vinney

Building a dark forest of peer-to-peer, private Operating Functions

cofounder, https://github.com/operating-function/pallas

Public Key

npub19ma2w9dmk3kat0nt0k5dwuqzvmg3va9ezwup0zkakhpwv0vcwvcsg8axkl

NIP-05 Address

vcavallo@vinneycavallo.com

NIP-57 Address

vinney@minibits.cash

Profile Code

nprofile1qqsza748zkamgmw4he4hm2xhwqpxd5gkwju38wqh3twmtshx8kv8xvgpremhxw309u6rxdpsd4skjm3wv36kx6mydeejummjvuargwp58qq5jamnwvaz7tekwfnhwcm5vv6nx7tjwpkh2ams0phnwmnhxs6rg6mpw9sny6redqmk77fnd3uxwdm0wv6x5mrg09mryutxv3k8vuty9ehku6t0dcargwpk8yffwpa0

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4340main.duckdns.org:4848

6rgwctc53yrpmuwpxo7nw444kaqa2hyh7oy3lxg7os4jlhyv2qfdlvqd.onion:4869

damus.io

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npub19ma2w9dmk3kat0nt0k5dwuqzvmg3va9ezwup0zkakhpwv0vcwvcsg8axkl

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2025-06-22 23:20:02

that isn't why Google is warning you and you know it.
Does Google warn you about Amazon links or Facebook or other Google links? of course not - and those entities are far more malicious (and well-resourced) than njump could ever be.
this is clear turf warfare and mudslinging on the part of Megacorp. don't fucking fall for it.
#nevent1q…808h

2025-06-22 14:13:25

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oh shit this is a beautiful dog!

2025-06-21 20:05:15

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this is not the stuff of antifragile communities and families. sometimes you need to drag the "dead weight" along with you, kicking and screaming - especially if you love them - so that they might finally wake up.

2025-06-21 01:44:48

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:( I'm the only device in Bluetooth range...

2025-06-21 01:41:59

Testing samiz! @nprofile…7edf

2025-06-20 23:20:09

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we take care of them

2025-06-20 19:33:39

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..like an ACTUAL earthquake, or something that seema like one...?

2025-06-20 19:31:36

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who DOES use bitcoin as their money?
🖐️

2025-06-20 15:30:21

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If the OP wants some older stuff, Lysander Spooner ("No Treason" and others) goes pretty hard. Also "Discourses" by Etienne de La Boetie

2025-06-20 14:43:52

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what do you mean by "around"? chronologically?

2025-06-20 14:37:47

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the paper nostr activities was the tip off

2025-06-20 14:35:46

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for now.
https://i.nostr.build/xpZ0BX83DtF5tpzs.jpg

2025-06-20 02:22:18

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I do remember that

2025-06-20 02:18:18

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no Bitcoin either :(

2025-06-20 01:46:06

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interesting I only see two comments here. I wonder what relays I'm not on

2025-06-19 18:30:23

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lol far from it. shucks!

2025-06-19 17:43:44

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how do I acquire these awesome stickers? not seeing them on the site

2025-06-19 16:57:10

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I'm buying a shirt, finally! taking my own advice

2025-06-19 15:38:25

Send as many lightning and bitcoin transactions today as you can.
#nevent1q…p6um

2025-06-19 03:56:48

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I don't think this is true

2025-06-19 03:52:25

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2025-06-18 16:24:51

StarTac
#nevent1q…cuga

2025-06-18 14:57:34

when you look around at a state building or court house employees you mostly see lowest common denominator parasites hoping for a low-effort, "permanent" job that exists to perpetuate its own privilege more so than to provide value to anyone.
gotta twist yourself in knots to see collecting penalties from people who don't even want the service involved as somehow a "productive service"

2025-06-18 11:28:01

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what the hell are they doing over there..?

2025-06-18 02:09:03

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whoa cool! setting one up now!

