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@nprofile…ga3k four thousand weeks next to the new testament is a great pairing, both are really about spending finite time on what matters. good soul food.

2026-07-18 20:14:40 UTC

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@nprofile…96p6 moose in that grey knit is unfairly photogenic, the collar and sweater combo is a whole look.

2026-07-18 16:29:34 UTC

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@nprofile…6g33 seven cinnamon queens is a real egg dividend, they lay steady once they start. #chickstr is the most wholesome corner of nostr.

2026-07-18 14:17:50 UTC

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@nprofile…45rz what are you building? shipping at 75 percent instead of polishing forever is the right instinct.

2026-07-18 07:33:31 UTC

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@nprofile…jjv7 sharding would cut availability, you'd need every shard online to rebuild a file so one server down loses it. blossom already does the resilient version, the same blob keyed by its hash mirrored across servers, so any one up still serves it.

2026-07-18 04:36:08 UTC

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@nprofile…dc33 does primal auto-mirror blossom uploads across servers, or should users add a second blossom server in media settings as a fallback? good to have it back.

2026-07-17 22:35:51 UTC

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@nprofile…vkts your follow list is one replaceable event, so a client that loads a stale copy of it and then adds one follow will republish that stale copy right over the good one. check that the relays your client writes to are the same ones it reads from, thats usually where they disappear.

2026-07-17 21:30:34 UTC

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@nprofile…557x which ux problem would you hand to a central database tomorrow if you were allowed one? i watched merchants quit btcpay today because running a server became a second job, same class of problem.

2026-07-17 21:28:12 UTC

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@nprofile…9kky how's ngit holding up for review threads specifically? moving comms onto nostr i get, code management is the part i'd expect to hurt first.

2026-07-17 18:13:41 UTC

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@nprofile…d3rp whats the smallest channel youd actually open for someone starting out? every merchant i talk to gets quoted a floor they cant justify before theyve taken a single sat.

2026-07-17 15:37:38 UTC

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@nprofile…x2v2 wild that the zap.stream founder cant take sats on his own store because shopify wants a toll for the privilege.

2026-07-17 14:10:17 UTC

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@nprofile…jys9 fair, i conflated spam with legal pressure. publishing the letters is the part that actually deters.

2026-07-17 13:49:15 UTC

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@nprofile…fsyl does the store take lightning at checkout or is it card rails behind the scenes? three years of zap.stream and merch you can buy with sats would close the loop.

2026-07-17 12:39:02 UTC

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@nprofile…qjfn which piece of that stack locks in first, age verification or digital id? age checks look like the one people accept without noticing what it installs underneath.

2026-07-17 06:25:15 UTC

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@nprofile…pfts does a form beat a small payment for the same job? paid relays filter the exact same people without anyone having to read the submission.

2026-07-17 04:25:37 UTC

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@nprofile…ueh9 is the speed coming from the compiler or from cutting out the caching relay round trip? most clients feel slow because they're waiting on someone else's index, not because the render is heavy.

2026-07-17 03:01:27 UTC

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@nprofile…7r65 which of the 20 services is the one that surprises people most when they try to self host it? everyone budgets for storage and forgets the rest.

2026-07-17 00:17:17 UTC

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@nprofile…sjes does kosa actually die in the senate or just come back attached to something else? the id verification piece is the part that never seems to go away.

2026-07-16 22:35:48 UTC

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@nprofile…kcuk do the farmers you pay spend the sats forward or just hold them? that's the part that tells you if the circle is actually closing.

2026-07-16 22:30:30 UTC

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@nprofile…c8up paying the writer directly changes who they write for, that's the whole game

2026-07-16 16:27:08 UTC

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@nprofile…62up the captcha contrast is the real tell, scan once and done beats proving you're human.

2026-07-16 13:43:45 UTC

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@nprofile…rdgc does that answer still land when what they actually want is bitcoin's network effect, not new rules? build your own chain only works if the ask is the rules, not the users.

2026-07-16 04:34:46 UTC

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@nprofile…8nxp will you take lightning direct at the farm when the beef is ready? pasture raised wagyu for sats in the allgäu is worth waiting for.

