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Yes. This exactly. Starlink is not an economically sustainable business today without government largess. It might be in the future, but that feels highly questionable to me. That Starlink solves a problem for you (where you’re effectively paying a subsidized price), does not presuppose that there is actually a large enough organic market to sustain the business, without those subsidies.

2026-10-09 18:54:43 GMT

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I am not sure if that is correct. Costs driven by the diseconomies of scale of a centralized provider trying to service ALL of a vast and low density area are immense to point that the business may not be viable. If this wasn’t the case, service delivery in the low density areas of Detroit would look a whole lot different, for instance, and those places still have a lot more density that the rural areas Starlink claims to be building its business around.

2026-10-09 12:49:59 GMT

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Elon certainly gets credit for ambitious and “thinking big” but neither of these is the same thing as “economically viable.” Nor does that scale of ambition or vision mean that a big idea will be viable at some point in the future, or at all.
My issue with SPCX is that Internet and phone calls are things that have already been solved - they just feel shitty in the US being hamstrung by legacy regulation and infrastructure. Go to any major city in Asia or Africa and you’ll find a competitive market offering of blazing fast unlimited internet and cellular service for a few dollars a month.
There are places in the world where internet access is lacking but if we really care about human flourishing the issue in those places is more often access to power (and therefore refrigeration, clean/modern cooking technology, nocturnal lighting, etc), which SPCX does nothing to address (I do not consider this to a “fault” of SPCX, just a statement that challenges that assumption / narrative around product market fit)
Fundamentally I question the logic of hundreds of billions of dollars of investment to deliver satellite internet to places where either a) internet is already solved or b) the would-be rural customer base has far larger problems while also lacking the money of SpaceX kit. Especially when we already have a globally scale supply chain to deliver internet and cellular to places at very low cost. A technology being new, does not presuppose that it is actually better.
Also most, or really all, of Elon’s moon shoots have yet to pay off in terms of free market economic viability. Tesla is not a viable company without subsidies. SpaceX is not a viable company without subsidies. Humanoid robotics are simply not economically viable. What does the Boring Company even do and where is the hypertube, or whatever he’s calling it now?
Also, that Musk’s companies are not at the forefront of agitating for broad and rapid American nuclearization, is very telling to me. This is a fundamental base input all of his companies would benefit from massively and that is required for the logical extension of all of his “vision”but he’s happy to sell us all stories while sucking up our tax dollars.
And China IS nuclearizing so I wouldn’t be surprised if Elon is living in Beijing come 2035 once he’s conned America for all he can get.

2026-10-08 23:06:10 GMT

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How does one publish their relay list as a kind 10002? I’m not sure I understand here.
#Asknostr
#Plebchain

2026-10-08 16:01:25 GMT

I post on Primal, I see on Damus and on Yaki
I post on Damus, I see on Yaki but not Primal
I post on Yaki, I see on Damus but not Primal
Why? Where does the issue sit?
#AskNostr
#Plebchain

2026-10-08 15:48:16 GMT

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C O A S T W A Y
Glacier Bay, Alaska
Sept 2026
Sony A7V
#Plebchain #Photostr #Photo #Photography #Photochain #Artstr #ArtOnNostr #NostrArt #NostrArtstr #Bitcoin

2026-10-08 15:43:27 GMT

H I D D E N P E A K S
Skagway, Alaska
Sept 2026
Sony A7V
#Plebchain #Photostr #Photo #Photography #Photochain #Artstr #ArtOnNostr #NostrArt #NostrArtstr #Bitcoin
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2026-10-08 15:41:02 GMT

G O L D T R A I N
Skagway, Alaska
Sept 2026
Sony A7V
#Plebchain #Photostr #Photo #Photography #Photochain #Artstr #ArtOnNostr #NostrArt #NostrArtstr #Bitcoin
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2026-10-08 15:37:53 GMT