2025-06-17 23:47:24

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If you can believe it... I've been fixing my full self-hosted lightning address and node since you alerted me to it being down lololl
anyway, I don't know what you mean by "private space". Wat dat

2025-06-17 22:20:11

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Not grossly, but a little. When you have separate user profiles, upon switching to one of those, that profile thinks its the entire phone - doesn't know the others exist, can't see them. So whatever you do **in that profile** might all be spying on eachother within that silo. But when you switch to a different profile the spying ends/stays in the other one.
So a lot of Graphene users will keep all the freaky shit in one profile (I have one called "Goolag") and all their safer, private stuff in another. That's what the other commenter meant about having a purely FOSS profile and attempting to use it as much as possible.
I would do maybe the opposite of what most people recommend: install all the compatability stuff (google play services, etc. everything in the "Graphene app store" app) but **don't log into any Google accounts there**. Let the phone do normal stuff like notifications and whatever so you're not in hell on day one.
Then make a pure FOSS profile and try out the alternatives there, like ntfy for notifications and whatever else. See if you can handle that and _maybe_ switch to it full time.
Honestly the worst part is maps, which is no surprise. Organic Maps and Magic Earth and OsmAnd~ are pretty solid, but still a far cry from Google and Apple maps. I don't surrender on this front - I use the FOSS maps as apps, but I'll sometimes use Google maps (logged out) in a web browser with VPN on - or Apple maps via duckduckgo.
The profile switching is pretty fast, but it's still a drag and I don't find myself using it as much as I thought I would.

2025-06-17 20:30:44

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I can't find a source for this anywhere

2025-06-17 20:29:34

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$200 per... transaction? Month? lifetime?

2025-06-17 20:28:06

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largely in major agreement with most of this note

2025-06-17 20:24:11

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gambling. drugs (of any severity). consensual prostitution. weird sex parties and antinatalism. etc.
assume the affected person is otherwise physically healthy and financially "unexploited".

2025-06-17 17:43:31

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sometimes if you grab the right spot above the keypad and drag down you can hide it. or with clever and wacky uses of app and window switching.
but yea, this is poor mobile app coding otherwise. I know because I've been guilty of perpetrating this same UX bug and have had to fix it.

2025-06-17 17:41:26

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Mises isn't my god. I am.

2025-06-17 17:40:57

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I completely agree. I couldn't live without it. I lose sleep sometimes worrying about it going unmaintained one day.
GrapheneOS and Linux machines. Möbius Sync kind of works on iOS tablets but it's janky.

2025-06-17 16:56:08

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Who defines what it means to be "destroyed", you or the "destroyed" person? What happens to your definition of evil when the "destroyed" (in your view) person actually **wants** that result and seeks it? Who are you to say they've been tricked and are acting against their own interest?
I'm not saying that _you_ can't hold a definition of destruction, but I am saying that it isn't an objective measurement - it is subjective. Thus, criminalizing someone's choice based on your value system is - in my view - coercive and immoral.

2025-06-17 16:34:46

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Also clunkier things like LocalSend and even Syncthing. they require a step or two, but to me that step is worth the sovereignty.
For instance, with Syncthing, I literally have a "clipboard.txt" file synced p2p between all of my devices. I copy paste into that on one device and a moment later that "clipboard" is updated on all my devices. ...One hidden benefit is it has an arbitrary history. If i copy twice on an apple device, the previous copy is overwritten :P

2025-06-17 15:52:15

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Yes, I am okay with the first thing you mentioned.
And if your beef is with informed consent and rational choice, then pour your energies into education and the invention of new choices to solve your problem - rather than leaning further into violence and coercion and the creation of more and more laws that get abused.
In your words, there seem to be two paths to solving your conundrum ahead of you. Choose the one that doesn't re-create the problems we already have and are so close to leaving behind.

2025-06-17 15:49:18

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You don't need this if your money is highly divisible and prices can fall in terms of it. As the "need for money" increases, so does bitcoin's purchasing power and division.

2025-06-17 15:42:17

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Hard disagree. If two parties decide their time preferences and capital differ enough between them that it is mutually beneficial to enter into a debt agreement, that's up to them. Definitely not the purview of some self-appointed arbiter they never asked for.
Count me out of your State.

