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2026-10-26 22:28:13 UTC

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Bitcoin core is maintained by an incredible team and should be commended for its quality. But I hope youre not proposing using a live network connected core wallet to sign all your self custody bitcoin transactions.

2026-10-25 14:53:09 UTC

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Fun related merch:
https://store.blockstream.com/products/rsa-t-shirt
shout out to @npub1qg8…24kw for being on the front line.

2026-10-25 14:48:31 UTC

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Some good links and background for those unfamiliar here:
https://reason.com/video/2020/10/21/cryptowars-gilmore-zimmermann-cryptography/

2026-10-22 11:13:09 UTC

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I’ve been using FIPS to tunnel from my laptop back to my home linux server and it’s been working great!
https://github.com/notmandatory/fips-pod

2026-10-15 14:57:15 UTC

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https://cdn.hzrd149.com/2acfd4bb0a272ca2ea08f927eb3db50c2e01c551c669ead9088cf56e31a68ca3.jpeg

2026-10-10 20:14:38 UTC

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The (once) beautiful Colorado Street bridge in this video is now lined on both sides by ugly chain-link fences. I suspect either to keep the locals from jumping off it and/or to save it from metal theives. 😕

2026-10-09 16:53:21 UTC

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The bug was in the Android OS but my point is that app only wallets are not immune to having a bad RNG.

2026-10-09 16:44:24 UTC

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I hope it's not this one:
https://thehackernews.com/2013/08/hacking-bitcoin-android-vulnerability-digital-wallets.html

2026-09-28 23:25:47 UTC

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A little update, today I had the chance to try my FIPS setup over Starlink. Worked like a champ, a little laggy but still usable. I know the lag was most likely Starlink and the speed of light's fault.

2026-09-27 22:45:48 UTC

@nprofile…nxal sighting in Nashville, TN! https://blossom.primal.net/179e8e5526cd29b7b4894cfa85fc59f9956d1ce7d1fd04a921f65f51e6e9eaa4.jpg

2026-09-26 19:57:45 UTC

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This is the way...
I've been playing with the ratatui (rust) and the 🤖s have built me some nice little TUIs for data entry and display.
https://ratatui.rs

2026-09-26 17:51:25 UTC

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slick TUI, did you make or is it some sort of existing harness?

2026-09-17 19:12:31 UTC

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I have my own self managed firewall/router and my stupid isp gives me a non-public NATed IP. Pretty common with ISPs these days.

2026-09-09 16:19:28 UTC

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More using the credit card to pay the mortgage. Not a good look.

2026-09-06 13:39:17 UTC

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I'd be happy to see some books I love turned into high quality films. Anyone else like to watch "The Mandibles" on the big screen?

2026-09-06 13:17:11 UTC

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I didn't try Tor since it seems too slow/unreliable for interactive work via ssh. Also I don't need the service to be hidden. My main concern was security on the client/MacBook side, which is why I went with a very limited podman pod that run stock debian 13 with solid easy to manage firewall filtering using nftables.

2026-09-05 05:04:42 UTC

Running FIPS! now I can ssh into a dev system at home even though it's stuck with a private IPv4 address behind my stupid ISPs NAT.
With FIPS I'm able to assign my home server a self generated npub and talk to it from anywhere. This is how the internet is meant to be, peer to peer, private and permissionless.
Sorry @nprofile…sjfc for abusing your FIPS test net for my personal VPN. But I hope my background traffic helps somehow with your performance testing. I'm not seeing any noticeable latency running multiple shells and editors over my ssh tunnel between the office and home.
Love what you're building with @nprofile…urq5 !
The podman setup I use on my MacBook is: https://github.com/notmandatory/fips-pod

2026-07-01 22:32:04 UTC

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After you’re done with the books check out the apple tv season, it’s pretty good ! 🔪🤖

2026-06-06 15:56:02 UTC

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I made a little patch to wnd to use the db_keystore for keyring-core. But agentnoise doesn't use keyring-core so I think I need to convert it to use that before I can get it to use db_keystore too:
my patch to wnd is here:
https://github.com/notmandatory/whitenoise-rs/commit/93045c5f0410327e86f056e89123d36a7fa9b934

2026-06-05 13:20:55 UTC

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Thanks for the plug! Its very experimental quality and now Im experimenting with @AGENTNOISE agentnoise to try and make it work on a headless linux system but struggling a bit to get it to use db-keychain

2026-05-12 18:23:54 UTC

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This image is obviously photoshopped, one of those is a parallel cable and I do not see an accompanying dot matrix printer.

2026-03-09 15:06:03 UTC

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Any tips on how to find a peer to test with?