O L D T H I N G S
Glacier Bay, Alaska
Sept 2026
Sony A7V
#Plebchain #Photostr #Photo #Photography #Photochain #Artstr #ArtOnNostr #NostrArt #NostrArtstr #Bitcoin
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2026-10-08 15:36:39 GMT

//A cold and distant wilderness//
Glacier Bay, Alaska
Sept 2026
Sony A7V
#Plebchain #Photostr #Photo #Photography #Photochain #GM #Artstr #ArtOnNostr #NostrArt #NostrArtstr #Bitcoin
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2026-10-08 15:35:08 GMT

P E A K S
Glacier Bay, Alaska
Sept 2026
Sony A7V
#Plebchain #Photostr #Photo #Photography #Photochain #GM #Artstr #ArtOnNostr #NostrArt #NostrArtstr #Bitcoin
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2026-10-07 14:47:26 GMT

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When Money Dies is a good look at the Fiat fuckery driven interim between WWI and WWII.
WWI was a strange and incestuous European civil war, as all of the leaders all basically all of the major players on both sides of the war were related to the British Royal Family.
Anyways I wrote a review of When Money Dies a while back (inspired by Jimmy once posting that more people should read books and then write reviews / reports on them).
#naddr1qq…lftm

2026-10-02 15:51:33 GMT

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I totally agree. My only distinction is that I think value stay same is not a real option, so value go up must be the goal. At least once one understands this fact about the nature of money’s relationship to value.
Its tough though, for folks facing economic precarity - “value go down too slow to notice” (fiat) vs “value maybe go up but also maybe go down bigly all at once” (bitcoin) - fiat can be the immediately better choice for the immediate need.

2026-10-02 15:14:24 GMT

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I think about this often. What I’ve concluded is that “Number stay the same” is a fantasy that we are sold (which is then also used to justify currency debasement in pursuit of “stable” prices).
Instead I think we only have a simple choice then - do we want money that gains purchasing power over time or money that loses purchasing power over time?

2026-10-01 19:01:54 GMT

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This is where I’m very unsure, I feel like continuing spiking in the bond market will cause a Bitcoin dump - either because of the inverse relationship on the short term, or more structurally, because an unwind of equities (ie the “AI trade”) will cause liquidations of people and entities that already have significant parallel exposure to Bitcoin. Bitcoin will be with that HAVE to sell, especially once distortions, blow ups, and blowouts can no longer be contained to just M-F trading days…
What also puzzles me is how shitpigs like Coreweave can truck higher, or even just maintain, in the face of 10 year debt rates that are up 10% just on the 1 month and 25% on the year.

2026-10-01 18:40:21 GMT

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Nah bro, 10 year keeps climbing towards 6% (by November, I expect corp media will be talking about “prepare for 7%”) and AI stocks just keep trucking higher. Debt doesn’t matter. In fact, we should do Christmas all year round!
EVERYTHING IS FINE.

2026-10-01 18:07:33 GMT

O C T O B E R 1
#Plebchain
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2026-09-29 15:42:47 GMT

But AI is so good at writing stories for me broh!
#nevent1q…nn8p

2026-09-29 15:38:04 GMT

Excellent meme. Originally I saw this posted as “The Definitive Male Mood Chart” lol
#nevent1q…2ys0

2026-09-29 15:36:41 GMT

Me, stuck in the right side (viewer perspective) position.
#nevent1q…56zc

2026-09-09 02:52:29 GMT

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Does almost nothing for people making over $100,000 per year as well…

2026-09-06 16:28:06 GMT

Crimson Desert (with the newly announced DLC) and the yet to be released (but leaked) GTA6 appear to be in a heated competition on which game is going to be the closest thing we get to the metaverse 😂.
#Plebchain

2026-08-30 18:29:16 GMT

ORANGE COIN X
#Plebchain #NostrArt #NostrArtstr #Art
#NostrLove #ArtOnNostr #ProofOfWork
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2026-08-30 01:43:56 GMT

