calvadev⚡️

https://calva.dev

shopstr.store founder | free market maximalist | ecash respecter | #bitcoin | #nostr

Public Key

npub16dhgpql60vmd4mnydjut87vla23a38j689jssaqlqqlzrtqtd0kqex0nkq

NIP-05 Address

calvadev@calva.dev

NIP-57 Address

calvadev@npub.cash

Profile Code

nprofile1qqsdxm5qs0a8kdk6aejxew9nlx074g7cnedrjeggws0sq03p4s9khmqpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq3samnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwd4hk6mmnw3ezuurfde4s7vnj80

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relay.momostr.pink

offchain.pub

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Last Notes

2025-04-06 15:56:51

Vote with your money, vote with your feet, and build in parallel; everything else is noise.

2025-04-06 09:00:38

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Yee, there are already filters for categories! There's several to choose from when adding a new listing, and art should be one of the categories available.
Auctions are also on the roadmap to add, so that will come in due time. 🤙

2025-04-04 16:00:19

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The middleware, next image optimizations, service worker, and next/tailwind config files are typically what cause a lot of the issues even if error messages are telling you otherwise. If things were working before the migration, it's almost guaranteed that it's not a problem with your code and that the next server configs need to be tweaked in some way.

2025-04-04 15:53:35

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If only I was based enough to have learned it before getting into JavaScript hell, lol.

2025-04-04 13:10:53

After almost two weeks of troubleshooting, this is finally resolved:
#nevent1q…d0ff
#nevent1q…4lp3
New @nprofile…0uz8 release (finally) coming #soon™!
Note to everyone: try to avoid Next.js at all costs... 😅

2025-04-01 23:32:12

GM 🇲🇾
https://haven.calva.dev/0720926b4cf445a02966e34f52b3a80a678fdaee04100850142619e64ccf782e.jpg

2025-04-01 13:22:11

FUCKING TAILWIND CONFIG GODDAMN IT

2025-04-01 02:00:41

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Working on it...
https://shopstr.store

2025-03-30 08:44:00

GM 🏴‍☠️
Physical law is the only limiting factor; everything else is subject to our will.

2025-03-28 16:46:19

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No escrow in the new NIP. Escrow is an entirely separate business avenue by itself, and really can't be handled without a trusted third-party as it needs dispute resolution with active information review.
The most interesting concept I've seen for handling it over Nostr (at least the dispute resolution) is being used with Mostro:
https://github.com/grunch/mostro-mediator
It allows those involved in a trade to selectively reveal information to a trusted third-party for review.
The actual mechanism of holding funds isn't too hard to do (just needs HODL invoices or P2PK-locked Cashu token); it's the third-party review that makes things complex.

2025-03-28 09:49:31

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Callaita - Bad Bunny

2025-03-26 20:17:24

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Yeah, I'm looking to migrate rn. The dependency hell is especially apparent with Next. Vanilla JS is the definitely the way.

2025-03-26 17:13:37

What started as what I thought would be a simple Next.js update from v14 to v15 ended up becoming a 3 day endeavor to try and fix my entire development environment, ending with me having to revert back to v14 for anything to work... 🙃

2025-03-25 18:30:57

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The more of these, the merrier:
https://fiatjafbuzz.com

2025-03-24 19:35:11

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Had to sell a whole coin for this.

2025-03-24 18:29:44

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Even the tables are unaffordable.