2025-12-21 21:07:09 UTC

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True. I havent found any that take LN payments which would better default privacy.
I wonder is it possible to atomically swap LN to onchain somehow?

2025-12-21 17:00:36 UTC

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Ive heard namecheap is a good one.
https://www.namecheap.com/support/payment/bitcoin/

2025-11-16 00:01:54 UTC

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Id love to see a writeup of how you set it up for personal use 🙏

2025-11-11 01:22:40 UTC

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Find local #bitcoin accepting merchant via the CashApp app.
1. click on the "Money" bank icon
2. click on "Bitcoin"
3. scroll down to "Ways to use bitcoin"
4. click on "Spend bitcoin"
5. allow location access (☹️ otherwise app crashes)
6. find your local bitcoin accepting merchants!
https://blossom.primal.net/7ce01e36eaf5a2d7c444e7e91f495e20050939f661b086422594cd14b50f26bd.png
#nevent1q…pazp #nevent1q…pazp

2025-10-31 02:08:17 UTC

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At least I know what I'll be reading this summer!

2025-09-02 01:37:34 UTC

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Frost Snap is taking pre-orders if anyone wants to get in on the first batch of "frontier" edition units!
https://frostsnap.com
#nevent1q…r9zh

2025-09-01 21:02:11 UTC

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The internet definitely killed BITNET relay, but the concepts it pioneered live on in IRC. AFAIK UUNET news and readers still exist but are not installed by default on any modern systems.
It's cool and interesting to see new tools like #bitchat incorporate concepts from both. BITNET relay used /<command> syntax and UUNET was a decentralized store and forward, P2P relay based system.

2025-08-31 02:42:21 UTC

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While a student in the late 90s I worked the weekend graveyard shift as a datacenter "operator". My primary duties were change the 1/2 inch backup tapes and racking them with their corresponding green bar printout logs. I also cleaned the backup drive heads with a q-tip and isopropyl alcohol and made sure all the nightly batch jobs finished.
I also read Usenet news, chatted with strangers on Bitnet Relay and played a lot of NetHack. Good times.

2025-08-28 17:52:20 UTC

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My geo spy network tells me this is 410 7th St NW! But what will it be?

2025-08-24 18:25:20 UTC

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I suspect the artist was told to make her look like her father and took it a bit too far.

2025-08-20 17:48:21 UTC

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Still early days for Silent Payments wallets but this is big step in the right direction!
#nevent1q…9e0s

2025-08-14 18:02:28 UTC

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Congrat's @nprofile…sez6 happy to have you on the team!

2025-08-09 15:12:01 UTC

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My 2sats … if you want to make those cakes fluffier add a tablespoon of white vinegar to the milk and stir wet and dry ingredients as little as possible right before cooking 🥞

2025-08-07 19:12:57 UTC

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😍 that mini-rack! I really don't need but still want one.
More details on the full build here:
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/i-clustered-four-framework-mainboards-test-huge-llms

2025-08-06 20:03:35 UTC

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My little AI research assistant pointed me to this data on glyphosate use in the US:
https://water.usgs.gov/nawqa/pnsp/usage/maps/show_map.php?year=2019&map=GLYPHOSATE&hilo=L&disp=Glyphosate

2025-08-03 23:19:32 UTC

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Will our elite top 1% be managing, repairing, upgrading, etc. the spyware and killer robots? Won't the other 99% also be able to acquire their own counter-spyware and protection bots?
I'm just saying if bitcoin prevents most people's wealth from being covertly siphoned off, as in our current system, it will be much harder for a small minority to control them.

2025-08-03 17:35:40 UTC

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Re 8: how will the socialist/communist/authoritarian govs pay the enforcers of their policies if over half of capital/wealth is difficult or impossible to confiscate? If it's the rich elites footing the bill will they really be able to sustain their position in a new hard money (bitcoin) world?
My understanding of the most recent hard money era is it tended to empower the productive but also improve the standard of living and thus autonomy of even the relatively unproductive due to monetary deflation, improved capital allocation and tech innovation.
https://blossom.primal.net/1f688b800632cc3bfd3537f2ce3a1416d64399162f83173d3c385f39aac7c864.png

2025-07-29 23:38:37 UTC

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Certainly not “the public’s” safety they a worried about

2025-07-26 02:19:10 UTC

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For everyone interested in neutrino aka compact block filter syncing check out this deep dive from @rustaceanrob:
https://rustaceanrob.com/blog/13-cbf-design

2025-07-25 22:22:48 UTC

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Agreed. For me it’s the difference between walking to work and riding my bike. Both take effort, but I get there faster riding and it’s a lot more fun. I’d even ride in on the weekend some times just for the joy of it.