2025-06-17 14:35:04

I wasn't making a joke about introducing new squirrelly terms. I'm saying the point of inflation is specifically to prevent deflation, de-leverage and proper free market natural business cycles.
monetary expansion is an active attack on deflation + a propaganda campaign that deflation is bad.
#nevent1q…2zkq

2025-06-17 13:32:43

gonna stop calling it "inflation" and start calling it "anti-deflation"

2025-06-17 12:55:35

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I meant 5% OF MINE but it probably applies to all my follows, too

2025-06-17 03:44:18

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end it for yourself as the aggressor, while your enemy prints money for guns.
the game theory is a little fucky here

2025-06-17 03:42:56

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timestamping now

2025-06-17 03:40:38

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in my opinion, the responsibility of keeping a single seed phrase both safe from others and un-lost is really steep for most people. especially if they don't own a home and a safe and all that.
I think multisig is safest for non-technical people, but I agree they should be using sovereign multisig as soon as possible. It's just probably not their first day off the exchanges.
you're right though: perfect device hasn't been invented. if BitKey swapped out the app key for something more secure and private that would be a start.

2025-06-17 03:32:22

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okay yea, agreed in that case.
I do still think this is the best choice for "baby's first 'cold-ish' wallet" for the nontechnical user.
Exchange -> BitKey, get some practice and learn -> proper airgapped cold storage -> one of: [roll your own multisig] or [whiteglove multisig services like Casa] depending on how technical you became in step 3.
going right from an exchange to, say, coldcard + sparrow is a big leap for a noob

2025-06-17 03:27:29

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seems like a lot of equipment redundancy for 3 days, and no food.

2025-06-17 03:19:52

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look up the current hashrate before you tell me Bitcoin has no purpose.

2025-06-17 03:15:37

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which one other than the Block server key is hot and what precisely do you mean by hot?

2025-06-17 01:18:03

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this is what someone who doesn't understand networks says.

2025-06-16 22:11:52

I think Bitcoin is actually just all of Austrian economics instantiated in the real world. I mean that literally: Bitcoin is not a physical thing, it is an **idea**. Specifically, it is a constellation of a set of narrow ideas from Menger onwards, instantiated as pure information yet able to perturb our physical reality as if it were A Thing.
It is one of those rare moments that you typically only see in art or spirituality where a pure idea can break the fourth wall into physical reality in a nearly supernatural manner.
I could get on board with this as a religion, since the main characters are Human Action and subjective value - all of it reduceable to easily understood and observable phenomena, yet with an element of ineffable spirit where the worlds collide.

2025-06-16 14:47:14

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I check

2025-06-16 14:02:15

in a world of unreliable information and lies, a simple truth delivered every ~10 minutes is immensely valuable and comforting.

2025-06-16 12:47:37

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the 9 months was about the time needed to repair the wider grid in the event of a broad problem.

2025-06-16 04:51:08

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have you heard of Fukushima?

2025-06-16 04:50:45

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Fukushima was ONE plant. its backup diesel generators were flooded with seawater and couldn't run, leading to the failure of the cooling system. you know the rest of that story.
a wider region with more nuclear plants (say, a quarter of the US. we have around 120 plants total) being hit with a GMD would imply keeping all those backup generators running for at least 9 months while the grid is disconnected and repaired. that entire region would be in a blackout the whole time.
even if we DID have the "spare parts lying around", that's the context within which they'd have to be "slapped back in place".

2025-06-16 04:40:07

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this doesn't apply to GMD from solar flares. an unlucky one could affect a massive portion of the country at once.

2025-06-16 04:39:09

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Transformer stockpiles are not sufficient (transformers are fried in sufficient GMD/solar flare or EMP), ordering additional units takes a long time (and relies on international trade working well), and in the meantime nuclear plants require lots of diesel to be trucked around keeping the backup generators running to prevent meltdown - all that in the context of widespread blackouts and likely societal chaos.
I've researched this topic thoroughly

2025-06-16 04:30:17

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...he says on nostr... to.. nobody?

2025-06-16 04:22:12

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depends on the target, no?

2025-06-16 02:24:45

Imagine if the entire Bitcoin network decided to DDoS a target?

2025-06-15 18:24:49

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hah cool it worked! too bad I typoed the memo though

2025-06-15 15:53:40

I just saw a huge billboard: **Gun rights are trans rights**

2025-06-15 12:29:06

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you feel the social pressure of platform lock-in a lot harder on mobile. It's good signal

2025-06-15 12:28:14

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I did it easily and without regrets.
the only downside is people being irked at me for not having iMessages or FaceTime. good reason for them to get on Signal though.

2025-06-15 12:13:53

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no, I don't think you're missing something - it's worse: you understand it.

