Bass

Husband. Father of 6. Christian.

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2026-07-04 14:39:37 UTC

When I think about July 4th, it usually puts me in a bad mood. Not because of the history, because as a homeowner in suburban America, nobody in my house is going to be able to sleep until 2am tomorrow.
BUUUUT today, my thoughts are on all the world cup tourists who have been led to believe that America is amazing and friendly, only to find that we will be in a full blown artillery war all night long. Looking forward to their PTSD posts tomorrow morning 🙃

2026-06-19 02:50:29 UTC

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Apparently i know what I'm doing. Who knew? Not me lol

2026-06-19 01:21:43 UTC

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An auto detailing business. They moved there website from wix and had a guy build a new one hosted by bluehost. After the move, they noticed a significant drop in online traffic. The site they built was fast but its lacking in keywords, service area pages, etc. Its a big job so i quoted for it, but I dont think he has the money. We will see.

2026-06-18 23:36:00 UTC

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Not going to let myself get big headed about it, but honestly pretty friggen cool.

2026-06-18 23:28:35 UTC

I had someone call me today who said ChatGPT referred them to me specifically for their SEO needs.
**maniacle laughing intensifies**

2026-06-18 12:12:13 UTC

Good morning
https://blossom.primal.net/077c929fcc103e5b9b2db81791fc38c4c54882474be3745e3bbed5b4f29657e3.jpg

2026-06-15 19:54:37 UTC

Is it just me or has nostr slowed down quite a bit?

2026-06-14 13:45:02 UTC

Happy Lords Day ☦️

2026-06-14 02:42:41 UTC

I posted a $5 btc challenge to my fb audience. I know a lot of you can code in your sleep, but in case you'd be interested, you can sign up under a pseudo email to keep things nokyc and completely full retard:
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From Domain To Deploy June Challenge
Build a website for a fake business and get it live online before June 30th.
Ideas:
-Lawn Care Company
-Coffee Shop
-Bakery
-Dog Walking Service
-Church
-Dragon Scale Hunter
Whatever.
The community-voted winner gets $5 in Bitcoin and the title of June Startup Challenge Champion.
Honestly, the prize isn't the important part.
Worst case:
-You learn how to build a website
-You learn how to deploy a website
-You end the month with something live on the internet
Bummer.....?
Best case:
-You discover a skill that could turn into a side hustle, business, or career
The community is completely free, and you don't need any experience to participate.
If you've been thinking about learning web design, website deployment, GitHub Pages, hosting, HTML, CSS, or AI-assisted development, this is probably the easiest way to get started.
Start with the Section Courses. Spend a few hours building something. Post your URL. See what happens.
https://www.skool.com/from-domain-to-deploy-7453/about
========

2026-06-13 01:40:27 UTC

https://blossom.primal.net/303cec0936d9acef00161adddcd1a9e0e107ec958ec3f10cffa5919e3e5121c8.jpg
The web design business is going well.

2026-06-11 13:20:43 UTC

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On and off sporadically. When the drama and ad hominems match traditional liberal social media, i go into hiding to purge my angry feelings for a while lol

2026-06-10 21:15:30 UTC

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I wish.

2026-06-10 14:15:20 UTC

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Your presupposition is that the framing requires working for the "productivity machine". This is a strawman. Rather, "make it your ambition to lead a quiet life and attend to your own business and work with your hands...so that you will behave properly toward outsiders and not be in any need." -1 Thessalonians 4:11-12
Pessimism leads to passiveness. Submissive/inactive barker. I suggest you go touch grass. Grow a garden the machine can't touch.

2026-06-10 11:57:53 UTC

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I feel like there should be the equivalent to looks maxing for optimal mental capabilities. Today's rabbit trail discovered.

2026-06-10 11:54:58 UTC

Good morning friends.
Go out and do something hard today that you'll be proud of yourself for tomorrow.