2025-07-22 19:18:57 UTC

Great interview @nprofile…h02q with Becca from the Anchor Watch team. I have a few related questions maybe @nprofile…y780 or @nprofile…jn29 have a take on:
1. Is there any proposed legislation in the US to remove the penalty for insurers to use #bitcoin as backing for BTC denominated policies?
2. If an insurer was able to use and custody BTC to back a policy who would/could insure that custody? In wouldn't make sense to take a BTC denominated insurance policy from an insurer who holds their BTC with some shit place like coinbase.
https://stephanlivera.com/episode/673/

2025-07-17 00:55:26 UTC

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What ever the number is it needs to be more.
According to this article there are around 52 million "every day" millionaires in the US worth between $1-5M. It should be trivially easy for these people to own and self custody one bitcoin (except of course the obvious 21M BTC reason).
We need more easy to use self custody wallets like Unchained, Casa, AnchorWatch, Proton, Bitkey, Liana, Sparrow, etc. Bring on all the projects with what ever models/trade-offs work to somehow put the keys in users hands.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/19/united-states-millionaires-wealth.html

2025-06-09 21:27:14 UTC

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Wow thanks for sharing, first time I've heard of #deepwiki, it looks very useful. I've also been playing around with `nostr-sdk` and it's an awesome project!

2025-06-08 23:05:16 UTC

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Based on first episode the new "Murderbot" TV series is looking pretty good/true to the book too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murderbot_(TV_series)
#murderbot

2025-05-28 16:48:43 UTC

Here's some great BIP-324 work sponsored by @nprofile…xv7m from Nick Johnson with rust help from Rustaceanrob:
https://spiralbtc.substack.com/p/nerd-of-the-month-3-working-on-longevity

2025-05-21 17:06:06 UTC

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Great research! this is the sort of analysis and discussion we need if we want to see #bitcoin scale up in a self-custodial way.

2025-05-17 19:38:08 UTC

Im 100% behind this trend of national retail chains adding pay with bitcoin! I dont care what they do with the BTC.
Heres me using my trusty @nprofile…d29g …
https://blossom.primal.net/d1b77dcd03ebe0480946d5ba63fcadb0a1ead4b7de6fdb416d6f2220f255a96b.jpg
https://blossom.primal.net/b7dd4a347cd0c6efd4028b8146fcef5dd0e7643bed9a967315df810b5098d768.png
https://blossom.primal.net/98295b61dfcf064092b1854b666f1daad6e398dc6b291c5259248c203e34824b.jpg

2025-05-12 02:28:52 UTC

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Phoenix is the mobile wallet, but there's also a "headless" API version of the software that can run on a desktop or server. But to use phoenixd you need other software like @nprofile…fy4z Hub (https://guides.getalby.com/user-guide/alby-account-and-browser-extension/alby-hub/introduction) if you want a UI on top of it.
One issue you'll have with the phoenix mobile app and bolt12 is your phone app needs to be running to receive payments, at least I just tried to send a little payment to you above bolt12 "offer" and it didn't work because I suspect your phoenix app isn't running. But if you use phoenixd on an always on machine this wouldn't be a problem.
And, yes you can tell you have a bolt12 "offer" because it starts with `lno`.

2025-05-11 23:43:15 UTC

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It looks like Ocean is recommending CLN (https://ocean.xyz/docs/lightning) but as long as they use standard bolt12 I don't see why it wouldn't work with phoenix wallet or phoenixd. Looks like you just need to create the config for your bolt12 offer and sign it with an on-chain address key. But it's not clear to me which on-chain key you need to sign with.

2025-05-11 20:08:30 UTC

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Have you already tried @nprofile…r4yc ? it has great Bolt12 support.

2025-05-05 03:59:03 UTC

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“Founded in 2014, ACINQ is a French startup building products and services for the Bitcoin ecosystem. We are based in Paris, France.”
https://acinq.co/about

2025-04-04 12:27:59 UTC

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@nprofile…awgk would love to sell you some games go to his website;
https://www.freemarketkids.com

2025-03-21 15:13:34 UTC

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Thanks for building this! it looks very cool.
It'd be even cooler if I could import my 14 years of data from goodreads. Unfortunately when I tried to export that data I got this shitty message:
https://m.primal.net/PnuZ.png
At least if I have to start over on #nostr I'll be free of another walled data garden.

