Hanshan

absolutely
Stand-up is a rare art form where you can get up in front of a bunch of people and actually *tell the truth*
It requires skill and thick skin but if you can develop it I think its very rewarding.

2026-10-27 16:08:52 UTC

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Whats the cost difference from the regular versions?

2026-10-27 04:10:30 UTC

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I will pay a company if they provide some fucking customer support
But they were unavailable, dismissive and had to be browbeat into actually looking into it.

2026-10-27 00:31:27 UTC

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He's the musical ancestor of the two guys in the previous one.

2026-10-27 00:03:37 UTC

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Oh well, shot in the dark.
How about a more classical slant?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqJvxDp8Jdk

2026-10-27 00:02:40 UTC

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https://github.com/toddsmith456/T-Bone-

2026-10-27 00:01:16 UTC

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Sent you an invite to the Tbone channel if you want to make any suggestions.

2026-10-26 23:08:40 UTC

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mynymbox would never have such terrible support 🙂

2026-10-26 23:04:47 UTC

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?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njcGRTEaxKg
#nevent1q…j8kv

2026-10-26 22:42:11 UTC

Mfkin servers[.]guru put my VPS offline 5 days BEFORE the bill was due
and after I paid the invoice, dashboard said "running" but none of my services are there, cant SSH.
and support isn't available for 8 hrs apparently.
not impressed.

2026-10-26 22:37:23 UTC

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Yeah i use newpipe

2026-10-26 22:36:17 UTC

Pretty much team T-bone now. Its got everything I want for #nostr and it looks nice.
#nevent1q…ms49

2026-10-26 07:37:40 UTC

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*moe

2026-10-26 07:37:35 UTC

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Yeah you're probably right.
But mow usage will still die our anyway. It just happened faster.

2026-10-26 07:27:10 UTC

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You seem confused whether the conversation is about wallet sync or node gossip
But obviously whichever one it is, you are sure totally compromised 🙄

2026-10-26 07:19:09 UTC

what is so hard about this?
Just have a fucking node and use it already.
Its almost the year of our Lord 2027 and Bitcoin maxis are telling me to vibe code my own nostr client.
If you use Bitcoin or Monero with any frequency, just run a damn node somewhere and use it.
what network-level privacy problem?
#nevent1q…g3dr

2026-10-25 19:54:15 UTC

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I have a wireguard tunnel back to my subnet.

2026-10-25 04:55:58 UTC

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Oh I see 🙂

2026-10-25 04:53:19 UTC

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Dandelion is part of the protocol. Your transaction gets passed around being broadcast everywhere, so its not known which tx originate from what node.

2026-10-25 04:50:42 UTC

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Its built into the incentives.
The hard cap is a design flaw.

2026-10-25 04:07:21 UTC

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Why? Because you don't trust dandelion?

2026-10-25 04:07:06 UTC

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He's making stuff up.

2026-10-25 01:07:54 UTC

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I just have a wireguard tunnel home.

2026-10-25 01:06:51 UTC

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My node is on my subnet, why tf would I connect through Tor?

2026-10-25 01:06:03 UTC

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Easy auditability was chosen because nobody would trust an obfuscated chain. The first mover HAD to be transparent.
And there wasn't any other plausible option anyway.

2026-10-25 01:02:55 UTC

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My node is on my subnet.
Why would I sync through Tor?
#nevent1q…g3dr

2026-10-24 14:23:53 UTC

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Love him and Nils Frahm

2026-10-24 14:13:55 UTC

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are you into Olafur??

2026-10-24 00:22:26 UTC

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Where do you get these?

2026-10-23 15:52:12 UTC

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sweet! i have two 5950s so I get 31 when I can run them both.
my solar system doesn't often allow that except midsummer.
you doing p2pool mini?

2026-10-23 15:51:05 UTC

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the man did walk away from being a twatter influencer, so theres that.
he's been trying to find his way in a fairly honest way i think. the arrogance is just compensating for insecurity 🤷
everybody has got something.

2026-10-21 19:11:34 UTC

I keep expecting Monero to return to 150 and .003 BTC. Is this the new normal?
Maybe there is something wrong with the thesis that everything trends towards zero versus Bitcoin?
Please advise.
#bitcoin #monero

2026-10-20 20:38:29 UTC

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money is fungible

2026-10-20 16:55:48 UTC

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we seem to be unable to come to agreement about whether self-custody is actually needed or not also 😕

2026-10-20 16:47:47 UTC

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both of those things presuppose the ability to manage private keys.
key control is the biggest unacknowledged issue of our time.
it is a *necessary life skill* for an online population.

