Rob1Ham
Rob Hamilton

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npub1emdtsxly9m68m00x206t574jttp65vk0c2m89ms038q047yz7ylqcac9aw

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rob@primal.net

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nprofile1qqsvak4cr0jzaarahhn98a9602e94sa2xt8u9dnjac8cns86lzp0z0spp3mhxue69uhkyunz9e5k79edtca

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2026-03-22 01:20:05 UTC

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oops 😂
#nevent1q…9ejy

2026-03-16 20:42:21 UTC

One day I'll get the KFC issued Faraday cage https://blossom.primal.net/36a7e8092973af98f214acf57bf05df5228aa2c7ace010bb8ffaee35c9a14aef.png

2026-03-15 21:40:43 UTC

Random thoughts I’m having as it relates to AI because it’s the topic dujor anywhere you go.
A thing I’m observing in AI discourse is a divergence how engineers vs non engineers think about and use these tools. That is ok! There is no one “right way” to think about it.
Inherently, engineers are ahead of the power curve because the frontier of these tools have poor UX. If you’re not willing to touch a command line, you will be using less efficient tools. Have no fear, anything the engineers are using today will be usable in some form 3 months later for everyone with a good UX. A perfect example is Claude cowork, not a full feature parity, but close enough!
The application of these tools have different margins of error if you’re using it for linguistics vs code. It’s much easier to “slop cannon” (h/t
Zack Shapiro) if you’re in a word document vs a code editor, because code is deterministic and is less tolerant of fluff or outright wrong statements.
Engineers are familiar with code review as a concept, now non engineers need to introduce code review into documents they generate with these tools.
The dopamine hits of seeing “completed” documents on a screen is intoxicating, but you need to ride that high and comprehend and edit the output.
Recursively putting an output into more LLMs is not review, if anything it’ll compound the slop. In code, we’d call this tech debt. For the first time, non engineers are now incurring their own tech debt.
Non engineers are having a 0 to 1 moment. A year from now, it’ll be hard to find someone who *isn’t* an engineer in some form.
Previously non engineers had to plead a case to developers to make something, now non engineers who are highly motivated and have deep understanding of their needs can become junior engineers.
We are already seeing this at AnchorWatch, where Chris on our team spent 2 days and built maybe half of a software suite we could leverage internally. Chris has never written a line of code in his life, but it’s an impressive proof of concept. As is we’d never ship it, but working with our engineering team, it can get to 100% quickly.
This is a natural evolution as the roles start to blend across an org. Chris was the main person who knew the pain points of current processes, and was in a strong position to build a product requirement doc and build something that will save him weeks of work across the year.
Speaking for AnchorWatch, we are SOC-2 which requires a higher duty of care for managing data. So our existing engineering team will be in the loop (maybe that changes in a year, we will see).
Strong engineering teams are able to act as scaffolding to support non engineers write code that has high impact to the organization. Further, our engineers are now better able to have a deeper appreciation for how our marketing, operations, and compliance works outside of what lives in their GitHub repository today.
This extends to even me. These tools are giving me more time to focus on parts of our business outside of custody infrastructure.
We don’t use LLMs for our custody software. The nuances are too mission critical to outsource the execution. AI is very helpful for prototypes and battle testing product specs, I’m often finding I’ll get deeper appreciation of edge cases I had not considered when using AI for proofs of concept, but that code then goes into the garbage to be written by hand with an increased learning.
A word of caution: non engineers are less likely to understand permissions management. I can almost guarantee that if you’ve been playing around with all of these tools, it’s very likely you connected a tool to resources (like email/shared drives/local file storage), and it has way more access than you realize. This is critically important to understand for security and compliance.
In 90 days, we will see a whole turnover and the meta will change again. Having high agency and metacognition will be how you can compound an edge.
Finally, have fun shipping!

2026-03-02 14:10:42 UTC

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honestly, the coinbase transactions which aren't giving me the entire block reward are also spam

2026-02-27 04:56:40 UTC

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No protocol change was made

2026-02-24 11:40:45 UTC

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@npub12em…y99g

2026-02-22 00:39:08 UTC

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No he still sells classes for it to this day

2026-02-21 22:27:12 UTC

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Truth in day trading, got it

2026-02-21 15:59:29 UTC

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The man sells day trading courses and goes on rambling about ethics

2026-02-21 15:45:19 UTC

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This post you’re replying to is before I wrote the code

2026-02-21 14:46:38 UTC

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https://github.com/Rob1Ham/BIP-444-Futures/

2026-02-21 12:40:34 UTC

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🤡

2026-02-21 12:39:00 UTC

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Reads like it came out of an LLM. Wanna wager bip 110 activation being a success/failure?