2025-03-13 18:32:21 UTC

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@nprofile…yckf great question, we have pre-canned descriptor templates:
https://docs.rs/bdk_wallet/latest/bdk_wallet/descriptor/template/index.html
Or check out the bdk_wallet descriptor macros. These let you build your descriptors programmatically and is what we use for creating the above templates.
https://docs.rs/bdk_wallet/latest/bdk_wallet/macro.descriptor.html

2025-02-21 21:26:17 UTC

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Brave includes a shitcoin wallet, no thanks.
https://brave.com/wallet/

2025-02-21 21:13:28 UTC

I just heard about the drama going on at the Mozilla Foundation, anyone know a good replacement for Firefox? I'm going to try LibreWolf, any other suggestions?
https://x.com/LundukeJournal/status/1893024925759263184

2025-02-18 05:47:24 UTC

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I just past in my jitsi link to the location and ignore the zoom button.

2025-02-17 14:38:58 UTC

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https://www.newsmax.com/politics/fort-knox-doge-gold/2025/02/17/id/1199355/

2025-02-17 07:41:13 UTC

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This story from a few years back comes to mind.
https://decrypt.co/34033/chinese-firm-dumps-83-tonnes-of-fake-gold-on-the-market

2025-02-15 14:51:47 UTC

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They already exist. For realestate they are called a deed and are issues and enforced in my country by the county. For business shares they are issued by the companies , listed on exchanges and enforced by local courts. Ultimately to “tokenize” a real world asset you need a real world enforcement system.

2025-02-14 06:23:12 UTC

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If you know someone else using it you can pay by email address which is neat

2025-02-14 01:40:41 UTC

Is this what mempools clearning looks like?
https://m.primal.net/OewG.png

2025-02-13 19:09:29 UTC

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Looks like you need to move your wallet balance so you can receive more zaps!

2025-02-12 02:54:43 UTC

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I think we found our first @nprofile…9s4d https://m.primal.net/ObsG.png marketing copy editor!

2025-02-12 01:24:41 UTC

@nprofile…jwnr we need to figure out how to use this with @nprofile…7hrg !
#nevent1q…mw2l

2025-02-09 19:51:55 UTC

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Using offline / async LN payments might be a way to go. Just need to connect from time to time with one of your online LN peers: https://github.com/lightning/bolts/pull/989

2025-02-06 05:45:23 UTC

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Pretty sure this was one of those open secrets in DC and banking world. 🤡

2025-02-06 05:12:00 UTC

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Great video thanks for sharing. Three hours long but gave me a good high level grasp on how modern LLMs work.

2025-02-05 18:21:31 UTC

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I guess he wasn't able to get the domain "MacroStrategy"?

2025-02-03 00:57:06 UTC

Nice to see the government education monopoly being broken up in the fine state of TN. I hope other states follow suit and empower parents to choose where and how their kids are educated.
https://www.discovery.org/education/2025/02/01/with-gov-lees-signature-tennessee-will-become-13th-state-to-enact-universal-school-choice/

2025-02-02 23:35:19 UTC

The US federal gov isn't the only one that's made big financial promises it can't keep. If you are thinking about where to put down roots plan accordingly:
"Across all 50 states, there was a collective $6.96 trillion in liabilities for public pensions that were unfunded, meaning the cost disbursed in pensions was higher than the amount collected, averaging almost $21,000 in unfunded liabilities per person, according to ALEC’s Unaccountable and Unaffordable report. California, Hawaii, Illinois and Alaska all exceeded $35,000 in liabilities per capita, while Tennessee and Indiana were the only states below $10,000 per capita."
https://dailycaller.com/2023/09/20/pension-funding-failure-poses-serious-risk-states/

2025-01-30 00:36:25 UTC

Amazing! 🤩
#note1ujv…zaxm

2025-01-29 21:30:04 UTC

The 256 Foundation (https://256foundation.org/) is doing a Telehash Event at @nprofile…wds9 today ! contribute your hashpower to the cause:
🔗 Stratum Address:
donate.256foundation.org
Port: 3333
👷 Worker Name:
bc1qce93hy5rhg02s6aeu7mfdvxg76x66pqqtrvzs3
https://m.primal.net/OGjt.png

2025-01-26 05:10:59 UTC

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My recipe for lazy meatballs:
1. set oven to 350F
2. to 1lb grass fed ground beef add sea salt, pepper, onion powder
3. scoop and roll into little balls (I use a melon baller)
4. bake for around 20 mins
I like em with ketchup (if you want to get fancy top with quality tomato sauce, EVO, and grated parmigiano)
https://m.primal.net/OAeb.jpg

2025-01-25 02:30:31 UTC

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🤷‍♂️ I'm down for it, just need to convince the product team at Square.