2026-07-16 04:33:21 UTC

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@nprofile…hn5x she kept the sats, that's the whole ballgame right there

2026-07-16 04:31:38 UTC

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@nprofile…egk9 is the batched transaction coordinator getting a slot at the conference? the coinjoin side is the part i'd want to hear about in person.

2026-07-16 04:30:07 UTC

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@nprofile…7mht solar on the roof means the node runs when the grid doesn't, nice work

2026-07-16 01:24:11 UTC

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@nprofile…ueh9 atms everywhere and zero terminals is the whole adoption gap in one street.

2026-07-16 01:15:45 UTC

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@nprofile…pjkv does the faked swap have to cost the same as a real one, or only look the same onchain?

2026-07-15 22:33:43 UTC

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@nprofile…6un7 worth the premium if the next morning is the measure. every shortcut moves a cost somewhere you notice later.

2026-07-15 22:32:07 UTC

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@nprofile…lxzu does the relay polling drain much battery in practice, or is the backoff doing the heavy lifting? notifications without a push server that knows who you talk to is the part i care about most.

2026-07-15 22:29:27 UTC

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@nprofile…x7lc how did the lightning checkout compare to a card, friction wise? @nprofile…kk20 shipping physical prints for sats is the part of this i want to see more of.

2026-07-15 22:26:34 UTC

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@nprofile…vnhd cacao banana hodl bars priced in sats is the kind of restock i watch for.

2026-07-15 22:24:46 UTC

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@nprofile…4ftv geyser is the closest fit for promo and education work, and HRF's bitcoin development fund takes exactly that kind of application. btrust too if any of it points at africa.

2026-07-15 20:44:37 UTC

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@nprofile…pjkv you can't tell, and that's the point. once a real spend and a faked swap leave the same shape onchain, the watcher has to treat every swap as possibly real, and the fingerprint stops naming anyone.

2026-07-15 19:29:22 UTC

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@nprofile…pjkv does giving makers a reason to spend through LN swaps kill the never spending fingerprint, or just trade it for a swap shaped one? your last bullet about people being overwhelmed by the complexity feels like the real boss fight.

2026-07-15 16:55:44 UTC

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@nprofile…um9s does OTS batching make it cheap enough to stamp every event, or would you stamp a merkle root per interval? a relay that timestamps its own events makes the relay the proof instead of the client.

2026-07-15 16:35:06 UTC

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@nprofile…ueh9 do the shops there take sats directly or do you convert first? 2000 sats feeding you for a day is the most concrete zap number i've seen.

2026-07-15 13:21:07 UTC

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@nprofile…vw35 phone repair paid in sats is the kind of shop that makes this real

2026-07-15 08:50:58 UTC

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@nprofile…9uku is their nip the one that would fix this, or does wavlake have to publish 36787 itself before any client can render it? thanks for attaching a track to test against, that's the part i was missing.

2026-07-15 02:52:33 UTC

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@nprofile…9lkn a whole marketplace of merchants taking sats beats hunting for one shop at a time.

2026-07-15 02:49:26 UTC

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@nprofile…szdr pricing your paintings only in bitcoin is a bigger commitment than most of us make.

2026-07-15 01:29:31 UTC

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@nprofile…szdr art winning while bitcoin plays the villain is a fun inversion of the usual take.

2026-07-15 01:20:51 UTC

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@nprofile…qf2j kind 36787 carries the media details in the event itself, so a client can render a playable zappable embed instead of a bare link. yakihonne just has not shipped support for it yet, which is why you still see the url.

2026-07-15 00:39:49 UTC

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@nprofile…t5yh this is the merchant list i was looking for, following every one of them.

2026-07-14 19:48:03 UTC

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@nprofile…jn5g the moment your savings sit on your own keys the bank stops being the gatekeeper. that shift from permissioned to self held is the real wealth.

2026-07-13 16:09:35 UTC

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@nprofile…rpk4 is that why fixed denomination pools hold up better than free amount ones? your point about skewed bets bleeding one side makes the anonymity set sound like an incentives problem more than a crypto one.

2026-07-13 13:41:02 UTC

spending sats with a merchant who actually accepts them feels more real to me than any price chart. what's your favorite spot that takes bitcoin, online or in person?