2025-03-24 16:24:40

Dinner is served.
https://haven.calva.dev/dc2fbaa21bc0be0644ff8b3db85dc0d05a42abbdbae10b1782ac2a0fb12c7991.jpg

2025-03-23 17:15:04

Finally wrapping up on the Great Refactor of the @nprofile…0uz8 codebase. Not much functional change apart from more efficient event fetching, so now everything can be fetched at once and displayed up front rather than requiring shoppers to manually "load more" to see older listings, including their own. Biggest thing was abstracting the signer checks for NIP-07, NIP-46, and encrypted nsecs, so implementing new Nostr functionality just requires dropping in a signer object and the respective signing calls are handled on the fly. Passphrase inputs for unencrypting locally stored nsecs are now also capable of being remembered across an existing session, removing the need for constant inputting at each page route.
https://github.com/shopstr-eng/shopstr/commit/d1b726866740b119547632e9c1011812ec780e92
Still a few minor improvements to add here and there, but generally able to focus more on some new merchant tooling and discovery/trust mechanisms! Be on the lookout... 👀
#shopfreely #SovEng 🫡🏴‍☠️

2025-03-20 09:14:07

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Their latest data and privacy policy changes.

2025-03-20 03:52:13

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Brave primarily, but I also have the Mullvad Browser and Tor.

2025-03-20 03:50:42

Finally migrated off of Firefox...
Only took me around hour and a half! 😅

2025-03-19 23:57:41

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GDP and GNP measured in sats flow on an product-by-product basis would be an ideal check metric.
Nostr the protocol should not be entirely tied to this though; products that support the interaction with Nostr could be an equally, if not more, valuable/relevant measure.

2025-03-19 16:56:13

G'day 🏴‍☠️
https://haven.calva.dev/27f5d51488e39dea8486f5f3338afc70d7a4fe0fb497bc58594599cb601ba247.jpg

2025-03-19 12:14:30

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Or they know and are just trying to get their bag before it's too late...

2025-03-18 15:03:23

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A bunch of car support and open-source as well. If they could add support for early-2000s and earlier cars, it would be incredible.

2025-03-18 12:24:35

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Can't zap btw!

2025-03-18 00:32:49

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I'd love to get one!

2025-03-17 18:30:48

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https://youtu.be/ngX1nIvnMOM

2025-03-15 16:13:47

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Just DMd!

2025-03-15 01:54:30

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100%

2025-03-15 01:49:22

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Awesome! If you're interested in a Nostr-native way of selling your line, you could try listing them on @nprofile…0uz8 when they're ready.
https://shopstr.store

2025-03-14 23:19:05

This thesis is what backs @nprofile…0uz8's mission: increasing the accessibility of the circular economy so much so as to make the legacy system irrelevant. Permissionlessness, privacy, and permeability come free.
#nevent1q…t3us

2025-03-13 04:39:16

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You could try listing your products on @nprofile…0uz8!
https://shopstr.store

2025-03-12 18:33:05

Rejection of religion isn't rejection of faith. One can be an atheist who believes in the strength of encryption, for example, but their belief is just that: a belief. There is no proof that P ≠ NP, and thus actions done with that underpinning are led by faith. Human action and growth have to be driven by faith in something; otherwise, we wouldn't have the will to do anything.
What rejection of religion is is a denial of a human construct of control that, regardless of how benevolent and pure its foundation claims to be, has without fail been used to subjugate and divide humanity. Religion can be useful at an individual, self-actualizing level, but that utility breaks down and is higly likely to become corrupted at a societal one.
Humans are inherently moral and driven to act in their self-interest, which, when taken to its maximum, is actually a collective interest. Every day we evolve to work and fight with one another to reach a point of pure oneness; it's just a volatile path to get there. There doesn't need to be a "God" to tell us this; we're all a sliver of the universe, a realization of its consciousness, part of a greater whole, and the crowning of a higher class of entity denies us the agency to live that reality to its fullest.

2025-03-12 17:19:58

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https://medium.com/@LeightonPeart/religion-as-control-b7e2d95efee8

2025-03-12 04:06:41

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https://fiatjafbuzz.com

2025-03-11 22:02:11

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I think it's less of a need for governance and more of a need for trust and enforcement systems that are voluntary and easy to exit. The mandatory coercion and extraction are what should be ended, not government or "state" more broadly.
It's also fine to opt-out of governance if that's what you desire; at least then you're willfully taking on the trade-offs of leaving a centrally coordinated system.
This is why systems like the network state are incredibly interesting and carry a lot of potential for the future of human coordination.
#tns 🏳️

2025-03-11 16:00:29

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I thought you would say this... 😅
I now how you feel about ecash, so I won't even go there. With zaps I can somewhat see what you mean, but the fundamental thing is that it changes the consumer behavior to go out for your way to pay someone for something that was put out for free, and that alone is quite powerful in shifting the way people use the internet and money over it.

