Doc Orange
Tommy Volk

https://lightningvend.com/

Anarcho-Capitalist
Software Engineer
Making the state obsolete

Public Key

npub1jgnwmgfxcch992rkaqm5sk740vzsnpnmkrrnrm3pxu3uv6smmc8qhkqcgk

NIP-05 Address

tommy@bitcoinpark.com

NIP-57 Address

billowingnight50@getalby.com

Profile Code

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relay.primal.net

relay.damus.io

relay.snort.social

Author Public Key

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2024-10-27 00:16:18

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Ah ok I think we’re just disagreeing over definitions then. I’d describe that as permissive parenting. Can’t say I disagree with your original post now.

2024-10-26 23:32:52

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What do you define as gentle parenting? I define it as not using violence or the threat of violence against your kids.

2024-10-26 23:06:36

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Bad take. Hitting kids is pretty shitty.

2024-10-16 14:47:03

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Respect you hiding your kids’ faces

2024-10-09 06:43:47

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I knew it

2024-10-08 20:40:50

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Heck yeah, I be there!

2024-09-30 04:00:37

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Completely agree! This topic is long overdue for deep discussion in Christian circles. Thank you @npub177p…j2tk, you’re doing the world a great service! Just pre-ordered the Kindle version.

2024-09-29 20:51:53

Fuck democracy

2024-09-28 04:12:59

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Hell yeah

2024-09-23 13:29:17

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Agreed. Spam attacks could have been done in disclosed and responsible ways, or in non-production relays that don’t affect real users.

2024-09-20 02:57:45

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W00T!!! Super excited to get this in the hands of fellow Nostr peeps!

2024-09-19 21:21:38

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Ayyyy!!! Super excited to help drive the protocol forward!

2024-09-18 21:54:48

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Biggest frustrations?

2024-09-17 15:50:50

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Apparently asking about this may violate OpenAI’s usage policies 🖕 https://image.nostr.build/d4b2127bd9e5b3a2e09f43bd145e0026f7892adac981a4e221c954cc4694f4cc.jpg

2024-09-17 04:37:32

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I’m working on one! It’s like the Alby chrome extension, but it’s a desktop app. Very early stage. There aren’t any supported desktop apps that can request event signings yet, but I’m working with @npub1ygz…60k2 who is building a desktop app that will be compatible. I’m also planning on building a chrome extension so it will work on the web as well.
https://github.com/nodetec/keystache

2024-09-17 02:20:36

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Store the note locally. If all relays purge it, you can always rebroadcast it.

2024-09-16 21:38:02

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On X you can screenshot a post. On Nostr you can save the actual post. Kinda wild.

2024-09-15 13:22:50

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Keeps magically scrolling me back to the top 🙄

2024-09-13 15:35:19

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It continues to baffle me the extent to which the boomer generation (with exceptions OF COURSE) just blindly believes what they're told from "authorities". My best explanation is that they grew up in a high-trust society, took it for granted, pillaged & destroyed it, and haven't come to terms with the fact that they now live in a low-trust society since that would require a collective admission that they completely fucked up.

2024-09-11 03:54:10

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Hell yeah

2024-09-09 12:20:15

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Only one word away from rhyming. I can never forgive wasting such an opportunity.

2024-09-08 17:56:00

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It’s the “who will build the roads” argument, just dressed up a bit different. “If government doesn’t suppress bad speech, who will?” Same answer: It doesn’t matter. Coercively controlling speech is evil and consequentialism doesn’t justify its use.

2024-09-07 16:30:56

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Possibly @npub1ygz…60k2 ‘s Comet Notes desktop app: https://github.com/nodetec/Comet/releases

2024-09-07 16:04:42

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Completely agree. Fiat shills are the prison guards that enslaved us in order to shield themselves from the consequences of their bad decisions. Now that we found a way to escape in secret, why would we announce it to them?

2024-09-06 16:27:31

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In order to shield yourself from bots, you have to wall yourself off from brand new accounts. There’s no getting around that, since bot runners can spin up as many new accounts as they want. The best way for new human users to bootstrap is probably to assimilate into the web-of-trust of someone they know. And if you’re a real human joining Nostr, it’s almost certainly because you already know someone who’s on it. Just ask them to follow you and that’s reasonable proof to others that you’re not a bot.

