Marc

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2026-09-05 03:29:56 UTC

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https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/how-a-georgia-county-put-its-election-results-on-bitcoin

2026-09-05 00:55:38 UTC

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This is the conclusion I have also reached. They cite bullshit numbers, then revise. There is no voting away 🤡🌏 .

2026-09-04 16:18:19 UTC

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Thanks for sharing this. It sounds easier to understand than "double-spending problem."

2026-09-04 13:30:07 UTC

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Bans worked so well for alcohol, marijuana, and books though. What makes you think it won't work this time too. 😉

2026-09-04 13:03:51 UTC

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I don't see how they are still around a month after the RNG bug was discovered.

2026-09-04 12:59:06 UTC

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In A Cypherpunk's Manifesto, Erik Hughes wrote "Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world."
If I reveal a Monero address I do not selectively reveal it to the world. I must always reveal my monero address to the world. What are the second order effects of this?
The Bitcoin maxis will get pissed off and call me a "shitcoiner".
I must call the Bitcoin maxi a "retard"
Now we're back to a tribalistic, closed society. This is just the nerds fighting. If a cop finds your phone with a monero address the cop will assume you sell crack, not buy pecan butter.
A lightning address looks like an email address. It does not reveal what chain where my UTXO's exist. There are exceptions, but most people outside of the NSA don't know how to exploit those exceptions.
My preferred UTXO chain is not revealed. Maybe I am a stable coin accepting idiot, but you'll never know.

2026-09-04 01:12:49 UTC

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Thanks for sharing. I haven't read it all yet. I'll listen to it on Boris tomorrow.
This makes me want to write my own article about stablecoins now.
Basically, #bitcoin is the invisible hand Adam Smith wrote about.
Stablecoins are the debasement Adam Smith wrote about(visible hand).
I don't think the invisible hand is about markets. It's about the money behind the markets.
Most people will prefer the government stamp of approval stablecoins represent, the visible hand.
People who are aware of the correlation between money printing and hyperinflation will choose bitcoin. That's just not many people. We just need to accept that. I don't like it. I kind of feel sorry for people who trust the government(regardless of which team is in power) but that's out of my control.

2026-09-03 23:40:12 UTC

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I just learned about it recently, but the lightning network has always had this capability. Elizabeth Stark talked about atomic swaps in 2018.

2026-09-03 19:45:11 UTC

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The thing is you can just accept stablecoins with a lightning address. The national debt was a huge reason I got into Bitcoin, but some people seem to think this is a good thing. Don't ask me why.

2026-09-03 11:32:33 UTC

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Have you posted any videos on Divine like Taco Bell 🌮?

2026-09-03 10:55:15 UTC

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Thank you. That guy was featured in Tim Ferris's Tools Of Titans. I didn't know he did this.

2026-09-02 13:20:54 UTC

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👀

2026-09-02 13:05:24 UTC

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Future Zap Cooking recipe?

2026-09-02 12:49:24 UTC

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Anyway, it's not a good idea to fill that kind of shit out.
https://www.irs.gov/compliance/criminal-investigation/fraud-alert-fake-irs-letters-target-cryptocurrency-holders

2026-09-02 12:48:07 UTC

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No, but I remember they asked for addresses on my tax form.

2026-09-02 11:14:31 UTC

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What happened to the shipping container? I thought you lived in one of those for a while. I always thought that was a great idea.

2026-09-02 01:10:50 UTC

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How many days is it worth?

2026-09-02 01:10:13 UTC

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These bots are getting ridiculous.

2026-09-02 00:44:48 UTC

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Absolutely.

2026-09-01 18:01:35 UTC

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You thought less than 100,000 blocks was late?

2026-08-31 23:01:37 UTC

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What do you do? Your website seems to be down.

2026-08-31 22:21:01 UTC

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You guys are on fire.

2026-08-31 22:18:43 UTC

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Did you catch the game last night?
Me neither.