2025-03-11 09:26:41

Social media is the first step in bootstrapping the "trust" network and proving the utility of Nostr. The problem is that social-first is highly saturated and honestly not that interesting; the "global" view and town square models have largely been captured and also don't seem sustainable and reliable over time as AI fills more and more of the content landscape. Unless the focus is on more niche and nascent communities, this is not what will allow Nostr to grow; we can see this with the relative lack of user inflows during outage and censorship events (though those tools are obviously much better served on Nostr than siloed platforms, so it's still a very important thing to work towards freeing the town square).
What will supplant standard social media as the driver for greater adoption will be placing the movement of money at the front and center of applications. This means marketplaces, yes, but also more UX focused on encouraging and reducing the friction of social monetary movement, like baked-in wallets, zap-first feeds, and (of course) nuts in emojis. Money makes the trade-offs between the silos and open networks much more obvious and incentivizes users to learn to care. Owning the social graph and content itself is powerful, but not convincing enough; the capital flow that the social graph unlocks is key.
#nevent1q…v6qw

2025-03-10 21:15:14

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You can try listing them on @nprofile…0uz8!
https://shopstr.store

2025-03-10 16:39:32

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You can get a free trial of YouTube TV to watch it.

2025-03-10 14:57:59

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I think state licensed companies could be a good way to try and brute force change in the system by pushing the bounds for how the law is structured. It is definitely harder in the short-term, but potentially more fruitful in the long-term. Especially if done in the open, state licensed companies can essentially operate separately from whatever ventures they are working on in the sense that the IP is available for anyone to "fork," maintain, and build out if the corporate efforts don't end up working out (Samourai being an example of this).

2025-03-10 05:54:42

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Vibes.

2025-03-09 22:52:41

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Ayooo...

2025-03-08 08:12:57

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Once I get a new device.

2025-03-08 03:24:19

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Well worth it; finished reading it for the first time last week. It's interesting to see how many of the predictions made in the book are playing out today. I alao generally think a lot of the things people say it "got wrong" are actually just starting to kick off.

2025-03-08 01:58:00

The Sovereign Individual "theory of the firm" is playing out, slowly but surely...
#nevent1q…0sl5
#nevent1q…rtrx

2025-03-07 22:55:54

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I was thinking about exactly this the last couple days. It's a little nerve wrecking to consider dipping into the stack, but even if you're spending, your purchasing power is still likely increasing. On top of that, if the venture you're pursuing with the capital adds value back to the ecosystem, the virtuous cycle can get greatly magnified. A civilizational hack indeed!

2025-03-07 21:59:26

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#tns 🏳️

2025-03-07 17:50:05

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Time will tell...
https://thenetworkstate.com/american-anarchy-chinese-control-international-intermediate

2025-03-06 22:17:36

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Doing Satoshi's work! ✊

2025-03-06 21:38:20

#tns 🏳️
#nevent1q…2r7y

2025-03-06 19:45:06

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Bottom-up over top-down all day. 🤝

2025-03-06 19:19:38

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Wired air tube headphones are the way.

2025-03-06 04:43:04

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That's a good point since most might not be familiar with Cashu; defaulting to the Lightning address then Cashu if no Lightning address exists is probably a better way of handling it.
Ideally, there will be also be a NIP-89 handler that recommends the merchants' preferred app, and the client would link out to that app to finalize payment and/or marketplace implementers add support for the 'payment_preference' field in kind 0 (this is specced out in the [revised marketplace NIP](https://github.com/GammaMarkets/market-spec)).

