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I have no idea how normal people can tolerate legal streaming. I have seen people use a D-pad on their smart tv remote to spell the name of a show or movie on an alphabetical keyboard. they will repeat this process in four separate subscription apps, then completely give up and switch to flipping through slop suggestions. it's fucking horrible. I wouldn't consume media legally even if I had unlimited funds.
https://image.nostr.build/f86e9fceb8fb1d918ecf7e9fabbca58981d83c002e4dd57c6fa89c5df0428767.png

2026-05-22 05:24:47 UTC

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you're just trying to trick me into reinstalling amethyst
https://blossom.primal.net/29021aa01c53b24fae6babd9698e3a4e9e44a8e0f6668da9e870635d580d3c41.jpg

2026-05-22 00:41:22 UTC

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the "I want to use something other than lightning" talk is definitely increasing lately

2026-05-21 21:34:14 UTC

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they are definitely using "words and phrases" tech on different types of people via different types of genres. and it's in the cartoons and video games and just about everything really.
really small artists might pass these mind control artifacts unknowingly. but the smaller the better. I only like music from small artists.
my pet theory of why some people like anime is that the japanese mind control agenda isn't congruent with the western mind control agenda, so it hits us "wrong" and doesn't feel as manipulative.
https://blossom.primal.net/f8da7e0167e15bb791d22b5a17c4881a0aaa3a485a6182690e8309f1e41d0066.mp4

2026-05-21 19:06:53 UTC

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well that's what caucasian means silly

2026-05-21 19:03:22 UTC

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is your family from Georgia, Armenia, or Azerbaijan?

2026-05-21 04:00:10 UTC

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shielded csv would scale 100x better than FCMP monero if my napkin math isn't lying, and you wouldn't even be using the blockchain to deliver the payments if you don't want to. sadly it doesn't exist yet.

2026-05-21 00:23:51 UTC

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fascinating. I was looking for something a little more discoverable but this is still fun. here is my forum:
https://nowhr.xyz/s#tZVtb5swEMfFNzmxN5vUJH7A4FRLJfbUqsvSRdqmqIpWXEKBjQQKpCRLlM8-GwhLuy1rO1UCHWeff3ccf-MJGV5cd1l40YpFPCDzKzu1z6g9MvLge-v4fBT07f6N2WdvPxfH8YFzUfixyKeeiMAZzDV9825N-2EGm9fOPNxOHcDGnsynl16WH4AvltLC19heo8XGdmwaiAyc99fOYKAdjqPsxofFNJplPT3I8-Sw0ymKol3Qdpz6HYIQ6sgIHW5Cr3gVL3o6AgQYlbd-NI68KAqTzANXTjGig7vs6aa0qfQJl1b6BOmwno-0nv7M4xMmqHQ_LpUrEDeYW7mtNUvkGG4zvSPBqefmICFUwiTDMmVUGWDp4Pw4VZFmlYb-B92gT0ln_CnpZvcp6aSqnaEtHRsNnld48xH4Xb0Qo9KLgSqeyqD0gskjwInIA5j09A-YA0UwxAbIJ3URGBIE6iKg3qpGu1x0TW8v-jaYcCBdGFIC2FIpMJZgXoLNx4B3W4Fx3QrStFZ1QrWcWXJFGuci9563SJnWIC8e0qHfs20bX-vEqrKxBjoxLg1-D6gbpm5UM-vNbyhY9Vm2tHr53QXmfRbc0kudglqNvFXZjcqdY6z9u-ZG4KgUOG22D9vqm6hSSkG2fymRUnpHZwSY0hkCJkVmgKkcXjomMPTgXjZgq4QMuTQEuAQ3RTjWm70vSGovCmeeKxK5YHCq3e27Ks2td3ZaaeAPdA_hS7U_d-i8JCk2LHD1F1jWdkHktPpR13Yf5G8lqnPm6OUJWp0F8kBzPllry9XG40R5RZzmQeRlcvzb-XZwEmb-PMvDmQ_r1kJbhWg1msahOvQSMU1kvHy6isTM91ZfrJ8_qIM56CXNB54H-eha_h3wL39wZfXPe_zmw4GuRVs1boVxewsSXNGFq3JJjsBOJp7zAEMlPi9gzghK8pFGzREJ