2026-06-10 11:52:12 UTC

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Different people have different optimal sleep patterns. I know someone who is optimal on 4 hours, a Christian pastor who has tried sleeping more but feels terrible afterward. If i go past 7.5, i actually get headaches lol

2026-06-08 13:51:23 UTC

GM
Everytime I publish a free/open source browser extension to the chrome web store, i get a flood of emails from people who are trying to help me market it for a ridiculous fee. Bro, if I was interested in that, I wouldnt have made it free...

2026-06-07 15:20:42 UTC

Happy Lord's Day
Hope shouldn't come from financial security, but in the gift of life everlasting through Christ. May we be poor in this life to inherit the next.

2026-06-05 16:06:23 UTC

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Good stuff too

2026-05-31 23:12:03 UTC

How often does a healthy person check their backups?

2026-05-31 12:26:56 UTC

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I forget who said that the average Americans break 3 federal or state laws daily, and they will use anything they can to get you if they want you. Probably some CIA scandal book. I'm probably guilty of too many cow farts.

2026-05-28 18:36:43 UTC

We told my 7 year old that we wanted him off of Stsrdew Valley for the day and to do something productive. This guy proceeded to draw all the different items on individual sheets of printer paper, setup a theater in our living room, give us tickets to the show and act out his day to day activities in the game in a silent movie sort of genre. What an experience.

2026-05-18 20:00:09 UTC

My current favorite things I own are my waterproof military boots and ghostpepper hot sauce. It's a vibe.

2026-05-18 00:24:51 UTC

Meanwhile, on cake wallet, I just noticed this bug that adds random transactions to my lightning wallet 😂😂
Or I’m some high baller who keeps an unnecessary amount of sats in a hot wallet
https://blossom.primal.net/5fc406b443edaa87a8f0beff45d3ee74eb320f4b5d9d2b5c88174ac64303dc12.jpg

2026-05-17 16:31:45 UTC

Updates from my time away from nostr:
-Built a tamper-proof photo evidence platform for contractors, insurance adjusters, and ecommerce in the refund warrantee space called bastionproof to deal with increasing ai fraud
-New work contract has been full time pay for an hour of work a week
-much more family time and adventures (quality/quantity)
-Turning our home into a food forest
-baby #6 coming Dec 2026

2026-02-21 22:00:13 UTC

Alright, time for me to take another break from social media. 🤙

2026-02-20 22:59:08 UTC

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Id agree if the fighting was more substantive than slander and ad hominem attacks. Idk if its because they stopped trying and im just super late to the party.

2026-02-20 21:59:42 UTC

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Is just going to push people to different options. This one's different than the typical 'tism of the month' argument we see on here. It seems like its a line in the sand sort of protest and neither side wants to budge or consider the other option.

2026-02-20 21:52:16 UTC

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Bread and circus... you're probably right

2026-02-20 21:51:28 UTC

This whole BIP110 thing has nostr becoming more toxic than Twitter.

2026-02-20 20:48:31 UTC

The fact that there have been no public militias going after people on the list has made me realize that all these school shootings are probably psyops and that americans are too nice in general.

2026-02-18 13:35:08 UTC

GM
I have a video game idea where you play as the government/corrupt company and you goal is to entrap as many people under your control as possible. There will be a propaganda upgrade that gets marketing behind smart tech appliances that make your targets life convenient while pumping narratives that non convenient options are bad. The ones that pop up and try to disuade the public because of built in surveilance tech can be dealt with directly at the cost of public trust, or subversively through slandering, blackmailing, etc.
We will call in "Public Relations".

2026-02-16 18:36:49 UTC

Got this dude the bitcoin burger. They were confused when I wanted to pay for it in bitcoin 🤣
https://blossom.primal.net/474eabb0561868e897359920f7150ec8a84845f9407af7770c3c1f3cf67c71e5.png

2026-02-15 21:04:33 UTC

Why do I get the feeling he's saying this outloud, but in secret, he's still going to expect the US to provide meat shields?
#nevent1q…qkt8

2026-02-15 19:03:31 UTC

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I always referenced the first episode on digital minimalism to normies cause it was such good advice. 😮‍💨

2026-02-15 15:49:09 UTC

What happened to Watchman Privacy's older episodes?