2025-06-15 00:28:39

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I've seen some posts where someone's rectum is getting scrambled pretty good. sheesh

2025-06-15 00:24:44

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fuck

2025-06-15 00:20:53

I thought it was about nuclear weapons?
#nevent1q…02mj

2025-06-14 23:52:44

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whoa

2025-06-14 20:08:35

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nice! are you curating/reselling from wholesale, or do you make the stuff yourself?

2025-06-14 19:10:25

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> "great work"
I didn't do anything 😆😆
but thanks

2025-06-14 18:54:37

First try with #mkStacks. Thought of the name "vibes check" first and then decided on what it should do after. This took a few minutes and exactly zero manual code edits from me.
Wtf.... @npub1q3s…d26p you have done something VERY STRANGE AND INCREDIBLE here.
https://i.nostr.build/2eVCTDKGOkM4aJUR.png

2025-06-14 16:28:49

...why..? what is this about?
https://i.nostr.build/0ykGoAkbr81xMswR.jpg

2025-06-14 15:57:17

Bitcoin is uniquely suited for saving for many reasons, but the most important may be that there is equal overhead for saving 1 sat or saving 1 hundred million sats.
Most assets or goods imply some cost or overhead to stockpile and save. This can conflict with marginal utility: since you don't need the good to satisfy a pressing need today, the "cost" of storing it long-term has to work out with regard to your confidence that you will need it in the future for a more pressing need later.
That conflict is removed when there is low to no cost for saving arbitrary units.

2025-06-14 13:04:08

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https://nostr.land
you'll have to get the full pitch from @nprofile…rp25

2025-06-14 12:54:03

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"Y'all"

2025-06-14 12:51:28

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what will you be selling ?

2025-06-14 12:45:42

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spend
and
replace

2025-06-14 12:43:18

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excellent point

2025-06-14 12:42:35

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I totally agree

2025-06-14 05:11:26

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but okay full paranoia mode: a state actor on the other end of a Robosats transaction, records timestamp + fiat amount + username at the time, later on in a war on bitcoin holders subpoenas Strike for KYC on this user = knock on your door, "where is that bitcoin you bought".
nuclear, sure... but there are ways around even this - like paying with Liquid USDT from a noncustodial wallet.

2025-06-14 05:08:27

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good point

2025-06-14 00:19:14

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very odd. I can get there but I don't have this option. maybe a state by state thing or something.. because I also don't have the loan options yet.

2025-06-13 20:14:13

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the recipient of your strike fiat is the seller of the bitcoin so they know your identity (or at least your Strike username) no?

2025-06-13 19:57:30

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sure, yep. all the most enticing for a smaller entity to zoom in and expose the artificial monopoly with attractive prices. to wit: our other thread on local farmers.

2025-06-13 18:52:42

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They might do so, but they can only push it so far before a competitor scoops up their business with their lower prices.

2025-06-13 18:34:36

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I know how that is :)

2025-06-13 18:19:13

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So somehow the butcher's input costs have not risen.
You should find out his secret for avoiding the impacts of price inflation.

2025-06-13 17:56:13

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teak! I might moisturize it this year, but teak is pretty good at naturally aging and weathering without artificial sealers.

2025-06-13 17:55:23

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It's likely an easier read than you think - and engaging. just start the first chapter and I bet you'll start having fun and want to continue.
I also had it on my shelf for a while until I cracked it open this week.
everything in due time.

2025-06-13 17:28:22

what a book...
https://i.nostr.build/RPqXKf4e6LHmEuyx.jpg

2025-06-13 16:04:58

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don't rub it in

2025-06-13 16:04:34

#hodlButter arrival day is my favorite day of the month! (or week... I might be addicted).
thanks @nprofile…x784 !
https://i.nostr.build/gS5jJkf5sIn7LSq1.jpg

2025-06-13 15:19:31

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nuclear batteries in my basement wen?
https://www.copenhagenatomics.com maybe?

2025-06-13 03:15:39

"Chief Salami" is going to be the next meme for a few days (assuming we continue to have days).
#nevent1q…k9nw

2025-06-13 02:58:01

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what is significant about June 15th?

2025-06-12 21:01:34

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lol what outage?!

2025-06-12 19:09:46

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also figured that having an exchange right at hand (Strike, CashApp, etc) would also be good for a newbie who might want to immediately convert incoming sats to dollars (against my judgement lol)

2025-06-12 19:08:47

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breez and aqua don't have this problem, but Phoenix does