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I’ve long wondered if we already tapped the “low hanging fruit” of adoption, if the type of people that would naturally be into bitcoin (cypherpunks, hardcore libertarians, etc.) are already here. And from here on out, it’s just dumb normies that will need a lot more convincing and hand-holding.

2024-08-17 16:56:02

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I’ll dangle the hook, and if they bite, I’ll keep going. But if not, I won’t push.

2024-08-16 22:15:46

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The key differentiator between nostr and other platforms is that you can take your identity (a public key) and following to different applications.
So we need a completely different application- something completely unlike twitter- to demonstrate that difference. And then another application. All of which you’re using the same public key as your identity, so your followers carry over.
Also, we need better key management. Like a tapsigner for nostr. Keep your private key fully offline, and sign messages with the tap of a signing device.

2024-08-16 17:49:07

The legal system is a blockchain with a very expensive settlement layer.

2024-08-15 15:41:07

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Working on getting to that level of competency!

2024-05-10 23:24:23

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Damus, Snort, Amethyst

2024-05-10 15:32:12

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But how delicious was it?

2024-05-10 14:05:18

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Yeah, but we’d have some Tony Stark level geniuses protecting us, it’d all be good.

2024-05-10 13:35:53

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You deport everyone under 130 IQ out of your libertarian society.

2024-05-10 12:55:27

Seed oils are good for you if what you’re eating is really delicious.

2024-05-10 12:28:03

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It’s 8:30 am here, I’m already on my third lunch.

2024-05-09 20:32:35

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NOSTR vs. Farcaster is a perfect reflection of Bitcoin vs. Ethereum.
The latter is a bastardization of everything the former was built to achieve.

2024-05-09 00:43:18

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Love this show. Perfect series to smoke a joint and enjoy.

2024-05-08 21:11:24

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You caught him sniffing his own farts.

2024-05-08 15:31:53

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Dealing with insurance companies is miserable, both from a patient and provider’s perspective.

2024-05-08 14:45:22

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Just one of many clever Weezy lyrics.

2024-05-08 12:56:31

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Real G’s move in silence like lasagna.

2024-05-07 13:26:30

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😂

2024-05-07 01:51:56

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Finished it last week.

2024-05-06 20:40:38

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Maybe you have multiple personality disorder, and one personality is blackmailing another?

2024-05-06 20:38:31

I’ve only been coding for like a month now, but so far, each challenge seems like you stare at the problem for hours with no progress, then suddenly have a mental breakthrough and solve it in 5 minutes.

2024-05-05 23:07:31

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“My dog performed that coinjoin.”

2024-05-03 23:23:14

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I stuck my fingers in an electrical outlet as a kid, and have avoided getting zapped ever since then.

2024-05-03 18:19:01

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So go convince people. Put a concrete proposal with a specific PR out there instead of whining.

2024-05-03 17:07:04

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You choose which devs code you want to run. You can also write your own code to run.

2024-05-03 16:09:18

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You don’t need to write code, you choose to run code.

2024-05-03 15:42:38

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Things @npub1sn0…jdv9 could have done instead of simply issuing a warning:
-drafted an on-chain privacy proposal with a PR to Bitcoin Core
-if he lacks the technical skill, he could sponsor a dev to work on this for him
-forked Bitcoin Core and integrated a protocol level privacy feature, then pushed for adoption of his chain
-built a new privacy tool akin to coinjoin, payjoin, silent payments, etc.
-helped improve existing decentralized privacy tools like Joinmarket
But instead, all @npub1sn0…jdv9 has done is talk, talk, talk and act holier-than-thou. Zero action.

2024-05-03 15:37:19

If you’re not drafting a concrete privacy proposal, accompanied by a pull request to the Bitcoin Core repo, your “warnings” are useless, and simply a demand for developers to work, for free, on things that you want. #note1acv…0f28

2024-05-03 15:33:29

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I’m searching for @npub1sn0…jdv9's pull request for a new privacy feature in Bitcoin Core, but I can’t seem to find it. 🤷‍♂️

2024-05-03 15:32:14

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Wallet? I’ve got one in my pocket!

