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I pulled the latest and I can see cashu tokens in the logs 🥜
I tried connecting macadamia and cashu.me but there was an issue. Macadamia reported that the keysets for the mint were not available.
I can program but not much of a developer! I’ll keep playing with Windsurf and see where I get to. Windsurf thinks it’s an issue with the HASH unit keysets being unretrivable given the Custom unit.

2025-05-13 12:53:43 UTC

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Love it, I’ll check in later! No pressure just playing at the moment but was really easy to get setup and this hash pool concept is amazing 🙌

2025-05-13 03:15:48 UTC

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34254…
Looks like I’m creating ecash shares 🙌 but how do I get access to them or see them outside the log statements?
The shares are coming from my local pool in the container right?
https://image.nostr.build/150d3b19cef06e2c446aa35ee1a7b71e1ec5bd9a16d2205def53b4283bd9098e.jpg

2025-05-13 02:14:01 UTC

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Actually 34255 looks like the correct port.

2025-05-13 02:00:24 UTC

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I have the containers up and running. Once the bitcoind syncs do you attach miners on localhost:34254?

2025-04-28 17:21:56 UTC

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Usually I setup up the self custodial node and channels - zero inbound liquidity.
To free up some inbound liquidity I download Zeus and setup a “node in the phone” then send myself some sats to Zeus. Then I shut down Zeus and drain the sats back to my own on chain address.
I don’t even know if I’m doing it correctly but if that could be automated it would be great!

2025-04-24 02:49:36 UTC

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Are we talking about XRP?

2025-03-25 02:02:07 UTC

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To infinity and beyond as a wise man once said

2025-03-25 02:01:11 UTC

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diminishing returns narrative when most of the world has no idea of what bitcoin is seems anti common sense.

2025-03-23 04:35:23 UTC

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Companies like Unchained and Swan must KYC you because they provide financial services but Nunchuk and Casa don’t so as long as you can’t be identified from the email you use then they are probably your best options to look into. I think both allow you to pay in bitcoin too so there won’t be a credit card on file either.

2025-03-21 13:52:34 UTC

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“Don't speak negatively about yourself, even as a joke. Your body doesn't know the difference. Words are energy and they cast spells, that's why it's called spelling. Change the way you speak about yourself, and you can change your life.” - Bruce Lee

2025-03-13 01:59:43 UTC

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I like eggs

2025-03-13 01:58:44 UTC

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Half of that is probably mine

2025-03-06 11:51:06 UTC

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I’m no security expert or mathematician but it’s nice to have an option to create your own seed with good entropy outside a stack of electronics and code you can’t possibly know everything about.

2025-03-02 15:57:41 UTC

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Literally amazed no mention of DOGE to pump Elon’s bags, he must be fuming.

2025-03-02 01:20:11 UTC

Really enjoyed the @npub1trr…hdpu and fictitious capital debate on WBD with @npub16le…ffxj.
Would love to see more challenging conversations on podcasts.

2025-03-01 03:29:39 UTC

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Sometimes I think AI that doesn’t serve the average person is like a virus that would kill its host - ephemeral. If AI replaced most jobs then who pays for the services that AI provides, no one could afford it. I guess the real dystopian outcome is if other AIs are able to provide services to an AI that it somehow values.

2025-03-01 03:09:00 UTC

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Would love to zap ⚡️ this

2025-02-22 03:37:46 UTC

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Bit of a vague memory on that technique, but, in hindsight how many people really created more than one thing to inject.

2025-02-21 05:42:53 UTC

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Interesting tradeoff

2025-02-21 04:46:51 UTC

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If AI tooling can consistently fix bugs engineers cannot, that would be a major shift.

2025-02-21 03:59:49 UTC

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? To me, to you. I don’t think I’ve wrapped my head around taproot but the public key would just be a hash of the total spend path scripts without actually revealing the base public key that is associated?

2025-01-30 03:49:17 UTC

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*giga , but also I’m in the “human brains can’t understand exponentials” camp. Infinity/21 vs current fiat numbers/21.

2025-01-30 03:44:23 UTC

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Only the gigs brains understood in 2009, there’s still plenty of time!

