DireMunchkin

https://github.com/DireMunchkin

Swedish expat, living in Switzerland. Bitcoin class of 2021.

Public Key

npub1mxrt3fyvaay4plrz7lwzurf80jjs2atmt2nn7z2ekgr9necl0jkqekkyq5

NIP-57 Address

Populate6554@coinos.io

Profile Code

nprofile1qqsdnp4c5jxw7j2sl3300hpwp5nhefg9w4a44felp9vmypjeuu0hetqmtt9c3

Author Public Key

npub1mxrt3fyvaay4plrz7lwzurf80jjs2atmt2nn7z2ekgr9necl0jkqekkyq5

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2025-05-02 16:37:06

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Better spam mitigation for replies, like trust scoring or something like that. It's only a matter of time to the next reply guy attack, better to be early.

2025-04-30 21:51:53

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I'm getting the app to crash if I try to zap someone. I was using Amber login and NWC wallet.

2025-04-09 19:37:37

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Most of the bond guys think 2-3% nominal interest is enough to keep pace with inflation. 🤡

2025-04-09 19:32:16

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💯💯💯
I've just been hodling since 2021 and even then I still have like 20% APR on doing that. Are all the people complaining class of 2025 or what? I genuinely don't get it.

2025-04-07 18:59:37

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Yeah I also wasn't that impressed with Nextcloud mobile. I ended up using Syncthing instead, adding the DCIM/Camera folder as a sync folder works like charm.

2025-04-05 10:04:32

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Yeah I should maybe have mentioned that it's personalized for you based on who you're following.

2025-04-04 18:57:23

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Coracle does a good job of this but not prefect
#note19qt…mlkq

2025-04-04 18:44:13

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That's rough, I was annoyed at the hellthread a few months ago, but I wasn't getting death threats in there. 😔
IMO this is mostly a technical problem - It shouldn't be possible to add you to a thread and then spam notifications forever. Nostr clients need to step up on this.
So far my best experience with blocking spam and trolls is on Coracle - Coracle hides replies to people you muted by default. There's also web of trust filtering on comment replies, if you set WoT to at least 1 one of your your follows need to follow them in order for you to see their posts. This is mostly for fighting spam, but this guy who's harassing you managed to get a -14 score just by being an asshole.
https://image.nostr.build/858f99ac55ad9367265ed9d4ea08481eb530d5c9fa683eb1e7c5ba0dbc3f13bc.jpg
There's some problem with hellthread on Coracle as well, but I found that if you mute the thread in another client, Coracle will respect that. So I used Nostter and "Leave thread" button in notifications to do that.
Hope that helps, please don't spend too long on corporate social media, I need my Carl fix. 😁

2025-04-01 14:36:42

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"experts say" 🚩

2025-04-01 14:10:20

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qBitTorrent in Docker with VueTorrent is the GOAT 🏴‍☠️️

2025-03-21 15:31:15

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Thanks Rodolfo 🤙

2025-03-21 09:05:58

Hello @nprofile…8yz6 ! I'm trying out @nprofile…yfj5 with a bit of a longer conversation. I notice you can back up the chat history under History > Save, but there doesn't seem to be any way to upload the backup again? Or am I missing something?

2025-03-15 14:06:55

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They encrypt your seed with your password and decrypt it when you log in. It works the same as the other Proton apps basically.

2025-03-07 18:25:06

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I don't use auto updates in Obtainium either personally, I like to do it manually

2025-03-04 15:56:46

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My currently favored setup is KeePassXC on desktop, KeePassDX on mobile, and sync the vault with Syncthing. This is offline but still syncs p2p, works like a charm. But I've also used hosted Bitwarden and Vaultwarden, they're also great. Can't go wrong with either option really.

2025-02-20 12:27:29

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I own some Yubikeys and use them as a 2nd factor authentication option, they're arguably the most secure form of 2fa. See here for motivation:
https://www.privacyguides.org/en/basics/multi-factor-authentication/#fido-fast-identity-online
It's also a bit more convenient to identify with a permanently plugged in USB-A Yubikey than a TOTP app in my opinion.
I wouldn't want to replace my password manager with them though as as some other people pointed out here you're locked into the passkey provider. So Yubico in this case.
Also make sure to add several Yubikeys or TOTP as a fallback wherever you use them as 2nd factor as you can't export the key and you will be locked out if you lose the one key.