Hmm…I’m glad you seem to now understand that representation matters.
#nevent1q…0e88

2026-08-28 01:52:52 GMT

P R E V I E W
#Plebchain #NostrArt #NostrArtstr #Art
#NostrLove #ArtOnNostr #ProofOfWork #WIP
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2026-08-26 21:34:13 GMT

UNDERSTAND BITCOIN.
BECOME UNEMPLOYABLE.
ARE YOU READY, ANON?
#Plebchain

2026-08-26 12:43:04 GMT

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Where to buy this shirt?
#Plebchain

2026-08-24 00:58:58 GMT

GIRANDO…
#Artstr
#Plebchain
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2026-08-23 12:35:03 GMT

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@charliesurf I owe you an apology. A global blackout would certainly greatly damage Bitcoin. That said, in a global blackout, money, Bitcoin or otherwise, doesn’t help you much at all anyways.

2026-08-23 12:19:29 GMT

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I stand corrected. Learn things that correct misconceptions everyday.

2026-08-22 15:10:48 GMT

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I do believe the future of bitcoining is providing services to nocoiners in such a way that it keeps us alive…

2026-08-22 00:36:34 GMT

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It’s also stupid and wrong. Block difficult adjusts based on online hash rate every two weeks towards a target of a new block found every 10 minutes. If 80% of global hash rate when offline, blocks would get 80% easier to find for the remaining online harsh rate. Transactions would be continue being processed every 10 minutes…

2026-08-20 16:05:40 GMT

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The entirety of society is a just a series of concentric, overlapping, and increasingly esoteric cults descending down social scale.
Embrace it. DANCE THE DANCE.
#plebchain

2026-08-20 15:42:23 GMT

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There is an even more apex version…
#Plebchain
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2026-08-19 01:42:03 GMT

P R E V I E W
#Plebchain #NostrArt #NostrArtstr #Art
#NostrLove #ArtOnNostr #ProofOfWork #WIP
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2026-08-19 01:36:59 GMT

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Ummm, yes?

2026-08-10 19:54:04 GMT

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The zen-isn’t route is to always remember when YOU were the NPC…
#Plebchain

2026-08-10 15:38:39 GMT

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Cuz when you save in dollars for years and then years later some event happens where you need those savings, you find that those savings no longer sufficiently cover the cost of the need. Since fiat saving is a losing position, an ever expanding industry incentivizing gamblingmaxxing as arisen to fill the gap and give hopeless people hope that if this place enough of the right bets, they can be rich (in dollars) and therefore free, not realizing that even if they get those more nee dollars, their value will evaporate even faster than their old dollars…
#Plebchain

2026-08-09 01:36:36 GMT

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I totally get this. My way of thinking is that the mistake we made was all assuming that CC was the “most secure” and “the most impressive” - there was a tremendous marketing and social proof campaign behind this, which made be somewhat wary of the product. The nails in the coffins for me though were the poor UX and them moving away from open source. I point these things out not to scold anyone who used CC but to acknowledge that they were always there.
My feeling is that any person with sufficient bitcoin in self custody should 1) use a passphrase and 2) strongly consider spreading their stack across keys generated by at least two different devices.
To me this the akin to the logic of dice rolling ie “people will store their life saving in Bitcoin but don’t was to spending 30 minutes rolling dice…” similarly “people will store their life saving in Bitcoin but down want to spend a few hundred dollars (where a few hundred dollars is ultimately trivial to the person / size of the stack) to have key exposure across several devices.” So my view is that again, folks with stacks that are material to them should strongly consider doing one or both of these things. Additionally, get a stamping kit, back up keys on metal.
The ETF’s 20 layers of security can become 20 layers of gatekeeping, obfuscation, and or litigation in any circumstance where they have overwhelming incentive to separate you from you Bitcoin or other brokerage assets.
That said, I believe bitcoin is choose your own adventure. Not perfect solutions, only trade offs. You can do all of these things. Self custody with keys generated with dice and/or across multiple devices + Bitcoin in Multisig + Bitcoin sitting on Brokerage/Exchange + ETF Bitcoin + MSTR/STRC. No one can judge you this and it’s ultimately none of their business.
Finally, in terms of options for self custody. I believe Foundation, Blockstream, and Bitkey are all high quality devices. They are also open source products - and while open source doesn’t guarantee that there are no issues, it raises the likelihood that any issues will be found out in the open and socialized rapidly across the Bitcoin human network (rather than hidden and denied by the company or logged in a zero-day database for “later use”).

