glowleaf
George Saoulidis

Your new favourite creator of sci-fi with Greek mythology. Zap me at ⚡glowleaf@getalby.com

Athens BitDevs, doing art and writing lots of words.
Founder at mythographystudios.com loveisbitcoin.com greekblockchainnetwork.com and more.

Find my coolest stuff at the link in my bio.

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2024-06-15 10:42:09

I met one of Libby's fans today at the Nostr booth in BTCPrague! @npub1995…8vtf @npub1kwc…f3xx https://image.nostr.build/73bec8319cf1318f8b18e039dba360c892a4a49c67f1c8444cff71ba3350b593.jpg

2023-12-28 14:26:24

Spam is such a big problem on the internet that most of us webmasters have had to shut down forums and close comments on our blogs.
It's why I've been so excited for lightning used as a spam filter, even though I haven't seen an implementation yet outside of stacker news.
Spam is wasting hundreds of manhours with moderators and resources.
If I choose to filter ordinals and other spam transactions from my mining template, I have every right to do it. You can just go to another miner and send your transaction, they'll be happy to accept the sats.
Permissionless does not mean anarchy. You have every right to spam the protocol, I have every right to filter it because you're wasting my time and resources.
I won't run the ord disrespector only because the guys promoting it are deranged spooks and because it's untested code.
But if the next bitcoin core version filters out a huge chunk of spam, I'll run it.

2023-12-20 08:58:41

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We need opt-in discovery algorithms on nostr. The feed is not working well.

2023-12-20 08:57:28

I want to work with bitcoin businesses but many are plebstores, meaning amateur ones. Which is fine but the level of Dunning-Kruger effect is starting to grate on me.
Yes you need a fucking newsletter.
Yes you need a fucking blog.
Yes you need to do fucking sales. Sales are not fiat.
FFS.
I'm here if you need a marketing agency.

2023-12-20 08:57:11

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We'll see

2023-12-17 12:14:03

I believe at some point even unspendable utxos will be able to be offered as collateral.
It's the same with gold.
Let's say you have a small golden nugget. Getting it verified might cost half of its price. But if you show it to someone, thus proving that you own it, they might consider the risk acceptable and lend you the money.
Bitcoin can be verified with a simple wallet signature and even if it can't move on-chain due to high fees, it's still there.
I think microlending services will happily take them. Perhaps even with accepting the seed words themselves in case of liquidation.
That doesn't mean that you shouldn't consolidate your utxos when the fees are low. I'm just saying it will become so valuable that people will find a way to use even the smallest bit.

2023-12-16 13:49:20

I asked btcpayserver about an easy way to run it, basically you either run it on your own node, which is troublesome. And there's the option of running it on a hosted server, like voltage cloud or lunanode. They recommended lunanode.

2023-12-16 00:39:49

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A nostr dev told me that at some point we should be able to reroll an nsec. Not sure how but cryptography allows for that.

2023-12-16 00:38:09

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#nevent1q…w89v

2023-12-16 00:34:02

#nevent1q…0rcf
https://image.nostr.build/3e3467a798756ad4d5b6c561f00a93aa34ffec58dda471c29a6f522b00a61af0.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=864x1920&blurhash=%5BBBDvRoy00Rj%3B.ozR%25WB00oz_3WB4nof%25MWB%7EEafE0ay.kV%40Mys%3BM2WBoyoft*aeRQj%5BMxayt7j%5B&x=e4464f44ff31a88411db0c9656d70470ba72502d20356d8f7935dd798f751135

2023-11-23 02:07:54

I think I'm being reasonable and calm and then someone tells me bitcoin doesn't have enough throughput to handle as many transactions as BNB has and I go into rant mode.

2023-11-13 00:54:01

Blue wallet has a very neat feature.
When you give someone an address so they can pay you, you can just copy the address itself, go to new wallet, give it a name, import, paste the address.
That will create a watch-only "wallet" on which you can see all the transactions and check to see if the people paid you at a glance.
And all that makes it so much easier to check if the payments came through and despair.