2026-02-13 23:46:07 UTC

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I'd setup a deadmans switch if I were him..

2026-02-13 23:23:53 UTC

Someone once told me to focus on building "boring" tech rather than "hype" tech if I want to pay the bills. Best advice I ever got.

2026-02-13 13:20:06 UTC

So, my pi did some short circuit transformers crap yesterday, turned itself on, and has been running pihole successfully by itself. These sort of life experiences turn you into a conspiracy theorist.

2026-02-10 18:24:55 UTC

If you tell a flat earther that their theory is a psyop to keep them from looking at the other stuff going on, they might melt.

2026-02-09 21:35:42 UTC

I mean...does anyone actually eat at burger king these days? 🤣🤣🤣
#nevent1q…jzj3

2026-02-07 20:32:23 UTC

So close
https://blossom.primal.net/6ea7e00af9868688ade408da5c1f474c865a72ca8a41fef94e9d520f6cad1465.jpg

2026-02-03 14:40:30 UTC

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It would be sad for me to take offense toward a belief system someone else holds that isn't exactly like mine, so no, I understand that given the same circumstances, life, education, I'd come to similar conclusions probably. I believe the same could be said had you experienced my life.
The 'fight' wasn't meant to be againt Christianity, but the conscience fighting with God. Your article seems to indicate that I was at least right about your upbringing and the reason you left, not sure why you argued against your experience. The problem is that pain and the "logical incoherence" of Christianity led you away from attempting to find an answer in the pain, and instead led you to believe that because "I can't hear God on my terms, and He refuses to come down to my level to reason with me, thus He is inpersonal and unworthy to worship as described by the church." Quite the jump to go from christianity to pantheism, but understandable if pain is the determining factor and self proclaimed fork you've decided on.
While I too am terminal, I might or might not have more time than you, I've come to radically different conclusions. Not because I'm more intelligent, but because I know my failings. Jesus met me at the place where I thought I could sink no lower and be no more foolish, not in my pride and anger. At least you logically understand the impossibility of atheism. I was the self proclaimed militant atheist idiot who tried bringing those within the faith out. I've noticed in my own life that what CS Lewis said to be true, that "God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains."
So anyways, try me if your willing. I too enjoy healthy debates.

2026-02-03 12:28:44 UTC

GM
https://blossom.primal.net/3844dff1e765219e4b8a8b2e192ccb37804217006bc78ab13aec8d7e5d32f12b.jpg

2026-02-03 12:21:19 UTC

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Let me guess, you grew up in some backdoor baptist denom, started asking questions that you weren't satisfied with the answers, and fell away because of some questions that could have easily been logically dealt with had you explored apologetics. Your faith was more like superstitions and a list of what not to dos. The real question is, if you were able to be convinced beyond reasonable means (2 + 3 =5) that Christianity is true, would you repent and believe immediately or would you fight it because you love your lifestyle now?

2026-02-03 03:35:56 UTC

Nah bro, I'm done with 2026.
Wake me up when this is all over.
#nevent1q…r5wk

2026-02-02 19:12:13 UTC

Nothing quite hits you in the face like a jury summons.

