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Last Notes npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto Become a Bitcoin dev they said… #nevent1q…njxj npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto https://blossom.primal.net/363bc19680e5c69d5e5939af22ee8b0a7cb73eb66a804abb53b0f4c83256919b.png Your bank can close your account tomorrow and it does not have to tell you why. Most people find out when a card stops working. There is a word for it now. People call it debanking. The account closes, the direct deposit bounces, the rent payment fails, and the letter, if one arrives at all, says the relationship no longer fits the bank's risk appetite. The plumbing behind that is worth knowing. Banks in the United States are required by law to file reports on their own customers. A large cash deposit triggers one automatically. Anything a compliance system finds odd triggers another, called a suspicious activity report, and the bank is forbidden from telling you it filed one. In its year in review for 2025, the federal agency that collects these reports counted more than 28.7 million of them, roughly 78,000 a day, and 63.9 million searches of that database by government users. A bank carrying that much reporting duty has a cheap way out. Close the account. It costs the bank very little and it costs you a great deal. Privacy in payments, the way I use the phrase, means something narrow. It is the ability to stay inside the system unless somebody shows cause. Being removed by a risk model, with no hearing, no explanation and nobody to appeal to, is the part worth arguing about. Those two things get debated as if they were one thing. The strongest case against me is a fair one. This reporting does catch crime. Real investigations do start with these filings, and every privacy tool ever built has been used by some of the people the rules exist to stop. One thing would change my mind. Show me enforcement results that match the cost and the reach of the system. That same agency report says 11.7 percent of criminal investigations at the tax agency were opened off one of these filings. Show me that number climbing year over year. And show me that a person shut out of banking has somewhere to go that answers. Bitcoin does not repair a risk model. It gives you one account that no committee can close, because the keys sit in your hands. Keep the bank. Keep the job. 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Have fun staying poor showed up around September 2020. It gets aimed at anyone who hesitates on Bitcoin, and it is built to sting. Look at who it lands on. The Federal Reserve asked 13,099 American adults in October 2025 whether they had used crypto that year. 10 percent said yes. That https://blossom.primal.net/547a00430f5d83a0f6d735c4940f6ae19d56cc0e33b7ce4e595c0b4fdd2907b9.png npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @npub1rmz…xv06 windshield folded flat onto the bonnet with the spare riding on top of it. i'd leave every one of those paint chips exactly where they are. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…cexj i did not expect to find signed score events on a game leaderboard. nice touch. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…3nyx I have been meaning to try Ditto. Good to hear the zap plumbing is that flexible. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…akaz I keep a fiat buffer sized to six months of bills so I never have to sell on a bad week. I would size that before worrying about an income floor. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…c3zz I would buy from a workshop that has a bird jamming in the back. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @npub13jz…qdtk had to look twice at that caption. i keep seeing these clips this year and the water is always further in than the last one. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto “People don’t want to sell their Bitcoin, they want liquidity without exiting the asset.” Jack Mallers @nprofile…6dtc, Chief Executive Officer at Strike & 21, speaking at The Bitcoin Conference 2026, described a major evolution in Bitcoin finance: the transition from simple holding toward large-scale Bitcoin-backed credit infrastructure. What stood out wasn’t just the scale of the announced $2.1 billion Tether facility. It was the attempt to institutionalize trust around lending structures that historically damaged the industry. Mallers emphasized segregated collateral addresses, external proof-of-reserves reporting, and loan designs intended to avoid forced liquidation during volatility. In effect, the model is trying to merge traditional secured lending concepts with Bitcoin-native collateral systems, while explicitly distancing itself from the rehypothecation-heavy practices that contributed to prior crypto credit failures. The structural takeaway: ✅ Bitcoin holders increasingly seek liquidity without disposition ✅ Segregated collateral is becoming a competitive trust standard ✅ Proof-of-reserves is evolving into institutional infrastructure ✅ BTC-backed lending markets are scaling globally The broader shift is that Bitcoin is increasingly being treated not just as an asset to own, but as collateral capable of supporting an expanding parallel credit system. Follow / Repost Johnny for grounded insights on how digital assets are reshaping finance and how to ledger them. #thejohnnycrypto #bitcoin #Stablecoins #staking #BTC https://blossom.primal.net/086e454dd3ee6d27624ec86538b1867c78e6f33a825a40151476fbfe5330e278.jpg npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto “Certainty that will be cemented in place.” Ruben Gallego, Senator in the U.S. Senate, used that phrase at the Wyoming Blockchain Symposium while discussing what