rfkill

bitcoiner, privacy enthusiast, nix user.

Not setting zaps until there is non-DNS based way to do it.

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relay.damus.io

nos.lol

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2024-08-02 12:43:55

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Not a fan of lightning addresses. Waiting for bolt12 offers to become more universal. On-chain Bitcoin is getting reusable addresses now too which is awesome.

2024-07-28 08:55:05

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What are we going to buy with bitcoin when there's no manufacturing infrastructure anymore?

2024-07-22 07:39:02

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Bitcoin is a tool for giant investors and corporations to get rich at the expense of regular people, that's why we're banning regular people from holding bitcoin and only allowing it to be held by giant investors and corporations.

2024-07-14 17:53:38

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Any RSS feed?

2024-07-14 16:23:22

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Still 35GB remaining on my 1TB bitcoind/electrs node

2024-07-13 19:09:09

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Can we apply WoT to relays?

2024-07-13 10:10:17

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LN is interoperable with ecash. In fact ecash would be a lot less useful without LN. If you still want LN you can still set that up and sent and recieve from ecash users:

2024-07-13 10:07:56

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Biggest issue we have with ecash now is that there are two competing standards with incompatible formats. I prefer fedimint because I want the money federated across mulitple juristictions, but I guess cashu is easier to intergrate.

2024-07-12 09:58:21

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Was more this for me. https://image.nostr.build/68c1fa915b4ddb46c7f6aeb1c46f73848d22756ccc5c906262441235ca8a38ac.jpg

2024-07-12 09:49:54

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He's not wrong. Notice the "terms" he reffers to are all crypto terms related to other coins like ethereum. Much of bitcoin culture visible to outsiders mirrors what is happening there. To find the "real" signal beneath it all takes effort.

2024-07-12 09:16:21

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"Trust this npub as if it was me" seems like an extention to web-of-trust level itself. A step above "I have a close relationship with the person behind this npub" etc.

2024-07-02 19:15:19

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That's ignoring the Cantillon effect. Businesses in closer proximity to the new money will benefit in terms of purchasng power at the expense of everyone else.

2024-06-30 11:52:03

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Don't forget not to consolidate your mixed coins together into the same denomination that you started with

2024-06-29 19:31:54

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Lyn Alden taught me that the Bretton Woods system which was ended in 1971 was doomed to failure in it very inception, since it allowed for domestic depegging of the dollar from gold, while still promising to settle in gold internationally.

2024-06-27 18:22:21

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*Drops Mettbrotchen*

2024-06-27 16:13:39

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I feel ecash could take over this role. If you want to be sovereign your wallet can immediatedy redeem any ecash you recieve for lightning. The advantage being fast onboarding for new users, improved privacy, ability to send payments via any secure messaging channel, half offline payments. Fedi tokens are also redeemable onchain if needed. Most actual transfers would still take place over lightning in the backend anyway.

2024-06-26 11:11:43

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Do you want to run that node?

2024-06-22 22:02:57

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Has anyone exteral to the holepunch/Pear team analysed the protocol for viability? What are the tradeoffs, potential weaknesses, privacy or scalability issues?

2024-06-20 21:47:08

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The issue with community relays is that if one gets censored, the community now has a coordination problem in moving to a new one. It's less of an issue if they are spread accross several relays.

2024-06-20 16:40:38

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Can this be implemented for zaps? Also what about just sending ecash directly if the payer has it?

2024-06-17 16:27:39

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the irony https://image.nostr.build/c42b143dcdd23a8bf91161e98ac1813d5942fdeac696f1c99989a4051af29c4a.jpg

2024-06-03 04:55:00

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For some reason eating beets seems to help me

2024-06-02 15:49:10

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Bitcoin needs some kind of way to scale non-custodially. Lightning is a partial but not full solution. CTV opens some options that aren't currently possible.

2024-06-02 13:29:00

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But did you read Bitcoin is Venice?

2024-06-01 09:57:38

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dns is still used for connecting to the nostr relay. but at least you dont need your own domain to host your lnurl any more

2024-05-26 09:09:58

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If there was even a semi viable libertarian candidate anymore that would be nice.