2026-05-20 19:27:02 UTC

nostr doesn't have a good enough replacement for the forum. we just have stacker news. it's too focused on earning money and being bitcoin branded and the UX smells like reddit. I hate stacker news. it's totally cringe. I want a UX closer to xenforo or imageboards. and I want it so that anyone can choose to be a moderator of a forum and anyone can ignore the moderator's actions if they do a bad job. we have "groups" in some clients but the UX is all over the place and smells too much like microblogging.

2026-05-20 01:02:35 UTC

@npub1m5s…gjl3 @npub1lxz…svxa you tricked me into trying amethyst. I hated it. why did you trick me?

2026-05-19 00:16:20 UTC

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I'll just wait until @npub1m5s…gjl3 lets us know on δ if he hates it

2026-05-15 18:40:58 UTC

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2026-05-15 15:46:14 UTC

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can you think of a method besides doxxing yourself in public. to expand on that, can you think of a way so that a person can prove they do not control two different self-sovereign identities?

2026-05-15 14:42:43 UTC

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there's also the issue with providing what happened to an arbitrator. it's easier to prove you sent an amazon card earmarked to the other person's email address. even with cash in mail with some difficulty you can show evidence you sent something to the address you were supposed to send it to and they need to open it on camera to prove wrongdoing. it needs to be easy to verify the payment.

2026-05-15 14:26:27 UTC

people confuse me for a monero worshipper. I want something else which doesn't exist yet. but it's hard to believe that bitcoin will ever get that thing because you retards want to ossify your trusted third parties and never improve bitcoin again. and it's easy to recognize the dominant currency on DNMs and the reasons why they don't use lightning.
ossify? ossify what? what are you ossifying?

2026-05-15 14:18:19 UTC

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it's easier to double spend a Walmart giftcard. from the bisq docs when you pay with an Amazon gift card I'm pretty sure you need to create the card as earmarked for your counterparty, so you can't just spend it before they do. with the Walmart gift card that's not possible. the system needs to be limited to payment methods which are hard to double spend or claw back. that pretty much leaves cash in mail as the best option besides zelle. I have seen other platforms let you sell double spend vulnerable gift cards but you get less for them.

2026-05-14 23:06:34 UTC

what do these things have in common?
>a nostr client with a google sign in button
>a bitcoin wallet with a trusted third party
>a woman with an adam's apple

2026-05-14 22:28:50 UTC

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why are you trying to invite people in who are stupid enough to click on a "log in with google" button? they should be ridiculed until they change their ways. that's called gatekeeping and it's for maintaining a cultural standard. go make a bluesky app if you're just going to be like this.

2026-05-13 17:10:15 UTC

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fuck, they got micron too?

2026-05-09 00:38:13 UTC

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anything that pays miners is a good thing. transaction fee revenue needs to gradually replace the block subsidy... but alex, you will eventually run into the same problem everyone runs into. if you cause too much L1 activity to happen, the users will slam into a brick wall when blocks get full. the fees skyrocket and the user experience is destroyed.
some people think the way around this is lightning or cashu or something else. others think it's to increase the blocksize or enable a better way to have merge mined sidechains.
you might make @npub1jvx…7yqz really happy if you enable tipping on rootstock, which is the best merge-mined sidechain that can be made today. hopefully a covenants soft-fork will enable sidechains to get even better someday. but doing this on L1 is just as much of a dead end as lightning is.

2026-05-02 02:22:24 UTC

if you think the secure enclave idea makes cashu safe, you have the IQ of a turkey sandwich

2026-05-01 16:30:49 UTC

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please stop calling this non-custodial

2026-05-01 15:21:55 UTC

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bisq is jank. they are focusing too much on features nobody cares about when they should first add the existing bisq 1 features people actually use to bisq 2, then sunset bisq 1.

