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2023-07-10 20:38:35

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@npub1s33…252p setup an LNURL then we can zap you! ⚡️

2023-07-10 20:33:49

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Looks delicious!

2023-07-10 20:33:09

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Gold is old. They should all just get on with migrating to #bitcoin as we all know it’s eventually going to happen. No point procrastinating and faffing around with shiny yellow rocks.

2023-07-10 20:26:46

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It’s sad to see Apple going this route. A few years back I had some hope they might embrace Bitcoin and start integrating it into their company.
Imagine the incredible first mover advantage they could have had from the big 5 tech companies, integrating a signing device into the iPhone and baking in lightning + bitcoin to the native wallet app.
Apple could have done something awesome with bitcoin. Maybe they still will in the future, but for now looks like they are determined to resist the orange revolution.

2023-07-10 20:23:08

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I wish there were meet-ups in my area. It’s super conservative and kind old where I live - very little interest in bitcoin here as far as I can tell 😩

2023-07-10 20:23:08

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I wish there were meet-ups in my area. It’s super conservative and kind old where I live - very little interest in bitcoin here as far as I can tell 😩

2023-07-10 20:21:26

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Oh. My. God! Adorable #dogstr

2023-07-10 20:20:30

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Zapped ⚡️

2023-07-10 19:40:25

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100% this. This is basically my philosophy / outlook on life.

2023-07-10 19:31:38

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I can’t prove it but my whole life I’ve always strongly believed that death is just a rebirth into something completely new and beyond our comprehension. I don’t remember what life was before I was born, but I believe I still existed before I was born, just in a completely different form. The same is true of death. I can’t prove any of this, but the nihilists who claim we simply rot in the ground and are no more can’t prove their theory either. I know which is the more optimistic belief to have ;)

2023-07-10 19:25:22

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Hurray! Bitcoin University on Nostr! Let the good times roll!

2023-07-10 18:19:12

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Just get out and go. Leave your phone at home and just walk, clear your mind. Walk down streets you’ve never been down before - no matter where you live there are always places you haven’t ever walked down before.

2023-07-10 18:06:44

It’s dinner o’clock
#dogstr #doggo http://nostr.build/i/e006ef3455813298cd2092a58a69b059ae8406250f9690661f1c0c7bc74e6bf8.jpg

2023-07-10 18:02:30

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I’ve wondered this too. I wonder if it’s something to do with the decentralised nature of all the relays - that there isn’t really a “ground truth” state to nostr, it’s fragmented here and there across all the relays (though I might be totally misunderstanding the protocol and stand to be corrected!!)

2023-07-10 17:25:51

Apparently someone in the EU is trying to convince the Italians to eat pasta made from crickets… You couldn’t make this up anymore, tot clown world! Is this the WEF pushing this stuff???
Insect pasta - I think I’ll pass, thanks…

2023-07-10 17:01:01

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How the hell do I zap on Damus now. I somehow did it yesterday, but I have no idea how! It’s something to do with emojis now right? Will zap for help!!!

2023-07-10 16:59:17

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Brindle cutie! I took mine out earlier she was rampaging through the long grass like a lunatic. Love watching them running at full speed! 🐶

2023-07-10 16:34:22

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It’s the classic tortoise and the hare! The little hodler will win eventually.

2023-07-10 16:31:07

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Would definitely like to hear nostr talked about on podcasts in the future… I’d particularly like to hear a little bit of technical information about how the relays work.
As nostr grows in popularity does the number of relays decline due to increased cost/resource requirements to operate a relay? Or will some relays start pruning older content so they don’t grow into hundreds of terabytes and billions of messages? Does nostr become a paid service in the future with users paying sats for relays to broadcast events, otherwise I’m not sure I get the economic incentive for people to run a relay? So many questions about the economics of this system! But I’m totally here for it - screw Facebook and Twitter!

2023-07-10 13:53:58

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Good morning. It’s afternoon here for this euro-pleb.

2023-07-10 11:56:55

Back in 2018 the G7 working group on central bank digital currencies described the need to inter operate between the different CBDCs in their first white paper. Let that sink in for a second. This CBDC thing has been in the works for at least 5 years at this point, and the G7 nations are coordinating between themselves to implement it.
Doesn’t this sound suspiciously like a one world fiat currency to anyone else?…. Prominent researchers have been warning about this for 30 years, and for 30 years they were branded “conspiracy theorists” and nut jobs.
Funny how yesterdays conspiracy theory becomes todays government policy.
Opt out with #bitcoin

2023-07-10 11:13:44

Wearing her ears up today 🐶
#dogstr #brindle #staffy http://nostr.build/i/20f0ab99e16ac7af569a849ddeb53c94f2f72b4018e6f93bf4a95dfcb92f42d3.jpg

2023-07-10 10:23:34

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Agreed. You can give helpful and constructive feedback without being a dickhead about it. Honestly I think it’s more of a reflection on them - people who feel the need to put others down generally have very low self esteem and self worth. The human condition sure is interesting! 😬

2023-07-10 09:51:37

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Your doggy looks remarkably like my doggy! Brindle doggos for the win! 🐶

