BrettPhillips
Brett Phillips

Brett I. Phillips
My initials are bip 🤔

Public Key

npub1rvqzg0lsgsnnmrjxelt44vml99gul28mverm80ht4wad5cjmdesqqaf8df

NIP-05 Address

bip@nostrplebs.com

NIP-57 Address

cobaltbadger3@primal.net

Profile Code

nprofile1qqspkqpy8lcygfea3ervl466kdljj5w04rakv3anhm46hwk6vfdkucqprdmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujucmgv94kzmne9eehjum5v4khxqg5waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t0dlc09e

Publishing to

relay.chakany.systems

relay.damus.io

nostr.wine

Author Public Key

npub1rvqzg0lsgsnnmrjxelt44vml99gul28mverm80ht4wad5cjmdesqqaf8df

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2025-04-07 22:17:20

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Most are good are spitting out mermaid formatted diagrams.

2025-03-10 10:35:21

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Good on you Doc.

2025-02-27 21:08:28

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Sorry for you and your family.
Let your kids ask questions and explore their feelings of sadness; remind them it’s ok to be sad and can be happy to remember those we loved.

2024-11-19 12:09:13

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People really like to misunderstand the “ethos” of open source as some hippy utopia ideal. You clearly ripped off the block clock, which may not have been your intention but is clear nonetheless. Having legal action against you is purely the business protecting itself and if the situations/timelines were reversed, you’d be doing the same, or you’re dumb (clearly not given the proof of work).
Sounds like you started a competition and then got butt hurt when your competition fought back.
I use to love nostr and now it feels like I just come online to a bunch of whiney bitches complaining.
@nvk your clock is too expensive.

2024-09-23 11:45:45

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Some people just want to watch the world burn

2024-09-21 11:47:20

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2024-09-19 23:29:37

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It’s not about how many nodes can be run; it’s that anyone can run a node without, as you say, 40TB servers.

2024-09-18 18:08:11

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Human beings don’t think for themselves? Watching a young child explore and discover things on their own will make you doubt this.

2024-09-16 10:55:07

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2024-09-15 12:24:20

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I’m sure there are many well-thought strategies I have no clue about, but my ape brain says: short futures to push sentiment down and spot prices along with it.
They could do this with “profit” from naked shorting the ETFs.

2024-09-15 11:11:17

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In any case, they can suppress the price far easier in the futures market and through borrowed ETF shares than via collusion.

2024-09-15 00:39:55

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If you believe in the bitcoin thesis, that all other assets, currencies, and commodities will collapse in price in BTC terms, why would you want any “income stream” in anything else? Wouldn’t it be possible to sell smaller and smaller amounts to finance your life at BTC increased in price?

2024-09-13 20:34:39

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How does one work for instacart and earn that much?

2024-09-03 16:20:17

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Seriously. The complain train has been rolling hard through this station.

2024-09-02 10:33:29

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No, they are for anyone not everyone

2024-08-30 11:45:31

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NVK trolling good morning zap farmers. This isn’t Odell folks.

2024-08-30 02:45:34

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Exactly. I don’t think BlockFi thought they were going to rug anyone.

2024-08-28 23:38:32

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Any links to a recap?

2024-08-28 16:02:42

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Biggest hurdle is making a GitHub account; not another account. Can I just send patch files via nostr?

2024-08-21 13:14:09

Asking for a friend…
Good idea, bad idea, already exists?: Canva like app using nostr
#asknostr
@npub1nxy…avr7

2024-08-20 23:43:42

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I would never disallow or punish or force.

2024-08-20 11:21:33

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Speaking as a leader of software teams, some cross training is nice in order to spread knowledge and insight but I’d prefer to have team members be subject matter experts in their disciplines.

2024-08-19 12:37:14

What’s a good router for upgrading a home network? I want to have full control and be able to set up different subnets, static IPs, etc for cameras, devices, blah blah.
Please don’t recommend some Google or Amazon bs. #asknostr #networking #security

2024-08-18 10:44:59

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Laptop gun on felicity (facility)

2024-08-18 10:43:52

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Bubble Bobble: DDFFI
Golden Eye: The stacks map with the grenade launcher 👌

2024-08-16 19:09:42

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I remember as a kid when I discovered “The Anarchist Cookbook”. Discovering Bitcoin many years later felt similar. The undertone was “empowered”.

2024-08-16 02:41:59

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Get the most expensive iPhone and keep it for 10 years.

2024-08-16 02:32:35

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Sometimes when I’m asked if a movie is “good”; I respond with “it’s entertaining”.
John Wick is entertaining.

2024-08-14 17:56:08

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No no this is obviously a case for AWS API Gateway + Lambda + SQS and don’t forget Cloudfront and WAF…and better make it multi region while we’re at it. Route53 latency based routing for the win!
💀

2024-08-14 16:44:38

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Hahaha this is such the antithesis to bitcoin philosophy. I can’t believe you have so much free time that you can make such a nice looking turd.
“Welcome to Real Plebs®, a prestigious initiative designed for mission-driven Bitcoiners who are ready to elevate their influence within the Bitcoin community. Real Plebs® is more than a title—it’s a commitment to propelling the narrative of Bitcoin, in line with PODCONF’s mission, to unprecedented heights.”