2026-04-28 00:57:29 UTC

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2026-04-25 08:02:34 UTC

paul's hard fork is not any less sane or rational than what most of the bitcoin ecosystem is already doing. there is already a critical mass of people openly tolerating bitcoin treasury scams. there are now multiple centralized L2s controlled by creepy companies alongside literal fake bitcoin affinity scams being passed off as the real thing. monero and freaking tether have soaked up all the real activity that remains. all the usage patterns have lead to an extended fee market collapse. the users have never been dumber or less sovereign. best of all, there are people demanding to ossify, as if we're somehow in the ideal state and it should never change. it's simply disgusting.

2026-04-25 06:51:48 UTC

both Luke Dashjr and Paul Storcz have decided to put their money where their mouths are this year

2026-04-21 17:44:49 UTC

if you don't like the Arbitrum situation, don't copy them! stop making centralized or permissioned L2s on bitcoin. activate covenants and unlock something better.

2026-04-17 21:53:45 UTC

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this is the result of putting store of value before medium of exchange and listening to charlatans like saifedean

2026-04-10 00:07:29 UTC

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I think the spaceman stuff is fake and they are really just designing and testing stuff that will be used in weapons... but I also think the earth is a globe. what do I win?

2026-04-08 06:04:26 UTC

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make that three because of mostard. not sure if still maintained
to complete everything we need to convince the ethereum community to give up on farcaster

2026-04-06 18:54:02 UTC

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if this destroys the ability to find truthful and qualified applicants over the Internet, so be it. make people show up in person. if not to the jobsite then at least to an agency that can vouch for the applicant

2026-04-04 21:19:22 UTC

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hang on I need to fix your audio. sorry about that guys

2026-04-04 21:08:44 UTC

90% of the flesh and blood human support for knots/bip110 comes from dupes who still haven't figured out that node count is a gameable metric and that's why there's proof of work. you have to literally not understand the whitepaper to support this stupid crap

2026-04-02 19:38:11 UTC

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a bean pretending to be a rabbit pretending to be a strawberry. in one word, schizophrenia.

2026-04-01 05:06:46 UTC

if I were larry ellison, 30,000 would not be enough

2026-03-31 16:55:55 UTC

we have interviewed former oracle employees. they were all fucking awful. my boss hired one and he had to be terminated 20 days later

2026-03-30 16:01:41 UTC

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we got a primitive that lets one user reuse a UTXO many times. okay cool. I don't appreciate the rube goldberg scaffolding that evolved around HTLCs but it does free up some room I guess. it doesn't scale users. it still requires each user to have their own UTXO. this is the foundation of most of the lightning criticism.
what we need now is a primitive that lets multiple people reuse a UTXO many times. we are emulating it with presigned transactions in a centralized way, we get too many trust and liveliness assumptions as a consequence, and we do it in constructs that don't pass the fee revenue to miners. we need a primitive that achieves this for real.
paul's mistake is selling his own version of a completed solution. he should focus more on the primitive, then step back. and I don't think it should be hashrate escrows, it should be more similar to covenants.

2026-03-30 14:00:01 UTC

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satoshi openly praised merge-mined sidechains like namecoin. he just didn't have a way for real sidechains to be denominated in BTC at the time

2026-03-30 06:32:55 UTC

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merge mined sidechains and a decentralized two-way peg. it mimics exactly what already happens naturally, it just ensures that the bitcoin miners get all of the fee revenue instead of altcoins and trusted third parties. there's already a huge amount of capacity for running blockchains. it's just splintered across too many different alt currencies and consensus mechanisms. they could have all been real bitcoin sidechains paying bitcoin miners for security.
paul storcz talks about this a lot. but you do NOT have to use his hashrate escrows idea to make this work. there are other methods. it can be done using covenant opcodes
tari doesn't have to deal with the two way peg problem. they just accept the sidechain being denominated in a totally new currency. bitcoin will need to avoid that

2026-03-30 06:07:57 UTC

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bitcoin doesn't have to be one blockchain

