Contra

The unexamined premise is the only tyranny that asks for your consent. Reformed Christian, Nostr class of 23, I think

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2026-08-17 19:20:02 UTC

You'll find peace when you realize that people are at war with themselves, not with you. The pain they carry, the wounds they avoid, and the battles they refuse to face often spill into the way they treat others. Not every harsh word, cold reaction, or act of disrespect is a reflection of your worth. Sometimes you simply become the closest target for a conflict that began long time ago.
Understanding this frees you from carrying burdens that were never yours to hold. When you stop taking every action personally, you reclaim your energy and protect your peace. Compassion grows when you realize that people can only offer from the state of their own state of consciousness. Don't take it personally.

2026-08-17 03:15:33 UTC

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False shepherds are real, no argument there. Jeremiah and Ezekiel both tear into pastors who feed themselves and starve the flock. But that’s exactly why “so skip church” doesn’t follow.
The Bible already told us frauds would show up in leadership. It never said the answer was going it alone, it said find a true shepherd and test everything against the Word yourself, like the Bereans did in Acts 17. And if all you got handed was “just pray about it” with nothing behind it, that’s the church dropping the ball on something it’s actually commanded to do. James doesn’t leave wiggle room here: faith that doesn’t show up for people in need isn’t real faith, it’s dead (James 2:14-17).
Bad shepherds aren’t a reason to walk away from the flock. They’re a reason to go find people who’ll actually feed you the Word and show up when it counts. Cutting yourself off after getting hurt by church is the one thing Hebrews 10:25 specifically warns against.

2026-08-17 03:07:17 UTC

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So does every church have false shepherds and therefore, you conclude don’t go to church?

2026-08-17 01:12:03 UTC

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It’s terrible. lol

2026-08-16 15:05:59 UTC

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lol

2026-08-16 15:05:32 UTC

Gm. Enjoy the Lords day and rest.
#ToChristAlone
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2026-08-16 05:46:06 UTC

We do not throw away perfectly good food in our house.
We put it in tupperware until it goes bad, Then throw it away.

2026-08-16 05:35:01 UTC

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The belt would come out from my father and I’d cry before I even got hit because I thought it would help him sympathize with me. Nope.

2026-08-16 05:13:20 UTC

I think we can conclude that the timeout generation did not work out as well as the ass whoopin generation.

2026-08-15 22:24:13 UTC

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Just saw that. lol. You’ve already been up. 🤦‍♂️

2026-08-15 21:46:30 UTC

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Gm P

2026-08-15 21:44:35 UTC

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Haha. Ok, you have a point

2026-08-15 16:14:06 UTC

Men, when things get tense in your marriage, and they will, think of yourself as the thermostat in the room.
Not the thermometer.
A thermometer just reflects the temperature. Whatever's happening, it matches it. She raises her voice, you raise yours. Tension climbs, you climb with it. You're not leading anything, you're just measuring the damage as it happens.
A thermostat sets the temperature. It doesn't react to the room, it decides what the room becomes. Cold air comes in, it kicks on the heat. Things get hot, it cools it down. Either way it's doing something on purpose.
That's the job. Not suppressing what you feel, not going numb, actually choosing the temperature you bring into the room instead of matching whatever's already in it. Most guys never make that choice. They just get carried by the moment and call it honesty.
Be the thermostat.

2026-08-15 10:53:01 UTC

You'll be the reason your family won't worry about money anymore. #Bitcoin

2026-08-15 09:02:28 UTC

If people want to know why Gen X is always mad it's because we had to replace our record collections with a tape collection and then replace that with a CD collection that we slowly replaced with an MP3 collection and now need a subscription to listen to music.
But now we have V4V where people like me, give you music for free. We are early

2026-08-15 06:46:36 UTC

Let’s get to #1 Nostr
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2026-08-14 15:00:07 UTC

WE LIVE IN TIMES WHERE COMMON SENSE HAS TO STAY QUIET SO STUPIDITY DOESN'T GET OFFENDED.
REVERSE COURSE WE MUST.

