AbstractEquilibrium
Abstract Equilibrium

Shadowy Super Coder; #BTC only; #nostr is the killer app

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2025-06-05 10:04:37

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#nevent1q…y822

2025-06-03 15:12:51

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A drop in the bucket, even if true. Dollars corrupt everything.
Don't eat toothpaste; eat food.
Don't drink flouride; drink water.

2025-06-01 14:05:03

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#naddr1qq…43m4
You want to post the NoteID, not a link to primal dot net (which can **abdolutely** be taken down)
(Don't do this)
(https://primal .net/bitcoinfinity/full-text%3A-bin-laden's-'letter-to-america'-%C2%A0%C2%A0%C2%A0%C2%A0%C2%A0%C2%A0)

2025-05-29 22:24:11

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I noticed that "fuk" is spelled wrong 🤣

2025-05-29 11:42:30

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It was a landslide that took a glacier with it. The town was fully evacuated beforehand.

2025-05-29 11:00:44

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I mean, you can just build new tyres 😏

2025-05-29 09:19:01

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The Power Brokers of the world only know how to operate by mastery of competition & faith...the 2 outs from the problem
A cooperatively constructive process that absorbs major attacks against it & just works?... well I don't think that aligns with their worldview at all.
That leaves a big power gap going forward that, given the less-than-popular reception to bitcoin, may take a very long time to fill in. "Opportunity of a lifetime" is not hyperbole here; it's an understatement.

2025-05-29 00:03:25

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This is very different than the internet IMO
The internet solves "How do you move information, faster?" It's a "one-to-many" innovation. The implications are a trivial continuation of commication, a millenia-long technology, with better efficiency.
Bitcoin solves "How do you get equal peers, to agree on a thing, by themselves?" This is a **"two-to-three"** innovation, since without a proper solution, there are only ever 2 ways out of the problem (unequal peers, or not by themselves). The implications of this might be...unfathomable 😏

2025-05-28 23:38:25

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Teachers should teach language (science, not arts) & money. In the US, they teach neither.
The rest of "public education curricula" are easily taught ***once those 2 basic social literacies are in place***

2025-05-28 17:53:10

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op_return, unit changes, coinbase "hacks", saylor's rejection of Proof-of-Reserves & MoE, KYC Custodial products getting a (sorta) blessing from the media, while Samourai/Tornado are still tied up in court...combined with very expensive fundraisers & parties for industry bigwigs...
This all happened in the past few months. I'm expecting something big too.

2025-05-28 17:46:33

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Those are weird marks; mine are usually 1-2-3-4-strikethrough for groups of 5 🤷‍♂️

2025-05-28 12:46:42

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Typo at the end, or do I just need coffee?

2025-05-28 11:34:01

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Wait, am I also in your coma right now??!

2025-05-28 11:06:04

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I put time in today; I want stuff 40 years from now.
Money is part of the mechanics of that long process, but IME virtue is more essential to it's success.

2025-05-28 10:30:32

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A mortgage is consumer debt; a dwelling produces nothing for most people.
Young folks can absolutely afford most houses today...the dwelling, that is. They just can't also afford the life savings of the people who currently own the dwelling. Weird situation really.

2025-05-28 00:48:09

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I'd love to see CashApp debit cards also work seamlessly with lightning (even a separate card for lightning would be great).
Tap the CashApp card to a block terminal...settled.
(It's a far cry from self-custody, but compared to the cognitive awareness level we're at now, it's a great step)

2025-05-28 00:13:49

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So it's already done... 🙄

2025-05-28 00:12:36

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Those who use AI as a tool vs. those who use it as a product
The near future of "can's & can not's" 😔

2025-05-28 00:08:47

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Nostr "Inception" is a better word for what @nprofile…4ph5 describes IMO

2025-05-27 20:20:59

#AskNostr Anyone know of a childrens book that specifically deals with the byzantine generals problem?

2025-05-27 15:48:02

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Churches are weird.
Pedophilia is forever; the theme changes but behaviors never do.

2025-05-27 15:31:57

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If you audit core, or knots, or btcd, or your own fork, etc., then it's trustless. The option is there always.
If you don't run a node, it's completely moot.