2023-11-11 22:15:08

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Whichever you're comfortable with. Umbrel is great for newbies, I use raspiblitz. For advanced nodes you can get a start 9 labs server with the coupon code LOVEISBITCOIN for 9% off.

2023-11-11 22:14:05

Controversial opinion:
Prepare to lose your bitcoin.
I believe that almost everybody will eventually lose their entire stack.
Hodlers will get rekt. FIRE and early retirement, travel the world guys will get rekt. Some bug in a popular wallet, some seed generation algorithm will be reverse engineered like milk sad, or any other random way that will compromise your seed words and make you lose your sats.
Prepare for that.
Have alternative storing options, preferably on metal plate with no multisig nonsense or anything else. Just drop 1 million sats on a wallet that you've generated with randomness and leave them there.
Have cashflow to recover. Ideally from online businesses.
Have a network of bitcoiners that will be willing to help you get hired again, to trade with you, to support you.
I think we'll only start seeing more and more of this as price goes up and incentives to trick people are increasing.
The point is to put yourself in a position to get some of it back immediately, not to hoard sats.

2023-11-04 00:39:32

Running a node is the only way to have a vote in the bitcoin system. For example, my node will never run drivechains, even if they manage to do get through.
The right to vote in the bitcoin protocol is analogous to being a citizen in Ancient Athens. Not all were citizens, and (unfairly) all were male, contributing members of the Athenian society. There were slaves and people born elsewhere that didn't have citizen rights. And anyone going against the city-state was ostracized, but that's not possible in bitcoin.
The analogy still stands, because the Athenian citizen had to stay informed on current events, matters of the state and had to vote on various issues. That's why democracy worked, not because everyone voted, but because the voters were mainly valuable citizens.
Back to bitcoin, it seems we're creating the same sort of governance. Informed noderunners get a vote, people who leave the thinking to others do not get one.
It's a sort of democracy of 17.000 noderunners and it's messy but it works so far. And it's the only way to sustain one.

2023-10-31 11:49:13

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Nonsense. Coldcards get bricked all the time. This problem could happen to any hardware wallet. But I don't think my trezor stops me from using it without an update, it depends on the specific program.

2023-10-31 09:37:08

@#nevent1q…z793
I was just teaching this yesterday to my students. Your wallet is not tied to the software or the device. You can just load bluewallet on your phone, import the seeds and gain access to your funds. Just know that they're now exposed to a hot wallet so it's best to send the coins to another cold storage wallet.
While I don't recommend ledger, the issue this guy had can happen to any device and it will keep happening as years go by.

2023-10-10 09:25:01

So now I have to pay for X subscriptions for my personal and my business accounts. I have to pay relays on nostr. And I have to run ads for visibility on Facebook and Instagram.
Great.
Lovely.
Social media gone to shit.

2023-10-08 11:44:53

Your mind will be under attack.
Don't try and memorize your seed words.
Put your keys in some sort of physical barrier even from yourself. Some sort of physical lock and key, a vault, anything that can put a real delay.
The onslaught of psychological attacks that we're about to witness in the next decades will be insane.
Imagine targeted psyops aided by AI and chatgpt. Entire social media accounts, entire websites created just to make you part from your coins.
You think it won't happen?
We can even do this right now. It's just not worth the time and effort. The cost is too much. But when bitcoin will be worth over 1 million dollars and cost per attack will be wittled down to pennies with AI, you will see it everywhere.
They will use psychological manipulation in ways you've never imagined. Your ex-girlfriend's photos can be used to generate AI catfishes that subconsciously remind you of her, even her voice can be sampled.
Your mentors, the same. Every like you've ever made, every comment, every video you've watched can be parsed into new specialized, deepfaked gurus and you'll be amazed at how each word they utter will speak to your soul.
You think it won't happen? You're just not worth it.
Yet.

2023-09-29 22:11:04

I have an interesting dilemma. There's an AI generated piece I really like that would work great for an ebook cover art I'm writing. But I didn't make it. But AI art can't be copyrighted, that's the sentiment so far.
So can I just use it? Or not?

