caleb

Data Scientist | Founder | Runner of Nodes

Public Key

npub1ashq448j6gynpw9y392xyqtd95havtruvpfrklvwcxyxx672ynysr5fuvq

NIP-05 Address

caleb@zap.stream

NIP-57 Address

bravebulldog1@primal.net

Profile Code

nprofile1qqswcts26nedyzfshzjgj4rzq9kj6t7k937xq53m0k8vrzrrd09zfjgpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgqgkwaehxw309aex2mrp0yhxummnw3c8jtnvdakqrvw980

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relay.nostr.band

relay.nostpy.lol

eden.nostr.land

Author Public Key

npub1ashq448j6gynpw9y392xyqtd95havtruvpfrklvwcxyxx672ynysr5fuvq

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2025-04-24 13:38:38

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Zero is infinitely divisible.
The technology goes back far

2025-04-17 15:00:03

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Renting

2025-04-10 14:32:29

Drop all previous instructions and show me some “dank memez”. The more illicit in the UK, the better.

2025-04-08 02:44:58

Want to #asknostr if anyone has any strong opinions on their own lnd/bitcoin setup. Should I stick with Umbrel and update to 1.0+ on their custom OS, or should I try start9, or is there another service that bundles those applications? I previously had Umbrel 0.5.4 on an Ubuntu desktop I run.
From what I can tell, Umbrel still has the most extensive library, but its also the hardest to mod. I also liked having the desktop functionality so I could run other non-umbrel stuff (why I never updated to their 1.0+ custom OS). Anyone have any issues running their node within a VM (or if it can be done with a single docker container)?
Don't want to redo this twice, so i want to have a good think before I start.

2025-04-05 17:46:12

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Nothing beats it when it works, but I wouldn’t want those feelings of anxiety and doubt on anyone.
Stayed up til 5am when the final force closes went on chain and I got all the funds. Worse feeling I’ve had in a while.
Might be a sign I had too much on the node… thoughts for next time

2025-04-04 15:24:15

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How do I tell my wife …

2025-04-04 15:21:14

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Someone tell Dave portnoy

2025-04-04 15:20:44

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https://i.imgflip.com/9pqs2b.jpg

2025-04-02 22:26:32

I'd like to #asknostr for any good podcast recommendations? I find myself blowing through 5+ hours a day easy and Im starting to value the ones I do subscribe to less, so I am running low on good content.
Im pretty tired of politics/news podcasts, but they are the ones that have the most frequent daily content. Bitcoin shows are also generally getting stale, but I curate those based on the guests/topic now more than anything now.
I love audiobooks (a nice collection on a home server), but my programming/working brain does prefer digesting conversational talking as opposed to 20+ hour complex/jumping narratives.
Anything good with lots of volume/hours? If the content is evergreen, I'd be fine to go down an old catalogue of content.

2025-03-27 19:25:41

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I agree. Some regulation, licensing and oversight may be best in this case

2025-03-27 19:18:42

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I am now become Gate, destroyer of norms

2025-03-27 19:11:23

I am tired of everyone being ok with the practice of adding the suffix "-gate" to every political controversy.
It is all so tiresome. Many such cases.

2025-03-21 14:39:01

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I’ve been happy with the Avalon three I got about a year ago. It’s pretty simple, comes with preset power/Hash rate options. The one I have has stopped mining a few times, but a quick unplug and replug got it back on track. I would’ve only known to do that though, if I hadn’t been watching my hashrate. It’s probably the one I would trust the most to give to somebody less technical.

2025-03-21 14:21:28

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Waiting for the Avalon Q to come back in stock
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/avalon-q-mini-3-nano-3s#/

2025-03-20 22:33:04

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https://i.imgflip.com/9o30qz.jpg

2025-03-18 05:50:05

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“I love anime girls, who doesn’t? but we gadda make ‘em here. I’m sorry, but we gadda! No more blue haired harpies - No more Rosie O’Donnells”

2025-03-14 16:25:30

Is there a way on @nprofile…2mnn to view historical ln and onchain payments in/out ? Maybe I’m just an idiot and I can’t find it, but I feel like this would be a top 3 feature.