2023-07-10 09:19:54

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It’s just another form of rent seeking. It takes a tremendous amount of personal fortitude to resist the temptation to sell out when everyone around you is doing just that…
Sad to say but pretty much everyone can be bought for the right price. There are some genuine people out there though, and the bitcoin community appears to be much better at resisting the temptation to sell out (though a few people have over the years).
You are right though, nostr or bitcoin doesn’t solve for this sort of human behaviour. Some folk will always be corruptible, for the right price…

2023-07-10 08:43:48

The Nostr protocol is a thing of beauty. It’s simple, extensible, and effective. Within just 6 hours of coding I’ve already been able to build a rudimentary client as part of a new foss project I’m working to bring nostr to the command line for the terminal nerds.
Twitter and the like cannot compete with this. Open protocols will always beat the closed ones, in the end.
I believe this technology will change the world, along with Bitcoin and Lightning. I have hope for the future of humanity with these tools.
#bitcoin ⚡️
#nostr 🦩

2023-07-10 08:36:20

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Apparently there’s already an “ANTcoin”. 🙄

2023-07-10 07:52:43

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There’s a native tribe in Brazil that has this coming of age ritual involving being stung by hundreds of bullet ants 🐜
Apparently the sting is so painful it’s equivalent to being shot (hence the name)
Screw that!!!!!

2023-07-09 19:34:36

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I agree - the fact that it’s an open and extensible protocol that anyone can build clients and/or relays for us a complete game changer. I believe it will displace the closed systems within a few years once the ecosystem really starts to build out and users migrate over.
Haven’t been this excited about a new technology for a long time….

2023-07-09 19:27:39

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My dog endorses this message! 🐶

2023-07-09 19:21:56

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The quicker we can get these fossil dinosaur politicians out of office, the better…

2023-07-09 17:49:45

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Does shitposting count as a sport? 😹

2023-07-09 17:40:35

Started working on a nostr client for the command line - for those of us like me who live in a terminal most of the time and would love to have a nostr embedded into a tmux session in their terminal.
Mostly just doing it for a hobby outside of work, and to learn the nostr protocol, which is throughly awesome in its design and simplicity. Will open source the code if anything usable comes from it down the line.

2023-07-09 16:49:03

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It’s easy to look at the world as it currently stands and be disheartened, but honestly I’m starting to think this might be the most incredible time in history to have been born. What an incredible period of time to bare witness to history, and it’s only just got started! No doubt it will be a rocky road ahead of us but I think truth always wins over lies, in the end, and bitcoin is absolute truth.

2023-07-09 16:30:59

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Yeh, it looks that way. People can’t go on with high inflation + high interest rates on mortgages - something will break. My fear is that a lot of folk will lose their homes, big property developers will then swoop in and buy a load of distressed property for cheap, as the banks try to offload it, and then the number of people forced into life-long renting just increases even more. It sucks that housing has become an investment asset - it should be a home first-and-foremost.

2023-07-09 16:25:29

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I agree, he comes across as totally lifeless and monotonous in the 2 or 3 episodes I’ve tried to watch. Can’t understand why he has such a huge following, he’s so incredibly boring to listen to droning on. At least presenters like Rogan (love him or hate him) have some energy about them and can get excited about stuff. Lex acting like a robot is his whole schtick as far as I can tell.

2023-07-09 15:36:52

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I think the big fear is similar to what happened in the 1930s… we could see another rise of dictators and calls for war as the public get more squeezed and feel like everything is going wrong in their society.
Civilisation is only civilised when the majority feel like the game isn’t rigged against them. I can see the cost of living crisis potentially causing a lot of instability in western societies, and the outcome of that could be bloody indeed…. I’m hopeful that Bitcoin might help prevent this - but I’m not sure… Interesting times, as the proverb goes…

2023-07-09 15:01:30

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I think the bank account freezes and/or banks increasingly becoming “hostile” about customers withdrawing their cash will be the wake up call most people will respond to….

2023-07-09 15:00:08

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“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.”
- Frank Zappa

2023-07-09 14:50:08

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Do it! Twitter is in the process of imploding itself anyway with the latest login-wall escapades from Elon - it’s become yet another walled garden.

2023-07-09 14:47:45

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If you are able to, check out Sparrow Wallet - you’ll get total control over your UTXO set, and you can tag UTXOs, for example being able to separate out KYC UTXOs from non-KYC etc. Sparrow also makes it easy to do UTXO consolidation, and you can make sure you keep your UTXOs grouped by KYC/non-KYC when you consolidate so you don’t mess up your privacy.

2023-07-09 14:42:58

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I want my government issued Soma, dammit! 😹

2023-07-09 13:56:47

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Good list of some well known bitcoiners on nostr - https://bitcoinnostr.com/directory/

2023-07-09 13:03:22

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Muffins are where it’s at…

2023-07-09 13:01:44

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Honestly with the first half of the video I was expecting some flawless execution of the jump… She was lucky it was just dry wall and not brick, could have been a lot worse!

2023-07-09 12:56:23

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Does this mean ordinal spam is now over!? 🙄😹
I did some UTXO management a couple of days ago - nice to see the mempool back to low fees. I have noticed though there’s still 140k+ worth of pending transactions - guessing they must all be at 1sat/vb and probably aren’t getting mined any time soon!