2025-05-27 13:09:55

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What app is this, is something doing this live now?
I agree, user/wallet does the conversion then & there, but after the tx, the target denomination value sticks forever. The app runner really needs fiat & bitcoin to make that work. Good luck if you want to try 😬

2025-05-27 03:06:31

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If a QE happens in the woods, and there's no announcement for poeple to go nuts over...did a tree actually fall?
(Might've messed the analogy up somewhere 😅)

2025-05-27 01:48:13

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The internet ran on telephones; now telephones run on the internet.
That new infrastructure... did not happen by accident and did not come without any strings attached.

2025-05-27 01:34:53

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"Someone’s carrying a bullet for you right now, doesn’t even know it. The trick is, die of old age before it finds you."

2025-05-27 01:33:03

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Ever see a vegan freak out when their cat does this? I have and it's a blast!

2025-05-27 00:31:47

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Meeting someone who's given you dozens, hundreds of hours of laughter in your life is no joke! 😏
I met Keegan-Michael Key on a plane once & had the same reaction.

2025-05-27 00:20:30

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There's a very big incentive to run a node: trustlessness.

2025-05-27 00:10:03

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"How do you get equal peers to agree on a fact by themselves?"
1. They're not equal peers. Competition yields the result.
2. They can't do it by themselves. Shared belief in an omniscient, omnipresent deity yields the resilt.
3. Bitcoin
We don't like to compete, and we never had a 3rd option before. so I'm pretty sure your answer lies somewhere in option 2.

2025-05-26 22:45:23

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Yep fair enough! I see the "machines take over" bit as a B-story, and not very fun (probably the same instinct you have about it).
It's a great movie, but I'm with you on the general trope. Battlestar Galactica reboot I liked (for the soundtrack). Terminator I liked (for the time travel). Matrix I liked (for the philosophy). Other than those, machine dystopia stories seem tired & one-dimensional.

2025-05-26 20:35:40

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They actually don't know when the real world is in the film; it isn't really relevant to the story. Morpheus says as much in the training exposition he gives to Neo.

2025-05-26 20:10:42

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It's more about the 20th century than the future. Most of the story still occurs inside that late 90s simulation.

2025-05-26 20:00:38

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nvm!, saw the answer late!

2025-05-26 19:58:43

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Eternal Sumshine of the Spotless Mimd

2025-05-26 18:17:38

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Terminator

2025-05-24 16:10:19

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I mean...did we not arrest folks for going maskless, fire people who wouldn't get jabbed, and stop children from seeing their parents on their deathbeds...all across the world?
Virus aside, I'd say the whole global campaign was **extremely fucking real!**

2025-05-24 01:05:56

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Nah. There are 200 governments; all of them got in sync around covid (minus a few shithole countries maybe). It wasm't harmony, it was shared & total vulnerability.
Pandemics transcend governments today. Man-made pandemics are "how the world works". Defend yourself.

2025-05-23 16:20:19

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Slay your heroes?
https://tamby.mjex.me/8333a40e52f1d5ce5da7a45c6799348b1f473485ee0ef4e1d5d05b0a9478a55a.jpg

2025-05-23 16:16:55

Can't have folks believing their time is worth some amount of monopoly tokens...without a **very** robust propaganda apparatus to divert their better self-interest.
#nevent1q…3uqs

2025-05-23 12:52:47

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You can math your way into ignoring thermodynamics, but you can't ignore the consequences of mathing your way into ignoring thermodynamics.
It is pitiful that our fake accounting still can't balance out though

2025-05-23 11:40:45

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Nope. It's always permissionless. It's just rarely consequenceless. 😏

2025-05-23 11:39:04

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"Imagine a measuring stick that's a ball of silly putty..."

2025-05-23 01:14:08

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This is why 19th century slavery failed (was "abolished").
1. The owners made the slaves miserable in most places in an obviously inhumane way
2. There were too many white (free) people having their own agency in life
Fix those 2 problems. Add in a monopoly token the slaves trade amongst each other. We have resurrecred slavery in a much more future-proof way.
Yay. 😔

2025-05-23 01:08:37

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raunchy

2025-05-23 00:17:07

At 1M, sacred ring
#nevent1q…zv9u

2025-05-22 22:54:58

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THERE ARE...FOUR WHITES!!!

