Nostr notes by jostric

That's probably the right way people should think about it. ...

2026-05-25T22:25:16Z

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That's probably the right way people should think about it. Despise the state more than loving any particular implementation of freedom technology. It should be about the success of freedom above all else. It goes be our favorite coin but all the tech.

Why does it say May Rothbard and not Murray Rothbard? Or does he ...

2026-05-19T21:15:16Z

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Why does it say May Rothbard and not Murray Rothbard? Or does he go by May too

Can I opt out of receiving on Chain zaps? Or am I just stuck with ...

2026-05-17T16:23:13Z

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Can I opt out of receiving on Chain zaps? Or am I just stuck with it because my npub is public and sending BTC theres doable?

What do you use instead of seeds words?

2026-05-12T02:45:34Z

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What do you use instead of seeds words?

Cloaked Wireless is nice.

2026-04-29T15:04:04Z

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Cloaked Wireless is nice.

Start9 version 0.4.0 hosted at home plus Start Tunnel on a VSP is ...

2026-04-28T00:02:20Z

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Start9 version 0.4.0 hosted at home plus Start Tunnel on a VSP is supposed to make hosting websites easy without doxing your home IP. They have similar selfhosted sites to GitHub. I might give a blog/store a try, use btcpay. I'm just waiting on some new hardware.

Regulation leads to centralization

2026-03-29T20:16:20Z

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Regulation leads to centralization

Sadly #nevent1q…rn7z

2026-03-24T17:57:56Z

Sadly

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Mfers but like 20 bucks worth of btc and spend hundreds of dollars on signing devices…

https://keepandroidopen.org/ FDroid, Zapstore, degoogled phones ...

2026-03-15T19:28:37Z

https://keepandroidopen.org/

FDroid, Zapstore, degoogled phones +APK side load

🖕🏽 google

Frigate is an open source NVR, it has a dashboard for multiple ...

2026-02-15T23:17:55Z

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Frigate is an open source NVR, it has a dashboard for multiple cameras and includes AI detection. The camera's are all right for the price but I'm probably not the right person to ask about camera my experience is limited. Take with grain of salt I suppose.

I've been trying out of a reolink camera, no hub. I like it ...

2026-02-15T21:38:13Z

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I've been trying out of a reolink camera, no hub. I like it because you can set it to local only and you can feed the video to Frigate. I haven't tried locking the local access only with a firewall, but I know some smart devices don't work afterwards.

😆 #nevent1q…90tm

2026-01-21T17:36:16Z

😆

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Banque de France Governor François Villeroy de Galhau: Central banks are more democratic and independent than "private issuers of bitcoin."

Brian Armstrong: "In the sense that central banks have independence, Bitcoin is even more independent. There's [no one] who controls it."

😂

2026-01-21T16:43:30Z

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😂

This is an old episode right? I don't really follow the show

2026-01-13T02:40:24Z

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This is an old episode right? I don't really follow the show

The use different protocols and radio frequency if im not ...

2026-01-11T18:30:33Z

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The use different protocols and radio frequency if im not mistaken, but I heard people talking about bridging the two together. I haven't seen anything built yet though.

I just flashed two Heltec V3 with Mehstastic firmware and I have ...

2026-01-11T18:27:29Z

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I just flashed two Heltec V3 with Mehstastic firmware and I have one more on order and the LilyGo T-Deck on the way. Completely new to this.

Use cash, Bitcoin, monero for businesses, break some rules ...

2026-01-06T19:53:39Z

Use cash, Bitcoin, monero for businesses, break some rules slowly.

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Congresswoman supports a #TaxRevolt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEPbrzI8sLw

This is an interesting take. Though I can all ready here some ...

2026-01-04T18:19:43Z

This is an interesting take. Though I can all ready here some maxis crying but credit is evil. To believe in freemarkets, it requires humality. It's not up to us as any individual to decide for the many. Free markets find their own solutions to problems.

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The conventional wisdom among sound money advocates runs something like this: first accumulate gold (or Bitcoin), then build an economy. But history suggests the sequence often ran backward. Lancashire built the Industrial Revolution on bills of exchange before it accumulated coin. Colonial America developed a sophisticated commercial economy while chronically drained of specie. Medieval Italian merchants created the most advanced financial system in Europe precisely because gold and silver were scarce relative to trade volumes. The credit came first; the base money followed.

This pattern reveals something important about elastic credit under sound money. The problem with a fixed monetary base is not that it prevents economic growth but that it creates friction when liquidity needs fluctuate. A merchant who has shipped goods and awaits payment has created value but lacks money. He could wait, but waiting has costs. Time preference is universal: present goods are worth more than future goods. The merchant would prefer payment now.

Before central banks existed, markets developed a solution. The merchant drew a bill of exchange on his buyer, ordering payment of a specified sum on a specified future date. This bill could circulate. The mechanism worked through three parties: the seller who drew the bill, the buyer who would eventually pay it, and an investor who purchased the bill in the interim. The investor gave up present money; the seller received present money; and the investor now held a claim on the buyer's future payment. The bill traded at a discount reflecting time preference and risk, exactly as praxeological theory would predict.