2026-08-08 23:48:16 GMT

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I understand the impulse to reposture to exchanges / ETFs on the expectation of “better” security but if the assumption is that all devices are secretly compromised then centralized holders of BTC don’t actually offer any better security just a much larger honeypot to hit.

2026-08-08 14:25:16 GMT

Explains a lot actually…
#Plebchain
#nevent1q…sat8

2026-08-06 15:07:04 GMT

#Plebchain
#nevent1q…2s86

2026-08-06 00:12:07 GMT

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Which is…?

2026-08-05 12:37:46 GMT

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I like it! You involved with this project / product? I like that it doesn’t overly scream “Bitcoin” and would probably just look like a geometric patterned lamp to many.

2026-08-05 00:01:20 GMT

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Glad you were able to avoid being impacted by the cold card exploit.
Ledger has in their firmware, “opt in”functionality for remote key extraction. I do expect that this will be catastrophically exploited at some point in the future.
Ledger is also closed source - similarly ColdCard’s shift away from and subsequent hostility to open source contributed to this exploit going unfixed for years.
Without giving an recommendations, here are a few open source Bitcoin only projects that you may want to consider in your future set up:
Sparrow Wallet (sparrowwallet dot com - note, Sparrow does not have any official apps on App or Google App stores, any apps claiming to be Sparrow are scam wallets to steal keys)
Blockstream Jade Plus
Foundation Passport Plus
Bitkey by Block
SeedSigner (though it requires more technical acumen than the others)

2026-08-04 14:14:56 GMT

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That this the only serious wallet exploit in the 17 years Bitcoin has been going and that AI-enabled pentesting of open source Bitcoin code has certainly been going on in the wild for several years now with only this to show for it, signifies just how well the open source technological and social experiment of Bitcoin is going.
These events are painful but many are drawing exactly the wrong conclusions.

2026-08-04 13:33:09 GMT

Likely not. No one cares enough about it to do this, this is just something that sounds intriguing and makes us feel important. Also, blast radius is waaaaaaay too small if so.
#nevent1q…ry9v

2026-08-03 20:00:23 GMT

How do I get Damus to default open WoS when I’m trying to send a zap? It keeps grabbing other apps that I don’t use for LN zaps on Nostr
@npub18m7…q955 @npub1xts…kk5s #AskNostr?

2026-08-03 17:14:06 GMT

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Why? What does this impact?

2026-08-02 15:17:41 GMT

Amazing that so many stories of past and present absolutely absurd UX failures / lapses in the ColdCard space are now bubbling to the surface.
Use open source tools.
Don’t use tools with horrific, anti-human UX design.
Complexity and friction are not the same thing as security…
#Plebchain

2026-08-02 13:59:34 GMT

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Foundation
Jade
Bitkey
All open source. All with UX that 1000x better and more human-centric than ColdCard…
#Plebchain

2026-08-01 23:01:11 GMT

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Dice Rolling
Seedsigner
Foundation
Jade
Bitkey