2026-10-20 15:24:13 UTC

Aside from being a reasonable person,
Contra has almost only good takes.
Top tier #nostr follow.
#nevent1q…lz9d

2026-10-19 21:48:04 UTC

I fuckin love monero fr yo
#nevent1q…0pum

2026-10-19 14:08:54 UTC

I made a Cordn coordinator if anyone wants to hop on.
What's one more encrypted chat app?
https://cordn.net/chat/cordn1qgt8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytngv9h8x6rpdchxjmcpyprlcwulawm9vdr9aj4hnmgadadzgu34f873ckg3vp3yex5ek33huqpy8y6kvcmyvyexyttxxsekztf5v9nxxtfevfjrqtt9xgenvet9893r2desxqgul0qs?m=eyJuYW1lIjoibG91bmdlIiwiaWNvbiI6IvCfppoifQ

2026-10-19 06:33:04 UTC

Nostalgic
#nevent1q…gljl

2026-10-16 19:14:01 UTC

The number of hedging responses in this thread is extremely telling.
#nevent1q…jpzu

2026-10-16 15:58:10 UTC

High signal for a ritual greeting...
#nevent1q…qp36

2026-10-14 16:44:53 UTC

@npub1yxp…399s in disbelief.
#nevent1q…g0mm

2026-10-14 15:19:14 UTC

Okay, lets talk "scarcity".
In the economic sense, scarcity ≠ supply.
The supply (number of units) of a thing could be extremely low, but if there isn't *demand, then it isn't scarce. Theres only one of that bored ape NFT, but dont nobody give a fuck so it isn't scarce.
Contrariwise, there could be a shit-ton of units but demand could also be insane, making the item extremely scarce.
Or the inverse examples of course, high supply with low demand making the item not scarce, or low supply and high demand making it extremely scarce.
So we cant look at supply only and there isn't a direct metric to measure "scarcity" afaict. Scarcity is the market interpretation of the relationship between supply and demand of a commodity.
What does this have to do with Bitcoin maximalism and how they misunderstand basic economics?
I'm glad you asked.
If Bitcoin has low demand, the hard cap does nothing to guarantee economic scarcity. In the case of low demand, it is *not scarce* despite having fixed supply.
Oppositely, the market could consider a Monero MORE scarce than Bitcoin if demand is increasing faster than the tail emission.
#Bitcoin isn't automatically scarce because of fixed supply.
#Monero isn't automatically non-scarce because of tail emission.

2026-10-13 15:16:23 UTC

The XMRmada Concord group now uses my own relay to pass around the encrypted blobs (messages!)
Dittos and Vectors defaults are still there too for redundancy.
Come check out our group chat if your into that kinda thing.
https://armada.buzz/invite/naddr1qvzqqqyzz5pzpfzhckw68k830z75jtm29pxumnwy80gpgvcmsjau2thu04435r3mqqqqwjx8vn#BAEOQdTb8uGG1PuT9i3UPgrF

2026-10-13 01:32:35 UTC

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We should just enforce total surveillance on everyone in every facet of their life and there would be no crime.

2026-10-12 17:56:29 UTC

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we're not blood relatives, just old friends.
but his wife and kids you know?

2026-10-12 17:31:19 UTC

shitfuck
bro has the pancreatic cancer.
they're dropping like flies recently.
hold your loved ones, don't take it for granted.

2026-10-12 15:20:48 UTC

@npub1yxp…399s is really worried you don't understand how the transaction fee you pay on a L1 affects the fungibility of your transaction.
so i wrote some stuff.
#nevent1q…x3jd

2026-10-11 20:55:03 UTC

Lol
Somebody is FINALLY trying to use LN to obfuscate the trail of funds (fucking 8 years later 🙄) and now this asshole has to publicly masturbate about it.
#nevent1q…srp2

2026-10-11 20:09:47 UTC

For the record, I think people should not genocide each other.

2026-10-11 15:53:57 UTC

whaaaaat
#nevent1q…zkgs

2026-10-11 14:37:57 UTC

Given that genocide and infanticide have been normal human practices for millennia, our modern sensibilities and outrage dont seem to be very helpful to the public discourse around those topics.
Maybe not a popular view.
Anyway,
GM.
#normalizegenocide

2026-10-10 20:44:14 UTC

So theres no #monero bros on nostr running the FCMP stressnet?? Lets send some testnet Monero around!
I thought I was late to the party?
#asknostr

2026-10-10 17:33:19 UTC

All the boys are mining on p2pool.
#nevent1q…64cp

2026-10-10 14:11:42 UTC

@npub1hal…60zq is slacking man
When i intentionally write a poem you dont care?
#nevent1q…0np4

2026-10-10 11:52:20 UTC

When I close my eyes snd listen to the pine wind, where is the body?