2026-08-31 16:23:54 UTC

#artstr
https://blossom.primal.net/3aefd08938783c731ebe4a78d94e954ed07d302e01a157975bf84560ae6fcc67.jpg
https://media.divine.video/2ed99404196d58039ae765a69829c6aaca9eb171f8e75c52dcdde2b6f03dfb95

2026-08-31 13:39:10 UTC

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I bet that domain is still available. 🤔

2026-08-31 11:50:39 UTC

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I'm still a dummy about relays. I'm not sure what the difference between an inbox and our oz is or what relays I should or should not use.

2026-08-31 11:47:00 UTC

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That's a great way to look at it.

2026-08-31 00:47:50 UTC

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Did you mean grandparents?

2026-08-29 13:35:09 UTC

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This reminds me of the Glow wallet.

2026-08-29 13:06:48 UTC

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That song sucks. Sorry, not sorry.

2026-08-29 11:43:42 UTC

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I made one of these with a lightning QR code I called it the sat swear jar.

2026-08-29 03:33:55 UTC

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Legend.

2026-08-28 22:21:16 UTC

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Fuck that's a crazy perspective.

2026-08-28 19:53:37 UTC

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What's next? Commode of America?

2026-08-28 11:32:20 UTC

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That seems like a W to me. Most of my meetups were solo.

2026-08-27 00:42:21 UTC

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Hot air balloons are neat.

2026-08-26 23:46:41 UTC

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Me too. This gives me the heebee jeebees, but I don't quite understand why yet. WTF is X money? That sounds like a dystopian monero.

2026-08-26 16:21:31 UTC

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Right, but I mean nostr helps protect against the companies like Meta who do all sorts of harm to children and desire to create KYC rails to get the pedos in charge to enforce their monopoly on children's social media addict.

2026-08-26 15:08:14 UTC

I don't talk about it much, but this is one of the biggest reasons I use nostr, to ...check notes...
✅ Protect the children
https://blossom.primal.net/a0977f15d511c97d88b99dba5e230e37831bf7b5be24d4ae62dd05334725c3d4.jpg

2026-08-26 13:03:36 UTC

Stablecoin printers go brrrrrr.
#nevent1q…5uxs

2026-08-26 12:09:19 UTC

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Nostr reminds me of Myspace. It's why I like it. Maybe I'm just old.

2026-08-26 12:06:52 UTC

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Venezuela was about "cocaine," not putting the Nobel Peace Prize winner in office, nor the oil the US sized. It was about cocaine. Maduro is a bad guy for legitimate reasons, but that's not what any of this is about. The US has a 40 trillion dollar problem it thinks it can solve by stealing assets.

2026-08-26 11:40:06 UTC

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That's what I thought. In the US we have the option to scan our faces at the airport. We can refuse, but we still have to show ID.
Why would anyone use Monero for this?

2026-08-25 21:42:32 UTC

Great article. I've already began using some of @nprofile…58km 's tips to vibe code. Because I listened to it using TTS on his Boris app. 👂
Grug Speak, Grug Outside, Grug Happy
https://njump.to/naddr1qq3xwun4vukhxur9v94j6emjw4nj6mm4w3ekjer994nhyat8945xzurs0ypzqmjxss3dld622uu8q25gywum9qtg4w4cv4064jmg20xsac2aam5nqvzqqqr4gueccs3v

2026-08-25 16:05:27 UTC

+1
#nevent1q…naua

2026-08-25 00:45:24 UTC

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Maybe I should make a video. 🤔

2026-08-24 22:09:29 UTC

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Yes!
I heard you mention this before.
I'm glad they're doing it.
Is it on GitHub? I made a Cashu greeting card website a while back. I would like to see if non-bitcoin nerds find it useful. 😀

2026-08-24 21:21:30 UTC

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https://napstr.net/
Here's the repository.
https://github.com/lnbits/napstr

2026-08-24 20:57:21 UTC

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I didn't think you were against the second amendment. 😅

2026-08-22 11:43:01 UTC

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Is it open source? Can we check the code?

