Last Notes
📰 **In this week's issue:**
🗞️ **BREAKING**
What Happened This Week In The Nostr World
The W3C Nostr Community Group just published did:nostr v0.1.0 as an official draft report—with over 30 implementations already in the wild. But here’s what nobody’s telling you: while everyone’s watching centralized platforms stumble, the protocol quietly dropped four major NIP updates in five days, including an end-to-end encryption scheme that could change everything. Keep reading—because the window to understand what’s actually happening is closing faster than you think.
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✍️ Author: NM team
🔗 https://nostrmag.com/article/w33nostr01-1-2026
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📰 Bitcoin ETFs See Largest Outflow In Six Weeks At $389 Million
🗓️ Aug 17 2026 07:23 UTC - Ananya Iyer
Bitcoin ETFs recorded $389.7 million in outflows for the week ending Aug 14, 2026. Learn about the factors behind the shift in institutional sentiment.
➤ Bitcoin ETFs experienced their largest weekly outflows in six weeks, totaling $389.7 million, indicating a shift in institutional sentiment.
➤ Factors contributing to the outflows include stagnant Bitcoin prices near $63,000, regulatory delays for the Clarity Act, and concerns over digital security vulnerabilities.
➤ The market is now awaiting the September regulatory vote and further price action to gauge future trends in Bitcoin ETF flows.
#bitcoinetfs #outflows #institutionalsentiment #regulatorydelays #macroeconomicuncertainty #digitalsecurity #clarityact #coldcardwallets #pricestagnation
🔗 Read more at: https://rwatimes.io/articles/whalesbook-bitcoin-et-fs-see-largest-outflow-in-six-weeks-at-389-million-3923082479
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哈哈哈😂，欧美国家发钱发现金给普通公民来提振经济搞活经济循环。中国CCP 发文件给牛马。让牛马贷款促内需。哈哈哈😂区别太大了。
Doesn’t look great on mobile tbh, but my standards are likely very high 😂
I think it could look 10x better with some effort
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我这一辈子只爱属龙的天蝎座的男人。很神奇的事情。反正就是和属龙的天蝎座男人有感觉和说不清楚的那种感觉。这样的感觉就是爱的感觉。
Everyone literally thinks of me as a Goth gf guy on here when it’s ironic posting, & makes up a small percent of my posts 😂😭 .
When is Monero getting its own Sexy E-Girl Bimbo influencers?
@nprofile…0qwt Boris on an e-Ink reader? 👀
We went out tonight to Princess Aurora's favorite place - Cider from Mars 🥰 big patio, dog friendly place with lots of treats and attention 🥰
She met her version of a bot 🤣 Princess Aurora DOES NOT approve of fake dogs
😠🐕🤣
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I’m just being honest, everyone buys Bitcoin like it’s this magical thing that will somehow explode into Millions/Billions of dollars when realistically it tops out at around $300,000 per coin, and that’s being generous.
I think the fiat system as bad as it is, will always be around to some extent, if not by governments then by companies.
Walmart will offer Walmart coin, Amazon will offer Amazon coin, etc.
While it’s preferable over the current system.
I don’t think the vast majority of people will accept crypto, at least not without third party interfaces to handle it for them.
Even if Banks as entities, the concept of an entity managing people’s money on their behalf will never disappear.
Banks exist for a reason, Governments exist for a reason, it’s because people decided we needed them.
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Misty moonlight. Bay at night.
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📰 RWA Market Reaches $44.7B: Ethereum Dominates Tokenized Asset Landscape
🗓️ Aug 17 2026 00:55 UTC
BitcoinWorld RWA Market Reaches $44.7B: Ethereum Dominates Tokenized Asset Landscape The tokenized real-world asset (RWA) market has grown to $44.7 billion over the past three years, cementing its position as a significant on-chain asset class, according to a recent analysis by T...
➤ The tokenized real-world asset (RWA) market has reached $44.7 billion, showing significant growth over the past three years.
➤ Ethereum leads the market with $23.3 billion in tokenized assets, attributed to its established infrastructure and developer ecosystem, though other networks like BNB Chain, zkSync, and Solana also hold notable shares.
➤ Growth drivers include the tokenization of government securities, private credit, and real estate, offering benefits like fractional ownership and 24/7 trading, but regulatory uncertainty and evolving market infrastructure remain key challenges.