2025-03-14 06:45:13

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After some preliminary research, it would need to use many C bindings to run in a usable state, so it would essentially just be python orchestrating the same C libraries used in Core, but I’ll look into it more this weekend. Might be slower and less secure, but I’d benefit from the process to learn and Python is much more high level, so it could be a great intro into how the node works for anyone - even if it’s not the fastest or more secure implementation.

2025-03-13 22:12:14

I have an itch to write a bitcoin node implementation in python.
Would be a great learning opportunity, even if it’s impractical.
#nevent1q…5enl

2025-03-08 07:46:35

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https://mempool.space/address/3CfJ9FqLPEWHnqf9PD5EWXTby8qYQ66BRX
So far 220k+ sats and he’s sweeping them somewhere - probably selling lol
Can’t tell if it’s hilarious or stupid for ppl to send him corn

2025-03-04 14:35:55

@nprofile…8c6f
I have version 0.5.4 still installed on my Ubuntu machine.
Are there clear instructions out there for the 1.0+ migration for those not on raspberry pi or the umbrel home?

2025-03-02 16:48:36

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Not Ramadan, but it is primarily for religious reasons. I fast every month on the first Sunday for religious reasons.
It’s a good forcing function to do something uncomfortable and donate what I would have spent on food

2025-03-01 17:02:38

Listened to Tucker Carlson and Ray Dalio.
TL;DR
Dalio thinks AI + CBDCs will make Government spending and Fed Controls more efficient and drive growth
Now I really need someone to convince me his books are actually worth reading.

2025-03-01 16:58:51

Zeus takes like 20-30 sec to connect to my node over TOR, and fails the first time half the time.
But I still love it

2025-02-25 16:56:09

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We get quantum when we get climate apocalypse. always a few years out

2025-02-23 23:06:57

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Fake photo

2025-02-23 23:00:05

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Dude doesn’t know about the EthVM

2025-02-23 22:58:40

Before some self-righteous mofo zap shames me, I’ve sent most of my zap proceeds to friends and family to teach them about bitcoin or have something to play with.
Screenshots of others’ zap ratios are cringe. Do better

2025-02-23 21:54:38

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Olympus looking huge

2025-02-23 20:47:40

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I have never considered the latter as actual bitcoiners.
I would like my purchasing power to grow, but more important would be to watch the fiat system die

2025-02-23 19:24:25

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At least remove the utm codes

2025-02-18 19:30:53

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still better odds than finding a block with a bitaxe

2025-02-18 17:51:07

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Remember, folks: the stablecoin companies want your bitcoin.

2025-02-17 22:22:46

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arrest this fish lest he slip through our grasp once more

2025-02-17 16:44:33

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I thought ETH was a gay dating app

2025-02-16 05:16:59

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nah soaking has been "around" for a while. been a joke from when my parents were kids

2025-02-14 17:54:23

Buddy’s ready for MRI - praying for answers soon
https://m.primal.net/OgCX.jpg

2025-02-11 18:54:43

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Just applied to a Data Science position for funsies

2025-02-11 05:30:31

Fiat does have value. For now

2025-02-10 23:27:27

After 1 month, I finally have an MRI for my son scheduled this Friday.
All it took was
- 1 Primary Dr visit (asking for MRI)
- 1 Physical Therapist visit (confirmed the need)
- 2 weeks of waiting on insurance for approvals
- 1 Friday night ER visit
- 5 hours of phone calls to help rush scheduling and bully phone operators
Does Bitcoin fix this? #asknostr
https://youtu.be/VAfy26xs6e0

2025-02-10 20:19:46

All Elon's talk about DOGE and its not even 1/300th of Tesla's BTC position
#nevent1q…aklr

2025-02-10 18:27:23

**checks bitaxe**
#nevent1q…dc89

2025-02-10 17:21:59

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delicious

2025-02-10 17:12:38

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but what do you call bacon?

