Nostr notes by SatsAndSports

The blocking works well for me. I can see that I have already ...

2026-09-06T12:30:49Z

In reply to nevent1q…pufm
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The blocking works well for me. I can see that I have already blocked many of the npubs that respond to you; I only learn about their 'content' because you replied to them.

I see your reply, but - unless I do extra clicks - I can't see the things you are responding too

(I mostly use Amethyst, but this is coming from Jumble desktop)

Finally just set up voice dictation Now setting a prompt to ...

2026-09-06T11:57:05Z

Finally just set up voice dictation

Now setting a prompt to explain to the transcriber that I'm not working with a "Chimney" protocol for moving "Cashew" around

It's Whisper, locally. Also the first time I'm doing anything useful with local AI

I want an app where I can swipe left on a reply here and see a ...

2026-09-06T07:49:34Z

In reply to nevent1q…fcqz
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I want an app where I can swipe left on a reply here and see a few options to block a user

I block a lot when I go into replies. It's tedious to do though; should be much smoother and easier

For those that have their own (local?) hardware for llms, how ...

2026-09-03T16:11:24Z

In reply to nevent1q…a3qj
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For those that have their own (local?) hardware for llms, how easy is it for them to sell access - via routstr - to their hardware when they themselves aren't using it?

Just a moment ago on Twitter, Saifefean Ammous (The Bitcoin ...

2026-09-02T16:38:20Z

Just a moment ago on Twitter, Saifefean Ammous (The Bitcoin Standard) referred to "Keynes' moronic writings"

I'm sure he'll agree it's only fair, given his choice of words, to point out that Ammous's writing are worse. I tried to read his slop, but he made the classic error of thinking that inflation brought Hitler to power and therefore I had to put his book down after reading just 20% of it

https://xcancel.com/saifedean/status/2095088845230354884

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nevent1q…kq0x
and 'The Bitcoin Standard' repeats the same old lie that inflation brought Hitler to power

Hitler was brought to power due to the extreme *deflation* of the previous government, which was led by Bruning

I'm really struggling to take this book seriously. Read Lyn Alden's book instead

Here's the accurate take:

https://theothereconomy.com/en/articles/brunings-deflation-and-hitlers-rise-to-power/

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Unfollowed two npubs just now because they turned out to the ...

2026-08-30T09:08:26Z

Unfollowed two npubs just now because they turned out to the generic big-blocker bots that we see so much during attacks on Bitcoin

Why do so many attackers (including BIP110ers) always run out of ideas and just randomly attack Lightning and use emotional MoE arguments?

Makes me more convinced that Lightning is the correct approach 🤣, and that we have the right incentives and game theory for Bitcoin

We're making an asset that nobody wants to spend, and which can be transferred with private instant settlement. This is how you play the long game, making it the world's MoE

I don't want to be rude, but: Bitcoin is following the game ...

2026-08-30T08:30:05Z

In reply to nevent1q…24z9
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I don't want to be rude, but:

Bitcoin is following the game theory that I described. That's a good thing. That's why we had to win the blocksize war

Do you expect your long piece to convince me to ignore Bitcoin's incentives?

"You cannot build a monetary system by treating the money as ...

2026-08-30T07:32:52Z

In reply to nevent1q…xwky
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"You cannot build a monetary system by treating the money as too sacred to use"

Well actually, this is the plan for bitcoin, and it's the right plan

It's the most ambitious plan

It's the only way for bitcoin to be the world's MoE

We make an asset that nobody wants to spend and which can be transferred easily and quickly with final settlement (Lightning)

If you think that contradicts the "world's MoE" goal, think about the game theory some more

If you can't go --offline, maybe close channels before ...

2026-08-27T08:22:34Z

In reply to nevent1q…qrny
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If you can't go --offline, maybe close channels before shutting down?

I'm having a lot of fun using and writing my new language ...

2026-08-20T14:09:54Z

I'm having a lot of fun using and writing my new language bot.

First time in ages that I find it fun to study languages, and I really think the bot is good at remembering my preferences.

It's the first time I've ever implemented - or really though about - how to manage context. As well as the obvious stuff - like compaction - my bot also has some memory-like systems that are for language-learning specifically. For example, it keeps track of mistakes and successes in grammar topics; all labelled and categorized by the llm.

This allows it to keep a compact summary of the mistakes I'm making in vocab and grammar and so on.

And also a 'learner profile' where the llm keeps a summary of my preferences and basic life facts. For example it has learned that "Bitcoin" is one of my interests

I'm not a language teacher, so I'm making sure that I design the system such that I don't have to make a decision that might be a bad decision; everything is llm-guided

It's just for me and one friend, not planning to share

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Something I should have built a long time ago:

Giving up carbs (again). Plan to be very strict for six weeks, ...

2026-08-20T13:37:28Z

Giving up carbs (again). Plan to be very strict for six weeks, mostly just an experiment to see what longer term feels like

I have sometimes cut back drastically for a week or two in the past, and felt good after a tough first few days. Then I gradually make exceptions and end up eating multiple croissants per day again!

Something I should have built a long time ago: ...

2026-08-14T17:14:54Z

Something I should have built a long time ago:

I guess I was a bit repetitive, and I wrote too much. I'll be ...

2026-08-14T15:30:08Z

In reply to nevent1q…s6c4
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I guess I was a bit repetitive, and I wrote too much. I'll be shorter:

Did you *want* BIP110 to activate? (Your preference)

Did you think it would get the necessary support? (The preferences of others. Game theory, ...)

I guess your answer is "Yes" to both, but I'm curious which of those two - if any - you would be willing to discuss with me

There was no 'attitude' from me. Bitcoin Core didn't ...

2026-08-14T14:17:08Z

In reply to nevent1q…mkc4
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There was no 'attitude' from me.

Bitcoin Core didn't increase the OP_RETURN limit in version 30. It was increased months earlier by the Bitcoin network; an in fact the consensus limit on OP_RETURNs was set to 1MB at least 10 years ago.

The Bitcoin Network made its own decentralized autonomous decision to accept large OP_RETURNs, and it made that decision before v30 existed

In fact, the number of large OP_RETURNs actually decrease slightly after v30 was released

You disagree with that decision. That's fine. But it's difficult for you to argue with the Bitcoin Network, precisely because it's decentralized and autonomous. Who are you going to argue with? You can't blame Core30, as the Network had already made the decision months earlier.