2026-08-01 17:48:47 GMT

Excellent. ColdCard failure is spurring every AI-powered autist to bug-out test even available line of open source Bitcoin related code. Additional edge case bugs / vulnerabilities being found.
THIS IS NOT A BEAR SIGNAL. THIS IS THE OPEN SOURCE TECHNICAL AND SOCIAL PROCESS WORKING JUST AS FUCKING INTENDED. THIS IS INCREDIBLY BULLISH FOR ALL OF US.
Also, this is perhaps the BEST argument I’ve seen for our present AI mania having any kind of legs. This is perhaps the first application of AI that appears to be truly value accretive at scale.
Thank you for your attention on this matter.
#Plebchain
@npub1zgx…x9uk

2026-08-01 12:16:33 GMT

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Your argument here is weird and non-sensical.
A wallet being “non bitcoin-only” does not protect you from there being some critical, undiscovered basic flaw.
A wallet being closed source (rather than open source) does not protect you from there being some critical, undiscovered basic flaw.
I’ll let it rest, but at some point in the future hopefully this exchange may spur you to question whether you might be “over-correcting” or fully “non-correcting” in the entirely wrong direction

2026-08-01 12:11:05 GMT

While all the companies and paid influencers are shilling their specific HWW products right now, this is a reminder to remember your PACE planning.
PRIMARY
ALTERNATE
CONTINGENCY
EMERGENCY
The whole purpose of PACE is to proactively acknowledge that under catastrophic enough conditions, one or even MOST of your favored paths may fail or become inaccessible. PACE does NOT shield you from impact, but it increases the likelihood that catastrophic conditions will not expose you to catastrophic and total loss. You survive, and come less intact than a lucky few perhaps, but far more intact than the vast majority of others.
Bitcoin is choose your own adventure and you can just do things. You can use multiple brokerages, have multiple ways of acquiring bitcoin, use multiple devices for key generation, and hold bitcoin in multiple ways across self custody, brokerages, ETFs, etc. No can stop you and you don’t have to care what other people think or give into their stupid internet purity tests.
Thank you for your attention on this matter.
#Plebchain

2026-08-01 11:54:57 GMT

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Nah, we probably still need a big exchange failure…

2026-08-01 11:46:18 GMT

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I am taking this seriously. Think beyond ColdCard. Defense has to block 100% of the time, Offense only has to score once.
PACE (Primary, Alternate, Contingency, Emergency) planning my guy - the would purpose of PACE planning is the recognition that under catastrophic enough conditions, one or even MOST of your favored routes will fail or become inaccessible but you still survival and come our the other side far more intact than others.
Not apply this to your Bitcoin setup. Focus on simplicity (complexity is not security either) and failover redundancy. You may still encounter loss events but they won’t be total loss events.

2026-08-01 11:26:31 GMT

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Nah, we are super early - maybe we just don’t feel early. 17 years is no time at all and technology keeps changing. That AI uncovered this vulnerability suggests that it was discovered as soon as it would have been.
Interested parties have surely be running red team pressure testing across ALL open source Bitcoin details since Bitcoin’/ inception and this - a single device vulnerability (which has been socialized and reacted to extremely quickly) is all they have to show for it.
We are early. We are doing well. We will win. But not everyone will make it to the finish line - it has always been that way and it will always be that way. This is a feature, not a bug.

2026-08-01 11:19:30 GMT

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Exactly. This is the thing, somewhere along the way a lot of us seem to have forgetten that Bitcoin is truly choose your own adventure and that “you can just do things.”
You can have as many sets of keys as you want, generated by as many different devices as you like.
You can use passphrases. You can use multisig - with the help of companies or all on your own.
You can hold Bitcoin in self custody, and on the exchange, and in an ETF all at the same time.
You can do all of these things at the same time and no one can stop you and you don’t have to care what over people think or give into their fake ass internet purity tests.

