Rob

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Public Key

npub1wcuhrw3pkvv8jrpc75e75hec0tdd2gyfe92ttghkhlxlf35papfsp48uhk

NIP-57 Address

steeldancer80@walletofsatoshi.com

Profile Code

nprofile1qqs8vwt3hgsmxxrepsu02vl2tuu84kk4yzyuj4945tmtln05c6q7s5cpr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmp0ryenqn

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nostr.bitcoiner.social

Author Public Key

npub1wcuhrw3pkvv8jrpc75e75hec0tdd2gyfe92ttghkhlxlf35papfsp48uhk

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Last Notes

2025-02-17 11:16:04

Looks like the Please Call Me saga is about to end. Badly.
https://techcentral.co.za/vodacom-ceo-offloads-r20-million-shares/259202/
#SOUTHAFRICA

2024-12-23 14:34:57

Anyone else have the latest #Amethyst feature of crashing immediately when tapping on Search?

2024-12-23 14:22:39

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Unless we see UTXO balances on the blockchain, they don't own jack

2024-11-25 17:25:48

As a rapid seed oil disrespecter I must say... popcorn made in canola oil doth slap

2024-11-11 17:10:28

Nothing more infuriating than disputing transactions with the bank. Literally 2 hours of being passed around on a chat to eventually be given a phone number. I'm about to get an envelope and send a stool sample to one of their executives.

2024-10-08 18:37:26

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Hetzner Object Storage

2024-09-24 13:58:47

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LIKEWISE
Public Bitcoin addresses for all ETF's, or bust

2024-09-23 15:58:42

LOL, get rekt Coinbase, let's see if the price and mining fees moon overnight while they scratch around for actual Bitcoin
https://cryptonews.com/news/investor-concerns-drive-blackrocks-demand-for-faster-coinbase-withdrawals/

2024-09-23 13:18:21

Seeing Checkers getting bankrolled by not only FNB but now Discovery Bank's rewards programs, at the expense of Pick 'n Pay, makes me mad. Banks shouldn't decide who lives or dies. Checkers and FNB already rolled out the red carpet to American Sugarwater aka Starbucks to get a foothold in #SouthAfrica, at the expense of many excellent local coffee franchises, and now they want to kill off Pick 'n Pay. Not on my watch.
Pick 'n Pay remains the only retailer willing to stick their neck out and support Bitcoin via Lightning locally, let's reward them for that. A 15% kickback is not worth it longterm to kill of Pick 'n Pay shortterm.

2024-09-23 12:45:16

What are our good options in #SouthAfrica for going from Rands to Lightning?
#asknostr

2024-09-09 07:29:29

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Sure, but ReplyGuy costs to spam are basically zero currently, and what income are these replies producing? At some level of difficulty, there is negative benefit to spamming this way. Relays can apply difficulty requirements for new npubs and existing, and keep raising the difficulty if needed

2024-09-09 04:59:09

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Make NIP-13 the standard
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/13.md

2024-09-04 06:00:16

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Tell that to my screentime

2024-09-03 21:30:38

First look at the new #BRICS currency
https://image.nostr.build/96793ba7d63d22f4dbc66466fea6e88cc411673b58fa5ac4810aa4a664b2fd5b.jpg

2024-09-01 20:42:37

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I know I can change it, I'm saying, you seem to be the only person who knows how to get content onto it 😂

2024-09-01 19:34:51

@nprofile…pyug what determines getting onto this media stream in the middle of Amethyst? Of all my follows, you're the only one with content there. What gives?

2024-09-01 06:19:23

Surprise yourself today, anon
https://image.nostr.build/430dbf613d6fd6b4693c15e64247f8ac90660444d85e3734ddf4507fbd4c5f26.jpg
#memes #meme #memestr

2024-08-31 09:39:39

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Alright, apologies for making a general statement then. Messing with the Orbot exit location does seem to occasionally let the picture render, so I might just be in too remote a location for things to load quickly. It tries for a few seconds and then just shows the URL. It just stood out that this only affects this host consistently.

2024-08-31 08:54:55

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Amethyst over Orbot

2024-08-31 07:28:17

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cdn.satellite.earth is not a Tor-friendly host, please consider posting to another 🙏🏻 All your posts just show the URL, can't load the image

2024-08-31 07:05:12

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Why not include how the verse ends? It's relevant to some here who put Bitcoin on a pedestal...
“No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.

2024-08-29 17:16:13

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Biased polls, apparently

2024-08-20 20:27:16

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Weird to think I have only 12 halvings to plan in

2024-08-20 16:20:17

https://image.nostr.build/85052469d5babe5ecd0b1144fc25bb8b263b3be653397ea589042cd973b91604.jpg
#memes #meme #memestr

2024-08-18 21:15:50

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Ayo why paint his nails red

2024-08-16 20:50:45

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And when Whirlpool comes back?

2024-08-13 18:32:01

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cookieclicker.com ?

