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Buy a HWW with lightning, use a fresh email and fake name.
3 days later: FedEx has your parcel and needs you to pay custom duties with a credit card.
FedEx and DHL probably have one of the most comprehensive Bitcoiner databases.

2026-08-10 08:31:32 UTC

I often try to think about business ideas, and then struggle to land on anything that others aren't already doing.
But then I watch a TV show on Channel 4 and there are ads for 7 different online gambling apps.
Uniqueness is clearly not necessary for being an entrepreneur!

2026-08-07 18:22:22 UTC

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I'll give them the benefit of the doubt - they're pretty open about not being technical and often suggest things are "above my paygrade". Coinkite definitely a blind spot, and I back them to learn from it. They're already very contrite and doing what they can to help.
They're just two people who keep on top of the wide breadth of Bitcoin related issues, and amplify a lot of good signal. But they've got their flaws like the rest of us. However, I think they're honest and trying their best. If anything, I'm more interested in their perspective after this event. Lots of emphasis now on staying humble.

2026-08-05 05:35:10 UTC

"It's all AI's fault"
"Our AI's didnt find any vulnerabilities"

2026-08-03 08:51:14 UTC

Am seeing a lot of complicated recommendations for how to get a new temp wallet, or advice to move to an exchange 🙃
@nprofile…83ak is one of the OG open source bitcoin-only mobile wallets. You can even add dice rolls or coin flips. 🎲🪙
https://blossom.primal.net/5f793830f6f95966b6da37ddbeee2dd5a2336d2464bff2e95e4b8aa77cf4803a.jpg

2026-08-01 21:02:09 UTC

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Damn. Probably Odell's worst take. I can see where he's coming from in terms of user error, but he massively underestimated Coinkite risk. I'm sure he's sorry about that advice and will be taking this situation very hard.

2026-07-31 14:13:45 UTC

Tfw you haven't had your node online for a while so you're waiting for the blockchain to sync to find out if you're poor or not

2026-07-31 08:23:39 UTC

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Not sure I'd advise moving funds for those who used dice rolls and a passphrase. Those should be unaffected by this vector (not trusting the RNG is why people used these in the first place)? And moving funds now in a hurry encourages potentially panicked behaviour, plus also identifies utxos as potentially being coldcard linked (if there's a spike in certain tx types) which in some attack scenarios adds more risk. E.g. if there's ever a leak of coldcard customer addresses, or further coldcard vulnerabilities.

2026-07-23 09:20:20 UTC

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Oh I'm just being boring and sensible by proposing something ultra retarded. CGT should be 0%. It's a tax on savings.
They always make it sound like billionaires are the only ones with savings. They'll probably find a way around it and the rest of us will be paying CGT on assets that went up in $, but went down in real value.

2026-07-19 07:12:07 UTC

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Yep, they'll find a way to bring it back in. Some new crisis will "necessitate" it.

2026-07-16 20:23:35 UTC

Asking Claude Fable about cholesterol and getting safeguards flagged like I'm some kind of bio-terrorist

2026-07-14 10:41:05 UTC

BBC needs to do some fact checking
https://blossom.primal.net/4ff768ed06e5cc64002052b02fd9b376bbff6bf6a3a0db5dcdd5c2198cf2b994.jpg

2026-07-01 16:19:24 UTC

Everyone calling this the end of the bear market makes me think we're probably going even lower, for longer

2026-06-30 09:57:40 UTC

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"Compliant VC" - hopefully a parody account?

2026-06-30 08:51:18 UTC

People who have been terrible managers their whole careers, who give unclear instructions and don't know how to measure progress: "Follow me for advice on the exact right way to use AI"

2026-06-29 08:04:34 UTC

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Still CIA - just engineering a gov bailout so the USG will gets it's SBR 🙃

2026-06-29 06:19:59 UTC

Maybe this bear market is just to punish Saylor for being too autistic to join the Epstein club

2026-06-26 07:01:06 UTC

Hey @nprofile…fg9w @nprofile…q0jg @nprofile…46tj @nprofile…txkn something going on with the podcast feed:
Status:
The podcast host's server does not know where to find the file. It may have been deleted.
Technical details:
404
File URL:
https://feeds.fountain.fm/0EAzqUaM4qqanDr1qNuK/items/WeBIgrQtsFOre1fmcwvU/files/VIDEO---DEFAULT---66482746-8b99-4cb4-9ff5-e164d480c7a7.mp4/ORIGINAL.mp3

2026-06-17 09:15:11 UTC

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Finally, the AI productivity gains we've been promised

2026-06-15 07:45:44 UTC

I want open source models to win, but worth being realistic. Today the US closed frontier models are MUCH better when looking at more realistic metrics like task time horizon.
For example, while other benchmarks show Kimi K2 and Opus 4.5 (both released November 2025) as being quite close on some indexes, the task length they can complete correctly 50% of the time is very different. 1 hour for Kimi, but 5 hours for Opus.
Some of this may be due to better harnesses for the US closed models, but that's material edge.

