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2024-09-05 06:34:08

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If you are so kind to answer... I'm surprised by the arabs bit of text. Is it normal in Canada for comms like this to have that?

2024-08-23 22:26:18

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Toda la situación con Renfe, Talgo y el impresentable de Oscar Puente parece una caricatura de Atlas Shrugged.
Por como iban las cosas en el libro, creo que dentro de poco tocará que se hunda un túnel, y luego el Gobierno ilegalizará que la gente cambie de trabajo.

2024-05-31 10:29:44

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Such a shame, you might need to get some fresh debt to buy more BTC.

2024-05-30 07:15:00

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Gracias, te debo un entrecot.

2024-05-29 20:20:04

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Que bonitos, tienes el nombre del modelo?

2024-05-07 16:18:14

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Awesome stuff.
Any ideas on pricing? Would happily pay you already to book one if the pricing feels fine.

2024-04-24 20:52:18

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Tiene un caso de uso peculiar que yo no he visto en ninguna otra plataforma o app.
Alice tiene euros en Strike. Alice puede pagar un invoice de LN o una TX onchain con su balance de euros, sin tener Bitcoin. Strike se encarga de hacer el cambio y enviarlo.
Alice podria tener 100K€ en Strike y mandarlos a una address onchain que ella controla. Nadie excepto ella sabe que es ella quien ha recibido el Bitcoin. A efectos prácticos, ha comprado Bitcoin sin KYC.
Yo no conozco otra forma de pasar de € a BTC sin KYC a esta escala y de un golpe.

2024-03-28 21:01:28

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You should try kagi.com if it's still not in your radar. I think you would love it.

2024-03-23 07:04:35

Would be curious to hear opinions on @npub1226…grkj's criticism here.
I've run and I'm planning on running LNbits, but stuff like this scares my balls off.
#naddr1qq…t8wg

2024-03-19 12:04:47

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Que opinas de una banca libre basada en Bitcoin? Crees que lo veremos? Crees que es deseable?
Todo el mundo le tiene alergia a los custodians, y no faltan motivos. Pero sera siempre asi? O tendremos un mercado libre de custodians que proporcionaria servicios fiables y profesionales gracias a la competencia que se deriva de que cualquier hijo de vecino puede interactuar con Bitcoin, en contraste a los walled gardens de tradfi?

2024-03-04 15:51:05

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Muchos se pierden con purity tests y repiten las opiniones de otros como loros.
Las wallets custodial son herramientas. Tienen pros y contras. Lo importante es entenderlas, entender las diferencias con las non-custodial, y actuar de forma consciente.
El finger pointing de algunos libertarios cuando alguien se sale de su dogma mas estricto es acojonante.

2024-02-12 14:23:19

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No rest for the wicked, we have an entire 21st century global economy to take out of the governments and back to the people. It's gonna take some nuts.

2024-01-26 10:26:03

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A ver si te sale mejor que GPG, que esto es un chocho.
Y para cuando HW y mnemonic phrases pero para gpg/npriv? A mi me fascina que no exista.

2024-01-26 08:20:05

A todos los que dijeron que Bitcoin no valia para pagar cafes, les dedico esta foto que he sacado esta mañana en un coworking.
https://image.nostr.build/6a17e6563d0a98e522dd80d74c79f76a4ef4ec14ab727bf5446bf6ff7619a7dc.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=868x868&blurhash=UILNlNt7%3Fds%2Cs8a%7BbcWBE2ays-bHRjfkoff6&x=f52e6cf8ca3f0975993b08a8c04f7085ded3929870ba24a508b752f1616ba77f

2024-01-03 11:54:01

Alguno tiene en la agenda a algun Bitcoiner Leonés que se pueda unir a nuestro compadre para seguir haciendo crecer la red de meetups?
Suerte @npub1y8s…sd3u
#nevent1q…7ajh

2023-12-28 17:01:12

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Cuando arrancas la tienda de espadas para Bitcoiners?

2023-12-03 07:04:59

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Works beautifully. It's a great product. I typically recommend it for clumsier, non-techie people, over a Coldcard. Think the kind of people who use a Mac because they like the UI.