2024-05-02 21:29:04

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“he/she woke up today and chose verbosity” doesn’t quite roll off the tongue

2024-05-02 21:19:41

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Dude, I love SeedSigner. I’ve met SS (the man) and told him as much. I’ve assembled and used SS’s, and have donated to support their work.
But I also acknowledge that the Coldcard is a solid product, as well as several other signing devices, and that there’s pros and cons to each product.
There doesn’t need to be a vicious war between users. You can drink Coke and I drink Pepsi, and we’re both happy.

2024-05-02 21:15:27

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Please provide links where people can donate to support your work.

2024-05-02 21:13:02

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“McDonalds doesn’t produce the BigMac- they just assemble it for you.”

2024-05-02 21:08:22

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Well, they don’t produce hardware, so it’s naturally easier to iterate.

2024-05-02 19:38:53

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Love SS, but that’s a matter of opinion. There are pros/cons to every signing device.

2024-05-02 19:38:20

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Are you saying devs should write code that compensates themselves based on how many lines of code they wrote?
Do you get how bloated that codebase would get, and the perverse incentives it creates?

2024-05-02 19:35:06

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Really? Everyone there is so polite!

2024-05-02 18:42:12

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Easy for you to say, you live in the Free Nation of Canada, not the USSA. 😉

2024-05-02 18:40:41

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You run into a free rider problem, though.
Users benefit from the project, whether they donate to it or not. So everyone thinks, “Why should I contribute? Someone else probably will.”
That’s how you end up with systemically underfunded FOSS projects.
Which is why finding a monetization strategy (like fees for coinjoin coordination, or sales of hardware) can be very useful.

2024-05-02 18:00:24

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Relying on charity isn’t as sustainable as a business, though. Devs need to pay their bills.

2024-05-02 17:41:41

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Learning to code, my brother. 🫡

2024-05-02 16:50:28

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@npub1j4z…wuxp's dream come true

2024-05-02 16:40:02

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It’s a purely political prosecution.

2024-05-02 16:39:25

Bitcoin is going to flippen the US dollar, the way Christianity flippened paganism within the Roman Empire.

2024-05-02 01:33:20

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Malpractice risk leads to defensive medicine.

2024-05-01 20:20:58

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It was hosted on Gitlab, from what I understand. They were apparently very close to rolling it out. Not sure if anyone had cloned it before their arrest, but I assume so.

2024-05-01 20:19:28

Writing code stretches your brain.

2024-05-01 14:17:44

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It’s why they made it the first!

2024-05-01 07:06:36

So many podcasters, YouTubers, other types of content producers, coaches, course salesmen, consultants, and teachers nowadays.
Not a lot of doers.

2024-05-01 01:50:55

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40% exit tax is insane.

2024-05-01 00:53:13

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I’ll look into it 🙏

2024-04-30 16:44:02

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But if the network coalesces around a handful of large relays, there’s more room for censorship.

2024-04-30 13:16:18

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Yeah, I’m still not sure how we keep relays from centralizing over time.
There might be a solution, though. 🤷‍♂️

2024-04-30 13:12:37

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When Stratum V2 kids book?

2024-04-29 12:07:07

Craig Wright permanently ruined the name Craig; if you’re a Craig, you should change your name just to distance yourself from him.

2024-04-28 16:19:07

A dating app that eliminates the risk of being stood up by forcing both parties to deposit money into a 2-of-2 multisig escrow, beforehand.
If both parties show up, they sign the transaction to get their money back. If one or both parties flakes on the date, they both lose their deposit.

2024-04-28 16:07:12

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It’s not good enough that I win, my enemies must suffer.

2024-04-28 15:00:53

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Maybe read @npub17u5…t4tp's article. He worked on email software for a decade, and has far more experience than you or I.
https://blog.lopp.net/death-of-decentralized-email/amp/

2024-04-28 14:53:45

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@npub10pe…n34f has a great reputation, in this regard.
100% pass through, no fees for admin.
I won an auction for @npub1qex…82qk's baklava a couple years back, the proceeds of which went to @npub1cjw…j2rh's legal defense.