2026-08-01 11:11:49 GMT

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My understand is that the details that resulted in this failure where sitting out in the open for years.
However to taking this to jump to “open source doesn’t work / has failed” is a strange and hasty logical mistake to make.
What we are seeing with the ColdCard exploit like IS minimal damage. That it tools someone using AI to find this vulnerability likely means it was found as fast as it would have been.
Further in closed source context, the company has an overwhelming incentive to lie and deflect and hide the issue on failures like this because it’s better for the reputation, and therefore revenue that way.
Also, there are elements of this failure that are at “patchable,” particularly for keys that have already been generated.
Regardless, bitcoin is choose your own adventure. If you feel more comfortable using a Ledger wallet that has to split security budget across 10000 coins (all of which have no value except bitcoin) and ship with closed source embedded remote key extraction software (don’t worry, it’s opt in only!), then I’m happy that this solution is there for you.

2026-08-01 10:59:54 GMT

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You can’t. You 100% even doe sure of anything. Luckily, you already have the blessing on being in Bitcoin in the point the timeline where we have:
The allows available fallback of manual key generation with dice (but very few do this, and there is probably a reason for that…).
Multiple reputable open source, Bitcoin only wallets (Seedsigner, Foundation, Jade, Bitkey) for alternative key generation.
Passphrases and readily available multisig solutions.
Reputable Bitcoin only brokerages (River, Cash App, Strike) should you choose to leave some amount of Bitcoin there.
Bitcoin ETFs (even if ETF bitcoin is fake Bitcoin).
Shitcoin exchanges, that while disreputable, still have strong enough edge incentives to generally allow users to freely access their Bitcoin on the exchange.

2026-08-01 10:53:55 GMT

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You do realize that Ledger has “opt in” software within their firmware that allows for remote key extraction which is a crazy insane backdoor exploit waiting to happen. Concluding that “open source”and “Bitcoin-only” are the problems here is completely insane. I think you may be doing this on purpose at this point.

2026-08-01 01:44:17 GMT

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We are very early.
In many cases a pioneer’s blessing is arrows in the back and the grand opportunity to die in the wilderness so the way is set for others when the time comes.
It is the nature of what we are doing, and it is all too easy to forget…

2026-08-01 01:30:00 GMT

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Bitcoin space is full of too many products built for Butlerian Jihad types who confuse anti-human UX and absurdist friction with “security”…

2026-08-01 01:28:23 GMT

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Bitcoin influencers are human - therefore fallible, corruptible, and intirely capable of being scammers. This does not, however, make Bitcoin only products a scam.

2026-08-01 01:26:04 GMT

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I wouldn’t give up on open source projects and bitcoin only projects.
Things can hide out in the open for considerable amount of time but the open source nature of Bitcoin is what has made the reaction to all this so swift and forceful within the community.
Also Bitcoin only projects are only driving security budget to Bitcoin security. Nothing guarantees that this will catch every single issue but it’s better than splitting security budget across Bitcoin and 10000 “coins” that have no value.
And while it’s surely meaningless cold comfort to those affected - that the blast radius of this was so small, the reaction so swift and public, that there are numerous valuable alternative to quickly pivot to, and that (to my knowledge anyways) this is the first major device level failure up to now despite all the value being stored in Bitcoin - is a testament to anti fragility at scale that the Bitcoin open source project as achieved.
Quick alternative HWWs
Seedsigner (stateless, no secure element, hard airgapped)
Foundation (secure element - Passport Pro Quantum-Link airgapped, Original Passport hard/physically airgapped)
Jade (virtual secure element - blind oracle on Blockstream servers…, not airgapped but “can be used airgapped”)
Bitkey (secure element, but native technical / social multisig design, not airgapped)
Also all the above projects are open source. Even if you roll your own keys with dice, you will need to trust the software inside the HWW for checksum computation.

