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I don't know why this is so complicated. The name change solves nothing. It just renames something and then creates another layer of confusion. It's so obvious. I don't... I'm struggling... I'm struggling with this one.
Just tell people that sats are the smallest denomination of Bitcoin. Like a penny. So easy.

2025-05-19 01:33:07

A koan..
公案
You have no idea.

2025-05-16 12:48:14

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A TJ logo!

2025-05-16 12:45:23

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Well... He was at the center of arguably bitcoins biggest schizm. What ended up being the losing side and viewed by the majority as someone that attacked bitcoin.
The guy is passionate and emotional. And became a bit of a lightning rod.
He renounced his US citizenship which was his right. But did not pay the taxes (which are draconian in my opinion, but clearly the law) and now acts like the situation he is in is persecution.
I believe you were here for the whole thing?

2025-05-15 15:03:20

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Not a fan, and I believe the man picked his path. I don't think there's any injustices being done to him.
And I think taxation is theft, but it's also the law.
He made the bed that he's in. Why does everybody act like he's somehow being persecuted?

2025-05-12 21:55:27

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Yeah. I just blocked someone....
Where are you from?
Have you hard of hypercryp?
Let me send you the telegram link.
In making so much money.
Meh.

2025-05-12 04:31:25

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Occasionally.

2025-05-12 04:17:50

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I run 6 Full bitcoin nodes in 5 countries (2 in the US).
Currently 3 are knots. The other three will not upgrade...

2025-05-12 03:40:49

I agree with this post with all my heart, and I practice this kind of silence in all areas of my life, probably more often than not.
But to bring balance, I would just say this:
There are also times when you must speak, when you must stand, when you must rise up and risk saying what you believe. Because is the right thing to do. And it is the right thing in the moment.
Peace.
#nevent1q…9c2k

2025-05-11 15:00:47

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He has the sophistication of a 12 year old boy.

2025-05-10 16:33:36

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Well, we can probably just, as they say, agree to disagree because I find the core developers turning themselves into some sort of priest class as disgusting as any of the stupid things that I've heard people on the other side of the argument, throwing out.
Again, referring to users of the software as cattle or cultists is disgusting.
And the people who run nodes and even the people who just use the software not only have a right to say what they think about the direction of the project, but a duty to. And I feel as strongly that name-calling and polarized shallow arguments from their side is just as bad. None of that helps.
All it is is an easy way to virtue signal and plant your flag on the side that you want to be recognized as being a member of, in my opinion.

2025-05-10 16:07:50

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Then do it, but calling the position of people who are concerned with core currently "propaganda" and "hate" is shallow and counterproductive, in my opinion.
And the sword cuts both ways I've heard a core contributor calling people that disagree with them, cultists, and comparing them to cattle.
There is certainly a very vocal polarized set of people on both sides.

2025-05-09 17:55:53

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They have had the occasional outage. Also, for what it's worth, I am seeing similar outages on some other sites. I just click the link to some video site and it's doing something very similar.

2025-05-09 17:48:20

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I leave my phone behind all the time nowadays, but I was pretty much turned off at the point of "laws dictate".
Screw that.

2025-05-09 17:32:03

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2024?

2025-05-09 17:22:50

Guy and I seem to pretty much align 100% on this bruhaha. I also appreciate the nuance and steelmanning. These are things that are woefully missing in this conversation. Instead, I hear people generally being polarized and saying things like, "if you support X, then you're either stupid, or evil." For what it's worth, I believe that position is almost always fallacious.
Listen for nuance and signal.
https://app.podcastguru.io/podcast/1359544516

2025-05-09 04:33:51

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The first time I hard someone put forth the theory that Satoshi may have been John Nash I rejected it quickly.
But over time I realized he did fit the variables in a curiously exact way.
What you mention... The synthesis of ideas. Well Nash had been publishing (white)papers like "Asymptotically Ideal Money" which were describing bitcoin basically in the decade before its release.
Nash was also a self taught C++ programmer. (Partly as a therapy for his mental illness)
I am not saying it was he... Or not. But is an ineresting rabbit hole.

