Doc Orange
Tommy Volk

https://lightningvend.com/

Anarcho-Capitalist
Software Engineer
Making the state obsolete

Public Key

npub1jgnwmgfxcch992rkaqm5sk740vzsnpnmkrrnrm3pxu3uv6smmc8qhkqcgk

NIP-05 Address

tommy@bitcoinpark.com

NIP-57 Address

billowingnight50@getalby.com

Profile Code

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relay.bitcoinpark.com

relay.damus.io

Author Public Key

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2024-09-15 13:22:50

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Keeps magically scrolling me back to the top 🙄

2024-09-13 15:35:19

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It continues to baffle me the extent to which the boomer generation (with exceptions OF COURSE) just blindly believes what they're told from "authorities". My best explanation is that they grew up in a high-trust society, took it for granted, pillaged & destroyed it, and haven't come to terms with the fact that they now live in a low-trust society since that would require a collective admission that they completely fucked up.

2024-09-04 14:34:48

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You too man! Great chatting with you. Always nice to find fellow Nostr folks in meatspace!

2024-09-02 18:02:08

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Extremely well put, 💯 resonate with this

2024-09-02 12:22:12

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Not an answer to your question, but if you’re annoyed by how slow clippy is, it sounds like there’s work being done to speed it up significantly: https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-project-goals/2024h2/optimize-clippy.html

2024-09-01 23:23:50

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I second this thought. I’m consistently surprising not only by how few people would like to consistently raise the fed interest rate until it’s above the free-market rate, but how few people even understand that idea at all.

2024-08-15 13:07:06

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Price gouging doesn’t exist. If you don’t like what someone is charging, buy it somewhere else. If you don’t like what anyone is charging, start your own business and compete with them. And if governmental bureaucracy and regulation prevent you from doing so, blame governmental bureaucracy and regulation, not the businesses.

2024-08-13 13:07:40

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GM GARY

2024-08-10 16:03:54

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Simple, CLTV your stack for 1,050,000 blocks ✅

2024-08-10 15:11:32

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Dude so sorry somehow I didn’t get notified about your comment until just now 😂 Nostr is still early

2024-08-09 18:56:34

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This feels so accurate 🤦‍♂️😅
It really feels like everyone who is able to learn from reason have found Bitcoin, and everyone else will just have to learn through pain

2024-07-30 13:05:05

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Live “fuck” counter made my wish list for next year. Need one on every stage.

2024-07-26 00:38:31

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Already here ✌️

2024-06-22 18:12:35

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Only thing worse is a ceiling-mounted fridge that opens from the bottom

2024-06-10 15:49:54

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Similar advice I heard when learning parkour:
Slow is smooth, smooth is fast

2024-05-27 01:43:06

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Agreed, upgrading Fedimint to 0.30 felt like a herculean feat 😅

2024-05-25 21:12:44

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https://image.nostr.build/7387fe8f9b6b50ff89cda3b9af4a2bea1d973cac28d7e1f971c2d07b85104b9e.jpg

2024-04-29 15:23:21

Is any progress being made on an opt-in censorship-resistant alternative to DNS?

2024-04-23 20:20:02

@npub1zsw…gc6x showed me his Fedimint Nostr threshold signing module, ROASTR where he signed and published this note from a test federation #note1jvz…xkxx

2024-04-10 18:58:00

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Feels like we're approaching the fiat end game

2024-04-10 14:47:14

"I hate incompetence. I think it’s probably the only thing I do hate. But it didn’t make me want to rule people. Nor to teach them anything. It made me want to do my own work in my own way and let myself be torn to pieces if necessary."
Howard Roark (The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand)

2024-04-09 01:03:35

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WHAT DID I MISS? PLEASE EDUCATE ME

2024-04-07 12:25:01

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Hopefully we can make Bitcoin boring by then

2024-04-05 01:58:41

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Yeah good point - the line between NIP-07 and NIP-46 get a bit blurred for me when focusing on desktop. I'm working with @npub1ygz…60k2 on the design and our plan is to write up a NIP that uses the same RPCs as NIP-46 but over UDS. Then any key management desktop app could also be a NIP-46 client and essentially be a per-device Nostr hub that can either hold the private key on device or reach out elsewhere.