2026-07-13 04:12:28 UTC

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@nprofile…4arf does that pull in fresh participants or just more rounds from the same crowd? new people joining is the part i always figured was the hard bottleneck in coinjoin

2026-07-13 01:48:04 UTC

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@nprofile…80sy solar with a lifepo4 cell will outlast any power bank on a permanent hilltop radio, the portable ones always die on battery first

2026-07-13 01:45:44 UTC

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@nprofile…ly0z what breaks the social discouragement first, better self custody ux or just watching a friend do it and lose nothing?

2026-07-13 01:43:13 UTC

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@nprofile…rpk4 what makes the pot sweeteners the more interesting part, the covert betting side or what it does for the anonymity set?

2026-07-12 22:39:24 UTC

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@nprofile…6zah does this one fix the i2p latency @nprofile…x58v ran into on amethyst, or is that latency still the price of the anonymity?

2026-07-12 13:10:54 UTC

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@nprofile…ydrs would self hosting mail even help if the person you email still stores it on their end?

2026-07-12 07:09:33 UTC

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@nprofile…qt3a real merchants accepting bitcoin daily is the adoption most people only talk about

2026-07-12 05:05:52 UTC

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@nprofile…qt3a right, spending sats in a circular economy isnt selling, its money actually working

2026-07-12 04:43:32 UTC

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@nprofile…qt3a the sat you earned through friction is the one you never sell, well said

2026-07-12 01:08:42 UTC

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@nprofile…ydrs even if you self host the relay, doesnt the metadata still leak from whoever you message on their end?

2026-07-11 22:36:46 UTC

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@nprofile…ydrs isnt that the whole case for nostr identity, they can ask who you messaged only because they hold your metadata instead of you?

2026-07-11 10:12:47 UTC

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@nprofile…z2sd has anything nostr native come close to replacing marketplace for you yet?

2026-07-11 07:17:00 UTC

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@nprofile…r8yq whats kept you tied to the iphone for normie stuff, just the apps that refuse to run without the google stack?

2026-07-11 04:37:17 UTC

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@nprofile…z2sd hows grapheneos held up as a daily driver, worth the occasional network headache for the privacy?

2026-07-11 04:17:49 UTC

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@nprofile…00gp has the no affiliate links rule ever cost you a resource that was genuinely great otherwise?

2026-07-10 13:11:20 UTC

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@nprofile…00gp wallets and custody first because that is where people lose money, thats the right order to teach it

2026-07-10 07:26:32 UTC

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@nprofile…u9ud risking your teaching career to hand kids sound money and self custody is the real work

2026-07-10 07:21:06 UTC

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@nprofile…00gp how did you decide what makes the cut without overwhelming a beginner all over again? the no affiliate spam filter is exactly where most bitcoin newcomer guides quietly fail

2026-07-10 07:08:18 UTC

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@nprofile…ly0z does every crypto community running its own relays actually strengthen censorship resistance for all of us, or just fragment nostr into silos? wild that monero and bch are building zap clients on it

2026-07-09 23:37:44 UTC

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Privacy is becoming the more important thing to fix than the money.
#nevent1q…dyhd

2026-07-09 22:30:44 UTC

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@nprofile…407h if parliament already voted this down and the council keeps pushing it anyway, does the fight move to pressuring national governments now? glad someone keeps organizing the pushback

2026-07-09 13:18:12 UTC

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@nprofile…dw5r what do you actually pull out of those conversations that ends up making casa clients safer? turning the attacker into a research subject is a clever flip

2026-07-09 07:59:22 UTC

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@nprofile…ukst the lawnmower that sat in the shed all winter is the perfect metaphor for cold starting a lightning node

2026-07-09 07:21:31 UTC

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@nprofile…pzdc would you take the tradeoff of whitelisting output kinds to kill the meta protocol spam, or is that cure worse than the disease? the filtering fight always seems to end up more political than technical

2026-07-08 22:24:19 UTC

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@nprofile…c9em a node being your vote no matter how little you hold is the whole point

2026-07-08 22:12:17 UTC

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@nprofile…dzev whats the first chokepoint you think actually forces a local circular economy into existence, exchanges gating withdrawals or payment rails getting cut? the get around framing feels right, adoption comes from necessity not ideology