The critical point is that no new purchasing power was created in this transaction. Time preferences were transferred, not conjured from nothing. The aggregate purchasing power in the economy remained unchanged. When the bill matured, the buyer paid the holder, and the bill extinguished itself. The system was self-liquidating.

Consider Lancashire in the late eighteenth century. The cotton industry was transforming England, but the industrial north faced a peculiar problem: chronic shortage of coin and no local banks issuing notes. Henry Thornton observed in 1802 that "Liverpool and Manchester effect the whole of their larger mercantile payments not by country bank notes, of which none are issued by the banks, but by bills at one or two months due." The region that launched the Industrial Revolution ran on trade credit, not money.

What made this system remarkable was not just that it economized on scarce coin but that it could actually attract money into the region. Bills circulated freely; anyone with surplus funds could purchase them, paying coin or banknotes to acquire a claim on future payment. Banks also rediscounted bills, converting this raw commercial credit into fungible banknotes that circulated more easily. Lancashire produced cotton textiles; those textiles were exported; and through this commerce, money flowed back to the industrial north. The bills enabled production that generated the revenues to retire them. Far from being inflationary, the system was self-liquidating and self-enriching.

Colonial America exhibited the same pattern. Perpetually drained of specie by mercantilist policies, the colonists developed extensive credit networks to economize on scarce money. Three-party settlements were common: if A owed B and B owed C, then B would direct A to pay C directly. The productive output of the colonies, tobacco and timber and furs shipped to the Caribbean and Europe, eventually brought Spanish dollars flowing back. By 1774, approximately three-quarters of the colonial money supply consisted of specie that had been accumulated through persistent trade surpluses built on credit.

These examples reveal a two-layer monetary architecture: an inelastic base of hard money and an elastic layer of credit instruments that expands and contracts with the needs of trade. The layers remained distinct because bills were not money. They were acknowledged claims on future money, and they traded at a discount that made this explicit. When a merchant accepted a bill for 98 pounds against a face value of 100 pounds due in sixty days, he understood he was exchanging present goods for future payment minus interest. The discount was the price of time made visible. No one confused the bill with coin in hand.

This distinction enabled automatic regulation of the credit layer without any central authority. When commerce expanded, whether due to seasonal harvest cycles, new trade routes, or general prosperity, more bills entered circulation. Merchants drew on buyers, investors purchased the bills, and the credit layer swelled to accommodate the activity. When commerce contracted, outstanding bills matured and were paid while fewer new bills were drawn. The credit layer deflated naturally. The monetary base, meanwhile, remained untouched throughout these fluctuations.

The market also disciplined excessive bill creation through the discount rate. If merchants drew too many bills relative to the pool of investors willing to hold them, bill prices fell, which is to say discount rates rose. A bill that might trade at 98 in normal times might fetch only 95 when credit was overextended. Higher discounts meant higher effective interest rates, which discouraged marginal borrowers and throttled new issuance. Conversely, when trade was slack and money plentiful relative to bills, discounts narrowed, making credit cheaper and encouraging its use. The system breathed with the rhythms of commerce, requiring no central bank to manage the money supply because the money supply was not being managed at all. Only the credit layer fluctuated, and it regulated itself through price signals.

The essential requirement is that the credit must be backed by real, exportable production. Bills drawn on anticipated output of goods that can be sold externally are genuinely self-liquidating because export revenues eventually settle them. Bills drawn to finance consumption or speculation, by contrast, create obligations without the means to discharge them. The market institution worked because merchants understood this distinction and because each endorser of a circulating bill added his own liability, creating strong incentives against drawing or accepting dubious paper.

The implications for sound money advocates are significant. Bitcoin maximalists sometimes imagine that adoption requires first accumulating sufficient Bitcoin to run an economy, as if the monetary base must precede commercial development. But the historical pattern suggests the opposite sequence is possible. A community with productive capacity but little base money can use credit instruments internally, export goods and services for Bitcoin, and gradually accumulate the monetary base through trade surpluses. The bills enable the production that earns the coin.

This means credit can exist without money creation, and elasticity can exist without central banks. Lancashire's cotton magnates knew something that modern monetary theorists have forgotten: you do not need money to build an economy, but you do need credit that honestly represents future production. The merchants of medieval Italy knew it too. Their bills of exchange system enabled cashless payments across Europe for centuries. We have merely forgotten what they knew.

The sequence is not coin then commerce, but commerce then coin, mediated by credit instruments that transfer time preferences rather than manufacture purchasing power. A Bitcoin economy need not wait until sufficient coins have been accumulated. Productive communities can bootstrap themselves into sound money through the honest representation of future claims, just as Lancashire bootstrapped itself into industrial dominance on nothing but bills of exchange and exportable cloth.

Oh okay, that make sense. I agree that's the ideal way

2026-01-01T20:27:41Z

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Oh okay, that make sense. I agree that's the ideal way

I have a similar setup minus the non ISP modem, is your setup ...

2026-01-01T18:33:39Z

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I have a similar setup minus the non ISP modem, is your setup have an additional security or privacy benift or is just more like redundancy? I ask because I thought Opnsense would just take care of ISP from monitoring what devices are on your network and a VPN will encrypt the data packets from them inspecting them.