2026-03-30 04:33:12 UTC

https://blossom.primal.net/85e5d0b3e0dc673f5088abd5a2c10d64212dc773ac91ffeb7878f3199a5dee5e.jpg

2026-03-30 04:20:31 UTC

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sure, because the users run away. they switch to a different method of transacting that doesn't compensate bitcoin miners at all. just listen to the actual people who try bitcoin. they will all tell you the same thing. they try it, experience fees, then move on to something centralized or an altcoin. the users who lived through those really big spikes are observed swearing to never use bitcoin again.
this is the fee revenue problem. the market won't bear high enough per transaction fees to replace the block subsidy. altcoins and centralized trash are there to soak it all up. there is no way out of this problem without some kind of consensus change.

2026-03-30 04:00:59 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/50903b390279e5c54dbad41426cf8e45f944b32301db46e22ca3e80c8b493fc9.mp4

2026-03-29 23:16:51 UTC

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for someone to reach a high level of privacy with lightning, they'd have to be as autistic as you are. and using it like that isn't scalable either. there's reasons why people still don't rely on it for distributing cocaine even after 8 years of make-work development...
are we really going to have the "fees are only a dime today" discussion? this is only possible after bitcoin has bled users to other cryptocurrencies. you know that. you're not a dumb person.
https://blossom.primal.net/cbaa2d4182e2eaaa8fdd2498953538cc5b57cf7a5a1021e63e5dfbc7a5ccec32.mp4

2026-03-29 18:20:12 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/323ab7fbb3d8edcdfa72a7104d070897c17ed31dffbce6f208be8861ffdbf989.mp4

2026-03-28 16:29:31 UTC

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keeping blocks excessively small and wasting an absurd amount of effort on lightning was the wrong way to do so and a gateway for more institutional control over bitcoin. for fuck sake you had people openly writing books about how a bitcoin transaction should be as rare and expensive as chartering an oil tanker and somehow this is a good thing. that means everyone will use a trusted third party. the use of trusted third parties has increased dramatically for the last several years. bitcoin is becoming more centralized and institutionalized now.

2026-03-27 20:15:12 UTC

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psychological tolerance to MDMA is permanent. you have max 12 "magical" experiences in your whole life and that's pushing it. I resent the idea of people wasting these experiences. read the autobiographical section of pihkal and look for advice from ann shulgin.
I have two pieces of blotter art signed by ann shulgin. I bought them immediately after she died
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2026-03-27 19:37:02 UTC

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there are very important reasons why DNM participants overwhelmingly prefer monero over bitcoin privacy solutions. it's a shame that bitcoin maxis refuse to understand these reasons. if they understood it, they would act in favor of network upgrades

2026-03-27 18:41:23 UTC

>The lack of fatherly discipline is a fiat phenomenon
oh my fucking god dude
it's not beneficial if 99% of your brain is bitcoin branded
#nevent1q…tqdr

2026-03-27 16:32:06 UTC

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the fediverse isn't one cohesive thing. it's splintered into neighborhoods due to coordinated defederations. these neighborhoods don't even prefer the same server implementations and some types of events don't even propagate correctly.
imagine if there were completely different subcultures on nostr using completely different relays, and if you get caught using one relay you get banned from another.

2026-03-27 16:20:03 UTC

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try grav instead of wordpress

2026-03-25 04:35:23 UTC

I can't relate to people who complain about "the algorithm" because I got rid of everything that has one

2026-03-24 00:09:01 UTC

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I think super testnet knows one 🙃

2026-03-23 23:36:15 UTC

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number of DNMs using any of that shit = 0

2026-03-23 21:23:10 UTC

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still a bit glitchy

2026-03-23 19:28:29 UTC

I don't wanna deal with Artix it's unstable
I deal with enough bullshit from endeavour
aaaaaaaaaaaa
https://image.nostr.build/a0c43d2486742e7bb8582e496f22400c4484bd19d49be037a0f197493251e43d.gif