2023-12-02 07:25:29

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Disculpa Cypher, pero no entiendo que son estas "nurseries". Son criaderos artificiales de peces?

2023-11-17 08:25:49

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Y a lo mejor por el camino hasta te das cuenta de que eras tu el que estaba equivocado...

2023-11-17 08:24:00

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If you like Tip's work, you might also enjoy this Lyn: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=XcdQG43Ee2I

2023-11-16 16:13:03

https://www.pricedinbitcoin21.com/landing

2023-11-10 10:02:33

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Donde ha quedado el Gracias Mama. La juventud no respeta nada.

2023-11-09 10:30:54

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Normalmente procuro ser medido en mis respuestas. Pero el liston esta bajando tanto que hoy lo voy a dejar en un: Paloma, vete a tocar los huevos a otro lado.

2023-10-30 06:56:35

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I love using random forests and using all the outcomes of the individual leaves to make a distribution instead of simply voting/averaging them and making a point prediction. It leads into such interesting outcomes when done right.

2023-10-26 13:43:43

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👀

2023-10-26 13:41:10

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Esto me suena. Como si lo hubiese vivido.

2023-10-26 13:40:30

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The FOMOers are at the gates.

2023-10-24 11:23:12

https://image.nostr.build/d0a069472b1b19386186feaa9b77ca39179d0bd6975976726897a5e7996426d3.gif

2023-10-23 22:26:47

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I'm looking forward to see it as well.
Seeing the prints from your original that I have in the office always fills me with some comforting hope that we can make art great again.
https://image.nostr.build/5409a98c45d6f62d0eed2fbeb05716f36650a42ea2d8d812be75de472b8731fa.jpg

2023-10-18 15:55:40

Los gloriosos servicios públicos atacan de nuevo. Y ésta es la cara visible de la moneda, pero hay otra más discreta e igual de dañina: todos los profesores de disciplinas sin demanda que estarán cobrando artificialmente más que lo que el mercado libre les pagaría deben estar contentos de pasar desapercibidos.
https://www.xataka.com/otros/hay-alumnos-que-quieren-estudiar-informatica-que-universidades-no-encuentran-profesores

2023-10-18 15:43:28

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Esto lo hacen antes o después de decirte que eres un desalmado deseoso de ver indigentes muriendo en la calle sin atención sanitaria?

2023-09-27 06:03:36

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Felicidades campeon, eres una maquina

2023-09-25 08:36:22

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Imagine you run a barr. Sometimes I go there to have a beer. You also happen to hire me once a week to clean it.
Everytime we pay each other, the bank charges us fees. So, when I get a beer from you, we pay a fee. When you pay me for cleaning your bar, we pay a fee.
After doing this for some time, we feel a bit stupid, and we decide to do things differently. Instead of paying each other on every single interaction, we simply keep tabs on each other, and settle whenever we feel like it. This way, we save a lot on fees.
So, the LN is this:
- For Bitcoin
- Without having to trust each other (neither you nor me can run away with an open debt)
- And if I have a tab with Alice as well, you can pay Alice through me even if you guys don't keep a tab between each other
That does the trick. From this point on, I either show the beginner how to use it practically, or if he's curious about the technical bits, we jump from the metaphor to the actual implementation details.

2023-09-21 14:51:42

Just do it
#nevent1q…a4wj

2023-09-15 11:26:24

Eres Bitcoiner y todavía no tienes una camiseta chula de Bitcoin? Sigue a @npub1cam…43mj
#nevent1q…gery

2023-09-10 06:26:25

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No veo el momento de tener rides P2P, tanto larga distancia como dentro de ciudad.
Un verdadero Uber sin entidad central donde las persones se llevan felizmente unas a otras y el coste del transporte se reduce drásticamente por la productividad y el libre mercado.
Creo que con esto, seria perfectamente viable cruzarse una ciudad como Madrid o Barcelona por 5€.

2023-08-14 12:34:53

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Glad to see you building Darth.
Would love to pay a visit if opsec allows. Perhaps a meetup even?