2024-08-14 10:35:28

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I’ve done my research and find it a net positive. Talented devs are created new and exciting projects that are bringing awareness to bitcoin and freedom tech. Not so talented dev have a shiny new thing to distract them. Win win.

2024-08-09 17:58:51

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I think NVK means don’t use a general purpose computer for your keys, use away for running a bitcoin node or electrum sever like Start OS would support.

2024-08-09 17:07:36

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If we die, the survivors’ BTC gets more scarce.

2024-08-09 17:01:12

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Highly recommended

2024-08-09 16:58:31

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Why do you need a following?

2024-08-09 11:27:46

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Very similar feel to some popular collaborative tools for creating documents 👌

2024-08-09 10:08:27

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What’s in your bag?

2024-08-07 12:15:57

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Also curious NVK, would you recommend moving from single sig + passphrase to multisig…or wait for some better FROST implementation before sweeping to a new setup.

2024-08-07 01:15:49

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80% by article count
45% by word count

2024-08-06 23:50:12

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What do you mean by embedded here? Redis is fast.

2024-08-06 19:31:56

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You’re really over thinking it. How do you value a banana when in a foreign country?

2024-08-05 09:29:02

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No preference

2024-08-02 11:43:17

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You don’t. It’s part of their journey. Others must be allowed to make the same mistakes that you did in order to be enlightened as well.

2024-08-01 20:33:28

I never had a twitter account; zaps for me?!

2024-07-28 23:50:49

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The primal wallet is provided by Strike

2024-07-19 20:00:24

Today, I was by and large unaffected by the Crowdstrike/BSOD situation. While we use it extensively at my day job, I mostly use Apple or Linux with the occasional elderly Windows Server instance here or there. Coincidentally I was setting up a new Windows VM yesterday and was having trouble getting to everything configured including Crowdstrike, so I gave up for the day. If it were not for needing to get some gas for my car, I would probably have had no idea the extent of the outage. As you may have expected, cash only, which was not a problem as I have been expecting such an occurrence and have a small amount available.
The whole situation stinks. At best and taking the players at their word, we live in a hyper-connected Jenga game where one wrong move becomes disaster. At worst, and I feel the truth is closer to this outcome, we have let our entire infrastructure become infiltrated with a Trojan horse that can be manipulated at will.

2024-07-18 18:48:10

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Wish I could make it; that is one, heavy hitting couch panel

2024-07-17 23:51:56

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Marty, I feel like you don’t fully understand and are overhyping.

2024-07-17 12:39:34

Are there any competitors to @npub1nxy…avr7 ? It’s a great tool; kudos to the devs. Competition and alternatives are good though.

2024-07-14 20:33:48

Did some power washing today. If you’ve never used a power washer, I highly recommend it. The satisfaction to effort ratio is inordinately high. 💦

2024-07-12 02:41:26

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What do you think about nip-05 for real world verification? For example, I want to survey people belonging to the same organization or community. In the real world, they claim a nip-05 name with their npub. I can now trust responses from these npubs without the need for some over blown account system.

2024-07-11 21:11:38

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I think SMTP submission is a bit more strict at least in my experience with AWS SES

2024-07-11 18:53:19

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Nostr’s “super power” is the ability to move to a different client. Success leads to centralization and capture; a great client or relay (or email app) is going to attract more users. In the case of SMTP, if I’m understanding your point, users are mostly locked into a specific set of providers because those same providers filter out “bad actors”. If that sort of dynamic appears in nostr, user have an opportunity to thwart that by changing clients and/or relays. Will they? Uncertain, but the ability exists in nostr unlike other protocols and platforms.

2024-07-11 09:46:48

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“I’m in the fuck you phase of my life” - @npub1az9…m8y8

2024-07-10 21:32:18

Can an npub be verified by multiple nip-05 providers?

2024-07-08 02:18:54

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Crash Override

2024-07-05 20:20:44

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One of us!!

2024-07-04 12:41:22

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Harder when it’s differences in how they raise their children.

2024-07-03 14:44:53

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Everything is a trade off

2024-07-02 22:05:10

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YOU ARE NOT ALONE

2024-06-27 14:09:35

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To infinity and beyond 🚀

2024-06-27 10:46:58

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Do you think this is the beginning of non-efficient mining operations being squeezed and turning off hash?

2024-06-24 20:33:48

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S.T.R.E.A.M
Satoshis rule everything around me

2024-06-24 20:32:21

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Satoshi’s Bureau of Printing and Engraving

2024-05-31 09:28:19

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Isn’t the problem of trusting a single mint mitigated by utilizing many, many mints with small balances?