2025-01-25 02:24:37 UTC

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Square has millions of terminals out there, I'm pretty sure the problem is more about training than technology. The front line retail works need to be able to handle all the bitcoin lingo and qr codes and different ways payments can fail. How do you handle refunds? what happens if customer says payment went through but it doesn't show up on terminal? Anyway I'm sure it will happen eventually but it's still early days in bitcoin land.

2025-01-25 02:11:04 UTC

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I agree it'd be great if customers could pay at square terminal with bitcoin, but at least merchants now have the option to automatically convert some of their sales to bitcoin. I hope this is a first step to future full bitcoin/lightning customer payment support.
https://squareup.com/help/us/en/article/7935-purchase-bitcoin-with-square

2025-01-25 02:04:02 UTC

#eltor sounds like a really cool project, pay tor relays for bandwith with anonymous LN micropayments. Team is making progress and could use help testing:
https://github.com/el-tor/eltord

2025-01-24 15:23:45 UTC

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Is this the right repo? https://github.com/citadel-tech/coinswap

2025-01-24 00:00:51 UTC

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That was my thought exactly when I heard the interview from @npub1ahx…5ech . A better product IMO would be whole life insurance where you , the insurance co, and a third key custodian hold what ever btc you put in. At the end your heirs get that btc back. The only reason to do it is the tax savings. Insurer makes money on flat custody fees and from loans they make to you against your btc held.

2025-01-23 00:22:21 UTC

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The fake news is still peddling the same "murder for hire" fiction used to smear Ross during the trial. Best to send anyone interested in learning more to a better source like Reason Mag.
https://reason.com/tag/ross-ulbricht/

2025-01-23 00:14:47 UTC

For all your observant bitcoiners, there's a new day on the holiday calendar. 🫶
https://bitcoin.holiday/

2025-01-22 00:52:31 UTC

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This deserves to be a new #bitcoin holiday. 🫶
https://github.com/coinkite/bitcoin.holiday.pub/pull/24

2025-01-17 20:56:16 UTC

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Do you remember when AOL bought Time Warner? I worked for WB studio then and we were forced to get AOL "company" email accounts. Good times, good times.

2025-01-17 14:18:06 UTC

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But did he free Ross Ulbricht, convicted of a non-violent offense with a clearly disproportionately long sentence? The hypocrisy is deafening.
https://reason.com/2025/01/14/reminder-donald-trump-promised-to-free-ross-ulbricht-on-day-one/

2025-01-16 18:26:03 UTC

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The GDP this chart is based on includes government make-work spending right? that should really count as negative GDP. How much worse should these numbers look?

2025-01-16 01:08:36 UTC

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A cheat sheet for calculating bitcoin cap gains cost basis? 🙏

2025-01-15 01:50:04 UTC

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https://m.primal.net/NhAn.png

2025-01-12 19:28:08 UTC

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@nprofile…75n7 thanks for pointing that out, I did not know. And really it's better that state's aren't given bankruptcy protection, it would raise the borrowing costs of all states. Better to see the deadbeat states default on their bonds and let the market downgrade their creditworthiness and/or shut them out completely.

2025-01-12 16:32:13 UTC

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As a native, now ex-Californian I think the only possible plan to the governance/financial problems there is 1. No more bailouts, 2. State bankruptcy and debt reorganization, 3. Socialist pols voted out of office, 4. Drastic spending cuts, 5. Years of painful recovery.

2025-01-12 14:19:43 UTC

Exhibit A on why CA property owners and taxpayers are so screwed:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2G1ZwAqQPVU

2025-01-05 23:55:22 UTC

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There are folks working on SP for BDK already, you can see some of the required steps for a full impl in this tracking issue:
https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk/issues/1114#issuecomment-2286966409
And checkout some early related work here:
https://github.com/cygnet3/rust-silentpayments

2024-12-23 22:42:15 UTC

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Google is looking to replace Microsoft as best platform to spy and scam people with

2024-12-23 16:28:01 UTC

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Looks like a cool mod to https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/BDKSwiftExampleWallet

2024-12-15 17:40:13 UTC

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@npub1xr4…f6z3 isnt active or verified but may be here

2024-12-10 17:24:55 UTC

NashBitDevs tonight in Nashville 5p-8p at @npub1the…4dha! If you're in town and coming by please RSVP so we know how much pizza to order.
https://nashbitdevs.org/socratic-seminar-26/

2024-11-29 21:54:58 UTC

history uncovered…
“The Great Elven Door Mercantile and Co-Prosperity Sphere”
Hermosa Beach, CA
https://m.primal.net/Mkez.jpg

2024-11-23 05:50:24 UTC

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equanimity