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2026-06-14 06:09:01 UTC

made this sick emacs nostr client and don't even like social media

2026-06-13 14:04:54 UTC

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i'm currently releasing the agents on a nostr emacs client that i
started last year. writing this message from it now 😬
https://github.com/trevarj/nostr.el

2026-03-30 05:03:47 UTC

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Well, the point is that it's a small enough compiler that it can be audited and known to not have been tampered with. Look up GNU Mes and bootstrappable.org

2026-03-28 16:24:06 UTC

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A program that doesn't rely on binaries to be built, i.e can be built from source all the way down, versus requiring a compiler binary somewhere along the way. Look at Core's guix builds

2025-10-24 05:53:30 UTC

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don't think so. source?

2025-10-23 18:55:45 UTC

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yeah, maybe once rustc does reproducible builds. Also Floresta exists, did not try it yet.

2025-10-12 12:44:26 UTC

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Since when is MacOS open source? Never!

2025-10-08 19:23:11 UTC

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that's better value than a spilled coffee all over the interior of your car!

2025-10-06 13:34:10 UTC

@npub1qny…95gx I inquired into OpenSats and a few Bitcoin-only companies, but was ultimately rejected based on my location.
I'm not a "builder bro" (family time is my main priority) and only want to work on meaningful FOSS for a very humble amount of sats.
Do you have any guidance for me?

2025-09-28 09:18:31 UTC

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Get Eric Voskuil on citadel or listen to his Bitcoin takeover interviews. The project is solid but, from his words, hasn't taken any third-party funding.
As a dev, libbitcoin is ok to get running and hack on, but it's missing the type of project management that core has. It's not really possible to find out what needs to be done, unless it's behind closed doors. All their comm channels seem dead

2025-09-28 09:02:23 UTC

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I can't be the only one who tried this (went to silverblue + container workflow) and then had a little devil inside telling me to go back to the niche distro and be productively unproductive

2025-09-23 18:06:34 UTC

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fzf

2025-09-23 14:28:29 UTC

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Just cause someone works on open source doesn't mean they are a hero or villain. Is this a vague reference to something?

2025-09-22 16:49:32 UTC

@npub1etq…8ues
Ты не знаешь почему не давно (недели 2-3), на этом релей, другие кайнды появились, именно не на русском языке? Когда я филтирую чтобы только ноты kind 1 показываются, и теперь всё как и было.

2025-09-18 18:35:47 UTC

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Isn't the search completion provider configurable in the settings? Default was google I thought.
Ditched FF when they announced their plan to sell data a few months back

2025-09-18 18:28:08 UTC

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Who is this fuckin geek? I'd give him a swirly if his ex army ranger million dollar security team wasn't there to gun me down with silenced mp5s

2025-09-17 12:44:53 UTC

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It's a good idea but seems a bit dead. Probably no funding like other areas...wonder why...

2025-09-17 11:32:58 UTC

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When he calls his car "my vehicle" I knew it was fake

2025-09-16 03:56:44 UTC

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it's gonna be so funny in 2032 when Bitcoin State network takeover is completed all the Core and Knots guys are sitting around drinking beers saying "i can't believe i blocked you over that" and hugging and maybe kissing and shit

2025-09-16 03:40:59 UTC

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yeah you guys are like a Bitcoin boyband and the label is Blockstream and the devs are Max Martin

2025-09-14 18:43:30 UTC

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Old: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVT_HbDpFBk
Newer (w/ @npub13nd…0svh ): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mLey8XsMBg
Also checkout the Amir Taaki 8 hour stream and James O'Beirne interview

2025-09-14 08:49:19 UTC

@npub12qz…pdx8 your interviews with Eric Voskuil saved me from the filter drama

2025-09-14 02:33:50 UTC

@npub17n4…fyh9 hey, clicking on an emoji that someone already reacted with under a note doesn't seem to work anymore (on mobile at least). It just highlights the emoji and then doesn't actually send the reaction event for me

2025-09-12 03:14:21 UTC

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You're a great educator!
This format was also better, without music or camera angles.

2025-09-11 20:18:36 UTC

I'm starting to categorize everyone in the recent #bitcoin drama into the following groups:
1. devs bankrolled by a company that has ulterior motives
2. podcasters sponsored by a company that has ulterior motives
3. fanatics that are on the bandwagon of 1 or 2
Did I miss any?