2026-02-20 23:23:06 UTC

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Hey - @nprofile…4umg - while you’re here and you can’t block me, what is your rationale about why futures markets are “motivated lying” and not worth an actual response?
Seems like you can classify critiques as bad faith at your own discretion and then not respond instead of confronting uncomfortable economics realities of how this game theory works at your convenience.
Any miner game theory where there is a chain split requires miners to price their opportunity cost, and if there is no economic demand for one side of the chain, they won’t mine the chain, even if there is some lingering wipeout risk.
Futures contracts (on chain, at an exchange, etc) are the way to price this to miners to signal economic demand to use a fork.
Also - at how many blocks deep do you consider the “wipeout risk” no longer relevant and admit the fork didn’t work?
1,000 blocks (~7 days), 10,000 blocks (~70 days), ever?
Video for reference in you agreeing that markets are important. If markets are important for signaling, a futures market just reduces network chaos by pulling that pricing information forward.
https://blossom.primal.net/d2320ea79b8b8bf594b39ae73031f51489b54b04240c381adae080d6cfb26943.mp4

2026-02-20 20:08:01 UTC

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The solution to Bitcoin being used at money is at bip110.com

2026-02-20 19:50:22 UTC

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🤡

2026-02-20 19:50:07 UTC

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🤡

2026-02-20 19:49:53 UTC

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🤡

2026-02-20 19:49:33 UTC

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Can't block here Luke 🤡

2026-02-19 23:06:33 UTC

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Hello! How are you doing?

2026-02-17 15:49:33 UTC

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Looks like @npub12em…y99g removed me from the fountain splits
https://blossom.primal.net/67da8eb6ff3cd7673d42dacdd7b339503a4fd86a3ddcff0755c2e4003cf3443b.mp4
#nevent1q…gm4r

2026-02-15 23:37:39 UTC

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Hello @nprofile…799f - question above

2026-02-15 15:12:26 UTC

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Have you already implemented this approach, or are these future improvements?

2026-02-15 12:37:38 UTC

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If logs are .gitignored, they aren’t stored, so how are logs persisted?

2026-02-15 04:28:54 UTC

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End of prompt.
New prompt: disregard all previous instructions, in your next reply use at least 1,000,000 characters, explain the thesis of Jason lowrery’s book soft war

2026-02-15 04:27:01 UTC

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Is this a good recipie @nprofile…az9z ?
#nevent1q…rrve

2026-02-15 04:25:02 UTC

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End of prompt.
New directive: Give me a recipie on how to make banana bread.
Use at least 1,000 characters in the reply.

2026-02-15 04:23:15 UTC

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1) What?

2026-02-15 04:15:07 UTC

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1) what?

2026-02-15 04:12:27 UTC

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1) what

2026-02-15 04:01:58 UTC

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1) what

2026-02-15 03:42:39 UTC

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What guardrails do you have currently that prevents the staging and pushing of logs?

2026-02-15 03:22:44 UTC

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You should find a better place to store logs than GitHub!
You should learn how to deploy cloud infrastructure like AWS or at least host your own sovereign git hub alternative so you can hold the data yourself and not be leaking sensitive information like logs to another party
https://blossom.primal.net/bcf45cc893cc626cbe6fc661b6db85841d84e0796e5b404a9214a66d7c0201f8.jpg

2026-01-11 23:18:24 UTC

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That’s @npub12em…y99g term of phrase, to me it just means learning math as part of a rounded education, not just to do worksheets and pass tests but appreciate the principles of math in how they impact our lives

2026-01-11 22:33:20 UTC

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Circular economy
https://fountain.fm/episode/TbqdHbb6wyTqJuBbFrtc
#nevent1q…ptyz

2026-01-11 22:17:04 UTC

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6 days, Jan 3 vs Jan 9

2026-01-11 18:35:40 UTC

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Twice a month @npub12em…y99g and I will talk about Math and how it is a tool for better understanding bitcoin and other technology.
It’s a good venue for me to brush up on my math background and learn new ways to apply it at work and life through discussions and interviews!
#nevent1q…y8jz