2026-08-14 14:50:08 UTC

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Agree. 👊🏼

2026-08-14 14:39:16 UTC

I heard people say kids are different these days.
I disagree. Kids are the same.
What's changed is a society with lowered expectations, lack of discipline, and acceptance of disrespect.
Give kids boundaries, expectations, rules, limits, rewards and consequences. They will rise to the challenge and exceed your expectations, every time.
Gm Nostr

2026-08-14 04:18:06 UTC

So let me get this straight, I go to the grocery store and buy: a pound of sliced ham in a plastic bag, a loaf of bread in a plastic bag, a gallon of milk in a plastic jug, a pack of napkins in plastic wrap, a store made salad in a plastic tub, a plastic bottle of mustard and ketchup, but they won't give me a plastic bag to carry it home because the plastic bag is bad for the environment? Gtfoh..

2026-08-14 01:00:21 UTC

Chat, we’re climbing the top 40 list quick with our last album release. Multiple songs. Thank y’all. Value4Value is the future. https://wavlake.com/album/d1e33580-ef5e-4fcd-ae9f-5863dc763754
#V4V #MusicStr
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2026-08-13 22:05:45 UTC

Having an opinion is okay. Disagreeing is okay too. What's not okay is tearing someone down just because they see things differently.
Respect should never go out of style, and it's exactly what our society is missing most.

2026-08-13 21:55:30 UTC

I just massacred 119 Nostr zombies using #PlebsVsZombies! 🏹🧟‍♀️🧟‍♂️
Purge Breakdown:
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🟠 🧟‍♂️ Rotting (180+ days): 113
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2026-08-13 20:38:29 UTC

Nsec Creed
This is my nsec. There are many keys like it, but this one is mine.
My nsec is my sovereignty. It is my identity. I must master it as I master my own life. Without me, my nsec is worthless. Without my nsec, I am silenced.
I must sign with it true. I must guard it better than any password I have ever kept, for it does not reset, it does not recover, it does not forgive. Before God, I swear this creed: my key is my voice, my voice is my witness, and my witness shall not be revoked.
My nsec and myself know that what counts in this life is not the platforms we trust, but the keys we hold. We know that it is the signatures that count. We will sign…
My nsec is human, even as I am human, because it is my identity. Thus, I will learn it as a brother. I will learn its weaknesses, its strength, its entropy, its bits. I will keep my nsec clean and ready, even as I am clean and ready. We will become part of each other. We will.
Before God I swear this creed: my key and myself are the defenders of my word. We are the masters of our censors. We are the saviors of my speech.
So be it, until there is no more tyranny, but peace.
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2026-08-13 20:14:45 UTC

Your role as a father isn't to be flawless, it's to model how a man deals with his flaws.

2026-08-13 16:43:04 UTC

If I could pin a song to my profile like MySpace back in the day, this would be it.
https://wavlake.com/track/3c7f4cd5-b4fb-45d9-b3d5-c1942faf9c07

2026-08-13 16:09:40 UTC

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Facts

2026-08-13 16:01:14 UTC

Teaching people how to regulate their emotions is crime prevention.
It's addiction prevention. It's suicide prevention. It's generational healing.
It's how we stop raising adults who explode, implode, or shut down at the first sign of discomfort.
Emotional regulation is not just a soft skill. It's survival. It's the foundation of a society where people can disagree without dehumanizing each other, where accountability isn't seen as an attack, and where conflict doesn't always have to mean violence. You want a better world? Start with emotional education.

2026-08-13 01:37:57 UTC

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Proverbs 13:22… “A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but a sinner’s wealth is stored up for the righteous.”
A bad translation/ paraphrase would be, the Lord commands you to stack Sats accordingly

2026-08-13 01:20:50 UTC

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I forgive you

2026-08-13 01:16:55 UTC

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You started this… 🤣

2026-08-13 01:02:40 UTC

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What did this turn into? This is a whole diff kind of hellthread

2026-08-13 00:55:07 UTC

Life is a war. Its a war to create the reality you want. Its a war to become the most capable, honourable, competitive, articulate and excellent version of yourself possible. It's a war against weakness, limiting beliefs, laziness/scarcity to create excellence and self respect.

2026-08-13 00:30:11 UTC

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2026-08-12 21:28:11 UTC

We often complain about the repetitiveness of our days. Day in, day out, the same. Morning alarm, breakfast, housework, work, looking after everyone else, dinner, baths, bed, wake up, repeat.
But do we ever stop to think how much peace is in consistency?
How lucky we are if everyday is the same? No big disasters or nasty surprises? How there is so much value in enjoying home life? To get up and do the same tasks day and night is actually a blessing.
Laying your head on a pillow at night and thinking of how wonderful you actually have it. It’s a level of restfulness some people will never experience in their whole lifetime.
This world can be cruel and unnecessary; so if you have the peace of a “boring”home life, you really have won the lottery of life.