By the time v30 was released in October 2025, the default in Bitcoin Core was "effective", it was having one harmful effect and no positive effect: It was stopping small miners and small pools from seeing the transactions that were going to be mined. Again, you might disagree with that, but you have to be realistic if you want to go to war against the Tolerant Minority; it's very difficult to stop us

I know this seems repetitive to you. But this is an important opportunity to learn. People like me, in the Tolerant Minority, step in to take action to save Bitcoin. We don't ask for permission from Core or from Knots. You don't like our decisions sometimes, but that's what happens in a decentralized system.

Serious question: why did you think BIP-110 would succeed? It was harmful to Bitcoin's monetary purpose, as it would bloat the UTXO set, and the main leaders were liars

research.mempool.space/opreturn-report/

(I think I've read all the replies by you in this [assuming ...

2026-08-14T13:05:34Z

In reply to nevent1q…0e95
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(I think I've read all the replies by you in this [assuming my client is finding and rendering them all correctly])

You refer elsewhere to your desire for more variety of Bitcoin network clients. But that will just bring relay closer to consensus, so you better be prepared for the consequences 😀.

There will always be people (like me) who are happy to be more tolerant, such as relaying OP_RETURNs, when we believe the filters are harming the small miners. (You might think we have made the wrong judgement, but we do exist and we will take action)

Secondly, miners want to earn fees, and therefore they will connect to the nodes that give them fee-paying transactions

Therefore, the *de facto* relay policy will be the policy of the few dozen nodes that are more relaxed, if the miners connect to them.

Relay policy isn't a democracy. Relay policy isn't even controlled by the economics nodes. Relay policy is controlled by the *relaxed* nodes and the *relaxed* miners

If you have a goal to keep relay policy far from consensus, i.e. to have lots of filters, then you need to be very realistic. People like me will fight the filters, if we believe it's necessary to help the small miners, and there isn't much you can do about it

Hi. I hope you don't mind me replying, but I think you're ...

2026-08-14T07:53:45Z

In reply to nevent1q…fqf4
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Hi. I hope you don't mind me replying, but I think you're misunderstanding what happened with BIP110

(I enjoy following you, as I feel that you are different from many bitcoiners here on Nostr, and it's useful to follow different perspectives)

The big miners didn't really *reject* BIP110, they simply ignored it. They just kept mining Bitcoin blocks as usual. Dathon Ohm lied when he said the big miners did a "secret hard fork".

Some users configured their nodes to reject Bitcoin blocks, and therefore it's no surprise that they ended up on a different chaintip; sorry if this is uncomfortable to read, but it's true

BIP110 was harmful to Bitcoin's monetary purpose. It would have made it more difficult to run a node, by forcing data into the UTXO set; and that's the worst outcome for node decentralisation

The Knots and filtering movement is harmful to mining decentralisation, as it makes it difficult for small miners to see what's going to be mined. The "Tolerant Minority" fought back, to defend decentralisation, by helping small miners to see all the fee-paying transactions; they did this by relaxing their mempools to relay more transactions

So, it's good that BIP110 was ignored by Bitcoin. And the BIP110 leaders told many lies about "game theory", as well as generally being egotistical maniacs

I think using your Bitcoin to open Lightning channels, and then ...

2026-08-13T21:53:54Z

In reply to nevent1q…ujty
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I think using your Bitcoin to open Lightning channels, and then swapping your Lightning balance to onchain (e.g. via Boltz) is easier to do - and at least as private - as what you suggest

"attack" The Bitcoin network did literally nothing. It ...

2026-08-11T07:28:11Z

In reply to nevent1q…zpwa
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"attack"

The Bitcoin network did literally *nothing*. It didn't even notice BIP110

No URSF, no invalidateblock.

Miners didn't make any change to their templates, or their signalling code

Bitcoin didn't defeat BIP110, it ignored it

Bitcoin moved on without BIP-110 Bitcoiners did nothing. No URSF. ...

2026-08-10T14:07:09Z

In reply to nevent1q…9tlc
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Bitcoin moved on without BIP-110

Bitcoiners did nothing. No URSF. No 'invalidateblock'. We accepted BIP-110 blocks; but they fell behind the heavier chain

We just kept doing doing, relaying transcations and mining blocks as usual. Your 'fork' didn't impact us any way

Is it embarassing that you lost so comprehensively, despite us doing nothing?

So FIPS stands for Fastest Internet Packet Switching? (Seriously ...

2026-08-06T23:02:38Z

In reply to nevent1q…d4em
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So FIPS stands for Fastest Internet Packet Switching?

(Seriously though, love fips (npub1y0g…00ly) )

Maybe I shouldn't say this, but I'd trust myself to just ...

2026-08-06T20:50:08Z

Maybe I shouldn't say this, but I'd trust myself to just select words myself from a print out of the BIP-39 word list

And similarly, for dice rolls I would trust myself to do random rolls in my brain

Yeah I know what some of you are thinking.

While I'm not a professional cryptographer, I've been studying randomness and statistics in some form in my entire career, so I trust myself - if I need to select a new seed phrase really quickly - to do it with good enough entropy

Ah sorry! I quickly read your message, and I think i read ...

2026-08-03T21:06:14Z

In reply to nevent1q…8t66
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Ah sorry!

I quickly read your message, and I think i read "causes" instead of "effects"!

Coins are been sent to exchanges in recent days because ...

2026-08-03T17:54:13Z

In reply to nevent1q…9mue
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Coins are been sent to exchanges in recent days because there's a ColdCard exploit, were coins are been drained from wallets

The on-device random number generator isn't used in MK3 or *or later*, and therefore those devices generated seed phrases that are easy to guess

Did you know this?

If you have a cold card, you must act immediately

Jade and SeedSigner also, apparently, have this

2026-08-03T14:05:26Z

In reply to nevent1q…7a0r
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Jade and SeedSigner also, apparently, have this

We need to rethink "Bitcoin only" as a purity test. ...

2026-08-02T22:20:26Z

We need to rethink "Bitcoin only" as a purity test. Multiple things recently have reminded me of this issue, not just the ColdCard hack.