2026-08-01 01:15:57 GMT

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Modulo keys are beautiful and I intend to have one at some point if for no other reason than as a Dune style artistic artifact. However, how does this series of points and flattened ridges translate to a human readable key. With 5? 6? 8? segment per layer, this feels like a truly astonishing potential error surface to have to navigate. But do help me understand better if I’m wrong. I don’t know what I don’t know.
#Plebchain #AskNostr

2026-08-01 00:51:43 GMT

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Seedsigner (stateless, no secure element, hard airgapped)
Foundation (secure element - Passport Pro Quantum-Link airgapped, Original Passport hard/physically airgapped)
Jade (virtual secure element - blind oracle on Blockstream servers…, not airgapped but “can be used airgapped”)
Bitkey (secure element, but native technical / social multisig design, not airgapped)
Also all the above projects are open source. Even if you roll your own keys you will need to trust the software inside the HWW for checksum computation.

2026-08-01 00:40:41 GMT

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Yeah, the way I look at, those of who would be in this conversation right now at all, we ARE Bitcoin - so things that happen to Bitcoin are felt by us very bigly. I’ve come to believe that outside of our bubble tho, no one cares and no one is paying attention to our debates or dramas, especially right now. And when we get into the late pioneer / early adopters phase, there will be plenty of solutions for those folks should they decide to take self-custody at all.
But for us now, well, a pioneer’s blessing is arrows in the back…we chart the path and die in the wilderness so that the way is set for others when the time comes.

2026-07-31 18:59:30 GMT

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I mean, all the “true bitcoiners” right now are running around talking about rolling your own keys with dice (you’re still going to need the HW device for checksum computation).
Foundation Passport, Blockstream Jade, Bitkey, SeedSigner are all open source alternatives whether you’re rolling your own keys or not.
Beyond that, passphrases, multisig, holding Bitcoin on keys generated by different wallet providers.

2026-07-31 18:53:22 GMT

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加油同志！

2026-07-31 18:50:33 GMT

In the end, my aversion to absurdist, anti-human UX on a physical device kept me from ever engaging with ColdCard.
This situation can certainly make one question all HWWs, but I do not think that is correct.
While assigning not blame or shame to those affected, we all take this as a reminder to match our security stack to what we are securing.
Also err toward FOSS tools and maybe don’t rely on a single HWW provider when significant holdings (this means something different to everyone tho) are in play.
#Plebchain

2026-07-31 18:34:40 GMT

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You are in attack mode and I think you are mad at someone else or mad at your idea of me. Not that is matters (because I reject internet purity tests), I absolutely have engaged with your content and content in general that is anti-empiralist supremacy, calls on genocide where it is, and advances freedom tech.
You seem to be conflating / confusing capitalism and greed. Or assuming that people doing evil things with money therefore makes money evil. These are sad fallacies and I believe you have the intelligence to know this.
Socialism and Communism have absolutely existed - here again Mao, Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot - and we can judge the tree by its fruits. It is disingenuous to hold up this same argument about capitalism (that it is bad because you can point it its negative effects) but then deny the same for socialism or communism.
No system is perfect and all systems will have negative effects - putting the negative effects of capitalism - of which there certainly are many - side by side with the same of socialism / communism, I would choose capitalism any day. Unless and until someone, perhaps the actively dissenting voices against capitalism, like yourself I suppose, can present a better alternative.
Anyways, no need to argue. I don’t have to to agree with you on everything, or really anything, to still appreciate your voice here on Nostr.

2026-07-31 18:17:46 GMT

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Yes and no, I think the honest truth is that bitcoin price has not crashed out over this because normies aren’t paying attention. The don’t give a fuck, Bitcoin is still dead to them (and will be until we hit $250K ish). On the other side of that, the people who are still in Bitcoin are simply not over panicking this time. This is way less damaging to Bitcoin than an exchange hack and has affected, a very small number of already tiny number of nerdy technical type who would even own a HWW today (though it is devastating for those affected and sakes confidence among those in the self custody space).
That said, the blast radius here is so small, is likely a testament to benefits of the wider FOSS environment in Bitcoin and competition between HWW producers. Further, that there have not been any other catastrophic device-level compromises given the value now stored in Bitcoin is additional testament to the hardness of the ecosystem.
Finally, many seem to confuse friction with security and convenience with compromise - I think we can all be more critical as to when these two heuristics actually are and are not true…