2025-05-09 03:43:39

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Not nearly soon enough.

2025-05-09 03:42:04

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I speak it forth in unison with you!
I too shall walk as Pepe this day.
Perhaps the duration of this week!

2025-05-09 00:39:01

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I will be very surprised if this pope is in any way whatsoever pro-Trump.

2025-05-09 00:36:44

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This illustrates weekday I am concerned about...
#nevent1q…rdn3

2025-05-08 22:50:00

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Look for a yellow box. It may also have some green on it.

2025-05-08 13:20:20

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Americaa?

2025-05-08 01:05:23

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I've never actually seen the Genesis story of that term emerging. It seems to me it emerged sometime in the 2017 realm. That cycle.
And yeah, they mean it as plebeian, but it is a badge of honor. I'm not sure exactly in what way, but it's been around for quite some time now.

2025-05-07 23:31:13

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She do.

2025-05-07 22:24:20

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That was something. I wish it made me feel like there clarity. Heh.

2025-05-07 13:47:33

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I almost amended to clarify by fork I meant the project but at the same time you are making my downstream argument as well. We could end up with versions of software that could eventually diverge enough to interrupt the "lockstep" Satoshi wrote about @ BCT when the topic of multiple implimentations came up.
I agree that people running to a project being run by a single person has risks as well. But I reject your intimation that the only people competent enough to work on Bitcoin are already working on core.
Honestly, that kind of smacks of the arrogance that the community is interpreting from the people that are involved with core.
Which brings me to my final point. The fact that the community is up in arms about this may not be something that you and others agree with, but these are the people that run the software and some of them have been doing it for quite some time and some of them are also quite intelligent and not just people being led around by the nose by strong personalities or that sort of contention my perspective, this seems like the most serious issue of all. A fork in the community, if you want to call it that. I know that this is a new thing. In the op_return topic has had contention from the beginning. I was there. And many of the arguments being used today are the same ones that we're coming up at the very beginning and have continued to be concerns for many people in the community, many of whom are cryptographers, cypherpunks, programmers and prominent people.
I understand that this change is believed by its proponents to be the best way to actually reduce spam on the chain, the best middle ground, the best compromise.
But the way this is being handled has caused the community of users to lose trust significantly in the people leading the core project. And this should be alarming to all of us. Because in the end, that social schism can be the most powerful introduction of chaos and be more easily used to subvert the direction of Bitcoin than even a bug in the code.

2025-05-06 08:45:54

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I miss Elwar. Wonder how he's doing....
Few. Very few. Lol.
https://image.nostr.build/bc3b3010b2d46b89f918d6ab1cb55d45b7000bcff188e28a9ac201ca08780671.jpg

2025-05-06 08:17:02

"Broad, though not perhaps unanimous, support.” being thrown around a lot...
Kinda has those "This is extremely dangerous for our democracy" vibes.
#op_return
https://image.nostr.build/2736894fa2c93151f81ac67808ef805c193be74cd6cba4889c879543d3b8e8d4.jpg

2025-05-06 08:13:48

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I am not so sure. 🫎

2025-05-06 07:57:11

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I have lived it. 🙂🫎

2025-05-06 07:54:03

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2025-05-06 07:43:49

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No one had said it is impossible.
Your argument is fallacious. ( the All or Nothing fallacy)

2025-05-06 07:01:26

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All of house things share a common theme.
But brown sugar?

2025-05-06 06:50:54

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As a somewhat high end IT professional who has worked installing AI in roles that "reduce the load on human employees and reduce the requirements for FTEs", I think of we may see serious impacts to the job market from LLMs across MANY high end and white collar fields as well.
That said, AI still kind of sucks at most things today. Should be interesting to watch though.