2026-06-12 15:23:22 UTC

An observation when running in London: female runners almost always have expensive kit and a water pack, but male runners often look like they've just found some swimming trunks and a pair of old shoes.
Not quite sure what to make of it.

2026-06-07 18:10:07 UTC

Be an AI company.
Talk up the risks of AI for unemployment.
Make the government panic.
Present a solution: Government buys you for trillions and distributes shares as "universal basic capital" (while also facilitating fraud at a scale never seen before).
Be super rich.

2026-04-13 09:06:17 UTC

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"The Union grows stronger." As if that's an end in itself 🙃 This is the logic of sociopathic bureaucratic blob.
Tbh I have no stake or opinion on Hungarian politics, but the result being supported with such idiotic rationale by *those* people is not a good sign.

2026-03-09 15:06:13 UTC

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Yep
Switching back to Amethyst today

2026-02-16 12:56:29 UTC

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Have you used Opus 4.6 too? Any thoughts on how they compare?

2026-02-04 09:26:49 UTC

Doesn't seem to be possible to extend my @nprofile…kclk premium subscription. Can't do it in the app even though I installed from @nprofile…tdq0 and not the Play store. And then the web app remote log in thingy doesn't work at all 🤷‍♂️
https://blossom.primal.net/4f3906fb62622b992561148bd953918e15798c847ea0d4de8e1dd74957ecc07c.png
https://blossom.primal.net/d98b5e509a2120ec5af04a20ff70ef138ffa88c6ae60539a49a3adff6892d5dd.png
https://blossom.primal.net/94d8d0993a6a5c99027c4f88cdeaf68ae1dcc52f8762f0f6a569844454bc6b29.png

2026-01-10 08:11:12 UTC

Pretty ugly situation with Renee Good in Minnesota.
Personally, I wouldn't try drive my huge SUV towards an armed federal agent during a raid. Doesn't make you a "domestic terrorist" though.
Whole thing just seems like a huge fuck up. Tragic.

2026-01-10 08:00:58 UTC

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I like the entrance, but rest of the house is disappointing - just another modernist set of beige rectangles.
Also, why do none of these rich people ever have paintings hung on their walls? Do they blow the budget on the architect? 😅

2026-01-09 08:57:55 UTC

No one talking about Epstein files anymore. Impressive.

2025-12-23 11:17:17 UTC

Chatting to a colleague from Bedford and asked which football team he supports - it's not the one bought "by some weird crypto guy" 😂

2025-11-12 09:44:05 UTC

People who take pleasure in others paying more taxes, or getting punished with taxes, are sickening bootlickers

2025-11-11 07:44:43 UTC

1. Be a tradesman
2. Go out of your way to do a site visit and give a quote
3. Don't reply when the client agrees to it - just ghost them
4. ?
5. Profit

2025-11-07 13:23:37 UTC

Ready to have my face melted still, but this does actually feel like the start of a bear market. Same pattern as usual - price declining despite no specifically negative news, and lots of podcasts trying to convince themselves it's not a bear market.
Doesn't change the fundamentals, but just mentally preparing.

2025-10-29 18:12:58 UTC

Reason 837382 to hate the government. UK trains nationalized by the socialist Labour party, now they get cancelled far more often.
Today I can't get home on time for my child's bedtime on her birthday.

2025-10-14 07:17:47 UTC

I've got a much better idea than buying Bitcoin, hear me out ...
You get an institution to KYC you, then give them money for a claim to potentially redeem the value of a shiny metal that may or may not exist. Then we cheer central banks to buy more of the metal.
It's logically and morally sound.

2025-09-30 13:46:02 UTC

Here we go... Mandibles!
"China’s state-run iron ore buyer has told major steelmakers and traders to temporarily halt purchases of all new BHP Group cargoes, escalating a pricing dispute that risks upending one of the mining giant’s most important trading partnerships
China Mineral Resources Group Co., created by Beijing to bolster the country’s sway in the global iron ore trade, asked domestic buyers this week to suspend purchases of any dollar-denominated seaborne cargoes from BHP, people familiar with the matter said, asking not to be identified discussing private deliberations.
It means new deals can’t be signed, including for cargoes that have already left Australia, where BHP has its mines. The only BHP iron ore available for trade are some supplies that have landed in China and are priced in yuan."
https://archive.is/ffSxn

2025-09-27 07:04:37 UTC

Waiting for the "far right" description to be applied to people opposed to digital IDs, which are literally the most right wing thing ever.