2026-08-12 21:07:08 UTC

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Yeah. Been down that road.
Seen things normal people don’t get exposed to during war. Almost torched my own marriage more than once in those early years trying to process it alone, then trying to process it with a stranger in an office instead. Buried my father to suicide. Buried close friends the same way. So when I talk about therapists, I’m not talking theory.
The rooms helped a little. Mostly they gave me a script for the pain instead of a way through it. What actually moved the needle was the guys who’d been in it with me, and the ones who hadn’t but stuck around anyway. People who knew the whole timeline, not the sixty minute version I was allowed to give a stranger once a week.
I’m not saying burn the whole system down. I’m saying don’t mistake a couch for a foundation. Mine came from people, not appointments.

2026-08-12 20:47:56 UTC

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I didn’t either. Explained in my latest post.
#nevent1q…w422

2026-08-12 20:45:22 UTC

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Gn G!G!

2026-08-12 20:44:35 UTC

My 2 Sats…
Shrinks/therapists can’t verify a word you say. They just get your performance of yourself.
That’s the whole rot at the center of it. A guy walks in, tells a story about his week, his marriage, his mother. The therapist takes it as data. But it’s not data, it’s a press release. And most rooms reward the press release. Push back too hard and the client doesn’t get better, he just finds a new therapist who nods more.
So you get validation dressed up as treatment. Feelings get affirmed instead of tested. A rational response to a genuinely bad situation gets filed under “cognitive distortion” because the framework needs a distortion to fix. Diagnosis stops being a description of symptoms and turns into a personality. Guy isn’t having a hard month anymore, he’s Anxious now, forever, capital A.
And nobody’s on the hook for any of it. A surgeon botches an operation, there’s a body and a lawsuit. A therapist runs the same client in circles for six years, that’s just called “the work.” Slow is indistinguishable from broken from the inside the chair.
None of this means the whole field’s a grift. Plenty of people in it do the harder thing, actually challenge you, actually let the session end. But the incentive structure doesn’t reward that by default. It rewards keeping you comfortable and keeping you coming back.
A few good friends will outperform a decade of sessions. They know your history, not your narrative. They’ll tell you when you’re wrong because they’ve got nothing to sell you. That’s the whole system a shrink is trying to simulate for money imo.

2026-08-12 20:16:56 UTC

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Second that. Not fond of random therapists and the techniques utilized. A company of solid friends usually helps.

2026-08-12 18:55:57 UTC

There’s some “influencers” who’ve been awfully quiet on Nostr…
In the meantime, Nostr has been on fire the last few days!

2026-08-12 18:04:14 UTC

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2026-08-12 17:16:04 UTC

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Haha. True

2026-08-12 16:54:49 UTC

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Circled in red
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2026-08-12 16:53:50 UTC

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That why I said “Almost”. It matters. But people…

2026-08-12 16:40:53 UTC

i've learned it's almost never about what you're doing. it's who you're doing it with.

2026-08-12 16:37:55 UTC

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2026-08-12 16:35:24 UTC

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2026-08-12 16:28:21 UTC

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2026-08-12 16:27:56 UTC

One of my fav nostr features is not missing a note from some of my fav peeps. Note notifications are underrated. 🔔

2026-08-12 16:23:34 UTC

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2026-08-12 15:47:22 UTC

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2026-08-12 15:42:46 UTC

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2026-08-12 15:36:52 UTC

You can literally communicate back and forth with just memes and gifs here..
Nostr is like that @npub1u53…nzt7

2026-08-12 15:10:42 UTC

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Visiting a shrink is not a super power.

2026-08-12 14:59:06 UTC

Everyone you pass today in your own house, at work, at the gym, on the street, or just grabbing coffee is fighting battles you know nothing about.
Nobody wears a sign saying, I'm struggling
Your kindness, your energy, your encouragement, even just holding the door might be what saves their day. Choose to lift others while you're lifting yourself. Gm Nostr

2026-08-12 04:49:35 UTC

When Nostr Coinkite badge?
#nevent1q…06fr

2026-08-12 04:40:14 UTC

Nobody who's genuinely happy needs to prove it online. The people posting about how amazing their life is are usually trying to convince themselves.
The actually happy ones are too busy living to document it.