2026-02-01 22:51:23 UTC

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Wouldnt be so weird if we didnt find out about this connecting after the info is leaked... 🙈

2026-02-01 15:27:38 UTC

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Quite the humble turn around friend

2026-02-01 12:40:49 UTC

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My reference was in the sentence that started with, "i can't shake the feeling.." specifically the last part. However, it was wrong of me to assume out the gate. This was a similar problem to what i had a while back which was self medicated by telling myself that my interests were too eccentric for normal folk thus i shouldn't bother them with more than normal topics. Eventually, i learned that people were tired of my coming back to topics that they didn't want to rehash with me, knowing that my only goal was to test my antagonistic logic against their position i gave them. Like a toddler setting all the rules for an imaginary game he expects everyone to join in on. So that's the angle i read your post, and I apologize for judging you for something I see in myself 😅

2026-02-01 02:52:17 UTC

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Yeees, i do tend to get dehydrated easily, and I drink quite a bit of coconut water per my personal trainers recommendation. I have reduced quite a bit on caffeine intake, however, i do like me a good cup of espresso a couple times a day. I'm not in the mj world, the one experience i accidentally had was some neighbor who brought terrible tasting cookies to my college dorm room, and this dofus (me) took 3 and thanked him for his kindness. The unexpected effects that started about an hour later were enough to keep me far away from aaaaall those things for the end of time. Anyways, I have protocols in place to deal with the panic attacks, its the migraines that put me out of commission for weeks

2026-02-01 02:25:08 UTC

I suffer from crazy migraines and random panic attacks, but never at the same time. In fact, today was a migraine day until about 20 minutes ago when my heart rate jumped out of nowhere, and guess what? No more migraine symptoms. Ive never gotten a clear diagnosis or reason why, as most docs claim its happenstance, but I can always count on the fact that if one is coming on, the other wont follow. Anyways, thanks for coming to my ted talk.

2026-01-31 23:37:41 UTC

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I still remember Granet, an amethyst fork with built in xmr wallet. Really liked it but it was never updated, then mostard seems to have died. This looks like its browser based primarily? Does it get support still?

2026-01-31 19:40:32 UTC

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Well, if you are expecting people to only be interested in what you have to say without giving them the liberty to have opinions outside the bounds of what you expect your listeners to express, your conclusion might be right, for both parties sake.

2026-01-31 18:35:25 UTC

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I think you are right, the institutionalization moved a lot of people to Monero. The toxic maxi culture made them realize they were right to do so.

2026-01-31 04:22:43 UTC

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I meant an asterisk (*), my spelling mistake. Just meant that by its nature, lightning isn't as self sovereign as on chain bitcoin. There are great reasons and use cases for it, don't get me wrong. It just really depends on what your goal is.

2026-01-31 04:11:03 UTC

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Really depends on what you mean by that. If you mean "in 100% control of your bitcoin" i'd add an asterix when mentioning lightning. On lightning, there is no such thing as “100% counterparty-risk-free” custody in the same sense as on-chain Bitcoin. Your channel partner can close your channel and you can be forced to pay closing fees, and your funds exposed on chain for all to see.

2026-01-31 03:42:13 UTC

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Phoenix doesnt use the standard BIP-44/84/86 that a lot of other wallets do. It uses BIP-39. Phoenix uses Lightning in a collaborative-custody way while remaining technically non-custodial where the receive address is not derived from your seed alone.

2026-01-31 03:08:19 UTC

Our oldest daughter (10ish) has been slowly trying to grapple with how babies are made. She was initially horrified that people do that more than once, but understands that its the only way you get babies. She calls it the "disgusting thing".
Anyways, apparently, she has been asking my wife if we've been trying the disgusting thing for days because she wants another brother. She's all but begging us at this point and it's hillarious.

2026-01-30 14:51:13 UTC

So, I just purchased a Globlinker device, and it seems almost too good to be true. It's a portable wifi Hotspot that gives you 2gb of data a month free, no subscription, unused data stacks forever, works well in multiple countries, you can buy it no kyc. You can add to it if needed and comes out to $0.90 a gb after that. Customer reviews are glowing. 60 day any reason refund.
I'll let you guys know if I just fell for an Indian scam in the next few weeks.