2025-05-05 19:57:08

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On top of this, I do not think it is unreasonable to point out that there are people involved in making this decision who will benefit from being able to store large amounts of data in op_return. And I think there's a non trivial number of users who do not want that to happen. And these users include cypherpunks, people who are current and past contributors to core. it is not cut and dry.
I don't think the community is done discussing this by any means. And I think rushing something like this on any level will increase the chance for forks and even forks between reference implementations will have implications that could be unexpected. that are possibly even negative

2025-05-05 19:52:34

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I appreciate you taking the time to write these answers and I actually understand the points that you're making already. I think we diverge fundamentally at an earlier point.
In some ways I feel like this argument is like sort of a harm reduction argument. And I think harm reduction is a good idea for drug addicts for example, but we wouldn't mail everyone in the world a pack of needles and some clean heroin just in case so they would have safe things to use if they ever decided to.
In some ways, this seems like the windows registry to me. I think part of the idea there was let's have a sanctioned place for developers to put their configuration data. Well, that kind of thing can grow into something unexpected and that's what I'm worried about as we continue to open the doors to data storage on the Bitcoin blockchain.
I would much rather see us work to find ways to make storing (large) data on the blockchain in any of the three places harder to do.

2025-05-05 16:32:38

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Isn't one of the possible recommendations to remove the limit completely on op_return? And if so, would that not allow basically limitless data to enter into the Mempools and be written to the unprunrd blockchain.
I understand that spammers are using the witness area now, and that that is worse, and part of the idea here would be using OR as it was intended. But it doesn't justify either usage, in my opinion.

2025-05-05 13:18:15

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Remove all limits from op_return is on the table. I not see how that would not have tradeoffs. One of which would be potentially exploding the size of the unpruned blockchain, right?

2025-05-05 12:43:44

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I said was I good reason for debate. Not a good reason for potentially allowing unrestricted data in OP_RETURN.
I, and many others am not convinced by the arguments FOR that change yet.
Is all tradeoffs. For example I am also not entirely convinced that this rush to Knots is a good idea either.

2025-05-05 12:34:05

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I think this person makes a very good argument why there IS and should be a debate. Or is he one of the "paterlalistic" people who "don't understand bitcoin"?
https://image.nostr.build/8f12c5de357a8f358fbb040494ccb9ed43db28dc429b18b7083b811238dfc178.jpg

2025-05-05 00:20:53

@nprofile…gx8d
#nevent1q…53uz

2025-05-04 23:26:16

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Then you might misunderstand that since there could be no previous block hash to include Satoshi did this as proof. It was monetary data in that respect. It was proof the Genesis block was not faked.

2025-05-04 16:18:53

@nprofile…txk4 I am curious. What would be your reaction if Core devs who are not in favor of the current (possible) direction came over to contribute to knots?
Also switching one of my nodes to Knots today... A test.

2025-05-03 17:04:19

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She was just yelling at her titties the other day! They might not be willing to toast anything for her right now...
Like I understand such complex things.

2025-05-03 16:22:37

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That dudes story...
And you are right... Vibe neighbors.

2025-05-02 12:21:28

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2025-05-02 09:33:01

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Ironically you are actually making both sides of the argument here.
One potential reason for removing the op_return limit is so data can be added to the blockchain in the least obtrusive way. Anchor data, or the hash of a file for example. (Related to what you're suggesting) And op_return is the best place to do this. Currently spammers are just jamming data into the witness area which is objectively worse.
On the other hand enabling unbounded data in transactions is arguably not what bitcoin is for.
And there is much nuance in the arguments as you dive in really...
Thus the drama.

2025-05-02 02:02:14

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I've seen many. They are still a little nerving...

2025-05-01 23:46:01

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Calling people one one side of an argument a "cult" is simple add hominem.
That's not an argument. Its just a slur.

2025-05-01 18:17:49

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Bitcoin has always been called anti-fragile and I do believe it is one of the best examples of a technological project that meets that label... and every now and then it gets tested.

2025-05-01 17:52:34

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Meh. Ad-hominem.

