Eluc

https://eluc.ch

Open minded Bitcoiner and blogger with a focus on UX, privacy and security. https://eluc.ch

Public Key

npub1eaadqhuwn80gatdml02u58q0nd65nx7wqur5je4jwa5gef0p6unqrx54mw

NIP-05 Address

eluc@nostr.eluc.ch

NIP-57 Address

eluc@lnpay.in

Profile Code

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relay.damus.io

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2024-10-30 20:59:34

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I'm not technical enough to full understand the mechanics but it seams much easier to implement send to silent address than generating and receiving to silent address.
Is it due to the discovery mechanic? It seams hard to do it locally, even more on a mobile as it must ressource intensive, right?

2024-10-13 05:31:08

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This make me crazy as well, in Bitcoin meetup people paying in Bitcoin are still very low and we have no capital gain tax, so nothing to report if you spend and buy back.
Same speach, always, "why spend my BTC if it should worth more tomorrow?" Why I answer: "If you have the cash to pay, you have the cash to buy more Bitcoin, if you really believe it will be worth more tomorrow, buy at least as much as you spend, buy 1.2, 1.5, 2 times more of possible, when price is going down 2-3% or more, buy in advance for your next spend. Using your Bitcoin will only make it even more valuable in the long term."
On the other end, merchants who are serious about it should offer some discount, cards cost a lot, like 4-6% minimum, cash cost as well, you must maintain change, spend to keep the cash safe between 2 working days, insure the risk of thief... A merchant accepting Bitcoin without 5 to 10% discount is not serious about pushing Bitcoin usage.

2024-10-02 20:44:09

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Thanks you, it's hard to keep this high level of boringness.

2024-09-28 21:54:05

I tried #OXchat and it looks cool, but I used my main nostr nsec, now have many connection request and I can either add contact or block.
I also get notification for reply of message posted from an other app that are not visible in OXchat.
And I'm not talking about warning and missing message and private chat the I do from both app.
Is it suppose to be like that or I muss use a separate nsec for OXchat to work properly?

2024-09-25 09:18:30

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You have to reinstall your entier Linux OS and start fresh 🤣

2024-09-23 12:22:38

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Feel stupid, it was watermarked. Here it is: https://www.coinglass.com/today

2024-09-23 12:19:34

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I have seen it posted many times but never found the source, where is from?

2024-09-23 12:18:27

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3 times on 4 I go to the doctor they told me: we don't know what it is, probably nothing, just take painkiller and wait, if it's not getting better in 2-3 weeks, come again.
That's cost you 80 bucks, thanks for coming.

2024-09-15 12:18:33

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Is there anything to conclude?

2024-09-15 10:42:39

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New iPhone, 5k screen. This man should stacks more sats instead.

2024-09-11 21:09:16

Amazing features for privacy and security. I wish more service and app would have the same, user could pass boarder with almost empty phone, and login everything on the other side. Password manager would be one of the must app to have this.
#nevent1q…a9tv

2024-09-11 12:35:18

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As a Swiss (who never got a serious fine thus) I might bring clarification. What you refer to are what we call "day-fine" but official name is "pecuniary penalty". These are not decided by the police and not just sent home with an invoice. It happens only for serious crime and infraction. You will get to the court and the judge will define a number days you get fined (between 3 and 180 for all infractions and up to 500 for important fraud or money laundring). Then the justice require an extract of tax report and define the cost per day-fine (between 30 and 3000 CHF more or less same in USD).
If the person don't or can't pay, it will be converted in prison time (not a 1-to-1 rate).
For speeding, this could happen if you over speed more than twice the limit (more or less) outside highway and 80km/h above on highway, which mean starting at 200km/h on section with the highest speed limit of 120km/h, after all margins and uncertainties deduced, so you must be like 210km/h on your speed-o-meter to reach this. Which is already quite crazy (if you are not from Germany).
Morality, if you want speed like crazy, go to German, no fine on unlimied sections.

2024-09-11 11:16:11

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La question est de savoir pourquoi 12% ont tout vendu.

2024-09-11 09:41:57

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After testing some of them, I eventually end up with a LibreCalc Spreadsheet I did myself.

2024-09-10 20:44:38

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It's not sending the cash yet, the second phone still need to confirm to receive. We could do like one phone is a boltcard and the second make the invoice, tap to pay the invoice, fireworks and shit! It will be faster than Apple and irreversible.

