alex

Woofer who likes to woof

My relay:
wss://nostr.lnprivate.network

Search engine for Nostr:
https://search.lnprivate.network

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npub15q54ducvx4l9e9hwpzauz6cvdezjh5q0t7m456mu46sp5wlsh2tqvdn8x0

NIP-05 Address

alex@lnprivate.network

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relay.damus.io

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2023-05-26 17:49:02 UTC

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In the end this thread is just FUD around Ledger to promote their own alternative. It's marketing, not reality.
If my parents were to use a Ledger and had fear to lose their seed, I could still recommend this kind of recovery mechanism.
In my case I use social acquaintances because I am against KYC but there are people who are not against KYC and who are not comfortable with recent technology. For these people this is the right service.

2023-05-25 02:53:19 UTC

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How about these takeaways:
1) Better trust multiple manufacturers than one.
2) On the market there are people who are not comfortable with the management of their own keys hence the need for services like the one provided by Ledger.
3) Ultimately education or self-education is the only thing which can bring users to manage their own keys.

2023-05-25 02:38:40 UTC

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I still don't understand all the fud around this story. I am definitely using multisig, but now go to your parents tell them they have to do it and understand everything in order to not fuck up everything.
It took me some time to be confident with multisig (and I am against Casa or other providers for that, I use social connections to store my keys in different geographic locations).
So definitely as someone who try to explain technical things to people and see all the difficulties people have with unfamiliar concepts, I can see a use case for the service provided by Ledger. I would never use it, but definitely I think it is far better than software wallets.
I agree with NVK, no one knows when something is broken until it breaks. Who would have known that a German airline company would have an airplane crash because of a suicidal pilot?
Same thing for software, until it breaks nobody knows if something is 100% flawless. So my opinion is the initiative is good to onboard users who are not confident enough to manage their own keys. Once confident, I think doing it on our own is better.
By the way I use multiple vendors for multisig, I think only coldcard or ledger is bad, but a combination of multiple wallets is good as it allows us to spread the risk of a device being flawed.

2023-05-25 02:22:01 UTC

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As far as I have understood the point of this service, it encrypts the private key and divide it into multiple parts to store it safely on a the servers of a partner company. Therefore a potential user has nothing to do to manage that, the whole process is managed by someone else.
Multisig allows us to share across multiple devices funds. So not one key is used but multiple keys, and the burden is on the user to make sure everything is OK as time goes.
I never used a provider like Casa so there is something I may be missing, however I see the service provided by Ledger totally different where the responsibility is shift to Ledger and its partner to backup your key. As far as I know with multisig the responsibility is still ours. At least in my case I am solely responsible if my geographically distributed backup fails, I can't cry.
So for my parents I think the service of Ledger is interesting. For me I wouldn't need it.

2023-05-16 17:38:56 UTC

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Intrigued I looked into Pornhub. First time I have heard the name MindGeek, but I digress.
Apparently the founder is Matt Keezer, born in Montreal (Canada).
I have seen also an other CEO, named Feras Antoon. He is Syrian-Canadian, so yet again a Canadian.
I stopped there because I have to go to sleep but I am interested to know if at least in this case it is verifiable.

2023-05-16 17:05:16 UTC

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I think you both have some good points.
I remember the story of my grand mother who had neighbors living in places with robbers. After inquiries to the police station they had a permission to have a gun (this story is in South of France by the way).
With American people I experienced friends being emotional trying to avoid to fight just because they don't know if their potential opponent had a gun (from my point of view of course he did not, it was in Japan). So in this case it's one example of someone being polite.
At the same time I had to do boxing to get confidence and to have polite behavior from potential robbers (who happen to always target weaker people than me, typically girls in my experience).
So I think indeed that without all the propaganda against guns (which, at least in France, targets incidentally guns from the US, hence rights of others in a different country) we might have a different opinion about guns.
In my case I am not pro-gun per se, but I am pro-boxing, I think everyone should be able to beat robbers to death. Yet guns have the advantage to make it easier for the average person who prefer to drink beers.
The advantage of Japan and some other countries in Asia is we don't need boxing or guns to live peacefully.

2023-04-24 06:51:32 UTC

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Not far from the Ginger Farm, I don't know if you know. If you don't know I recommend to try their smoothies, they are original and good.
That being said I will move to the North of Chiang Mai from next month and I didn't see weed shops there at the moment.
(Oh shoot, after checking Google map I have seen 2 not far from my next apartment).
What I really enjoy in Thailand is that everywhere I go nobody smokes, it is quite a big change compared to Japan where everybody smokes around.

