Veronika
Veronika

Bitcoin-adjacent protocol research (L2s) | all things Longevity | tech-optimist

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2026-05-27 13:24:31 UTC

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🍄 next? :)

2026-03-28 16:26:59 UTC

🤫
https://image.nostr.build/9e5a706db1a011fb19406248c196b2f1d1085bee9cb6bda4ad3ee09a7be0a89e.jpg

2026-03-15 08:11:56 UTC

„The truth lies at the edges. You just need to find a way to come back from extremistan.”
~ anonymous

2026-03-10 08:28:14 UTC

Hehe, makes me smirk a little when I catch myself trying to lower the volume on my phone when I perceive someone talking too loud 🤓 #quirks

2026-03-02 12:05:15 UTC

so much alike and so different
https://image.nostr.build/2a334283f85504e8801c30fc25c5919ba65252430c5c9e53acaedbac1bf15d0a.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/02e8b71aeeec37f48de758f84cb9f0421c005a26fc3b58f27236a874501a18be.jpg

2026-03-02 09:18:05 UTC

The quiet joy of witnessing a person heal ✨

2026-02-26 16:34:17 UTC

Why is everything moving so fahaast? party party 🎈 ;)

2026-02-17 12:46:26 UTC

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It’s not even just energy *loss*, it’s energy sabotage. We’re actively degrading our own machinery through self-destructive behavior. Funny species we are 😁

2026-02-17 12:41:05 UTC

Kinda crazy to think that a good chunk of humanity’s problems could be solved with better sleep, less processed food, and nervous system regulation.
#nevent1q…gd4e

2026-02-17 12:39:08 UTC

I like how a good night’s sleep is becoming the new flex.

2026-01-31 09:24:36 UTC

First time in quite a while I listened to Bitcoin presentations and felt inspired
Energy in Africa is different

2026-01-31 09:17:53 UTC

First hub for Bitcoin Circular Economies will be built in Mossel Bay.
Land is bought, once some admin hurdles are taken, building of the hub will start! 🏠
https://image.nostr.build/d52249afdcdb24ce07c57cead2eb3b42941ec27b7d632d710e3b71bb891fe1de.jpg

2026-01-31 09:12:13 UTC

“Teaching people how to spend is teaching people how to save” 💯
https://image.nostr.build/bcc838ae584639ceb186302ad9eb569baef286f2c128c49d24b6b35288f2613e.jpg

2026-01-31 08:50:21 UTC

“The age of communities is here” 🔥
@npub1773…esjt @npub1nv4…x0gr
https://image.nostr.build/0afcc4be32bd54b1e5c3f469d6469c56edea28d63c47a110864a6573c6d9d5b6.jpg

2026-01-31 08:40:40 UTC

Goosebump energy at the opening of day two of Adopting Bitcoin Cape Town 🔥
#bitcoin #nostr #adoptingbitcoin
#capetown
@npub1p0x…deeh

2026-01-31 07:48:25 UTC

zebra style 🦓
https://image.nostr.build/51b32851a7ccac7527935b8e3cba3d4bebf0b130e3ea70d381ac0549df5555a4.jpg

2026-01-31 05:57:09 UTC

There is something deeply beautiful about feminine and masculine energy when they arise from a safe, grounded place.
https://image.nostr.build/9fccf653a688152d972cfe12515133510d35a1b957bff8a56d2f1659cd996972.jpg

2026-01-30 20:45:36 UTC

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We’ll get back to more holiness / humanity again. Not everyone. But many. Ppl are craving connection

2026-01-30 08:11:11 UTC

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Please elaborate

2026-01-30 08:10:45 UTC

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Aussie style table deco, I see I see.. 😁

2026-01-30 07:41:31 UTC

Morale will improve once humanity remembers its own divinity

2026-01-24 15:25:57 UTC

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Do it - it’s stunning!
I can’t recommend anything specific unfortunately, we just hiked a few days around El Chaltén/Fitz Roy, some standard tour it was.
Need to return myself some day to explore a bit further 😁

2026-01-24 07:27:52 UTC

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Nice shot.
Which country is that?