2024-05-25 12:14:53

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Trademarks make SOME sense in terms of, if I put the hitachi logo on something not made py hitachi, it is fraud. Patents and copyright are bleh.

2024-05-25 08:32:58

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And the remake will never happen because they won't give up the rights

2024-05-25 06:23:15

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Well, these types of CAPCHAs have been obsolete for a number of years

2024-05-23 07:23:37

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Are we going to move towards a universal payment request which will allow the client itself to figure out which methods are supported and what the best option to use is?

2024-05-22 16:41:37

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Will opensats pay for my trip to the center of the Congolese Jungle?

2024-05-21 16:47:36

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Nobody to inherit the wealth?

2024-05-21 05:24:47

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I didn't know Copernicus watched youtube videos.

2024-05-20 16:24:19

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Number of people you follow who follow them.

2024-05-19 12:22:30

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There needs to be a why before anyone will even think about the how.

2024-05-15 21:21:43

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The true EVs

2024-05-15 19:57:50

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The best thing about tor is its ability to punch through NAT like butter. Setting up a hidden service is so much easier than setting up a regular service.

2024-05-15 09:21:19

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And then it "crashes" to $800k and half the people say it's dead, half the people say "it's only 20% this is nothing for bitcoin, I honestly thought it was going to fall more" then a month later it falls to $200k.

2024-05-15 08:22:01

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With lnbits you could have a payment terminal that works offline, but depends on the phone connecting to an online server somewhere. So where could someone like her have an lnbits instance running that doesn't also go down during the load shedding?

2024-05-15 08:14:09

Whats the best nostr client that I can self host on my local homelab?

2024-05-15 05:34:36

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https://github.com/ojroques/nvim-osc52

2024-05-14 17:15:46

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I'll let the original participants in this conversation continue it. My comment was based on the assumption that criticisms already brought up were true, so it will rest on the conclusion of taat discussion.

2024-05-14 11:55:55

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There are various other risks with Monero, such as the continual hard forks, potential for node centralization etc. The comparison is more, can we have a fedimint where the overal trustworthiness of the federation similar to that of the Monero system of incentives. You could also make the same comparison to bitcoin, but overall trust in the base system is much higher than Monero.

2024-05-14 06:45:23

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You could also set up the lightning protocol to allow external funding. E.g:
* Perform initial setup with channel partner
* Setup transaction depends on an input that doesn't exist yet
* Once everything is ready, send a taproot address to someone who was about to pay me anyway
* that UTXO now becomes the input to the channel, and therefore it is open
Not an op-code expert so can't say for sure if it's possible, might require sighash noinput.

2024-05-14 05:40:00

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So what we should be really comparing monero to isn't bitcoin, but fedimint. Fediment can definitely offer greater privacy if you use a mint with a large enough anonymity set. Question is whether we can have fedimints that are more robust vs state attacks than Monero.

2024-05-12 16:53:21

Is there a reason zaps are based on LNURL, and not some nostr based protocol? Being able to request the invoice over nostr would avoid the need to have a public facing doman name.

2024-05-12 15:41:24

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How does one find a mint that fits the criteria?
* Small enough to fly under the KYC enforcement radar
* Large enough to provide a reasonable anonymity set
* Trustworthy enough that you'd be willing to leave funds there

2024-05-10 08:31:23

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I'm honestly leaning more towards accepting the more pejorative definition of capitalism, which libertarians would usually refer to with terms like merchantilism, crony capitalism or corporatism. To me it just seems to be the more popular definition and has a greater connection to the historical period in which the ideas were formed. Switching to a new term to describe what we are aiming for could help differentiate it from simply defendind the status quo.

2024-05-09 13:34:55

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Since twitter is called X now, the words "tweet" and "retweet" should be fair game to be used on any other platform.

2024-05-08 11:29:57

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RelayedIn

2024-05-08 11:29:00

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Can't figure out from the reporting whether the side effect was truly the cause of the withdrawal. The admission of the side effect apparently happened months ago, and AstraZenica are claiming that it is simply superceeded by newer products. However it's authorization was also withdrawn in in the EU.