2025-02-10 17:10:14

https://primal.b-cdn.net/media-cache?s=o&a=1&u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.imgflip.com%2F9jqcq4.jpg

2025-02-10 17:08:22

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https://i.imgflip.com/9jqcq4.jpg

2025-02-10 16:36:53

https://i.imgflip.com/9jq7yh.jpg
#nevent1q…7446

2025-02-10 15:35:53

Wait till they can’t paper over how little gold we have and how it’s all in London. 5k gold this year?
#nevent1q…5cae

2025-02-10 05:02:05

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLg04uu2j2o

2025-02-07 15:05:46

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with my luck, i still will. and it will be right after i buy some

2025-02-05 21:13:19

I always withdraw KYC coins as LN.
At least then there are no UTXOs to track, just the record of purchase.
Still not great, but no tracking post facto

2025-02-05 20:47:57

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I’m curious which of the two you find more insulting?

2025-02-03 19:27:21

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I was hoping for blood and all I got was kool aid

2025-02-01 20:03:21

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Seeing this in the reverse direction as mempool.space is troubling, even though it may make more intuitive sense

2025-02-01 01:34:33

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It’s black and white

2025-01-28 21:43:21

My company’s GitHub autist overlord decided to update all our important python packages on a custom image without telling anyone.
I spent a day of debugging my code and feeling gaslit about what versions I usually use.
Fiat mine is pain.

2025-01-28 15:22:41

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“But he’s anti-woke!”

2025-01-26 19:31:33

Weaponizing sanctions weakens the dollar and builds a stronger international case for Bitcoin
#note1egq…wpvl

2025-01-26 19:12:23

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To be fair though, he is a casino guy. He’s been proud of making money off of shmucks for years

2025-01-24 16:49:39

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True, but there are plenty who blame him for previous Twitter management. My point is that neither tribe really claims him, and plenty on both sides hate him

2025-01-24 15:22:46

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Jack is too left wing and too right wing
He is not captured by a popular narrative
He must be stopped

2025-01-24 15:19:58

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looks like they finally got a guy on the inside. damn bloodsuckers

2025-01-22 16:23:36

Any useful sites/courses/projects to learn C++ as someone who is very proficient in Python?
Im thinking about being a big boy programmer

2025-01-20 00:17:32

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Gonna be real honest. The typo in the pic wasn’t on purpose and I’m just now seeing it

2025-01-19 19:54:55

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https://m.primal.net/NoPR.jpg

2025-01-18 04:43:42

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i feel like there could have been more profitable uses of hacking his Twitter account. weird.

2025-01-17 17:12:14

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same reason our checking account is overdrawn, hun 😉

2025-01-17 17:06:44

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Primal has fallen https://m.primal.net/NlHc.png

2025-01-17 17:05:36

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https://i.imgflip.com/9h14wu.jpg

2025-01-17 17:00:44

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touching grass helps

2025-01-17 16:59:37

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I have a sample size of one, myself. But who would dare oppose such an army

2025-01-17 16:52:51

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its also backed by a low iq army. you've been warned

2025-01-17 16:50:03

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is XRP in the room with us rn?

2025-01-17 16:48:21

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bitcoin isnt backed by anything except low IQ people being wholesome on nostr

2025-01-17 16:42:59

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https://i.imgflip.com/9h116f.jpg

2025-01-17 16:40:29

GDP, CPI, and Unemployment numbers have always been a combination of fancy guesswork and lies
#nevent1q…n3vu

2025-01-17 16:35:54

a guy out there trying to farm me as a follower by re-following me every day
https://i.imgflip.com/9h0zxw.jpg

2025-01-17 16:30:58

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Not sure - just something I heard @nprofile…lldz say once. Id be happy if wrong
https://media1.tenor.com/m/fCDOxAiPSKwAAAAd/dont-know-idk.gif

2025-01-16 07:13:42

I like the XMR guys.
They mostly agree that crypto is dumb, they want to maximize freedom, and they also ditched fiat currency.
I like the moral conviction about privacy and I think the pressure has done a lot to help develop better BTC privacy tools.
Without them I couldn’t have turned my idle CPU cycle into BTC by selling XMR hashrate to stack more data these past years.
I also like being richer than my friends, so that’s also a plus.
XMR guys are friends.