2026-01-24 04:44:45 UTC

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Gorgeous area! Highly recommended!

2026-01-22 09:38:41 UTC

I’ll be giving a technical intro session on Ark @npub1p0x…deeh - hope to see many peeps there soonish! 🫡

2026-01-13 13:17:39 UTC

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Seems like the recent recording with Danny was even more controversial than the usual Saylor takes. That even possible?

2026-01-11 15:20:33 UTC

This is a very decent, non-technical overview of the core idea of zero-knowledge proofs.
Most verification today is over-disclosure by default.
Zero-knowledge proofs decouple proof from disclosure. They let an entity prove that a statement is true (e.g. “this transaction is valid”, “a requirement is met”, “this identity got verified”) without revealing the underlying data.
ZK-KYC won't remove compliance, but it can remove unnecessary extraction, collection and storage of personal data. So, verification still happens, but no data honeypot is created.
#note1yq2…jyuu

2026-01-11 08:43:51 UTC

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😹 Not just vibe coding.
Actually, those doing the heaviest mental work are often the ones most actively suppressing emotional processing and, in turn, delaying catharsis the longest.

2026-01-11 08:37:25 UTC

A complete dissolution of what one once believed to be true.
#note1856…tsk7

2026-01-11 08:36:43 UTC

Between catharsis and rebirth lives the notion of bardo.

2026-01-11 08:27:02 UTC

Individually, it’s profound; collectively, it’s transformative.
#note1vuj…unkc

2026-01-11 08:24:21 UTC

I’m witnessing a rise in people experiencing intense personal catharsis.

2026-01-11 08:21:19 UTC

A person’s capacity for growth is closely linked to their willingness to face and work through the parts of their past that remain unresolved.

2026-01-05 08:56:37 UTC

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💙

2026-01-04 06:29:11 UTC

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I don’t think victim mentality helps here. It’s an easy escape route from taking on responsibility tho.

2026-01-03 15:22:18 UTC

Criticism isn’t the problem. Collapse fetishism is.

2026-01-02 16:44:44 UTC

Biophilic Design 🪾💚

2025-12-31 09:16:27 UTC

yin & yang ☯️

2025-12-30 08:14:33 UTC

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gm 🌞
https://image.nostr.build/e000fde1d5c005c3a8a4610950d8d45cd47cebb7d2bbe78d5f12b354fad5cc17.jpg

2025-12-30 06:34:38 UTC

Modern life is engineered to pull you in every direction, except inward.

2025-12-27 10:26:24 UTC

The sheer amount of beauty in this world is humbling

2025-12-25 16:48:22 UTC

👀👀
https://image.nostr.build/315f885c90a832ce55124528bacbb2eedb2d3d4cffc9f6055383cacf911c0eb0.jpg

2025-12-23 06:38:12 UTC

Grateful for those holding space

2025-12-22 16:23:57 UTC

Ppl desire to be seen until they are.

2025-12-20 13:31:45 UTC

SA will be the next Bitcoin country.
Bottom up adoption, tho, not top down. It’s happening.

2025-12-14 10:37:34 UTC

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One needs to know how and where to navigate in Bali, then it becomes a very decent experience.
But just arriving and stumbling around leaves you with the above, ack 😁😹

2025-12-13 07:48:36 UTC

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Guten Morgen!

2025-11-25 18:48:35 UTC

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Oh, thx for heads up

2025-11-25 08:35:41 UTC

Cashu just got a new .NET implementation.
DotNut by @npub1y24…z2ad is a full client library for interacting with cashu mints.
https://github.com/Kukks/DotNut

2025-09-01 10:40:44 UTC

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Super Video, well done!

2025-06-15 15:53:06 UTC

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Yep, but at least the cost is moved offchain and “transformed” from capital requirement to data overhead. I’m confident they’ll manage to optimize further.