Sounds interesting #naddr1qq…kw2j

2026-01-01T04:57:36Z

Sounds interesting

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Location-Independent Infrastructure Using NCC-02, NCC-05, and NCC-06

Most internet services still rely on DNS as the root of discovery and trust. Even systems that describe themselves as decentralised often fall back to domain names, certificate authorities, and fixed hostnames once you look closely at how clients actually connect.

This article explores how services can function without DNS at all, using patterns that emerged from the Nostr ecosystem and were formalised through NCC-02, NCC-05, and NCC-06. While these conventions originated alongside Nostr, they are not limited to relays or social protocols. The same approach applies to content systems such as IPFS, media services like Blossom, private APIs, admin panels, and self-hosted infrastructure operating in unreliable or hostile networks.

The shift is subtle but significant. Instead of asking which domain should I connect to, clients ask which service key am I trying to reach.

Why DNS Becomes a Liability

DNS was designed for a network where services were relatively static, operators were identifiable, and intermediaries were trusted by default. None of those assumptions reliably hold today.

A DNS-based service is tightly coupled to external authorities: registrars, certificate issuers, recursive resolvers, and often hosting providers. Blocking or interference at any of these layers is usually sufficient to disrupt access. Even when services use literal IP addresses, DNS frequently re-enters indirectly through TLS validation, discovery mechanisms, or bootstrap endpoints.

The problem is not that DNS fails occasionally. The problem is that DNS collapses naming, trust, and location into a single fragile abstraction.

Identity First, Location Second

NCC-02, NCC-05, and NCC-06 deliberately separate these concerns.

In this model, a service is defined by a cryptographic public key. That key represents identity and continuity. Where or how the service is reachable becomes contextual information rather than a defining property.

Endpoints are treated as descriptive hints, not authoritative truth. Resolution becomes a matter of retrieving signed data and applying deterministic rules, rather than trusting a global naming hierarchy.

This is the same conceptual shift Nostr made for users, applied consistently to services.

NCC-02: Service Records as Signed Intent

NCC-02 introduces the concept of a service record. A service record is a signed statement published by the service operator, asserting that a given public key represents a specific service and optionally describing how it may be reached.

Crucially, NCC-02 does not require a hostname, nor does it assume public reachability. A record may list multiple endpoints, a single endpoint, or none at all. It may change over time without breaking identity.

From the client’s perspective, a service record answers only one question. If this key is trusted, what does the operator currently claim about this service?

NCC-05: Reachability Without Exposure

NCC-05 extends the model by allowing endpoint information to be encrypted and scoped.

Many services should not expose their location publicly. Admin interfaces, private relays, region-restricted backends, and censorship-sensitive deployments all benefit from being discoverable without being globally reachable.

With NCC-05, a service can publish its existence openly while revealing connection details only to authorised clients. Onion addresses can be preferred without advertising them. IPv4 or IPv6 endpoints can exist purely as fallback. Endpoint ordering expresses operator intent rather than promise.

An observer may learn that a service exists without learning how to reach it. DNS has no way to express that distinction.

NCC-06: Resolution as Data Retrieval

NCC-06 describes how clients turn published records into an actual connection attempt.

Rather than querying a central resolver or directory, clients retrieve signed service records from relays. Multiple relays may carry the same records. Records may be stale, partial, or conflicting.

Instead of treating these conditions as errors, NCC-06 treats them as expected states. Clients verify signatures, discard expired data, apply deterministic conflict resolution, and select the best reachable endpoint they can see.

Resolution becomes a data problem, not a naming problem. If nothing is reachable, the service is considered unavailable rather than broken.

How This Differs From Existing Approaches

The distinction becomes clearer when compared to existing systems.

Traditional DNS and TLS rely on human-readable names backed by central authorities. ENS replaces registrars with a blockchain but still treats names as the primary abstraction, often routing users back to DNS-hosted endpoints. Tor onion services derive addresses from keys, but operate entirely within the Tor ecosystem and do not generalise cleanly across mixed transports.

IPFS excels at content addressing, but when services are layered on top, DNS-based gateways frequently reappear. Blossom media servers today typically rely on standard URLs and HTTPS, inheriting the same structural fragility as conventional web services.

NCC differs by identifying services themselves by keys, not content and not names, and resolving reachability using signed data rather than global lookup infrastructure.

What This Model Does Not Solve

Being explicit about limits matters.

This approach does not solve the first-contact trust problem. If a client is given the wrong service key, it will resolve the wrong service correctly. This is not unique to NCC. The same bootstrap problem exists with domain names, TLS certificates, ENS names, and onion addresses. Initial trust establishment remains a social or application-layer concern.

It does not eliminate traffic analysis. NCC-05 can hide endpoint details, but it does not make network traffic invisible. Timing and connection metadata remain observable, even when Tor is used. The goal is to reduce resolution visibility, not to defeat a global passive adversary.

It does not make denial-of-service attacks impossible. Relays can be flooded and endpoints can be exhausted. What NCC provides instead is graceful degradation through multiple resolution paths and cached records, without a single resolver whose failure breaks the system.