2025-01-29 03:16:31 UTC

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We’re all gonna lose our jobs to chat gpt… no, chat gpt gonna loose jobs because of deep sync

2025-01-29 03:07:56 UTC

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My recommendation is to find a good instructor! It’s not hard to feel competent with a good instructor and a bit of practice on the range and with cleaning the gun.

2025-01-29 02:53:30 UTC

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I check my Bitaxe hash is still registering

2025-01-29 02:25:29 UTC

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Obviously a paranoid Bitcoiner take but I feel that the market likes to move behind the scenes to prevent retail getting in first. The question in my head is if the middle man, the institutions, are also part of the silent stackers, I find it hard to believe countries are not stacking. There’s no way any form of media will make that obvious to regular people.

2025-01-22 13:18:27 UTC

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Putting this conference on my radar for future years. Bitcoin x Cape Town (the most beautiful place) sounds like a dream trip.

2025-01-14 00:27:07 UTC

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I like that these devices increase the odds that even a small amount of blocks keep being won each year by people ignoring the odds, which is a collective good for Bitcoin.

2024-12-31 01:38:17 UTC

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My long term theory is that tax on bitcoin trends to 0 because people will be desperate to get their hands on any of it.

2024-11-16 16:17:29 UTC

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Pretty sure it’s on there from memory, try connecting to the community App Store instead of the official start9 supported one. I could be wrong 😑

2024-11-16 15:58:43 UTC

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Oh nice going to check that out

2024-11-16 15:48:10 UTC

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That would be cool, I have not looked but datum on start9 would be awesome if you’re mining against ocean.

2024-11-16 15:10:37 UTC

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No unfortunately there is no way to do both at the same time. People have talked about a mixed model pool before but it doesn’t exist.
I run against CK because I’m 100% confident I’ll get paid.
Here is the Dutch pools site
https://pool.satoshiradio.nl/

2024-11-16 15:00:57 UTC

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Ocean is good - I had my start9 core lightning setup against ocean for smaller payouts. Again, it’s a collaborative payout pool. You might think you’ll get extra “credit” for hitting a block but not the case.

2024-11-16 14:58:48 UTC

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You can swap between both too - both are fun just be aware you’re not getting anywhere close to a block payout if you’re on a collaborative pool.

2024-11-16 14:56:59 UTC

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Not really the two choices you have are:
1. Mine on a collaborative pool like brains or ocean and setup lightning to get micro-rewards. If you hit a block you still only get a micro reward.
2. Mine solo on CK pool or public pool or if you search Nostr you’ll find a Dutch pool where a lot of bitaxes mine. You will get zero rewards (you won’t need lightning) unless you hit a block but if you do you’re getting a monster payout.

2024-11-16 14:53:31 UTC

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If your start 9 is synced I think you can also spin up a “public pool” instance which connects to your own node and lottery mine against that.

2024-11-16 14:48:57 UTC

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🙌 this is awesome and a single chip is equally capable of mining a block than anything else. I forget mine is even running.
If you do hit a block on brains you’re going to get paid 25 cents for it because it’s a collaborative pool (also if you do some research and are anti antpool you’ll find that unfortunately braiins = antpool).
I run mine on ck solo pool which is easy to connect to.

2024-11-13 00:56:16 UTC

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I don’t know if you’ve ever done this before but I’d begin by:
1. syncing your own bitcoin node
2. syncing electrs, which is like a search engine for the chain that other apps can use
3. install Sparrow on a different machine and connecting it to your node by connecting to electrs
4. Install your own mempool.space instance
Then using that setup to transfer SMALL amounts of sats in sparrow to say blue wallet and back till you get confident.
Once you get there you can play with multisig in sparrow and get the hang of that too.