2025-05-22 22:26:12

Chuck Norris unilaterally breaks Global Consensus
#nevent1q…jc3e

2025-05-22 20:46:08

"How do you get a set of equal peers
To unanimously agree on a fact
By themselves?"
Humanity's history is written exclusively through the lens that **there are 2 ways around this problem**. Bitcoin...works through it, and demonstrates a 3rd way.
The future's sure going to be interesting. 😉
#nevent1q…nkrz

2025-05-22 20:37:13

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Okay I agree in sentiment, but there are always rules...

2025-05-22 18:15:29

The pizza was always infinite, so... 🤷‍♂️ 😏
#nevent1q…f8p6

2025-05-22 18:01:46

So bitcoiners are trying to move a decimal, and it's a whole big thing because we all want to get it right...
In fiat-land though, we can skip right ahead to "Everyone surely already knows how to round numbers up & down in increments of 5! LFG!!"
#nevent1q…g7gm

2025-05-22 14:50:25

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Look at the son's face; dude's probably in his mid 20s now...but he somehow looks like he knew exactly what was going on 🤣

2025-05-22 14:47:32

https://tamby.mjex.me/6242c1c48231aa93ae2a29719fefb0be325b65e6b8c2f43c4fe7b575b6abf808.jpg
#nevent1q…8yg9

2025-05-22 14:39:20

For 20 bucks coast to coast, maybe not a bad deal 🤷‍♂️
#nevent1q…are8

2025-05-22 14:30:33

21st c. miranda rights
#nevent1q…rnvy

2025-05-22 08:25:56

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Only one 9x from a milly

2025-05-21 14:34:52

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Cache Patel is keeping the files safe

2025-05-21 14:10:43

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Agressoor

2025-05-21 11:56:46

#grafana turned me off at first, but then grew to susprise me.
#nevent1q…cnxl

2025-05-21 10:33:10

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https://tamby.mjex.me/a922ed47c9b29b2027fe40bb8ece1d769a37c0458498791a8a9a431dcdb2388f.jpg

2025-05-21 01:36:11

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Old school disney normalized slavery 🤷‍♂️

2025-05-20 22:29:17

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I prefer my feeds to go middle-out 😏

2025-05-20 21:57:20

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"Oohhhh shit the bed almighty" 🤣

2025-05-20 20:23:00

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Are you pricing your 2035 node in BTC or USD? Pretty sure it'll be cheaper with the former.

2025-05-20 11:44:08

4900.99 what?
#nevent1q…rq7w

2025-05-20 11:21:18

ngl this is a respectable response
#nevent1q…3at9

2025-05-20 11:19:02

It's pungent
#nevent1q…7d7r

2025-05-19 15:29:14

Rolls right off the tongue 🤣
#nevent1q…w7mg

2025-05-19 15:15:42

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Wouldn''t a single "5G HWW" kind of nuke that brand forever? Aren't there only ~10 brands? How would this go undetected & unresolved for any real amount of time?
(I advise my friends to multi-vendor multisig to avoid this fwiw)

2025-05-19 15:11:15

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Physical access is necessary for this type of attack, no? It would be apparent if e.g. 5G tech was put into HWWs?

2025-05-19 14:49:11

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Why retire if:
- You love what you do
- You are good at what you do
- People value what you do
- Bonus points if they value your work in BTC
- What you do is positive for the human race
If I have a thing (or many things) that satisfy all 4, there's no reason to ever stop. I'd rather do 1% of my primetime-level work, than retire.

2025-05-19 00:35:57

Good idea really 😬
#nevent1q…zzwc

2025-05-18 18:44:41

Language is the literacy of ideas.
Money is the literacy of actions.
It's impossible to be a successful social human without some mastery of both.
#nevent1q…dnv2

2025-05-18 16:27:48

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Grams to Tonnes!
"I can lift a 5 ton truck with 1 finger!!!"
(also, I see what you did there with "earn" vs "make" 😏)

2025-05-18 15:46:43

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Fuck income taxes.
The more you spend, the more you should pay. Simple as.