2025-09-09 14:20:09 UTC

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Community
Board
Group
Channel

2025-09-08 20:48:24 UTC

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Now we wait for someone to make a Go TUI client using this as the backend

2025-09-08 13:32:44 UTC

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What's the TL;DR on btcd codebase?

2025-09-07 14:48:33 UTC

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pretty weak protocol if there can only be one implementation

2025-09-07 14:35:12 UTC

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No I don't see that note. Jumble didn't render yours as a reply either, but when I click it I see "note not found".
I use jumble exclusively (desktop and mobile) because Amethyst and primal both are way more inconsistent for me.
At this point I'm wondering if a Mastodon homeserver with the nostr bridge will work better than a pure nostr client.

2025-09-07 13:43:56 UTC

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Some would call me a wimpy non-maxi for not believing in BTC as a medium of exchange. I consider it a great, if not the best, store of value and I will HODL until I'm forced to sell or if selling can grant me a major lifestyle change (ex. early retirement).
All the people gallivanting around trying on onboard people to custodial lightening wallets are just LARPing, since it's a type of influencer in the space.
Let's not forget it's still illegal as a payment method in some places. An to callback to your opinion on "permissionless" tech, sometimes it's only a matter of time before it becomes illegal.

2025-09-07 10:19:08 UTC

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I guess it was an issue where jumble connected there first or one of the other ones you didn't publish your recent metadata to. I closed out jumble and reopened on wifi and now you're Joe again

2025-09-07 08:57:48 UTC

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Spent 25 minutes trying to reply to this over H+ connection.
Nostr.band, nos.lol, and primal you are Zaps McGillicuddy.
Nostr huh...good tech

2025-09-07 08:28:22 UTC

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You got so embarrassed that you changed your name and profile pic??

2025-09-07 05:13:28 UTC

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Knots is is still a fork of Core (merging from upstream), so you get those 1000x IAmVerySmart Dev fixes and additions anyway, plus or minus philosophical differences.

2025-09-06 18:09:27 UTC

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OP_RETURN tweeting is the new nostr

2025-09-06 18:08:25 UTC

Reading @npub1e30…mkwq is actually more entertaining than mostnpubs!

2025-09-06 14:58:42 UTC

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Sometimes when people say "permissionless" they mean "OK to use until you're noticed by people who can and want to stop you", right?

2025-09-06 04:59:05 UTC

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Not your stamps, not your coins!

2025-09-06 04:34:35 UTC

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old.reddit.com, stacker.news/hackernews, any terminal RSS reader
reference to my previous discussion on it: https://github.com/CodyTseng/jumble/discussions/481

2025-09-06 04:01:30 UTC

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We need single line on the main feeds too! Compact view 😭
Jumble is the only hope, all other clients are unusable!

2025-09-05 18:15:26 UTC

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Post your allocation percentages like a real cryptobro

2025-09-05 16:34:58 UTC

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Yes, like RSS feed or old skool reddit. Why do all clients degrade? I think Jumble is still the best, but wish someone would just vibe code a kind 1 reddit/stackernews looking Jumble

2025-09-05 05:44:52 UTC

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ATProto sounds a bit like Pubky but without pkarr and pkdns, but with added complexities, which makes me wonder if Pubky can scale to Bluesky's current numbers. Just armchair speculation from me.
Also the costs and complexity seem like an overall L for ATProto and it seems clear that it's "decentralized" between large entities only.

2025-09-04 20:51:15 UTC

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We can consider them 2nd worlders now!

2025-09-04 20:35:35 UTC

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You have been ragebaiting me a bit lately, but I'll bite on this normal post because I've been saying "99% of all coins are scams" for many years.
To preface, I've been in the industry for 5 years and dealt with the tech/code of more than 25 crypto projects.
My 1%:
Bitcoin (until it becomes non-fungible under Big Brother).
ETH, still a ton of utility, but with scams too heh.
Projects like TRON that basically allow poor 3rd worlders to save money.
Privacy coins (the true cryptocurrencies???)
Some projects are just tech experiments where they want to implement some new finding in cryptography. These are mostly just nerds who want to "just build". I've come across some who aren't even interested in crypto, but the tech allows for research into other areas like compilers and stuff.