2023-04-24 00:54:52 UTC

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I see. I am in the South of Chiang Mai and I have seen zero shops there. In the old city where there are tourists I have seen many. Let's say it is a coincidence and there was no correlation.

2023-04-23 10:38:08 UTC

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I have seen weed shops only where foreigners are...

2023-04-23 10:17:47 UTC

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I feel like this temperature is quite comfortable, I don't understand why this post calls it extreme. Another day in Thailand, another day I can skip stretching before running thanks to the temperature.

2023-02-03 09:23:25 UTC

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Welcome!
I was following you on Twitter. Thank you for you book programming on Bitcoin.

2023-02-01 23:46:20 UTC

最近この記事を読んだ。
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-63830490
自分も外国人だけど外国人はよく妄想して、差別されていると思っているんだなと思う。「ハーフ」の言葉を何度も聞いたことがあって、軽蔑していないのにしていると勝手に判断して妄想している。
やっぱりマスコミは前と変わらず一般人より下の人間がやっているって感じだな。
日本を批判するのは最近の国際経済フォーラムのトレンドなのかな。前はなかった気がする。

2023-01-25 15:05:15 UTC

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Da, da. Zeed oil, da. Mergury, da.
Happy to see you Nostr!
I read your book, it was a good read. Hope your health problem got better!

2023-01-23 23:47:28 UTC

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I feel indebted to say it was good.

2023-01-22 00:26:26 UTC

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I see. Well, in Europe brain washing is strong so I can understand why he thinks so.
Personally I don't appreciate paying taxes either, I would rather donate like for private schools if I had to.

2023-01-21 15:38:46 UTC

Today the corona virus hit people to death. Statistics reported were mixed with numbers from the flu. People were spreading the virus even without any symptoms.
In 1518 a deadly dancing virus also emerged in Europe. People were reported dying from a dancing contagion spreading like fire. This is now called the dancing mania.
In 1962 a dangerous laugh (yes, laugh) began to spread in Tanzania. It began in school. Young girls, although normally a healthy segment of the population, were laughing. This was the frightening laughter epidemic. This pandemic of laugh lasted for 18 months. After that people could begin to breath normally. Pain and respiratory illness began to attenuate. This one is called the Tanganyika laughter epidemic and is public knowledge.
For anyone interested in this topic I recommend reading this article:
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/cinemas-first-epidemic-from-contagious-twitching-to-convulsive-laughter/

2023-01-21 15:28:07 UTC

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Yeah, I still remain open to anyone, so even if he is in favor of things I wouldn't agree for me I am still OK. Recently though I listened to an old podcast where he interviewed a cryptographer and there was the promotion of Blockfi hahaha. But there too I am still OK with human error, just that for beginners it makes things harder.

2023-01-21 15:23:15 UTC

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Thank you, great post indeed!
Besides the change of velocity of the money with CBDCs, I see that also as a control of the money supply (with the expiration date you mention our money vanishes), so I was still perplexed and had doubts whether the government would or not stop increasing it.
Before the corona virus I would have said people would understand your story and get that we have nothing for free but now I would be rather pessimistic in this regard.
I really feel now we are in the middle of a change of ethics in society where people have their brain malleable enough to accept passively any information which would have sounded unacceptable before.
I thought for example eating bugs would remain something in America for hippies in California and I just learned recently that in Japan now they sell spiders in supermarkets. I also saw an actress eating that in public to convey the message in a top down approach.
I would never thought I would have understand that but now I understand better the atmosphere which led people to Nazi Germany. Sometimes it feels like nobody sees through propaganda around me.

2023-01-21 15:03:53 UTC

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I retweeted that, it is brutal indeed, thank you.
Basically I agree.
In 2013 and 2017 I bought Bitcoin and stopped doing that because I wanted to avoid speculation. In 2021 I resisted the temptation to buy Bitcoin when everyone was buying it, and put to the trash the stimulus check (hoping that other people would put their free money to the trash too).
After that, the government reiterated with free vaccines and free holidays for the side effects.
I will never forget that. If I knew how it would unfold later I would have bought Bitcoin before.

2023-01-20 02:22:20 UTC

I wonder if there is a way to get to the US to attend the Bitcoin conference at Miami without the covid vaccine certificate. At the moment I could not find one.