2025-05-01 03:20:25

Here's the thing. I don't care if you follow me or you don't follow me. Wait, no, I take that back. I do hope you follow me because I appreciate you. I love you.
But I don't need to be in a pack and I don't need to be followed by more than like... three people.
That's enough.
If there are three of you, I love you.
If there are a hundred of you, I love you.
If there's zero of you...
I love all the rest of you.
See how that works?
Love.

2025-04-30 18:30:24

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So in this test, the sender used a view key (part of moneros design) to see exactly where he sent the Monero, which he knew from the beginning, including the amount that he sent. This is natural for a layer one blockchain transaction. And to me, means the test is fairly disingenuous.
Also this fued is stupid in my opinion.

2025-04-30 18:19:09

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In my opinion this is all theater.
Using a view key to see the details of a transaction is part of the design of monero.
I think both sides of this tedious argument have been constantly making half-baked claims about something on the other side that fits their narrative for ages now. I am growing super tired of it.

2025-04-30 18:11:59

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I think it's very important for us to be honest and clear about these kinds of things.
As far as I can tell, this "test" is at best moot and at worst quite deceptive.
He is using the view key to see things that are available by design for the sender.
This is actually a feature, not a bug nor a weakness. So I don't know if the person is being disingenuous or just ignorant, but it's one of those in this case.
Also, in my opinion, the argument between these two camps is stupid and childish.

2025-04-28 21:23:35

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Open borders are one game theoretical checkmate if we allow "due process" to everyone who is here illegitimately.
I do not have the answers. But we have to solve this from both ends, I think.

2025-04-27 16:43:18

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In this context:
42 USC § 9102(18)

2025-04-27 16:38:27

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I will not speak for Vlad and I hope he chooses to answer your question, but an educated guess would be he would argue that going towards that solution is the way back to central banks and slavery. That Hal's "scaling solution" here would fundamentally undermine the very zero-to-one innovation that Bitcoin was in the first place: the removal of the need for trust.
I feel like I can steelman this argument fairly well, and it is compelling, but I also think it's kind of black and white.
I have said before that the innovation isn't that we HAVE to use trust minimized solutions, but that we can.
I also think it is also arguable that trust is a valuable thing to be able to have and use when it benefits you. I trust my family members. I trust my church.
But I don't trust Jerome Powell and I don't want to be forced to either.
And there can be compromises. Liquid is a great example. It is a federated membership of signers that makes it very difficult for collusion. But we gained something for the small amount of trust we put in the foundation. We get potential privacy, speed of settlement, and cheapness of transactions.
I am very passionate about this subject and I am hijacking Vlad's note so I'm going to calm down now. LOL.

2025-04-27 15:32:11

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"To my knowledge" was enough to cause my imaginary tutu to clench.

2025-04-24 07:39:17

No truer words.
#nevent1q…s736

2025-04-23 06:34:44

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Good grief.. Don't just go around opening up possibility portals like that! You are liable to create a singularity!

2025-04-23 06:30:37

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Pretty sure the bot has won quite a bit.
😜

2025-04-23 06:26:08

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I regularly change my "name" on nostr knowing it will make creating a "brand" fairly impossible.
I figure two or three who follow me will be able to keep up. Lol. The rest can enjoy cantankerous notes from someone they may not remember following. Ha.
Pretty sure I'm not "that guy".

2025-04-22 09:52:13

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We are creating so much "carbon" (a scientifically hilarious concept) that our ruinous effects on nature are now actually reaching into the past!

2025-04-21 19:09:59

#asknostr
I've been curious all my life. Why do so many (western or non Asian) people use chopsticks to eat Asian food?
It is a vibe thing? Is it an authenticity thing? Tradition? Trying to experience or honor culture? A fun dexterity challenge, perhaps? Or maybe learning new things?
I mean, there are certainly many arguments for doing it. It might cause you to eat in a more sensible way compared to the little pronged shovels that we Westerners tend to use. But I don't think that's why.
And if you really like it, then why don't you eat your spaghetti with that too? It really just is tomato sauce in lo mein after all, right?

2025-04-20 22:20:53

You do NOT own your content on #nostr. The relays do.

