Ben Arc

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Nostr is the everything app of freedom | lnbits.com | nostr.com | first nostr twitter clone maker | bitcoin tinkerer

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2024-11-11 15:42:06

Bitcoin Escape Velocity: when the appreciating FIAT value of your stack far outpaces outgoings.
Some words of wisdom for my newly enriched giddy peers.
* Big purchases will flatten the hockey stick, avoid them.
* Do not quit work/earning - your outgoings will increase significantly.
Sounds obvious I know, but over the years we have lost plenty of good/bright people who took BEV for granted.
Stay safe/spend conservatively

2024-11-02 20:39:42

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Mass attack happens on your country and it's suddenly at war, internet is down for vast periods, what would you rather have to hand?
$1000 cash
$1000 bitcoin
$1000 gold

2024-11-02 20:19:54

Just how useful digital payments (including bitcoin) are in a war scenario with limited Internet access breaks my maxiness.
Sure keep little bottles of liqueur and cigarettes for bartering, but having stash of cash is prob a good play. In an unstable world can we afford to not have physical currency?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/30/sweden-and-norway-rethink-cashless-society-plans-over-russia-security-fears

2024-10-22 11:13:44

MAJOR #Inbits #FOSSA update:
✅ Onchain & Liquid withdraws via trustless swaps 🤯 (first for #bitcoin atm).
✅ ALL FOSSA forks can add swaps.
✅ Easy web-installer. 🚀
✅ LNaddress, invoices supported.
Tut: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvQYonKtYek
Buy prebuilt from: shop.Inbits.com

2024-10-18 17:08:09

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You pay for the nip05 in bitcoin, if you had used rather than being quick to condemn you would know this.
Nostr login will be added soon.

2024-10-18 16:16:22

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We will have nostr login soon enough, we are but a small team, so takes time.

2024-10-18 16:14:47

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It's not in fiat.
Before being a naysayer cunt actually use the service, and understand its a mechanism to support development of free and open source software, which we have been building for many years.

2024-10-18 16:12:46

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Use/don't use 🤷🏼
It's just a Nip05 service.
We use the nip05 LNbits extension, which is completely foss (making this service gave us time to work on it), so you can also use it to sell Nip05s 👍

2024-10-13 07:19:21

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Too many websockets for you

2024-10-13 07:15:58

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Welcome 👍

2024-10-11 13:09:56

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That's what sold it to me. Only some youngster would dare build the thing all these grey beards had been trying to do forever.

2024-10-11 13:08:58

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Good doc tho tbf. Well made. Covers bitcoin in very positive and endearing way. Squeezes a lot into 1hr.
Yeah, he is right a lot of time and it is rather annoying.

2024-10-11 11:55:58

Finally watched the HBO doc. I always concluded the same. My evidence was, having been a teacher for 15 years pre-bitcoin, the tone of Hal Finney to Satoshi comms were very much mentor to young person, ol'Todd always fit the profile. Young upstart smushing technologies together and annoying a bunch of grey beards.
I also loved the idea of Satoshi hiding in plain sight and travelling the globe trolling fuck out of bitcoiners.
Certainly my fav possible Satoshi (not that any of it matters).

2024-10-04 11:33:26

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The problem are the words used. "Socialism" includes a bunch of things where control is "socialised", including coops etc, far from what you hate.
It's like me saying I hate capitalism because surveillance capitalism sucks on twitter.
You hate State and centralised control. Good 👍, Plenty of socialists also hate those things (Marx himself included).

2024-10-04 11:22:16

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Gosh you're right! I always conflated with antifacists of post WW2, such as relays 3 group. That makes it more impressive, without the WW2 context later antifacists had

2024-10-04 11:18:54

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State become superfluous in "true" socialism
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withering_away_of_the_state

2024-10-04 10:06:38

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Great indie doc interviewing some of the jewish servicemen involved.
I'm always so conflicted on this example of a good attack against "free speach".
https://youtu.be/aSNkTnIsWho?si=wJLN-nHeuGEbHZc7

2024-10-04 10:02:32

Today is 88th anniversary of Battle of Cable Street. Where anti-fascist alliance of East London Jews, Irish, and workers unions beat crap out of fascist Sir Oswald Mosley and his 1000s of blackshirts. After seeing horrors of WW2, uk Jewish vets refused for it to happen again.
It was a violent attack on Moselys "free speach", yet it squashed the rise of another Hitler.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cable_Street