The model also deliberately avoids human-readable naming. Keys are not memorable, and that is a trade-off. Naming systems can exist on top, but NCC keeps naming out of the trust path to avoid reintroducing the same fragility.

Finally, this is not a universal replacement for DNS. DNS remains effective for public websites and mass-market discovery. NCC is intended for environments where mobility, privacy, and resistance to interference matter more than convenience.

The Structural Shift

What NCC-02, NCC-05, and NCC-06 describe is not a new protocol layer so much as a design pattern.

Services publish signed intent. Clients resolve by retrieving and validating data. Trust is anchored in keys, not names.

Once this separation is made explicit, DNS stops being foundational. It becomes optional infrastructure rather than an assumed root of trust.

That change is small in implementation, but significant in consequence.

Closing Note: A Pattern, Not a Platform

Although NCC-02, NCC-05, and NCC-06 emerged from the Nostr ecosystem, the ideas they encode are not tied to Nostr itself. They describe a general infrastructure pattern for service discovery and reachability in environments where DNS is fragile, politicised, or simply unavailable.

The pattern is portable. Any system that can sign data, publish it to a retrievable medium, and verify signatures can adopt the same approach. Nostr provides a convenient substrate today, but it is not a prerequisite.

Seen this way, the value of these conventions is not that they replace DNS everywhere, but that they demonstrate how services can function cleanly without it when required. They make explicit a separation that has long been implicit: identity does not need to imply location, and discovery does not need to depend on names.

That distinction is likely to become more important, not less, as services continue to become more mobile, more private, and more contested at the network edge.

References

NCC-02 – Service Records https://github.com/imattau/ncc-02

NCC-05 – Dynamic and Encrypted Locators https://github.com/imattau/ncc-05

NCC-06 – Service Resolution and Sidecar Publishing https://github.com/imattau/ncc-06

npm Libraries

Reference implementations of the NCC conventions are also available as JavaScript libraries on npm. These are intended for client applications, tooling, and sidecar services rather than for defining the specifications themselves.

ncc-02-js https://www.npmjs.com/package/ncc-02-js

ncc-05-js https://www.npmjs.com/package/ncc-05-js

ncc-06-js https://www.npmjs.com/package/ncc-06-js

The libraries provide typed helpers, validation logic, and record-handling utilities aligned with the conventions, and are suitable for use in browsers, Node.js clients, and service sidecars.

#Nostr #DecentralisedInfrastructure #ProtocolDesign #DistributedSystems #ServiceDiscovery #CryptographicIdentity #PrivacyEngineering #CensorshipResistance #IPFS #Tor #SelfHosted #EdgeInfrastructure #NetworkResilience #nostrdev

Thanks for sharing this video. Though I don't agree with your ...

2025-12-23T16:52:33Z

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Thanks for sharing this video. Though I don't agree with your first statement regarding them being evil. Also Imho it's also unfair for BitcoinMechanic to leave out the fact some people did reach out to help samurai users with compromised mixes. It paints picture that they were left hung dry when in actuality help was offered with their forward privacy. Perhaps helping is better than critizing. I also agree using someone elses Dojo is not the way forward. That needs stop and it's slightly disappointing it's still thing.

Touche. Your right. But my point remians the same. You do end up ...

2025-12-22T05:02:12Z

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Touche. Your right. But my point remians the same. You do end up leaking information when your not running your own node. But I guess our main difference is where the responsibility lays with. I believe it's with user and you believe it's with service.

When you use Blue wallet and connect to a random electrum server ...

2025-12-22T04:47:57Z

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When you use Blue wallet and connect to a random electrum server you are sharing your XPUB.

This is same thing as using someone else's Electrum server on ...

2025-12-22T04:07:57Z

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This is same thing as using someone else's Electrum server on Blue wallet or using some Monero wallet while connecting to someone one else's node or paying for a VPN with a credit card. But no is busty Blue wallet or Sparrows wallet's balls over the same thing.

Privacy by trust based system is something that exists whether we like or not. Ultimately the end user/consumer has to do their own homework.

You don't have use Dojo bay, you can run your own Dojo on ...

2025-12-21T23:14:22Z

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You don't have use Dojo bay, you can run your own Dojo on Start9 and not share your xpubs with a third party.

You don't have use Dojo bay, you can run your own Dojo on ...

2025-12-21T23:13:28Z

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You don't have use Dojo bay, you can run your own Dojo on Start9 and not share your xpubs with a third party.

Fuck yeah! Tucker is right on this one. #nevent1q…77u8

2025-12-19T20:25:55Z

Fuck yeah! Tucker is right on this one.

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holy fucking shit
good for Tucker
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2025-12-19T20:22:38Z

https://op3.dev/e/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pdcn.co/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/serve.podhome.fm/episode/df3c7f87-bdab-41fe-1438-08dbf068e250/63901570763489472015bdd496-f9fc-4031-b458-56cf4607a81f.mp3

Same for me.

2025-12-19T03:58:03Z

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Same for me.

Another reason to ditch centralized social media. ...