2024-05-20 18:25:22

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GREAT RIP!
Something I’ve been trying to wrap my head around is how would the ETF maintain NAV and/or BTC per Share given the volatility of BTC price and the less than transparent mechanisms available to market makers.
In the simplest scenario, BTC price goes up, market makers buys shares, redeem for BTC, and sell for cash to capture the spread and bring share price back to par.
The same is true is reverse, BTC price goes down, market makers buy BTC, create shares, and then sell shares to bring the price back to par.
Given the long settlement times, supposed infinite liquidity at Coinbase and long track record of obfuscation, without clear proof of reserves and shares outstanding, I don’t see how this all works out well.
I have no doubt that ETF shares are being borrowed at massive volumes, redeemed for BTC and then either sold or held (to be sold later) for profit and to suppress the price as needed.
STAY HUMBLE & STACK SATS 🫡

2024-05-02 13:44:17

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Looking forward to this rip

2024-05-02 12:03:31

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What does that say about you posting here? Probably one of those situations where you keep it to yourself; I’m sure there are folks who find value in it, like maybe making some Bitcoin friends.

2024-04-12 15:20:59

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Why do you care about people complaining about pricing? Paying customers are your metric, not complaints.

2024-04-09 00:38:53

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To be fair, you’re a lifestyle influencer, a style of life worth living.

2024-04-03 15:39:03

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That just confirms you’ve made the right move. The time of warning everyone of the flood is over. Time to tend to your flock already on the ark. (Not religious but it fits)

2024-04-03 11:18:45

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GOOD. THEY CALL THAT INTEGRITY.
YOUR CONTINUAL ADHERENCE TO YOUR PRINCIPLES IS A MAJOR REASON I LISTEN TO YOUR PODCASTS. YOU KEEP OTHERS IN CHECK BY CALLING THINGS OUT AS YOU SEE THEM. IT’S THE BEST KIND OF SIGNAL.

2024-04-03 11:00:43

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What happened to being in “the fuck you phase” of your life?
Regardless, Good Morning 🌞

2024-03-30 00:15:51

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Oh looking forward to the discussion on Phoenixd.

2024-03-29 23:49:15

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Nice! Love that band

2024-03-29 14:31:49

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GM Morning 🌞🫡
After watching BitcoinMechanic on WBD last night I’m invigorated to turn my nodes against the spammers. What a great framing of the current and potential state of Bitcoin.

2024-03-28 22:30:41

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Hypocrite. Hypocrites and non-hypocrites alike take serious offense to being called one.

2024-03-28 21:32:03

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Hey hey

2024-03-28 11:20:42

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She just thought is was something her family did because they grew up poor

2024-03-27 23:10:07

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My mother was born in the USA in the late 1940’s and grew up picking dandelions with her siblings to make salads to have with dinner.

2024-03-24 02:51:04

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TCP Sockets

2024-03-23 13:46:55

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Good morning @npub1qny…95gx
They say Sunday is for doing the Lord’s work; Saturdays are reserved for doing Odell’s work: dropping purple and orange pills.

2024-03-22 13:57:12

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Grayscale had over 600k BTC before the drainage began IIRC. Anecdotally, not all is going to Coinbase as their are other custodians.

2024-03-22 01:55:04

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NO GUTS NO GLORY 🫡

2024-03-22 00:06:42

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And that, ladies and gentlemen, is your real world use case for the the “mute user” button.

2024-03-21 20:53:03

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If you can’t beat ‘em; zap ‘em.
If feels good doesn’t it @npub1guh…6hjy? Don’t even bother with the like button anymore.

2024-03-19 15:21:43

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Your nuts are already sats stable which is way better than having brass balls.

2024-03-19 14:53:49

I was today years old when I realized Block and Circle not only are the antithesis of one another on a fundamental level, their names are also opposites…mind blown.

2024-03-18 22:08:14

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It takes a certain flavor of masochism to be a good parent.

2024-03-18 12:31:29

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MOST ANTICIPATED RIP YTD 🥜

2024-03-16 11:42:13

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Good Morning 🌞
I had a friend ask it sats were an alt-coin.
Still early.

2024-03-15 23:10:01

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The flow was pretty easy.
I hit “receive” in the Primal wallet, pasted that into the enter your information tab, and then I hit withdraw. Although the process ended in a “JSON EOF” error, I received the sats.

2024-03-15 22:45:12

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Pretty slick

2024-03-14 19:05:07

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Great rip! You do a wonderful job.

2024-03-13 19:07:33

Feeling deflated and worried after listening to this incredibly important conversation knowing the impending outcome. The Bitcoiners and the Nostriches give hope though.
#note1ak6…m32r

2024-03-10 14:19:12

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Good morning 🌞

2024-03-08 16:48:45

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Am I doing this right?
@BrettPhillips

2024-03-08 15:54:49

I grew my @npub1exv…d828 network by 400% this week. Slowly but surely.

2024-03-08 15:50:50

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GM 🫡
Nostr has turned me into quite the hypocrite now that I can’t seem close Primal.

2024-03-06 18:52:07

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It’s not my wallet; it’s my zapper