2024-11-10 02:42:37 UTC

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Satoshi is climbing Mount Fuji 🗻

2024-11-02 10:39:19 UTC

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🙌

2024-11-02 00:41:45 UTC

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I guess after $69,420 it might be a long wait $420,420

2024-10-28 18:23:59 UTC

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So happy for you, amazing you built this - probably the first full bitcoin stack machine to mine a block for a very long time - just as Satoshi designed it🙌

2024-10-27 12:00:37 UTC

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I was thinking about this post just the other day - INTP

2024-10-21 00:45:26 UTC

The latest #ocean block was found my someone with 74TH that has only been mining on ocean for less than two weeks.
Respect whoever you are 🙌

2024-10-19 01:38:03 UTC

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Talking to myself, I guess this means you need to hold a key or keys long term which could be problematic - not being able to predict the future and if there would be a need to rapidly move address. Then again used judicially for long term savings on an acceptable % of someone’s stack seems like a reasonable trade off as a safety against certain situations.

2024-10-19 01:24:20 UTC

[non galaxy brain disclaimer]
I’ve listened to a few pods talking about covenants and the dedicated op code versus generic op code approach.
Personal non qualified opinion,if we went the dedicated op code route then that seems more useful for the average HODL freak.
“OP_LOCK_SPEND”
Locks inputs to output with the restriction that N sats (inc fee) can be spent per M blocks from output. Sats able to be spent accumulates, 2x M blocks have passed without a spend? 2x N sats can be spent in a single transaction.
You set up an overly bullish spend policy? Wait longer - it’s probably not a life or death spend anyway.

2024-10-19 00:43:16 UTC

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Kind of joking but I love your site and content and always interested in your OG takes and stories.

2024-10-19 00:36:10 UTC

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I like to think “how does any idea stay alive”. I orange pilled myself after reading grokking bitcoin. I think a lot of religions spread through the distribution of “holy texts”. The 7 stages of self custody by Jameson Lopp would be a killer title 🙂

2024-10-18 02:46:59 UTC

I hope Bitcoin doesn’t fail, but if it does we still connected as a bunch of misfits and alternate thinkers from all walks of life and view points.

2024-10-18 02:37:42 UTC

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And getting hit by them lol. The Dutch take no prisoners when you’re walking in the bike lane 😬

2024-10-18 02:32:33 UTC

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@npub16vr…p2va posts on grappling over the past years made me want to learn more organic forms of self defense. All the options.

2024-10-18 01:46:41 UTC

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2x group semi personal training per week, running, and riding my bike to the grocery store because I sold my truck to buy sats. Will try jujitsu once I recover from a lower back thing.

2024-10-18 01:43:08 UTC

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🙌 respect

2024-10-18 01:37:47 UTC

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Thank you

2024-10-18 01:19:06 UTC

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🙏🏼

2024-10-18 01:17:16 UTC

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Penalties 🤞

2024-10-18 00:44:21 UTC

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What device are you using? Interested in recommendations.

2024-10-16 10:47:12 UTC

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“Some controls that belong on a Japanese toilet” 😂

2024-10-15 10:08:34 UTC

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If I had to buy 1000s of bitcoin a day I’d do as much of it OTC and off exchanges until I exhausted that supply. I might even pay a premium for it.

2024-10-13 18:02:06 UTC

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Red door wins

2024-10-12 10:32:32 UTC

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Not your country, not your coins. It would be the most epic rug pull in history 😂

2024-10-12 08:48:17 UTC

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🙏🏼Cathie!

2024-10-12 08:36:44 UTC

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I second @npub1dqe…mmgt's experience. Especially on the recent (great) stability of Start9. Umbrel has more apps and is still fun.

2024-10-12 08:23:34 UTC

I think HBO should make a follow up investigating if Brian has the keys for Coinbase Custody and plans to dump all the ETF coins on the market and become “the most powerful person in earth” “killing Bitcoin” at the same time.

2024-10-11 17:59:30 UTC

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Makes no sense

2024-10-10 02:18:30 UTC

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Oh yeah I remember that, total anarchists. Back when 1M was serious money.

2024-10-10 02:08:10 UTC

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3.A.M Eternal . . I don’t know much about their back story but classic British uniqueness you only really get if you know how weird the British really are.

2024-10-10 01:52:18 UTC

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Omg KLF - back at ya GN
https://open.spotify.com/track/5G760aZ3umyQclyaU3mxd5?si=16_5oT4KS-O-ySkozPX9nw&context=spotify%3Aartist%3A2KB6LGMBaOYYYdvvgyptFH

2024-10-10 01:47:53 UTC

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It’s cold up north, we had to scatter

2024-10-10 01:42:49 UTC

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Yup, you got it I’d guess you’re a northerner too.