2025-12-17T03:25:41Z

Another reason to ditch centralized social media.

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Just got a notification from X about an update to their privacy policy… Interesting…

“We’ve updated our Terms to explain that in some places, for example, the EU and UK, we may need to remove not only illegal content but also content considered harmful or unsafe under local laws.”

Thanks for using your platform to share this.

2025-12-17T03:23:17Z

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Thanks for using your platform to share this.

🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼 #nevent1q…nhgy

2025-12-16T00:42:15Z

🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼

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BOOM: President Trump just said he’ll look into a pardon for Keonne Rodriguez, co-founder of Samourai Wallet.

(He should also pardon Bill).

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Sign the petition and don't ask for permission, use Ashigaru. ...

2025-12-14T03:14:23Z

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Sign the petition and don't ask for permission, use Ashigaru. Simple.

He's definitely a boomer with wool pulled over his eyes.

2025-12-06T00:06:09Z

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He's definitely a boomer with wool pulled over his eyes.

I wasn't referring to myself. Fiat is a failure it creates ...

2025-12-06T00:04:26Z

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I wasn't referring to myself. Fiat is a failure it creates all sorts of injustices and is breeding ground for Marxism.

It works so-so? You must either live under rock or dare I say ...

2025-12-05T00:50:36Z

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It works so-so? You must either live under rock or dare I say privalaged. How did you find NOSTR?

I have to agree with Lopp on this one.

2025-12-04T21:43:53Z

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I have to agree with Lopp on this one.

a human fight.

2025-11-30T04:42:17Z

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a human fight.

https://c.org/jcWVmRZqgt

2025-11-29T17:06:41Z

https://c.org/jcWVmRZqgt

The Bitcoin Standard Podcast: 299. Property Rights: The Root of ...

2025-11-12T04:27:04Z

The Bitcoin Standard Podcast: 299. Property Rights: The Root of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

Episode webpage: https://saifedean.com/podcast/

Media file: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1849151/episodes/18169755-299-property-rights-the-root-of-the-palestinian-israeli-conflict.mp3

Democracy is imperfect and both have their trade offs.

2025-11-04T17:39:13Z

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Democracy is imperfect and both have their trade offs.

Normally I don't unless I have no choice.

2025-11-04T02:13:59Z

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Normally I don't unless I have no choice.

It would be cool if you can sign messages with OpenKeychain ...

2025-11-02T20:00:43Z

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It would be cool if you can sign messages with OpenKeychain offline and then share it via QR like how some airgapped hardware wallets share their transactions

Pardon my ignorance but what's the point of building a L2 on ...

2025-10-22T00:35:56Z

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Pardon my ignorance but what's the point of building a L2 on Cashu? Is there an article or post I could check out

I used to watch his youtube videos a while back when I first ...

2025-10-16T22:21:45Z

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I used to watch his youtube videos a while back when I first became interested in learning about privacy. What are the implications, incompetentance, fraud or something else?

I'm asking the samething too 😆

2025-10-04T01:02:13Z

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I'm asking the samething too 😆

It was enjoyable listen. #nevent1q…ugpu

2025-10-04T01:01:08Z

It was enjoyable listen.

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Will go live with Max (npub1klk…x3vt) in 2 hours to discuss his new project: White Noise

A Nostr-based privacy messaging platform which comes at the right time to counter Chat Control in Europe.

Join us if you would like to learn more!

https://youtube.com/live/amNaZ35KIo8?feature=share

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2025-10-03T23:24:26Z

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/vietnam-bank-account-purge-boosts-095332550.html

#nevent1q…rwrt

2025-09-30T16:53:34Z

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Google’s Android developer registration requirement will kill F-Droid

https://www.osnews.com/story/143450/googles-android-developer-registration-requirement-will-kill-f-droid/

OP_Return data is prunable, so maybe Udi's interruptation of ...

2025-09-27T20:18:14Z

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OP_Return data is prunable, so maybe Udi's interruptation of Luke's message a little out there idk

If technical details is what she is lacking then that would imply ...

2025-09-27T20:04:21Z

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If technical details is what she is lacking then that would imply that her story wasn't intentional slander and that it was simply ignorance in her interruption of the alleged text messages. I give her the benefit of the doubt she's not scammer, she does a lot of good reporting on global concerns in regards to privacy to which most of the Bitcoin community sadly ignores.

The Urdi's interruption of the Luke's messages is pretty nuanced in details, assuming this favorable interruption is correct. Luke's intentions is to remove CP while still maintenaning the transactions are still valid using Zero Knowledge Proofs thus avoiding the need to fork the network. Now is this technically possibly? I don't know, is the proposed solution free of contraversy? Probably not, does it reintroduce trust, yes technically clients would need to trust the people determining the filter.

But one thing is for sure ego makes it hard to admit when we are wrong, so it's unlikely for L0ala to continue this dialogue.

I don't even know Udis, just saw his his piece that he wrote. ...

2025-09-26T16:40:32Z

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I don't even know Udis, just saw his his piece that he wrote. I don't even run knots. Your soul searching comment is not helpful. Just provide an actual counter argument to the piece. What Udis wrote is plausible, it could be possible wrong too.