2024-09-26 17:10:48

This post didn't get nearly enough likes.
An excellent nostr-market tutorial 🤯
#nevent1q…n7rn

2024-09-24 21:32:31

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Wurst speech blunder

2024-09-24 21:27:37

https://video.nostr.build/d731335342c5df904688baaf00122f0d8033e472129500d5bbf39deec5366da0.mp4

2024-09-23 13:25:45

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😘

2024-09-22 14:56:21

For adhoc anarchist collaboration (unconfs, idea sharing, event organising, etc) Chaos Pads by Chaos Computer Club is so damn useful. I've used it for years and love it so very much.
https://pads.ccc.de/

2024-09-20 18:43:26

Meshtastic has public key crypto now at its core and private dms 🚀🚀🚀
https://meshtastic.org/blog/introducing-new-public-key-cryptography-in-v2_5/

2024-09-20 13:18:39

Freedom requires work
#nevent1q…gsuu

2024-09-20 07:38:40

In bitcoin, we don't stand on the shoulders of greats, rather a pile of dead bodies of greats, knowing we will prob end up in the pile.
Gm

2024-09-19 21:57:12

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You got start9 setup, that's def step in right direction 🔥. You can give your friends user accounts. After they have got the accounts disable making new accounts in server. I would also use a regular user account for yourself, it's more secure. Using super user account install extensions and just play around. They're fun
Most have a more button with videos and description so you can learn what the do. Good luck 🚀🚀🚀

2024-09-19 21:43:28

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You'll be their wallet of Satoshi. But they can use the boltz extension to loop out to onchain periodically, so the risk is limited of you stealing their funds

2024-09-19 21:42:09

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Run LNbits for them, then they can have wallets and play with all the extensions.
https://youtu.be/t28coHBX3aI?si=vUrggHOlfzryznbl

2024-09-19 20:11:43

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Also, was a lovely photo 👌

2024-09-19 20:11:22

Jeese, threads getting hammered with spam. @nprofile…pyug, can we have an optional filter for bots using broken nip05s in Amethyst? Getting emoji overload 😭

2024-09-19 20:07:07

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Don't feed the trolls

2024-09-19 11:07:20

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Nostr is too good, eventually their skepticism was impossible to maintain.

2024-09-19 11:05:03

When your extremely talented developer friend, who was a nostr skeptic, flips then tells you they're preparing a NIP 🔥🚀🌕

2024-09-17 11:13:57

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Some charity event/charity could issue for completing a challenge. I think it's cool. 💜 Badges

2024-09-17 11:02:25

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Despite the beating I love them sooo very much. Chucklebrothers is one of the greatest thing this weird island ever produced. God bless em

2024-09-17 10:58:18

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Childhood trauma😂

2024-09-17 10:54:17

Aww, aren't you lot nice 😍
Zaps and nostr badges makes Nostr the perfect tool for fundraising for charity.
* Raise money
* Do a thing and earn a badge
* Zao the charity (when they are all eventually here), perfect 👌
https://image.nostr.build/94a86f1ae29655a4fb85ddd3d3ffa44b364ab62775565c675c6a74e7c12c198b.jpg
#nevent1q…k4kp

2024-09-17 10:47:25

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https://image.nostr.build/ccb7c22affb74a314f3e6e58a5b17098ff7d007d74b5b0dbde5653c9c0c5dccf.jpg

2024-09-17 10:42:37

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Once upon a time Barry chuckle dressed in a dog costume beat me up im Blackpool...
The chuckle brothers started out with Chucklehounds, which I loved.
https://image.nostr.build/cd2a6da96c67ddc5269be4a440732bd5738a31b740553df7b50bedb1a69297f4.jpg
When I was a small child I went to see a panto in Blackpool which stared the Chucklehounds (this is before chucklebrothers).
After the panto kids were allowed to go have a photo with Chucklehounds. .. I was a very small child (3-4), and thought they were real dogs. I went up on stage all excited to meet them.
One of the Chucklehounds picked me up, his hands like iron talons, and plonked me on his knee for a photo. The dog squeezed my little Ben arms so much I had bruises for a week. I was screaming in pain, tears streaming down my Ben cheeks. I looked up at the dogs face. Inside the dogs mouth I could see Barry Chuckles sweaty moustachio face smiling manicaly looking down at me.
I thought this was a lovely gentle dog off the tele! Now it was a violent child beating dog that had a human inside it.
True story.