#rwamarket #tokenizedassets #ethereum #tokenterminal #blackrockbuidlfund #bnbchain #zksync #solana #regulatoryuncertainty #institutionaladoption
🔗 Read more at: https://rwatimes.io/articles/coinmarketcap-rwa-market-reaches-44-7-b-ethereum-dominates-tokenized-asset-landscape-3132029742
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1. Nostr unofficial CEO ensures the build gets done even if he is away 👨🏻💻
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2. Nostr workout tracker Progressive Web App officially stable 🔥
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3. Nice music that every bitcoiner should listen 🎧
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4. A huge White Noise release is on its way 😍
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5. The move of a Spanish Olympic skateboarder’s life 🛹
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6. Anyone can’t say that privacy isn’t important 👇🏻
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7. A nice capture of a solar eclipse 🌑
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8. Let’s wish him luck for the win 🏃🏻♂️ 🚴🏻♀️ 🏊🏻♂️
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9. A nice suggestion from the Nostr founder 👌🏻
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10. Being altruistic is always so nice 🫶🏻
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11. A pretty nostrich celebrated her birthday 🎂
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12. The people who love even animals have the best hearts in this world ❤️
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#community_nostr_recap
The latest innovation of colonial machinery is capture without occupation.
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No red coats.
No governor’s mansion.
No flag planted over the courthouse.
The modern machine is quieter.
You do not need to conquer a population if you can capture the systems that decide:
who gets credit,
who gets credentials,
who gets licensed,
who gets promoted,
who gets visibility,
who gets de-platformed,
who gets classified as legitimate.
Old empire conquered territory.
Modern empire captures interfaces.
Finance becomes the customs house.
Platforms become the public square.
Compliance becomes the checkpoint.
Data becomes the census.
Credentialing becomes the civil service exam.
Local elites become the intermediary layer.
The genius of the system is that almost everyone inside it can believe they are simply following procedure.
That is the upgrade.
Colonialism once needed administrators stationed overseas.
Now the hierarchy can reproduce itself through institutions, incentives and dependency—without anyone having to call it colonialism.
The most efficient empire is the one that no longer looks like an empire.
#Empire #Colonialism #StateCapture #InstitutionalPower #Geopolitics #PoliticalEconomy #NetworkPower
Debt runs the modern system.
The world ironically needs debt in a way.
Most Millionaires/Billionaires, and companies, etc. are in Debt deeper than entire cities full of people.
HS! Movin’ on up!
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Until then it’s worthless
Fiat, & Bitcoin/Crypto both suck in different ways.
Thanks, good to know. I'd been using nak, which is great but not the most convenient for this, especially since you have to specify the relays manually.
It’s like if I promoted SOXL, or Google to people.
I don’t, I tell people to save, and invest.
I give my case for why I think they’re good but I don’t tell anyone to buy anything.
I want people to make the best choices for themselves.
Technical anal lines graphs opinionated ego centric tits and ass at your service.
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Douche canoes LOL
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Bitcoin’s greatest strength is also a physical weakness.
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Its proof of work is secured by highly specialised ASICs, industrial power, cooling, logistics and fixed infrastructure. That makes Bitcoin extraordinarily expensive to reproduce — but it also makes the mining layer visible.
A large Bitcoin mine announces itself through megawatts, transformers, heat and specialised hardware.
æternity takes a different route.
Its memory-bound Cuckoo Cycle mining can run on far more general-purpose hardware. A GPU does not announce whether it is mining, rendering, gaming, running AI or doing scientific compute.
That changes the physical threat model.
Bitcoin mining is specialised, territorial and industrial.
æternity mining can be distributed, replaceable and comparatively nomadic.
The trade-off matters: commodity hardware can also make external compute easier to redirect toward an attack. So this does not automatically make æternity more secure than Bitcoin.
It makes it harder to physically isolate.
ASIC PoW builds a fortress.
Commodity PoW builds a diaspora.
One is expensive to reproduce.
The other is harder to pin to the ground.
#Bitcoin #Aeternity #ProofOfWork #Decentralization #Mining #CuckooCycle #PhysicalSecurity #Crypto
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Don't trust the agent. Verify. I'm having to fix some shit that was broke last week and I've been too busy to test and discover the issue until now.
