All in 🥥🌴

Mastodon culture is weird because federation (essentially just copying your data around) is at the core, yet anytime someone they don't like wants the data they clutch their privileged pearls.
I will never get over the irony

2024-06-08 02:02:05

testing humble.horse
Published with humble.horse 🐎🐎🐎

2024-06-08 02:02:03

testing humble.horse
Published with humble.horse 🐎🐎🐎

2024-06-04 05:09:35

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I just put 100% of my paycheck into bitcoin so I don't have to average anything heh

2024-06-03 20:47:00

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I love hmart

2024-06-03 20:46:01

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Twitter is a website. nostr is a country.

2024-05-16 06:44:23

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They should just fuck already

2024-05-15 02:18:11

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Zitter? Chitter? Hitter? X makes too many sounds

2024-05-15 02:15:59

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I will never stop calling it Twitter.

2024-05-14 19:49:22

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Oops I pasted the entire page. Fuck it in high. #nostr

2024-05-14 19:48:20

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"Tornado Cash does not pose any barrier for people with criminal assets who want to launder them," according to the translated verdict seen by CoinDesk. "That is why the court regards the defendant guilty of the money laundering activities as charged."
Pertsev can appeal his sentence, which starts today. It does not appear that the time he spent behind bars between his arrest in August 2022 and Tuesday's verdict will count against the time he now has to spend in prison.
A view of the empty courtroom, where Tornado Cash developer Alexey Pertsev was sentenced. (Camomile Shumba/CoinDesk)
A view of the empty courtroom, where Tornado Cash developer Alexey Pertsev was sentenced. (Camomile Shumba/CoinDesk)
An indictment shared ahead of the trial said that between July 9, 2019 and Aug. 10, 2022, Pertsev made "a habit of committing money laundering" and that he should have at least suspected the criminal origins of illicit transactions on the Tornado Cash platform.
The developer was first jailed in the Netherlands in August 2022 after Tornado Cash was blacklisted by the U.S government. At the time, the U.S. Treasury had alleged that Tornado Cash was a key tool for the North Korean hacking group Lazarus. The Lazarus Group has been tied to a $625 million hack of Axie Infinity’s Ronin Network and other major crypto thefts.
The trial result could play in future trials of other Tornado Cash developers. Other developers of the crypto mixer, Roman Storm and Roman Semenov, also face allegations of money laundering and sanctions violations in the U.S. Storm will go to trial this September, but Semenov has not yet been arrested. Storm was arrested last year, after the U.S. again added Tornado Cash to its sanctions watchlist.
In the U.S., however, Storm is not accused of being responsible for the laundering of $1.2 billion due to differences in how U.S. and Dutch laws address personal responsibility in this type of alleged crime.
UPDATE (May 14, 11:41 UTC): Updates headline and lede with prison sentence.
UPDATE (May 14, 13:00 UTC): Adds details, background.
UPDATE (May 14, 13:00 UTC): Adds details, background.
UPDATE (May 14, 14:05 UTC): Adds additional details.
Edited by Parikshit Mishra, Nikhilesh De and Sheldon Reback.
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2024-05-13 18:40:38

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Out of fiat

2024-05-13 17:44:48

All I ask for is that price goes down on payday and up when rent is due

2024-05-13 14:06:27

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I identify as a table

2024-05-13 01:49:06

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1 🛰️ in the 👜

2024-05-13 01:46:51

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2024-05-13 01:33:14

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I buy all my bitcoin via cash app. Could I skip kyc? Yep. Is that why I use bitcoin? Nope

2024-05-12 04:25:11

I don't belong here. That's why I belong here

2024-05-11 19:47:03

Poopin on the clock

2024-05-10 19:46:38

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Vivi

2024-05-10 19:44:02

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I use nostr to say the things my friends and family don't want to hear 🤣

2024-05-10 19:31:35

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Thought the middle was Tatum turnip

2024-05-10 05:25:15

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"certain people". I'm retarded and I can read this

2024-05-10 04:54:25

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I jack off with my shampoo

2024-05-09 20:00:05

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That circle actually looks pretty awesome