2024-09-10 12:15:58

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My salary in Bitcoin is the same.

2024-09-09 11:15:23

It's been a long time since I have played a new #GameBoy game!
@nprofile…fc2w #HeroOfBitcoin #videogames https://image.nostr.build/eb8c4a0ab43c78742fc7aa5a1a44fe23fb039a61ebd7b47e4227d3701cc08e5d.jpg

2024-09-08 20:14:18

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Thanks! However I get no zap notifications in Amethyst. It was working with my Lightning Address from BTCPay if I remember well but then some people couldn't zap me somehow.

2024-09-08 20:09:34

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Amazing documentary. Just slightly too bad that at the very end you give no link to your nostr account, you jave Twitter, Insta and YouTube, more or less what you just said to br evil.

2024-09-08 19:36:35

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Hum, it's the opposite for me, once I build a fourniture she ordered to surprise her when she is back and she was pissed, she wanted to build it herself or with me... go figured out.

2024-09-08 05:36:46

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You mean, Broken Money is not SciFi? This happenend for real?!
No joking but sometimes when I'm reading I have a hard time to realize how consistantly bad governements were and still are and that it's not really going for the best.

2024-09-07 19:53:01

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Got robbed once. Only some valuable aruff were taken, fitting in a big backpack I guess (a bag pack was even stolen, probably to store the stolen stuff). Insurance covered everything, but I end up buying back for half of this amount.
Sometimes I'm wondering what I would miss if my entire place burn down completely. Probably not much. Could even be a relief somehow.
However, don't touch my sats, or I will track you down to hell.

2024-09-06 21:42:50

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Let's test my zap address from my LNbits instance, Primal is not working apparently.
Also just bought some sats 0.2% before the bottom of the dip (so far), let's see if I timed the market well this time, after 2 purchase 1000 and 2000$ above this price. I'm out of available fiat for this month anyway.

2024-09-06 14:08:36

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You look like these actors in old movie remastered in 4K with AI.

2024-09-06 07:18:42

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Amber was getting super annoying, every click you do on Amethyst popup Amber for approval, even with the option to allow basic actions enabled, I gave up and enter my nsec in Amethyst again.
By the way, @nprofile…pyug, I figured out that my reactions and zap settings were lost by changing the accounts. Is there any way to save it? At least the reactions and zap amounts, if I need to reconnect my wallet fine, that's for security but the rest is really not critical.

2024-09-05 16:42:30

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Do you have PoS feature now?

2024-09-05 07:16:56

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It's really cashu/ecash/mint focused. Is it on purpose?

2024-09-05 06:52:07

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Ok, I understand your point. Luckily I'm not in US so Phoenix is still one of the best option with Breez. Both, as well as Mutiny, are self-custodial, so nobody will get rug what ever happen. There is always the possibility to close all channels and send funds to an on-chain address, even if it could get more or less tricky in some cases, like you mention for Zeus.
I didn't test Alby Hub, it looks like similar to a self-hosted BlueWallet LndHub with some more functionality but nothing that cannot be done with LNbits already. I will definitely give a try on my node anyway. In any case it's already advanced use cases and if you create account for your friends on your Alby Hub, it's basically like if you create account for them on your BTCPay Server, LNbits, LndHub or eCash mint, same responsabilites to have them updated and on top your must ensure you don't fuck up with your node and loose some or all the sats there, yours and theirs.
While I attend meetup, I still recommend testing Lightning first with some sats, up to 10-20$ worth max, with WalletOfSatoshi, then move to Phoenix for normal user or Breez for merchants (PoS with boltcard support), finally when ready they can move to Zeus, Sparrow, hardware wallet or eventually running a node if they feel to, at least to connect their wallet for self-checking on-chain data.
It's a journey, everyone will do it differently, some will be confortable doing Uncle Jim's bank, some won't, but it's better to do something for adoption, than just sit and wait.

2024-09-04 16:30:26

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Your definition of Uncle Jim's bank is not correct. Helping a friend to use BlueWallet, Zeus, Breez or Phoenix is not really risky, they will just be a user of these app.
However if you create accounts for them on your node, Lnbits, BTCPay or a Cashu mint, then you are the bank and have great responsabilities.

2024-09-04 16:25:44

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Can we link a Cashu wallet or mint to Amethyst? Would be neat!