2026-08-12 04:36:08 UTC

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Prayers bro

2026-08-12 01:34:29 UTC

You can trust someone’s judgment and still go check the thing yourself. Those aren’t in conflict. If anything, the more you trust someone, the more DYOR matters, because you’re way less likely to catch yourself skipping it.
#nevent1q…c632

2026-08-11 23:52:04 UTC

Fiat trains you to be safe.
Safe means your money loses value while you sleep. Safe means asking permission to move it. Safe means trusting a committee to stay honest for forty years.
Bitcoin doesn’t do that. Nobody’s smoothing anything out for you. You hold the keys or you don’t.
Most people choose safe. Very few choose free.

2026-08-11 18:31:42 UTC

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Yeah this is the thing nobody in that Discord thread I was reading seems to get. You can’t fire miners by walking away from them. They keep hashing SHA256d tomorrow same as today, same paychecks, same chain. The fork’s the one bleeding hardware, not them.
And picking your algorithm off a block hash is wild to me. That’s supposed to be the whole debate. Instead it’s a coin flip with extra steps.

2026-08-11 18:15:09 UTC

So Dashjr’s picking Bitcoin’s new mining algorithm with a Testnet4 dice roll today.
Quick catch up. BIP-110 needed 55% of miners signaling for it. Got 2.56%. Two blocks mined on the fork and then it just stalled out.
So now the move is a proof of work change. Watch Testnet4, grab the next block hash, last character picks the algorithm off a list nobody agreed on til this morning.
One of the Knots guys said the reason for ditching SHA256d is to fire the miners, not because it’s broken.
We watched this movie in 2017. Different fight, same instinct. Small group decides the majority’s the problem and hard forks their way out. Ended in Bcash last time.
Watching this one play out live today.
#nevent1q…v9kz

2026-08-11 17:54:00 UTC

The things that matter most in life are not for sale. You cannot swipe your card for discipline, you cannot order integrity online, and no amount of money will buy you genuine respect. A strong body, a clear conscience, real love, and peace of mind.
Every single one of those has to be earned through how you live.

2026-08-11 17:37:44 UTC

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Nostr only is the way

2026-08-11 17:00:26 UTC

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Faith in the hom is the foundation from everything flows.

2026-08-11 16:54:17 UTC

You need to realize that there is almost no competition right now. More and more people are drawn to escapism. Dopamine traps such as TikTok, the gram, YT and Reels have effectively fried about 70% of humans. Attention spans decrease, ambitions drown. You have no competition. In a few years from now, you/we will be able to see a clear elite. Bitcoin elitists!

2026-08-11 14:38:47 UTC

It's easy to be thankful for the good stuff. The real flex is to be grateful for everything that didn't go your way, knowing that it helped you become the person you are today.
Grateful for all the love and encouragement from all of you here in our small corner of the internet. Gm Nostr.

2026-08-11 00:18:04 UTC

If you haven't figured it out by now, our entire government is a huge mafia who launders our tax payer money right back to themselves through foreign aid & endless wars.
They all hate you & could care less if you suffer & die horrible deaths, as long as they got rich.

2026-08-10 23:56:57 UTC

The best version of you doesn't require a filter, an explanation, or an apology. God designed your specific personality to bring warmth to this world.
Go pour out that pure, unfiltered light.

2026-08-10 22:47:07 UTC

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This is 💯 percent accurate.

2026-08-10 20:49:27 UTC

The reason some people can't stop working is not ambition. It's that they don't know who they are when they stop. The work is holding the identity together. Rest threatens it.
This is not sustainable and it usually announces itself in a way that's hard to ignore when it does.

2026-08-10 17:07:44 UTC

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Depends which exposure you mean. Taproot addresses put the actual pubkey in the output itself, so receiving funds exposes it immediately, no spend required. Legacy P2PKH only exposes the pubkey once you spend, since the address itself is just a hash. So Taproot exposes earlier, legacy exposes later but has had way more time and reuse to accumulate exposure. Different clocks, same eventual problem.