2023-08-04 22:10:07

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Looking forward to see the day when the CEXes dissappear and we only have P2P.
And eventually, not even those... once there is nothint to exchange for.

2023-07-11 16:22:39

Después de un mes intentando solicitar el carnet internacional a la DGT por todos los canales disponibles y siendo incapaz por problemas técnicos y la falta de citas crónica, me rindo. Conduciré por el mundo con una mano delante y otra detrás.
La administración se cae a trozos.

2023-07-03 11:27:09

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Gracias por compartirlo. Procuramos tener actualizados los comercios de Barcelona en btcmap. Este bar no esta alli todavia porque esta quedada sera su bautizo de fuego. Si todo va bien, lo añadiremos a btcmap para que los bitcoiners que busquen alli lo puedan encontrar.

2023-05-28 12:31:28

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Last week I was giving a workshop on using Bluewallet onchain to nocoiners and I showed them tanglesheep.com during the break just for fun.
They left the workshop knowing how to use Bluewallet onchain... and a thousand questions on lightning.

2023-05-28 12:28:35

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While I don't disagree with the explained points, I find it surprising in a bad way that airgapping is not discussed.

2023-05-23 20:38:40

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Wait whaaaaat, you are the guy from the Early Retirement blog?!?!
This is the biggest crossover ever. I've followed your blog for years. And also your content as Carl B Menger.
Congrats on your DCA. It's a great story. I show it to noobies regularly to give them something to aspire to.

2023-05-23 13:07:34

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Every actions will generate a reaction with equal intensity in the opposite direction.
The harder they regulate and destroy the economy, the more people and companies will start taking steps towards operating outside of the state's walled garden.
After all, it makes sense. Once tax costs are high enough in your business' P&L, evading tax and regulation becomes worth the risk. Bitcoin native companies that operate under the anarchist mindset will be more competitive that the fiat-slaved ones cost wise.
The issue is that, the harder the enforcement and violenece of the state, the higher is the risk of operating in such manner.

2023-05-23 12:37:20

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These things fill my heart with joy. I can't wait for this kind of events to happen at an exponentially increasing rate.
Make sure to share the guy's details with the local bitcoin community so he can get plenty of Bitcoin paid gigs.

2023-05-22 12:32:41

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With great power comes great responsibility.
Wielding a tool like Bitcoin without knowledge is like giving a shotgun to a monkey.

2023-05-22 12:02:31

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Happens all the time in economics as well. Many theories sound great and reasonable by leaving out the shady bits.
Bastiat presented this idea beautifully: https://mises.org/library/which-seen-and-which-not-seen

2023-05-22 11:58:30

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Middlemen are not a problem. As you point out, they aggregate information and improve markets by removing friction.
The problem are oligarchic, greedy, evil and imposed-through-violence middlemen.
We must build systems that allow removing middlemen so that we can send these type to hell.
Honest and value adding middlemen will continue to exist and to make markets better.

2023-05-22 11:55:42

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The amount of resources and human time that gets wasted in sensless and suboptimal public infrastructure makes me want to jump a cliff some days.
I'm talking about stuff like this: https://www.elespanol.com/espana/20160211/101490191_0.amp.html

2023-05-04 16:55:31

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BTCSessions has some great videos showing LNbits from the user point of view and explaining the different features and extensions.
Darthcoin has a 1000 guided on how to set it up depending on your needs and also some materials on how to use it for different use cases (personal, uncle jim, small merchants, ecommerce, etc).

2023-05-04 16:31:50

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Oh boy, gotta work on that. You won't regret it.

2023-05-04 16:20:56

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Who doesn't?!?!

2023-05-02 16:06:28

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My lightning channels now feel like a treasure.

2023-05-02 07:23:15

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I've found that many of us, specially the technically inclined, forget about the massive IT ignorance of the common folk.
How is my grandma suposed to understand deeply the difference between a binance account and a sparrow wallet? For her, it's all numbers in a screen. Without understanding things like client-server architecture or basic of cryptography, it becomes very hard to use Bitcoin properly without somebody taking you by the hand on each step.