2024-09-17 08:54:45

Say hello to Rachel, a newly onboarded hiker raising money for swollen people - a very worthy cause. Let's give rachel a warm welcome 💜
#nevent1q…vd2r

2024-09-16 10:12:15

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1. This was a benefit of ecash you made "fees are decentralised", it's also true for liquid.
2. That's why great care was taken to make the federation is geographically seperate. The lag of regulating gives the federation time to adjust.
3. True of any technology in bitcoin, Liquid included.

2024-09-16 07:40:29

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See, I think that's it. Not having it being a money project means we are less likely to get the baddies.
(your profile picture is made out of pure epilepsy)

2024-09-16 07:38:14

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All the great and useful bots you could build on nostr, and they choose to make a rude version of me 🙄

2024-09-14 15:39:13

Sadly, when you've been in and around bitcoin circles for long enough, and meet people in real life, you realise a bunch of industry leader types are legit sociopaths, and not great people. You have to try playing nice, but yeah, they suck. A few of them are inevitably here in nostr, but beyond that, every nostr person I have met in real life is thoroughly lovely.

2024-09-14 13:13:31

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I did very little. They were grinding hard into their Friday evenings 💗🙌

2024-09-14 13:12:21

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Lfg🚀

2024-09-14 13:11:19

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Yep. He one me over when he made a birthday video for Linux in the naughties

2024-09-14 12:30:40

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Fry was a prolific twitter user, then after Musk and his antics.
He is someone we need here. https://image.nostr.build/4c64c3074d367dce5bf2c830f30f1b40dd946ce619f590d82e452ff5d5e33e8f.jpg

2024-09-14 12:27:13

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It's not finished yet 😂

2024-09-14 12:08:42

"You and your children cannot breathe the air or swim in the waters of our culture without breathing in the toxic particulates and stinking effluvia that belch and pour unchecked from their companies into the currents of our world," Stephen Fry on Zuzkerburg and Musk
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ceq5q3jlnz3o

2024-09-14 11:54:53

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Replacing tg was the first challenge when nostr was made. 3 years later we're pretty close 🔥

2024-09-14 11:54:41

I honestly think @nprofile…r4lw Telegram alternative is going to quickly become the worlds most used nostr client. There's a billion tg users happy to jump ship, particularly if someone can make a bridge for transitioning groups, and a bot father alternative.
https://image.nostr.build/b5176b84612e0fcb88d89304a14a57f14b989c192c0cf3a66e3423482dacc551.jpg

2024-09-14 11:45:19

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Ui looks great. As close to tg as possible. Will be easy transition for people.

2024-09-13 22:22:34

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Resilience

2024-09-13 22:18:19

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Because we need a tg alternative. This is going to be 🔥🔥🔥

2024-09-13 22:17:35

Flipping ace! Well done @nprofile…r4lw. Looks like the private telegram clone the world desperately needs. Can you imagine all those users who live on tg (such as myself) having a nostr native alternative with better privacy stack than Signal 🤯
#naddr1qq…wgmy

2024-09-13 22:13:38

Anyone using LNbits extension Lnurlp for zaps, please update to 0.5.6. The issue with zaps not showing is fixed. Sorry for any inconvenience 🙏

2024-09-13 17:15:16

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Thanks man. I think Tal has actually fixed. Will link once reviewed, so we can test and get update pushed through

2024-09-13 17:08:36

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Badger away, I'm forgetful more than busy.
Lnbitsers are looking into it now

2024-09-13 17:07:31

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I tested, it has same bug. Lads are looking into it now

2024-09-13 14:39:49

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You should have told us, we can fix whatever issues you have.

2024-09-13 14:38:05

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I hate that env variable. Added commit to comment out by default for new users. But older users might have to add

2024-09-13 14:37:04

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It's merged in and working. You prob have caching issue. Did you hard reset?
Ahhhh, could also be your env file causing issues, check the breeze sdk is in allowed_funding_sources

2024-09-13 14:34:08

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Thank you! I didn't see this post

2024-09-13 14:33:36

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DM me if you have any issues. I'll take a look tonight 👍

2024-09-13 14:32:44

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Did you put in a bug report?

