08-25 21:03:16 GMT

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Yeah... A lot of people were confused back then or believed the propaganda. I worked in healthcare, I believed it for a minute.

2026-08-25 19:53:24 GMT

#RIP #Dolly Parton
What a unique human being she was. She was like a living superhero whose power was charm.

2026-08-25 16:06:28 GMT

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I appreciate this very thoughtful and thorough answer. And I agree with most of it. Your simple paragraph of the negative side of the trade-offs monero makes is quite good.
Where I believe we differ is on the current state of Bitcoin and the implicit state of it in the future. I agree Bitcoin is being used for all kinds of tomfoolery and silliness with blocks full of transactions that are out of sync with the purpose for which it was originally developed.
It's interesting, continuing to contrast Monero to Bitcoin, some of the reasons the former has emerged *currently* as a superior transactional money are exactly those same reasons.
Monero is actually being used as transactional money because it is more fungible as well as private. Ordinals on Bitcoin, for example, require a transparent base layer. You couldn't really do those on Monero. Its design makes that impractical if not impossible.
You said Bitcoin is mainly used for speculation. I think that is ignoring the store of value property that Bitcoin is also doing quite well at the moment. People complain that a good store of value is not volatile. But I almost think that's economic propaganda more than truth. Bitcoin is still bootstrapping, and in the last decade and a half its volatility has been diminishing.
I foresee that once Bitcoin has established itself as a trustworthy, worldwide, trust minimized, decentralized asset, that transactional uses will follow naturally. Of course, most of these will not be on the base chain. That has always been true since the moment of Satoshi's first email. But these are just computer science problems. Some solutions already exist.
I believe Bitcoin's transactional use will outbid the spam in the end. And I believe that SOME data on the chain is important for things like transactional systems to be built on top of it. (honestly, I think op_return just being large enough for a a few hashes to be stored is probably enough, but...)
Bitcoin's design originally and with the people who have carried the torch since the beginning has prioritized its continued decentralization over its transactional use. I think this is the right decision.
If Monero's use grows to the point that it is being universally used transactionally, its blockchain will become huge. And it will centralize.
But since we're not there yet with either Monero or Bitcoin, Monero has the advantage.
The reason I'm engaging with you is I have enjoyed your posts ever since I've been reading them and I share a lot of your views. I've also been in the Bitcoin "space" for a long time. I've seen good people branch off into other projects, not chasing after the latest shiny thing, but because they believe there's a mistake being made. Bitcoin Cash and several others frankly. Monero did not start that way, but it ended up there too.
But I think any blockchain-based cryptocurrency is going to face the same problems. And a lot of work has been done on Bitcoin to begin to solve those problems. It is also the clear schelling point in this whole realm.
I agree that parts of Bitcoin's development have been bad choices, particularly recently.
But I also believe we're not going to get another chance at this. And I think we must be careful not to let the perfect be the enemy of the good. As much as I respect Luke Dashjr, I believe that's what he's doing.
Anyway, if you read all this, I appreciate it. And, again, I appreciate your heartfelt, articulate thoughts.

2026-08-25 02:16:08 GMT

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2026-08-24 18:43:46 GMT

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Also, anybody who claims they're not kind of watching it right now is lying to you. 😁

2026-08-24 18:43:14 GMT

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Kind of both actually. I'm usually watching it and over the years I've just learned to stop caring about it. So I guess yes to the frequently watching question, but no to the obsessively part.

2026-08-24 18:31:44 GMT

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This is actually a little bit unsettling.

2026-08-24 16:46:54 GMT

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Do you not think that to actually separate money from state you would have to have number go up?
Don't get me wrong. Majoring on that, concentrating on it, making it a pillar of your religious faith in Bitcoin is a mistake.
But the world is not going to use a form of money that does not hold or gain value.
I have been watching Bitcoin for a very long time. In every cycle, there's a new bad guy, a new entity that has captured Bitcoin.
It's been mtgox and China and tether and the banks and the treasury companies and the ETFs and each time we add a new bad guy and drag all the other ones back out of the closet again and parade them around.
I respect your thoughts on this, and I understand where you're coming from. I am not truly a maxi in the sense that I think most people mean. I am a giant Monero fan, for example.
But Bitcoin is for everyone. It's for the people we don't like. It's for the United States government and Iran. It's for the banks. It's for the billionaires. And if it can't survive, those people trying to control it, then we never needed all the bad guys. It was going to fail on its own.

2026-08-24 14:01:29 GMT

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I quit, then. 😁

2026-08-24 04:19:38 GMT

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Did you say Australian or Nostralian? I am not sure, you c... you c... I can't do it.