2025-06-15 14:20:44 UTC

BitVM is quietly evolving:
The new design, BitVM3, drastically reduces onchain costs in the case of a challenge (by ~1000x).
In earlier versions, while challenging was permissionless, the high costs meant only a few well-capitalized entities could realistically participate in the process.
BitVM3 may change that, opening the door to a broader set of challengers.
The tradeoff: garbled circuits introduce a multi-terabyte offchain setup.
Reducing this overhead is an active research area and likely to see improvements.
https://bitvm.org/bitvm3.pdf

2025-04-27 07:15:18 UTC

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With some back and forth, it managed 7 steps. It’s interesting to analyze the mistakes it made on the way
https://video.nostr.build/df687880d92d3f5ff42698e5324f946df9dd2c8fa41967478fa35b751eee2609.mp4

2025-04-17 07:13:22 UTC

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What’s your stance on allowing below dust limit (ie non-standard) txs?
https://github.com/ark-network/ark/issues/479

2025-03-31 17:15:52 UTC

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Spermidine, NMN

2024-12-28 05:11:31 UTC

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When’s the next ubud meetup?

2024-07-18 23:30:44 UTC

nothing to see here 👀😁 #note1qnw…necg

2023-06-05 11:53:44 UTC

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Gm ☀️😀 https://nostr.build/i/c1a893d05a8768ca4171d485726ed835642e9bfa3f009acf5b50150bc525ef61.jpg

2023-06-05 11:51:42 UTC

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Don’t just be efficient with your own resources, but also repeat the resources of others
(written with all due respect in the sense of a friendly reminder)

2023-06-05 11:51:01 UTC

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https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=when+does+mica+come+into+effect

2023-05-27 08:35:40 UTC

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https://twitter.com/davidmarcus/status/1652753569081335808?s=20

2023-05-24 04:12:44 UTC

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It revolves rather around dark.fi

2023-05-18 13:01:44 UTC

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iiuc the federation itself would act as the statechain entity (SE) in this case.
If so, who holds the transitory key? The user itself? The user uses a federation *because* they don’t want to self-custody though.
Or would that key also be custodied by the fed? Like in any other Fedi-Setup.
If so, the fed still couldn’t move funds themselves, so safe here 👌
BUT this scenario wouldn’t protect against the fed being unresponsive/disappearing, no?
To broadcast the pre-signed, timelocked output tx, that I get as a user to protect me against the fed disappearing, the user needs its key, no?
I probably have some twist in my thinking..
Statechains + Fedimints are definitely a very interesting combination and quite some thoughts are popping up in my head.
Also need to do some more statechain digging.
An interesting feature of statechains is also that one can transfer ownership of one public key of a multisig UTXO (i.e. side of LN channel or position in DLC contract). I wonder how that could combine with federated channel factories or something alike where *users* can swap in and out.

2023-05-17 15:56:32 UTC

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Rather “SSP” btw:
Stability Service Provider.

2023-05-15 12:30:03 UTC

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This proposal seems to be describing something similar:
stability pools using spacechains
https://fiatjaf.com/569dcaa7.html

2023-05-15 08:46:01 UTC

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Just getting familiar with stability pools now. This is quite brilliant actually.
Are you also already looking into integrating the stability via DLCs?

2023-05-11 17:02:15 UTC

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Animal moves combined with dancing.
No boring reps, but fun.
Plus, it’s effective.
Add some hand balances and whoop!

2023-05-11 16:56:01 UTC

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Many try, many fail.
Do it one after the other.
First “clean up”, meaning to lose fat, then build quality meat aka muscle.

2023-05-11 05:00:04 UTC

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Which source or idea do you refer to when you say “Jeff Snider is correct”?

2023-05-10 08:07:15 UTC

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I tend to add onions and blue cheese - perfect pizza 😋

2023-05-09 17:36:42 UTC

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iiuc, any LSP can act as a gateway if they’re part of the respective mint.