2025-09-04 19:53:21 UTC

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I get that the fork is really old, but it isn't really a good look (as Vlad pointed out). I was a bit overwhelmed trying to audit the 37K+ 14K- diff.
It would make me feel better to see only a few commits rebased on Core's release. I suppose I could just cherry pick the important commits myself and maintain my own.
Honestly, as I'm writing this, I might just start running a pruned node and dropping all OP_RETURN data instead 🥲

2025-09-04 19:31:01 UTC

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> benefit of enclave managing the group members
Actually, I'm dumb, ignore me.

2025-09-04 19:24:28 UTC

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Struggling to see the benefit of the enclave managing the group members instead of just an admin, but maybe I'm just missing a bunch of details.
For the decentralized enclaves, I've been doing this exact thing using TLS established with quote attestation so that you're doing only trusted comms. Once Intel shutdown the CAS servers and discontinued consumer CPUs with SGX it became a huge PITA lol.
Another thing I've worked on was using distributed (or threshhold) signing of the enclave so that a party can, as you said, collectively agree on a new enclave.

2025-09-04 08:10:31 UTC

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yeah i remember from your interview with him.
not interested in another "reads cryptography paper and implements new cryptocurrency" project

2025-09-03 21:59:54 UTC

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Do one where Roger picks you up in his Lambo and takes you to B-Cash Park

2025-09-03 18:50:43 UTC

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Not sure honestly. I just think the outbox model doesn't work well for my internet connection. Constantly having missing notes or relays just won't load.
I figured I would be better off with a self-hosted "home server" type thing where I can assure the connection will be good.

2025-09-03 15:22:06 UTC

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Joe has gone insane looking for non-bitcoin content on Nostr

2025-09-03 11:30:27 UTC

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What about the argument that "99% of the OP_RETURN txns were/are <= 80bytes"?
That's a common talking point Knots folks bring up. Has any Core supporter put forth the data to refute that?

2025-09-03 06:01:20 UTC

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I think a counter argument (from Core supporters) is that there are external services (Slipstream, large exchanges) that will offer the service needed to get these transactions mined. That's why he says that you will need to "pay $80" for the service.
So, while it's likely that a sovereign Bitcoiner cannot propagate these transactions easily from his own node, he can just use the service. This makes sense to me since I can't imagine a sovereign Bitcoiner supporting storing arbitrary data larger than a hash at all. I guess I'm just greedy with disk space still after living through the days of only having a 128GB SSD.

2025-09-03 04:35:23 UTC

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Do you support efforts like libbitcoin-kernel?

2025-09-02 18:57:29 UTC

Is there a relay implementation that I can plop on a VPS and have it act as my "home relay", constantly pulling events from my follows, notifications, chats, etc. Then use Jumble, or any other relay browsing client, as the frontend to my own relay?
Is this a dumb idea? Context: ISP starts blocking/filtering my connection to relays and I don't want to VPN all the time.
@npub180c…h6w6 do I need to use relayer/khatru and write my own?
#asknostr

2025-09-02 17:31:05 UTC

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Leveraged Bitcoin as branding and marketing from the start. It's actually a bad UX (*ducks for cover*) but I am only really here for the Bitcoin stuff and other P2P stuff.

2025-09-02 17:10:25 UTC

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I actually agree with you on the point that he most likely would not be willing support something he believes to be bad for Bitcoin.
That still doesn't mean he's right, so maybe you could use actual justification instead of appealing to authority?
Useless conversation probably, so I'll leave it at that.

2025-09-02 10:47:01 UTC

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So your argument is that he's infallible? Ok

2025-09-02 08:36:55 UTC

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I'm a Knots supporter, but I'm not sure the CP argument does a great job other than scare people. It is definitely a possibility, but in reality it's mostly just NFT and other market making scams, like experimental side chains and whatever else.
That's why I would be more convinced that Back has to follow what his company's suits are pushing in coordination with other partners in the industry.

2025-09-02 08:25:06 UTC

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All the bots went back to school

2025-09-02 04:31:11 UTC

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STOP calling it Knots, it's Knotscoin Core! I will not stand for this!
Nice ragebait though...did you take a sponsor from Taproot Wizards?

2025-09-01 16:45:07 UTC

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"show interest in taking it over" you mean, right Guy-ster?