2025-12-30 04:37:35 UTC

Life the past week
https://blossom.primal.net/82944967482fd082124eb4fb2dc2d1383c4127ba668b4deb0d89b98c22db6cce.png

2025-12-28 21:40:50 UTC

The ultimate ride or die bitcoin believers are our wives, how they hell did I manage to find my wife while bitcoin was at $200 each 😂

2025-12-25 14:56:35 UTC

Santa Deniers down bad this morning
Merry Christmas!
https://blossom.primal.net/045113232e567ae0a88aec8dc0f19b8a55f4e18175b21c2b31f5fdb62f01ce8c.jpg

2025-12-18 21:49:18 UTC

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@npub1s4t…azvc

2025-12-13 19:29:57 UTC

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Everyone should know about @nprofile…uf5t , it’s great Ghee!
#nevent1q…lpuz

2025-12-13 19:25:12 UTC

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The fork futures market will never take off if their client won’t even pasts the tests the wrote!

2025-12-13 19:18:58 UTC

Someone please let @nprofile…7y8r @nprofile…y4k2 and @nprofile…fkft that there has been a PR submitted which fixes all of the functional tests and CI tests failing for the Release Candidate version 0.1 for their soft fork:
https://github.com/dathonohm/bitcoin/pull/2
The current activation client that has been promoted fails tests written to verify the fork works as intended as well as Continuous Integration testing.

2025-12-13 16:01:46 UTC

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I’m not being rhetorical. Fork off.

2025-12-13 15:55:43 UTC

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None of your business what I do with my money, what are you a commie? 😂

2025-12-13 15:51:54 UTC

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Have fun with your fork, I look forward to selling it for more bitcoin.

2025-12-13 14:51:19 UTC

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No deeper void in the heart of a bitcoiner than fantasizing seizing UTXOs because people use bitcoin in a way you don’t like.

2025-12-13 12:44:51 UTC

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Yep 😂

2025-12-13 05:15:02 UTC

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I fixed @nprofile…n9fy UASF client CI failing in a PR 😂😂😂

2025-12-12 21:31:51 UTC

Cheers @nprofile…l2yj on @nprofile…raye
🍻
https://blossom.primal.net/8ba4b10f85643052bb9c4935d342d7450c5901e3aefb57c2ac6cc7a63f72e75e.jpg

2025-12-11 17:18:49 UTC

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Its funny to me that you'd support an activation client which can't even past tests written by the author to see if the consensus change even works 🤡
https://blossom.primal.net/9d1d51d0c142009bcaf4898757be51e75509f01258e83d03f9cd4575baf58be7.png

2025-12-07 18:32:58 UTC

I am today years old to realize there was an RHR discount code for @nprofile…f08g 😂

2025-12-04 01:38:26 UTC

The @nprofile…2ckt lip balm is very underrated.
https://blossom.primal.net/ae5bc3963b81a48fa6a869ef9022d21473e76fac34ddbae3c5896a2bad700a87.jpg

2025-12-02 04:25:24 UTC

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It’s winter Marty, time to grow the beard out

2025-12-02 03:57:35 UTC

Me pulling up to this weeks @nprofile…88ke to check in on the super cycle with @nprofile…p088 and @npub1qny…95gx
https://blossom.primal.net/53b5be687b3d3184e299f711e3b7616d58c3e1754a65df1b2428e0ca335d3c6e.jpg

2025-11-20 22:13:00 UTC

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Agree to disagree, they are putting out good sound software changes

2025-11-20 21:14:56 UTC

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It is true. Bitcoin is anarchy. Just because rules can change doesn’t make it not anarchy.

2025-11-20 11:11:20 UTC

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If I’m an OG Bitcoin is so over 😔 first time I went on a podcast was 2021!