2025-09-27 06:53:02 UTC

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Yes!
Since having kids this has made me really annoyed. In London there are horror movie scenes on the side of buses that I need to explain.
But also often still incredibly sexual images everywhere, just technically no nipples.

2025-09-26 19:32:32 UTC

Just realised the three little pigs is a story about Bitcoin.
Currently most of the world are living in straw houses with their government cuck bucks.
Some quite smart people are living in stick houses with their "gold".
Luckily, some of us are in brick houses with #Bitcoin.
In the final scene of the story when the big fiat wolf tries to climb down the chimney in his last desperate act, the Bitcoin piggy boils him alive and eats him for dinner.

2025-09-25 16:43:08 UTC

Been on hold with HMRC for an hour now because they've stolen (tax) more money from me than they're legally allowed to. Feeling so radicalised against the state right now 😡😅

2025-09-23 11:47:27 UTC

Bitcoin exchange rate goes up and down, but it's mostly irrelevant to my personal financial situation. Yes I may be richer or poorer on paper any given day, but the choice of saving in Bitcoin means that I actually own my wealth. This is the ultimate peace of mind.

2025-09-21 06:49:56 UTC

The UK's Labour government is a disaster, but on the bright side at least the Lib Dems aren't in power

2025-09-05 08:38:54 UTC

Feels like everyone on Nostr home schools their kids. How the hell do they do that? Some of us need 2 incomes 😅

2025-09-05 07:54:42 UTC

LLMs are Uber for the mind.

2025-09-02 19:54:42 UTC

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#nevent1q…5qay

2025-09-02 19:53:16 UTC

I'm trying to imagine a more top of bull market shitcoin moment than the POTUS launching a memecoin that dips 50% on day 1.
This is 1000x more 🤡🌎 than Novogratz getting a Luna tattoo.
What could possibly top it?

2025-08-31 18:34:47 UTC

The best trees are deciduous.

2025-08-30 07:55:12 UTC

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Nice. One of the first livable houses I've seen here - really interesting and warm. They need a gardener though 😅

2025-08-30 07:51:30 UTC

TIL that over a quarter of UK government debt is in the form of inflation index-linked gilts ("linkers"). This means that the UK gov can't use the strategy of inflating away the debt since that amplifies the debt burden.
So I guess actual bankruptcy and default are on the cards.
https://www.dmo.gov.uk/data/gilt-market/index-linked-gilts/

2025-08-25 08:03:35 UTC

Latest South Park episode about sycophantic AI is a more insightful critique of AI than any mainstream source I've read

2025-08-23 08:55:19 UTC

@nprofile…xnfk @nprofile…ympz which of these is the legit Bitchat?
https://blossom.primal.net/620de91c4f816985d3ea91f9ca20b49bc5e2c2e01c212f11f3498c93c2a1ac38.jpg

2025-08-20 22:40:26 UTC

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Bizarre interview. This guy goes on about Christian love and laments abortions (agree) but has absolutely no sympathy for immigrants. Thought Peter might have challenged this, but he got completely railroaded.
Also weird section where his friend got arrested for having porn on his computer. Kinda sus.
https://fountain.fm/episode/RQJSeiipNyX1MOz8C9QY
#nevent1q…2hfq

2025-08-19 08:39:56 UTC

I've got t-shirts older than Bitcoin

2025-08-15 13:01:23 UTC

My prediction:
Putin sal Trump soos ’n poes maak.
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c2kzn1nw1d4t?post=asset%3A77ad25ce-b740-4c19-a7e7-0b3c9b00f5a0

2025-08-13 07:50:48 UTC

Eating beef is the best way to reduce animal suffering because it's more meat per brain.

2025-08-12 18:57:18 UTC

This is happening to me a lot these days with @nprofile…zg5z's Maple AI. Using Mullvad. https://image.nostr.build/18196155b4b3e187dc648c50f06265063b1fcd13ebc161e3b4526eb8f42a5ba2.jpg

2025-08-10 11:54:55 UTC

Anyone bought a boat and called it Satoshi Nakaboato yet?