2023-01-20 02:09:54 UTC

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https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/01/17/congress-ftx-problem-1-in-3-members-got-cash-from-crypto-exchanges-bosses/

2023-01-20 02:09:32 UTC

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This news discussed of 1/3 member of Congress who received money from FTX is quite revealing

2023-01-19 23:28:27 UTC

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Haha, I have been thinking the same thing yesterday.
I have been already banned on Youtube on the "Corona we're gonna die" round 1, so I now we just have to wait on nostr the "Earth we're gonna die" round 2 others to get censored.

2023-01-19 03:23:49 UTC

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Fun project built. It reminds me people piloting drones remotely with a camera set up there and radio controller sending signals through the internet

2023-01-19 00:07:34 UTC

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I am praying for a crash around April (the right time for me to buy again).
I remember in 2013 I bought with a German account, I never thought Bitcoin would be useful at this time.

2023-01-19 00:04:50 UTC

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If you post an invoice of 100 sats with 86400 seconds I will pay it to say thank you

2023-01-19 00:00:53 UTC

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Interesting. I am not native and now remember having heard this expression but intuitively skipped it since I didn't understand it and the conversation kept going.
The whole 9 yards means "everything", "all the way", huh. I didn't know it nor the story behind it.

2023-01-18 12:15:41 UTC

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Interesting, I thought it was an old news. I wonder if the news didn't go out to wait for negotiations

2023-01-18 12:11:28 UTC

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Gute morgen

2023-01-18 01:03:03 UTC

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I like Zeus. I see that everyone are using Wallet of Satoshi but our own node or a node on Voltage works well too. The invoice below has been generated with Zeus with the macaroon from my node on Voltage:
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2023-01-17 23:03:23 UTC

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Your knowledge of facts is limited to your own view if you don't read the medical literature (e.g.: pubmed).
But yes, I agree with what you just said.
I think we still need 1 year or 2 to really discuss this topic without bias. In Sweden it took 5 years to discuss their narcolepsy problem after their vaccine.

2023-01-17 15:27:16 UTC

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"We don't know for fact yet" is false. He may know it factually and you may just know it yet. So instead of "we" you should write "I".
Since I am neutral and I don't care much about western medicine I don't include myself and the "we". Furthermore I know medical facts which make his story highly plausible.

2023-01-17 05:51:22 UTC

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Alright, I may have misunderstood you. So your point is 1) vaccines had likely side effects on her partner if she claims it is very likely it had. 2) your experience is irrelevant.
Therefore we arrive to the point where you agree that forcing people to get a medical procedure is unethical since you agreed people don't react the same way. Let me tell you I agree.
Next time there is a peanut virus and we mandate vaccines with peanuts molecules in it, we may have the same conversation with people denying allergies.
By the way I use Chinese medicine and therefore never go to the hospital so stories of vaccines don't matter to me much and I wish you happy vaccinations, don't forget your 10th dose ;)

2023-01-17 04:07:25 UTC

People sometimes assume the corona virus was about vaccines.
It was about control, money and change of society and hysteria.
I am happily donate money for people who had to get surgery and were refused to the hospital because of beliefs about vaccines, or for people who got excluded from society because of that.

2023-01-17 03:57:54 UTC

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In Japan every year people die eating rice cakes (called mochi). I don't know everyone who died eating that, myself included obviously. Does it mean that statistics or medical evidence is false?

2023-01-17 03:53:31 UTC

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You can't derive scientifical or medical knowledge based on your belief or your pseudo a statistics alone.
Below just one example from a medical journal. Not a random test on yourself.
https://nostr.build/i/5310.jpg

2023-01-16 23:05:11 UTC

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Your tutorial was good, thank you!

2023-01-16 15:21:51 UTC

I like that Blockstream satellite feed.
https://void.cat/d/Xo7sUMKVyeCh58y8aUWz7o.png

2023-01-16 15:20:23 UTC

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ヨロ!

2023-01-16 13:29:28 UTC

In Japan, "遺伝子組み換え不分別" is an euphemism for total mess in the food process. "遺伝子組み換えでない" means we may be lying to you but it is 5% of the time so saying the truth 95% of the time and lying after that is okay.
It is really thanks to the corona virus and Bitcoin that I now understand my surrounding is full of lies. Obesity, cancer or other similar chronic or long term diseases come from hidden inflation.
War is peace.

2023-01-16 10:48:54 UTC

Jam app sounds really cool, I would have to look more into that. It is a user friendly way to get into the join market.
I saw this app on BTC Sessions, here:
https://piped.video/watch?v=FbyjG2upGO8&t=0

2023-01-16 02:05:48 UTC

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Paid sir!
If you do this joke again I will report you to the moderators for misinformation.