2026-03-23 19:23:36 UTC

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now I am become reddit, destroyer of hobbies

2026-03-22 17:50:18 UTC

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https://image.nostr.build/a833953abc5ba18ee6f8a99922c965065d925f2376b18761e04bc9b3e793a76c.gif
my NIP-05 is my video hosting website

2026-03-22 17:06:38 UTC

christians and bitcoin maxis have things in common. they believe they are entitled to every square inch of epistemological reality. if you don't let them have all of it, they will claim you are oppressive, morally defective, misinformed.
everything I don't like is satanic (a shitcoin) for made up circular reasons

2026-03-22 06:12:33 UTC

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I know but i2p torrents are faster than tor

2026-03-21 23:34:50 UTC

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nuclear family is the worst kind of family

2026-03-21 23:33:14 UTC

cryptocurrency journalism be like "today something irrelevant happened in the world and this is why a rich person scratched their balls"

2026-03-21 20:07:25 UTC

https://blossom.primal.net/3e2d85fc1aea00eed167cb0ca16f19c4e9fb88737d185fa94d89d5fae6c11438.jpg

2026-03-21 19:00:50 UTC

https://blossom.primal.net/12fb0aa7700f0e167846b882a056e2692cd24bdb5e08e4d84867b1d07f12856b.jpg

2026-03-21 17:19:14 UTC

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downloading 10 GB file over tor 💀

2026-03-21 16:59:20 UTC

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he used to help maintain a pleroma instance dedicated to transphobic feminists

2026-03-21 16:56:55 UTC

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there's a handful of pleroma instances with cool people on them but the rest of the fediverse is trash

2026-03-21 04:06:49 UTC

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apple products were kino in the windows 9x era ngl

2026-03-21 04:05:51 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/917a488d497a64ee8607f6f04b6e083392122d9d329075e123cee3095224ef55.mp4

2026-03-21 03:14:16 UTC

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2026-03-20 17:25:44 UTC

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https://image.nostr.build/9a281e29c3fa12ae03bd1e31af15671a3e82256e7343e5728d490e716229e655.gif

2026-03-20 01:46:31 UTC

I lost brain cells listening to John Carvalho on @npub12qz…pdx8 's show

2026-03-19 23:46:51 UTC

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idk I think it's a matter of "utility" + "appeal"
BCH already has enough utility but it will never get enough appeal due to being a product of a contentious chain split. supporting it is often a career destroying move. it became radioactive.
If we're looking for something that slots into "throw my hands up and use another coin" I think ethereum and monero fit better here

2026-03-19 18:32:01 UTC

wishing dylanmtaylor a very drink bleach immediately
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2026-03-19 04:43:01 UTC

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this can all come to a stop with just a few new opcodes, but you will also need to finally let go of the idea that lightning can be fixed

2026-03-19 04:36:26 UTC

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I haven't seen the full length version of this one

2026-03-18 23:11:41 UTC

bitcoiners are huge cucks now. everything is going to centralized lightning slop, ethereum is eating your lunch on fee revenue, and you lost the DNMs to monero years ago. you're only a few measly opcodes away from getting everything back on track but you'd rather jerk off in the cuck chair and have slapfights over irrelevant raspberry pi node settings. you have no plan.

2026-03-18 20:34:25 UTC

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I also got the too good to be true vibes given it's youtube. re:china I was also surprised to find unflattering depictions of the cultural revolution inside the three body problem novels. they are not as bad as they used to be but probably still worse on censorship than the US in ways that are difficult for outsiders to understand

2026-03-18 19:35:01 UTC

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saying no is not going to make utility fall out of the sky. it won't stop the fee revenue from running away. it's not going to stop lightning from reaching its terminal state, where everything looks like spark. maybe say yes to some opcodes for a change, so we can have better things

2026-03-18 19:08:20 UTC

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it sounds like they did this because tether created a developer friendly cross chain bridge so it was just really easy for them to do the integration. but oh well. more fee revenue for the ethereum ecosystem. bitcoiners and lightning fans stay in the cuck chair.

