BitcoinLizard

Just a Bitcoin Lizard trying to gobble up some sats.

Public Key

npub1k6f0ecam577lay8mm8azfvs3u4xvl23q82zpc3htee6ath09gg0s9ftryn

NIP-05 Address

_@bitcoinlizard.net

NIP-57 Address

lizard@btcpay.bitcoinlizard.net

Profile Code

nprofile1qqstdyhuuwa60007jraan73ykgg72nx04gsr4pqugm4uuaw4mhj5y8cdlw94l

Author Public Key

npub1k6f0ecam577lay8mm8azfvs3u4xvl23q82zpc3htee6ath09gg0s9ftryn

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2024-08-16 00:25:37

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What's your point? Don't vote for Trump? Vote for Harris because Trump lies?
I don't have to simp for Trump, donate money to him, or campaign for him. Taking 5 minutes to vote for him and maybe he will #FreeRoss is pretty low effort. If he lied about everything we are still almost certainly better off than with four more years of Obama 2.0.
I get that no politician is going to save us but I'd rather not try to push for my own persecution.

2024-06-13 04:24:09

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Tried to zap this one too, 21 sats. Not showing up.

2024-06-13 04:03:27

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Zapped but it didn't show up. 21 sats.

2024-06-13 04:01:22

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I zapped you. I run my own Core Lightning node and use Zeus to manage it.

2024-06-12 22:45:22

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Voting is pretty low effort so maybe it's worth it but whatever. Just don't vote for the guy that has been openly hostile toward #Bitcoin for 3 years.

2024-06-12 22:01:58

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What we know:
The Biden administration has been hostile toward #Bitcoin for the last 3 years.
The previous Trump administration was a disorganized clown show. The establishment used it's full energy to eject the outsider from politics. Bitcoin was mostly left alone to flourish.
We can't expect politicians to help Bitcoin but based on past history and current political pandering it appears likely that Trump won't get in Bitcoin's way.
A pro-Bitcoin single issue voter should vote for Trump.

2024-06-08 23:59:28

Ouch! That's a big channel!
#nevent1q…l9dm

2024-06-08 22:52:47

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I love Braiins and have mined with them for years. Sadly I can no longer support them as long as they are part of the Antpool cartel.
I also run a Core Lightning node which supports BOLT12 so Ocean pool is a great fit for me.

2024-06-06 13:41:24

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Not mentioned in that text is the fact that 3rd parties invented the app store and then Apple adopted it. People jailbroke IOS and installed 3rd party app repos line Cydia. After Apple saw that there was demand an official Apple App Store followed.

2024-06-01 14:30:35

Bitmain is the single biggest threat to #Bitcoin. If you are mining you should really move your hash power away from the Bitmain cartel. Pools to avoid are Antpool, BTC dot com Pool, F2Pool, Binance Pool, Poolin, EMCD, Rawpool, SECPOOL, ULTIMUSPOOL, 1THash, Luxor and sadly Braiins Pool.
I currently recommend @npub1qtv…7dze

2024-05-27 18:47:24

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I would be interested in #Bitcoin accounting software for personal accounting that runs on #Linux. Currently I use an online solution that works well but is obviously terrible for privacy and if the company disappears my records are gone. I'll be keeping an eye on this project.

2024-05-27 03:41:44

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I dumped #Signal after they pushed scam coin "mobilecoin".

2024-05-25 20:10:27

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I would port forward through your router to a VM or other low end machine running wireguard. Then from that machine running wireguard you can point the 0.0.0.0/0 route to your physical router which is hopefully running a wireguard tunnel to your provider.
Important: you will likely need a route from the VPN provder back into your network for your wireguard subnet on your "user" device.

2024-05-18 16:54:04

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100%. Then you can get upgrades as soon as they are released and update one package at a time and run on reasonable hardware (no one should be running a Raspberry Pi node these days). You no longer have to push the Umbrel update button and hope for the best.

2024-05-15 23:33:07

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This worked. Thanks Luke.

2024-05-14 13:46:43

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@npub1lh2…a9nk - is there a way to disable bolt12 payouts after I have it activated and working? I know I could switch addresses but then I have to start building up shares again.