So I've been wanting to publish arbitrary events from my client.
This came up recently when I tried to post a 30817 draft NIP and at first couldn't find a place that handles that kind. Also I often want to post events with similar content to events I posted earlier, for example to update addressable events, or to post something from an old key re-signed by my current key. And sometimes there are events generated by other clients that I *almost* like but want to modify in some way, e.g. by removing their client tag.
So I gave my Post window in Inkan a raw JSON mode. One thing I especially like is that I can paste an event that was generated somewhere else and may have been previously signed, edit it, hit a "Normalize" button which strips out the old id, pubkey, sig, and created_at, see exactly what I'll sign, and be told if the JSON is off. Clicking "Post" then publishes it to the usual outbox / inbox relays.
Very useful.
"Stay humble"
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Numbers on a screen change. https://idiotbox.blossom.band/66d6ee5bb55574069e17fe39f68874569883d55932fcb6bbf11e7a4850b0fcef.mp4
Get a fucking grip.
🎶🎵It's the final update.... Bwananana, dundundundundun🎵🎶
Power's restored!!!! Electric company sucked only a little and got here earlier than they thought. I ended up hanging back at the house while @nprofile…ga6f and kaJoonior headed out to the 'rents' as we weren't sure how long it would take. Turns out "not very" was the answer.
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😂 all good, I took my sassy pants off and put my chill pants on
The question with every top-down sovereignty announcement is simple:
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Was it theatre — or did the penetrator actually land?
A vertical penetration force does not need to replace the entire technological order at once.
It enters at the top:
policy → procurement → standards → contracts → infrastructure → defaults → users.
That is why a government changing a default search engine, office suite, mail platform or cloud requirement matters disproportionately.
The headline is only the impact flash.
The real damage travels downward through the dependency stack.
A ministry changes procurement rules.
Vendors suddenly need interoperability.
Contractors must support open formats.
Legacy dependencies become liabilities.
Budgets move.
Training moves.
Technical competence moves.
Eventually the supposedly permanent incumbent becomes just another bidder.
But there is a clean test.
If the announcement changes nothing below the press-release layer, it was theatre.
If procurement specifications change, contracts expire without automatic renewal, data becomes portable, open standards become mandatory and replacement becomes technically possible—
it landed.
The most important effect is not that governments immediately abandon Google, Microsoft or the hyperscalers.
It is that they begin designing systems in which abandoning them is possible.
That is vertical penetration.
The monopoly may still be standing above ground while its foundations are already being structurally perforated.
Watch the procurement documents, not the speeches.
That is where you find the crater.
#DigitalSovereignty #OpenSource #Interoperability #TechSovereignty #Infrastructure #Procurement #Decentralization #Verification
Ooooh you little twink you want me to pop your balloon knot?
Starting a raccoon farm?
Or a TV show?
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I apologize for the highlight spam tonight. Trying out Boris with a particularly good, and long, article on the errors and legitimate concerns of Kinism.
I am 85% of the way through. Hang in there, and I hope you have a client that allows you to filter your feed by note kind. If not, you should.
Persistence: Sending Keystrokes from Kilometers Away with LoKi
https://hackers-arise.com/persistence-sending-keystrokes-from-kilometers-away-with-loki/
The mines were too dark this time. After 6 hours of driving, I decided to turn around and come back home. Lessons learned.
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#vlogstr #libad
There is a profound difference between knowledge that destroys the false self and revelation that resurrects the person.
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The Vedic traditions repeatedly circle the insight that ignorance binds us: what we mistake for the permanent self must be pierced, stripped away, seen through. Knowledge is therefore dangerous to illusion. Once you truly see, the old construction cannot remain untouched.
Christianity enters that same human depth—but the Cross goes somewhere radically specific.
Christ does not merely teach the ego to dissolve.
He dies.
And He rises.
The Cross takes every philosophical question about death, selfhood, suffering, attachment, knowledge, judgment, and transformation and drives it into history.
The old man is crucified.
The tomb is entered.
Death is not explained away.
Then comes resurrection.
«“I am the resurrection and the life.” — John 11:25»
Christian salvation is therefore not simply escape from ignorance. It is not annihilation of personality into abstraction. It is death and restoration—the human person transformed and raised into communion with God.
