Last Notes
Unless it’s cautionary “yeah really don’t do X, messed me up real bad” kind of advice
The never-ending “yes honey, of course I need more tools”
October 31st 1517 – Martin Luther posts his 95 theses and begins the protestation
January 3rd 1521 – Martin Luther is excommunicated by Pope Leo X
October 31st 2008 – Whitepaper day
January 3rd 2009 – Genesis block
Curious, wonder what Satoshi meant by that
Appreciate the transparency, thanks for handling my smash buy without a problem 💯
So many alts absolutely rekt lmao. Already playing the “WHO BELW UP???!” blame game.
Retards should’ve just bought Bitcoin
Damn, I clearly failed to predict that the drama would (d)evolve somewhat 🤣
#nevent1q…z7uj
Buy the dip! Sats on sale!
Man, I’ve missed volatility.
Hello, old friend!
Steady lads, deploying more Zyns
Has anyone made a Luke bot yet that randomly replies “False” or “Liar” under posts?
Interesting #UX site https://builtformars.com/case-studies/chase
My feelings about Roger Ver vs IRS & should he be pardoned are a superposition of “I am a generous god” Xerxes and “There will be no glory in your sacrifice” Xerxes
I love how the Yen carry trade has its own emoji 💱
Now that mempools have cleared again I would like to see a grovelling apology from everyone that lost their minds about ordinals 'spam'
He’s bang on here 🎯
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Do you really think BRICS is interested in adding a meme coin to their reserves, or one controlled by an American CEO? Do you believe they’d choose a USD stablecoin issued by an American company trying to position itself as a neo-Federal Reserve Bank?
Or are they far more likely to adopt the coin that has been relentlessly vilified and condemned by the U.S. for over 15 years precisely because it operates beyond U.S. control? The coin that guarantees sovereign access to block space, ensuring transactions cannot be censored or denied, provided they continue to possess the physical power and infrastructure *they've already invested in.*
What many on my news feed fail to grasp is that we are not the only ones who get a vote. The question of “What should be in America’s crypto reserve?” isn’t about what Americans want. The next global reserve asset, by definition, will be the one chosen by other nations—particularly our global competitors. And BRICS will almost certainly favor the asset that offers the greatest independence from U.S. influence—the one that is demonstrably censorship-resistant, provably decentralized, and sovereign. The one that wasn’t premined. The one that isn’t being shilled by cringey, wannabe American influencers. The one the U.S. barely owns, thanks to its own hubris and shortsightedness on this issue.
Our personal preferences are the least important factor in choosing the right assets for our national stockpile, and this is a matter of national strategic importance. The only question that truly matters is this: What assets are *other* countries—especially our adversaries—most likely to choose?
If you cannot confidently say that nations like China or Russia will add massive amounts of your favored crypto asset to *their* strategic reserves, then you are being insincere—and you’re undermining the future security and prosperity of this nation.
Knock it off.
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#note1vwx…0dxq
Feel like we need a better argument against “Why not other crypto too?” for any sovereign stockpile (SBR).
Currently we’ve got “because Bitcoin scarce” (arguments that others aren’t don’t feel robust enough), “because they’re premined” (makes sense but need to explain why people should care), “because XRP funded Harris” (this is a vibes & politics argument but might work)
Now feels a good time to remind you, anon, that you were certain Bitcoin was gonna win back when the US Gov was actively fighting it and we all assumed the US was going to be the last to embrace it.
Things have only got better, you only need to worry if they get worse than that was.
Ripple’s shitty antics only concern me at the level of feeling pity for the people that’ll lose a lot of money because of them.
Don’t really even care if SBR turns out to be a National Cryptoasset Shitheap. They’ll work it out eventually.
Bitcoin doesn’t need a nod from the President to keep trucking.
Are there any other Proton Nostr accounts or just Wallet (for now!)
It's great they sent a third rover to get a pic of the helicopter and Ingenuity together 🥰
Yeah, it's difficult -- 'normal' people don't know how Swift, Fedwire, SEPA, FasterPayments, CHAPS, CHIPS, NSS, BACS, ACH, Visa etc. etc. *work* or how they even relate to each-other and what they actually *do*, they can just use the appropriate one in a pretty seamless way without having to think about it. Ultimately we'll have to match and exceed that usability, but it's a harder (or at-least rather different) problem to solve without relying on the "do it centrally and let your bank handle that for you" option.