2024-04-05 01:46:50

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You can try out my reference, Keystache, here: https://www.resolvr.io/keystache

2024-04-05 01:43:54

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MacOS has UDS as well, and Windows has Named Pipes instead which is almost identical. I haven't messed with Named Pipes yet, but this should be cross-platform eventually.

2024-04-05 01:41:57

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Yep very similar, just over UDS

2024-04-05 01:40:34

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I'm working on exactly that, using Unix Domain Sockets. Here's my reference implementation: https://crates.io/crates/nip-70
NIP draft coming soon!

2024-03-28 16:48:53

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I don't know how well that'd work for businesses that have employees

2024-03-28 16:45:30

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Definitely! Strike's ability to receive dollars over lightning is huge! Great way to pitch Bitcoin to businesses that otherwise wouldn't care about it.

2024-03-28 16:41:13

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But you have to run your own BtcPay server, right? For bitcoiners that's fine, but imo the added complexity of accepting Bitcoin in a noncustodial way just isn't that enticing for most businesses (yet). The average business will only be interested in accepting Bitcoin as long as it's really easy, and for now that means using some form of custodial solution. They could use Voltage to host a BtcPay server, but then they lose the self-custody advantage _and_ they're back up to $25 per month in costs.
In a few years' time I can certainly see something like Fedimint become an easy way to accept Bitcoin. No need for lighting channel management since that's left up to gateways, and fees will likely be fairly consistent and low. But that'll take some time.

2024-03-28 16:01:27

Talked to a friend the other day who runs a small business. He's not a bitcoiner but I've talked to him about it here and there. He mentioned how much they have to pay in credit card fees, so naturally I brought up the ability to circumvent that using lightning. I showed him Zaprite and he seemed genuinely interested. At $25 per month for a Zaprite subscription, and assuming that you save 2% in fees and pass half of that savings back to the customer (i.e. you save 1%), you'd need to get $2,500 per month paid in Bitcoin. The conversation ended with "this doesn't quite make financial sense... yet" but I don't think it'll be long until it becomes a no-brainer for most small businesses, even if neither the business nor the customers care about Bitcoin.

2024-03-28 15:48:14

Is anyone working on printing physical paper E-Cash notes? The folks at https://noteworthy.ag/ have made paper Bitcoin notes with a visible public key and a scratch-off private key - I'd be interested in something similar but replacing the public key with a federation invite code and the private key with E-Cash. Not the most practical and secure way to hold E-Cash but the tangibility would be cool.

2024-03-27 20:02:37

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FUCK YOU

2024-03-22 13:50:29

How close are we to companies viewing a college degree as a negative when hiring?
Of course it depends on the industry, but in general

2024-03-17 13:23:55

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💯

2024-03-16 01:31:49

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It might be possible with some modifications to this: https://github.com/Kodylow/hermes

2024-03-05 21:47:31

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Decentralization is massively inefficient, but for a monetary network it sure as hell beats the alternative

2024-02-28 07:29:23

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IF YOU COULD CENSOR OTHERS, THEY COULD CENSOR YOU

2024-02-28 03:16:32

There are currently over 22 million people who worked for the US government. This including federal, state, and local (but excludes military). Here is a list of companies whose combined employee count reaches just over 10 million - less than half of this number.
Walmart
Amazon
Home Depot
Target
Kroger
Berkshire Hathaway
FedEx
JPMorgan Chase
IBM
Wells Fargo
Microsoft
CVS Health
Bank of America
Walgreens Boots Alliance
Comcast
Raytheon Technologies
General Electric
General Motors
Oracle
Apple
Boeing
AT&T
Johnson & Johnson
Tesla
Intel
Lockheed Martin
Verizon
Procter & Gamble
General Dynamics
Northrop Grumman
Pfizer
Coca-Cola
American Express
Merck
HP
Goldman Sachs
McKesson
Chevron
Uber
Netflix
eBay
Airbnb
Lyft
Morgan Stanley
Sources:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/204535/number-of-governmental-employees-in-the-us/
https://companiesmarketcap.com/largest-companies-by-number-of-employees/