2024-05-13 20:28:00

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A channel to Alby will route a lot of payments and earn you fees. I have had a channel to podcast index for a long time and basically never route traffic to them.
You could open channels to the nodes of individual content creators to give them inbound liquidity, especially if they don't have many channels to their node.

2024-05-05 16:32:33

Haven't tried @npub1mut…23vg in a while and man, it has improved a lot! On boarding to lightning was easy. Mutiny seems ready to fill the void left by Phoenix.

2024-05-05 12:34:31

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That literally made me lol.

2024-05-03 12:50:16

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You end up being a first class citizen running #Bitcoin and #Lightning applications on #Linux. Not so much with BSD were you probably have to compile from source or Windows where many supplications aren't supported at all.

2024-05-03 12:17:14

Got my first payout from @npub1qtv…7dze via Bolt 12. Pretty awesome. Pleb miners need to unite and leave the AntPool cartel. Ocean and Demand Pool are great alternatives!

2024-05-01 15:09:02

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I'm all set to receive the Bolt 12 payout, now we just need to find a block!
And again to reinterate, configuring Bolt 12 for this is so much easier than everything that goes into lightning address (like Braiins is using), unless you have a trusted 3rd party do the lightning address for you but that isn't how I do things.
LND not supporting Bolt 12 is an LND problem, not a Bolt 12 problem.
Side note: I've run both LND and Core Lightning for a couple years. The LND interface might be more user friendly and more apps support LND but otherwise Core Lightning is better in every way.

2024-04-30 18:47:52

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I would absolutely choose something that is part of the official lightning specification over an add on solution which requires a web server. LND ignoring a standards based approach with their implementation doesn't make Bolt 12 the wrong choice.
Also from Ocean:
"Using BOLT12 also allows us to prove to the world that a payment was made, the size of the payment, the node to which it was paid, and that it was paid by us."
Is the same true for lnurl (I don't know the answer but I doubt it).
Keysend is a poor option because there is no way to show who a payment came from.

2024-04-30 15:50:39

Happy to see my wallet software of choice @npub1cvq…yjt3 on Nostr. Welcome!

2024-04-30 13:51:40

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lnbits is awesome. Braiins is asking for a lightning address for payouts which has a dependency on public DNS so I think your lnbits instance would need to be publicly accessible on clearnet. Also you have to run a lightning node AND lnbits. With Bolt 12 you only need the node and Tor only is fine.
The only issue with Bolt 12 is that LND is dragging their feet on supporting it which is an LND problem.

2024-04-30 03:44:26

This is pretty excellent. I set it up with my Core Lightning node. Now just waiting to hit a block and get an instant payout!
Bolt 12 is the way to go with this vs LNURL. The only problem is that people don't really understand self custodial Bolt 12 because they are used to trusted 3rd party easy mode lightning address. I think most node runners can get Bolt 12 running, a much easier lift than self custodial LNURL. LND's disinterest in Bolt 12 in favor of working on TapAss is really holding lightning back.
#nevent1q…jpyk

2024-04-30 03:36:17

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LNURL is a meh stopgap. Many people can probably run a small personal lightning node but can they run a BTCpay server on clearnet? Or worse yet run a custodial LNURL. If we are trusting 3rd parties what are we even doing here?

2024-04-30 03:31:53

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Bolt 12 is lightning native, no web server required. Just run a node with some inbound liquidity and you're done.
LND needs to stop with the TapAss stuff and get Bolt 12 implemented.

2024-04-28 18:02:57

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I ran a #Bitcoin Core testnet node on my main beefy desktop machine and then the required rust applications as documented on the Stratum protocol website. I used an s9 but that was taking too long to find a block so I pointed an s19 at it for a bit and found 2 blocks in 30 minutes or so.
https://stratumprotocol.org/

2024-04-28 17:57:19

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I love that little pickaxe icon so I extracted the public key from core. I couldn't resist!