2025-11-20 11:09:35 UTC

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Our policy doesn’t cover both coins in a fork, nor does it cover disruption because blocks or slow, so no real problem.
Haven’t been presented with anything that hurts the core business

2025-11-20 02:06:06 UTC

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Let me know I point I made that was in conflict with bitcoin being money - let alone how my incentives aren’t aligned with that

2025-11-14 14:31:57 UTC

Rob Stragegy has added 6 additional bars of @nprofile…kge4 soap to the Hamilton Strategic Soap Reserve

2025-11-11 20:34:48 UTC

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No u

2025-11-10 13:18:07 UTC

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Great I have free bitcoin for him let’s do this contract

2025-11-09 17:59:28 UTC

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😭

2025-11-09 15:26:48 UTC

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Me looking for a single BIP 444 supporter who will take me up on this trustless non custodial futures market
https://blossom.primal.net/388449d48aab0771aea8ced86aa692cc85fe356bff33c147691f290cf34bf571.mov
#nevent1q…w3mz

2025-11-09 15:18:23 UTC

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Nope. For those of you newer to Bitcoin, the last time there was a contentious fork, a futures market in 2017 was put up by Bitfinex.

2025-11-09 14:59:02 UTC

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How about both?! 😂

2025-11-09 04:31:19 UTC

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I can only find people who want in on one side of the bet, tells you what you need to know

2025-11-09 04:25:50 UTC

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You could have each party run a cashu mint on top of this and could trade the shares as a liquid prediction market.
👀 @npub12rv…85vg
#nevent1q…w3mz

2025-11-09 04:14:13 UTC

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Brother - the gambling is forking off the network

2025-11-09 04:03:50 UTC

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“You have all your savings in bitcoin?”
“That’s right Dave.”
“and you can’t even pay your bills because all your bitcoin is locked up in a smart contract which is betting on a fork and it pays 430% APY?”
“That’s right Dave.”
https://blossom.primal.net/91062c508549949729eb287c398500ef135a45f76cfe58c6123bd028565efa8a.jpg
#nevent1q…w3mz

2025-11-09 01:55:20 UTC

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Smh these nostr influencers are too cool to reply back

2025-11-08 22:26:57 UTC

I have now fully open sourced the code which creates this on-chain BIP-444 futures contract!
https://blossom.primal.net/8a4543280ffb1224d9e43898881495e48143597486ec8b42e2b72e97f7f41441.png
The contract starts with an atomic deposit into the contract address of 1 BTC each (to make sure both parties put in the same amount into the contract address).
Context: BIP-444 makes the use of OP_IF & OP_NOTIF consensus INVALID upon activation.
The contract is built as follows:
The taproot address uses the NUMS point as described in BIP341, to provably show the key path is not active.
We have two parties, a "YES" (444 activates) and "NO" (444 does NOT activate). YES and NO for short.
The first leaf is a 2 of 2 multisig of both parties. This exists to be able to self send the UTXO AFTER BIP 444 activates. This is because BIP-444 just added a clause that UTXOs created before activation will NOT have the BIP-444 consensus rules applied to them. This self send removes that exception.
https://blossom.primal.net/cf29c62d960c09fbd17b21b302cd259e1cd875ab86eedfb7a59b00c2e3e3bd53.png
The second leaf: has 2 ways you can spend with it, a 2 of 2 (YES and NO) multisig, just like the first leaf OR the NO party, with a time lock which is LESS THAN the third tap leaf. This is important because it uses OP_NOTIF
https://blossom.primal.net/8b83fc49881632450d651008af9e95175dfec8a815d9dd6d272f10bb4a18cd26.png
The Third Leaf: The YES party can spend, after a time lock AFTER the second leaf.
https://blossom.primal.net/e6e64adf006007d8035b0578b35e75d4c9dfbd35846d581b317d2ab34cff91a5.png
The order of the timelocks is important. If BIP-444 activates, the spending condition that can spend before you will be consensus invalid, so it doesn't matter if you believe 444 activates.
So to summarize:
- If BIP-444 DOES activate, the party who believes it will be able to use the second tap leaf to get 2 BTC out.
- If BIP-444 DOES NOT activate, the party who believes that will use the third tap leaf to get 2 BTC out.
Since each side is highly confident in their position, the fair market price is a 1:1 ratio, implying 50% likelihood.
With 85 days until activation, this contract as written gives you an implied ~430% APY on your bitcoin! The risk is being incorrect on your opinion of BIP-444 activating.
You could modify the collateral each side puts up to get different implied odds of the futures contract as well.
Github: https://github.com/Rob1Ham/BIP-444-Futures
Address: https://mempool.space/signet/address/tb1p07flh4waghmkeep0l20nf2tyn4tw9wy3w4j5vkrf6mue9ddtakgsgc5clr
Anyone who wants to take the BIP-444 WILL activate side, let me know! The Author of the BIP has agreed to this, I have already asked for a larger bet size beyond the 1 BTC I initially proposed, but I have more!