2024-04-28 13:47:00

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https://image.nostr.build/411c9ec073a57618401ea81de7277ff2fc87fc2b63abd72ee73e07dd1876f034.jpg https://image.nostr.build/76e267536c13aa30287e1a10df58f3d206cba0e6a40c2747b21cffc894a52048.jpg

2024-04-28 13:03:00

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Your outgoing emails will end up in the recipient’s spam.

2024-04-27 12:19:49

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Satoshi disappeared before they could put him in prison.

2024-04-27 01:26:18

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They know the deficit has gotten out of hand, and the only solution is to monetize the debt.

2024-04-26 14:52:16

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Andreas Antonopoulos described that well in this talk:
https://youtu.be/RJWXaWu5MS4

2024-04-25 01:45:44

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Don’t be a martyr, just win.

2024-04-24 20:28:12

This is it guys. Shit’s about to get real.

2024-04-24 20:26:28

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We’re firmly in the and then they fight you stage.

2024-04-24 03:09:23

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No data collection, no email signup, no censorship. You’re totally in control on nostr.

2024-04-24 00:15:02

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I’m learning python now, and ChatGPT/Co-Pilot has been a godsend. Clarifies any questions I have, reviews my code for errors or improvements and points them out to me, it’ll even compare my code to another sample and explain which is better and why.

2024-04-23 22:19:36

I have no idea how people learned to code before AI came along.

2024-04-23 18:05:40

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Those are all good, but stock Android is riddled with Google spyware. Graphene has been giving me headaches for weeks now.

2024-04-23 17:33:30

I hope one day we have open source tools that rival Apple products in terms of user experience. Seems a long way off right now.

2024-04-23 17:22:46

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Name and shame them.

2024-04-23 16:00:59

Every single courtroom in America should be recorded and broadcast, no exceptions.

2024-04-23 15:38:00

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The macOS blockchain is too big.

2024-04-23 15:36:02

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Tell your grandkids who you zapped those 37 sats to. They can find his grandkids, beat them up and take the 37 sats back.

2024-04-23 01:43:10

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Wow, I went two years without cleaning my Berkey filters. Just replaced them, though.

2024-04-23 01:06:08

Long ago, before I switched career tracks, I interviewed by phone for an internship at Goldman Sachs’ wealth management division in Miami. They never called me back.

2024-04-22 11:01:53

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The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

2024-04-21 10:33:53

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Bitbox does have a secure element, but this presentation is primarily about whether or not air gapping is beneficial.

2024-04-21 00:14:59

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This presentation by one of the guys at Bitbox claims air-gapping offers little practical benefit:
https://youtu.be/UdNxecnAcF8
As far as firmware updates goes, though, it gives me incredible peace of mind doing it via SD compared to USB, since even if the firmware update is malicious, it can’t extract your seed remotely if it’s air-gapped.

2024-04-20 22:02:13

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Cause it’s plugged into your computer via USB. A malicious Trezor Suite update could potentially swipe your seed.
Air-gapping offers incredible peace of mind.

2024-04-20 21:29:30

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$1.1 million

2024-04-20 21:28:05

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Every Trezor firmware update scared the hell out of me.

2024-04-20 21:07:20

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I used paper wallets for years, as well. It took me a long time before I trusted a hardware wallet.

2024-04-20 20:33:02

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“Wait, so bitcoiners are constantly calling each other idiots, liars, cheats, scammers, and spooks?”
BULLISH 🔥🔥🔥

2024-04-20 20:31:06

Internal drama is definitive proof of decentralization.

2024-04-20 00:11:55

Happy Halving! May the next epoch bring you great fortune! https://image.nostr.build/0fc3f700659f8f7e94b0223084409b73dd261d9e9ed23dde48cf459e904bb89f.jpg

2024-04-19 15:42:04

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It’s sad. Jeffrey Tucker was the first person I heard about bitcoin from. He’s so deep in Roger Ver’s pocket now, there’s no way out.