@nprofile…7z5t any comments?

2025-09-26T14:46:33Z

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L0laL33tz (nprofile…7z5t) any comments?

@nprofile…thz4 Thanks for taking the time to write this piece. ...

2025-09-26T14:40:53Z

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udi (nprofile…thz4) Thanks for taking the time to write this piece. It seems truth lays within in the middle, within the details and within the right context.

#nevent1q…73c5

2025-09-23T01:20:37Z

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The gaslighting and refusal to release the Epstein Files is one of the few times that the general public cannot ignore that there are two systems of justice in America. One for the rich and powerful and one for everyone else. It is right in front of their faces and they barely blink.

It's a good read, some valid points were made. ...

2025-09-22T01:00:01Z

It's a good read, some valid points were made.

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There is little to no debate that self-custodial Bitcoin and Lightning wallets are the most ideal from a censorship-resistant, resilient, and sovereign way to custody and spend your bitcoin. A self-custodial or non-custodial wallet is a wallet where you have access to your private keys for your Bitcoin. You have full control over your funds. A custodial wallet is when a third-party holds the private keys to your Bitcoin or is in some way custodying the means to access your funds. This means the custodian could censor, freeze, or otherwise control or take your Bitcoin. A threat actor who attacks the custodian could likewise do the same. These facts cause people to get very animated and angry about the value, notion, or mention of any form of custodial wallet.

Self-custodial is definitely ideal, in an ideal world.

But, this world aint that.

Before you chant “custodial bad, self-custodial good”, grab some context with your black and white coffee. Binary framing of custodial versus self-custodial ignores some real-world shitstorms where custodial solutions not only enable Bitcoin transactions for real world needs, and actually save lives or at least preserve life-saving funds.

Self-Custodial In High-Fee Environments and Low Values of Sats

On the date of this writing, fees are low. But that's not always the case.

During times of high activity, transaction fees can skyrocket" — Reddit

In the global south, Bitcoin can be very useful as a medium-of-exchange-in low-fee environment. In high-fee environments, paying $20 to open a Lightning channel for a $25 transaction, does NOT work. Anita Posch of Bitcoin for Fairness and Crack the Orange–works in the Global South to enable both education and enablement of education via train the trainers programs. At the 2024 BTC Prague conference, she discussed how she gets constant feedback on material issues that occur when fees are high.

In high-fee environments in the Global South, people need to get creative in order to use Bitcoin for spending. This usually means custodial solutions like Wallet of Satoshi or Liquid network (via Aqua). For people with small amounts of satoshis amidst high fees, they sometimes start with a custodial wallet, then move to self-custodial when they have accumulated a higher stack of sats.

In 2025, another option was implemented by both Blitz and Zeus wallets. Users can receive Cashu ecash into a custodial wallet and then move it to a self-custodial wallet when they have enough funds for a Lightning channels to transact via Lightning.

Self-custodial wallets just don't work for small holders of Bitcoin in high-fee environments or with lower amounts of money. Using a custodial wallet, the Liquid network, or a wallet that facilitates custodial to self-custodial funds are all useful options in the current wallet landscape.

Self-Custodial In Wartime

© Vladimir Efimov| Dreamstime.com

How do self-custodial wallets hold up in wartime, outages, bombs, drones, drones with bombs–situations where you, your phone, or computer can be obliterated or you might be forced to flee in a life-threatening hurry.

First, take the example of someone who is new to Bitcoin and is in the middle of an invasion or other violence or fog of war, a disorienting state way more taxing for cognitive functioning than your debilitating morning or afternoon brain stupor.

Very well-meaning Bitcoiners (including myself) would say to get yourself a self-custodial Lightning wallet, fund it with sats, open some Lightning channels, make payments or withdraw donations. (In addition, deal with all the issues when possible high-fee environments may be in play).

It’s a war, so make sure someone else has the seed in case you “go down” or your phone or computer is demolished. Teach this other person how to use this self-custodial Lightning wallet because if you think it’s hard to onboard people to BItcoin or Lightning wallets, try to onboard in the middle of a shitstorm of violence, hunger, or physical flight.

While onboarding others, make sure that your backup person doesn’t restore that self-custodial wallet with your seed while you are still using the wallet, because that will bork the Lightning channel state.

Make sure you communicate if you die or are disabled and can’t use the wallet and want to turn the funds over to your backup person. (Did we mention how communication means are not stable in war?) Net-net:

The person in the midst of war or any sort of physical and emotional instability needs the simplest wallet they can get to onboard and use immediately.

They need a wallet they can enable others to access should the worst befall them or their phone.

They need a wallet that doesn’t require extra communication touch points and is easy and fast to download, send, and receive.

A custodial wallet CAN be the better option–despite the fact that the custodian could be forced to censor or freeze the funds. In these dire circumstances, a custodian could actually be seen as managing and safeguarding the funds.

Also, what if several people need to access the funds, or you need a backup person in case the main owner is killed or incapacitated? With some custodial wallets, multiple people can log into the same custodial account to access the funds. Being able to share credentials with a backup person who can log onto a custodial Lightning wallet at any time and use the funds, can actually save others’ lives in the case that one user’s life is ended.