2024-04-28 03:05:45

I took Matt's advice and tried out Stratum v2 on Testnet and mined a block. It's not that difficult! Certainly the big corporate miners should be able to figure it out.
https://bitcoinlizard.net/nostr/mined.png
#nevent1q…7qw5

2024-04-28 02:58:07

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Yes, of course!
I tried to leave the TB1 showing from the address and the low block reward of 0.46 is a give away.
I was trying out Stratum v2:
https://stratumprotocol.org/

2024-04-26 22:34:46

I closed my channel with Phoenix wallet. It's no big deal but they don't give you control over fees even with a collaborative close. They broadcast a TX with an 11 sat/vbyte fee which will confirm... never. Thanks guys. I'm fine closing the channel but don't make me do a CPFP to get my funds back. You're welcome for me paying for a 100 sat/vbyte TX to get the funds back to you confirmed.

2024-04-24 23:45:29

I'm not sure why but the Samourai news is the final push I needed to disapear BitcoinLizard from Twitter.
I want to delete everything before I shutter the account. I'm willing to use a paid service to remove everything (tweets and likes). Does anyone have any services that they have used personally that you would recommend?

2024-04-24 23:19:52

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It went through. I did 2 payments of 100 sats, they just took a while apparently.
Keep up the good work, love your wallet!

2024-04-24 15:03:01

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I would like this as well, I guess maybe I should throw in for a bounty if I want is so bad!
Indeed, it seems to be slower than the old c-lightning-rest shim. I used to use RTL with c-lightning-rest and now use it with clnrest and it was faster with c-lightning-rest. Still, I'd rather use the native option and shut off c-lightning-rest.

2024-04-20 22:18:21

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I don't care to debate the morality of the redistribution of this money. I just see this as another eye opening moment - If you have a disagreement with the party that controls the money they may take it from you and give it to your enemy.

2024-04-20 22:02:08

If you are having a hard time understanding #Bitcoin this might help improve your understanding:
https://bitcoinlizard.net/nostr/frozen.png

2024-04-19 21:17:09

Very interesting feeds for the more technically minded. The taproot activation feed was excellent.
#nevent1q…r5ey

2024-04-17 16:07:22

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Dinner is served!

2024-04-17 00:09:54

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Congrats Peter!
I imagine next season or the following it starts to get pretty difficult to advance on the first try but best of luck to you to keep it going!

2024-04-12 23:50:42

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Okay then.

2024-04-01 00:46:53

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Been running Arch as my daily driver since 2014 and very little trouble ever. The fear mongering around rolling distros is greatly exagerated. You also never have to worry about major version upgrades going sideways.

2024-03-30 13:23:38

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There are so many shady things about Roger but you really don't have to look past this famous incident. He told everyone Mt. Gox was solvent and presumably used the other customers as exit liquidity and got his coins out of of there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP1YsMlrfF0

2024-03-30 04:58:48

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Glad there is another #Archlinux user on Nostr.
Some smarter people than myself took a deeper look and it appears the malicious code doesn't end up in the Arch binary due to differences in the build system of Fedora and Arch. None the less, everyone should still upgrade.

2024-03-28 21:29:04

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Marty "No Zap" Bent

2024-03-28 21:13:29

#Zapathon
https://bitcoinlizard.net/nostr/tree.gif

2024-03-24 21:02:08

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Keeping bees seems so rewarding. I sometimes think about moving to a rural area and keeping my own bee colony.

2024-03-21 23:03:00

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Great interview Nat! Luke is 🔥as always.

2024-03-18 02:09:17

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I'll bite! How do you know this?

2024-03-16 21:59:27

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Welcome! Glad to have you here. Good luck with #Nostr and your Sat Stacking. Looks like a good day for it!

2024-03-16 21:53:58

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Hey Joe, good to have you on #Nostr. I used to listen to you on #Linux Action News with @npub1awy…79n4

2024-03-16 21:44:40

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Pretty sure 99 is the magic number. I've seen that with 99 rolls you get 256 bits of entropy.