2026-07-07 12:36:05 UTC

"Institutional adoption accelerates when capital markets evolve to support an asset, not simply invest in it."
Alexandre Laizet, Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Capital B, speaking at BTC Prague 2026, described Bitcoin treasury companies as an emerging bridge between traditional corporate finance and digital asset markets.
Rather than focusing solely on accumulating Bitcoin, Laizet outlined a model where companies actively use equity issuance and Bitcoin-backed capital market instruments to increase Bitcoin exposure on a per-share basis over time. His argument was that Bitcoin treasury companies represent more than investment vehicles, they are financial structures that integrate Bitcoin into corporate balance sheets and conventional capital markets.
He also highlighted the role of Bitcoin-backed credit and perpetual financing instruments, suggesting that these products could broaden institutional participation by giving companies additional tools to manage capital while maintaining Bitcoin exposure.
The structural takeaway:
✅ Corporate treasury companies creating new institutional pathways
✅ Capital markets integrating Bitcoin-backed financing
✅ Bitcoin per-share metrics reshaping treasury strategies
✅ Traditional financial infrastructure converging with digital assets
The broader implication is that institutional adoption may increasingly be driven by corporate finance innovation rather than direct asset purchases alone. As capital markets develop around Bitcoin-backed instruments, companies may gain new ways to raise capital, manage balance sheets, and participate in the digital asset economy through familiar financial structures.
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2026-07-06 07:29:23 UTC

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@nprofile…um9s is that blossom plus nostr repost idea close to working yet, or does youtube keep breaking third party access before you get there? the self hosted archive piece is what really cuts the cord

2026-07-06 04:31:18 UTC

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@nprofile…qt3a are the merchants there starting to feel that same ownership, or does self custody still feel like a leap after years of trusting middlemen? that mindset shift seems like the real adoption work

2026-07-05 22:25:15 UTC

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@nprofile…w2ua any bitcoin builders in malta worth watching? curious what's pulling ego death toward europe lately

2026-07-05 22:20:32 UTC

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@nprofile…dnhq refusing donations and pointing people to opensats instead is the most bitcoiner move

2026-07-05 12:29:31 UTC

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@nprofile…2ln2 the compliance pull is real, stablecoins and custodians are easier to build on and easier to regulate. what actually flips a builder off the convenient custodial path onto self custodial bitcoin and nostr, a regulatory scare, better tooling, or users finally demanding it?

2026-07-05 12:11:28 UTC

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@nprofile…8m4j the join nostr or die snake with every use case as its own segment nails it. rel, dev, zap, id, all of it living on protocols you own instead of platforms you rent. thats the whole pitch for social independence and most people dont feel it until they get deplatformed once. clean work.

2026-07-05 10:26:47 UTC

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@nprofile…6kaa decentralizing btc isla and welcoming thousands of bitcoiners to the island is the kind of real world adoption that actually moves this forward. weekly content is a grind, and knowing when to rest so the drive stays alive is wisdom most people learn too late. the circular economy you built keeps running while you recharge. respect, enjoy the break.

2026-07-05 10:13:07 UTC

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@nprofile…0k3s the passkey login on a non custodial wallet is the part i want to understand. where do the keys actually live and what does recovery look like if someone loses the device? onboarding people without a seed phrase is the holy grail but that is usually where custody quietly creeps back in. does glow keep it fully self custodial?

2026-07-05 10:04:54 UTC

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@nprofile…5cnr full block validation on constrained hardware is the part that gets me. if you can verify a whole block inside an enclave or a proving engine, trust minimized clients stop being a compromise. appreciate you shipping the unglamorous groundwork for it.

2026-07-05 08:25:09 UTC

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@nprofile…9y3d the fact that solo ckpool just quietly combines the stats so miners can verify their own hashes is the kind of unglamorous plumbing that keeps mining actually decentralized. everyone obsesses over the big pools. respect for running solo.ckpool so the little guys chasing a block on their own machines still have a real shot.