2025-05-18 15:15:27

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#nevent1q…evnh

2025-05-18 13:26:56

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Ugh, typos! I meant "non-devout" people.

2025-05-18 11:11:02

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Ready Player One was good. "Fun" is the word I'd use.
I'm more of an Ender's Game kinda guy myself. They carry a similar vibe to me but Ender's is darker and a more rich story.

2025-05-18 11:02:35

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That's Tryspeed's wording fyi; pretty sure cadh/card payments don't say "fiat" & Steak n' Shake didn't have any role in it being there, besides choosing that processor.

2025-05-18 01:18:08

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I fuckin' loved ghostbusters........
......yeah, ernie hudson's the shit
.... good memories......x

2025-05-18 01:14:52

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Translate Klingon to English: sehhh-gaahhhh

2025-05-17 23:10:03

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Is it a cash society? Or a cache society? 😏

2025-05-17 23:04:09

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When AI proves humans are inferior in nearly everything, how will devout Christains et al still believe we're special like god said we were?
I feel like this is a small step in a very huge impending spiritual crisis. I'm not excited for the mechanics of it.

2025-05-17 21:32:19

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The whole album is

2025-05-17 20:43:45

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Orange pilling is such a double edged sword; this is definitely the sweet edge that makes it worth it 🙂

2025-05-17 20:02:03

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Spoiler: You're ingrained with doing stupid shit then & probably went apeshit doxxing yourself on the 21st century internet

2025-05-17 19:41:30

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I nose-cap myself daily 🤝

2025-05-17 17:59:36

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"Arcade tokens"
1 token for 1 fiat.
All arcades recognize tokens from all others, so they can be used anywhere (with a behind-the-scenes "transfer" action)
You can redeem tokens back to fiat from the arcade, or you can play the arcade games (as long as the arcade stays open & honest)
Outside of the analogy, "spending tokens on games" represents the non-negative-sum activity of spending bitcoin for productive activities.

2025-05-17 17:09:02

You have ~1500 days to vote during each presidential term. 1500 days to build a moral reputation, to effect tangible changes through your evident day-to-day choices.
Don't lie to yourself that "one day every 4 years is enough"
#nevent1q…tnk8

2025-05-17 15:46:29

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In 1895, US adults voted for their country's best interests over their own, only put money in a bank they were willing to lose, and promoted strong family values.
In 1995, adults simply vote red or blue, never even see their paychecks let alone take them home, and support their boys choosing to have their penises removed.
What happened to life?

2025-05-17 15:12:36

If you can punch through a car window, why the fuck would you bite into a person if you weren't starving?? 🤣
#nevent1q…2qm5

2025-05-17 14:58:32

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"Give me a guitar & I'll tell you I love you in every way I can for as long as you like. Or give me a shovel and an impossible demand, and just know that I'm doing it because I love you."
The rhyming scheme gets lost in translation 😏

2025-05-17 13:29:10

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But a tonne of gold is too much; folks won't understand!

2025-05-17 13:28:00

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Ser I think you meant grams of gold!

2025-05-17 12:22:30

Slave bucks are popular, because very few people around the world understand what this means. 😔
#nevent1q…ys2k

2025-05-17 11:46:05

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This conversation, in gold:
"Do we get rid of grams & call everything tonnes, or do we get rid of tonnes & call everything grams? Having both is unacceptable!" 🤣

2025-05-17 11:28:02

Getting auditfucked because you bought a burger on May 15 2025 is going to suuuuuck 🤣
#nevent1q…lf7w

2025-05-17 11:21:02

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Nah that's not fiat maxi.
Sliding the decimal like Egypt, Zimbabwe, Argentina, Turkey and now Bitcoin is peak fiat though!

2025-05-17 00:23:10

I've been thinking for some time that when US debt goes over a quadrillion, that will be the mass-psychological breaking point of the deficit (if it gets that far).
Folks understand the word "trillion" but many have no idea what a thousand trillion is, even if they've heard the word "quadrillion" before.
But you know something?...People **really** know the word "million". It's closer to them in many other ways. People also know the number "21" as a lucky number.
Why take a simple, elegant thing like "21 Million" and bastardize it? Because people can't count things well? We can do better.
#21million
#nevent1q…rc4k