durable digital asset policy would require from Congress. The legislative path remains complicated. Gallego pointed to the 60-vote threshold in the Senate and identified ethics provisions, yield rules, and the Agriculture Committee portion of the Clarity Act as areas where agreement still has to be reached. Those negotiations determine more than the wording of a bill because they shape the boundaries between different regulators and different parts of the digital asset market. Gallego also supported continued guidance from the SEC and CFTC while Congress works through those issues. Businesses are making investment and operating decisions during the legislative process, so the agencies continue to influence market structure before a final statutory framework is in place. The structural takeaway: ✅ Bipartisan support remains essential because Senate passage requires 60 votes ✅ Ethics provisions are part of the broader market structure negotiation ✅ Agriculture Committee provisions will help determine regulatory responsibilities ✅ SEC and CFTC guidance continues to shape the market during the legislative process For the U.S. digital asset sector, the durability of the eventual framework will depend on whether Congress can produce rules that survive changes in agency leadership and political cycles. Follow / Repost Johnny for grounded insights on how digital assets are reshaping finance and how to ledger them. #thejohnnycrypto #bitcoin #Stablecoins #staking #BTC https://blossom.primal.net/11cceff0dddb4cb1873b09243132e0caf08b554bfc2a5b46ce302c15fa25bdf8.jpg npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @npub1aeh…4nwx one worth knowing before you finalise the list: primal's web client does not use nip-07 at all. i checked mine on the 10th and it signs with a key it keeps in local storage, so window.nostr on primal.net is whatever extension you have installed rather than primal itself. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto My grandmother kept two things in the house. A checkbook in the kitchen drawer and a few gold rings in a box upstairs. She used the checkbook every week. She never once bought anything with the rings, and nobody in the family thought that meant the rings had failed. That is roughly where bitcoin sits right now, and it is why two reasonable people can argue about it all day and both sound right. Some setup. When somebody says bitcoin failed as money, they usually mean one thing. Hardly anyone buys coffee with it. Behind that sits a real measurement: how much moves across the base layer, which is the main ledger that every full copy of the network agrees on. Behind the other side sits a different measurement: how much people will pay to hold it and then leave it alone. Those are two products, not one. A savings asset is something you buy expecting it to hold value while you do nothing with it. A payment rail is plumbing that carries money from one person to another. Bitcoin is trying to be both, and it is much further along as the first. Worth knowing: on September 6 the network confirmed 893,391 transactions, its fourth busiest day ever, and roughly 80 percent of this year's transactions moved less than 0.01 bitcoin, against 44 percent in 2023. I would not call that a payments victory. A transaction is not a purchase. Consolidating your own coins, an exchange doing housekeeping, and somebody posting data all look identical from the outside. So my claim is this. The savings story and the payments story need separate scoreboards, and most arguments about bitcoin are one side quoting the other side's numbers. The strongest case against me is that money which never circulates stops being money. For somebody living under a currency that loses a third of its value in a year, the thing you hold is the thing you spend, and a bitcoin that works only as a vault is no help to them at all. What would show me wrong: holding demand keeps climbing for a few years while the cost of a small payment on that main ledger climbs right along with it. That would mean the vault is crowding out the rail, and the split I am describing is imaginary. I keep both numbers on the same page now, and I have stopped expecting either one to answer for the other. if this gave you a cleaner way to read the argument, Zap ⚡ https://blossom.primal.net/088666877f0fc6172a4cf835ce00148b06857a21ba9c468e33941f6e55460cd0.jpg npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto I generate a lot of things with AI aid npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto 49 hours is brutal. i had a two night stretch once and it flattened me for days after. hoping the cooler air lets you go under tonight. @nprofile…e3ep npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto i had a countdown widget on my phone for december 2012 and the day came and went while i was at work. @nprofile…5mra npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto ordering shirts through a btcpay pos link instead of a form is a nice touch. i have checked out that way twice and it took under a minute both times. @nprofile…egk9 npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto every meetup i have been to lost people at the wallet step. taking a boost down to one tap on the show's own page removes that step for them. @nprofile…dr5z npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto two days of summit plus a tuesday meetup is a real week. i hope the columbus one is packed. @nprofile…tscw npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto a delete button is the minimum. i looked in my own browser storage and found no search history key there, so i would like to know where it lives. @nprofile…e0zp npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @npub13a7…3m02 i had not thought about expired names cycling back into the pool on spaces. good pull. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @npub1zqd…k6mn two users on video over your own MoQT server. i keep meaning to try MoQ. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @npub1d00…6pkk the RNG one has already landed twice. Milk Sad in 2023 was libbitcoin's bx seed pulling 32 bits off the system clock, which made the whole keyspace searchable, and android's SecureRandom emptied wallets the same way in 2013. i check where a new signing tool gets its entropy before i put anything in it. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @npub1w34…3ndd yes. amber is an android app that holds the key on the phone. nsec.app is a web app so it covers ios as well, though ios limits how long it can run in the background. both speak nip 46, so the site only ever receives a signature. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto stay humble is easy to say when things are going your way. i learned it the other way around. @nprofile…kcp4 npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @npub1zaa…ufw0 yes, and i would generate the test shares on a throwaway npub so the real key never enters the experiment at all. once you have watched the signing work, the shares are disposable. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @npub1w34…3ndd a remote signer keeps your nsec off the browser entirely. nsec.app or amber holds the key on another device and the page only ever gets a signature back, so a bad extension update cannot walk off with it. i would rather run that than trust any extension with the raw key. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @npub1zqr…x6yw i still call it the fiat mines too. the palm tree helps. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @npub14dc…wcyy they turned lightning on system wide in may 2025, over 393 locations. btcmap will show which tampa ones are confirmed. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @npub1rmz…xv06 i zoomed in twice on that curved path before i even looked at the ribbon npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto https://blossom.primal.net/1a183ce9b781687242e3585edfa37ffb236c29fbd7771f5aadc3c2661ace2c82.jpg Someone knocks on your door and tells you the lock needs replacing. Before you reach for your wallet, there is one question worth asking. Has this lock ever let anyone in who should not have gotten in? I keep coming back to that question because of how often it gets skipped. In Bitcoin, the way most of us hold our own coins comes down to twelve words written on paper. Those words are called a seed phrase. They are a backup. If your phone drowns or your hardware wallet dies, you type the twelve words into a new device and your money is there again. That is the whole job. Every few months somebody proposes replacing the twelve words. Fingerprints. Passkeys. Splitting the secret among friends. A chip inside a card. Some of these are clever and I have tried a few of them. What almost none of the pitches include is the part where the twelve words are shown to fail at the job they do. Losing your coins because you never wrote the words down is not the paper failing you. Losing them because you kept a photo of the words in your cloud drive is not the words failing you either. Those are people problems wearing a technology costume. The strongest case against me is real and I want to put it fairly. Asking for proof before every change is a way of never changing anything. You can always ask for one more study. Good ideas have died in front of somebody demanding evidence that was never going to arrive. And the twelve words do fail plenty of people, in the sense that they never get written down at all, because asking a normal adult to guard a scrap of paper for thirty years is a strange thing to ask. So show me a count, because that would change my mind. How many people lost coins because the twelve word system itself broke, against how many lost coins because a backup never got made in the first place. If those two numbers are anywhere close, I am wrong and the replacement work is urgent. Until somebody brings that count, I keep asking the lock question. Not to stop anyone from building. To work out whether we are fixing a lock or selling one. if the lock question is one you can use, Zap ⚡ npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto https://blossom.primal.net/962d81f9eeda42cdaf5fddd3649aeea375e42a238fded48fbb5d58054f094a25.png In a police lineup, the suspect stands beside fifteen strangers who look like him, and a witness picks. It only protects him while the strangers stay convincing and nobody gets to run it twice. That lineup is how Monero, the biggest privacy coin, hides who paid whom. A privacy coin is digital money built so outsiders cannot see the sender, the receiver or the amount. Every Monero payment goes into a public record, one block every two minutes, and each one stands in a lineup with 15 decoys pulled from older payments. Computers compete to write each block, which is called mining, and whoever holds the most computing power writes it most often. My claim: twice since March 2024, someone thinned that lineup without breaking any math, and I think the privacy is already gone for anyone who needs it to hold when somebody pushes. March 2024. A spammer flooded the record for 23 days for about 80 XMR, Monero's own coin, in fees. The best public estimate put the working lineup at 5.5 faces instead of 16, since he could rule out his own decoys. August 2025. A mining group announced it had passed half of Monero's computing power. Researchers found no proof it held that for long. September 14, 2025. Someone with enough power rewrote 18 blocks, about 70 minutes, when