2025-08-06 17:48:22 UTC

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This is the way

2025-08-03 11:34:02 UTC

The Wikipedia page for The Bitcoin Standard by @nprofile…nldy is so fiat, it's actually perfect. https://image.nostr.build/f95993752e1ab6d5d41612c2781411630f3b89f574ee7f9b1382b0ef26e66ce1.jpg

2025-08-03 11:31:37 UTC

Interesting that the wealthiest people seem to self actualise by being philanthropists.
Socialists tend to deny this, but likely the genuinely poor and unfortunate would be better cared for if society became more capitalist.

2025-08-01 09:48:05 UTC

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Speaking as someone who likes their products, but the purchasing experience is atrocious - they don't even accept lightning payments.
And don't have any UK based distributors.
No good options, sadly.

2025-08-01 09:46:02 UTC

People criticize @nprofile…8s96 and Coinkite for the wrong things. The biggest issue is that when you have to buy from the UK they throw you to the wolves of FedEx who always hold up the shipment but are unreachable, and if you do resolve it you have to give so many personal details you may as well just use Coinbase.

2025-07-28 15:26:19 UTC

Interesting side effect of using LLMs: I now tend to be a bit more demanding with junior employees to iterate and get things right because I'm used to doing it with Claude or Gemini.
(As an aside, I have to use these services for work, but use free OpenAI for random low risk questions, and then use Maple AI for everything else in my personal life)

2025-07-26 08:09:28 UTC

The original intent of mass schooling in the 18th century was as a means of socialization and creating a sense of national unity. Literacy and numeracy skills were a secondary consideration, but for the purposes of creating a more capable workforce.
People talk about teaching kids how to think etc, but not clear to me that's the case at all or that anything has changed in the last 200+ years.
Tbh, I don't really think the home schooling option is right for our family either, but thankfully my Bitcoin savings means we'll be able to afford private schools - still not ideal, but in the UK the difference is stark. When I toured one of the "outstanding" local state schools the halls were full of propaganda about climate change, islamophobia and LGBTQ+ rights. The academic results were not even that great, but that's not the most important assessment criteria for state school ratings.
At least with private schools there is more choice, and kids and parents are better selected for not wanting the state to educate their children.

2025-07-18 07:11:32 UTC

There will only ever be 2.1 quadrillion bitcoin

2025-07-18 06:21:27 UTC

Lol, can't believe I watched 5 seasons of Yellowstone. What a load of shit 😅 Nice scenery though

2025-07-09 16:13:47 UTC

This coiling feels bullish, so should probably be bearish 😅

2025-07-05 11:23:01 UTC

Think I'm just a very boring middle class tech worker who likes to read William Boyd novels, but also likes Bitcoin and hates the government.
Tbh, would be great if I didn't have to be the second half of that sentence, but that's reality!

2025-07-02 06:54:46 UTC

Lol wtf, need to use some Bitcoin for a deposit on a house in the UK and solicitors refuse to do business with me "because crypto"

2025-06-29 14:35:14 UTC

It's so fucking weird how a significant % of people I know IRL are trying to be influencers on LinkedIn

2025-06-22 06:49:59 UTC

If Israel had no guarantee of US military support (made possible by the money printer), I wonder if they maybe would have tried harder to just be cool and friendly to their neighbours

2025-06-16 15:38:40 UTC

Kind of interesting that UK headlines today are "MI6 appoints new chief" when it's actually the (sort of) democratically elected Foreign Secretary who appoints them, subject to confirmation by the Prime Minister. A government department shouldn't be able to name its own leader.
Almost makes you wonder whether the headlines' phrasing is partially true ...

2025-06-16 08:54:24 UTC

Right leaning "common sense" commentators need to up their game. Both Tom Woods, and now Konstantin Kisin have demonstrated a very uncritical approach to their interviews lately - ranging from South Africa to parenting.
They just agree with whatever the guest is saying so long as it vaguely fits the pattern of "mainstream is wrong" or "elites have an ulterior motive".
Part of the problem is preparation. They don't do any major research beforehand, but just want to churn out many low quality conversations. For ads maybe? More men's vitamins etc.

2025-06-16 08:47:33 UTC

When you're typing in a long password and then someone asks you a question 😑

2025-06-13 14:52:13 UTC

Remember that time WW3 started and Bitcoin dipped to $104K?

2025-06-12 18:05:00 UTC

Many AI "experts" don't even know how a linear regression works

2025-06-11 09:37:44 UTC

The worst thing about Bitcoin is whenever it has to interact with fiat and regulated institutions

2025-06-11 06:48:49 UTC

Seeing lots of Bitcoin price overconfidence
"Stock to flow says we're about to hit $400k!"
"There will be no more winters!"
"Banana zone something something about to rip!"