2024-02-20 01:40:58

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Wow this is incredible! It'd be cool if LM Studio added support for this. You could rely on cloud-based inference when you have internet and want lightning-fast responses, but fallback to local inference using the same model if you're offline or want to ask a question privately.

2024-02-19 21:04:09

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Welcome back!!!

2024-02-16 21:07:28

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If you encrypt the message such that it can only be decrypted by a threshold of a group of people, and you tell that group not to decrypt it until a specific time, you could achieve similar behavior. Perhaps a Fedimint module could be written to do this.

2024-02-16 15:48:16

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I got 250 GB once 😱

2024-02-15 15:31:04

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LOW-FEE MERCY KILLING

2024-02-08 20:10:59

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The hidden assumption being that there _is_ such a thing as a good government.

2024-02-02 19:01:20

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It's surprisingly satisfying. Cheers! 🍻

2024-01-29 20:13:29

Writing up a guide for how to create a Fedimint federation. Should be ready by this weekend. Stay tuned!

2024-01-29 05:56:44

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I'll hit you up when it's ready!

2024-01-29 05:56:22

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Will do!

2024-01-29 04:52:18

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I'd be happy to write up a Medium-style article on what we did!
All credit goes to @m1sterc001guy for working out the kinks, I'd mostly just be cleanly documenting what he already figured out.

2024-01-29 04:46:58

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Actually it is as of last month! Here's the first stable release: https://github.com/fedimint/fedimint/releases/tag/v0.2.1
Obviously still #reckless but someone's gotta start running it

2024-01-29 03:51:27

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Mainnet! Requires some technical expertise but @npub1zsw…gc6x walked me and the other guardians through setting it up. We'll hopefully make a post or article on how we did it.

2024-01-29 01:51:22

Running fedimint

2024-01-25 21:58:54

Went to a dispensary last night and bought some CBD. They mentioned that if I paid by card it would cost a few dollars extra in fees. I paid with my debit card and noticed later that the charge showed up as an ATM withdrawal. Their point-of-sale device looked pretty normal, definitely not like an ATM. The place was fairy upscale - not shady at all, so I figured there must be a good reason they accept payments this way. After some research I found out that they do this because banks will often reject payments to dispensaries since weed is still federally illegal, and performing an ATM withdrawal for the exact amount needed allows for dispensaries to bypass this. I paid $5.50 in fees for a $40 purchase. Accepting Bitcoin seems like a great pitch to these businesses! Even if they billed the exact same price to customers, they could bypass the ATM fee for Bitcoin payments. For my purchase that would have saved almost 15%, and it'd save even more for smaller payments! https://image.nostr.build/2107862df435a57c64aedb4c4ee02d448c84a2103f84af0dcd6a5f333b7230ff.jpg

2024-01-24 16:25:27

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https://image.nostr.build/7adc46d6c471d0e3b85fc43b8a548cb92945a2cce030e46ad7f1349f5533fe32.gif

2024-01-22 23:03:03

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The American Experiment has failed and the American Dream is dead

2024-01-22 21:51:00

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Every fkn day

2024-01-22 16:36:08

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I'd let it slide. That can be debunked in a moment's thought and we don't need people who don't think ruining Bitcoin's good name.

2024-01-21 21:26:02

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I love this. Brilliant take!

2024-01-21 00:12:27

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What is propaganda but the roofiing of the uncritical mind?