2023-07-09 12:56:23

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2023-07-09 12:52:43

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Well that was unexpected!

2023-07-09 12:34:22

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Bitcoin gives me hope. Nostr gives me hope. It’s a wonderful feeling to know there is an alternative to the centralised control. The long-term future is looking pretty good I reckon - just might be a bumpy road to get there…

2023-07-09 10:58:54

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At that point I guess BTC becomes the unit of account for the world as the dollar will have hyper inflated into oblivion and printing to buy bitcoin is a sort of end state that would signal the end of the dollar system?
I personally can’t wait until everything becomes natively priced in sats and we can just leave this fiat era behind us, though I have this sinking feeling that the powers-that-be will try one last trick before finally giving into Bitcoin, and that would be the CBDC (though probably called something else).

2023-07-09 10:53:06

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Get away from your phone / computer. Just grab your keys, chuck on some shoes and go for a walk around the neighbourhood if you are able to. Leave your phone at home. I find whenever I’m feeling a bit down that going for a walk, especially if you can get out into nature, usually lifts my spirits.

2023-07-09 10:46:26

The idea of a gold-backed cryptocurrency fundamentally misunderstands what a blockchain is and what very specific problem it solves for. Kinda tired hearing people talk about implementing a physical gold backed “crypto”, as if it would be a viable alternative to Bitcoin.
Gold has to be warehoused somewhere. How do you verify the warehouse has the gold it says it does? How do you prevent gold seizures from malicious governments? How do you protect against theft if the gold? How do you audit the gold and make sure it’s not just gold plated tungsten?
This is the essence of the oracle problem and it’s lost on people promoting “gold backed” crypto.
You can go even further - who gets to add new blocks to the chain? Who can run a node in such a system and verify that the gold always existed at every point in the chains history? Can people redeem their tokens for physical gold, and how would redemption work.
Having a digital token representing some physical gold isn’t a new idea, and it certainly doesn’t need a distributed blockchain ledger. An SQL database will do just fine, and people buying digital shares in gold will simply have to trust that the gold exists, and is safe.
Or, you know, let’s just stick to using Bitcoin which is self contained and verifiable as it’s a self contained system with no need to have oracles or external trust…

2023-07-09 10:16:24

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Great post. 1000 euros is such a small amount of money these days too - that’s barely enough to pay for a months worth of rent these days, so they really are setting the bar very low. Maybe they are closer than we think to outlawing cash and going fully over to a CBDC?

2023-07-09 10:03:56

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Big development projects should be seen as lots of small development projects that are iterated on over time until you get closer and closer to your desired end goal. Work out what is the absolutely core, essential thing(s) that your app must do - build those first.
At the same time jot down every idea and improvement you want on a kanban or just a text doc. Work towards a genuine MVP - no bells and whistles - just the absolute core functionality to meet the initial spec. Test, release and get feedback. Then start to refine and add new features.
Don’t get bogged down. There are some codebases I’ve been working on for 5+ years that still have over 100 tasks sat in my todo list on my Trello. You need to prioritise, work on one at a time. At some point you’ll probably need some refactoring - but don’t spend all your project time endlessly refactoring and adding needless abstractions - keep moving forward ticking off prioritised items on your todo, and don’t be afraid to release half-finished software / code…

2023-07-09 09:22:00

Let’s address some chatter about Blackrock attempting to hard fork the BTC protocol into some “ESG Compliant” version. Bring it on I say - I’ll take the coins from the hard fork and immediately sell for real BTC. We will watch the purchasing power of these hard forked coins collapse like with bcash, and Blackrock will be throughly humiliated in the process, and learn an incredibly valuable lesson about the power of users running their own nodes…
For the record I don’t believe Blackrock would attempt such a hard fork, especially if they are competing against a number of other large BTC ETF providers as it would be suicide to do so. Personally I’m more worried about paper bitcoin and rehypothecation especially if such practices become normalised across all of the soon-to-be-approved Bitcoin ETFs.
Interesting times ahead!

2023-07-09 06:54:13

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Super frustrating from Apple - I had hopes a few years back that they might start embracing Bitcoin and leading the pack in terms of adoption. They always seemed like the most likely of the big 5 tech companies to jump first with Bitcoin, and could have done some pretty awesome stuff in terms of integrating a signing device into the iPhone hardware and building bitcoin/lightning directly into their wallet app. Such a missed opportunity to be ahead of the pack.

2023-07-09 06:17:13

Having a lazy Sunday… http://nostr.build/i/50ca560628e1696da2ba3bc5c1507fc9a02fc3ddf9586070774db2469f2e616a.jpg

2023-07-09 00:42:28

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My biggest fear living in the UK right now is getting de-banked. just for buying and holding Bitcoin each month, legally bought with the fiat I have legally earned through working. Can’t wait for the day when Bitcoin disintermediates the legacy banking system and we can just buy, sell and get paid in sats…

2023-07-09 00:06:34

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Great episode loved the explanation about energy usage and grid stabilisation for mining, really helped clarify some concepts for me!