We may soon have better solutions for people, with ease of cost and onboarding. As of this writing, that’s not the operationally state of the ecosystem. Even on nostr, allmost all wallets are custodial. And in most cases, wallets require Internet.

Self-Custodial Under Poor Internet

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To the above scenarios, add poor internet that is often the case in the Global South and certainly in war. In some situations, Internet is cut off in order to prevent communication or financial transactions. In other places, power outages are common, which takes down the Internet. In just the first few months of 2025, many large areas--including Cuba, Puerto Rico, Spain and Portugal--have had large-scale power outages.

Internet access is an issue for both self-custodial AND custodial lightning wallets.

With little to no internet, it’s useful to have a tool you can use to transfer funds offline to a person with poor or no internet who can then receive them later with Internet connectivity. Cashu--whatever brand of custodial you call it--can and has helped in these situations. Cashu wallets work in different ways in a couple of different Internet scenarios:

Table 1: Offline Cashu scenarios.

Note: For even more details, see this article Transacting with ecash while offline.

Cuba Bitcoin has a guide and information about how they use and have used Cashu ecash during power outages.

From Cuba Bitcoin Cashu site

For the Cuban Bitcoin group, "Cashu is not just a protocol, it is a way to empower the Cuban people." Under poor or no Internet, it's good to have different options that enable you to pay with and receive sats.

Finally, don't forget the privacy aspects of Cashu, which help in war and in authoritarian oppression. In this divided world, private transactions can also help protect views and action that may not be popular with the current and next regime of government and banking.

Means, Ends, and Privilege.

If it's is your best or only option for the situation, custodial is the way to go. In many cases, the means and the ability to self-custody–is a privilege. In other situations, custodial solutions are the best option to transact or receive life-saving donations to meet one’s basic needs.

In these cases, the custodial means justify the end of being able to use Bitcoin. If you’re starving, you’re going to eat what food you can get regardless of your morals about veggies, meat, or carbs and sugar. Same goes true for how you hold the money that you need to transact for your food, drink, and shelter.

Maslow said nothing about your custodial versus self-custodial puritanism--in his hierarchy of human needs.

Could you elaborate or share a source that would help explain?

2025-09-20T01:09:48Z

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Could you elaborate or share a source that would help explain?

Ashigaru yes. https://github.com/linkinparkrulz

2025-09-19T13:37:54Z

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Ashigaru yes.
https://github.com/linkinparkrulz

That's an interesting observation and point.

2025-09-18T23:10:41Z

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That's an interesting observation and point.

We need more client options than just Core or knots.

2025-09-18T03:00:07Z

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We need more client options than just Core or knots.

No warrent, trial, jury, or attorney, just a straight military ...

2025-09-17T19:59:48Z

No warrent, trial, jury, or attorney, just a straight military strike. But don't worry it's for our safety. Gotta love the state. Think twice before you sail the Caribbean on a speed boat.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/09/07/rand-paul-lashes-jd-vance-venezuela-drug-boat-comments/86022532007/

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2025-09-17T14:54:11Z

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/watchmanprivacy/203_The_END_of_Monero.mp3?dest-id=2727836

💯 #nevent1q…k6sa

2025-09-17T13:47:04Z

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If we want a less chaotic world, we need to get more people using #Bitcoin for peer to peer payments

Not true.

2025-09-12T17:30:01Z

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Not true.

Not true. I'm running Start9, you can choose.

2025-09-12T17:29:09Z

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Not true. I'm running Start9, you can choose.

Again fuck them 🖕 #nevent1q…px6m

2025-09-11T14:43:53Z

Again fuck them 🖕

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nevent1q…px6m
These people are fucking deranged.

nevent1q…xq9u

I don't like to draw conclusions immediately but this is odly ...

2025-09-11T14:24:23Z

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I don't like to draw conclusions immediately but this is odly suspicious. Is this a coincidence? I don't know. Thanks for sharing this info.

🤣 #nevent1q…yr4z

2025-09-11T02:16:01Z

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Unfortunately I agree #nevent1q…qza0

2025-09-10T23:21:26Z

Unfortunately I agree

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I agree. My heart goes out to his family. #nevent1q…7a3y

2025-09-10T21:14:28Z

I agree. My heart goes out to his family.

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nevent1q…7a3y
Charlie Kirk is known for engaging in respectful Socratic dialogue with people that vehemently disagree with his political views, which is something that is desperately needed today.

The fact that he was attacked during one of these events is an attack on the medium itself and an admission by the radical left that they don't care to engage in dialogue, but prefer to brute force their views on the world.

A very sad and frightening day.

There's an app for Robosats or is that PWA?

2025-09-05T02:38:36Z

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There's an app for Robosats or is that PWA?