2024-09-05 14:06:11

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Working on one with an integrated fedimint wallet! (Generously funded by OpenSats, thank you!)
Will try to have a first release in a few weeks!

2024-09-04 14:34:48

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You too man! Great chatting with you. Always nice to find fellow Nostr folks in meatspace!

2024-09-03 18:50:37

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I don't think that's quite the right question to ask. The _reason_ for the divorce is such an important factor. The divorce rate for verbally/physically abusive marriages should be 100% (ideally 100% of a very small number). The divorce rate due to financial stress should be 0% but is currently being artificially skewed by fiat money. I don't think having a divorce rate of 1% is inherently bad if it is an accurate reflection of people's happiness with their relationship choices.

2024-09-02 18:02:08

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Extremely well put, 💯 resonate with this

2024-09-02 12:22:12

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Not an answer to your question, but if you’re annoyed by how slow clippy is, it sounds like there’s work being done to speed it up significantly: https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-project-goals/2024h2/optimize-clippy.html

2024-09-01 23:23:50

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I second this thought. I’m consistently surprising not only by how few people would like to consistently raise the fed interest rate until it’s above the free-market rate, but how few people even understand that idea at all.

2024-09-01 16:11:00

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🎯
It’s a solution to a problem that people don’t have - yet

2024-09-01 03:41:32

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It feels good to look at, but yeah I agree. The dollar will continue to be a worse and worse yard stick to measure economic value against. In the long run we’ll just stop measuring against it.

2024-08-29 17:16:57

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I have! Finished the first chapter a few days ago. Enjoying it so far, and I hate most fiction 😅

2024-08-29 13:00:27

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Yeah man!

2024-08-29 12:57:00

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My two favorite things in one book? Need

2024-08-28 18:38:33

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We’re headed to the right side of the Laffer curve, boys. Buckle up.

2024-08-21 18:14:38

Anyone else using Claude 3.5 Sonnet notice it getting substantially dumber over the past few weeks?

2024-08-21 12:16:48

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It really isn’t

2024-08-21 04:24:19

Writing GUIs in rust is surprisingly satisfying! Tried out the ‘iced’ crate to make a desktop app. The number of available components is pretty limited, but the snappiness of resizing and interaction is a huge breath of fresh air compared to Electron- or Tauri-based apps.

2024-08-17 12:58:03

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Get after it!

2024-08-15 13:07:06

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Price gouging doesn’t exist. If you don’t like what someone is charging, buy it somewhere else. If you don’t like what anyone is charging, start your own business and compete with them. And if governmental bureaucracy and regulation prevent you from doing so, blame governmental bureaucracy and regulation, not the businesses.

2024-08-13 13:07:40

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GM GARY

2024-08-10 16:03:54

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Simple, CLTV your stack for 1,050,000 blocks ✅

2024-08-10 15:11:32

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Dude so sorry somehow I didn’t get notified about your comment until just now 😂 Nostr is still early

2024-08-09 18:56:34

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This feels so accurate 🤦‍♂️😅
It really feels like everyone who is able to learn from reason have found Bitcoin, and everyone else will just have to learn through pain

2024-08-08 03:54:53

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Two small suggestions:
1. Center the header text
2. Change the Onchain icon to a chain icon, since using a Bitcoin icon implies that Lightning and ecash aren’t Bitcoin (I know ecash isn’t Bitcoin technically, but it functions as Bitcoin in practice)

2024-08-05 14:59:04

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Yeah 😕 it sucks but it makes sense. Anyone will still be able to allow on-chain pegouts if they run their own federation, but in practice I expect any reasonably-sized federation to intentionally disable them to avoid the state coming after them. Not sure whether on-chain spending will be a first-class citizen in any fedimint wallets, but I think it’s unlikely. Governments are still too powerful.

2024-08-05 14:47:34

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I think Fedi is trying to move their wallets away from on-chain to avoid being targeted as a coin mixing service

2024-08-02 19:38:43

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I’m assuming you’re just trolling. If we’re not talking about government, then who in their right mind would be against people climbing Maslow's hierarchy?

2024-08-01 15:24:33

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Am I the only one who is genuinely having a hard time figuring out when I’m watching men’s sports or women’s?