If you *genuinely* understand the tech, and the economics, and all that other stuff, you can come to the conclusion that Bitcoin will win. That you should put all your wealth in it, and you should help out with freedom tech if you can

But things aren't so easy for people who don't really *understand* it all. They have to go on faith a lot. I've had just one long face-to-face conversation with a BIP-110 supporter. Very nice older man, but he knew essentially nothing about how Bitcoin worked. He had put all his life savings into Bitcoin, but he was very stressed and said he'd have to sell if BIP-110 didn't activate.

My point there isn't to (yet again!) criticize a BIP-110 supporter. He kept using the word "conviction", and that his "conviction" was being tested. It's like a religious person talking about "faith"

He was Bitcoin-only (on the face of it), but only because it was an article of faith for him and because he copied the opinions of people smarter than him.

If we try to bully people to take "Bitcoin only" as an article of faith, then it becomes a meaningless slogan. And it can become harmful because it means that people can't ask the hard questions that challenge Bitcoin. And if people are Bitcoin-only as an article of faith, and not because they've actually learned about it, then I don't think that does anybody any good

Good question If the manufacturer truly doesn't support other ...

2026-08-01T08:44:48Z

In reply to nevent1q…53ya
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Good question

If the manufacturer truly doesn't support other cryptocurrencies in any of their devices, then the assumption is that they can focus on getting Bitcoin right and not have to manage a complex multi-currency codebase

But you're right that there is no advantage in having a bitcoin-only version alongside their shitcoin version

If anything, it makes it less secure, because of the complexity of now having to maintain two products

If the code is open, bad actors will read it and exploit it If ...

2026-08-01T08:40:32Z

If the code is open, bad actors will read it and exploit it

If you want to motivate people to review and help you to improve the code, actively encourage them to use it and encourage them to depend on it in their products

Make it truly open source (MIT, GPL, BSD).

Be flattered, not angry, when people incorporate the code in their products. They are now motivated to help find and fix problems

Don't arrogantly try to say that it's "your code", as if you are perfect

I.e. don't be like ColdCard. Don't do a dumb rewrite, against the loud advice at the time, to switch all the code to a fake-open license which allows bad actors to read the code and doesn't incentivize good actors to do the same

More examples are being (re-)surfaced of Coinkite/nvk being assholes. Their anti-open attitude appears to be deeply embedded in their DNA. I say this because they can't recover from this; the root cause of this isn't just "aww shucks, this one line was unfortunate". They were mismanaged by an egomaniac who hated openness

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Just one example

https://thecharlatan.ch/COLDCARD-Supply-Chain/

I guess I'm lucky that I had a slightly "icky" feeling about Coldcard. Their device looked really cool, and they had some good marketing, but that all felt kinda sus to me. So I don't think I really considered it

> Shall we build it? Yes! I like the idea that I manually ...

2026-07-31T16:16:31Z

In reply to nevent1q…9jyg
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> Shall we build it?

Yes!

I like the idea that I manually generate each of the 11 words, where I see exactly how my coin flips or dice rolls picked the word, without having to trust that the device has processed my dice rolls correctly. No hardware, except my hand and the dice, so the 11 (or 23) words

Or maybe you have a different suggestion? I don't think I want the device to do any more computation than necessary, because then it's just another black box that might be broken in subtle ways. For example, if we combine entropy from many different sources, there might be a bug at the end where most of the entropy is accidentally discarded (e.g. truncated) at the end

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Also, when I said "selected randomly", I shouldn't have used the word "selected". I would select each word with a suitable physical randomness, like dice.

And, of course, in the 'Fork Talk' Telegram group, their ...

2026-07-31T13:15:10Z

And, of course, in the 'Fork Talk' Telegram group, their main attack dog there is trying to find a way to blame Core for the Coldcard thing

I'd buy a device which simply did this: I enter 11 (or 23) ...

2026-07-31T12:44:15Z

I'd buy a device which simply did this:

I enter 11 (or 23) BIP-39 words that I selected randomly myself, and then it computes the checksum and 12th (or 23rd) word and displays it to me

Then I'd enter these 12 (or 24) words in a separate conventional hardware wallet

The device could come with dice and a table of the words

I'm suggesting this because this checksum is the only part of seed generation that isn't easily done manually

Normal dice are fine, no need for casino dice If you do the ...

2026-07-31T10:52:13Z

In reply to nevent1q…hdfw
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Normal dice are fine, no need for casino dice

If you do the recommended 99 rolls with an extremely biased dice (⚀ and ⚅ only), then you still have 99 bits of entropy, which is fine

If you see all six numbers coming up in your 99 rolls, you're fine

The second one is indeed safer. But I don't think they'll ...

2026-07-29T15:24:01Z

In reply to nevent1q…fhnu
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The second one is indeed safer. But I don't think they'll ever get 4032 blocks; I'm not even sure they'll get 4 mandatory signalling blocks

So I think if you want to guarantee that splitting is possible, then - like you said - you need something like this:

1. make a splitting transaction, with a large op_return, and broadcast it at or after the start of mandatory signalling (August 8th/9th), and broadcast it on the "legacy" network
2. If that confirms on both chains, then the "split" has failed, and a BIP110 miner broke the default policy. You haven't lost funds, you just need to start again from the new address.
3. When it confirms on the legacy chain, then you should quickly RBF to spend the funds back to yourself
4. Now you have successfully spilt (unless you're unlucky and reorgs happen!)

.. come to think of it, that's just too messy, I think

I was going to say "well actually, the coin splitting ...

2026-07-29T09:29:53Z

In reply to nevent1q…4363
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I was going to say "well actually, the coin splitting won't be possible until September at the very earliest, as they won't be blocking op_if at consensus level until 4032 blocks after August 8th"

But then I remembered that the bip110 miners will, due to their strict *relay policy*, be "enforcing" certain rules immediately. And are in fact already enforcing them

Have you checked the *policy* that bip-110 miners (assuming they stay at the defaults) are enforcing today and will enforce throughout this? Does it reject OP_IF?

Are there tools to download the list of all the songs I've ...

2026-07-28T20:31:56Z

Are there tools to download the list of all the songs I've liked on Spotify or Youtube Music?

I'm not asking for the actual audio itself, just to backup the lists of songs

#AskNostr

This will be dead with hours In fact, I'm pretty sure that ...

2026-07-25T06:06:56Z

In reply to nevent1q…rrhc
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This will be dead with hours

In fact, I'm pretty sure that they'll get literally zero blocks during mandatory signalling

So don't worry about these hypothetical details 😊

Such a strange hill for you to end your Bitcoin career on

2026-07-22T22:16:05Z

In reply to nevent1q…lll5
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Such a strange hill for you to end your Bitcoin career on

The number theorists keep talking about Jacobins Are they ...