2023-04-30 14:56:40

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Not that I know of. There's a Bitcoin community that does discuss and use nostr intensively tho #[2].
#[3] do you know about any Nostr focused ones?

2023-04-26 14:09:15

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Ben, who else?

2023-04-23 19:34:51

What would you like to pay with Bitcoin that you can't today?
Que no puedes pagar en Bitcoin a dia de hoy, pero te gustaria hacerlo?

2023-04-13 15:01:02

Hoy le he preguntado a dos graduados de economia porque no hay bancos que simplemente depositen los fondos de sus clientes en la FED/ECB para percibir el interes correspondiente.
Se han quedado perplejos. Nunca se habian hecho esa pregunta. Uno de ellos trabaja en una Big Four haciendo modelos de riesgo para bancos.
Que porcentaje de los grados de economia que enseñan en las universidades creeis que es basura?

2023-04-11 17:11:55

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Nice! Was that using Bitrefill or some similar middle man, or is there an app store for Nintendo that accepts BTC?

2023-04-11 16:49:04

A list of stuff that I've seen being purchase by Bitcoin recently (either by myself or someone close):
✅ Honey
✅ Eggs
✅ Socks
✅ T-shirts
✅ Beers at bar
✅ Full meals at restaurantes
✅ VPS and server HW
✅ Art
✅ Printing services
✅ Hardware Wallets

2023-04-11 12:35:51

I see office/intellectual/white collar workers left and right concerned about ChatGPT eventually taking their jobs away from them.
I'm sitting here thinking about how their jobs are currently protected by a fenced garden that prevents 99% of the population of competing with them for their job position. Half the world doesn't have a bank account, and most of it can't even apply due to government regulations coming from the 19th century.
What will happen when all the world enters the market in equal terms thanks to the financial freedom and openness that Bitcoin brings? Do you think your company will keep paying you $100K per year for pushing a few Excel spreadsheets and PPT decks around when they can hire some argentinian/iranian/nepalese guy who is smarter, nicer and prettier than you and is happy taking $15K for the same job? Professions like translators and graphic designers are already living this reality.
What is your plan, anon? Are you ready to compete in equal terms?

2023-04-06 18:08:48

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En nuestras manos esta trabajar ya en una economia circular, libre y privada. Si hay un buen tejido social que comercia en Bitcoin, se podra escapar a las CBDC. Lo mismo que ya pasa con el circuito de fiat digital vs la economia en efectivo.

2023-04-04 14:55:39

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Agree. I pay a lot more on stackernews than I do around here because the UI at SN makes it trivial while here I need to do 25 clicks and input a password.

2023-04-04 09:05:15

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Mucho has tardado en cansarte.

2023-04-01 11:18:00

Barcelona is Bitcoiner
https://i.imgur.com/7O85bRW.jpg

2023-03-27 06:34:43

Qué haras esta semana para aumentar la adopción, anon?

2023-03-14 13:27:46

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https://stacker.news/items/132503
Los comentarios de @pillar me parecen una buena explicación de porque single sig + passphrase es generalmente inferior a un single sig simple o un multisig 2-of-3.

2023-03-09 12:09:30

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The same virus seems to be spreading all over the spanish speaking world.
https://2140meetups.com/

2023-02-28 21:53:47

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That TV with mempool on it is neat. What a cool space.
BarcelonaBitcoinOnly now also has a coworking space since the last time you visited. If you are ever around again, drop a line and we might be able to arrange something.

2023-02-28 16:38:35

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Not the most scalable and requires the person to trust you (Uncle Jim), but if you have your own LNbits instance, you can easily create new accounts there for them and set them up with a Lightning wallet in Bluewallet that's hosted in your LNbits.
They can easily send and receive through lightning, and if they somehow lose access to their BW/phone, you can easily set them up on a fresh BW again.
#[2] explains it nicely in one of his guides as usual: https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/the-bank-of-lnbits

2023-02-28 06:56:16

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You guys should definitely open up an API endpoint so that anyone could fetch the market price from Peach.
That way, wallets and other apps could reflect the P2P price instead of the one coming from potentially manipulated shitcoin casinos.