2026-01-30 04:51:24 UTC

Thanks to the discount, I was able to get back to my original stack amount before life hit us with a foundation leak, a hella water bill, whole house plumbing repipe, a failed repipe that destroyed our wood floors, and new floors that covered more than just the room affect to make the wife happy with the consistency. 🎉

2026-01-29 18:24:32 UTC

Italian #1: Ima stick a banana to the wall with duck tape and call it art
Italian #2: hold my spaghetti
https://blossom.primal.net/4c57dc0f40d005386f7b166ea9dd66e3fb5c87257ccb2c273d316014f1440bc9.jpg

2026-01-28 21:39:21 UTC

Lets go
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/brandon-sandersons-mistborn-stormlight-archive-movie-tv-1236487271

2026-01-26 20:56:50 UTC

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I think it is. I’d venture to guess that less than 10% of people use ai effectively outside of a google search. Within that 10%, many are too lazy or don’t know what they don’t know to figure out hosting, seo, php contact forms db integrations, etc, even though they have a tool that can help them do all of it. If anything, I think ai give entrepreneurs a nice advantage that most people will never take advantage of. Business has increased for me and I’ve learned how to offload most my work to ai. Because of more business, I increase my prices continually without anyone batting an eyelash. So less work, more money.

2026-01-26 20:26:02 UTC

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With music or web dev?

2026-01-26 14:35:35 UTC

Gold and silver prices increase in times of geopolitical or systemic shocks as investors sell anything perceived as volatile and speculative. They are running to metals because they are more institutionally legible, not because they are perceived as more functional. Gold and silver are “Pre-Failure Assets”. Our entire experiment here with Bitcoin is accumulating a “Post-Failure Asset”. Markets are currently pricing fear, not failure.

2026-01-24 19:56:27 UTC

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Had to open this up in Damus to see what was going on 😂

2026-01-23 20:44:17 UTC

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I’ve been building websites as a part of my business for the last 6 years or so. Music was like 20 years ago 😅. Kinda gave up on music once I became a Christian. Not to say you can’t do both, I just had a radical shift in interests.

2026-01-23 18:11:59 UTC

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I was a contract/freelance musician for several years where I played with everything from Van Halen cover bands to a weird 2010 alternative emo rock scene. I played pretty much everything except drums 😅

2026-01-18 03:13:19 UTC

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Because these idiots transferred the money to a kyc exchange in the amount they stole right after the initial transfer. Monero doesn’t fix complete incompetence 🤣

2026-01-18 03:02:45 UTC

Bachelor party was at a golf thing. I’ve never swung a golf club in my life and don’t think I’ll ever do it again. I did have the top score for a moment though.
https://blossom.primal.net/3436f56758a57d489d5046175db244afb4fcae4a9ecd970694ad3b2de46a9418.jpg
https://blossom.primal.net/e73c112f70c2ffd39c8e6fa1348393fad2dccdc7473b9831a8c55d4afb538ae4.jpg

2026-01-12 18:47:09 UTC

Last night
https://blossom.primal.net/335b8d765aee1e983c3950da87e85eb9be72c586398b79f17e518ec19d318f1f.mov

2026-01-07 14:23:44 UTC

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https://damus.io/android/

2026-01-07 14:22:29 UTC

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Pretty sure Damus is android compatible these days, let me look into it

2026-01-07 14:21:41 UTC

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You’ve discovered one of the features of nostr. Your posts are forever etched in time, at least until your relays forget about it.

2026-01-07 14:18:58 UTC

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Amethyst and Primal are on the google App Store

2026-01-01 04:41:49 UTC

To the Mortar guy next door who is keeping my baby awake. May your windows shatter and your insurance fail you terribly.