2026-07-22T16:37:33Z

The number theorists keep talking about Jacobins

Are they anything like the Fabians that are attacking Bitcoin right now?

they're probably a bot. I blocked them a while ago, and I ...

2026-07-21T01:11:34Z

In reply to nevent1q…t709
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they're probably a bot. I blocked them a while ago, and I double-checked some of their content

I think they're spamming follow notifications deliberately

This was never "Core Vs Knots"; the BIP110ers will never ...

2026-07-19T11:08:40Z

In reply to nevent1q…3ph4
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This was never "Core Vs Knots"; the BIP110ers will never learn if we keep to that false framing

Core and Knots were on the same side, keeping filters that were harmful to small miners, and which were making it hard to run a node (fake pubkeys)

The Tolerant Minority are the winners; we stepped in and relaxed the de facto relay policy months before Core30

We saved Bitcoin, and we didn't ask permission from Core or Knots to do it

You mention "control'. The Tolerant Minority are in ...

2026-07-19T10:56:14Z

In reply to nevent1q…6us8
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You mention "control'. The Tolerant Minority are in control of relay policy. Core don't make those decisions any more; see subsat fees, and fullRBF, and now large op_returns

If anyone wants to argue about this topic, they should argue with the Tolerant Minority, and stop arguing with another group (Core) that aren't in control

"Filters don't work, but they send a message" The ...

2026-07-19T10:25:02Z

In reply to nevent1q…nc5l
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"Filters don't work, but they send a message"

The default filters became harmful - not "ineffective" - over the summer of 2025. They harmed the small miners. Are you aware of this, and are you happy to harm small miners because you'd prefer to "send a (meaningless) message?

Months before Core30 was released, many folks (including me) configured our nodes to accept large op-returns.

Therefore, Core didn't remove any limit on what could be relayed and mined on the Bitcoin Network. The Bitcoin Network had already made its own autonomous decision, months before Core30 was released, to allow this. We didn't wait for permission from Core or Knots to do this. We didn't wait for "technical consensus"

In that context, the default policy in Core had only one effect: harming small miners, by making it difficult for them to earn fees

The heroes and winners of this are the Tolerant Minority. We take action to help small miners, and we take action to keep fake pubkeys out of the UTXO. We are successful and unstoppable, and we don't care about your "message"

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Luke is smart enough to know all this. He has told dozens of lies, deliberately fooling people. He knows that the effect of his policies is harmful to Bitcoin

Philosophy is cool and all, but if the hashrate falls to very low ...

2026-07-16T12:29:07Z

In reply to nevent1q…d3rg
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Philosophy is cool and all, but if the hashrate falls to very low values in the future, we're going to have to be pragmatic about the security budget

I love the idea of Ark as a 'Channel Factory', allowing billions to have fully sovereign Lightning nodes. However, if Ark is *too* efficient in this case, then a typical block might have only one transaction!

(By the way, that's partly why I'm currently against CTV; I want Ark, but I don't want it to be *too* scalable; I want many medium-sized Arks, not one mega-Ark)

On balance, I think it'll all be fine and there won't be a problem with the security budget. But there could be a problem, and that problem could eventually be fatal. So I like to think about it

The article discusses Runes, but I think it dismisses them too quickly. The Lightning network could be extended to fully support Runes (no soft fork required), and it's possible (but admittedly, very unlikely) that one of the Runes becomes very valuable. As many Runes 'currencies' have tail emissions, it's possible that they could provide the right incentives to miners

Anyway, there's always 'demurrage', a soft fork to apply a tax on old UTXOs, which would motivate people to move their coins more often and create. The rule could be that, when spending a UTXO older than X years, at least Y% of the outputs must be anyone-can-spend outputs that are locked to a few years in the future. Such outputs are equivalent to the block subsidy in practice

I don't think I've ever used GLM. I mostly just stuck ...

2026-07-13T20:07:22Z

In reply to nevent1q…xumv
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I don't think I've ever used GLM. I mostly just stuck with the big three (Opus, GPT, Gemini) and only tried a few others when they were discussed a lot on Twitter

I can access GLM via one of the API keys I have, so I should try it out sometime

That's too vague The wording should be explicit about ...

2026-07-13T15:38:11Z

In reply to nevent1q…5qlv
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That's too vague

The wording should be explicit about calculations, e.g. the hash rate in a 2016-block difficulty-adjustment window

Liar

2026-07-13T13:47:05Z

In reply to nevent1q…hx55
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Liar

The plebs love community so much because they don't know how ...

2026-07-11T14:22:34Z

In reply to nevent1q…6jfa
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The plebs love community so much because they don't know how to form their own opinion, they need a leader to tell them

I love K2.7. I've used it very heavily for a few weeks. They ...

2026-07-06T14:18:39Z

In reply to nevent1q…3800
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I love K2.7. I've used it very heavily for a few weeks. They only reason I don't use it exclusively is that I have my GPT subscription and hence no marginal cost of using GPT

Kimi seems better than other models at noticing opportunities for reusing code

When I've done work in Kimi, I like asking GPT to review. And vice versa

TLDR: I love Kimi

I haven't used Opus 4.8 so much, due to the cost. The last Opus that I used heavily was 4.6, because I was able to use it within OpenCode

I think both parties need to have a cashu wallet set up (with ...

2026-06-29T07:42:06Z

In reply to nevent1q…ylvf
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I think both parties need to have a cashu wallet set up (with compatible mints?)

Then, when you press the zap button in Amethyst, you can choose to send by cashu or lightning

Worked for me to nutzap Vitor

I just sent my first nutzap. Great to see it working

2026-06-26T22:09:19Z

In reply to nevent1q…qlq7
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I just sent my first nutzap. Great to see it working

.. PS: I should add that this kind of thing might work if you ...

2026-06-26T20:33:37Z

In reply to nevent1q…s4r0
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.. PS: I should add that this kind of thing might work if you have some expert humans in the loop somewhere, for example to fix or rewrite the spec. But this person is proposing just giving exclusive responsibility to the AI for everything, to maintain existing crappy and complex systems

Yes indeed, I agree. I love it and am looking forward to it ...