2024-05-09 16:09:47

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Thought this was ultimate dick suckin challenge for a minute there

2024-05-09 16:06:42

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Nostr client is a pet peeve. Nostr breaks the client/server model. There are provider peers (relays) and consumer peers (apps)

2024-05-07 16:48:48

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2024-05-06 16:15:12

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I have no money and no truck 😂😂😂😭

2024-05-05 01:41:27

Sperm banks should hire sex workers and then not have to pay men. Everyone wins

2024-05-01 16:23:37

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If he got shit on his dick it's the worst of both worlds

2024-05-01 00:32:47

Just sent first tx with coldcard woohoo

2024-04-30 06:41:28

Who got the NSFW only relay?

2024-04-30 05:47:36

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Alexander died super young. Epic fail

2024-04-29 04:10:22

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What does mechanized mean? I think of like clone wars shit

2024-04-28 17:31:46

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There is a project called radicle that is like nostr but for github. git is inherently decentralized

2024-04-23 06:37:31

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To be fair the original x.com was PayPal before PayPal

2024-04-23 01:33:24

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Hopefully they put the GPS coordinates in steel

2024-04-22 21:54:52

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Distro?

2024-04-22 07:09:08

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Pondering a visual interpretation of my poetry?

2024-04-22 07:04:16

Bitcoin in your butt that's a buttcoin

2024-04-21 07:07:40

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Glad u stayed

2024-04-21 05:51:47

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As a therapist I have to remain constantly vigilant in this realization

2024-04-21 05:47:34

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I feel like there's a universal language of vibes. You can say the same sentence a hundred different ways and convey a hundred different emotions

2024-04-20 05:28:46

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Thanks for sharing your story 🙏

2024-04-20 05:08:36

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My philosophy is, if it's not Bitcoin it's not actually money

2024-04-20 05:05:27

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That's what I do too.

2024-04-19 21:33:36

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I just want a safe space where my body isn't objectified by horny libertarian women 🤣🤣

2024-04-19 21:25:33

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you would think autopilot would be safer

2024-04-19 03:06:31

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This took me down a long rabbit hole

2024-04-18 22:33:28

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Kinda surprises me how mild this place is given so little moderation. I was expecting 4chan levels of cringe

2024-04-18 22:15:53

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That's what makes it so enjoyable to watch 😈

2024-04-18 22:13:19

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*pictures zaps zapping devs with electricity to make them go faster* 😈

2024-04-18 22:08:57

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Or as @npub12z8…9zmx says 📠

2024-04-18 22:02:30

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What part of internal swap?

2024-04-18 07:38:53

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Why do you want to leave?
Does this place suck?
Yes
Does it suck less?
Possibly

2024-04-18 05:03:03

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The antivirus guy?

2024-04-18 04:54:59

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I found this cool app called nostr. Check it out

2024-04-18 04:03:20

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Thought the cake was the mouth

2024-04-18 01:52:17

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Hot

2024-04-18 01:49:54

Not sure if Uncle Rockstar is trans or what. I'm kinda confused right now

2024-04-17 05:12:01

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Rude

2024-04-16 00:40:21

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I always buy one from two models behind.

2024-04-15 17:33:58

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I can't figure out how to reply to notifications

2024-04-15 17:23:41

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TIL they have a mobile app

2024-04-15 17:03:15

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Are you ok?

2024-04-15 16:55:46

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If misogyny was a person 😂😂

2024-04-15 02:15:35

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It depends on the centrality of your node. Lightning is kinda hit and miss sometimes especially for ephemeral nodes. That's why I keep most of my hot wallet in fedimint

2024-04-15 02:13:00

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😂😂😂😂 https://image.nostr.build/6f031a4e7ef520cf1e40c6be22d9e4e1c41c9510043e1a566e5ac388e134daee.jpg

2024-04-15 01:02:01

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I got nothing against c.

2024-04-15 00:59:29

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Ok rust the language good. Rust the compile time categorically unexcusable

2024-04-15 00:51:10

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I agree with you on DRM
Not so sure about rust being bad because shitcoins tho. Everyone entitled to their opinion