2025-12-30 22:37:08 UTC

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My girl loves me enough to not dress like a hoe and go bar dancing

2025-12-30 20:35:23 UTC

Adobe is such a fricken cancer…

2025-12-25 19:16:22 UTC

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🤙🤙
Explain the John Cena You can't see me meme: https://chatgpt.com/share/694d8d31-820c-8011-81cd-ec0a1078afc6

2025-12-25 16:19:25 UTC

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I do hope you got the joke though. Honestly, was conflicted about this for a while 😅

2025-12-25 00:34:05 UTC

For all of you married men out there assembling that IKEA toy kitchen at midnight with instructions written in another language while your nagging wife reminds you that you had 3 weeks to do this even though she has booked the calendar with couples you don't know or like since thanksgiving...may your coffee be so strong it sends you to heaven early ☕
Merry Christmas #nostr

2025-12-23 19:57:06 UTC

Seems like the best way to lock down and win an argument is to call someone an antisemite these days. It's the debate 'noob tube'.
"But they're korean...not even je"
Antisemite.
Critical damage.
The real skills is figuring out how to harness this power without being a total cuck. Never seen it done. Probably impossible.

2025-12-23 19:46:26 UTC

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You lost me at "antisemitism rally"

2025-12-22 21:04:54 UTC

Is there news about quantum computers recently? Seems like this old argument is coming up again and a lot of mentions of forks for the greater good. I prefer spoons, personally.

2025-12-21 23:13:16 UTC

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Yeah on a crap pi4 with umbrel. What would you recommend?

2025-12-21 17:27:21 UTC

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I had a channel with boltz once before but because of faulty hardware (mine), resulted in a forced closure. I've used liquid as an intermediary for a few years now between stacking and cold storage. The only channel I still have that has never given me issues is my phoenix wallet, but that too has its own set of tradeoffs. If I had someone who could sit down with me and help me idiot proof my lightning node setup, I'd prefer that, but my multiple failed attempts have been anxiety inducing and expensive lol

2025-12-21 13:50:33 UTC

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Yes, the infrastructure dependency is a huge problem. However, well known alternatives like sideswap also exist so while one is the majority used, there are available options if boltz were to go down thankfully. Boltz is more popular because it is non custodial and initiates atomic swaps. Sideswap has a custodial model which isn't preferable but is helpful in a jam. I am not making the case it's the best option, just nice that there is some progress being made.

2025-12-21 04:29:49 UTC

Blockstream Green wallet now has live swaps between lightning and liquid, like aqua wallet. You can pay lightning invoices with liquid now. This is, in my opinion, a quality upgrade from there solely lightning based greenlight channel implementation. I've almost never had a successful transaction using green wallets lightning channel, meanwhile, I've never run into a liquid transaction failure.

2025-12-20 18:47:03 UTC

My mom's new bf kinda looks like Michael Saylor. This was the best I could get for you guys lol. He's weird about pictures 🤣
https://blossom.primal.net/ce67f499d957324dfa5780e6559dde6610e691fb9ee0d07ad43237aa06dc7309.jpg

2025-12-14 04:20:57 UTC

🤌🤌🤌
https://blossom.primal.net/14d99d87762b7182209838b3d7d12006d8001fbb4aeb60ea2806b635f53bd96b.jpg

2025-12-13 05:14:48 UTC

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Someone reposted and blessed me with the good 🤣

2025-12-09 23:27:04 UTC

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Here you are
https://blossom.primal.net/2403d616d2d0a233be0867ddd6d139ccf5f8f92badd0013ad196a971f847ec23.jpg

2025-12-09 23:25:48 UTC

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I went ahead and added him to all of them for you.

2025-12-08 21:24:30 UTC

For only 21 sats, I will Photoshop John Cena into any picture you'd like. It's a bargain deal. 🤣

2025-12-06 05:44:07 UTC

Cake wallet is beautiful and supports silent payments as well as payjoin. Works great with cupcake hardware wallet too. I've been out of the loop for a while, what other cool stuff has happened since September?

2025-12-05 03:18:57 UTC

Tribing before you understand the opposing position is peak fiat.

2025-12-01 03:22:51 UTC

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I've been first mining man, but we should get together again. I've not been "in the know" since bitchat came out lol

2025-11-30 18:09:48 UTC

Happy Lords Day #nostr

2025-11-27 00:13:31 UTC

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I see you came here to make friends