2024-01-20 23:10:15

https://image.nostr.build/52fdfa32eb34e1c06d5c97abc349d806c76b6b6af112ac14e6b0f639bcee2040.jpg

2024-01-20 20:02:08

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Waaaay better than death and taxes!

2024-01-18 17:31:58

"I love you and I hate the state" - my wife

2024-01-17 23:55:42

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If we assume on-chain fees remain cheap and accessible, then all Fedimint really does is allow users to give up full self-sovereignty in exchange for easy onboarding. A decent trade-off for some, but not super game-changing. But if we assume on-chain fees are going to exponentially rise, Fedimint has a very strong use-case as a scaling solution. It's built to solve a problem that largely doesn't exist... yet.

2024-01-06 05:22:43

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I'll be there in spirit! Excited to be back in a few months!

2024-01-05 18:56:32

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Smol but swol 🦾

2024-01-03 07:53:43

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I personally would rather have a note that's reposted by multiple people I follow simply show up once, and list all the people who reposted it. I suppose this doesn't conflict with your idea though!

2023-12-30 20:11:48

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I'm very excited for Fedimint-based contracts! It will be a game changer.

2023-12-29 22:05:38

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Are there torrents of such archives? I think that could be a better tool. Maybe start one with a recent data dump of Wikipedia and another with a recent open-weight language model like Mistral 8x7B.

2023-12-27 17:31:41

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AMEN

2023-12-21 20:28:51

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Sweet! Will check it out this afternoon

2023-12-21 19:51:32

Has anyone messed around with storing Nostr notes in reverse indexes? Thinking about trying this out with Meilisearch to improve searchability across Nostr but I don't want to reinvent the wheel.
#asknostr

2023-12-19 16:55:59

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⚡️💯⚡️

2023-12-18 01:24:39

It's been a blast to be a part of this team. I'm super excited to see where the project goes from here! #note1msu…ulwd

2023-12-12 23:58:17

Bitcoin will make fiat money look ridiculous.
Nostr will make fiat communication look ridiculous.
We need to build tools on Bitcoin and Nostr that make fiat governance look ridiculous too. Voluntary tools for contact enforcement, property rights, and justice.

2023-11-25 20:00:30

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Unchosen federations are the problem. Voluntary opt-in federations are _part of_ the solution.

2023-11-17 22:07:26

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If that's the case, they're basically scapegoating him right?

2023-11-02 19:03:27

With EU privacy regulation about to decimate ad revenue, Facebook might start charging for their services. Would you pay $17 per month to use Facebook? Would you even pay $4 to WP to read this article? I certainly wouldn't.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/10/31/facebook-subscription-no-ads/

2023-10-19 17:47:15

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Makes sense, thanks for the clarification! So this leaves the door wide open for non-coercive forms of punishing evil, rewarding good, and resolving disputes, right? To put it another way, do you think Anarcho-Capitalism and Christianity clash with one another? Asking as an An-Cap Christian who has received a lot of pushback from fellow Christians regarding the God-ordained nature of the state. The most common argument I get is essentially "God put these people in power, so fighting against them is fighting against what was ordained by God". The problem I see there is that no one would use that argument to justify blatant evil in their personal lives. No sane Christian would see someone getting mugged and not intervene because "well, God ordained that mugger to mug him, who am I to interfere with God's will?"

2023-10-11 21:29:09

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This seems contradictory to me. I'd be interested to get your thoughts. So inflation is, in effect, a tax on savings. If the government were to stop printing money and instead impose a tax on savings, the effect would be largely the same. Is a savings tax moral but inflation immoral?

2023-10-04 04:36:04

That was quick! https://image.nostr.build/608614823b938a2206c6e1db31759b4d176632967616a6adfd69c57a5ab19090.jpg https://image.nostr.build/c3ca3c7d59c1c5b690bdc8c18e737682b2ca5d1140e5f5f14f39941d06ef2344.jpg

2023-09-28 15:53:25

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Only in the last few weeks have I been somewhat consistently able to get a 4 👀