2024-10-10 01:37:49 UTC

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It’s been a while but I do enjoy - I hate baked beans though.

2024-10-10 01:18:23 UTC

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Live view and video are shitcoins. I know it’s such a cliche but film still rules. Give me a $40 slr from eBay than a $500 digital any day.

2024-10-10 01:14:10 UTC

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Yes I remember the M262! Even the M8 had a nice look to the images. One day I will buy one.

2024-10-10 01:07:50 UTC

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Not a new one but a newer one than i was considering.

2024-10-10 01:01:17 UTC

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I bought my first sats with the idea that if it went up I could sell and buy a leica. Never sold those sats lol.

2024-10-10 00:34:18 UTC

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GenX for sure, other things can be inferred based on posts 🫡

2024-10-10 00:31:52 UTC

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Shill me a link to buy tickets if that exists

2024-10-10 00:28:22 UTC

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Nostr is cool because it’s unpolished and random. Ok you kinda have to be a bitcoiner to have heard of it right now but it’s a reboot of the internet prior to commercialization.

2024-10-10 00:13:08 UTC

My favorite thing about Satoshi is that:
// this is the best
// way to write
// a multi line comment

2024-10-10 00:04:39 UTC

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I setup a stand alone lnd node once and it was fun watching transactions route but ultimately I’d go for days and weeks without routing anything so I ended up shutting down. It would be cool if there was a Nostr “tag” we could add to self hosted nodes to guide who to open channels with, building a sub network. The volume of inbound and outbound zaps would have a higher chance of being balanced across “Nostr nodes” improving the ability to make zaps self custodial?

2024-10-09 03:46:43 UTC

HBO; satoshi wasn’t a good coder
Also HBO; Peter Todd implemented RBF
Dunno I think you have to be a pretty good coder to implement RBF and get it into bitcoin core

2024-10-09 01:24:09 UTC

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Not enjoying this visual

2024-10-09 01:18:17 UTC

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🫡 Been thinking about getting a 20 gallon tank and rescuing one from a store recently

2024-10-09 01:10:27 UTC

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Or release that Klingon brain bug thing on retail staff until the price matches Klingon honor levels.

2024-10-09 01:08:29 UTC

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🧡 Pubkey is 2nd on my list of reasons to move back to NYC.

2024-10-09 00:58:18 UTC

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If a merchant sets price too high it will go out of business. If too low, same result. Price is a tricky thing. I think sales are about getting new users for future upsell opportunities, or to get rid of stock of less popular products. I think very few retailers can get away with gouging but apple products always seem to be 20-30% away from an easy purchase 😅

2024-10-09 00:49:13 UTC

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Tropical or marine?

2024-10-09 00:37:09 UTC

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If it’s 10/21/2028 that’s cool too.

2024-10-09 00:32:42 UTC

I really hope we get a covenant solution that allows the average user to control:
1. When coins can be spent (block height).
2. Number of sats that can be spent.
I feel that covers 80% of the self custodial anxieties.
Understand that we can’t control future fee markets but out of band transactions / accelerators cover any kind of fee constraint woes that could be a factor?

2024-10-06 16:39:10 UTC

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🫡

2024-10-06 16:24:27 UTC

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Great explainer. Does any wallet implement access to CLTV for the regular user? I don’t think so but maybe Nostr knows.

2024-10-06 14:55:57 UTC

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Looks like you have some great prints!

2024-10-05 00:59:46 UTC

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💥🐦💥

2024-10-05 00:33:51 UTC

We keep hearing that “clear regulation” is what unlocks bitcoin adoption or number go up. What does “regulation” mean specifically, tax laws?, KYC, accredited investor gates? Geographical restrictions and barriers. Sounds like regulation does the exact opposite of promoting adoption.

2024-10-05 00:16:27 UTC

Home is where the hash rate is
https://m.primal.net/LLYH.jpg

2024-10-05 00:09:50 UTC

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Agree, whether it’s OGs selling for a well deserved fiat retirement, or big players finding coins OTC, one or two months more before a major shift happens.