2023-01-16 02:00:46 UTC

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Good joke. I wanted to send you 50 SATs but it timed out. Can you post an invoice of 50 sats with a time out of 86400 seconds?

2023-01-15 23:24:18 UTC

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To my knowledge no. The only browser which has extension capability on Android is Firefox-like browsers.

2023-01-15 23:06:41 UTC

When using snort.social with Gecko it reminds me that when I was doing frontend dev we didn't test our app with Firefox but with Safari and Chrome only...
It reminds me how much difficult it was for me to make the custom CSS work on both screen sizes and particularly Safari.

2023-01-15 23:01:10 UTC

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おは

2023-01-15 00:49:32 UTC

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2023-01-14 23:12:06 UTC

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Nice!

2023-01-14 23:09:22 UTC

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I may be living in my bubble but do you have any past reference in your mind of browsers marking websites as dangerous? Besides certificates being expired I have never seen that so I think it is unlikely. Search engines like google though I think are more a nuisance.

2023-01-14 15:52:49 UTC

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Sorry, I missed your point.
I just tried Astral.ninja and void.cat on Firefox, it seems to work fine to me. Tested on Firefox in Lineageos.
Maybe it's my environment. What didn't work exactly?

2023-01-14 15:36:25 UTC

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I didn't know that, it looks pretty good actually, even better than Swan in certain ways. On Swan to make a present it would be by email, but on Pocketbitcoin they use Opendime, it's nice and original!
To be honest I live in Asia so I will use Swan also for this reason, but if you live in Europe, want to promote local services or simply want to try, it looks good (the fees are a little bit higher than Swan but it is still reasonable if you don't have to swap fiat currencies first).

2023-01-14 15:25:08 UTC

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For people who use Android there is a project which looks good and which is available on F-Droid through their own repository, it is Bromite. There are some cons when we compare it to Brave, like a limited number of search engines, but it could be an alternative.

2023-01-14 14:46:28 UTC

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Interesting, first time I hear about relai. I don't know for you but for me not having a website to manage everything is a deal breaker.
I am not allergic to smartphones and QR codes but if I am forced to use invest in a particular way I didn't choose I simply avoid it.
That being said I didn't test the app, maybe in terms of features it is equivalent, I don't know.
I would still use the one which offers the choice of managing my finance with a computer. This is a very personal choice so it may not help you in doing yours.

2023-01-14 01:20:10 UTC

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Yeah! It can be handy!
Since it was still the bear market I was in a hurry to put all my money into Bitcoin so I uses the direct transfers, the convert all at once button, and the other features as well.
On my Binance or other exchanges for example unless it changed there were no xpub feature to withdraw automatically to our hardware wallet. So this push to customers to make them withdraw is really nice too.

2023-01-13 16:34:03 UTC

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Swan Bitcoin is straight to the point. Buy Bitcoin, minimal fuss. If we use the direct payment we can withdraw Bitcoin almost as soon as we buy it. No speculation, no trading, just buy Bitcoin.
And so the advantage is all the infrastructure for that (free courses, easy hardware wallet integration, et)

2023-01-13 15:52:52 UTC

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You'd better buy Bitcoin directly. From Europe you can buy Bitcoin through Swan Bitcoin with Wise (you can manage euros and convert to us dollars)

2023-01-13 11:11:01 UTC

Just watched this documentary about inflation in the UK:
https://piped.video/watch?v=BFj47Q8z0IE&t=0
Since I have seen through propaganda, prepared for inflation or the worst, and keep having a happy life, it became almost hard to see how badly people can get affected by it.

2023-01-12 00:17:56 UTC

Good morning!
I am building a search engine for nostr:
https://search.lnprivate.network
At the moment it is using all notes I forwards to my relay, which sums up at almost 85mb (it's pretty new).
The search engine at the moment is more a proof of concept and veeery alpha, not yet built for high load.

2023-01-09 05:26:26 UTC

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Why? I know someone who does the same to decrease the attack surface, but what is your reason?
At the moment I still host mine on the servers of Bitwarden.

2023-01-04 14:33:31 UTC

Thanks to the winter I can see the Mt Fuji from my balcony, located in Chiba, Funabashi.
Below is thre picture depicting that and also my first picture on nostr as well in a note. I wonder if the clients will display it with just a link:
https://nostr.build/i/1533.jpg