2024-05-06 21:40:57

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It's a great way for blackrock to get all the bitcoin.

2024-05-05 14:58:32

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Barrier to entry is very high for a single transaction. If every second customer was coming in asking the same thing maybe he'd look into it some more.

2024-05-02 20:55:25

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I think it's built to solve the same problem, by creating a single server which holds the keys and signs of behalf of your various apps. I'm thinking you just publish a note saying "from now on trust messages signed with xxxx as if they were signed by my master key", and have peers do the verification.

2024-05-02 19:16:01

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Need to be able to have a different set of keys for each client, all linked to a single account. You could just sign a nostr message granting that key to act as your key for a limited time or with limited priviledges.

2024-04-30 15:09:04

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What's the downside of immediately withdrawing, to a mind I DO trust?

2024-04-28 18:43:02

backdrop https://image.nostr.build/abbff2efdb16747e679af8674b1301891add65ceae807cf905740396acc207b3.jpg

2024-04-28 18:40:39

New avatar https://image.nostr.build/777291236fd10c22559d6db612086ab5add6a9146b3600e23b003fc69f3f1faa.jpg

2024-04-28 07:44:22

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Perhaps given the context you are using, you could replace the word "ownership" in the original post with poesession. The state can grant legal ownership over some bitcoin, but proving that you don't posess coins which the state claims you no longer own and must forfeit would still be impossible.

2024-04-27 16:41:26

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Why should anyone believe their "official" credit score actually influences banks descisions to offer you a loan? It seems more like a guide to you on whether banks might want to loan to you or not, but it's certain each lender has their own internal propriatary scoring method that includes all sorts of data you don't even know they have on you.

2024-04-26 07:35:50

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The issue here is that eventually most npubs that aren't connected to you in some way will be automatically filtered due to spam.

2024-04-25 17:43:15

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Would be an interesting excersize sans cameras and some balaclavas added:

2024-04-25 17:33:06

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The great firewall of Europe just keeps on growing. https://image.nostr.build/86a766d6ea8d769b149319a2d7736565a5ec57d758dfc90e2c777159def6e6ca.jpg

2024-04-24 21:19:41

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The goal of mixing is to restore a level of privacy equivalent to what you would normally get with cash. In reality, it doesn't even get very close to that. Calling it "money laundering" is a joke. Try running the proceeds of your meth empire through a mixing service and then reporting the income td the IRS, and you will see the difference.

2024-04-20 07:38:11

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if only there was a futures market on block space

2024-04-15 18:49:23

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All of their 1 users affected.

2024-04-15 03:01:13

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Quaalcom are known for publishing extremely minimal documentation of their chips so that customers are required to partner with their engineers to get any software running on them.

2024-04-14 15:18:17

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When will James Hoffman join Nostr?

2024-04-14 14:08:08

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The worlds most expensive firework show.

2024-04-13 22:17:34

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The biggest difference for me is in censorship resistance.
On AP you have an account with a server and are at the mercy of the admins of that server. They can (and must) decide what gets deleted, and which other servers can peer with yours. E.g. many AP servers block Gab. The "community = server" model also let to some communities being shut down for being contraversial in some way.
With nostr your account is just a private key, meaning you are not tied to any relay, and your client even pulls from many simultaneously. This gives relays the freedom to block whatever content makes them uncomfortable without infringing on anyone's speech, since users can just pull it from somewhere else.

2024-04-12 16:46:21

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This isn't even what was claimed in court (and not charged). What happened was that a two cops posed as a blackmailer and a hitman, and put pressure on him to accept the offer from the hitman to take out the blackmailer, which he allegedly accepted (which again was not officially charged or found guilty).

2024-04-12 11:59:31

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Is this an argument against the state, or just for replacing one that failed to achieve a monopoly on violence with one that succeeded?

2024-04-12 07:06:11

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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-walking-through-doorway-makes-you-forget/

2024-04-12 04:59:26

Is there a reason you need to paste my full nostr pubkey into other apps to link them to your profile? Why is there no protocol where your client can sign a message saying "link this new child pubkey to my account with there priviledges"?