2023-05-09 17:33:20 UTC

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Purity testing here? Yawn

2023-05-09 17:32:56 UTC

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That’s why clear and honest marketing is important.
Some folks probably now think that Lightning is expensive or partly unavailable because they’re using the lIgHtNiNg wAlLeT Muun

2023-05-09 04:36:09 UTC

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Never wrapped my head around why a product is being advertised as LN wallet, while it’s actually an on-chain wallet with submarine swap support

2023-05-05 11:58:21 UTC

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👏👏👏

2023-04-23 09:12:00 UTC

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It’s awesome! ✨😀

2023-04-01 12:14:03 UTC

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Best take today

2023-04-01 08:12:27 UTC

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That’s probably the best one so far today

2023-04-01 08:11:52 UTC

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Is this supposed to be funny?
#april1

2023-03-28 12:36:25 UTC

Two big milestones reached today!
1. BIP327: "MuSig2 for BIP340-compatible Multi-Signatures" got merged (https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/1372)
2. Route Blinding has been added to the lightning spec (https://github.com/lightning/bolts/pull/765)
Huge respect & a big thanks to everyone involved! Great work! 💜💥

2023-03-18 07:54:57 UTC

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In due time, it will come..

2023-03-06 00:21:18 UTC

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💜

2023-03-05 05:15:09 UTC

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Do you even sleep at all?! 💥🪄

2023-03-04 08:42:23 UTC

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BOLT12 is on its way!
#[0]

2023-03-04 00:13:30 UTC

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Congrats! 💕😀

2023-03-03 01:28:17 UTC

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I might miss something here; why is this a brave action?

2023-03-03 01:27:27 UTC

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Because WoS —> WoS?

2023-03-01 02:02:46 UTC

Had a couple of eureka moments these days digging into scriptless scripts and adaptor signatures.
Why is it that there’s so little conversation about these topics?
This stuff is (cryptographic) magic 🪄

2023-02-26 10:25:09 UTC

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good one ;)

2023-02-26 06:51:51 UTC

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lol, I read this on my feed and was like "heard that one before, but, wtf, does he really believe that stuff?!"
*puts kristaps into conspiracy peeps category*
then I read the initial post 🙃

2023-02-25 12:43:47 UTC

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Hehe, I was tempted to do the same joke.
Feeling left out here as a non-programmer 😥😉

2023-02-25 11:33:49 UTC

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First of all, I like “clean” dichotomies, which leads me to custodial & non-custodial, custodial & self-custodial doesn’t fulfill this as nicely.
The issue with custodial & non-custodial is that the favored option (non-custodial) is the negated form. Any negation carries a subtle negative connotation with it. Doesn’t matter for people who understood the concept, but for absolute beginners, such subtle nuances in language can make the difference on which option they’re leaning towards.
So, I would love to have a short, one-word, that describes the concept of self-custody, which we can then negate and we have the custodied option.
After some consideration, I think such term doesn’t actually exist. So, we either come up with a completely new word or .. we just stick with the current terms
🤷‍♀️

2023-02-25 11:20:37 UTC

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Plz someone zap 8k sats ;)

2023-02-25 11:19:34 UTC

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Giving trust when establishing a new relationship doesn’t mean, you skip the verification process if that trust given is justified.
Enough esoteric relationship blah!
Have a beautiful birthday evening :)

2023-02-25 11:17:05 UTC

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Me too ;)
And older than you are with my own wounds.
Well-working relationships are too precious, though, to not try and invest again and again 😌

2023-02-25 11:14:49 UTC

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It’s not about luck, it’s about investment.
Not financially, but emotionally.

2023-02-25 11:14:07 UTC

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If this is how you enter new relationships, this is what you’ll get.
No matter how often you got burned, it might make sense to give every new relationship, be it romantic or friends, the chance to become solid.
If you don’t do that, you’ll end up lonely 100%.
If you enter new relationships going all in on trust, you might get burnt and you might end up lonely as well, but you might as well not.

2023-02-25 11:10:34 UTC

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It is, but I was wondering if any term exists, that doesn't need the "self" prefix.
ChatGPT came up with all kinds of "self-" ideas.

2023-02-25 10:19:21 UTC

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What about non-anons?
I’m in zapping mode.. ;)

2023-02-25 10:18:42 UTC

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Which client are you using?
Damus is super convenient.
If you want to get the full zapping experience, try Snort with Alby (via browser). Just add your nostr key in the Alby extension and then use the Alby public key for the snort login. Sounds confusing, but super simple. It’s worth it ⚡️