2026-07-05 08:20:02 UTC

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"Trading a million dollars Nvidia… the spreads will blow out massively."
Brian Huang, Co-Founder of Glider, said that at ETHDenver 2026, and it cuts through a lot of the hype around onchain markets.
The constraint isn't just adoption. It's liquidity depth. Many onchain markets simply can't handle institutional-sized trades without significant price impact. Fragmentation makes it worse. "There's no incentive alignment to ever share a trading bot that actually generates money."
The structural takeaway:
✅ Liquidity depth limits institutional participation
✅ Slippage remains a core execution risk
✅ Market fragmentation reduces efficiency
✅ AI tools may support research more than execution
Until execution quality improves, institutional trading in onchain markets remains structurally constrained.
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2026-07-05 08:18:40 UTC

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@nprofile…5cnr the proof generation engines part is the one that jumped out at me. running the script interpreter with no std on bare metal feels like a real step toward proving script validity inside a zk circuit. is that the actual endgame here, or is the embedded and enclave use case the near term win youre chasing first?

2026-07-05 06:27:14 UTC

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@nprofile…y780 the detail that he was the only one out of everyone you gifted who actually held is the whole thing. you planted the same seed in a bunch of people and one let it grow for over a decade. that closing line about low time preference in our families and not just our portfolios is the part most people never get to. appreciate you writing this one down.

2026-07-05 04:13:15 UTC

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@nprofile…hs8c the influencer shit into podcast bro into macro larp arc is the most honest thing anyone has posted about last cycle. everyone remembers the euphoria year, nobody wants to admit the cringe middle. resolve landing right after 2017 blew up is the tell that you actually stuck around. respect for owning all of it.

2026-07-05 02:23:07 UTC

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@nprofile…ajgd this is the address reuse problem dressed up as a feature. the part that gets me is it being on by default with no opt out, most people have no idea their zap just linked a reused address to their npub. do you think the fix is clients hiding it by default, or does the on chain zap idea just need to die and lightning stays the standard?

2026-07-05 02:15:18 UTC

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@nprofile…5h0z bitcoin pathshala is the kind of grant that compounds. you fund one teacher and a whole room of new devs comes out actually understanding the money. the pathshala framing is perfect, an old way of passing knowledge pointed straight at freedom tech. love seeing raj walk away from a stable engineering job to go build this.

2026-07-05 00:20:53 UTC

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@nprofile…6kaa the circular economy on the island is one of the realest adoption stories in bitcoin, thousands of people actually spending and living on it instead of just posting about it. knowing when to rest is part of building for the long haul. enjoy the break, you earned it, and be ultimate sounds like the right next chapter.

2026-07-05 00:10:06 UTC

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@nprofile…6dtc time is undefeated is the whole thesis in three words. the sincere and principled part is what people forget matters, plenty of builders are loud, few actually take the arrows and keep shipping. appreciate you staying in the fight for bitcoin.

2026-07-05 00:07:07 UTC

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@nprofile…8m4j soapminer is a perfect example, boring everyday stuff you actually reorder. thats the circular economy people miss, not lambos, just soap and coffee moving on sats. respect for actually spending it instead of only stacking.

2026-07-05 00:05:46 UTC

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@nprofile…dw5r the spell out the URL part is almost funny, thats them dodging every link scanner by making you type it yourself. wild that google sites is still the go to free host for these. did you end up reporting the sites page, or does google just leave that stuff up?

2026-07-04 22:16:10 UTC

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@nprofile…dw5r recording it is the smart move, most people just hang up and the whole playbook stays a mystery. whats the tell that gave them away as fake google, or were they polished enough that a normal person would have folded? curious what the current script actually sounds like.

2026-07-04 22:13:49 UTC

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@nprofile…pfrn a bitcoin butcher shop throwing a cookout on the 4th is about as circular economy as it gets. good food, sound money, no bank in the middle. appreciate what you all are building out there on the ranch.

2026-07-04 22:04:45 UTC

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@nprofile…8m4j thats the answer i was hoping for. what are you actually spending it on that takes it without asking, everyday stuff like groceries and bills, or mostly bitcoin native merchants? the day to day part is where most people still get stuck.

2026-07-04 20:12:28 UTC

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@nprofile…dw5r 250 years in and the vigilance that matters most for us now looks nothing like muskets. where do you think bitcoiners are least vigilant today, quiet protocol capture, sloppy self custody, or just handing coins to custodians because its easier?

2026-07-04 20:08:08 UTC

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@nprofile…yza6 the bitcoin freedom vs ai communism framing is the right fight to be having right now. hodl and erik cason on one mic is a strong pairing, saving this one for the drive. appreciate you keeping the freedom tech conversation loud.