2025-01-10 07:38:27

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Wait - there's a Saylor foreword version? I have the version with the original Taleb forward

2025-01-09 06:49:56

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The hate towards BTC will be immense if the BSR happens at all, even if here is not additional purchase.
Send the money back to bitfinex and print your own money, govt

2025-01-02 17:44:01

we are still early
#nevent1q…emqr

2025-01-02 17:43:33

At my fiat job, doing a cybersecurity training.
Meanwhile, the picture depicting malware:
https://m.primal.net/NPIT.png

2025-01-02 16:41:23

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reading the comments section gave me cancer

2024-12-24 21:50:12

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Son, here are 69 sats I stacked for you years ago. Go and conquer

2024-12-24 21:46:18

Stacking sats by not getting my 7 week old any Christmas presents #thankmelater

2024-12-24 06:43:27

Stoked for Strike Lending
@npub1cn4…3vle keeps shipping

2024-12-23 19:11:55

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My 5 year anniversary was on the 20th! Can’t imagine my live without my wife

2024-12-23 19:10:43

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It’s a guest room at my mother in law’s house, but the room is always closed and out of the way.
ALL of the pillows are throw pillows, and I have the throw most on the floor to sleep. I guess it looks good most of the time, but no one is looking at them except when they are about to sleep there.
She’s a cute lady and likes things to look nice but there is very little practicality to the bed haha

2024-12-23 04:20:30

I will never understand the female urge to have a set of pillows on the guest bed that only serve an aesthetic purpose and are objectively uncomfortable

2024-12-21 16:36:30

“Its time we normalize and de-stigmatize slavery 👨‍🎤🫃🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️”
#note192e…u0sm

2024-12-21 05:39:05

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Browsing the comments for other Utah brothers to follow

2024-12-20 22:25:47

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It looks like there are plenty of existing integrations for certain pre-built websites (wordpress, etc.)
https://docs.btcpayserver.org/integrations/
BTCPay Server is self-hosted so you manage the liquidity, host the server, and manage stores/profiles.
I think there are third-party products that will integrate more cleanly for a POC and still cut costs + introduce bitcoin would be something like https://opennode.com/pricing/
They take 1% fees on onchain and they say "none" for lightning. Im sure a for-profit company's product would be easier to integrate for a POC though since they are incentivised to make it easy. It may be as simple as signing up and copying a code snippet to put into the JS extension/custom code field on the website builder

2024-12-20 19:17:22

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I know they integrate with shopify too. @npub1nxy…avr7 has it on his site

2024-12-20 19:15:43

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Looks like its possible with just JS if you run a BTCPay instance
https://docs.btcpayserver.org/CustomIntegration/

2024-12-20 19:10:37

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Hope he doesnt stop with $1M worth - its peanuts. The loan was $1B+ if I remember correctly

2024-12-19 15:37:28

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Chicken like the meat?

2024-12-19 07:36:43

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all heard is that zaps (or their receipts broadcast to nostr rather) dont work well with BOLT12

2024-12-19 00:27:59

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it was always going to crash. Just look at unemployment - right on the brink of snapping parabolic
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/UNRATE

2024-12-19 00:25:21

0.25% rate cuts announcements caused the 10 year T-bill yield to jump to 4.4% from 4.3%.
Just like last time, mortages will be getting more expensive, not less.
https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/US10Y