2026-08-21 19:23:39 UTC

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What is it?

2026-08-21 18:06:36 UTC

I don't think bitcoin backed loans are a good idea given the risk to reward ratio.
They make sense if you calculate the EV in a vacuum. The problem with risk is that it's not limited to your mathematical models.
Your math might be correct. Risk 10% of your stack. If the price drops by 40%, just add more collateral. **What could go wrong?**
A backdoor in your calculator. That's what can fucking go wrong.

2026-08-21 12:17:51 UTC

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It's the best of systems and it's the worst if systems. 😐

2026-08-21 12:16:58 UTC

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I agree. There have been issues, but my threat model for hot lightning wallets with less.than 10,000 sats is ... Well...I have no threat model for these wallets. I don't even get upset if I lose 10,000 sats.
That's less than my getalby subscription.

2026-08-21 03:28:42 UTC

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I think so. What do you use to vibe code apps?

2026-08-21 00:30:45 UTC

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He was a talkshow host and worked for an LA new station in the 90's, but his podcasts are like audiobooks with a punk Rock flavor.

2026-08-21 00:27:51 UTC

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https://www.dancarlin.com/

2026-08-21 00:17:22 UTC

Dan Carlin was the best orange piller. He never talked about Bitcoin. He talked about history. He once gave Joe Rogan a Roman coin. He has a Bitcoin address listed on his website. He asked for "a buck a show."
One of his shows was about an empire falling in real time.
Greatest Orange-piller of All Time.

2026-08-20 03:49:46 UTC

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True.

2026-08-19 23:39:19 UTC

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That's what I thought. How ridiculous? 🤦

2026-08-19 22:08:21 UTC

Congratulations to the stablecoin companies for helping the US Bond market reach a market cap of 40 trillion dollars.
Digital credit is huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge.

2026-08-19 21:56:38 UTC

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You jinxed it. 58k gang by Friday. I don't make the rules.

2026-08-19 21:38:30 UTC

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Me neither. I am not interested in any forms and I can't believe some people think this is a good idea.

2026-08-19 21:23:52 UTC

What the hell kind of financial fuckery is a long term debt buyback?

2026-08-19 21:00:00 UTC

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What do you mean? Is it because they need 2016 blocks before they can make the change permanent?

2026-08-19 20:15:43 UTC

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The run after the bcash fork was insane. This is nothing.

2026-08-19 17:58:04 UTC

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Cash was not free from debasement, but it allows anyone to earn it without permission. That freedom has been chipped away for 25 years.
I was a cashier at a grocery store on 9-11. Most peple used cash money on that day, but that's when the mass surveillance credit score economy began.

2026-08-18 23:00:35 UTC

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Most bullish nostr news ever.

2026-08-17 16:36:06 UTC

I just remembered protonmail had a bitcoin wallet.

2026-08-17 13:22:05 UTC

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Where can I find this?

2026-08-16 22:19:12 UTC

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🤯

2026-08-16 12:55:55 UTC

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That explains a lot. 😂

2026-08-16 12:43:00 UTC

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I can't believe nostr is not more popular. Legacy social media sucks.
Ads suck.
Trying to see content from people I actually follow sucks.
Wisp loads faster than X.
Half the time I don't even know if the people I am talking to can see what I write.
I don't understand why most people prefer legacy social media. Network effects only go so far.

2026-08-16 11:30:48 UTC

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A 2-of-3 multisig with three different wallets allows for one catastrophic event such as a supply chain attack(eg. A compromised RNG/Exploited firmware bug)
You're not all wrong though. There are some problems, especially for non-expert heirs.

2026-08-16 11:22:22 UTC

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Does she cite any evidence of people not paying their mortgage? It's not that I don't believe her. It's quite the contrary. This video confirms my biases so I would like to know her source.