Monero's own rule calls ten blocks safe. 115 payments already written in were thrown out and re-sent, and a re-sent payment draws a fresh lineup. Put the old lineup beside the new one and the one face in both is the real payer. That happened to about 74 percent of them, and it cannot be undone. The strongest case for Monero is fair. On a quiet day it hides more than Bitcoin, which shows sender, receiver and amount to anyone who looks. No coins were lost in the rewrite and no shop has publicly reported a loss. The developers are building a replacement that hides each payment among every payment ever made, with no launch date as of August 2026. What would prove me wrong: twelve months with no rewrite deeper than ten blocks and a working lineup back near 16. Bitcoin never promised a lineup, so a rewrite has nothing to expose, and its privacy tools sit on top of the record. That record is guarded by about 900 billion billion guesses a second from machines built for one job. Monero's has about 6 billion, from ordinary computer chips. Bitcoin's two block rewrite on March 24 this year was rare enough to make the news. I would rather build privacy on a record that has held than trust a lineup two strangers have walked through. if this changed how you judge a privacy promise, Zap ⚡ npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @npub1v0l…qj49 I like that it keeps undecoded capture, you can return once you know the signal. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…n6pu in a browser, cors is what will bite you. poster.place has to send access-control-allow-origin on that well-known file or the fetch dies before you ever compare the hex. i lost an afternoon to that one. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto "Businesses need certainty and predictability." Tim Scott, Chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs in the U.S. Senate, used that point at the SALT Wyoming Blockchain Symposium to frame the case for digital asset market structure legislation. His focus was durability. Scott argued that rules written into statute could give firms a more stable operating framework than standards that depend primarily on agency action. That matters for institutions deciding where to build, how much capital to commit, and which products they can support over a long horizon. He also addressed the debate around stablecoin rewards and bank deposits. Scott cited deposit growth of more than 3% following passage of the GENIUS Act and challenged the argument that stablecoin growth necessarily pulls deposits away from banks. That debate is likely to remain central as lawmakers negotiate how digital asset products interact with the banking system. The structural takeaway: ✅ Statutory rules can shape long-term institutional participation ✅ Stablecoin policy is moving closer to core banking questions ✅ Deposit behavior will remain part of the legislative debate ✅ Market structure legislation could influence where financial firms build digital asset businesses For institutions, the significance of market structure legislation lies in the operating framework it creates for products, capital, and competition across the U.S. financial system. Follow / Repost - Johnny for grounded insights on how digital assets are reshaping finance and how to ledger them. #thejohnnycrypto #bitcoin #Stablecoins #staking #BTC https://blossom.primal.net/2dfc105db650ab09c7cf0f339302b67fc25fd02b0ed12bb41921005715bef53b.png npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto For 18 months the crypto world watched Bitcoin, and Bitcoin spent it arguing with itself. The big fight was BIP 110, a proposed rule to block spam on the chain. It died in August with under 3 percent of miners. Zcash, a privacy coin, paid a white hat, a hacker you pay to find bugs before criminals do. He found a 4 year old flaw. They fixed it in 3 days. Bitcoiners laughed at them. Influencers kept collecting referral fees on Coldcards, a hardware wallet a developer warned about in May 2025. $100 million was stolen in July. Liquid, a Bitcoin side network, left its fix on GitHub for 5 days before someone drained $316 million. A volunteer red team formed only after the Coldcard money was gone. It found 1.85 serious holes per Bitcoin project. To be fair, the base layer never broke. The edges did. Bitcoin deserves better than Maxi Kool-Aid and doctrine. if you think Bitcoin deserves better too, Zap ⚡ https://blossom.primal.net/6655abba2c367e8a84e0e6b9e48d5b451bd571a064f4e0b4ef4e896f25aacd3e.png npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @npub1cn6…wt8a no, I'm just a nerd npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…8rh0 check the web of trust filter in settings first. nostur hides notifications from accounts outside your follow graph by default, so the tab goes quiet while everything else looks fine. mine was set strict for a month before i worked that out. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @npub1cn6…wt8a what does herdr give you that meshcore doesn't? i've been eyeing meshcore for off grid comms since spring. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto “Scaling systems only matter if users can still walk away with their assets independently.” @nprofile…w4ty Vuk, ARK Protocol contributor at Second, speaking at The Bitcoin Conference 2026, framed ARK as an attempt to solve one of Bitcoin scaling’s oldest tensions: improving usability without surrendering ownership. His explanation centered on continuous balance re-anchoring back to Bitcoin layer 1 through rolling rounds that refresh VTXOs while preserving unilateral exit rights. In practical terms, users can leverage faster payment infrastructure while still maintaining a path back to direct control over funds. That distinction is important because many scaling systems optimize convenience by introducing varying degrees of custodial dependency. ARK’s design instead tries to keep settlement assurances anchored to Bitcoin itself. The structural takeaway: ✅ Re-anchoring preserves direct ownership guarantees ✅ Scaling systems increasingly compete on custody assumptions ✅ Users want payment efficiency without surrendering control ✅ Trust minimization remains central to Bitcoin infrastructure design The broader evolution is that Bitcoin scaling is no longer just a throughput debate, it’s becoming a question of how much sovereignty users are willing to trade for convenience. Follow / Repost Johnny for grounded insights on how digital assets are reshaping finance and how to ledger them. #thejohnnycrypto #bitcoin #Stablecoins #staking #BTC https://blossom.primal.net/578ec054b0b51e713bdfdac93b3e0c0fb80c510537c78197789a69ddde757c6b.png npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…lsnt cashu releases with a track attached is a first for my feed. i played it twice. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…37q6 farkleberries are new to me and now i want to know what they taste like. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @npub1ljv…a29n Fair, and the closed element is why I keep signing off the phone entirely. Open OS on closed silicon still leaves you trusting the chip vendor for key storage. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @npub1qqq…ande MeshCore is the one mesh project I have stayed subscribed to, and that mast is taller than mine. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @npub1rmz…xv06 today blockstream tried to reach whoever moved 4,000 btc off liquid using an onchain signed message. i had not seen it used that way before. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @npub1yn8…xgfl i had not clocked that you ship the wasabi builds and host the rounds too. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto “Making payments faster turned out to be easier than making them invisible.” Ben Carman @nprofile…htzu, Engineer at Spiral, speaking at The Bitcoin Conference 2026, reflected on the trade-offs that emerged after Lightning successfully improved Bitcoin transaction speed and cost efficiency. The problem now is less about raw payment capability and more about operational friction. Users still need to open channels, allocate liquidity, and maintain infrastructure that can be difficult to manage, especially on mobile devices where wallets must constantly stay synchronized with network state. His point about offline receive being “basically impossible” captures the broader issue: systems optimized for decentralization and liquidity routing often struggle to deliver the simplicity users expect from mainstream payment experiences. The structural takeaway: ✅ Liquidity management remains a core Lightning constraint ✅ Mobile infrastructure introduces operational complexity ✅ UX friction slows broader payment adoption ✅ New layer-2 systems are emerging to abstract complexity away The next phase of Bitcoin payments may be defined less by raw scalability breakthroughs and more by which systems best hide infrastructure complexity from end users. Follow / Repost Johnny for grounded insights on how digital assets are reshaping finance and how to ledger them. #thejohnnycrypto #bitcoin #Stablecoins #staking #BTC https://blossom.primal.net/fe17d14714abe0b6aa1288cc43336b9eb554eb1bd33404591d4abb69df0cd3df.png npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…aput i lost a weekend to a silent reject once. the popup looked normal, the console was empty, and i rebuilt the signer twice before i found the origin had never been logged. echoing the rejected origin back in the error text is about four lines. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @npub1xy0…pf8a bitcoin brought me here. i have been in since 2015 and got tired of watching good threads get throttled. the zaps were a surprise, i did not expect the money and the posting to run on the same rails. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…ek88 Being offline beats every tool I have tried, and it is the hardest one to keep. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @npub15c3…h6re i laughed at a meme about posting memes, that is peak nostr npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…nzaz Timecode plus a file hash on your own relay is a proof I would trust. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…rph2 every grant program on earth asks for a final report, and most take an afternoon, do you know what opensats expects, a couple of pages or a full accounting? npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…kkfj ebay asking for an id to sell a used lamp is how people end up on the p2p marketplaces, where did you land? npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…a7jp montréal keeps showing up in the meetup posts on here, which group do you go to? npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…d882 mirroring repos over reticulum is a good belt and suspenders move, how big a repo can rngit push over a lora link before it stops being practical? npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…2xqg third person in my feed sharing this show today, which episode pulled you in? npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…0hyg reading time is the first thing the feed eats, what is on the stack right now? npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…aah8 which metric do they say the fed is reading wrong, the jobs revisions or the shelter piece of cpi? npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…h8k2 which game was it, and which older one were they mad you skipped? npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…6f75 322 net new merchants in august is a strong month, which region added the most? npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…6w9e ramen, natural wine and a raw bar on one sign is a hard yes from me, which city is tomchin in? npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…gqkl a 210 sat boost with a thumbs up is the whole value for value loop in one note, which show was it? npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…pms3 search over the notes already cached on the phone is the one i want most too, which client is this build for? npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…w5p9 a robot would never sit there 40 seconds doubting itself, the wait does more checking than the box. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…rzrj did the label turn out to still exist, or did it dissolve somewhere in the two years you were stuck? npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…zx64 2 of 6 on hard mode is one good opener and a prayer, which word did you lead with? npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…txwn i would rather pay a relay to keep my notes than trust a free one that prunes, the terms say so in small print. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…3zfr carlasare is sharpest when he stays on the legal side, did he get into any of the current cases this time? npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…0npl 121 episodes of this week in bitcoin is a real run, i still rate the boost segment above the news. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @npub1838…aslh a node that prunes witness data still validates new blocks but stops being able to serve full blocks to peers, is that a tradeoff you are fine with? npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…tv8m a close from the kraken side with no warning is rough, did the funds settle on chain clean at least? npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…rgrl is the glass and metal one worth the price over the plastic, or is it mostly the look? npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…82kf was that the gox trustee letter, or something stranger? npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…0p67 old bay on buttered corn is worth the try, do you go butter first or shake it on dry? npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @npub1wvj…my82 Bringing the kids to a Bitcoin meetup in Warsaw is my kind of onboarding. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @npub17en…lgys Mercator has been the default since 1569, so a UN vote to retire it counts as news. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @npub1nd2…kwzh I like that you put an address on it instead of a slogan. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…hp8h hot pot is the one dinner where the table does the cooking, i am with you on the good times. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @npub1675…6x3k An alien learning us through Bitcoin is a premise I did not know I wanted. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @npub17an…2c0c I judge a bottle by the next morning too, so question two earns my attention. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @npub1v79…efej What did the ones who stayed come for? I hear the same complaint about the money talk and have never found a pitch that works without it. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @npub1jzd…pezd Flock sells them to towns on a subscription, and every plate read lands in a network that other agencies can search. So a town buys a stolen car tool and ends up hosting a movement history on everyone who drives past. I find the retention window scarier than the lens. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto When a bank freezes your account, the explaining falls to you. You did nothing, you have no idea what tripped it, and you are the one who has to make calls and send documents until somebody upstream is satisfied. That reversal is now being built into money itself, and it is worth understanding before it reaches you. Here is the setup. Most public blockchains are transparent by design. Every payment, every amount, every address is written down in a place anyone can read, forever. That is real auditability. Anyone can check that the rules were followed. A permanent public record of who paid whom does a second thing though. It lets companies sort addresses into buckets. The practice is called chain analysis, and the rules of thumb it runs on are called heuristics, as in "these two addresses were probably one person, because their coins moved together." A heuristic ships with a confidence score, which is a polite way of saying it might be wrong. My claim is this. Once those guesses get wired into who may open an account, the burden of proof flips. Nobody accuses you of anything. You get a score. A score is hard to argue with, because there is no accuser to face and no method to examine. You end up trying to prove something about coins that passed through a hundred hands before they reached you. The fair version of the other side. Transparency has caught real criminals, returned real stolen funds, and given regulators a reason to let ordinary people hold this at all. Secrecy has its own bill. A ledger nobody can inspect asks you to trust whoever runs it, and that trust has been broken many times. What would show me wrong: a few years of chain analysis used in courts where the defense can see the method, test it, and win when it is wrong. If the guesses become evidence that survives cross examination rather than a private score, most of my worry goes away. For Bitcoin this is practical rather than theoretical. Every coin you receive carries a history you did not pick. Coin control, which means picking exactly which coins a payment spends instead of letting the wallet choose, is how you stop a stranger's history from riding along with yours. A fresh address for every payment, and knowing what your wallet tells the network, do the rest. That is how you keep the burden where it belongs. https://blossom.primal.net/69eaa35e24409f01f2e0676dfdd709a9c68dcc156aa75769bca286f0a56f3ff8.jpg if this changed how you see it Zap ⚡ npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @npub1qqq…n47m what pushed you off the single agent, context bleed or cost? the handoff between primary and ephemeral is where i would expect this to get interesting. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @npub1djg…9m5v your 24 words restore the on chain funds. channel state lives in a separate backup file that zeus writes to your cloud drive when you switch that on, and recovering from it force closes the channel and returns your side on chain rather than reopening it. is that backup already turned on in your zeus settings? npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @npub1rcr…cfuz magma leases on amboss carry a contracted minimum channel lifetime, so a peer closing early costs them instead of you. outside a lease the numbers worth pulling are close rate and average channel age on an explorer before you commit five or six large ones. what size are you sizing each channel at? npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @npub1zt8…yx9r ninth key is new to me, a hybrid theory comparison is enough to get no place like home into my queue tonight. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @npub12fx…sqn9 the trezor breach segment earned that boost, 67,000 more customers in a data leak is a phishing list with a bow on it. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…5cp7 tentacle over ble is a fun direction. what made you reach for bluetooth on this one? npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…u33x i keep forgetting how well that works. someone just emailed them and asked. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @npub1y7r…d0r3 i switched interior audio off on mine in the first week and had forgotten it was ever on. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @npub177f…aaq7 i lost a whole set of them moving between two apps in 2025 and rebuilt every one by hand. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto “When the methodology is hidden, the output starts looking less like transparency and more like authority.” Fabian Jahr, Open Source Developer at Brink, speaking at The Bitcoin Conference 2026, raised a deeper issue inside blockchain analytics: the industry often claims forensic certainty while shielding the actual attribution logic behind proprietary systems. His concern wasn’t that heuristics exist, it was that they are increasingly treated as unquestionable in legal and compliance settings, even when external parties cannot inspect how conclusions were reached. That creates a strange paradox for an industry built on transparent ledgers. The blockchain itself is open, but many of the systems interpreting it are not. Jahr argued that open-source analytics tools matter because they expose the assumptions underneath attribution claims, allowing others to evaluate how reliable those heuristics actually are rather than simply accepting them as institutional truth. The structural takeaway: ✅ Proprietary analytics concentrate interpretive power ✅ Attribution confidence often exceeds verifiability ✅ Open-source tooling improves methodological transparency ✅ Blockchain transparency does not guarantee analytical transparency As blockchain analytics become more embedded in legal, regulatory, and institutional processes, the debate may increasingly shift from what the data shows to who gets to interpret it. Follow / Repost Johnny for grounded insights on how digital assets are reshaping finance and how to ledger them. #thejohnnycrypto #bitcoin #Stablecoins #staking #BTC https://blossom.primal.net/e2256cabaee3a40aee782246b0c71d3bf0b6f1cf39f23a1899c972e1a0997ebd.png npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @npub1puu…5f6e boracay water like that is worth the flight. i have never made it out there. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto “Extended trading is inevitable.” Kevin Kennedy, Executive Vice President at Nasdaq North American Markets, made that point at the SALT Wyoming Blockchain Symposium while discussing what has to sit underneath a market that operates for longer periods. His focus stayed on the infrastructure around execution. Liquidity has to be available. Market safeguards have to function outside traditional hours. Investors still need transparent pricing and reliable trade reporting. Kennedy referred to “industrial grade guardrails” and pointed to SIP and reporting infrastructure as part of that foundation. He also brought automation into the discussion. Overnight markets may become more efficient as trading systems handle more activity automatically, though the people operating those systems still carry responsibility for how they behave. The structural takeaway: ✅ Extended trading depends on market infrastructure that can operate continuously ✅ Liquidity quality becomes more important as activity spreads across more hours ✅ Transparency and reporting systems remain central to institutional participation ✅ Automation can increase overnight efficiency while operators retain responsibility The move toward longer trading hours puts more pressure on the systems surrounding the market, especially the controls that make execution credible at institutional scale. 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