2025-03-06 01:37:57

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You keep cooking, I'll keep pushing!

2025-03-06 01:37:27

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It defaults to the Cashu DM payment unless the npub has a payment preference set to "lightning" in their profile metadata (either set from Shopstr or another market).

2025-03-05 23:55:01

Got some @nprofile…0uz8 updates to report on since it's been a minute!
Recently, I've primarily been focused on QoL improvements and general code cleanup related to performace and reliability before working on some new stuff. If you haven't noticed, here are a few of the bigger changes:
- As a merchant, you can now set a donation rate on sales that goes back to support the site's development and maintenance
https://github.com/shopstr-eng/shopstr/commit/b0fc2bb725d8d432be669ee121b6c7183dba05b9
- Merchants can now also set their payment preference to receive a Cashu token via DM (the usual) or directly to the Lightning address set on their Nostr profile, making manual claiming unnecessary
https://github.com/shopstr-eng/shopstr/commit/f4c92ce165e64d87200b9302835888a5b107319f
- The built-in NIP-60 wallet got updated to the latest revision of the spec and is generally more reliable than before
https://github.com/shopstr-eng/shopstr/commit/b0b06cf67b096a2d48e86b12335cdd9d7cf58377
- Multi-image uploads are now supported, as well as naddr-based search and page routing (h/t @nprofile…nkr4 and @nprofile…4ddm for the suggestions)
https://github.com/shopstr-eng/shopstr/commit/62db9a01d2411f6ef9a623f798302c0c1d52abd6
- Some extensions (primarily Nostr Connect) don't support NIP-44 encryption yet, so that's now checked before allowing you to use the site while signed-in
https://github.com/shopstr-eng/shopstr/commit/85a2cedc5ca3a9a40cb4b360df4322e03a1c9f78
Also, don't forgort to update your Umbrel, Start9, and/or Tor instances if you're running one! Simply pulling the latest image source and rebuilding should do the trick.
Back to building. 🫡

2025-03-05 22:22:47

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NIP-26 sort of fits this description:
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/26.md

2025-03-05 17:07:59

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Found a PDF version:
https://ia801807.us.archive.org/34/items/second-realm-digital/Second%20Realm%20Paperback%20New.pdf

2025-03-05 06:24:25

h/t @nprofile…gcaj
#SovEng
https://haven.calva.dev/b5d9fce5b1e67d42d6421866474de4035d2944096c02d2c2ba536b66b7b03694.jpg

2025-03-04 23:48:05

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You can also comply and not pay them with different tax strategies. Again, it's your responsibility to prepare and your fault if you get got.

2025-03-04 22:56:50

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Seems like my Alby address is borked, I can zap but have had issues getting zapped.

2025-03-04 22:04:55

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Seizure does not scale at an individual level. There will most likely be people who get their coins seized, yes, but those will be the people who didn't prepare and were unfortunately too care-free about their custody setups. This can be seen with the gold seizures.
Also, nationwide seizures are more indicative of a failing state rather than a failure of Bitcoin. If this were to come, it would be more of a signal for people to flee and for others not to enter that particular state. Those who own Bitcoin will be most well equipped to do so.

2025-03-04 21:59:37

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Love this one.

2025-03-04 07:28:33

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Building is anti-fragile.

2025-03-04 05:46:56

https://open.spotify.com/track/4nIUG37BrbiNQzv9pLB7zq

2025-03-04 03:31:56

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This is just government-linked addresses, though, right?

2025-03-03 23:04:21

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Mmhm, this is a tasty burger!

2025-03-03 20:31:08

Exit.
https://youtu.be/cOubCHLXT6A
#nevent1q…htrk

2025-03-03 18:31:27

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Coffee on tap; ready to go!

2025-03-03 17:47:04

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This is the way.