2026-07-31 17:18:39 GMT

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Nah, pump the breaks, I like your account and agree with a lot of your posts. My concern is that collectivism / communism - where the state has total control of money and resources - destroys price and cost signals (which is what fiat does also, because they are the same thing). This leads to grotesque misallocations of resources, suffering and repression at the hands of a totalitarian state, and overall regression of human flourishing.
I think the disconnect is that most see “capitalism” as a political system, where as I have more come to view capitalism, it is logically extended form, as the opposite of or antithetical to statism of most any kind, where as collectivism / communism required centralize and total state control.
Also, our biggest genociders throughout history have all come from the socialist camp - Mao, Stalin, and Hitler all - so not really sure how we square that circle. The deeper problem then is that those with legitimate discontent with capitalism are never able to propose a better alternative.

2026-07-31 16:24:40 GMT

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Ancap Butlerian Jihad Techo-Luddite types confused horrifying anti-human UX with security…

2026-07-31 16:22:02 GMT

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Not so much that capitalism is best, but rather than communism / collectivism is worse. Anyways, I’d argue that what we call “capitalism” in the west under the fiat regime is just a fairly soft form of communism, it’s has degraded slower that full on communist states, but it trends towards collapse nonetheless

2026-07-31 14:34:22 GMT

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How you doing man! Hope you’re unaffected by this CC stuff.
Sharing some recent work - thanks for your early support, it has really kicked me off on an amazing journey.
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2026-07-29 14:12:23 GMT

Very true and incredibly frustrating.
#nevent1q…ad7j

2026-07-28 15:07:19 GMT

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Pay it forward however you can. Keep doing what you do to make the world more beautiful for the future 🤙🏿🧡⚡️

2026-07-28 15:01:22 GMT

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Any idea, why the shutdown?

2026-07-28 12:42:59 GMT

A L L
G O L D
E V E R Y T H I N G
#Plebchain #NostrArt #NostrArtstr #Art
#NostrLove #ArtOnNostr
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2026-07-28 12:39:09 GMT

🧡 BLESSINGS 🧡
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2026-07-27 16:42:17 GMT

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I mean…Bitcoin is for the FIC too at the end of the day. And Saylor saying a thing doesn’t make it true. It is generally best to ignore named bitcoiners, for much of that they do is driven by ego and greed…
Such is life.

2026-07-27 16:21:08 GMT

A B U N D A N C E
FINISHED 959425
SOLD 959749
They move as fast as I can make them…
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#NostrLove #ArtOnNostr
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2026-07-26 00:47:02 GMT

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I mean, that kind proves my point tho…
“I’m so grateful for the opportunity to pay $400 per year so that this communications platform does not actively surpress my communications! I will be even more grateful to pay more when the price is increased!”

2026-07-25 22:18:52 GMT

When blue checks say this they usually mean “I really wish that a centralized gatekeeper - who is always aligned to my personal political sensibilities - would offer me permission to zap people payments and tips, while restricting people that I don’t like from doing the same…”
#nevent1q…re4d

2026-07-22 19:46:22 GMT

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😂😂😂

2026-07-22 16:47:41 GMT

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yuányīn - it means “cause; reason” - if the text output on the screen is coming from an LLM, then this is likely just a probabilistic outcome where the LLM decided to use the mandarin word for “reason” rather than the English one. I doubt “the chinks” care about your set up…

2026-07-22 00:09:48 GMT

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It is to laugh…

2026-07-20 17:44:30 GMT

QUIT 👏🏿
YOUR 👏🏿
JOB 👏🏿
#Plebchain
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2026-07-20 14:45:58 GMT

🫐🫐🫐
#Plebchain #NostrArt #NostrArtstr #Art
#NostrLove #ArtOnNostr
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