2026-06-26T20:19:04Z

In reply to nevent1q…seyd
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Yes indeed, I agree. I love it and am looking forward to it gradually being adopted

I'm drafting a system I'm calling MONAD. It's kinda ...

2026-06-26T20:17:10Z

In reply to nevent1q…wqk3
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I'm drafting a system I'm calling MONAD. It's kinda like Tor, where you select relays and route your traffic through them using 'onion routing'.

Anybody can run a relay, and the users pay the relay operators for their service. The payments are bitcoin micropayments using cashu, using our Cashu (npub17fz…9yxv) 'spilman channel' system for very efficient payments.

This repo is quite out of date; I hope to push my latest code in a couple of weeks when it's ready

https://github.com/SatsAndSports/MONAD

A 'Senior Principle Engineer' in my fiat job thinks that ...

2026-06-26T15:41:50Z

A 'Senior Principle Engineer' in my fiat job thinks that the role of AI is to infer the spec from our existing codebases (they are unmaintainable, underspecified, untested, human slop), so that every time a new 'vastly superior' model appears we should ask it to rewrite the code from scratch using this inferred spec as the guide

#NGMI

"... extract a spec (product, engineering) from an existing codebase, force an isolated AI agent to rebuild it from scratch, and measure the divergence. The goal is to discover the minimal codebase practices we must adopt today so that when vastly superior models release tomorrow, we can confidently hit “re-generate” on entirely AI-generated codebases and guarantee the output is strictly better."

On Twitter, I'm unfollowing/muting people who interact too ...

2026-06-26T08:09:26Z

In reply to nevent1q…mxxf
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On Twitter, I'm unfollowing/muting people who interact too much with BIP110, no matter which side of the argument they're in

While I agree with you, I might have to temporarily unfollow you too, for giving it too much oxygen 🙂

True. But I'm still going to block that account myself, ...

2026-06-24T17:54:27Z

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True.

But I'm still going to block that account myself, removing it from my feed, because it's retarded

... and when I ask it to check for updates beyond 12, it says ...

2026-06-23T08:20:20Z

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... and when I ask it to check for updates beyond 12, it says "your software is up to date"

I'm on EMUI 12.0 on my Huawei phone. (I'm not sure if ...

2026-06-23T08:18:12Z

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I'm on EMUI 12.0 on my Huawei phone.

(I'm not sure if that answers your question though)

The NIPs repo should be forked and given a new name (PINs - ...

2026-06-22T09:36:27Z

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The NIPs repo should be forked and given a new name (PINs - Proposals to Improve Nostr) and new maintainers.

They should follow the same process as used in the BIPs repo; in particular copying the role of the "BIP Editors"

Trying to ban myself from working on freedom tech today, as ...

2026-06-22T09:11:56Z

Trying to ban myself from working on freedom tech today, as I've been neglecting my fiat-mining obligations

I've been obsessed by my open source stuff, because it's much more fun and important, but I need to do other boring stuff to pay the bills

I think others will do one, better than me, before me 🙂 And I ...

2026-06-21T20:08:37Z

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I think others will do one, better than me, before me 🙂

And I have plenty of other stuff to do

The channel factory idea doesn't require any particular ...

2026-06-21T12:19:42Z

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The channel factory idea doesn't require any particular extension to Ark. It's something that could - in theory - be done today

I think most of the code changes would be needed in Lightning, not in Arm

My guess is that we'll need to see more confidence that "basic Ark" works well, and that we have robust libraries and implementations and then the channel factory idea will catch on

I think I finally fully understand Ark, and will try to explain ...

2026-06-21T09:15:57Z

I think I finally fully understand Ark, and will try to explain it here:

(The swapping from the old round to the new round was what I didn't fully understand until I asked AI a few questions this morning)

Lightning already shows how two users can share one UTXO; both parties have a pre-signed transaction that they can broadcast at any time to spend the onchain 2-of-2 UTXO. That transaction spends that one UTXO and creates two new UTXOs which give each party their balance.

In Ark, it's basically the same, but with any number of users. The onchain UTXO is an n-of-n multisig instead of just 2-of-2. All parties have the necessary transactions which they can broadcast at any time. So every user has 'unilateral exit', they can broadcast these transactions at any time and get a single onchain UTXO with their balance belonging just the them.

These are the VTXOs (Virtual UTXOs). You can exercise your unilateral exit at any time by broadcasting your VTXOs.

(Pedantic detail that you don't really need to know: if there are 5 users, it's not a single transactions that spends the 5-of-5 *directly* to five different UTXOS, one for each of the five users. There is a tree of transactions, and each user has a copy of the *chain* of transactions that are necessary to get their balance out to a single UTXO under their control)

It's possible to receive payments at any time from another Ark user. But it requires a bit of trust (because the Ark Service Provider [ASP] and the sender could collude to take payment money that they sent to you) and therefore I won't discuss it in detail. Ark doesn't use the cool Lightning tech for instant settlement with commitment transactions. Therefore, I'll ignore this slightly-trusted part of Ark, and I will focus on the fully trustless parts, i.e. where Ark users have unilateral exit

If you already have 1000 sats locked up safely in one 'round' onchain, and you receive another 500 sats and you want those to be locked up safely, then you will need to take part in another round. This is where things get really interesting, and this is the bit I only just fully understood today ...

The ASP creates a new 'round', i.e. a new multsig output onchain that includes all the users who wish to take part. In this round, you will be assigned 1500 sats. i.e. you now have unilateral exit allowing you to take 1500 sats

But you still have the VTXOs from the first round, and so it seems like you could implement both exits and thereby claim 1000+1500 = 2500 sats, stealing 1000 sats from the Ark Service Provider

The solution is a 'forfeit' transaction. The ASP won't include the 1000 sats in the new round unless you first sign a 'forfeit' transaction and give that signature to the ASP. This gives control of your original 1000 sats to the ASP; if you broadcast the original VTXOs, then the ASP can use the forfeit to claim those 1000 sats for itself. There is a timelock in the VTXOs, in order to give the ASP sufficient time to broadcast the forfeit transaction

The forfeit therefore protects the ASP, because it stops the user from 'double exiting'. There can then be multiple on chain 'rounds', and you have a balance in all of them, but you are practically able to access only one of them [the latest one]. 'Your' money in the older round UTXOs isn't really yours any more.