2024-03-16 21:41:58

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@npub1guh…6hjy and @npub1qny…95gx didn't do a great job explaining the issue on #RHR. What you did is fine as I understand it. I think from what I saw on the bird app was that some people were using the automatic seed generation and then they thought they were adding entropy with dice rolls after the fact but were ending up with seeds with 1 dice roll of entropy and their funds would be stolen as soon as they were sent to the wallet.
I trust dice rolls more than the #Coldcard seed generation. The #SeedSigner has the same dice roll seed generation feature with the same algorithm so I enter my dice rolls into both at the same time to confirm that the Coldcard is using the correct seed (same one the SeedSigner generates). You might say I'm a bit paranoid!

2024-03-16 20:52:26

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I think someone in the comments on her TikTok video mentioned #Nostr

2024-03-12 02:08:38

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I only care about the monetary use case of #Bitcoin. Don't you think that these NFT pump and dumps will always run their course when the degens run out of money for the fees? In the mean time this helped the miners when Bitcoin was trading at 20K. I don't think any action is needed to stop the degens, they will always run out of money.

2024-03-04 02:53:52

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I'll take "Screaming Cowboys" all day over Higher.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cE4MPb7lPg

2024-03-04 02:43:57

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You were trying to hire them a day ago through? Why?! Creed is so terrible!

2024-03-04 02:41:09

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Thank goodness. Creed and that song are absolutely terrible. I'm hoping we can forget about that shitty song being the theme song for this cycle now?

2024-02-25 03:59:14

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Hi, I'm a Lizard. I used to watch sports ball and play video games. Now I run a Lightning node, exercise, and eat a low carb diet. I guess you could say I'm a cliché Bitcoiner.

2024-02-13 03:43:31

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Pretty sure it's the oldest actively maintained distribution, even older than Debian.

2024-02-13 03:42:33

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Is that crazier than Gentoo? I used to love me some Gentoo back in the day!

2024-01-31 03:41:53

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Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy!

2024-01-30 22:35:18

How's that blue check privacy Seth?
https://bitcoinlizard.net/nostr/seth.jpg

2024-01-28 12:52:05

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This is the way! Just like #Bitcoin, we can't get people to use #Nostr until they feel like they actually need a decentralized and uncensored medium for communications. These Brazilian folks are realizing that they have that need and Nostr is ready for them.

2023-12-29 00:33:38

Fellow #Bitcoin node runners:
If you are running Bitcoin Core 26.0 please enable this in your bitcoin.conf file:
v2transport=1
This will enable BIP324 v2 transport protocol which as I understand it causes communication to be encrypted between nodes that have v2transport enabled. I can see from my own node that there are very few other nodes have have BIP324 enabled! Lets bring those numbers up! You can check your own node with:
bitcoin-cli getpeerinfo | grep transport_protocol_type
and hopefully you see a few "v2".

2023-11-24 14:45:20

With WoS shutting down in the US I thought this might be relevant to some. Roll your own Lightning Zapping setup and become unruggable!
#nevent1q…aral

2023-11-19 20:34:58

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The only thing keeping me going is that all of the electricity I'm burning for the last 49 hours with no reward is heating my house.

2023-11-16 17:31:17

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They are a pointless waste of sats in my opinion but they are paying customers so they can do as they wish. I hedge by mining at home to offset my higher transaction fees.
Also, a number of shortcomings in Lightning have been exposed thanks to the high fees. I look at the whole inscriptions thing as a tool to further harden #Bitcoin

2023-10-14 13:44:06

I'm a fully self sovereign Zapper! I don't rely on any 3rd party to send and receive Zaps!
Several months back there was a lot of discussion about how the vast majority of Zapping was custodial. There is no need for that, it's easy to be fully non-custodial!
Here are the quick and easy steps if anyone is interested:
Run a Bitcoin Node
Run a Core Lightning Node on clearnet with good liquidity and a handful of channels
Connect BTCPay server and configure a Lightning Address
Install the BTCPay Nostr Plugin
Update my Nostr profile appropriately
Great, it works, but not reliably so I also added some channels:
getalby - minimum channel size 10,000,000 sats
WalletOfSatoshi - minimum channel size 5,000,000 sats
Now it all works reliably, easy!
I hope you could catch my sarcasm because I was laying it on pretty thick! Unfortunately there is no way that even the vast majority of Nostr power users can pull this off. I'm a Bitcoin Nerd (masochist?) who sets this stuff up because I think it's really fun. Maybe someday there will be an easier way to set up non-custodial Zapping but for the time being Zapping will be fully custodial and I think that's okay. We need more more "Zapping Providers" and more diversity in usage of these providers so that if a given provider rugs the entire Nostr Zapping community doesn't get wiped out. Happy Zapping Nostriches!
https://bitcoinlizard.net/nostr/nostr_lightning.png