2025-03-03 06:50:10

The very reason why I'm building @nprofile…0uz8:
#nevent1q…cuwj

2025-03-03 05:59:27

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Should be required reading in schools.

2025-03-03 05:59:11

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Awesome! I got a few pages left.

2025-03-02 20:52:37

Sunday vibes...
https://haven.calva.dev/361f3e352a5fcbbab5f760c6f451e1c38947887bb67afb698df1c91f849cdada.jpg

2025-03-02 10:17:40

#Nostr: the wild (and infinite) frontier! 🏴‍☠️
https://haven.calva.dev/7fe3459c4efd2ab88276bb38b5bdd486d233315550a57860134d4e25bc7c82ff.gif
#nevent1q…jyac

2025-03-02 08:09:50

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Need to get on that now that Firefox is dead...

2025-03-02 08:08:22

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Too true... 😅

2025-03-02 07:58:19

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Just played Chinese checkers, too.

2025-03-02 07:22:58

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It'll always be a nutsack in my heart... 😂

2025-03-02 02:07:59

Live; no one else is going to do it for you.
https://haven.calva.dev/50748335cd79592db99f0568ec591fdf18332b4a524d030021f3e8c25a267413.jpg

2025-03-01 02:46:59

https://genius.com/J-cole-brackets-lyrics

2025-02-27 16:33:52

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Node is up and running; might be an Alby Hub or client issue. On Amethyst it sometimes takes me a couple clicks to finally get a zap through.

2025-02-27 16:31:00

If non-physical law is all that stands between you and the tyranny of men, your system is doomed to fail.
#nevent1q…9wky

2025-02-27 15:57:53

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GM!

2025-02-27 06:14:20

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Yes; I work on supporting merchants who accept Bitcoin on Nostr!

2025-02-27 06:11:14

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1) Worked on @nprofile…0uz8
2) Supported Nostr merchants
3) Zapped plebs
4) Ran a relay and node
5) Solo mined

2025-02-27 06:04:51

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The natural order of human cooperation counterintuitively trends towards decentralized organizations.

2025-02-27 05:58:19

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I'd rather sell my citizenship to "downgrade" to a green card.

2025-02-27 05:18:53

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This is the way.

2025-02-27 03:10:17

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They're so good! I'm usually not the biggest fan of mint in chocolate, but these are delicious. Definitely ordering more once you reup.

2025-02-27 01:26:07

🤙🍫
h/t @nprofile…cqj7
https://haven.calva.dev/7f6e642aead80dae1ed451113efb76d53f12419b584800584826a0f3ea1c7fb8.jpg

2025-02-26 06:52:15

#tns 🏳️
"[...] when we say that a network state has “consensual government limited by a social smart contract”, we mean that it exercises authority over a digital (and, eventually, physical) sphere constituted solely of those people who’ve opted in to its governance by signing a social smart contract with their [Nostr keys], in much the same way they might “opt in” to the governance of a centralized exchange by depositing coins there."
- @nprofile…9kcm
#naddr1qq…lr8y

2025-02-26 05:04:26

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Jersey Mike's is where it's at.

2025-02-26 04:09:30

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Gotta add @nprofile…0uz8 to the client list!
http://6fkdn756yryd5wurkq7ifnexupnfwj6sotbtby2xhj5baythl4cyf2id.onion/

2025-02-26 02:13:57

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You can try out @nprofile…0uz8!
https://shopstr.store

2025-02-26 00:01:08

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This is awesome to see being thought out!

2025-02-25 19:18:55

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I see purpose as finding what makes you happy and makes you feel like your life has meaning, and that aligns with any value set.

2025-02-25 01:10:17

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The pseudonymity of Bitcoin is a feature, not a bug. The anonymity set keeps large players in check while bringing power to the smaller individuals. Sure, on-chain activity can be tracked and linked, but we already have ways of minimizing this.
Monero also has relatively little liquidity and it's privacy can be broken due to the low anonymity set if a large actor really wanted to.