2026-08-10 16:59:43 UTC

Is this accurate?
34% of all bitcoin has an exposed public key on chain as of March 2026. Those are the coins quantum computing threatens first. #Bitcoin #OSINT #askNostr #QDay

2026-08-10 16:29:55 UTC

If You Don’t Teach Them at 5, You’ll Feel It at 15.
It’s Not Cute Later, It’s Chaos.
Your Kid Needs a Parent, Not a Buddy

2026-08-10 15:29:12 UTC

Gm Nostr family.
PV
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2026-08-10 03:35:22 UTC

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That’s a great analogy

2026-08-10 03:34:51 UTC

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Exactly

2026-08-10 01:11:59 UTC

The scariest moment in any career isn't failure. It's the morning after you realize you've been succeeding at something you don't care about.
Failure is loud and obvious. Wrong direction success is silent and can last decades. Be wise.

2026-08-09 04:03:52 UTC

You’re not getting that time back. I don’t care what you tell yourself. The years you spend chasing overtime or letting the state raise your kid or letting a travel team eat every weekend, that’s gone. You don’t get a redo.
I know because I’m at the end of it now. I preached this exact thing to myself for years and still missed stuff. Work got in the way plenty. That’s not an excuse, it’s just what happened, and I own it.
It goes by fast. Faster than anyone tells you when you’re in the middle of it. And it’s hard, no sugarcoating that part either. But there’s nothing else you’ll do that comes close to being worth it.
You get one shot at this. Don’t let something else get more of your kid than you do.

2026-08-08 22:31:26 UTC

You cannot raise your children the way your parents raised you. Because your parents raised you for a world that no longer exists.

2026-08-08 22:29:04 UTC

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Your gonna have problems here

2026-08-08 15:22:06 UTC

Men, if you’re not married, find a woman who actually builds with you, not one who just tolerates you. Marry her. Raise kids that can handle the world you didn’t get handed.
Nobody’s coming to do this for us. The next generation is downstream of what we do right now, today, not what we post about doing.
Strong men. Strong homes. Gm

2026-08-07 16:51:17 UTC

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Yeah it does. Thanks brother

2026-08-07 16:51:05 UTC

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💯 thanks bro

2026-08-07 14:37:14 UTC

Also, I want to thank Mrs. Contra for being by my side through this life.
Today is 22 years of marriage. She’s an absolute rockstar and I wouldn’t want to spend my life with anyone else. Always by my side and my harshest critic, always pushing me to do more. Never settling.

2026-08-07 14:32:00 UTC

GM.
Every day shows up with opportunities and problems both, usually at the same time. The distraction is in the details. It pulls your eyes off the person right in front of you while you’re busy fighting whatever fire looks urgent.
I don’t have patience left for people who can’t see the actual fight happening right now. Time’s too short for that.
Nostr keeps me level though. Most of you here think clear and stay grounded, and that’s rare. I learn something and connect with somebody new most days on this thing.
So through the ups and downs, know this. There’s people beside you in this fight even when they’re an ocean away. Same battle, different timezone. That’s worth something.
Keep going.

2026-08-07 05:25:14 UTC

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Hahaha 😂

2026-08-07 04:58:44 UTC

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2026-08-07 04:04:41 UTC

When behavior contradicts language, believe the behavior.

2026-08-07 03:15:32 UTC

Coinkite news responding to Mallers…
Their claim is that it wasn’t a fallback they built in on purpose. The weak PRNG was already living inside MicroPython’s runtime for unrelated things, shuffling, timing jitter. The setting meant to disable it, MICROPY_HW_ENABLE_RNG=0, didn’t do what they intended. So the runtime’s own default activated instead, because of what they’re calling a link-time error.
I want to be clear about what that does and doesn’t do. It’s a real distinction. “We built a backup plan and it failed” and “we tried to shut something off and the toggle didn’t work” are different kinds of mistakes, and if you’re trying to understand what actually happened at Coinkite, that difference is worth knowing.
What it doesn’t touch. The outcome is the same either way. Seeds generated with a fraction of the entropy they needed, for five years, unreviewed, until it cost people real money. Precision about intent isn’t the same as resolution of impact.
Read it yourself. Decide where the line is for you between an explanation and an excuse. I don’t think it has to be one or the other, and I don’t think Coinkite gets to decide that for you either.
https://image.nostr.build/124e8ea27be6feb048aba2283e01a59d4ffc7468bf381d8ba990cfa6bd07376d.jpg

2026-08-07 01:59:08 UTC

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Roger that. Just wondering

2026-08-07 01:01:18 UTC

You’re not buying an asset. You’re buying a seat at the beginning of the story.

2026-08-07 00:53:50 UTC

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2026-08-07 00:53:33 UTC

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Why not just write this on Nostr?

2026-08-07 00:51:07 UTC

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