2026-10-10 04:31:42 UTC

UPDATE
its "the exception *probes* the rule"
If the sign says parking is permitted Sunday, you know parking is against the rule the rest of the week.
I will be insufferable about this for the rest of my life
#nevent1q…hmg2

2026-10-09 01:08:04 UTC

You know what I never understood?
"The exception that proves the rule"
how TF does an exception prove a rule?
#asknostr

2026-10-09 00:28:09 UTC

I dont get it.
Why are we mad about maxis doing DNS?
I wanna be mad too!
#nevent1q…3vlq

2026-10-08 00:35:18 UTC

there isnt a way to finish the sentence "I am ______” in a way that is always true.
all we can really say is "I am"
after that, everything is arbitrary best guess

2026-10-07 19:32:31 UTC

Does anyone know what a @npub1jlu…p2kq "vault" is?
Apparently they're not letting people set up and manage actual LN nodes ATM.
so a "vault" is some abstraction that shares a channel among a bunch of folks for a .1% sending fee?

2026-10-07 19:05:41 UTC

Anybody else running FCMP++ beta stressnet?
Lets send some Carrot back and forth!
https://github.com/seraphis-migration/monero/releases/tag/v0.19.0.0-beta.3.0
#monero

2026-10-07 14:35:38 UTC

if "dont trust, verify" is going to be an axiomatic rule for living, seems to me we should start with the basics.
So have we verified there's some persistent "self"?
most people seem to just assume it exists, i guess because theres a body walking around?
But the body gets sick and dies randomly, you cant prevent it. the simple fact you can observe the arc of its life demonstrates that the body isnt "myself".
who is it that knows the body?
all i can find is maybe some general tendancies and ideas that change slower than all the random thoughts and feelings.
nothing thats particularly consistent or lasting.
#asknostr
#nevent1q…7anu

2026-10-07 05:17:00 UTC

What does it mean to "be yourself"
when there's no solid thing called "self"
#nevent1q…a0fx

2026-10-07 03:25:48 UTC

Coinjoins, LN and cashu do not provide better privacy than Monero
#nevent1q…yrqu

2026-10-06 19:35:32 UTC

All my utxos have coinjoin history.
#nevent1q…636q

2026-10-06 17:02:47 UTC

What the difference between xmrbazaar.com and anonbazaar.com?
@npub1ajl…d9u3 ?

2026-10-06 04:36:10 UTC

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I assumed you did, which is why its weird he mentioned obfuscation

2026-10-05 22:07:58 UTC

this guy gets it
#nevent1q…4def

2026-10-05 14:07:51 UTC

you know it's a must
GM nostr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRFo72wuU6w

2026-10-04 14:47:19 UTC

Only a few holdouts left
https://blossom.hanshan.io/833f8547a1ad64c3d824ebd84ccbf935bddfc4b1bf1e898dffa4a4a4b028cf6b.webp
#nevent1q…03a0

2026-10-04 13:34:04 UTC

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Not yet

2026-10-04 13:31:57 UTC

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I used minibits for a year or so but it started having problems.
After doing the wallet recovery procedure three times I gave up. Maybe I'll try numo.

2026-10-04 13:30:51 UTC

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Except the uses of cross-border remittances, dissidents and people saving outside the government system isn't what drove Bitcoin up to 100K.
It's speculative investment by Wall Street and venture Capital.
So he was incorrect that governments would prevent people from gambling on bitcoins fiat price.
And that's all.

2026-10-04 01:13:26 UTC

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They should've left in the Gnostic Gospels but even still,
if someone selectively edits a document to control people is the whole thing then "just a document to control people?"

2026-10-03 23:09:41 UTC

People using sovereign #monero for value transfer understand #Bitcoin better than people using custodial LN.
#nevent1q…zvt7

2026-10-02 22:52:57 UTC

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Except the way the margins are curling and turning black make me think they're an inky cap.
Watch if they turn into goo over the next day or two.

2026-10-02 14:46:16 UTC

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legit.
lots of people start holding unpopular views and run straight to a fringe cult because they cant bear to be isolated
now they can pat themselves on the back for being brave AND belong to something.
It doesn't work like that 😂
calculate your risk tolerance accordingly

2026-10-02 14:04:16 UTC

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I've looked really hard but I cant find them anywhere

2026-10-02 13:20:16 UTC

most people spend their entire lives searching for peers that agree with their established views.
this maximizes personal security and social cohesion at the expense of growth and innovative thinking.
have the courage to be unsafe and have contrary views.
GM

2026-10-02 12:07:11 UTC

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I get it man.
People aspire to freedom because they know they inherently limited.

2026-10-02 04:34:48 UTC

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Who cares? None of those projects are decentralized.