2023-09-28 01:07:32

Should you invest in that altcoin?
I'm a bitcoin maxi, but let's forget about that for a moment.
From a computer science point of view, let's say you invest in an altcoin because of its speed, anonymity, programmability or whatever.
Fine.
Ask yourself this:
Are people running nodes for that blockchain? Are they running miners, if applicable, or validators? Do you personally know people running one? Can you yourself run one without a serious investment of time and capital?
Because I can.
I'm running a bitcoin node and a miner. If everything crashes, I will single handedly maintain the entire bitcoin protocol.
Can your altcoin survive a total system crash or are you just dependent on someone else?

2023-09-20 00:24:09

I predict a new wave of bitcoin hippies emerging pretty soon. A bunch of millionaires travelling around the world in places like Costa Rica, taking psychedelic drugs, working remotely, having a sort of decentralized memetic governance.

2023-09-13 15:40:40

I decided instead of going to another bitcoin conference to finally upgrade my workstation.

2023-09-11 12:58:11

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21energy has plenty. Tell them I sent you.

2023-09-11 12:57:16

Nostr is the bitcoin superapp. I have 12 lightning wallets. I don't really need another one.
The existing ones need to add a bunch of functionality into them.
Nobody gives a shit how cool your wallet is.
Breez used to be the lightning wallet I would suggest to people because it has app integration built in, and it solves the problem of "what the heck do I do with the bitcoins you just sent to me?"
Now the app I recommend is nostr..

2023-09-11 08:22:24

Okay the nerdminer thing is getting out of hand.
I like it as an educational tool but the hashrate is negligible.
Buy an S9, they're cheap right now. Swap out the fans for Noctua silent ones. Run BraiinsOS+ so you can underclock it.
Demonstrate mining with actual hashrate.

2023-09-10 11:30:05

@openoms used the term "Blockdays since Genesis: 4500" and it's so much better than blockheight for human use.

2023-09-05 10:46:13

"Please send me your calendly."
Men used to hunt.

2023-09-01 05:01:19

People will keep giving you advice to focus on one thing, to keep it simple. Your social media, your book, your product.
Those people are idiots.
Specialization is for insects.

2023-08-31 08:36:44

So nooby
https://cdn.nostr.build/i/a22f383651133099484bbf6bb891030aec8bb5ed9ac7ed4851535465bf1b511b.jpg

2023-08-31 08:07:34

I'm at the noob day in Riga, for the Baltic Honeybadger. Am I a honeybadger now?

2023-08-23 18:22:37

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Yeah everyone's recommending it

2023-08-23 18:22:02

https://cdn.nostr.build/i/bd5e3775b7f2fde4b8e758acd40efa8bddd285bd55678daee99bc1356f1c90e8.jpg
He's Making a List, he's Checking it Twice
You’re Santa Claus. Gift bitcoin at every opportunity. Weddings, birthdays, namedays, anniversaries.
People in Greece and Russia like to commemorate a big event like an engagement or a wedding with something gold. Turn this custom into an opportunity for orange-pilling. Gift them bitcoin, it’s digital gold after all.
Keep it simple. Just load up a wallet with some sats, write the seed words down on a piece of paper with simple instructions on how to recover the funds and give it to them in a nice envelope along with your best wishes.
When people ask about bitcoin, demonstrate how easy it is to transact with lightning. Get them to download a simple wallet like Wallet of Satoshi, tell them to tap “Receive,” scan their QR code and send them 1000 sats. The number looks impressive but it’s a negligible amount, at least at the time of writing this in 2023.
The whole thing looks like a magic trick from their perspective. Downloading an app, hitting a button, scanning a QR code and instantly receiving sats looks like magic.
Purists and cypherpunks cry out about this, that we’re orange-pilling people the wrong way, we’re not teaching them about self-custody, that Wallet of Satoshi is custodial and that’s not real bitcoin and so on.
Who cares?
Nobody has time to educate everyone.
We’re talking about a 2-minute interaction here. If you’re sitting down with an interested party who’s into learning how to bitcoin the right way, by all means.
Go with a non-custodial hybrid solution like Phoenix Wallet, Breez or Zeus, show them how to write down their seed words, explain how important they are, demonstrate how to recover their wallet.
But it’s in a case-by-case situation. Sometimes you’re in a taxi, talking to the driver. Sometimes you’re talking to a waitress in Prague at the end of her shift and you tell her, “I want to tip you with bitcoin, would you like that?”
And every bitcoiner at the table chips in.
That last bit happened for real after a round of beers with Evan Kaloudis during BTCPrague. It helps having other friends to keep it going, like the passionate KenobiNakamoto taking the opportunity to explain to the waitress where she could spend the satoshis we all tipped her.
My point is, that since you’ve taken up the role of orange-piller, that you’re now the Orange Santa Claus. Set aside a few thousand sats on a user-friendly lightning wallet and when the opportunity arises, gift them to people. If you can’t afford to gift out sats to everyone, show your work on social media like twitter (X) or nostr, tell other bitcoiners that you’ve been talking to this person and that person, post a photo, either with their face or concealed, ask for permission, and get people to zap them some sats over the internet. If you have a good enough following and the timing is right that might be even more effective than just sending it yourself. The recipient might get zaps from around the world. Joe Nakamoto does this quite well.
No matter how you do it, keep it simple, fast and easy. Remember, after bitcoin itself, our time is scarce and limited. You want to tease people to look into bitcoin but you can’t do that work for them. It might trigger a search, they might forget it for years and then come back later as hardcore maxis, they might go into shitcoins, they might ignore it and forget about it the next day.
Keep your time and sats invested into this to a minimum because you’re going to be doing this for a long time.
Read my orange pilling guide. https://georgesaoulidis.com/weneedtotalkaboutbitcoin