2024-09-13 13:53:10

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That was never a thing

2024-09-13 12:03:51

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1a5XshX5dA

2024-09-13 12:03:39

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMs4bFrvy_Y

2024-09-13 12:03:27

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymq_BXN4lu0

2024-09-13 12:03:18

4 little (<1min) videos explaining basics of LNbits, and why we are all very excited about it. 👇
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7Ou7XtqtRI

2024-09-13 10:15:12

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Reality of modern parenting we are all guilty of. If you keep the devices away from the dinner table tho, you're doing well 🙌

2024-09-13 10:13:20

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Yep.
No1 policy for any family. Within minutes they'll engage and start being a family again.
2nd is always do bedtime stories, read, make them up, whatever. It's the most important 15-30mins of the day

2024-09-13 09:44:18

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Oh cool, just do that for lnurlp and your lnaddress that's easiest

2024-09-13 09:42:49

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That's the saddest. Wee ones staring at tablets at the dinner table. The dinner table! A families sanctuary 😔

2024-09-13 08:35:30

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Hmmmm, I think you can use Cloudflare and the nip05 extension. That can also make an lnaddress, but isn't set to domain

2024-09-13 08:32:51

Nice 500k sat bounty here for adding some features to usermanager extension in LNbits
https://github.com/lnbits/lnbits/issues/2557

2024-09-13 07:53:45

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It's like saying wooohoo, I can run a dark market and there is nothing you can do govs 🖕
The technology exists to do that thing, but for the sake of one custodial "improvement" privacy, it's a lot of risk. Just run your own phoenixd or use liquid and boltz 🤷🏼, privacy with no rug pulls or jail 🤗

2024-09-13 07:49:48

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All the properties you like in ecash exist for liquid (apart from stealing funds).
The above tutorial is a literal example of easy swapping to LN, same is possible for onchain.
On your liquid points.
Fees going to functionaries is decentralised.
Liquids federation is one of the best that has ever existed, many millions went into this process (custom hw, geographically seperate - because that's what needs to happen for a federation to work).
Liquid is far less vulnerable to governments, its cryptographically has proof of reserves, ecash does not, so is producing currency - a crime govs hate above all others.

2024-09-12 23:48:46

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*Noob

2024-09-12 23:48:28

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Noon answer. Idk. It's Acinq magic

2024-09-12 23:38:46

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I'm but a small cog in a massive FOSS project of insanely brilliant contributors 🤩

2024-09-12 22:30:00

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Only 20mins! From nothing to vps, domain, phoenixd and lnbits 🔥🔥🔥

2024-09-12 22:28:37

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Sadist

2024-09-12 22:17:38

LNbits running on Phoenixd tutorial!
Phoenixd is an incredibly easy self-custodial lightning node that is managed, and is the perfect solution for someone who wants to run a lightning node but not have to bother with channel management pain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t28coHBX3aI

2024-09-12 16:39:04

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That's not true pay paying someone in lightning

2024-09-12 15:21:23

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Running things yourself breaks that link, and they can't steal your funds.

2024-09-12 14:58:24

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Genuinely interested, as liquid is more decentralised, and you like ecash.

2024-09-12 14:56:53

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Aww, thanks man. I think I didn't do the thing I told everyone else to do. 😂
#nevent1q…0juw

2024-09-12 14:51:29

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Why do you like ecash and not liquid?

2024-09-12 13:57:08

LNbits running on a Liquid wallet via trustless Boltz swaps!
🤯🤯🤯
20mim tutorial setting up a server on lunanode. Great option for merchants who can't be arsed running a node and don't want to use a custodial service.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbWBagSHBsM

2024-09-10 23:31:06

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https://media.tenor.com/h2rYstePkOcAAAAM/laws-of-time-doctor.gif

2024-09-10 15:07:21

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Not sure shitcoin offer constitutes a valuation 😂. LNbits will just make the site useful but not corrupt, that's all that matters.

2024-09-10 13:25:23

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Then once realising I couldn't be corrupted, secured nostr dot org out of my own pocket for a price I couldn't afford. So yeah.

2024-09-10 13:21:50

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Thank you @nprofile…9l4j, that's very kind 🙏