2024-09-04 12:08:55

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BITCOIN - You're fucked if you loose your key.
CBDC - Can call your banker if you loose your password.
Maybe the only advantage and in case you get hacked by social engineering it's even another disadvantage.
Also fee can be highly variable on Bitcoin but are most likely fixed (or zero?) on CBDC.
I still think Bitcoin is superior but we should be fare when doing a comparison and work on solving the weakness. Lightning + multisign with miniscript backup key might be one of the possible solution.

2024-09-03 19:14:15

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What does it means at 9%?

2024-09-03 19:11:36

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Required 10h access to the victim's Yubikey, to know the exact account targeted, 11'000$ of equipement, disassembling the key and replacing it in a new casing after the cloning.
I guess most people are fine.

2024-09-02 20:50:27

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Bring back cjdns for mesh networking without ISP.
I remember some years ago in Spain there was a huge community mesh with simple wifi and ethernet, because ISP sucked hard in most area at the time.
Too bad it didn't last.

2024-09-02 20:46:14

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This is the way.

2024-09-02 18:41:08

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Sometimes I miss big nightclub with my favorite DJs. But as I get old, they get even older and most of them retire or are just touring exotic places and huge festivals. While nightclubs get new headliners I never heard about.
When I get to parties I'm having hard time to find good electronic music I love, but when I do it's magical.
Last year I saw Eric Prydz at a festival, it was amazing, but festival vibe is really not the same, and he palyed just 1 hour, not a single minute extra 😥.

2024-09-02 13:55:58

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Moscow time is the best to see USD fiat crashing to hell. And in the future we will get used to price in sats, and only to pay taxes or shit we will check the moscow time (or equivalent in your local fiat) to check how much sats it will cost you per fiat unit.
#moscowtime

2024-09-02 13:51:23

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Check Liana wallet UI, they display the amount in sats with the 0,00... grayed-out in front of it, so you have both bitcoin and sats in one view.
0,1 BTC = 0,10'000'000 ₿.
It's a very good UI trick to solve this problem.

2024-09-02 12:26:46

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You mean scrolling zombies. It's not only to boomers, but yes they are among the more vulnerables now.

2024-09-02 11:03:47

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Which is?

2024-09-02 11:03:27

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Please use it as an example. The 402 payment required channel has a very good video ou passing a border with sensitive information.
https://bitcointv.com/w/8Az8tqhB6DvrRtZZMWjwfi

2024-09-02 10:56:28

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Teaching them the only utility of shitcoin, gambling.

2024-09-02 10:53:28

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The ostrich could be the t maybe.

2024-09-02 09:03:08

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Which app are you using that get stuck at installing? And how often do you intsall new app that it's bothering you?
Updates can be done all at once without validation, just run it when you charge your phone and don't need it for the next 5min.
The only app I feel super slow is @nprofile…707c but I don't think it has anything to do with GrapheneOS.

2024-09-02 06:21:28

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Border agent: anything to declare?
Bitcoiner: 👀 Nothing, just a cheap pen.

2024-09-02 06:13:30

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I have nostr band, damus and snort. I had a fourth one, a relay that was running on my Umbrel accessible with a public url but I had to shut it down as it was slowing down my node too much.

2024-09-01 21:13:07

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I must admit that when I went back to the relays option after some updates of Amethyst I got quite confused. I'm still not sure my setup is fully optimized but at least I more or less get it now, thanks.

2024-09-01 14:17:07

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I just learn about it, one starting in eluc is easy, took me 1min in the browser app but I don't want to change my npub now.

2024-09-01 11:25:43

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It's fake the glas of wine is deformed at its based.
And it's not chocolate from Migros.

2024-09-01 11:17:30

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The learning curve for it is quite steep, I'm still not comfortable to use it daily but I understand why it's much better for privacy and security.

2024-08-30 09:51:56

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How?

2024-08-30 08:28:37

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You are talking exclusively about online shops right?
I use the "order as guest" option whenever there is one, except for a few shops that I regularly order from and want to have order history for warranty and so on, accessible on an account.
But yes most occasional or digital only purchase require nothing more than a Lightning invoice to pay.

2024-08-30 07:44:26

Amazing how far we have been so far, Bitcoin is in the top 10 valuable assets in the world and it's judt the beggining.
When Bitcoin pass 100k it will be top 5.
Wheb Bitcoin pass 200k it will be 2 with just gold to best.
Tick tock gold, Bitcoin is coming to make you obsolete. https://image.nostr.build/86f7fb44c15acca6d1f24d4239e7d2cabbcca83287b16ec0ad1b548d53e75bb0.jpg
#Bitcoin #Gold #marketcap

2024-08-30 06:57:43

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Nice code
https://media.tenor.com/FJGcHpc5RLMAAAAC/cat-meme-cats-love.gif

2024-08-30 06:53:05

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Nobody: Keep thinking "should I switch to iPhone"
Once you enjoyed the freedom of GrapheneOS or other free Android rom, there is no turning back.