2024-08-07 06:11:40

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#baitchain

2024-08-07 06:11:06

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Creates a perverse incentive for us

2024-07-10 00:54:19

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When Q with gold flakes

2024-07-05 21:03:54

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Didn't I give you some a few minutes ago? I forget stuff

2024-07-05 21:03:09

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But you're dead

2024-07-05 20:54:58

Why can't we just use the mempool like it was Lightning? Isn't it supposed to be the waiting room of all transactions anyway?
#asknostr

2024-06-09 21:11:14

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Won't we at some point do away with the idea of "clients"? Any browser is "the client". Browsers picking up handler/parser function definitions, and data, stored in notes

2024-06-09 20:58:12

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Isn't JSON the central implementation

2024-06-08 10:16:53

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Nostr is L2

2024-06-07 08:01:08

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@npub1gcx…nj5z

2024-05-31 11:17:51

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"Soon", if you're immortal

2024-05-28 14:34:53

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By voting for parties that agree with you. The ANC is communist, they see state-owned enterprises as welfare distributors, that's why Eskom can have 420b+ debt and still exist, and it's why they'll send out 10 dudes on minimum wage to change a light bulb, badly. Obvious waste for the sake of distributing "wealth", but all communist governments go the same route.
You hang around the bitcoin community long enough, black-pilling is inevitable. Governments don't exist for the sole purpose of debasing currencies - surprise! Corrupt governments that can't manage their money and who run on paper-based systems with no checks in place will obviously debase the currency, those who focus on fiscal management, transparency, and staying small will do better. They can't have communist ideals.
We suffer a lot from poor management systems. The ANC simply isn't interested in doing things well, when they can siphon funds off to a family member. But there are parties who intend to do things properly, at least better. It's extreme to think that all parties are like the ANC, are only motivated by money, want to grind us to a pulp, and want to be as big as possible. That's extreme black-and-white thinking - either governments don't exist, or they are corrupt?

2024-05-28 13:00:05

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I hear you, but unless you wage a war to abolish the current system of government, we're stuck with them. Whether you acknowledge them or not they determine taxes on everything you buy, import, earn, fill up, etc, can throw you in jail for not wearing a mask, etc. Route around them, by all means, just expect to get Ulbricht'd or Samorai'd. The main way to change who occupies that seat and determines those things is through elections, or war. South Africa is somewhat unique in that we're going to be led by coalition, most likely, so not necessarily "by decree". More voices are represented, more checks are in place, more common sense should prevail, it isn't just one party steamrolling us anymore. Will it be messy, absolutely, all those obnoxious characters battling for their own way, but I'd rather have what more closely represents multiple people coming to an agreement than just one party having their way. Even the DA sucks, I don't want gender-neutral bathrooms for my teenagers, and if the DA had their way in Covid I probably wouldn't even be alive right now.

2024-05-28 12:40:29

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Isn't the last part why you'd vote? I understand the whole governments are illegitimate and corrupt and and, and yes obviously nothing beats collectives on the ground actually doing the work (Afriforum, neighbourhood watches, stokvels, etc), but when it comes to corruption, obvious mismanagement, obviously archaic backend systems and nepotism, cronyism, allowing all the stuff that happened in Covid, shouldn't we use the one opportunity we have to budge the needle? Or are we only going to engage them head-on with the likes of Sakeliga when it's a bit too late? If the masses are lazy to vote, catch them sleeping.

2024-05-28 11:48:19

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Was using 1voucher, no KYC at all, but apparently Flash had a security incident (a year ago...) and support for them was dropped and not added since. Like you say current Azteco options suck now.

2024-05-14 18:15:22

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Don't worry
https://image.nostr.build/d9e26056fbbe440d5d33e574e975f6bb2fe0344a3ba1a1b49bf60981d1a34377.jpg

2024-05-14 17:48:16

I swear the DA only knows how to start petitions, and they never go anywhere. Amazing he can clap with wrists so limp. "But we asked them so nicely 😭"
Build your power stations champ, you've got teeny tiny towns in the middle of nowhere doing it already and winning court cases, stop drinking soy.
https://image.nostr.build/ed57a769e1864817f69fec3f28ebde45560b0994b359b92109e40e5e1498a38b.jpg
#SouthAfrica #Eskom

2024-04-25 18:07:42

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Isn't that the right angle @npub18hq…5kus? If I want to break the link between my balances and recipients, in good faith, I should be able to coordinate with those who want to do the same?

2024-04-25 17:50:58

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Why?
Whirlpool is intended to be decentralised. If no one single party is "running" all the mixes around the world, that can't possibly be seen as all of those nodes acting with malicious intent. The more Whirlpool coordinators, the better. I have the right to break connections between inputs and outputs for privacy reasons and not exposing my balances to my friends.
There are other coordinators, use them, make more of them, make Sparrow a Whirlpool server instead.

2024-04-25 17:45:27

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So the only option currently is to run a Dojo to access Whirlpool?