2025-02-17 10:31:29

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“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
― Upton Sinclair

2025-02-10 16:52:02

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I'm happy I moved here for a number of reasons, but the based electorate definitely helps 😁

2025-02-06 12:55:32

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link: https://interestingengineering.com/culture/law-proposed-to-criminalize-deepseek

2025-02-03 11:55:45

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The Dirge
https://media3.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExa3M5ZzFuNW9vdW95OTd6cW1idmkwcTUzYmVrYTFpbG5jOWdyNG5lYSZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/j6ZlX8ghxNFRknObVk/giphy.gif

2025-02-03 11:51:48

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aposematism
😁

2025-01-11 17:59:40

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The Tether business model is insane, surprised there aren't more attempts to copy it.

2025-01-03 18:18:49

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FWIW in my network N has 16 score, and I don't follow very many japanostr people

2024-12-30 22:46:56

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TrueVote?

2024-12-14 13:42:20

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“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
― Seneca

2024-12-13 19:09:12

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GE! Where is it in the cycle when Squawk Box turns into the Bitcoin Standard podcast? 😂

2024-12-11 16:20:16

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it'll go to a million first before it goes to ∞ later 😄

2024-12-11 13:01:14

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GM Jeff! Half the time I zap you it's something to do with MLS and the other half it's the alps 😄

2024-12-11 12:41:59

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Even better: Always accept the zaps but only show messages above a certain limit.

2024-12-11 12:36:57

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The loan liquidation mechanism involves two different shitcoins: Solana and LavaUSD.

2024-12-11 09:05:00

️🚩️🚩️🚩
Lava Loans are a secret shitcoin scam, avoid at all costs or you WILL be rugged.
#nevent1q…3t03

2024-12-10 09:47:18

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Ungoogled Chromium I've heard of, but I don't have that much experience with it

2024-12-09 21:38:18

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https://librewolf.net/ is a good privacy focused browser

2024-12-05 16:10:54

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Sounds like he has a low time preference 😄

2024-12-05 15:40:24

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Thanks prof!😂

2024-12-04 16:45:53

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Yeah fuck Soundcloud, they banned my account because I used a VPN. Use Spotify instead, it's much better in every way.

2024-12-03 22:14:00

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Nag Joe to post more on nostr, I appreciate his lawyerly insights!

2024-12-03 22:01:03

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A lovely Christmas tradition indeed! 🌟

2024-12-03 12:45:08

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No, WoT filtering and mute words both work. I'm using Coracle right now and won't see any comment spam even if it starts again.

2024-11-27 14:54:52

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That'd be cool, but I'm not sure how you automate the fiat part of the transaction if it's P2P

2024-11-24 13:23:20

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Agreed, especially on the false urgency. I do think vaults are cool as a final get-out-of-jail card to prevent my stack from getting stolen. But we can spend a few more years hashing out covenant proposals IMO.

2024-11-24 13:16:53

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Can you do anything about these GitHub issues?
https://github.com/nostrability/nostrability/issues/102
https://github.com/PrimalHQ/primal-web-app/issues/105

2024-11-24 11:56:42

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Even going forward there were great concerns around de-banking / Operation Chokepoint 2.0 that have now resolved by getting a friendlier regulator in place.
I view the current bull market we're in as mainly the market reacting to getting a friendly administration in place, as opposed to speculating about a strategic reserve or anything.
Now you can buy Bitcoin as I.E a pension fund without worrying if you'll get sued by the SEC and have your bank account closed. This was a justified concern in the last admin.
I have little respect for shitcoiners, but in some circumstances we have common causes with them. Access to the financial system is one such cause.

2024-11-23 22:42:11

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This is exactly how hodlers think as well, or indeed any other investor. I hodl because I speculate my stack buys more stuff in the future then right now. What's wrong with that?
Not commenting on Microstrategy BTW, I don't own it.

2024-11-23 21:31:50

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I wholeheartedly support this - Politicians have repeatedly interfered with Bitcoin in the last few years. Organizing to make life difficult for them in turn is what a healthy democracy looks like.
W.r.t Gensler only being a problem for "crypto" - Sorry you're completely wrong about this. First of all SEC fought Bitcoin ETF:s every step of the way - Along that time they repeatedly described Bitcoin as a scam only used for criminals. Gensler is not a Bitcoiner, he's a nocoiner. If it was up to him we'd have no ETF:s and no options trading on these ETF:s. They only approved ETF:s because they lost a court case against Grayscale. Could we fight a hostile SEC for everything? Sure, maybe. But I'd rather get the SEC out of the way altogether if I can.
I would also say that regardless of your opinion on "crypto", Bitcoin and crypto are regulated together in practice. And I would much rather have pro-crypto politicians than anti-crypto ones. Molly White has the opposite preference - She's a self described "crypto critic", I.E a rapid nocoiner and statist. She's much more of an enemy of Bitcoin than anybody working at Coinbase is.