2026-03-18 18:51:55 UTC

lmao #boltz beta supports ethereum now

2026-03-18 01:32:13 UTC

@nprofile…dl06 go away I'm not buying DEA contraband from you over social media I'm not 17 years old

2026-03-18 01:05:10 UTC

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my client will plead the fif

2026-03-18 00:42:17 UTC

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I still can't wrap my head around the levels of demoralization required for a white homosexual to not be an "islamophobe." like seriously how the fuck does this even happen? what does sticking up for muslim immigrants have to do with being gay? it took me like 5 years of searching to find a boyfriend who doesn't treat me like I have leprosy when I declare that I don't want any muslims living near my community

2026-03-17 05:59:45 UTC

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2026-03-17 02:53:30 UTC

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I'm not a socialist at all but it's definitely both. mostly socialism though

2026-03-17 01:15:39 UTC

you can tell who's a sellout when they celebrate any spark integrations. you can see em if you're driving.

2026-03-16 17:32:43 UTC

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>a large percentage of so called bitcoiners don't even run a lightning node.
because it's fucking awful

2026-03-16 17:11:18 UTC

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there's a limit on how much channel maintenance the L1 can handle right now. please stop pretending not to understand this. I want to believe you're not stupid

2026-03-16 16:12:16 UTC

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lightning is unfixable without making it centralized. it's been 8 years and spark is taking over everything now. please stop this nonsense. you don't have a lot of time left. activate covenants now and start refocusing on real sidechains or centralization will permeate everything.
#nevent1q…5af3

2026-03-16 05:52:18 UTC

hello activate CTV+CSFS
vid unrelated
https://blossom.primal.net/c01547bfa7cfbf2dbd87ebe5fc096a3e8fef5fa37bd03542d6b92c3f78a32518.mp4

2026-03-16 02:04:38 UTC

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and blitz wallet

2026-03-15 18:28:42 UTC

>bitcoin doesn't scale
but it does... it scales naturally by letting excess traffic spill over into other chains. it is regrettable that this usually necessitates a new currency or a dodgy IOU, the trust assumptions get worse, and the new chain doesn't give transaction fee revenue to bitcoin miners. ethereum is the #1 bitcoin scaling solution, bigger than lightning, liquid, cashu, spark, and arkade combined. this benefits ethereum more than it benefits bitcoin. even spark benefits lightspark more than it benefits bitcoin. the users are the biggest losers here. you will be stuck with a cuckold chain for as long as you keep wasting time on lightning.
the drivechain idea is more closely aligned with the way that bitcoin scales naturally. it's just a clever way to enable what is already happening to benefit bitcoin the most. I don't even care if it won't be called "drivechain" or if it uses covenant opcodes instead of hashrate escrows. the idea fits more neatly into observable reality.

2026-03-15 16:57:07 UTC

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hey grok can you please reverse engineer the function that the government uses to determine when it's cheaper to use inflation vs. killing excess people

2026-03-15 02:39:31 UTC

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watch chobits

2026-03-15 02:15:46 UTC

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lmao thanks
https://blossom.primal.net/62961ed0870106fbd67dcc83afe11c57dd0a82c8f27eb8cefaa6a8cc963e59ae.png

2026-03-14 23:24:19 UTC

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unrelated but did you get any impression that the movie was scaremongering, to get the population ready for more technology relgulations?

2026-03-13 20:29:58 UTC

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I can imagine why you're sticking to gnome... I look after a bunch of red hat style VMs for people that have IDEs on them, and gnome is the standard, and I keep apologizing over and over to my teammates that it's like a fisher price 2009 era netbook OS. just stuff like adding a taskbar similar to windows requires an unreasonable amount of tweaking

2026-03-13 15:07:21 UTC

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kill these fucking socialists

2026-03-13 14:55:49 UTC

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https://image.nostr.build/98ea4668169b115da3ce4e548526c95faeb11965efc1ebbed73ae76715707eed.png
(a drawing of a pokemon begging its owner not to put it into the pokemon storage computer because it runs gnome)