2024-03-02 14:07:32

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Conferences are usually private events where organisers can set the rules.

2024-03-02 14:06:32

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More conferences should hand out those "No Photos" badges.

2024-02-16 08:17:33

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Looks interesting but I've learned never to trust AI tech demos until it becomes open to the general public.

2023-12-25 09:33:49

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Looks as if the federal reserve has indeed reduced the frequency and lenght of recessions. But ignores cumulative damage of those recessions.

2023-12-25 09:26:32

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Creating and maintaining an effectively open-source fork of this despite the clear copyright violation would be a good test of the abilities of censorship resistant software development processes.

2023-12-18 22:13:45

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So, it would be nice if there was some way to determine who is "at fault" in the case of a force close, so that they end up being the one incentivised to pay the CPFP fee rather than whoever has the most to lose from an old state.

2023-12-18 15:56:32

Between my window manager, tmux and neovim i think i'm finally hitting a limit on the numbers of keyboard shortcuts I can fit in my brain at one time. Keep pressing my vim leader key when I mean to hold meta to bring up a scratchpad window.

2023-12-18 07:30:36

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They basically made it a pain in the ass to find a torrent file, shut down any centralized service that makes it easier, or force them to use shady hosting that makes them hard to distinguish from phishing sites, etc.

2023-12-14 06:19:47

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how do i see it? i added relay.mostr.pub but i still just see an error messag

2023-11-28 08:49:55

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There's always one with 3 episodes from 4 years ago. And the last episode is always "it's been a while since our last episod, but from now on we'll be having new episodes every tuesday"

2023-10-25 22:51:49

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I'm happy with people calling it anything other than 'toots'.

2023-08-25 19:47:32

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Isn't it obvious thnt corporations just arbitrarilty decided to det 20% greedier in 2020 and then a little less in 2023. It's late state capitalism, duh!

2023-08-19 07:20:29

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If you use ordinals, you are throwing away your privacy. If you use inscriptions, you are throwing away your money.

2023-08-17 07:06:20

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No matter the realities, I don't know how to advocate for improved behaviour around the climate without playing direcly into the hands of extremely corrupt institutions bent on using this narrative to justify the expansion of their power, and control over the entire world.

2023-08-14 18:48:18

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Anyone have experienced using encrypted group chats? It's something other apps seem to struggle with.

2023-08-13 13:14:08

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Does it learn from its own experience over time? That is a key responsability of doctors, rather than simply regurgitating what they find in medical journals.

2023-08-12 12:46:09

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Can you edit nostr messages? The ) after the link gets included, at least on Amethyst.

2023-08-12 08:09:21

Does the holy grail exist?
* 7b llama2 + LORA for gode generation
* running on GPU
* neovim plugin to emulate copilot

2023-08-10 12:53:35

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Don't worry they won't be tempted back into buying from Russia - conveniently the pipeline was blown up.

2023-08-10 08:19:04

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It's actually quite difficult to sell any significant amount of bitcoin right now without stringent KYC requirements. Try selling as a US citizen in Europe right now, where you are banned by default by every exchange.

2023-08-10 07:19:13

So how cencorship resistant is #nostr actually? Could it be used to host torrent files for example, alongside metadata, to create a replacement for thepiratebay or popcorn time?

2023-08-08 06:08:35

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Reminds me of the discussion over whether it makes sense to use a freedom technology that "works right now" even though we can see an attack vector that will eventually bring it down.

2023-08-07 11:22:48

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Either that or you end up with some weird HG Wells-escue hybrid situation.

2023-08-06 06:56:02

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Looks like Amythist is autotranslating everything here includrng in boosts. Wish other social media apps did this!

2023-08-02 19:48:01

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I'm finding I just naturally want to open Amythist more than twitter right now. Although I'm getting bots replying on here about the 21 millionth shitcoin i should invest in.

2023-07-31 08:57:19

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Publically on github or privately with soft serve: https://github.com/charmbracelet/soft-serve