But we must also protect the user! You, the user, don't want to forfeit your balance in the 'old' onchain UTXOs before the new 'round' is confirmed on chain. The solution here is 'connector outputs'; the forfeit transaction depends on outputs created in the new round and therefore the forfeit is ineffective until the new round is confirmed.

So now both the user and the ASP are protected. The user has a balance on-chain in the 'old' round, with full unilateral exit via their VTXOs, and they can trustlessly and atomically 'move' that into a 'new' onchain round. It's not instant, because the new rounds need to be confirmed on chain, but it is unilateral exit

So Ark is great at scalability, but it has a few downsides for the various parties:

It's not private

If you insist on full sovereignty, i.e. you don't trust the ASP, then Ark is slow like on-chain. If you want instant trustless final settlement, then Lightning is still the only option

From the ASP's point of view, they have to lock up a lot of liquidity. If a given user has a balance of 21,000 sats and there are five rounds with that balance, then the ASP actually has to lock up 105,000 sats on chain. Each round therefore has an expiry time built in, where all the funds go back to the ASP after that expiry time; this motivates all users to take part in a new round - or exit or otherwise spend their funds - before the expiry.

This sounds like I'm being quite critical of Ark. It sounds like I'm saying that it's as slow and as non-private as on-chain, and the only advantage is scale because many users can share a single UTXO.

However, this is where Lightning comes in again. Lightning shows how you can take a slow and transparent system, and then build private instant settlement on top of it

In the vision of 'Ark as a channel factory for Lightning' that René Pickhardt and others have been talking about for a couple of years, everyone can have a full Lightning node. They haven't channels with other people, doing (blind) routing over the Lightning network. They'll be paying for preimages in the usual way. They'll be sending 'commit transactions' over and back in the usual way. Fully Lightning in every way, no compromises. In this vision, everyone gets private instant settlment because they directly use Lightning

The subtlety in this approach is that, instead of Lightning channels being backed by conventional already-confirmed on-chain funding transactions, the funding transaction that backs the Lightning channel is instead an Ark VTXO. You and I can set up a Lightning channel without broadcasting that funding transaction; we are both satisfied that either of us can - at any time - broadcast the Ark VTXOs to get the funding transaction on chain. This allows us to do all the Lightning stuff *as if* the funding transaction is already on chain.

In this context, you would have to 'exit' twice in order to get your funds. The first 'exit' is the Ark exit, where you broadcast the VTXOs in order to create the 2-of-2 funding transaction for the Lightning channel, and then the second exit is where you broadcast your latest Lightning commitment transaction in order to split the the 2-of-2 into the final on chain balance for you and for your channel partner

In the 'channel factory', Lightning is still the Layer 2. All payments fully go through Lightning, giving us private instant settlement. Ark is like 'Layer 1.1', offering a wrapper over Layer 1 that is still slow and somewhat transparent, but which allows us to scale up the number of users that can fit on chain

That's fair. I just decided to be obsessive about this ...

2026-06-20T18:25:16Z

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That's fair. I just decided to be obsessive about this yesterday, no exceptions (for now) 😀

I can see you're engaging positively with the one or two names in this space that might actually be curious enough that they might be able to make progress

Same with @npub17u5…t4tp and reardencode today. I love their ...

2026-06-20T17:42:26Z

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Same with Jameson Lopp (npub17u5…t4tp) and reardencode today. I love their content on Twitter generally, but engagement with BIP-110 is too tedious. Unfollowing for now

The British sense of fun around elections is great. This is a ...

2026-06-19T12:00:15Z

The British sense of fun around elections is great. This is a genuine photo from last night of the UK's likely next prime minister with other candidates for the seat that he has just won. In every election, fun candidates run against the high profile politicians

I ran twice today. 7.5km each time It's nice to suddenly be ...

2026-06-18T19:53:15Z

I ran twice today. 7.5km each time

It's nice to suddenly be addicted to jogging again

I really want to buy some STRC now, it's just $86. Partly to ...

2026-06-18T14:40:21Z

I really want to buy some STRC now, it's just $86. Partly to troll the maxis, just buy a small amount for fun

But I bought too much BTC already this month and can't afford it!

On Twitter, I'm starting to unfollow people that give too ...

2026-06-18T10:20:02Z

On Twitter, I'm starting to unfollow people that give too much attention to BIP-110

I generally enjoy the content of folks like Shinobi (npub1xap…cnde) and adam3us (npub1qg8…24kw) , but BIP-110 is now so boring to me that I unfollow them until this is all over and until they stop giving oxygen to BIP-110 and to unrealistic relay policy generally

The "debate" died long ago, and we (the tolerant minority) have won

Even the Bugle Bugle_News (npub1563…c9n6) are running out of funny things to say about it; surely a sign that this topic is long dead

I first got properly into Bitcoin only last summer, and I had great fun arguing with Knotzis as I learned more about the topic. But there is nothing to be gained any more. Shinobi, it's time to accept that you won't get any satisfaction from Hodlonaut

I'm not sure if I'll engage with any replies; but of course I'll engage in good faith if I have met you in person and know that you're in good faith

I learned about cryptography in uni in the late 1900's Back ...

2026-06-17T13:58:54Z

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I learned about cryptography in uni in the late 1900's

Back in my day, RSA and MD5 were good enough for public key crypto and hashing respectively

Great story #nevent1q…ss3c

2026-06-17T12:44:05Z

Great story

quoting
nevent1q…ss3c
Just started listening to LynAlden (nprofile…2smn)'s The Stolguard Incident.

Can’t recommend it enough (and I can’t even say I read too much from/sci-fi). It’s been a nice break from my typical reading of nonfiction, politics, sociology, macro etc.

And man — walker (nprofile…f8xl) and CARLA (nprofile…8dxy) do a phenomenal job, so fun.

It’s also left me inspired to (at some point!!) get to work on the novel I want to write. Alas, work and fam life is busy right now…but hopefully soon.

I'll go to Bitdevs tomorrow. I missed it the last few months, ...

2026-06-16T22:00:12Z

I'll go to Bitdevs tomorrow. I missed it the last few months, sometimes from laziness and sometimes because I was out of town

Looking forward to it!

Adam Smith was pretty smart, but he got a lot of the history ...

2026-06-16T17:54:45Z

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Adam Smith was pretty smart, but he got a lot of the history wrong.

He was wrong to say that barter was typical. He didn't have access to the modern anthropological research.