2024-07-30 13:05:05

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Live “fuck” counter made my wish list for next year. Need one on every stage.

2024-07-29 02:50:49

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Makes sense. I did some quick Claude-assisted digging and the cost of coolant alone for a 1.2MW mining setup (~1 shipping container of miners) would approach $100k.
I’m sure it’ll make economic sense someday, but not yet.

2024-07-29 02:10:21

Politicians flocking to Bitcoiners now that they need us feels like abusive parents asking their grown children to take care of them as they approach old age.

2024-07-29 01:56:23

“No one is coming to save me; no one is coming to make life right for me; no one is coming to solve my problems. If I don’t do something, nothing is going to get better.”
- Nathaniel Brandon
This resonates with me strongly after all of the conference politicization. We need to build our way out of the mess we’re in and make the state obsolete.

2024-07-27 17:30:29

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Sorry man that really sucks 😔 will be on the lookout

2024-07-26 00:38:31

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Already here ✌️

2024-07-25 22:05:44

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Exactly! It seems so obvious but I haven’t heard of anyone doing this. There must be some technical or engineering hurdle - there’s no way I’m the first person to think of this.

2024-07-25 21:11:35

Are any Bitcoin mining operations leveraging the Rankine cycle to produce additional power with the waste heat? Would be similar to turbocharging an engine.

2024-06-23 14:32:00

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Real Time Relationships by Stefan Molyneux
Free online copy is here: https://freedomain.com/freedomain_books/real-time-relationships-the-logic-of-love/full-text/

2024-06-22 18:12:35

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Only thing worse is a ceiling-mounted fridge that opens from the bottom

2024-06-22 13:32:48

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I've had trouble describing this to people as well. The state ruins everything.
Reputation network + top-down state coersion = social credit score
Reputation network + bottom-up voluntary association = web of trust

2024-06-21 13:28:41

🤔 I think the US govt needs to look in the mirror https://image.nostr.build/28cb6ec9480fcde68677e26b82dab167812dfa4c7ef01881bc895b5b8754e178.jpg

2024-06-19 04:50:49

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Ugh I wanna go watch Wallace and Gromit now

2024-06-17 03:37:08

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The 2027 timeline to AGI feels way too early but the numbers he puts forward are very hard to argue with

2024-06-13 03:09:14

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@npub10a8…8zkw I'd love to chat about a Keystache integration!

2024-06-10 15:49:54

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Similar advice I heard when learning parkour:
Slow is smooth, smooth is fast

2024-06-03 04:42:42

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Agreed

2024-06-02 03:09:49

Currently reading Confessions of an Economic Hitman and am genuinely confused how Nayib Bukele hasn't been assassinated yet

2024-05-27 01:43:06

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Agreed, upgrading Fedimint to 0.30 felt like a herculean feat 😅

2024-05-25 21:12:44

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https://image.nostr.build/7387fe8f9b6b50ff89cda3b9af4a2bea1d973cac28d7e1f971c2d07b85104b9e.jpg

2024-05-25 21:05:13

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Missed u bro

2024-05-15 17:56:29

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We got a NIP!
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1222
The NIP covers UDS communication more generally. I wrote a reference implementation in Rust that uses JSON-RPC 2.0 requests/responses wrapped in NIP-04 events exactly as described in NIP-46:
https://crates.io/crates/nip-55
The crate comes with a very basic NIP-46-over-NIP-55 module:
https://docs.rs/nip-55/0.3.1/nip_55/nip46/index.html

2024-04-29 19:40:18

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🤨

2024-04-29 19:39:27

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I'm not interested in alt coins, and I don't think a blockchain is a good fit for a DNS replacement. I think some form of web of trust is a much better approach than a single source of truth.

2024-04-29 15:23:21

Is any progress being made on an opt-in censorship-resistant alternative to DNS?