2026-08-14 18:35:33 UTC

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So what's the purpose of the Foundation QR code then? Is it pubkey only?

2026-08-14 16:52:26 UTC

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Does this work like seed signer?(eg. You draw your own QR code)

2026-08-10 14:17:11 UTC

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I know it's weed, but it looks like tomatoes.

2026-08-09 17:48:43 UTC

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What is this?

2026-08-08 23:23:34 UTC

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Thanks. I need to update, but I also need to spend time with my family. :)

2026-08-08 21:45:09 UTC

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You mean tails.net?

2026-08-08 21:13:01 UTC

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Wait, so how do you know?

2026-08-08 18:39:59 UTC

#cybersecurity
#nevent1q…e42l

2026-08-08 13:31:42 UTC

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Is this a photograph or painting?

2026-08-07 20:25:03 UTC

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Time to dryy tears and get to work.

2026-08-07 20:07:46 UTC

Oh man. Its been a rough week. I talked to my mom and started crying for the first time in years. It just hit me how decorating this is because a lot of people called me paranoid for using my set-up. I tried to make videos that made rolling dice fun,but it feels like only a dozen people cared.

2026-08-07 20:03:31 UTC

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Happy Friday.

2026-08-07 17:55:50 UTC

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She was on citadel dispatch and got a whole coin. 🤦

2026-08-07 17:51:22 UTC

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This week feels like a Terminator style shitshow.

2026-08-06 18:06:38 UTC

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Awesome. Ice never heard of nostr compass.

2026-08-06 17:34:13 UTC

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What pod?

2026-08-06 11:01:17 UTC

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Me too. Many people have called me paranoid over the years. I don't think I am paranoid. I like to prepare for the worst case scenario and hope for the best.

2026-08-06 03:40:59 UTC

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Thank you.

2026-08-06 02:48:20 UTC

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I've been measuring entropy of dice rolls from various ways of rolling them using salt, water, casino dice, on a hard surface, etc.
I calculate the entropy with Ian Coleman's Bip39 tool as well as Bitcoiner guide seed tool.
There is a lot of dice fud lately so I'm going down this rabbit hole to see why Flaxman suggests his forms of entropy in his 10x your btc security guide.
I've made some.pull requests on or before, but I sucked..ice gotten better at markdown and have even run Jekyll now. Lookibg at this quote reminded me of my original goal.
"This guide is currently a work in progress. While the ultimate goal is for the process to be easy enough for non-technical users, there may be kinks to work out. Pull requests are welcome."
I want to try again, but take my time.

2026-08-05 13:41:34 UTC

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Good morning.

2026-08-05 03:25:55 UTC

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Whats the source, if I may ask? I started writing an article about digital signatures a couple weeks ago.

2026-08-05 03:00:18 UTC

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Thanks. I've been getting a lot of this. People practically argue you should keep your 15 dice roll MK3 instead of use use 100 shitty dice rolls.

2026-08-05 02:50:29 UTC

Has anyone read any books on dice entropy? I want to learn more about generating sufficient entropy for digital signatures using 100+ dice tolls.
II once read Stupak On Craps in my gambling days. according to Stupak, The house edge on craps is 1.414%
You need perfect dice to maintain that razor thin profit margin.
If your dice are biased, they will cut into that razor thin margin. Therefore, casinos need perfect dice and change them often.
This RNG bug basically generated a key with the equivalent of 15 dice rolls/ ~40 bits.
If we need 128 bits for sufficient entropy, what if you took a chance rolling dice that are not perfect. Perhaps one even has a chip. If you rolled 100 times, would you expect greater than 40 bits of entropy?
Would you expect more than 128 bits? #asknostr

2026-08-04 15:28:14 UTC

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We did not emphasize "don't trust" enough.

2026-08-04 12:31:52 UTC

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It seems like a coordinated attack. Could be a nation state or some dude in a basement with an AI army.
I have my suspicions, but I don't know what's going on exactly.