2024-04-25 05:59:03

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Wasn't the Whirlpool coordinator being decentralised? Sparrow 1.8.5 mentioned Whirlpool over Soroban

2024-04-20 08:20:48

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34,680 nerd miners on Public Pool. 3.125 reward, ~R113 each, and would be rare 😂

2024-04-03 22:39:05

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More like Bitcoin Crash

2024-03-31 12:12:04

https://image.nostr.build/1b9a4fc5f3e65a361325d4aab375f94d0901d8691f7754e80d10ae138d2757e1.jpg

2024-03-26 20:25:29

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"I don't have a million Rand lying around, so I bought something else. Have you heard of Ripple?"

2024-03-19 14:05:34

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What then, should a publisher be able to associate their relay with their npub, in a way that if I follow you, my client should auto-add your relay?

2024-03-12 11:49:21

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https://image.nostr.build/b4de3eb17f7c7dede142db3d7a9bc418a5a2819f2d962c81c2dee6b95698fcad.jpg

2024-02-20 08:18:36

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I don't wish death on the Rand, but their current path makes it likely, especially now talking about making use of gold and foreign exchange reserves. That was one of the early signs in Sri Lanka.
https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/why-sri-lanka-is-having-an-economic
They need to get serious about these "welfare SOE's", the public wage bill, and obviously corruption. Last year we ran a R350b+ deficit. That's almost a full Eskom debt, annually.
In the meantime, we should focus on putting down Bitcoin-based solutions. If the Rand's collapse is inevitable, so is Bitcoin adoption, so there is an opportunity there.

2024-02-20 07:46:01

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Hope they're just going to dangle this over voters like they did with EWC, and after elections abandon it. It's not sustainable, and a very obvious grift.

2024-02-12 16:01:24

Why did nostr take off specifically? I'm sure thousands of devs have created similar concepts and repos during a manic phase. What took nostr into the public eye?
#asknostr

2024-01-23 12:40:44

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Sort of, not directly, you have to use an app called CryptoQR which will scan the QR on the POS, and then it will invoice whatever wallet you have on your phone. Just ask for the QR option when paying as they tend to assume you're going to tap your phone when you whip it out.

2024-01-12 19:56:09

#Bitcoin finally made its way through the 30 sat/vB plug in the mempool

2024-01-09 11:36:44

https://image.nostr.build/06a5b80cba99c8fdf44aec6e7e4e96805b190db68e84d29d9e95db8efa3537ce.jpg
#memes #meme

2024-01-09 11:28:43

https://image.nostr.build/4563e300d2442965714cc84850e241c5b23694db3d1fa6f3b7eb89d0653234df.jpg
#memes #meme

2024-01-02 14:18:43

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I followed @npub1qny…95gx and now everything is in all caps

2023-12-25 21:10:40

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No Guardians of the Galaxy?

2023-12-25 10:55:03

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Fascinating if true

2023-12-24 10:48:20

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Not using a passphrase decreases the complexity and points of failure of the setup, which he values more than outright security, since a complex (secure) setup is useless if you forget or lose access to the details, and is best left to advanced users, or the company he works for - wink.
He's writing to the masses, where an XOR'd set of seed words lets you have a simpler setup, easy to restore, and also includes plausible deniability since each of the XOR seed plates is a valid set of words by itself. An attacker has to know it's one of a set to know there's a larger wallet elsewhere.
The seed+passphrase setup is similar, in that you can load funds onto the seed-only wallet, and you keep the passphrase safe for the "real" wallet. But an attacker now has your entire seed phrase.

2023-12-13 10:46:22

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Yeah these long, mangled URL's aren't showing for me either. Cleanse your URL after the first .jpg

2023-12-09 05:31:39

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Sir it is not working, the spam pays

2023-11-09 16:52:53

20 Followers
https://media.tenor.com/spSgkqK707kAAAAM/ok-all.gif
Why tho

2023-10-01 11:18:09

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Appreciate your thorough responses

2023-10-01 09:12:05

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And do we lose all of these cool camera features and using this fancy Tensor stuff?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulmonckton/2023/09/30/google-leaks-detail-jaw-dropping-pixel-8pixel-8-pro-camera-upgrades/

2023-09-30 13:48:20

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Are they not sending mails?

2023-09-21 16:54:17

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How are these generated? Very cool

2023-08-28 15:23:33

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We're missing each other. The difficulty requirement isn't for any event written to that relay, it's public key specific. If a user is spamming, or the public key is new to the relay, the requirements for that user are raised.

2023-08-26 10:41:47

I swear 90% of my unread mails from the past 5 years are PayPal making some kind of change to their policies

2023-08-15 16:02:14

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Isn't this some weird ouroboros - the debt the US owes to external parties, was it not originally credit printed by those parties? The US paying everyone back returns printed money back to its' creators. So the US printing dollars to pay off foreign debts _exports_ inflation. Depends what those foreign nations then do with it. Or am I way off here?

2023-08-04 09:10:24

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Notes can be deleted, and I'm sure as time goes on notes will be lost, as relays have no obligations to keep them forever. Bitcoin doesn't have that issue.