🧡 #nevent1q…0rc3

2025-09-04T13:54:46Z

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By printing endless money governments made themselves practically omnipotent

Interfering with every single aspect of your life

#Bitcoin defunds the state and puts it back in its place

Absolutely. We can just do things #nevent1q…0lh4

2025-09-04T13:48:56Z

Absolutely. We can just do things

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nevent1q…0lh4
Anyone who thinks AI (open code) can be tamed, regulated, or stopped is kidding themselves. Like #Bitcoin, the genie is out of the bottle. Learn it, use it, or get left behind. Rules, warnings, or licenses are worthless against someone who ignores them. Wasting time whining only holds YOU back.

The fear is of the unknown. Educate yourself, and that anxiety magically disappears. If you need help, ask.

👋 I mostly just repost stuff but a follow would be nice

2025-09-04T13:45:46Z

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👋 I mostly just repost stuff but a follow would be nice

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2025-09-03T19:30:12Z

https://op3.dev/e/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pdcn.co/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/serve.podhome.fm/episode/df3c7f87-bdab-41fe-1438-08dbf068e250/638923244150099930a7b98643-4b6b-4976-8517-175f98128a97v2.mp3

🔥🔥⚡⚡🔥 keep it coming.

2025-08-30T03:09:33Z

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🔥🔥⚡⚡🔥 keep it coming.

https://fountain.fm/episode/5L17JxcHm6DlHnHjEKWS

2025-08-28T15:52:57Z

https://fountain.fm/episode/5L17JxcHm6DlHnHjEKWS

#nevent1q…4fhl

2025-08-26T18:33:01Z

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nevent1q…4fhl
You will see that most NPCs defend the state security forces, both police and military.

Have they ever helped you? Because the police always help after the fact, that is, they are rarely at the scene of the crime and prevent crime, they are really useless.

They are only effective in defending the interests of the state, so if you try to evade taxes, you'll see what happens, or if you get traffic fines to raise money, or if you don't show up at a polling station, then the police will come to your house.

For robberies, murders, assaults, etc., forget about them, they are not there to defend you, and they also have orders to defend illegal immigrants in Europe.

Did you write a response?

2025-08-24T16:04:48Z

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Did you write a response?

#nevent1q…h4dr

2025-08-23T14:43:42Z

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nevent1q…h4dr
how do you turn off a decentralized social network?

nevent1q…06wp

What exactly is this in pleb terms?

2025-08-21T00:19:37Z

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What exactly is this in pleb terms?

Wow that's a really enlighting take. Governments always try ...

2025-08-20T19:12:01Z

Wow that's a really enlighting take. Governments always try to solve every problem with money. I can't even big to imagine how flawed that logic would be if applied to our personal lives lol

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nevent1q…vwxq
Life Is More Than Money #vlog

Fuck them all, banks and governments are complete scum ...

2025-08-19T19:15:04Z

Fuck them all, banks and governments are complete scum

quoting
nevent1q…kcaw
Bifurcation intensifies.
nevent1q…nunh

#nevent1q…6a6q

2025-08-18T01:55:07Z

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nevent1q…6a6q
"To incorporate this new solution in their iPhone apps, developers will need to enter into a commercial agreement with Apple, request the NFC and SE entitlement, and pay the associated fees. This ensures that only authorized developers who meet certain industry and regulatory requirements, and commit to Apple’s ongoing security and privacy standards, can access the relevant APIs."

nevent1q…fq0e

Fuck the regulators! #nevent1q…4ke0

2025-08-13T19:42:02Z

Fuck the regulators!

quoting
nevent1q…4ke0
this is insanity
nevent1q…5ek5

WTF again #nevent1q…jryg

2025-08-11T23:38:22Z

WTF again

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nevent1q…jryg
Ethereum Core developer Federico Carrone was arrested at passport controls in Turkey over his contributions to a paper that assessed privacy on Ethereum and Tornado Cash.

Full story 👇
https://www.therage.co/developer-arrested-over-tornado-cash-research/

I've read it, it's on my book shelf. Just let me know ...

2025-08-11T11:02:40Z

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I've read it, it's on my book shelf. Just let me know which part to reread. This is my simple quest. Perhaps your right but I'm human and failable.

I need exact qoutes, paragraphs and page numbers. Por favor

2025-08-11T01:37:48Z

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I need exact qoutes, paragraphs and page numbers. Por favor

Wait for reals, you sat down for a podcast with Lex that never ...

2025-08-07T03:19:13Z

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Wait for reals, you sat down for a podcast with Lex that never aired?

This is the message I got after a few seconds opening the app on ...

2025-07-31T15:07:27Z

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This is the message I got after a few seconds opening the app on a Graphene phone. Downloaded from Aurora store. Is there a way around this or maybe I should download the APK file instead?

Can we get this to work without google play services? For ...

2025-07-31T03:41:52Z

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Can we get this to work without google play services? For Graphene users

#nevent1q…69c6

2025-07-31T02:32:41Z

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nevent1q…69c6
In a major win for DOJ, Samourai Wallet developers have plead guilty to unlicensed money transmission.

The charge had been heavily disputed, described as an unclear application of the law.

The developers face fines and up to five years in prison. Full story👇

https://www.therage.co/samourai-wallet-developers-plead-guilty-to-unlicensed-money-transmission/

#nevent1q…72pw

2025-07-23T02:20:27Z

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nevent1q…72pw
I like this bloke