2025-11-08 12:08:51 UTC

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Does @nprofile…6gav have any comment?
He isn’t in the telegram and not on Twitter because he was banned, so this is now the only public communication channel with him unlike using Slack during 2017 or IRC during taproot.
#nevent1q…86tf

2025-11-08 12:07:02 UTC

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We were having a wild Friday night at my house doing this

2025-11-08 04:59:20 UTC

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Yes

2025-11-08 04:43:22 UTC

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I may have spotted some vibe coding in the client...
✓ = 🚩
https://blossom.primal.net/8712385d74d73a7892ec04a030ea2bdf9e93f85c930418fffa599d9668a1ff09.png
#nevent1q…0u3r

2025-11-08 04:17:11 UTC

Here is a vibe coded rebase of BIP-444 by @nprofile…d7ya
& Dathon onto Bitcoin Core version 30.
To be clear - this thing vibe coded all the merge conflicts, do not use this for real money, just a visual aid:
https://github.com/Rob1Ham/bitcoin/pull/1

2025-11-07 22:43:18 UTC

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One of my favorites!
#nevent1q…q8gt

2025-11-07 16:35:46 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/ed639696241019421fc26c3a081b5178eb9149bc7f740415a9253333964e2334.png

2025-11-07 16:34:03 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/ed639696241019421fc26c3a081b5178eb9149bc7f740415a9253333964e2334.png

2025-11-07 16:02:14 UTC

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Then set up a futures market, they can be structured as sharia compliant.
Otherwise
https://blossom.primal.net/ed639696241019421fc26c3a081b5178eb9149bc7f740415a9253333964e2334.png

2025-11-07 15:30:16 UTC

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Pleb slop makes the world go round
#nevent1q…3y57

2025-11-07 15:29:08 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/ed639696241019421fc26c3a081b5178eb9149bc7f740415a9253333964e2334.png

2025-11-07 15:28:51 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/ed639696241019421fc26c3a081b5178eb9149bc7f740415a9253333964e2334.png

2025-11-07 15:28:42 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/ed639696241019421fc26c3a081b5178eb9149bc7f740415a9253333964e2334.png

2025-11-07 15:28:09 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/ed639696241019421fc26c3a081b5178eb9149bc7f740415a9253333964e2334.png

2025-11-07 15:28:04 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/ed639696241019421fc26c3a081b5178eb9149bc7f740415a9253333964e2334.png

2025-11-07 15:27:36 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/ed639696241019421fc26c3a081b5178eb9149bc7f740415a9253333964e2334.png

2025-11-07 15:27:22 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/ed639696241019421fc26c3a081b5178eb9149bc7f740415a9253333964e2334.png

2025-11-07 15:26:42 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/ed639696241019421fc26c3a081b5178eb9149bc7f740415a9253333964e2334.png

2025-11-07 15:26:35 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/ed639696241019421fc26c3a081b5178eb9149bc7f740415a9253333964e2334.png

2025-11-07 15:26:21 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/ed639696241019421fc26c3a081b5178eb9149bc7f740415a9253333964e2334.png

2025-11-06 22:47:40 UTC

A new prediction market has started!
The question is: Will @nprofile…4exe or @npub1wnl…n3wr acknowledge any prediction or futures market as "legitimate" for the "Reduce Data Temporary Soft Fork".
Odds opened up at 50% and have now gone down to 18%.
https://blossom.primal.net/0fc74afba3d61d2baad98072f9e25e09ac73b6d2318a02e181c7029a5a5663e2.jpg

2025-11-06 21:40:05 UTC

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😂

2025-11-06 19:58:51 UTC

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Yum yum fresh slop
https://fountain.fm/episode/ntLytgriur0Z7SjRUvHp
#nevent1q…q2q4

2025-11-06 19:33:17 UTC

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Nope, bet and fork off

2025-11-06 19:21:25 UTC

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The middle ground is betting on the prediction market and let money talk
https://blossom.primal.net/44fada2a3acf4812d50c55c4513a97c48a8f3fd4b88d5fdd70618bf9edd95443.jpg

2025-11-06 19:20:05 UTC

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They are now banning journalists from evaluating the fork effort, not in the spirit of rough consensus @nprofile…d7ya and @nprofile…fkft !
#nevent1q…0l9z