2024-11-22 18:41:39

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That's very generous of you. 😂

2024-11-22 18:14:50

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That'd be very confusing as this is the unit symbol for 1 BTC which is 100 m sats.

2024-11-15 23:27:45

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For my 5c - What X does is they abide by what's legal speech in each jurisdiction. They don't really have a choice if they want to operate in a country. In the US, that means you're more or less unrestricted due to the 1a. A lot of places around LATAM/EMEA/Asia are not so fortunate with their laws though and there nostr is still important.

2024-11-15 09:33:11

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Yeah LightSpark is basically the Coinbase of Lightning

2024-11-15 09:16:25

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Halfway in the article they say it's just to prevent account name squatting. Nothingburger story.

2024-11-13 14:17:27

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Thanks for porting it!
There seems to be some problem with dark mode support, lots of white text on white background like this.
https://nostrcheck.me/media/d986b8a48cef4950fc62f7dc2e0d277ca505757b5aa73f0959b20659e71f7cac/522cebc14ba4502b8a27228603a7fd7d187402e3a252b01255565115e0b9037a.webp

2024-11-12 09:58:47

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GM Jeff! ☕

2024-11-11 09:16:49

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It can be automatic if you want, personally I prefer to manually pull them.

2024-11-11 08:54:01

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No they do handle updates - I'd also prefer zap.store and GitHub (Obtainium) as the distribution method

2024-11-06 16:49:43

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My one beef with https://8marketcap.com/ is that bonds are not on there. I'm pretty sure I.E the US 10 year dwarfs gold in market cap.

2024-10-31 17:52:20

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If you include turning to shitcoining as becoming a fiat person, and I think you should, there's quite a few counterexamples I can think of. 😬

2024-10-29 09:49:03

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With shitcoins I like to go to CoinGecko, switch currency to Bitcoin and zoom out, just for the lulz.
https://image.nostr.build/cedaa27a4521eddbd56d33a87e529cf2b21a21d06fd06478c61761848062cb51.png

2024-10-28 17:04:20

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I had a levelDB issue myself a couple of weeks ago. FYI there's a couple of CLI options to bitcoind called -reindex and -reindex-chainstate that are probably faster than starting over.
https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/65680/how-to-recover-corrupted-bitcoin-core-blockchain

2024-10-21 19:31:46

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Sounds good to me! In general I don't like the "super app" model, using the UNIX and KISS principles is the way.

2024-10-21 08:54:04

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I found this article about the tax. In good news the NFP who are proposing this change are short of a majority, and need agreement from Macronist in parliament to get it passed. Which probably makes it unlikely to be realized. But yes, more exit taxes are to be expected broadly.
https://www.connexionfrance.com/practical/what-is-exit-tax-that-frances-pm-candidate-wants-to-bring-back/674399

2024-10-16 16:07:21

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Hop over the border to Italian Switzerland, and enjoy a nice round 0% capital gains tax, on Bitcoin or otherwise. 😉 🇨🇭

2024-10-12 15:36:51

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A lot of it is probably down to weird accounting practices in the US - Up until spring this year you had to account BTC as a intangible asset. This basically meant you could only write it down on paper, never up. That was of course really stupid and now you can just account it at fair market value. But this probably hampered corporate adoption quite a bit while it was still a factor.

2024-10-11 21:54:42

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Just had a look at my actual screen time stats for today, and I actually underestimated it quite a bit.
I've been using Coracle on mobile as well since a few days ago so it was actually 2 h 23 min. 83 min Coracle, and even 60 min everything else.
The "everything else" is all a few minutes per app like I mentioned, but it still added up to an hour which is more than I'd have guessed.

2024-10-11 21:31:50

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Mostly utility stuff - Taking down grocery lists, checking my calendar, checking the time, setting alarm clocks, using 2FA. These all take like <= 1 min each so that's why I'd guess the number is pretty low.
I also listen to podcasts pretty often - But if we're counting screen time I don't look at the phone except to start the episode though.
So basically I interact with my phone pretty often but not for very long at a time.

2024-10-11 21:09:18

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Oh, not very high at all, like 10-20 minutes a day or so. Don't ask me about my overall daily screen time though. 😅

2024-10-08 22:27:58

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Both are soft fork proposals but that's the only point of similarity.
CTV is a way to do covenants (lock up coins in more interesting ways). This can be useful for some layer two ideas, and vaults among other things.
CISA is basically a optimization on use of block space. It'd mean batch payments and coinjoins become smaller and thus cheaper on chain.
https://bitcoinops.org is a good resource to learn more but it's also very technical.