2023-06-25 15:15:07

@npub180c…h6w6 - I need to use your plugin to get my BTCPay server to talk with my Core Lightning node:
https://github.com/fiatjaf/sparko
Should I run the master version? It seems like the last release, v2.9, is several commits behind.
Also I think I need to run this plugin as well:
https://github.com/nbd-wtf/invoicewithdescriptionhash

2023-05-30 20:37:45

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What did I miss and are there any other good open source recommendations?

2023-03-19 18:55:02

Is #Bitcoin pumping because people know that the money printer is turning back on and when money printer go brrrrr Bitcoin is the fastest horse in the race?
OR
With the events of the last couple weeks are people finally starting to understand the value proposition of Bitcoin?

2023-03-18 11:38:56

I've been sticking to the plan and have stayed logged out of Twitter this month. Two quick observations, one bad, one good:
1) I feel like I'm missing out on some good analysis related to the current banking crisis.
2) I'm not getting triggered by $ETH promoters and as a result I'm not wasting a bunch of time refuting their misleading Ethereum propaganda.
#MarchOfTwitter

2023-03-10 23:44:22

Not gonna lie. I could use a little less Nostr and Zap content and a lot more banking system imploding content. I basically have #[0] and the Zerohedge bot. It's kind of hard to stay off Twitter right now.

2023-03-03 13:06:16

BREAKING: my mobile data plan.
Does #Nostr use an insane amount of data? I can't think of anything else I've done that would use so much data.

2023-03-01 18:43:28

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Oof!
History has shown that algorithmic stablecoins will always blow up spectacularly but maybe this time is different! Where does the 20% yield come from?
Sats are my stablecoin.
https://bitcoinlizard.net/nostr/hive.png

2023-03-01 16:36:42

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I've found nos2x to not work on Firefox. I have to use a Chrome based browser for web #Nostr. Anyone have any luck on Firefox?

2023-03-01 14:29:10

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I believe the Elon FUD literally stopped the blowoff top that was about to occur in early 2021.
Chain watchers say the November 2021 pump was a fake exchange driven pump and early 2021 was the real pump.

2023-03-01 14:12:47

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I think most Bitcoiners, myself included, told Elon to go fuck himself in April of 2021 when he started pushing the #Bitcoin environmental FUD hard. He either didn't understand Bitcoin or he was easily controlled by the enemies of Bitcoin. Either way, he isn't on our side.
He also got his feelings hurt when Bitcoiners stopped simping for him and doubled down against Bitcoin. He has a fragile ego and is more concerned with his own agenda rather than furthering the cause of something bigger than himself. He is the anti Jack Dorsey.

2023-02-27 04:25:59

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Thanks for pointing this out! I'll take a look.
Looks like the feature has been requested for BTCpay server as well so maybe I'll get NIP-57 if I just do nothing!
https://github.com/btcpayserver/btcpayserver/discussions/4642#discussioncomment-5085307

2023-01-29 12:48:48

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Where are the monkey jpegs? I have not seen this.

2023-01-11 03:24:04

Have any other interest groups besides Bitcoiners made their way to #Nostr yet?
I do think the technically minded outside of #Bitcoin will arrive at some point. I don’t see the normies ever coming over though. They value simplicity and convenience above all else and happily depend on centralized platforms to validate identity for them.

2022-12-18 20:42:14

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Ugh, need a block option for paid promotional accounts.

2022-12-18 03:01:47

Running More-Speach #Nostr client on #Linux. Kind of reminds me of an IRC client. Not as pretty as Damus but featureful and nice to have a full computer screen client!