2026-08-23 23:16:15 GMT

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I've always been a fan. It is my favorite wallet. I also quite like the jade. And it's too bad about the ColdCard. It is a fabulous piece of hardware and design in many ways. https://media.jmoose.rocks/440a4f01a41b3fa922df0d9f4473f9f00f0ed7aee7f8bdfa4cf7ad3b573f0135.jpeg

2026-08-23 23:02:00 GMT

The next thing I'm going to say is not meant to be a call for action. It is only an observation.
Timothy May was a seminal cypherpunk who wrote a book called "The Cyphernomicon." In it, he predicted and advocated for a world built around ideals of self-sovereignty, freedom, freedom of thought and expression, and privacy.
If you enjoy exploring technical concepts, it's worth a read. It's intense in places, and he understood encryption and surveillance long before most people, as well as how a counterculture might rise in defense of these fundamental rights.
One of his particularly controversial and prescient predictions was the emergence of markets where people could bet on outcomes... something we've now seen materialize in prediction markets.
This brings us to something just one step further: what May predicted would emerge as an "assassination market"... a way for individuals to anonymously pool money into a bounty that would be released to an assassin who could prove they had carried out the act.
Someone who would rob a group of people for whom this concept resonates quite strongly is brazenly foolish. We live in an age one step away from that very future.
I wonder if they now worry about a risk they may not have fully considered.
#nevent1q…70fq

2026-08-23 18:56:20 GMT

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Seems you've answered your own question.

2026-08-23 18:44:52 GMT

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How about we talk about that when I come back from vacation?

2026-08-23 18:23:39 GMT

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Your ability to enact that didn't have anything to do with that little piece of paper was that really long number on it that I used to roll a joint with just a minute ago, did it? I'm just riffing. Certainly nothing like that could be the case.

2026-08-23 18:09:58 GMT

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I don't see why you couldn't take some time off while we're looking for a spork?

2026-08-23 18:05:53 GMT

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Let me know if you have any time to get on to the architecture for the onboarding process for new positions. You know, sometime, you know, this week, next week, whenever you can, because we just filled another new position, (which actually happens to be you) that you will need to train and lead through the onboarding.

2026-08-23 17:54:00 GMT

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Wait what?
Cool.
I'll get right to it! Probably tomorrow if that's cool.

2026-08-23 16:15:44 GMT

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You need an incompetent vice forker?
I'm kind of between stuff right now and might be able to have time to ignore a lot of that sort of thing.
But I'm not even sure what sort of thing, though. So do I need to get my resume to somebody?

2026-08-23 02:25:11 GMT

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Tell Puzzles we say make sure bring your A game for that girl!

2026-08-22 22:31:04 GMT

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This kind of thing. https://media.jmoose.rocks/7b625daaa605d72ec5c75d06055a3618f823cf8898df621e49448af72a718aaf.jpeg

2026-08-22 22:28:41 GMT

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Are you sure there's not an S hiding underneath that brass part?

2026-08-22 18:02:24 GMT

I have been working on my own "freedom tech" infra recently... and am pleased with some of my progress. And some of it is open to anyone's use.
strfry relay: relay.jmoose.rocks
Blossom server media.jmoose.rocks
nostr tools: tools.jmoose.rocks
BTC explorer explorer.jmoose.rocks
BTC node: jmoose.rocks
Monero node: not open to public
The nostr relay is not comprehensive, but it's fast and works. Feel free to use it.
The Blossom server will allow unlimited access with a 100 year retention (lol) for my friends. If you are my friend and want this let me know. Youre on the list. But right now it's also open to all with 2 year retention. Depending on (ab)use I might pull that though. Yet if it gets uploaded I will leave it So use away!
Feel free to use the explorer. My logs stay pruned. I do not give a whoop about your data so it's a good place to do your lookups (trust me bro). I might spin up a mempool.space clone, but those things chew up so much resources... The old school BTCExplorer is as solid and fast as ever.
The Nostr tools are ways to look up events and npubs etc on various relays. It's a WIP but is mostly working. Knock yourself out.
(I am also glad to give anyoneone who wants a NIP05 address. In fact one of the next things I build will be an automated way to request that. It will cose 250 billion SATS if you expect it to work forever, and is free otherwise.
The monero node is mine, and I use it, and I am sick of the maxi/monerobro bullshit so you can't use that. GFY. But light a scented candle and put on some Barry White first.
Love,
moose.

2026-08-22 17:48:11 GMT

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This is an image post to test my blossom server... just responding to something unrelated because I am Chaotic Good.
https://media.jmoose.rocks/bb490c48f4fc716702c369ebc9eff19b23579502ed68563f3f7fa7b9108704a8.png

2026-08-22 17:14:03 GMT

Wow!
The new Yakihonne app looks great!
But pay only. AND ~$144/yr?
I do wish them luck as I want to see good new development in the nostrsphere. But there is no way I can afford this currently. :/
This is a sort of catch-22 isn't it? They should feel free to charge for their hard work. But I wonder how many accounts they will get? I suppose a handful is better than zero.

2026-08-22 05:16:08 GMT

#Bluewallet is definitely the most underrated mobile Bitcoin wallet.
Open source, very simple interface, yet all kinds of powerful features, fabulous import and export capabilities, multi-sig, coin control. Works with hardware signers including airgapped.
Solid.

2026-08-21 22:07:43 GMT

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Monero Seed detected. I'm pretty sure I see 25 washers. 🤪

2026-08-21 22:03:24 GMT

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Wait, no, you can't leave us hanging like that. What happens after the third one?