2025-09-01 12:30:50 UTC

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> not being able to detect = all is bad
This is what I mean. KYC/KYT will become this and then the whole system gets hijacked by the governments.
It is starting as a blacklist (from my understanding), but will turn to a whitelist.

2025-09-01 11:40:28 UTC

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Do you mean, what happens if the AI/chain analysis can't detect anything bad? Hopefully that will be the case after privacy mechanisms.

2025-09-01 10:27:03 UTC

The stuff I'm seeing recently with KYT is really putting the fear into me. Don't know why more people aren't discussing this more in #bitcoin.
Is everyone just hoping that the fungibility of their coins will be fine in N years? What happens after all the "genius" AI tools flagged them for wrongthink or being in a lineage of transactions with a sanctioned entity?
"Oh, this UTXO was in a mixer? We have to hold on to this by law, sorry"

2025-09-01 10:18:23 UTC

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Good vid. Curious how many node runners will just end up running pruned nodes to drop all OP_RETURN data and not be liable on their conscience.

2025-09-01 08:36:20 UTC

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These guys invented the cryptographic functions or simply implemented them in the context of Bitcoin? Why are you putting them on a pedestal?

2025-08-30 17:07:12 UTC

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Oh, you mean the guy who went to lunch with the CIA? Or the guy who believed a magic trick done with Satoshi's keys?

2025-08-30 11:34:43 UTC

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Yeah, I'm waiting for more topic-based relays to pop up. Too lazy to start my own and afraid no one will show up cause I'm not a certified Nostr vibe-coder.
Any other way is a recipe for complete garbage, mashed together and not a very efficient or organized way to engage with others or search for an interest area. Community/topic relays will win in the end!

2025-08-30 07:34:50 UTC

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Is Blockstream equal to Redhat? Possibly!

2025-08-30 04:22:55 UTC

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I'm going to SIEGn some UboatTXOs over to you from my SSified Knotzi node!

2025-08-28 10:51:29 UTC

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Funnily enough that is a transmission type nowadays: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_manual_transmission

2025-08-28 08:29:31 UTC

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I wouldn't get fixated on quote mining Satoshi or people that do the same.
At this point it's unrealistic and people who are still using his quotes are making him seem infallible. I guess it's fun to identify as a Maxi and preach it as your religion for some people though 😏
I thought it was well understood that he stood on the shoulders of giants, building something great on concepts that were decades old.
Also, like many software projects, creators are often replaced or advised by others who are more intelligent in particular areas and fields. He stepped away from being a BDFL figure for whatever reason, and now a mixture of human, technological and economical factors have taken over the project.

2025-08-27 20:44:27 UTC

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Yeah, security issues could be introduced as well, but I think we're going further from the point that it's about incentive and development goals getting pushed onto a single codebase, i.e centralized codebase and no other options besides not upgrading

2025-08-27 20:11:27 UTC

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Probably can, but I don't see how that solves anything except keeping people on an outdated version that maybe contain inefficiencies and security issues.

2025-08-27 19:38:54 UTC

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Handsdown the best vlogs we've seen on here so far and top notch fatherly advice!

2025-08-27 19:32:37 UTC

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Oh, no, I misunderstood because I originally wrote out that I think Core needs even more forks or full rewrites.
I believe the opposite, that Core is mostly funded by companies that have specific interests, similar to the large corps that fund and contribute to Linux.
I'm not an expert by an means, but based solely on SLOC, I think it's doable to have at least 2-3 node implementations. I have not looked into libbitcoin very deeply, but maybe since they claimed recently that they can meet full consensus that it could become a viable option as well. Kind of talking out my ass now, so I'll stop.

2025-08-27 19:03:58 UTC

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That does seem correct, with Knots and the libbitcoin news

2025-08-27 18:47:40 UTC

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It's more like "why aren't other implementations of an open protocol being funded or developed?" besides the reference implementation.
This is sometimes met with the answer "oh, it's too complex" or "I wouldn't trust another version". Well that in itself is an issue, maybe not for now, but for the future. Maybe in 10 years [company] will employ all Core devs and then prioritize their own initiatives. Then what?