He was writing in the late 1800's and was therefore, understandably, speculating on what seemed reasonable to him as he didn't have any good data to go on.

Of course, my point doesn't really address your point; you make a good point I guess. I'm just taking this opportunity to go a little off topic and ask everybody (not you, specifically) to be more nuanced in their research. Saifedean Ammous also makes embarrassing historical errors in his The Bitcoin Standard, and he doesn't have the same ignorance excuse that Smith had 😀

The next interesting step for MONAD (Tor/VPN, funded by Cashu ...

2026-06-16T15:11:10Z

The next interesting step for MONAD (Tor/VPN, funded by Cashu Spilman channels) is adding a nice management API; then I hope to have a nice dashboard web-app (maybe a PWA) to monitor and manage the wallet and the client and the relay.

I've been adding a lot of smaller things recently, like blinded paths and more stress testing and other little improvements. But it's time to wrap this up into something easy to use, like a Docker container with easy configuration and monitoring. Then I can start asking people to do some testing

quoting
nevent1q…7ajz
Mostly focussing on stress testing of MONAD, especially of the networking, in recent days.

Turns out that my little laptop can't take 250,000 TCP connections attempting to connect to the same ip_addr:port at the same time 😀. So I'll bind lots of listeners across 127.x.y.z

nevent1q…vl4x

Stop pretending that the UK's problems around internet ...

2026-06-16T14:19:58Z

Stop pretending that the UK's problems around internet freedom are because it's "left wing" or "communist" or "woke"

The current UK Labour party are famously quite right wing compared to previous Labour governments, and the UK generally is a bit more right wing than many European countries such as France

This isn't a left versus right issue. It's a mixture of (Epstein) evil, and incompetence

The manipulators want you to think that it's a left versus right issue, so that they can distract you with culture war crap. Engage your brain, and keep your eye on our real goals

You mean to skip the need for the receiver to be online to ...

2026-06-15T11:12:27Z

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You mean to skip the need for the receiver to be online to receive?

If I remember correctly, the bArk folks wrote a paper on how to do that, using hashes instead of signatures in something complex

I keep trying to do my fiat job, but I keep getting drawn into ...

2026-06-14T20:21:42Z

I keep trying to do my fiat job, but I keep getting drawn into freedom tech instead

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I've been busy with MONAD (cashu-funded Tor) in recent weeks. Various protocol improvements, and general stress testing under hundreds of simultaneous connections and hammering the payment channels

I started using KImiK2.7 and I like it so far. I'll use it for at least a few more days before trying to make a final judgement on it

Not sure yet. That's just from the intro. I'll try to ...

2026-06-14T10:52:45Z

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Not sure yet. That's just from the intro. I'll try to remember to reply again when I've read more of the essays themselves!

I'm reading a translation written in 1877. I understand it, but it's interesting how much English has changed since then.

I kinda understand a little French; maybe someday I'll be able to read the original in French

Nostr event nevent1qqsrgm6xz6alptjpsfhkc3qvu9a5arxa4zdd6rfkukghxpnchfz4ahqzyqfwuq73z6z2zfwas7lg08pgryzpt03l8v0v566w6apm6a8lmzqwvtshxht

2026-06-13T23:14:32Z

reading Montaigne's essays

The CLARITY Act is expected to have some new legislation to ...

2026-06-13T20:48:27Z

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The CLARITY Act is expected to have some new legislation to protect developers of any cryptocurrency. So that would be nice, regardless of the rest of any bill

and big corporations too. Perhaps even more important, in certain ...

2026-06-13T12:41:16Z

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and big corporations too. Perhaps even more important, in certain respects

This is a bit fake. I suspect Anthropic ask for these decisions ...

2026-06-13T06:59:18Z

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This is a bit fake. I suspect Anthropic ask for these decisions to be made

It all fits into the marketing pitch

A longer-term idea to minimize prompt injection: Hopefully, the ...

2026-06-12T22:18:57Z

A longer-term idea to minimize prompt injection:

Hopefully, the future will be all open models and they'll all be running on commodity server farms (using something like routstr (nprofile…gs7e) to buy and sell)

I know there is randomness when predicting tokens, but we should make it deterministic, i.e. pseudorandom

Each server should sign every response. We should send a small fraction of our requests to two servers simultaneously.

If two servers give a different response to the same request, then it's likely one has cheated. With the signatures, we can then prove which server farm misled us

I guess this is a bit complex, but it's a fun problem to think about

quoting
nevent1q…efya
AI Agents Still Can't Stop Prompt Injection Attacks, Researchers Warn
https://decrypt.co/370972/ai-agents-prompt-injection-attacks-research

Good read, on how Liquid keeps amounts private, while also being ...

2026-06-12T22:04:45Z

Good read, on how Liquid keeps amounts private, while also being immune to the kind of issue that affected zcash recently

(Not very much technical detail though; I should follow the references here to learn more)

quoting
nevent1q…ta6j
When you run a Bitcoin node, you can prove the 21 million cap yourself. Every block. No trust required.

The Zcash Orchard bug, undetected for four years, is a reminder of what you give up when supply verifiability is traded for privacy.

The LiquidNetwork (nprofile…0cnd) shows there is another way. Strong privacy with publicly verifiable supply.

https://blog.blockstream.com/what-the-zcash-orchard-bug-reveals-about-verifiable-supply/

BTC Yield will continue until morale improves #nevent1q…dc87

2026-06-12T21:01:28Z

BTC Yield will continue until morale improves

quoting
nevent1q…dc87
Some people understand the Bitcoin protocol

Some people understand finance and economics

Very few understand both, and therefore the folks that attack Strategy ("Ponzi") will continue while the haters of bitcoin ("boiling the oceans") will continue

Some people understand the Bitcoin protocol Some people ...

2026-06-12T21:00:18Z

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Some people understand the Bitcoin protocol

Some people understand finance and economics

Very few understand both, and therefore the folks that attack Strategy ("Ponzi") will continue while the haters of bitcoin ("boiling the oceans") will continue

X is funding them, to try to discredit Nostr

2026-06-12T20:36:38Z

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X is funding them, to try to discredit Nostr

I'm reading a Culture novel again now, for the first time ...