2025-06-10 06:58:40 UTC

It doesn't matter how many variables you have, you can't improve the modelling of a quadratic function with more than 3. You also don't improve your model with more data points past some amount.
This analogy describes some of my skepticism of the claim that we will create super intelligence by merely adding more data, more parameters, and more compute to LLMs.
Yes we will continue to see improvements in the ability to model human knowledge and reasoning, and yes it will be amplified by machine speed, but I don't think we somehow unlock a higher level of intelligence. We will plateau at some point and then the focus will shift more to applications of this still impressive but sub-human intelligence.

2025-06-02 06:42:05 UTC

Why isn't Bitcoin $0?

2025-05-31 07:28:12 UTC

Need to do more fiat shaming

2025-05-31 07:02:26 UTC

New global warming propaganda: Glaciers falling on tiny Swiss villages

2025-05-21 19:15:30 UTC

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It will get better and better at processing more data, quicker. Excellent for robotics, research and chat etc. Will be hugely good for productivity and level access to knowledge. The cumulative and networked gains will be incredible. But a single intelligence that's much better than a really smart human, or an intelligence that somehow figures out how to outmanoeuver humanity is hopefully not close.

2025-05-21 18:02:16 UTC

AI is really good at giving me an answer that a reasonably smart expert would. That's pretty useful! But I'm still slightly skeptical about how it exceeds that without just relying on crunching more data - will it genuinely understand things at a higher level than best human level?

2025-05-20 16:03:33 UTC

Kid number 2 arriving in 2025 ♂️

2025-05-16 09:50:20 UTC

Impressed with Mullvad's marketing. Their brand and messaging is all over London making a strong case for privacy 👏

2025-05-13 08:23:51 UTC

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Reflection on why I mostly fell for this troll:
1. I wanted it to be true because lol
2. It was a suspiciously low res video (likely just because the original troll knew that would make it more believable)
3. I accepted the claim that the media surprised them and didn't think to seek evidence like whether there was footage beforehand. In fact, even the Alex Jones video showed a few seconds before where they were clearly at ease and didn't seem concerned about the table.
4. I did search the news to see if it was a story, but only really dodgey sites were pushing it. While I don't trust mainstream news I think something this blatant actually would have been a scoop too obvious to ignore (e.g. at the very least Fox news would have had something if true). They would have had easy access to high res footage and eye witnesses.
#nevent1q…twgx

2025-05-13 08:11:16 UTC

Whenever I ask an LLM about something I actually know a lot about it's quite obvious how much it bullshits and avoids directly answering a question, or giving an actual reference.

2025-05-12 10:13:30 UTC

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Okay, probably was just a tissue and a toothpick 😅
#nevent1q…urlr

2025-05-11 15:13:47 UTC

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Rules for thee
#nevent1q…kp93

2025-05-10 20:32:40 UTC

You can just braai

2025-05-02 06:54:12 UTC

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Why don't we just connect our bank accounts as consumers too, then Facebook and the corporations can just choose all our purchases. Much easier.

2025-05-01 12:49:36 UTC

Some of the smartest people in the world are warning of AI taking over governments and replacing everyone's jobs in ~3 years.
Haven't seen it mentioned once in mainstream headlines. But we're treated to stories about Mexican gang members working in call centers, and how today is the hottest day of spring 2025.

2025-04-29 09:24:24 UTC

Left wing socialist parties are always described as "centre-left", and parties that want to steal less of your money are always "right wing" or even "far right". Fascinating.

2025-04-27 14:56:34 UTC

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As a non-American I look forward to seeing this experiment in changing the tax landscape away from stealing from wages to rather stealing from international trade.
#nevent1q…3pye

2025-04-24 13:39:26 UTC

As I read about the Napoleonic wars it strikes me that calling one of the belligerents the "aggressor" is a peculiar modern term.
It was never done, since it was clear that all were seeking power in different ways due to different interests.
While Napoleon was bringing proto-democracy to regions, he was also an autocrat, and was an economic rival to England. The English funded other countries to confront France, yet it was France who was imposing the Continental System and taxes on their allies which caused them to switch allegiance and declare war.
These wars would usually end with one of the belligerents needing to make major territorial, military and economic concessions.
The modern framing as one of a victim (Ukraine) and an aggressor (Russia) seems like a modern propaganda tactic designed to prolong a war and avoid the historically typical approach of ending it with a peace negotiation where the stronger side militarily has more leverage.

2025-04-21 07:57:02 UTC

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Wow, congrats and good luck! Where are you off to next?

2025-04-20 08:52:15 UTC

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How do you find and plan what to read next?
Reading is one thing, but finding/choosing another. Goodreads/kindle give me pretty terrible recommendations usually.