2024-10-07 08:31:21

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It'd be cool if you added more discovery to the app - There's already lots of good apps on there, I'd like to be able to find stuff more easily. Even more so if you add more apps.

2024-10-06 11:25:24

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is this real or a meme?

2024-10-03 11:02:25

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I've burned 75 k sats on being an eCash early adopter - Most of it I lost in Mutiny, I was trying to sweep out to my cold storage wallet and the transaction bugged out. I still have a GitHub issue open about it, not sure if I'll be able to get any help with it now since Mutiny is shutting down...

2024-10-01 11:02:42

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Having a national intelligence agency speaking out in *favor* of E2EE is a nice surprise

2024-10-01 10:41:05

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Is the WoT filter on comments fixed yet or is that coming later?

2024-09-23 13:52:02

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Just occurred to me this could be misinterpreted as dumping on Eliza. 😅
I was referring to Elon's proclaimed free speech maximalism.

2024-09-23 08:52:02

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Talking tough in public but bending the knee in private. @npub1qny…95gx was right again.

2024-09-07 11:35:54

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#note1v2c…ller

2024-09-07 10:03:20

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The actual E2EE conversations are secure: The encryption is Open Source and well audited, and the apps have reproducible builds on all platforms were that's possible. If anybody claims Signal can read your messages that's BS IMO.
That said, Signal have copped some criticism that they still need a phone number for sign up. IIRC they said want Signal to be a drop in replacement for WhatsApp and to have easy onboarding via SMS. But the paranoid take would be that it's also a easy metadata id for everyone on the app, so you can see who is talking to who, even if you don't know what they're saying.
Personally I'm fine with the tradeoff for being easy to use and normie friendly though. Like, if you are personally targeted by a alphabet agency it's probably not safe for you to use a phone at all regardless of what app you're using.
If you're really concerned about this you can switch to SimpleX, but personally I feel like that's overkill in most people's threat model. Just don't go to Telegram instead, they cast a lot of FUD on Signal's security even though they're worse in every way.

2024-09-07 09:37:16

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Uh, yes. Many times.
https://ooni.org/post/2021-how-signal-private-messenger-blocked-around-the-world/
https://www.reddit.com/r/signal/comments/onvcw0/list_of_countries_who_banned_signal/
https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/9/24217008/signal-blocked-venezuela-russia

2024-08-22 20:11:45

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Even sending zaps is so much fun. 🤙

2024-08-15 20:53:52

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Awesome, look forward to seeing what comes of this!

2024-08-11 11:45:27

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They charge a 0.21% fee on outgoing transactions.
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/fedi-app-v1-18/

2024-08-11 10:12:46

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GM! 🤙

2024-07-29 14:08:03

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XMR/BTC 💀
https://m.primal.net/JhxL.png

2024-07-25 14:32:40

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I really don't think you have to assume you lost your nsec, there's been lots of people who lost follows for just data inconsistency reasons, client incompatibility, things like that.

2024-07-25 09:39:25

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You could try to get them back with https://follows.nostr.com/

2024-07-24 14:12:20

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I've lived in Switzerland for 3 years, I really recommend it!
Nature around here is beautiful - It's in the middle of the alps, so you have a lot of big and small mountains nearby. There's also many lakes between the mountains you can go boating or swimming in. In winter there's great access to skiing. Here's some photos from Lucerne / Lake Lucerne and Mt. Pilatus for flavor. 🤩
https://image.nostr.build/cc6a16ae614299bef41bce783320181ec4f26d8e9aa6ab871ac3172c2cee53f8.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/e75abc4e57b898a6b26eff15e788e4ec74c5ac565d4c318ab5ab5cb0de4598de.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/fa1c0745d14d8b7166373ca291978ebb189a8e7c853cfffbe67434a2c7ff40b0.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/eaf4e1c8e71040e26b1127172f23005a30ee95712aaca4c1270efff34051b63a.jpg
Local life is extremely safe and crime free - Even the largest cities like Zürich feel safe at night, which is important to me at least.
Switzerland as a country is very Bitcoin friendly: Lugano has made Bitcoin legal tender. Zug is nicknamed "crypto valley" - Sadly that's mostly due to a lot of shitcoins incorporating there, but they do that because the legislation is very friendly and tax rates are low. Which is also something I appreciate.
Income potential in Switzerland is high by international standards - It's roughly comparable with secondary US cities, but the quality of life here is much better! I make a low six figure income working as a programmer here. For types of jobs it's mainly big corporate healthcare / finance / mechanical engineering. Although you can also find some cool Bitcoin and freedom tech companies such as Relai or Proton that are based here.
Switzerland has low taxes by OECD standards, although not quite the absolute lowest globally. I pay around 20% income tax and social security combined. There is no capital gains tax, but there is a (very small) wealth tax. You can sell your Bitcoin without incurring any taxes. But you do need to declare how much Bitcoin or other assets you have, as you're taxed on total wealth.
The only real downside I can cite is high cost of living - The largest cities are like San Francisco levels of gentrification. You spend the equivalent of $28 eating lunch out, and $3k/mo renting. It's not so bad if you have a local salary, I still feel like my income goes pretty far. But you're absolutely not remote working or something from here, that's for sure.
However you get what you pay for in Quality of Life. 🤙