You’re almost certainly going to be right, maybe 0.5% chance this will be an ‘anyone can use’ API
Linkydoo: https://opensats.org/donate
Brink also fund work on Bitcoin Core: https://brink.dev/donate
Also because Craig is a legend: https://www.sparrowwallet.com/donate/
Before I get jumped on, I’m not saying Assange donations aren’t warranted, but OpenSats and others are funding critical work that doesn’t always have the immediacy to rake in large sums, and it’s a slow grind where it is hard to see “what you got” for your donation — nonetheless, you can’t donate to Assange, fight the good fight, or use Bitcoin at all and talk about it on Nostr if it they don’t work, and OpenSats and others are funding that good work
I’m slightly upset that more Bitcoin has been donated to Assange’s flight (₿ 8.104) than to @npub10pe…n34f ever (₿ 5.369) 😢
Going to guiltily go donate to FOSS Bitcoin devs and maybe you should too, if you’re able
Thanks for reporting, saw on GitHub 🤙 -- for anyone else reading this was fixed (https://github.com/AngusP/phoenixd-lnurl/pull/14)
Apple Pay Tap to Cash
iiiinteresting…… I wonder if this might be useful for us or if it’ll be heavily nerf’d
https://m.primal.net/IfqT.png
I've been happy with Firefox, has some good extensions like "Tab Containers"
The Bitcoin protocol is like dial-up modem protocols and no I don’t think I’ll elaborate
Yeah I did, thankfully the underlying issue that was blocking Zaps is fixed but now I’ve got to add some kind of persistence for zap notes (as phoenixd now won’t remember them for me) and want to do it in a minimally-complex way to avoid adding a ‘proper’ DB
Yeah I couldn’t find orange 😭 but this was close enough and does match the LAMY
“Leak: EU governments double down on penalising privacy-friendly and encrypted messaging services with chat control bulk scanning orders”
Badbadbadbadbad, #EU #chatcontrol not looking good (not that it could ever look good)
https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/leak-eu-governments-double-down-on-penalising-privacy-friendly-and-encrypted-messaging-services-with-chat-control-bulk-scanning-orders/
Being a Bitcoiner is a bit exactly like being an Audiophile.
Some of us just love music; others love arguing about the best equipment and “the right way” to do everything and have strange fetishes for specific brands of cap and gold plated everything and hate on others for just having fun - while normies still think we’re all a bit mad but we’re sure they’ll feel liberated when they finally get it 😂
iPod gang
https://m.primal.net/INFr.jpg
You can put like 500GB/1TB in these puppies and get like a week or more of battery live now with mods!
Though I am expecting pain and a sync rugpull in a few years moving to a new Mac 😂
Rather randomly, I’ve recently picked up an old #iPod classic 5th gen and am loving it so far.
(despite the upgrade to use SD card storage being way harder than it’s supposed to be on this cursed iPod 🤣)
iPods are low time preference. Streaming is just somebody else’s music. Listening to a podcast on an iPod is strangely a more engaging experience, and interruption free - you can’t just check Twitter/Nostr/get a call.
A related note, I can’t find an existing solution for “buy my whole music library” which is weird because I want to give someone money and they’re making it hard 🤷♂️
Also Apple Music is a bit jank with importing MP3s - it works, but 50/50 whether it matches to the streaming version of the album you already had (yay) or creates duplicates (not yay)
$1B ‘valuation’ with 350k paid users and ~$600k revenue is a hilariously high PE ratio of what, 1666x?! And people think Tesla is crazy overpriced at a meagre PE of 80x ish
#note17x8…2keg
🙋♂️ Hoffmann is pretty great
(Though I’ll enjoy a Gregg’s coffee too given how cheap it is)
Huh? 99% of 2FA setups include a set of backup codes that you should write down. I'm not sure copying/saving the QR is a great idea... IIRC there's also at-least one 2FA I saw where the precise time you set it up was imporant, i.e. if you re-scanned the QR tomorrow the codes were completely different
This does sound pretty insane, though the counterfactual "what would have been the 'criminal funds generated annually' had €0 been spent on compliance instead of €144Bn" is worth thinking about (that which is unseen) -- but the bar is still very high, if expenditure is €144Bn then the crime it prevented would have to be on the order of €1Tn to be merely ~10% complicance loss... which is a lot of 'crime'.
I am currently obsessed with Radicle and trying to shill it to anyone that’ll listen 🤣
Increasingly thinking “on top of Nostr” isn’t a good idea, Radicle’s protocol seems very well thought out.
Feels like adding Nostr would be unnecessary mess - storing everything (code, issues, PRs, identity/ownership *in* git itself is kinda genius)
@npub1sg6…f63m I seriously think you should look at radicle.
(Only slightly butthurt that it’s ED25519 not the clearly superior bestest curve Secp256k1 😂)
I can see why it doesn’t, similarly AFAIK Mutiny doesn’t, because you don’t really need them for the use case of end-user spending wallets on a phone. But they are kinda required for Nostr Zaps to work properly
I took a look a few weeks ago when it was WIP, but not more recently. Assume they’ve not found a workaround for description hashes? (Pretty sure that’s not possible? 🤔)
It does, just not with a message in them
Compare: https://app.radicle.xyz/nodes/seed.radicle.garden/rad:z4G6sJdYgCqKswKnrBbYgn9QaHBqh vs https://github.com/AngusP/phoenixd-lnurl/
Checking out https://radicle.xyz, a P2P Git thingy -- I really like what I'm seeing... It's not Nostr but I'm not sure it would actually be better if it was. Supports DIDs so `did:btc:...` (Orange) and `did:key:` for Secp256k1 keys (bitcoin and nostr) would work, they're just not implemented (yet 😏)
Nostr-based decentralised git things also progressing (https://gitworkshop.dev/ and probably others?), which is great, beacuse IMO there's so much complacency around GitHub as the one big centralised repository for all open-source software just continuing to work fine forever.
#git #radicle
💯 -- though can be a bit of a pain when they're all 99 but not 100% compatible! Gossip (https://github.com/mikedilger/gossip) is a great one to have even if you use others more often, as it can save you from some other client nuking your follows as it only publishes list changes when you ask it to