2024-08-29 21:37:54

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This is probably the most important and I would add:
fast finality. You must be sure within a few seconds (30s max) that the payment is either confirm or cancelled.
It happened to me twice that my boltcard didn't confirm the payment on the PoS until the 60s time out (way too long), then a new invoice was generated and paid with another waller (Phoenix, Breez, WoS...) then 10min later the inital invoice was paid.
This should never happen or at least there should be automatic refund.

2024-08-29 21:27:41

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I'm only one third into it, I'm a slow ready with fee free time, but it's excellent so far, I find myself re-reading some paragraph to be sure I understand everything properly, so it's really bringing me a lot.
Thanks for writting it.

2024-08-29 09:26:13

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I tried it on testnet, love the concept but I'm not using it because of the risk that I will be forced to do a costly on-chain transaction during a period of high fee and I would like miniscript to allow longer than ~1 year period.

2024-08-29 09:19:45

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Amazing idea. As understand it displays a wallet from LNbits and can generate invoice on request.
Would be awesome to have another version that act as an ATM, kids put dirty fiat coins and it add the sats on their account. Parents can empty them to buy back the sats.

2024-08-25 20:07:33

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This is the most scary thing that actually have chances to happen.

2024-08-25 20:05:32

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Not following: https://image.nostr.build/644ad83ef608f293778e89f0e7040be26d4c546682357041cfe67b5339a5dda6.jpg
Following:
https://image.nostr.build/0c05e8e8c650151a431dad194f98ad102a0454737e0fdfa4eb33ba38c5c83a13.jpg
I cannot reproduce the relay issue, I guess it was right a few seconds after I followed you, now everything load even if I unfollow and re-follow back.

2024-08-25 19:28:20

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I paid this cats with tuna fish to prevent my wife to withdraw money.

2024-08-25 19:23:48

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Bus stop and traffic lights are more robust in Zurich (live tested every summer during the Street Parade).
https://image.nostr.build/83a23c8c9cfde89a777f80588cfb03d93f523f6172914f40ddef5f9ca251e34e.jpg

2024-08-25 19:15:27

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Ok I had to follow you to see it, but then some pictures were not on my relays.

2024-08-25 19:14:27

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What will they do? Arrest everyone using Signal, Telegram, SimpleX, Briar, Matrix, Tor, nostr?
It's like saying SSL/TLS encryption for email is illegal. How to procreed? For Google, Microsoft, Proton to remove encryption? Arrest Mozilla Thunderbird, K9-mail, Roundcube devs? Delete all source codes?
Same as when holding gold was forbidden, some surrender, some hide it and fight for their freedom.
We must avoid all weak spot, be strong togheter, fight for our rights.
#dencentralized #FOSS #fightforfreedom

2024-08-25 06:17:35

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He was arrested for not moderating (censoring) enough his service.
We need censorship-resistant tech, with no-one to be arrested.
#Bitcoin #nostr

2024-08-24 19:32:02

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I don't see anything in your gallery, do you see mine?

2024-08-23 14:07:56

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More like 51% loves democracy.

2024-08-23 14:05:51

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I have always a small Swiss knife on me.

2024-08-23 08:23:35

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Is it working on the original Blockclock Mini? I love it but feel like they just abandoned it, no update, no new function, it's not even updating live on each block in between rotation with other metrics.

2024-08-23 08:20:47

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2024-08-23 08:15:57

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Nice move. I also passively quit months ago, almost never posting or even connecting to it but still didn't decide to delete my accounts (yes I have many).

2024-08-22 07:42:51

Who is going to Plan₿ Forum in Lugano Switzerland in October?
I just got my ticket before price increase in 9 days.
See you there!
#Lugano #Switzerland #Bitcoin

2024-08-21 10:51:54

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No way, my Pixel7 with #GrapheneOS barely finish the day without too much use, always on Wireguard, nostr, message apps, nextcloud app but sync only on WiFi when charging, occasional videos (30min on average I would said), why am I doing wrong?