2024-07-22 16:04:56

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I also tried restoring my current Cashu.me wallet in https://v2alpha.nutstash.app/ and AFAICT it doesn't work? At least I put in the words and the same Mint (https://mint.minibits.cash/Bitcoin), and it didn't find any balance.

2024-06-17 11:11:20

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I mostly care because I still talk to my family in the EU over Signal, and they're normies so getting them to switch to something non backdoor will be hard. 😔

2024-06-17 09:41:10

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Mostly not at all, it only targets commercial actors. Primal might need to do something like geoblock EU. FOSS is a great way to bypass this bad legislation if it does come to pass. SimpleX will also be unaffected.
Also worth noting the vote June 19 is just the council of ministers vote - It won't be law until negotiated with parliament, which is broadly against chat control.

2024-06-08 13:59:29

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I looked into this myself. This is not possible AFAIK, as the VPN apps want to proxy all your traffic, so they fight each other.
But I found a quite nice workaround, which is to do this:
1. Run just Tailscale on my phone.
2. Run Tailscale on my home server.
3. Set my router to use Mullvad as Wireguard proxy.
4. Set the phone to use the home server as exit node.
That way you can VPN back to your home server, but you also get IP privacy to the phone at the same time.

2024-06-07 19:18:55

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Aren't Optimism that shitcoin that was posting spam on nostr a while back advertising their airdrops? 😂

2024-05-27 08:42:46

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Are you conservative about changes, or do you want to eff with the block size limit? I have a lot of sympathy for ossification, but if you believe that you should keep the current block size. Because we know Bitcoin works today, and you shouldn't fix what isn't broken. All updates to consensus code are risky, and should be avoided as long as possible.
I'm not a core dev, so take it for what it's worth, but altering the block size feels 10x more reckless than even the most risky soft forks being talked about now (I.E drivechains, OP_CAT et cetera). That alters the entire economics around using L1 for miners, hodlers and everyone else. Nobody could possibly predict all the consequences of doing that ahead of time. Which IMO means you shouldn't do it.

2024-05-21 08:58:25

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According to https://bitcointreasuries.net/ all the ETFs including the HK ones have a bit more than 1 m BTC.

2024-05-15 08:23:25

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\[T]/

2024-04-27 17:08:33

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Is this from the Tornado Cash case?

2024-04-13 10:32:00

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And FreeTube is also good: https://freetubeapp.io/

2024-04-07 11:00:34

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Yeah I've also been tagged in a hell thread a couple of times, it's the worst.
NoStrudel, Amethyst and Primal all filter notifications from them.
Coracle also works OK but you have to mute the poster in the thread first, then you won't see any replies to them.

2024-03-12 15:24:05

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On noStrudel you can just toggle this button. Also Coracle won't even show reposts at all, you can't even change the setting.
https://image.nostr.build/6370049c42442e12835aef506d658412a74b92fcd03cced0c56339b126a4be16.jpg

2024-03-09 13:28:47

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Me personally I'm a threads hater... It's basically just a blog post split into > 20 different chunks. The reading experience on Twitter was terrible unless you used TwitLonger to turn it back into a continuous text again.
Nostr has long form content which obviates the need to do this in the first place. Having the thread as a single article in markdown with headlines and such is about 1000x more pleasant to read IMHO.

2024-03-04 10:24:26

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Checked Kraken just now, order books looks liquid. This is probably fake.
https://image.nostr.build/1ebf4593584122857271e7f3d530f68359057f122240274c4e62ee5e6ffbc883.jpg

2024-03-03 14:13:58

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'MORNIN

2024-03-03 14:02:34

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Right after Solana and Filecoin. 🤡