2023-08-23 08:12:55

I've cancelled my Zoom because it's forcing a TOS on me that can keep my recordings and train AI with them. I don't mind personally but their actions show that they act like they're too big to fail. They're not.
What are other alternatives that can record sessions?

2023-08-21 11:01:33

I tried to read some of this guy's @MaxiDerangement arguments. It's good to listen to some opposing opinions every now and then. And all the arguments are lightning doesn't work, nostr doesn't work, I'm anonymous look at me, KYC is bad, monero monero monero, the entire time thinking he's really anonymous on twitter. Which is a joke.
Now I'll go back to using bitcoin lightning 50 times per day, thank you.

2023-08-18 10:21:47

Self-custody your own bitcoin keys but make sure you add in a real-world hassle to accessing them. Like splitting multisig in two different houses. Op vault codes where there's a time delay might help as well, allowing you to sleep on it.
I know I am prone to impulsive decisions, I can imagine a scenario where I can be psyoped to do some transaction in haste.
Honestly that's the only thing that scares me with self-custody.

2023-08-16 08:24:41

Which one of these looks like progress?
https://cdn.nostr.build/i/f49df312013038678f08319752777927ef61a116518210fb44f3460c34324bab.jpg

2023-08-14 14:46:09

I have to finish my to-do list in time to travel to Riga.

2023-08-14 12:43:37

https://loveisbitcoin.com/how-to-use-a-boltcard/

2023-08-14 00:32:50

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It's the other way around, and if you're not seeing it you're delusional. Monero's use case is supposed to be anonymity, and yet bitcoin, a completely open blockchain that is traceable by anyone is still being used in half the black market transactions where there are real-world concequences to being tracked. That proves bitcoin's anonymity tools do work and that the rest of the transactions are just being carried on because of the monero delusion.

2023-08-13 21:16:57

Moved on to what?
Moved on to what, motherfucker?
https://cdn.nostr.build/i/88b96416539cefc08046f8070ddfcf9e570dbd47c3a3774a8624a526ae54b073.jpg
https://cdn.nostr.build/i/b07aac8d796ca8a0faa3ef89d08423d369521f205e6c80bc3c8f545c3d181c50.jpg

2023-08-13 12:22:39

Imagine if all the miners go to the US, then they get shut down and we're left with the S9 space heaters and the nerdminers.

2023-08-13 11:11:18

I published my first new book in over a year. I haven't checked my stats in months now. Seems like my books had hundreds of sales in all platforms without me doing any promotion.