2024-04-23 20:20:02

@npub1zsw…gc6x showed me his Fedimint Nostr threshold signing module, ROASTR where he signed and published this note from a test federation #note1jvz…xkxx

2024-04-10 18:58:00

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Feels like we're approaching the fiat end game

2024-04-10 14:47:14

"I hate incompetence. I think it’s probably the only thing I do hate. But it didn’t make me want to rule people. Nor to teach them anything. It made me want to do my own work in my own way and let myself be torn to pieces if necessary."
Howard Roark (The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand)

2024-04-09 01:03:35

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WHAT DID I MISS? PLEASE EDUCATE ME

2024-04-07 12:25:01

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Hopefully we can make Bitcoin boring by then

2024-04-05 01:58:41

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Yeah good point - the line between NIP-07 and NIP-46 get a bit blurred for me when focusing on desktop. I'm working with @npub1ygz…60k2 on the design and our plan is to write up a NIP that uses the same RPCs as NIP-46 but over UDS. Then any key management desktop app could also be a NIP-46 client and essentially be a per-device Nostr hub that can either hold the private key on device or reach out elsewhere.

2024-04-05 01:46:50

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You can try out my reference, Keystache, here: https://www.resolvr.io/keystache

2024-04-05 01:43:54

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MacOS has UDS as well, and Windows has Named Pipes instead which is almost identical. I haven't messed with Named Pipes yet, but this should be cross-platform eventually.

2024-04-05 01:41:57

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Yep very similar, just over UDS

2024-04-05 01:40:34

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I'm working on exactly that, using Unix Domain Sockets. Here's my reference implementation: https://crates.io/crates/nip-70
NIP draft coming soon!

2024-03-28 16:48:53

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I don't know how well that'd work for businesses that have employees

2024-03-28 16:45:30

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Definitely! Strike's ability to receive dollars over lightning is huge! Great way to pitch Bitcoin to businesses that otherwise wouldn't care about it.

2024-03-28 16:41:13

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But you have to run your own BtcPay server, right? For bitcoiners that's fine, but imo the added complexity of accepting Bitcoin in a noncustodial way just isn't that enticing for most businesses (yet). The average business will only be interested in accepting Bitcoin as long as it's really easy, and for now that means using some form of custodial solution. They could use Voltage to host a BtcPay server, but then they lose the self-custody advantage _and_ they're back up to $25 per month in costs.
In a few years' time I can certainly see something like Fedimint become an easy way to accept Bitcoin. No need for lighting channel management since that's left up to gateways, and fees will likely be fairly consistent and low. But that'll take some time.

2024-03-28 16:18:14

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From what I understand, Zaprite doesn't ever touch your funds. Rather, you can connect it to your choice of both fiat and Bitcoin rails, including your own lighting node if you want. If there's a better option out there, definitely lmk! I'm very excited for when we can start making a bulletproof case for business to start accepting Bitcoin!

2024-03-28 16:01:27

Talked to a friend the other day who runs a small business. He's not a bitcoiner but I've talked to him about it here and there. He mentioned how much they have to pay in credit card fees, so naturally I brought up the ability to circumvent that using lightning. I showed him Zaprite and he seemed genuinely interested. At $25 per month for a Zaprite subscription, and assuming that you save 2% in fees and pass half of that savings back to the customer (i.e. you save 1%), you'd need to get $2,500 per month paid in Bitcoin. The conversation ended with "this doesn't quite make financial sense... yet" but I don't think it'll be long until it becomes a no-brainer for most small businesses, even if neither the business nor the customers care about Bitcoin.

2024-03-28 15:48:14

Is anyone working on printing physical paper E-Cash notes? The folks at https://noteworthy.ag/ have made paper Bitcoin notes with a visible public key and a scratch-off private key - I'd be interested in something similar but replacing the public key with a federation invite code and the private key with E-Cash. Not the most practical and secure way to hold E-Cash but the tangibility would be cool.

2024-03-27 20:02:37

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FUCK YOU

2024-03-24 16:29:10

Is there a Chrome extension that replaces dollar values with sats? I want to stop thinking in fiat

2024-03-22 13:50:29

How close are we to companies viewing a college degree as a negative when hiring?
Of course it depends on the industry, but in general

2024-03-18 02:04:35

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There are three types of people:
Those who learn by principles
Those who learn by experience
Those who never learn because they already know everything

2024-03-17 13:23:55

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💯

2024-03-16 01:31:49

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It might be possible with some modifications to this: https://github.com/Kodylow/hermes

2024-03-14 05:59:42

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An at-desk treadmill is also huge!

2024-03-12 02:04:03

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But what would we do without those roads??