2025-04-20 21:32:50

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Everyone but me sounds so cool in this thread.

2025-04-20 03:36:27

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https://image.nostr.build/fc27bc24115aa60b4cfe3738b21f75fb3e602f48c60e38cfe48011a5a1760d14.jpg

2025-04-20 02:14:52

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I'm in TX. Little did I know!

2025-04-20 01:11:30

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https://image.nostr.build/33c0ef53c3eb0bb000739d2a3b465b1c0495ec57b4d4e9882c18e356ecea1d72.jpg

2025-04-19 20:44:05

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This is why using the thing that everybody thinks is the front runner, the popular thing, chatGPT, Apple products, Vespa scooters, it's why all of it ends up in the same garbage hole, but no one figures that out.

2025-04-19 20:38:44

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So we addicts say...

2025-04-19 20:35:08

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Of course, it's true. The earth doesn't get out of balance because human beings do something. It's always going to find balance. Whether we are making more of it or less of it, it doesn't matter. The earth will compensate... more plants, less plants. We die way before the rest of it does.
What ridiculous hubris the fools have to believe the lie used to control them.

2025-04-19 20:25:33

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Well then...

2025-04-16 04:08:01

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How does 4mm no charge sound? Pm me your stuff.

2025-04-16 03:53:09

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You can hint all you like, but I'm gonna keep following you.

2025-04-16 03:30:09

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I mean, what can I do when you throw that kind of shit out other than just, ... ... man?
I mean, you're playing the Piccolo 4-string bass guitar, singing... good grief.

2025-04-15 22:50:39

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I have no idea why this is so fucking hilarious

2025-04-15 22:19:57

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Jeez. That was your mistake.
Its Tie Kwon Doh!

2025-04-15 21:39:25

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Its simple, razors hadn't been invented.

2025-04-15 21:21:19

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Not even a LITTLE disturbing.
Right?

2025-04-15 16:47:09

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Also, I'm about to send a donation from my favorite amethyst that I always use. ( And I promise to look at git citadel or other laserin things when I get a chance.)

2025-04-15 16:46:06

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Preach. Sometimes my agreeability gets better of me. It's hard when you're as beautiful as I am.

2025-04-15 05:01:20

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I feels like I've held it for twenty years already.

2025-04-15 04:58:56

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Underrated

2025-04-15 04:44:03

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Daniel's implosion always made me very sad. The fact he was either deceived by CSW or is still a knowing shill (I bet on the former) is tragic either way.

2025-04-14 16:56:10

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There certainly are many fact-checking type sites that say that this was never said, and perhaps it wasn't. But every single one of those sites has lied in the past to protect these type of people. What do we believe anymore? AI is making it impossible to know what's true. You could make a video of her saying it and it would be almost impossible to know if it wasn't real.

2025-04-14 16:51:51

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I'm sure I'll end up on a list for saying this, but if this keeps going, it's gonna take bullets to stop it.

2025-04-14 12:44:25

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I have sent you some bitcoin! You can see it at coinos.io!

2025-04-14 12:42:19

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2025-04-14 12:40:56

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You got it!
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2025-04-14 03:03:57

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Opsec, my friend. Is your node public?

2025-04-11 20:11:35

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Sorry, that was extremely vague, but I think what I meant was few people understand the magnitude to which we can no longer trust anything we see. It's obvious when it is something that is a parody like this. But these tools are already being used and may have been used for some time now to misdirect people.
This was also quite funny.

2025-04-10 23:54:15

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I can help you. There's lots of ways. But probably the easiest way is to use coinos.io. It's a custodial solution, but one of the better ones, and you can always move your SATs off to something that you control when there's enough to make it worth it. If you set up an account there, then you only need to associate that account with your nostr client. Which client do you use?

2025-04-10 01:03:12

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Why do you not have a lightning wallet set up, Scarlet? I was about to zap you a thousand sats. If you don't want one, then fine. But if you do, and you need help, let me know. I will help you. It's not hard.