2025-08-27 17:09:35 UTC

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Wondering if you've noticed the trend (at least in software) of roles in which only a naive college grad would accept? Something that requires excessive responsibility, overworking, putting out fires, all nighters, etc.
Been searching for work recently (13 years exp) and 5-6 years ago I don't really recall this being the case, but I'm noticing it even in shit companies now. 4-5 rounds of interviewing, leetcode algorithm memorization...all that fun H1B stuff

2025-08-27 16:16:08 UTC

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I think I'm gonna spewwwWWw

2025-08-27 11:13:43 UTC

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hey sorry, better late than never

2025-08-27 11:13:23 UTC

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I can't say anything too bad about LTC, except that it's one of the early examples of a fork of the Bitcoin software to make immediate technical changes.
After searching a bit and reading for the past 20 minutes, I could see more things that rub me the wrong way about the project. The MimbleWimble addition was neat though!

2025-08-27 09:42:16 UTC

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My belief is that there can be no altcoin that can match Bitcoin, because of the non-technical, organic nature of Bitcoin.
I guess I can understand utility in an altcoin. This has been demonstrated, notably in true privacy coins (not the fake new ones that have public and private txns), or even networks that provide convenient stablecoin use in countries with extremely volatile currencies.
This probably disqualifies me as a maxi, but I don't really care about that label since I'm probably already a shitcoiner to them for working at an exchange for many years.
To me, a shitcoin is a shitcoin from the start and there is probably no going back. Pre-mining, non-PoW, VC incubation, centralization, marketing campaigns, immediate exchange on-boarding, etc.
All these are indicators of a shitcoin and redemption seems unlikely unless we are all to be taken for fools.

2025-08-27 06:03:31 UTC

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How much of this is related to the natural trend of generations fading into and out of social media platforms?
For example, my generation adopted Facebook and then faded away from it and somehow it was adopted by my parents' generation.
I think we will see this ebb and flow in all platforms and protocols. Once the "next big thing" drops for the Bitcoin community, nostr, too, will be left in the dust and perhaps a minority will stick behind doing whatever they will do.
Disclaimer: I believe that federated protocols will have more success as social media anyway, due to the ability to segregate into defined social communities instead of one giant funnel of slop. I think there is a gossip relay impl for nostr, but haven't seen it used much?

2025-08-27 03:57:00 UTC

I win!
https://pricepredictiongame.shakespeare.to/note1q25wmzdnnhr0fp9xs4em2kxdr57gpn8tcfh32nz8cjup43aw24vq2k7zs7
#nevent1q…hwgq

2025-08-27 02:32:42 UTC

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"dad's busy vibing, he can't play right now"
In 3rd right now, but imagine if I won all those sats....I could get Arby's

2025-08-26 19:06:14 UTC

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They need to stop believing that their government is in alignment with God whatsoever. Acts 4:19, Acts 5:29 ☦

2025-08-26 15:21:17 UTC

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Could be the SD card quality?

2025-08-26 09:20:41 UTC

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The way I see it is, every one of these social media protocols claiming to be decentralized or "free" will just become reduced to requiring Tor or something in order to avoid laws

2025-08-26 08:30:37 UTC

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Are we considering federated systems as decentralized here?

2025-08-26 08:27:22 UTC

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There should be a segment where you roast stuff people said in the realm of bitcoin, nostr and the like 😈
Looking forward to it!

2025-08-26 07:11:51 UTC

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111555

2025-08-25 13:21:02 UTC

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AI slop is one reason why we are reliving the era of AOL chatrooms over nostr now!

2025-08-23 14:04:36 UTC

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"oh no i'm gunna buiiiillddddd!! aghh"...all over nostr

2025-08-21 18:46:06 UTC

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https://ria.ru/20231124/luna-1911667914.html
"interesting" LOL
I liked the more recent, faked India moonlanding videos

2025-08-21 17:49:40 UTC

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Took a quick look through the code and I didn't find anything regarding user input (y/n keep running): https://github.com/bitcoinknots/bitcoin/blob/5f8256608fc41c7b72a01a54e9a06ba509a61c8f/src/validation.cpp#L4458
Related issue: https://github.com/bitcoinknots/bitcoin/issues/29
Looks like it does stop validating blocks if it's expired, which probably seems odd, but might be useful to a clueless node runner?
@npub1xts…kk5s has expired iOS software so he understands it well!

2025-08-21 11:40:58 UTC

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Sigh...configuring vim/emacs used to a be rite of passage and now AI IDEs are a thing. I'd never pay for an IDE!
Nothing better than being able to compile and run with a one-liner from in the terminal