2024-08-21 06:14:22

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Wait what!? #meshnet are back?! cjdns, hyperboria, /r/darknetplan that was good days... of loneliness.
Where do I (not) signup to join?

2024-08-20 19:58:39

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Ok maybe I have experience this at 32+C but it's so rare where I live.

2024-08-20 07:30:06

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Really? It's fine usualy, maybe it heats up during PD fast charging but that's the same for all.

2024-08-19 20:29:37

Pixel phones are the best phones anyway, among all phones compatible with #GrapheneOS
It is always an irony that only Google products are eligible to circumvent Google surveillance.
#nevent1q…fpdm

2024-08-19 15:04:04

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I got your point, I just don't see it as a rising trend, so one guy complain about it, do you have soure that's trending.

2024-08-19 12:09:53

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Really? Source? Which format is preferred, .ods?
What I certainly hate is people sharing a final document as Word when it should clearly be shared as a PDF.
But I have never experience any hate for .docx format or anything, even if LibreOffice would definitely worth more love.

2024-08-19 08:51:23

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Why do you think that they don't like it? I'm sure that the Swiss Central bank would be very happy if they could buy and hold officially and directly some BTC. The Swiss Franc is super strong and often they are "forced" to make it not too attractive as an investment, not to impact too much the Swiss industries with a Swiss Franc that is getting stronger than all other fiat (still there is some inflation due to this kind of price control but usually much lower than US and EURO zone.

2024-08-17 20:47:11

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I don't most of these lines and I'm not sure it's the most objective comparison, but still interesting.

2024-08-17 20:12:13

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To protect our employees we are shutting down the office and firing everyone.

2024-08-16 21:34:20

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There was a time we had these physical locations called shops where you could roam in a vast stock of stuffs, touch them, test them, and take them home immediatly for you to enjoy.

2024-08-16 21:29:32

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I edited but I guess not everyone see the edit (joys of nostr), there were in fact no fee on the receiver side but there was a delay in the account amount vs when it list the confirmed transaction.

2024-08-16 21:26:15

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Hello the only Mexican family in my town! I heard it's Enchiladas Verde's day today!
Feel free to pass by tomorrow for my famous Pasta al Tono.

2024-08-16 13:39:59

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What will really trigger your nut is that the more millionaires will buy BTC, the more bitcoiners will become millionaire, until USD will worth so much less that millionaires in USD will no more have any value, we will talk about wholecoiner or maybe millionaire in sats or just bitcoiners, as the new "your are rich" standard.

2024-08-16 12:08:03

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Next they will ban bicycles. Americans...

2024-08-16 09:24:07

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I really need to give Bisq a second try.

2024-08-16 09:19:21

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Also this test instance use Alby and it seems they charges a shitload of fees on their channel, I sent 50 sats to test and got only 21!

2024-08-16 08:59:59

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Ok thanks, got it, however Amethyst is not showing the zap.

2024-08-16 04:47:04

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Let's try my new address on LNbits, apparently Primal cannot zap but all other wallet I tried worked.

2024-08-14 21:54:30

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If you have double digit BTC, you are welcome. Otherwise you might starve here like a hobo after paying your rent and health insurance.

2024-08-14 21:20:01

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Can you try again with my new address?

2024-08-14 20:03:10

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Thanks! I use my own Lightning Address generated by BTCPay Server on my Umbrel node but I know the node is not always reliable for some times now. I try to fix it, then it works for some hours/days/weeks and get broken again.
I'm building a new node, when ready I will move on it, hopefully it will be more reliable.

2024-08-14 19:50:00

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Is it the ultimate private, secure, permissionless, censoship resistamce messenger?
Or is there still some weak spots and compromises?
How does it compare to Briar.

2024-08-14 19:44:34

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Thinking about it again, that's quite pessimistic for what we want to achieve, top hodler after Satoshi are big corporations, TraFi giants and governements...
Are they playing our game from FOMO or are we just part of their bigger plan at this point?

2024-08-14 19:40:28

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We should do a p2p market with Nostr and WoT. By and sell only from friends and friends +1. Like one CZ company did but on Nostr, decentralized, without fee.

2024-08-14 19:37:52

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Add thousands separator please.
Beside that 🇨🇳👀

2024-08-14 14:06:59

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Wow, it sounds likena ghost to me, didn't know that bitcoin.de still exist, I did transact for friends on it at some point. Yes it's KYC apparently but it's peer-2-peer at least.