2026-10-02 04:26:19 UTC

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Our bodies and minds will fall apart and die and it's out of our control.
If freedom means "without restrictions" how free could we be?

2026-10-02 01:25:52 UTC

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I mean " slow down that would happen on a Bitcoin Standard"

2026-10-02 01:25:06 UTC

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Yeah I don't really have argument with that.
Because I don't really think it's in conflict with what I'm saying. Which is basically that bitcoiners *vastly underestimate the amount of economic slowdown that would happen on a hard money standard.
I'm NOT saying that zero economic activity will happen.
Just that it is an untried and dangerous economic experiment that flies in the face of every ALL economic theory.
Strange that the only people that think it's a good idea are the people that already own Bitcoin.

2026-10-02 01:00:32 UTC

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I'm not arguing against a system that TENDS deflationary
I'm arguing against the idea we need to make the default conditions *as deflationary as possible*

2026-10-02 00:58:51 UTC

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I ate 2

2026-10-01 18:48:24 UTC

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I didn't say it will stop spending though. It disincentivizes spending and investment to the maximal extent possible.
Osbviously people will still exchange their money for physical needs rather than die.
So while I understand we need to prevent centralized-controlled inflationary insanity, A hard cap is a really bad solution.
In a way it doesn't matter.
markets need capital to flow without undue friction, so it guarantees the creation of inflationary l2s.
So we're either screwed because capital can't move and innovation stops,
or because what we're actually using has no connection to the base layer.

2026-10-01 18:06:50 UTC

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There are a number of reasons but the obvious one is that deflationary conditions disincentivize economic investment.
Why should anybody start a business or invest in one when their money gains value just by sitting there?
Particularly trying to create an environment which is *as disinflationary as possible*
Which is something bitcoin maxis get really excited about (because it makes them richer)
You see that behavior already, there's a lot of inertia to creating a Bitcoin circular economy because most people prefer hodling to spending.
"muh generational wealth"

2026-10-01 17:54:44 UTC

I use void btw
#nevent1q…n55k

2026-10-01 17:19:17 UTC

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I too will go to the farmers market today to see the artists.
I don't know about cookies, but there's usually gorditas 🙏

2026-10-01 17:09:53 UTC

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Try installing your own nuclear reactor and get back to us.
At the current technological level, *self-sovereign solutions* require LESS dense power sources.
Otherwise agree 100%

2026-10-01 17:00:10 UTC

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Beautiful

2026-10-01 16:52:18 UTC

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if you have a bunch of decentralized nodes for jpeg storage and >1 devs (that actually do nothing)
then I guess you have accomplished the main principle driving Bitcoin?
the main issue of contention is not decentralization, but whether Bitcoin is still a monetary Network or not.
They think it is not, so it doesn't make sense to maximize decentralization anyway. That is an understandable viewpoint for me because I've been concerned about the direction of Bitcoin for years.
You think it IS still a monetary Network, therefore they're insane for forking off and sacrificing that decentralization.
Simple.

2026-10-01 16:05:31 UTC

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If you dont understand how principled people make bad decisions I don't know what to tell you.

2026-10-01 15:43:26 UTC

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I generally agree with forking off and creating what you want to see.
But there's a lot to be said about the timing and the implementation and community building....
All in all really poorly handed IMO,
like a zealot would naturally do.
But the current discussion and the homeboy in the chat seems to have principled ideas and thought about it
and does not seem to be a lemming.

2026-10-01 15:29:14 UTC

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Are they?

2026-10-01 15:28:22 UTC

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I'm not going to forgive them for teasing Bitcoin payments and then never following through.

2026-10-01 14:38:24 UTC

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All three of these points are their own conversation so I'm going to stick with the 21m cap.
It obviously disincentivizes spending. We already see it happening, maxis reflect on "muh generational wealth" before spending.
A hard cap sets the disinflationary bar as high as possible, it is a knee-jerk reaction to Fiat Insanity. Understandable but ultimately bad policy.
there isnt much of an economic argument to be made where the supply side of supply/demand of the price of money should just be eliminated. Literally nobody has ever suggested this is a good idea, in fact, everybody has suggested that a completely inelastic money supply is a bad idea. With most Austrians saying "well gold is elastic enough ".
Maxie's COMPLETELY FAIL to recognize how much economic investment would simply cease to exist on a Bitcoin standard.
This is absolutely a brand new monetary experiment that flies in the face of all accepted economic thought. For no particularly good reason, except it's very memeable.
nobody thinks it's a good idea, except for people who already own Bitcoin.

2026-09-30 23:24:39 UTC

the old ways are the best ways
as my old pappy used to say.
#nevent1q…cr58