2023-08-12 21:58:50

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I'm fighting with it right now

2023-08-12 21:55:09

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Yes they did.

2023-08-11 21:18:30

https://loveisbitcoin.com/orange-pilling-a-waitress-in-prague-with-zeus-himself-and-catching-a-glimpse-of-the-future-of-lightning/

2023-08-11 15:19:37

Every time amethyst crashes and I keep opening it again I'm reminded of that test Facebook did on Android users to check their addiction and to see how many crashes they would tolerate before giving up.
The answer in both cases is infinite.

2023-08-09 08:34:02

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That's a myth, the darknet markets are using basically 48% bitcoin and 48% monero. It doesn't even dominate there, that should tell you something about bitcoin's coinjoin anonymity.

2023-08-08 21:50:45

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Yeah, there's no point to monero, sorry.

2023-08-06 12:56:58

I'm not an expert but I feel the same way. No matter how good monero's security might be, without the Network effect of bitcoin it's pointless.
#nevent1q…99cs

2023-05-25 13:11:53

You don't own your social media followers. Not your mailing list, not your followers.
Nostr kinda fixes this.

2023-04-22 11:22:10

After having to verify accounts with video and following the instructions, look left, smile, don't smile, tilt head up, I want to write a short dystopian story where you have to verify accounts by doing tik tok dances or else you get a fine.

2023-04-11 19:50:44

"I've moved on to other things. It's in good hands with Gavin and everyone."
~Satoshi Nakamoto.
And I ask you this. WHAT THE FUCK COULD POSSIBLY BE MORE IMPORTANT THAN BITCOIN?

2023-04-05 14:00:01

https://loveisbitcoin.com/playboy-bunnies-love-easter/

2023-03-26 11:35:40

I use binance for the debit card so I can have some sats available at any time and the app keeps sending me shitcoin offers. FML

2023-03-18 06:29:14

https://void.cat/d/B4oUitATmLS4kyjfnG4Swt.webp
Choose your outfit. Fiat or bitcoin?

2023-03-09 10:06:12

I need to sit down for a while. 🤯
https://void.cat/d/5wocrEJgX58RBA6uwXY3Sw.webp

2023-03-06 19:54:15

I want to use habla.news but I can't login, can't edit and I can't swap accounts. The getalby plugin doesn't login properly. Sometimes the login button vanishes. I want to use it but it's so problematic.

2023-02-28 11:12:05

Tried out http://habla.news . I would say it's like Medium built on Nostr. It has zaps integrated, but you can edit the longform content. Might be useful. We'll see https://habla.news/a/naddr1qqvksmmh946x7tt0wfskuem994cxjmrv94cx2mmsd3jsygp5czjn9qa6e4wtd3zlnvzhh6s9m7e8vveaeu2wnvt8dq946d3cuspsgqqqw4rssgduck

2023-02-28 09:25:25

It's the fifth time iris deletes all my follows. And no, nostrgram is even worse, don't have two accounts open there and on another client.

2023-02-23 10:31:19

Check your financial privilege. It's always that same reason.
https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_accfb58caa7475e618bd7bc5c9bdb9fd6f1206658b437b5c8ecb6c6ec226f495.jpg

2023-02-20 14:56:09

I'm moving my History and Mythology meme group from facebook to nostr. I don't really care that I'll lose members. They should just migrate. It's called 9gods, follow it here for intelligent fun
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2023-02-18 11:54:10

Bitcoin Whale https://i0.wp.com/georgesaoulidis.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/absolut-bitcoin-80-whale-scaled.jpg

2023-02-18 11:11:38

Artists: "We can't eat likes."
That's why you should move to nostr and get zaps.

2023-02-18 08:06:13

Cypherpunk larpers with a cold card up their ass: "Haha look at those fools and their custodial lightning addresses, they don't know shit."
Plebs on nostr having all the fun: "Zapped you! ⚡#Zapchain. Zippity zap!"
Dev on nostr:"okay can you guys decide on a zap protocol?"

2023-02-17 19:44:26

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Yes okay but why do I need to? /Sigh.

2023-02-17 19:42:51

Now I lost all my following list. I give up.