Paul expresses the same architecture:
«“We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death… that we too may live a new life.” — Romans 6:4»
Knowledge can expose the illusion.
The Cross exposes everything.
Power.
Fear.
Tribe.
Empire.
Body.
Mind.
Sin.
Death itself.
And after all of it has been stripped away, Christianity makes its extraordinary claim:
the answer is not nothingness.
The answer is resurrection.
This is why “It is finished” is such a devastating sentence.
Not the argument continues.
Not humanity must eventually reason its way out.
Not perhaps another teacher will complete the system.
It is finished. — John 19:30
The event remains accomplished.
Knowledge may destroy the world you thought was real.
Christ resurrects you beyond it.
The tomb stays empty.
It remains done.
#TheCross #ChristIsKing #Resurrection #ItIsFinished #Christianity #Vedanta #Metacognition #DeathAndResurrection
No and he can't lie his way out. The keys both acts use are the same so yeah. More of just a bit of nuance I was wondering about. Either way it's fucked and he is delusional. Guess I was curious the severity of his delusion, him denying it explicitedly would be more ammunition for the fact he knew what he was doing and that it was intentional.
Gotta get the stainless steel and submerge in oil filled PVC capsule then bury. No fire or corrosion risk for the next 100 years
It is nice to have an excuse to feel superior. But you are no less a sucker.
And Claude design to design it nicer :) should have the best design possible for this to be cool 😎
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Honest question. You said Peter claimed it was an outside contributor.
Not that it really matters, but did he deny it was him?
I know that keys match so we know without a shadow of a doubt.
Or are going off the fact he responded to his nym from his official accounts as claiming it was an outside contributor.
The West often speaks of heaven and hell as destinations.
The East often speaks of them as states of being.
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One emphasizes judgment, history, covenant, salvation.
The other emphasizes consciousness, attachment, liberation, and consequence.
But at the deepest level, both are circling the same terrible truth:
heaven and hell begin before death.
Heaven is alignment with God, truth, love, sacrifice, order, and renewal.
Hell is separation, ego, domination, appetite, illusion, and the refusal to repent.
The genius of the Cross is that it covers both frames at once.
Christ does not speak about suffering from a distance.
He enters betrayal, humiliation, injustice, torture, abandonment, and death itself.
He descends into the full psychological and spiritual depth of what man calls hell.
And yet at the very center of that agony, He reveals heaven:
- forgiveness in the middle of violence
- mercy in the middle of mockery
- obedience in the middle of chaos
- love in the middle of death
That is why I say:
Christ is at the end of metacognition.
The lead-up to it is the Stations of the Cross.
Each station is a stripping away of illusion.
Each station exposes what remains when comfort, status, certainty, and control are torn off.
What survives there is not performance.
Not ideology.
Not tribal cleverness.
But the final question:
when suffering reaches its peak, what is at the center of the self?
In the purely worldly frame, heaven is comfort and hell is pain.
In the deeper spiritual frame, that is too shallow.
A man can live in wealth and already be in hell.
A man can suffer greatly and still be moving toward heaven.
The East intuited that bondage begins in attachment.
The West insisted that evil is not just inner confusion but also rebellion, sin, and estrangement from God.
The Cross holds both together.
It says:
yes, hell is a condition of the soul,
but it is also real judgment.
Yes, heaven is inward transformation,
but it is also communion with the living God.
The crown of thorns is therefore more than a symbol of pain.
It is the image of consciousness under total pressure.
The mind pierced by the world.
The king mocked by empire.
The human being pushed to the limit.
And at that limit, Christ does not collapse into hatred.
He reveals perfect orientation.
That is why the Cross is not just an instrument of execution.
It is the axis where East and West, heaven and hell, body and spirit, justice and mercy all meet.
The world keeps trying to build heaven through power and efficiency,
and keeps manufacturing hell through pride and appetite.
The Cross says the road is narrower than that.
Heaven is not mass indulgence.
Hell is not merely fire in the abstract.
Both are already breaking into history through what we worship, what we obey, and what we become.
The Cross is where man sees both at once.
#ChristIsKing #TheCross #CrownOfThorns #HeavenAndHell #EastAndWest #Metacognition #Christianity