2026-06-11T20:09:39Z

I'm reading a Culture novel again now, for the first time since getting properly into Bitcoin and AI

There is a lot of AI in those stories, so it's interesting to read it now that it seems more realistic

And they're always pointing out that the Culture isn't so "organized"; no hierarchies and laws and so on. I guess it's what some anarchists would hope is possible

(They still have extraordinarily powerful armed forces though)

"Just transitory" @nprofile…ymg0 , monitoring the STRC ...

2026-06-10T16:38:42Z

"Just transitory"

Bugle_News (nprofile…ymg0) , monitoring the STRC de-peg

I enjoyed this much more than I expected I would. I love Steve ...

2026-06-10T12:56:33Z

I enjoyed this much more than I expected I would.

I love Steve Keen's work, he's excellent on economics and it's history, especially on how fiat works.

I was a bit worried that Peter McCormack would be too ideological, but he was willing to learn and you can see that they both enjoyed this discussion.

Keen isn't a bitcoiner (yet); they didn't really discuss bitcoin here. We need a way to combine his expertise with the facts about the world today (e.g. the existence of bitcoin)

https://youtu.be/6LPpih9-hwE

PS: After watching the entire debate, I must admit that much of ...

2026-06-07T21:37:20Z

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PS: After watching the entire debate, I must admit that much of it was kinda boring

Gammon brought more facts, so it was nice to see someone who has done their research on monetary history. But the signal-to-noise ratio could have been better (and would have been had I been there 😀)

I've never heard of this fuckstr character; gving them a ...

2026-06-07T21:04:31Z

In reply to nevent1q…lkwp
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I've never heard of this fuckstr character; gving them a follow now

(But might unfollow soon, I haven't checked any of their content yet)

This debate is interesting, about economics during and after ...

2026-06-07T20:35:44Z

This debate is interesting, about economics during and after hyperbitcoinization. Some good points, but I also wish I was there to intervene and point out some historical facts that they might not be aware of

Around 36:30, Gammon is pointing out that, after hyperbitcoinization, people will want to borrow Bitcoin and generally that there will be some demand for credit creation and fractional reserve banking. While that's true, it's misses the point that credit creation is difficult when inflation is low.

Today, I wouldn't want to borrow a bitcoin. Even if I didn't have to pay interest on it, I know it would be very difficult to repay the bitcoin in a year from now (unless, of course, I just sat on it). When an asset (like Bitcoin) is going up in value - and also when it finally settles to its final value - then it's difficult to borrow it because it's difficult for the two parties (the lender and the borrower) to agree on a positive number as the interest rate.

In the opening minutes, Gammon points out that the US money supply increased as much in the late 1800's - when the US was on a gold standard - as it did between 2003 and 2023. While the discussion on that was interesting, they didn't point out that the late 1800's was a period when gold mining was increasing the supply of gold at a very fast rate, thanks to improvements in mining technology. So basically, the economy did well during that period because of the inflation that was introduced by the gold standard.

Economies can sometimes do very well when the money supply ('raw' money, and/or credit) is increasing quickly (late 1800's), and also when there is good regulation of the financial system (US from around 1940 to 1970).

Bitcoin's instant private cash settlement of the hardest possible asset will have dramatic impacts on the financial system, many of them bad. On *average*, I have some optimistism that the pros will outweigh the cons, but it will still have some of the harmful effects due to its deflationary effects

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zECVTxmb-DI

Fun prediction: Strategy has been hammering STRC this week, ...

2026-06-07T17:19:40Z

Fun prediction:

Strategy has been hammering STRC this week, causing the price to de-peg to $93, and using the proceeds to buy a lot of BTC

To confirm that the event_id at the link matches the nevent in ...

2026-06-05T22:28:34Z

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To confirm that the event_id at the link matches the nevent in the screenshot:

$ nak encode nevent cce3ad3583968ccba5e47ed92296343aa2c9aaf7f8267455986f616358679fbe

Not sure if legally relevant, but I'm curious: What exactly ...

2026-06-05T14:32:15Z

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Not sure if legally relevant, but I'm curious:

What exactly does njump do? Is there browser-side code that queries the relays directly? Or do the njump servers query the relays and then forward the response to the browser?

Exactly Which is why I'm excited by the "Ark as channel ...

2026-06-05T11:47:08Z

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Exactly

Which is why I'm excited by the "Ark as channel factory" idea that René Pickhardt has been pushing

Ark doesn't really improve privacy, or settlement speed, compared to L1. It helps a *lot* with scaling though

So we build Lightning on top of Ark. Ark is Layer 1.5, and is much more scalable. Then we build Lightning directly on top of Ark, to get privacy and another big multiple of scalability

https://youtu.be/hqKQ4Rky3tY

I have a lot to say 🙂. I kinda agree, but calling it a problem ...

2026-06-05T11:34:53Z

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I have a lot to say 🙂.

I kinda agree, but calling it a problem of "the left" isn't helpful. Left vs right is losing more and more meaning, and some of the most "left" people I know (woke, trans activist, anti climate change warriors, supporters of public healthcare and public transport...) are also experts on money and the financial system and understand price signals and so on

And some of the biggest (financial) idiots I know are the "right wing" bitcoiners, who never studied economics in any way before bitcoin and who don't study anything outside the Bitcoin bubble. Pure pleb slop

I think you're trying to say that, even in an optimistic Star Trek post-scarcity future, there will still be limits on usage and energy use. Do we build indoor ski resorts everywhere? Do we Terraform Mars? Do we build a Space Elevator?

Individuals will de facto have an energy budget, and you rightly point out that money is the only sane way to both distribute resources (not necessarily "fairly") and to give price signals which encourage efficiency.

I generally unfollow people who give too much attention to those ...

2026-06-05T11:23:05Z

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I generally unfollow people who give too much attention to those fools

MrHodl has a good signal-to-noise recently, so I won't unfollow you any time soon 😃

I briefly had to unfollow Adam Back on Twitter for that reason

Since just before the first BIP110 client was released, I've ...

2026-06-05T11:12:33Z

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Since just before the first BIP110 client was released, I've been tracking daily the version of every Tor node known to my node

IIRC, less than 50 pre-Core30 nodes have switched to Knots or BIP110

I first started my Raspberry Pi node in August. It was Core v26 ...

2026-06-05T07:03:54Z

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I first started my Raspberry Pi node in August. It was Core v26

Literally the first thing I did was increase datacarriersize to 1MB and lower the fee rate

So don't assume the pre-30 nodes have any problem with v30